Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng realized the barbarians were returning to Manzhou and learned that Blackwater City’s leaders planned to abandon its people and rely on the Longevity Cult for defense. After Mu Qingqing warned him to leave, he asked her where the Longevity Cult’s Blackwater City branch was, despite claiming to belong to it.

• Fang Heng chose not to escalate tensions, and Blackwater City’s unrest subsided as the Demon Extermination Division dismantled Longevity Cult strongholds.
• Zhou Feng connected the Demon Extermination Division’s withdrawal and the strange atmosphere in the city to the barbarians’ return, then spread rumors about it.
• Zhou Feng accelerated his Blood Fiend cultivation, took over protection of the slaughterhouse business, and recovered the Nirvana Rebirth passive.
• At Ruyi Tower, Mu Qingqing revealed she knew Zhou Feng was in the Longevity Cult and warned him that the barbarians would soon arrive.
• Mu Qingqing told Zhou Feng that the Demon Extermination Division would not intervene and hoped the Longevity Cult would protect Blackwater City’s people; Zhou Feng then asked where its local branch was.

Mu Qingqing recognized Zhou Feng’s strength and gave him Longevity Cult strongholds, a squad, and a powerful blade in exchange for holding off the barbarians for three days. Zhou Feng began looting the cult’s hideouts and discovered the Blood Sha Sacrifice Method, which used an entire city’s people to cultivate Blood Sha.

• Zhou Feng displayed his overwhelming strength to Mu Qingqing and the Mu Family members, changing their view of him.
• Mu Qingqing shared hidden Longevity Cult strongholds with Zhou Feng, assigned him a squad, and taught him about cultivating Sha Qi in return for defending Blackwater City for three days.
• Mu Qingqing gave Zhou Feng the Blood Demon blade and openly told him she wanted him to survive because she had chosen him.
• Zhou Feng decided to use the barbarian invasion and the Flesh and Blood Gu to accelerate his cultivation, then began raiding Longevity Cult strongholds.
• Zhou Feng captured and beat Fang Heng, then obtained the Blood Sha Sacrifice Method, which used a city’s people as sacrifices to condense Blood Sha.

Zhou Feng adapted the Longevity Cult’s Blood Sha Sacrifice Method, using his Flesh and Blood Gu and the city’s food supply to prepare Blackwater City’s people for a sacrifice. When residents learned the City Lord’s Mansion had fled ahead of the barbarian invasion, panic and lawlessness swept through the abandoned city.

• Zhou Feng decided to replace the method’s Immortal Insects with offspring gu and use the Gluttony Stomach to test and strengthen those implanted.
• Zhou’s Slaughterhouse took control of Blackwater City’s food and meat markets, spreading offspring gu through the food supply.
• Shen Yi and Fang Heng began openly preaching the Longevity Cult while residents noticed the city’s leaders and the Demon Extermination Division had disappeared.
• Hong Lei noticed that his appetite and physique had grown after eating free meat, as the offspring gu altered his body.
• The City Lord’s Mansion servants discovered their masters had fled, and news that Blackwater City had been abandoned triggered panic.
• With the city’s law enforcers gone, residents rioted and began arson, murder, looting, and plunder.

With Zhou Feng gone from the streets, Blackwater City descended into slaughter as people used child gu to cultivate Blood Fiend. Zhou Feng tried to devour the Flesh Tai Sui, triggering its rampage just as elite barbarians stormed the city.

• Zhou Feng noticed the barbarians' sudden arrival and chose to cultivate Blood Fiend amid Blackwater City's chaos.
• Shen Yi and Fang Heng discovered that killing people and using child gu could help them refine Blood Fiend and enter the Sha Attraction Realm.
• Zhou Feng swallowed the Flesh Tai Sui, but it tried to digest him, forcing him to fight back with the Devouring Method and the Flesh and Blood Gu.
• The Flesh Tai Sui burst through the ground and attacked indiscriminately, prompting Shen Yi to recognize the disaster as Tai Sui Descends.
• Elite barbarians charged into Blackwater City and fought its remaining people as the rampaging Flesh Tai Sui attacked friend and foe alike.

