Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen overwhelmed Xu Buyan and Lin Bancheng as they counterattacked with their strongest techniques. Xu Buyan escaped in a blood cocoon, leaving Qing Chen and Lin Miaoyu behind.

• Lin Miaoyu tried to stop Qing Chen, but he ignored her and used the Demon Lotus Karmic Fire to break through Xu Buyan’s Heaven Cicada Garment and talisman shields.
• Qing Chen sent his three Dark Yin Flying Swords toward Lin Bancheng, and Lin Miaoyu stepped in front of her eldest uncle.
• Lin Bancheng burned his essence blood to unleash Viper Finger against the swords, while Xu Buyan attacked Qing Chen with his flying sword and Heaven Cicada Silk.
• Qing Chen’s copper-armored corpse deflected Xu Buyan’s flying sword, and Qing Chen formed Blood Baleful Intent Armor to withstand the Heaven Cicada Silk.
• The Demon Lotus Karmic Fire burned away Xu Buyan’s Heaven Cicada Garment and wore down his final talisman shield, so Xu Buyan used Heavenly Cicada Blood Escape to flee as Qing Chen watched.

Lin Bancheng sacrificed himself to save Lin Miaoyu from Qing Chen, who then turned his attention toward the city’s trapped survivors. Outside Yin Tiger City, Xu Buyan and Xu Baichuan struggled to escape the formation until a woman revealed she had a second-tier mid-grade Formation-Breaking Talisman.

• Lin Miaoyu attacked Qing Chen, but his Dark Yin Flying Sword shattered her Frost Sword and threatened to kill her.
• Lin Bancheng took the sword strike meant for Lin Miaoyu, gave her his storage bag, and sent her fleeing with an evasion talisman.
• Lin Bancheng detonated his dantian, damaging Qing Chen’s Blood Baleful Intent Armor before Qing Chen began repairing it and looked toward Lin Miaoyu’s escape route.
• Xu Baichuan tried unsuccessfully to break the formation around Yin Tiger City, and the injured Xu Buyan arrived and also failed to breach it.
• Xu Buyan asked the trapped cultivators for Formation-Breaking Talismans, and a woman stepped forward claiming to have a second-tier mid-grade talisman.

Xu Buyan and the others broke out of the trapping formation, while Qing Chen unleashed his demon soldiers and Grudge Ghosts on the Xu Household and the people of Yin Tiger City. The city was left in silence, and Qing Chen ordered the corpses gathered.

• Xu Buyan activated the formation-breaking talismans, creating a passage through the Small Five-Element Inverted Trapping Formation, and led the survivors out.
• Lin Miaoyu escaped with her eldest uncle’s Storage Bag, while Xu Baichuan collapsed in relief.
• Qing Chen’s demon soldiers and Grudge Ghosts slaughtered the Xu Household and its guests in the Guest Banquet Hall.
• Qing Chen sent the demon soldiers and Grudge Ghosts through Yin Tiger City’s Inner City and Outer City, killing residents and burning houses.
• Qing Chen ordered his demon soldiers to bring him the corpses, and a deathly silence settled over Yin Tiger City.

Qing Chen harvested the resentment and blood energy from Yin Tiger City while pursuing the fleeing cultivators toward the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation. Xu Buyan fought the Demon Soldiers and Grudge Ghosts to protect the Xu Household, but his strength ran out as Xu Baichuan collapsed in despair.

• Qing Chen gathered the city's resentment and Blood Baleful Intent to cultivate the fourth layer of the Mingwang Scripture.
• Xu Buyan, Xu Baichuan, and the other survivors reached the edge of Yin Tiger Island and discovered the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation blocking their escape.
• Xu Buyan used the Heaven Cicada Art to ensnare and destroy some Demon Soldiers and Grudge Ghosts as the enemy forces closed in.
• Xu Buyan unleashed Heaven Cicada Wind Howl, scattering the attackers but exhausting his remaining strength and worsening his wounds.
• Xu Baichuan lost hope as Xu Buyan faced the encircling forces and fell to his knees.

Xu Baichuan begged the unseen Condensed Jade envoy for mercy, then attacked Lin Miaoyu when she scorned him. As White Bone Demon Soldiers and Grudge Ghosts overwhelmed the cultivators, Lin Miaoyu pursued Xu Baichuan instead of joining the defense, leaving their side on the brink of collapse.

