Chapter Summaries

After absorbing Qin Wuxiang’s divine soul, Zhu Yu discovered his spiritual abilities had strengthened and took charge of Yong Province’s spoils and defenses. He then traveled to Yan Province, where Cao Kun told him about Mechanical City, a strange treasure offering modern vehicles, weapons, and missions.

• Zhu Yu found that Qin Wuxiang’s divine soul had increased his control over the Life Spirit Ruins, his Soul Particle production, and the number of Split Spirits he could sustain.
• True Person Baize assigned Zhu Yu and Huang Shi to guard Yong Province, then took Huang Shi to meet Qingping True Lord.
• Zhu Yu divided the captured resources among his followers, sent Hong Youfu, Qiao Heyong, Yao Ye, and Blood Slave to guard the border, and ordered Whale and Meng to plunder the remaining territories.
• Zhu Yu reviewed the Yinming disciples’ contributions, noted Liang Kuan’s first-place ranking, and traveled to Yan Province to investigate the Gensokyo Treasure.
• Zhu Yu met Cao Kun outside Mechanical City and learned that its exchange office sold weapons and other goods for resource points, which visitors could earn by completing missions.

Zhu Yu explored Steel Giant City, traded with Raul for a laboratory and equipment, then visited the Exchange Bureau to learn the cost of repairing Bai Meng’s Crystal Ball and obtaining Underworld Soil. He left the bureau after judging its prices excessive.

• Zhu Yu sent a strand of Split Spirit into Steel Giant City and discovered its residents were consciousnesses derived from the Treasure, though their goods were real.
• Zhu Yu met Raul Henderson at Raul Prosthetics Shop and agreed to buy a Saierya L11 Medical Robot, a Multifunctional Safety Pod, and biological laboratory equipment.
• Raul quoted prices in Resource Points, Spirit Stones, and Spirit Ruins Origin, and Zhu Yu arranged to return with payment.
• Zhu Yu asked Raul whether he possessed an independent will, then rode to the Exchange Bureau.
• Zhu Yu learned that repairing Bai Meng’s Crystal Ball would cost three million Resource Points and that obtaining Underworld Soil was also costly, so he left.

Zhu Yu discovered that Life Origin Stones were highly valuable on the Dawn and began planning to build a cross-domain trade network using his Split Spirits. After Raul tried to steal a shipment, Melis intervened, and Zhu Yu began choosing expensive robots for his Resource Points.

• Zhu Yu learned from True Person Nine-Heads that Tu Fishmen and Spirit Ruins Origin could be traded for resources, then sent Raul a Life Origin Stone and other goods to appraise.
• Raul valued the Life Origin Stone at two hundred Resource Points and offered to provide its purification technique, while hinting that a large supply of crystals could bring Zhu Yu a surprise.
• Zhu Yu realized that cultivating trade between Spirit Ruins could be more profitable than attacking them, then had his Big-Winged Wasp Split Spirit send him one million Life Origin Stones.
• Raul tried to keep the crystals and dismiss Zhu Yu with a cup of coffee, but Melis arrived, destroyed Raul, and took responsibility for the transaction.
• Melis showed Zhu Yu higher-grade products, and Zhu Yu selected the Saierya L1-type medical robot for one hundred and fifty million Resource Points.

Zhu Yu bought the L1 Medical Robot and laboratory equipment from Melis, repaired Bai Meng’s crystal ball, and named the robot Green Spirit. Half a month later, he watched the Santu Spirit Ruins launch a massive sea-beast invasion across the Martial Realm, and the scene ended as new banners appeared over the captured cities.

