Chapter Summaries

Mu Bai defeated the short, fat old man and the Human-Faced Centipede, then trapped Hu Meier inside his Inner World. Hu Meier offered to teach him the Nine-Lives Technique as she explained its origin and her own three lives.

• Hu Meier arrived and joined the short, fat old man against Mu Bai, who fought them and the Human-Faced Centipede while trapped by the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net.
• Mu Bai destroyed the short, fat old man's ghostly bone whip with White Spirit Cold Flame, then killed him and took his Demon Core.
• Mu Bai killed the Human-Faced Centipede's hidden cultivator and summoned his three great Soul Spirits to slaughter the scattered enemies.
• Hu Meier tried to bewitch Mu Bai, but he attacked her and blocked her escape with the Void Beast's world-forming ability.
• Hu Meier offered to teach Mu Bai her cloning technique and explained that she had cultivated three lives through the Nine-Lives Technique.

Mu Bai forced Hu Meier to surrender the Nine-Lives Technique, then used it to create an avatar from his Silver-Backed Ape Soul Spirit. After discovering a trove of treasures and continuing toward Eastern Ridge, he reflected on humanity’s plight in the Beast Territory and sought news of the front lines.

• Hu Meier tried to stab Mu Bai while offering to impart the Nine-Lives Technique, but Mu Bai struck her down and forced her to hand over the method.
• Mu Bai studied the technique, released Hu Meier, and withdrew to the mountains to practice refining an avatar.
• Mu Bai placed a strand of his mind-spirit into the Silver-Backed Ape Soul Mark and made an ape avatar that copied his appearance and movements.
• Mu Bai searched the Many-Treasure Rat’s Mustard Seed Bag and found the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net, the Moon God Stone, Demon Cores, and many other valuables.
• Mu Bai continued toward Eastern Ridge, reflected on the suffering of humans in the Beast Territory, and stopped at cities to learn about the front lines.

Mu Bai encountered Qi Zhenzi in Peacock City and was drawn into the Three Arts Sect’s underground Array Offering Hall, where Qi assigned Xiao Liu to teach him. Mu Bai pretended to be an inexperienced disciple, and Xiao Liu demonstrated an Alerting Spirit Array that Mu Bai did not understand.

• Qi Zhenzi recognized Mu Bai as a potential recruit and persuaded him to join the Three Arts Sect.
• Qi Zhenzi dragged Mu Bai through a tunnel beneath a burial pit to the Array Offering Hall, where thousands of disciples worked on arrays.
• Qi Zhenzi assigned Xiao Liu to teach Mu Bai to engrave an Alerting Spirit Array and gave him two days to learn it.
• Mu Bai introduced himself as Hei Qi, and Xiao Liu took his Beast Cores and medicinal pills for safekeeping.
• Xiao Liu demonstrated how to engrave an Alerting Spirit Array, but Mu Bai admitted he had not understood it.

Mu Bai struggled to learn formation carving from Xiao Liu while Qi Zhenzi dealt with a threat to the Burial Pit. When a Demon General and a former disciple demanded the Evolutionary Formation Diagram, Qi Zhenzi revealed that he had not been injured and turned the tables with powerful formations.

• Xiao Liu showed Mu Bai how to carve an Alerting Spirit Array into soul jade, but Mu Bai repeatedly failed to control the carving pressure and connect the lines.
• After two days, Mu Bai had barely learned to carve formation lines evenly, and Qi Zhenzi gave him two more days to improve.
• Qi Zhenzi returned wounded and warned everyone to flee as hundreds of cultivators, a Demon General, and a middle-aged man entered the Burial Pit demanding the Evolutionary Formation Diagram.
• Qi Zhenzi accused the middle-aged man of betraying the Human Spirit Domain by colluding with the Beast Race, while the man urged Qi Zhenzi to surrender and serve him.
• Qi Zhenzi used his Formation Flag to blast the invading cultivators with thunder and trapped the Demon General and the middle-aged man outside a Spatial Separation Formation.
• Qi Zhenzi revealed that he had never been injured, bound the middle-aged man, and challenged the remaining attackers to stay and learn array offering from him.

