Chapter Summaries

At the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins, Li Hui and others argued over Meng Changsheng’s eroding Life Spirit Ruins as Li Zhen and a crimson-robed woman nearly fought. Zhu Yu awoke in the Yi Spirit Ruins, learned it was a fragment of a Yellow-Grade World being remade by True Person Yin Underworld, and realized he might be trapped there.

• Li Hui urged Hong Sheng and the others to deal with Meng Changsheng’s eroded Life Spirit Ruins, but Li Zhen defended Meng and clashed with the crimson-robed woman.
• Hong Sheng announced that Meng Changsheng had returned, and the bronze tripod’s blood light overwhelmed the Great Thousand Mirror as a golden light rose from within it.
• Zhu Yu awoke on an ancient road amid scattered remains and saw the sky divided between a clear moon and a blood-red sun.
• Zhu Yu received information from his main body that the Yi Spirit Ruins was a Yellow-Grade World fragment whose great will had eroded True Person Yin Underworld’s Origin Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu learned that Yin Underworld had tried to alter the Yi Spirit Ruins and that the God Word path was an Immortal Path, then wondered how he could escape the sealed ruins.

Zhu Yu witnessed Wu Yong, the Three Ghosts, Zhong Li, and Fang Yuan revive with strange new bodies and powers after the Yi Spirit Ruins marked them as fallen Outer Realm evil demons. He suppressed his urge to kill them for their Spirit Ruins Origin, and the group discovered their abilities before Wu Yong warned that Zhu Yu seemed to be in trouble.

• A strange fog filled the area, and Zhu Yu sensed Yinming Mansion's spiritual energy mixed with incense offerings.
• The fog reassembled Wu Yong, the Three Ghosts, Zhong Li, and Fang Yuan, while moonlight transformed their bodies.
• Zhu Yu learned from the Mark that killing the six could yield sixty-eight strands of Spirit Ruins Origin, but he held back when they woke and recognized him as their Cult Leader.
• Wu Yong and the others pleaded with Zhu Yu to save them, then described the new powers they had gained from their altered bodies.
• Wu Yong looked above Zhu Yu's head and warned him that he seemed to be in trouble.

Zhu Yu learned that the light above his head marked him as a target, but he refused to follow its demand and led his companions toward Zhang City. When the Three Ghosts turned on him to regain human bodies and enter the Immortal Domain, Zhu Yu killed them and escaped underground with Zhong Li as black shadows emerged from the fog.

• Zhu Yu saw the moonlike light above his head and learned it urged him to die and transform, then led his companions toward Zhang City.
• Zhu Yu killed Wu Yong when Wu Yong attacked him, prompting the Three Ghosts to join the fight.
• The Three Ghosts told Fang Yuan that killing Zhu Yu could restore their human bodies and grant them entry to the Immortal Domain, while Zhong Li fought them with his White Bone Spear.
• Zhu Yu emerged from the flames and killed Fire Ghost, Earth Ghost, and Wind Ghost, collecting the Spirit Ruins Origin and Dharma Seed from Wind Ghost.
• Zhu Yu sensed danger, pulled Zhong Li underground with him, and left Fang Yuan as black shadows poured out of the fog.

Zhu Yu fled the full moon’s influence, sealed Zhong Li’s soul, and hid while the Righteous Spirit Ruins’ forces clashed and its territory shrank. Back in the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins, he received his Split Spirit’s memories before Xiang Sui arrived with news of an opportunity.

• Zhu Yu escaped a hundred li with Zhong Li and sealed Zhong Li’s soul in his Dao Foundation, then destroyed his body and gathered the light orbs it left behind.
• Zhu Yu crossed into the Blood Sun’s territory, where sunlight restored his Blood Qi, but the Righteous Spirit Ruins’ will drove him back toward the clear moonlight.
• Zhu Yu hid underground and examined his gains from Wu Yong and the others, finding fifty-eight strands of Spirit Ruins Origin and crude Dharma Seeds.
• The full moon’s territory expanded as transformed people and untransformed Martial Artists fought at its border, while the Righteous Spirit Ruins bestowed Blood Qi and Human Hope on survivors.
• In the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins, Zhu Yu received his Split Spirit’s memories, and Zhu Yi reported that Xiang Kui and Xiang Sui had arrived.
• Xiang Sui told Zhu Yu that an opportunity had come.

Xiang Kui visited Zhu Yu to obtain his Yi Human cultivation method, but learned the humans had come from True Person Yin Underworld’s Spirit Ruins fragment and returned the jade slip to avoid angering him. The conversation shifted toward discussing opportunities.

