Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yu defeated Ghost Bride with the Myriad Soul Banner and Mystic Water Thunder, then reached Black Water Market and confronted Granny Huang. After absorbing several strange creatures, he surveyed Qingyang Town and considered refining the whole town.

• Zhu Yu used the Myriad Soul Banner to overwhelm Ghost Bride, then struck her residence with Mystic Water Thunder and captured her in the banner.
• Zhu Yu left the ruined estate for Black Water Market in a sedan carried by Big-Headed Boy.
• Granny Huang offered Zhu Yu one of her Yellow Weasel descendants, but a Water Ghost tried to claim it first.
• Zhu Yu subdued the Yellow Weasel and Water Ghost, turned the Yellow Weasel into a pill, and absorbed the Water Ghost into his banner.
• Granny Huang realized Zhu Yu had defeated Ghost Bride and fled with her descendants to seek refuge with her grandaunt.
• Zhu Yu arrived in Qingyang Town, watched its ghosts and monsters, and said he wanted to refine the whole town.

Zhu Yu earned money and gathered ghosts in Black Water Market, then returned to Qingyang Temple and strengthened himself by refining crystals and hunting nearby ghosts. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng returned to Little West Village with the Sun-Rising Pill and announced that he would attempt to break through to Rising Yang after a suspicious death was discovered.

• Zhu Yu found that a powerful ghost controlled Black Water Market, offered pill-refining services, and turned Fang Cheng’s blood flame fruit into a Sun-Rising Pill.
• Zhu Yu left the market, found Granny Huang’s den abandoned, and avoided The Village’s powerful Weird Domain before returning to Qingyang Temple to assess his gains and plan a teleportation altar.
• Zhu Yu decided to study alchemy, strengthened the Myriad Soul Banner, and absorbed black crystals to raise his cultivation to 18.5% of Black-Baleful rank.
• Zhu Yu hunted nearby lesser ghosts for several days, gathered more black crystals, and returned to the temple to continue cultivating.
• Fang Cheng returned to Little West Village, where the village chief and Guardian Liu showed him the thirteenth corpse, which bore no lingering Gui power.
• Fang Cheng said he would enter seclusion to break through to Rising Yang, while the village chief asked Guardian Liu to request a new village chief from Huaiyu Town.

Guardian Liu planned to take control of Little West Village after Fang Cheng died, but Fang Cheng used Zhu Yu’s pill and broke through to the Rising Yang Realm, gaining a greatly extended lifespan. Meanwhile, Zhu Yu advanced to the first realm of Blood Wandering at Qingyang Temple, where his Alchemy Butchery became a Weird Domain and awakened nearby beings.

• Guardian Liu told Xiao Dinghai and Li Zhan to protect the Dao Beacon and said she planned to become Little West Village’s chief after Fang Cheng died.
• Fang Cheng swallowed Zhu Yu’s pill, endured an uncontrolled surge of blood qi, and broke through to the Rising Yang Realm with 150 years of Heavenly Longevity.
• The village chief celebrated Fang Cheng’s breakthrough, while Xiao Dinghai and Li Zhan postponed trying to kill him until Guardian Liu returned.
• Fang Cheng decided to capture Zhu Yu at Black Wind Mountain and force him to make pills for Blood Coins.
• Zhu Yu reached the first realm of Blood Wandering, evolved Alchemy Butchery into a Weird Domain, and transformed two big-headed weirds into Daoist attendants.
• Zhu Yu’s temple grew dark as his murmuring voices awakened strange beings in the surrounding hills.

Zhu Yu hunted a Blood Wandering Water Ape and added it as a main soul to the Myriad Soul Banner, but his encounter with the Lord of a Thousand Eyes revealed a power comparable to Qingping True Lord. After returning to Black Wind Mountain, Zhu Yu faced Fang Cheng, who had secretly become a Sun-Rising martial artist and attacked him.

