Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi separated from Li Xuan in the City of Ruins, then killed the Murong Family pursuers who tried to stop him before entering the Ancient Battlefield to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. The chapter revealed that Murong Haoyue was possessed by an ancient soul seeking power, and that the Soul Tree Seed—not the fruit—controlled the Nine Great Curse Spirits and the Curse Realm.

• A City of Ruins patrol recognized Li Xuan as Li Xiaozi and reported her appearance to the Situ Family Clan.
• Ling Yi gave Li Xuan a bracelet containing a thousand curse treasures and sent her away with a Translocation Curse so she could escape the clans pursuing her.
• Murong Family members surrounded Ling Yi at the city gates, but he killed them with his Fire Curse and a thousand curse treasures, then returned to the hotel.
• Ling Yi left the City of Ruins and entered the Ancient Battlefield as the three great family clans mobilized to keep him from reaching Soul Valley and the Realm Soul Fruit.
• Murong Haoyue traveled from the Curse Realm to Dafeng City, while the chapter revealed that an ancient shattered soul had taken over his body and sought life force and soul power.
• The chapter revealed that the Realm Soul Fruit had become nine powerful curse spirits, while the Soul Tree Seed held authority over them and the Curse Realm; the border Soul Mist began to dissipate.

Ling Yi reached Soul Valley seeking a Realm Soul Fruit to repair Li Yue’s soul, but discovered that the fruits were actually intelligent Curse Spirits. After isolating them with the Yuan Realm Curse, he used its power to attack the spirits and prepared to force them to help.

• Ling Yi crossed the ancient battlefield, fought off Soul Devourer Demons, and immobilized others as he traveled toward Soul Valley.
• Ling Yi spent nearly ten days sealing Soul Valley’s entrance with a powerful formation before entering and finding nine green fruits on a strange Soul Tree.
• Ling Yi used the Yuan Realm Curse to isolate the Soul Tree, causing it to wither and its fruits to ripen, but the tree shattered and the fruits became nine intelligent Curse Spirits.
• Ling Yi summoned Li Yue and demanded that the Curse Spirits repair her soul, but they mocked him and absorbed his curse seals.
• Ling Yi discovered that he could damage the Curse Spirits by changing the rules within his small world, then snapped his fingers to attack them all.

Ling Yi left Soul Valley with Li Yue and the nine curse spirits as immortal cultivators and curse practitioners fought across the Curse Realm and into the Mortal Realm. After sealing the Gate of the Curse Realm, he found Dafeng City destroyed, met the Heavenly Dao, and regained his sealed memories and strength; he then sent Li Daoyuan back into the Curse Realm.

• Li Yue woke with her memories of Ling Yi erased, and Ling Yi explained her condition while deciding to let her return to an ordinary life.
• The soul mist cleared, allowing ancient immortal cultivators to emerge into the Curse Realm and clash with its curse practitioners.
• Ling Yi and Li Yue left Soul Valley with the nine curse spirits, and Ling Yi sealed the Gate of the Curse Realm after reaching it amid the fighting.
• Ling Yi and Li Yue returned to devastated Dafeng City, where the Heavenly Dao restored the city and its dead and sent Li Yue home to her parents.
• The Heavenly Dao unsealed Ling Yi's memories and strength, and Ling Yi sent Li Daoyuan, who had possessed Murong Haoyue, into the Curse Realm.

Ling Yi began another transmigration to build popularity and karmic fortune for the Ling Realm, then entered the Heavenly Origin Continent as a sixteen-year-old who chose mercenary work after persecution cut off his future at school. After activating the Blood Shadow System, he left Cloud and Mist City to hunt, while Bai Hongjiang ordered White City to keep watch on him.

• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing planned to gather enough karmic fortune to let readers enter the Ling Realm through dreams, and Ling Yi adjusted his transmigration aura so his hidden consciousness clone could choose new auras.
• After enduring years of humiliation caused by White City, Ling Yi left school and told Xiao Bo he would become a mercenary to seek a chance to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi registered with the Mercenary Guild, received a novice badge and mercenary phone, and activated the Blood Shadow System, which let him summon defeated beings as loyal Blood Shadows.
• Bai Hongjiang learned that Ling Yi had become a mercenary and warned White City to monitor him without provoking him, especially if Ling Yi contacted Situ Yun's people.
• Ling Yi accepted a beginner hunting mission, took an alloy shortsword, and left Cloud and Mist City for the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range.

