Chapter Summaries

Long Xuan escaped Feng Si’s pursuit, returned home, and began refining Water Bear Gu before designing an extraordinarily dangerous body-refining technique. The chapter left the technique’s first outline complete, with Long Xuan planning for his Flame Clone to cultivate it and bear its risks.

• Feng Si pursued Long Xuan, but Dragon Gu killed the Decay Gu, allowing Long Xuan to escape.
• The little medicine boy used Blood Escape repeatedly with Cockroach Gu and vanished from his pursuer, while Di Xin returned to the cave dwelling and found its treasure gone.
• Long Xuan transplanted the fire dragon fruit tree and began refining Water Bear Gu from more than four thousand Supreme-grade Water Bears.
• Long Xuan studied Nine Deaths Divine Art for three days and drafted a body-refining technique based on magma, frigid energy, Heavenly Flame, and Heavenly Tribulation.
• Long Xuan decided that his Flame Clone would cultivate the dangerous technique so he could benefit from its results without taking the risks himself.

Long Xuan drew inspiration from the Reverse Dragon Art to develop the Purgatory True Demon Art and its matching Life-and-Death Gate, while his Water Bear Gu, mutated Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, and clones advanced his preparations. By the end, he had completed the forbidden art, neared the Marrow Cleansing Stage, and sent his Flame Clone to cultivate the new method in magma.

• Long Xuan struggled to design a divine ability for his new cultivation method, while Old Daoist Li and the Qian Clan Merchant Association found the cave dwelling stripped bare and blamed Di Xin for taking its treasures.
• Long Xuan discovered the Reverse Dragon Art and used its External Dharma Form as inspiration to create a more ambitious divine ability for his cultivation method.
• Over two years, Long Xuan completed the Water Bear Gu and named his new method the Purgatory True Demon Art; his transplanted Fire Dragon Fruit Tree mutated to produce both fire and ice fruit.
• Long Xuan completed the first level, the Magma Swimming Chapter, and sent his Flame Clone into the cave’s magma to cultivate it with the Water Bear Gu and healing pills.
• Long Xuan designed the eight-form Life-and-Death Gate to exploit the Purgatory True Demon Art’s immortality, then spent a year completing it as his clones brought him close to the Marrow Cleansing Stage.
• Long Xuan developed Ghost-God Power by combining the eight gates’ energies and devised a powerful attack that could be channeled through a Divine Dragon Manifestation.

Long Xuan tried to discover why he could not condense an External Dharma Form and decided to infiltrate the Long Family to search for the answer and its powerful inheritances. After the servant selection rejected him because of his Ten Extremity Physique, he planned to use Old Long’s rising status to get a clone into the Long Family.

• Long Xuan suspected that condensing an External Dharma Form required a creature-related medium, but could not figure out how the Long Family had solved the problem.
• Long Xuan visited Great Stone Village’s servant selection and considered sending a clone to infiltrate the Long Family and copy its library.
• The Long Family Gu cultivators rejected Long Xuan’s Water Clone because he had the Ten Extremity Physique, and they rejected Long Xuan himself when he tried next.
• Long Xuan decided he still needed a way into the Long Family to investigate its inheritances and the secret of the Dharma Form.
• Long Xuan went to Old Long, hoping to have a clone accompany him when his new Spiritual Sea Stage status and alchemy prospects took him away from Great Stone Village.

Long Xuan’s clone was exposed by Old Long, who mistook his technique for the Sun-Moon Heart Sutra and recruited him as a medicine boy after learning of his Ten Extremity Physique. Long Xuan discovered he had distant Long Family blood, then helped Old Long become a Third-Grade Alchemist and was promoted to personal disciple.

• Long Xuan sent Wood Clone to deliver spirit herbs, but Old Long saw through his concealed cultivation and identified the clone as an Externalized Clone from the Sun-Moon Heart Sutra.
• Old Long offered to train Long Xuan, gave him the Violet Demon Flame Formula, and explained that Long Xuan had Long Family blood through generations of descendants born to mortal women.
• Old Long revealed that Long Lie was Long Xuan’s only living relative in the Long Family, while Long Xuan decided to use his new position to learn the clan’s inheritances before leaving.
• Over the next half year, Long Xuan became Old Long’s medicine boy and then registered disciple, pretending to learn alchemy while helping Old Long refine a Third-Grade Spirit Pill.
• Long Xuan used precise flame control to help Old Long successfully refine Third-Grade Spirit Pills, and Old Long promoted him to personal disciple.