Blackwater City and the barbarian forces suffered catastrophic losses as Zhou Feng devoured the Flesh Tai Sui and unleashed flesh spores across the region. Shen Yi survived and found Zhou Feng calmly ordering him to gather the spoils of war.

• New Longevity Cult recruits fought the barbarians with reckless strength, forcing the barbarian commander to retreat and lay siege to Blackwater City.
• Trapped inside the Flesh Tai Sui, Zhou Feng comprehended its power of proliferation and adaptation and began devouring it.
• Zhou Feng absorbed the Flesh Tai Sui and the surrounding Blood Fiend, causing the towering mass of flesh to wither.
• Flesh spores spread across Blackwater City and the barbarian forces, killing nearly everyone through uncontrolled growths.
• Shen Yi survived with severe mutations, found Zhou Feng, and received an order to gather the spoils of war.

Zhou Feng used the Flesh Tai Sui’s devouring ability to absorb the flesh chunks and planted Taisui Meat in Shen Yi so he could help gather survivors and devour them. After three days, Zhou Feng’s followers had grown stronger, and he obtained the Six Desires Demonic Scripture from a barbarian’s memories, leaving him tempted to cultivate it.

• Zhou Feng absorbed flesh chunks and discovered he could take in fragments of their memories, then decided to recruit Shen Yi to help devour the remains.
• Zhou Feng planted Taisui Meat in Shen Yi and ordered him to collect flesh chunks and bring any survivors back.
• Mu Qingqing and Mu Tianxiong’s group faced relentless attacks from mutated barbarians, so Mu Tianxiong ordered them to abandon half their supplies and flee toward Mingzhou.
• Shen Yi and a dozen survivors collected and devoured every flesh chunk in Blackwater City over three days, reaching the peak of the Sha Refining Realm.
• Zhou Feng found the Six Desires Demonic Scripture in a barbarian’s memories and considered cultivating the desire-focused technique.

After identifying the White Tiger Daoist as his fated nemesis, Zhou Feng set out to build power in chaotic Manzhou while preparing to confront him in Mingzhou. His Longevity Cult expanded rapidly and stabilized the region, while Zhou Feng studied how to advance beyond Sea Opening and awaken true divine abilities.

• Zhou Feng recognized the White Tiger Daoist as his fated nemesis and decided to head for Mingzhou after gathering followers in Manzhou.
• Zhou Feng and Shen Yi organized the expanding Longevity Cult into thirty-six divisions, with Shen Yi overseeing its daily affairs as deputy cult leader.
• Zhou Feng reforged the Flesh and Blood Gu into three ranks and made cultivation manuals and secret techniques available through contribution points.
• Commoners joined the Longevity Cult in large numbers because its system offered them a path to advancement, and its guerrilla tactics harried the barbarians and challenged Manzhou's aristocratic Great Clans.
• Zhou Feng studied cultivation manuals and learned that refining spiritual objects within the inner landscape could awaken true divine abilities.

Liu Yang rose from a displaced farmer to a Longevity Cult faction commander as the cult rapidly seized control of Manzhou. Zhou Feng questioned a captured Demon Extermination Division member about the division’s techniques and withdrawal, but the prisoner died in a bizarre outbreak of tentacles before he could answer.

• After barbarians killed his parents and enslaved him, Liu Yang joined the Longevity Cult, used ruthless schemes to complete its missions, and became a small-faction commander with a child Gu and the Devouring Method.
• The Longevity Cult rapidly expanded across Manzhou, targeting the resources of great clans and preventing them from leaving safely.
• Zhou Feng, who had gathered Manzhou’s resources, worried that spiritual items needed for spirit refinement were scarce and suspected the Great Zhou Government had already removed them.
• Longevity Cult members brought Sun Teng, a captured member of the Demon Extermination Division, before Zhou Feng.
• Zhou Feng demanded information about the division’s cultivation techniques and its withdrawal from Manzhou, but Sun Teng tried to conceal his knowledge and bargain with it.
• As Sun Teng began to answer, tentacles burst from his body and killed him, horrifying Zhou Feng’s subordinates.

