Chapter Summaries

Xiang Xiaoyu proved that the Heavenly Communicator could connect disciples across vast distances, and the Artifact Forest began commercializing it. Meanwhile, Tang Yan’s Divine Soul awakened in the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, which searched for a body after Tang Yan refused to take over the body of the unconscious Lin Dong.

• Xiang Xiaoyu received successful calls from disciples as far away as the Wind God River, confirming that the Heavenly Communicator worked across the Signal Stations.
• Qi Yiyang tested the device, approved Xiang Xiaoyu’s plan to sell Heavenly Communicators and charge for service, and called the Artifact Forest’s senior members to discuss promotion.
• The Artifact Forest built Signal Stations and began trial sales, drawing queues of buyers as news of the Heavenly Communicator spread across the Spirit Wilderness Realm.
• After five months of care inside the Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron, Tang Yan’s Divine Soul awakened and realized that his physical body had been swallowed by the Nether Domain.
• The Heaven-Earth Creation Cauldron tried to strangle the unconscious Lin Dong so Tang Yan could use his body, but Tang Yan refused and ordered it to let him go.
• The cauldron revived Lin Dong with Spiritual Qi, then left Qingyang Town in search of another vessel after sensing an intent in the distance.

Tang Yan fused with a powerful skeleton in the Heavenly Wailing Ruins and began hunting wicked people to strengthen its bones. After killing two partners who had poisoned and extorted families in Xilin Town, he confronted a powerful man in Heaven Lake Village.

• Tang Yan merged his Divine Soul with a skeleton formed from more than five million bones and learned that absorbing skeletal remains and the wicked's bloody baleful energy could eventually help him reconstruct his flesh.
• Tang Yan followed a beam of bloody baleful energy to a residence in Xilin Town and killed a servant who was about to poison the well with Soul-Eroding Poison.
• Tang Yan killed the old Daoist who had worked with the servant to poison victims and extort their families, absorbing both men's baleful energy.
• The Liu Family discovered the poison on the servant's body and realized that someone had prevented him from poisoning their household.
• Tang Yan appeared before a mid-stage Dominion Realm man in Heaven Lake Village, startling him with his skeletal face.

Tang Yan killed the evil cultivators at Ten Directions Temple after uncovering their crimes against women. At the Artifact Forest, Xiang Xiaoyu’s insight into how the Heavenly Communicator benefited the public led to her breakthrough into the Heavenly Venerable realm, where she was named the Unifying Heavenly Venerable.

• Tang Yan killed Xu Chunqiang, an evil cultivator who used unborn fetuses in his cultivation, and burned his corpse to ashes.
• Tang Yan killed the abbot and seven monks at Ten Directions Temple after learning they had exploited women who came to pray for children.
• The Heavenly Communicator became popular across the Eastern Region, while Xiang Xiaoyu reviewed customer feedback and considered its impact.
• Xiang Xiaoyu realized that artifact crafting should benefit all living beings, and a heavenly phenomenon helped her break through into the Heavenly Venerable realm.
• Qi Yiyang and the Artifact Forest elders celebrated Xiang Xiaoyu’s breakthrough and named her the Unifying Heavenly Venerable.

After the Human Clan’s victory over the Soul-Devouring Clan provoked renewed invasions, Du Shu proposed that Artifact Forest secretly arm the Other Races with explosive Heavenly Communicators. Meanwhile, Tang Yan rescued a human group from demons and then found a skeleton among the rocks.

• Xiang Xiaoyu attained the rank of Heavenly Venerable, and the Human Clan celebrated her new title, Unifying Heavenly Venerable.
• The Human Clan annihilated the Soul-Devouring Clan, prompting some races to sign Contracts while others intensified their invasions.
• Lu Fengzong and Du Shu asked Qi Yiyang and Artifact Forest to sell the Other Races Heavenly Communicators rigged with detonatable Formations, and Xiang Xiaoyu confirmed the plan was possible.
• Tang Yan killed twenty-six demons that were attacking twelve humans, then left before they could thank him.
• Tan Hui told the survivors that the mysterious rescuer’s face had looked like a skull.
• Tang Yan spotted a skeleton among some rocks and walked toward it.