• Zhu Yu used radiation scouting to learn that the Lord of a Thousand Eyes ruled the area and would lead Blood Grade weird creatures in an attack on human towns at the coming Blood Moon.
• Zhu Yu hunted the Water Ape, defeated it with the Myriad Soul Banner and Mystic Water Thunder, and recorded it as a new main soul.
• A Blood Baleful Thousand-Eyed Ghost Spider stopped Zhu Yu from hunting more weird creatures, then reported him to the Lord of a Thousand Eyes, whose terrifying will made Zhu Yu fear it was comparable to Qingping True Lord.
• Zhu Yu returned to Black Wind Mountain and found Fang Cheng waiting, newly advanced to Black Baleful and secretly revealed as a Sun-Rising realm martial artist.
• Fang Cheng attacked Zhu Yu and told him to leave with him, but Zhu Yu activated his Weird Domain.

Zhu Yu trapped Fang Cheng in his Weird Domain, learned about the Blood Moon and village Sun Flame flaws, and bound him with a contract to help sell pills. Fang Cheng returned to Little West Village and set out with livestock, while three figures secretly followed him.

• Zhu Yu swallowed Fang Cheng in his Weird Domain, and Fang Cheng tried to bargain with livestock and threatened to burn his Yang Fire.
• Fang Cheng explained the Blood Moon and the Sun Flame flaw beneath the Blood Grudge-level Ghost Willow, while Zhu Yu proposed partnering to refine pills for Blood Coins.
• A Water Ape appeared, and Fang Cheng signed Zhu Yu’s contract before Zhu Yu ordered him to send blood sacrifices and guests.
• Zhu Yu dismissed the Water Ape, began refining pills, and resolved to find a new territory beyond the Black Water Mountain Range.
• Fang Cheng returned to Little West Village, confirmed the Sun Flame detected no erosion, and rejected True Person Mi’s suggestion that he go to Huaiyu Town for leisure.
• Fang Cheng left the village with two oxen, three sheep, and five chickens and ducks, while three figures secretly followed him.

Zhu Yu made and sold Yin Water Pills through Fang Cheng, then failed to gain the unknown entity’s favor when he contacted it through the Weird Domain. He set out to gather resources and investigate the Weird Realm, while True Person Mi planned to seek his help against Fang Cheng and the Water Ape.

• Zhu Yu sent the Water Ape to drive off the Gui monsters following Fang Cheng, then gave Fang Cheng fourteen Yin Water Pills to sell in exchange for a share of the proceeds.
• Zhu Yu told Fang Cheng to bring him a detailed map and more livestock, including Rising Yang Realm martial artists, as pill ingredients.
• Zhu Yu contacted the unknown existence behind the Weird Domain, but it rejected him and deemed him unworthy of borrowing its power.
• Zhu Yu decided to visit other Weird Monsters for information about the Weird Realm, the Black Water Mountain Range, and the Blood Moon’s siege.
• True Person Mi, Xiao Dinghai, and Li Zhan returned to Little West Village and discussed Fang Cheng’s alliance with the Water Ape; True Person Mi proposed contacting Zhu Yu to help kill them.
• Fang Cheng left the Black Water Mountain Range and headed toward Huaiyu Town instead of returning to Little West Village.

Fang Cheng reached Huaiyu Town, found the Black Market, and sold thirteen Yin Water Pills to the Myriad Alchemy Pavilion for far less than their value. While Zhu Yu watched his movements, two child attendants carried Zhu Yu’s sedan chair to a barren hill in the Black Water Mountain Range.

• Fang Cheng entered Huaiyu Town through its inspection archway while Zhu Yu watched him from Black Wind Mountain using the True Sight Eye.
• Fang Cheng disguised himself, went to the Black Market, and learned that pills sold for high prices.
• Fang Cheng sold thirteen Yin Water Pills to Elder Niu for thirty thousand Blood Coins each, unaware that they were worth much more.
• Elder Niu told the shopkeeper about the pills, and the shopkeeper suspected Fang Cheng had stolen them before giving Elder Niu one as his share.
• Fang Cheng repeatedly changed inns before going out to buy the things Zhu Yu needed.
• Two child attendants carried Zhu Yu’s black sedan chair to a barren, rocky hill in the Black Water Mountain Range.

