Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei met three sects at the Tomb of Emperor Ku, where they sought the Three Heavenly Books, while he came for the elixir of immortality. The sect masters agreed to let him join them but secretly planned to seize the elixir, unaware that Lin Fei had heard their scheme.

• Gong Yeyu drew a wind arrow at Lin Fei, but Li Huainan stopped him and tried to negotiate.
• Lin Fei warned the three sects that the tomb was dangerous, then revealed his identity as the ninth-ranked expert on the Heaven Ranking.
• Gong Yeyu asked whether Lin Fei had come for the Three Heavenly Books, and Lin Fei learned that Emperor Ku had been buried with them.
• Lin Fei said he sought the elixir of immortality and proposed that they enter the tomb together.
• The three sect masters secretly agreed to betray Lin Fei if they found the elixir, but Lin Fei overheard their plan.

Lin Fei led the three sects toward the Tomb of Emperor Ku, where corpse qi and signs of demonic corpse transformation revealed the danger inside. When the sect masters tried to use low-ranked disciples as cannon fodder, Lin Fei volunteered to go first, unaware to them that he had heard their plans to use and dispose of him.

• The disciples opened the passage to the tomb, where black mist and bats emerged, and corpse qi killed and rapidly decayed two Body Refinement Realm disciples.
• Lin Fei identified the danger as a mass corpse transformation caused by ancient demonic qi and advised the Body Refinement Realm disciples to remain outside.
• Two disciples left, but the others stayed despite the risk, and Ji Yaoguang asked Lin Fei to protect them.
• Gong Yeyu tried to send the remaining disciples ahead, but Lin Fei insisted that he and the three sect masters should lead the way.
• The sect masters refused to enter first and urged Lin Fei to act as the vanguard, so he walked ahead and told Ji Yaoguang to stay behind them.
• Gong Yeyu and Mo Daoran privately plotted to use Lin Fei and dispose of him afterward, but Lin Fei heard their conversation through divine sense.

Lin Fei led the group through the ancient tomb, casually overcoming its traps and cutting down the undead craftsmen that attacked them. He left the stunned survivors behind as he headed for the passage beyond the mass grave.

• Lin Fei guided the group through the dark tomb and lit the passage with flames, then destroyed a volley of poisoned spears with an invisible force.
• A minor cultivator stepped on a poisoned arrowhead and died as the poison reduced him to dry bones.
• The group reached a mass grave where undead craftsmen stopped digging and attacked them.
• Li Huainan realized that four of the craftsmen had reached the Grandmaster level and wondered how powerful Emperor Ku's forces might be.
• Lin Fei drew the Ice Soul Dark Iron Sword from Ji Yaoguang's back and killed hundreds of craftsmen with a single sweep before walking toward the far passage.

Lin Fei led the intruders through a battle with the Tomb of Emperor Ku’s corpse soldiers, secretly concealing his overwhelming strength while pretending to be injured. The remaining commander used a corrupted tiger tally to absorb corpse qi and grow stronger, leaving Lin Fei urging everyone to fight with everything they had.

• A thousand corpse soldiers charged the intruders, and Gong Yeyu blasted open their formation with a powerful arrow.
• Lin Fei held back while protecting the group, then killed a Great Grandmaster commander and pretended the fight had badly injured him.
• Lin Fei joined the three sect masters against two commanders, acting as if he were struggling while they drove the enemies back.
• Li Huainan severed one commander’s arm, and Gong Yeyu’s arrow pierced the other commander after he was shoved into the fight by his comrade.
• The one-armed commander raised a corrupted tiger tally, absorbed the surrounding corpse qi, and grew to five meters tall as a powerful pulse knocked everyone away.
• Lin Fei pretended to panic and urged the others to go all out, while Ji Yaoguang recognized his performance as an act.

Lin Fei and the three Grandmasters battled the corpse soldier commander, who detonated a tiger tally and fled deeper into the tomb. They pursued him into a magnificent, eerie chamber marked “Emperor Ku's Bedchamber.”

• Mo Daoran, Gong Yeyu, Li Huainan, and Lin Fei attacked the corpse soldier commander, and Mo Daoran was struck through a wall before returning to the fight.
• Lin Fei healed the wounded Grandmasters as they fought until the commander, badly injured, crushed his tiger tally and triggered a devastating explosion.
• The blast severely wounded the four, but Lin Fei healed them and pretended he had exhausted his true essence.
• Mo Daoran, Gong Yeyu, Li Huainan, and Lin Fei pursued the fleeing commander deeper into the tomb.
• The four followed the commander into the eerie Emperor Ku's Bedchamber.

