Chapter Summaries

Dole and Aixi began cultivating beside Babel Tower’s level-seven core, while Dole’s Mystic Corpse Worm clone rapidly developed the Bone Demon God meditation method and reached level five. The clone joined them on the eighth floor, and Aixi considered training her own Heavenly Frost Worm.

• Dole told Aixi that they could cultivate and comprehend laws beside Babel Tower’s core, then the two began cultivating together.
• In the laboratory, Dole’s Mystic Corpse Worm clone formed a sea of consciousness and rapidly advanced to level five using the Bone Demon God meditation method.
• Dole’s clone formed the Bone Demon God’s phantom and a soul-powered scythe, then spent a month bringing the clone fully under his control.
• Dole planned to use the clone to establish a force and pursue a territory, depending on whether the Third Prince succeeded.
• Dole’s black-robed clone appeared beside him and Aixi on the eighth floor, and Aixi considered developing her Heavenly Frost Worm clone.

Dole sent his Level Six Mystic Corpse Worm avatar to handle affairs while his true body remained behind to brew potions. He warned Allen about the Sand Scorpion organization and planned to infiltrate it, then registered the avatar and went to meet Tom.

• Dole explained to Aixi that his avatar would handle affairs while he continued brewing potions in the wizard tower.
• Dole visited Allen and revealed what he knew about Sand Scorpion, asking for Tom's contact information so he could investigate the organization.
• Allen agreed to contact Tom and arrange covert surveillance with the City Lord's Manor.
• Inspectors stopped Dole's dark-aura avatar and required him to register it at the Glory Wizard Alliance; Dole agreed.
• Tom messaged Dole, who replied and traveled to the address near the eastern city gate.

Dole met Tom, agreed to join him in exploring a dangerous ruin, and set out with his avatar after discussing their plans to earn money and investigate the Sand Scorpion organization. Tom explained that the ruin was an ancient black-wizard sect hidden in the Southwestern Highlands, and they traveled toward its poison-filled grounds.

• Dole found Tom disguised as an ordinary farmer and revealed that his dark aura came from his Mystic Corpse Worm avatar.
• Tom and Dole discussed the Sand Scorpion organization, and Dole asked to explore the ruin Tom had mentioned.
• Tom explained that he had once asked Wushu for help, but she had refused; he then left his long-used safehouse with Dole.
• Dole and Tom traveled toward the ruin in the Southwestern Highlands while Tom described the ancient sect and the poisons guarding it.
• Dole reflected on how the sect and other hidden groups could disappear without anyone remembering they had existed.

Dole and Old Poisoner traveled into the uninhabited Southwestern Highlands and reached the mist-covered mountains hiding the ruins. Dole began scouting the area and its magical array while others remained concealed nearby.

• Old Poisoner led Dole across the Southwestern Highlands to a secluded oasis and the mountains beyond it.
• Tom revealed that the ruins lay inside a mist that never dispersed and warned Dole that others were hiding nearby.
• Tom explained that Gulu Da, a Level Five Black Wizard, led a small Black Market by the lake but could not control the poisonous creatures around the ruins.
• Dole and Old Poisoner split up to investigate the surroundings, and Dole headed uphill to study the array without using mental force.
• Dole encountered powerful and mutated wildlife as he climbed through the forest toward the fog-covered mountain.

Dole investigated the magical mist surrounding the mountain and discovered it was produced by a powerful wizard array. A hidden woman cursed him with Arrow of Lost Souls, but he repelled the attack and pursued her, finding only a faint trace of her aura.

• Dole sensed a presence near caves guarded by enormous vultures and avoided the area, while a hidden woman watched him and sent a vulture after him.
• Dole evaded the vulture and examined the mountain’s clouds and mist, concluding that an advanced wizard array had changed the local rules.
• Dole began to feel sluggish and recognized that a curse had taken effect as green arrows of Arrow of Lost Souls shot toward him.
• Dole used the Bone Demon God Meditation Method and Darkness Descends to weaken the arrows, then endured their remaining force with the Bone Demon God’s protection.
• The hidden woman fled after her ambush failed, and Dole reached her former position and released tiny black dots from his Mystic Corpse Worm clone to search for her.

