Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yu collected the Gloomy Old Man from Manager Liu, sold spiritual items to the Myriad Treasure Pavilion, and received directions to Corpse Mountain. She collected the Soft Hedgehog dharma artifact, commissioned a sword artifact, and left for Corpse Mountain with Xiao Qing and Little Black.

• Zhu Yu inspected and accepted the Gloomy Old Man from Manager Liu, then sold her First-Order spiritual items and Tide Heaven Turtle shell for Spirit Stones.
• Manager Liu gave Zhu Yu a jade slip pointing to Corpse Mountain and warned her about dangerous areas and people who raised Corpse Puppets.
• Zhu Yu collected the Soft Hedgehog dharma artifact from Luo Ling and tested its defenses and ability to absorb spiritual energy.
• Zhu Yu commissioned Luo Ling to refine Lingxiao using the Gold-Shattering Hammer and three damaged Origin Artifacts for one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Luo Ling gave Xiao Qing's Second Divine Soul three outfits, and Zhu Yu departed with Xiao Qing on Little Black toward Corpse Mountain.
• Xiao Qing's Second Divine Soul thanked Zhu Yu before switching back, and Xiao Qing put away the outfits while emptying her Beast Bag of fruit and pastries.

Zhu Yu traveled to Godfall Tower to buy a Ten Thousand Beast Bag and boarded a Cloud Ferry Skiff bound for Corpse Mountain. As the skiff departed, Wu Yan invited him to join a team, leaving Zhu Yu to consider the dangers of trusting other cultivators.

• Xiao Qing and her Second Divine Soul fought over a Beast Bag until Zhu Yu gave the second soul her own bag and named her Little White.
• Zhu Yu learned that the two souls shared memories but retained distinct personalities, then traveled with his companions toward Godfall Tower.
• At Godfall Tower, Zhu Yu bought a lower-grade Ten Thousand Beast Bag from Meng He for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Yu stored Little Black and Xiao Qing in the bag, paid thirty thousand Spirit Stones for passage because of his heavy physique, and boarded a skiff to Corpse Mountain.
• After the skiff departed, Wu Yan introduced himself and invited Zhu Yu to join his group for safety at Corpse Mountain.

Zhu Yu reached Corpse Mountain, where the corpse baleful aura strengthened his body and Divine Sense as he hunted corpse puppets and gained a Fourth-Order Dao Pattern from the Myriad Star Disk. In the Insect Realm, he completed his transformation into a first-age Advanced Insect Clan Warrior and helped the White-Tail Pear ripen its fruits.

• Zhu Yu entered Corpse Mountain, absorbed its dense corpse baleful aura, and used his powers to destroy a Corpse Deer and collect its remnant soul and essence.
• After traveling for a day, Zhu Yu had slain many damaged Corpse Puppets and gathered their souls, flesh-and-blood essence, and several yin-attributed spiritual items.
• The White-Tail Pear matured as the Myriad Star Disk's core Array Pattern emerged in Zhu Yu's sea of memories, revealing itself as a Fourth-Order Composite Array Pattern called Void.
• Zhu Yu used the Void Crystal and the White-Tail Pear's ripening as he hid underground and received the Dao Pattern's information.
• In the Insect Realm, Zhu Yu emerged from his shell as a first-age Advanced Insect Clan Warrior after the White-Tail Pear called for help.
• Zhu Yu scattered Life Origin Stones around the White-Tail Pear and detonated them, accelerating its fruit until it ripened into Mutton Fat White Jade.

Zhu Yu tested a connection between two regions using the Myriad Star Disk and sent five White-Tail Pear fruits to his main body. He gathered his neighbors to share the pears and discovered that ferocious beast meat could nourish his Life Seeds, but the feast was interrupted by a Black Cockroach carrying a Spider Silk Bag.

