Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu and his companions searched the ruined ancient relic after Bai Yu killed Wen Rugu, and they discovered the Enlightenment Talisman, one of the seven Heaven-Opening Creation Talismans. A ghostly creature emerged and accused them of stealing its things, leaving them facing a new threat.

• Bai Yu collected the corpses of good and evil from Wen Rugu's remains and reflected on the power of his Primordial Gu.
• Bai Yu sent Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue to search the ruins, where they uncovered a serpent skeleton beneath a temple.
• Li Shuyu retrieved a stone eye from the serpent's forehead, and Bai Yu identified it as the Enlightenment Talisman.
• Bai Yu decided to place the Enlightenment Talisman in a secret chamber in his grotto-heaven for others to use.
• A mysterious black phantom appeared as the serpent skeleton melted into black water, and Xia Chuxue attacked it with King Wen's Court Tablet.
• The phantom evaded the tablet and appeared beside Wen Rugu's corpse, accusing Bai Yu and his companions of stealing its things.

Bai Yu and Li Shuyu fought the awakened High Priest, who used a purple sphere and a ghostly curved blade to repel Li Shuyu’s attacks before fleeing with Wen Rugu’s corpse. The High Priest rebuilt a body and disguised herself as Wen Rugu, planning to stay with the Corpse Heaven Sect while keeping Bai Yu in mind.

• Li Shuyu attacked the High Priest, but her Myriad Ghost Ward and curved blade blocked Li Shuyu’s sword techniques.
• The High Priest’s aura grew as she absorbed the basin’s Killing Intent, but the scorching red earth made her halt and retreat with Wen Rugu’s corpse.
• Bai Yu and Xia Chuxue discussed the High Priest’s possible connection to literary cultivation and resolved to leave the ruins and investigate the tribe later.
• Bai Yu summoned the Gale Glass Dragon, and he, Li Shuyu, and Xia Chuxue departed the ancient ruins.
• The High Priest regenerated a body from Wen Rugu’s corpse and used a talisman to take on Wen Rugu’s appearance.
• Wen Rugu planned to stay at the Corpse Heaven Sect, wondered whether the World Venerable would recognize her, and expressed interest in Bai Yu.

Bai Yu waited out the Turbid Blood Rain in a mountain cave and planned to travel to a nearby city in the War Corpse Bone Grounds to gather information. He began treating Xia Chuxue’s hidden injuries with Radiant Dragon Firefly Pills, while Li Shuyu woke to the scent of Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine.

• Bai Yu spent three days sheltering from the Turbid Blood Rain and recovering from his injuries.
• Bai Yu marked a city on the map as their next destination, intending to find local information and possibly hire guides.
• Xia Chuxue explained that the Blood Emperor had failed to conquer the Eternal Battlefield’s vast native territories.
• Bai Yu offered Xia Chuxue Radiant Dragon Firefly Pills to remove her hidden injuries, despite her warning that they were precious.
• Li Shuyu woke as Xia Chuxue fed her something that smelled like Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine.

After Xia Chuxue recovered her meridians, she awakened her seven-apertured heart and advanced to the fifth level of Tribulation Transcendence. Bai Yu, Xia Chuxue, and Li Shuyu reached Blackstone Outpost, where Bai Yu paid extra for protection and received Big Ox as their guide.

• Xia Chuxue's meridians reopened, revealing her seven-apertured heart and raising her cultivation from the eighth level of Spirit Transformation to the fifth level of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Bai Yu, Xia Chuxue, and Li Shuyu departed on the Gale Glass Dragon and traveled for a day and night toward Blackstone Outpost.
• Bai Yu noticed other King Conferral Ceremony participants near the outpost and warned Xia Chuxue and Li Shuyu that many people were hostile toward him.
• Two guards told Bai Yu that entry cost five hundred spirit stones per person, while a thousand per person would include protection inside Blackstone Outpost.
• Bai Yu paid for protection, and a guard assigned Big Ox to guide and watch over the group.

