Chapter Summaries

After discovering that his Other Self had been hospitalized after encountering a statue of Daoist Chixiao, Zhou Yi recovered and traced the Yin baleful energy in his body to a crack in the statue’s seal. He found that the seal concealed something beneath Kunlun Temple and prepared to open it.

• Zhou Yi destroyed the Other Self’s remaining soul fragments and learned from its memories that it had fainted before Daoist Chixiao’s statue at Kunlun Temple.
• Zhou Yi controlled a nurse to feed him and used Yuan Shen body-tempering to recover while expelling the Yin baleful energy.
• After leaving the hospital, Zhou Yi went to Kunlun Temple and examined the statue of Chixiao in the Patriarch Hall.
• Zhou Yi found a crack in the statue’s pedestal and recognized the Forbidden Seal recorded in the Kunlun Daoist Canon.
• Zhou Yi decided to open the seal and investigate what it concealed.

Zhou Yi broke the Forbidden Seal beneath Kunlun Temple’s Patriarch Hall, releasing yin baleful qi and opening a spatial rift that let spiritual qi enter the world. The temple’s Daoists discovered that Ling Qing had the patriarch’s Yin-Yang Bagua Disk, and the disk awakened when he infused it with qi.

• Zhou Yi damaged the Forbidden Seal, allowing yin spiritual qi to circulate and revealing a spatial rift beneath the Patriarch Hall.
• True Lord Qiong Cang told the gathered Daoists that a great demon had been sealed beneath the hall, while the baleful qi faded and left the rift behind.
• Ling Yun found Ling Qing asleep amid the ruined hall, and the patriarch’s Yin-Yang Bagua Disk fell from Ling Qing’s robes.
• Qiong Yu confirmed that the disk was the one held by the patriarch’s statue, and Qiong Cang asked Ling Qing to direct his qi into it.
• Ling Qing infused the disk with qi, causing it to shine and send information into his mind.

Ling Qing revealed Patriarch Chixiao’s warning about the Spiritual Energy Revival and passed Kunlun’s lost cultivation method and a ghost-sacrificing compass to the temple’s True Lords. Kunlun Temple proposed working with the state, which began investigating the claims but still needed to find a ghost to test the compass.

• Ling Qing told Kunlun’s True Lords that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy would revive and harmful ghosts would appear, then recited the Supreme Grotto-Abyss Samadhi Divine Incantation.
• Qiong Ying recognized the incantation from the Kunlun Dao Scripture, convincing the True Lords that the patriarch’s inheritance was real.
• Ling Qing explained that the Spirit Offering Compass could sacrifice wandering souls and ghosts to produce spiritual energy, and the assembled Daoists thanked the patriarch.
• After the True Lords debated potential allies, Ling Qing suggested working directly with the state, and Qiong Cang contacted important officials overnight.
• The state examined Ling Qing’s extraordinary physical abilities and tasked Team Leader Chen with verifying the cultivation method and compass.
• Team Leader Chen concluded that officials needed to capture a ghost to test the compass, but they did not know where to find one.

Zhou Yi secretly accelerated his cultivation at Kunlun Temple while Zhou Ji, a broke new cultivator, spotted a chance to earn money by exorcising a ghost. Zhou Ji arrived at Wei Hongbo’s villa to investigate the haunting, sensing yin energy but not yet confronting the ghost.

• Zhou Yi refined the Chixiao statue into a magical artifact that drew spiritual energy from the rift, reaching the peak of Qi Induction into Body in half a year before sealing away the summons to ascend.
• Zhou Ji struggled to afford cultivation after quitting his job and spending his savings on body-tempering ingredients.
• Zhou Ji found a forum post seeking a ghost-catching expert and realized he could use his Spirit Fire Technique to earn money.
• Zhou Ji introduced himself as Xuan Ji, a lay disciple of Kunlun Temple, and accepted Wei Hongbo’s request to exorcise a ghost.
• At Wei Hongbo’s villa, Zhou Ji learned that the ghost followed Wei wherever he went and sensed a faint trace of yin energy around him.

Zhou Ji captured a wandering soul haunting Wei Hongbo’s villa, then accepted payment and reported that Wei Hongbo may have caused the woman’s death. He revealed the ghost to officers at Chixiao City’s General Public Security Bureau, leaving them able to see her.

