Chapter Summaries

Wang Quan let the tiger demons harvest his organs, whose spirits mistook his actions for a rebellion plot and fled into the tribe. The White Tiger chieftain allowed the organs to inhabit the tiger demons, leaving the possibility that they might aid the tribe in the future.

• Wang Quan’s self-aware organs rallied under a heart’s leadership and fled while tiger demons chased and ate some of them.
• Wang Quan opened his chest and scattered more organs, prompting tiger demons and Ghost Gods to marvel at their quality and potential.
• Some organs escaped capture by replacing tiger demons’ original organs and supplying them with internal power.
• Wang Quan’s organs entered more tiger demons’ bodies and pretended to lose consciousness, while one powerful tiger demon warned that they were deceiving the tribe.
• The White Tiger chieftain ordered the tiger demons to let the organs stay, reasoning that their extraordinary origins might make them useful someday.

Wang Quan traded his viscera and bowels to the tiger demons, who feasted on them while his Ghost Gods built a safe zone. After discovering White Bone Ghost God alive in the tribe’s boiling pot, Wang Quan heard how he had been trapped, and the Ghost God began planning to escape in disguise as Lady White Bone.

• The tiger demons celebrated their new arrangements, while Wang Quan watched their adopted viscera and bowels plot, give up, and scheme to slack off.
• The twelve Ghost Gods began building a safe zone outside the tribe, and Wang Quan offered the tiger demons more viscera and bowels in exchange for their protection.
• Wang Quan tossed newly released viscera and bowels into the tribe’s boiling pot, where the tiger demons stirred the soup and eagerly awaited their meal.
• Wang Quan asked about the Ghost God who had been boiled in the pot, and a skull surfaced, claiming he could still be saved.
• White Bone Ghost God explained that a tiger had sealed him in the pot after mistaking his carrying it for ill intent.
• White Bone Ghost God decided to escape by disguising himself as a woman named Lady White Bone, with two pots hidden against her chest.

Wang Quan established a new safe zone with help from the tiger demons, who fought off attacking ghosts and discovered that their bodies could be affected by a death-inducing Divine Ability. The chapter ended with Wang Quan revealing his golden organs to reassure a tiger demon who feared he had died.

• The White Bone Ghost God eagerly burrowed into the iron pot while Wang Quan recruited the grateful tiger demons to help defend his Manor.
• Wang Quan showed the tiger demons the safe zone, and the White Tiger chief reflected on civilization’s fall during the Twilight Era.
• Wang Quan declared a new safe zone, causing cracks to spread through the sky as Ghost Gods and other ghosts appeared.
• The tiger demons roared at the intruders, destroying ghosts and injuring Ghost God descendants, while the Ghost Gods mocked the tigers’ decayed appearance.
• A mirror revealed the tiger demons’ skeletal bodies, but their golden organs began restoring their flesh as Wang Quan explained the death-inducing Divine Ability.
• One tiger demon began to decay after believing he was dead, so Wang Quan exposed his golden organs and urged him to believe his explanation.

Wang Quan and the Second Layer ghost gods fought the local ghost gods to connect the Third Layer of the Underworld to the safe zone. The Second Layer ghost gods transformed in the true Underworld and prepared to attack, only to face a vast force of local ghost gods.

• The tiger demons rejected the truth that they were dead and fought the local ghost gods’ ghosts and monsters.
• Wang Quan used the Second Layer ghost gods’ anomalies to counter local monsters, including one that turned into a dried-up well and another that became a Gold-Squandering Den.
• The local ghost gods resisted the Second Layer’s efforts to connect the safe zone, and Wang Quan realized they had to be killed to complete the connection.
• Twelve Second Layer ghost gods passed through the rift, grew stronger in the true Third Layer, and charged toward the local ghost gods.
• The twelve Second Layer ghost gods stopped when they saw local ghost gods stretching as far as the eye could see.

Twelve Ghost Gods from the Second Layer returned from the rift after local Ghost Gods overwhelmed them and refused to explain their motives. Wang Quan decided to investigate the power behind the local Ghost Gods, while the White Tiger chief told him to seek Mother Tiger's protection first.

