Chapter Summaries

Su Shi'er sent the Fire Python Puppet into the Stone Chamber to search for a divine-soul repair technique, and it found a Storage Bracelet on the skeleton of the chamber’s former occupant. As the puppet reached for it, a sudden force severed Su Shi'er's Divine Sense, leaving him outside the chamber with no idea what had happened inside.

• Su Shi'er and Su Taiping stopped before the Stone Chamber and suspected it was the secluded cultivation site of a Tribulation Crossing stage ghost cultivator.
• Su Shi'er released the damaged Fire Python Puppet and used his Divine Sense to send it into the chamber to investigate.
• The Fire Python Puppet found a skeleton seated on a cushion and a Mysterious Black Storage Bracelet on its wrist.
• Su Shi'er saw the bracelet as a possible source of a technique to repair his divine soul and sent the puppet to retrieve it.
• A sudden stabbing pain struck Su Shi'er, severing his connection to the puppet before it could touch the bracelet.

Su Taiping used a powerful talisman paper figure to retrieve the Storage Bracelet from the skeleton in the Stone Chamber. The skeleton awakened with ghostly radiance as the figure escaped with the artifact.

• Su Shi'er told Su Taiping that the Fire Python Puppet had malfunctioned and that an unknown force seemed to have destroyed his control over it.
• Su Shi'er considered using the Star Light Spirit Jade, but Su Taiping asked to try another method first.
• Su Taiping summoned a talisman paper figure and sent it into the Stone Chamber, where the Fire Python Puppet attacked it.
• The figure dodged the puppet and repelled black soul-snatching light that surged from the skeleton.
• The figure plucked the Storage Bracelet from the skeleton and retreated as the skeleton shook and the Fire Python Puppet went berserk.
• The figure escaped the Stone Chamber, and the skeleton's eye sockets lit with strange ghostly radiance.

Su Taiping retrieved the Ghost Cultivator’s Storage Bracelet, while the skeleton in the Stone Chamber began absorbing the Sinful Dao’s Ghostly Qi to restore its body. As Su Shi'er and Su Taiping hurried to escape, the Ghost Qi Barrier broke, and Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators approached the cave mansion.

• The skeleton resolved to reclaim its Spiritual Plants and Judge's Seal and gathered Ghostly Qi to revive itself.
• Su Taiping returned from the Stone Chamber with the Storage Bracelet, and Su Shi'er offered him its contents while asking to read or copy the soul-repairing Cultivation Method and Secret Technique.
• Su Taiping warned Su Shi'er that an entity might be using the skeleton and Ghostly Qi to return from the dead, so they headed for the exit.
• Su Taiping examined the Storage Bracelet and began recording information on a Jade Eye Slip as the Ghost Qi Barrier suddenly broke and the cave mansion shook.
• Hearing Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators approach, Su Shi'er warned Su Taiping not to resist and activated the Cloud Root Void Ring and Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda.

The Ghostly Qi Barrier collapsed, allowing human and Demon Race cultivators and Fei Gu’s ghostly party to enter the Ghost Cultivator’s Cave Mansion in pursuit of Su Shi'er, Su Taiping, and the treasures they believed Lin Hezou possessed. Their pursuit led them to a Stone Chamber concealing an unknown being with the aura of a late Tribulation Crossing cultivator.

• The supreme pressure swept through the cave mansion, and Su Shi'er escaped into an Exotic Space while Su Taiping was drawn into the Small World.
• Venerable Tianyu, Kong Yue, and their companions entered the cave mansion after the Ghostly Qi Barrier suddenly broke, hoping to find the two fugitives and Lin Hezou.
• Fei Gu, Lou Cang, and Yin Luo followed, worried by the barrier’s unexplained collapse and an unsettling presence, while Fei Gu warned them not to let their targets escape.
• The pursuing cultivators found signs that Su Shi'er and Su Taiping had recently passed through a depression marked by residual Sword Qi, then followed the trail deeper inside.
• The group reached a Stone Chamber and sensed an unknown presence within whose aura was at least that of a late Tribulation Crossing cultivator.

Venerable Tianyu and the others concluded that Su Shi'er and his companion had likely fallen to the late Tribulation Crossing stage occupant of the Stone Chamber, and prepared to attack it. Su Shi'er had already escaped into an Exotic Space and entered the Small World, where he surprised Su Taiping.

• Venerable Tianyu, Ye Tianling, and the Profound Clarity Cave Master discussed the missing Su Shi'er and judged that the Stone Chamber's occupant had probably killed him and his companion.
• Venerable Tianyu's group and the Demon Race's three Great Demons focused on the Stone Chamber and readied their attacks.
• Su Shi'er used the Cloud Root Void Ring and his Spatial Secret Law to flee into an Exotic Space as the others entered the cave mansion.
• Su Shi'er gathered spatial power into a protective shield, endured the Spatial Turbulence, and entered the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda to return to the Small World.
• Su Shi'er found the Sì Beast refining qi and Su Taiping recording information, and Su Taiping was surprised to see him arrive.

