Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu and his companions attacked the Meat Mountain while Jiang Moyu and the others fought the fierce ghosts, and Li Shuyu’s sword strike opened it to release black water and more ghosts. Bai Yu used the Nine Dragons War God Tower to absorb the ghostly qi and strengthen his army, while Hua Chenfei exposed Bai Yu’s presence through the King Conferral Token projection.

• Bai Yu led Xia Chuxue, Murong Jiu, and Li Shuyu toward the Meat Mountain while the others were occupied fighting fierce ghosts.
• Hua Chenfei used the Netherworld Spirit Tempering Art and his Ghost Bride to devour a fierce ghost, absorbing its power despite the danger of its negative emotions.
• Li Shuyu struck the Meat Mountain with the Blood Tiger Golden Sword, opening a gash that released black water and countless ghosts.
• Bai Yu summoned the Nine Dragons War God Tower, which devoured the battlefield’s ghostly qi and empowered his army of fierce ghosts and Blood Corpses.
• Hua Chenfei activated the King Conferral Token to project Bai Yu and his companions at Eternal Battlefield Plaza.
• The Beast Emperor challenged the Blood Emperor over his earlier denial of the rumors about Li Shuyu, and the Blood Emperor replied that arguing with a junior was beneath him.

Beast Man'er emerged from the Meat Mountain and sent Jiang Moyu flying with a single strike, forcing many teams to retreat. Bai Yu identified Beast Man'er as a powerful Blood Corpse and proposed that he and his allies fight the monster while Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moyu drove away the onlookers.

• Beast Man'er burst out of the Meat Mountain, sealed the surrounding region, and confronted the gathered cultivators.
• Jiang Moyu attacked Beast Man'er, but he struck her true body and blasted her into the abyss wall.
• After witnessing Beast Man'er's strength, many teams abandoned the approach to the Feathered Immortal Tomb.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to identify Beast Man'er as a Blood Corpse and told his companions to conceal their trump cards.
• Bai Yu asked Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moyu to drive off the spectators while he dealt with Beast Man'er, leaving both of them stunned by his claim that they were allies.

Bai Yu and his allies fought Beast Man'er, whose terrifying strength and regenerative power threatened to turn the battle into a war of attrition. Bai Yu unleashed the Heavenly Demon Army to empower his companions, then brought out the War Emperor Cauldron and a flood of sealing talismans to suppress Beast Man'er.

• Li Shuyu, Xia Chuxue, and Murong Jiu attacked Beast Man'er while Bai Yu summoned the Nine Tribulations Silkworm Robe Gu and the Nine Dragons War God Tower.
• Bai Yu manifested the one-hundred-thousand-strong Heavenly Demon Army and connected its battle intent to Li Shuyu and the other two women through the Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu and Absolute Sword Gu.
• Li Shuyu and her allies struck Beast Man'er with empowered attacks, but he endured the assault and revealed formidable healing fueled by a powerful Great Medicine.
• Li Shuyu warned Bai Yu that his cultivation limited how long he could sustain the battle intent, so Bai Yu arranged for Xiao Rongrong and Pei Yueshen to prepare Meridian-Sealing Roaming Talismans.
• Bai Yu released the War Emperor Cauldron, which poured out blue talismans and waves of sealing power, shocking Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moyu.

Bai Yu and his allies overwhelmed Beast Man'er, whose flesh and bones the Red Emperor devoured, but his defeat triggered the return of a Heroic Spirit. As Dragon Burial Abyss collapsed beneath a spreading tide of ghostly qi, Bai Yu saw a phantom at the heart of the descending pillar of light and recognized something that shocked him.

• Bai Yu’s allies attacked Beast Man'er with sword intent, sealing talismans, and literary qi until his ghost qi was stripped away.
• The Red Emperor consumed Beast Man'er's flesh, red gemstone, and skeleton, prompting many cultivators to abandon the Feathered Immortal Tomb contest.
• Bai Yu sensed danger as the ghostly qi grew denser and recalled the Red Emperor, while Li Shuyu and the other women regrouped beside him.
• A black pillar of light descended over Beast Man'er's remains, and Bai Yu realized it marked the return of a Heroic Spirit.
• The pillar seized control of the battlefield as Dragon Burial Abyss collapsed and ghostly qi spread across the surrounding land.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to see the phantom at the pillar’s center, and his expression changed abruptly.

