Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen destroyed two gold-armored corpses and reached the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation, where his Ghost Mantis Token and waymarker guided him toward an entrance to the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden. Ding Buxing and Elder Pan arrived at Eastern Azure Dragon Peak, but without a formation marker they had to test the gates one by one, and Elder Pan angrily rebuked Ding Buxing for questioning him.

• Qing Chen used his Spring Equinox Yin-Yang Palm and demon lotus karmic fire to destroy one gold-armored corpse, then pinned and crushed the other with Demon Nails and yellow springs baleful intent.
• Qing Chen headed toward the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden and recalled that four peaks formed the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation, whose trials guarded the spiritual herbs.
• Qing Chen took out his Ghost Mantis Token, and his jade slip waymarker began guiding him toward the gate it opened.
• Ding Buxing asked Elder Pan whether they had found Eastern Azure Dragon Peak, and Elder Pan confirmed that the medicine garden lay between the four peaks.
• Elder Pan told Ding Buxing not to bypass the formation gates and explained that they would have to test them one by one without a formation marker.
• Ding Buxing worried that testing every gate would waste time, so Elder Pan angrily shouted at him for doubting his instructions.

Ding Buxing and Qing Chen encountered cultivators battling refined corpses on separate routes through the Ancient Mansion. Qing Chen watched the Condensed Jade Sect group struggle against two False Core Realm fiends, while Ding Buxing continued toward another battle.

• Ding Buxing used an Observation Spirit Talisman to spy on Daoist Pujin, Zhang Chengfeng, and a female Blackwood Island cultivator fighting seven armored corpses at White Tiger Cliff.
• Ding Buxing spotted five more armored corpses guarding the next stage, including one that appeared to be in the False Core Realm, then followed Elder Pan's directions along a narrow path.
• Qing Chen followed his Waymark Jade Slip through the mist on Black Tortoise Ridge and sent a Giant Wolf Cavalry rider to investigate nearby fighting.
• Qing Chen discovered Elder Shangshan, the Evil-Punishing Elder, Xu Jiuling, and two deputy hall masters surrounded by eight refined corpses, including two mutated gold-armored corpses.
• Qing Chen observed that the refined corpses healed with corpse qi and watched Elder Shangshan and the Evil-Punishing Elder suppress the two Pseudo-Core foes with their formidable techniques.

Qing Chen used the Ghost Mantis Tokens to evade refined corpses as he raced toward the Eastern Azure Dragon Formation Gate, while observing other cultivators battling Armored Corpses. Just as he reached the entrance to the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden, a Flying Yaksha appeared behind him and stared at his Ghost Mantis Phantom.

• Qing Chen left the fighting cultivators behind and followed the Jade Slip’s guidance toward Azure Dragon Peak.
• Qing Chen used the Ghost Mantis Tokens to summon a phantom that kept refined corpses away as he climbed the mountain.
• Qing Chen spotted Jianlong Daoist and Leng Jingfei fighting Armored Corpses, studied their techniques, and continued toward the summit.
• Qing Chen followed the Jade Slip’s signal to the ancient hall marked Eastern Azure Dragon Formation Gate, the entrance to the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden.
• Qing Chen activated his Golden Body Demon Aspect and Golden Sinews and Silver Bones Divine Ability when he sensed danger, then found a Flying Yaksha staring at his Ghost Mantis Phantom.

Qing Chen used the Twelve Holy Son Token to tame a Flying Yaksha, then followed the Ghost Mantis phantom through the ancient bronze hall and opened a hidden passage. He stepped inside and found himself in what seemed like an entirely different world.

