Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yu’s Split Spirit negotiated at the Market, learned of a Foreign Spirit Ruins called Ling, and sold a Rain Carp Horn to Cang Li for delivery to the Azure Tower’s Rain Prayer Platform. Back at his cave abode, Zhu Yu hosted Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and several juniors, where Fu Hongxi appeared to awaken a Companion Technique.

• Zhu Yu refused the Ox-Head Person’s offer of three thousand Spirit Stones for his Storage Talisman and haggled over the price of his Talisman Blade.
• A thin Outer Realm Cultivator bought talismans and pills from several stalls, while the Ox-Head Person told Zhu Yu about the Ling Spirit Ruins and gave him an address.
• Cang Li bought Zhu Yu’s Rain Carp Horn for sixteen thousand Spirit Stones and requested delivery to Tian Yu at the Azure Tower’s Rain Prayer Platform.
• Zhu Yu prepared a feast at his Grade A Corpse Field and invited Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and five young cultivators to visit.
• Fu Hongxi drew the Black Feather Chicken chicks to him, prompting Xiang Sui to ask whether he had awakened a Companion Technique.

Fu Hongxi denied awakening an Innate Spell, while the others avoided probing into his cultivation. Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan then spotted Starry Wood in Zhu Yu’s courtyard, unaware that Zhu Yu had displayed it to attract buyers and earn Spirit Stones.

• Fu Hongxi offered Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan the chance to examine him, but they declined and the group avoided discussing Innate Spells.
• The group gathered around Little Black, while Fu Hongxi stood apart and reflected on their wary response.
• Xiang Sui recognized the starlit tree as Starry Wood and approached it with Liang Kuan.
• Bai Meng considered hiding Starry Wood from Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan but left it alone because it belonged to Zhu Yu.
• Zhu Yu deliberately displayed Starry Wood, hoping to learn its value and earn Spirit Stones.

Xiang Sui discovered that Zhu Yu’s Starry Wood had been nurtured by Little Black, an Insect Clan Warrior, while Zhu Yu noticed that Fu Hongxi was being refined into a Dharma Seed. Zhu Yu hosted a housewarming feast, exchanged gifts and Starry Wood branches with his guests, then saw a mysterious old man appear beside the road’s stone stele.

• Xiang Sui recognized the Starry Wood and learned from Zhu Yu that Little Black had nurtured it with its Life Sac.
• Zhu Yu detected that Fu Hongxi was exhausted and parasitized, and suspected someone was close to refining him into a Dharma Seed.
• Zhu Yu reviewed his cultivation progress, resolved to stay home until Qi Refining Perfection, and considered how to sell Starry Wood.
• Ni Ying, Xun Su, Qiao Hewei, Bai Meng, Fu Hongxi, Xiang Sui, and Liang Kuan gave Zhu Yu housewarming gifts, including a Gold Spirit Puppet and Meditation Pills.
• Zhu Yu gave each guest a branch of Starry Wood, then saw them off as Little Black lamented the loss of its branches.
• Zhu Yu noticed a gaunt, gray-robed old man standing beside the stone stele.

Zhu Yu killed a powerful branded servant sent by Li Jiu, then investigated the Li token and learned about Fu Hongxi’s disappearance while continuing to cultivate. In the Insect Realm, his split spirit encountered a giant water flea beating a drum as it approached.

• Zhu Yu stopped the old servant’s attack by blasting its internal organs with Blood Qi True Essence, causing it to self-destruct and leaving behind a dark pouch.
• Li Jiu met with the Law Enforcement Team, blamed the servant’s death on a self-destruction, and demanded compensation from Long Yan for his loss.
• Zhu Yu prepared the Gold Spirit Puppet for corpse transformation, then used Xiang Sui’s enhanced Meditation Pills to cultivate for seven days and gain thirty-two Soul Particles.
• Zhu Yu learned that the Rain Carp Horn sale had gone smoothly, that the Li token belonged to Li Jiu, and that Fu Hongxi had disappeared and was likely made into a Dharma Seed.
• Zhu Yu’s Insect Realm split spirit saw a giant crystalline water flea approach while beating a drum.