Lin Fei and the three sect masters fought Emperor Ku’s palace maids, whose lantern fires and feather fans threatened to overwhelm them. After Lin Fei weakened the flames and the sect masters killed more than half the maids, Gong Yeyu aimed his bow at Lin Fei.

• The palace maids blocked Lin Fei and the others, and their feather fans deflected Gong Yeyu’s first arrow.
• Mo Daoran used Raging Wind Ten Thousand Breaks while Gong Yeyu unleashed a powerful attack that killed several palace maids.
• Ji Yaoguang and the other sect disciples arrived as the palace maids’ wind blades wounded a Grandmaster and their blue ghost flames engulfed the battlefield.
• Lin Fei used cold qi to weaken the flames, allowing the three sect masters to kill more than half the palace maids.
• Gong Yeyu drew his bow and aimed an arrow at Lin Fei.

Gong Yeyu and Mo Daoran turned against Lin Fei over the Elixir of Immortality, but Lin Fei revealed that he had been feigning weakness and killed Gong Yeyu with one blow. Mo Daoran immediately begged for his life, while Ji Yaoguang watched in disbelief.

• Gong Yeyu shot at Lin Fei, but Lin Fei dodged the arrow, which killed the palace maids in its path.
• Mo Daoran and Gong Yeyu admitted they planned to kill Lin Fei and claim the treasures, while Li Huainan refused to take sides.
• Ji Yaoguang pleaded for Lin Fei’s life, and Gong Yeyu threatened her; Lin Fei planted his sword in the stone steps.
• Lin Fei revealed he did not need his sword and killed Gong Yeyu with a casual wave of his hand.
• Mo Daoran dropped to his knees and begged Lin Fei to spare him, stunning Ji Yaoguang.

Lin Fei revealed that he had been hiding his immense strength, killed Mo Daoran when he tried to take him down with a self-detonation, and entered Emperor Ku’s burial chamber. The corpse in Emperor Ku’s coffin opened its eyes and unleashed a command that forced everyone present to their knees.

• Lin Fei dispelled his illusion and told Mo Daoran that hiding his strength had been fun.
• Mo Daoran used Turtle Longevity Sundering Kill to self-detonate, but Lin Fei trapped the blast in a light-formed hand and erased him.
• Li Huainan followed Lin Fei into the burial chamber, where they found Emperor Ku’s coffin open and the corpse soldier commander lying beside it.
• Lin Fei said the corpse soldier commander had performed a possession.
• The corpse in Emperor Ku’s coffin opened its eyes and declared that all beneath heaven should bow, forcing everyone from the three sects to their knees.

Lin Fei effortlessly destroyed the corpse soldier commander who had possessed Emperor Ku’s body and claimed the burial treasures. He left the Three Heavenly Books to Li Huainan and departed with Ji Yaoguang, taking only the Elixir of Immortality and several ornaments.

• The corpse soldier commander used Emperor Ku’s imperial aura to force everyone to their knees, but Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang remained standing as Lin Fei dismissed him.
• The commander summoned seven corpse consorts to attack Lin Fei, who erased them with a sweep of his sleeve and seized and destroyed the commander’s soul.
• Lin Fei drew the burial objects from the crystal coffins and recognized a bone flute marked with Yuan as a memento connected to Lin Yuan and Song Wei.
• Li Huainan asked permission to take the Three Heavenly Books, and Lin Fei let him have them while keeping the Elixir of Immortality and seven Spirit Stone ornaments.
• Lin Fei refused Li Huainan’s offer to copy the Heavenly Books, then left the tomb with Ji Yaoguang as the three sects watched in disbelief.

Lin Fei refined the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, then discovered that the Shadow Death Gods had taken Yinglong’s corpse and stormed their research base alone. He entered the base while effortlessly defeating its guards, and the chapter ended as he snapped his fingers against a barrage of laser beams.

• Lin Fei gave seven supreme-grade Spirit Stones to Ji Yaoguang and the four maids, then refined the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill in the Divine Dragon Cauldron.
• Lin Fei found Yinglong’s corpse missing from the South China Sea and traced its removal to a Shadow Death Gods base in Rice Nation.
• Lin Fei stopped the mercenaries’ bullets and sent them back, killing the guards at the base entrance.
• Lin Fei destroyed the base’s supermetal door and walked inside as armed mercenaries gathered to confront him.
• The mercenaries fired laser weapons at Lin Fei, and he snapped his fingers as the surveillance staff watched in terror.

