Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang endured the ghost spawns’ attacks until his Withered Wood Undying Scripture awakened, allowing him to absorb and destroy both enemies. He transformed into a towering tree, and after Ling Qingxue completed the Teleportation Array, Xuanxingzi arrived and was brought to see him.

• Qin Yang endured the Strange Tree ghost spawn’s hammer blows and the Eyeball ghost spawn’s rays as his understanding of the Withered Wood Undying Scripture and its Undying Intent deepened.
• Qin Yang smashed the Strange Tree ghost spawn apart with his head, then absorbed it through roots extending from his arm and healed beneath a green light.
• Qin Yang pierced and absorbed the Eyeball ghost spawn, causing the two remaining ghost spawns to flee from his aura.
• Qin Yang’s legs turned into tree stumps and roots, and he transformed into a towering tree that Qi Cang and the others decided to protect.
• Ling Qingxue completed the Teleportation Array, and Xuanxingzi stepped through its portal and asked where Qin Yang was.
• Song Lingzi led Xuanxingzi and Ling Qingxue to the tree Qin Yang had become, and Xuanxingzi studied it while Ling Qingxue compared his condition to her own past transformation.

Two years after the Ghost Seeds’ threat became known, Ling Qingxue guarded Qin Yang, who had become a tree while cultivating through the spiritual sprout. When she learned that Zhang Chen needed help suppressing Ghost Seeds, she left for Cangshui Prefecture, while Qin Yang’s cultivation reached the peak of the Heaven-Reaching Martial Saint Realm.

• The Great Yue Dynasty and Tianfeng Continent strengthened their defenses against the coming Ghost Seeds as two years passed and new geniuses emerged.
• Tavern patrons wondered where Qin Yang had gone, and Song Lingzi visited Ling Qingxue to ask whether Qin Yang had shown any reaction.
• Zhong Huang asked Ling Qingxue to assist Cangshui Prefecture, and she agreed after learning that Zhang Chen was Qin Yang’s disciple.
• Ling Qingxue strengthened the barrier around Qin Yang before leaving, and Qin Yang sensed the world around him but could not respond from within the tree.
• Qin Yang reflected on how the spiritual sprout absorbed Ghost Seed power and fueled his cultivation, which had brought him to the great completion of the Heaven-Reaching Martial Saint Realm.

Qin Yang’s cultivation triggered a heavenly tribulation as he broke through toward the Heaven-Ascending Realm. After forty-nine bolts of lightning struck, the sky cleared and his towering tree form remained standing amid the ruins.

• Qin Yang cultivated until his Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture reached Level 21, causing his transformed tree to grow beyond twenty meters and release a terrifying aura.
• Zhou Cangming and Xuanxingzi recognized that Qin Yang was undergoing a breakthrough, and Xuanxingzi identified the gathering storm clouds as a heavenly tribulation.
• Zhou Cangming sealed off the area, while Qi Cang arrived and joined them in observing the tribulation.
• The heavens struck Qin Yang’s tree with forty-nine bolts of purple lightning, destroying buildings across the Great Yue Sky Patrol Division.
• After the final bolt formed a massive Thunder Dragon and the storm passed, Zhou Cangming, Xuanxingzi, and Qi Yun found Qin Yang’s tree still standing in the scorched ruins.

After Qin Yang withstood a heavenly tribulation, he became a lifeless-looking dead tree while Ling Qingxue insisted he remained alive and he cultivated in a state between life and death. More than half a year later, the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique failed, the sun turned blood-red, and the Void Ghost Seeds threatened to descend.

• Zhou Cangming, Xuanxingzi, and Qi Cang saw Qin Yang’s tree wither after the tribulation and built walls around it to conceal it.
• Ling Qingxue returned with Yun Ling, touched the dead tree, and declared that Qin Yang was still alive.
• Qin Yang cultivated the Withered Wood Undying Scripture and comprehended how its principle of life might fuse with the Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture’s principle of death.
• As the forbidden technique weakened, the continents established Teleportation Arrays and sent promising young people to Tianfeng Continent.
• More than half a year after Qin Yang became dead wood, Ling Qingxue sensed the isolation technique break and the sun turned blood-red as the Void Ghost Seeds neared their descent.
• Qi Cang’s adviser urged him to take refuge in Tianfeng Continent because Great Yue could not withstand the coming threat.