• Zhu Yu discovered that the L1 Medical Robot was a flawed Fantasy creation, but bought it along with laboratory equipment and asked Melis to repair his crystal ball.
• Melis restored the crystal ball, revealing it as the second-tier Witch's Divination Crystal Ball, which Zhu Yu hoped might help locate the Foreign Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu named the robot Green Spirit, returned to Yong Province, and spent the next half month without facing a response from the Great Yu Imperial Court.
• Dragon-Severing True Person and his allies drew the court’s attention by attacking cities and sects across several provinces.
• The Santu Spirit Ruins unleashed enormous swarms of sea beasts along the coast, overwhelming cities and threatening even Dao Fruit and Golden Body realm Martial Artists.
• As the beasts spread through the coastal cities, bright banners appeared across the scene.

Zhu Yu watched the Great Yu Dynasty’s fake Formation Souls and learned that the Martial Realm would end within a hundred days, then tested a Fantasy Creation that successfully purified bloodline essence. He left the Blood Separation Centrifuge running on Tu Fishmen blood to find out whether they carried Jiaoren bloodlines.

• Huang Shi recognized that the Great Yu Dynasty’s Formation Souls were fakes that drained soldiers and shifted damage onto them, while the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators considered their power useful.
• Zhu Yu entered his Laboratory and tested the Blood Separation Centrifuge on Six-Armed Naga bloodline essence after discovering Green Spirit’s experimental data was useless.
• Zhu Yu divined that he could return to the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins in a hundred days and decided he would need to send a Split Spirit to the Twelve Heavenly Immortal Alliance.
• The Blood Separation Centrifuge purified the Six-Armed Naga essence blood to spirit-tier purity, convincing Zhu Yu that the Fantasy Creation was valuable.
• Zhu Yu collected essence blood from ten thousand elite Tu Fishmen and started the centrifuge to test whether they possessed Jiaoren bloodlines.

Zhu Yu experimented with refining Tu Fishman blood and continued preparing to leave the Martial Realm, while an unfamiliar presence arrived in his Foundation Establishment Realm. The chapter ended with the Bronze Gate warning that it had blocked an intrusion by an unfamiliar will.

• Zhu Yu refined Tu Fishman blood into a Sand Fishman, then produced a Cave Lizardman and a Sea Lizardman from unusual blood samples.
• Zhu Yu warned the Split Spirits of Heavenly Principle and Haoran Righteous Qi that he would soon leave the Martial Realm and told them to behave before visitors from the Flower God Spirit Ruins arrived.
• Zhu Yu traveled to Yushan City and used a faint, eerie murmur to put a young county-office resident and his maidservant to sleep.
• Seven days later, Zhu Yu watched the Zhenwu Guard and sea beasts nearing the end of their battle and planned his return to the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu entered his Foundation Establishment Realm and saw three suns appear in the darkness before an unfamiliar will overwhelmed his consciousness; the Bronze Gate warned that it had blocked the intrusion.

After returning from the Martial Realm, Zhu Yu counted his gains, assessed his companions’ progress, and continued experimenting with bloodlines. The chapter ended with Zang Hai arriving at the Inverted Tower to repay her debt.

• Zhu Yu prepared a Split Spirit for the Twelve Heavenly Immortal Alliance, then sent it through the Bronze Gate and found itself inside an enormous beast before later returning to the Qingping Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu returned to Yinming Mansion with his companions, reunited with Zhu Yi, and reviewed the Spirit Ruins Origin and artifacts he had brought back from the Martial Realm.
• Zhu Yu examined the Ghost Spirit Staff granted by Qingping True Lord and considered combining it with the Ten Thousand Beast Banner.
• Zhu Yu noticed that Yao Ye’s cultivation was developing a Divine Ability Dharma Domain, then gave five Shangguan Family clansmen spiritual objects and Spirit Ruins Origin to help them attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Zhu Yu refined bloodlines from the Tu Fishmen but did not find the Jiaoren bloodline he wanted.
• Zang Hai visited Zhu Yu and said she had come to repay her debt.

Zhu Yu welcomed Zang Hai, Cang Li, Fu Hongxi, and True Person Ma, then witnessed Qingping Tower’s establishment and gained a major improvement to his soul aptitude. He learned the tower would draw resources from his Life Spirit Ruins and offered True Person Ma a chance to obtain more Life Immortal Dew.