Lin Fei broke into the Shadow Death Gods’ research institute and reached Yinglong’s ancient corpse. As Death God and the Shadow Death Gods’ forces arrived, Lin Fei declared that it was time for Yinglong to wake up.

• Lin Fei destroyed the mercenaries’ laser weapons, defeated hundreds of them, and broke through the institute’s alloy gate and electromagnetic shield.
• Lin Fei entered the plaza where Yinglong’s thousand-foot-long corpse lay and looked at her with recognition.
• The Shadow Death Gods mobilized werewolves, vampires, witches, and priests as Death God watched the surveillance feed and headed to the base.
• Lin Fei stroked Yinglong’s head and said she had slept for thousands of years and it was time to wake up.
• Death God told his companions that Lin Fei intended to revive Yinglong, then insisted that doing so was impossible.

Lin Fei revived Yinglong with the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, then rode her as she fought off the Shadow Death Gods. The chapter ended with Davian drawing on his followers’ power and rising into the air with the Death God's Scythe.

• Davian and the Shadow Death Gods surrounded Lin Fei as he crushed the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill and revived Yinglong.
• Yinglong woke, affectionately nuzzled Lin Fei, and let him climb onto her back before taking to the sky.
• Davian ordered his forces to attack, but the witches’ curses and the missiles failed to harm Yinglong.
• Yinglong struck the ground with one claw, killing dozens and sending the Shadow Death Gods fleeing in panic.
• Davian’s followers sacrificed their strength to empower him, and he formed the Death God's Scythe and rose into the air.

Lin Fei and Yinglong fought Davian and overwhelmed the Shadow base with a storm and tsunami. After Davian fled and the survivors were left among the ruins, Lin Fei told them Yinglong had shown restraint.

• Lin Fei ordered Yinglong to crush the people who had tried to stop them from leaving, and Yinglong darkened the sky and summoned a storm.
• Davian attacked Yinglong with the Death God's Scythe, but her golden protective aura blocked his blow, and she struck back with lightning.
• Davian's blood-red slash collided with Yinglong's lightning, wounded him, and sent him fleeing toward the horizon.
• Yinglong summoned a tsunami that submerged the research base, then let the seawater recede without killing the survivors.
• Lin Fei stood on Yinglong's head and told the survivors that the Pacific Ocean was how much restraint they had shown.

Lin Fei took Yinglong to the Peach and Plum Blossom Grove, where she learned of Empress Yaoguang’s death and discovered that Lin Fei had found Yaoguang’s reincarnation. Meanwhile, the factions’ corpse-refinement ritual in Black Bamboo Valley reached completion, unleashing a surge of corpse qi.

• Lin Fei flew with Yinglong to the Peach and Plum Blossom Grove and told her that spiritual energy had dried up and the world had changed.
• Yinglong asked about Empress Yaoguang, and Lin Fei told her that Yaoguang had died and that he had slain the Demonic Venerable of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Yinglong asked whether Lin Fei had a Dao companion, and he told her he had found Yaoguang’s reincarnation.
• In Black Bamboo Valley, Mo Wan'er, Li Gang, and the Illusion Sect’s black-robed figure neared the end of their attempt to refine the Black Flame Fire Phoenix into a corpse puppet.
• Guo Zhiqiang played a mobile game outside the formation until the ground shook and black corpse qi swept outward as the ritual succeeded.

Li Gang and Mo Wan'er fought over control of the Black Flame Fire Phoenix while the black-robed Illusion Sect man manipulated them both. As the three battled away from the corpse, the Black Flame Fire Phoenix opened its eyes toward Guo Zhiqiang, who dropped his phone in fright.

• Li Gang and Mo Wan'er used their methods to vie for control of the Black Flame Fire Phoenix, and their clash shattered the Blood Sacrifice Spirit-Sealing Formation.
• The black-robed Illusion Sect man trapped Mo Wan'er in an illusion, but her mental strength injured him as well.
• Li Gang tried to command his Bronze-Armored Corpses, only to learn that the black-robed man had replaced their talismans.
• Mo Wan'er attacked Li Gang, who revealed that he had refined himself into a half-human, half-corpse, while the black-robed man kept interfering.
• As the three fighters moved away, the Black Flame Fire Phoenix opened its eyes and stared at Guo Zhiqiang, frightening him so badly that he dropped his phone.