Zhou Feng cultivated the Six Desires Demonic Scripture while leading his followers toward Mingzhou, and Shen Lie and Shen Ming pursued him to prevent the Bai Family from learning the secrets behind the turmoil in Manzhou. Shen Lie intended to capture or kill Zhou Feng before the Bai Family arrived.

• Zhou Feng killed Sun Teng without touching him, absorbed his remains, and felt his desire for control and Soul Power grow.
• Zhou Feng continued expanding his Inner Scenery through the Six Desires Demonic Scripture and planned to create the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art based on the Flesh Tai Sui’s devouring ability.
• Zhou Feng ordered his followers to keep carrying him toward Mingzhou and considered cultivating appetite as his next desire.
• Shen Ming complained that the Longevity Cult had disrupted the Demon Extermination Division’s plan to cover up the harvesting of Manzhou.
• Shen Lie explained that Zhou Feng was responsible for the upheaval and said he had to be killed or captured before the Bai Family intervened.
• Shen Lie and Shen Ming discussed the Bai Family’s arrival and recognized Zhou Feng’s rapid rise as an opportunity for themselves.

Zhou Feng attracted several factions seeking the secret of Flesh Tai Sui while he waited for the White Tiger Daoist to arrive. With his Passive Skill progress bar full, he prepared to draw a new skill before the coming confrontation.

• Zhong Le concluded that Zhou Feng had subdued Flesh Tai Sui and planned to seize the secret of Planting Immortal Gu.
• Zhong Le used the Demon Transformation Scripture to impersonate A Niu and joined Shen Yi's transport team to approach Zhou Feng.
• Shen Lie, Zhong Le, the Bai Family of Mingzhou, and other ambitious figures advanced toward Zhou Feng, who let their schemes unfold.
• Zhou Feng sensed the White Tiger Daoist drawing closer and planned to kill him and the other pursuers before leaving the Dream World.
• Zhou Feng saw that his progress bar was full and realized he could draw another Passive Skill.

Zhou Feng discovered that his new Plant Affinity had exposed an undercover agent before Shen Lie attacked him to advance his Demon Extermination Sha. After Zhou Feng proved impervious to Shen Lie’s blade, Shen Ming activated a Yin Yang Jade rescue—but Zhou Feng struck Shen Lie with a rapidly proliferating arm.

• Zhou Feng gained Plant Affinity and used the surrounding plants to discover that A Niu was an undercover agent.
• Shen Lie attacked Zhou Feng with a blade aura, hoping to kill him and advance to the Sha Refining Realm.
• Zhou Feng shattered Shen Lie’s attack and endured his blows, healing faster than Shen Lie could wound him.
• Shen Ming activated the other half of the Yin Yang Jade to pull Shen Lie away.
• Zhou Feng’s arm proliferated and pierced through Shen Lie before the pull could save him.

Zhou Feng defeated Shen Lie and Shen Ming, then realized his time in the Dream World was running out. He abandoned his plan to invade Mingzhou and began devouring his followers and the people of Manzhou to prepare for his coming battle with the White Tiger Daoist.

• Zhou Feng transformed Shen Lie into a mass of flesh and killed Shen Ming when he tried to stall for time.
• Zhou Feng devoured Shen Lie and Shen Ming, gaining a stronger sense that his time in the Dream World was limited.
• Zhou Feng decided to abandon his planned invasion of Mingzhou and focus on swallowing Manzhou and finding a suitable cultivation method.
• Zhou Feng turned on Shen Yi and the other Longevity Cult followers, transforming them into lumps of flesh and devouring them.
• Zhou Feng resolved to devour most of Manzhou's people before facing the White Tiger Daoist.

