Chapter Summaries

Lin Wudao discovered the Corpse Collection System while collecting Great Emperor Xuantian’s corpse, gaining immense cultivation and the Chaos Sword. When Tianxuzi and the Heavenly Mysteries Sect arrived to claim the relics, Lin Wudao fought back and was surrounded as the battle continued.

• Lin Wudao touched Great Emperor Xuantian’s corpse and activated the Corpse Collection System.
• Lin Wudao collected Great Emperor Xuantian’s corpse, gained one hundred thousand years of cultivation, the Mystic Heaven Creation Instruction, and the Chaos Sword, and broke through to the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Tianxuzi and the Heavenly Mysteries Sect arrived and demanded that Lin Wudao surrender the Great Emperor’s relics.
• Lin Wudao refused Tianxuzi’s demand and attacked him with the Chaos Sword.
• Lin Wudao fought Tianxuzi and the sect’s disciples, who surrounded him as he remained determined to resist.

Lin Wudao fought off the Heavenly Mysteries Sect with the Chaos Sword, but Tianxuzi and the sect’s disciples overwhelmed him. A lightning tribulation struck, allowing Lin Wudao to grow stronger and break through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm as Tianxuzi retreated.

• Lin Wudao unleashed the Dragon-Luring Break, wounding the Heavenly Mysteries Sect disciples, but an elder’s bronze mirror and Tianxuzi’s ambush injured him.
• As the sect’s attacks battered Lin Wudao, a lightning tribulation gathered over the battlefield.
• Lin Wudao met the lightning with the Chaos Sword, while Tianxuzi led the Heavenly Mysteries Sect members away from the tribulation.
• The lightning tempered Lin Wudao, healed his wounds, deepened his understanding of the Mystic Heaven Creation Instruction, and strengthened the Chaos Sword.
• Lin Wudao survived the final bolt and broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

After breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Lin Wudao fought the Ancient Clan’s tomb keeper and learned that Great Emperor Xuantian had destroyed the clan to seize a High Antiquity treasure. Surviving the tomb keeper’s self-detonation, Lin Wudao used the system’s secret-realm coordinates to set out toward a place that might reveal more.

• Lin Wudao reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm and received coordinates to a High Antiquity secret realm from the system.
• The Ancient Clan’s tomb keeper emerged, accused Lin Wudao of carrying Great Emperor Xuantian’s presence, and attacked him.
• The tomb keeper summoned what he claimed was Xuantian’s true corpse, but Lin Wudao destroyed it with Nine Dragons Destroy the World.
• The tomb keeper revealed that Great Emperor Xuantian had nearly wiped out the Ancient Clan while seeking a supreme treasure, then tried to kill Lin Wudao by self-detonating.
• Lin Wudao woke in an unfamiliar forest, examined the secret-realm map, and headed toward its marked location.

Lin Wudao entered an ancient sacrificial site, fought a girl transformed into a ghost and a Spirit-Devouring Centipede, and obtained a black jade fragment. After the girl vanished and the system unlocked part of the advanced cultivation method, he escaped as the secret realm collapsed, moving closer to Great Emperor Xuantian's secret.

• Lin Wudao entered the secret realm, triggered a quest to collect three black jade fragments, and fought regenerating skeleton soldiers with lightning.
• Lin Wudao pursued a white figure carrying a fragment and opened a bronze door by using the Mystic Heaven Creation Instruction.
• Lin Wudao confronted the wounded girl guarding the fragment, and she transformed into a three-headed, six-armed ghost and attacked him.
• Lin Wudao and the girl worked together to destroy the Spirit-Devouring Centipede's crystal core.
• The girl gave Lin Wudao the black jade fragment, revealed she had been its living sacrifice, and vanished into it.
• Lin Wudao received part of the advanced cultivation method and escaped the collapsing secret realm.

Lin Wudao entered a newly opened secret realm after the black jade fragment unlocked its barrier, then followed a map toward another fragment. He was surrounded by reanimated corpses and confronted by a masked Netherworld Sect figure demanding the fragment.

