Chapter Summaries

Yin Ming prepared the newly advanced undead to invade a small plane, choosing the Bess Subplane as their first target. As the undead calamity began at Netherworld Gorge, two fifth-ring wizards investigated the disturbance and faced a sky darkened by rising baleful energy.

• The undead absorbed blighted undead miasma in the Dark Plane, and eighty percent of them advanced to the fourth-ring tier while the rest perished.
• Yin Ming chose a small plane for the undead’s first invasion and sent a Bone Puppet to join the attack.
• At the Bess Subplane’s Black Tower, a crystal ball detected an invasion, and Russell and Kram reported it to the Void Wizard Black Tower.
• After receiving no reinforcements, Russell and Kram flew to Netherworld Gorge to investigate the disturbance.
• As the wizards neared the gorge, baleful energy thickened, the sky darkened, and terrifying thunderbolts tore across the plane.

Yin Ming tested the undead calamity’s power in the Bess Subplane and overwhelmed the wizards sent to investigate the spreading rift. As the undead domain began consuming the subplane, he led the Skeleton Kings against its remaining supernatural beings.

• Russell and Kram reached the rift and mistook Yin Ming’s Bone Puppet for a mere third-ring undead skeleton rather than an Evil God’s agent.
• Yin Ming used Undead Revival to raise tens of thousands of chaos undead and unleash an undead calamity domain.
• The undead blocked Russell and Kram’s escape, killed them, and revived their souls as enslaved undead destined to become Skeleton Kings.
• Yin Ming watched the calamity spread across the Bess Subplane, killing mortals and turning them into undead.
• A warlock begged a Skeleton King to spare a little girl, but the Skeleton King raised the Death God’s Scythe and struck, claiming it was granting them eternal life.

Yin Ming led the undead to conquer the Bess Subplane, then returned to the Endless Bone Sea and established the Undead Code to organize its expansion. The Skeleton Kings received a path to gain territory, strength, and eventually subordinate godhood as Yin Ming set the City of Rest’s growth in motion.

• Yin Ming and the Skeleton Kings invaded the Wizard Black Tower, killed its defenders, transformed the wizards into undead, and collected the subplane’s resources.
• Yin Ming ordered the undead calamity dispelled, and the undead returned to the Endless Bone Sea, losing some bone materials when teleportations went astray.
• Yin Ming released more former supernatural beings from the White Bone Hell Disc, and they became Fourth-Ring Skeleton Kings who could lead invasions of two miniature subplanes.
• Yin Ming inscribed the Undead Code on a stele, requiring the Skeleton Kings to refine and contribute undead bone while rewarding them with resources, subordinates, and territory cores.
• The Skeleton Kings learned that their participation could lead to divine jade bone, Undying Law Imprints, and eventual status as Seventh-Ring Subordinate Gods.

Yin Ming organized the Endless Bone Sea’s undead development, assessed the Bess Subplane’s spoils, and refined his plans to combine his cultivation arts. After automating the City of Rest, he returned to the Source Plane to strengthen his main body and complete his Yang Spirit’s final transformation.

• Yin Ming left the Skeleton Kings to develop their undead territories while he imposed a half-bone levy to help build the Endless Bone Sea.
• Yin Ming sorted the Bess Subplane’s resources and examined how undead bloodline power could support his future cultivation method.
• Yin Ming modified the White Bone Hell Disc to release undead workers automatically and let the City of Rest develop without his constant control.
• Yin Ming traveled to the Source Plane, judged its isolation peaceful, and decided to strengthen his main body before pursuing a Seventh-Ring cultivation method.
• Yin Ming followed a deduction toward rain clouds, where ordinary lightning threatened his insubstantial divine sense.

Yin Ming used lightning to complete the transformation of his Yang Spirit, gaining profound penetrating vision that let him analyze matter and trace its history. He reflected that his abilities could reveal the world’s hidden truths, though he had been born into a Wizard World already crowded with Dao Lords.

• Yin Ming sealed his elemental magic power in the Scavenger Gourd and used the Eight-Phase Thought Model to predict lightning strikes for tempering his Divine Sense.
• After half a day of lightning strikes, Yin Ming’s Divine Sense began transforming, allowing him to perceive a pebble’s structure and traces of past events.
• Yin Ming pursued rain clouds for a month, repeatedly drawing lightning into his Sea of Consciousness until his Yang Spirit completed its transformation.
• Yin Ming used his newly transformed Divine Sense to analyze everything within five li, tracing the Elephant Lord’s Earth Ring and the onset of the End of Dharma.
• Yin Ming concluded that heaven and earth revealed their truths to him, but lamented that the Wizard World had no room for another heaven-sent genius.