Qi Zhenzi killed a traitorous Human Race Dao Zun and a Demon General, then expelled Mu Bai while leaving him a pattern from the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation to study. Mu Bai failed to copy it and resumed his journey, eventually reaching an empty settlement where snakes crept toward him in the darkness.

• Qi Zhenzi bound the cultivators with formations, killed the middle-aged man and the leading Demon General, and addressed the survivors as his new disciples.
• Qi Zhenzi rejected Mu Bai as a disciple because of his poor aptitude and appetite, but promised to accept him again if he carved one pattern from the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation.
• Qi Zhenzi marked a circle-and-person formation on Mu Bai's left arm and sent him back to the city street where they had first met.
• Mu Bai tried to copy the pattern into Soul Jade but was repeatedly drawn into a dark, disorienting void, so he gave up and continued toward Eastern Ridge.
• After two days of travel, Mu Bai entered an empty settlement and found rats hiding in a vacant residence.
• As night fell, several gray-and-white snakes crawled into the courtyard and approached Mu Bai's feet.

Mu Bai’s Silver-Backed Ape avatar became trapped in a courtyard surrounded by ravenous rats, snakes, and rotting corpses, until his main body broke through the city’s aerial restriction and rescued him. After burning and freezing the threat, the two reunited, and Qi Zhenzi’s formation diagram appeared on Mu Bai’s main body.

• Mu Bai tried to leave the courtyard but found it surrounded by red-eyed rats, which swarmed over his defenses and attacked the snakes and rotting corpses.
• The corpses and rats crowded against Mu Bai’s Soul Power Light Screen, weakening it as he vomited from disgust and regretted entering with his avatar.
• Mu Bai’s main body arrived, punched a gap through the aerial restriction, and enabled the Silver-Backed Ape avatar to escape.
• Mu Bai’s main body summoned the Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru to burn the courtyard, then froze and shattered the rising smoke with White Spirit Cold Flame.
• Mu Bai’s avatar and main body exchanged jokes, merged, and discovered Qi Zhenzi’s Human-Shaped Spirit-Evolving Formation Diagram on the main body’s left arm.

Mu Bai fought a corrosive Corpse Poison while Hu Meier and two Demon Generals watched, then manipulated the battle to obtain the generals’ fusion rings. He branded Hu Meier’s mind and ordered her to serve him as a slave for three hundred years.

• Mu Bai burned the vicious rats, but a Corpse Poison leapt from a well and attacked him, corroding his defenses and Origin Power.
• Hu Meier arrived with the black- and white-faced Demon Generals, who recognized the monster and initially watched while Mu Bai struggled against it.
• Mu Bai lured the Corpse Poison toward Hu Meier and the generals, forcing the two Demon Generals to defend themselves and eventually fuse.
• Mu Bai used a vitality-filled wooden sword to repel the Corpse Poison, then demanded the rings that enabled the generals to fuse.
• The Demon Generals gave Mu Bai their black and white rings, but he refused to help them further and left with Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai branded Hu Meier’s mind and ordered her to serve as his slave for three hundred years in exchange for eventual freedom.

Mu Bai dealt with the Corpse Poison outbreak and witnessed the Black and White Demon Generals succumb to it. After burying them and cleansing the settlement, he found that the poison was still spreading elsewhere.

• Mu Bai ignored Hu Meier’s pleas and kept her inside a Mustard Seed Bag while the Black and White Demon Generals fought Corpse Poison.
• The White-faced Demon General wounded Corpse Poison with life force, but it bit the Black-faced Demon General and infected him.
• The White-faced Demon General embraced his brother after he became a rotting corpse and let Corpse Poison infect him too.
• Mu Bai burned the two Demon Generals’ remains, gathered their ashes and rings, and buried them together.
• Mu Bai and his soul spirits destroyed the Corpse Poison nest in the Stone Well and buried the ashes of the victims elsewhere.
• Mu Bai continued through the region and found that other settlements were either already dead or still suffering from Corpse Poison.