• Lin Wudao fought off three Heavenly Mysteries Sect disciples, but a golden pillar announced the opening of another secret realm and drew them away.
• The system detected that the remaining black jade fragments might emerge, and Lin Wudao used the fragment to enter a floating island secret realm.
• Lin Wudao rescued a dying rogue cultivator from monsters and received a map pointing toward a black jade fragment; the cultivator identified his attackers as the Netherworld Sect.
• Lin Wudao fought through other cultivators and followed the map to a site littered with corpses, where Netherworld Sect corpse control techniques animated the dead.
• A masked black-robed figure summoned more corpses and demanded Lin Wudao hand over the black jade fragment.

Lin Wudao defeated a Netherworld Sect protector by using the black jade fragment’s power with the Chaos Sword, then followed the fragment’s runes to the island’s core. He reached the altar and found experts from several factions gathered around the glowing third black jade fragment.

• The black-robed man trapped Lin Wudao in the Ten Thousand Corpses Devour Heaven Formation, but Lin used blood runes based on the secret realm’s murals to weaken it.
• Lin Wudao fought off the black-robed man’s attacks until the black jade fragment shattered the bone rays and empowered his Chaos Sword.
• Lin Wudao killed the black-robed man, and the system reported that he had obtained an incomplete Netherworld Hundred Ghosts Record and detected the third black jade fragment at the island’s core altar.
• Lin Wudao survived attacks from other factions on his way to the altar, where experts from the Heavenly Mysteries Sect, the Netherworld Sect, and other factions had gathered around the third fragment.

Lin Wudao fought Tianxuzi, Youmingzi, and the other factions for the black jade fragment on the altar, which was protected by the Great Emperor’s trial. After breaking free from Tianxuzi’s golden cage, he charged toward the fragment, with the outcome still unknown.

• The altar’s barrier repelled Lin Wudao, and Tianxuzi explained that only those who passed the trial could touch the fragment.
• Youmingzi summoned the Skeleton Generals, and the factions joined the battle as Lin Wudao attacked Tianxuzi and fought off Youmingzi’s assaults.
• The black jade fragment inside Lin Wudao’s robes released light that stopped Tianxuzi’s golden bell and forced Tianxuzi and Youmingzi back.
• Tianxuzi trapped Lin Wudao in a golden cage while Youmingzi and the Skeleton Generals attacked him, leaving him badly wounded.
• Lin Wudao recalled Great Emperor Xuantian’s words, circulated the advanced Cultivation Method of the Mystic Heaven Creation Instruction, and shattered the cage.
• Lin Wudao charged toward the black jade fragment with the Chaos Sword.

Lin Wudao broke through the High Antiquity Illusion Array, claimed the black jade fragments, and uncovered three Jade Slips containing Great Emperor Xuantian’s secrets. Tianxuzi and Youmingzi attacked him as the bronze-mirror world collapsed, beginning a fight over the slips.

• Lin Wudao faced an illusion of the black-robed man and overcame its attacks by embracing his corpse-based path to cultivation.
• Lin Wudao broke free of the blood-red mist and saw Tianxuzi, Youmingzi, and others trapped in their own illusions inside a bronze-mirror world.
• Lin Wudao followed the Chaos Sword’s guidance, used his blood on the mural-like patterns, and seized the black jade fragments.
• The fragments became three Jade Slips inscribed with “The Truth of the Blood Sacrifice,” “The Mystery of the Supreme Treasure,” and “The Final Battle.”
• Tianxuzi and Youmingzi demanded the Jade Slips and attacked Lin Wudao as the bronze-mirror world collapsed.

Lin Wudao revealed the truth behind the Ancient Clan’s blood sacrifice and learned that the altar’s restrictions could only be broken by uniting the three black jade fragments with three kinds of origin power. He left the bronze mirror world with the Ancient Clan’s secret techniques and resolved to carry them forward.