Long Xuan arrived at the Long Family with Old Long, discovered his master had no money and a bare mountain to restore, and learned about the family’s bloodline requirements and internal affairs. While touring the family with Long Qilin, he found Golden Crow Blood in the Treasure Repository and set out to learn how to earn the Contribution Points needed to obtain it.

• Long Xuan traveled with Old Long to the Long Family and found Old Long’s mountain stripped bare by creditors, leaving him to replant it without funds.
• Long Wanli and the clan elders discussed mining disputes with the Feng Clan, considered sending Long Qilin and Long Ziyan to arena battles, and celebrated Old Long’s rise to Third-Grade Alchemist while lamenting that the news had spread.
• Long Xuan learned from Long Qilin that the Reverse Dragon Art’s Dharma Form required a sufficiently pure bloodline, and that obtaining Long Ziyan’s vital blood was dangerous.
• Long Qilin guided Long Xuan around the Long Family’s halls, school, arenas, and other facilities before bringing him to the Treasure Repository.
• Long Xuan found Golden Crow Blood listed for fifty million Family Contribution Points and asked Long Qilin how to earn them.

Long Xuan learned that the Long Family rewarded powerful, cost-effective Gu Recipes with contribution points and decided to create one to obtain the Golden Crow Blood. He began experimenting with dung beetles, aiming to make a cheap Gu Insect with immense strength that ate soil instead of dung.

• Long Qilin explained the Long Family's ways to earn contribution points and described the permanent task that rewarded clan-exclusive Gu Recipes.
• Long Qilin told Long Xuan that a low-cost, widely useful recipe could earn tens of millions of contribution points, and Long Xuan resolved to create one.
• Long Xuan returned to Little Poverty Peak and began designing a low-grade Gu Recipe using cheap, neglected Spirit Insects.
• Long Xuan chose dung beetles for their extraordinary strength and planned to enlarge them without reducing their strength relative to their weight.
• Long Xuan wrote a recipe concept to increase the dung beetles' size, preserve their strength ratio, and change their diet from dung to free soil.

Long Xuan created the low-cost Earthworker Gu, developed its combat potential with armor and evolution paths, and submitted it to the Long Family. After the clan embraced the recipe, Long Qilin showed off his Earthworker—and its dung ball caused chaos at the dining hall.

• Long Xuan returned to his medicine garden, created the Earthworker Gu Recipe, and refined a huge juvenile Earthworker that ate soil and stored dirt balls in its mouth.
• Long Xuan developed Earthworker’s battlefield role, outfitted it with thick iron armor, and recorded its evolution paths through Spirit Soil and spirit-beast dung.
• Long Xuan submitted Earthworker and its recipe to the Long Family, whose leaders tested it before approving it for promotion throughout the clan.
• Long Qilin told Long Xuan that Earthworker had become a popular, powerful, and affordable Gu, then summoned his own Earthworker to show it off.
• Long Xuan realized Long Qilin’s Earthworker was rolling a dung ball, but the stench reached the dining hall and made the Long Family Gu cultivators vomit and curse.

Long Xuan received a hundred million contribution points and a Hidden Dragon Tattoo from the Long Family Ancestor for creating the Earthworker Gu Recipe, then spent most of his reward on treasures, including Golden Crow Blood and a spatial ring. When he went to ask Old Long about his accumulated cultivation questions, Old Long sent him to find an unknown senior sister, so Long Xuan approached Long Qilin and learned the Long Family was promoting Earthworkers through competitions.

• Long Qilin’s Earthworker hurled a dung ball onto a house, starting a chaotic mess across the Long Family and earning Long Xuan a summons from the Lineage’s higher-ups.
• The Long Family Ancestor awarded Long Xuan a hundred million contribution points, opened most secret inheritances to him, and presented him with three cultivation books.
• Long Granny tattooed Long Xuan with a Hidden Dragon Tattoo, which appeared when he sweated or bled and could slightly boost his combat power.
• Long Xuan spent most of his contribution points at the Treasure Repository, buying Golden Crow Blood, a spatial ring, and other supplies while keeping his purchases private.
• Old Long refused to answer Long Xuan’s questions and told him to consult his senior sister, so Long Xuan went to Long Qilin for help finding her.
• Long Qilin explained that the Long Family had organized three Earthworker competitions to encourage clan members to refine Earthworkers and spread them throughout the clan.

