Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen fought Ghost Moon Adept, revealing Sword Soul-level Sword Intent and using Three Swords as One to withstand the Spirit Sea Realm master's attacks. Ghost Moon Adept then unleashed his ghostfire technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Chen challenged Ghost Moon Adept, and Murong Qingcheng said she trusted his judgment as the others retreated to safety.
• Ghost Moon Adept attacked Ye Chen with Caged Ghost Hand, but Ye Chen broke free with Azure Lotus Reaches Sky and struck back with Sword Soul-level Sword Intent.
• Ghost Moon Adept blocked Ye Chen's slash with Superior-Grade claw gauntlets and launched Hundred Ghosts, Thousand Slaughters.
• Ye Chen drew the Azure Wood Sword, Thunder Marsh Sword, and Destruction Sword together, using Three Swords as One to shatter the claw shadows and send a sword formed from a waterfall toward Ghost Moon Adept.
• Ghost Moon Adept answered with pale-white ghostfire, while Duan Lingyun warned that Ye Chen would suffer a terrible death.

Ye Chen fought Ghost Moon Adept to a standstill, then countered his Yin Curse with Heavenly Thunder Severance and Destruction Sword Intent. The battle continued as Ghost Moon Adept revealed a defensive treasure artifact and blocked Ye Chen’s follow-up attack.

• Ye Chen’s Destruction Sword Will clashed with Ghost Moon Adept’s ghostfire attack, and both attacks annihilated each other.
• Murong Qingcheng judged the fight to be evenly matched, while Duan Lingyun regretted not attacking Ye Chen earlier.
• Ghost Moon Adept unleashed the Mystic Martial Art Yin Curse, powered by Yin Profundity.
• Ye Chen used Heavenly Thunder Severance to destroy the ghostly attack and neutralize its spiritual assault with Destruction Sword Intent.
• Ye Chen pressed Ghost Moon Adept with rapid sword attacks, but Ghost Moon Adept used a three-colored defensive treasure artifact to block him.

Ye Chen and his companions followed the Undying Body map across the Southern Domain Cluster, locating eleven murals before reaching the Golden Desert. There, a gigantic sandworm attacked the gathered explorers, and Murong Qingcheng tore it apart as the outline of ruined buildings appeared in the sky.

• Ye Chen drove Ghost Moon Adept into retreat and reflected on how his first battle against a Spirit Sea Realm master had tested his strength.
• Ye Chen, Wang Tong, and Murong Qingcheng found the murals corresponding to the map’s symbols, eventually tracing eleven locations over half a month.
• At the twelfth destination, the Golden Desert, Ye Chen recognized the black-robed Yin Demon Sect among the gathered explorers.
• A gigantic sandworm emerged from the desert and swallowed three Star Extremity Realm experts.
• Murong Qingcheng used Heavenly Demon Grand Seizure to drag out and tear apart the sandworm, while the outline of ruined buildings appeared in the sky.

Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and Wang Tong entered the Sun Temple, where the temple’s restrictions weakened their True Essence and undying monsters threatened the explorers. As night fell, they prepared to enter the main hall, while Ironwood True Person heard a monster roaring from the building where he had supposedly killed one.

• The Sun Temple fully appeared, suppressing the visitors’ True Essence and trapping them inside until a brief exit window on the fourth day.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng investigated a building, found a mural, and fought a fast bloodsucking monster that escaped despite their attacks.
• Ironwood True Person crushed an undying monster’s head and left its body behind, believing he had killed it.
• After a day of searching, Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and Wang Tong approached the main hall as night fell.
• Shrill roars came from the building where Ironwood True Person had killed the monster, making him suspect it had survived.

Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and Wang Tong fought their way through the Sun Temple’s undead and found new patterns on a mural. Outside, they encountered a powerful undead monster that healed under moonlight, and Ye Chen’s Slaughter Sword Will slowed its recovery.

• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng protected Wang Tong from undead attacks as the trio advanced through the main hall.
• Yin Demon Sect revealed a map pattern on a mural and left; Ironwood True Person memorized it and abandoned his plan to kill witnesses.
• Ye Chen found the map’s thirteenth pattern and an additional altar-like pattern on the mural, then led the group out as undead gathered beneath the full moon.
• Yuan Metal Adept and Great Rock Adept fought an undead Spirit Sea Realm monster, but moonlight restored its wounds.
• The monster attacked Ye Chen’s group, and Ye Chen’s forty-nine sword strikes infused with Slaughter Sword Will wounded it and hindered its regeneration.

Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and Wang Tong searched for the locations marked on the map of the Undying Body, deciphering the thirteenth and fourteenth patterns. They followed a clue toward the Stone Man Array, where Yin Demon Sect secretly tracked them and the search for the altar continued.

• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng drove off an undead monster, drawing other experts closer to them for safety during the first night in the Golden Desert.
• After escaping the Golden Desert, Wang Tong deciphered the thirteenth pattern as the ancient character for Tushui River, and the trio found its buried stele.
• Ye Chen chose to investigate the fourteenth pattern despite finding no further clues at the Tushui River site, while Yin Demon Sect identified the altar as the map’s endpoint.
• Wang Tong deciphered the fourteenth pattern, and Ye Chen noticed that the mountain there resembled an arrowhead pointing toward the Stone Man Array.
• Yin Demon Sect followed the trio to the Stone Man Array, where they found many experts, including Spirit Sea Realm masters, seeking enlightenment before the statues.

Yin Demon Sect discovered the Undying Altar beneath the Stone Man Array and activated it with the Hexagram Gem, drawing the attention of the people above. As rival Spirit Sea Realm powerhouses gathered to claim a share, Yin Demon Sect faced a growing coalition and could no longer control the situation.

• Yin Demon Sect used the Hexagram Gem to locate the Undying Altar more than ten thousand meters beneath the Stone Man Array.
• Yin Demon Sect placed the gem in the altar, causing six beams of light to burst through the ground and reveal the altar to everyone nearby.
• Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and the other experts rushed toward the beams, and Yin Demon Sect emerged to threaten them all.
• Yin Demon Sect attacked Black Serpent True Person, who was injured, while Wang Tong left Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng to proceed on their own.
• Black Serpent True Person, Skyhawk Elder, Ironwood True Person, and other powerhouses joined forces against Yin Demon Sect.
• Five more Spirit Sea Realm powerhouses led by a Grandmaster from Azurewater Spirit Sect arrived, leaving Yin Demon Sect unable to suppress the growing opposition.

The Undying Altar sucked Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and the other cultivators into a deep underground passage, carrying them more than ten thousand li beneath the surface. They landed in a vast rainforest where their True Essence no longer responded, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Yin Demon Sect attacked Ironwood True Person and the others, but Azurewater Spirit Sect blocked his strike and proposed targeting the Star Extremity Realm experts instead.
• The Undying Altar activated, collapsed the stone statue formation, and drew everyone nearby into a passage with a powerful tornado.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng fell with the group as the passage carried them thousands of li underground; several Star Extremity Realm experts died, and illusory light from their corpses entered the falling statues.
• After the suction weakened, the survivors passed through clouds into an immense underground rainforest, where the stone statues crashed into the ground.
• The cultivators discovered that they could no longer sense or use their True Essence.

After losing their True Essence, Ye Chen and the others struggled to survive in a vast underground rainforest filled with ancient predators and hidden dangers. When underground humans attacked them with arrows, Three Veins Adept charged into the forest and captured one of them.

• The group slowed their fall with makeshift parachutes, and Murong Qingcheng used gliding wings to bring Ye Chen safely down into the rainforest.
• Dragonblood Mosquitoes attacked the group, killing one Star Extremity Realm expert and paralyzing Great Rock Adept before he crushed the mosquito on his back.
• A Bone-Rotting Man-Eating Flower swallowed a Star Extremity Realm expert, then fled with the others when the group attacked its stem.
• Ye Chen detected a tattooed underground human watching them, and the hidden people answered the group's calls with a deadly rain of arrows.
• Ye Chen cut down arrows with the Destruction Sword and sensed an unfamiliar force within them, while Three Veins Adept charged into the forest, smashed trees into the attackers, and returned with a captive underground human.

Ye Chen and the others fought underground humans who wielded Mind Force and unleashed giant hounds in the rainforest. As the group counterattacked, Ye Chen sensed a powerful underground human had trapped the area in an invisible Mind Force net.

• Yin Demon Sect turned the underground humans’ arrows back on them, and Three Veins Adept killed their captured fighter after questioning him.
• Azurewater Spirit Sect and Yin Demon Sect identified the underground humans’ invisible power as Mind Force, which Ye Chen said could not be reconciled with cultivating True Essence.
• Giant hounds charged the group and killed a Star Extremity Realm expert, while Murong Qingcheng and Ye Chen killed the beasts that attacked them.
• Ye Chen charged through the rainforest and cut down underground humans as Yin Demon Sect and Azurewater Spirit Sect unleashed martial-will techniques against the attackers.
• Ye Chen sensed an invisible Mind Force net surrounding the area and realized that a more powerful underground human had appeared.

Ye Chen killed the underground humans’ leader and led the survivors through the rainforest to a vast, rainbow-colored lake. As the group rowed across, dragon-whiskered black pythons attacked their boats, and Ye Chen fought one of the enormous serpents.