Zhu Yu met the traveling merchant Hua Ling, who gifted him Spirit Seeds and lent him Spirit Power Fruits to help him grow stronger. After Hua Ling departed, Zhu Yu began nurturing a Sour Jujube Spirit Seed and tasted one of its fruits.

• Hua Ling discovered Zhu Yu tending grapevines and learned that White Fox had died, then Zhu Yu led him to White Fox’s grave.
• Hua Ling planted a Horseshoe Grape Spirit Seed at White Fox’s grave and told Zhu Yu, who named himself Giant Peak, about nearby tribes and the Great Wilderness.
• Hua Ling gifted Zhu Yu six high-grade Spirit Seeds suited to his needs and advised him to nurture Sour Jujube, Soapberry, and Leucaena seeds.
• Hua Ling lent Zhu Yu Spirit Power Fruits worth eight hundred Life Origin Stones, explaining that eating one of each kind daily could help him molt to the Ninth Age Stage.
• Hua Ling left, and Zhu Yu placed a Sour Jujube Spirit Seed in his Life Seed pouch before biting into a Sour Jujube Spirit Power Fruit.

Zhu Yu struggled to sell his magic artifacts through his Split Spirit until the Horse-Face Person directed him to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where he arranged a remote appraisal and bought a costly Blood Soul Monster Heart Core. After the Pavilion’s manager inspected Zhu Yu’s goods at his Corpse Field, the chapter ended with Zhu Yu owing thirty-six thousand Spirit Stones to complete the purchase.

• Zhu Yu visited the Myriad Treasures Pavilion after the Horse-Face Person suggested it could collect goods from Yinming Mansion and bring them into the Trading Market.
• Zhu Yu ordered a Blood Soul Monster Heart Core for one hundred and eighty thousand low-grade Spirit Stones and asked about the materials needed to cultivate Mass Grave.
• Three days later, Manager Liu arrived at Zhu Yu’s Corpse Field with two guards to inspect the goods.
• Manager Liu agreed to buy Zhu Yu’s Water Control Token, Talisman Blade, Storage Talisman, and two Qingping Cultivators for a total of one hundred and forty-four thousand Spirit Stones.
• Manager Liu gave Zhu Yu the reserved Heart Core and told him to pay the remaining thirty-six thousand Spirit Stones.

Zhu Yu acquired a high-quality Blood Soul Monster Heart Core and checked on his Corpse Seeds before deciding to buy Green Spirit Pythons. He visited Hong Xingwang and asked whether Little Jade’s descendants had hatched into Ling.

• Zhu Yu bought the Blood Soul Monster Heart Core from Manager Liu and received a token for an auction at the Immortal Grave Spirit Ruins a year later.
• Zhu Yu inspected his Corpse Seeds and planned to sell the Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses while keeping the Chieftain Corpse Seeds to experiment with iron armor.
• Zhu Yu decided to buy two adult Green Spirit Pythons and rode Little Black to the Spirit Field and Beast Pen area.
• Zhu Yu visited Hong Xingwang and asked whether Little Jade’s descendants had hatched into Ling.

Zhu Yu arranged for Little Jade to breed with Hong Xingwang’s mutated Great Jade Mantis, Black Blade, in exchange for Spirit Stones and half the eggs. After the breeding succeeded, Hong Xingwang offered to take Zhu Yu to the Qin Family, which raised adult Green Spirit Pythons.

• Hong Xingwang initially offered fifteen hundred Spirit Stones for Little Jade to breed, but Zhu Yu explained its bloodline was awakening and negotiated three thousand Spirit Stones per breeding, plus half the eggs.
• Hong Xingwang inspected Little Jade and agreed to a maximum of ten breedings with Black Blade, his mutated First-Order Upper Grade Great Jade Mantis.
• Zhu Yu asked where he could buy an adult Green Spirit Python, and Hong Xingwang told him the Qin Family raised them and offered to lead him there.
• Little Jade and Black Blade produced an egg case containing dozens of developing offspring, and Hong Xingwang used a secret technique to hatch it without harming their potential.
• Zhu Yu collected thirty thousand Spirit Stones, then accompanied Hong Xingwang on Little Black toward the Qin Family’s beast pens.