Su Shi'er and Su Taiping discussed how to hide in the Exotic Space while they studied a soul-restoring cultivation method. Su Shi'er discovered that the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art required ghost qi and could turn ordinary cultivators into ghost cultivators, so he considered safer alternatives for Su Taiping.

• Su Shi'er reassured Su Taiping that his Spatial Artifact’s spirit was monitoring the Exotic Space and that they could wait for the intruders to leave.
• Su Taiping handed Su Shi'er the Jade Eye Slip containing the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art.
• Su Shi'er learned that the art required absorbing ghost qi, which would corrode ordinary living beings and eventually force them onto the path of ghost cultivation.
• Su Shi'er considered teaching Su Taiping the Ancient God Cultivation Method but rejected the idea because of its dangers and the Golden Patterned Giant’s troubling implications.
• Su Shi'er considered the Xuanji Sect’s Circulating Star Soul Art as a safer way to strengthen Su Taiping’s soul, but wondered whether he had permission to share it.

Su Shi'er and Su Taiping discussed cultivating the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art and discovered that four Judge's Seals were hidden beneath the Spiritual Field. Su Shi'er now possessed five seals in total, while the remaining five might still be found.

• Su Taiping said he had a way to draw Ghostly Qi into his body and cultivate the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art, and Su Shi'er said he had methods of his own to try it.
• Su Taiping refused Su Shi'er's offer of the Ghost Realm Spiritual Plants, which had remained vigorous despite being placed in a Small World filled with Spiritual Qi.
• Su Shi'er and Su Taiping reasoned that the Spiritual Field, rather than the Small World, was responsible for the plants' unusual condition.
• Su Shi'er used spatial power to investigate the Spiritual Field, and four Judge's Seals emerged from it.
• Su Shi'er realized the seals had been emitting Ghostly Qi and that he now held five Judge's Seals; Su Taiping congratulated him.

Su Shi'er and Su Taiping secured the Judge's Seals and prepared to cultivate the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art while danger from the Ghost Cultivator's Cave Mansion remained. Su Shi'er preserved the Ghost Realm Spiritual Plants and began the art's painful soul cultivation.

• Su Shi'er offered Su Taiping two of the four Judge's Seals, but Su Taiping refused and urged him to keep all five seals together.
• Su Taiping began cultivating the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art while warning that their pursuers might find them.
• Su Shi'er returned the five Judge's Seals to the Spiritual Fields and isolated the Ghost Realm Spiritual Plants in spaces sustained by the seals' ghostly qi.
• Su Shi'er recalled the art's method and drew ghostly qi through his sea of consciousness, enduring intense pain as he began to cultivate it.

Su Shi'er successfully cultivated the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art, using Ghostly Qi to strengthen his soul and gradually restore his depleted Soul Origin. He checked on the Exotic Space, then prepared to refine spiritual pills while remaining cautious of the powerful cultivators gathered in the Sinful Dao.

• Su Shi'er endured the pain of guiding Ghostly Qi through his soul and found that repeated cycles became easier and strengthened his soul and divine consciousness.
• Su Shi'er’s soul automatically refined the accumulated Ghostly Qi, steadily restoring his Soul Origin and recovering his usable strength.
• Su Shi'er summoned the Spirit Girl of the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda and learned that the Exotic Space remained stable, though she had not checked outside it.
• Su Shi'er ordered the Spirit Girl to watch the Exotic Space and report any unusual changes.
• Su Shi'er decided to wait for events among the gathered Tribulation Crossing cultivators, restore his Soul Origin, and prepare spiritual pills.
• Su Shi'er uprooted more than ten Nine Yin Soul Condensing Lotuses and felt their concentrated Ghostly Qi invade his meridians.

Su Shi'er experimented with refining Ghost Realm Spiritual Plants into pills to restore his Soul Origin and successfully created a potent formula. After testing a pill, he confirmed it greatly accelerated his soul cultivation, while concluding that its extreme yin aura posed little risk to him.

• Su Shi'er set aside the Soul Returning Orchid and considered how to use the Nine Yin Soul Condensing Lotus and Mysterious Yin Soul Gathering Grass despite lacking the other ingredients in their pill formulas.
• Su Shi'er adapted Cultivation World alchemy methods to the Ghost Realm Spiritual Plants and repeatedly adjusted his formula until he produced six pitch-black pills.
• Su Shi'er tempered the useless pills into top-grade spiritual pills with the Heaven and Earth Furnace and judged their soul-repairing effects far stronger than consuming the plants directly.
• Su Shi'er crushed and swallowed a small amount of one pill, and its medicinal power replenished his Soul Origin as his soul circulated the Great Evolution Soul Condensing Art.
• Su Shi'er concluded that the pills could accelerate his soul cultivation several times over, and that their intense extreme yin aura would not harm him.