Yin Ming prepared to take the Source Plane’s flameburning fire into the Scavenger Gourd, hoping to gain a powerful resource and a safeguard against disaster. He captured the plane’s remaining humans, leaving the fate of the flameburning fire and Norman Martin’s final wishes unresolved.

• Yin Ming assessed his strength at the limit of the Sixth Ring and decided the Source Plane’s flameburning fire could help him refine treasures, resolve contamination, and survive a crisis.
• Yin Ming considered the conflicting wishes of Ember, Flameburn, and Shadow Touch, and concluded he could take the flameburning fire while seeking common ground with them.
• Yin Ming entered the Scavenger Gourd and drew its sealed magic power into his body, preparing to absorb the flameburning fire fused with the Source Plane’s Core.
• Yin Ming used elementalization and his divine sense to locate the plane’s scattered survivors, then knocked them unconscious and captured all thirty-three thousand of them.

Yin Ming drew the Source Plane’s survivors into the Scavenger Gourd and confronted Flameburning Fire, while Ember defended his choice to help him. After Yin Ming took in every remaining human, he forced Flameburning Fire to choose between destroying them all or trusting Ember.

• Yin Ming used Ember to assimilate the survivors and began drawing them into the Gourd Space, while flameburning fire’s mortal dust miasma surged toward him.
• Yin Ming called on flameburning fire to reveal itself, threatening to take in the remaining survivors if it stayed hidden.
• Flameburning Fire appeared as a Black Sun and ordered Ember to leave Yin Ming and complete flameburning fire.
• Ember explained that Yin Ming was the Flameburner most likely to fulfill their goal and showed Flameburning information about him and the Gourd Continent.
• Flameburning rejected Ember’s account as a lie, and Yin Ming drew every remaining survivor into the Gourd Space.
• Yin Ming told Flameburning it could either detonate its undying will and die with him or trust Ember.

Yin Ming forced the Flameburning Fire to abandon its resistance and absorbed it into the Scavenger Gourd, where Ember began merging it with the other fires. He also monitored the Undead Clan’s failed invasion and decided against teaching them seal formulas.

• Yin Ming refused to release the Source Plane’s last humans, and the Flameburning Fire tried threats, bargains, and deception to change his mind.
• Yin Ming learned that the Undead Clan’s invasion of a small Elemental Plane had failed against a Seventh-Ring Subordinate God, costing at least a hundred Skeleton Kings.
• Yin Ming rejected teaching seal formulas to the undead because it could draw the Wizard Black Tower’s attention to Undying Xuanming.
• After three days, the Flameburning Fire gave up resisting reality and agreed to enter the Scavenger Gourd.
• Yin Ming absorbed the Flameburning Fire into the gourd, where Ember suppressed it and merged its black flames with Ember and Shadow Touch.

Yin Ming bound the completed flameburning fire to his soul and made it the Scavenger Gourd’s artifact spirit. He planned to use its power to strengthen the gourd and eventually bring the undead into the Source Plane’s civilization, leaving the White Bone Hell Disc’s reforging for later.

• Yin Ming examined the flameburning fire and recognized it as an embryonic form of humanity’s karmic fire that could help forge a supreme treasure.
• Yin Ming bound the flameburning fire, accepting responsibility for preserving the Source Plane’s human civilization, and it fused with the Scavenger Gourd as its artifact spirit.
• The flameburning fire connected the humans on the Model World’s Sunside and the Lich on its Darkside, while Ember turned the Black Sun into a red sun.
• Yin Ming told Ember he intended to unite the undead with the Source Plane’s civilization and make the flameburning fire the core of their totem.
• Ember proposed creating a subsidiary flame for the White Bone Hell Disc, and Yin Ming agreed but chose to strengthen the Scavenger Gourd first.

