Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu and his companions rested in a secluded mountain cave, where he used his Good Corpse to cultivate Yin-Yang Reversal and joined its purifying power with the Eye of Destruction. As Bai Yu continued refining the ability, Pei Yueshen and Li Shuyu cultivated while Zhang Baidao shared Earthcore Divine Marrow with Su Jinyun, Li Miaozhen, and Li Miaoyu.

• Bai Yu led the group away from Rama City to recover and prepare for the inheritance contest.
• Bai Yu set up a secluded cave and used his Good Corpse to cultivate Yin-Yang Reversal.
• Bai Yu fused Yin-Yang Reversal's purifying power with the Eye of Destruction and realized that balance was central to the divine ability.
• Pei Yueshen cultivated her dragon qi battle intent, and Li Shuyu cultivated her Eternal Sword Intent.
• Zhang Baidao shared Earthcore Divine Marrow with Su Jinyun, Li Miaozhen, and Li Miaoyu, who wondered about his past and remarkable abilities.

Zhang Baidao followed a golden light to a buried stone box and uncovered Qin Zun's Ghost-Suppressing Coins and the lost method for refining the Slave-Binding Rope. After discovering a vicious ghost inside the cave, he called for Bai Yu to help.

• Zhang Baidao followed a golden light away from the cave and gathered medicinal herbs while Li Miaozhen and the other woman protected him.
• Zhang Baidao entered an enormous rift and returned with a massive black stone box, then asked the two women to stand guard.
• Zhang Baidao opened the box and found five of Qin Zun's Ghost-Suppressing Coins beside a half-crystalline skull.
• Zhang Baidao gave the Ghost-Suppressing Coins to Li Miaozhen and the other woman, then discovered a jade record containing Desire God Palace's lost Slave-Binding Rope refinement method.
• A vicious ghost called Dusk Maiden appeared behind Zhang Baidao, and he desperately called for Bai Yu to come out.

Zhang Baidao released Dusk Maiden from the stone box, and she revealed that she had once been the Desire God Palace’s Holy Maiden before becoming a ghost after trusting the wrong person. After she departed to explore the era, Bai Yu found a jade slip describing the Slave-Controlling Rope and prepared to refine it.

• Dusk Maiden attacked Zhang Baidao with crimson threads, but recognized him as Daoist Tiantong and withdrew her attack.
• Dusk Maiden noticed Bai Yu and Pei Yueshen, recognized Bai Yu’s Calamity Beauty Physique, and left after promising not to interfere in their affairs.
• Bai Yu took the jade slip from Zhang Baidao, and he explained Dusk Maiden’s history and the conflict involving the Desire God Palace, Qin Zun, and her fiancé from the Evil Calamity Clan.
• Bai Yu learned that refining the Slave-Controlling Rope required understanding the laws of desire, then entered the cave and prepared to begin refining it.

Bai Yu refined the mutated dragon tendon into a powerful Slave-Controlling Rope that could bind even a ninth-level Tribulation Transcendence cultivator and unsettle her Dao Heart. With the new treasure boosting his confidence, he prepared to head toward the inheritance site near Yellow Springs Mountain, while Li Shuyu's reaction to the rope left him reconsidering the Desire God Palace's techniques.

• Bai Yu used the dragon tendon, rare materials, Turbid Heart Rejuvenation Wine, and soul-affecting Great Medicines to refine the Slave-Controlling Rope with the Dao of Desire.
• A violent surge of energy shook the mountain, and Bai Yu invoked the power of the Good Corpse to complete the five-meter-long golden rope.
• Bai Yu tested the rope on Li Shuyu, who struggled free only by steadying her Dao Heart with Eternal Sword Intent and using Primordial Beginning and Plain Questions.
• Li Shuyu said the magic treasure had strange properties, and Bai Yu judged that it could bind powerful cultivators but needed further tempering to reach his ambitions.
• Bai Yu decided to head for the inheritance site near Yellow Springs Mountain, while Li Shuyu sprawled across his back and he regretted not keeping Miss Mu with them.

