Chapter Summaries

Yang Yong rapidly forged Curios from Bone City’s bones while the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s reinforcements approached the city wall. Watching through a detection sphere, he discovered that the seemingly ordinary monk Mingdeng possessed mental power, though Konghai remained his main concern.

• Yang Yong implanted a protective spherical Weird Artifact in the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost and sent her to record everything inside Bone City.
• Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to rapidly turn piles of Bone City bones into Curios, burning away their hidden imprints and lingering wills.
• The Grand Elders of Mechanical City concluded that Yang Yong had no intention of helping the Buddhist Cultivator Society and chose not to intervene.
• The Buddhist Cultivator Society’s follow-up troops reached Bone City, led by a Sequence 4 monk who asked Mingdeng whether they should enter.
• Yang Yong saw Mingdeng send pale-gold ripples toward Bone City and realized that the old monk possessed mental power focused on perception and detection.

Yang Yong watched as Monk Mingdeng sensed the presence of Buddha and led the Buddhist Cultivator Society into Bone City, while the White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost followed Konghai through the bone-built alleys. Konghai heard the voice of a man he had once abandoned, and the city’s purpose remained unclear.

• Yang Yong judged that he could not fight Konghai and sent a probe orb to follow the Buddhist Cultivator Society into Bone City.
• Monk Mingdeng announced that he sensed the presence of Buddha, then entered Bone City while making three prostrations with every step.
• Kongxin let Mechanical City's probe orb follow the group and told the monks not to disturb Mingdeng.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost passed the group and pursued Konghai through Bone City's alleys.
• Konghai moved purposefully through the city and heard the voice of an old man he had abandoned when the man begged him for his life.

Konghai followed the voices of the dead through Bone City and destroyed a bone house, finding a crystal bone that contained pure Buddha nature. Its power loosened his cultivation bottleneck and helped him understand Kongwen’s cryptic advice about seeking an opportunity in the city.

• Konghai repelled the voices of the dead with a golden bell and followed their source to a white-bone house.
• Konghai shattered the house with a palm strike and found an unbroken crystal bone among the dust.
• Konghai drew pure Buddha nature from the bone and felt his Sequence 5 to Sequence 6 bottleneck loosen.
• Konghai recalled Kongwen telling him to seek an opportunity in the city, remember “golden skin and a foundation of bone,” and never return to the Buddhist Cultivator Society.
• Konghai remembered that Kongwen had left the Buddhist Cultivator Society and that his Seeing-Nature Dharma could glimpse the future.

Konghai realized Bone City was the opportunity foretold by his senior brother and began harvesting Buddha-nature from crystal bones to break through his bottleneck. As the power drew him deeper into the city and consumed his caution, a colossal bone monstrosity smiled in the mist.

• Konghai understood that his senior brother’s verse pointed him toward Bone City and believed the city’s hidden opportunity was meant for him.
• Konghai extracted Buddha-nature from a crystal bone, merged it into his body, and advanced alone into Bone City.
• Konghai destroyed bone houses and gathered crystal bones, absorbing their Buddha-nature as his Sequence 6 bottleneck began to loosen.
• Konghai grew increasingly hungry for more Buddha-nature and stopped checking whether the crystal bones were safe.
• A colossal creature made of white bones smiled deep within Bone City as Konghai continued absorbing its power.

The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost fled Bone City after a vast bone entity noticed her, then showed Yang Yong what Konghai had been doing. Yang Yong saw Konghai growing addicted to extracting Buddha nature and glimpsed the entity watching him, but could not identify what it resembled.

• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost watched Konghai extract and absorb Buddha nature from crystal bones as his pace and fervor increased.
• A vast bone entity emerged from the black mist, destroyed the Ghost’s shield, and asked, “You saw?” before withdrawing its pressure.
• The White-Clothed Love Letter Ghost returned to Yang Yong and handed him a love letter that replayed Konghai’s actions in an illusion.
• Yang Yong watched Konghai smash bone houses for more crystal bones, growing agitated and frenzied as he absorbed their Buddha nature.
• Yang Yong saw the bone entity watching Konghai from the black mist and recognized its appearance as strangely familiar, though he could not recall why.