Dole tested the Bone Demon God Meditation Method while tracking the wraith Wizard Steri, then joined Old Poisoner to enter the mountain ruins. They passed through the wizard array’s mist and emerged on a strangely lifelike mountain.

• Dole found Steri near the animal tamer’s cave and used Curse Entanglement to attack her.
• Steri’s ghost phantom dispelled Dole’s curse, but a force from the cave sheltered her and sealed the entrance behind a stone wall.
• Dole concluded that the Bone Demon God was powerful and learned that the battle had driven away many of the watchers around him.
• Old Poisoner met Dole, explained the entrance guardian’s strength, and agreed to investigate the ruins with him.
• Dole and Old Poisoner circled to the mountain’s southern entrance, prepared their defenses, and entered the mist to find a majestic mountain covered in cold, unnatural life.

Dole and Old Poisoner reached the sect’s main gate, where a powerful armored guard blocked the only route through the wizard formation. Old Poisoner’s White Snake Sorcery failed to overcome it, and the chapter left them preparing to examine the guard again after it powered down.

• Dole used the Eye of Storm and the Bone Demon God’s perspective to see that the gate was the only passable way into the sect.
• Old Poisoner explained that the guard resisted potions and attacked with poison and soul techniques, then stepped forward to test it.
• The guard activated, raised a barrier, and fired blue energy beams at Old Poisoner.
• Old Poisoner blocked the beams with a black mirror and sent White Snake Sorcery to coil around the guard.
• The guard endured the snakes with support from the wizard formations and kept firing until Old Poisoner retreated beyond its range and it powered down.
• Old Poisoner caught his breath and told Dole to take another look.

Dole and Tom tested the ancient sect’s guard, whose speed and soul-based attacks made it nearly impossible to overcome directly. Dole proposed studying the mountain-protecting array so they could interrupt its energy supply briefly and slip past the guard.

• Tom summoned the Progenitor Serpent and bombarded the guard with three powerful white spheres, but the guard destroyed them with its eye beams and spear.
• Tom attacked with dozens of smaller spheres, and the guard quickly cut down almost all of them without being harmed.
• Dole reasoned that the guard drew energy from the mountain-protecting array, so exhausting it or breaking the array would not work.
• Dole proposed observing the array’s energy flow and briefly severing its connection to the guard.
• Tom agreed to attack the guard once every five minutes with staged white-light spells while Dole studied the array.

Dole and Old Poisoner tested the powerful guardian and its wizard array, while Dole probed the entrance with Mystic Corpse Worms. The green mist's mental attack reached Dole through the worms, but he countered it with the Bone Demon God Meditation Method and Heavenly Thunder Will before retreating as the array began to stir.

• Tom attacked the guardian with white spheres and white little snakes while Old Poisoner entangled it.
• Dole used the Eye of Storm and his magical eye to study the entrance's fluctuations, then sent Mystic Corpse Worms toward it.
• The guardian covered the entrance with green mist, which poisoned the worms and sent a powerful mental contamination through them to Dole.
• Dole's Bone Demon God Meditation Method slowed the contamination, and his Heavenly Thunder Will shattered it with lightning that also broke the mist and made the guardian sway.
• As the array's magical fluctuations intensified, Dole sensed danger and retreated.

Dole and Old Poisoner escaped the Guardian’s magical-array backlash, only to be confronted by a mental power wizard hunting Old Poisoner. The wizard attacked Dole with an illusion, but Dole broke free and struck at the wizard’s hidden true body.

• The Guardian’s power surged, destroying Dole’s Mystic Corpse Worm swarm and forcing Dole and Old Poisoner to flee the mist.
• After escaping, Old Poisoner and Dole sensed a mental power wizard who had immobilized Old Poisoner and demanded that Dole leave.
• Dole refused to abandon Old Poisoner, and the wizard attacked him with a mental illusion.
• Dole shattered the illusion with Heavenly Thunder Will and identified the wizard’s hidden true body.
• The wizard sent a silver shockwave against Dole’s scythe-shaped death spell, but the spell pierced through it and kept flying.