• Zhou Ji found a wandering soul in Wei Hongbo’s villa and strengthened her form, learning that she had died in a car accident and blamed Wei Hongbo.
• Zhou Ji sealed the wandering soul in a bead, cleared the villa’s yin energy, and accepted Wei Hongbo’s bank card as payment.
• Zhou Ji checked the card’s one-million balance, transferred the money, and spent most of it ordering medicinal herbs.
• Zhou Ji went to the General Public Security Bureau and reported that Wei Hongbo might have been responsible for the ghost’s death.
• Zhou Ji weakened the Bureau’s Gangsha energy, released the wandering soul, and cast a spell that let the officers see her.

Zhou Ji brought the captured ghost to the Security Bureau, where it went berserk and revealed signs that a cultivator was controlling it. Tang Qiang linked the incident to the Heavenly Corpse Dao and asked Zhou Ji to escort the ghost to the capital, while Zhou Ji declined involvement in the Yang family’s worldly disputes.

• Zhou Ji refused payment for delivering the ghost, and Tang Qiang asked him to escort it to a research institute in the capital.
• Zhang Hao reported that the ghost was trying to escape and hurt people, and Zhou Ji rushed to the interrogation room.
• Zhou Ji concluded that a cultivator was controlling the ghost, and Tang Qiang revealed that Zhou Family Village descended from Xuan Nian, one of Kunlun’s Five Ancestors.
• Tang Qiang identified the Heavenly Corpse Dao as the only local inheritance known for controlling ghosts and provided information about the Yang Clan of Gu'an County.
• Zhou Ji found no clear connection between the Yang family and Wei Hongbo’s attack, declined to involve himself in their disputes, and agreed to escort the ghost to the capital.

After Wei Hongbo and other members of Wei Group were killed, Zhou Ji hurried toward the capital, where Yang Family forces ambushed his vehicle with wandering souls. As Zhou Ji faced a terrifying creature claiming seniority over Kunlun’s Five Ancestors, Zhou Yi sensed a familiar aura in the capital and sent a wooden avatar to investigate.

• Zhou Ji learned from Tang Qiang that Wei Hongbo, another Wei Group shareholder, and several executives had been killed, so he arranged to travel to the capital that night.
• Zhou Ji packed talismans and a century-old thunderstruck peachwood sword, then left for Jiangcheng Airport with Zhang Hao and two armed companions.
• Fog and wandering souls surrounded the vehicle, and Zhou Ji destroyed the attacking souls with talismans and his peachwood sword.
• A towering, sallow-faced creature appeared and claimed that even Kunlun’s Five Ancestors would have to call it senior.
• Zhou Yi sensed the familiar aura from his seclusion at Kunlun Temple, carved a wooden man, and sent it flying toward the aura.

Zhou Ji and the peace officers confronted Yellow-faced, who revealed himself as an ancient Earth Spirit Corpse, but a Wooden Man intervened and subdued him. The Wooden Man identified himself as Zhou Ji’s master and told him to visit Kunlun Temple when he reached the capital.

• Zhou Ji attacked Yellow-faced with lightning talismans and his Peachwood Sword while Zhang Hao and the other peace officers fired, but Yellow-faced effortlessly subdued Zhou Ji and knocked Zhang Hao unconscious.
• Yellow-faced threatened to refine Zhou Ji into an Iron Corpse, then turned to leave rather than fight the authorities directly.
• A gust shattered the Heavenly Corpse Dao formation, and a Wooden Man appeared, recognized Yellow-faced as an Earth Spirit Corpse, and transformed into a silver-haired elder.
• The Wooden Man sealed the earth with Finger Points to Steel, trapping the Earth Spirit Corpse, who emerged and knelt before him as his master.
• The Earth Spirit Corpse explained that Yang Bai’s descendants had unsealed him and that he had manipulated the Yang Family’s actions.
• The Wooden Man left after telling Zhou Ji to visit him at Kunlun Temple, while the Earth Spirit Corpse refused to reveal his master’s identity.

The Wooden Man spared the Yang Family survivors only for the Earth Spirit Corpse to kill them, then met the corpse on a hill and learned how Great Jing collapsed amid spiritual decline and the rise of Netherworld Rifts. The chapter ended with the Wooden Man turning its attention to the Netherworld and its Ghost Kings.

