Chapter Summaries

Xiao Liang, a reincarnated youth with an ordinary Four-Spirit Root, studied the life-draining Blood Nightmare Technique at the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern, determined to avoid becoming a mine slave. After class, the outer sect senior sister warned the probationary disciples not to fear the technique’s costs and noticed Xiao Liang was close to entering the path.

• Xiao Liang listened to the outer sect senior sister teach the Blood Nightmare Technique and recalled how the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern had taken him from his family after discovering his Four-Spirit Root.
• Xiao Liang reflected that probationary disciples had three years to study before a brutal selection sent the victors into the outer sect and the defeated into the mines.
• The senior sister ended the lesson, demonstrated her flying sword, and received respectful farewells from the probationary disciples.
• The senior sister warned that burning lifespan and blood essence for power was preferable to wasting them as mine slaves, while most disciples dismissed her advice.
• The senior sister sensed Xiao Liang’s faint spiritual power, met his gaze, and remarked that he was close to entering the path despite his average aptitude.

After reaching the Third Level of Qi Refining, Xiao Liang chose the difficult Bound Spirit Zombie technique because he believed he could use zombies from the Resident Evil World to overcome its obstacles. He decided to seek pills and a protective artifact, then met Xie Ling'er at the Outer Sect market with the item she had requested.

• Xiao Liang obtained the Bound Spirit Zombie technique from the Outer Sect elder, who warned that refining it required vast resources and powerful magical energy.
• Xiao Liang studied the technique and realized that the Resident Evil World's abundant zombies could provide corpses and fight one another without him controlling them.
• Xiao Liang planned to obtain spirit pills from Xie Ling'er and borrow a magical artifact for protection before attempting the refinement.
• Xiao Liang went to the Outer Sect market carrying a bamboo box and called out to Xie Ling'er, saying he had brought the thing she wanted.

Xiao Liang traded his handmade glassware and thirty-five Spirit Stones to Xie Ling'er for a bottle of Superior Corpse Demon Pills, then encountered Qi Meng and Qi Yunkai violently beating Liang Hao. Liang Hao called for Xiao Liang to save him, and Qi Yunkai confronted Xiao Liang as he tried to leave.

• Xiao Liang gave Xie Ling'er a set of glass test tubes and thirty-five Spirit Stones in exchange for a bottle of Superior Corpse Demon Pills.
• Xiao Liang headed toward the mountaintop platform, where he saw Qi Meng and Qi Yunkai assaulting Liang Hao and emptying his storage pouch.
• Qi Meng kicked Liang Hao while Qi Yunkai ground his boot into Liang Hao's hand, and nearby disciples watched without intervening.
• Liang Hao spotted Xiao Liang and shouted for him to save him, drawing Qi Yunkai's attention.
• Qi Yunkai accused Xiao Liang of discourtesy for trying to leave, and Xiao Liang realized a confrontation was unavoidable.

Xiao Liang challenged Qi Yunkai’s claim to seniority and defeated him with a martial arts sweep after Qi Yunkai attacked. Qi Meng then charged Xiao Liang, revealing a formidable physique and the Corpse-Iron Body spell as the confrontation continued.

• Xiao Liang pointed out that he and Qi Yunkai were both at the Third Level of Qi Refining, and refused to call him senior brother.
• When Qi Yunkai stomped on Liang Hao and attacked Xiao Liang with Yin Demon Claw, Xiao Liang mocked him and dodged the strike.
• Xiao Liang hit Qi Yunkai with a Scorpion Tail Sweep, sending him stumbling back in pain and humiliating him before the crowd.
• Qi Meng accused Xiao Liang of attacking from behind and charged him, while Qi Yunkai taunted Xiao Liang about Qi Meng’s strength and background.
• Xiao Liang recognized that Qi Meng had cultivated Corpse-Iron Body as Qi Meng charged and shouted, “Die!”

Xiao Liang defeated Qi Meng by using Ghost Shadow Step to lure him off the mountaintop, then took storage pouches from him and Qi Yunkai. He spent much of the loot on talismans and demon beast flesh and blood for his plans to refine corpses across worlds.

• Xiao Liang used Ghost Shadow Step to evade Qi Meng's attacks, struck his vital points, and tricked him into charging off the cliff.
• Xiao Liang stopped Qi Yunkai from leaving and demanded his storage pouch as loot after Qi Yunkai had lost to him.
• Xiao Liang took one hundred and twenty Spirit Stones and various materials from the two pouches, including an incomplete method for refining a mirror-type artifact.
• Xiao Liang spent eighty Spirit Stones on low-grade talismans and bought one thousand jin of demon beast meat and five barrels of beast blood.
• Xiao Liang planned to use the demon beast flesh and blood to lure zombies for his corpse-refining plans.