Zhu Yu visited the Qin Family Beast Pen with Hong Xingwang to find a pair of Green Spirit Pythons and inspected one with his True Sight Eye. After learning the python had one-star aptitude and hearing Qin Bing ask forty thousand Spirit Stones, Zhu Yu asked to see the other pythons.

• Hong Xingwang told Zhu Yu that Qin Qiong raised Green Spirit Pythons and Flame-Treading Tigers, and that his younger brother Qin Bing managed the Beast Pen.
• Hong Xingwang introduced Zhu Yu to Qin Bing, who agreed to show him the Green Spirit Pythons.
• Zhu Yu entered the Beast Pen with Qin Bing and Hong Xingwang, leaving Little Black outside, and examined a healthy adult Green Spirit Python.
• Zhu Yu's True Sight Eye revealed that the Green Spirit Python had one-star aptitude and an awakened Python Venom spell.
• Qin Bing priced the Green Spirit Python at forty thousand Spirit Stones, and Zhu Yu asked to inspect the others.

Zhu Yu inspected the Qin Family’s spirit beasts and bought two Green Spirit Pythons, including one with five-star aptitude, while Hong Xingwang bought a Flame-Treading Tiger cub. They returned to Hong Xingwang’s residence and discovered that the eggs in the Insect Breeding Room had hatched.

• Zhu Yu inspected the Qin brothers’ Beast Pens and followed Qin Bing to a special enclosure for finer Green Spirit Pythons.
• Zhu Yu bargained with Qin Bing and agreed to buy two Green Spirit Pythons for one hundred and twenty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Zhu Yu assessed the pythons, chose one with four-star aptitude and one with five-star aptitude, paid for them, and imprinted the Demon Controlling Technique’s Mark on both.
• Hong Xingwang bought a Flame-Treading Tiger cub, and he and Zhu Yu returned to his residence on Little Black’s shell with the pythons following them.
• Zhu Yu and Hong Xingwang saw that the eggs in the Insect Breeding Room had hatched.

Zhu Yu returned to his Corpse Field, where Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and Bai Meng came seeking Starry Wood. Senior Brother Zang Hai and Third Steward then arrived, and Third Steward noticed a golden pillar of qi rising from the largest grave mound.

• Zhu Yu and Hong Xingwang collected twelve Great Jade Mantis spirit-insect hatchlings, and Zhu Yu returned to his Corpse Field with two Green Spirit Pythons.
• Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan asked Zhu Yu for more Starry Wood, and he let them harvest some while he inspected the Corpse Seeds.
• Bai Meng arrived seeking Starry Wood, making Xiang Sui and Liang Kuan worry that their share would shrink.
• Zhu Yu sensed someone disturbing his formation and went to meet Senior Brother Zang Hai and Third Steward, who arrived at his hill.
• Third Steward saw a golden pillar of qi rise from the largest grave mound in Zhu Yu's Armor-Casting Corpse Land.

Third Steward suffered a mysterious, terrifying vision while Zang Hai negotiated with Zhu Yu for the Starry Wood. After Zang Hai left, Zhu Yu let Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and Bai Meng take some of its branches, and they began discussing the price.

• Third Steward saw the golden pillar’s worshipped figure turn toward him, then came back to himself bleeding from his eyes and refused to explain what had happened.
• Zang Hai asked Zhu Yu for the Starry Wood, then tried to buy all its spiritual produce after Zhu Yu refused to sell the tree.
• Zang Hai threatened Xiang Sui by mentioning his family’s declining fortunes, but Zhu Yu intervened and ordered Zang Hai to leave.
• Zhu Yu led Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and Bai Meng to the Starry Wood, where Bai Meng distracted Little Black with a Beast Bag full of fruit.
• Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and Bai Meng cut side branches from the Starry Wood, then left and asked Zhu Yu how they would set a price.

Zhu Yu earned Spirit Stones from Starry Wood and used the Green Spirit Pythons' blood to cultivate Corpse Seeds. He then prepared and drank the medicinal liquid needed to cultivate Life Plundering.

• Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, and Bai Meng left Spirit Stones for Zhu Yu in payment for the Starry Wood they had taken.
• Zhu Yu inspected the courtyard, found nothing to explain the Third Steward's bloody tears, and discovered nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones left beside the Starry Wood.
• Zhu Yu released Little Jade's offspring into the backyard and assigned Little Black to care for them.
• Zhu Yu extracted essence blood from A-Da and A-Er and used it to cultivate seventeen Corpse Seeds.
• Zhu Yu prepared Life Plundering's medicinal liquid from spiritual materials and a Blood Soul Monster crystal core, then drank it after confirming it was safe.

Zhu Yu successfully refined the Life Plundering Dharma Seed, then resumed his work and cultivation. After Manager Liu sought him out about the branches, Zhu Yu returned to caring for the corpse fields and focused on gathering Soul Particles for his next cultivation step.

• Zhu Yu used the spirit liquid to alter his Dharma Veins, endured intense pain, and formed the Life Plundering Dharma Seed alongside the Cold Flame Dharma Seed.
• Zhu Yu rested for three days, woke refreshed, and checked that the Life Plundering Dharma Seed was developing properly.
• Zhu Yu’s Split Spirit explored the Immortal Tomb Trading Market, where Manager Liu found him and asked whether he still had the tree branches.
• Manager Liu left to travel to Yinming Mansion so he could discuss the branches with Zhu Yu in person.
• Zhu Yu returned to his Grade A Corpse Field, fed Little Black, tended the corpses, and then resumed cultivating Soul Particles toward constructing the Basic Visualization Method.

Zhu Yu’s Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses matured, and he brought the horde to the Corpse Hall to sell them. As he arrived, a restriction-lit boat ship descended into the plaza earlier than Bai Meng expected.

• Zhu Yu earned money from Starry Wood but spent heavily on his beasts, corpse fields, and research, then hired two servants to handle daily affairs.
• Zhu Yu’s senior disciples reached Late Qi Refining and told him about the sect organizations they had joined, including the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and Starry Hall.
• Three months later, 146 Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses emerged from Zhu Yu’s Low-Grade Corpse Fields, and he calculated they would earn him a substantial profit.
• Zhu Yu commanded the Living Corpses to follow Little Black to the Corpse Hall, drawing curious and dismissive looks from cultivators along the way.
• At the Corpse Hall plaza, Bai Meng came out to greet Zhu Yu, but Zhu Yu noticed a restriction-lit boat ship descending from the sky; Bai Meng said it had arrived early.

Zhu Yu inspected and sold his Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses, then selected Big Goblin Corpse Seeds for his Corpse Field. Bai Meng offered to show him a high-grade Corpse Seed suited to the Armor-Casting Corpse Land, and they reached a cavern where a colossal creature lay.

• Bai Meng used a bronze bell to freeze the awakened Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses and assessed their quality with a bone mirror.
• Bai Meng valued Zhu Yu's Purple-Veined Snake-Person Living Corpses at 242,000 Low-grade Spirit Stones, and Zhu Yu chose to sell them to the Corpse Hall.
• Zhu Yu inspected the Big Goblin Corpse Seeds and marked 150 with high body integrity, though he found none with bloodlines or technique veins.
• Bai Meng privately offered Zhu Yu a high-grade Corpse Seed suited to the Armor-Casting Corpse Land.
• Zhu Yu followed Bai Meng into a deeper Earth Cavern, where they found a savage, colossal creature on a stone platform.

Zhu Yu accepted a Dragon-Blooded Kobold Corpse Seed from Bai Meng and returned to his cave dwelling to prepare it for cultivation as an Iron-Armored Corpse. Bai Qi wondered whether a person connected to the emerald branch had left something in Zhu Yu’s hands.