• The local Ghost Gods mocked the twelve Ghost Gods from the Second Layer, summoned them to meet the Frost Ice Ghost God, and watched as they chose to retreat beneath the blue sky and white clouds.
• The twelve Ghost Gods told Wang Quan they could not connect to the Second Layer or determine why the local Ghost Gods guarded the area, and Wang Quan wondered whether they were protecting the tiger demons or the being that had been swapped away.
• Wang Quan asked the White Tiger chief why the Ghost Gods were watching them, but the chief admitted they could not fight such a large force.
• The White Tiger chief advised Wang Quan to find the being supporting the local Ghost Gods, and Wang Quan agreed to meet it.
• The White Tiger chief urged Wang Quan to pay his respects to Mother Tiger before leaving so she might protect him.

Wang Quan received a blessing from the woman in black, then left the Tiger Race’s world to seek the Ghost Gods’ leader. The Ghost Gods directed him to the Frost Ice Ghost God, but their threatening growls stopped his mount from speeding up.

• Wang Quan worshipped the black tiger statue and spoke with the woman in black, who explained that the Ghost Gods were guarding something that would return in ten thousand years.
• The woman in black blessed Wang Quan with a rotating halo in exchange for his promise to find a living being if he reached the Chaos Sea, then vanished after warning that she could give him no more.
• Wang Quan discussed the ancient era with the White Tiger patriarch, then flew out of the Tiger Race’s world into the Third Layer of the Underworld.
• Wang Quan told the towering Ghost Gods that he had come with something to rely on, and they directed him to the Frost Ice Ghost God.
• Wang Quan rode the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust toward the Frost Ice Ghost God, but the Ghost Gods’ unified growls swept it with killing intent when he ordered it to fly faster.

Wang Quan entered the enormous ice palace and showed the Ghost Gods that he could withstand their killing intent and the palace’s freezing wind. Guided by clouds that evolved after interacting with him and the Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust, he traveled through storms caused by the palace’s master and finally saw the Frost Ice Ghost God.

• Wang Quan reached the ice palace, dismissed the Ghost Gods’ killing intent, and ordered them to open the gates.
• Wang Quan absorbed the palace’s freezing wind into his Purple Mansion, then used his Blessing Halo to clear the frost.
• Wang Quan entered the palace and noticed its pillars resembled reliefs in the ruined palace from the Historical Fragment.
• Cloud spirits led Wang Quan deeper into the palace, and his Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust helped them evolve and produce rain.
• Wang Quan passed through hurricanes and thunder that the clouds said came from the master’s breathing and movements, then saw the Frost Ice Ghost God.

Wang Quan met the palm-sized Frost Ice Ghost God and learned she forbade him from building an anchor point without official approval. He discovered she had guarded a prisoner for nearly thirty-three eras because of an old promise, and challenged her to stop serving the one who had trapped her.

• Wang Quan saw that the Frost Ice Ghost God was a tiny, crowned figure with cicada wings and learned legends tied her to the ancient Cold Dew Gods and Devils.
• The Frost Ice Ghost God questioned Wang Quan about his plans and told him to dismantle his anchor point because he lacked written approval.
• She explained that Wang Quan could seek approval from a Ghost Emperor in the First Layer or apply to the Heavenly World after becoming an immortal.
• Wang Quan argued that linking worlds would benefit the Third Layer and asked why the Frost Ice Ghost God obeyed others despite her exalted bloodline.
• The Frost Ice Ghost God said she had promised someone to guard a prisoner until it turned to ash, and that she had remained there for almost thirty-three eras.
• Wang Quan told her the person was scheming against her and asked whether she still needed to keep her promise.

Wang Quan summoned the Drowning Dao Court to challenge the Frost Ice Ghost God, who refused to let him establish safe zones. As the Dao Court began descending ahead of schedule, its phantom chains slaughtered Ghost Gods while Wang Quan struggled to understand what was happening.