• Xu Baichuan offered to become the Condensed Jade Sect's servant and even offered Lin Miaoyu in exchange for his life.
• Lin Miaoyu condemned Xu Baichuan, who blamed her and lunged at her with Heaven Cicada Silk.
• Lin Miaoyu evaded Xu Baichuan and countered with her sword, but their fight damaged her weapon as his superior cultivation wore her down.
• A cry announced that Fourth Uncle had died, and Xu Baichuan abandoned his attack on Lin Miaoyu to help resist the demon soldiers.
• Lin Miaoyu kept attacking Xu Baichuan while the cultivators fought the advancing White Bone Demon Soldiers and Grudge Ghosts, worsening their desperate position.

Qing Chen annihilated the Xu Household on Yin Tiger Island, then escaped after collecting his formation treasures and concealing his involvement. The cultivators who entered the island found a ruined city and a bloody message blaming the massacre on the Condensed Jade Sect.

• Mara Qi broke Xu Baichuan's pagoda barrier, and Lin Miaoyu killed him with her magic sword before the giant white bone beast's attack erased her.
• Qing Chen finished refining the city's resentment into blood sea baleful intent, dismissed his forces, and left the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation around Yin Tiger Island.
• Qing Chen slipped through the formation, retrieved his Formation Plates, Formation Flags, and remaining Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, and let the barrier dissolve.
• The waiting cultivators entered Yin Tiger Island and found it steeped in blood aura, with the Xu Household absent and Yin Tiger City reduced to ruins.
• The cultivators read a bloody message claiming the Condensed Jade Sect had exterminated the Xu Household for betraying it, and some sent warnings about the supposed invasion.

After the Xu Household fell, Qing Chen’s massacres earned him the feared names Blood River High Person and Blood River Old Devil. He infiltrated Si Snake Island and prepared to break through the Lin Household’s defenses, leaving its fate in his hands.

• Blackwood Island’s sub-islands panicked after the Xu Household’s destruction, and people spread the names Blood River High Person and Blood River Old Devil for the mysterious killer.
• Qing Chen listened in secret as Lin Household cultivators discussed the threat and claimed Si Snake Island’s defenses could withstand him.
• Qing Chen resented his new title and recalled that he had killed a Lin Household cultivator to steal his identity and infiltrate Si Snake Island.
• Qing Chen assessed the island’s defenses and planned to activate the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation and use second-tier high-grade Formation-Breaking Talismans.

Qing Chen had greatly increased his combat strength by slaughtering cultivators and refining their resources, then attacked Si Snake Island to test himself against its defenses. He crippled the Lin Household’s protective formation and mocked it, leaving the island poised for battle.

• Qing Chen raised his Demon Lotus Karmic Fire to the fourth revolution, extended his spiritual sense beyond two hundred and twenty zhang, and advanced the Mingwang Scripture to the peak of its fourth layer.
• Qing Chen activated the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation, shrouding Si Snake Island in mist and confusion.
• The Lin Household sounded its highest alert, and Lin Kaishan activated the Viper Water-Control Formation.
• Qing Chen struck the Viper Water-Control Formation with two second-tier high-grade Formation-Breaking Talismans, tearing open its defenses and greatly weakening it.
• Qing Chen laughed at the damaged formation, declaring that it was far less impressive than its reputation.

Qing Chen confronted the Lin Household and Si Snake Island cultivators, summoning an army of grudge ghosts and demon soldiers led by the Foundation Establishment late-stage Demon General Pojun. Lin Kaishan rallied the defenders and launched the first attack, leaving the battle underway.

• Qing Chen arrived at Si Snake Island, and Lin Kaishan, Lin Shouyi, and Lin Shouer gathered the Lin Household cultivators and island rogues to face him.
• Qing Chen revealed the White Bone Demon Mara Banner and summoned hundreds of grudge ghosts and demon soldiers.
• Qing Chen summoned Demon General Pojun, whose Foundation Establishment late-stage strength terrified the defenders.
• Lin Kaishan assigned Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer to hold off Qing Chen and ordered Lin Wu to lead the islanders against the demon army.
• Lin Kaishan charged at Qing Chen with a Viper Finger as the Mangshan Viper Spear struck from behind him.

Qing Chen and Demon General Pojun battled Lin Kaishan and the Lin brothers as Si Snake Island’s defenders fought to hold their ground. Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer unleashed a massive Tusita Qi Vortex Slash toward Qing Chen, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Demon General Pojun’s White Bone Blade Formation overwhelmed Lin Kaishan’s attack and knocked the Mangshan Viper Spear into the ground, but Lin Kaishan continued fighting him.
• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer attacked Qing Chen together with their Tusita Divine Finger, making his Blood Baleful Intent Armor tremble.
• Qing Chen countered with Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and the Three Yin Flying Sword Formation.
• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer used Tusita Turning Rotation to slow the flying swords and resist Qing Chen’s attacks.
• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer combined their power into a Tusita Qi Vortex Slash and sent the enormous energy storm toward Qing Chen.