Zhu Yu discovered a young Stone Spirit and obtained a powerful section of the World-Breaking Anchor from Little Ancestor Qingji to help capture it. Meanwhile, his Spirit Realm plans progressed, and Giant Peak awakened as its vortex vanished and emerald light swept over the creatures below.

• Zhu Yu recognized the stone man as a Stone Spirit and resolved to kill it for its Heart of the Earth, while considering help from Little Ancestor Qingji.
• Zhu Yu traded six thousand portions of Spirit Ruins Origin to Little Ancestor Qingji and received an azure-gold ring cut from the World-Breaking Anchor.
• Zhu Yu refused True Person Mi's request to help kill the Water Ape and planned to keep her away from the Stone Spirit until he captured it.
• Zhu Yu observed that Monte's Life Energy strengthened his Spirit Realm Split Spirit and that the Iris family was expanding its territory.
• Fire Tail, Baldy, and the other creatures gathered to harvest ripe Giant Peak Grapes as the Giant Peak vortex disappeared.
• An emerald-green light poured down from Giant Peak and engulfed the spirit beasts and wild animals below.

Zhu Yu awakened the White Fox of Purification’s World-Purifying True Flame and gained a Life Realm from the World Tree, then discovered that White-Tail Pear needed more resources to complete its advancement. After supporting White-Tail’s transformation, he considered seeking a larger spirit land and asked Cailing whether it knew any lord-level spirit beasts.

• The emerald light from Zhu Yu’s transformation healed spirit beasts and Insect Clan Warriors and awakened ordinary animals into spirit beasts.
• Zhu Yu learned that he had gained the World-Purifying True Flame and Flawless Glazed Spirit Body, then accidentally burned away the weeds and soil inside the formation before swallowing the flames.
• Zhu Yu inspected his new Life Realm and learned that it could accelerate growth, produce Water of Life, and transform Life Seeds into God-Given Spirit Seeds.
• Zhu Yu affectionately promised Cailing half of the God-Given Spirit Seed, but Cailing slapped him away and told him to check on White-Tail.
• Zhu Yu found White-Tail Pear weakened while transforming toward the Mountain Master level and fed it Life Origin Stones until it resumed its transformation.
• Zhu Yu decided to look for a larger spirit land and asked Cailing whether it knew any lord-level spirit beasts.

Zhu Yu harvested the Heaven-Facing Mushroom’s ripe fruits, learned how powerful Cailing was, and traveled with her to the Red Fire Ant Market Ruins to seek a Divine Ability Talisman. They arrived before the Red Fire Ant Tribe’s enormous ancestral Fire Date tree and Blood Copper gate, where someone recognized Zhu Yu.

• Zhu Yu learned that the Heaven-Facing Mushroom’s fruits had ripened while he slept, then harvested 350 fruits and arranged to plant it beside White-Tail Pear after moving to new spirit lands.
• Zhu Yu and Cailing flew toward the Red Fire Ant Market Ruins, and Cailing revealed her peak second-order strength by carrying him inside a crimson space.
• Cailing agreed to follow Zhu Yu’s plans and said she would choose a Spirit Seed at the Market Ruins for him to nurture into a God-Given one.
• Zhu Yu and Cailing reached the Red Fire Ant Market Ruins, where Zhu Yu saw the king-grade ancestral Fire Date tree and admired the Blood Copper archway.
• Someone behind Zhu Yu called out to him in recognition.

