Chapter Summaries

Miao Yinling, Meng Bingyan, and Zheng Yuan fought above while Zheng Qingyue attacked Bai Yu, who broke through her beast slaves and countered her with his sword. As Zheng Qingyue brought down her silver shield, Bai Yu activated the Dragon Treasury Three Transformations, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Miao Yinling and Meng Bingyan joined forces against Zheng Yuan, whose surprise grew when they held their ground.
• Zheng Qingyue sent seven Spirit Transformation-level beast slaves to seize Bai Yu, but his black lotus blast and summoned allies drove them back.
• Bai Yu attacked Zheng Qingyue with his broken bronze sword, but her silver rhino horn formed a shield that blocked his strike.
• Zheng Qingyue pressed Bai Yu with her shield while he tested his limits and searched for an opening.
• Miao Yinling summoned the Phoenix-Feather Mystic Eagle to absorb soundwaves, and Zheng Yuan reacted with confusion when she called herself a saintess.
• Zheng Qingyue brought her silver shield down on Bai Yu, who activated the Dragon Treasury Three Transformations.

Bai Yu defeated Zheng Qingyue and captured her, while the Black Feather King crippled Zheng Yuan as he fled through a spatial passage. Zheng Qingyue became Bai Yu’s prisoner and prospective mount, and the group prepared to use the battle’s spoils.

• Bai Yu used Soul-Devouring to defeat Zheng Qingyue, while Nangong Xuansu and the Star Dragon Apes subdued her beast slaves.
• Bai Yu bound Zheng Qingyue with an iron chain, and Zheng Yuan emerged from the fighting to find her defeated.
• Zheng Yuan opened a spatial passage and tried to escape, but the Black Feather King killed his summoned beast slaves and severed his lower body before the passage closed.
• Bai Yu blamed Zhang Baidao’s bad luck for Zheng Yuan’s escape, and Nangong Xuansu made Zhang pick up the Chaos Heaven Disk and answer who was unlucky.
• Bai Yu handed Zheng Qingyue’s chain to Miao Yinling to tame her as a mount, then began cutting up the rhinoceros for meat while Zhang Baidao was pressed to eat some.

Bai Yu and his companions were drawn into the Blood Inheritance Tower, where he learned he had to defeat a reflection representing one of his limits to earn an inheritance. He chose corpse refining and faced a stronger version of himself, which summoned a frigid corpse from an illusory coffin.

• The barrier around the blood tower shattered, and violet flames and blood-colored light pulled Bai Yu, Yu Linglong, Dugu Yan, Xiao Rongrong, and the Black Feather King inside.
• A white-haired middle-aged man arrived at the site, recognized his clan’s prodigy’s aura, and pursued the spatial passage.
• Bai Yu steadied himself with the Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu and arrived on a stone platform surrounded by darkness, chains, and old bloodstains.
• The tower presented four trials—Gu refining, corpse refining, body tempering, and medicine refining—and warned that failure meant death.
• Bai Yu chose corpse refining, and the other three options vanished as he challenged its phantom.
• The corpse-refining phantom summoned an illusory coffin, from which a frigid corpse emerged.

Bai Yu began suppressing and refining Murong Qingyu’s mutated corpse, using Great Medicine and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to stabilize her before preparing a Blood River forbidden art. He left the chapter by ordering a massive sacrifice to create the Blood River.

• Bai Yu summoned Murong Qingyu’s corpse, and a nine-headed monster emerged and attacked him.
• Bai Yu used the Blood River Scripture to chain Murong Qingyu, while Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor restrained the nine-headed monster.
• Bai Yu burned Great Medicine with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to disrupt Murong Qingyu’s balance, then placed her in the Eight-Chi Cauldron and buried her in Blood Demon Rot Mud.
• Bai Yu refined Wandering Zombie Gu and Slave Gu into Murong Qingyu and studied the Blood River Scripture’s forbidden arts.
• Bai Yu decided to sacrifice three quarters of the living beings from Heavenly Goat Mountain, Star Mountain, and Dayless Mountain, along with ninety percent of the Swine Black Apes, to forge Murong Qingyu’s Blood River.

Bai Yu used the Eight-Chi Cauldron, Lightning Gu, and energy stolen from a phantom’s Blood Corpse to refine and control Murong Qingyu. After nurturing her for seven days, she emerged in a transformed state, though the nature of her mutation remained uncertain.

