Chapter Summaries

Fang Guangjun and his group joined the Feng Lineage in a noon assault against the Underworld ghost creatures, helping turn the battle in their favor. The Feng Lineage captured or killed most of the attackers, though one powerful ghost escaped, and Li Yan noticed the strength and true nature of Feng Tao’s magic treasure.

• Fang Guangjun’s group received the Feng Lineage’s plan and waited until noon to launch a pincer attack.
• Li Yan drew one ghost creature away while Tang Tian, Wu Yizhen, Tian Denghu, and the Feng Lineage cultivators fought across the battlefield.
• Feng Tao gave her ancestor a jet-black nail, which he used to destroy two Foundation Establishment ghost creatures.
• The lanky soul-form ghost fled after sensing the nail, and the Feng Lineage ancestor pursued her while the other ghost creatures were mostly killed or captured.
• The Feng Lineage welcomed Fang Guangjun’s group into its fortress, where Feng Tao was speaking with a young cultivator near Foundation Establishment.

Li Yan ignored Tang Tian's attempt to renegotiate Feng Tao's reward and followed the group to the Feng Lineage castle. After its ancestor and Third Patriarch gathered everyone, the ancestor announced compensation for the families of disciples killed in the ghost attack.

• Tang Tian urged Zhang Ming to take fewer spirit stones from Feng Tao, but Li Yan replied that he would accept only the agreed reward.
• Tian Denghu rushed toward Feng Tao, and Fang Guangjun rebuked him for failing to show respect to the Feng Lineage elders.
• Feng Tao introduced Li Yan to her father, Feng Zaiyu, while privately doubting that Zhang Ming deserved access to the Shattered Star Chamber.
• A swift, thin middle-aged man entered the hall and was greeted by the Feng Lineage disciples as their Third Patriarch.
• The Feng Lineage ancestor announced that each family who lost a member would receive five additional spirit stones per month for ten years.

The Feng Lineage's Old Ancestor rewarded those who had contributed to the battle and announced plans to clear the Yin Tomb with Elder Fang's help. Feng Zaiyu realized the expanded tomb could let the Lineage produce more Ghost Baleful Intent Pearls, a secret source of wealth.

• The Feng Lineage's Old Ancestor promised monthly spirit-stone payments to the families of the fallen and one month in the Yin Tomb for outstanding disciples.
• The Old Ancestor said he would personally verify all claims and prevent branches from taking or reallocating individual rewards.
• The Old Ancestor announced that Elder Fang would help clear the tombs of three Netherworld ghost creatures in the Yin Tomb.
• Feng Zaiyu realized the Lineage planned to expand the Yin Tomb's range and use its Yin qi to condense more Ghost Baleful Intent Pearls.
• Li Yan learned that the Feng Lineage secretly sold the rare pearls, which were valuable to cultivators, alchemists, and artifact refiners.

The Feng Lineage prepared to clear the yin burial grounds and secretly arranged with Fang Guangjun to capture an early Foundation Establishment ghost creature alive. Tang Tian pressured Li Yan to join the expedition, while Li Yan refused, and Tian Denghu told Feng Tao that the other disciples would go with her.

• The Feng Lineage ancestor explained the burial grounds’ resources and assigned disciples to clear the area behind the mountain.
• The Feng Lineage ancestor and Fang Guangjun agreed that the Feng Lineage would pay Fang Guangjun three hundred spirit stones to help capture a ghost creature alive.
• Fang Guangjun told the Falling Star Valley disciples they could wait behind or join the expedition without extra compensation from the Feng Lineage.
• Tang Tian, Wu Yizhen, and Tian Denghu chose to join the expedition, but Li Yan declined, saying he preferred to become an artifact refiner.
• Tang Tian accused Li Yan of taking Feng Tao’s spirit stones without contributing and pressured him to help finish the Feng Lineage’s task.
• Feng Tao apologized for the delay, and Tian Denghu told her that he and the others had already decided to join the expedition.

Li Yan and the other Falling Star Valley cultivators agreed to help the Feng Lineage enter its yin tombs after the Feng ancestor promised they could keep anything they found. The group descended into a vast underground maze, where Feng Zaiyu explained that dangerous ghostly creatures were sealed inside its many tomb chambers.

• Li Yan asked Feng Tao whether the Feng Lineage would let the visitors keep anything they found, and the Feng ancestor promised them both their gains and compensation for helping.
• Li Yan joined the expedition because he had sensed a fleeting trace of killing intent and wanted to discover whom it targeted.
• The Feng ancestor used a skullcap-like object to open a passage through the mist, and more than forty people entered the underground tomb complex.
• Tang Tian and the other Falling Star Valley cultivators saw the immense, eerie maze and felt its cold yin wind as they followed the Feng leaders.
• The Feng ancestor warned the outsiders to stay on the main path, and Feng Zaiyu explained that side paths led to thousands of tomb chambers where stronger ghostly creatures were sealed.

