Chapter Summaries

After the destruction of the Heavenly Snake Sect, Bai Yu remained troubled because he could not sense his benevolent corpse, so he suspected a flaw in his incomplete cultivation technique. He visited Liu Qingli to ask whether the Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture had a problem, while Di Xian'er began to suspect another explanation.

• Rumors spread that Fei Jingxin had intervened at Holy Snake Mountain to protect Bai Yu, and surrounding forces divided the fallen Heavenly Snake Sect's territory.
• Bai Yu failed again to sense his benevolent corpse, despite cultivating and believing he was a good person.
• The Black Feather King and Di Xian'er could not recall anyone else unable to sense a benevolent corpse, while Yu Linglong suggested Bai Yu's incomplete Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture might be flawed.
• Bai Yu left his companions and went to the National Preceptor's Residence to seek Liu Qingli's guidance.
• Bai Yu asked Liu Qingli whether the Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture had a flaw, and Di Xian'er began to suspect there was another reason for his difficulty.

Bai Yu told Liu Qingli that he could no longer sense his good corpse, and she suggested heavenly punishment as a possible cause. Liu Qingli helped him realize he could create a Gu to replace it, and they prepared to stabilize his cultivation and jointly devise a solution.

• Bai Yu privately explained to Liu Qingli that his good corpse had disappeared and he could not sense it.
• Liu Qingli said heavenly punishment could take away a cultivator's corpse, though she doubted Bai Yu could have caused it, and offered to search the Blood Prison Dynasty's ancient records.
• Liu Qingli reminded Bai Yu that a Gu master could make up for the missing corpse by creating a replacement Gu.
• Bai Yu became excited by the idea and suggested extracting benevolent corpses from others to refine into Gu, and possibly handling evil and self corpses the same way.
• Liu Qingli agreed to help Bai Yu deduce the Gu and invited him to stabilize his cultivation with her Yin-Yang Harmony Gu before they began.

Bai Yu and Liu Qingli successfully deduced the Three Corpses Gu while Liu Qingli transformed her benevolent and evil corpses, gaining a major cultivation boost. She explained how the Gu could help Bai Yu and revealed plans to acquire the materials and talented cultivators during the King Conferral Ceremony, then asked him to help her cultivate.

• Yan Lingxi reminded Bai Yu and Liu Qingli at a crucial moment as they used the All-Heavens Star Gu to guide Liu Qingli through the Three Corpses transformation.
• After seven days, Liu Qingli's cultivation rose to the seventh level of Tribulation Transcendence, her Yin-Yang Union Gu evolved, and her benevolent and evil corpses settled on her spirit dais.
• Liu Qingli and Bai Yu confirmed their deduction of the Three Corpses Gu, which could strip away emotions for cultivation and devour others' Three Corpses to grow stronger.
• Liu Qingli told Bai Yu that he could refine a talented cultivator's benevolent corpse into a Gu and use the Three Corpses Gu to draw out his own benevolence, and said the King Conferral Ceremony could supply materials and targets.
• Liu Qingli asked Bai Yu to help her cultivate, and Bai Yu protested that he had become her cultivation furnace again.

Bai Yu told his allies about the expanded King Conferral Ceremony and began preparations to strengthen their forces before it. He then confronted the imprisoned Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen, demanding that Li Shuyu honor their wager.

• Bai Yu instructed the Feather Spirit Dynasty to gather more than twenty thousand materials so he and his allies could convert the Three Corpses Gu without risking them turning on their masters.
• Bai Yu explained that the King Conferral Ceremony would welcome geniuses from across the four great powers, offer major rewards, and take place at the Eternal Battlefield in the far north.
• Jiang Yan used a green bell to discover that Zhang Baidao was already in the north, likely preparing to sneak into the Eternal Battlefield.
• Bai Yu assigned Jiang Yan and Di Xian'er to refine pills and Great Medicine while the others trained and helped stabilize the Feather Spirit Dynasty before the group departed.
• Bai Yu visited the imprisoned Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen at the altar on Dayless Mountain and demanded that Li Shuyu accept the outcome of their wager.
• Li Shuyu warned Bai Yu that the Wild Beast Domain could discover his captives, and Bai Yu seized her hair and asked whether she would keep resisting or change the way they spoke.