• Bai Yu spent three days refining demonic beasts’ blood mist and soul fragments into the Blood Demon Rot Mud around Murong Qingyu.
• Bai Yu placed the Lightning Gu into Murong Qingyu and used the Blood River Scripture to drain energy from the phantom’s Blood Corpse, exploiting its repeated replenishment.
• Bai Yu fused the Lightning Gu with Murong Qingyu, sensed a trace of intimacy from her, and placed a fragment of his soul on her forehead.
• Bai Yu saw that Murong Qingyu’s dantian had become a sea of blood containing a mutated nine-headed monster, but he could not determine what she had become.
• Bai Yu nurtured Murong Qingyu for seven days until her appearance returned to normal, her hair turned silvery white, and a heavy aura began to emerge.

Bai Yu watched Murong Qingyu awaken as the Nine Nether Nightmare Lord and overwhelm a mutated Yin-Yang Corpse. After clearing the trial and reaching the ninth floor, he found Zhang Baidao and a skeletal battle formation master whose remains Murong Qingyu absorbed.

• Murong Qingyu awakened as a Nine Nether Drought Demon, and Bai Yu realized a mysterious War Emperor’s origin had helped forge her Blood River.
• Bai Yu ordered Murong Qingyu to attack, and she destroyed and absorbed the mutated Yin-Yang Corpse.
• The tower declared Bai Yu first in the trial and sent him directly to the ninth floor, where he found an ancient palace and a giant skeleton radiating battle intent.
• Bai Yu caught Zhang Baidao licking essence from a dragon pearl, and Zhang Baidao explained that the tower’s trials were meant to restore the skeleton.
• Murong Qingyu absorbed the skeleton into black water that coiled around Bai Yu’s golden sword, while Zhang Baidao stared at her in shock.

Bai Yu learned from the War Emperor's token that Xuanyuan Shi had left his origin power and Holy Snake Mountain's Mountain God Seal for those who passed the Blood Inheritance Tower, and Murong Qingyu had absorbed the origin. After the tower vanished, the women reappeared on the plains, where Xiao Rongrong revealed she had broken through to the second level of Spirit Transformation.

• Bai Yu opened the boxes by Xuanyuan Shi's corpse and used the War token to view the War Emperor's memories.
• Xuanyuan Shi's recorded memories revealed his life, his disciples, his sacrifice at Holy Snake Mountain, and the opportunities he had left for future trial-takers.
• Bai Yu realized that Murong Qingyu had absorbed Xuanyuan Shi's origin power and that the golden sword had inherited everything the War Emperor possessed.
• Bai Yu, Zhang Baidao, Meng Bingyan, and the other women emerged onto the plains as the Blood Inheritance Tower disappeared.
• Xiao Rongrong woke and announced that she had broken through to the second level of Spirit Transformation.

Xiao Rongrong recounted meeting her identical counterpart in a strange space and gaining a mysterious stone talisman that greatly improved her cultivation. Zhang Baidao identified it as the Heaven-Opening Creation Stone Talisman, then hinted that its history might connect to a woman surnamed Xiao and her twin sister.

• Xiao Rongrong told Dugu Yan and the others that she had been pulled from seclusion into a contest with someone who looked and felt exactly like Black Feather King.
• Xiao Rongrong explained that after they drew talismans, her opponent told her to give back what belonged to her, and a stone talisman appeared in her mind that sharpened her understanding during cultivation.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes and saw that Xiao Rongrong's bloodline gave her extraordinary, uniquely personal fortune.
• Zhang Baidao demanded eighth-grade Great Medicine ingredients before explaining the stone talisman's significance, and Bai Yu gave him two portions.
• Zhang Baidao identified the object as the Heaven-Opening Creation Stone Talisman, a supreme talismanic divine object, and described its rarity and the powerful experts who had possessed one.
• Zhang Baidao began to reveal that a woman surnamed Xiao who comprehended her path to immortality from such a talisman had a twin sister known as the Heart-Eroding Holy Empress.

Zhang Baidao explained that Xiao Rongrong and the Black Feather King resonated with the Talisman Ancestor and the Heart-Eroding Holy Empress, but were not their reincarnations. Xiao Rongrong demonstrated her inheritance’s ability to create powerful talismans instantly without materials, leaving Bai Yu and the others astonished.