Zhou Feng continued his uncontrolled campaign of devouring across Manzhou, killing Zhong Le despite his offer of valuable secrets. As his body and soul transformed and his reason faded, White Tiger Daoist learned of Zhou Feng’s rise and prepared to gather more intelligence.

• Zhou Feng pursued Zhong Le, whose body he had already transformed into a huge fleshball through excessive devouring.
• Zhong Le offered knowledge of the Demon Transformation Scripture and Planting Immortal Gu, but Zhou Feng killed and devoured him anyway.
• White Tiger Daoist learned that Zhou Feng and the New Longevity Cult had taken Manzhou and ordered his subordinates to share intelligence with Bai Xiao.
• Zhou Feng hunted down and devoured people throughout Manzhou as his body and soul transformed and his reason began to fade.
• Zhou Feng’s repeated cycle of bodily damage and recovery led him to comprehend something new.

Zhou Feng unleashed his devouring power across Manzhou and crushed White Tiger Daoist, inheriting his memories, soul, flesh, and fortune. After returning from the Dream World, Zhou Feng resolved to rebuild his cultivation around strengthening only his physical body and soul.

• Zhou Feng’s devouring transformed Manzhou into a wasteland, and White Tiger Daoist realized the Bai Family had walked into a trap.
• White Tiger Daoist and his knights began suffering grotesque changes as Zhou Feng’s flesh-and-blood plants surrounded them.
• White Tiger Daoist ordered his people to fight their way out, but Zhou Feng’s tentacles overwhelmed and swallowed him.
• Zhou Feng absorbed White Tiger Daoist’s memories and learned that the Dream World was Cloud Dream Marsh’s core, where a thousand-year dream could shape reality.
• Zhou Feng returned to Cloud Dream Marsh and decided to abandon the Mortal Transformation Method, using the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art for his body and the Six Desires Demonic Scripture for his soul.

After breaking through the Five Ascension Realms, Zhou Feng learned from the White Tiger Daoist’s memories that Cloud Dream Marsh trapped geniuses in a cycle of dream cultivation and exploitation. He sought Cloud Dream Stones to enter another Dream World and learned that his next destination allowed cultivation only through Gu insects.

• Zhou Feng used the spiritual energy of Cloud Dream Marsh to transform his body and cross the Five Ascension Realms.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Cloud Dream Dao Lord used Cloud Dream Stones to lure geniuses into Dream Worlds and harvest their brilliance.
• Zhou Feng decided to pursue new Dream Worlds and sought Cloud Dream Stones to begin another life within one.
• Zhou Feng found a gathering of old hands and asked them for Cloud Dream Stones.
• The old hands invited Zhou Feng to join them in a Dream World where only Gu insects could be cultivated.

Zhou Feng entered a Dream World devoted to Gu cultivation and found himself in the body of an orphan working at the Insect Garden on Great Green Mountain. After assessing his parasitic Blood Essence Gu and his options, he decided to stay for now and seek Gu cultivation knowledge while looking for ways around the Dream World’s restrictions.

• Zhou Feng entered the Dream World, where Gu cultivation was the only permitted system and Dream Beasts and veteran entrants posed dangers.
• Zhou Feng received the memories of his new body, an orphan and young insect raiser at the Insect Garden of Great Green Mountain.
• Zhou Feng learned that Gu cultivators relied on refined Gu insects and needed to open a Gu Aperture to form a symbiotic bond with them.
• Zhou Feng used his Appraisal Eye to identify his modified Blood Essence Gu, which tempered blood qi but could go berserk to punish disobedience.
• Zhou Feng decided not to flee the Insect Garden yet and planned to learn Gu cultivation from the Ouyang Family after completing his task of gathering two hundred jin of Blood Thorn.
• Zhou Feng took out his sickle and considered whether he could find a loophole that would let him use cultivation paths besides Gu cultivation.