Chapter Summary: The Vanishing Plane

Key Plot Points

1. Gourd Expansion Plan – Yin Ming decides to expand the Scavenger Gourd's internal space using Plane Force Crystals collected by the Undead, rather than upgrading its rank (which requires gathering laws and an Eighth Ring Law Integration Model).
2. Resource Exchange – Instead of seizing the crystals through his Enslavement Mark, Yin Ming announces through the Undying Law that Plane Force Crystals can be exchanged for Divine Jade Bone material at a 30% premium—deliberately establishing the concept of private property among the Undead.
3. Gourd Space Transformation – After absorbing the crystals, the gourd's internal space expands several hundred times, creating a floating continent with a Sunside (human) and Darkside (Lich), capable of holding an entire plane.
4. The Mass Evacuation – Yin Ming returns to the Source Plane, manifests a ten-thousand-zhang Undying Xuanming God phantom, and spends two days siphoning the entire plane—mountains, soil, magma, everything—into the Scavenger Gourd.
5. The Discovery – A Seventh Ring Void Wizard arrives to investigate, finding only empty void where the Source Plane once was, and exclaims in shock that the plane was entirely "moved away wholesale"—not even ordinary soil left behind.

Character Developments

• Yin Ming – Demonstrates strategic restraint by using a premium exchange rate instead of forced seizure, showing his long-term thinking. His capacity for wholesale plane-scale plunder is showcased, and his gourd now approaches the size of a plane-level artifact. His foresight is also shown in acting before the Wizard Black Tower or Evil Gods notice the recovering Source Plane.

Significant Themes

• Resource Accumulation & Preparation – Expanding the gourd space in anticipation of future needs (storing resources, raising living-creature limits, refining Undead for Soul Crystals).
• Incentive vs. Coercion – Choosing to establish property concepts as a motivational tool for the Undead, benefiting long-term productivity over immediate gain.
• Scale of Power – The sheer magnitude of a Seventh Ring wizard's abilities: teleportation across planes, siphoning an entire world in two days.
• Opportunity in Chaos – Exploiting the wartime distraction of the Wizard Black Tower to act undetected.

Character Interactions

• Yin Ming ↔ The Undead – Indirect communication via the Undying Law and the black stone stele; his decision to exchange rather than command respects their autonomy enough to improve their productivity.
• Yin Ming ↔ The Source Plane – A non-human interaction; he drains the plane's matter entirely, leaving nothing behind.
• The Void Wizard – A brief, anonymous figure who only reacts to the aftermath, highlighting the scale of Yin Ming's feat and the absurdity of the complete theft.

Yin Ming expanded the Endless Bone Sea and upgraded the Model World with matter taken from the Source Plane. He then used humanity’s karmic fire to begin integrating the undead into the Source Plane’s civilization, leaving thousands of soul fires emerging from the Hungry Ghost Hell.

• Yin Ming surveyed the expanding Endless Bone Sea and reviewed the undead population, its production, and the Undying God Cult’s growth.
• Yin Ming instructed Ember to build the Model World according to the Elemental Plane’s structure and add extraordinary creatures and civilizations.
• Yin Ming refined a subsidiary flameburning fire into the White Bone Hell Disc and planned ways for undead to accept the Source Plane’s civilization.
• Yin Ming projected the undying sacred fire as a black sun into the Undying Divine Kingdom, where the undead received information about the Source Plane’s civilization.
• Thousands of ghostly blue soul fires escaped the Hungry Ghost Hell and descended upon the Endless Bone Sea.

Yin Ming used the growing undead civilization to develop humanity’s karmic fire, which he hoped would enable the Seventh Transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art. As the undead invaded more Elemental Planes, he stayed behind to pursue a Seventh-Ring cultivation art.

• Undead born in the Endless Bone Sea assimilated undead bone and blighted miasma while black flames linked them to the White Bone Hell Disc and the Black Sun named “Origin.”
• Yin Ming concluded that humanity’s karmic fire could cleanse undead-bloodline contamination and help him complete the Seventh Transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art.
• Yin Ming studied the Evil God Information Pool and assessed that the Wizard Black Tower had the advantage despite the Abyss and Evil Gods seizing many of its planes.
• Yin Ming sent the updated Elemental Planes map to the Fourth-Ring Skeleton Kings, and crystal-boned undead set out to invade new planes.
• Yin Ming remained in the Palace of Rest and began planning how to raise his shapeshifting wood to the Sixth Ring and build a Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune around the undying law.