• Zhu Yu offered Xiang Sui and Xiang Kui Seed Bugs after Xiang Sui praised the Green Suckling tea.
• Xiang Kui explained the value of Human Seeds and asked to buy Zhu Yu’s Yi Human cultivation method.
• Xiang Sui showed Zhu Yu the Human Seed Manual, which ranked descendants of immortals, Ancient Gods, and Ancient Demons highly.
• Zhu Yu gave Xiang Kui the method and revealed that his Yi Humans came from the fragment True Person Yin Underworld had dragged back.
• Xiang Kui realized the Yi Humans could become True Person Yin Underworld’s companion race and returned the jade slip, then suggested they discuss opportunities instead.

Xiang Sui told Zhu Yu that the collapsing “Yi” Spirit Ruins would release an Origin Spirit Bead that could help cultivators establish a Dao Foundation, while Qingping Tower would soon hold a contest for the right to open a manor. Zhu Yu learned that Xiang Kui could not help retrieve his Split Spirit from the sealed ruins, and he reflected on how the Foundation Establishment Realm’s Black Tide threatened cultivators’ lifebound spirit ruins.

• Xiang Sui explained that the “Yi” Spirit Ruins was about to fall and that its Source Sea would release Origin Spirit Beads and other valuable objects as it prepared to merge with the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins.
• Xiang Sui described Qingping Tower’s upcoming contest, where the winner would gain the right to open a manor, and Xiang Kui said he would compete to strengthen his chances of reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Zhu Yu asked Xiang Kui how to retrieve his Split Spirit from a sealed Spirit Ruins, but Xiang Kui said only a Foundation Establishment True Person could break the blockade and none would risk offending True Person Yin Underworld.
• Zhu Yu, Xiang Kui, and Xiang Sui agreed to go to the former site of the Yin-Underworld Spirit Ruins in three days to wait for the opportunity.
• After the Xiang brothers left, Zhu Yu recalled what he had learned about the Foundation Establishment Realm and its corrosive Black Tide, which made spirit-ruins worlds necessary as shelter.

Zhu Yu considered avoiding a dangerous pseudo-second-tier breakthrough, then received a mission from the Righteous Spirit Ruins to destroy a demon lair in Zhang City. An outpouring of Human Hope strengthened his Dao Fruit and completed two cultivation barriers, but an unfamiliar will began intruding through the Unborn Venerable Mother’s portrait.

• Zhu Yu recalled that pseudo-second-tier cultivators were treated as consumable material and resolved to wait before choosing whether to recultivate another art.
• The grand will of the Righteous Spirit Ruins sent Zhu Yu a map and ordered him to destroy a demon lair in Zhang City, which he suspected was guarded by a powerful Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Human Hope poured into Zhu Yu’s Dao Fruit, strengthening his Blood Qi True Essence until he completed the Flesh Barrier and the Internal Organ Barrier.
• The Dao Fruit sent Zhu Yu a portrait of the Unborn Venerable Mother for the Spirit Barrier, but the portrait became lifelike and warnings appeared that an unfamiliar will was intruding.

Zhu Yu watched the great will of the Yi Spirit Ruins enter Unborn Venerable Mother's Vacuum Other-Hometown, while part of his own Dao Foundation was pulled along. The next day, he traveled with the Xiang Clan to the Yi Spirit Ruins and encountered Elder Jiao, whose Foundation Establishment power overwhelmed the gathered cultivators.

• Unborn Venerable Mother accepted the great will of the Yi Spirit Ruins into her golden vortex, and Zhu Yu let most of his Dao Foundation follow it while retaining his ring consciousness.
• Zhu Yu returned to his guest courtyard, activated his High-Grade Descent of the Gods Array, and waited for True Person Yin Underworld to open the realm.
• Xiang Sui told Zhu Yu that the Yi Spirit Ruins had appeared at the former site of Yinming Mansion, and Zhu Yu sensed that the realm's seal had weakened.
• Xiang Sui brought Zhu Yu to the Xiang Mansion's inner courtyard, where Elder Jiao and two young members of the direct line appeared before the assembled cultivators.
• Elder Jiao's aura overwhelmed Zhu Yu until a voice commanded everyone to board a ship, which carried the Xiang Clan into the sky.
• Xiang Kui identified Elder Jiao as Jiao Zuo and explained that raising a Dao Foundation into a True Person's natal Spirit Ruins made reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm easier.

