Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu and Ximen Mei emerged from a hidden passage into a long-abandoned temple within the Jialan Secret Realm. After discovering Buddhist relics and a distant pagoda, they realized a blood-stained crescent moon suggested they were trapped inside a powerful formation or restrictive seal.

• Wang Yu listened at a concealed iron hatch before opening it, and he and Ximen Mei climbed into a dust-covered side room.
• The room's furnishings crumbled into ash, revealing a courtyard; Wang Yu collected a bone prayer bead and an iron-essence wooden fish.
• Ximen Mei spotted a towering pagoda, and Wang Yu concluded they were inside a vast temple, possibly built by High Person Jialan.
• Wang Yu warned Ximen Mei that the place was dangerous, and she saw a blood-marked crescent moon in the gray sky.
• Wang Yu and Ximen Mei concluded they were still in the Jialan Secret Realm, inside a larger formation or restrictive seal.

Wang Yu used the White Crystal Orb to confirm that he and Ximen Mei remained inside the Jialan Secret Realm. Elsewhere, two armored sisters defeated a swarm of spider beasts with a powerful talisman, but Kang Wuhen threatened to use them as ingredients for pill refining.

• Wang Yu stepped beyond the Little Maitreya Cloud Banner Talisman Treasure and checked the White Crystal Orb, which revealed several Demonic Path disciples nearby.
• Two women in blue and red armor fought an unending swarm of spider demon beasts in a sealed chamber beneath the Ancient Tower.
• The spiders bound the Blue-Armored Woman with webs while green venomous fog weakened the Red-Armored Woman.
• The Red-Armored Woman used a crimson talisman to summon a phantom red sun that incinerated the spider beasts.
• Kang Wuhen appeared at the chamber window and threatened to refine the sisters' flesh and blood into pills after they rejected his demand for dual cultivation.

Kang Wuhen revealed that his previous-life identity, High Person Jialan, had awakened within him and that he planned to seize the Buddha Body Remains and recover his former power. He left the two captive women under guard while the old monk prepared to capture outsiders for a Human Soul Pill, and watched the women as they meditated.

• The women in blue and red armor suspected that something controlled Kang Wuhen and resolved to wait for a chance to escape, hoping Senior Brother Luo would rescue them.
• Kang Wuhen told the old monk that the Buddha Body Remains guarded the tower’s highest floor and that he needed the women’s primordial yin power and essence blood to subdue it.
• The old monk explained that a Thousand Bamboo Sect junior had escaped by detonating his Seal-Breaking Magical Artifact, but remained trapped inside Jialan Temple’s magic array.
• Kang Wuhen ordered the old monk to capture outsiders for a Human Soul Pill and reflected on whether he was High Person Jialan or Kang Wuhen.
• Kang Wuhen used a token to view the two women meditating in a dark hall, then leered at them.

Yuantong and Yuanming were trapped in a ruined temple by a phantom headless spider, but it vanished before Yuantong could unleash his secret art. In a side room, an old monk claiming to be a strand of High Person Jialan’s divine thought discussed the failed attempts to kill a man’s reincarnation and agreed to target those interfering with him.

• Yuantong and Yuanming fought a dark figure guarding the ruined temple’s hall but were thrown back by its strength.
• Yuanming proposed using the Flashing Golden Ring talisman treasure to trap the creature and escape.
• A giant web descended on the monks, and the Flashing Golden Ring revealed and restrained a phantom headless spider.
• Yuantong prepared to use his secret art as the web continued to descend, but the spider suddenly burst into blue smoke and the web disappeared.
• A black figure opened its blood-red eyes in a side room and said the master-servant contract prevented it from killing a man’s reincarnation.
• An old monk identified as a strand of High Person Jialan’s divine thought agreed to leave the reincarnation to the black figure and kill everyone else who interfered.