As citizens of Great Yue Imperial City became soulless after visiting Golden Light Temple, Zhou Cangming traced the cause to the temple and led the Demon Slayer Division there. He found hundreds of monks chanting scriptures, who turned on his force as he attacked.

• Qi Cang sent the Empress and their children away while he stayed to defend Great Yue Dynasty.
• Kong Cang dreamed that a Golden Buddha asked to eat him, and he offered his body before being swallowed.
• Monks at Golden Light Temple and then thousands of citizens became hollow, lifeless shells after their Divine Souls were devoured.
• Zhong Huang told Zhou Cangming that the victims worshipped Buddha and had visited Golden Light Temple, and a scout sent there also lost his Divine Soul.
• Zhou Cangming reported the matter to Qi Cang, assembled several hundred Demon Slayers, and marched on Golden Light Temple.
• The monks attacked Zhou Cangming's force, and he struck back with an Eight Trigrams Divine Palm.

Zhou Cangming and Xuanxingzi battled the complete ghost seed concealed in Golden Light Temple, then escaped after the Golden Buddha nearly crushed them. Back at the Great Yue Sky Patrol Division, Ling Qingxue froze Zhou Cangming to keep him alive, while Qi Cang learned that the ghost seed had appeared.

• Zhou Cangming killed the monks and confronted the Golden Buddha, suspecting it was a complete ghost seed when his strongest attacks did no harm.
• Xuanxingzi tore open the golden Buddhist kingdom with the Seven Stars, giving the Demon Slayers a chance to escape as Zhou Cangming held off the Golden Buddha.
• Zhou Cangming and Xuanxingzi fought the Golden Buddha until Zhou Cangming was gravely injured and Xuanxingzi took his place long enough for the group to flee.
• Xuanxingzi brought the unconscious Zhou Cangming to Ling Qingxue, who froze him to prevent his injuries from worsening.
• Qi Cang visited and asked whether the threat at Golden Light Temple was a ghost seed, and Xuanxingzi confirmed that it was.

A Golden Buddha Ghost Seed appeared over Great Yue Imperial City, disrupted the teleportation array, and bewitched the city’s people with its chanting. As the city’s defenders prepared to fight back, Ling Qingxue arrived to join their plan to attack it after nightfall.

• Qi Cang and Xuanxingzi learned that the Golden Buddha’s presence had disrupted the void and made the teleportation array unusable, cutting off reinforcements from Tianfeng Continent.
• The Golden Buddha appeared over Great Yue Imperial City and used its voice to make commoners kneel and worship, plunging the city into chaos.
• Qi Cang and Xuanxingzi discussed evacuating the city or fighting back, but stayed their hand as the Buddha continued chanting and more people became bewitched.
• On the fifth day, Ling Qingxue left the withered tree and appeared atop the city walls, where Qi Cang, Xuanxingzi, Bai Zhentian, and Green Fish Daoist awaited her.
• Xuanxingzi planned to use the Seven Stars to bring down starlight after nightfall, while Qi Cang said the city’s Spirit Masters had prepared a formation to activate with his attack.

Qi Cang and the Spirit Masters of Great Yue Imperial City unleashed their arrays and star-powered attacks against the Golden Buddha, revealing its Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed form but failing to destroy it. As the defenders charged into battle, Bai Zhentian self-destructed inside the creature, Green Fish Daoist was kicked away, and Xuanxingzi struck again with a Starlight Divine Sword.

