Chapter Summaries

Hong Quan's forces unleashed an Asura Corpse Abomination, but Li Ling countered its fear-inducing aura and the righteous army drove the demonic forces into retreat. The abomination's remains threatened the defenses around Jizhong Island, so Li Ling began exploring whether Incense Path techniques could transform and purify them.

• Hong Quan poured blood from his gourd to summon an Asura Corpse Abomination, whose aura terrified the righteous army.
• Li Ling filtered out the creature's fear-inducing aura with his divine domain and used incense to raise the army's morale.
• Radiance Heavenly Lord repelled the abomination with Golden Crows, and Hong Quan ordered a retreat as demonic rogue cultivators fled.
• The Heavenly Court army destroyed the abomination, leaving putrid flesh on Jizhong Island's shore that threatened the earth veins and grand array.
• Radiance Heavenly Lord consulted Li Ling and the other Great Cultivators, and Li Ling volunteered to seek an Incense Path solution.
• Chi Yingting proposed refining the abomination's remains into a distinctive incense, and Li Ling began studying the flesh and the Thousand-Faced Method.

Li Ling studied the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord’s human-refined incense and adapted Shape-Seizing Life-Creation to improve his Incense Deity Visualization Method. He demonstrated the new Myriad Incenses Illusory Form by purifying the Asura Corpse Abomination’s surroundings and forming a powerful guardian incense deity.

• Li Ling and Chi Yingting examined the Thousand-Faced Devil Lord’s belongings, and Li Ling assessed the strengths and flaws of his human-refined incense method.
• Li Ling decided to incorporate the method into the orthodox Incense Path, using an incense deity to bear the burden of spirit resonance and avoid rejection.
• Li Ling taught his disciples the Te Xia Incense formula, and they used it to suppress the foul stench and terrifying aura around the Asura Corpse Abomination.
• Li Ling used Shape-Seizing Life-Creation to draw out the abomination’s spirit resonance, then formed an Asura incense deity with Myriad Incenses Illusory Form.
• Li Ling explained that he could use human-refined incense on himself to separate impurities and refine his innate traits into a guardian incense deity.

Li Ling purified the Asura Corpse Abomination and strengthened Chi Yingting, while the Demonic Path discovered their plan had failed. On Jizhong Island, Tong Daquan survived the Fell Star’s power and underwent an incomplete Dao transformation, gaining the ability to project his soul.

• Li Ling gave Chi Yingting spirit resonance from the Asura Corpse Abomination, strengthening his fear Incense Deity while Li Ling’s own cultivation weakened and his soul grew purer.
• Chi Yingting refined the remaining spirit resonance, but Hong Quan and the arriving Demonic Path forces found the Asura Corpse Abomination gone and resolved to seek another way to oppose Li Ling.
• The Fell Star released emerald light that mutated nearby cultivators, prompting Li Ling, Shang Yanshou, and He Fuyuan to rescue them.
• Li Ling found Tong Daquan’s body apparently lifeless and used the Soul-Summoning Method to call back his soul, discovering that Tong Daquan had survived and gained control of some of the Fell Star’s origin.
• Li Ling recognized that Tong Daquan had undergone an incomplete Dao transformation and could project his soul, so he shielded Tong Daquan from sunlight while the others sealed the valley and his body.

Li Ling and the righteous cultivators tried to secure Tong Daquan’s Dao-transformed body as Demonic Path forces attacked Jizhong Island. When Grand Elder Wang attempted to seize it, Li Ling awakened the body’s five-turbidities power, which killed Wang by bringing his lifespan to its natural end.

• Hong Quan led the Demonic Path forces in an assault on Jizhong Island while he, Meng Chu, and Grand Elder Wang attempted to infiltrate its defenses.
• Li Ling and the others prepared to seal Tong Daquan’s body, and Li Ling concealed the area with incense techniques as the attackers broke through the damaged Grand Array.
• The Radiance Heavenly Lord intercepted Hong Quan and Meng Chu while Grand Elder Wang entered the fog and approached the body.
• Grand Elder Wang’s repulsive force pushed Li Ling and the others aside, but his arm entered the body’s strange field as he reached for it.
• Li Ling used Fragrance of Wisdom to awaken the body, which seized Grand Elder Wang and spread its green, life-eroding power through him.
• Grand Elder Wang died after the fate-turbidity calamity power exhausted his remaining lifespan, and Shang Yanshou identified the cause.

