Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi replaced a death soldier trait, then traveled toward Mount Song while other factions debated his lifeless soldiers and suspected he was a Qi refiner from Great Qin. Yaoyue left the group to pursue Ling Yi, and she and Lianxing caught up with his carriage.

• Ling Yi chose to replace the Enhancement trait with one that ignored 20% of an enemy’s defense, then left Green Mountain Town for Mount Song with over a hundred death soldiers while others traveled ahead to gather information.
• Zhang Wuji, Zhuge Zhengwo, Ren Woxing, and the others watched Ling Yi depart and discussed his death soldiers, which Yaoyue said lacked life Qi and resembled creations made by Great Qin Qi refiners.
• Yaoyue explained that martial practitioners and Qi refiners followed incompatible paths, but admitted she coveted Ling Yi’s methods as the others prioritized securing the Innate Pill from Xiongba.
• Zhuge Zhengwo led the group toward Mount Song to meet Perfected Zhang, while Yaoyue declared that she would follow Ling Yi instead.
• Yaoyue and Lianxing flew through the treetops and caught up with Ling Yi’s carriage, where Lianxing asked why Yaoyue had told the others about Qi refiners.

Yaoyue and Lianxing followed Ling Yi toward Mount Song while speculating that his death soldiers came from a treasure, and Yaoyue discovered their explosions could injure her. Ling Yi learned that killing beasts did not increase his count, reached Dengfeng Commandery, and prepared to climb Mount Song for Shaolin’s Innate Pill.

• Yaoyue told Lianxing that Ling Yi might rely on a treasure rather than Qi-refining abilities, and the sisters continued watching him.
• Ling Yi read about the world’s natural treasures and sent his death soldiers into the mountains to test whether killing beasts increased his count, but it did not.
• Yaoyue tested the death soldiers’ explosions and found that they could hurt her despite leaving her protective True Yuan intact.
• Ling Yi spotted two veiled women following his carriage and suspected they were powerful martial artists.
• Ling Yi reached Dengfeng Commandery, obtained a temporary waist token, and planned to climb Mount Song the next day to seek Shaolin’s Innate Pill.

Ling Yi discovered that Yaoyue’s attacks increased his death soldier summon limit through Damage Transfer, then negotiated with her to help retrieve Ice Marrow Essence from the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm’s cavern. The chapter left Yaoyue striking him again so he could raise his limit further.

• Ling Yi sat with Yaoyue and Lianxing at the Yuelai Inn and let Yaoyue test his apparent invulnerability.
• Yaoyue’s attacks killed Ling Yi’s death soldiers through Damage Transfer, increasing his summon limit from 1,253 to 6,703.
• Ling Yi concluded that Damage Transfer had limits and that he needed to strengthen himself or raise his summon limit to withstand stronger foes.
• Yaoyue explained that Innate Pills would not fully cure Ling Yi’s crippled physique and offered Ice Marrow Essence as a possible remedy.
• Yaoyue asked Ling Yi to help obtain Ice Marrow Essence so she could perfect her Mingyu Gong, and Ling Yi asked her to punch him ten more times at full strength.
• Yaoyue immediately struck Ling Yi again.

Ling Yi gained the Purple Stacking trait, allowing him to conceal and deploy more than ten thousand death soldiers as one person, and learned about the powers and divisions in Great Qin and Great Ming. He set out for Mount Song to obtain the Innate Pill, leaving Yaoyue and Lianxing at the inn before heading south with them toward Dali afterward.

• After Yaoyue struck Ling Yi ten times, his summonable death soldier count exceeded ten thousand, granting him the Purple Stacking trait.
• Ling Yi explained his growth to Yaoyue and Lianxing, and they agreed to cooperate in helping him become stronger in pursuit of the Ice Marrow Essence.
• Yaoyue revealed that she and Lianxing had followed Ling Yi hoping to seize his supposed treasure, then described Great Qin’s Qi refiners and the conflict between Luowang and Great Ming’s divided Jianghu.
• Ling Yi learned that the Tianxia Society had invaded Great Ming and that several major sects had submitted, while other factions formed a fragile alliance against it.
• The next morning, Ling Yi left the inn with a death soldier made from ten thousand stacked soldiers and headed for Mount Song to obtain the Innate Pill.