Long Xuan went to find his Senior Sister, Long Ziyan, at the Silkworm Chamber, where he learned about her Dragon Silkworm Gu and the family’s upcoming tomb raid. After hearing that the tomb’s Medicine Garden still held Spirit-Ascending Grass that could aid his breakthrough, he bought Long Tian’s map and decided to consider joining the expedition.

• Long Qilin told Long Xuan that his Senior Sister was Long Ziyan, Old Long’s daughter, and directed him to the Silkworm Chamber.
• Long Xuan found Long Ziyan at the Silkworm Chamber, where Long Yan fought Long Bao over Dragon Silkworm Silk using an Earthworker Gu.
• Long Xuan learned that the Dragon Silkworm Gu produced valuable silk and considered seeking its recipe and developing a defensive silkworm garment.
• Long Tian told Long Xuan that the Yao Guang Empress’s Tomb still contained Spirit-Ascending Grass in its dangerous Medicine Garden, where a rabbit had scattered the seeds.
• Long Tian explained that only Spirit Gathering Stage Gu cultivators could enter the tomb, and Long Xuan decided the expedition might be worth the risk.
• Long Xuan bought Long Tian’s ancient tomb map for one thousand contribution points.

Long Xuan obtained a second-grade Dragon Silkworm Robe from Long Ziyan and studied the Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe while imagining a new, all-encompassing defensive garment. Seven days later, he joined the Spirit Gathering Stage expedition to the ancient tomb, where Long Qilin warned him to escape before sunrise and asked him to look for Spirit Soil.

• Long Xuan bought a map of the ancient tomb and decided to prepare for the expedition, then asked Long Ziyan for a Dragon Silkworm Robe.
• Long Ziyan gave Long Xuan her second-grade Dragon Silkworm Silk and had her clone weave it into a robe, while Long Xuan paid one million Contribution Points for the Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe.
• Long Xuan studied the recipe and began planning a new energy-form silkworm garment that could protect his whole body from physical and other attacks.
• Seven days later, Long Xuan gathered with the Spirit Gathering Stage cultivators at the Drill Ground and spotted Long Yan, Long Bao, and Long Ziyan's disguised clone among the participants.
• Long Qilin warned Long Xuan that the tomb became far more dangerous at sunrise, urged him to stay near Long Ziyan, and asked him to bring back Mid-Grade Spirit Soil if possible.

Long Xuan joined the Long Family’s expedition to a dangerous tomb and received warnings from its leader, Long Lie, before traveling there aboard the family’s heirloom dragon boat. At the gathering of the Seven Clans, Long Lie challenged Feng Yu to a contest over who would reap the greatest harvest, and Long Xuan began to suspect the other clans might also be hiding powerful entrants.

• Long Lie found Long Xuan, warned him to leave the tomb before dawn and avoid major-clan geniuses, and advised him to stay close to Long Ziyan.
• Long Lie asked Long Xuan for liquor to brew wine Gu, then led the mission party aboard the Long Family’s supreme-grade dragon boat.
• Long Ziyan sat beside Long Xuan during the flight and read a book written in divine script, which sparked his interest in learning it.
• The Long Family arrived at the tomb site, where Feng Yu mocked Long Lie for being late and Shi Jian intervened to calm their dispute.
• Long Lie challenged Feng Yu to wager on whose team would collect the greatest harvest, and Long Xuan worried that the other clans might also be smuggling powerful clones into the tomb.

Long Xuan discovered that Gu Kings had infiltrated several clans as the leaders assembled a wager of seven High-Grade Unusual Gu Insects, then entered the Empress's Tomb with the other Gu cultivators. The group split up in the underground maze, and Long Xuan's party encountered a Blood Earthworm that swallowed a cultivator.

• Long Xuan used his observations to identify a reincarnated Gu King among the Lei Clan and Gu King avatars among the Feng Clan and Gu Clan, then tried to warn Long Lie.
• Long Lie wagered an Unusual Gu with Feng Yu and coaxed the other clans into joining, until seven High-Grade Unusual Gu Insects were placed in an Insect-Rearing Pouch as the prize.
• Long Lie promised Long Xuan a Supreme-grade Spirit Silkworm and lent him an Image-Recording Gu before the clans entered the tomb.
• Long Xuan entered the tunnel with the crowd and followed the route toward the Medicine Garden, where Long Bao, Long Yan, and a Gu Clan Gu King avatar were also headed.
• The group split among the underground cave's branching passages, and a Blood Earthworm burst from the ground, swallowed a Gu cultivator, and disappeared.