Li Ling and Radiance Heavenly Lord escaped with the sealed Fell Star aboard a treasure ship after the righteous faction defeated the Netherworld Sect’s attempt to seize it. The Heavenly Court debated who would control the Fell Star and decided to let established sects propose better-suited hosts before awarding it to the Incense Accumulation Sect.

• Hong Quan sent Lin to help Grand Elder Wang, but Li Ling and his companions emerged with Wang’s corpse and explained that the Fell Star’s fate-turbidity power had killed him.
• Radiance Heavenly Lord ordered the group to retreat with the sealed Fell Star, and they boarded a prepared Kun-class treasure ship while Hong Quan’s forces failed to stop them.
• The Heavenly Court coordinated attacks against the Netherworld Sect across several regions, while Li Ling argued that the Incense Accumulation Sect should retain Tong Daquan’s body and control the Fell Star.
• After three days of travel, the Heavenly Court’s leadership failed to reach consensus because established sects also wanted the Fell Star’s power.
• The Heavenly Court ruled that established sects could present more compatible hosts for the Fell Star; if none proved suitable, the Incense Accumulation Sect would keep it.

Li Ling used the Fell Star negotiations to seek the Heavenly Court’s backing for Tong Daquan, then welcomed the arriving Immortal Sects and watched their candidates fail to approach the Dao-transformed body safely. Most sects accepted that Tong Daquan was the best match and supported Li Ling, but the Black Tortoise Sect’s Grand Elder objected to giving up a share.

• Li Ling told Chi Yingting that the Fell Star should go to whoever could use it best and explained that Heavenly Court approval would help protect Tong Daquan’s path to becoming a powerful cultivator.
• Grand Elders and candidates from numerous Immortal Sects arrived, and Li Ling and Chi Yingting sensed that none of their candidates matched the Fell Star as well as Tong Daquan.
• The righteous cultivators discovered that the Fell Star’s turbid power made approaching Tong Daquan dangerous, and a Jade Nectar Sect elder lost several years of his lifespan when he came close.
• He Yannian and other sect elders acknowledged that their candidates were unsuitable, offered Li Ling their support, and sought advice about restoring Tong Daquan.
• The Black Tortoise Sect’s Grand Elder objected, insisting that his sect should still receive a share of the Fell Star’s power.

Li Ling persuaded Hou Wu to relinquish the Black Tortoise Sect’s claim to the Fell Star, first acknowledging the sect’s predicament and then revealing a divine ability that demonstrated his insight into the origin of the Great Dao. Hou Wu emerged from their private meeting and announced that his sect would give up the object.

• Hou Wu demanded that the Black Tortoise Sect receive a share of the Fell Star, but Li Ling invoked the Heavenly Court’s approved allocation and the need to prioritize the greater good.
• After learning that the Black Tortoise Sect had lacked a Spirit Transformation mighty figure for over a thousand years, Li Ling invited Hou Wu to speak privately.
• Li Ling acknowledged Hou Wu’s reasons for wanting the Fell Star, then firmly declared that the Incense Accumulation Sect would not yield an opportunity suited to its disciples.
• Li Ling demonstrated Myriad Incenses Illusory Form, which reproduced Hou Wu’s appearance and dark ice law, convincing him that Li Ling had glimpsed the origin of the Great Dao.
• Hou Wu left the chamber and announced that the Black Tortoise Sect relinquished its claim to the Fell Star.

Li Ling helped restore Tong Daquan using the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill and Teaweed Incense, while the righteous cultivators planned how he could develop the Fell Star’s power. After Tong Daquan awakened and revealed that its fate-turbidity calamity power was draining his lifespan, Li Ling conceived a bold way to use it safely.

• Li Ling explained his Myriad Incenses Illusory Form to Chi Yingting and advised him to focus on the Seven Emotions Incense method.
• He Yannian used the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill to restore Tong Daquan’s soul, and Li Ling reconstructed his body with Teaweed Incense.
• The righteous cultivators discussed Tong Daquan’s future cultivation, and Li Ling considered using the Hundred Flavors Gate’s Incense Cuisine Path to strengthen his new body.
• Tong Daquan awakened, and Li Ling found that his fused Fell Star power had become fate-turbidity calamity power.
• Li Ling warned Tong Daquan that using the power consumed his lifespan, then proposed refining Tong Daquan’s original body as a material to help control it.