Su Shi'er refined more than a thousand pills to restore his divine soul, but the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda came under attack before he could fully recover. As the Small World shook, Su Taiping offered to go out first and hold off the Tribulation Crossing stage magnates, leaving Su Shi'er weighing his companion's proposal.

• Su Shi'er refined more than a thousand Spiritual Pills, using many Nine Yin Soul Condensing Lotuses while preserving the rarer plants.
• Su Shi'er meditated for several days, but his divine soul recovered to less than forty percent of its peak strength.
• The Spirit Girl warned Su Shi'er that a Mysterious Power was trying to seize the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda and pull it from the Exotic Space.
• Su Taiping arrived and offered to investigate the threat and briefly hold off one or two Tribulation Crossing stage magnates.
• Su Shi'er refused to let Su Taiping face the danger for him, but Su Taiping insisted he had his own means of escape.

Su Taiping persuaded Su Shi'er to let him leave the Small World and face the hostile cultivators, intending to reach the Infinite Ghost Realm. As Su Shi'er watched the factions regroup outside, suspicion about Su Taiping’s nearly identical Spatial Secret Law and familiar appearance lingered.

• Su Taiping told Su Shi'er that he planned to enter the Infinite Ghost Realm and urged him to let him go first.
• Su Shi'er agreed, and Su Taiping stepped through a spatial ripple after warning him to preserve himself.
• Su Taiping transformed to look almost exactly like Su Shi'er before disappearing, leaving Su Shi'er troubled by a sense of familiarity.
• Su Shi'er observed the cultivators outside and saw that the Profound Clarity Cave Master and Lou Cang had vanished after the fighting.
• The surviving factions focused again on Su Shi'er, seeking either his Heaven and Earth Furnace or the Judge's Seal.

Su Taiping appeared as “Lin Hezou” and drew a barrage of attacks from the Tribulation Crossing stage beings seeking the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure. He escaped into the Exotic Space with the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda, leaving the others to suspect he had crossed into the Ghost Realm.

• The nine Tribulation Crossing stage beings tore open space and waited for Su Shi'er and the hidden man to emerge from the Exotic Space.
• Su Taiping appeared beside the pagoda, and the gathered factions attacked him while preparing to fight one another for the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure.
• Su Taiping used his Dao technique to destabilize the spatial ripples and draw most of the attacks into the Exotic Space.
• Su Taiping escaped into the Exotic Space and used a talisman to send the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda beyond the crowd.
• The Tribulation Crossing stage beings failed to force Su Taiping back out and wondered whether he had crossed into the Ghost Realm.

Fei Gu realized the figure who fled into the Ghost Realm was likely a decoy, while the real Lin Hezou escaped inside a spatial spirit treasure. She decided to pursue Lin Hezou at once, using the brief confusion and the Myriad Souls Slaughtering Immortal Formation to seize him before the others caught on.

• Yin Luo urged Fei Gu to chase the apparent Lin Hezou into the Ghost Realm, hoping to claim the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure.
• Fei Gu told Yin Luo that the fleeing figure was probably a Body Integration Realm Dao Robe Cultivator acting as a decoy.
• Yin Luo deduced that the real Lin Hezou might be concealed inside the spirit treasure pagoda.
• Fei Gu explained that stopping the pagoda would have triggered a fight among all the gathered parties, and that their advantage within the Sinful Dao remained intact.
• Fei Gu ordered Yin Luo to move quickly and find Lin Hezou before the crowd realized they had been deceived.

Yun Yan perfected the Yin Yang Divine Firmament Lightning Codex and prepared to leave the Sinful Dao, but his scouting lightning revealed that the person who had secretly helped him was among a gathering of powerful cultivators. Meanwhile, Fei Gu and Yin Luo pursued the real Lin Hezou, while the others rushed after them or followed cautiously.

• Fei Gu formed array seals and transported herself and Yin Luo away before Ye Tianling and the others could determine where they had gone.
• Venerable Tianyu realized that the real Lin Hezou was inside the pagoda spirit treasure and hurried out of the cave mansion with the black-clad man, Ye Tianling, and the female cultivator following.
• Kong Yue advised the Demon Race cultivators to follow the others and wait for them to weaken before seeking the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure.
• Yun Yan completed his cultivation of Yin Thunder in the Sinful Dao, increasing his strength, and set off to leave.
• Yun Yan's scouting lightning detected numerous Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators and the aura of the Integrated Body Realm Cultivator who had secretly helped him, causing him to change his plans.