• Zhu Yu gave Cailing a White-Tail Pear fruit, and she ate it before falling asleep in the nest amid crimson spiritual light.
• Zhu Yu and his main body activated the Myriad Star Disk and a Void Crystal, forming a vortex through which he sent five fruits.
• Zhu Yu invited Baldy and the other neighbors to gather fruit, and Baldy explained that newly awakened Little Grass Mice were consuming his Spirit Power Food.
• White-Hair the Golden-Eyed Crane brought a live Green Deer as ferocious beast meat, and Baldy killed it before it could endanger Zhu Yu's Life Seeds.
• Zhu Yu learned that ferocious beast corpses could accelerate the growth of his Life Seeds, then welcomed Fire Tail, Baldy, White Feather, the Kingfisher couple, Blackie, and Whitey to share White-Tail Pears.
• A Black Cockroach arrived beneath the Big Banyan Tree carrying a Spider Silk Bag just as Zhu Yu was about to divide the fruit.

Heitu brought Zhu Yu the top-grade Golden Glow Flat Peach spirit seed, and Zhu Yu traded White-Tail Pear fruit flesh for more rare spirit seeds. After Cailing revealed her recovery and showed Zhu Yu the Slender-Leaf Sword Cedar, Zhu Yu awaited Hua Ling’s arrival while Hua Ling’s caravan traveled toward Giant Peak.

• Heitu arrived at Giant Peak with the Golden Glow Flat Peach, which Zhu Yu identified as an attribute-less top-grade spirit seed that purified qi and blood and tempered sinews and bones.
• Zhu Yu planted the Golden Glow Flat Peach in his Life Sac and shared White-Tail Pear fruit with Heitu and the other spirit beasts.
• Heitu offered to trade the fruit flesh for Sour Jujube Shrub, King Banana, and Blueberry Berry spirit seeds, and Zhu Yu gave him another portion to take for the trade.
• Zhu Yu raised the price of Giant Peak Grapes for the spirit beasts, then learned that Cailing’s injuries had healed by about ten percent and that White-Tail Pear fruit could no longer help her.
• Cailing took Zhu Yu to inspect the Slender-Leaf Sword Cedar, which he planned to use as his Life Seed once it bore fruit.
• Hua Ling traveled with a Giant Flea caravan carrying Crimson Flame Crystals and planned to trade for a Fire Date spirit seed for Giant Peak; three days later, a scene began in an underground space beneath a hill at Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins.

Zhu Yu explored a newly discovered Corpse Field fragment, where he found spiritual materials, captured a Black Corpse Ice spirit, and obtained Imperial Tomb Soil. He left with plans to cultivate his techniques while waiting for Qingping Tower to be completed.

• Zhu Yu received four White-Tail Pear God-Given Fruits before the Void Crystal shattered, then ate three and gained greater agility while recovering hidden injuries.
• Zhu Yu avoided following Wu Yan's group into an unplundered Corpse Field fragment and entered a separate fragment filled with ancient graves and spiritualized Corpse Puppets.
• Zhu Yu opened the underground mausoleum, captured a Black Corpse Ice spirit, and found a room containing a stone coffin.
• Zhu Yu caught a disguised dragon-shaped spiritual light that turned out to be Imperial Tomb Soil, then discovered seven unusually potent Corpse Nails in the empty coffin.
• Zhu Yu decided to cultivate his techniques in seclusion and wait for Qingping Tower to be completed.

Zhu Yu discovered an underground corpse-baleful spring and used the Corpse Mountain fragment to perform the ritual for his Field technique, Mass Grave. The Field manifested across the fragment, restraining nearby creatures and drawing attention from cultivators, while Zhu Yu turned to gathering zombie-blood essence for Superior Person.