Mu Bai uncovered a Man in Green spreading Corpse Poison through Beast Race settlements and began destroying the infected settlements while Hu Meier tracked the culprit. Hu Meier was gravely wounded in their fight and fled with only one life remaining, still waiting for Mu Bai to arrive.

• Mu Bai and Hu Meier watched a corpse-transformed settlement, and Mu Bai ordered Hu Meier to follow the Man in Green while he cleared the settlement.
• Mu Bai burned two infected settlements and destroyed a Corpse Poison creature and a Myriad Corpse Hide found in one settlement’s water source.
• The Man in Green discovered Hu Meier following him and attacked her, declaring his intention to let Corpse Poison devastate the Beast Territory.
• Hu Meier repeatedly used her tails to escape fatal blows but was badly injured while trying to hold out until Mu Bai arrived.
• The Man in Green offered to spare Hu Meier if she became his beast pet, but she refused and fled through the void as he pursued her.

Mu Bai rescued the badly wounded Hu Meier, and the two tracked the Man in Green to the ruins of the Nanqing Sect. Using the Fox Worships Peachwood Technique, Hu Meier found a hidden entrance beneath the sect’s gatehouse, and they arrived in its secret location to discover a horrifying sight.

• Mu Bai drove off the Man in Green and healed Hu Meier, who awoke days later and resumed teasing him while warning that the corpse poison might have spread.
• Mu Bai said he had cleared nearby settlements of corpse poison, and he and Hu Meier rode the Black Silk Flying Carpet toward the valley she had tracked.
• They found the ruined Nanqing Sect and suspected the Man in Green had collected the dead cultivators’ remains to fuel his revenge against the Beast Race.
• Hu Meier used the Fox Worships Peachwood Technique to awaken the peach trees’ memories, guiding them to a hidden location beneath the sect’s gatehouse.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier activated the Teleportation Array and entered the Nanqing Sect’s secret location, where an icy aura and the smell of blood confronted them.

Mu Bai and Hu Meier fought their way through the underground palace passage, where the Man in Green’s traps attacked them and Hu Meier was briefly controlled by the Soul-Controlling Art. After Mu Bai rescued her and left her to recover, he continued alone and found the blood pool where Corpse Poisons were being nurtured.

• Mu Bai froze the snakes blocking the passage and used the Divine Crow and Origin Water Chiru to burn the ones behind them while Hu Meier clung to him in fear.
• Rotting corpses and Corpse Poisons attacked, but Mu Bai pierced the poisons’ heads with grass-and-wood swords and burned the attackers away with White Spirit Cold Flame.
• Hu Meier suddenly attacked Mu Bai under mind control, and he struck her before discovering the Soul-Controlling Art’s threads in her Divine Palace.
• Mu Bai carried the wounded Hu Meier to the Teleportation Array, learned it only allowed one-way travel, and secretly stabilized her while confronting the unseen Man in Green.
• Hu Meier regained consciousness and apologized, so Mu Bai gave her a medicinal pill, placed her in his Mustard Seed Bag, and returned alone to the passage.
• Mu Bai passed through the underground corridor and found a blood pool filled with female corpse husks, where the Man in Green was breeding Corpse Poisons.

Mu Bai captured the Corpse Pouches and defeated the golden skeleton controlled by the Man in Green, then confronted him in the underground palace. The Man in Green revealed how the Beast Race had destroyed the Nanqing Sect and how the massacre drove Yu Fei to swear revenge.

• Mu Bai trapped the Corpse Pouches in the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net and burned them with Divergent Flame.
• Mu Bai fought the female corpse whose bones had been refined to gold, then used the Void Beast Realm and a Spirit Light Sword to destroy the Divine Sense Avatar controlling her.
• Mu Bai entered the great hall and refused the Man in Green's demand to return the sect ancestor's remains.
• The Man in Green recalled how the Beast Race slaughtered the Nanqing Sect, including its Sect Master, Grand Elders, and Yu'er.
• Yu Fei returned to the ruins, buried his fellow disciples, and swore to take revenge on the Beast Race by any means.