Tang Yan discovered that absorbing the bones of powerful Martial Dao cultivators could greatly strengthen him, and secretly raided the Blade Origin Sect’s and Mystic Maiden Sect’s mausoleums. At the Mystic Maiden Sect, Ye Yuxuan saw him emerge from Elder Qingyun’s tomb and mistook him for the long-dead elder as he fled.

• Tang Yan tested absorbing power from an exposed Martial Artist’s skeleton, then found little strength in the ordinary people buried in a nearby graveyard.
• After killing four more evildoers, Tang Yan entered the Blade Origin Sect’s mausoleum and absorbed substantial bone power from its powerful predecessors.
• Tang Yan visited the Mystic Maiden Sect’s mausoleum and gained even more strength by absorbing power from its many distinguished dead.
• The next morning, Ye Yuxuan found a disturbed tomb and watched Tang Yan leap out of Elder Qingyun’s coffin.
• Ye Yuxuan greeted Tang Yan as Elder Qingyun, and Tang Yan nodded before sprinting away.

Ye Yuxuan failed to catch Tang Yan after he escaped through the river, and the Mystic Maiden Sect mistook his grave-digging for depraved desecration. The sect issued a widespread Pursuit Warrant for “Evil Bone,” and Tang Yan realized that the villain everyone was discussing was him.

• Ye Yuxuan discovered the real Elder Qingyun's skeleton in the coffin and pursued Tang Yan, who hid in the Xuantian River until she gave up.
• Qinglan and the elders investigated the opened graves and found that none of the remains had been damaged.
• Cheng Xiqiu linked the skeleton to reports of a bloodthirsty killer, and the Internal Affairs Hall Master suggested he had desecrated the sect's predecessors.
• Qinglan ordered a Pursuit Warrant, and the Mystic Maiden Sect circulated it throughout the Spirit Wasteland under the name “Evil Bone.”
• In Fuliang City, Tang Yan heard people condemn the skeleton and realized they were talking about him.

Tang Yan continued eliminating evil and helping others while evading the pursuit of the so-called Evil Bone Silver Demon. Meanwhile, Ling Jiangliu negotiated with the Blood Clan to sell Heavenly Communicators, and the Blood King used a Soul-Searching Pearl to uncover the Human Clan's authorized offer before agreeing to a sixty-percent profit share.

• Tang Yan dismissed the accusations against him and continued traveling, secretly visiting sect Mausoleums and helping reputable sects fight the Other Races.
• Ling Jiangliu arrived at the Blood Clan to propose selling Heavenly Communicators and explained that Signal Stations would make them work there.
• The Blood Clan's Second Elder challenged the proposal, and Ling Jiangliu offered the Blood Clan thirty percent of the profits in exchange for covering Signal Station construction costs.
• The Blood King rejected Ling Jiangliu's offer and used a Soul-Searching Pearl to probe his Divine Soul.
• The Blood King learned that Lu Fengzong had authorized Ling Jiangliu to offer up to sixty percent of the profits, then agreed to cooperate on that basis.

Du Shu rejected Lu Fengzong’s offer to become Human Emperor, while Tang Yan continued raiding sect mausoleums to strengthen his bones. After discovering that thirty-one sects’ tombs had been disturbed, Lu Fengzong predicted Tang Yan’s next target was the Dao Sect and organized a hunt there.

• Lu Fengzong praised Du Shu’s plan and offered him the position of Human Emperor, but Du Shu refused because he cared only about business.
• Tang Yan secretly visited the Academy, Pill Alliance, Buddhist Sect, Sword Alliance, and Demon Sect mausoleums, absorbing power from the bones there.
• Tang Yan found Lin Dongxue and Zi Yun absent from their courtyards and left the Sword Alliance as rumors about the Evil Bone Silver Demon spread.
• Lu Fengzong discovered that Shao Qingfeng’s tomb and dozens of others had been disturbed, then identified Evil Bone Silver Demon as the culprit.
• Reports revealed that at least thirty-one sects’ mausoleums had been raided, and Lu Fengzong mapped the route and predicted the Dao Sect was Tang Yan’s next target.
• Lu Fengzong sent Zheng Qingshi to alert the prestigious sects and ordered the Grand Elder and Ye Xingye to join the hunt at the Dao Sect.