Ling Yi hunted a Thorn Poison Vine in Poison Vine Forest, summoned it as a Blood Shadow, and upgraded the system as it devoured more vines. With a third-rank Blood Shadow and a second summon slot, he considered what more lethal beast to hunt next.

• Ling Yi entered Poison Vine Forest with a speaker emitting infrasound and cautiously killed an immobilized initial-stage Thorn Poison Vine.
• Ling Yi summoned the vine as a Blood Shadow, which became a first-rank magical beast and began hunting and devouring other Thorn Poison Vines.
• The Blood Shadow advanced to the second rank, and Ling Yi gathered enough Hunting Points to upgrade the system to level two.
• The upgrade raised the Blood Shadows’ strength multiplier to four and advanced Ling Yi’s Thorn Poison Vine to the third rank, granting it Shadow Walk.
• Ling Yi decided the stealth-focused Thorn Poison Vine lacked killing power and considered which more lethal beast to summon in his new slot.

Ling Yi upgraded his Blood Shadow System by hunting in the Poison Vine Forest and Bloodthirsty Swamp, gaining powerful Blood Shadows and reaching the peak Martial Venerable realm. As hurried footsteps approached, he hid in a tree after concealing himself and dismissing his Blood Shadows.

• Ling Yi advanced his Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine to the fourth tier, then rode inside its protective vine cocoon to the Bloodthirsty Swamp.
• The Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine killed swarms of Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes, earning Hunting Points and allowing Ling Yi to summon a third-tier Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquito.
• Ling Yi used his available summons to create three Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Mosquitoes, which joined the Thorn Poison Vine in hunting through the swamp.
• Ling Yi upgraded the system to level 5, raising his Blood Shadows to the fifth tier and unlocking Blood Shadow Sharing and his attribute panel.
• Ling Yi reached the peak Martial Venerable realm, then concealed himself in a tree after hearing hurried footsteps and putting away his Blood Shadows.

Ling Yi killed Fourth Master Guo and the Blood Demon Sect-affiliated soldiers pursuing Zhao Zhenghai, then summoned Guo Ming as a Blood Shadow and learned more about Bai Hongjiang’s influence in Cloud and Mist City. After sending Guo Ming back to spy, Ling Yi returned to the city and decided to resume school and apply to a martial academy.

• Zhao Zhenghai, Wang Sheng, and Wang Ping fled into the Bloodthirsty Swamp, where Fourth Master Guo and over twenty Blood Demon Apostles cornered them.
• Ling Yi, concealed nearby, killed Fourth Master Guo and the soldiers, allowing Zhao Zhenghai and the two Wang brothers to escape.
• Ling Yi summoned Fourth Zhao as a Blood Shadow, ordered the Thorn Poison Vine to hide the corpses, and discovered that Guo Ming retained his memories.
• Guo Ming told Ling Yi that Bai Hongjiang had powerful allies, and Ling Yi ordered him to return and report on Bai Hongjiang and his son.
• Ling Yi sent his Blood Shadows hunting, collected a first-tier magical beast core, and updated his mercenary record.
• Ling Yi researched martial academies and decided to return to school, take the college entrance examination, and apply to one.

Ling Yi revealed his five-element Dao Master talent to his abusive teacher and classmates, making them fear the consequences of their past treatment of him. After learning Xiao Bo had left the city and checking his system, Ling Yi discovered his displayed realm was Martial Saint Realm, stage one.

• Ling Yi tested at the Mercenary Guild and learned he had Dao Master affinity for all five elements, including level-nine metal affinity, but did not apply to the Dao Master Association.
• Ling Yi returned to school, showed Jin Shiren his talent report, and announced his Dao Master talent to the class, leaving Jin and his classmates terrified.
• Ling Yi asked where Xiao Bo was, and Jin Shiren said Xiao Bo's family had left Cloud and Mist City with his maternal grandfather; Ling Yi then found Xiao Bo's email warning him to be careful.
• Ling Yi checked the Blood Shadow System and saw that his tier-six Blood Shadows had gained new abilities, including flight and a spatial void skill.
• Ling Yi postponed upgrading the system and questioned why his attribute panel listed his realm as Martial Saint Realm, stage one.