• The Frost Ice Ghost God refused Wang Quan’s pleas and ordered him to leave within three to five days, but he insisted on establishing safe zones.
• Wang Quan revealed that he could summon the Drowning Dao Court, and the Frost Ice Ghost God challenged him to use it.
• Wang Quan activated his authorization and learned that the Drowning Dao Court would arrive in ten breaths and strike for five.
• The Frost Ice Ghost God sensed a great terror, appeared outside her palace with Wang Quan, and saw the sky collapse as the Dao Court’s phantom image emerged.
• More than three hundred phantom chains pierced and devoured Ghost Gods, leaving Wang Quan stunned because the strikes had begun before the stated arrival time.

Wang Quan summoned the Drowning Dao Court, which transformed into three thousand drowning waters and slaughtered the Ghost Gods. The Frost Ice Ghost God escaped its pursuit, but a being emerging from her crown relayed an order from the Young Master not to harm her.

• The [Drowning Dao Court] descended into the Third Layer of the Underworld, and Wang Quan ordered it to eliminate the Ghost Gods.
• The palace complex transformed into three thousand drowning waters that trapped the Frost Ice Ghost God and the other Ghost Gods.
• The drowning waters killed most of the Ghost Gods, while the Frost Ice Ghost God escaped by standing on a tiny patch of ground beyond time and space.
• The [Drowning Dao Court] pursued the Frost Ice Ghost God through shattered layers of space, but could not lock onto her.
• A being emerged from the Frost Ice Ghost God's crown and announced that the Young Master had ordered the [Drowning Dao Court] not to harm her.

Wang Quan helped the Drowning Dao Court capture Immortal Bright Moon, a weak New-Method Immortal, while the Frost Ice Ghost God escaped death through her power to revive. After the court departed, Wang Quan returned to the surface and began setting up a safe zone.

• Wang Quan unleashed his Divine Abilities alongside the Drowning Dao Court as it pursued the Frost Ice Ghost God, while Immortal Bright Moon descended and threatened them.
• Immortal Bright Moon's Great Yellow Heaven-Imprisoning Finger failed to defeat the Drowning Water, which soon ensnared him.
• The Frost Ice Ghost God tore off Immortal Bright Moon's thigh but left him trapped; the Drowning Dao Court dragged him away, and Wang Quan learned his authorization interval had been shortened to ten months.
• The Frost Ice Ghost God declared she would revive and take revenge on Wang Quan before the Drowning Dao Court vanished with Immortal Bright Moon.
• Wang Quan returned to the Tiger Race demons, declined their Ghost God soup, and went to perform rites to connect with the world and establish a safe zone.

Wang Quan helped the White Tiger patriarch learn how safe zones might revive his world, then followed him to pay homage to the Golden Treasure Trove, a treasure said to grant offerings a prize. Wang Quan began the ritual with enormous quantities of incense, and the chapter left the White Tiger patriarch wondering whether the smoke would overwhelm the treasure.

• The Drowning Dao Court cleared the Ghost Gods, and Wang Quan's ritual opened a vortex that sent strange beings through a pillar of light as the Underworld gained a thread of vitality.
• Wang Quan received blessings from several layers of the Underworld and evil worlds, increasing his strength and making his Lifebound Divine Ability about a third more powerful.
• The White Tiger patriarch asked Wang Quan how safe zones worked, and Wang Quan explained that linking worlds could nourish their origins and suggested connecting ancient grotto heavens, blessed lands, and purple mansions.
• The White Tiger patriarch brought Wang Quan to an abandoned storehouse and revealed the Golden Treasure Trove, which could be opened once every ten thousand years and continually produced new treasures.
• Wang Quan prepared himself and began paying homage to the Golden Treasure Trove with three gigantic sticks of Sandalwood Incense, prompting the White Tiger patriarch to worry that the smoke might overwhelm it.