Li Ling used Human-Refined Incense to help Tong Daquan rebuild his Dao Foundation and refined high-grade Seven Emotions Incense to aid Chi Yingting’s cultivation. Having confirmed his path toward Spirit Transformation, Li Ling prepared to enter seclusion and attempt the breakthrough.

• Li Ling explained to Chi Yingting how he had used Human-Refined Incense and Past-Wisdom Incense to help Tong Daquan leap to Core Formation and uncover a clear path toward Nascent Soul.
• Li Ling showed Chi Yingting seven bronze incense burners and explained that he had refined high-grade Seven Emotions Incense from gathered spiritual matter to help Chi find his own opportunity for advancement.
• Chi Yingting accepted the Seven Emotions Incense, while Li Ling worried that his disciple might struggle to master its power without learning to refine it himself.
• Li Ling told Mu Qingsi that Li Ying had reincarnated again but still failed to reach Foundation Establishment, and that repeated reincarnation could eventually replace his original self.
• Li Ling said his experiments had revealed a route to Spirit Transformation, and that he had gathered Orchids of the Secluded Valley so he could enter seclusion and attempt the breakthrough.

As the Incense Accumulation Sect’s network of arrays detected spirit resonance fading across the North Sea, the disturbance spread throughout the Four Seas and Ten Continents and reached the Underworld. The Heavenly Pavilion’s Libationer concluded that the great catastrophe was approaching and that the signs of the five turbidities had begun.

• The Incense Accumulation Sect welcomed new disciples at Nine-Wan Academy while visiting envoys discussed the worsening spiritual environment and the sect’s expanding academy system.
• The sect’s array inspectors discovered that fortune was ebbing at Four Gold Market Ward and reported the possible calamity to its City God.
• The array diagram’s island nodes began dimming, and the Day Wandering God patrolled the area without finding anything unusual.
• Mighty beings discovered that spirit vitality was fading across the Four Seas and Ten Continents, while human energy was also devastating ghost monsters in parts of the Underworld.
• The Heavenly Pavilion’s Libationer summoned the Earth Pavilion and Human Pavilion’s leaders and warned that the great catastrophe and the signs of an evil age of five turbidities had arrived.

The three Imperial Preceptors submitted a memorial warning that the final tribulation had begun and urging Great Qian to strengthen its defenses, honor the Heavenly Dao and Immortal Sects, recruit worthy cultivators, and restrain public discourse. As the memorial spread across the Ten Continents and Four Seas, sect leaders prepared for upheaval, and Shu Changsheng sensed a powerful threat rising over the East Sea.

• Zhang Feng, Lu Shou, and Zhu Lisheng warned the Great Qian Emperor that the final tribulation’s signs were appearing and proposed six measures for the dynasty.
• Great Qian published the memorial, prompting officials, cultivators, and rogue cultivators to debate its warnings and possible consequences.
• Nie Yingzhi and Chi Yingting agreed that the Incense Accumulation Sect should prepare for the tribulation and rely on its own strength while its master remained in seclusion.
• Shu Changsheng worried that the East Sea war was dragging on and that he lacked guidance from his master as disaster signs appeared.
• Black light swirled over the sea before Shu Changsheng, and a terrifying power spread outward.

Shu Changsheng investigated an ominous phenomenon in the East Sea and learned it might involve the ancient Blood God King Mahadaka, while Nie Yingzhi received reports of upheaval in the Underworld. As alarming incidents spread across multiple regions, Nie Yingzhi faced signs that a wider crisis was beginning.

• Shu Changsheng’s forces found mortals driven mad after a strange object descended, and the Heavenly Court ordered him to seal off the sea region.
• Two grand cultivators told Shu Changsheng that the object might be connected to Mahadaka, an ancient Blood Sea ruler who fell in the East Sea, and warned him to guard against Xin Yue.
• Nie Yingzhi and Chi Yingting decided to let disciples investigate the East Sea while keeping the Incense Accumulation Sect focused on protecting its gates and awaiting its master’s return from seclusion.
• Nie Yingzhi learned from Zhao Ziren and Fang Lin that the Six Paths Heavenly Wheel had emerged in the Underworld, stirring chaos among its powers.
• The Hundred Flavors Gate reported a heavenly demon in the mortal world, and Yao Lingxian reported that the Water Demon Palace was trembling.

Nie Yingzhi faced spreading demonic corruption across the Incense Accumulation Sect’s territories as a strange fishy fog devastated White Sand Island and ancient demons stirred beneath the Water Demon Palace. With billions of mortals affected by fish-scale disease and new crises arising elsewhere, he mobilized the sect to find a solution before the disasters overwhelmed them.