Zhu Yu gave up competing for the Origin Spirit Bead and agreed to explore the outskirts with Xiang Sui while Xiang Kui pursued the prize. At the ruins, Zhu Yu absorbed the Bronze Gate’s God Word characters into a three-legged cauldron, then the Great Moon’s seal cracked as an underground cavern collapsed.

• Zhu Yu decided he could not contend for the Origin Spirit Bead and asked Xiang Kui whether Elder Jiao would join the fight.
• Xiang Kui said Elder Jiao would not act and told Zhu Yu and Xiang Sui to search the outskirts, then gave Xiang Sui a Sword-Shaped Jade Pendant for emergencies.
• The boat stopped before a vast cavern where a rust-covered Bronze Gate hovered, and Zhu Yu recognized its inscriptions as God Word.
• Zhu Yu remembered the God Word characters, which gathered in his consciousness and formed a damaged three-legged cauldron that seemed to steady his divine soul.
• An unfamiliar will tried to erode Zhu Yu, but the warnings showed it was blocked, and he saw a crack in the Great Moon’s seal.
• In the underground space within the Yi Spirit Ruins, a Golden Flame flashed with a golden ring before the cavern collapsed under earth and stone.

Zhu Yu entered the moon-white radiance during the Yi Spirit Ruins’ fusion and collected several rare spiritual objects while searching for the Origin Spirit Bead. After a new wave of seven-colored light swept through the ruins and eased his spiritual fatigue, he hurried toward its core to find a bead before powerful cultivators arrived.

• Zhu Yu noticed the moon-white radiance opening and used spiritual power chains to seize a second-rank weed, a broken Famous Artifact, and a Spirit Ruins Origin.
• Zhu Yu entered the radiance, collected a stone condensed from Human Hope and a damaged ancient Famous Artifact sword tip, then searched unsuccessfully for the Origin Spirit Bead near the old site of Yinming Mansion.
• Zhu Yu searched the surrounding area and found two more damaged ancient Famous Artifacts before hearing the sound of cracking that heralded another wave.
• The seven-colored light surged outward and refreshed Zhu Yu’s divine soul, so he rushed toward its core to locate an Origin Spirit Bead before Elder Jiao or other powerful figures could claim it.
• Zhu Yu sensed a faint, strange fluctuation nearby as he approached the core.

Zhu Yu found a water-attribute Origin Spirit Bead and returned to the Xiang Clan’s boat before the other cultivators entered the fading seven-colored light. After inspecting the spoils from the Yi Spirit Ruins, including a possible Martial God Body, he decided to leave once Xiang Sui woke and focus on cultivating his gains.

• Zhu Yu captured a water-blue Origin Spirit Bead, judged it usable, and stored it before returning to the Xiang Clan’s boat.
• Elder Jiao’s insect cry roused the cultivators, and Xiang Kui asked Zhu Yu to watch over Xiang Sui while he joined the search for spiritual objects.
• Zhu Yu recognized Xing Sidao and Long Yan among the cultivators entering the seven-colored light, but chose not to attack Long Yan because reaching Foundation Establishment came first.
• Zhu Yu’s battered ring returned, and he used the three Graveyard Grass Dharma Seeds to refine and strengthen his spiritual energy.
• Zhu Yu inspected fifty-eight Spirit Ruins Origins, several quasi-Dharma Seeds, and Split Spirit’s Dao Fruit, which appeared to contain a nearly complete Martial God Body.
• Zhu Yu decided to wait for Xiang Sui to wake before leaving and considered asking Manager Liu about spiritual objects for cultivating Superior Person.

After leaving the Yinming Mansion ruins, Zhu Yu received a shop token from Elder Jiao and continued toward Xiangyun Market while his Split Spirit searched for rare cultivation materials. A perfected Qi Refining old man intercepted him, intending to claim Zhu Yu and the demonic insect hidden in his sleeve.

• Xiang Sui woke as cultivators rushed to fight over the treasures and invited Zhu Yu to return with him, but Zhu Yu set off for Xiangyun Market alone.
• Elder Jiao used his divine sense to inspect Zhu Yu, recommended the Jiao Family Spirit Insect Shop, and gave him a discount token.
• Xiang Kui killed a flower-robed old man to seize a metal Origin Spirit Bead, while Long Yan and the long-haired man took two more and Cang Li escaped with her companions.
• The fighting over the Origin Spirit Beads and other spiritual objects dwindled, and the flying boats departed as strange figures emerged from the Yin-Black Ghost Wood at the former Yinming Mansion.
• Zhu Yu’s Split Spirit searched for Flesh Taisui and Imperial Tomb Soil while he traveled, but a perfected Qi Refining old man blocked his way and decided to take his hidden demonic insect.

