Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yi, appearing as Daoist Chixiao, stopped Song Xiaoyi from bringing Yan Mo Ghost King into the Human Realm and killed him. He used the Bloodline Soul Seizing Curse to destroy the Song Clan’s nine clans, then reforged the Yan Mo Seal with more than a hundred thousand souls before vanishing.

• The Wooden Man disrupted the passage between realms, forcing Yan Mo Ghost King to retreat until Song Xiaoyi used the Void Shattering Saber to stabilize it.
• The Wooden Man revealed himself as Daoist Chixiao, while Zhou Yi destroyed the summoning formation with lightning and shattered the passage.
• Zhou Yi blasted Song Xiaoyi and the ritual altar into ashes, then declared that the Song Clan’s nine clans would be exterminated.
• The Wooden Man cast the Bloodline Soul Seizing Curse, killing more than a hundred thousand people across the Song Clan’s bloodlines and drawing their souls into the Yan Mo Seal.
• The Wooden Man refined the souls into the Yan Mo Seal, advancing it to a fifth-rank treasure containing one hundred thousand ghost soldiers, then vanished after sensing observers nearby.

Zhou Yi used the Myriad Spirits Summoning Array to lure the Black Mountain Ghost King through a gate from the Netherworld. The Ghost King recognized Zhou Yi as Chixiao, the human who had severed its arm two thousand years earlier, and attacked him.

• Cultivators and military forces arrived at the battlefield where the Song Family had summoned demons, and officials declared the area a restricted zone.
• Zhou Yi used the Spirit Offering Compasses to gather blood and yin qi, creating three thousand ghost soldiers and thirty-six Blood Spirit Pillars.
• Zhou Yi opened a gate to the Netherworld with the pillars and summoned a Ghost King, which emerged as the enormous Black Mountain Ghost King.
• Zhou Yi revealed his Chixiao appearance and reminded Black Mountain of the arm it had lost two thousand years earlier.
• Black Mountain recognized Zhou Yi as the human who had severed its arm and crushed down to kill him.

Zhou Yi defeated the Black Mountain Ghost King, seized his body and Ghost King Seal, and bound his soul to serve him. After ten years of cultivation, Zhou Yi’s divided spirit fused with the mountain ghost body, creating an independent incarnation that could cultivate and act separately from his true body.

• Zhou Yi broke through Black Mountain’s defenses with the Myriad Law Divine Light, then entered his body and overcame the Ghost King’s soul.
• Zhou Yi took the Ghost King Seal and forced Black Mountain’s remaining soul into the Yan Mo Seal as a commander of ghost soldiers.
• At Chixiao Mountain, Zhou Yi and his incarnation discussed using the mountain ghost body to pursue their plans in the Netherworld while his true body remained in the human world.
• Over ten years, Zhou Yi cultivated at Chixiao Mountain as the Five Elements Spirit Corpses gathered yin energy and the Yan Mo Seal’s ghost army grew.
• Zhou Yi’s divided Primordial Spirit fused completely with the Black Mountain incarnation, leaving them as two independent beings linked across the Yin Yang Two Realms.

Qing Shan entered the Netherworld through the Netherworld Ascension Platform and began traveling toward Black Mountain Domain with Black Mountain’s guidance. Along the way, he studied the ghost race and secretly captured and devoured many ghosts, risking the notice of You Yan Ghost King.

• Zhou Yi gave Black Mountain Ghost King's avatar the Yan Mo Seal, and the avatar took the name Qing Shan before ascending to the Netherworld.
• Qing Shan awoke on an abandoned Ascension Platform in You Yan Ghost King's territory, where Black Mountain identified the surrounding region and explained the Netherworld's geography.
• Qing Shan captured and examined a Flame Ghost, then drained its ghostly energy, finding that it barely increased his Mana.
• As Qing Shan flew north, Black Mountain warned him that Ghost Kings could monitor their subjects through soul-parasitizing techniques.
• Qing Shan secretly seized and devoured hundreds of ghosts from battlefields, storing their souls in the Yan Mo Seal while reciting the Rebirth Mantra.