Ling Yi climbed Mount Song seeking the Innate Pill and discovered the Shaolin abbot had given him a potent poison instead. After turning the poison’s lethal effect into a huge increase in summon counts, Ling Yi revealed his instant detonation attack and threatened the Shaolin monks.

• Zhuge Zhengwo and the others followed Ling Yi toward Mount Song, while Ling Yi summoned a second death soldier to make a crude stretcher and carry him uphill.
• At Mount Song’s fork, Shaolin’s old monk offered Ling Yi a porcelain bottle and told him to leave; Ling Yi swallowed the pill and realized it was poison.
• As death soldiers died from the poison, Ling Yi repeatedly summoned replacements, raising his summon count to over seventy thousand.
• Ling Yi demanded more poison and the real Innate Pill, then threatened to destroy Mount Song when the old monk refused.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his zero-frame summon, stacking, and detonation attack, killing dozens of Shaolin monks with a crimson blast and demanding the old monk hand over the goods.

Ling Yi forced Shaolin and the Mount Song Sect to surrender their treasures and gather poison for him, then set out with Yaoyue for Green Mountain Town to preserve his sister’s body. On the way, a third Ten Thousand Poisons Pill brought his death soldier summon count to one hundred thousand.

• Ling Yi threatened Shaolin until Du'e handed over ten Innate Pills and five Ten Thousand Poisons Pills, and agreed that Shaolin and the Mount Song Sect would gather poisons for him.
• Ling Yi spared the two sects but emptied their coffers, then stored their manuals, medicines, and wealth in a manor in Dengfeng Commandery.
• Ling Yi asked Yaoyue to seek out a way to revive his sister, then realized he first needed to preserve her body and asked Yaoyue to take him to Green Mountain Town.
• Yaoyue accepted three Innate Pills as payment and immediately carried Ling Yi away, leaving Lianxing at the manor with the treasure and death soldiers.
• During the journey, Ling Yi ate a third Ten Thousand Poisons Pill, which raised his death soldier summon count to one hundred thousand.

Ling Yi gained the ability to swap places with death soldiers and used it to race Yaoyue before rescuing Liu Shuang’er from disguised government troops who had slaughtered her village. At Ling Shuang’s grave, they discovered it had been opened and she was missing; Yaoyue sensed signs of life in the coffin, and Ling Yi questioned a nearby beggar for answers.

• Ling Yi gained the gold trait Swap and demonstrated his death-soldier teleportation to Yaoyue as they raced toward Green Mountain Town.
• Ling Yi killed disguised government troops who had massacred a village, then took in the sole survivor, Liu Shuang’er, and ordered death soldiers to bury the villagers.
• A masked figure found Ling Shuang’s grave, discovered a Thousand-Year Zombie Firefly Grass growing above her, and carried her away as a disciple.
• Ling Yi found Ling Shuang’s grave torn open and summoned death soldiers to search the area, while Yaoyue sensed life energy in the coffin and suggested Ling Shuang might still be alive.
• Yaoyue pulled a recently awakened beggar out of the woods so they could ask what had happened to Ling Shuang.

Ling Yi learned that his sister Ling Shuang had survived after being revived by Thousand-Year Zombie Firefly Grass, and he planned to seek the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm before attacking the Tianxia Society. After returning to Dengfeng Commandery with Yaoyue, Liu Shuang'er, and Huang Rong, he asked Huang Rong to make poison and encouraged her and Liu Shuang'er to study martial arts, while preparing to test his own ability to cultivate.

• Huang Rong told Ling Yi that a mysterious black-robed figure had taken Ling Shuang as a disciple, and Ling Yi rewarded her with an Innate Pill.
• Huang Rong explained that Zombie Firefly Grass could revive the dead but could turn them into blood-consuming zombies, and said her father was searching for it.
• Ling Yi decided to travel to Dali for the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm and later wipe out the Tianxia Society.
• Three days later, Ling Yi, Yaoyue, Liu Shuang'er, and Huang Rong returned to Dengfeng Commandery, where Huang Rong impressed everyone with her cooking.
• Ling Yi asked Huang Rong to make poison from the manor's unused ingredients and invited Liu Shuang'er and Huang Rong to choose martial arts manuals.
• Huang Rong took Liu Shuang'er to select techniques, while Ling Yi prepared to try practicing martial arts himself.

