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.

After a year in Nameless Nether Valley, Shiheng had strengthened his undead parents and decided to take them into the Undead Great Wilderness for richer resources. He planned to help them grow until they reached at least the God-level and recovered their past-life memories before returning to the valley.

• Shiheng spent a year consolidating his cultivation and nourishing his parents' soul flames with essence from a Soul Gold Bead.
• Shiheng's mother reached the peak of the sixth level, while his father advanced to the peak of the eighth rank.
• Shiheng observed the peaceful life of Saul Verlan's family nearby and concluded that his own year of seclusion was enough.
• Shiheng decided to leave Nameless Nether Valley because its scarce death energy and soul flames could no longer support his parents' growth.
• Shiheng told his parents to pack up and prepared to lead them into the Undead Great Wilderness to gather soul flames and strengthen them.

Shiheng led his parents out of the Nameless Nether Valley and into the Undead Great Wilderness, where countless undead converged on their pure soul flames. He intended to use the attackers to train his parents, then froze every undead within a hundred miles with the absolute Death Law.

• Shiheng crossed the barrier with his parents, whose fresh soul flames alerted undead throughout the wilderness.
• Thousands of low-ranking undead and powerful undead lords surrounded the family, drawn by the parents’ pure soul flames.
• Shiheng judged that his parents needed battle experience and decided the undead would serve as training and nourishment.
• Shiheng spread the absolute Death Law across a hundred miles, instantly freezing the surrounding undead and silencing their instincts.