Qin Zun emerged from his Feathering Tribulation and revealed that Bai Yu had helped fulfill his scheme in the War Corpse Deadlands. Before departing, Qin Zun warned Bai Yu about corpse liberation, feathering ascension, and Great Medicine, then offered to teach him a divine ability.

• Qin Zun manifested as a silver-haired man in a black dragon robe, and his overwhelming aura severed Bai Yu's connection to the Divine Baleful Gu.
• Qin Zun explained that Beast Man'er and the War Corpse Deadlands had been part of his Feathering Tribulation, and praised Bai Yu for helping him overcome it.
• Qin Zun sealed Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and the other two women in an independent space, then warned Bai Yu against corpse liberation and feathering ascension and told him never to consume Great Medicine.
• Qin Zun offered to teach Bai Yu a peerless divine ability and sent two streams of light into Li Shuyu's glabella, leaving her visibly excited.
• Yan Lingxi told Bai Yu that Qin Zun's divine ability was extraordinarily powerful and worth learning.

Qin Zun brought Bai Yu into the collapsing Eternal God-Suppressing Tower and explained how he created the unparalleled divine ability Yin-Yang Reversal. He passed the ability to Bai Yu, whose Yin-Yang Qi condensed into liquid and expanded his sea of consciousness as he began comprehending it.

• Bai Yu accepted Qin Zun's gift, and Qin Zun transported him into the Eternal God-Suppressing Tower.
• Qin Zun recounted how he entered the Dao through the sword, founded the Eternal Imperial Dynasty, and created Yin-Yang Reversal using his Yin-Yang spiritual roots.
• Qin Zun explained how the Good Corpse purified, the Evil Corpse devoured, and the Self Corpse reversed an opponent's attributes, while warning Bai Yu to cultivate carefully.
• Qin Zun sent golden runes containing Yin-Yang Reversal into Bai Yu's sea of consciousness, where the lotus dais branded them onto the Nine Cauldrons.
• Bai Yu comprehended the divine ability as his Yin-Yang Qi condensed into liquid, swept through his body, and expanded his sea of consciousness.

Bai Yu comprehended Qin Zun’s Yin-Yang Reversal inheritance and broke through to the fifth level of Spirit Transformation. Qin Zun gave him two damaged supreme-grade immortal swords and a map to hidden resources before departing through a spatial rift, leaving Bai Yu with a final, irritated voice in his ear.

• Bai Yu used the Nine Cauldrons and the Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu to refine his mana, reach the fifth level of Spirit Transformation, and grasp the deeper potential of Yin-Yang Reversal.
• Qin Zun warned Bai Yu not to pursue the divine ability too recklessly and accepted Bai Yu’s thanks, though he declined to be called Master.
• Qin Zun gave Bai Yu the black-and-white swords Primordial Beginning and Plain Questions, along with a map marking nine resource caches in Upperstream.
• Qin Zun refused to reveal where he was going, then vanished into a spatial rift as the Eternal Battlefield reappeared around Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu silently acknowledged Qin Zun as his teacher, and an irritated voice woke and scolded him.

After Qin Zun departed, Bai Yu left the War Corpse Deadlands with the inheritance of the Holy Heavenly Emperor, while Mo Dafu and the remnants of Eternity prepared to restore the Eternal Imperial Dynasty. On the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage, Bai Yu offered Taichu and Suwen to Li Shuyu, who had inherited Qin Zun’s swordsmanship.

• Bai Yu faced the cultivators gathered around him, and Hua Chenfei and Jiang Moxin left the War Corpse Deadlands.
• Mo Dafu told the black-robed remnants of Eternity that they could begin their plan to restore the Eternal Imperial Dynasty now that Qin Zun had passed through his tribulation.
• Bai Yu summoned the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage and left Blackstone Outpost with his group.
• Li Shuyu said the Eternal Sword Canon could help her pursue the legendary realm, and Bai Yu offered her Taichu and Suwen.
• Li Shuyu initially refused the swords, but Bai Yu teased that he wanted to nurture a Sword Saint, leaving her speechless.