The Demon King united nine races to attack the Dao Sect and eliminate the Human Clan’s future Venerables and Sages. Meanwhile, Lin Dongxue reunited with Fang Xuan, advanced into Heaven and Earth through her Sentimental Dao, and set out for the Dao Sect to hunt Evil Bone Silver Demon.

• Elder Turtle divined that the Great Age was less than three months away, and the Demon King ordered the Fourth Elder to enlist other races for an assault on the Human Clan.
• On the ninth day of the first lunar month, nine races agreed to attack the Dao Sect, though the Dragon Clan did not join them.
• Lin Dongxue met Fang Xuan, who told her that Reach the Summit would carry on Yan’s wishes and keep its road lively and full of blossoms.
• Lin Dongxue’s Sentimental Dao broke through its shackles, advancing her from Dao Entry Peak into Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Ruiqing told Lin Dongxue that Evil Bone Silver Demon was likely heading to the Dao Sect, so she set off to join him in hunting the demon.

Tang Yan, disguised as Evil Bone, was trapped at the Dao Sect after its allies intercepted him while he tried to reach the Mausoleum. As he fought sixteen weapon experts, Lin Dongxue began improving her swordsmanship by studying his; meanwhile, the leaders of the nine great Other Races decided to attack and use the battle to weaken the Human Clan’s sects.

• Tang Yan entered the Dao Sect and approached the Mausoleum, but three elders confronted him before he could act.
• Nearly eighty experts from several sects surrounded Tang Yan, and Li Yangqiu identified that ordinary Spirit Power and forceful winds could not harm or track him.
• Tang Yan escaped the Academy’s defenses, but Li Yangqiu’s arrows slowed him and the assembled experts launched a weapon assault.
• Tang Yan used his sword to hold off sixteen attackers, including Lin Dongxue, whose swordsmanship improved as she analyzed his techniques.
• The leaders of the nine great Other Races watched from a concealed sphere and agreed to attack while Tang Yan kept the sect experts occupied.

Tang Yan struggled against the Famous Sects while Lin Dongxue suspected Skeleton was secretly holding back and might be Tang Yan. Her discovery was interrupted when the Other Races attacked the Dao Sect, forcing its defenders to turn their attention to the invading army.

• Tang Yan fought to escape the encirclement, while Lin Dongxue noticed Skeleton repeatedly passed up chances to wound his opponents.
• Lin Dongxue tested her suspicion by stumbling into Skeleton’s sword, and Skeleton avoided seriously injuring her after Venerable Kong'an intervened.
• The Demon Race Grand Elder arrived with an army of Other Races and announced that they had come to help Skeleton destroy the Dao Sect.
• A guard reported that the army included thirty-six Heaven and Earth Realm fighters and two hundred Entering the Dao Realm fighters, outnumbering the defenders in top-level combat power.
• Li Yangqiu and Lu Ruiqing sent Lin Dongxue to fight the invading army while Lu Ruiqing stayed behind to hold Skeleton back.

Tang Yan, disguised as Skeleton, fled after overwhelming Lu Ruiqing, leaving the Dao Sect to face the Other Races without him. As the battle turned against the Human Clan, Xia Jiazi attempted to assassinate Bingxiang but was caught by his counterattack, and his saber threatened to kill her.

• Skeleton unleashed a powerful sword tide against Lu Ruiqing, then escaped while Lu Ruiqing struggled against the lingering force of the attack.
• Skeleton jumped into a river and concealed his aura, evading Lu Ruiqing and Lin Dongxue as they searched for him.
• Lu Ruiqing returned to the Dao Sect without finding Skeleton, and Li Yangqiu urged the defenders to hold out until reinforcements arrived.
• The Other Races raged at Skeleton for abandoning their joint attack, while the Dao Sect's disadvantage in numbers led to mounting casualties.
• Xia Jiazi used her Charm Technique to approach Bingxiang and strike at his throat, but he stopped her sword with an ice lotus.
• Bingxiang countered with a saber that broke Xia Jiazi's sword and came down toward her head.