• Qi Cang and Xuanxingzi attacked the Golden Buddha with the Nine Dragon Fen Tian Array and the Seven Stars Profound Baleful Intent while Qi Cang's Divine Mountain Array blocked the citizens' faith power.
• Qi Cang burned the spirit stone mines as Xuanxingzi's second sword split the Golden Buddha's head and exposed the Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed.
• The Nine Dragon Fen Tian Array's fire dragons exploded, but the Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed survived and crashed into Great Yue Imperial City's protective barrier.
• Bai Zhentian, Green Fish Daoist, Qi Cang, and Xuanxingzi charged the creature, and Bai Zhentian self-destructed after it swallowed him.
• Green Fish Daoist struck the creature's knee but was kicked away, while Xuanxingzi sent another Starlight Divine Sword toward its crown.

The Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed overwhelmed the defenders of Great Yue and reached the withered tree in the Great Yue Sky Patrol Division. As it was about to strike, the tree awakened and raised a green barrier, prompting Ling Qingxue to say that the Young Master had returned to life.

• The Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed shattered Xuanxingzi’s Starlight Divine Sword and grievously wounded Qi Cang, while Green Fish Daoist joined the battle.
• Xuanxingzi and Ling Qingxue attacked the seed, but it regenerated and resisted their strikes.
• The seed changed course and charged toward the Great Yue Sky Patrol Division, ignoring the defenders’ attacks.
• Ling Qingxue tried to shield the withered tree, but the seed smashed her aside as Qi Cang, Green Fish Daoist, and Xuanxingzi prepared to self-destruct.
• The seed’s chanting stopped the three men from gathering their vital essence, and its Ghost-Head Zen Staff descended toward them.
• The withered tree raised a green barrier to block the blow, and Ling Qingxue declared that the Young Master had come back to life.

Qin Yang emerged from his withered tree shell after reaching the Heaven Ascension Realm and confronted the Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed attacking Great Yue Imperial City. He shattered the ghost seed’s palm and charged into battle, leaving their fight underway.

• The Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed failed to break the tree’s barrier, so it headed toward Great Yue Imperial City to draw the tree into a fight.
• The tree transformed and burst apart in green light, revealing Qin Yang, who had fused the Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture and the Withered Wood Undying Scripture into a new cultivation art.
• Qin Yang returned to human form and reunited with Ling Qingxue as Qi Cang and the others celebrated his arrival.
• The Azure-Black Evil Buddha Seed cast a Dark Buddhist Kingdom and chanted scripture that agitated those nearby, so Ling Qingxue froze Song Lingzi and Yun Ling to protect them.
• Qin Yang attacked with his Deep Blue Divine Blade and Black Tortoise-powered punch, cleaving through the ghost seed’s palm and charging at it.

Qin Yang destroyed the Qinghe Evil Buddha Ghost Seed and healed Ling Qingxue before joining Xuanxingzi to aid the Seven Stars Sect. He arrived at the sect and prepared to confront a Nine-Headed Serpent Ghost Seed.

• Qin Yang shattered the Dark Buddhist Kingdom and absorbed the Qinghe Evil Buddha Ghost Seed with the roots growing from his fist.
• Qin Yang healed Ling Qingxue, then learned from Zhao Chong that Ghost Seeds had attacked the Seven Stars Sect.
• Qin Yang and Xuanxingzi traveled through the Teleportation Array to the Seven Stars Sect.
• Qin Yang saw Daoists battling a Nine-Headed Serpent Ghost Seed and a crimson-flowered Ghost Seed outside the sect’s mountain gate.
• Qin Yang told Daoist Xuanxing to withdraw his people and said he would take on the Nine-Headed Serpent Ghost Seed.

Qin Yang defeated and devoured the Nine-Headed Serpent Seed, then joined the Seven Stars Sect master in stopping and devouring the fleeing Blood-Red Flower Ghost Seed. Both Ghost Seeds vanished, leaving Xuanxingzi and the Heaven-Reaching Martial Saints watching in astonishment.