In the Eternal Battlefield, Wu Xi urged Lin Mo to align the Celestial Pivot Sect with the Eleventh Prince and explained his royal connections, while Lin Mo remained wary. Wu Xi teased Li Yan about the divine maidens, but Wu Youmo summoned Lin Mo and Li Yan before the conversation could continue.

• Wu Youyu gathered resentful spirits into the transformed Spirit-Devouring Pearl as the group cleared the battlefield.
• Lin Mo questioned Wu Xi about his identity, and Wu Xi admitted he had once belonged to the royal clan and had relied on his father's connections to contact the Eleventh Prince.
• Wu Xi urged Lin Mo to pledge the Celestial Pivot Sect to the Eleventh Prince, but Lin Mo questioned whether Wu Xi was trying to decide for their absent master, Li Shuyu.
• Wu Xi teased Li Yan about which divine maiden he found prettiest, and Li Yan blushed while glancing at the woman in purple.
• Wu Youmo summoned Lin Mo and Li Yan, while the woman in purple and a woman in black headed toward the enormous carriage.

Bai Yu’s group headed toward the Spirit-Devouring Region while preparing for its dangerous conditions, but cultivators drawn by the Feathered Immortal Tomb surrounded them. The chapter ended as Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen faced a powerful band of rogue cultivators led by Lady Jinghua, the Peng brothers, and Kong Lingzi.

• Bai Yu chose a route toward the Spirit-Devouring Region and learned that Meteorfall Wind drained spiritual power in a place with almost no spiritual energy.
• Bai Yu’s group passed a black market and noticed that powerful cultivators were tracking the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage because of the Feathered Immortal Tomb.
• Bai Yu and Pei Yueshen agreed that anyone who attacked them could be killed, and Pei Yueshen remained at Bai Yu’s side.
• A group of cultivators encircled Bai Yu’s carriage, led by Lady Jinghua, Peng Long, Peng Hu, and Kong Lingzi.
• Li Shuyu stepped forward to break the group’s oppressive pressure and recognized the leaders as notorious Midstream rogue cultivators.

Bai Yu faced Kong Lingzi, Mirror Flower Madame, the Peng brothers, and a crowd of rogue cultivators who demanded the Holy Heavenly Emperor’s inheritance. He rejected their offer and ordered Li Shuyu to leave no one alive as the battle began.

• Kong Lingzi and the others surrounded Bai Yu’s group and demanded that he share the inheritance in exchange for an alliance.
• Pei Yueshen targeted Peng Long and Peng Hu, while Bai Yu opened the projection and challenged the gathered cultivators.
• Li Shuyu revealed three immortal artifacts and agreed to Bai Yu’s order to leave none of the surrounding cultivators alive.
• Li Shuyu charged into the crowd as terrified cries rang out, and a gigantic golden palm descended toward Mirror Flower Madame and Long Lingzi.

Madam Jinghua and Kong Lingzi joined forces against Black Feather King, trapping her in Kong Lingzi’s Blissful Buddha Land while Madam Jinghua prepared her Soul-Corroding Poison. Xia Chuxue identified Madam Jinghua as a rare Myriad Silence Poison Body just as the poisoned bone spear flew toward Black Feather King.

• Madam Jinghua and Kong Lingzi struck at Black Feather King, but she charged through their attack with the Mysterious Edge Sword following her.
• Kong Lingzi used the Guga Glazed Kasaya to trap Black Feather King inside his Blissful Buddha Land, whose phantoms could corrode her Dao Heart.
• Cultivators watching from Eternal City recognized the kasaya’s dangerous methods, while Blood Emperor watched warily and Fei Jingxin reacted with interest.
• Kong Lingzi urged Madam Jinghua to help subdue Black Feather King, and Madam Jinghua gathered Soul-Corroding Poison into her bone spear.
• Xia Chuxue identified Madam Jinghua’s physique as the legendary Myriad Silence Poison Body and explained its destructive power.
• Madam Jinghua launched the poisoned bone spear at Black Feather King, turning deathly pale as it crossed the battlefield.