Tang Tian and the others crossed the Feng Lineage’s underground tomb labyrinth, where Feng Zaiyu explained how its ghosts and sealed tombs worked. The Feng Lineage ancestor led them to an exit near two nests of slain Foundation Establishment Realm ghosts and split the group to clear them before pursuing the last escaped ghost.

• Feng Zaiyu explained that ghosts roamed the underground tombs, described how marked and ordinary tombs differed, and withheld details about the Feng Lineage’s ghost-raising methods when Tang Tian asked.
• The group traveled through the labyrinth as ghosts pursued them, but the Feng Lineage ancestor used his skull-shaped magic treasure to slow the ghosts and keep them at bay.
• The Feng Lineage ancestor led the group to a passage exit and warned that the unexplored surface beyond it lacked the protection of the Feng Lineage’s formation.
• The Feng Lineage ancestor told Fang Guangjun that they would divide their forces to clear two nests of slain Foundation Establishment Realm ghosts, then join forces against the injured ghost that had escaped.
• Fang Guangjun chose the nest outside the passage, while Feng Zaiyu selected fifteen Feng Lineage elites to accompany him and was tasked with safeguarding the Falling Star Valley cultivators.

After entering the Feng Lineage’s mass-graveyard territory, Fang Guangjun began distributing the cultivators to clear tombs and deal with ghosts. Li Yan was dropped alone into the area and walked toward a ghost as it lunged at him.

• Feng Zaiyu gathered fifteen cultivators, including four family heads, behind Fang Guangjun as the group prepared to enter the barrier.
• The Feng Lineage ancestor and his followers passed through the barrier first, followed by Fang Guangjun’s group, who emerged into a dim mass graveyard filled with yin energy and ruined tombs.
• Feng Zaiyu explained that the Feng Lineage’s cultivation techniques suited the area and warned Tang Tian’s group that the yin energy could hinder their fighting.
• Fang Guangjun ordered the cultivators to spread out, clear tombs, and leave green leaves as markers, then used his shield to drop them across the territory.
• Li Yan landed alone, spotted a vicious ghost in colorful clothes, and continued walking as it rushed at him and extended its tongue.

Li Yan escorted Zhang Ming’s vicious ghost through the graveyard while inspecting its grave and observing the other cultivators’ progress. After Fang Guangjun gathered the group at an enormous grave, he told Feng Zaiyu to hurry and begin the next step of the plan.

• Li Yan evaded a vicious ghost’s attack, subdued it, and inspected its small grave, finding a piece of jade and scattered ornaments.
• Li Yan continued through the graveyard, encountering varied low-level ghostly creatures and deliberately slowing down to make his progress appear difficult.
• Fang Guangjun cleared the graves in the other three directions while the cultivators advanced toward the graveyard’s central area.
• Fang Guangjun gathered the cultivators before an enormous grave and told them to wait.
• Fang Guangjun carried the group together through the air, and Feng Zaiyu recognized that the first stage of the clearing was complete.
• Fang Guangjun told Feng Zaiyu to hurry and begin the next step of the plan.

Feng Zaiyu explained the dangers of the central tomb, and Fang Guangjun opened its entrance before the cultivators followed him inside. Li Yan and the others entered amid a swarm of ghosts, with Tang Tian immediately attacked by a zombie.

• Feng Zaiyu warned that powerful ghosts filled the central tomb and urged the cultivators to kill quickly as they cleared it.
• Fang Guangjun opened the stone stele’s hidden door and entered first, where ghosts attacked him at once.
• Tang Tian told Wu Yizhen to stay close and stopped Tian Denghu from trying to follow Feng Tao, who entered with her father and the Feng family disciples.
• Tang Tian led Wu Yizhen, Tian Denghu, and Li Yan into the tomb after the Feng family heads entered with their groups.
• Li Yan and the others emerged into a battle-filled tomb, where a green-furred zombie sprang at Tang Tian before he could steady himself.

Li Yan and the others fought the ghosts pouring into the tomb as Tang Tian’s treasures restrained a zombie and scattered the attackers. After the battle, the survivors found a Feng Household member dead and turned their attention toward the passage where the ghosts had emerged.

• Tang Tian’s scarlet spirit rod coiled around the green-haired zombie while Wu Yizhen used her jade vase to drive ghosts away.
• Ghosts surrounded Li Yan’s group, and Tian Denghu’s retreat opened their defenses as Zhang Ming dodged two attackers with quick footwork.
• Tang Tian rebuked Tian Denghu and sent a talisman at a ghost while Tian Denghu fought the mourning staff with a fireball.
• With Fang Guangjun’s help, the cultivators drove the surviving ghosts back into the passage after scattering or destroying most of them.
• Li Yan barely killed one ghost, Tian Denghu killed two but suffered soul corrosion, and the Feng Household mourned one dead member and three wounded.
• Several Feng disciples turned toward the passage where the ghosts had emerged.