• The Earth Spirit Corpse killed all seven Yang Family members after appearing to let them leave, then vanished as Zhou Ji watched and the authorities arrived.
• The Wooden Man cultivated beneath the moon, and the Earth Spirit Corpse bowed before it and recognized that Ancestor Chixiao had attained a primordial spirit.
• The Earth Spirit Corpse recounted how spiritual energy dwindled, heretical paths spread, and the Dao Palace fought to restore order in Great Jing.
• The Earth Spirit Corpse explained that Song Xiaoyi gained power by offering Blood Food to a Netherworld Ghost King, prompting the five patriarchs to hunt him and seal Netherworld Rifts.
• The Earth Spirit Corpse said the five True Persons severed the spiritual veins to suppress heretical paths, then suffered backlash and dissolved their mortal forms.
• The Wooden Man looked toward the moon and declared that it would deal with the Netherworld and the Ghost Kings.

The Wooden Man freed the Water Spirit Corpse and gathered the other Five Elements Spirit Corpses before heading toward the capital, while the exposed Netherworld Rifts caused yin-fiend energy to spread. At Kunlun Temple, Ling Qing purified a ghost into a spirit crystal, and Zhou Ji joined the temple as Qiong Cang’s disciple.

• The Wooden Man broke the seal on the Water Spirit Corpse, stopped its attack on nearby creatures, and ordered it to follow him.
• The Wooden Man released the Wood, Gold, and Fire Spirit Corpses, then led the five corpses toward the capital as six Netherworld Rifts drove up yin-fiend energy.
• Team Leader Chen directed Ling Qing to use the Spirit Offering Compass on a ghost cultivated by a Yang Family cultivator, and Ling Qing condensed it into a spirit crystal.
• Team Leader Chen sent the spirit crystal to the Spiritual Energy Research Institute for study, while Qiong Cang agreed that Kunlun Temple would share any purification method developed.
• Qiong Cang accepted Zhou Ji as his disciple on his master’s behalf and gave him the Daoist name Qiong Ji.
• Ling Qing greeted Zhou Ji as his martial uncle, and Zhou Ji suggested they address each other as brothers in private.

Zhou Yi gave Zhou Ji a Spirit Offering Compass and ordered the Five Elements Spirit Corpses to recruit talented disciples as part of his plan to conquer the Netherworld’s ghosts. Meanwhile, Lu Qiu used his compass to refine a female ghost into a spirit crystal.

• Zhou Ji followed Ling Qing around Kunlun Temple, then secretly went to the Patriarch Hall after an unseen voice summoned him.
• Zhou Yi gave Zhou Ji a Spirit Offering Compass, warned him that ghost activity would increase, and urged him to fight ghosts as a Kunlun disciple.
• Zhou Yi rejected the Earth Spirit Corpse’s offer to confront the Netherworld Ghost King and distributed more Spirit Offering Compasses for the Five Elements Spirit Corpses to give to talented disciples.
• At Little Lu Supermarket, Lu Qiu trapped a female ghost in a paper figure and activated his Spirit Offering Compass to refine her into a spirit crystal.
• Lu Qiu swallowed the grain-sized spirit crystal to absorb its power.

Lu Qiu received the Nine Yang Art from his Spirit Offering Compass as ghost hunting spread across Dragon Country. After three years of secluded cultivation, Zhou Yi intervened when a monster appeared in Kunlun Temple’s Patriarch Hall, capturing it as the threat to the mortal realm grew.

• The Spirit Offering Compass gave Lu Qiu the Nine Yang Art, which complemented his Yang Fire Art, and he hid the compass before going to sleep.
• People across Dragon Country began capturing ghosts with Spirit Offering Compasses as the Five Elements Spirit Corpses distributed compasses and Daoist methods to curb the growing danger.
• Zhou Yi spent three years cultivating at Kunlun Temple and recovered his Mana to the early stage of Qi Refining to Deity Transformation.
• A horned monster emerged beneath the Patriarch Statue and trapped the disciples in the hall with gray-black mist.
• Ling Yuan struck the monster with a thunder talisman, but it scattered the lightning and seized him for his blood and Yang energy.
• The Patriarch Statue spoke, absorbed the monster’s attack, and used five-colored light to capture it in a fist-sized pearl.