Long Xuan and the others escaped the Blood Earthworms and reached a vast Medicine Garden, where invisible attacks killed Feng Clan cultivators gathering Spirit-Ascending Grass. After Long Ziyan identified the threat as Dream Butterfly Gu, Long Xuan realized his ability to see their locations might let him harvest the grass safely, and chose to stay.

• Long Bao and Long Yan rode armored Earthworkers through the Blood Earthworms’ pursuit while Long Xuan sent his Flame Clone ahead with an Image-Recording Gu to document the Gu King clone.
• The group reached an enormous Illusion Realm filled with Spirit-Ascending Grass and found a white rabbit that Long Xuan suspected was the sentient spirit medicine.
• Feng Clan villagers entered the garden to gather grass, but invisible attacks severed their heads while the Feng Clan Gu King collected ten stalks.
• Long Bao and Long Yan argued over who should send an Earthworker into the garden until Long Ziyan warned them that a Dream Butterfly Gu could attack spiritually and evade nearly all defenses.
• Long Ziyan said she had come to see the cute rabbit and invited Long Xuan to leave, but he stayed after reasoning that his vision might reveal the Dream Butterfly Gu’s locations.

Long Xuan watched the Medicine Garden’s Dream Butterfly Gu kill many would-be herb gatherers before Miao Dongdong discovered that the rabbit would trade Spirit-Ascending Grass for treasures. As the crowd traded with the rabbit, Long Xuan suspected the two Gu Kings were planning to kill everyone and seize the herbs.

• Long Ziyan, Long Yan, and another man left while Long Xuan stayed behind to study the rabbit.
• A group of aged Gu cultivators entered the Medicine Garden, where the Dream Butterfly Gu killed most of them, though a few escaped with Spirit-Ascending Grass.
• Miao Dongdong offered the rabbit high-grade Spirit Herbs, bargained it down to a one-for-one trade, and received two hundred Spirit-Ascending Grasses for two hundred carefully selected herbs.
• People in the crowd exchanged treasures for Spirit-Ascending Grass, while the rabbit rejected Long Xuan’s carrot and traded a single weed for each treasure it accepted.
• Long Xuan noticed that the two Gu Kings were not trading and feared they intended to kill everyone and monopolize the Spirit-Ascending Grass.

Long Xuan’s clone recorded the Gu Clan Ancestor and Feng Clan Ancestor massacring everyone in the tomb, then survived by playing dead inside the Medicine Garden. After Long Xuan recovered the recording and gathered Spirit-Ascending Grass, he set his sights on exploring the sleeping hall for the tomb-suppressing treasure.

• The Gu Clan Ancestor defeated Miao Dongdong’s supreme-grade Gu worms, and the Feng Clan Ancestor swallowed Miao Dongdong and the Regeneration Gu with his spider.
• The two Gu Kings agreed to divide the spoils, killed their own clansmen and the old man with seventy stalks of Spirit-Ascending Grass, then slaughtered the remaining Gu cultivators.
• The Feng Clan Ancestor struck Long Xuan’s clone after discovering the recording, sending him into the Medicine Garden, where he survived by playing dead as the Gu Kings left.
• Long Xuan entered the tomb, found his clone and the invisible Dream Butterfly Gu with his Eye of Heavenly Secrets, then retrieved the clone and learned what had happened.
• Long Xuan used Starstep to evade the Dream Butterfly Gu and gathered three hundred stalks of Spirit-Ascending Grass before stopping to save time for the sleeping hall.

Long Xuan captured the sentient spirit herb rabbit and plundered its rare treasures before leaving the Medicine Garden. Elsewhere, Long Ziyan fought the Lei Clan, whose ancestor plotted to force her into marriage with Lei Yiming, and the chapter left her still battling as another Gu Master died.

• Long Xuan spotted the rabbit hiding underground, seized it, and put it in his Insect-Rearing Pouch.
• Long Xuan confiscated the rabbit’s treasures, recovered his clone’s pouches, dug Spirit Soil for Long Qilin, and left the Medicine Garden.
• The Lei Clan ancestor told Lei Yiming the story of Long Ziyan’s mother, Long Hongyu, and explained why Long Ziyan rejected love and marriage.
• The Lei Clan ancestor persuaded Lei Yiming to force a marriage with Long Ziyan, while the Lei Clan Gu Masters tried to exhaust her without damaging her skin.
• Long Ziyan was struck in the back during the fight, but her frigid yin qi killed another Lei Clan Gu Master.