• Zang Hai, Cang Li, and Fu Hongxi gave Zhu Yu gifts in gratitude for his protection in the Martial Realm, while True Person Ma visited to warn him that Huang Shi was asking about him.
• Zang Hai and the others dismissed Huang Shi as a native and proposed dealing with him, but Zhu Yu told them to let him ask around unless he overstepped.
• A vast will called for Qingping Tower to rise, and Zhu Yu and the others entered the Foundation Establishment Realm as the tower opened.
• The tower’s fire qi tempered Zhu Yu’s Life Spirit Ruins and improved his soul aptitude from fourth grade to fifth grade, greatly increasing how quickly he could condense Soul Particles.
• Zhu Yu learned that the passage connecting his Life Spirit Ruins would claim about twenty percent of its protective force-field energy, then asked the sect group chat how much other towers took in offerings.
• Zhu Yu offered True Person Ma a future portion of Life Immortal Dew, saw him off, and returned to the palace to open one of the gifts on the table.

Zhu Yu received gifts, tested his improved cultivation aptitude, and hired True Person Zhongshui to refine a divine-soul pill from a God-Given Fruit. After learning about the Golden Core Realm, Zhu Yu returned to his companions and gave Gen spirit seeds to cultivate, while Gen asked for meat and Spirit Stones.

• Zhu Yu received two hundred portions of Spirit Ruins Origin from Fu Hongxi and a Copper-Armored Corpse Pill from Zang Hai, then condensed eighteen hundred Soul Particles during three double-hours of meditation.
• Zhu Yu learned that Hong Youfu could condense nearly four thousand Soul Particles a day and contacted the Heavenly Dao Sect Group Chat to hire an alchemist.
• Zhu Yu gave True Person Zhongshui three hundred strands of Spirit Ruins Origin to refine a divine-soul pill from the Sea Demon Nuli Algae God-Given Fruit, then offered Life Immortal Dew in exchange for second-tier Spirit Medicine seeds.
• Zang Hai told Zhu Yu that Foundation Establishment cultivators sought the Golden Core Realm, also called the Sea of Fire, where flames could destroy a second-tier cultivator's divine soul.
• Zhu Yu learned that Fu Hongxi's aptitude had advanced to the sixth grade and that Little Seven's fruit would ripen in two days.
• Zhu Yu gave Gen the spirit seeds to cultivate alongside the Starry Wood, and Gen asked to eat meat and Spirit Stones.

Gen restored a three-mu Spirit Field and rapidly sprouted Golden Silk Flowers and Ink Jade Grass, while Zhu Yu arranged for Luo Ling’s artifact-refining brother to be brought to him. After learning Luo Yan’s ties to True Person Kuidou, Zhu Yu worried that summoning him might cause trouble, and the chapter ended as the Blood Slave returned with Luo Yan.

• Gen transformed land around the Starry Wood into a three-mu Spirit Field, and Zhu Yu supplied him with ore and Spirit Stones to replenish his strength.
• Gen planted twenty Golden Silk Flower and Ink Jade Grass seeds, which quickly sprouted through his Spirit Nourishment ability.
• Zhu Yu put Gen in charge of new first-rank Spirit Fields and planned to plant the Other Shore Flower once Gen recovered.
• Luo Ling told Zhu Yu that her elder brother could refine Spirit Artifacts if he had a suitable place, so Zhu Yu sent the Blood Slave to fetch him.
• Zang Hai informed Zhu Yu that Luo Yan had left True Person Kuidou’s Inner Mansion, making Zhu Yu fear complications even as he decided to ask Luo Yan to refine a Spirit Artifact.
• The Blood Slave returned with Luo Ling and Luo Yan as a shadow appeared before a Bronze Gate at Chenning Mountain.

Zhu Yu arranged Spirit Artifact refinements with Luo Yan, granted Luo Ling permission to open a shop, and continued cultivating while his associates pursued advancement elsewhere. He finally broke through to the second heaven of Foundation Establishment and discovered that two corpse puppets had advanced to second-rank low-grade, each with a new Divine Ability.