• Lin Wudao used the Jade Slip to reveal that the Ancient Clan had fabricated the supreme treasure and that Great Emperor Xuantian had sealed the black jade fragments to prevent further chaos.
• Youmingzi attacked Lin Wudao, and Tianxuzi and the other cultivators joined the assault, trapping him.
• The system warned Lin Wudao that the altar’s restrictions would soon become permanent unless the fragments were reunited and infused with three kinds of origin power.
• Lin Wudao showed everyone the Jade Slip’s truth and persuaded Tianxuzi, Youmingzi, and the other cultivators to work together.
• The cultivators infused the three reunited fragments with origin power, passed Great Emperor Xuantian’s final trial, and lifted the altar’s restrictions.
• Lin Wudao vowed to preserve and advance the Ancient Clan’s secret techniques.

Lin Wudao and the rival factions joined forces to destroy the Ancient Clan's guardian beast, but Youmingzi seized the black jade fragment before the Jade Void Palace intervened. Lin Wudao left the secret realm with the fragment, unaware that a consciousness within it was awakening.

• Tianxuzi and Youmingzi tried to take Lin Wudao's black jade fragment as the unstable secret realm began to collapse.
• An Ancient Clan guardian beast broke free, and Lin Wudao persuaded the factions to work together to suppress it with the fragment and their powers.
• Youmingzi attacked Lin Wudao during the assault, allowing the beast to break free and absorb the ancient restrictions.
• Lin Wudao and the others shattered the beast's forehead crystal, destroying it, but Youmingzi snatched the fragment and tried to escape.
• A Jade Void Palace stranger stopped Youmingzi, who returned the fragment to Lin Wudao before fleeing with his subordinates.
• Tianxuzi and the stranger departed, and Lin Wudao headed for the secret realm's exit as a consciousness in the fragment began to awaken.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Wudao followed the black jade fragment’s resonance to an ancient palace, where a powerful woman attacked him to seize it. Their battle escalated as Lin Wudao unleashed a powerful lightning technique.

• Tianxuzi ordered Heavenly Mysteries Sect disciples to watch for Lin Wudao and report his movements.
• Youmingzi vowed that the Netherworld Sect would settle its debt with Jade Void Palace and Lin Wudao, then sent a subordinate away with instructions.
• The mysterious man in white ordered Jade Void Palace to monitor Lin Wudao.
• After more than half a month in seclusion, Lin Wudao healed and followed the black jade fragment’s resonance to a palace buried in the desert.
• Lin Wudao entered the palace and was attacked by a woman in red robes who demanded the black jade fragment.
• Lin Wudao and the woman traded powerful attacks, and he called down countless bolts of lightning against her and her fiery phantom.

Lin Wudao defeated the woman possessed by the Flame Demon's remnant soul and obtained a mirror fragment and an incomplete cultivation scroll. As the palace collapsed, a black-flamed giant wolf emerged, while hidden observers watched Lin Wudao and his black jade fragment.

• Lin Wudao used the Chaos Sword to combine lightning and flame, destroying the Flame Demon's phantom and fighting off the woman's fiery pythons.
• The woman used the Demon-Revealing Mirror to overwhelm Lin Wudao with illusions, but the black jade fragment revealed the Ancient Clan's mural and helped him trap her and the remnant soul in a golden net.
• Lin Wudao learned the mirror had been used by the Ancient Clan to suppress evil spirits, and the woman dissolved, leaving behind the cracked mirror.
• The system rewarded Lin Wudao with an incomplete Heaven-Burning Instruction scroll and a Demon-Suppressing Mirror fragment, noting their connection to the black jade fragment.
• A voice awakened beneath the palace, and Lin Wudao escaped as a giant wolf covered in black flames burst from the ground.
• Lin Wudao noticed the wolf's crystal resembled his black jade fragment, while several unseen observers watched him from the ruined palace.

Lin Wudao battled the Thunder-Devouring Demonic Wolf while Tianxuzi and Youmingzi fought over the crystal embedded in its forehead. A mysterious man from the Jade Void Palace revealed that the wolf had held the true key to a supreme treasure from High Antiquity, leaving Lin Wudao alone with the black jade fragment and a conflict still unfolding.