Bai Yu and his companions reached Yellow Springs Mountain, where Zhang Baidao revealed that it might be a fragment of the ancient Abyss of Return, a realm where the Fengdu Sacred Emperor created Reincarnation. They left the disturbing implications of his story unresolved and turned their attention to the mountain’s opportunities.

• Bai Yu rejected potential followers and traveled for three days toward Yellow Springs Mountain, ignoring ruined cities along the way.
• Bai Yu and his companions arrived before the four Divine Mountains and noted the strange, ancient aura surrounding Yellow Springs Mountain.
• Li Shuyu voiced her unease about Yellow Springs Mountain and the absence of the Green Ghost King's forces.
• Zhang Baidao recounted how the Fengdu Sacred Emperor created the Abyss of Return and Reincarnation before the Heavenly Dao and Evil Emperors destroyed it.
• Bai Yu redirected the group toward the opportunities within Yellow Springs Mountain, and Zhang Baidao dismissed his account as a potentially distorted legend.

Bai Yu and his companions crossed into Yellow Springs Mountain and traveled along its soul-haunted riverbed, where he found medicinal herbs altered by yin energy. They encountered Ye Shuying, a powerful fugitive from the Beast Emperor who had returned to Midstream, and Bai Yu recognized that she had appeared for him.

• Bai Yu and his companions crossed the mist and found a vast dried riverbed whose roar and yin energy threatened their souls.
• The group followed the riverbed, suppressing the soul fragments that drained their spiritual power, while Bai Yu discovered yin-tainted medicinal herbs.
• Bai Yu sensed killing intent and spotted a powerful woman in black, who vanished and reappeared before the group.
• Bai Yu blurted out a remark about the woman’s physique, and she identified him as Heavenly Demon Bai Yu.
• Li Shuyu recognized the woman as Ye Shuying, the fugitive who had resisted the Beast Emperor and escaped the Goddess Palace’s pursuit.

Ye Shuying proposed that she and Bai Yu join forces against the Wild Beast Domain, and Bai Yu agreed while secretly targeting Ye Shuying and Ye Wanyun as his real prizes. As the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage traveled on, Bai Yu began refining great medicines to lure powerful cultivators and planned to let the two sides weaken each other.

• Ye Shuying asked Bai Yu to cooperate against the Wild Beast Domain, offering to handle its strongest member in exchange for half the resources and the bloodlines of three opponents.
• Bai Yu agreed to become Ye Shuying's partner and summoned the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage to travel to a place she chose for gathering cultivators.
• Pei Yueshen questioned Bai Yu's decision, and he explained that he intended to exploit the coming conflict and target Ye Shuying and Ye Wanyun rather than the Wild Beast Domain's resources.
• Bai Yu told Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen to conserve their spiritual power and let the opposing sides fight while they profited from the aftermath.
• Bai Yu summoned the Eight-Chi Cauldron and began refining great medicines to attract powerful cultivators, shocking Ye Shuying.

Bai Yu used the spectacle of refining twelve eighth-grade great medicines to summon powerful Rogue Cultivators and hire them to kill the three imperial princes of the Wild Beast Domain. By the end, ten old monsters had accepted his commission, and the group prepared to hunt.

• Li Shuyu, Pei Yueshen, and Mirror Flower Madame guarded Bai Yu as he refined twelve eighth-grade great medicines and drew the attention of Elder Flowing Cloud.
• Elder Flowing Cloud arrived, and Bai Yu revealed that he had staged the display to gather help and asked him to kill the three imperial princes of the Wild Beast Domain.
• Bai Yu offered a top-tier seventh-grade great medicine, with another seventh-grade medicine as a possible extra reward, and Elder Flowing Cloud accepted.
• More Rogue Cultivator old monsters arrived, and nine additional cultivators accepted Bai Yu's commission in exchange for great medicines.
• Bai Yu thanked the ten recruits and declared that it was time to hunt.