Yun Yan turned toward the aura of the Body Integration Realm cultivator who had secretly aided him, while an ancient righteous cultivator emerged from deep within Sinful Dao and headed for the gathered Tribulation Crossing cultivators. Su Shi'er tried to escape using the ghost cultivators’ formation, but Fei Gu and Yin Luo trapped him and forced him to expend most of the power in his Star Light Spirit Jade.

• Yun Yan changed course toward the group of Tribulation Crossing cultivators after recognizing the aura of the Body Integration Realm cultivator who had aided him.
• An old man deep within Sinful Dao transformed into a white-haired Daoist brimming with Vast Righteous Qi and set off toward the gathered cultivators.
• Su Shi'er emerged outside the Ghost Cultivator's Cave Mansion, resolved to use the formation to escape before his pursuers could react.
• Fei Gu and Yin Luo redirected Su Shi'er's formation into a void-like space and launched an attack against him.
• Su Shi'er activated the Star Light Spirit Jade to withstand their attack, but its Star Power was depleted by eighty or ninety percent.

Su Shi'er prepared to use the Heaven and Earth Furnace against the ghost cultivators trapping him, but Yun Yan arrived just in time to break Yin Luo's attack. Yun Yan stood between Su Shi'er and the ghost cultivators and promised to keep him safe.

• Fei Gu demanded that Su Shi'er surrender the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure, while Su Shi'er silently prepared to activate the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Yin Luo attacked Su Shi'er as Fei Gu held back and watched him cautiously.
• A bolt of lightning shattered Yin Luo's spell and forced him back.
• Yin Luo recognized Yun Yan, who had returned to the Sinful Dao, and mocked him for coming back.
• Yun Yan shielded Su Shi'er and quietly promised to find a way to keep him safe.

Yun Yan intervened to protect Su Shi'er from the ghost cultivators, but Fei Gu recognized the danger of his Yin Thunder and withdrew with Yin Luo. She planned to let the other Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators attack Yun Yan and “Lin Hezou” instead.

• Su Shi'er thanked Yun Yan and realized the senior he had secretly helped against the ghost cultivators was Yun Yan.
• Yin Luo prepared to attack Yun Yan, but Fei Gu stopped him and explained that Yun Yan's Yin Thunder could overcome Ghostly Qi and threaten ghost cultivators.
• Fei Gu challenged Yun Yan about his purpose in coming to the Sinful Dao, and Yun Yan insisted he would fight if she blocked his way.
• Fei Gu withdrew with Yin Luo and congratulated Yun Yan on acquiring the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure.
• Yin Luo questioned Fei Gu's retreat, and she explained that other Tribulation Crossing stage cultivators would attack Yun Yan and “Lin Hezou” for them.

Yun Yan recognized Su Shi'er as Lin Hezou and promised to protect him as he left Sinful Dao, while Su Shi'er kept his identity secret and explained his plans if escape failed. The chapter ended with Yun Yan breaking the surrounding array as they prepared to face the arriving cultivators.

• Fei Gu persuaded Yin Luo to let Yun Yan go so they could wait for the other Tribulation Crossing cultivators to fight and then seize the advantage.
• Yun Yan questioned whether Su Shi'er feared him, and Su Shi'er said he trusted Yun Yan not to covet his treasure or harm him.
• Yun Yan asked about Su Shi'er, and Su Shi'er concealed that he was the very friend Yun Yan cared about while saying he believed the young man was safe.
• Su Shi'er explained that he hoped to leave Sinful Dao and travel to the Taiqing Star Region, but might flee to the Ghost Realm if circumstances became desperate.
• Yun Yan promised to protect Su Shi'er as he left Sinful Dao, then unleashed lightning and shattered the array around them.

Fei Gu took Yin Luo away, leaving Su Shi'er and Yun Yan exposed to the other forces gathered for the Heaven and Earth Supreme Treasure. Ye Tianling threatened Yun Yan with Heavenly Capital’s plans to seize the Yun Family of Leizhou, but before Yun Yan could respond, a streak of black light suddenly attacked Su Shi'er.

• Fei Gu took Yin Luo away, and the formation trapping Su Shi'er and Yun Yan collapsed.
• Kong Yue, Liu Yuan, and Xuanjue watched from a distance and decided to wait for an opening to seize the treasure.
• Ye Tianling confronted Yun Yan and said Heavenly Capital would take him down and annex the Yun Family of Leizhou.
• Yun Yan challenged Ye Tianling while secretly searching for a way out of the encirclement.
• A streak of black light shot toward Su Shi'er, and Yun Yan warned him as lightning flashed in his palm.