• Ye Chen used his Undying Sword Intent to break through the underground human leader’s defenses and destroy his soul, prompting the surviving underground humans to retreat.
• The battered group left the rainforest, reached a vast lake, and built boats to cross it.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng prepared spare boats, then rowed across the lake with the others.
• A Verdant Wood Saint Clan group emerged from the rainforest and discussed hunting outsiders, while their leader watched Ye Chen from afar.
• Dragon-whiskered black pythons leaped from the lake and carried off people from the boats; Murong Qingcheng threw one away, and Ye Chen wounded another with his Destruction Sword.

Ye Chen and the surviving outsiders crossed a serpent-infested lake and reached land in the underground world, where they were ambushed by Goldwind Saint and his clan. The chapter ended as Ye Chen deflected a rain of thought-powered spears while the two groups began fighting.

• Ye Chen killed a giant serpent, while other outsiders struggled against the lake’s serpents and several were devoured.
• A loach-like savage serpent swallowed several people before Azurewater Spirit Sect and Yin Demon Sect killed it with their martial arts.
• Goldwind Saint learned that outsiders were approaching, then led two priest elders to intercept them and sought to claim Murong Qingcheng.
• After three more days of sailing, Ye Chen and the survivors reached shore, where thought-explosion traps killed five Star Extremity Realm experts.
• Goldwind Saint ordered his group to kill the outsiders and spare Murong Qingcheng, then his warriors attacked with thought-powered spears.
• A priest elder shattered Yin Demon Sect’s martial will, and Ye Chen used sword light to knock away many of the incoming spears.

Goldwind Saint and the sacrificial elders attacked the outside-world cultivators, while Ye Chen fought Goldwind Saint and revealed unexpectedly powerful Sword Intent. The chapter ended with Goldwind Saint realizing Ye Chen’s Sword Intent might be at Grandmaster level.

• Goldwind Saint sent Sang Qing to attack Yin Demon Sect and Bo Yan to attack Azurewater Spirit Sect as the two groups fought.
• Murong Qingcheng struggled against three underground humans, while Goldwind Saint approached Ye Chen with contempt.
• Ye Chen dodged Goldwind Saint’s intent blade and struck him with Destruction Sword Intent, forcing him back and shaving fur from his shoulder.
• Goldwind Saint unleashed Golden Windstorm, but Ye Chen shattered the intent blades with rapid sword strikes.
• Goldwind Saint’s horizontal tornado attack was split apart by Ye Chen’s Heavenly Thunder Severance, leaving Goldwind Saint astonished by the strength of Ye Chen’s Sword Intent.

Ye Chen defeated Goldwind Saint and helped Murong Qingcheng break through the fighting underground humans, but the Rippling Saint Clan’s Grand Elder arrived and forced the survivors to flee. Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng raced toward the Holy Land’s Teleportation Stone Gate as the Grand Elder pursued them.

• Ye Chen shattered Goldwind Saint’s Thought attack, wounded him, and cut down underground humans while evading a spear volley and Goldwind Saint’s Thought Prison.
• Ye Chen reached Murong Qingcheng, killed one of her attackers, and helped her disable the others before sensing a powerful expert approaching.
• Yin Demon Sect, Azurewater Spirit Sect, and the other Spirit Sea Realm experts fled as the underground humans’ encirclement collapsed, while Great Rock Adept and Yuan Metal Adept were killed.
• The Rippling Saint Clan’s white-haired Grand Elder arrived, killed several fleeing Spirit Sea Realm experts with a Thought storm, and recognized the Teleportation Stone Gate atop a nearby mountain.
• Ye Chen grabbed Murong Qingcheng’s hand and raced toward the Teleportation Stone Gate as the Grand Elder pursued them.

Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, Yin Demon Sect, and Azurewater Spirit Sect fled the white-haired elder’s psychic attacks toward the Sacred Land Teleportation Stone Gate. Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng escaped through the gate, followed by Yin Demon Sect, while the elder vowed to turn outsiders who failed the trial into Stone Man statues.

• The white-haired elder trapped the fleeing group in psychic nets, crushing Skyhawk Elder, Black Serpent True Person, Ironwood True Person, and the others while Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, Yin Demon Sect, and Azurewater Spirit Sect escaped.
• The white-haired elder unleashed a psychic tornado that slowed the four survivors as they raced toward the Teleportation Stone Gate.
• Yin Demon Sect struck Azurewater Spirit Sect and used the recoil to escape, leaving Azurewater Spirit Sect to be killed by the white-haired elder.
• Murong Qingcheng used the Celestial Demon Hand Seal to weaken the tornado’s pull, allowing Ye Chen and her to reach the gate and enter its teleportation vortex.
• Yin Demon Sect exploded the will stored in two Superior-Grade Treasures to break free of the tornado and enter the gate, and the white-haired elder vowed to make failed outsiders into Stone Man statues.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng entered the first layer's holy land, where True Essence worked despite suppressed spiritual power and deadly astral winds and beasts threatened them. After escaping a soul-devouring black fog, they encountered animated stone statues whose Undying Bodies reminded them of the power they had come to investigate.