Bai Yu explored Blackstone Outpost’s trading market and used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to assess the stalls’ wares. As he neared the slave district, a fragment of a bronze sword caught his attention.

• Big Ox told Bai Yu that outsiders had driven slave prices sharply upward and offered to take him to the trading market.
• Bai Yu chose to visit the market, where he examined the stalls while Big Ox followed nearby.
• A seller claimed a cracked jade ship was the pocket realm of the Jade Pivot Sword Lord, but Bai Yu recognized its value and walked away from the seller’s inflated price.
• Bai Yu spotted several valuable items, but left them alone when other buyers offered more than they were worth.
• As Bai Yu approached the slave district, he paused at a stall after noticing a fragment of a bronze sword.

Bai Yu acquired a bronze sword fragment that seemed to belong to his broken bronze sword, after Jiang Moyu paid for it and offered him a token to settle her sister Jiang Zhiyue’s debt. He declined the offer and continued toward the slave market to prepare for the King Conferral Ceremony, while Big Ox secretly followed him.

• Bai Yu found a bronze blade fragment that bore the same runes as his broken bronze sword and bought it for one hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Jiang Moyu paid for the fragment and introduced herself as Jiang Zhiyue’s sister from Sumeru Temple.
• Jiang Moyu offered Bai Yu a token for one favor to settle the karma she believed Jiang Zhiyue owed him, but Bai Yu declined.
• Bai Yu confirmed that he was still in contact with Jiang Zhiyue and left for the slave market to find people familiar with the area.
• Big Ox saw Bai Yu acquire the fragment, recorded it on paper, and hurried after him.

Bai Yu visited the Slave-Controlling Pavilion to find powerful slaves with experience in the Eternal Battlefield. After revealing his seventh-grade great medicines, he rejected the available Spirit Transformation slaves and asked Mo Dafu to show him the Tribulation Transcendence candidates, offering twenty medicines to see what they could buy.

• Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and Xia Chuxue entered the Slave-Controlling Pavilion, where its owner, Mo Dafu, asked what slaves they wanted.
• Bai Yu requested strong cultivators with special professions and knowledge of the Eternal Battlefield, and Mo Dafu explained that failed expedition teams were often sold into slavery.
• Bai Yu showed Mo Dafu two seventh-grade great medicines, prompting the owner to reveal two third-level Spirit Transformation slaves and ask six medicines for both.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to spot the slaves’ injuries and curses, then rejected them as too weak for the price.
• Bai Yu pressed Mo Dafu about the Tribulation Transcendence slaves and said he wanted to see what twenty seventh-grade great medicines could buy.

Bai Yu tried to buy a chained Tribulation Transcendence cultivator from Mo Dafu, but Tie Shinan of the Nine-Headed Heaven-Shaking Tiger Clan interrupted the deal and demanded the slave. Li Shuyu attacked him, and Bai Yu and Li Shuyu faced off against the arrogant clan Holy Son in Mo Dafu’s shop.

• Mo Dafu retrieved a bronze key from a head hidden in his belly and opened a crystal cage containing a black-clad woman bound to a pillar.
• Mo Dafu offered the fourth-level Tribulation Transcendence cultivator to Bai Yu for twenty initial-stage seventh-grade Great Medicines, and Bai Yu agreed to buy her.
• Tie Shinan appeared, halted the exchange, and offered pills and magical artifacts in return for the woman.
• Li Shuyu struck Tie Shinan with her Xuanji Sword Intent, forcing him to defend himself with a shield as Mo Dafu activated a spirit formation against the shockwaves.
• Li Shuyu recognized Tie Shinan as the Nine-Headed Heaven-Shaking Tiger Clan’s Holy Son, while he accused Bai Yu of kidnapping a goddess and demanded the slave.
• Bai Yu calmly defied Tie Shinan, and Li Shuyu drew her sword and pointed it at him.