Wang Quan opened the golden treasure by burning incense and chose an Imperial Scripture and a painting fragment, which the White Tiger patriarch recognized as a priceless gift to the Tiger Race. Wang Quan began studying the scripture and learned its martial Divine Abilities could combine into a powerful ultimate technique, though he was not yet able to deduce it.

• Wang Quan and the White Tiger patriarch watched the golden treasure open after Wang Quan burned Sandalwood Incense, and the patriarch wondered why his previous offerings had failed.
• Wang Quan chose an Imperial Scripture and a painting fragment depicting a tiger sniffing a rose from the treasure chest.
• The White Tiger patriarch discovered that worshipping the painting could restore tiger demons’ ancestral bloodlines and grant them a trace of the Heavenly Demon Tiger’s bloodline, then gave Wang Quan a mark and a scripture to summon the golden treasure if needed.
• The White Tiger patriarch left with the painting fragment to build an altar, while Wang Quan stayed in the abandoned warehouse to study the Imperial Scripture.
• Wang Quan found that the scripture contained 108 martial Divine Abilities that could fuse into stronger techniques, but he could not yet deduce its ultimate killing ability.

Wang Quan read the Martial Emperor's account of her life, learning that she had fought Young Master before wandering the world in search of martial arts. Near the end of her life, she entered an icy forbidden zone and encountered the preserved skin of Qiu Wudi, who urged her to follow the changing times.

• The Martial Emperor recounted her rise from village herdboy to the empire's strongest young martial artist and her battles against invading empires and immortal cultivators.
• The Martial Emperor met Young Master, lost to him ten times, and refused his offer to become a Life Cultivator.
• After the Wu Kingdom fell, the Martial Emperor wandered for centuries, seeking martial legacies until her lifespan neared its end.
• The Martial Emperor entered an icy forbidden zone and found a crystal mountain containing a woman's skin.
• The skin identified its original self as Qiu Wudi, explained that she had been sent through time to return to life, and warned the Martial Emperor to follow the tides of the times.

Wang Quan read the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s records, learning how she grew stronger while repeatedly challenging Young Master and fell in love with a fox spirit he recognized as Yao Yao. The records ended with Young Master fixing history and sacrificing the world’s essence to a chaos being, while the Martial Emperor joined a doomed war and asked future readers to explain the origin of her name.

• Wang Quan read that the Martial Emperor studied cultivators’ bodies and martial arts, defeated Primordial Spirit Dharma Form Cultivators, and lost repeatedly to Young Master while steadily approaching his strength.
• The Martial Emperor met a fox spirit, wandered and drank peach blossom wine with her, and Wang Quan concluded that the fox spirit was Yao Yao.
• The Martial Emperor recorded that cultivators began fighting and that she used the chaos to study powerful cultivators and excavate ancient Emperors’ tombs.
• Young Master used his followers as historical anchor points and sacrificed part of the world’s essence to an evil being in the chaos, bringing disasters that threatened all life.
• Cultivators founded the Dao Court and fought Young Master, while the Martial Emperor left Yao Yao beneath a river’s source and joined the war.
• The Dao Court’s supreme treasure fell amid a devastating defeat, and the dying Martial Emperor explained that she was called the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor for her love of peach blossoms, Yao Yao, and their wine.

After reading the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s autobiography, Wang Quan visited the Second Layer Ghost Gods and offered them a role protecting safe zones. They spread across several worlds to turn themselves to stone as guards, while the revived sun gave them hope for the Second Layer of the Underworld.

• Wang Quan read the Peach Blossom Martial Emperor’s autobiography and wondered how her belongings had appeared in the Golden Treasure Trove.
• Wang Quan offered the Second Layer Ghost Gods a chance to help establish a safe zone in the Fourth Layer, but they chose to guard their existing safe zone and pursue the chance to become Innate Ghost Gods.
• Wang Quan learned that thirty-six million Ghost Gods planned to guard the safe zone by turning to stone, and he saw that the Second Layer’s sun had begun to brighten.
• Wang Quan suggested that the Ghost Gods guard safe zones in the Mortal World and the Second and Third Layer Evil Worlds, and they eagerly agreed.
• Ghost Gods poured through the cloud pillar into different worlds, where they turned to stone and announced that they were guarding the safe zones under Wang Quan’s orders.