Wu Youyu's group reached the Divine Mountain's territory after surviving repeated dangers in the Saha World, but Ye Wanyun suspected someone was manipulating their misfortune. Ye Shuying and a dozen powerful Rogue Cultivators ambushed them, and Demon Poisoner ordered the attackers to kill everyone except the eighteen Earth-rank Goddesses.

• Wu Youyu and his companions emerged from their damaged carriage and discussed the dangerous encounters that had weakened their group.
• Wu Youmeng offered to help Ye Wanyun recover, but she rejected him and urged the brothers to focus on finding the Mountain God Seal.
• Ye Wanyun sensed an icy breeze and challenged the hidden presence, prompting Ye Shuying to appear at the fifth level of Void Refinement.
• Ye Shuying summoned Elder Flowing Cloud and eleven other powerful Rogue Cultivators, alarming Wu Youyu and his companions.
• Demon Poisoner ordered the attackers to kill everyone except the eighteen Earth-rank Goddesses.

Bai Yu’s allies ambushed Wu Youyu and the other princes, determined to kill them despite the risk of provoking the Wild Beast Domain. As the battle began, Ye Shuying confronted Ye Wanyun and revealed her mastery of Taotie’s power.

• Bai Yu watched from hiding as Demon Poisoner challenged Wu Youyu and his companions, while Pei Yueshen and Li Shuyu discussed the danger of attacking the princes.
• Bai Yu said Wu Youyu and the other two princes had to die because their feud had made his Dao heart unstable.
• Elder Flowing Cloud ordered the attack, and twelve figures charged Wu Youyu’s group as Ye Shuying blocked Ye Wanyun.
• Ye Shuying unleashed Taotie’s power, while Ye Wanyun struck her with the sword technique Winds Roll, Clouds Surge.
• Ye Shuying transformed her hand into a Taotie claw and met Ye Wanyun’s attack with ferocious qi.

Ye Wanyun unleashed her strongest sword technique, the Four Sacred Beasts Mending Heaven Diagram, and fought Ye Shuying in a devastating clash. As Ye Wanyun prepared to finish her opponent, Tantai Yanyue appeared behind Ye Shuying and a golden rope shot out.

• Ye Wanyun summoned the Four Sacred Beasts Mending Heaven Diagram, stunning the watching fighters with its immense power.
• Bai Yu claimed Ye Wanyun and Ye Shuying as future furnace cauldrons, while Zhang Baidao offered to remove slave seals from the attendants in exchange for Great Medicine.
• Ye Wanyun merged the Four Sacred Beasts into her sword and struck Ye Shuying, who transformed into Taotie and countered with a black pillar of light.
• The clash injured both women and shattered Ye Shuying's Taotie form; Ye Wanyun declared she would finish her, unconcerned about the three others.
• A golden rope shot from space as Tantai Yanyue appeared behind Ye Shuying.

Bai Yu’s allies captured Ye Wanyun and nearly defeated Wu Youyu and his brothers before the Beast Emperor projected himself through a puppet and rescued them. The Beast Emperor’s intervention was checked by the Blood Emperor and Fei Jingxin at the King Conferral Ceremony, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tantai Yanyue struck Ye Shuying down, and the Black Feather King bound and captured her while Bai Yu’s allies trapped Ye Wanyun with a Desire Dao treasure.
• Elder Flowing Cloud, Demon Poisoner, and Daoist Azure Water surrounded Wu Youyu and his brothers, but one of their puppets unleashed violet power that killed five experts and injured the others.
• The puppet revealed the Beast Emperor’s presence and fixed its attention on Bai Yu, but a blood aura and Sword Qi stopped its advance.
• The Beast Emperor used a black talisman to extract Wu Youyu, his brothers, and their three puppets in red mist, while Mirror Flower Madame collapsed from the effort.
• Li Shuyu caught Mirror Flower Madame, who predicted Wu Youmo would die within a month, and Bai Yu reflected that only Yan Lingxi might have matched the Beast Emperor.
• At Eternal City Plaza, the Blood Emperor and Fei Jingxin warned the Beast Emperor against interfering, and he reacted with anger.