Xiao Liang visited Xie Ling'er at the Elixir Hall, collected Superior Corpse Demon Pills and discarded pills for his corpse-refinement experiments, then obtained permission to leave the mountain in search of materials. He set out to prepare for the Little Ghost Hall competition in six months.

• Xiao Liang surveyed the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern and saw mortal laborers being cruelly forced to excavate a cliff.
• Xiao Liang visited the Elixir Hall, where Xie Ling'er gave him high-quality Superior Corpse Demon Pills and said her improved work might earn her a chance to become an alchemist's disciple.
• Xie Ling'er warned Xiao Liang to strengthen his magical power and combat methods before the Little Ghost Hall competition in half a year.
• Xiao Liang asked for the Elixir Hall's waste pills to use in his corpse-refinement experiments, and Xie Ling'er gave him a bundle.
• Xiao Liang requested permission from an outer sect elder to leave the mountain for materials and received a Refined Iron Token as his pass.

Xiao Liang traveled from the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern to an apocalyptic parallel world he identified as Big Apple City, hoping to obtain materials for refining a zombie. He gathered over a hundred thousand zombies in the city stadium and prepared a potent mixture to feed them, leaving him uneasy about how violently they might mutate.

• Xiao Liang hid in a cave outside the sect and used his ability to travel to a ruined city overrun by zombies.
• He identified the city as Big Apple City and scattered demonic beast flesh across the streets, attracting zombies and discovering that eating it rapidly strengthened and mutated them.
• Xiao Liang decided to raise a high-quality zombie and spent three days luring at least a hundred thousand zombies into the city's stadium before sealing its entrances.
• He placed demonic beast flesh and blood on the stadium's steel framework, then mixed discarded pills into barrels of blood to prepare a powerful feed.
• After seeing the mixture bubble and corrode the iron rod, Xiao Liang hesitated over the potentially extreme mutations it could cause in the zombies.

Xiao Liang used specially prepared beast blood and demonic beast meat to trigger mutations among the stadium’s zombies, observing several powerful and bizarre new forms. After the meat ran out, the zombies began devouring one another, and even the survivors started cocooning.

• Xiao Liang poured boiling beast blood onto demonic beast meat, and a zombie exposed to it dissolved into a cocoon before emerging as a clawed mutant.
• Xiao Liang scattered the meat among more than a hundred thousand zombies; many exploded after eating it, while black-red Baleful Qi rose from the bloody ground and affected the survivors.
• Xiao Liang observed the Clawed Zombie fight its way to the meat, kill a spider-like mutant, consume its blood core, and develop metallic scales.
• Xiao Liang watched other mutants emerge, including an abdominal Air Cannon zombie, a rooted Flesh Flower, and a towering giant.
• After the zombies devoured all the meat, they kept rampaging, began eating one another, and even the victors started cocooning.

Xiao Liang set his mutated zombies against one another to choose a powerful natal Spirit Zombie, hoping to strengthen himself before the Little Ghost Hall grand competition. Just as the Clawed Zombie and Giant Zombie prepared to fight for the Corpse Demon Pill, the Flesh Flower suddenly seized it with a moving root.

• Xiao Liang decided that the zombie surviving the stadium’s slaughter would become his Spirit Zombie, since his cultivation had stalled and the grand competition was approaching.
• After hours of slaughter, only the Clawed Zombie, Giant Zombie, and Flesh Flower remained alive in the stadium.
• Xiao Liang judged the Clawed Zombie and Giant Zombie suitable for refining, while he considered the immobile Flesh Flower less useful in battle.
• Xiao Liang merged his blood essence with a high-grade Corpse Demon Pill and threw it between the Clawed Zombie and Giant Zombie to provoke a final fight.
• A root from the Flesh Flower suddenly moved with great speed and wrapped around the Corpse Demon Pill, startling Xiao Liang.

Xiao Liang watched the Flesh Flower devour the Corpse Demon Pill and overpower the two mutated zombies, then tried to save the Giant Zombie and retrieve the pill. As he reached the flower, its roots withered and a pale wing emerged from its petals.