Zhou Feng experimented with using a Gu insect to bypass the restrictions on cultivation and transformed his Blood Essence Gu into a new insect he named the Sky Swallowing Gu. After suppressing its appetite, he hurried to the Insect Garden to turn in his Blood Thorn harvest and find food.

• Zhou Feng tested body-tempering methods, qi cultivation, and the Six Desires Demonic Scripture, discovering that only Gu-based cultivation avoided an ominous warning.
• Zhou Feng used the Six Desires Demonic Scripture to provoke his Blood Essence Gu and fed it vital energy, blood, and flesh while guiding it with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.
• The Blood Essence Gu transformed into an Unknown Gu that devoured and refined vital energy and blood, and Zhou Feng named it the Sky Swallowing Gu.
• Zhou Feng suppressed the Sky Swallowing Gu with his Soul Power, finished harvesting two hundred jin of Blood Thorns, and ran toward the Insect Garden to turn them in and find food.
• The Insect Keepers noticed Zhou Feng's unusually quick return and wondered whether he had taken someone else's harvest.

Zhou Feng confronted Steward An over the Insect Coins withheld from his Blood Thorn harvest and used his strength to force him to pay the full amount. He left expecting Steward An to retaliate and planned to try the Insect Garden’s spirit food.

• Zhou Feng learned that the Insect Garden’s new master was a direct descendant of the Ouyang Family who had been exiled there for refusing a marriage arrangement.
• Steward An counted Zhou Feng’s two hundred catties of Blood Thorn but gave him only one of the two Insect Coins he was owed.
• Zhou Feng demanded the missing payment and displayed his blood energy, frightening Steward An into handing over two more Insect Coins.
• Steward An suspected Zhou Feng’s Blood Essence Gu had mutated and silently resolved to subdue him later.
• Zhou Feng left, anticipating Steward An would bring others to confront him, and decided to try spirit food made from Spirit Worm corpses.

Zhou Feng discovered that Spirit Food Paste could stimulate the Sky Swallowing Gu and gradually improve his poor cultivation aptitude, and he decided to pursue the genius route in the Insect Garden. He learned that Eldest Miss Ouyang was recruiting two attendants with Gu Refining talent to accompany her to the Ouyang Family main branch.

• Zhou Feng ate Spirit Food Paste and sensed it nourishing his body while the Sky Swallowing Gu moved and began improving his aptitude.
• Zhou Feng realized that the Insect Garden used Spirit Food Paste and other opportunities to motivate its servants, and he planned to attract the Ouyang Family's attention by becoming a Gu cultivator.
• Zhou Feng decided to reveal his talent rather than pretend to be weak, expecting the Ouyang Family either to recruit or suppress him.
• Zhou Feng heard that Eldest Miss Ouyang was recruiting two attendants with Gu Refining talent and understood why Steward An had withheld Insect Coins.

Zhou Feng suspected that Ouyang's attendant recruitment was an opportunity, so he spent most of his Insect Coins at the Scripture Repository to study Gu cultivation. Li Liwen's Alert Gu warned him against probing Zhou Feng further, while Zhou Feng rapidly absorbed books with the help of his Intelligent Brain.

• Zhou Feng questioned why Eldest Miss Ouyang was recruiting attendants at the remote Insect Garden but decided the chance could help him grow faster.
• Zhou Feng spent twenty Insect Coins to browse the Scripture Repository's first floor, recognizing the promotion as a way to screen candidates.
• Li Liwen used his Alert Gu to probe Zhou Feng's thoughts, but stopped when the insect warned him that continuing could bring danger.
• Zhou Feng rapidly flipped through books and fed their contents into his Intelligent Brain for analysis.
• Li Liwen suspected Zhou Feng had an Unforgettable Gu, then chose not to investigate because probing another person's Gu insects was taboo.