Tang Yan, still disguised as a skeleton, slaughtered the Other Races’ forces and revealed his identity to Lin Dongxue when she called his name. The chapter ended with Lin Dongxue embracing him as he gently stroked her hair.

• Tang Yan killed the ice elephant, Lan Mo, and Di Yan, then slew thirty Heaven and Earth Realm fighters from the Other Races.
• Lin Dongxue recognized Tang Yan by his familiar swordsmanship and decided not to reveal that she knew him yet.
• Tang Yan and the Dao Sect experts defeated the remaining Other Races and pursued the skeleton as he fled toward the river.
• Lin Dongxue cried out Tang Yan’s name, causing him to stop and turn back.
• Lin Dongxue embraced Tang Yan, and he gently stroked her white hair.

Tang Yan returned to the Dao Sect as a skeleton, cleared up the suspicions surrounding his actions, and helped Lin Dongxue become a Heavenly Venerable. He left the sects with a plan to deter the Other Races before the Great Age arrived.

• Tang Yan confirmed his identity, and Lin Dongxue advanced to Heavenly Venerable after he touched her.
• Tang Yan explained that he had absorbed bone power from the Mausoleums to strengthen himself, and the sect leaders agreed to clear up the misunderstandings about him.
• Tang Yan told Rao Baoyue that he might reconstruct his body once his cultivation reached Great Completion, then joined the others at the Dao Sect.
• During a remote meeting, the sects celebrated Tang Yan's return and discussed the Other Races' attack and the approaching Great Age.
• Tang Yan advised the sects to watch and seal Earth Abyss Passages, stay alert, and follow the Demon Sect's arrangements; he and Lin Dongxue planned to destroy one of the Nine Clans with the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner.

Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue told his family and allies that he was alive, then traveled to the Immortal Wood Clan to unleash the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner. The banner devastated the Royal City, and the Immortal Wood King recognized it and appealed to its hidden human attackers.

• Tang Yan advised Artifact Forest's Qi Yiyang and Xiang Xiaoyu on adding blacklist, whitelist, text-message, and video features to the Heavenly Communicator.
• Lin Dongxue told Zhong Jinxiu and Tang Wutian that Tang Yan was alive, and Tang Yan sent his parents a message explaining his borrowed-bone rebirth and plans.
• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue contacted Zi Yun, Fang Xuan, and the others, then left the Dao Sect for the Immortal Wood Clan.
• Lin Dongxue used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner near the Immortal Wood Royal City, and its smoke killed thousands of Immortal Wood Clan members, including ten guards.
• The Immortal Wood King and other powerful cultivators tried to suppress the smoke with the five elements, but failed, and the king recognized the banner and called out to its hidden human wielders.

Lin Dongxue helped the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner devastate the Immortal Wood Clan’s Royal City while Tang Yan left to seek bone power. As the Human Clan used the victory to pressure the other races into a non-aggression treaty, Rao Baoyue told Little Dot that Tang Yan had returned to life.

• Lin Dongxue killed the Immortal Wood King, and the unrestrained black smoke engulfed experts and swept through the Royal City.
• Lin Dongxue explained to Tang Yan why she could bear the destruction, then stayed behind while he went to the Artifact Forest and collected supplies from the city.
• The major sects announced Lin Dongxue’s rise to Heavenly Venerable, the defeat of the nine-race alliance, and the end of the hunt for Skeleton; the Demon Sect then used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner’s threat to frighten the other races.
• Lu Fengzong urged the other races to sign the Great Age Non-Aggression Treaty, but they stalled, so the sects decided to wait for Tang Yan to make the call.
• Yan Biao mistakenly told Little Meatball that Tang Yan had died, and Rao Baoyue kicked him before reassuring Little Dot that Tang Yan had come back to life.

Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue used the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner against the Divine Clan, only to be caught in an explosion that destroyed the Royal City. After Lin Dongxue recovered, Tang Yan discovered the banner had lost its power, while Lu Fengzong questioned Du Shu about whether Tang Yan would surrender the Human Emperor’s Throne.