• The Clawed Zombie severed the root holding the Corpse Demon Pill, but the Giant Zombie knocked it away and swallowed the pill.
• The Flesh Flower bound the Giant Zombie, pulled the pill from its throat, and devoured the Clawed Zombie when it tried to attack.
• Xiao Liang used an Explosive Flame Talisman to free the crippled Giant Zombie, then entered the Flesh Flower's territory to retrieve the pill.
• Xiao Liang advanced through the flower's roots with Ghost Shadow Step and Wind Blade Talismans, but the roots suddenly withered as their energy flowed into the flower.
• The Flesh Flower's petals tore open, revealing a pale, bone-white wing.

Xiao Liang witnessed the Flesh Flower evolve into a Flying Yaksha and formed a faint spiritual connection with her, but she escaped before he could subdue her. As he pursued her east, survivors in an underground Resident Evil world base identified him in satellite footage and found an image of him from a year earlier.

• The Flesh Flower's shell peeled away to reveal a Flying Yaksha, who struck Xiao Liang and then circled him warily.
• Xiao Liang sensed that the blood essence imprint in the Corpse Demon Pill had formed a spiritual connection with the Flying Yaksha, but he realized it could not yet control her.
• The Flying Yaksha rejected Xiao Liang's attempts to approach and smashed through the stadium's glass dome to fly away in search of prey.
• Xiao Liang followed the spiritual connection east using Ghost Shadow Step and spotted the Flying Yaksha in the clouds.
• Survivors in an underground base watched satellite footage of Xiao Liang chasing the Flying Yaksha and matched him to a figure recorded in a desert town a year earlier.

Xiao Liang pursued the Flying Yaksha across Big Apple City and discovered that armed human survivors were trying to capture her. A drone contacted him and asked him to stay, but Xiao Liang told them their world was already destroyed.

• Xiao Liang recovered his spiritual power and realized the Flying Yaksha could not replenish her energy in this world, which might eventually make her easier to subdue.
• Xiao Liang followed the Flying Yaksha’s trail and found the remains of zombies she had attacked, but none had been eaten.
• Xiao Liang found the Flying Yaksha under attack from an armed helicopter firing missiles and a sniper.
• Xiao Liang realized surviving human factions had detected him and considered retreating, but a drone approached and asked him not to leave.
• Xiao Liang told the drone that its world had already been destroyed, and the drone fell silent.

Xiao Liang negotiated with the Lighthouse Organization after demonstrating that his talisman could cure a zombie, and considered trading talismans for weapons. He left the organization with a condition: help him capture the escaped Flying Yaksha first.

• The Lighthouse Organization identified Xiao Liang as a visitor from another world and asked whether he could save their world from the biohazard virus.
• Xiao Liang said he knew several ways to purify the virus but could not cleanse an entire planet at his current level.
• Xiao Liang used a Detoxification Talisman to turn a zombie back into a corpse, demonstrating its power to the Lighthouse Organization.
• The Lighthouse Organization offered to trade for the talismans and promised to honor Xiao Liang as humanity’s savior if he could eventually purify the world.
• Xiao Liang agreed to discuss a trade but demanded that the Lighthouse Organization help him capture the fleeing Flying Yaksha first.

Xiao Liang pursued the Flying Yaksha into a storm and discovered her extraordinary regeneration and strength. After she attacked the helicopter, he offered her his blood and urged her to come with him, leaving her tempted by the spiritual energy in it.

• Xiao Liang tracked the Flying Yaksha by their spiritual connection as the Black Hawk Helicopter followed her into the wilderness beneath gathering storm clouds.
• Xiao Liang ordered the helicopter to fly low and attack without powerful weapons, and his control technique stunned the Flying Yaksha long enough for bullets to strike her.
• The Flying Yaksha regenerated from her bullet wounds, then vanished as the storm arrived.
• The Flying Yaksha attacked the helicopter, but Xiao Liang pulled the machine gunner out of reach and spoke to her through their spiritual connection.
• Xiao Liang offered his blood and invited the Flying Yaksha to come with him, and she licked the blood from her face, trembling at its spiritual energy.

Xiao Liang subdued the Flying Yaksha, named her Pandora, and brought her to a Lighthouse Organization base to discuss a trade between worlds. The Lighthouse representatives learned he could not evacuate living people, and Xiao Liang was ushered into a conference room while the base kept its residential and research areas off-limits.

• Xiao Liang emerged from the helicopter exhausted after helping the Flying Yaksha evolve, then named her Pandora.
• Xiao Liang promised Pandora more spiritual energy after returning to the Sky Mist Continent and recovered some mana, though his depleted blood essence threatened his lifespan.
• Xiao Liang told the Lighthouse Organization combatants that he was ready to discuss a deal, and they flew him and Pandora to a mountain base.
• A middle-aged Lighthouse representative welcomed Xiao Liang and grew excited at the prospect of leaving the apocalyptic world.
• Xiao Liang explained that he could take Pandora because she was not considered a living being, but could not transport living people.
• The middle-aged man invited Xiao Liang into the base but refused to show him its residential and research areas.