Ling Yi benefited from Huang Rong’s poison cooking and learned that rumors about him had drawn the attention of the Tianxia Society. Bu Jingyun arrived demanding the Innate Pills and for Ling Yi to return with him, and their confrontation began outside Dengfeng Commandery.

• Ling Yi practiced Vajra Indestructibility and Hundred-Step Movement, but his weak Qi and Blood made him abandon the body-refining technique.
• Huang Rong gave Ling Yi poisonous pastries that tasted delicious and sharply increased his death soldier summon count; he told her to make more.
• Yaoyue reported rumors about Ling Yi’s powers and Shaolin’s treasures, and Ling Yi discussed the Immortal Realm and the Feng Yun Domain with her.
• Bu Jingyun blasted open Ling Yi’s manor gate and demanded the Innate Pills and that Ling Yi return to the Tianxia Society.
• Ling Yi led Bu Jingyun outside the city and invited him to strike once; Bu Jingyun’s Cloud Dispelling Palm cratered the ground but left Ling Yi unharmed.

Ling Yi effortlessly defeated Bu Jingyun, spared him to send a warning to Xiongba, and drew Zhuge Zhengwo’s concern as the court’s plans against him came to light. Back at his manor, Ling Yi met Dongfang Bubai, who gave him the Sunflower Codex and agreed to provide Three Corpse Brain Spirit Pills.

• Bu Jingyun attacked Ling Yi with repeated Cloud Dispelling Palm strikes, but even his strengthened fourth form failed to harm him.
• Ling Yi blasted Bu Jingyun away, spared him, and ordered him to tell Xiongba to wait for Ling Yi to kill him.
• Zhuge Zhengwo learned that Xiongba had left Seong-kyeong and decided he needed to contact Ling Yi, whom he feared the court could no longer control.
• Ling Yi returned to find his manor gate smashed and discovered that 700 death soldier summons had been added to his total.
• Dongfang Bubai introduced himself and apologized for shooting a needle at Ling Yi; Ling Yi demanded the Sunflower Codex and the Three Corpse Brain Spirit Pill formula, and Dongfang Bubai handed over the Codex and promised to send pills.
• Ling Yi found Huang Rong making a poisonous concoction in the courtyard while Yaoyue and Lianxing were away buying medicinal ingredients.

Ling Yi learned from Dongfang Bubai that Great Ming's factions were maneuvering to control the imperial court and establish a Jianghu ruler called the Supreme. He remained focused on finding his sister and gathering intelligence on a dangerous masked man, and learned how to contact the Heavenly Secrets Gate.

• Dongfang Bubai warned Ling Yi that Xiongba was coming and explained that he could overpower even Zhang Sanfeng, while Ling Yi considered the limits of his own strength.
• Dongfang Bubai described how Great Ming's ambitious factions planned to exploit the Tianxia Society, weaken the imperial court, and eventually seize control of it under a Supreme.
• Ling Yi said he had no interest in becoming Supreme, but Dongfang Bubai warned that others would treat him as a threat or try to control him, and offered her support if he sought the position.
• Ling Yi asked how to find information about a dangerous figure who might be a powerful Land Immortal, and Dongfang Bubai told him to write “Heavenly Secrets” at his entrance to attract the Heavenly Secrets Gate.
• Dongfang Bubai gave Ling Yi a Sun Moon Sect token that let him command its local disciples through the sect's pleasure houses.

Ling Yi rejected Shangguan Haitang and Zhuge Zhengwo’s attempts to recruit him, then prepared to leave for Dali with the women. Before they set out, a Heavenly Secrets Gate agent revealed that Di Shitian had taken Ling Shuang and had vanished after being badly wounded by the Qin Emperor.

• Shangguan Haitang invited Ling Yi to join the Dragon Guarding Manor, but he refused and she left.
• Zhuge Zhengwo asked Ling Yi about Great Ming’s Jianghu and recruiting him to the Divine Constabulary, but Ling Yi declared he would join no faction and warned others not to provoke him.
• Ling Yi spent half a month having Huang Rong make more than ten thousand poisonous candy balls and announced that the group would leave for Dali the next morning.
• Ling Yi explained that his cultivation had reached Body Refining Great Perfection and strengthened his death soldiers, bringing their total close to one million.
• A Heavenly Secrets Gate agent told Ling Yi that Di Shitian had taken Ling Shuang and was last seen in Xianyang after the Qin Emperor severely wounded him; the agent offered the information in exchange for a favor.