Zhou Yi learned from Yin Sha that Yin Luo Ghost King had been sending ghosts through the rift beneath Kunlun Temple, so he decided to accelerate his plans. In the Netherworld, Yan Mo proposed joining forces with Yin Luo to invade the mortal world, bringing a spatially gifted subordinate named Dao Mo.

• Kunlun disciples praised the patriarch after the monster died, and Ling Yuan gave its fist-sized Soul Pearl to True Lord Qiong Cang.
• Zhou Yi soul-searched Yin Sha, learned that Yin Luo Ghost King had discovered the Netherworld Rift beneath Kunlun Temple, and absorbed the ghost's remnants into the Wooden Man.
• Yin Luo learned that Yin Sha's soul flame had gone out and suspected a powerful cultivator guarded the mortal side of the rift.
• Yan Mo arrived at Yin Luo Palace and proposed that they cooperate to invade the mortal world and seize human Blood Food.
• Yan Mo revealed that he had a Po Suo Spirit Talisman and introduced Dao Mo, whose spatial talent could help open a way into the mortal world.

At Kunlun’s Patriarch Ritual, True Lord Qiong Cang revealed that the Patriarch Statue could summon an Upper Realm patriarch and presented spirit crystals refined from Yin Sha’s ghost body. True Lord Xuan Cheng returned to Laoshan convinced its ancient statue might do the same, and Sect Master True Lord Xuan Xu realized Taiqing Palace had a statue that met the conditions for Divine Descent.

• Kunlun hosted its Patriarch Ritual, attended by Daoist and Buddhist sects, official cultivators, and ghost-refining mages.
• True Lord Qiong Cang presented a fist-sized Soul Pearl and said an Upper Realm patriarch’s incarnation had saved him from danger.
• The Investigation Bureau representative considered spreading cultivation methods, while Buddhist and Daoist guests wondered whether their own statues could summon patriarchs.
• Qiong Cang refined Yin Sha’s ghost body into dozens of jin of spirit crystals, which Kunlun’s disciples secured under guard.
• True Lord Xuan Cheng hurried back to Laoshan and told Sect Master True Lord Xuan Xu about the statue’s power.
• True Lord Xuan Xu recognized that Taiqing Palace’s three-thousand-year-old gold-and-bronze statue met the conditions for Divine Descent.

Xuancheng uncovered Celestial Master Shouyi beneath the Patriarch Statue and learned that a damaged seal threatened to let the Netherworld Ghost Race into the human realm. Shouyi gave him a sealing array and an Inner Elixir scripture, and Xuancheng hurried to enlist Xuan Xu to seal the rift.

• After Xuan Xu and Xuancheng received no response from Ancestor Mingxia, Xuancheng returned at night and moved the Patriarch Statue, breaking the seal on its base.
• A five-colored mist formed into an old man who told Xuancheng that the seal between the realms had been damaged and that Netherworld ghosts could endanger the world.
• Xuancheng recognized the man as Celestial Master Shouyi, who explained the threat posed by the Netherworld Ghost Kings and the spread of yin baleful energy.
• Shouyi taught Xuancheng the Seven Yuan Xuanji Demon Sealing Array and the Golden Cauldron Jade Elixir Returning Pill Scripture before disappearing.
• Xuancheng resolved to seal the Netherworld Rift at once and went to find Xuan Xu.

After Zhou Yi learned that another Netherworld Rift had opened, Xuancheng sought alliances among Daoist sects by promising them a Celestial Master’s inheritance if they helped seal the rifts. Qingcheng agreed to join the effort, and its Four Prodigies prepared to accompany Xuancheng to Laoshan.

• Xuan Xu and Xuancheng accepted the Golden Cauldron Jade Elixir Returning Pill Scripture as Celestial Master Shouyi’s supreme inheritance and planned to recruit other Daoist sects to seal the Netherworld Rift.
• Zhou Yi noticed the Gateway to Myriad Wonders’ Origin rise from 2 to 3, concluded another rift’s seal had been destroyed, and continued refining Spirit Offering Compasses with new ghost-energy storage and surveillance functions.
• Xuancheng told True Fruit True Person that Celestial Master Shouyi had bestowed a demon-sealing array and a Core Condensation Secret, which would be shared if the rifts were sealed.
• True Fruit agreed that Qingcheng would join Laoshan’s effort and summoned the Four Prodigies of Qingcheng.
• Xinhang and the other three prodigies agreed to accompany Xuancheng to Laoshan, while Xinhang imagined the opportunities and fame awaiting him.