Qing Shan learned about the eight Ghost Kings from Black Mountain and headed east to the Tian Yin Domain. There, Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu defended Chi Xuan City’s peaceful Daoist cultivation system while Black Spear City sent spies across the border.

• Black Mountain explained Yan Mo’s Seven Kill Decree and described the strengths and histories of the other Ghost Kings to Qing Shan.
• Qing Shan chose to travel to the Tian Yin Domain because Tian Yin Ghost King’s lack of interest in governing made him a suitable starting point for Qing Shan’s plan.
• A woman told Xuan Qing that Chi Xuan City had captured more spies from Black Spear City, and Xuan Qing ordered them sent to Ghost Transformation Cave unless they were Yan Mo’s personal guards.
• Xuan Qing told Xuan Yu that he had rejected devouring ghosts to preserve his path of cultivation, while Xuan Yu worried that they might never see their senior brothers again.
• The chapter revealed that Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu were Zhou Yi’s former disciples and that Xuan Qing had established Chi Xuan City, where ghosts freely cultivated the Grand Purity Jade Scroll.

Qing Shan ordered Black Mountain to seize Black Spear City, and Black Mountain defeated its lord, Black Star, with the Xuan Yu Ruyi. After Qing Shan left Black Mountain to rule the city, he pursued the fleeing Black Star into the Tian Yin Domain and captured him near Chi Xuan City.

• Black Mountain and Qing Shan arrived at Black Spear City, where Black Mountain agreed to challenge its lord under Qing Shan's command.
• Black Mountain froze Black Star's spear attack with the Xuan Yu Ruyi, then crushed Black Star's Blood Fiend attack and overwhelmed him with the Ruyi's power.
• Black Star fled Black Spear City, while Qing Shan told Black Mountain to hold the city and hand over its treasures.
• Black Mountain's victory won him the city lordship, and the city's prominent ghosts began flattering him.
• Black Star fled into the Tian Yin Domain toward Chi Xuan City, but Qing Shan caught him in a giant stone hand and revealed himself as Black Mountain Ghost King.

Qing Shan learned that Black Star had obtained the Blood-Draining Spear in the mysterious Netherworld Realm, then made Black Star his servant and traveled to Chi Xuan City. There he recognized signs that his long-lost disciples Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu had survived, and they recognized him as their master, Chixiao.

• Qing Shan questioned Black Star about the Blood-Draining Spear and learned it came from the Netherworld Realm, a mysterious place that appeared at random.
• Qing Shan compelled Black Star to serve him and asked for a promising city to develop; Black Star recommended Chi Xuan City.
• At Chi Xuan City, the Skin-Painting Ghost challenged Black Star, who introduced himself as Qing Shan's servant.
• Qing Shan recognized the Grand Purity Jade Scroll and the name Xuan Qing, then bound the Skin-Painting Ghost and entered the city lord's manor.
• Qing Shan found Xuan Yu concealed in Xuan Qing's magical artifact and confirmed his identity with words he had once used to teach Xuan Qing.
• Xuan Qing hesitated to believe Qing Shan was his master, but Xuan Yu emerged and tearfully called him Master.

In Chi Xuan City, Qing Shan learned how Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu entered the Netherworld and cultivated the Heavenly Ghost Path. He warned that Xuan Qing’s pure cultivation path would require far more resources than he could gather alone, then revealed a way to harness the power of the masses.

• Xuan Qing and Xuan Yu told Qing Shan that the Tian Yin Ghost King had taught them how to seal the Netherworld Rifts, and that they had entered the Netherworld after exploring a rift to an unknown place.
• Xuan Qing explained that he had learned the Heavenly Ghost Path from the tomb of the Divine Strength Ghost King, while Xuan Yu had later reunited with him in Chi Xuan City and adopted the same method.
• Qing Shan examined the Heavenly Ghost Path and praised Xuan Qing for pursuing a refined and pure Dao path despite its slow progress.
• Qing Shan warned Xuan Qing that the path of purity demanded enormous resources, and Xuan Yu asked if he could change methods while Xuan Qing remained steadfast.
• Qing Shan took out the Yan Mo Seal, which held one hundred thousand yin souls, and said it was time to make the masses work for them.