• Xiao Rongrong and the Black Feather King questioned whether they were connected to the Talisman Ancestor and the Heart-Eroding Holy Empress, and Zhang Baidao clarified that they were distinct people linked by a mysterious resonance.
• Zhang Baidao explained that reincarnation did not exist on the Eternal Continent and described the women’s connection as a gift from the Talisman Ancestor.
• Bai Yu asked whether the Origin Talisman inheritance could harm its inheritor, and Zhang Baidao defended the Talisman Ancestor’s character.
• Nangong Xuansu accused Zhang Baidao of insulting Yin-Yang Young Master, then beat him until he denied it had affected him.
• Xiao Rongrong showed that she could draw a Spirit Transformation-level Mystic Fire God-Suppressing Talisman in the air and multiply it without using materials.
• Bai Yu and the others realized that Xiao Rongrong’s inheritance let her create powerful talismans instantly with little spiritual power.

After the Blood Inheritance Tower disappeared, Bai Yu studied the map of Holy Snake Mountain and learned that a marked graveyard might be a Spiritless Tomb created by the Battle Emperor to raise objects of destiny. Bai Yu and the women agreed to investigate it, leaving them to explore opportunities along the way.

• Xiao Rongrong and the other women shared their gains from the Blood Inheritance Tower, while Bai Yu realized how much an earth-grade Divine Mountain could bolster his reserves.
• Zhang Baidao proposed that he and Bai Yu split up to search for opportunities and reunite when the Heavenly Feather Snake emerged, and Bai Yu agreed.
• Bai Yu pointed out a graveyard marked on the map, and Zhang Baidao identified it as a possible Spiritless Tomb containing a Ghost Realm Resentful Toad and a trapped ghost army.
• Zhang Baidao warned Bai Yu about the tomb's dangers and left in the opposite direction with his young disciple.
• Meng Bingyan suggested investigating the tomb, and Bai Yu and the women agreed to explore useful opportunities along the route.

After Zheng Yuan escaped from Bai Yu’s group, he told Zheng Shan that the Compassion Tranquility Retreat and Grand Void Sect were involved in the expedition. Zheng Shan identified Bai Yu and revealed that the Enforcement Hall was coming, while Zheng Yuan demanded a Great Medicine so he could rescue Zheng Qingyue himself.

• The Heavenly Snake Sect’s five Spirit Transformation experts found the slain guardian beast and decided to keep following the cultivators to protect the Heavenly Snake Ancestor’s plan.
• Zheng Yuan reached a barren mountain, summoned Zheng Shan, and described his defeat and Zheng Qingyue’s capture.
• Zheng Shan inferred that Bai Yu was the mysterious Great Apothecary and that Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling belonged to the Compassion Tranquility Retreat and Grand Void Sect.
• Zheng Shan said the Enforcement Hall was on its way with the family’s immortal artifact and promised that Zheng Moran would ensure their enemies died.
• Zheng Yuan asked for a Great Medicine so he could rescue Zheng Qingyue himself, and Zheng Shan gave him a bottle with a warning.

Bai Yu’s group reached the outskirts of the Spiritless Tomb and questioned Zheng Qingyue about the Moon God Rhinoceros Clan’s plans. Her revelations showed that the clan intended to explore the region and potentially annex the Heavenly Snake Sect, leaving open the prospect of conflict with Compassion Tranquility Retreat.

• Bai Yu stopped to rest in a ruined cave and let Zhao Yun, Red Emperor, and Murong Qingyu absorb the powerful blood wind.
• Meng Bingyan noted the harsh conditions at the Spiritless Tomb, and Bai Yu explained that the land might contain the ghosts of a sealed army he hoped to recruit.
• Bai Yu asked Zheng Qingyue why the Moon God Rhinoceros Clan had come, and she confessed that the clan sent its younger members to investigate newly opened Divine Mountains and claim their resources.
• Zheng Qingyue revealed that the Moon God Rhinoceros Clan had secretly sent members to consider annexing the Heavenly Snake Sect, whose defiance had angered the Wild Beast Domain.
• Miao Yinling and Bai Yu discussed how the Moon God Rhinoceros Clan’s plans could bring it into conflict with Compassion Tranquility Retreat, while Zheng Qingyue feared further punishment and wondered about Bai Yu’s powerful backing.