The Daoist sects formed the Salvation Dao Alliance to investigate Netherworld Rifts and prepare to expose the seal inside Kunlun Temple. After Zhou Yi defeated a ghost swordsman who escaped using an illusion, he followed the swordsman to Song Garden, where he recognized him as an old acquaintance.

• Xuancheng united several Daoist temples into the Salvation Dao Alliance, which investigated the Netherworld Rifts and gathered materials for sealing formations.
• At Kunlun Temple, Xuancheng and the other Daoists concluded that the seal in the Patriarch Hall had broken and planned to stabilize the Laoshan seal before revealing Kunlun’s Rift.
• A ghost swordsman attacked Ling Yun in the Patriarch Hall, but Zhou Yi’s statue destroyed his false body and discovered that the swordsman had escaped using illusion techniques and talismans.
• Zhou Yi sent his Wooden Man after the swordsman as he fled southwest toward Song City.
• The swordsman descended into Song Garden, where Zhou Yi recognized him as an old acquaintance.

Song Xiaoyi, the Heavenly Saber and founder of the Song Kingdom, returned from the Netherworld as a ghost race member and entered the Song Clan Ancestral Hall. After learning the clan had fallen into decline, he forced its leaders to convene an assembly and declared that the Song Clan would rise again.

• Song Xiaoyi visited the Song Clan Ancestral Hall, paid respects to his ancestors, and removed his name from the golden spirit tablet.
• Song Xiaoyi revealed his power to the guards and identified himself as Song Taizu after the old man recognized him.
• Song Xiaoyi learned that the Great Jing Court had purged the Song Clan and that Qingcheng Mountain had protected its survivors.
• Song Xiaoyi warned that the Song Clan faced destruction if it failed in its coming duty, then used saber light to compel the old man and middle-aged man to summon a clan assembly.
• Song Xiaoyi carved a vast saber scar across Song Garden and demanded to know which descendant had erased his old mark.

Song Xiaoyi forced the Song Family to prepare a blood sacrifice meant to open a gate to the Netherworld, while Zhou Yi watched from above Song Garden and decided to use the scheme as an opportunity. The clan submitted under threat, leaving Song Xiaoyi in control of the family and advancing his plan to summon the Ghost Race.

• Song Xiaoyi ordered Song Deben to summon the Song Clan Members for a clan assembly within three days, threatening to expel anyone who failed to attend.
• Song Deben contacted important Song Clan Members across Dragon Country, and they gathered at the ancestral hall after following the saber marks through Song Garden.
• Song Xiaoyi revealed that he planned to sacrifice a million living beings and open a gate between the worlds, then killed a director who tried to contact Kunlun Temple and burned his ghostly soul.
• Song Xiaoyi implanted Forbidden Seal saber light into the gathered clan members, forcing them to submit and help advance the Blood Sacrifice formation.
• Zhou Yi watched from above Song Garden and decided to use Song Xiaoyi's plan to pursue his own search for a way into the Netherworld.

Song Xiaoyi persuaded the Song Clan to help him sacrifice a million living beings and summon Netherworld Ghost Kings, promising the clan longevity and power. The Myriad Spirits Summoning Array opened a black hole in the sky, and a giant hand reached through as Yan Mo Ghost King and Yin Luo Ghost King were invited.

• Song Xiaoyi restored Song Deyu's youth with Ghost Spirit Energy and convinced the Song Clan elders that a million-animal sacrifice could bring them long life.
• Song Deyu accepted Song Xiaoyi's broken blade and arranged for the clan to gather a million livestock animals within ten days.
• The Song Clan bought livestock in secret, and Song Xiaoyi granted Ghost Spirit Energy to more elders, making them more eager to serve him.
• Song Xiaoyi slaughtered the million animals and used their blood and souls to lay down the Myriad Spirits Summoning Array.
• Song Xiaoyi recited the Ghost Law and invoked Yan Mo Ghost King and Yin Luo Ghost King, while a black hole swallowed the sacrifice and the authorities detected the anomaly.
• A giant hand reached through the rift, and Yan Mo Ghost King laughed that he would enter first.