• Zhu Yu found seven corpse Nails and discovered an underground chamber containing seven Bronze Pillars and chained Corpse Puppets, then identified the array as the first-rank Seven-Baleful Corpse Rearing.
• Zhu Yu prepared a Mass Grave ritual around the Imperial Tomb, using the fragment’s graves and collected corpse souls, and positioned his companions and summoned creatures to guard the area.
• Zhu Yu cut away the Mass Grave dharma meridian, and the resulting Dharma Seed strengthened his Dao Foundation while its radiation spread through the ritual grounds.
• Mass Grave transformed the Corpse Mountain fragment into a pallid Graveyard Mound, subdued Little Black, Xiao Qing, and Little Jade, and caused Xiao Qing to recognize its aura and speak the Canglan Spirit Ruins tongue.
• Zhu Yu sensed that Mass Grave had successfully manifested, then went to hunt Corpse Puppets for zombie-blood essence to nourish Flesh Taisui.
• Cultivators across the Corpse Field fragment noticed the enormous pallid Graveyard Mound, and some began rushing toward it.

Zhu Yu completed his cultivation of the Mass Grave Field in Corpse Mountain and discovered that the Flesh Taisui could help him cultivate Superior Person. After returning to the Imperial Tomb fragment, he examined the changes to his Dao Foundation and Divine Sea, then continued toward Qingping Spirit Ruins, where someone called after him.

• Cultivators gathered around Zhu Yu’s graveyard-mound Field, but most dispersed after learning it was cultivation rather than a treasure; people who tried to disrupt it with Corpse Puppets failed.
• After half a month of absorbing corpse Baleful Intent and soul fragments, Zhu Yu found that the Flesh Taisui had developed the Offending the Taisui characteristic and learned it could cultivate Superior Person.
• Zhu Yu decided there was no conflict between his Dao path and transplanting the Naga bloodline, then left the area as an old man persuaded Lu Tang to give his Qingping Tower slot to Lu An.
• Zhu Yu returned to the Imperial Tomb Corpse Field fragment and saw how Mass Grave had warped its surroundings, exhausted his companions, and strengthened his Divine Sea and Graveyard Grass Dao Foundation.
• Zhu Yu left Corpse Mountain with Little Black, Xiao Qing, and Little Jade, and continued toward Qingping Spirit Ruins without encountering anyone willing to challenge him.
• A voice called to Zhu Yu from behind, asking him to wait.

Zhu Yu killed Wu Yan and Xun Yu inside his Mass Grave Field, gained their memories and considerable wealth, and returned to Thousand Spirit Market. There, he learned that Liang Kuan’s family had moved to Qingping Tower and discovered from Liang’s jade slip that they had been sold.

• Wu Yan encountered Zhu Yu in the mist, handed him a sealed jade box containing a spiritual artifact, and was trapped and killed in Zhu Yu’s Field.
• Xun Yu attacked Zhu Yu as a spirit body, but Zhu Yu’s Mass Grave Field suppressed his powers and drained him; Zhu Yu killed him and absorbed his memories.
• Zhu Yu took Xun Yu’s Spirit Body Dharma Seed, which soon dissipated, and collected nearly a million Spirit Stones, valuable ores, and other spoils from both men.
• Zhu Yu boarded a flying boat to Godfall Tower, examined his gains, then returned safely to Thousand Spirit Market.
• Zhu Yu found that the Liang family had moved to Qingping Tower and read Liang Kuan’s jade slip, learning that they had been sold.

Zhu Yu discovered that Yinming Mansion’s disciples had been reassigned to Qingping Tower and received compensation, then traveled there and registered his identity. He arrived at the Internal Affairs Pavilion and heard someone call out to him as he left.