Bai Yu’s group ventured deeper into the Spiritless Tomb, where they encountered Nascent Soul-level ghost creatures. Xiao Rongrong used the Baleful Refining Ghost Transformation Talismans to seal them effortlessly, revealing the talismans’ extraordinary power.

• Bai Yu led the group through the Spiritless Tomb as the dense yin qi suppressed their senses and the hostile terrain grew colder.
• Zheng Qingyue stopped when more than a dozen ghost creatures formed in the mist and attacked the group.
• Xiao Rongrong stepped forward while Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling searched for the densest source of yin qi.
• Xiao Rongrong created Baleful Refining Ghost Transformation Talismans in midair, sealed the ghost creatures, and collected their transformed yin qi in a wooden gourd.
• Miao Yinling and Meng Bingyan recognized the Heavenly Demon Sect talismans and were astonished that Xiao Rongrong could draw them so easily.

Bai Yu and his companions reached the source of the Spiritless Tomb’s yin energy, where Pei Yueshen and six Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles fought waves of black-armored soldiers. Zheng Qingyue recognized Pei Yueshen as her old enemy and offered to help Bai Yu capture her in exchange for freedom.

• Xiao Rongrong refined the ghost creatures as Bai Yu located the strongest yin energy to the northwest, and the group traveled through the mist toward it.
• The group reached a massive pit of black water and spotted Pei Yueshen and six black-scaled men suppressing soldiers climbing onto a ruined platform.
• Zheng Qingyue identified Pei Yueshen as a Goddess Palace heaven-grade goddess who had defeated and humiliated her three years earlier.
• Zheng Qingyue told Bai Yu about Pei Yueshen’s rare physiques, her connection to the Beast Emperor, and the six men’s identity as Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles.
• Zheng Qingyue offered to reveal the turtles’ weakness and help capture Pei Yueshen if Bai Yu would trade her for Zheng Qingyue and the turtles’ freedom.

Bai Yu weighed whether to trade Zheng Qingyue for Pei Yueshen, concluding that the exchange could benefit him and drive a wedge between the Zheng Family and the Wild Beast Domain. Meanwhile, Pei Yueshen faced Han Qu and his ghost legion, who attacked because she was the Warlord Emperor’s inheritor.

• Bai Yu considered how exchanging Zheng Qingyue for Pei Yueshen could keep the Zheng Family and the Wild Beast Domain divided and reduce pressure on him.
• Xiao Rongrong advised Bai Yu that Pei Yueshen was more valuable, and Bai Yu agreed to release Zheng Qingyue if they captured Pei Yueshen.
• Zheng Qingyue offered to help break the Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles’ defenses but demanded that Bai Yu and his companions swear to release her.
• Pei Yueshen told Han Qu that she could lead him and his ghost soldiers out, but they answered with a renewed attack.
• Han Qu emerged from the black water and declared that Pei Yueshen had to die because she was the Warlord Emperor’s inheritor.

Han Qu attacked Pei Yueshen after revealing that the War Emperor had sacrificed his legion to preserve his inheritance, prompting Han Qu to become the Ghost Realm Resentful Toad and swear revenge. As Pei Yueshen prepared to show him the truth with a Memory Pearl, Zheng Qingyue intervened by striking Han Qu and targeting the six Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles' weakness.

• Han Qu formed a black guandao and attacked Pei Yueshen, while she told the six Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles to block him without retaliating.
• Han Qu's memories revealed that the War Emperor had led the legion into the Spiritless Tomb, where the War Emperor Cauldron and its formation drained and killed the soldiers.
• Han Qu learned that the War Emperor had sacrificed the legion to protect its souls from falling into others' hands, and Han Qu sacrificed himself and the legion's consciousness to become the Ghost Realm Resentful Toad and pursue revenge.
• Pei Yueshen took out a golden Memory Pearl and offered to show Han Qu what had happened, but Zheng Qingyue pierced Han Qu's chest with a massive black claw.
• Zheng Qingyue fired moonlit steel needles at the Crimson Dragon Demon Turtles' fatal weak points beneath their third ribs.