Yu Fei revealed how he had spent more than a decade preparing a corpse-poison plague to avenge Yu'er and the Beast Race’s atrocities. Mu Bai fought to stop him, but after grievously wounding Yu Fei, he watched him transform into a self-controlled rotten corpse and charge again.

• Yu Fei explained that he had used the Yin Palace, the Blood Pool, and countless corpses to prepare corpse poison for his revenge.
• Mu Bai confronted Yu Fei, who attacked with cold yin energy and a black mental blade, but Mu Bai blocked the blade with his Five-Colored Light Shield.
• Mu Bai struck Yu Fei and held a demonic-qi sword to his throat, but Yu'er's corpse attacked Mu Bai from behind, giving Yu Fei a chance to escape.
• Yu Fei fought alongside Yu'er's corpse and injured Mu Bai's shoulder with the Nanqing Sword Technique.
• Mu Bai unleashed his Five Elements Origin Power, shattered Yu Fei's sword, and pierced his chest with a five-colored sword of light.
• Yu Fei swallowed a pill made from corpse poison, became a rotten corpse while retaining control of his mind, and charged at Mu Bai again.

Mu Bai destroyed Yu Fei and the Yin Palace, then exhausted himself using his blood to save the gravely wounded Hu Meier. When Hu Meier woke, she chose to postpone killing him and went to find food.

• Mu Bai trapped Yu Fei and Yu'er's corpse, burned them to ashes, and destroyed the Yin Palace before escaping as Nanqing Mountain collapsed.
• Mu Bai resolved to avenge his Tribe when he returned to the Eastern Ridge.
• Mu Bai spent ten days infusing Hu Meier with vitality, then fed her his blood until she began breathing, leaving himself near death.
• Hu Meier woke, drank a squirrel's blood, and realized Mu Bai had saved her with his own blood.
• Hu Meier considered killing Mu Bai to avenge her father but decided to wait until he recovered, then left to hunt and returned with a Snow-Mane Lion.

Hu Meier and Mu Bai shared a quiet night after she saved him, but their fragile peace ended when a Tiger-Headed Man attacked them. Mu Bai killed the attacker to protect Hu Meier, then fell from the sky, leaving her to catch him and remember his promise.

• Hu Meier revived Mu Bai with medicinal pills and fed him tiger meat, while Mu Bai repaid her with a jar of Hundred-Fruit Brew.
• At dawn, Hu Meier and Mu Bai argued about their unresolved grievances, and the shattered wine jar drew the attention of nearby tigers.
• A Tiger-Headed Man attacked Mu Bai and Hu Meier, knocked Mu Bai off the mountain, and captured Hu Meier after discovering she was a Three-Tailed Fox.
• Hu Meier tried to distract the Tiger-Headed Man, but he carried her away toward his abode.
• Mu Bai returned in the form of a winged Demon God, killed the Tiger-Headed Man while declaring he would not let Hu Meier be hurt again, then fell from the sky.
• Hu Meier caught Mu Bai as he descended and told him she would remember his promise.

Hu Meier and the injured Mu Bai sought shelter at Hei Feng’s river palace, where Hei Feng revealed his alliance with Chi Lin and trapped them in a golden cage. Mu Bai broke free by projecting his Inner World, cutting off the river that sustained Hei Feng’s formation, and faced the two monsters.

• Hu Meier brought the badly injured Mu Bai to Blackwater City and accepted Hei Feng’s invitation to his river palace.
• Hu Meier gave Hei Feng a Jade Bamboo flute, and he played it before taking them beneath the river on a golden formation.
• Hei Feng transformed the formation into a cage and revealed Chi Lin, who wanted revenge for his elder brother’s death.
• Hei Feng separated Mu Bai and Hu Meier with a golden barrier, but Mu Bai’s golden wings deflected the cage’s attacks and his Golden Light Broad Sword split the cage.
• Mu Bai projected his Inner World and cut off the river’s flow, leaving Hei Feng unable to sense the surrounding water.
• Hei Feng ordered Chi Lin to attack Mu Bai and Hu Meier together.