Tie Shinan prepared to attack Bai Yu and Li Shuyu at Blackstone Outpost, while Zhu Huang watched from nearby. The shopkeeper Mo Dafu stopped Tie Shinan with a terrifying display of power and demanded to know whether he intended to damage the shop.

• Contestants and onlookers gathered as Bai Yu and Tie Shinan faced off, while Big Ox reported the clash and then disappeared.
• Xuan Qingning warned that Tie Shinan was underestimating Bai Yu, while Zheng Qingyue argued that Tie Shinan could not rely on his backing alone.
• Xuan Qingning and Zheng Qingyue spotted Zhu Huang watching from a boulder, and realized Tie Shinan had brought the True Dragon with him.
• Tie Shinan announced that he would attack Bai Yu on the Beast Emperor's behalf, but Mo Dafu emerged from his shop and reminded him that fighting was forbidden.
• Mo Dafu's killing intent left Tie Shinan unable to fight, and he demanded to know whether Tie Shinan meant to damage his establishment.

Bai Yu settled his dispute with Tie Shinan at Blackstone Outpost and exchanged Great Medicines with Mo Dafu for a powerful slave and nine Spirit Transformation cultivators. He left with the slaves, planning to gather intelligence before returning to the Eternal Battlefield.

• Mo Dafu demanded a hundred thousand spirit stones from Tie Shinan for fighting in Blackstone Outpost, and soldiers warned Tie Shinan to obey the rules.
• Tie Shinan paid Mo Dafu and left after Bai Yu mocked him and promised to face him outside.
• Bai Yu exchanged twenty seventh-grade Great Medicines for the female slave and placed a slave mark on her.
• Bai Yu negotiated with Mo Dafu for nine Spirit Transformation slaves, including four with business and negotiation talent, and promised to trade with him through the Feather Spirit Dynasty.
• Bai Yu loaded the woman into the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage, took the nine slaves, and prepared to gather intelligence before returning to the Eternal Battlefield.

Bai Yu examined the unbreakable broken bronze sword as Murong Jiu woke, and reflected on her violent rise and the hidden methods that made her feared. He recognized her as a dangerous, calculating figure and understood that he would need absolute control over her.

• Bai Yu identified the blade fragment as part of the broken bronze sword and concluded that repairing it would require all its fragments and an eighth-rank forgemaster.
• Murong Jiu woke after her injuries began healing and saw Bai Yu holding the sword.
• Bai Yu recalled how Murong Jiu rose from a Golden Core cultivator to control Blood Jade by using soul-splitting puppets to drain others and secretly cultivate forbidden arts.
• Mo Dafu captured Murong Jiu, destroyed her forces, exposed her methods, and took over her town and faction.
• Bai Yu examined Murong Jiu and concluded that she would remain a threat unless his layers of control over her held.

Bai Yu forced Murong Jiu into submission, but she tried to bargain until he revealed his demonic past and restrained her. Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue returned with a lead on the Divine Mountains in the Eternal Battlefield.

• Bai Yu showed Murong Jiu her captured origin soul and demanded she swear another Heavenly Dao oath as his follower or slave.
• Murong Jiu tried to negotiate for access to medicine-refining methods and suggested she could help Bai Yu, but he rejected her schemes.
• Bai Yu revealed that he had served in the Heavenly Demon Sect and slaughtered an imperial dynasty, then seized Murong Jiu by the throat.
• Bai Yu bound Murong Jiu with an iron chain and left her restrained while he waited for news.
• Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue reported that Blackstone Outpost had identified the general direction where the Divine Mountains had fallen, offering a lead for exploring the Eternal Battlefield.

Bai Yu learned that a Feathered Immortal Tomb had appeared in the War Corpse Deadlands and suspected the paid public announcement concealed another motive. Mo Dafu revealed that the tomb belonged to Qin Zun, the Heavenly Sage Emperor, and that a vast swarm of powerful Tomb-Guarding Beasts had emerged with it.