• True Person Kuidou confronted Zhu Yu outside the hall and warned him that this was the only time she would intervene, after which Zhu Yu returned and politely asked Luo Yan to refine a Myriad Soul Banner.
• Luo Yan declined to refine the Black Gold Mace but chose other Origin Artifacts and materials for the banner, while Luo Ling requested an Affiliate Foundation Establishment position and Zhu Yu instead agreed to let her open a shop in Yinming Mansion.
• Zhu Yu sent Luo Yan to the refining room, arranged a shop for Luo Ling, and later hosted the Fruit Banquet before Xun Su, Ni Ying, Qiao Hewei, Bai Meng, and Bai Yan left Yinming Mansion to join other factions.
• Zhu Yu broke through to the second heaven of Foundation Establishment and entered his Life Spirit Ruins, where the Dragon-Blooded Kobold and Black Tiger had both advanced to second-rank low-grade.
• Zhu Yu inspected the Dragon-Blooded Kobold's Dragon Scale Corpse Armor and the Black Tiger's Nether Ghost Flame, confirming that both had gained Divine Abilities.

Zhu Yu entered the Netherworld with Black Tiger to gather Underworld Soil and found a Black Blood Tribe mine overseen by Niu Gu. After learning about the tribe and its Ghost General leader, Black Blood, he sent Black Tiger to attack while he looted valuable materials, and he left to join the ongoing fight.

• Zhu Yu rode Black Tiger into the Netherworld and found wraiths exchanging Underworld Soil for black liquid at a mine guarded by Niu Gu.
• Zhu Yu killed Niu Gu, learned about the Black Blood Tribe and its leader Black Blood, and collected Underworld Soil, soul-nourishing liquid, and Niu Gu's whip.
• Zhu Yu followed Niu Gu's memories to the Black Blood Tribe and sent Black Tiger to test his new strength against its wraiths.
• Black Tiger unleashed Nether Ghost Flame on the tribe, then fought Black Blood, burning away much of the Ghost General's soul-body and chasing him as he fled.
• Zhu Yu searched Black Blood's stone house, cut up an Underworld Soil bed, took a black-red stone sphere from the Blood Pool, and drained its blood water.
• Zhu Yu sensed the Netherworld's mark growing stronger, gathered Black Blood's dropped bone club, and flew off to find Black Tiger.

Zhu Yu returned from the netherworld with Underworld Soil, polluted Yellow Springs Water, a demon core, and a bone club containing a Divine Ability Talisman. He nurtured bloodlines from Tu Fishmen and discovered a Flame Crystal Earth Dragon and an unknown insectoid race, leaving him intrigued by the insectoid’s value as a newly discovered species.

• Zhu Yu arrived as Black Tiger drove off the Twisted Ghost Face and Black Blood, then ordered Black Tiger to leave the netherworld with him.
• Back at Qingping Tower, Zhu Yu examined his spoils, identified the polluted Yellow Springs Water and demon core, and found the Divine Ability Talisman Covering Earth inside Black Blood’s bone club.
• Zhu Yu sent rare bloodline essences extracted from Tu Fishmen into the Abyssal Sea to nurture new races, while Green Spirit continued processing bloodline samples.
• The next day, Zhu Yu received a Flame Crystal Earth Dragon and an unknown armored insectoid from the Bronze Gate.
• Zhu Yu confirmed the insectoid had four innate spells and belonged to a race absent from the True Sight Eye’s records.

Zhu Yu purified Yellow Springs Water, arranged for Gen to plant Other Shore Flowers, and secured supplies for his expanding Tu Fishman population. He learned that Mi Lan was selling a Shallow Spirit Ruins Dao Beacon and went to her home to discuss buying it.