The Lin Household and Si Snake Island forces struggled to hold back the Blood River Old Devil’s army as their leaders were overwhelmed on several fronts. With the defensive line close to collapse, Lin Wu decided to use a hidden measure.

• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer collided with Qing Chen’s Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and were badly injured, while the Blood River Old Devil appeared largely unharmed.
• Demon General Pojun’s powerful blade attacks pushed Lin Kaishan into a difficult fight and damaged his armor.
• Lin Wu led the Lin Household, rogue cultivators, and martial artists against the demon soldiers, grudge ghosts, and White Bone Giant Wolves, but their line steadily buckled.
• After a Lin Household disciple warned that they could not hold on, Lin Wu said he had no choice but to use something.

Qing Chen sent three refined corpses against Lin Wu’s Si Snake Puppet while the battle on Si Snake Island continued. The puppet held its own but was damaged, and Qing Chen realized it carried traces of the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art.

• Qing Chen judged that his fourth-turn demon lotus karmic fire could become powerful enough to challenge a Golden Core True Person at its ninth turn, then resolved to end the fight on Si Snake Island quickly.
• Qing Chen sent two copper-armored corpses and Mo Qiuxian’s living corpse toward the White Bone Giant Wolf’s battlefield.
• Lin Wu summoned the Lin Household’s Si Snake Puppet and ordered it to stop Qing Chen’s three corpses.
• The Si Snake Puppet fought all three corpses, damaging and driving back the copper-armored corpses before Mo Qiuxian’s living corpse struck its back with Mysterious Yin Corpse Explosion.
• Qing Chen noticed that the Si Snake Puppet used the Mangshan Viper Art and sensed traces of power from the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art within it.

Qing Chen discovered that his Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art could seize control of the Lin Household’s Si Snake Puppet. After turning it against Lin Wu, he sent it after Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer, who were already close to defeat.

• Qing Chen suspected that the Lin Household’s Si Snake Puppet had been refined using the Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art, though he doubted Lin Wu had refined it himself.
• Qing Chen used the mystic art to interfere with the Si Snake Puppet’s control, while Lin Wu tried to stabilize it with a lineage command token.
• Qing Chen overpowered Lin Wu’s control of the puppet and seized its Spirit Puppet Core.
• Qing Chen directed the Si Snake Puppet to attack Lin Wu, who was fatally wounded and collapsed.
• Qing Chen sent the Si Snake Puppet after Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer as they struggled against his attacks.

After Lin Wu died, Lin Kaishan risked his life to transform into a serpent demon and fight Demon General Pojun. Qing Chen then summoned the Formless Demon God and launched a deadly seal at Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer, leaving the attack about to strike.

• Lin Wu died in battle, devastating Lin Shouyi, Lin Shouer, and Lin Kaishan.
• Lin Kaishan activated the life-consuming Snake Spirit Demon Aspect and transformed into a serpent demon.
• Qing Chen sent the Si Snake Puppet, Copper-Armored Corpses, and Mo Qiuxian's Living Corpse to support Lin Kaishan against Demon General Pojun.
• Qing Chen summoned the Formless Demon God and sent it toward Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer.
• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer turned to face the demon god as its blood seal flew toward them.

Qing Chen and his allies defeated the Lin Household’s fighters in a brutal battle. After Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer fell, Lin Kaishan’s desperate spear strike failed, and Qing Chen struck him down as he tried to utter a final warning about the Lin Household.

• Lin Shouyi and Lin Shouer’s combined attack failed against Qing Chen’s Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal, and the brothers died.
• Grief-stricken, Lin Kaishan sacrificed his strength to drive the Mangshan Viper Spear at Qing Chen, but Qing Chen stopped it with his demon fire and Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal.
• The White Bone Demon General, the Si Snake Puppet, and Mo Qiuxian’s living corpse battered Lin Kaishan until his strength dwindled.
• Qing Chen struck Lin Kaishan with the Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal, crushing him as he began to speak about the Lin Household.

Qing Chen slaughtered the Lin Household on Si Snake Island and plundered its known treasuries and Scripture Repository. A year and a half later, after surviving Blackwood Island’s pursuit and returning to Condensed Jade Sect territory by a circuitous route, he reflected on the windfalls that had made him stronger.

• Qing Chen’s demon legions routed the Lin Household cultivators and rogue cultivators across Si Snake Island.
• Qing Chen tortured and interrogated Lin Household members, learning the locations of its treasuries and Scripture Repository.
• Qing Chen led demon soldiers in looting the Lin Household’s known treasuries and Scripture Repository, leaving the estate in ruins.
• During the next year and a half, Qing Chen fought off Blackwood Island pursuers, including Snow Palm High Person Zhang Chengfeng, and earned the name Blood River Old Devil.
• Qing Chen returned to Condensed Jade Sect territory by a longer route to avoid Blackwood Island’s powerful cultivators.