• Lin Wudao used the Heaven-Burning Instruction against the Thunder-Devouring Demonic Wolf, but it swallowed his Flame Dragon Break and absorbed the flames.
• Tianxuzi arrived with two Heavenly Mysteries Sect elders and demanded Lin Wudao surrender the black jade fragment and the information inside the wolf.
• Lin Wudao activated a lightning domain that destroyed the wolf's chains and drove it toward Tianxuzi's group, then joined lightning and fire to kill it while the sword formation trapped it.
• Youmingzi seized the crystal from the wolf's forehead, but Lin Wudao and Tianxuzi attacked him until he used the Netherworld Banner to summon vengeful ghosts.
• The mysterious white-robed man from the Jade Void Palace dispersed the ghosts and revealed that the wolf had held the true key to a supreme treasure from High Antiquity, then vanished.
• Tianxuzi and Youmingzi departed, leaving Lin Wudao in the Gobi with the black jade fragment.

Lin Wudao learned that the Jade Void Palace’s Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram could lead to the Chaos Spirit Pivot, but an invasion and the release of an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon forced him to seek the diagram’s second fragment. He and the silver-haired woman set out for the dangerous Immortal Burial Valley while the mysterious man stayed behind to fight.

• Lin Wudao activated the black jade fragment and learned it was part of the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram, which could locate the Chaos Spirit Pivot.
• A Jade Void Palace disciple brought Lin Wudao to the palace, where the mysterious man explained that three fragments were needed to activate the formation.
• Youmingzi and Tianxuzi attacked the Jade Void Palace, and the mysterious man reversed the palace formation to repel them.
• A blood-red pillar revealed that the Demon-Sealing Abyss’s restrictions had been undone, releasing an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.
• The mysterious man used the black jade fragment and the Nine Heavens Exquisite Pagoda to hold off the attackers, then sent Lin Wudao and his disciple to retrieve the second fragment from Immortal Burial Valley.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao entered Immortal Burial Valley, defeated the phantom guarding the Tianxuan Star Coffin, and obtained the second Star Spirit-Guiding Formation diagram fragment. Youmingzi then confronted them as extraterritorial heavenly demons threatened the Jade Void Palace, leaving a battle about to begin.

• Lin Wudao and Su Yao fought their way through Immortal Burial Valley and destroyed a tomb-guarding Yin soldier with thunder and fire.
• Lin Wudao's black jade fragment resonated with the valley's stone steles and led him and Su Yao to the Tianxuan Star Coffin.
• A phantom attacked them for coming from the Jade Void Palace, but Lin Wudao used the black jade fragment to weaken it, and he and Su Yao destroyed its star disc.
• A jade tablet containing the second Star Spirit-Guiding Formation diagram fragment rose from the coffin.
• Youmingzi arrived with black-robed cultivators and demanded the fragment, while Lin Wudao and Su Yao prepared to fight and demons advanced on the Jade Void Palace.

Lin Wudao and Su Yao destroyed Youmingzi's Netherworld Sinister Formation, but an unknown attacker killed Youmingzi before he could reveal its secret. They recovered a complete Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram and prepared to return to Jade Void Palace, only to sense powerful presences approaching.

• Youmingzi activated the Nine Nether Soul-Devouring Formation, and Lin Wudao and Su Yao fought off its resentful spirits and poisonous mist.
• Lin Wudao joined the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram fragments and used their light to purify the mist and weaken the formation.
• Su Yao attacked the black chains with her golden dragon while Lin Wudao summoned thousands of lightning bolts, disrupting the formation.
• Lin Wudao shattered the Thunder-Devouring Demonic Wolf crystal, collapsing the formation and defeating the black-robed cultivators.
• A mysterious person stabbed Youmingzi and vanished after saying someone did not want the secret revealed.
• Lin Wudao fused the crystal fragments with the formation diagram fragments to complete the diagram, then he and Su Yao sensed powerful presences approaching.

Lin Wudao, Su Yao, Tianxuzi, and several mysterious cultivators fought the immortal corpse after it broke free in Immortal Burial Valley. Lin Wudao destroyed it with the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram and gained a memory fragment, but Tianxuzi and the other cultivators blocked his way as he hurried to the Jade Void Palace.