Zhu Yu entered the Red Fire Ant Market Ruins with Cailing and reunited with Jia Twenty-Three, then sought a Divine Ability Talisman from Lord Huogonghua. After Lord Huogonghua agreed to give him his power, Jia Twenty-Three offered him a lord-level Sea Demon Nuli Algae talisman, and Lord Sea Demon Nuli Algae privately approved the gift.

• Zhu Yu recognized Jia Twenty-Three at the Market Ruins and learned it had come with its mother.
• Jia Twenty-Three hired Qian Buchong as a guide, and the group walked through the market toward Cailing's friend.
• Zhu Yu felt the immense power of the king-level Fire Date God-Given Spirit Seed and drew the hostile attention of Lord Huogonghua.
• Lord Huogonghua accepted Zhu Yu's Heaven-Facing Mushroom God-Given Fruits and promised to hand over his power at sunrise.
• Jia Twenty-Three offered Zhu Yu a lord-level Sea Demon Nuli Algae Divine Ability Talisman in exchange for his Life Origin Stones.
• Lord Sea Demon Nuli Algae sent Zhu Yu a gentle message endorsing Jia Twenty-Three's gift.

Zhu Yu explored the Market Ruins with Cailing and Jia Twenty-Three, trading Heaven-Facing Mushroom God-Given Fruits for two Great Grandmaster martial arts inheritances. After Jia Twenty-Three spent freely and returned to the tribe, Zhu Yu received a fiery jade plaque from Lord Huogonghua and departed with Cailing.

• Jia Twenty-Three told Zhu Yu he dreamed of becoming the Insect Realm’s greatest Traveling Merchant, and Zhu Yu encouraged him with twenty Heaven-Facing Mushroom God-Given Fruits.
• Zhu Yu visited Hundred Flavors Studio, where he learned about Great Gan martial arts and negotiated with Zheng Qing for the Green Lotus Sword Scripture and the Three Blades of Avici.
• Zhu Yu agreed to pay Zheng Qing ten thousand Jade Coins in Heaven-Facing Mushroom God-Given Fruits, signed a contract, and exchanged 230 fruits for the two third-tier martial arts inheritances.
• Zhu Yu, Cailing, and Jia Twenty-Three explored more shops; Jia Twenty-Three spent all fifty million Life Origin Stones from selling the Divine Ability Talismans and more besides.
• Zhu Yu returned to Lord Huogonghua, who gave him a jade plaque infused with Fire Attribute energy and urged him to bring death to his enemies.
• Cailing carried Zhu Yu into the sky, while onlookers recognized her as the Colorful Phoenix who sought to forge the Life Realm.

After waking from a three-year sleep and reaching the Mountain Master Realm, Zhu Yu reunited with his neighbors, hosted them a feast, and sent powerful talismans through the Star Disk. He then flew with Cailing to inspect the White Wave River spirit land and spotted the ferocious beast Xianyue had mentioned.

• Zhu Yu reunited with Xiong Da, Xiong Er, and the three Snow Rabbit brothers, apologized for leaving them without supplies, and promised them a feast.
• Zhu Yu inspected the native Millipede Insect Clan, decided not to raise them as subordinate warriors, and left Bear Honey for them.
• Zhu Yu returned to Giant Peak Mountain, celebrated his transformation with his neighbors, and distributed a great quantity of valuable Spirit Power Food.
• Zhu Yu sent two Divine Ability Talismans and two Mountain Master Marks through the Star Disk, then learned that Heitu, Meijiao, and the others were away working.
• Zhu Yu and Cailing flew to the White Wave River spirit land, where Zhu Yu spotted the ferocious beast Xianyue had described.

Zhu Yu tested the World-Purifying True Flame, used its power to advance into a Second Age Stage Mountain Master, and began developing the White Water River Spirit Land. He then returned to the Weird Realm, where a blood-eyed infant emerged from the locust tree and was captured inside the Myriad Soul Banner.