After ghosts trapped Zhao Qi in his apartment, a mysterious message led him to activate a blood formation and enter the Conquest of Otherworld game. He discovered that killing ghosts increased his Spirit and earned Soul Coins, then set out to complete his mission.

• Zhao Qi, sleepless and trapped in his apartment by two ghosts, followed a text message’s instructions and drew a formation with bloody water.
• Zhao Qi activated the formation with his blood, collapsed, and woke in the Conquest of Otherworld game after the ghosts found his soul missing and left his apartment.
• Zhao Qi inspected his status panel and the Soul Coin shop, learning that its powerful items could be brought into reality.
• Zhao Qi encountered and defeated two ghostly souls, absorbing their Soul Power and advancing his mission progress to 1/10.
• Zhao Qi saw his Spirit rise to 1.2 and his Soul Coins increase to 0.1, realizing that killing ghosts both strengthened him and earned currency.

Zhao Qi entered the Netherworld through Zhou Yi’s Conquest of Otherworld and began hunting yin souls under Qing Shan’s watch. After progressing through the beginner quests, Zhao Qi was killed by a Dog Head Ghost, who then headed toward Chi Xuan City.

• Zhou Yi’s summoning formation let Zhao Qi possess one of the Song Clan yin souls sealed within the Yan Mo Seal, while Qing Shan and others observed him.
• Zhao Qi killed ten yin souls, received the Soul Refining Technique, and learned that mastering it could help him condense a Ghost Body.
• Zhao Qi received a quest to kill ten fierce ghosts for a Nether Copper Sword, then chose to hunt rather than spend more time cultivating.
• After hunting for a day and night, Zhao Qi attacked a Dog Head Ghost, which killed him with a Mana claw.
• The Dog Head Ghost found it could not devour Soul Power from Zhao Qi and traveled toward Chi Xuan City in response to its recruitment order.

After Zhao Qi woke in the human world, he told the Investigation Bureau how he had entered Conquest of Otherworld, and its agents joined the game. Zhou Yi worked to mass-produce yin soul carriers while Qing Shan improved the game, leaving seventeen players arriving at Chi Xuan City’s respawn point.

• Zhao Qi woke in the hospital, confirmed he could control a yin soul body, and told Li Yuan and Ling Yu Daozhang about the ghosts and the game.
• Zhou Yi worked on a modular process to mass-produce yin soul carriers after Qing Shan reported that all sixteen available carriers had been claimed.
• Zhou Yi found more than a hundred summoning formations at Investigation Bureau headquarters and observed Zhao Qi and the other agents entering the game.
• Qing Shan added a respawn point and map function to the game in Chi Xuan City.
• Zhao Qi and sixteen other players appeared at the respawn point, where the lead investigator realized the Netherworld felt completely real.

The Investigation Bureau players explored the Netherworld, leveled up through coordinated hunts, and helped Qing Shan expand the player ranks. As Zhou Yi oversaw preparations for the conquest, he noticed spiritual energy thinning and sent agents to inspect the Netherworld Rift seals.

• The Investigation Bureau team investigated Chi Xuan City and hunted yin souls outside it, with Elder Li studying the Netherworld's environment.
• The players completed their novice quests, revived after dying, and grew strong enough to kill a Thousand-Year Fierce Ghost and earn the leader Ghost Soldier Equipment.
• Qing Shan expanded production of carrier yin souls, while Zhou Yi estimated that the Yan Mo Seal's hundred thousand souls could become players within two years.
• The rate at which Zhou Yi obtained the Origin of heaven and earth fell from 3 to 2, leading him to suspect that someone had sealed a Netherworld Rift.
• Zhou Yi dispatched the Five Elements Spirit Corpses and several other agents to inspect the seals, then resumed cultivating qi.

Zhou Yi went to Laoshan after learning its Daoists had resealed a Netherworld Rift, broke the seal, and demanded Celestial Master Shouyi’s pill-condensing method. After learning the scripture and protecting the rift with new formations, he departed under the name Yan Chixia.