Outside the White Mist Sea, the White Bone Fiend sent Zhu Wuyan into the formation and ordered the Demonic Path disciples to break it, while Spider Demon Beasts ambushed Mara Sect disciples at the mist’s edge. At the temple complex, Ximen Mei tried to convince Wang Yu to pursue High Person Jialan’s inheritance, ending by asking what her Family Ancestor had said about reaching Core Formation.

• A black-robed man reported that the weakened illusion formation could exert only second-tier power, and the White Bone Fiend ordered the disciples to prepare to break it and surround the area.
• The White Bone Fiend sent Zhu Wuyan inside to kill anyone he found and warned him that their agreement depended on obeying orders.
• Spider Demon Beasts ambushed Mara Sect disciples at several points along the White Mist Sea, capturing two disciples and prompting the Black Soul Sect coordinator to recall the Demonic Path disciples.
• Ximen Mei urged Wang Yu to seek High Person Jialan’s inheritance, but Wang Yu argued they should leave with the blood origin mushrooms rather than risk their lives for treasure.
• Ximen Mei explained that Core Formation was rare even among the Four Images Sect and asked Wang Yu what he thought her Family Ancestor had said about his achievement.

Wang Yu refused to stay with Ximen Mei to search for treasures that might aid core formation, and the two parted ways. After Ximen Mei left, she revealed that Elder Jin had awakened and learned that he had helped her decide she did not need Wang Yu.

• Ximen Mei told Wang Yu that core formation depended heavily on fortune and explained why she was willing to risk searching for an opportunity.
• Wang Yu declined to join her, and Ximen Mei gave him the blood origin mushroom, a sound-recording talisman, and a Formation Disc to deliver to her family ancestor.
• Ximen Mei entered the central temple buildings while Wang Yu released cyan birds to scatter their essence-blood markers, concealed himself, and headed toward the White Mist Sea.
• Ximen Mei glanced back after Wang Yu disappeared, and the miniature Golden Toad appeared on her shoulder and questioned her feelings for him.
• Ximen Mei admitted she might have feelings for Wang Yu but said Elder Jin's awakening had made her feel safe searching alone.

Wang Yu entered the White Mist Sea while Ximen Mei and Old Jin planned to seek the treasure. Elsewhere in the Temple ruins, Luo Hao was caught between a mysterious monk and a hollow-eyed man, while Wang Yu fought through demon beasts and saw a distant battle erupt.

• Ximen Mei told Old Jin she believed sensing powerful demon beast auras would lead them to the treasure, and Old Jin agreed to help for three days.
• Wang Yu used a Formation Disc to part the White Mist Sea, then traveled underground beneath the mist.
• Luo Hao hid from a short-haired man guarding the Yellow-Brass Gate, but an old monk found him and attacked with a Buddhist prayer bead.
• Luo Hao revealed himself and drew the Purple Twin Swords, only for the short-haired man to appear behind him and strike with a Giant Palm.
• Wang Yu killed several Man-Height Giant Spiders and noticed distant mushroom-shaped bursts of light rising through the mist.

Wang Yu fled an overwhelming swarm of spider demon beasts while Demonic Path forces attacked the Mist Sea Magic Array. At Jialan Temple, Ximen Mei discovered a fellow Black Tortoise Mountain disciple among the dead and recognized the great hall from underground reliefs, just as a black figure emerged.

• Wang Yu killed a group of enormous spiders with the Windfire Chant, then fled when more spider demon beasts swarmed out of the Mist Sea.
• Demonic Path cultivators fought spider demon beasts from flying boats and planted formation materials as the Black Soul Sect bombarded the Mist Sea Magic Array.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton rose from his throne and moved toward the Mist Sea after his subordinate reported that it was time for him to act.
• Ximen Mei entered Jialan Temple, fell under its flight-prohibiting seal, and found a fresh skeleton wearing Black Tortoise Mountain's emblem.
• Ximen Mei recognized the great hall across the bone-strewn square as the hall shown in underground reliefs, and a black figure emerged from its mist.