• Zhu Yu purified contaminated Yellow Springs Water and discovered that the bloodline from the Demon Core could not be gestated by the Source Sea, so he sealed it there for future nurturing.
• Zhu Yu saw that the Tu Fishmen population was nearing the Life Spirit Ruins' capacity and decided not to curb their reproduction yet.
• Zhu Yu asked Gen to plant Other Shore Flowers using human souls and Netherworld aura, and Gen agreed that the task would not harm its foundation.
• Zhu Yu gave True Person Ma Life Immortal Dew and asked him to procure a thousand cultivator souls along with as much mortal grain and meat as possible.
• True Person Ma told Zhu Yu that Mi Lan was selling a Shallow Spirit Ruins Dao Beacon and explained that a World-Breaking Anchor could be used to pull the Spirit Ruins over.
• Zhu Yu visited Mi Lan, said he wanted to buy her Dao Beacon, and accepted her invitation to discuss the Spirit Ruins inside her home.

Zhu Yu bought True Person Mi’s Great Marsh Spirit Ruins Dao Beacon and began exploring the ruins while preparing to cultivate the Three Calamities Corpse Record. After three days, True Person Ma delivered grain, meat, and human souls, and Zhu Yu asked whether the True Lord would lease out the World-Breaking Anchor.

• True Person Mi described the marsh-filled, shallow Great Marsh Spirit Ruins, and Zhu Yu negotiated its Dao Beacon down to two thousand portions of Spirit Ruins Origin.
• True Person Mi paid two associates their shares and discussed exploring the ruins with Zhu Yu, but decided they would investigate it themselves first.
• Zhu Yu activated the Dao Beacon on the Star-Drawing Platform and sent his Graveyard Grass Dao Foundation into the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu studied the Three Calamities Corpse Record, formed three prerequisite Dharma Seeds, and began refining Black Tiger essence blood.
• True Person Ma delivered grain, meat, and a thousand human souls to Zhu Yu, who asked him about leasing the True Lord’s World-Breaking Anchor.

Zhu Yu planted Other Shore Flower spirit seeds, explored the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins, and negotiated with Qingji to have the World-Breaking Anchor help move the ruins. After returning to cultivation, he met True Person Zhongshui, who delivered six exceptionally refined pills.

• True Person Ma agreed to introduce Zhu Yu to the World-Breaking Anchor, and Zhu Yu and Gen prepared and planted nearly a thousand Other Shore Flower spirit seeds with Netherworld aura.
• Zhu Yu acquired a Plague Spirit and formed a Dharma Seed for the Field art Three Calamities while preparing to advance his cultivation.
• Zhu Yu explored the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins, found its Spirit Springs and Marsh Crocodiles, and headed underground to locate the Source Sea.
• Qingji agreed to help move the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins in exchange for two thousand portions of Spirit Ruins Origin and one hundred pounds of Five Elements Essence, giving Zhu Yu a token for the altar.
• After half a month of cultivation, Zhu Yu met True Person Zhongshui, who handed him six pills bearing mysterious markings and described them as top-grade.

Zhu Yu refined Sea Demon Nuli Algae Spirit Nourishing pills, greatly increasing his soul power, then activated an altar to summon Little Ancestor Qingji, who began moving the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins toward the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins. He learned that the new Spirit Ruins would owe annual fees and ended the chapter looking forward to his ripening God-Given Fruits.

• Zhu Yu swallowed six Spirit Nourishing pills refined by True Person Zhongshui, raising his daily Soul Particle production to 2,300.
• Zhu Yu checked on his Martial Realm Split Spirits, which had found the provinces outwardly quiet but heavily guarded by Zhenwu Guards.
• Zhu Yu activated the altar and invited Little Ancestor Qingji, who said the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins would be brought near the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins in half a month.
• Zhu Yu informed the Heavenly Dao Sect Group Chat about the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins and learned from True Lord Huiyue that it would owe ten portions of Spirit Ruins Origin each year.
• Zhu Yu watched the sect members complain about Spirit Ruins fees, then decided to share his ripening God-Given Fruits in hopes of earning future opportunities.
• Zhu Yu checked the Other Shore Flower and Starry Wood's God-Given Fruits, which were nearly ready.