• Zhu Yu found one hundred thousand Contribution Points and one great merit added to his identity jade slip as compensation for his reassignment to Qingping Tower.
• Zhu Yu sold the Wen Residence, arranged to collect his delayed Lingxiao Sword from Luo Ling at Qingping Tower, and bought supplies before leaving Xiangyun Market.
• Zhu Yu traveled with Zhu Yi, Zhu Er, Little Black, and two Green Spirit Pythons aboard a crowded vessel carrying Rogue Cultivators and their families to Qingping Tower.
• Zhu Yu saw the sunny Qingping Spirit Ruins, its thriving fields and mountain ranges, and arrived at the floating islands where families offered rewards to recruit spouses and descendants.
• Zhu Yu registered his identity at the Internal Affairs Pavilion, received a map, and learned that a steward would receive him on Welcome Island.
• A familiar voice called to Zhu Yu as he stepped out of the pavilion.

Zhu Yu reunited with Hong Xingwang, learned about Qingping Tower’s arrangements, and chose Tomb Island as his cultivation residence. After he left the Internal Affairs Hall, someone arrived and learned that Tomb Island had already been taken.

• Zhu Yu met Hong Xingwang and learned that Chen Ying had become True Person Ma’s Dao companion and was carrying his child.
• Hong Xingwang told Zhu Yu about Qingping Tower’s generous disciple treatment and the ongoing clashes between its original disciples and newcomers.
• Zhu Yu met Deacon Zhou Tong, who introduced the second island chain and showed him several possible cultivation sites.
• Zhu Yu chose Tomb Island for its Yin Springs and its compatibility with his Field, Mass Grave, and registered it as his cave residence.
• Zhu Yu and Hong Xingwang left the Internal Affairs Hall, while a later visitor learned that Tomb Island had already been occupied.

Zhu Yu settled into Tomb Island, explored its powerful Yin Springs, and spread his Mass Grave Field across the island. After he sensed someone spying and drove off a flying boat, Li Jiu and Lu discussed avoiding a confrontation and choosing another island.

• Zhu Yu brought his beasts and attendants to Tomb Island, assigned Zhu Yi and Zhu Er to manage the estate, and told Little Black it could explore the island.
• Zhu Yu inspected the underground tomb chambers and discovered three second-tier Yin Springs that could greatly strengthen his Corpse Puppets.
• Zhu Yu spread his Mass Grave Field across Tomb Island, sensing the island’s every corner and spotting Little Black returning through the dark.
• Zhu Yu detected a hostile observer and appeared on a mountain peak, where he saw a White Jade Flying Boat fleeing into the distance.
• Aboard the boat, Li Jiu warned Lu about Zhu Yu’s overwhelming Field, and the two agreed to look at Black Water Island instead.

Zhu Yu studied the Qingping Spirit Ruins inheritance, gave Zhong Li a new body, and used a ritual to contact the Abyss and transform an old man into a Vampire. The ritual revealed powerful knowledge at a cost and exposed Zhu Yu to the Abyss’s persistent will, while the chapter ended with the newly made Blood Slave greeting him.

• Zhu Yu read Wang Xiang’s records and considered how bloodlines and inherited cultivation paths might broaden the Qingping Path.
• Zhu Yu placed several corpses in Yin Springs, gave Zhong Li a Yi Human body, and assigned Split Spirits and Six-Armed Nagas to prepare experiments and rituals.
• Zhu Yu discovered he could split into twenty conscious Rings, though the resulting flood of memories overwhelmed him, then meditated to recover.
• Zhu Yu activated a Bloodline Secret Rune ritual and received information from the Abyss, including its prices, while True Sight Eye repeatedly blocked the Abyss Will’s erosion.
• The ritual transformed the sinister old man into a blood-colored being, who knelt before Zhu Yu and called himself the Blood Slave.

Zhu Yu examined the Blood Slave’s abilities, then learned that Qingping Tower would offer only eighteen Spirit Ruins Master positions. Realizing he had to secure one before they were claimed, he began preparing to cultivate with the second-tier spiritual materials.

