Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan used Xiao Wu’s sacrificial light to evade Gui Mei and spread his Root Network through the valley, devouring the resentful souls in Gui Mei’s Ghost Domain. As Tang San pleaded with Xiao Wu to stop the sacrifice, Ji Yuan found a hidden route into its center and prepared to target her gathered essence.

• Gui Mei attacked Xiao Wu, but her sacrificial field repelled him and gave Ji Yuan a chance to extend his roots underground.
• Ji Yuan’s Root Network trapped and devoured the resentful souls fleeing across the valley while Tang San begged Xiao Wu to stop the sacrifice.
• Gui Mei tried to reclaim the souls and probe Ji Yuan’s roots, but Ji Yuan withdrew the exposed branches and kept his network hidden.
• Tang San offered Xiao Wu medicine and pleaded with her to stop hurting herself, but she continued the sacrifice and urged him to rest.
• Ji Yuan followed Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass through the barrier and positioned his root beneath the essence Xiao Wu was gathering.

As Xiao Wu’s sacrifice began, Tang San pleaded with her while Ji Yuan prepared a hidden route to receive her power through Tang San. The blood-red pillar finally reached Tang San, and Ji Yuan opened the Dark Web to intercept the incoming origin.

• Ji Yuan withdrew roots from the sacrifice’s center and redirected the receiving point beneath Tang San’s feet as Xiao Wu’s form grew transparent.
• Tang San tried to stop Xiao Wu’s sacrifice, while Gui Mei failed to breach the red light surrounding them.
• Ji Yuan used a small amount of stored Soul Power to keep Tang San’s heart meridian functioning as the transfer passage formed.
• Xiao Wu’s Soul Power and Mental Origin separated from her bloodline and gathered into a blood-red pillar directed at Tang San.
• As Tang San touched the red light, Ji Yuan opened the Ambrosial Arbor Core and spread the Dark Web across Tang San’s body.

Ji Yuan siphoned most of Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year sacrifice into the Ambrosial Arbor while passing enough power to Tang San for his Soul Ring and incomplete Soul Bone to form. As the sacrifice ended, Tang San reached for Xiao Wu’s fading spirit and found only a shrinking outline.

• Ji Yuan intercepted the sacrifice’s origin through the mycelium and directed most of it into the Ambrosial Arbor while Tang San absorbed the remainder.
• Tang San’s Soul Ring appeared and stabilized as Ji Yuan returned soul power to help mend his wounds.
• Ji Yuan hid the devouring process from Gui Mei, who questioned why Tang San’s hundred-thousand-year sacrifice seemed to produce so little power.
• As Xiao Wu formed a Soul Bone for Tang San’s left arm, Ji Yuan extracted most of its essence and left an incomplete bone for Tang San to absorb.
• Xiao Wu’s red light dwindled after the sacrifice, and Tang San’s hand passed through her face as he asked where her body had gone.

After Xiao Wu sacrificed herself, Tang San clung to her transformed rabbit body and searched for signs that her spirit remained. Ji Yuan absorbed the hundred-thousand-year essence, advanced the Ambrosial Arbor past the hundred-thousand-year threshold, and secretly established spiritual anchors that left Xiao Wu’s remaining imprint entangled with his roots.

• Tang San found Xiao Wu alive as a rabbit and held her close while Ji Yuan avoided extracting more from her weakened body.
• Ji Yuan digested the Soul Bone essence, strengthened his root channels, and concealed the Ambrosial Arbor’s changes from those nearby.
• Tang San followed Xiao Wu’s remaining spiritual imprint into his sea of consciousness, allowing Ji Yuan to place a hidden spiritual anchor beside it.
• Gui Mei criticized Tang San for wasting Xiao Wu’s hundred-thousand-year cultivation, and Tang San vowed to restore his meridians and recover her power.
• Ji Yuan crossed the hundred-thousand-year threshold and established a second anchor linking the roots through Tang San’s body and Martial Soul.
• Tang San vowed revenge on Spirit Hall after Xiao Wu’s ears twitched, then sensed a response from his sea of consciousness where Ji Yuan’s roots had gathered.

Tang San used Yue Guan’s Soul Bone to disrupt Gui Mei’s ninth Soul Skill, giving Ji Yuan a chance to pierce Gui Mei’s shadow origin and send spores into his heart meridian. Tang San and Tang Hao were badly injured, but Gui Mei’s body began to falter as the spores took hold.

• Tang San shielded Xiao Wu and dragged the unconscious Tang Hao into a crevice while Gui Mei’s ninth Soul Skill attacked.
• Ji Yuan tracked Gui Mei through the underground roots as Tang San used his new red Soul Ring to fend off the descending shadows.
• Gui Mei targeted Tang Hao and pressured Tang San to surrender Yue Guan’s Soul Bone.
• Tang San hurled the Soul Bone into the shadows, and its burst of power disrupted Gui Mei’s attack and forced him to dodge.
• Ji Yuan pierced Gui Mei’s exposed shadow origin and sent spores into his chest as Tang San protected his father and Xiao Wu.
• The spores reached Gui Mei’s heart meridian while Tang San challenged him from the crevice.