• Xuanxingzi withdrew the Heaven-Reaching Martial Saints from the Nine-Headed Serpent Seed as Qin Yang stepped in and attacked it.
• Qin Yang fought the Nine-Headed Serpent Seed with his saber techniques and divine fists, enduring its fire, venom, and elemental attacks.
• Qin Yang found the Nine-Headed Serpent Seed’s heart, struck it, and used the Spirit Sprout to devour the creature.
• The Blood-Red Flower Ghost Seed tried to escape, so the Seven Stars Sect master used the Seven Stars Dragon Slaying Sword to restrain it.
• Qin Yang and the starlight dragon battered the Blood-Red Flower Ghost Seed, and Qin Yang devoured it completely with the Spirit Sprout.

Qin Yang returned from saving the Seven Stars Sect and began digesting three Ghost Seeds while creating a powerful new martial art, the Law of Absolute Freedom. Meanwhile, Zhao Xinmo worked to restore the array sealing the Nether Seed, but sinister forces gathered at the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.

• Qin Yang thanked Dao Xingzi and returned to the Kunshan Continent after helping the Seven Stars Sect defeat the Ghost Seed threat.
• Qin Yang told Qi Cang and Green Fish Daoist to handle the unrest in Great Yue Imperial City, then asked Ling Qingxue to guard him while he digested three Ghost Seeds.
• Qin Yang cultivated the Primordial Life-Death Scripture and derived the martial art Law of Absolute Freedom, causing a massive disturbance in the skies above the Sky Patrol Division.
• Zhao Xinmo continued studying the Starfall Annihilation Array at the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, with Primordial Spirit Spirit Masters helping him restore it.
• A sinister wind and dark clouds gathered over the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone as a deer-headed monster and other terrifying auras appeared.

Zhao Xinmo activated the Starfall Annihilation Array to destroy the Nether Seed, but five ghostspawn sacrificed themselves to it and brought about Mingtian’s emergence. As Mingtian cleaved apart the heavens and the Cangming World fell into despair, news that Qin Yang had slain two ghostspawn made him the people’s only hope, though he had already returned to the Kunshan Continent.

• Zhao Xinmo activated the damaged Starfall Annihilation Array, but it failed to destroy the Nether Seed.
• Five ghostspawn rushed into the wounded Nether Seed, which exploded into black mist and transformed into Mingtian, a terrifying Three Heads & Six Arms ghost deity.
• Mingtian withstood the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation lightning and cut through the sky, while survivors fled the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• News of Mingtian’s return spread across the Tianfeng Continent, plunging sects and ordinary people into despair.
• The Seven Stars Sect reported that Qin Yang had single-handedly slain two ghostspawn, and people sought him out as the Cangming World’s only hope.
• The visitors learned that Qin Yang had already returned to the Kunshan Continent.

Dao Xingzi gathered the sects and holy lands to prepare an assault on Nether Heaven in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone while Qin Yang remained in seclusion. As forces converged on Tianfeng Continent and experts pursued breakthroughs, the Four Great Demon Kings and Green Ox arrived from Dingtian Continent to join the coming battle.

• Dao Xingzi told representatives that Qin Yang had entered seclusion and proposed uniting the continents to attack Nether Heaven in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• After the representatives departed to prepare, Dao Xingzi handed sect affairs to Xuanxingzi and entered seclusion to seek a breakthrough.
• Over the next month, news spread of experts advancing toward the Heaven-Ascending Realm as forces from other continents gathered on Tianfeng Continent.
• Observers reported that Ghost Seeds were gathering inside the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where Nether Heaven's strength remained hidden by black mist.
• The Four Great Demon Kings and Green Ox arrived through the Cosmos Stone, and Xuanxingzi welcomed them to the Seven Stars Sect until the forces were ready to attack.

Green Ox and the Seven Stars Sect prepared for the coming battle as Dao Xingzi broke through to the Heaven-Ascending Realm. Qin Yang emerged from seclusion and learned that ghost seeds were gathering in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where Mingtian had revived.