• The immortal corpse emerged from its seal and attacked Lin Wudao and Su Yao, while the rune between its brows resonated with the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram.
• Tianxuzi and several mysterious cultivators arrived, and they joined Lin Wudao and Su Yao in attacking the corpse, but it absorbed their strongest attacks and retaliated.
• Lin Wudao used the formation diagram to disrupt the rune, while Su Yao restrained the corpse's arm and Tianxuzi's disciples struck it with golden Sword Qi, destroying it.
• A dark-gold light from the corpse entered Lin Wudao and revealed a star-hidden palace; the system unlocked its coordinates and warned that the crisis at the Demon-Sealing Abyss was worsening.
• Lin Wudao told Su Yao they had to return to the Jade Void Palace, but Tianxuzi and the mysterious cultivators blocked their path, seeking the corpse's secrets.

Lin Wudao uncovered memories revealing that the Star Palace sealed a world-destroying evil power beneath the Demon-Sealing Abyss, whose weakening seal was causing the Demon Qi crisis. Back at the Jade Void Palace, he and the others began searching for the hidden palace while rival factions watched for a chance to seize its secrets.

• Tianxuzi demanded that Lin Wudao surrender the immortal corpse's memories, but the Jade Void Palace Holy Maiden arrived and stopped the confrontation.
• Lin Wudao's memories showed an ancient people building the Star Palace to seal an evil power, with the Demon-Sealing Abyss as the seal's weak point.
• Lin Wudao collapsed from the strain of the memories and awoke at the Jade Void Palace, where he explained what he had learned.
• True Person Baixuan ordered the Holy Maiden to study the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram, Lin Wudao to search his memories for clues, and Su Yao to protect him.
• Lin Wudao secluded himself to study the memories as Su Yao guarded him, while the Heavenly Mysteries Sect, Yellow Springs Demon Sect, and mysterious factions watched from the shadows.

Lin Wudao uncovered the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram’s connection to the Fallen Immortal Ancient Demon as the demon awoke and attacked the Jade Void Palace. With Su Yao and the Holy Maiden’s help, he destroyed the demon’s core and obtained the Star Palace’s coordinates, but an even stronger presence stirred in the Demon-Sealing Abyss.

• Lin Wudao’s memory fragments resonated with the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram, and Yellow Springs Demon Sect death warriors ambushed him and Su Yao.
• The Holy Maiden drove back the Demon Qi, then Lin Wudao and the others rushed to the Demon-Subduing Platform after the Demon-Sealing Abyss’s seal weakened.
• True Person Baixuan identified the awakened Fallen Immortal Ancient Demon, while Lin Wudao discovered its core was linked to the Star Palace.
• Lin Wudao attacked the demon but was repelled, and Tianxuzi revealed that breaking its core formation was the only way to defeat it.
• Su Yao restrained the demon and the Holy Maiden suppressed its Demon Qi as Lin Wudao destroyed its core with the formation diagram and Chaos Sword.
• Lin Wudao received the Star Palace’s coordinates, but a stronger presence emerged from the depths of the Demon-Sealing Abyss and shook the world.

Lin Wudao and the Jade Void Palace fought to keep the Star Palace fragments from the factions and the Lord of the Devil-Sealing Abyss, whose actions triggered the Star Palace’s destruction sequence. As meteors began falling, Lin Wudao poured his spiritual power into the formation diagram to try to stop the collapse, while the Lord’s enormous hand struck toward him.

• Tianxuzi reached for the star chart fragments, but True Person Baixuan blocked him as the Ancient Witch Clan trapped the battlefield in the Blood-Devouring Dragon-Trapping Formation.
• Lin Wudao used the Star Spirit-Guiding Formation Diagram to shield the Jade Void Palace and tried to absorb the enemy formation’s power, but the backlash injured him.
• The Lord of the Devil-Sealing Abyss tore apart the Blood-Devouring Dragon-Trapping Formation and drew the star chart fragments into its enormous hand.
• Su Yao fought the Yellow Springs Demon Sect while Lin Wudao shattered their Yellow Springs Myriad Tribulations Formation with Thunder Dragon Burns the Heavens.
• The Lord activated the Star Palace’s destruction sequence, and Tianxuzi’s attack accelerated the falling meteors.
• True Person Baixuan and the Jade Void Palace disciples poured their spiritual power into the formation diagram as Lin Wudao added his own, and the Lord’s hand crashed toward him.