Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang and Uzumaki Nao encountered an Underworld Guide in the Great Wilderness, but it transformed into a powerful Level Three Underworld Leader. Ye Liang rescued Nao from its attack, and the two escaped the immediate danger.

• Ye Liang followed Uzumaki Nao to a watering place where Underworld Beasts gathered to hunt.
• Ye Liang recognized the approaching beast as an Underworld Guide, while Uzumaki Nao mistook it for a low-grade creature.
• Uzumaki Nao tried to ambush the beast, but it revealed itself as a Level Three Underworld Leader and struck at her.
• Ye Liang attacked the Underworld Leader with the Death Qi Application Method, grabbed Nao, and took the force of its punch to propel them away.
• Ye Liang set Nao down and asked if she was seriously hurt, and she nodded that she was fine.

Ye Liang fought the intelligent Underworld Leader with a bone dagger, blinding it and breaking its legs, but he could not find a way to kill its armored body. As Uzumaki Nao warned him, the fallen creature began charging a red energy attack in its throat.

• Ye Liang charged the Underworld Leader despite Uzumaki Nao's warning and used a death-energy-coated bone dagger to destroy one of its eyes.
• Ye Liang asked Uzumaki Nao about the Underworld Leader's weakness, and she explained that Underworld Beasts had red energy beads, though she did not know where this one's was hidden.
• Ye Liang attacked the recovering Underworld Leader and dislocated both of its leg joints, leaving it unable to move or strike him.
• Ye Liang found that attacks on the Underworld Leader's heart, head, and neck had no effect, while Uzumaki Nao saw red energy gathering in its throat and warned him.

Ye Liang killed the Underworld Leader and took its flesh, then discovered the System had stopped responding. As Ye Liang cultivated the beast’s unusually pure death aura, strange electrical currents gathered around him.

• The System erased the Underworld Leader’s red energy sphere just before it hit Ye Liang, and Ye Liang spotted a pearl in the beast’s throat as its weakness.
• Ye Liang charged into the Underworld Leader’s mouth and killed it, then gave Uzumaki Nao a chunk of its flesh for the birthday banquet.
• Ye Liang decided to find another Underworld Guide and secretly planned to keep the Underworld Leader’s powerful energy for himself.
• The next day, Ye Liang asked Uzumaki Nao to search for Underworld Beasts while he stayed behind to cultivate.
• Ye Liang found that the System no longer responded, then cultivated as electrical currents gathered in the death aura and flowed back into his body.

Ye Liang’s cultivation drew the electrons in his body into his acupoints, leaving him unable to control parts of his body as he hid near a lake. While he watched a couple and a third person approach them with a dagger, the chapter ended with the attacker pinning down the woman after killing her husband.

• Ye Liang’s cultivation pulled electrons into his acupoints, disrupting his bodily functions and leaving him unable to move his waist or little brother.
• Ye Liang crawled into the grass to hide, fearing wild beasts might find him before Uzumaki Nao returned.
• Ye Liang watched a man from Matsushita Ichiro’s faction flirt with Miss Takahashi beside a rotting water buffalo, then kiss her.
• A novice crept up behind the couple with a dagger as Ye Liang watched, assuming he planned to murder them for treasure.
• The attacker slit the man’s throat and pinned down the woman, who called the dead man her husband.

Ye Liang was attacked by a man who had murdered his wife and her lover, but discovered that the man's lightning could loosen the stagnant qi in his acupoints. He tricked the man into striking him repeatedly, restored his strength, and reached the second layer of the Nether Body Forging Art.

• Ye Liang watched as a man killed his wife and her lover, then dragged their bodies into a pool to hide the evidence.
• The man attacked Ye Liang, but Ye Liang caught his dagger and subdued him before the man struck him with black lightning.
• The man revealed that his Thunderous Art let him absorb the Underworld Leader's Thunder Force, and Ye Liang realized the lightning loosened his blocked acupoints.
• Ye Liang pretended to threaten two cultivation manuals, provoking the man to blast him repeatedly with lightning.
• Ye Liang regained his strength and broke through to the second layer of the Nether Body Forging Art.

Ye Liang killed the man who had attacked him, learned the Underworld Lightning Forging Method, and used it to perform Chidori. Meanwhile, Matsushita Ichiro’s hunters returned to Peach Blossom Village with proof that they had hunted powerful Underworld Beasts.