Zhu Yu opened the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins to millions of Tu Fishman and set them to work taming Marsh Crocodiles, then harvested the ruins' accumulated resources. Back in Yinming Mansion, he bought several second-rank hundred arts inheritances and turned his attention to putting his cultivators to work.

• Zhu Yu entered the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins with Whale, Xiao Qing, Little White, and Zhu Yi, and Xiao Qing and Little White transformed into giant serpents to vent their pent-up energy.
• Zhu Yu brought more than six million Tu Fishman into the marshes, while Whale began directing them to try taming Marsh Crocodiles for use as Marsh Knights.
• Zhu Yu reached the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins' Source Sea, collected its Spirit Ruins Origin and other resources, and returned to the Present World without taking the resources stored in the Source Sea.
• Zhu Yu opened travel between the Great Marsh Spirit Ruins and Yinming Mansion for his companions, then asked True Lord Huiyue about second-rank hundred arts inheritances.
• Zhu Yu purchased inheritances in Formation Dao, Corpse Puppet Refinement, Ghost Nurturing, Shamanic Rites, and Spirit Patterns, selecting methods including spirit arrays, armored corpses, a Blood-Clad Ghost, and an Equipped Knight.
• Zhu Yu noticed that Qiao Hewei, Hong Youfu, and the others had nearly used up their accumulated Spirit Ruins Origin and decided it was time to put them to work.

Zhu Yu ordered his companions to refine black water while he studied cultivation arts, then arrived with the Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators at the Twelve Heavenly Immortal Alliance. After buying an overpriced ticket on a Sun Corona Domain-Crossing Boat, he learned he could exchange it for a reusable boat card and began questioning a fellow passenger about the region.

• Zhu Yu sent Xiao Qing, Little White, Little Jade, Meng, and the Dragon-Blooded Kobold Warrior into the Source Sea to refine black water, while the others accepted his order to take turns working there.
• Meng taught the others how to refine black water, and Xiao Qing, Little Jade, and the Dragon-Blooded Kobold Warrior eventually swallowed it despite its pain and corrosive effects.
• Zhu Yu supervised them, studied the hundred arts methods he had purchased, and continued cultivating as Hong Youfu, Qiao Heyong, and Yao Ye left to gather resources.
• A month later, Zhu Yu and the other Heavenly Dao Sect cultivators arrived at the Twelve Heavenly Immortal Alliance and received a map of the Wangchuan Domain from the Santu Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu paid three hundred Spirit Sources for a Sun Corona Domain-Crossing Boat ticket, then learned from another passenger that the standard fare was far cheaper.
• After discovering the boat card could store his ticket's value for future rides, Zhu Yu accepted the card and asked the passenger his surname.

Zhu Yu settled on Bailu Island in the Sea God Spirit Ruins, built a successful spiritual-pattern business, and harvested mature Pseudo–Other Shore Flowers. Back in the Life Spirit Ruins, he used Underworld Soil, Yellow Springs Water, and the flowers to create the Yellow Springs Road and open a gate to the Netherworld.

• Zhu Yu arrived at the Sea God Spirit Ruins with Bai Xiong, reunited with True Person Zhongshui, and learned about Bailu Island and the Thousand Star Sea Region.
• Zhu Yu rented a courtyard on Bailu Island and spent a month blending into its community while True Person Zhongshui became a guest elder of the Wang Clan.
• Zhu Yu established himself as a spiritual pattern master, earning the name Ghost Hand Divine Work as his business and information network expanded.
• Zhu Yu harvested more than nine hundred and eighty Pseudo–Other Shore Flowers and returned to the Life Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu formed the Yellow Springs Road with Underworld Soil, Yellow Springs Water, and Other Shore Flowers, then opened a gate that released black qi and ghosts into the Life Spirit Ruins.