Ling Yi learned that Ling Shuang was with Di Shitian and unlocked the rainbow-grade Death Realm, which let him store vast numbers of death soldiers and inanimate objects. He set out for Dali with Yaoyue, Lianxing, and Huang Rong after putting away the manor, while Zhuge Zhengwo and a masked watcher reacted to his growing power.

• Ling Yi asked the Heavenly Secrets Gate to track Di Shitian and help him find Ling Shuang, promising a greater reward.
• After his death soldiers reached one million, Ling Yi unlocked the Death Realm and realized it could store up to one hundred million death soldiers beyond the reach of outside hazards.
• Huang Rong rushed into Ling Yi's room, and he explained that he had stored the manor's contents while admitting the Sunflower Codex's side effects had left him unusually vigorous.
• Ling Yi stored the entire manor in the Death Realm, then departed for Dali with Yaoyue, Lianxing, and Huang Rong in his motorhome carriage.
• Zhuge Zhengwo sent Iron Hand and Emotionless to keep following Ling Yi before returning to Seong-kyeong, while a masked figure appeared at the empty manor site and coveted Ling Yi's opportunity.

Zhu Wushi and other factions maneuvered around Ling Yi as he traveled toward Dali, where nearly a thousand Jianghu fighters ambushed him for an alleged immortal treasure. Ling Yi sent endless death warriors against them, trapping the attackers as their strength began to fail.

• A green-robed young master learned that Ling Yi was heading to Mount Wuliang and redirected his convoy south, hoping to recruit Ling Yi for his plans.
• Zhu Wushi told Zhuge Zhengwo that the court had sent Cao Zhengchun, Yu Huatian, the Brocade Guards, and the Mystic Guard Department south to confront Ling Yi and Xiongba.
• Zhuge Zhengwo worried that Seong-kyeong had been left with weak defenses and set out to seek help from the Six Fan School.
• Nearly a thousand Jianghu fighters surrounded Ling Yi’s carriage in a valley and demanded that he hand over an alleged immortal treasure.
• Ling Yi summoned death warriors and ordered them to attack while Yaoyue protected the carriage.
• The Jianghu fighters initially killed the death warriors in large numbers, but endless replacements exhausted them and blocked their retreat.

Ling Yi defeated Xiongba’s forces and the imperial troops with his seemingly endless death warriors, then spared Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun and traveled to the Dali Kingdom with his companions. As word of his power spread across the realms, an old man named Deng Baichuan arrived at their inn with a request from his young master.

• Ling Yi’s death warriors exhausted the Tianxia Society’s fighters, including Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, Qin Shuang, and the disguised Xiongba.
• Ling Yi absorbed Xiongba’s strongest attack, killed Qin Shuang and Xiongba, and ordered Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to leave Great Ming with the Tianxia Society’s survivors.
• When troops from the Eastern Depot, Western Depot, and Brocade Guard attacked, Ling Yi summoned a hundred thousand death warriors and ordered them to kill everyone.
• Ling Yi and the three women reached the Dali Kingdom two days later, while news of his victory spread throughout Great Ming and beyond.
• At the Yuelai Inn, Deng Baichuan appeared and told Ling Yi that his young master wanted to meet him.

Ling Yi met Murong Fu at Swallow Cove, where Murong Fu sought to trade ice marrow and a promise to restore his nation for the three women. Ling Yi left the deal conditional on Murong Fu sending them before his departure the next morning, then returned toward his manor while reconsidering his proposed plan.

• Deng Baichuan brought Ling Yi to meet Murong Fu, while Yaoyue took Huang Rong and the others shopping for supplies.
• Ling Yi saw Wang Yuyan, A Zhu, and A Bi, then spoke with Murong Fu about his battle at Wild Buffalo Valley.
• Murong Fu offered to trade for ice marrow, and Ling Yi demanded A Zhu, A Bi, and Wang Yuyan in exchange for ice marrow and a guaranteed method to restore Murong Fu's nation.
• Murong Fu agreed in principle, and Ling Yi said he would leave Dali the next morning; Murong Fu privately worried that Ling Yi might break his promise.
• Deng Baichuan told Murong Fu that a huge manor had appeared outside Dali City, and Murong Fu considered using the women to learn Ling Yi's secrets.
• Ling Yi realized that Radiant Water Country was stronger in this world than he had assumed, then left Dali City and smelled hot pot near his manor.