Yang Yong ordered the Eerie Shadow Squad back to Mechanical City after judging Bone City too dangerous. Inside the city, a mysterious force drew the Buddhist Cultivator Society’s strongest monks away in different directions, leaving the weaker disciples to realize they might be lured in turn as one novice ran toward the exit.

• Yang Yong recalled the Eerie Shadow Squad, and Cao Xianming ordered its members to withdraw to Mechanical City.
• Fishing-Bum Uncle looked back toward Bone City before leaving with the squad.
• As Mingdeng’s group slowly advanced, Kongxin sensed a gentle pull from a direction different from Konghai’s path and Mingdeng’s pilgrimage, then left to investigate alone.
• The Sequence 3 monks lost focus and walked in separate directions with expressions of eager anticipation, ignoring the novices who called after them.
• The remaining low-ranking disciples realized the force was luring people from higher Sequence ranks to lower ones, and a young novice ran toward the opening Konghai had made.

Novice monks vanished into Bone City’s black mist, while Yang Yong followed Konghai’s trail of destruction and found him covered in sinister, unnatural Buddha Light. The Detection Sphere revealed that Bone City’s bizarre architecture and moving curse patterns were far stranger than Yang Yong had realized.

• Several novice monks ran into the black mist and disappeared without a sound.
• An older monk entered the mist to pursue them but became isolated from his companions and saw a motionless figure always three meters away.
• Yang Yong watched the monks through the Detection Sphere, then followed Konghai’s destructive trail deeper into Bone City.
• Yang Yong found Konghai searching for crystal bones while an unnaturally bright, sinister golden light coated his body.
• The Detection Sphere revealed Bone City’s twisted bone architecture, half-Buddha and half-demon reliefs, and slowly writhing curse patterns.

Yang Yong followed Konghai through Bone City and discovered that its center lured each visitor with something they personally desired. When the same pull reached Yang Yong through the Detection Sphere, the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace broke its hold, but Yang Yong remained torn between fear and continuing the pursuit.

• Yang Yong used the Evil Eye to see that some figures built into Bone City's walls had willingly become devout worshippers, unlike the terrified souls trapped elsewhere.
• Yang Yong followed Konghai toward the black mist at the city's center and realized it drew different members of the Buddhist Cultivator Society with individualized temptations.
• Konghai smashed bone buildings to extract Buddha nature, while Yang Yong felt tempted by the same power and recognized that Konghai's Buddha Light was dangerous bait.
• The Detection Sphere crossed an invisible boundary, and the city's pull reached Yang Yong through its transmission link, making him want to enter the black mist.
• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace dispelled the pull, and Yang Yong watched Konghai continue onward while weighing his fear against his unwillingness to give up.

Yang Yong followed the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace’s cryptic hint and sent a Detection Light Sphere deeper into Bone City, hoping to find the treasure it sensed. The sphere’s signal was cut off just as it reached the city’s center, so Yang Yong requisitioned ten more to investigate.

• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace hinted that Yang Yong should follow, and Yang Yong chose to risk entering the depths of the ancient city rather than continue refining Curios.
• Yang Yong sent a Detection Light Sphere through the black mist, past bone towers and faces with hollow eyes, as a mysterious presence seemed to draw him onward.
• The sphere’s image cut out near the center of Bone City, where a golden hand transformed it into a prayer bead and toyed with it.
• Yang Yong replayed the recording repeatedly but could only make out a fleeting, blurry shadow.
• Yang Yong used his authority as Deputy City Lord to requisition ten Detection Light Spheres so he could investigate Bone City’s center.

Yang Yong used ten Detection Light Spheres to reveal the Demon Buddha at the center of Bone City, and the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace ordered him to swallow its origin demonic energy. After learning that doing so would open all his apertures, Yang Yong prepared to lead an emergency response.

• Yang Yong sent ten Detection Light Spheres through Bone City's alleys at maximum speed to capture the figure at its center.
• The spheres each recorded a fragment before the Demon Buddha destroyed them, and Yang Yong pieced the footage together to reveal its bone-built body beneath its Buddha-like appearance.
• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace clearly commanded Yang Yong to swallow the Demon Buddha's origin demonic energy.
• Yang Yong asked what he would gain, and the furnace told him that refining the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha's origin demonic energy would open all his apertures directly.
• Yang Yong ordered the elders to assemble in the Core Area conference room for emergency combat preparations.