Black Feather King used her newly understood sword technique to defeat Kong Lingzi and capture Mirror Flower Madame during the battle at Eternal Battlefield Plaza. With the opponents restrained and the remaining fighters dealt with, the victors returned to the fighting and Pei Yueshen brought back two corpses for Black Charcoal.

• Black Feather King drew the Mysterious Edge Sword and used Mayfly Shakes the Tree to repel Kong Lingzi's bone spear.
• Black Feather King struck Kong Lingzi, drained his essence, and killed him after suppressing her self-corpse's will.
• Mirror Flower Madame fled toward a spatial passage, but Black Feather King and Li Shuyu intercepted her and captured her.
• Bai Yu recognized the Nirvana Yin-Yang Seed that had helped Mirror Flower Madame balance her Myriad Silence Poison Body, and Black Feather King bound her and sent her to Dayless Mountain's altar.
• Li Shuyu and Black Feather King joined the remaining battle, and Pei Yueshen returned carrying two mangled bodies to feed Black Charcoal.

Bai Yu and his allies defeated their opponents and seized the inheritance, shocking cultivators who watched the battle. After warning off anyone else who wanted to challenge him, Bai Yu left the area with his companions.

• Cultivators in Eternal City's square watched Bai Yu's ruthless order and learned that everyone except Mirror Flower Madame had died.
• Zhang Daoxuan questioned Xiao Xuanxin about Bai Yu's support, while Wu Li dismissed the danger of a young Heavenly Talent and Fei Jingxin watched Bai Yu with interest.
• Bai Yu praised Black Feather King's new cultivation path, and she chose to remain in the grotto-heaven to perfect it and guide Linglong and the others.
• Bai Yu challenged anyone nearby to try to take the inheritance, but the onlookers stayed silent after seeing his forces defeat more than seventy cultivators.
• Bai Yu had Xia Chuxue and the others clean the battlefield, then departed in the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage as many cultivators abandoned their pursuit of the title of king.

Bai Yu stopped at the edge of the Spirit-Devouring Region, where the Meteorfall Wind steadily eroded spiritual power, and learned about the dangers and opportunities within. Murong Jiu’s account of a blood-marked bronze gate led Xia Chuxue to suspect the region concealed a seal for a grotto-heaven containing the Evil Calamity Clan.

• Bai Yu studied the Spirit-Devouring Region and realized its Meteorfall Wind would make the journey to the King Conferral Ceremony slow and dangerous.
• Murong Jiu warned Bai Yu and the women that Yellow Sand could disorient travelers, while the Dust Star Sand Frog could help them navigate.
• Murong Jiu revealed that she had sensed a bronze gate covered in demonic runes at ruins where her team found a Dust Star Sand Frog.
• Xia Chuxue identified the gate as possibly leading to a sealed grotto-heaven, where the Evil Calamity Clan was imprisoned.
• Xia Chuxue and the others considered whether the Spirit-Devouring Region was the wreckage of a vanished superpower.

Bai Yu followed Murong Jiu to the ruins where the Dust Star Sand Frog had been found, but the Divine Baleful Gu warned him of danger and revealed a prophecy tied to the Three Talents. After Yan Lingxi said only Bai Yu could enter the sealed cave-heaven without damaging it, he prepared a way to retreat and decided to investigate the bronze door.

• Murong Jiu led Bai Yu and the others through the Spirit-Devouring Land toward the city ruins where she had captured the Dust Star Sand Frog.
• The Divine Baleful Gu warned Bai Yu, who searched the ruins with his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes and detected a disturbance near Murong Jiu's former mission site.
• Bai Yu used the Divine Baleful Gu to reveal a prophecy about the Three Talents, a sealed world, and a calamity involving a Devil Master.
• Yan Lingxi told Bai Yu that only he could enter the cave-heaven without damaging its seal, and that the choice to go was his.
• Bai Yu rebuilt the House Gu, linked it to the King Conferral Token as an escape route, and resolved to enter the small world beyond the bronze door.