• Zhou Yi learned that the Laoshan Taiqing Palace rift had been resealed and flew there to settle old karma.
• During a purification rite, Zhou Yi shattered the sealing formation, and Xin Hang challenged him before Zhou Yi seized and destroyed Xin Hang’s inner elixir.
• Zhou Yi killed Xin Hang with Five Elements Tribulation Lightning and asked Palace Master Xuan Xu where the sealing method came from.
• Xuancheng recited Celestial Master Shouyi’s Golden Cauldron Jade Elixir Returning Pill Scripture after Zhou Yi threatened the courtyard with lightning.
• Zhou Yi placed layers of Forbidden Seal formations around the rift, warned the Daoists not to reseal it, and introduced himself as Yan Chixia.

Wentian City opened near Kunlun Mountain as a hub connecting the Kunlun Sect and the secular world, drawing investors and tourists from across the globe. At Happiness Supermarket, Zhang Xiaowu learned that the foreign shopkeeper Morton traded in rare monster materials, and Morton welcomed a customer seeking Snow Spirit Fox fur.

• The Huang Family built Wentian City with the Kunlun Sect’s approval and gave the sect fifty-one percent of its dry shares in exchange for protection.
• Wentian City opened, attracting crowds of tourists and investors eager to connect with the Kunlun Sect.
• Zhang Xiaowu asked Morton about his shop’s rent and learned that Wentian City charged merchants one Level Three Demon Core each month.
• Morton told Zhang Xiaowu that he belonged to John Country’s Arctic Fox Hunting Team and had opened the shop as a side business.
• A Daoist arrived seeking high-quality Snow Spirit Fox fur, and Morton invited him inside before retrieving the merchandise from a hidden safe.

Zhou Yi found a Destruction Spirit Bamboo in Wentian City and took it as his disciple, naming him Xuan Xin. He gave Xuan Xin a cultivation technique and Wood Spirit Liquid, while Zhang Xiaowu was left trapped in mist after witnessing the bamboo reveal its true form.

• Morton traded Snow Spirit Fox Fur for a White Bone Spike Needle and learned that the daoist was an artifact craftsman.
• Zhang Xiaowu met a starving boy who said he had no name or parents, and Zhou Yi warned him not to touch the child.
• Zhou Yi revealed that the boy was a Destruction Spirit Bamboo, while mist isolated Zhang Xiaowu from the nearby crowd.
• The Destruction Spirit Bamboo offered Zhou Yi a leaf, and Zhou Yi persuaded it to become his disciple.
• Zhou Yi named the bamboo Xuan Xin, taught him the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, and gave him Wood Spirit Liquid.

Zhang Xiaowu received a golden Wentian Token from Zhou Yi and exchanged it for a valuable shop in Wentian City. He then attempted Kunlun Sect’s recruitment trial, and after seven days of climbing the Ascension Jade Steps, he reached the mountain gate.

• Zhou Yi gave Xuan Xin a fifth-order Spirit Refining Technique and Zhang Xiaowu a Spirit Bamboo Leaf and golden Wentian Token.
• Zhang Xiaowu exchanged the token for a centrally located shop, then asked Huang Yongfeng how to join the Kunlun Sect.
• Huang Yongfeng explained the Ascension Jade Steps and the Kunlun Mirror, and Zhang Xiaowu set out for the recruitment trial.
• Zhang Xiaowu reached the Ascension Jade Steps, where a barrier separated him from the crowd and left him climbing alone.
• After seven days of climbing and using the Spirit Bamboo Leaf to clear his mind and recover, Zhang Xiaowu reached the gate bearing the words Kunlun Immortal Sect.

Zhang Xiaowu passed Kunlun’s second trial, joined the Outer Sect, and began cultivating and working to earn contribution. As the sect grew to three thousand disciples, Zhou Yi announced a public lecture and ordered Kunlun to hunt down people practicing demonic techniques, leaving the world’s growing supernatural threats unresolved.