Li Shuyu confronted Bai Yu after losing the chance to claim the War Emperor inheritance, believing her fate and the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect’s future were doomed. Bai Yu threatened to expose and publicly sacrifice her as a Blood Corpse, leaving her terrified at the prospect of humiliating her sect and disciple.

• Li Shuyu recalled how she had sacrificed her freedom to preserve the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect and save her disciple, whose birth defect required treatment from the Wild Beast Domain.
• Li Shuyu challenged Bai Yu to say what he would do to her, believing she had already prepared herself for any fate.
• Bai Yu explained that Li Shuyu’s Primordial Void Source-Skeleton Dao Body made her a valuable sword cultivator, but that she lacked the drive to become his follower.
• Bai Yu said he would refine Li Shuyu into a Blood Corpse rather than risk her betrayal.
• Bai Yu threatened to expose the Celestial Pivot Sword Sect, invite Li Shuyu’s disciples to witness her sacrifice, and trade her body for resources, making Li Shuyu recoil in terror.

Bai Yu broke Li Shuyu’s resistance and bound her to his service, then turned to Pei Yueshen. Pei Yueshen agreed to submit in exchange for studying Murong Qingyu’s inheritance and battle intent, and she was released from her restraints.

• Li Shuyu pleaded with Bai Yu to spare her the public humiliation he had threatened, and he bound her with a soul-origin mark, a Slave Gu, a Mind-Bewildering Pill, and a Heavenly Dao oath.
• Bai Yu burned the scroll containing information about Li Shuyu’s youngest disciple without revealing that the Beast Emperor had plotted against her.
• Bai Yu confronted Pei Yueshen, who asked whether Murong Qingyu had obtained the War Emperor’s inheritance and whether the Black Feather King served him.
• Pei Yueshen agreed to submit if she could study the Nine Tribulations Body-Tempering Art and observe Murong Qingyu’s battle intent.
• Bai Yu accepted her condition, and Pei Yueshen removed her restraints and sensed the extraordinary nature of his grotto-heaven.

Bai Yu developed the Heaven-Imprisoning Nine Tribulations Formation and prepared for the coming King Conferral Ceremony while the Feather Spirit Dynasty rebuilt. Li Shuyu broke through to the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence, and the courtyard’s formations concealed the resulting spectacle.

• Jing Linghan, the Black Feather King, and Xu Yingxue helped purge unrest in the Feather Spirit Dynasty as Bai Yu prepared for the King Conferral Ceremony.
• Bai Yu combined the War Emperor Army, the Heavenly Demon Army, and remnant souls in the Nine Dragons War God Tower, bringing its army to 1.25 million.
• Bai Yu used the War Emperor’s inheritance to develop the Heaven-Imprisoning Nine Tribulations Formation, condensing the Wing Province Cauldron and the Yan Province Cauldron.
• Bai Yu chose Li Shuyu over Pei Yueshen, leaving Pei Yueshen confused and angry.
• Li Shuyu broke through to the ninth level of Tribulation Transcendence, and the courtyard’s formations concealed the power surge from onlookers.

Bai Yu empowered Li Shuyu while completing the patterns on two battle cauldrons, then joined the Heavenly Demon Sect’s leaders to discuss the dangerous King Conferral Ceremony. The meeting ended with an old man from the allied sects implying that the Heavenly Demon Sect might be excluded from their plans.

• Li Shuyu wondered why Bai Yu had given her the full benefit of their cultivation instead of advancing himself, then dismissed her conflicted thoughts about her captor.
• Bai Yu made progress completing the patterns on his two cauldrons and received Liu Qingli’s summons to the National Preceptor’s Residence.
• Guan Yue announced that the Heavenly Demon Sect, Evil Moon Sect, and Netherworld Sect would ally for the King Conferral Ceremony and urged the prodigies to prioritize survival.
• Liu Qingli explained that Bai Yu held the Heavenly Demon Sect’s sole slot while the other two sects divided the remaining nine, and that powerful elders might join the contest to protect their juniors.
• An old man representing the Evil Moon Sect and Netherworld Sect promised they would protect their younger generation, prompting Liu Qingli and the Heavenly Demon Sect’s leaders to suspect they were being shut out.