Qing Chen spent over a year refining the spoils from his Blackwood Island raids, raising his cultivation and demonic treasures while directing his forces from afar. He uncovered links between the island households and the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult, but the identity and plans of a concealed figure in the Yue Household remained unclear as Qing Chen prepared to return.

• Qing Chen catalogued the spoils from the raids, including Spirit Stones, artifacts, secret techniques, and supplies he planned to give Su Zixuan.
• Qing Chen spent over a year cultivating with the corpses and resources he had gathered, reaching the peak of Foundation Establishment Early Stage and strengthening his demonic treasures.
• Qing Chen directed Hidden Spirit Island, the Inspector's Manor, and the Demon Lotus Sect through the Communication Array while reporting the fighting to Elder Shangshan and avoiding the main battlefield.
• Qing Chen discovered that the Mangshan Viper Art and Mysterious Yin Corpse Refining Mystic Art were incomplete arts of the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult on Immortal-Severing Island.
• Qing Chen found evidence that the Yue Household of Mysterious Mountain Island secretly dealt with the Lin Household of Si Snake Island and that a concealed Yue family figure shared a close history with Lin Kaishan.
• Qing Chen pondered the hidden figure's identity and decided it was time to return.

Qing Chen returned to the Condensed Jade Sect after destroying the Xu Household and reporting his battles on Blackwood Island, earning a Spirit-Raising Mystic Advancement Pill and a Scripture Repository token. As the sect prepared for a decisive battle, two masked-in-purpose cultivators slaughtered a Chang Household disciple and framed the Yue Household, then wondered about their orders.

• Qing Chen presented Elder Shangshan with a battle report and recorded images after reporting that he had destroyed the Xu Household and stirred conflict on Blackwood Island.
• Elder Shangshan praised Qing Chen’s achievements and rewarded him with a Spirit-Raising Mystic Advancement Pill and a fifth-floor Scripture Repository command token.
• Elder Shangshan warned Qing Chen that Blackwood Island and Sea Prosperity Island threatened Chanda Island, and gave him one year to recover and cultivate before new arrangements.
• A white-robed man and Jueqing joined forces with two jiangshi to kill a seventh-layer Qi Refining cultivator of the Chang Household.
• The white-robed man told Jueqing to leave traces of the Yue Household’s mystic arts on the corpse, then wondered whether the Demon Envoy’s orders targeted the Chang Household.

Li Zexin and his companions arrived in Hidden Spirit City and learned that its people were celebrating the Island Lord’s upcoming wedding, while the lord, Qing Chen, was secretly in seclusion. The chapter left Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun wondering whether Qing Chen would miss the wedding after arranging it so publicly.

• Li Zexin and his companions entered Hidden Spirit City and saw its streets decorated for the Island Lord’s wedding.
• An inn waiter praised Hidden Spirit High Person for improving the lives of the city’s common people, but Lingzhu insulted him as Blood River Old Devil, prompting the inn staff to eject the party.
• Li Zexin stopped Lingzhu from escalating the dispute and led the party toward the Inner City, noting Hidden Spirit Island’s growth.
• Gao Yuliang and Deng Ziyue reported to Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun that Qing Chen had secretly entered seclusion a month earlier to break through his bottleneck.
• Xu Jiuling remarked that Qing Chen had set a wedding date with the Yue Household of Mysterious Mountain Island and questioned whether he would disappear before the ceremony.

Qing Chen returned to the Condensed Jade Sect, chose the Six Directions Evasion Technique, and used a Jade Ancient Spirit Crocodile’s essence and a precious advancement pill to break through his cultivation bottleneck. Fine cracks appeared in the barrier as his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage neared.

• Qing Chen expanded Hidden Spirit Island and grew his influence while directing its affairs across long distances through a Communication Array.
• Qing Chen visited the Scripture Repository and chose the high-tier mystic-grade Six Directions Evasion Technique to improve his escape speed.
• Qing Chen spent over twenty thousand spirit stones to obtain the corpse of a late-second-tier Jade Ancient Spirit Crocodile.
• Qing Chen refined the crocodile’s essence in his cave abode, but initially struggled to break through the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage bottleneck.
• Qing Chen swallowed Elder Shangshan’s Spirit-Raising Mystic Advancement Pill, and the combined force of the pill and crocodile essence cracked the bottleneck’s barrier.