• Qing Chen linked his blood to the Twelve Holy Son Token, and the Flying Yaksha bowed to him in reverence.
• Qing Chen used the Thousand Threads Soul Guiding art and his Demon Seed Divine Sense to brand the Flying Yaksha, then stored it in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.
• Qing Chen entered the ancient bronze hall, followed the Ghost Mantis phantom, and reached a bronze door with four token recesses.
• Qing Chen placed the four Ghost Mantis Tokens in the door, revealing a phantom of the Ghost Mantis hunting Flood Dragons and Wind Luans.
• The bronze door opened onto a dark passage, and Qing Chen stepped through into what seemed like another world.

Qing Chen passed through the bronze gate and found a blessed grotto-heaven filled with precious spiritual herbs, including treasures capable of aiding Golden Core cultivators and Nascent Soul True Lords. After marveling at the garden's riches, he sensed that something was wrong.

• Qing Chen entered through the bronze gate and found the Ghost Domain replaced by a grotto-heaven with a fourth-tier spirit vein.
• Qing Chen spotted rare herbs including grand void wonder spirit herb, scarlet blood dragon saliva herb, and rising sun lingzhi.
• Qing Chen discovered a low-grade fourth-tier infant transformation flower and heaven-mending ginseng.
• Qing Chen saw the three treasures of the Nascent Soul and imagined that harvesting them could help him reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Qing Chen's heart jolted, and he realized that something was wrong.

Qing Chen saw an apparent paradise of rare spirit herbs in the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden, but used the Twelve Holy Son Token to reveal it as an illusion surrounding the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree. He found three remaining Condensing Gold Fruits, then faced a weakened Blood Flood Dragon Spirit-Locking Restriction that he needed to break quickly.

• Qing Chen suspected the abundant fourth-tier treasures were an illusion because they contradicted the Holy Son Token’s records.
• Qing Chen activated the Twelve Holy Son Token and dispelled the illusion, revealing the ghostly garden and the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree.
• Qing Chen discovered that only three of the tree’s five apparent Condensing Gold Fruits were real and spotted the Thousand-Year Purple Ghost Mud beneath it.
• Qing Chen attacked the restriction with Demon Lotus Karmic Fire, but a Blood Flood Dragon emerged and swallowed the fire snakes.
• Qing Chen dodged the dragon’s blood arrows, countered with Restriction-Breaking Talismans and the Avīci Heartless Seal, then judged that the restriction had weakened to around third-tier power.

Qing Chen broke the restriction guarding the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree by defeating the Blood Flood Dragon, though the battle left him badly wounded and exhausted. He secured all three Condensing Gold Fruits and the Thousand-Year Purple Ghost Mud, planning to cultivate precious plants inside the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.

• Qing Chen used seven Restriction-Breaking Talismans, his spirit artifacts, and the Flying Yaksha to fight the Blood Flood Dragon and break its restriction.
• Qing Chen drove the Flying Yaksha to tear off the Blood Flood Dragon's head, shattering the twelve runes and removing the restriction's light screen.
• Qing Chen returned the badly wounded Flying Yaksha to the Bronze Coffin and used Yellow Springs Baleful Intent to help heal it.
• Qing Chen used the Holy Son Token's magic formula to pick all three Condensing Gold Fruits and sealed them in second-tier Spirit Boxes.
• Qing Chen gathered the Thousand-Year Purple Ghost Mud into the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda and planned to make a medicinal field there.

Qing Chen let the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda devour the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree, gaining one incomplete Grand Void Heavenly Secrets use, then plundered the herb garden for spirit plants. He left the garden with a rich haul but could not take the powerful restriction around the Longevity Fruit Tree.

• Qing Chen carefully transplanted the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree into the pagoda, but the pagoda sent him a message asking to devour it.
• Qing Chen agreed and cast the tree into the darkness beyond the island, earning one incomplete Grand Void Heavenly Secrets use and complaining that the pagoda had given him too little in return.
• Qing Chen used the Holy Son token and began gathering spirit herbs before the people outside could break in.
• Qing Chen broke through weakened restrictions to collect nine third-tier spirit plants and more than a hundred second-tier plants, but failed to take the Longevity Fruit Tree.
• Qing Chen transplanted his haul into the pagoda's spirit-mud fields and reflected on how much more he still needed to fill them.