Bai Yu and the Heavenly Demon Sect accepted that the other two sects would not ally with them for the King Conferral Ceremony. Guan Yue then announced that the ceremony’s top performer would become a candidate for National Preceptor, leaving the gathered sect leaders stunned.

• Liu Qingli mocked Hua Wudao and the two sects for refusing to ally with the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Hua Wudao explained that Bai Yu’s scandals had made him a target, so the Evil Moon Sect and Netherworld Sect feared entering the ceremony alongside him.
• Bai Yu accepted the separation without protest, and the Heavenly Demon Sect agreed not to force an alliance.
• Guan Yue announced that the ceremony’s strongest performer would become a candidate for National Preceptor and their sect would receive a century of preferential resource allocation.
• Hua Wudao, Xiao Yuemei, Liu Qingli, and Bai Yu reacted with astonishment as they considered Guan Yue’s unexpected decision.

After Guan Yue's decision threw the three sects into turmoil, Tu Kui showed Bai Yu the Corpse Refining Peak's hidden legacy and entrusted him with its immortal artifact, the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads. Bai Yu received the artifact and was charged with bringing out its full power.

• Guan Yue's decision sent the three sects into an uproar, while Bai Yu watched the confusion unfold.
• Tu Kui questioned Bai Yu about his Tribulation Transcendence-level blood corpse and learned about Red Emperor and Zhao Yun.
• Tu Kui brought Bai Yu to Corpse Refining Peak's hidden treasury, where Bai Yu saw the blood corpses and legacies of fallen disciples.
• Tu Kui revealed the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads, an immortal artifact of the Corpse Dao that could empower blood corpses with projections of the eighteen hells.
• Tu Kui offered the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads to Bai Yu and asked him to use his talent to unleash the artifact's power.

Tu Kui gave Bai Yu the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads and made him Holy Son of Blood Corpse Peak, then gifted him a Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie. Bai Yu proposed a way to overcome the zombie’s limits, and Tu Kui gave him its control token to refine.

• Bai Yu accepted the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads and learned that his cultivation let him sense only nine of the artifact’s restrictions.
• Tu Kui appointed Bai Yu Holy Son of Blood Corpse Peak, explaining that its primary and deputy masters were hidden guardian blood corpses.
• Tu Kui summoned a Tribulation Transcendence-level Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie and explained its origins and limited potential.
• Bai Yu examined the zombie and proposed carving meridians into its jade body and merging it with the Wandering Zombie Gu and Fierce Baleful Gu.
• Tu Kui praised Bai Yu’s idea, said he would test it on other Blood Corpses, and gave Bai Yu the zombie’s control token.

Bai Yu arrived at Eternal City ahead of the King Conferral Ceremony and surveyed the dangers and rules of the Eternal Battlefield. As he considered gathering intelligence before the contest began, Li Shuyu’s unexpected provocation caught him by surprise.

• The chapter explained that the Eternal Battlefield was a dangerous, largely unexplored region, and that the King Conferral Ceremony would use its resources and four Divine Mountains to determine the winners.
• Bai Yu reached Eternal City after seven days of travel in Liu Qingli’s Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage, accompanied by his Purple Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie and Blood Corpse.
• Bai Yu viewed the Eternal Battlefield’s barren mountains, polluted spiritual energy, and deadly turbulence surrounding its sole entrance through Eternal City.
• Bai Yu decided to use the days before the ceremony to learn more about the city and gather intelligence.
• Li Shuyu poked her head out from her blanket, and Bai Yu reacted with astonishment when she unexpectedly provoked him.

