Chapter Summaries

Shiheng found his parents’ remnant souls safe in a secluded nether valley and resolved to guard them until they matured into god-level souls and regained their memories. While investigating the valley, he discovered a ninth-level undead, a Saint undead, and a hidden Paragon High-God who seemed to be protecting the place.

• Shiheng entered the secluded valley and found his parents’ fragile remnant souls drifting there, still intact after seven days in the Undead Realm.
• Shiheng examined their souls and decided to remain for a century, nurturing them until they could reach godhood and escape reincarnation’s memory-stripping laws.
• Shiheng surveyed the valley and detected a ninth-level undead and a Saint undead hidden nearby.
• Shiheng discovered a Paragon High-God dormant beneath the valley and realized an unseen barrier had protected his parents from the nether energy and wandering undead.
• Shiheng resolved to investigate the valley’s secrets while guarding his parents, confident that he could face the hidden Paragon.

Shiheng settled in Nether Valley to recover and met a pure-hearted ninth-level undead whose soul carried both the Laws of Life and Death. After exchanging gifts, Shiheng suspected the valley and its quiet Paragon guardian concealed a profound secret.

• Shiheng chose to spend a century recovering in Nether Valley and built a plain stone house by hand.
• A clean, gentle ninth-level undead approached Shiheng and offered him green-glowing crystals he had made for lighting.
• Shiheng examined the undead and discovered his mutated soul could sustain both the Laws of Life and Death, astonishing the souls of his two divine blades.
• Shiheng gave the undead a Nine-Turn Life Spirit Root in return, and the undead carefully accepted the spirit medicine.
• Shiheng suspected Nether Valley concealed a great secret while its silent Death Law Paragon continued to watch.

After a year of quiet recovery in Nether Valley, Shiheng consolidated his cultivation and learned the histories and limitations of the Verlan family. He understood that Soren had reached the ceiling of the Coiling Dragon World, while Linor and Ayla needed guidance to cultivate their unusual life-and-death laws.

• Shiheng spent a year recuperating in Nether Valley, stabilizing his Dao Foundation and putting his four Supreme Laws in order.
• Shiheng learned that the secluded undead Paragon Soren Verlan had risen from Saint-level cultivation in only three thousand years.
• Shiheng discovered that Linor Verlan's undead body contained a pure Life Law, which the Netherworld's deathly power continually suppressed.
• Shiheng learned that Ayla Verlan possessed a rare life-and-death symbiotic physique but had remained stuck at the ninth level without a guide.
• Shiheng concluded that Linor and Ayla could not cultivate by devouring undead soul fires, which would poison their life essence and cause their laws to collapse.