• Nie Yingzhi identified the spreading changes in spiritual energy as signs of the five turbidities evil world and ordered investigations into reports from the North Sea.
• At White Sand Island, Feng Qing ordered the defenses activated when a strange, fish-scented fog engulfed the island; giant sea-beast corpses arrived, and many people transformed into half-human, half-fish monsters.
• True Person Yingxuan and True Person Qingyu resealed the Water Demon Palace after demon monsters escaped, while Yao Lingxian confronted a market outbreak that infected people with demonic corruption.
• Nie Yingzhi linked the crises to ancient demon gods, requested aid from the Heavenly Court, and received two Nascent Soul-level Heavenly Gods to deal with the White Sand Island threat.
• Fish-scale disease spread across the North Sea, affecting billions of mortals, while further unfavorable reports arrived from Gathering Grotto Continent and the Rosy Mists Gate.
• Nie Yingzhi ordered the entire Incense Accumulation Sect to research a solution and stop the growing threats before they triggered a wider collapse.

The Incense Accumulation Sect contained the fishy disease spreading through the North Sea, while Nie Yingzhi warned Chi Yingting that the Money Guild could exploit the growing chaos. On Goldsource Island, Qian Ding joined Xin Yue’s plan to seize the island and summon the Underworld as Li Ling attempted to advance to Spirit Transformation.

• The Incense Accumulation Sect developed affordable sachets and incense to prevent the North Sea disease and distributed them widely under Nie Yingzhi’s orders.
• Nie Yingzhi told Chi Yingting to watch the Money Guild’s Grand Elders while the sect managed the outbreak and other threats.
• The Money Guild’s Grand Elders chose to protect their own holdings and avoid involvement in the disasters spreading across the seas and continents.
• Qian Ding tried to recruit Qian Dan to help restore the Qian Household’s influence, but Qian Dan refused to join him.
• Qian Ding met Xin Yue and his allies at the Qian Household shrine, accepted Xin Yue’s offer, and learned of his plan to seize Goldsource Island and summon the Underworld.

Xin Yue and Qian Ding’s forces captured Goldsource Island after the Money Guild’s elders and disciples abandoned their ancestral legacy, while Pei Qingguang escaped west. Nie Yingzhi and Chi Yingting weighed how to support Pei and counter the Corpse Immortal Sect, leaving the Incense Accumulation Sect to decide whether Chi should seek a breakthrough in the West Sea.

• Xin Yue and Qian Ding led a surprise attack that overwhelmed Goldsource Island’s defenses, killed Grand Elder Jin, and drove Pei Qingguang and his loyalists into retreat.
• Xin Yue offered to forgive and reward the Money Guild members who joined him, and many defected as he promised to open the secret hoard.
• Nie Yingzhi heard that the Qian Household had taken Goldsource Island and discussed the news with Chi Yingting, who argued that Xin Yue’s real goal was the secret hoard rather than control of the island.
• Nie Yingzhi learned that Pei Qingguang had escaped to Jade Lang Mountain wounded and considered the threats facing the West and North Seas.
• Chi Yingting revealed that he was ready to break through and proposed seeking enlightenment in the West Sea, leaving Nie Yingzhi to weigh the risks of sending him.

Nie Yingzhi traveled to the West Sea to support Pei Qingguang, who entrusted him with the Spirit-Communing Jade in exchange for the Incense Accumulation Sect’s aid. The chapter left Nie Yingzhi realizing that enemies seeking to hinder his master’s advancement might target the sect and its disciples.

• Nie Yingzhi chose to lead support to the West Sea while Chi Yingting stayed behind to defend the Incense Accumulation Sect.
• Pei Qingguang appointed Nie Yingzhi a Treasure Envoy and offered him the Spirit-Communing Jade in return for military, financial, and protective support.
• Pei Qingguang revealed that the Money Guild’s Secret Vault gate could be awakened through the Old Ancestor’s will, while Qian Ding and the others failed to open it on Goldsource Island.
• Nie Yingzhi received the Spirit-Communing Jade as Pei Qingguang claimed the Talisman Currency Seal, and the two discussed the Incense Accumulation Sect’s rising fortune.
• Nie Yingzhi realized that anyone trying to obstruct his master’s advancement could target the master’s disciples and sect members.