Long Xuan rescued Long Ziyan from the Lei Clan pursuers and escaped with her across a lava sea, then joined her in examining murals that suggested the tomb belonged to one of the Yaoguang Empress’s clones. Long Ziyan explained that the real empress had ascended to the Spirit World, leaving Long Xuan to reconsider the tomb’s identity and treasures.

• Long Xuan recognized Long Ziyan among the Lei Clan’s besiegers and used the Dragon Gu to kill seven pursuers before fleeing with her.
• Long Xuan carried Long Ziyan across the lava sea using Starstep, leaving the Lei Clan unable to follow.
• In a cave, Long Xuan and Long Ziyan spent three hours together; when he proposed becoming dual-cultivation partners, she refused.
• Long Xuan followed Long Ziyan to a burial chamber, where murals depicted the Yaoguang Empress and the final war against the Ancient Reincarnation Kingdom.
• Long Xuan and Long Ziyan concluded that the tomb might hold a clone rather than the real Yaoguang Empress, and Long Ziyan said the empress had ascended to the Spirit World.

Long Xuan and Long Ziyan investigated the tomb’s bedchamber from a distance, but a deadly illusion created by a strange Demon Flower attacked Long Xuan. After escaping, Long Xuan realized the flower might have awakened the Yaoguang Empress, and Long Ziyan suspected the flower came from the Demon Realm.

• Long Xuan and Long Ziyan observed the bedchamber, where they saw the Yaoguang Empress’s apparent corpse, a strange Demon Flower, and the bodies of the Feng Clan and Gu Clan ancestors.
• Long Xuan noticed that Long Ziyan had no progress bar and dodged an attack from an illusion disguised as her, then escaped with the real Long Ziyan.
• Long Xuan realized the illusion had likely deceived the two ancestors into fighting each other and that the Demon Flower had caused the deadly attacks.
• Long Xuan concluded the coffin and empress’s corpse were illusions, and feared the awakened Yaoguang Empress had taken the tomb’s treasures.
• Long Ziyan said she did not see the Demon Flower and suggested it might come from another world, such as the Demon Realm, and contain demonic power.

Long Xuan and the others fled the ancient tomb as its daytime dangers emerged early and the Dream Butterfly Gu slaughtered the tomb robbers. After the grave robbers’ tunnel collapsed, Long Xuan blamed the Lei Clan patriarch, accidentally exposing the truth and triggering a bloody fight as Long Ziyan’s Earthworker dug them a way out.

• Long Xuan decided to leave the Demon Flower and other hidden treasures in the tomb, taking only the Spirit-Ascending Grass as Long Ziyan rushed him toward the exit.
• Long Xuan, Long Ziyan, Long Yan, and Long Bao encountered Stiffening Insects controlling corpses, and Long Ziyan used an Earthworker to block the pursuing horde.
• The Dream Butterfly Gu escaped its activity range and killed tomb robbers indiscriminately as the four hurried toward the grave robbers’ tunnel.
• Explosion talismans collapsed the tunnel, and Long Xuan accused the Lei Clan patriarch of sealing everyone inside to hide his illegal entry; the accusation was true, and the other clans attacked the Lei Clan Gu cultivators.
• Long Ziyan, Long Yan, and Long Bao released their Earthworkers to dig through the blockage, allowing the survivors to escape as the Dream Butterfly Gu continued its slaughter.

After the survivors escaped the tomb, Long Xuan’s fabricated account turned the clans against the Lei Clan, while he quietly returned evidence of the Gu and Feng Clans’ crimes to Long Lie. The wager then exposed the Long Family’s meager haul, and Long Lie used an Integrity Gu to catch Long Bao hiding treasure as the search continued.

• The survivors accused the Lei Clan of sealing the tomb tunnel and causing the deaths, while the Lei Clan ancestor denied the charges and refused inspection.
• Long Xuan told Long Lie that the Yaoguang Empress might have escaped, then secretly returned the Image-Recording Gu containing evidence against the Gu and Feng Clans.
• The other clans reported hauling out 180 and 175 Spirit-Ascending Grass plants, while Long Ziyan revealed through her silence that she had found nothing.
• Long Bao presented worthless antiques and weapons, but Long Xuan noticed a hidden treasure and Long Lie exposed Long Bao with an Integrity Gu.
• Long Lie ordered Long Bao searched, and Long Yan nervously pulled a necklace from his stomach to reveal another hidden treasure.