After the Beast Emperor intervened, Bai Yu assessed the danger of his feud with the Wild Beast Domain and gathered the gains from the battle. The Black Feather King prepared to break through and asked Bai Yu to lend her Xiao Rongrong.

• Li Shuyu found Mirror Flower Madame gravely wounded after her attack on Wu Youmo, while Bai Yu concluded that Wu Youmo was doomed but the other princes remained a threat.
• Bai Yu resolved to grow stronger and strengthen his retainers so they could eventually face the Beast Emperor and the Wild Beast Domain.
• Bai Yu collected eighteen poisoned Earth-rank goddesses for the Feather Spirit Dynasty, while Zhang Baidao gathered more than thirty retainers from the princes’ forces.
• Elder Flowing Cloud and five others accepted Bai Yu’s medicines, said they planned to recover and leave Midstream, and departed.
• The Black Feather King told Bai Yu that she could no longer suppress her breakthrough and asked to borrow Xiao Rongrong.

Bai Yu captured Ye Wanyun and Ye Shuying and demanded their submission, then discovered that Ye Wanyun possessed a Nine-Dragon Fortune Body. He offered to help unseal it, leaving Ye Wanyun to consider his proposal.

• Bai Yu traveled toward the inheritance grounds with Li Shuyu, Pei Yueshen, and Zhang Baidao searching for opportunities along the way.
• Bai Yu brought the unconscious Ye Wanyun and Ye Shuying into the Winter Moon-Chasing Carriage, healed them, and sealed their magic power.
• Ye Shuying angrily accused Bai Yu of betrayal, while Bai Yu told both women they could submit or die.
• Ye Wanyun asked Bai Yu for a reason to serve him, and he revealed that nine dragons of fortune were sealed within her.
• Yan Lingxi identified Ye Wanyun's power as a Nine-Dragon Fortune Body, and Bai Yu offered to help unseal it.

Bai Yu forced Ye Wanyun to accept a slave mark in exchange for learning about her mysterious physique, and she agreed on the condition that she would not be treated as a cauldron. She then tried to secure her position by seducing Bai Yu and dismissing Ye Shuying as useless, leaving Ye Shuying enraged and shocked by what she saw.

• Ye Wanyun realized Bai Yu knew the secret of her physique and asked what he wanted from her.
• Bai Yu revealed a preserved demon emperor corpse and said he needed her essence blood to create a powerful Blood Corpse.
• Ye Wanyun agreed to submit to Bai Yu but insisted she would not become a cauldron; Bai Yu rejected her right to negotiate and placed a slave mark on her.
• After the slave mark and other bindings took hold, Ye Wanyun asked about the power within her, but Bai Yu said he would explain later.
• Ye Wanyun approached Bai Yu and called herself enough of a trump card, while dismissing Ye Shuying as useless.
• Ye Shuying stood up and angrily condemned Ye Wanyun, then turned back and widened her eyes in shock.

Bai Yu broke through to Spirit Transformation Peak as his fortune surged to emerald green, while Ye Wanyun grew fervently invested in his potential. The chapter ended with Ye Wanyun urging him to keep cultivating with her help.

• Bai Yu's spiritual power erupted, and he broke through from the eighth level of Spirit Transformation to Spirit Transformation Peak.
• Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen marveled at Bai Yu's breakthrough, while Zhang Baidao noticed his fortune transforming from pale black to emerald green.
• Bai Yu realized the Nine-Dragon Fortune Body had released some stored energy and reflected on the allies and followers supporting his growing foundation.
• Ye Shuying awoke and reconsidered her surrender agreement with Bai Yu, while Ye Wanyun excitedly assessed his evolving Desire God Body and potential.
• Ye Shuying challenged Ye Wanyun, but Ye Wanyun dismissed her and urged Bai Yu to keep cultivating with her help.