Ling Yi learned about the cultivation realms and discovered that Bai Hongjiang was accelerating a plan involving the Blood Demon Sect and an attack by the Thunder Demon Apes. After Guo Ming destroyed Cloud and Mist City's teleportation formation, Ling Yi left the city and set out to uncover Bai Hongjiang's hidden moves.

• Ling Yi discovered that his mercenary status had become that of an elite mercenary rising star and studied the differences between Spiritual Warriors, Genki Warriors, Dao Masters, magical beasts, and Blood Demons.
• Ling Yi made Jin Shiren treat Wang Bin equally in class, while Bai Hongjiang decided to activate the Blood Refining Grand Formation and ordered Guo Ming to destroy Cloud and Mist City's teleportation formation.
• The king of the Thunder Demon Apes ordered his army to march on Cloud and Mist City in half a month.
• Ling Yi arranged to leave the city, and Guo Ming destroyed the teleportation formation during explosions and fighting in the central district.
• Guo Ming warned Ling Yi that Bai Hongjiang intended to destroy Cloud and Mist City by involving the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, then gave Ling Yi a formation-pattern key to pass through the city's defenses.
• Ling Yi told Guo Ming to prepare to advance to Martial Saint and flew out of Cloud and Mist City.

After upgrading the Blood Shadow System to level 10, Ling Yi gained new sharing and deployment features and led his Blood Shadows deeper into the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range to hunt for powerful creatures. He discovered an armed Thunder Demon Ape army linked to Cloud and Mist City’s defense troops, then launched an attack on its leader.

• Ling Yi’s Thorn Poison Vine and Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes used their new clone abilities to slaughter Fire-Patterned Giant Pythons while his Blood Shadow System reached level 10.
• Ling Yi reviewed the system’s new Blood Shadow Sharing and Blood Shadow Deployment features and recognized his growing strength, though he still wanted ranged attacks and area-of-effect skills.
• Ling Yi chose Thunder Demon Apes for their lightning abilities and Frost Azure Pythons as a possible mount, then flew toward the apes’ territory.
• Ling Yi found at least ten thousand armored Thunder Demon Apes carrying equipment matching Cloud and Mist City’s defense troops, and suspected Bai Hongjiang and his son had made a deal with them.
• Ling Yi approached the Thunder Demon Ape leader while invisible and in Void, then sent a Thorn Poison Vine and three Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes to attack it.

Ling Yi killed the Thunder Demon Ape leader and summoned him as a Blood Shadow, whose strength reached Beyond-Boundary Level and whose arrival drew the attention of a mysterious voice in a black vortex. After learning about the alliance between the magical beasts and the Blood Demon Sect, Ling Yi ordered the beasts to unite and destroy the sect, then headed into Cloud and Mist City.

• Ling Yi's Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine and three Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes overcame the Thunder Demon Ape leader, drained his blood, and killed him.
• Ling Yi summoned the Thunder Demon Ape leader, whose 1,024-fold increase brought him to Beyond-Boundary Level and also raised Ling Yi to that realm.
• A black vortex appeared above the stone palace, and a voice spoke of a Boundary Breaking being, boundary soldiers, and sealing the world before the vortex disappeared.
• The Thunder Demon Ape told Ling Yi that the magical beasts traded with the Blood Demon Sect, which planned to use a Blood Refining Grand Formation to harvest human blood essence during the beasts' attack.
• Ling Yi ordered the Thunder Demon Ape to unite the magical beast territories, gather Hunting Points, and wipe out the Blood Demon Sect, then went invisible and entered Cloud and Mist City.

Ling Yi returned to school and prepared for the college entrance exam while Cloud and Mist City faced Blood Demon and magical beast threats. He agreed to team up with Mo Yumeng for the trial, and the chapter ended as he found her transformed into a dazzling beauty on the class bus.

• Situ Yun and seven other Martial Saint Realm experts searched Cloud and Mist City for Blood Demon People, while a magical beast army blocked outside aid.
• Jin Shiren explained the three college entrance exam assessments, and Ling Yi suspected Bai Hongjiang planned to attack him during the trial.
• Ling Yi finished the written exam early, encountered Bai Cheng, and agreed to team up with Mo Yumeng after noticing her divine sense and unusual confidence.
• Bai Hongjiang warned Bai Cheng to stay away from Ling Yi during the livestreamed trial and revealed that the released Pure Demon People would attack indiscriminately.
• Ling Yi boarded his class bus the next morning and was astonished to see Mo Yumeng dressed and looking strikingly different.

Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng entered the trial at Blackwater Valley as the city’s leaders watched from outside. The trial began with Bai Cheng’s sudden death, leaving Bai Hongjiang wailing over his son.

• Ling Yi questioned Mo Yumeng about joining him, learned she was a sixth-grade Dao master, and deduced that she faced a life-and-death calamity in Cloud and Mist City.
• The students arrived at Blackwater Valley, where Cheng Yun and Sun Cheng urged Ling Yi to stay safe and gave him a defensive talisman.
• Situ Yun announced the start of the trial, and the students entered Blackwater Valley while Bai Hongjiang asked the Formation Mark Bureau to activate the protective formation.
• Bai Cheng headed toward Ling Yi, stumbled after colliding with another student, and fell onto a dead branch that pierced his head.
• Bai Hongjiang saw Bai Cheng’s death on the projection screen and cried out in grief.

Ling Yi learned that Mo Yumeng was facing a certain-death tribulation and watched her use Dao Master techniques as they reached Blackwater Lake, where he sensed something unusual. Outside the valley, Mo Yumeng's revealed identity as a high-grade Dao Master alarmed the officials and made Bai Hongjiang fear that his Blood Demon identity and plans had been exposed.

• Bai Cheng died during the trial, and Bai Hongjiang was stopped from entering Blackwater Valley by Situ Yun and Sun Cheng.
• Mo Yumeng told Ling Yi that she had three hours left because she bore the tribulation of nine deaths and one life, a certain-death tribulation that required her to die before a chance of survival appeared.
• Mo Yumeng used Dao Master techniques to kill Vine Wolves and explained her spiritual-sense abilities as she and Ling Yi traveled deeper into Blackwater Valley.
• At Blackwater Lake, Mo Yumeng warned Ling Yi that Blood Demons were approaching and had run out of divine power, while Ling Yi became intrigued by the lake and sensed something unusual.
• The observers learned that Mo Yumeng was a high-grade Dao Master, and Situ Yun demanded an explanation from Principal Lu Ming and Jin Shiren.
• Bai Hongjiang feared Mo Yumeng and Ling Yi had discovered his Blood Demon identity, then left as Jin Shiren revealed that Mo Yumeng had missed her first-year talent testing period.

Ling Yi used Blood Shadow Guo Ming to kill Bai Hongjiang and stop the Blood Demon Sect’s plot, then transformed Mo Yumeng into a Blood Shadow to save her from her certain-death tribulation. With Cloud and Mist City’s crisis turning in their favor, Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng prepared to return to the city.

• Situ Yun learned that the Blood Demon Sect had infiltrated Cloud and Mist City and sent the Martial Saints back to confront the uprising.
• Bai Hongjiang ordered his followers to kill Jin Shiren and the others, but Guo Ming revealed himself as Blood Shadow Guo Ming and killed Bai Hongjiang.
• Ling Yi summoned Mo Yumeng as a Blood Shadow after killing her, raising her power and breaking her certain-death tribulation.
• Mo Yumeng discovered that she could use the Heavenly Deduction Technique to read others’ karma, while her own karma remained concealed.
• Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng decided to leave Blackwater Lake’s sealed demonic beast undisturbed and return to Cloud and Mist City.

Ling Yi returned to Cloud and Mist City with Mo Yumeng and the other trial students, then secured a place at Qingwu Military Academy, a manor, and access to city information in exchange for helping Situ Yun avoid blame. He searched for ways to break the boundary and ascend while strengthening his Blood Shadow squad, and ended the chapter with enough Hunting Points to upgrade the system to level 15.

• Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng drove back to Cloud and Mist City, and the surviving trial students followed in the remaining vehicles.
• Situ Yun asked Ling Yi and Mo Yumeng to stay, and Ling Yi agreed to support his account of a rescue in exchange for academy enrollment, a quiet home, and access to core information.
• Situ Yun gave Ling Yi Bai Hongjiang's manor villa, and Ling Yi settled in while planning to research ascension before a boundary soldier could find him.
• After Cloud and Mist City's network was restored, Ling Yi searched online for information about breaking the boundary and ascending but found only speculation.
• Ling Yi's Blood Shadow squad unified the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, killing magical beasts that refused to submit and driving more than thirty kinds to extinction.
• Ling Yi accumulated enough Hunting Points to reach system level 15, with 710,000 points remaining and his realm listed as a Beyond-Boundary Level Martial God.