Chapter Summary: Seventh-Ring Rune

1. Key Plot Points

• Yin Ming uses his External Avatar to raise the Shapeshifting Wood Magic Plant from the Fourth Ring to the Sixth Ring, consuming massive amounts of World Origin Crystals.
• The plant undergoes a year-long withering, then a rebirth and mutation into a bizarre, human-like Sixth-Ring Magic Plant with bone-like branches, skin-like bark, and eye-like leaves.
• Yin Ming reveals his plan: raise the Shapeshifting Wood, expand the lich population, and use the Undying Altar plus Humanity’s Karmic Fire to collectively analyze the Undying Xuanming God and create the Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune.
• He travels to the Darkside of Gourd Continent, where 6,600 liches have gathered on the Undying Altar, prepared by the artifact spirit Ember.
• Yin Ming merges the liches’ consciousness with the Undying Xuanming God Phantom to analyze the law. Humanity’s Karmic Fire purifies the resulting mental pollution.
• After eleven years of collective research, the liches fully analyze the Undying Xuanming God and complete the Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune.

2. Character Developments

• Yin Ming: Advances his External Avatar to Sixth Ring and takes a major step toward Seventh Ring by completing the True-Name Totem Rune. He remains pragmatic, using vast resources and collective effort rather than relying solely on personal insight.
• Liches: Depicted as extensions of Yin Ming, fanatically obsessed with knowledge, irreverent toward their creator, but highly effective as a combined analytical tool.
• Shapeshifting Wood: Completes its transformation into a Sixth-Ring Magic Plant, taking on a grotesque human-like form tied to Yin Ming’s image.

3. Significant Themes

• Collective wisdom and knowledge-building: The Seventh-Ring rune is not crafted alone, but through thousands of liches working as one mind.
• Transformation and rebirth: The Shapeshifting Wood’s death-and-resurrection cycle mirrors the broader process of magical advancement.
• Purification and cost: Even a powerful mage must burn away mental pollution, showing that progress comes with dangerous side effects.

4. Character Interactions

• Yin Ming briefly interacts with his liches, who address him without reverence, treating him as a source of new knowledge.
• The liches exchange impatient, eager remarks among themselves, showing their singular obsession.
• Artifact spirit Ember acts as Yin Ming’s steward, preparing the altar and recruiting lich “seeds” in advance.
• The main interaction is abstract: Yin Ming and the liches merge consciousness through the Undying Altar to analyze and construct the rune.

After fourteen years of secluded cultivation, Yin Ming completed the seventh transformation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and broke through to the seventh ring. He emerged to find the Endless Bone Sea vastly expanded and a City of Rest built around the Palace of Rest.

• Yin Ming used Undying Xuanming's Seventh-Ring True-Name Totem Rune and Undying Law Imprint to transform Undying Xuanming into a seventh-ring External Avatar.
• Yin Ming merged Undying Xuanming's External Core with his Heavenly Cycle Acupoints, then entered the shapeshifting wood to reconstruct his body.
• A year later, Yin Ming emerged with a seventh-ring body, transformed qi essence and divine essence, and power approaching that of a seventh-ring Void Wizard.
• Yin Ming ended his fourteen years of seclusion and discovered that the Endless Bone Sea had expanded a hundredfold.
• Yin Ming saw that fourth-ring Skeleton Kings had built a City of Rest around the Palace of Rest.

After fourteen years of war, Yin Ming saw the Wizard Black Tower offer evil gods rewards for hunting a list of targets, including him and Wuxiang Watson. A recording then revealed Wuxiang Watson had destroyed a plane under the Omnipotent Eye, and Watson announced that he had developed a new extraordinary system and would teach it.

• Yin Ming observed that the Endless Bone Sea’s expansion had slowed as the Wizard Black Tower’s planes were exhausted and the war reached a stalemate.
• Yin Ming read the Wizard Black Tower’s hunting list, which named Wuxiang Watson, the Mother of All Snakes, and the Undying Xuanming God as targets whose hunters could gain access to the Omnipotent Eye.
• Yin Ming improved the City of Rest by connecting its divine jade bone buildings with alchemical rune arrays.
• Evil gods watched a recording of a crystalline streak destroying the Omnipotent Eye-covered Bamalda Plane in under two minutes.
• Yin Ming recognized Wuxiang Watson’s seal-formula witchcraft as the cause of the destruction.
• Wuxiang Watson announced that he had pioneered a system comparable to the wizard rune extraordinary system and offered to teach it.

Wuxiang Watson announced that he would openly teach the Way of Seal Formulas and offer visiting Evil Gods a general-purpose Seventh-Ring spell capable of destroying planes. Yin Ming recognized the chance to spread Seal Formula knowledge among the undead and decided to investigate the gathering at the former Locke Plane with a Bone Puppet.