Mu Bai defeated Hei Feng and the Tiger-Headed Man, then disguised himself as Hei Feng and entered the river palace with Hu Meier to search for its treasures. After spending more than a month there, Hu Meier faced jealous concubines who challenged her place in the palace.

• Mu Bai froze Hei Feng's sword attack, cut down the Tiger-Headed Man, and killed Hei Feng as he tried to escape.
• Mu Bai took the two Demon Cores, burned the bodies, assumed Hei Feng's appearance, and brought Hu Meier into the river palace.
• Mu Bai and Hu Meier mingled with the palace's concubines and spent more than a month shut away together in Hei Feng's bedchamber.
• The mermaid concubine and other concubines confronted Hu Meier, but Hu Meier asserted that she was a Demon General too.
• The mermaid concubine claimed her elder brother was a Demon General who shared control of the river with Hei Feng, and Hu Meier's other accusers fell silent.

Mu Bai, disguised as Hei Feng, learned that Jiang Yu had come to beg for rain in drought-stricken Desert City. Jiang Yu offered gold sand for help and then asked to borrow the Jade Dragon River Marrow, but Mu Bai refused both requests.

• Hu Meier mocked the Mermaid Concubine, who then went to Mu Bai with soup and tried to win his favor.
• Mu Bai asked about the household funds, then dismissed the concubines and wondered where Hei Feng kept his treasury.
• The river palace steward told Mu Bai that Jiang Yu had come to ask Hei Feng to bring rain to Desert City.
• Mu Bai met Jiang Yu aboard the pleasure boat and heard that drought had killed nine out of ten Sand Wolves.
• Jiang Yu offered Mu Bai two bags of refined gold sand in exchange for rain, but Mu Bai refused to help.
• Jiang Yu asked to borrow the Jade Dragon River Marrow, and Mu Bai refused, suspecting he would not get it back.

Mu Bai looted Hei Feng’s hidden treasury and found the Jade Dragon River Marrow and a Gold Refining Art, which he immediately began to practice. Meanwhile, Hu Meier confronted the mermaid concubine aboard the Flower Boat, and their fight began.

• Jiang Yu left two heaps of placer gold with Mu Bai before diving into the Blackwater River and heading west.
• Mu Bai discovered the painting’s hidden entrance to Hei Feng’s treasury, where a formation mistook him for Hei Feng and opened the golden gate.
• Mu Bai took Demon Cores, soul crystals, water-aspect crystals, herbs, forging materials, Soul Soldiers, and cultivation arts from the treasury.
• Mu Bai found the Jade Dragon River Marrow and the Gold Refining Art, then summoned his soul spirit clones to keep looting while he practiced the art.
• Hu Meier and the mermaid concubine exchanged threats aboard the Flower Boat, then attacked each other with their weapons.

Hu Meier survived the merfolk concubine’s attack and killed her, then fought alongside Old Catfish against the concubine’s enraged elder brother. Mu Bai left the Treasury Hall and rushed to help as the battle continued with Hu Meier and Old Catfish unable to gain the upper hand.

• Hu Meier appeared to fall to the merfolk concubine’s Soul Treasure, but she survived and killed the concubine before striking down another consort who had threatened to skin her.
• Hu Meier challenged Old Catfish, who refused to let her kill the River Palace consorts because he was responsible for protecting them.
• The merfolk Demon General arrived to avenge his younger sister and attacked Hu Meier, but Old Catfish intercepted him and began fighting him alongside Hu Meier.
• Mu Bai sensed Hu Meier’s danger through the Mind-Spirit Imprint, ended his cultivation, recalled the golden soldiers into the Mustard Seed Bag, and left the Treasury Hall.
• The merfolk Demon General fought Hu Meier and Old Catfish in the sky, threatening to kill them and then Hei Feng, while the two defenders struggled to gain the advantage.