Outside the Jialan Secret Realm, Heaven Toad Ancestor learned that his heaven toad incarnation had died, while inside the realm the old monk completed a batch of pills and sent a black figure to delay the outsiders. Wang Yu discovered that the Magic Array had trapped him and prepared to use a Water-Avoidance Banner.

• Heaven Toad Ancestor learned that his heaven toad incarnation had perished and feared that an opponent stronger than a Qi Refining cultivator was inside the Secret Realm.
• The old monk refined three low-grade pale-black pills and stored them in a crimson box.
• The old monk asked a black figure to delay the outsiders while he subdued the Brahma Body Dharma Form and dealt with Jialan's reincarnation.
• The black figure left behind the carcass of a huge toad before vanishing.
• Wang Yu repeatedly returned to the same Spider Demon Beast corpses and realized the Magic Array had trapped him.
• Wang Yu took out a Water-Avoidance Banner and poured dharma power into it.

Wang Yu used his Water-Avoidance Banners and Iron Cloud Brick to break a restrictive seal and uncover a ruined array platform. Elsewhere, a black figure killed a Black Soul Sect elder and struck the Giant White-Bone Skeleton while Spider Demon Beasts attacked the Bone Boats, leaving the skeleton preparing a counterattack.

• Wang Yu used his three Water-Avoidance Banners to clash with the restrictive seals surrounding him.
• Wang Yu activated the Iron Cloud Brick, shattered the remaining inscription phantoms, and uncovered a broken Formation Disc on a buried array platform.
• Wang Yu retrieved his artifacts and moved away through the returning white fog.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton and Black Soul Sect disciples attacked an array diagram protecting a formation eye.
• A blurry black figure killed the gaunt middle-aged man and ate his heart, then struck the Giant White-Bone Skeleton as Spider Demon Beasts swarmed the Bone Boats.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton rose from the silver Light Screen, sent his Bone Saber and banner after the black figure, and formed a crystalline eye on his forehead.

Wang Yu encountered Ye Zhen and the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman in the Mist Sea, then avoided a fight and hurried away to escape the array. Meanwhile, Yuanming and Yuantong discussed a mysterious connection to the Temple’s tower before a blood-path cultivator attacked them.

• Wang Yu found a mound strewn with Spider Demon Beast corpses and encountered Ye Zhen and the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman, who fled in different directions.
• Wang Yu chose not to pursue the women and used his Breathing Technique to vanish and head toward another route out of the array.
• Yuantong told Yuanming that the Temple’s tower and its layout felt familiar, while Yuanming’s Buddhist Prayer Beads pointed toward it.
• A blood-colored figure emerged from the thicket and challenged Yuanming and Yuantong to fight.
• Yuantong attacked the blood-colored figure, who summoned a humanoid made from human skin to fight him as a blood shadow lunged at Yuanming.

Zhu Wuyan trapped Yuanming and Yuantong in a blood hurricane and attacked them with demonic arts, forcing Yuanming to prepare to break his seal. Divine lightning destroyed the hurricane and wounded Zhu Wuyan, who escaped underground, while an unfamiliar old monk descended and drew the two monks’ suspicion.

• Zhu Wuyan’s Blood-Draining Art trapped Yuanming and Yuantong in a blood-colored hurricane and made their blood boil.
• Zhu Wuyan summoned three gray-white figures wielding Blood-Transforming Demon Sabers, and Yuanming prepared to fight while Yuantong readied a scripture page.
• Yuanming told Yuantong to use a second-tier talisman to break the restriction and revealed he planned to release his seal if needed.
• More than a dozen arcs of divine lightning destroyed the hurricane, struck Zhu Wuyan, and drove him to escape underground.
• An old monk descended from the sky, and Yuanming cautiously asked who he was.