Zhu Yu defeated Wen Fu, a greedy cultivator who attacked him with a ghost and a destructive wind technique. After capturing Wen Fu’s spirit and collecting his remains, Zhu Yu escaped into the forest, while a point of light appeared a hundred li away and complained of pain.

• Wen Fu attacked Zhu Yu and Little Jade, hoping to rob him of his treasures.
• Zhu Yu revealed his powerful qi and blood, but Wen Fu trapped him in a storm of Bone-Eroding Wind.
• Zhu Yu emerged from the storm and killed Wen Fu with a single blow.
• Zhu Yu captured Wen Fu’s spirit with the Myriad Beast Chart, disabled his powers, and collected his remains and another cultivator’s spiritual object.
• Zhu Yu vanished into the mountain forest, and a point of light appeared inside an earthen mound a hundred li away.

Zhu Yu recovered from fusing with the Heavenly Principle Dao Fruit and examined the memories of the defeated Wen Fu, learning about White Feather Cliff’s Bloodline Inheritances. He realized the method could improve his plans for transplanting Naga bloodline and discovered where Wen Fu had hidden his possessions.

• Zhu Yu assessed the power of his Martial God Body and considered the mysteries surrounding the Unborn Venerable Mother and the Yi Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu sealed the headless feather-robed spirit creature and stored it in his Beast Bag.
• Zhu Yu used Life Plundering and the Myriad Beast Chart to extract Wen Fu’s memories.
• Zhu Yu learned that Wen Fu had cultivated the low-grade Storm Crow inheritance and had weakened his prospects by refining a Mortal Grade Demon Crow bloodline.
• Zhu Yu studied White Feather Cliff’s methods for cultivating demon-beast bloodlines and realized they could improve his Naga bloodline transplant.
• Zhu Yu found the location of Wen Fu’s hidden possessions in his memories.

Zhu Yu moved into Wen Residence at Thousand Spirit Market, where Liang Kuan discovered him and visited after recovering his Dao Foundation. Liang Kuan thanked Zhu Yu for helping him retrieve the ring, and Zhu Yu asked what had happened to his Split Spirit during the Spirit Ruins change.

• Zhu Yu arrived at Wen Residence with his spirit beasts and servants and settled inside the courtyard.
• Liang Kuan returned home recovered, recognized Zhu Yi and Zhu Er, and learned that Zhu Yu was staying next door.
• Liang Kuan's family prepared food and hoped he would invite Zhu Yu to their home to thank him.
• Liang Kuan visited Zhu Yu, explained why his family had moved to Thousand Spirit Market, and thanked him for helping recover his Dao Foundation.
• Zhu Yu asked Liang Kuan what had happened to his Split Spirit when the Spirit Ruins changed.

Liang Kuan returned from a moon-white space and gave Zhu Yu two portions of Spirit Ruins Origin, while Zhu Yu prepared to pursue a Foundation Establishment Pill and studied the Naga bloodline. After refining his Dao Foundation and checking his progress, Zhu Yu went with Liang Kuan to the banquet and met Liang Kuan’s parents.

• Liang Kuan explained that his Split Spirit had manifested the God Word before his body exploded, and that he had survived in a moon-white space until he returned.
• Liang Kuan gave Zhu Yu two portions of Spirit Ruins Origin as thanks for saving him, then invited him to a banquet hosted by his grandfather.
• Zhu Yu considered trading Starry Wood Fruit to the Xiang Family for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then released Little Seven and the other spirit plants in the courtyard.
• Zhu Yu obtained Xiao Qing’s Naga origin essence blood, gave her nourishing medicine, and began an analysis of how to fuse with the Naga bloodline safely.
• Zhu Yu checked his cultivation progress and refined his Dao Foundation with nearly ten thousand Soul Particles, bringing it to sixteen thousand.
• Zhu Yu joined Liang Kuan for the banquet and greeted Liang Kuan’s parents, noticing that Father Liang seemed to be an orthodox body cultivator.

Zhu Yu visited Liang Kuan’s family, where he learned about Grandfather Liang’s Blood Refining Method and the Zhao Clan’s Taisui supply. After Liang Kuan’s family discovered the valuable gifts Zhu Yu had given them, Grandfather Liang used the medicinal liquid to ease his old injuries and sent Liang Kuan to return the Starry Wood Fruit and an inheritance jade slip to Zhu Yu.