Zheng Qingyue’s ambush killed Han Qu and disabled the Red Dragon Demon Turtles, drawing Pei Yueshen into battle with Murong Qingyu while Bai Yu prepared to stop her escape. As Di Xian’er identified Pei Yueshen’s Nine Tribulations War Soul Canon, Bai Yu focused on a golden light beneath the platform and ordered his allies to retrieve it.

• Zheng Qingyue struck the Red Dragon Demon Turtles’ weak points with steel needles while Murong Qingyu helped kill Han Qu.
• Pei Yueshen sent eight attendants after Zheng Qingyue and attacked Murong Qingyu, while Zheng Qingyue fled and left her spatial ring with Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu summoned Nangong Xuansu and Yu Linglong to help Meng Bingyan and asked the Black Feather King to seal the surrounding space.
• Pei Yueshen realized Zheng Qingyue had been a decoy and tried to reach Bai Yu, but Murong Qingyu blocked her.
• Di Xian’er recognized Pei Yueshen’s Nine Tribulations War Soul Canon, and Bai Yu spotted a golden light beneath the platform.
• Bai Yu summoned Black Charcoal, Zhao Yun, and the Red Emperor and ordered them to bring up the object below.

Pei Yueshen and Murong Qingyu clashed fiercely, but Murong Qingyu absorbed Pei Yueshen’s battle intent and began wielding the same power. Meanwhile, Bai Yu recovered the flawed War Emperor Cauldron and prepared to end the fight before facing the ghost toad.

• Pei Yueshen attacked Murong Qingyu with her War God phantom, while Murong Qingyu countered with Mysterious Yin Qi and yin souls.
• Pei Yueshen and Murong Qingyu exchanged a powerful collision, and Murong Qingyu used lightning to heal herself and absorb Pei Yueshen’s battle intent.
• Murong Qingyu released battle intent of her own and closed in on Pei Yueshen, shocking both Pei Yueshen and Di Xian'er.
• Bai Yu explained that Murong Qingyu had absorbed the War Emperor’s origin power, which the fight had awakened.
• Zhao Yun hauled up the War Emperor Cauldron, and Bai Yu identified it as a flawed battle array immortal artifact and began refining it.
• After receiving Black Feather King's confirmation, Bai Yu told the others to end the fight so they could deal with the ghost toad.

The Black Feather King and Murong Qingyu joined forces to defeat and imprison Pei Yueshen in Bai Yu’s cave-heaven after sealing the surrounding space. Afterward, Bai Yu crushed the Memory Pearl as Han Qu died, leaving the truths surrounding him buried.

• Pei Yueshen unleashed the World-Ending Divine Gauze against Murong Qingyu, but the Black Feather King appeared and struck Pei Yueshen down.
• Murong Qingyu bound Pei Yueshen with Profound Yin chains, while the Black Feather King sealed her magical power and prevented her Universe Shift Talisman from opening a passage.
• Bai Yu drew Pei Yueshen into his cave-heaven, where she was chained to the altar that had once sealed the Black Feather King.
• Meng Bingyan and the other women returned after killing the cultivators who had fought them, and Meng Bingyan condemned Pei Yueshen’s enslaved attendants as notorious criminals.
• Bai Yu crushed the Memory Pearl beside the dying Han Qu and bowed, telling him to rest easy.

Bai Yu and his companions left the Spiritless Tomb with the War Emperor Cauldron and traveled toward the Heavenly Feather Snake, gathering a prized demon beast and surviving ambushes along the way. They reached Black Mountain, where the Heavenly Snake Ancestor faced an angry gathering of cultivators.

• Bai Yu subdued the damaged War Emperor Cauldron, buried Han Qu, and divided the Spirit Transformation cultivators’ belongings among his companions.
• Bai Yu chose a route toward the Heavenly Feather Snake and led the group to collect Purple Spirit Resonance Bamboo for Miao Yinling.
• Miao Yinling defeated the bamboo’s guardian beast and found three young Purple Marrow Fierce Mantises, which she eagerly claimed.
• Bai Yu’s group fought off more than ten ambushes by Heavenly Snake Sect forces as they traveled toward Black Mountain.
• Bai Yu recognized Black Mountain as the Heavenly Feather Snake’s sealed location and approached with his companions.
• The cultivators confronted the Heavenly Snake Ancestor on Black Mountain, and he calmly asked why they had gathered against his sect.