• Zhu Yu examined the First-Order Perfected Dragon-Blooded Kobold and accepted its Corpse Seed from Bai Meng in exchange for Contribution Points.
• Bai Meng carried the Corpse Seed through the Corpse Hall, where cultivators envied it and an unseen pressure knocked several of them unconscious.
• Bai Qi watched Zhu Yu leave and privately wondered whether someone had survived and left part of himself in Zhu Yu’s possession.
• Zhu Yu returned to his cave dwelling, ordered Zhu Er to receive a batch of Corpse Seeds, and had Zhu Yi prepare food.
• Little Black gave Zhu Yi Spirit Rice and fruit before trotting toward the rear courtyard, while Zhu Yu examined the Kobold and considered its potential as an Iron-Armored Corpse.

Zhu Yu processed the Dragon-Blooded Kobold and one hundred and fifty Big Goblin Corpse Seeds, then spent half a year cultivating and learning about the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Affiliated Spirit Ruins. After gathering nine thousand Soul Particles, he prepared to construct the Burial Life Visualization Diagram.

• Zhu Yu carefully processed the Dragon-Blooded Kobold into a Corpse Seed and ordered Zhu Yi and Zhu Er to bury it in the Low-Grade Corpse Field.
• Zhu Yu and his servants processed all one hundred and fifty Big Goblin Corpse Seeds, and he inspected the Purple-Veined Snake-Person Chieftain and Qingping Corpse Seeds.
• Zhu Yu checked the nine jars holding Yi Spirit Ruins and confirmed their Life Fires remained lit.
• Over the next half year, Xiang Sui, Liang Kuan, Bai Meng, and Manager Liu visited Zhu Yu, while Lu Wanrong and Xing Sida reported their cultivation progress and Wu Yang repeatedly invited him into Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu learned from Lu Wanrong that the Heavenly Dao Sect controlled numerous Affiliated Spirit Ruins, where disciples could enter through deployed Rings or in person.
• After nearly nine months of cultivation and studying the Graveyard Grass inheritance, Zhu Yu reached nine thousand Soul Particles and turned to the Burial Life Visualization Diagram.

Zhu Yu completed the Graveyard Grass visualization method and transformed his Dao foundation, reaching Qi Refining Perfection with a new form of special spiritual energy. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Dao Sect prepared for Qingping True Lord to select nine prefecture masters when the new Qingping Tower opened in half a year.

• Zhu Yu wove soul particles into the Graveyard Grass visualization diagram, constructed its graveyard mound, and slept for three days from exhaustion.
• Zhu Yu learned from messages from Xiang Sui, Bai Meng, and Lu Wanrong that the Qingping Spirit Ruins had joined the Immortal Tomb and would become a new tower under Qingping True Lord.
• The Heavenly Dao Sect grew restless after news spread that Qingping True Lord would publicly select nine unrestricted prefecture masters at the tower’s opening ceremony in half a year.
• Zhu Yu continued cultivating in seclusion and completed the Graveyard Grass Dao foundation, which absorbed his ring and dharma seeds and drew spiritual energy into his body.
• The Dao foundation transformed the incoming energy into dense, pitch-gray special spiritual energy that nourished Lingxiao and his other artifacts, completing Zhu Yu’s breakthrough.

Zhu Yu advanced to Qi Refining Perfection and began planning his eventual breakthrough to Foundation Establishment. After notifying allies that he intended to explore the Sect's Affiliated Spirit Ruins, he checked on the Six-Armed Naga, which had become an Iron-Armored Corpse.

• Zhu Yu completed his breakthrough to Qi Refining Perfection after three days of seclusion, while Little Jade, Little Black, Zhu Yi, and Zhu Er sensed the disturbance.
• Zhu Yu learned that his Dao Foundation required thirty strands of Spirit Ruins Origin for a Foundation Establishment attempt, but decided to build a deeper foundation first.
• Zhu Yu emerged from seclusion, promised Little Black Spirit Ruins Origin for its breakthrough, and learned that several Immortal Masters had recently visited.
• Zhu Yu sent messages to his allies and decided it was time to leave Yinming Mansion to explore the Sect's Affiliated Spirit Ruins.
• Zhu Yu inspected the Six-Armed Naga and found that it had become a First-Order Upper Grade Iron-Armored Corpse with the Mystic Armor spell.