An old monk used a Third-Tier Magical Artifact to defeat Yuanming and break Yuantong’s talisman defenses, while Kang Wuhen began cultivating after taking a Human Soul Pill. Wang Yu fought through a battle between Demonic Path cultivators and demon beasts and neared the edge of the great array, as the battered Giant White-Bone Skeleton began gathering bones from fallen Black Soul Sect disciples.

• The old monk identified Yuantong as resembling someone from his past and blasted Yuanming with his silver Short Ruler.
• Yuantong used a Talisman Treasure against the old monk, then escaped with Yuanming using a second-tier Earth-Drilling Talisman before the old monk broke the Diamond Sutra’s restraint.
• Kang Wuhen confirmed that the pills were Human Soul Pills, swallowed one, and began practicing the Secret Art in the black book.
• Wang Yu killed white spiders amid a battle between Demonic Path cultivators and demon beasts, then spotted distant mountains beyond the great array’s mist.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton recovered before the array diagram and summoned bones from the corpses of dead Black Soul Sect disciples.

After escaping the Mist Sea, Wang Yu watched the great array collapse and discovered that its destruction had triggered a change in the moon above Jialan Temple's ruins. He fled the area, but Ye Zhen and two women pursued him on a Giant Emerald Leaf, and he prepared for a possible confrontation.

• The Black Soul Sect's Golden Core Ancestor restored the giant skeleton and used four magical artifacts to break the array's silver Light Screen and attack its pillar.
• Wang Yu escaped the Mist Sea as the array collapsed, then fled when a column of black mist rose from the ruins.
• Seven hidden chambers revealed blood-red array diagrams that sent beams into the moon, shattering the Blood-red Crescent Moon and covering the ruins with crimson curtains.
• Wang Yu flew more than thirty li away before noticing that Ye Zhen, the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman, and a veiled woman were pursuing him on a Giant Emerald Leaf.
• Wang Yu confirmed that the blood origin mushroom remained in his Storage Bag and drew his Blue-Red Long Saber as he considered the approaching women.

Wang Yu confronted Bi Xinxiu, Ye Zhen, and the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman, resisting Bi Xinxiu’s Bewitching Arts with his heightened mental power. Rather than fight, Bi Xinxiu proposed a wager over their Secret Realm gains, and Wang Yu demanded that the other two women’s Storage Bags be included as stakes.

• The three women ambushed Wang Yu with pink mist and strange snakes, while Bi Xinxiu used her allure to try to bewitch him.
• Wang Yu resisted Bi Xinxiu’s Bewitching Power Secret Art, identified himself as Wan Shan of the Four Symbols Sect, and prepared to fight.
• Bi Xinxiu claimed her group could force Wang Yu to retreat but offered a wager instead of a battle.
• Bi Xinxiu wagered her Storage Bags against Wang Yu’s on whether he could resist her full-power Bewitching Dao Secret Art.
• Wang Yu rejected the proposed stakes and demanded that Ye Zhen and the Joyful Bliss Palace Woman wager their Storage Bags too.

Wang Yu and Bi Xinxiu agreed to wager their Storage Bags on whether her Bewitching Art could make him leave a circle. After both prepared protections for the contest, Bi Xinxiu removed her veil and revealed her stunning face.

• Bi Xinxiu persuaded Ye Zhen and the other woman to stake their Storage Bags by promising compensation, Night-Phase Moth powder, and help obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Bi Xinxiu proposed a contest in which Wang Yu would lose if her Bewitching Art made him step outside a circle before one stick of incense burned out, and Wang Yu accepted.
• Wang Yu and Bi Xinxiu descended to a hilltop, where Wang Yu drew a circle and Bi Xinxiu raised an Isolation Talisman over the area.
• Wang Yu tested the Light Screen and set up three Small Blue Banners to form an Illusion Formation, while Bi Xinxiu prepared incense and fastened golden bells to her wrists and ankles.
• Bi Xinxiu removed her veil and revealed an extraordinarily beautiful face.