Qing Chen discovered that he had gathered most of the ingredients for the Golden Jade Liquid Returning Pill and set out to find the Cloudfoot Celestial Palace so he could leave the Ancient Mansion. At the Bronze Hall, he disguised himself as Ding Buxing and tricked Jianlong Daoist and Leng Jingfei into thinking he was fleeing with a treasure, escaping while they were held back by armored corpses.

• Qing Chen found that the spirit field held most of the ingredients needed to refine the Golden Jade Liquid Returning Pill and resolved to return to Earth Jade Island to cultivate after leaving the Ancient Mansion.
• Qing Chen used the Ghost Mantis Token to pass through a bronze door and return to the Bronze Hall, where he heard Jianlong Daoist and Leng Jingfei fighting armored corpses.
• Qing Chen transformed his appearance into Ding Buxing's with the Thousand Transformations and concealed his aura and cultivation using the Wisdom King Tower.
• Qing Chen fled the Bronze Hall with Mo Qiuxian and Yue Xipo, controlled as silver-armored corpses, pretending to be pursued by them.
• Jianlong Daoist recognized Qing Chen as Ding Buxing and urged Leng Jingfei to stop him, but the armored corpses blocked their attacks as Qing Chen escaped toward the battlefield below.

Qing Chen discovered that the Great Void Heavenly Secrets Authority weakened the farther he moved from Four Symbols Peak, so he decided to recover before returning for the Condensing Gold Fruit Tree. Meanwhile, Jianlong Daoist, Leng Jingfei, and cultivators from rival sects entered the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden and were driven by its Mirage Illusion Formation into a deadly battle.

• Qing Chen confirmed that the qi signature of the Great Void Heavenly Secrets Authority grew weaker with distance from Four Symbols Peak, then resolved to return for his Condensing Gold Fruit Tree after recovering.
• Qing Chen found a secluded spot in the Spring Night Ghost Grave, set up a restricting formation, and meditated to restore his spiritual sense and magic power.
• Jianlong Daoist and Leng Jingfei killed four armored corpses outside the Bronze Hall and were transported to the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden.
• The Mirage Illusion Formation showed Jianlong Daoist and Leng Jingfei visions of Longevity Fruits, Condensing Gold Fruits, and other treasures, clouding their judgment with greed.
• Rewarding Virtue and Evil-Punishing Elders, Xu Jiuling, Daoist Pujin, and Zhang Chengfeng appeared in the garden and were also deceived by the illusion.
• The rival sect cultivators attacked one another, consumed by greed and slaughter.

Qing Chen activated the great void heavenly secrets authority and was pulled through visions that revealed the Condensed Jade Sect’s leaders planned to sacrifice cultivators to ripen a spirit embryo fruit. The authority then carried him to a scene of an ancient battle in the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden.

• Qing Chen recovered his magic power, returned to Azure Dragon Peak, and opened the great void heavenly secrets authority with the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.
• Qing Chen’s consciousness entered a vision of his famine-stricken past, where he became trapped in a looping scene and saw his divine soul leave his body.
• Qing Chen was drawn into a vision of Xuanji True Person, Ten Thousand Souls True Person, and the Third Grand Supreme discussing how to kill cultivators to ripen a three souls seven apertures spirit embryo fruit.
• Qing Chen was transported to an ancient scene in the Ghost Domain Medicine Garden, where Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult elders fought another group and pushed them back with their spells.

Qing Chen learned that the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult had secretly diverted Withered Earth Island’s Spirit Stones and that Xuanji True Person possessed a treasure said to aid Nascent Soul formation. He hurried toward the mountain peak to seize it, but Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy attacked him, and he swallowed their poison without harm.