Yang Yong ordered the Mechanical City to attack the Bone City and entered the Core Control Room with the Nine Great Elders. By connecting to the city's energy network, he found a faint pulse and awakened a wisp of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might.

• Yang Yong summoned the Nine Great Elders and announced that the Mechanical City would attack the Bone City.
• The elders questioned Yang Yong's sudden change of plan, but Liu Yijun entered the Core Control Room and took his seat, leading the others to follow.
• Yang Yong unlocked his Deputy City Lord permissions and connected the Mechanical City's curios into an energy network.
• Yang Yong searched the network and caught a faint pulse with the help of the Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace.
• A wisp of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might surged beneath the Mechanical City, leaving the elders staring at Yang Yong in awe.

Yang Yong channeled the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might through Mechanical City, sending its destructive aura toward Bone City. The aura broke Old Monk Mingdeng's mental illusion, and he realized he had been manipulated into worshipping his way into the city as black mist rushed toward him.

• Yang Yong used the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might to establish his authority in Mechanical City and focused on obtaining the demonic Buddha's source demonic energy to reach Sequence 3.
• Mechanical City's axe-like aura spread toward Bone City and alerted the presence at its center.
• Black mist rapidly engulfed Bone City as distorted Buddhist chanting echoed through it.
• The aura shattered the mental illusion controlling Old Monk Mingdeng, who remembered entering Bone City while prostrating himself in devotion.
• Old Monk Mingdeng protected himself with a golden kasaya formed from his Buddhist Prayer Beads and saw black mist surging toward him.

Konghai woke from the White Bone Bodhisattva’s influence just before entering its hunting range and burned the demonic qi from his body with Buddha Fire. As Mechanical City’s attack grew stronger, Mingdeng called him for help, leaving Konghai to choose between answering and pursuing the opportunity within Bone City.

• Mechanical City’s sharp aura jolted Konghai out of his deluded state, and he realized he had nearly stepped into the White Bone Bodhisattva’s hunting range.
• Konghai recognized the golden coating on his skin as demonic qi disguised as Buddha Light and began purifying himself with Buddha Fire.
• Konghai burned away the moving golden patterns, while Mechanical City’s rising metallic aura signaled that its attack had begun.
• Konghai planned to use the clash between Mechanical City and the White Bone Bodhisattva to seek valuable things deep within Bone City.
• Mingdeng sent Konghai a message asking him to come help, and Konghai wondered how his supposedly ordinary martial uncle had located him through the black mist.

Yang Yong drove Mechanical City into Bone City as the black mist awakened into a giant Buddha, while Konghai ignored Mingdeng’s request for help and continued refining demonic energy. The Buddha’s attack failed against Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield, leaving Yang Yong dismissive of the mist’s power.

• Konghai erased Mingdeng’s message and continued refining the demonic energy in his body.
• Yang Yong activated most of Mechanical City’s Curio array and saw that black mist had engulfed Bone City.
• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City to charge Bone City despite warnings from Grand Elder Liu Yijun and the other elders.
• Cao Xianming stayed silent and ate grapes, preventing the elders from stopping Yang Yong’s combat orders.
• The black mist condensed into a giant Buddha and pressed its palms against Mechanical City.
• Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield repelled the Buddha’s hands, and Yang Yong mocked the attack.

Yang Yong hesitated to use his Heaven-Opening Giant Axe power against Bone City's Black Mist Buddha, but the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace acted on its own and devoured the Buddha. The elders watching the battle were left stunned by the furnace’s power and reconsidered Yang Yong’s worth.

• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City’s weapons to fire at the Black Mist Buddha, but it grew dozens of arms and enveloped the city.
• Yang Yong considered saving his trump card for the battle inside Bone City, then realized the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace was moving without his control.
• The Thousand-Hammer, Hundred-Refinement Furnace drove the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace through Mechanical City’s Electric Arc Shield and opened its lid.
• The furnace swallowed the Black Mist Buddha and all its black mist in less than ten seconds, then returned to the Artifact-Refining Platform.
• The elders stared at Yang Yong in shock and concluded that Servien had made him Deputy City Lord as an investment.