• Zhao Xinmo visited Green Ox, took a drop of his essence blood for his array research, and left him Seven Mysterious Pills to restore it.
• Demons, Demon Kings, martial saints, and two Heaven-Ascending experts gathered at the Seven Stars Sect as the sect prepared for battle.
• Dao Xingzi endured the heavenly tribulation with the Seven Stars Dragon Slaying Sword and entered the Heaven-Ascending Realm.
• Zhao Xinmo returned to studying an incomplete array, convinced he had little time left to solve it.
• Qin Yang emerged from seclusion after digesting the Three-Headed Ghost Seed and learned from Ling Qingxue that Mingtian had revived and ghost seeds were gathering in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.

Qin Yang returned to the Seven Stars Sect and learned that twelve Ascension Realm experts were ready to fight Mingtian in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone. Before the assembled forces could depart, he demonstrated his strength in a spar with the Unicorn Flood Dragon.

• Qin Yang and Ling Qingxue reached the Seven Stars Sect, where Dao Xingzi reported that twelve Ascension Realm experts were prepared to fight and the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone was hidden by black mist.
• Qin Yang ordered the forces to attack the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, while Zhao Xinmo offered a formation and Green Ox looked forward to fighting.
• The assembled experts and demon kings gathered at the Seven Stars Sect, and the Unicorn Flood Dragon challenged Qin Yang to a spar.
• Qin Yang repelled the Unicorn Flood Dragon's attacks with his Unfettered Willpower Art and sent his true form crashing into a mountain peak.
• Qin Yang summoned the Black Tortoise Seal, and the Unicorn Flood Dragon struck the phantom with his horn, blasting a hole in the heavens.

After defeating the Unicorn Flood Dragon, Qin Yang led the forces gathering in Moon Gazing City as they prepared to attack the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone. He tested Ming Tian’s strength, then set out with the assembled forces to face him.

• Qin Yang defeated the Unicorn Flood Dragon, who conceded, and the group set out for the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• Qin Yang, Ling Qingxue, Zhao Xinmo, and the Green Ox teleported to Moon Gazing City, where Qin Yang confronted Ming Tian’s phantom and sensed that Ming Tian had recovered more than half his strength.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo agreed that Qin Yang would face Ming Tian while Zhao Xinmo handled the other ghostspawn.
• For seven days, forces from across the Cangming World gathered in Moon Gazing City while Qin Yang adjusted his condition.
• Dao Xingzi told Qin Yang that the forces were ready, and Qin Yang led them out of Moon Gazing City toward the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.

Qin Yang led the gathered forces of the Cangming World in an assault on the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where they fought a brutal battle against its ghost creatures. As casualties mounted, an immensely sinister monster appeared.

• Zhou Cangming left seclusion and joined the expedition, while Qi Cang stayed behind to guard Great Yue and the citizens watched the battle through an illusory mirror.
• Qin Yang reached the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone first, split its black mist with a blade strike, and revealed a desolate land filled with grotesque ghost creatures.
• A floating eyeball attacked Qin Yang, but he crushed a ghost creature and charged into the enemy ranks as Ling Qingxue and the others joined the fight.
• The forces of the Cangming World and the ghost creatures clashed, with many martial artists and demonic beasts dying as both sides suffered heavy losses.
• An incomparably sinister fluctuation spread through the battlefield, and a terrifying monster appeared.

Qin Yang and the other fighters slaughtered Ghost Seeds throughout the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, while Green Ox broke through to become a great demon. Qin Yang reached the ruins of the Desolate Moon Temple and confronted Nether Heaven.

• Qin Yang killed a Thousand-Eyed Ghost Seed, while Dao Xingzi, a Kasyapa Temple monk, and other Heaven-Ascending Realm fighters attacked Ghost Seeds with their powerful techniques and artifacts.
• Green Ox and Ling Qingxue struggled against a tentacled Ghost Seed, and Green Ox transformed into his original form and broke through to become a great demon.
• Green Ox and Ling Qingxue destroyed the tentacled Ghost Seed, but another Ghost Seed attacked them before they could rest.
• Qin Yang continued killing Ghost Seeds and absorbing their power until a black mace appeared and clashed with his Black Tortoise Divine Blade.
• Qin Yang rushed to the ruins of the Desolate Moon Temple, found Nether Heaven, and declared that he had come to kill it.