Guo Zhiqiang, Li Gang, and Mo Wan'er all failed to control the Black Flame Fire Phoenix after it opened its eyes, and Guo tentatively claimed he might have control instead. Before anyone could test his claim, a violent wind swept them away as a huge shadow descended with a phoenix cry.

• Guo Zhiqiang told Li Gang that the Black Flame Fire Phoenix had opened its eyes, but Li Gang's Soul-Snatching Bell failed to control it.
• Mo Wan'er tried to command the Black Flame Fire Phoenix with the finger bone, but it ignored her orders too.
• Li Gang, Mo Wan'er, and the black-robed man realized none of them had gained control, while Guo Zhiqiang cautiously suggested that he might have.
• Mo Wan'er urged the black-robed man to join her against Li Gang, and Li Gang warned him not to trust her.
• A fierce wind swept the three fighters off their feet as a huge shadow blotted out the sun and a phoenix cry rang out.

Guo Zhiqiang unexpectedly gained control of the Black Flame Fire Phoenix when Li Gang and Mo Wan'er's competing commands canceled each other out. As the three powerful schemers realized they could no longer control the situation, Guo Zhiqiang rode the phoenix and mocked Li Gang for suddenly pretending to be his proud master.

• The Black Flame Fire Phoenix swept past Li Gang, Mo Wan'er, and the black-robed man, then lowered a wing for Guo Zhiqiang to climb aboard.
• Guo Zhiqiang mounted the phoenix, which carried him into the air, while Li Gang realized its conflicting commands had made it mistake Guo Zhiqiang for its master.
• The black-robed man tried to control Guo Zhiqiang with an illusion, but the phoenix's black astral energy protected him and forced the man to withdraw.
• Li Gang switched from regretting that he had not killed Guo Zhiqiang to calling him his fine disciple, but Guo Zhiqiang cursed him and raised two middle fingers.
• Li Gang claimed he had anticipated Guo Zhiqiang's connection to the phoenix, and Guo Zhiqiang mocked him for his earlier doubts.

Guo Zhiqiang forced the Illusion Sect, Demon Sect, and Corpse Refining Sect to submit after the Black Flame Fire Phoenix reached Human-Corpse Unity with him. With Mo Wan'er at his side, he began planning revenge on everyone who had ever offended him.

• The black-robed man, Mo Wan'er, and Li Gang each knelt and declared their sects willing to submit to Guo Zhiqiang.
• Guo Zhiqiang ordered the Black Flame Fire Phoenix to protect him, and it merged with him in the legendary Human-Corpse Unity realm.
• Mo Wan'er seduced Guo Zhiqiang and took him to a hotel, where they slept together.
• Mo Wan'er urged Guo Zhiqiang to conquer Douque Palace, but he said he would deal with his past enemies first.
• Guo Zhiqiang wrote down the names of everyone who had offended him and declared that they must die.

Yinglong met Lin Fei and his companions, then went to meet Chen Longxiang and help him awaken his dragon soul. Lin Fei was called to save Su Caiwei, who faced a deadly heavenly tribulation while attempting to break through to Golden Core.

• Yinglong greeted Ji Yaoguang with respect and recognized Wu Moling as a descendant of Wu Xian.
• Lin Fei told Yinglong about Chen Longxiang, a descendant of her Heavenly Dragon Clan, and arranged for them to meet.
• Yinglong left for the South China Sea to teach Chen Longxiang how to command wind, rain, and lightning and awaken his dragon soul.
• Su Mingyue called Lin Fei for help after Su Caiwei’s breakthrough in life-or-death seclusion triggered a heavenly tribulation.
• Lin Fei arrived as Su Caiwei, bloodied by repeated lightning strikes, faced the tribulation while Douque Palace disciples and Li Huainan watched from afar.

Su Caiwei faced a deadly heavenly tribulation, and Lin Fei intervened to erase a bolt of lightning with a wave of his sleeve. His interference provoked a Five-Colored Lightning Tribulation, leaving both of them in grave danger.

• Su Caiwei used Heaven and Earth Primordial Unity to withstand the first bolt, while Lin Fei warned that her barrier could only endure two more.
• A second bolt cracked Su Caiwei's barrier, and Lin Fei explained that interrupting the tribulation would rob her of its benefits.
• The third bolt shattered the barrier and wounded Su Caiwei, but she stood firm and defied the heavens.
• Lin Fei stepped in front of Su Caiwei and erased the next bolt with a wave of his sleeve.
• Five-colored clouds appeared as the earth shook, and Su Caiwei warned Lin Fei that interfering would provoke heaven's wrath.