• The white-haired elder abandoned the failed pursuit, while Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng discovered that True Essence worked inside the holy land.
• Yin Demon Sect entered elsewhere, recovered the use of True Essence, and killed an attacking Black Mountain Centipede.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng fought off Snake-Scaled Wolves, then fled a rapidly advancing soul-devouring black fog on Ye Chen's roc Flying Puppet.
• After traveling twenty-five thousand li, Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng landed among lifelike stone man statues in the wilderness.
• The stone statues awakened and attacked; Ye Chen's sword strike split several apart, but they reconnected, leading him and Murong Qingcheng to suspect a link to the Undying Body.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng fought through the Holy Land Trial, where Ye Chen used Destruction Sword Intent to overcome the Stone Man statues before they encountered a living Demon Statue. Murong Qingcheng received its demonic path inheritance, transforming her martial will and Martial Soul Embryo into Demonic forms.

• Ye Chen used Destruction Sword Intent to prevent the Stone Man statues from regenerating, then led Murong Qingcheng onward.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng reached a three-river intersection and saw a huge Demon Statue rise, wielding Demonic Will.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng damaged the Demon Statue, but its severed finger struck Murong Qingcheng and sent her flying.
• The Demon Statue's Demonic Will flowed into Murong Qingcheng, and the statue collapsed, leaving its chest piece to reveal black jade.
• Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen that her martial will had transformed into Demonic Will and her Martial Soul Embryo into a Demonic Soul Embryo approaching a true Demonic Soul.

Murong Qingcheng absorbed the Soul Extinction Wave and used her Demonic Will to kill an eighth-level Ancient Demon Beast as she and Ye Chen searched for a way out of the underground world. They found an Undying Altar and an Undying Rock Wall, and Ye Chen discovered that the altar could rotate.

• Murong Qingcheng absorbed the Soul Extinction Wave, a low-tier Mystic Martial Art that attacked the soul.
• Murong Qingcheng killed a curved-horn python with one palm powered by her Demonic Will, and she and Ye Chen set off to find an exit.
• The Yin Demon Sect escaped the Undying Stone Man statue after fighting it for hundreds of exchanges and traveled toward a black mountain range.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng entered a valley of tangled white light and found an Undying Altar facing an Undying Rock Wall marked with humanoid depressions matching the Stone Man statues.
• Ye Chen noticed a seam in the altar and turned its upper half, changing the color of the beam shining toward the rock wall.

Ye Chen obtained the Undying Body, Upper Scroll from the Undying Rock Wall and learned its three stages of regeneration. Yin Demon Sect arrived demanding the secret, but Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng escaped on the Undying Altar, leaving him in pursuit.

• The Stone Man statues returned to the Undying Rock Wall, revealing a golden scroll sealed inside it.
• The golden scroll’s power excluded Murong Qingcheng and transmitted the Undying Body, Upper Scroll to Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen learned that the Upper Scroll contained Flesh Healing, Limb Regeneration, and Flesh Regeneration, each with different limits and Origin Energy costs.
• Yin Demon Sect reached the valley and demanded that Ye Chen hand over the cultivation secret.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng boarded the Undying Altar, which Ye Chen activated to carry them away as Yin Demon Sect chased after them.

Ye Chen escaped Yin Demon Sect aboard the Undying Altar and developed his understanding of Spatial Conception by practicing the Void Piercing Finger in the void. The altar brought Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng to Thunderclap Tomb in the distant Thunder Region, where they prepared to find their bearings after it sank underground.

• Yin Demon Sect failed to catch the Undying Altar as it vanished into the void and vowed to kill Ye Chen unless he completed the Undying Body soon.
• Ye Chen experimented with the Void Piercing Finger aboard the altar and comprehended one-tenth of its third style, though using it left him nearly exhausted.
• Two Star Extremity Realm explorers noticed that the lightning in Thunderclap Tomb was intensifying and tried to flee as a huge object erupted from the ground.
• The object landed as the six-pillared Undying Altar, carrying Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng out of the Underground World and into Thunderclap Tomb.
• Murong Qingcheng identified the area as the Thunder Region, and Ye Chen watched the Undying Altar sink back into the earth.