• Cailing trapped three Green-Scaled Crocodiles on the riverbank while Zhu Yu burned them with the World-Purifying True Flame.
• Zhu Yu inspected the White Water River Spirit Land, nurtured Hua Ling’s Seaheart Begonia into a Life Seed, and metamorphosed into a Second Age Stage Big-Winged Wasp Mountain Master after seven days.
• Zhu Yu gave ten thousand Soul Particles to his Split Spirit and began analyzing the Green Lotus Sword Scripture and Three Blades of Avici.
• Zhu Yu traveled in the sedan chair toward the foot of the mountain as the locust tree outside Qingyang Temple absorbed weird qi and split open.
• A blood-eyed infant emerged from the locust tree, joined Zhu Yu in the sedan chair, and bit into his chest.
• Zhu Yu seized the infant with the Myriad Soul Banner, where its image appeared beside the ape and a thread began pulling it toward the ancient residence.

Zhu Yu entered Little West Village with the Water Ape, Ghost Infant, and Ghost Bride, while True Person Mi forced the villagers to sacrifice themselves to sustain the Sun Flame. Gou Lengzi destroyed the statue supporting the flame, bringing down the village’s defenses and letting the Water Ape kill True Person Mi.

• Zhu Yu crossed the Yin-Yang Road and entered Little West Village after killing Xiao Dinghai and three guards who discovered him at the transmission altar.
• The Water Ape attacked the village, and True Person Mi ordered the villagers to sacrifice themselves to keep the Sun Flame burning.
• True Person Mi continued sending villagers, including teenagers and children, into the Sun Flame as its protection weakened.
• Qingyangzi offered Gou Lengzi power if he destroyed the statue, but Gou Lengzi chose to topple it so the villagers would not leave him to bear the blame.
• Gou Lengzi broke the statue and sent the Sun Flame flying, collapsing its barrier as the Water Ape crushed True Person Mi.

Zhu Yu discovered that Gou Lengzi’s failed transformation left behind a high-quality soul crystal, then prepared for the Blood Moon and received a sealed box containing three Divine Ability Talismans. As the Blood Moon intensified the weird creatures’ power and drove them to gather at Black Water Market, Zhu Yu met a Frog Weird and offered it an experimental pill.

• Zhu Yu tried to transform Gou Lengzi into a weird monster, but Gou Lengzi crumbled into powder; Zhu Yu found a tiny blue crystal containing exceptionally high-quality soul energy.
• Zhu Yu returned to Qingyang Temple, forged an altar, sent materials and Blood Coins through a dark vortex, and received a sealed jade box containing three Divine Ability Talismans.
• When the Blood Moon rose, Zhu Yu felt his weird power surge and learned that the event could severely damage the souls of creatures that did not replenish their strength.
• A vast will summoned the weird creatures to Black Water Market, so Zhu Yu packed his belongings and traveled there in his palanquin.
• At the crowded market, Zhu Yu offered to refine pills for a Frog Weird in exchange for its Baleful Intent Grass, then produced a strange experimental pill and invited it to taste it.

Zhu Yu left Qingyang Town to pursue the Stone Spirit, teaming up with Qingxuanzi and using Lord Huogonghua’s Divine Ability to kill it. He retrieved the Stone Spirit’s Heart Core, the Heart of the Earth, but a terrifying will spread toward him as he prepared to leave.

• The Thousand-Eyed Ghost Spider stopped the Frog Weird’s fight, and Zhu Yu slipped away before learning that the Blood Sun would last about seven days and bring an attack on Huaiyu Town.
• Zhu Yu decided to head for the Black Sea after killing the Stone Spirit, then Qingxuanzi caught up with him and offered help in exchange for alchemy guidance.
• Zhu Yu discovered that Qingxuanzi was a Pill Weird parasitizing a Blood Arrow Frog and gave it an Alchemy Inheritance in return for help catching the Stone Spirit.
• Qingxuanzi brought Zhu Yu to the Stone Spirit and a charred corpse Weird, but both fled when Zhu Yu revealed the red jade stone carrying Lord Huogonghua’s Divine Ability.
• Lord Huogonghua’s crimson flower overwhelmed the Stone Spirit, and Zhu Yu retrieved its Heart Core from the magma before a terrifying will spread toward him.