• Zhu Yu arrived at Liang Kuan’s home with Zhu Yi and Xiao Qing, and the family welcomed them with a feast.
• Grandfather Liang explained that his Blood Refining Method nurtured spirit blood that could enrich Spirit Fields, while Zhu Yu told the family about Yinming Mansion.
• Grandfather Liang revealed that the Zhao Clan of Thousand Spirit Market kept Taisui and operated a shop selling Taisui flesh.
• Liang Kuan recognized Zhu Yu’s gifts as his two portions of Spirit Ruins Origin, a Starry Wood Fruit worth ninety thousand Spirit Stones, and a bottle of medicinal liquid.
• Liang Kuan poured the medicinal liquid into Grandfather Liang’s mouth, and it eased the damage from his cultivation method.
• Grandfather Liang gave Liang Kuan an inheritance jade slip to take with the Starry Wood Fruit to Zhu Yu, intending to repay his kindness.

Zhu Yu discovered that Little Seven had awakened the Spirit Snatch divine ability, then received a sculpture from Liang Kuan and learned the Blood Demon Jin’s memories and methods connected to the Abyss. He sent the Blood Scion Method to his split spirit, which began pricing the materials needed to create Vampires at Myriad Treasure Pavilion.

• Zhu Yu examined the Starry Wood and learned it had reached the peak of the first rank, then realized the God-Given Spirit Seed White-Tail Pear was nearing maturity and considered asking Hua Ling about it.
• Little Seven revealed its Spirit Snatch divine ability, which could draw essence from plants and treat injuries or nourish spirit plants; Zhu Yu rewarded it with a Starry Wood Fruit, which advanced its grade slightly.
• Liang Kuan brought Zhu Yu a gift and a wooden box from Grandfather Liang; Zhu Yu refused the gift, but Liang Kuan left the box as a return gift before heading home to consider the Flesh Taisui.
• Zhu Yu opened the box and found a demon sculpture that released black qi and collapsed; its remnants gave him Jin’s memories, including knowledge of the Abyss, the Blood Demon cultivation method, and the Blood Scion Method.
• Zhu Yu verified the Blood Scion Method and sent it to his split spirit, then returned to cultivation while preparing to strengthen himself before Qingping Tower was completed.
• At Myriad Treasure Pavilion, Zhu Yu’s split spirit ordered the best materials for making a Vampire and learned that a set cost ninety thousand Spirit Stones plus two million for a fresh second-tier body.

Zhu Yu inspected two second-rank corpses at Myriad Treasure Pavilion, bargained for the human corpse, and then asked Manager Liu about rare spiritual items. Manager Liu revealed a source of Imperial Tomb Soil in exchange for two Spirit Stones.

• Shopkeeper Liu showed Zhu Yu an old tattooed cultivator and a Pearl Fragrance Fox, and explained the differences among second-rank cultivators.
• Zhu Yu chose the old cultivator’s corpse and haggled with Shopkeeper Liu until they agreed on a total price of 1,850,000 Spirit Stones, including cultivation materials.
• Zhu Yu waited for Manager Liu and asked where he could find the second-tier spiritual items Flesh Taisui and Imperial Tomb Soil.
• Manager Liu agreed to reveal a location for two Spirit Stones and told Zhu Yu to go to Corpse Mountain.

Zhu Yu learned that a fragment of Corpse Mountain might contain the Imperial Tomb Soil he needed, while he refined his Dao Foundation and prepared for a ritual. Liang Kuan brought him second-rank Flesh Taisui, and Zhu Yu repaid the Liang family with a second-rank Dao Soldier inheritance; five days later, Zhu Yi woke him from cultivation.

• Manager Liu told Zhu Yu that Corpse Mountain had shattered into fragments and that one fragment might hold Imperial Tomb Soil, then agreed to visit and buy Zhu Yu's spiritual objects.
• Zhu Yu found his soul power had stopped growing, examined the deathly influence on his Dao Foundation, and appointed Zhu Yi steward and Zhu Er gatekeeper with annual salaries.
• Liang Kuan brought Zhu Yu second-rank Flesh Taisui in exchange for the Liang family's spirit-seed cultivation formulas, and Zhu Yu gave him a jade slip containing a second-rank Dao Soldier inheritance and spirit-fish methods.
• Zhu Yu began analyzing the Flesh Taisui, and Little Seven used Spirit Snatch to restore some of Xiao Qing's vitality.
• Zhu Yu returned to cultivation to refine Spirit Ruins Origin and prepare for a bloodline transplant and ritual; five days later, Zhu Yi woke him.