• Ye Liang absorbed the Underworld Leader’s power, completed his breakthrough, and killed the man whose Thunder Force had helped him open his acupoints.
• Ye Liang took the man’s Underworld Lightning Forging Method and began cultivating it, hoping to imitate the lightning technique Kirin from the Toad Sage’s prophecy.
• By evening, Ye Liang had mastered the method’s second level and performed Lightning Release—Chidori, then concealed it from Uzumaki Nao when she arrived.
• Three days later, Kobashi Shiki and Matsushita Ichiro returned to Peach Blossom Village as villagers welcomed them and Mother Superior Duzhixu waited at the entrance.
• Takahashi Kojiro confirmed that Matsushita Ichiro’s men had brought back a second-tier lower-grade Underworld Guide, and another hunter soon arrived with an even larger one.

Ye Liang let Kobashi Shiki claim first place with the giant Underworld Guide he had killed, keeping his own strength hidden from Mother Superior Duzhixu. While investigating the Village Exit Token, he broke through its strange red power and was pulled out of Peach Blossom Village into the Great Wilderness.

• Matsushita Ichiro brought several Underworld Guide corpses to the village, but Kobashi Shiki won first place with a twenty-three-meter, eight-inch beast.
• Ye Liang explained that he gave Kobashi Shiki the giant beast to avoid drawing attention to his rapidly growing strength.
• Takahashi Kojiro asked Ye Liang whether he had seen his missing son, and Ye Liang realized the man might have been the Lightning Dharma King he had killed.
• Ye Liang examined the Village Exit Token with his consciousness and found a powerful red energy inside it.
• Ye Liang forced his way through the token's red power, was pulled away, and woke in the Great Wilderness outside the village.

Ye Liang was trapped in a vision triggered by the village-leaving token, where he witnessed Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto’s conflict before a glowing man threatened him. After waking, he learned that Mother Superior’s once-a-century birthday banquet was underway and went with Uzumaki Nao, where Kobashi Shiki called him over.

• Ye Liang discovered that the strange wilderness and palace were part of a vision, and he watched Izanagi-no-Mikoto enter the palace while searching for Izanami-no-Mikoto.
• Ye Liang heard the pair argue inside, then encountered a glowing man who accused him of seeing something and attacked him before space froze and Ye Liang woke.
• Uzumaki Nao urged Ye Liang to attend Mother Superior’s birthday banquet, explaining that it occurred once every hundred years and drew important guests.
• Ye Liang agreed to go to the public dining hall with Uzumaki Nao and saw distinguished seats on the platform.
• Kobashi Shiki greeted Ye Liang and called him to the front.

At Mother Superior Duzhixu’s birthday banquet, Ye Liang encountered powerful guests and learned more about Yomi Hirasaka’s rulers. The chapter ended with him realizing that many attendees refused to eat because Underworld food would prevent them from leaving the village.

• Villagers mocked Ye Liang for returning from the hunt without prey, and Kobashi Shiki and Uzumaki Nao defended him.
• Ofukamuzu arrived with an Immortal Peach, and Ye Liang sensed that the boy was even stronger than Mother Superior Duzhixu.
• Kobashi Shiki told Ye Liang that Ofukamuzu served Izanagi-no-Mikoto, the rival and husband of the Goddess of the Underworld, Izanami-no-Mikoto.
• Ye Liang connected Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto to figures from his dream and wondered who the current Goddess of the Underworld was if Izanami-no-Mikoto had died.
• As the banquet began, Ye Liang noticed that most powerful guests would not touch the food, and Kobashi Shiki explained that eating Underworld food trapped people in the village.

Kobashi Shiki explained that Pure Ones who ate food from the Underworld Realm became Fallen Ones, losing the ability to reincarnate and eventually risking madness. Ye Liang suspected the boy at the banquet held a clue to avoiding that fate, and confronted him at his lodgings, where the boy transformed into a familiar-looking adult.

• Kobashi Shiki told Ye Liang that Pure Ones who ate Underworld creatures gained strength but could no longer reincarnate, and some eventually became mindless monsters.
• Ye Liang worried that absorbing death energy and eating Underworld creatures might prevent him from leaving Yomi Hirasaka, but took comfort in learning that Izanami-no-Mikoto could leave.
• Ye Liang noticed the boy at the banquet seemed to be a Pure One who had grown stronger, and decided to seek answers from him.
• After the banquet, Ye Liang found the boy's lodging and entered a guest room to ask for guidance.
• The boy recognized Ye Liang's fabricated identity, transformed into an adult, and Ye Liang recognized him.