• Li Shuyu told Bai Yu that the Eternal Battlefield would sell information about the Feathered Immortal Tomb for two hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Bai Yu saw more than a thousand cultivators gather at the palace to pay for the information, including Tie Shinan, Xuan Qingning, and Zheng Qingyue.
• Mo Dafu arrived at the palace and introduced himself as a wandering merchant of the Eternal Battlefield.
• Mo Dafu announced that the tomb belonged to Qin Zun, the Heavenly Sage Emperor who founded the Eternal Imperial Dynasty.
• Mo Dafu explained that a swarm of Tomb-Guarding Beasts had emerged with the tomb and that he could not deal with them using his own resources.

Mo Dafu revealed that the Feathered Immortal Tomb was Qin Zun’s burial place and shared its location, drawing many powerful teams toward it. As Bai Yu’s group joined the expedition, Bai Yu began preparing a House Gu to bring the Black Feather King and others out of his grotto-heaven, while Murong Jiu remained captive.

• Mo Dafu confirmed that the Feathered Immortal Tomb had caused the War Corpse Deadlands’ strange nature and projected a map for the crowd to copy.
• The next morning, teams from across the region set off for the tomb, and Bai Yu’s group followed in the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage.
• Xia Chuxue noted the many powerful factions joining the expedition, while Li Shuyu warned that Corpse-Dissolution Immortal tombs had a grim record of survival.
• Bai Yu asked Li Shuyu to gather and compress a small hill so he could refine a House Gu and connect it to his grotto-heaven.
• Bai Yu considered his Gu-refining plan while Murong Jiu, gagged and hanging nearby, reacted angrily to his remark about her endurance.

Bai Yu used the House Gu to reconnect with Yu Linglong and decided to hunt Tie Shinan and Zhu Huang inside the Feathered Immortal Tomb. Meanwhile, the main force reached Dragon Burial Abyss, a forbidden region linked to Qin Zun and the former Eternal Imperial Dynasty.

• Bai Yu stored the bronze coffin in the House Gu, whose spatial power strained against the War Corpse Deadlands’ restriction, then used the Nine Cauldrons to protect it and reconnect with Yu Linglong.
• Bai Yu resolved to kill Tie Shinan and Zhu Huang in the Feathered Immortal Tomb, while Xia Chuxue offered to plan their attack.
• Bai Yu released Murong Jiu from her chains, and she agreed to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao in exchange for his help.
• After days of travel and a delay caused by Turbid Blood Rain, the main force reached a desolate region filled with fissures and deadly Killing Intent.
• The group identified the abyss ahead as Dragon Burial Abyss, the site of the vanished dragon vein Qin Zun had forged, and several people moved toward it eagerly.

As Bai Yu and the others descended into Dragon Burial Abyss, sinister qi possessed cultivators and turned them into murderous monsters. Bai Yu and Li Shuyu subdued two possessed Tribulation Transcendence cultivators, while the rest of the group fought off the outbreak.

• Bai Yu sensed the abyss's sinister qi entering cultivators and used Red Lotus Karmic Fire to purge it from Li Shuyu and the other women.
• Possessed cultivators attacked the crowd, killing dozens as black-eyed monsters spread through the main force.
• Bai Yu recognized that ancient remnant souls had devoured two Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and questioned them about the True Lord.
• The two monsters attacked Bai Yu, but Li Shuyu struck them down with her Ninth Layer Tribulation Transcendence sword intent, and Bai Yu trapped their souls in crystal stones.
• Bai Yu observed that the group was defeating the possessed monsters, with Zhu Huang and Tie Shinan slaughtering those who approached them.

Bai Yu searched a ruined geomantic site while Tie Shinan and Zhu Huang watched, then the two attacked him and his companions. As Zhu Huang’s fire dragons closed in, Bai Yu revealed that he had stopped them.