• Zhang Xiaowu escaped the Kunlun Mirror’s illusion with the Spirit Bamboo Leaf’s help and passed through the mountain gate.
• Su Dong gave Zhang Xiaowu his Kunlun Token and explained how Outer Sect disciples learned techniques and earned contribution.
• Zhang Xiaowu settled into the Outer Sect, rented out his shops through Huang Yongfeng, and reached the fourth layer of the Acquired Realm after exchanging Demon Cores for resources.
• Zhang Xiaowu and the other disciples saw Zhou Yi appear in the sky and announce a Dao lecture in three days.
• Zhou Fangfei reported five incidents involving Demonic Thought crystals, including a Strange Person practicing a demonic technique, and Zhou Yi ordered Kunlun’s Dharma Protectors and elders to eradicate evil demons.
• Zhou Yi decided to teach an introductory Qi-refining method as Blue Star’s Spiritual Energy Revival stirred new threats and opportunities.

Zhou Yi lectured the Kunlun Sect, then discovered that an eighth-rank Buddhist curse was slowly destroying his soul. After Master Xuan Xiao forced Merit Buddha to end the karmic conflict, Zhou Yi learned that the Netherworld had developed a vast player army and ordered Qing Shan to start a war against the seven Ghost Kings.

• Zhou Yi lectured the Kunlun Sect on martial cultivation and Qi Refinement, taught the Kunlun Body Tempering Technique, and blessed the disciples before leaving.
• Zhou Yi discovered the Lesser Vehicle Reincarnation Demon Transformation Soul Scattering Art weakening his primordial spirit and distributed Kunlun Tokens marked with a Buddhism Annihilation Order.
• Master Xuan Xiao warned Merit Buddha to stay away from Blue Star, and Merit Buddha declared the karmic conflict between White Bone Madam and Zhou Yi finished.
• Zhou Yi found that leaving the other world had weakened the curse and estimated he had a hundred years to break it.
• Qing Shan reported that the Netherworld had over four hundred thousand players and one hundred thousand ghost soldiers, so Zhou Yi ordered him to provoke a war among the seven Ghost Kings.

After losing much of his stored Soul Power in a failed mission, Xu Yuan sought guidance before condensing his Ghost Body and became a rare Tai Yin Ghost Race member. Arrogant Yuan City captured him, prompting Heavenly Ghost City to announce an expedition, while Xu Yuan logged off and called Liu Da for help.

• Xu Yuan blamed Liu Da for leading the class into a failed intelligence mission and accepted Liu Da’s offer of Qi Refining Pills as compensation.
• Xu Yuan paid an old Daoist two thousand Soul Coins for a precise time and place to condense his Ghost Body.
• A hidden formation drew moonlight onto Xu Yuan as he transformed into the Tai Yin Ghost Race, but ghost soldiers from Arrogant Yuan City captured him.
• Huang Yuan declared Xu Yuan her thirty-eighth concubine, then made him master of her harem after he pretended to risk his life for someone he loved.
• Heavenly Ghost City announced an expedition against Arrogant Yuan City and offered a fourth-tier technique or magical treasure to whoever rescued Xu Yuan.
• Xu Yuan agreed to a wedding, logged off from the City Lord’s manor, and called Liu Da to ask for help.

Heavenly Ghost City launched a siege on Arrogant Yuan City to rescue Xu Yuan and obtain a fourth-tier cultivation method. Xu Yuan escaped with Li Da and a team of hired experts, but Huang Yuan arrived just as he agreed to sell the method to Li Cheng.

• Li Cheng led the Integrity Alliance’s forces to bombard Arrogant Yuan City’s protective formation, then ordered his troops to seize the city and search for Xu Yuan.
• Huang Yuan defended the city and offered to share its rule with Night Owl and the Shan Hua Two Ghost Generals if they repelled the invaders.
• Li Da and six Professional Player experts reached Xu Yuan and escorted him through the fighting toward the North City Gate.
• A Nether Eye Ghost recognized Xu Yuan at the gate and called for the guards to stop him, prompting Brother Rainbow’s group to prepare for a fight.
• Xu Yuan revealed that he was a player and refused to leave with Li Cheng’s forces; Li Cheng offered him one million Soul Coins for the cultivation method.
• Xu Yuan began accepting Li Cheng’s offer, but Huang Yuan appeared and called him her husband, so Xu Yuan demanded that Li Cheng protect him and drive her away.