• Tang Yan advised Qi Yiyang to negotiate peace agreements with the other races and use the banner’s remaining power to deter those who refused.
• Tang Yan and Lin Dongxue went to the Divine Clan after learning it had rejected cooperation, then activated the Burning-Heaven Calamity Banner in the Royal City.
• The Divine Clan’s explosives detonated beneath the city, killing countless people and badly injuring Lin Dongxue while Tang Yan shielded her.
• Tang Yan used a Heaven-Seizing Lifeline Pill to heal Lin Dongxue and found that the explosion had destroyed the banner’s mark and power.
• Lu Fengzong told Du Shu he resented Tang Yan’s rise, and Du Shu argued that Tang Yan would give him the Human Emperor’s Throne if he demanded it.

As the Great Age began, the Five Clan Lords broke free from their imprisonment, while Rao Baoyue used Tang Yan’s pill test to reach the Sage realm. As the sects prepared for the weakening barriers between races, Feng Chenye abandoned his unfinished book and chose to fight.

• Du Shu persuaded Lu Fengzong to keep pursuing the Human Emperor’s position and test the renowned sects’ sincerity.
• On the eighteenth day of the second month, the Great Age began with a storm of Dao Resonance Qi, and the Five Clan Lords broke their chains and vowed revenge on the Human Clan.
• Rao Baoyue used Stone Orchid Leaf to complete the Dantian Meridian Reviving Pill formula, understood the Pill Sage’s lesson, and entered the Sage realm.
• Meng Yao told Feng Chenye that the barriers between races would soon disappear and described the sects’ defensive preparations and plans for the Eastern and Western battlefields.
• Feng Chenye realized he wanted to fight alongside his friends, threw his unfinished manuscript into the lake, and abandoned writing his book.

Feng Chenye became a Literary Sage, Meng Yao reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and Tang Yan promised to marry Lin Dongxue after the war, helping her become a Sage. Meanwhile, Zi Yun urged the Dragon Clan to ally with the Human Clan, but the Dragon Lord favored attacking the Human Clan first.

• Feng Chenye cast aside his manuscripts, declared that scholars should take up arms, and absorbed Literary Qi to enter the Sage Realm; Meng Yao dried and gathered his pages before she attained the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Lin Dongxue asked Tang Yan if she could become Mrs. Tang after the war, and Tang Yan wrote a promise to marry her; Lin Dongxue then broke through to the Sage Realm.
• The Dragon Lord returned to the Dragon Clan, learned that Zi Yun had inherited Sacred Dragon Jin Qi's power, and ordered the clan to investigate the continent and prepare to join the other races against the Human Clan.
• Zi Yun urged the Dragon Clan to cooperate with the Human Clan, arguing that an alliance with the other races would lead to endless infighting after the Human Clan's defeat.
• The Dragon Lord rejected Zi Yun's proposal, judging that attacking the weaker Human Clan was safer, while Zi Yun insisted that the Dragon Clan should negotiate with the Human Clan instead.

Zi Yun opposed the Dragon Lord’s plan to seize Human Clan fortune, while secretly buying time for the Dragon Clan to choose its allies. After the Spirit Rain ended and the Human Clan gained powerful new Sages and Heavenly Venerables, its leaders debated who should command the coming war, leaving Tang Yan’s nomination challenged by Lu Fengzong.

• Zi Yun confronted the Dragon Lord over his plan to exploit the Human Clan’s decline, and Ao Jin and Ao Zheng helped prevent the disagreement from becoming a civil war.
• Zi Yun privately told Ao Zheng that their clash was meant to appear as internal strife and give the Dragon Clan time to consider a Human Clan cooperation proposal.
• When the Spirit Rain ended on the twenty-fifth day of the second month, barriers between the races vanished and powerful races began annexing their neighbors.
• The Human Clan produced eight Sages and twenty-three Heavenly Venerables during the Spirit Rain, including the unexpectedly advanced Du Shu.
• At a council in the Artifact Forest, Qi Yiyang nominated Tang Yan for the Human Emperor’s Throne, and the sects voiced their support.
• Lu Fengzong argued that the Demon Sect should retain leadership and nominated himself for the throne.