Bai Yu entered the grotto-heaven world through a temporary passage opened with the ancient scripture and began following the Divine Baleful Gu’s guidance toward the Earth Talent. He traveled across a desolate, polluted land but found no sign of life.

• Bai Yu sent the four women into his grotto-heaven, recovered his mana, and collected more than a hundred Dust Star Sand Frogs near the ruins.
• Bai Yu used the ancient scripture to activate the broken stone pillars, and Yan Lingxi opened a temporary passage through the bronze gate.
• Bai Yu entered the passage before it collapsed, leaving him alone as Yan Lingxi fell into a brief slumber.
• Bai Yu arrived in a ruined world where spatial rifts scarred the sky and sinister energy polluted the spiritual energy.
• Bai Yu empowered himself with the Nine Tribulations Silkworm Robe Gu and followed the Divine Baleful Gu’s guidance toward the Earth Talent.
• Bai Yu traveled more than ten thousand li on the Gale Glass Dragon but found no trace of life.

Bai Yu entered Nightmare City and discovered that the Evil Calamity Clan was transforming captured humans into grotesque beings. As the clan began corrupting a new shipment of prisoners, Bai Yu's blue ants appeared throughout the dock.

• Bai Yu reached a vast, distorted city and saw that its inhabitants were malformed yet still able to cultivate.
• At the dock, Bai Yu watched blood-robed members of the Evil Calamity Clan unload a hundred thousand captured humans and claim they would use them to reproduce their people.
• An Evil Calamity Clan expert used a black crystal ball to transform a young girl into a grotesque mermaid and began corrupting the other captives.
• Bai Yu realized that the city's inhabitants had been turned into the Evil Calamity Clan's vassals and that Ethereal Island was likely resisting them.
• A blue ant appeared on the clan expert's neck, and countless ants crawled across the dock as the crowd cried out in alarm.

Bai Yu unleashed his Gu to slaughter the Evil Calamity Clan and destroy their city after discovering that the Great Medicine had already assimilated a girl who begged him to save the Queen. After the city fell, Bai Yu concluded that Ethereal Island held the grotto-heaven’s secret and flew there on the Gale Glass Dragon.

• Bai Yu killed the Evil Calamity Clan experts attacking the girl, but told her he could not save her because the Great Medicine had nearly assimilated her.
• Before dying, the girl asked Bai Yu to unleash divine punishment and save Her Majesty the Queen on the distant island.
• Bai Yu used the Absolute Sword Gu to summon the city’s swords and wipe out the Evil Calamity Clan forces filling the sky.
• The city lord, a peak Tribulation Transcendence Meat Mountain, attacked Bai Yu, but Black Feather King split and destroyed him.
• After the city became silent, Bai Yu suspected the grotto-heaven’s secret was on Ethereal Island and flew there on the Gale Glass Dragon.

Bai Yu and Li Shuyu confronted Tantai Yanyue and the supposed guardians of Ethereal Island, exposing that most of the island’s people belonged to the Evil Calamity Clan. In the island’s hall, Bai Yu discovered the complete Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture carved on its pillars.

• Bai Yu approached the battle-ready island and met Tantai Yanyue, a young Void Refinement cultivator who identified herself as a guardian descended from the Demon Race.
• Bai Yu recognized that the cultivators around Tantai Yanyue carried the aura of the Evil Calamity Clan and questioned whether they were truly protecting the world.
• Two elders accused Bai Yu of breaking the pact by slaughtering Demon-Connecting City, but Li Shuyu killed them and revealed their Evil Calamity Clan forms.
• Tantai Yanyue revealed that she had suspected Bai Yu came from the outside world and invited him to hear the truth about the island.
• Bai Yu followed Tantai Yanyue into the great hall, where he found the complete Chaos Heavenly Demon Scripture carved on the pillars.