• Qing Chen emerged from the shattered illusion in his Cave Abode and recalled what he had witnessed about Xuanji True Person’s treasures.
• Qing Chen set aside his earlier goal of finding the condensing gold fruit tree and rushed toward the mountain peak to pursue the three souls seven apertures spirit embryo fruit.
• Qing Chen encountered Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy in their Cave Abode and tried to pass without engaging them.
• Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy ambushed Qing Chen with saber talismans, a talisman formation, and the Glazed Net Spirit Talisman.
• Qing Chen destroyed their attacks with his Golden Body, karmic fire, and Immovable Wisdom King Palm, then inhaled Jade Flute Fairy’s Lingxi Springheart Ember poison without harm.

Qing Chen defeated Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy, then forced them to reveal the secret of the One-Origin Mysterious Qi Treasure Talisman. He killed Ghost Saber Daoist and left Jade Flute Fairy bound, her fate unresolved.

• Ghost Saber Daoist empowered the Glazed Net Spirit Talisman, but Qing Chen struck him from behind with the Avīci Heartless Seal and sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• Jade Flute Fairy tried to seduce Qing Chen and offered to serve him, but he bound both her and Ghost Saber Daoist with yin-thunder chains.
• Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy pleaded for their lives and offered secrets from the Impermanence Sect, including the One-Origin Mysterious Qi Treasure Talisman.
• Jade Flute Fairy revealed that the talisman stored a previous cultivator's lifetime of cultivation to help a successor break through a bottleneck, and that Impermanence True Person had used it to reach the late Golden Core Stage.
• Qing Chen summoned Demon General Pojun to pierce Ghost Saber Daoist's dantian, and the Demon Banner devoured and refined his remains.

Qing Chen returned to Azure Dragon Peak after killing Ghost Saber Daoist and Jade Flute Fairy, while Ding Buxing revealed himself in the Jade Pool Illusion Realm after seven cultivators fought each other for spirit herbs. Ding Buxing began harvesting the herbs as the wounded cultivators realized they had been manipulated.

• Qing Chen recalled using his spell and Demon Seed Divine Sense on Jade Flute Fairy before ordering Demon General Pojun to kill her and dispose of her body.
• The seven cultivators in the Jade Pool Illusion Realm continued their bloody battle, destroying spirit herbs and weakening one another.
• Ding Buxing emerged with Ghost Mantis Tokens and a Golden Core Protector Command Token as the seven cultivators confronted him.
• Ding Buxing mocked the wounded cultivators and explained that their struggle had cleared the way for him to collect the spirit herbs.
• Ding Buxing retrieved a high-grade second-tier Ascension Vine while Leng Jingfei accused him of plotting to make them slaughter one another.

Qing Chen disguised himself as Ghost Saber Daoist, fought Ding Buxing with a white bone demon, and activated the Holy Son Token to reveal the Jade Pool Illusion Realm’s legendary spirit herbs. The revelation drew cultivators across the Inner Hall toward the Spring Night Ghost Grave as Qing Chen pushed the Mirage Tower and Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation to their limits.

• Ding Buxing mocked the wounded cultivators and demanded that Leng Jingfei submit to him, revealing his trap.
• Qing Chen appeared disguised as Ghost Saber Daoist and sent Demon General Di Jiang to attack Ding Buxing with the White Bone Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen used the Holy Son Token and a remembered Moon-Worshipping Cult formula to open the Jade Pool Illusion Realm.
• The illusion revealed rare spirit herbs, including the nascent soul formation three treasures and Longevity Fruits, stirring greed among the Golden Core True Persons.
• Cultivators from across the Inner Hall rushed toward the Spring Night Ghost Grave, and Qing Chen drove the Mirage Tower Illusion Realm and Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation to their limits.

Qing Chen awakened the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation to draw the Golden Core True Persons into a battle outside, then raced toward the stone platform. The True Persons’ clash devastated the area as they tried to break through the formation.