Ling Yi learned that his sister Ling Shuang had become a powerful zombie and that he needed azure dragon blood to save her, while the Heavenly Secrets Gate revealed the secrets of the Qin Emperor, the Heavenly Pearl, and Xu Fu. He entered Mount Wuliang Poison Valley alone to reach the ice cavern, where an enormous crimson creature appeared before him.

• Ling Yi discussed Murong Fu’s deal and Duan Zhengchun’s romantic history with Huang Rong, Lianxing, and Yaoyue.
• A messenger from the Heavenly Secrets Gate reported that Di Shitian had taken Ling Shuang to the Feng Yun Domain and that azure dragon blood could restore her before she became a drought demon.
• The messenger explained that the Heavenly Pearl had granted the Qin Emperor an eight-thousand-year life, and that Xu Fu sought to destroy it after stealing Phoenix Blood.
• Ling Yi sent Yaoyue to take Wang Yuyan, A Zhu, and A Bi to meet Duan Zhengchun, then left alone for the ice cavern in Mount Wuliang Poison Valley.
• Ling Yi entered the poisonous miasma, where his death soldiers began dying in increasing numbers, and an enormous crimson figure appeared before him.

Ling Yi explored deeper into the icy cavern, found and collected thousands of pieces of ice marrow, and reached ten million death soldier summons. A new eighth trait, rainbow Sharing, unlocked, and a roaring creature approached as Ling Yi tried to understand the trait.

• Ling Yi escaped the Vermilion Toad and entered an icy cave, where freezing temperatures rapidly consumed his death soldiers.
• Ling Yi passed thousands of frozen martial artists and discovered a vast chamber filled with ice marrow.
• Ling Yi ate ice marrow and felt his constitution improve, but cultivating the Sunflower Codex still produced no internal power.
• Ling Yi collected thousands of pieces of ice marrow and continued deeper into the cavern as the temperature and death soldier consumption rose.
• Ling Yi reached ten million summons, replaced his green Self-Destruct trait with the red version, and unlocked rainbow Sharing.
• A beast-like roar sounded nearby and grew louder as Ling Yi considered how Sharing might work.

Ling Yi survived a deadly freezing blast, replenished his death soldiers, and reached the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm at the cavern’s center. A frozen woman named Bai Suzhen asked him to help free her, and her claim that Bu Jingyun was her father left Ling Yi identifying her as a powerful figure from the Fengyun world.

• A freezing wind swept through the cavern and killed 800,000 of Ling Yi’s death soldiers, nearly killing him as well.
• Ling Yi summoned more death soldiers and discovered that the cavern had become less deadly after the wind passed, though its cold still threatened them.
• Ling Yi reached the cavern’s end and found a Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Silkworm whose intense chill rapidly consumed millions of death soldiers.
• A woman’s voice spoke in Ling Yi’s mind and told him that he could safely take the silkworm by entering its ice platform.
• Ling Yi found the woman frozen behind the platform, and she identified herself as Bai Suzhen, trapped there for four hundred years.
• When Ling Yi asked whether she knew Bu Jingyun, Bai Suzhen said that he was her father, leading Ling Yi to recognize which version of her he had encountered.

Ling Yi met Bai Suzhen, who offered him the God Stone if he freed her from the ice cavern, but he asked for a month to prepare because he did not trust her. He used the cavern’s deadly Ice Qi to grind his death-soldier summon count, unlocking new traits and advancing the soldiers’ levels, while Bai Suzhen watched in confusion.

• Bai Suzhen told Ling Yi that Xu Xian had wounded her and offered him the God Stone in exchange for freeing her.
• Ling Yi said he needed a month before rescuing Bai Suzhen because he did not trust her, and she agreed to wait.
• Ling Yi repeatedly approached and retreated from the ice platform, letting the Ice Qi consume his death soldiers so he could increase his summon count.
• Ling Yi unlocked the Map trait at 100 million summons and the Revive trait at one billion summons.
• Ling Yi’s death soldiers advanced to level two and then level three, gaining strength as their summonable numbers fell.
• Bai Suzhen asked Ling Yi what he was doing as he continued grinding his summon count near the ice platform.