Ye Liang met Izanagi-no-Mikoto, who offered him a way back to the human world in exchange for a wooden comb from the Goddess of the Underworld. After Izanagi-no-Mikoto vanished from Ofukamuzu’s body, Ofukamuzu attacked Ye Liang, who fled to Mother Superior Duzhixu for help.

• Ye Liang recognized Izanagi-no-Mikoto from his dream, and Izanagi-no-Mikoto asked him to retrieve the Goddess of the Underworld’s wooden comb in exchange for Chakra to escape the Underworld Realm.
• Izanagi-no-Mikoto revealed that he knew Ye Liang’s name, Sharingan, and ability to use Space Ninjutsu before disappearing from Ofukamuzu’s body.
• Ofukamuzu woke up, became enraged when Ye Liang said the food and cow were gone, and attacked him.
• Ye Liang fled across the rooftops as Ofukamuzu chased him by rolling through the village.
• Ye Liang reached Mother Superior Duzhixu’s palace and asked her to save him, and she confronted the charging Ofukamuzu with black energy.

Ye Liang learned that the Goddess of the Underworld was selecting guards and that Mother Superior Duzhixu would recommend him, then completed the final level of the Nether Body Forging Method. He left Peach Blossom Village to seek the materials needed for further cultivation.

• Ofukamuzu accused Ye Liang of sneaking into his room, but Mother Superior Duzhixu ended their dispute and took Ye Liang to her palace.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu told Ye Liang that the Goddess of the Underworld would soon select new guards and offered to recommend him.
• Ye Liang decided to trust his own strength rather than either Izanagi-no-Mikoto's or Mother Superior Duzhixu's explanation of how to leave the Underworld Realm.
• Seven days later, Ye Liang mastered the final level of the Nether Body Forging Method and learned to shape black aura into weapons and objects.
• Ye Liang left Peach Blossom Village after reporting to the village chief.

Ye Liang entered the Great Wilderness to hunt stronger Underworld creatures, but found a Level 2 Karma Fire Beast pursuing two Underworld Guides. He fed it their flesh so it would evolve into a Karma Fire Leader, then attacked as its transformation completed.

• Ye Liang found and killed a Level 1 Karma Fire Beast, then continued deeper into the wilderness in search of stronger creatures.
• Ye Liang discovered a Level 2 Karma Fire Beast chasing two Underworld Guides and decided to let it evolve so he could obtain the flesh of a Karma Fire Leader.
• Ye Liang killed both Underworld Guides and forced the wounded Karma Fire Beast to eat their remains while preparing a Lightning Release Rasengan.
• The Karma Fire Beast evolved into a Karma Fire Leader with blue flames, and Ye Liang trapped it in black aura and struck it with the Lightning Release Rasengan.

Ye Liang struggled to find the Karma Fire Leader’s hidden weakness as it regenerated from his attacks and chased him through the wilderness. He trapped it in a narrow canyon and destroyed the eye at the back of its skull, but his burned-through vines left him falling into the canyon with it.

• Ye Liang attacked the Karma Fire Leader with lightning and explosive bone blades, but its wounds healed and he could not locate its hidden weak-point eye.
• Ye Liang fled from the Karma Fire Leader and led it into a narrow canyon, where its large body became wedged.
• Ye Liang wrapped himself in deathly aura to withstand the blue karma fire, climbed onto the trapped monster, and battered its head until he found an eye at the back of its skull.
• Ye Liang destroyed the Karma Fire Leader’s eye with Lightning Release, causing its body to collapse into minced flesh.
• Ye Liang realized the karma fire had burned through the vines around his waist, leaving him falling into the canyon with the monster.

Ye Liang recovered from his fall into the canyon by eating the Karma Fire Lord’s flesh and mastering the Underworld Fire Forging Method, with a little squirrel’s urine helping him endure the flames. He followed the squirrel through the dangerous canyon and arrived at a palace whose road was paved with Underworld Leaders’ corpses.

• Ye Liang woke injured at the bottom of a canyon and healed himself before eating the dead Karma Fire Lord’s flesh.
• Ye Liang cultivated the Underworld Fire Forging Method to its third level and endured its painful body-tempering flames.
• A little squirrel repeatedly urinated on Ye Liang, easing the pain and helping him complete his fire-forging cultivation.
• Ye Liang recovered fully, thanked the squirrel, and followed it deeper into the canyon after it beckoned him onward.
• The squirrel guided Ye Liang past dangerous Underworld, Karma Fire, and Ice Spring Beasts to a bone-strewn palace with a road paved from Underworld Leaders’ corpses.