Yang Yong and Mechanical City entered Bone City after the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace swallowed the Black Mist Buddha, but the city's beguiling power left the Nine Great Elders and Cao Xianming entranced. Yang Yong ordered the Shelters locked down and released the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might inside the Core Control Room.

• The Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace swallowed the Black Mist Buddha with ease, and Yang Yong realized the stronger presence of the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha remained inside Bone City.
• Yang Yong ordered Mechanical City to continue into Bone City, using the Detection Sphere's data to chart a route toward the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha.
• After fifteen minutes, Mechanical City had not reached its destination, and Yang Yong realized the scenery outside kept repeating.
• Yang Yong saw Grand Elder Liu Yijun, the Second Elder, the Fifth Elder, Cao Xianming, and the others sitting in a serene, entranced state.
• Yang Yong ordered the Mechanical Soldiers to lock down all Shelters and knock out anyone who tried to leave.
• Yang Yong stood alone in the Core Control Room and released a trace of the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's might.

Yang Yong and the Mechanical City escaped a spatial misdirection barrier in the Bone City by following Cao Xianming’s data rather than their senses. After passing Konghai, they raced toward the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha.

• Yang Yong told Cao Xianming to determine whether the Mechanical City was traveling in circles, and Cao Xianming used his Sequence ability to analyze its flight data.
• Cao Xianming’s calculations revealed that the Mechanical City had been trapped in a closed loop by an enormous spatial misdirection barrier.
• Yang Yong followed the data-marked route and drove the Mechanical City through a bone tower that concealed the barrier’s boundary.
• The Mechanical City reached Konghai, who opened his eyes and moved aside as it passed.
• Yang Yong accelerated toward the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha, preparing to use the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe’s power.

Yang Yong and the Mechanical City faced the White Bone Bodhisattva, whose countless living arms sealed off every route forward. Yang Yong ordered all guns to fire, but the Bodhisattva effortlessly countered the barrage with coordinated mudras and magical artifacts.

• The White Bone Bodhisattva rose above Bone City, revealing a vast Thousand-Armed Guanyin form that dwarfed the Mechanical City.
• Konghai judged that brute force would not break through the Bodhisattva's regenerating arms, then left to fight enemies on the flank.
• Cao Xianming's simulations showed that the Bodhisattva's expanding arms blocked every approach and would soon prevent retreat.
• Yang Yong rejected retreat and ordered every firearm on the Mechanical City to fire at the Bodhisattva.
• The Bodhisattva used its skeletal hands to form mudras and summon defenses that destroyed, deflected, or swallowed the incoming shells.

Yang Yong used the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe’s power through Mechanical City to split the White Bone Bodhisattva, which fled into the black mist. Mechanical City continued toward the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha, and golden light appeared ahead.

• Yang Yong pushed Mechanical City's great Curio array to its limit and channeled the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe's power into its attack.
• Mechanical City's attack split the White Bone Bodhisattva down the middle, and its two halves fled into the black mist.
• Cao Xianming praised the Heaven-Opening Giant Axe as the Core Control Room erupted in disbelief.
• Yang Yong kept Mechanical City moving toward the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha.
• Golden light appeared through the black mist ahead and grew into a brilliant wall of light.

Yang Yong used the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to swallow the Many-Treasured Demon Buddha’s magical treasures and turn them into Curios. After noticing the Demon Buddha was acting mechanically, he began provoking it with a Logistics Robot so the furnace could keep collecting its attacks.

• The Many-Treasured Demon Buddha raised a vast forest of golden pagodas to shield itself from Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong sent out the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, which swallowed the pagodas and forged them into Curios.
• The furnace swallowed the Demon Buddha’s vajras, sword, and prayer beads, then produced more Curios.
• Yang Yong noticed white frost over the Demon Buddha’s eyes and recognized that its attacks followed a mechanical pattern.
• Yang Yong sent a Logistics Robot to fire harmless bursts at the Demon Buddha, beginning his mob-farming tactic.