Xiao Liang traded Detoxification Talismans to the Lighthouse Organization for firearms and equipment, then returned with Pandora to the Sky Mist Continent. Pandora rapidly reached Qi Refining, First Layer, and Xiao Liang decided to delay returning to his sect while the bond with his Life-Bound Zombie strengthened.

• Xiao Liang exchanged mana-infused Detoxification Talismans with Lighthouse for a list of firearms, rocket launchers, and grenades, and received a communication wristband.
• Xiao Liang stored Pandora in his storage pouch and traveled back to the Sky Mist Continent.
• Pandora broke free of the cave entrance and absorbed spiritual energy, reaching Qi Refining, First Layer in less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Xiao Liang decided not to return to Ten Thousand Demon Cavern yet because Pandora's Flying Corpse aptitude could attract attempts to seize her.
• Xiao Liang planned to let his mental connection with Pandora deepen so that anyone who forcibly took her would damage her aptitude.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Xiao Liang traveled to Yan Kingdom to seek information and experience at a rogue cultivator market. He entered Storm Market under the alias Ghost Shadow and learned that a formation concealed the town.

• Pandora completed her breakthrough, and the spiritual energy she returned to Xiao Liang stabilized his Third Level of Qi Refining cultivation.
• Xiao Liang decided to travel through Yan Kingdom and seek out a rogue cultivator market rather than wander aimlessly.
• After Xiao Liang revealed a trace of magical power in a city, he received an invitation to Storm Market and spent two days checking its reputation.
• At the invitation's location, Xiao Liang met Xu Qingfeng, a bookstore owner and Storm Market steward, and gave the alias Ghost Shadow.
• Xu Qingfeng used a jade pendant to lead Xiao Liang through a barrier into Storm Market and explained that the Little Illusory Scene Formation concealed the town.

Xiao Liang explored Storm Market with Xu Qingfeng, who showed him the market’s informal stalls and reputable shops. They encountered a cultivator using a Bewitchment Technique, and Xu Qingfeng explained why he avoided her advances.

• Xiao Liang paid Xu Qingfeng one Spirit Stone to explain Storm Market’s hidden places.
• Xu Qingfeng led Xiao Liang through Flea Alley, where independent cultivators sold an unpredictable mix of genuine and dubious goods.
• Xiao Liang declined to browse the stalls and followed Xu Qingfeng toward Spirit Treasure Street’s established shops.
• Sister Hong used a Bewitchment Technique on Xiao Liang and Xu Qingfeng, but Xiao Liang resisted it and Xu Qingfeng begged her to stop.
• Xu Qingfeng hurried Xiao Liang away and explained that Sister Hong’s cultivation technique drained men’s vital essence.

Xiao Liang searched for a Corpse-Nurturing Bag to make Pandora more comfortable and found an unusually large one at the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion. After discovering it lacked the array patterns needed to nurture a zombie, he reconsidered buying it when Pandora reacted strangely through their mental connection.

• Pandora grew restless inside Xiao Liang's storage bag, so he promised to buy her a Corpse-Nurturing Bag.
• Xiao Liang and Xu Qingfeng entered the Hundred Artifacts Pavilion after seeing a white-clad woman buy a flying sword.
• Xiao Liang asked the shopkeeper for a Corpse-Nurturing Bag, and Xu Qingfeng grew wary of his interest in zombies.
• The shopkeeper offered Xiao Liang a large, unusual Corpse-Nurturing Bag for fifty Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Liang discovered that the bag lacked Yin-Gathering Array Patterns and began to return it, but Pandora's unusual reaction made him reconsider.

After discovering that the beast-hide bag was worthless, Xiao Liang sought work and registered with Storm Tower as the Bronze-Badge Guest Ghost Shadow. He chose an Ancient Battlefield Ruins expedition and found a familiar woman in white waiting in the mission compartment.

• Xiao Liang realized he had wasted his money on the beast-hide bag and asked Xu Qingfeng how to earn Spirit Stones.
• Xu Qingfeng directed Xiao Liang to Storm Tower, where cultivators accepted missions for rewards.
• Xiao Liang registered as Ghost Shadow and received a Bronze badge.
• Xiao Liang chose a two-month group mission to explore the Ancient Battlefield Ruins for a guaranteed fifty Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Liang entered compartment Third B and found a familiar woman in white with a new flying sword on the table.