Li Ling neared Spirit Transformation as the incense path’s origin spread auspicious changes across the North Sea. Xin Yue organized a covert assault on the Incense Accumulation Sect to disrupt Li Ling’s breakthrough, and coordinated attacks left the sect suffering heavy losses.

• After a century of secluded cultivation, Li Ling refined the incense path’s origins into feathering, transformation, and transmutation, and began to approach Spirit Transformation.
• As Li Ling’s transformation affected the Que Luo Immortal Abode and spread across the seas, incense plants, products, and pills changed, while a faint orchid fragrance filled the region.
• Xin Yue recruited the Qian Household, other Money Guild elders, remnants of the Four Great Gold, Silver, Jade, and Stone Clans, and four ghost immortals to attack the Incense Accumulation Sect before Li Ling advanced.
• The Incense Accumulation Sect learned of the plot and prepared, but attacks struck Rosy Mists Gate, incense markets, Northsky Island, and areas near Nine-Wan Island, causing heavy losses.

Chi Yingting used the Ten-Thousand-Mile Incense-Seeking Art and the Greenfly Coin to locate the Money Guild forces, but their influence drove Kang Shang and his allies to attack Nine-Wan Island. As the island came under assault, Chi Yingting confronted Kang Shang and manifested his Seven-Faced Deity Dharma Form, briefly gaining Nascent Soul-level strength.

• Kang Shang's forces ambushed Elder Song on Earthflower Island, captured him, and deliberately let survivors escape to report the attack.
• Chi Yingting learned of Elder Song's defeat, used the Ten-Thousand-Mile Incense-Seeking Art to locate the enemy, and sent the Greenfly Coin to them with Incense-Thought Lure.
• Kang Shang and his allies became increasingly agitated and abandoned their cautious probes to attack Nine-Wan Island.
• Chi Yingting arrived as the island's defenses faltered, using the Seven Emotions Incense Transformation and a Ghost Tiger to kill enemy cultivators.
• Chi Yingting trapped Kang Shang in the Water-Moon Mirror, reinforced his Incense Path arts with the Greenfly Coin, and manifested his Seven-Faced Deity Dharma Form with temporary Nascent Soul strength.

Chi Yingting defeated Kang Shang and ascended to the Nascent Soul realm, then overwhelmed Deng Yang and Zhong Xingji with his Seven-Faced Deity Dharma Form. The enemy forces fled Nine-Wan Island, but a sudden heavenly transformation began as Chi Yingting and the others prepared to return.

• Kang Shang’s fear and other emotions empowered Chi Yingting, who killed him and broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.
• Deng Yang summoned demon monsters to attack Nine-Wan Island, but the Incense Accumulation Sect’s Soul-Reaping Incense wiped out many of them before the surviving demons breached the entrance.
• Chi Yingting appeared before Deng Yang and Zhong Xingji with his Dharma Form and crushed them beneath its enormous palm, killing Deng Yang and leaving Zhong Xingji surrounded.
• The four Ghost Immortals learned of Kang Shang’s defeat and ordered a retreat, prompting attackers at the Incense Accumulation Sect’s other Market Wards to flee with stolen goods.
• Gong Chi and the others joined Chi Yingting at a devastated battlefield and celebrated his breakthrough, but a familiar orchid fragrance spread as heavenly blossoms and golden lotuses appeared and purple qi rose from the direction of the Que Luo Immortal Abode.

Li Ling perfected his Primordial Spirit, established the Incense Path’s origin in the Ten Continents world, and stopped corruption from a polluted tributary of the River of Time. He confronted the four Ghost Immortals who had fled Chi Yingting, and Xin Yue’s avatar arrived only to flee at the sight of him.

• Li Ling united his Dharma Form and Nascent Soul with the Primordial Orchid’s origin, perfected his Primordial Spirit, and became the Incense Path’s Dao Fruit in the present world.
• Exotic incense-born materials appeared, the Incense Path gained a complete advancement route, and the Seven Emotions Wonder Branch merged into Chi Yingting as he advanced.
• Li Ling sensed pollution entering Jun Heaven from a tributary of the River of Time, spread the Incense Ancestor Origin to halt its stench, and helped the Heavenly Dao seal the breach.
• Li Ling found Chi Yingting and the four Ghost Immortals, recognized the Ghost Immortals, and crossed ten thousand miles to confront them.
• The four Ghost Immortals tried to escape but inhaled Li Ling’s Incense Essence, which seized their Divine Souls.
• Xin Yue’s avatar responded to the Ghost Immortals’ plea for help, saw Li Ling, and fled into the void.