Bai Yu and Li Shuyu arrived in Eternal City for the King Conferral Ceremony and made their way to Crimson Prison Palace. There, an attendant sent by Second Prince Xiao Juexin recognized Bai Yu and welcomed him.

• Bai Yu sensed a formidable city formation and a hidden army as he approached Eternal City with Li Shuyu.
• Bai Yu had Li Shuyu wear the Thousand-Faced Bone Mask, then crossed the city defenses in his jade carriage with the Purple-Blood Dragon-Pattern Zombie.
• Bai Yu passed the crowded city center and its battlefield map before heading to Crimson Prison Palace.
• Li Shuyu explained the palace’s purpose and described how the Blood Emperor managed the Blood Prison Dynasty’s resources.
• A middle-aged eunuch greeted Bai Yu and said Second Prince Xiao Juexin had ordered him to wait for Bai Yu’s arrival.

Bai Yu arrived at the Crimson Prison Palace and learned that the second prince, Xiao Juexin, had arranged to receive him while the eldest prince, Xiao Xiaofeng, hosted the other sects. Following Liu Qingli’s advice to play matters by ear, Bai Yu attended Xiao Juexin’s welcome banquet, where the prince greeted him warmly.

• A black-robed eunuch told Bai Yu that Xiao Juexin had stepped in to welcome the Heavenly Demon Sect because Xiao Xiaofeng had neglected him.
• Bai Yu contacted Liu Qingli, who said the Demon Prison Army had stopped supplying him and advised him to play matters by ear.
• Bai Yu accepted the eunuch’s invitation and settled into a well-appointed courtyard in the Crimson Prison Palace.
• After nightfall, Bai Yu and Li Shuyu went to the welcome banquet, and the hall doors closed behind them.
• Xiao Juexin rose to greet Bai Yu, invited him to sit, and urged him to try the banquet’s food.

Bai Yu attended a banquet hosted by Xiao Juexin, who revealed his true intentions by presenting Xia Chuxue as a sword dancer. Li Shuyu recognized Xia Chuxue and began connecting her past to Xiao Juexin’s rise, as the dance began.

• Xiao Juexin welcomed Bai Yu despite the danger of associating with him, and Bai Yu accepted his hospitality.
• After several rounds of wine, Xiao Juexin called for a sword dance, drawing the attention of his strategists toward Bai Yu.
• Xia Chuxue entered with a sword, surprising Bai Yu and Li Shuyu and stirring greed among Xiao Juexin’s confidants.
• Li Shuyu recognized Xia Chuxue as a celebrated strategist who had vanished after Wen Huangyu and the Wen Family were destroyed.
• Li Shuyu connected Xiao Juexin’s position to the deposed empress, the Luo Family, and the events surrounding the Wen Family’s downfall as Xia Chuxue began dancing.

At Xiao Juexin's banquet, Bai Yu discovered that Xia Chuxue was drugged and had been secretly injured to suppress her cultivation. Xiao Juexin asked Bai Yu to obtain the Space-Rending Ruin Blade from the royal treasury and offered him Xia Chuxue and a large supply of Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine, leaving Bai Yu to weigh the trap behind the proposal.

• Bai Yu's awakened Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu and Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes revealed Xia Chuxue's drugged state and long-standing injuries that kept her cultivation at the ninth level of Spirit Transformation.
• Xiao Juexin mistook Li Shuyu for the Black Feather King and asked Bai Yu to send her away so they could speak privately; Bai Yu opened his grotto-heaven, and Li Shuyu entered it.
• Xia Chuxue sat beside Bai Yu as Xiao Juexin asked him to spend 200,000 merit points at the King Conferral Ceremony to redeem the half-immortal Space-Rending Ruin Blade.
• Xiao Juexin offered Bai Yu ten thousand jin of Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine and Xia Chuxue as payment for his help.
• Under Xiao Juexin's icy gaze, Xia Chuxue drank the wine and pleaded with Bai Yu to consider the Second Prince's request, while Bai Yu suspected a carefully laid trap.