Zhu Yu escaped the Lord of a Thousand Eyes with Lord Sea Demon Nuli Algae’s help, traded Qingxuanzi an Alchemy Inheritance for his skin and spiritual items, then harvested ghosts and Black Crystals in the Black Sea. He began building a hidden base offshore, while the ghost Bai Jingjing discovered that Zhu Yu had stolen his ghosts and faced trouble over an impending blood tax.

• Zhu Yu summoned Lord Sea Demon Nuli Algae, who overwhelmed the Lord of a Thousand Eyes, and fled the Black Water Mountain Range as Qingxuanzi followed.
• Zhu Yu traded Qingxuanzi the Alchemy Inheritance for spiritual items and the Blood Arrow Frog Ghost’s skin, then absorbed the frog ghost into the Myriad Soul Banner.
• Zhu Yu traveled to the Black Sea and harvested nearly two hundred thousand ghosts and more than thirty thousand Black Grade Black Crystals before moving deeper offshore.
• Zhu Yu carved a concealed cave beneath the sea, set guards, and began refining Blood Coins and constructing a teleportation altar.
• Bai Jingjing discovered that someone had stolen two hundred thousand ghosts he had raised, and other ghosts warned that he might not pay the Sea Dragon Gang’s blood tax due in three days.
• An indigo-faced ghost angrily complained about being taxed in life and death, and an unseen speaker asked what it intended to do.

Manager Zheng crushed Qiu San’s attempted rebellion as Bai Jingjing discovered her Weird Farm had lost most of its monsters and fled. Zhu Yu captured Bai Jingjing, learned about Moon-Shrouding City and its monster trade, then entered the Nine Dragons Black Market and asked about renting a Weird Farm.

• Manager Zheng accused Qiu San of treason and had his men seize him, silencing the monsters who complained about the Sea Dragon Gang’s taxes.
• Bai Jingjing reported that seven or eight out of ten monsters at her Weird Farm had vanished, then fled by boat before Manager Zheng could find her.
• Zhu Yu captured Bai Jingjing and three attacking octopus-like monsters, discovered a Dazzling Yang Realm warrior’s Blood Qi Mark on her, and examined her memories to learn about Moon-Shrouding City.
• Zhu Yu ordered Bai Jingjing to guide him to the Nine Dragons Black Market, where he paid one hundred low-rank Black Crystals for an identity token and entered.
• Zhu Yu asked whether the Sea Dragon Gang would rent him a Weird Farm, and Bai Jingjing recommended the Black Dragon Gang for its better terms.

Zhu Yu explored the Black Dragon Gang’s Weird Farm offer, freed Bai Jingjing from her Blood Pact, and used a blood-red altar to turn monster resources into life-extending treasures. After selling them for nearly five million Blood Coins, he returned to the Sea-Facing Pavilion to arrange a major farm lease.

• Bai Jingjing told Zhu Yu about the Black Dragon Gang’s generous Weird Farm terms and explained that her Blood Pact tied her to the Sea Dragon Gang.
• Zhu Yu visited the Sea-Facing Pavilion and asked to lease all two hundred thousand mu of available Grade A waters, but left before meeting the manager.
• Zhu Yu ordered Bai Jingjing to retrieve her Blood Pact from Steward Zheng, while the Ghost Infant kept her under threat; he decided her farming experience could be useful.
• Zhu Yu built and activated an altar, which transformed Ghost Crystals and monster materials into life-extending pills and Life Immortal Dew.
• Zhu Yu sold the treasures through several Black Markets for nearly five million Blood Coins, then returned to the Sea-Facing Pavilion and left with Bai Jingjing after meeting its shopkeeper, Hou Er.