• The major sects’ Golden Core True Persons converged on the Spring Night Ghost Grave and fought while attacking the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation.
• Mysterious Altar True Person detonated Mother-and-Child Heart-Devouring Talismans near Dian Cang Sect disciples, prompting Dian Cang True Person to retaliate.
• A medicinal fragrance drew Foundation Establishment cultivators toward the ghostly garden, and seven Golden Core True Persons’ powers collided, killing several and injuring others.
• Qing Chen used the Holy Son Token and his essence blood to awaken the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation, bringing its armored corpses and flying yakshas to life.
• Qing Chen saw that most Golden Core True Persons had been drawn to the formation, withdrew his divine ability, and rushed toward the stone platform.

Qing Chen reached Blood Jiangshi Peak’s hidden herb garden and discovered the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit while Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person fought outside. Their clash left both cultivators badly poisoned and wounded, with neither able to claim victory.

• Qing Chen used the Ghost Mantis Token and Holy Son Token to open Spring Night Path and hurried through it to Blood Jiangshi Peak.
• Qing Chen entered the hidden fourth-tier spirit herb garden and recognized the human-shaped fruit as the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit.
• Qing Chen hid behind the taotie stone gate as Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person fought over the treasure ground.
• Nine Swords True Person used his Nine Yin Sword Formation, but Purple Centipede True Person countered with the Myriad Poisons Devouring Heart Curse and forced him to sever poisoned swords.
• Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person unleashed their ultimate attacks, struck each other, and collapsed with their bodies in turmoil.

Qing Chen summoned Jingyun Arhat to suppress the wounded Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person, then sent his Flying Yaksha to seize the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit. The two True Persons found themselves trapped between the arhat and the Yaksha as the Yaksha raced toward the fruit.

• Qing Chen spent over forty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to summon Jingyun Arhat from the Wisdom King Tower.
• Jingyun Arhat struck Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person with a cloud palm, pinning down their attacks and worsening their injuries.
• Qing Chen summoned his mostly recovered Flying Yaksha from the Bronze Coffin and ordered it to seize the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit.
• The Flying Yaksha flew through the venom and Sword Qi toward the fruit, startling Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person.

Jingyun Arhat shattered the restriction around the three souls seven apertures spirit embryo fruit while Qing Chen’s formation collapsed and his spirit stones ran low. The Flying Yaksha seized the fruit and escaped into Qing Chen’s Bronze Coffin, leaving Jingyun Arhat and the pursuing True Persons behind.

• Jingyun Arhat summoned the Battle Art Cloud City and battered the restriction as Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person struggled to break through.
• Qing Chen’s Thunderclap Demon-Subduing Formation consumed thousands of spirit stones, and the Four Symbols Corpse Refining Formation collapsed as Jingyun Arhat shattered the restriction.
• Qing Chen ordered the Flying Yaksha to seize the spirit embryo fruit while Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person attacked it.
• The Flying Yaksha took the fruit, but the Blood Tree dissolved into ghostly flames that burned its palm.
• Jingyun Arhat used his remaining spirit stones to unleash Three Dragons Suppress Cloud Prison, giving the Flying Yaksha time to flee into Qing Chen’s Bronze Coffin.

Qing Chen escaped with the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit while the cultivators were misled by illusions and fought over false treasures. When the fruit’s aura surged from Blood Jiangshi Peak, Xuanji True Person realized the deception and led the others in pursuit.

• Qing Chen sealed the jade box containing the fruit, concealed the stone gate, and escaped through the passage using Six Jia Evasion Void.
• Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person found the chamber empty and collected the remaining medicinal plants after realizing the fruit had been taken.
• Xuanji True Person discovered that the apparent treasures were illusions, and the arriving True Persons saw only grave soil and worthless remnants.
• Ghost Corpse True Person mocked Xuanji True Person, who attacked him with Nine Xuanji Jade Nails.
• Xuanji True Person sensed the fruit’s aura from Blood Jiangshi Peak, recognized the diversion, and raced toward the peak as the other True Persons followed.