Dole drove off the Wizard who trapped Old Tom in the Death World, then learned the attacker was his family’s mortal enemy. The two returned to the ruin’s entrance, where Old Tom gave Dole the Death World’s coordinates so he could try summoning an undead creature.

• The Wizard scattered Dole’s scythe and unleashed a spiritual storm, but Dole escaped by turning into black mist and counterattacked with his Mystic Corpse Worms.
• The Wizard fled when he realized Dole’s avatar was a sixth-level Mystic Corpse Worm, and Dole returned to wait near the unconscious Old Tom.
• Old Tom awoke and explained that his enemy had used the seventh-level Mask of Indulgence to trap him in the Death World, where he fought a seventh-level knight.
• Old Tom told Dole that the Wizard was his family’s mortal enemy, and the two decided to continue exploring the ruin while staying alert.
• Dole suspected the Heavenly Thunder Will had caused the magic array to rebound, and he and Old Tom returned to the entrance through the clouds and mist.
• Dole asked for the Death World’s coordinates so he could summon an undead creature, and Old Tom gave him a ball of light containing them.

Dole and Old Poisoner tried to break through the guardian protecting the sect gate while Dole studied its poison and defenses. After Old Poisoner attacked for ten minutes, Dole prepared a foul-smelling substance to protect them and offered to take over.

• Dole tried disguising his aura and sending Mystic Corpse Worms toward the guardian, but its poisonous gas stopped them again.
• Old Poisoner explained that black scarab-like insects also guarded the entrance, and Dole agreed they would test their defenses while attacking the guardian.
• Old Poisoner bombarded the guardian with energy spheres and white snakes as Dole analyzed the poisonous gas and prepared a countermeasure.
• Dole finished coating himself with a foul-smelling substance and handed a jar of it to Old Poisoner, telling him to smear it on his clothes before Dole took over.

Dole and Old Poisoner defeated the ruin's regenerative guard and entered the sect, while Steri and the Beast Tamer watched from outside and planned to track their return. Inside, Dole discovered that microscopic parasites infested the air and began detecting them.

• Dole summoned bone demons and repeatedly attacked the guard with Death Scythes until the guard's head was severed and his body was torn apart.
• Dole and Old Poisoner entered the gateway before the formation reassembled the guard.
• Steri and the Beast Tamer saw that the pair had entered, discussed their strength, and sent creatures to watch the entrance.
• Dole and Old Poisoner reached a courtyard filled with poisonous statues and used protective measures against the toxic air.
• Dole recognized that the airborne poison consisted of parasites, which the Mystic Corpse Worm devoured, and began using his mental power to locate them.

Dole and Old Poisoner investigated the sect overrun by tiny poisonous insects and found that the insects grew denser and more dangerous deeper inside. After discovering a blackened skeleton in the inner area, they retreated to consider how to continue.

• Dole collected some insects while he and Old Poisoner discussed how they might have been deliberately created and why they were trapped inside the sect.
• Dole and Old Poisoner used Mystic Corpse Worms to shield themselves and climbed from the outer courtyard toward the inner areas.
• They found the gate to the inner courtyard smashed open and entered an area where mist and insect numbers had increased sharply.
• Old Poisoner retreated after the insects raised red spots on his face, while Dole's Mystic Corpse Worms struggled against them.
• Dole spotted a pair of blackened skeletal legs in a corridor and retreated with Old Poisoner to the middle courtyard.
• Dole offered to cover Old Poisoner with Mystic Corpse Worms, and Old Poisoner concluded that the skeleton likely belonged to someone from outside who had died to the insects.

Dole and Old Poisoner entered the insect-infested ruins, splitting up to search for knowledge and materials. Dole reached Tower Forest, detected and burned away a spiritual intrusion, then headed for the library tower, where black bones surrounded its entrance.

• Old Poisoner used his Netherfire Gauze Robe to burn back the insects, and he and Dole hurried into the ruins.
• Dole and Old Poisoner split up, with Dole seeking the library tower and Old Poisoner searching for materials, magic crystals, and metals.
• Dole found several ancient Wizard towers and contacted Old Poisoner before reaching Tower Forest.
• Dole noticed white threads creeping into his spiritual world and used the Bone Demon God's blue netherfire to burn them away.
• Dole identified the library tower and approached the twenty-seven-story structure surrounded by black bones.