• Bai Yu slipped away from the battlefield to search a black-stone plain, while Tie Shinan and Zhu Huang secretly followed and recognized his treasure-seeking ability.
• Tie Shinan attacked Bai Yu, but Li Shuyu intercepted his strike, and Tie Shinan and Zhu Huang revealed themselves.
• Li Shuyu and Xia Chuxue tried to protect Bai Yu, but Tie Shinan sealed the area with a crimson jade talisman that blocked the King Conferral Token.
• Zhu Huang attacked Li Shuyu with nine fire dragons, which she could not keep from recombining.
• Bai Yu smiled as the nine fire dragons suddenly froze in place.

Bai Yu’s group ambushed and killed Zhu Huang and Tie Shinan through Xia Chuxue’s careful plan, securing their Three Corpses as materials for Bai Yu’s cultivation. Outside the Eternal Battlefield, the Beast Emperor discovered that two of his chosen prodigies had died.

• Black Feather King and Pei Yueshen pierced Zhu Huang while Yu Linglong distracted Tie Shinan and Nangong Xuansu drained his power.
• Bai Yu explained that Xia Chuxue had lured Tie Shinan into lowering his guard and helped arrange a surprise attack that kept the battle contained.
• Black Feather King killed Zhu Huang, and Bai Yu collected the Three Corpses of Zhu Huang and Tie Shinan to use as materials for condensing his own Three Corpses.
• Murong Jiu watched the group’s swift victory and was deeply impressed by Bai Yu and his companions.
• At Eternal City’s plaza, the Beast Emperor revealed two shattered Blood Jade pieces, realizing that two prodigies he had favored had fallen in the Eternal Battlefield.

Bai Yu dealt with the aftermath of Tie Shinan’s death, learned about Yu Linglong’s awakened Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox inheritance, and decided to keep the Black Feather King and the other women concealed in his grotto-heaven. He gave Tie Shinan’s Blood Tiger Golden Sword to Li Shuyu, leaving Pei Yueshen stunned by his choice and Li Shuyu’s rapid rise.

• Bai Yu stored Zhu Huang and Tie Shinan’s corpses in his grotto-heaven, while Tie Shinan’s collapsing grotto-heaven killed his attendants and destroyed its contents.
• Yu Linglong told Bai Yu that her unlocked Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox inheritance let her reach Spirit Transformation eighth level, though she needed her sisters’ help to sustain that cultivation state.
• Bai Yu explained the Feathered Immortal Tomb’s effects to the Black Feather King and asked her and the other women to remain hidden in his grotto-heaven until the King Conferral Ceremony ended.
• The Black Feather King gave Bai Yu Tie Shinan’s Blood Tiger Golden Sword, a mid-grade immortal artifact that increased its wielder’s strength by three hundred percent.
• Bai Yu handed the Blood Tiger Golden Sword to Li Shuyu, surprising her and leaving Pei Yueshen envious of her growth and his favor.

Bai Yu and his companions descended into Dragon Burial Abyss to find the source of the black fumes possessing cultivators. They discovered a living Meat Mountain guarded by vicious ghosts, where Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moyu were already fighting, and suspected the Feathered Immortal Tomb lay beneath it.

• Bai Yu concluded that something near Dragon Burial Abyss controlled the black fumes and led Li Shuyu, Xia Chuxue, and Murong Jiu deeper into the abyss.
• Xuan Qingning and Zheng Qingyue left their group and followed Bai Yu's direction.
• Bai Yu found a gigantic Meat Mountain expelling the black fumes and sensed powerful fighters battling nearby.
• Bai Yu and his companions reached the battlefield, where Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moyu fought vicious ghosts guarding the Meat Mountain.
• Murong Jiu wondered whether the entrance to the Feathered Immortal Tomb was beneath the Meat Mountain.