Bai Yu accepted Xiao Juexin’s offer to exchange Xia Chuxue for a semi-immortal artifact, then discovered that her hidden Four Auspicious Gods made her an extraordinary source of fortune. He left with Xia Chuxue, while Xiao Juexin appeased his disappointed advisers and concealed his own ruthless motives.

• Bai Yu used the Divine Baleful Gu to appraise Xia Chuxue and found that she bore four Auspicious Gods.
• Bai Yu agreed to Xiao Juexin’s exchange, recognizing Xia Chuxue’s value, and promised to keep the deal secret.
• Xiao Juexin asked Bai Yu to swear a Heavenly Dao oath, but Bai Yu refused and Xiao Juexin let the matter pass.
• Bai Yu carried Xia Chuxue out of the banquet after exchanging farewells with Xiao Juexin.
• Xiao Juexin offered his advisers a night in the Cavern Heaven to compensate them, then privately dismissed Xia Chuxue as expendable.

Bai Yu learned that the Blood Emperor’s past actions had been part of an Esoteric Sect scheme and used Xia Chuxue’s Geng Metal qi to greatly strengthen his body. After three days of cultivation, he prepared to enter the King Conferral Ceremony and set a trap that would draw people in while keeping his motives plausible.

• Xia Chuxue told Bai Yu that the Blood Emperor had sacrificed the former Empress and feigned weakness as part of a scheme to mislead the Chancellor and preserve the dynasty.
• Xia Chuxue’s accumulated power erupted, and her innate Geng Metal qi strengthened Bai Yu as the Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture also began to heal her hidden injuries.
• After three days, Bai Yu finished cultivating and said his physical strength could suppress a fifth-level Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Xia Chuxue asked whether Bai Yu would take part in the King Conferral Ceremony, and he confirmed that he would.
• Bai Yu rejected Xia Chuxue’s offer to remain hidden and explained how her public appearance and his Heavenly Dao oath with the Second Prince could help lure others into a deal.

As the King Conferral Ceremony approached, Bai Yu took Xia Chuxue, Li Shuyu, and the Purple-Blood Dragon-Pattern Corpse to Eternal City's Heavenly Crystal Tower to explore Sky Crystal Stones. The group arrived at the bustling tower and was greeted by an attendant who offered to guide them.

• Bai Yu chose to visit the Heavenly Crystal Tower with Xia Chuxue, Li Shuyu, and the Purple-Blood Dragon-Pattern Corpse after hearing about the city's Sky Crystal trade.
• Li Shuyu asked whether they should meet acquaintances from the Grand Void Sect and the Compassion Tranquility Retreat, but Bai Yu decided to wait until the Eternal Battlefield.
• Li Shuyu told the group that someone had recently cut an ancient Tribulation Transcendence expert from a Sky Crystal Stone and marked them as a slave before they awakened.
• Bai Yu encouraged Xia Chuxue and Li Shuyu to choose Sky Crystal Stones for the experience, without worrying about profit or loss.
• Bai Yu and his companions entered the Heavenly Crystal Tower, where they saw crowds examining piles of stones across its floors.
• A young attendant approached the group and asked whether they had a preferred pile of Sky Crystal Stones or a price range.

Bai Yu searched Heavenly Crystal Tower’s stone piles with his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes and found a violet aura on the second floor, where Zhang Sheng was preparing to gamble against Xiong Wushuang. Zhang Sheng fled after noticing Bai Yu, and the chapter ended with Wu Youyu, the Wild Beast Domain’s Ninth Prince, insulting Bai Yu and those from Downstream.

• Bai Yu inspected Heavenly Crystal Stones on the first floor and found no stones of particular value.
• Bai Yu spotted a violet aura on the second floor and approached a platform where Zhang Sheng and Xiong Wushuang were about to gamble.
• Zhang Sheng saw Bai Yu, abandoned the wager, and hurried away, leaving Xiong Wushuang and the spectators bewildered.
• Wu Youyu insulted Bai Yu and people from Downstream, and the crowd identified him as the Wild Beast Domain’s Ninth Prince and a Tribulation Transcendence expert.