• Wuxiang Watson described Seal Formulas in the Evil Gods' Public Information Pool, presenting them as a power that could overcome the limits imposed by Ritual Runes.
• Yin Ming reflected that Wuxiang Watson was taking the risk of publicly spreading the system, while he had withheld its knowledge from the undead until the right moment.
• Yin Ming planned to turn Seal Formula knowledge into inherited imprints for the undead once Wuxiang Watson made the path public.
• Wuxiang Watson announced a gathering in fifteen days at the Plane Fragment formerly located at the Locke Plane, promising to teach Seal Formulas and give attendees a plane-destroying Seventh-Ring spell.
• Yin Ming decided to send a Bone Puppet to investigate the gathering because the location was too close to the Abyss for him to go in person.

Yin Ming returned to the Elemental Plane in a Bone Puppet and attended Wuxiang Watson’s gathering on the Way of Seal Formulas. Wuxiang verified the attendees’ identities and allowed even the Second-Generation Sun God to listen as the Abyssal Will guarded the gathering.

• Yin Ming used Void Teleportation to leave the Dark Plane and flew through the void toward Wuxiang Watson’s gathering site.
• Yin Ming arrived at a fragment of the destroyed Locke Plane and joined hundreds of evil gods waiting for Wuxiang Watson.
• The Abyssal Will formed a barrier around the plane fragment as Wuxiang Watson appeared and asked the attendees to reveal their law auras for identity verification.
• Yin Ming revealed the Undying Law aura, while several disguised attendees exposed themselves and some avatars escaped by dissolving their bodies.
• The Second-Generation Sun God asked to hear the Way of Seal Formulas, and Wuxiang Watson welcomed him.

Wuxiang Watson taught the Evil Gods the Way of Seal Formulas through a True Illusion, showing how the system developed and how its spells worked. Yin Ming carried the knowledge back to his main body, and Wuxiang Watson established a new illusion world for the Evil Gods to trade knowledge and compete over tribes.

• Wuxiang Watson transformed into a Thousand-Hand Giant and invited the Evil Gods into a True Illusion to learn Seal Formulas.
• The illusion showed civilizations discovering Seal Formulas, becoming Thousand-Hand Giants, and creating a Seventh-Ring spell that unleashed immense power.
• The Evil Gods digested the knowledge, while Yin Ming transmitted it to his main body and recognized how it could advance the Seal Formula System.
• Wuxiang Watson gave each Evil God a Nightmare Rune linked to a puppet in a new illusion world, where they could trade foundational knowledge and claim tribes for a contest.

Wuxiang Watson organized the evil gods into a competition in his True Illusion, where they developed tribes and fought to exchange insights into the Seal Formula. Yin Ming was eliminated by the God of Light and prepared to leave, but Wuxiang Watson contacted him before he could return to the Dark Plane.

• The evil gods accepted Wuxiang Watson’s Nightmare Runes and formed a loose alliance through the Seal Formula, with Wuxiang Watson coordinating them.
• The God of Light entered the True Illusion first, and the other evil gods joined the competition to develop tribes and learn from one another’s inspirations.
• Yin Ming joined after Wuxiang Watson insisted, descended as an ink-black flame, and guided a Thousand-Hand Tribe using the undying law.
• Yin Ming’s tribe defeated several rivals, absorbing their deities’ insights, before the God of Light eliminated him when four participants remained.
• The competition ended, and as Yin Ming prepared to return to the Dark Plane, Wuxiang Watson’s voice sounded in his mind.

Yin Ming accepted Wuxiang Watson’s offer of secondary authority over the Evil Gods’ Nightmare World and joined an alliance with Wuxiang Watson and the Mother of All Snakes. As he returned to the Dark Plane, six pursuers ambushed him, but the God of Light preserved the remains of his Bone Puppet.

• Wuxiang Watson offered Yin Ming a place in an alliance with the Mother of All Snakes and shared intelligence about the Abyss’s stalemate with the Wizard Black Tower.
• Yin Ming accepted the Nightmare World authority rune, joining the alliance as its third Evil God.
• Yin Ming sent the Bone Puppet toward the Dark Plane, but his wizard intuition warned him that an unknown presence had locked onto him.
• Six streaks of light converged to block Yin Ming’s escape, so he disintegrated the Bone Puppet and returned its Divine Sense to his main body.
• The God of Light froze the Bone Puppet’s disintegrating body and preserved half its skull, while a black-robed man warned Yin Ming that his idea of safety needed to change.