Ling Yi learned that the repaired teleportation array would let him and Situ Yun travel to the Qingyun Imperial Capital, and assigned Blood Shadow Guo Ming to support Situ Yun as he took charge of the Demon-Sweeping Bureau. Meanwhile, Mo Yumeng celebrated overcoming her tribulation with Mo Yanran, who planned to arrive the next day and travel with her to the capital.

• Ling Yi read news about Situ Yun's success against the Blood Demon Sect and Mo Yumeng becoming a sixth-grade Uncanny Dao Master.
• Situ Yun told Ling Yi that the teleportation array had been partly repaired and that they needed to leave for the Qingyun Imperial Capital within three days; he had also been appointed director of the new Demon-Sweeping Bureau.
• Ling Yi entrusted Blood Shadow Guo Ming, introduced as Ying Yi, to Situ Yun and promised that his powerful guardian would help the bureau and protect Situ Yun.
• Situ Yun asked Ying Yi whether he could defeat Martial Gods and sense blood demons, and Ying Yi answered yes, prompting Situ Yun to see the appointment as an opportunity.
• Mo Yanran congratulated Mo Yumeng on overcoming her tribulation and said she would arrive in Cloud and Mist City the next day so they could travel to the imperial capital together.

Ling Yi and the others set out for Muyuan City, but their teleportation array overloaded and scattered them across the Pastoral God Plain. As the separated groups tried to cross the dangerous grassland, Ying Yi revealed his overwhelming power by destroying a huge pack of Cloud-Patterned Leopards.

• Situ Yun dismissed Murong Feng's warning about magical beasts as the party prepared to use the teleportation array to reach Muyuan City.
• The overloaded array scattered the travelers, leaving Ling Yi with Mo Yanran while Mo Yumeng and the others appeared far away.
• Ling Yi used his Blood Shadows' shared vision to confirm that Mo Yumeng and the separated group with Situ Yun were safe, and both groups chose to head west across the Pastoral God Plain.
• Situ Yun, Murong Feng, and Ying Yi encountered thousands of Cloud-Patterned Leopards, including an eighth-tier leader.
• Ying Yi unleashed a pillar of lightning that wiped out the leopard pack, shocking Situ Yun and Murong Feng.

Ling Yi subdued a Blazing Fire Qilin and gave its Soul Contract to Mo Yanran before they rode west toward Muyuan City. The Qilin revealed that magical beasts from several regions were massing to attack the city, and the group stopped before the vast army as Mo Yanran urged it to help.

• Ling Yi asked the Blazing Fire Qilin to become his mount, then beat it until it submitted and offered its Soul Contract.
• Ling Yi had Mo Yanran sign the contract, and the two rode west on the Qilin.
• The Blazing Fire Qilin told Mo Yanran that magical beasts from the Pastoral God Plain, Blazing Fire Mountain Range, and Gale Valley were converging on Muyuan City.
• Mo Yanran suspected the Blood Demon Sect had concealed the invasion and urged the Qilin to hurry toward the border.
• Ling Yi pointed out that the army blocked their way and suggested waiting for an opportunity; the Qilin refused to help because other beasts had seen it become a human's mount.

Ling Yi and Mo Yanran watched Muyuan City defend itself against a massive magical beast army, while Ying Yi prepared to move with his companions. The city’s defenses were overwhelmed by high-tier beasts, and Ying Yi led his group forward with eighteen clones.

• Ling Yi reassured Mo Yanran about Mo Yumeng, while Mo Yumeng’s group met Guo Ming’s Blood Shadow party and hid with them.
• Murong Feng asked to join the Demon-Sweeping Bureau, and Ying Yi told the group to enter the pass the following afternoon.
• Muyuan City used spikes, autocannons, missiles, and a vast formation to slaughter waves of magical beasts, but the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Bat destroyed the formation’s jade pieces.
• Ling Yi and Mo Yanran watched from a mountain as the magical beast army reached the city wall again.
• Ying Yi summoned eighteen clones, surrounded Murong Feng, Situ Yun, and the others, and ordered everyone to go.