Ye Liang followed a squirrel to the golden palace from his dream and became trapped inside after the entrance vanished. He found the original Shinigami's Body manual, but awakened skeletons closed in as the squirrel beckoned him through another doorway.

• Ye Liang crossed a road of Underworld Leader skeletons and reached the golden palace with the squirrel.
• Ye Liang opened the palace gate, followed the squirrel into darkness, and discovered that the entrance had disappeared.
• Ye Liang fled from a walking skeleton and found the Shinigami's Body manual in a cramped room.
• A skeleton grabbed Ye Liang, but he broke its hand and knocked its skull away before hearing more creatures approach.
• Ye Liang saw a mass of filthy creatures coming toward him as the squirrel appeared at another doorway and urged him to follow.

Ye Liang was trapped by a black throne and confronted by a talking skeleton who planned to use him as a sacrifice. Meidouzi questioned him about Izanagi-no-Mikoto, then ordered the skeleton to kill him, and Ye Liang lost consciousness.

• Ye Liang followed the squirrel into a room and was pulled onto a black throne that held him in place.
• A white skeleton entered, recognized Ye Liang as one of Izanagi-no-Mikoto's people, and said he would sacrifice him to resurrect himself.
• Meidouzi blasted the skeleton away and revealed that she was Lord Underworld God's maidservant.
• Meidouzi asked whether Izanagi-no-Mikoto had caused the Underworld God's death, what he had told her, and whether he would save her.
• Ye Liang invented a romantic confession from Izanagi-no-Mikoto, but Meidouzi ordered the skeleton to kill him.
• The skeleton grabbed Ye Liang's head, and Ye Liang slowly lost consciousness.

Ye Liang defeated the skeleton that tried to seize his soul and absorbed its memories, learning the truth about Meidouzi, Izanagi-no-Mikoto, and the Underworld Palace. He pretended to be General White Bone to keep Meidouzi from suspecting him and left the palace, wary of the Underworld Emperor.

• The skeleton tried to absorb Ye Liang’s consciousness in his Mental Space, but Ye Liang changed his form and bit it until its consciousness faded.
• Ye Liang devoured the skeleton and received its memories, learning how Izanagi-no-Mikoto tried to rescue his wife and how the Underworld Palace became trapped in the canyon.
• Ye Liang learned that Meidouzi had been Izanagi-no-Mikoto’s friend and had lured people into the palace in hopes of finding a vessel for the Underworld Emperor.
• Ye Liang disabled the throne’s trap and pretended to be General White Bone, telling Meidouzi he would take over luring passersby.
• Meidouzi accepted Ye Liang’s offer and rested on the throne, while Ye Liang controlled General White Bone’s body and left the palace.

Ye Liang escaped the Underworld Palace but could not climb out of the gorge, so he cultivated there for a month and hunted an Ice Spring Leader. He returned to Peach Blossom Village as Kobashi Shiki and Uzumaki Nao worried that his absence would cost them resources in the Underworld Guard examination.

• Ye Liang left the Underworld Palace, evaded the old man at the end of the Bone Road, and entered the gorge.
• Ye Liang learned from General White Bone's memories about the Underworld Beasts and Mother Superior Duzhixu's cultivation technique.
• Ye Liang failed to climb out of the gorge and began cultivating with the Underworld technique among the Ice Spring Beasts.
• Kobashi Shiki and Uzumaki Nao searched for Ye Liang and worried that he would miss the Underworld Guard examination.
• Ye Liang returned to Peach Blossom Village carrying an Ice Spring Leader's head, and Kobashi Shiki angrily confronted him.

Ye Liang returned to Peach Blossom Village with trophies from his Underworld Realm expedition, but villagers misread the circumstances of his killing and shunned him. As the group set out for a guard selection, he reunited with Uncle White Fang and kept his human identity secret while pursuing his plan to escape to the mortal world.

• Ye Liang returned to Peach Blossom Village, where Uzumaki Nao and Kobashi Shiki told him the village chief had been arrested for leading him into danger, and Nao accused him of killing the village chief's son and behaving improperly with the man's daughter-in-law.
• The next day, Ye Liang found the villagers avoiding him as Mother Superior Duzhixu led the participants, including Uzumaki Nao and Matsushita Ichiro, toward the competition.
• At an uninhabited zone, Ye Liang recognized Uncle White Fang among a rival group and learned that Lord Oda had recruited him for the guard selection.
• Ye Liang told Uncle White Fang not to reveal that he was human, since exposure could cause trouble and jeopardize his plan to steal a section of a Wooden Comb and escape with Izanagi-no-Mikoto's help.