Dole explored the ancient Wizard Tower of Blackwater Mountain, collecting its preserved jade records and discovering the remains of a powerful Black Wizard school. He reached the top floor, where two skeletons appeared to have died together, but the mystery of the ruin remained unresolved.

• Dole realized that insects clinging to the bones were recovering their strength and sent the discovery to Old Poisoner.
• Dole entered the fragile Wizard Tower and found that its lower floors held books too decayed to use.
• Dole collected jade slips from the library and learned that Blackwater Mountain had once been an ancient Black Wizard school with three top-tier darkness meditation techniques.
• Dole reached the top floor and found two skeletons whose positions suggested they had perished together in an instant.
• Dole examined the preserved clothing and belongings on the skeletons but could not determine what had caused the ruin's eerie destruction.

Dole fought a hostile consciousness that burst from a ring and invaded his sea of consciousness, using Bone Fire to hold it back. The enemy offered him Blackwater Mountain’s knowledge and the secret of the Black Bone Worms if Dole helped him seize another body.

• Dole tried to remove the ring from a skeleton whose bones were unusually hard, then snapped its finger to take it.
• A white filament erupted from the ring, pursued Dole, and broke into his sea of consciousness despite his attempt to sever its connection.
• The filaments swarmed toward Dole’s mental core, but Bone Fire burned them back and kept them from reaching the phantom image of the Bone Demon God.
• The voice behind the filaments claimed the sect had been destroyed and urged Dole to stop resisting, while Dole suspected it was the mastermind behind the attacks.
• After a prolonged stalemate, the voice offered to share Blackwater Mountain’s advanced knowledge and the method for refining Black Bone Worms if Dole helped it seize another person’s body.

Dole held off a man made of white threads while studying Blackwater Mountain’s Meditation Methods to find a way to defeat him. After learning how the man’s powers worked, Dole began forming a counterattack as his opponent tried to retreat.

• Dole rejected the man’s offer to help seize another person’s body and continued holding him back with spiritual flames.
• Dole abandoned his medicine work in Wasen Fort and devoted his spiritual power to analyzing the white threads.
• Dole read Blackwater Mountain’s three core Meditation Methods and identified how they had shaped the man’s abilities.
• As Dole’s flames grew more stable, the man realized the stalemate was turning against him and offered Dole his life’s work in exchange for escape.
• Dole refused the deal and gathered eerie demonic patterns above the Bone Demon God, prompting the man to retreat.

Dole drove an ancient intruder from his sea of consciousness, then hurried to leave Blackwater Mountain as the strange insects gathered around its central tower. Outside, Steri, Litem, and another watcher lay in ambush while the mountain’s ominous disturbance intensified.

• Dole blasted the white thread with the Bone Demon God’s soul attack, forcing it to vanish after losing part of its spiritual power.
• Dole warned Old Poisoner about the ancient intruder, and Old Poisoner reported that strange spiritual attacks were probing his inner world.
• Dole left the ruined wizard towers and headed for Old Poisoner, but the poisonous insects grew more active and the attacks on Old Poisoner intensified.
• Dole saw millions of strange insects gathering over the central tower and fled, fearing they had fallen under the intruder’s control.
• Steri, Litem, and another watcher waited in separate ambushes for Dole and Old Poisoner, while Blackwater Mountain’s strange phenomenon continued to worsen.

Dole and Old Poisoner hurried through the ancient cave’s hidden chambers as the threat of someone controlling the Mystic Corpse Worms loomed. In the final chamber, Dole found and took control of a preserved level-seven Golden Corpse, gaining a surge of spiritual power and a chance to reach level seven himself.

• Dole warned Old Poisoner that an ancient monster might control the worms, and they split up to search the remaining chambers quickly.
• Dole found mostly ruined supplies in the first four rooms, then collected metal from the fifth.
• Dole opened the final chamber and discovered a Golden Corpse preserved inside a coffin of mysterious ice.
• Dole merged the Mystic Corpse Worms and his will with the Golden Corpse, taking control of its body.
• Dole felt the Golden Corpse’s law-like power raise his spiritual strength and realized it could help his avatar reach level seven.