Wang Quan investigated why the evil rebels had gathered around the Second Layer safe zone and discovered that even their leaders seemed to be deceiving their followers. He found the Blood Sea Rebel King and, after effortlessly breaking his claws, began negotiating with him.

• Ghost Gods from the Second Layer of the Underworld turned to stone to guard safe zones, grateful to Wang Quan for giving them hope of becoming Innate Ghost Gods.
• Wang Quan visited safe zones and found that the Second Layer's territory had grown while rebel forces around it had increased.
• Wang Quan disguised himself as an evil creature and questioned rebels, but none of them knew why they had gathered or who led them.
• Wang Quan tracked down the Blood Sea Rebel King, who was tricking cannon-fodder rebels with promises of titles and consorts.
• The Blood Sea Rebel King attacked Wang Quan, broke his claws, and agreed to talk when Wang Quan revealed himself.

Wang Quan questioned the rebel kings and discovered that a black-robed being with vertical eyes had sent them to fight outside the safe zone. The possessed Myriad Generations Rebel King revealed that the rebels had been gathered as vessels to descend, kill Wang Quan, and fix this stretch of history in place.

• The Blood Sea Rebel King told Wang Quan that a black-robed being had subdued him and ordered him to lead his army into battle, promising to crown him king of all kings.
• The Blood Sea Rebel King contacted several rebel kings, who felt compelled to meet Wang Quan, and Wang Quan directed him toward the Fourth-Layer World.
• Wang Quan questioned twenty or thirty rebel kings and found that they all gave the same account of the black-robed being's orders.
• Wang Quan found the Myriad Generations Rebel King sharpening weapons with ordinary evils, and the rebel king repeated the same story before revealing that he had more to say.
• The Myriad Generations Rebel King was possessed by another being, which told Wang Quan the rebel kings had been gathered as vessels to descend, kill him, and fix this stretch of history in place.

Wang Quan confronted a golden-robed spear-wielding youth from the Heavenly World, who claimed he was destined to kill him and dismissed Mortal World techniques as obsolete. Wang Quan vanished into a bronze mirror and prepared his spells while the youth searched blindly for him.

• The rebel king of ten thousand generations transformed into a human youth, passed his followers to a new leader, and declared Wang Quan was destined to die by his hand.
• The youth claimed he had no master and mocked Wang Quan’s Legend, while Wang Quan argued that Legends reflected strength rather than creating it.
• The youth said Mortal World spells and Divine Abilities were obsolete, but Wang Quan challenged him to compare their cultivation and reserves.
• Wang Quan named his vast collection of spells and Divine Abilities and mentioned killing Snow-Treading Madmen, whom the youth dismissed as cannon fodder.
• Wang Quan summoned the Five-Colored Altar, lit Sandalwood Incense, and entered a bronze mirror that rose toward the moon.
• The youth assumed his Three Heads and Six Arms form and searched the sky, while Wang Quan concealed himself and prepared hundreds of spells for battle.

Wang Quan outmaneuvered a spear-wielding prodigy from the Heavenly World who could not see through his concealment, then immobilized and beheaded him. He hung the youth’s head at his waist and claimed that the greater divine ability he used to kill Snow-Treading Madmen was far stronger.

• Wang Quan layered spells and divine abilities around himself while the spear-wielding youth searched for him with beams and spear phantoms.
• The youth shouted for Wang Quan to appear, and Wang Quan drew him into the bronze mirror, where the youth mistook a death-substitution puppet for Wang Quan’s true body.
• After the puppet shattered, the youth sensed danger from a descending bead and struck it with his spear, but the bead immobilized him.
• Wang Quan appeared and beheaded the youth, then hung his head from his waist and swept up the corpse with the All-Heavens Banner.
• The youth asked whether Wang Quan had used the same method to kill Snow-Treading Madmen, and Wang Quan replied that he had used a greater divine ability instead.