Ji Yuan devoured Gui Mei by draining the shadow origin sustaining his Martial Soul Avatar, while Tang San protected the white rabbit and cared for Tang Hao. As footsteps approached the valley, Tang San prepared to face whoever was coming.

• Ji Yuan intercepted Gui Mei's returning soul power and drained the shadow origin embedded in his body.
• Ji Yuan destroyed Gui Mei's Martial Soul Avatar, leaving only ash as Tang San searched for signs that he had survived.
• Ji Yuan absorbed Gui Mei's darkness origin and tested how it let his roots vanish into shadows.
• Tang San checked that Xiao Wu was safe, gave Tang Hao water, and carried him toward safety.
• Tang San heard approaching footsteps and a voice shouting that they had found them inside the valley.

Tang San carried the unconscious Tang Hao and the white rabbit Xiao Wu out of the valley while evading their pursuers. They reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ji Yuan began spreading his roots through its underground plant life.

• Tang San escaped through a narrow crack with Tang Hao on his back, and Ji Yuan let rubble collapse behind them to obstruct the pursuers.
• Tang San hid their tracks with Blue Silver Grass and a shallow water channel while Ji Yuan briefly tripped one pursuer and concealed the blood trail.
• After the pursuers searched the channel and moved on, Tang San adjusted Tang Hao's bindings and continued into the woods with Xiao Wu tucked inside his clothes.
• Tang San entered the Star Dou Great Forest and carefully avoided tracks, vines, and nearby Soul Beasts as Ji Yuan spread spores through water and plant roots.
• Tang San paused to check that Xiao Wu was still warm, then went deeper into the forest while Ji Yuan's roots began growing beneath his muddy footprints.

Tang San followed the Blue Silver Grass to the Blue Silver King, who identified his dormant imperial bloodline and began connecting him to his kin to awaken it. As the connection opened, Ji Yuan secretly traced roots into the Blue Silver King’s mental core, startling it.

• Tang San discovered that the Blue Silver Grass kept pointing toward a presence in the forest, while Ji Yuan recognized it as the Blue Silver King.
• The Blue Silver King contacted Tang San, explained that it had lived for eighty-five thousand years, and offered to help his injured father while admitting it could not promise to restore Xiao Wu’s soul.
• Tang San followed the grass to the Blue Silver King, demanded answers about his bloodline, and learned that his mother’s lineage carried the Blue Silver Emperor’s aura.
• After confirming Tang San’s caution and agreeing not to harm his family, the Blue Silver King began linking him to the minds of his kin so he could awaken his bloodline.
• Ji Yuan slipped through Tang San’s open mental connection and reached the Blue Silver King’s core, which realized roots had entered the Emperor’s bloodline.

Ji Yuan secretly devoured the Blue Silver King and seized control of the Blue Silver Grass network while Tang San believed he was completing his bloodline awakening. The chapter ended with Tang San sensing the grass and reaching for the spot Ji Yuan guided him toward.

• Ji Yuan trapped the Blue Silver King through his root network and concealed their struggle from Tang San, keeping the awakening aura stable.
• The Blue Silver King tried to warn Tang San and summon nearby plants, but Ji Yuan intercepted the messages and drew vitality from the responding vegetation.
• Ji Yuan penetrated the Blue Silver King's core, seized the plants' mental links, and claimed the vacant seat of imperial authority.
• Tang San's Blue Silver Grass gained complete golden patterns, and Ji Yuan let him sense a response from the surrounding kin.
• After consuming the Blue Silver King's remaining origin, Ji Yuan stirred nearby grass, and Tang San reached toward the spot he indicated.

Tang San awakened his Blue Silver Emperor and discovered that he could sense his surroundings through plants, while believing the power came from the legacy of the Blue Silver King. Ji Yuan secretly controlled the root network and redirected Tang San as he left with Tang Hao and Xiao Wu.

• Ji Yuan let Tang San awaken his Blue Silver Emperor, while the surrounding plants withered and the central vine was left dry and lifeless.
• Tang San tested his new ability to sense water, locate objects, and monitor Tang Hao through nearby plants, while Ji Yuan controlled what he perceived.
• Tang San concluded that the Blue Silver King had left him the ability to communicate with plants and promised to return after settling his injured companions.
• Tang San carried Tang Hao and Xiao Wu away using crystalline Blue Silver Grass, while Ji Yuan secretly connected and redirected the roots along their path.
• Tang San confidently told Xiao Wu that he knew the way, unaware that Ji Yuan had changed the plant connections and turned him in the wrong direction.