• Zhu Yu inspected the Blood Slave’s status and discovered it had inherited powerful bloodline spells, then transformed it into a ring and altered Zhong Li’s memories.
• Wu Tong, Hong Xingwang, and Shangguan Jiang visited Zhu Yu, and Shangguan Jiang presented him with nine high-grade pearls as a gift.
• Zhu Yu asked Wu Tong for servants, and Shangguan Jiang offered to send ten thousand people before Zhu Yu settled for Wu Tong’s help.
• Wu Tong and Shangguan Jiang told Zhu Yu that Qingping Tower would open eighteen Spirit Ruins, each with a manor position awarded to the first-place winner.
• Zhu Yu realized the positions were limited and took out Flesh Taisui and Imperial Tomb Soil to begin cultivating.

Zhu Yu successfully cultivated the Superior Person Spirit Body, drawing in enormous amounts of spiritual energy across Tomb Island. After eight days, he emerged to find Zhou Tong and Shangguan Jiang waiting outside, both eager to meet him.

• Zhu Yu processed the Flesh Taisui and Imperial Tomb Soil into spirit liquid, and the Imperial Tomb Soil split off most of itself to preserve its intelligence.
• Zhu Yu guided the blue-gold aura into the Superior Person Dharma Veins, severed the completed Dharma Chart, and transformed his body into a spirit body.
• Zhu Yu’s cultivation drew spiritual energy across Tomb Island, alarming Little Black, Little Seven, Xiao Qing, Little White, Zhu Yi, and Zhu Er.
• Zhou Tong and Shangguan Jiang waited outside Tomb Island while Shangguan Jiang ordered five followers to obey Zhu Yu and renounce the Shangguan surname.
• After eight days, Zhu Yu emerged with the Superior Person Dharma Seed, apologized to Zhou Tong and Shangguan Jiang for keeping them waiting, and startled them with his powerful presence.

Shangguan Jiang sought Zhu Yu’s help against Shangguan Zhong, offering valuable rewards that included a Foundation Establishment Pill and Spirit Ruins Origin. After Shangguan Jiang received further backing from his grandfather, he returned with the promised payment, and Zhu Yu prepared to act.

• Zhou Tong arranged lodging and work for the servants Shangguan Jiang had brought, while Shangguan Jiang presented five talented Qi Refining cultivators to Zhu Yu.
• Shangguan Jiang asked Zhu Yu to kill Shangguan Zhong, then negotiated a reward of a Foundation Establishment Pill after Zhu Yu refused to target him for the initial offer.
• Zhu Yu learned from Zhou Tong about the fighting platform outside Three-Ring Island and the formidable cultivators arriving from the two towers.
• Shangguan Jiang told his grandfather that Zhu Yu had agreed to gravely injure Shangguan Zhong, and his grandfather gave him two jade bottles and ordered him to prevent Shangguan Zhong from claiming the mansion position.
• Shangguan Jiang delivered a Foundation Establishment Pill, thirty strands of Spirit Ruins Origin, and a method for refining a Divine Ability embryonic form to Zhu Yu, who changed into his green python-embroidered robe and prepared to leave with him.

Zhu Yu sent a powerful clone with Shangguan Jiang to the arena to challenge Shangguan Zhong, while Shangguan Jiang’s conflict with Zhao Yuan erupted before Shangguan Zhong arrived. The chapter left Shangguan Jiang wounded and poisoned after Zhao Yuan’s attack, as Zhu Yu offered to intervene.

• Shangguan Jiang realized Zhu Yu had sent a clone from Tomb Island, but the clone’s Heavenly Principle aura frightened him into proceeding to the arena.
• Zhu Yu explained the Superior Person spirit body’s abilities and limits, then reached the arena with Shangguan Jiang and prepared to face Shangguan Zhong.
• Lu Yu and other cultivators learned Shangguan Jiang had summoned someone to challenge Shangguan Zhong, while Lu Yu privately doubted that person could win.
• Zhao Yuan taunted Shangguan Jiang and challenged him on the arena, drawing a crowd that urged them to sign a life-and-death contract.
• Zhao Yuan struck Shangguan Jiang with his Blood Flood Dragon Divine Ability, leaving him poisoned and badly weakened despite the protection of his jade pendant.
• Zhu Yu asked Shangguan Jiang whether he needed him to act.