Bai Yu and his companions reached the Land of Inheritance and found Clear Moon Tower sealed behind a test requiring 108 prodigies. Di Muxue revealed that her group had waited a month for the final three participants, and Bai Yu’s arrival completed the number.

• Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, Pei Yueshen, and Zhang Baidao entered the misty basin and avoided dangerous remnants of a shattered formation using the Yin Pattern Gu.
• The group found a ruined hall filled with the remains of cultivators and bizarre bones, then discovered the sealed nine-story Clear Moon Tower.
• Di Muxue and Zhuge Gewu appeared with the other top combatants, and Di Muxue told Bai Yu that the Four Saints had to be awakened to open the tower.
• Bai Yu read the stone stele’s instructions: 108 prodigies had to stain it with their blood and pass its test for the Four Saints’ will to appear.
• Di Muxue explained that her group had waited a month with 105 qualified people, and Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and Pei Yueshen completed the required number.

Bai Yu and the other cultivators learned that the Clear Moon Tower’s inheritance was part of a seal containing four hearts of the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor, which had taken human form. They entered the tower to destroy the hearts and claim the Four Saints’ inheritance, leaving the fate of the Saha World and the waking Evil Emperor in their hands.

• Bai Yu, Li Shuyu, and another woman smeared their blood on the stele, summoning the Moon Goddess’s message.
• The Moon Goddess explained that the Clear Moon Tower suppressed four hearts of the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor and that the Saha World’s guardians had fallen.
• Di Muxue told Bai Yu that the Evil Emperor had nine hearts, four of which the Four Saints had destroyed and four of which were sealed in the tower.
• The Moon Goddess urged the cultivators to destroy the four hearts and use the inheritance mark to activate the seal’s final power.
• Zhuge Gewu called for the cultivators to enter the tower, and Bai Yu summoned Xia Chuxue and prepared to seek the Literary Saint’s inheritance for her.
• Zhuge Gewu’s team and Di Muxue entered first, then Bai Yu led the women and Zhang Baidao into the golden vortex.

Bai Yu and his companions encountered two peak Tribulation Transcendence Realm members of the Evil Calamity Clan, who called themselves holy masters of the Deva Assembly. Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen wounded them, and Bai Yu trapped them with the Heavenly Demon Pillars as they tried to flee.

• Zhang Baidao drove the Divine Baleful Gu toward the greatest evil aberration, and Bai Yu hurried after him with the three women.
• Two scholar-robed Evil Calamity Clan members confronted Bai Yu and revealed they belonged to the Saha Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Assembly.
• The two attacked Bai Yu and his companions, but Li Shuyu and Pei Yueshen countered with powerful sword techniques and badly wounded them.
• The Evil Calamity Clan members tried to escape and alert the Evil King, but Bai Yu sealed their paths with eighteen Heavenly Demon Pillars.
• The Ironclad Evidence Gu and Set in Stone Gu formed illusory mountains that crushed down on the trapped enemies.

Bai Yu learned from the memories of two Evil Calamity Clan powerhouses that the Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Host descended from the Saha Heaven Evil Emperor’s hearts and had inherited powers from the Four Saints. He led Qing Ying and Ye Wanyun against the Heavenly Host Division, where their assault drew out the Heavenly Host King, who trapped them with his Evil Dragon Devours Heaven technique.

• Bai Yu viewed the memories of two slain Evil Calamity Clan powerhouses and discovered the origins and inherited abilities of the Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Host.
• Bai Yu chose to attack the Heavenly Host Division after learning where it was located within Clear Moon Tower.
• Qing Ying devastated the Heavenly Host Division with her corpse qi and evil eyes, then devoured a Void Refinement powerhouse and refined his skull into a weapon.
• The Heavenly Host King appeared and attacked Qing Ying and Ye Wanyun, while Bai Yu empowered Qing Ying with the Eighteen Hells Pagoda Beads.
• The Heavenly Host King summoned six evil dragons around Qing Ying and Ye Wanyun and declared that they would die.