Wang Yu escaped Bi Xinxiu’s bewitching dance and evaded pursuit after deciding not to continue their wager. Outside the Jialan Secret Realm, the Golden Core Ancestors learned that Yuanming had likely died, while the old monk brought Kang Wuhen an unconscious outsider for a possible blood sacrifice.

• Wang Yu broke through the ground with a Yellow Talisman and escaped after Bi Xinxiu’s Heavenly Fox Dance nearly overwhelmed him.
• Bi Xinxiu failed to follow Wang Yu through the earth, destroyed the Water-Avoidance Banners, and searched for him as he slipped away using birds as decoys.
• Guangfa discovered that Yuanming’s Soul Tablet had cracked, and the Golden Core Ancestors discussed the dangers inside the Jialan Secret Realm.
• The old monk brought an unconscious, charred young monk to Kang Wuhen, intending to reserve his essence blood for opening the Treasure Vault’s gate.

Kang Wuhen prepared to break the Treasure Vault Gate’s Restrictive Seal and subdue the Brahma Body Dharma Form the next day. The old monk revealed his connection to a mutilated spider-like spirit and to Yuantong, while promising to help the spirit recover its Demon Core.

• Kang Wuhen learned that the Treasure Vault Gate had a Restrictive Seal and planned to use the next day to subdue the Brahma Body Dharma Form and retrieve the vault’s treasures.
• The old monk carried the unconscious Yuantong away, studied a portrait of a young scholar who looked like Yuantong, and spoke with a blurry black figure.
• The black figure said a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a Third-Tier Magical Artifact had mutilated him, and the old monk offered him blood food and asked him to restore his limbs before tomorrow.
• The black figure tried to possess Yuantong but was repelled by golden spirit inscriptions, then returned to his ruined body as a Headless Spider phantom.
• The old monk explained that the black figure was a remnant soul of High Person Jialan’s spirit pet and promised to help it obtain its Demon Core after they opened Jialan’s Treasure Vault Gate.

An old monk and an indistinct black figure prepared to open the treasure vault, while the Demonic Path disciples planned to break the Temple ruins’ array. Wang Yu escaped toward the Secret Realm’s edge and discovered that the strange stone he had picked up resisted both force and divine sense.

• The old monk told the indistinct black figure that Kang Wuhen had refined the other reincarnations’ spirit soul auras, and said they could sacrifice the little monk if opening the treasure vault failed again.
• The Giant White-Bone Skeleton ordered the Demonic Path disciples and the fatty surnamed Pei to help him break the Magic Array the next day, using a third-tier Treasure Artifact projection.
• Wang Yu sent out birds carrying essence blood to confuse his pursuers, then flew toward the edge of the Secret Realm’s central region on his Bone Boat.
• A milky-white stone in Wang Yu’s Storage Bag began glowing red and heating up before turning cold again.
• Wang Yu squeezed the stone hard enough to leave fingerprints, but it quickly returned to normal, and his divine sense could not penetrate it.

Wang Yu secured the strange stone and rested after escaping the Secret Realm, while Kang Wuhen approached the Buddha Body on the High Tower's top floor to subdue it with a secret method. As Demonic Path forces battered the Temple's protective array outside, Kang Wuhen's spell seals began entering the Buddha Body.

• Wang Yu sealed the strange stone in an Iron Box with talismans, then carved a cave and slept after flying toward the Secret Realm's outskirts.
• Kang Wuhen reached the High Tower's highest floor with the old monk and found Luo Hao's crushed corpse before the Buddha Body.
• Kang Wuhen resolved to subdue the Buddha Body and reclaim the vault's treasures, encouraged by the old monk's promise of power.
• A thunderous shock shook the High Tower as Demonic Path forces unleashed third-tier power against the Blood-Red Curtain, but the old monk confirmed the array still held.
• Kang Wuhen used his recovered secret method to cloak himself in grayish-white talisman inscriptions, then sent spell seals into the Buddha Body.