Zhu Yu accepted Shangguan Jiang’s offer of five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin and defeated Zhao Yuan, crippling him after taking his Red Flood Dragon Divine Ability head-on. Zhao Jing brought Zhao Yuan to First-Ring Island Chain seeking help, while Jiang Li realized Zhu Yu could pose a threat even to the secluded Shangguan Zhong.

• Shangguan Jiang agreed to pay Zhu Yu five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin to fight Zhao Yuan, and Zhu Yu stepped onto the arena.
• Zhu Yu endured Zhao Yuan’s Red Flood Dragon attack and shattered his bones, meridians, and several Dharma Seeds, leaving him crippled but alive.
• Shangguan Jiang told Lu Yu and the others that Zhu Yu had acted on his behalf, then praised Zhu Yu as stronger than Qingping’s top True Disciples.
• Zhao Jing brought the unconscious Zhao Yuan to Jiang Li and demanded that he summon Shangguan Zhong, but Jiang Li refused to disturb Shangguan Zhong’s seclusion.
• Jiang Li learned that Zhu Yu had defeated Zhao Yuan and wondered who Zhu Yu was, since even Shangguan Zhong could not take the Divine Ability head-on with his body.

Shangguan Zhong secretly let Zhao Yuan die and manipulated Zhao Jing into blaming Shangguan Jiang, while Zhu Yu’s avatar returned with five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin. Zhu Yu considered whether to use his growing stock of Spirit Ruins Origin for Divine Art Transformation or to derive Dharma Veins for Xiao Qing and the others.

• Shangguan Zhong healed Zhao Yuan’s shattered body but deliberately allowed the strange force left by Zhu Yu’s attack to erupt, killing him in front of Zhao Jing.
• Shangguan Zhong comforted Zhao Jing and fueled her hatred of Shangguan Jiang, but Jiang Li and Zhao Jing stopped him from rushing to the arena while injured.
• Shangguan Zhong returned to his cave to heal, Jiang Li summoned their brothers, and Zhao Jing took Zhao Yuan’s remains to the Zhao Family encampment.
• At the arena, Shangguan Jiang learned that Shangguan Zhong had defeated Bai Yan, one of the top three true disciples, and departed to meet Zhu Yu.
• Shangguan Jiang promised Zhu Yu a chance to heavily injure Shangguan Zhong within half a month and gave him five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin.
• Back in the Underground Mausoleum, Zhu Yu retrieved his avatar’s memories and considered whether to use his thirty-five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin for Divine Art Transformation or to derive Dharma Veins for Xiao Qing and the others.

Zhu Yu distributed Spirit Ruins Origin among his subordinates, cultivated, and gained wider recognition after news spread that he had withstood Zhao Yuan’s Divine Ability. After twenty days, his Split Spirit awakened in a blood-soaked chamber and encountered the great will of the Yi Spirit Ruins.

• Zhu Yu gave Blood Slave five strands of Spirit Ruins Origin and sent another strand into Little Jade, reserving eighteen strands for Black Tiger.
• Shangguan Jiang told Shangguan Lingkong that Zhu Yu had killed Zhao Yuan, and Shangguan Lingkong gave him Spirit Ruins Origin while warning him not to make private promises again.
• News of Zhu Yu’s clash with Zhao Yuan spread, prompting Li Jiu, Lu Yu, and cultivators across the islands to react to his growing reputation.
• Zhu Yu’s avatar searched Qingping Sect’s Dharma Repository, then he returned to Tomb Island and oversaw preparations for his servants to begin cultivation.
• After twenty days passed, Zhu Yu connected to his silent Split Spirit and found himself in a blood-soaked chamber facing the great will of the Yi Spirit Ruins.