Feng Zaiyu’s group and the other cultivators split up to explore the maze beneath the tombs after Fang Guangjun warned that illusions could conceal the Foundation Establishment ghost’s lair. Li Yan followed Feng Zaiyu’s group and discovered they were using an artifact to choose the same route he sensed, while Fang Guangjun secretly pursued Tang Tian.

• Fang Guangjun explained that the surviving ghosts had retreated into the maze and warned that illusions might obscure the Foundation Establishment ghost’s lair.
• Feng Zaiyu agreed to divide the groups among the branching paths and let Fang Guangjun and Tang Tian take anything from the lair except the tomb structure and yin-energy veins.
• Tang Tian entered the first passage on the left with Wu Yizhen, and Tian Denghu followed; Li Yan went alone down the passage Fang Guangjun had identified as the likely route to the lair.
• Fang Guangjun vanished into the passage Tang Tian had taken, while Li Yan reappeared at the intersection and then followed Feng Zaiyu’s group.
• Li Yan sensed the true location of the lair and realized Feng Zaiyu’s group was using an artifact to navigate toward it, but he decided not to seize it.

Li Yan explored the tomb of underworld ghost creatures, found that its blood pool and Yin energy offered him no benefit, and took a broken pottery jar with a faint trace of soul power. He left the tomb without uncovering the jar’s secret, while Feng Zaiyu’s group survived their fight and learned that his cultivation had advanced closer to Foundation Establishment.

• Feng Zaiyu ordered his group to hold off three tenth-level ghost creatures while he fought the other two, and Li Yan passed them without intervening.
• After the battle, Feng Tao noticed Feng Zaiyu’s improved cultivation, and he warned her and his followers to keep his progress secret.
• Li Yan reached the ghost creature’s lair and found a blood pool whose essence could corrode consciousness and flesh, but neither it nor the underground Yin energy helped him.
• Li Yan discovered a broken pottery jar bearing three crude images and a faint fluctuation of soul power, but he could not determine its purpose.
• Li Yan put the jar into Tuban, searched the tomb without finding anything else of interest, and departed.

Li Yan realized someone had made a move while Fang Guangjun pursued Tang Tian and Wu Yizhen through a tomb passage. Tang Tian died to a swarm of Corpse Bees, and Fang Guangjun killed Wu Yizhen and staged the scene to make their deaths look like a monster attack.

• Li Yan sensed that someone had made their move after leaving the Foundation Establishment ghost creature's tomb.
• Fang Guangjun pursued Tang Tian and the unconscious Wu Yizhen, revealing that he had killed nine Feng family cultivators and intended to kill them as well.
• Tang Tian threw Wu Yizhen aside and fought through a swarm of Corpse Bees while trying to escape Fang Guangjun.
• Tang Tian's jade belt shattered, and the Corpse Bees stung him to death; Fang Guangjun captured his escaping soul in a jade bottle.
• Fang Guangjun killed Wu Yizhen, captured his soul, and slaughtered the Corpse Bees to make the passage look like the victims had died in a monster attack.

Fang Guangjun killed Feng family disciples and tried to eliminate Tang Tian’s group, then encountered Zhang Ming while planning to cover his tracks. Zhang Ming confronted him about his murderous intent and effortlessly stopped his attack, leaving Fang Guangjun helpless and terrified.

• Fang Guangjun ambushed and killed a Feng family branch head and his three companions.
• Fang Guangjun attacked Tang Tian’s group, but Tang Tian escaped with Wu Yizhen and tricked Tian Denghu into fleeing as a decoy.
• Fang Guangjun caught up to Tian Denghu and killed him, then intercepted Tang Tian and planned to blame the deaths on a ghost creature and Corpse Bees.
• Fang Guangjun encountered Zhang Ming and questioned whether he had heard anything, while preparing to attack him.
• Zhang Ming confronted Fang Guangjun about his killing intent at the Feng family castle and asked whether he was involved in attacks on Falling Star Valley disciples.
• Fang Guangjun attacked Zhang Ming with a black shield, but Zhang Ming drained its power and left Fang Guangjun helpless on the ground.

Li Yan poisoned Fang Guangjun and forced him to reveal that he had taken a bounty to capture or kill Falling Star Valley cultivators, then let him plead for his life. Meanwhile, the Feng family patriarch explored the Foundation Establishment ghost’s tomb, unaware that events elsewhere had taken an unexpected turn.

• Li Yan dragged the poisoned Fang Guangjun into a burial chamber and demanded to know why he had attacked them.
• Fang Guangjun confessed that hostile forces had offered rewards for Falling Star Valley disciples, and explained why he had taken some victims’ souls and killed others.
• Li Yan questioned Fang Guangjun about his earlier actions, including letting the Foundation Establishment ghost escape and killing Feng family members.
• Fang Guangjun begged Li Yan to spare him and offered to serve him, and Li Yan said killing him would be a pity.
• The Feng family patriarch inspected the Foundation Establishment ghost’s tomb and was pleased with the burial chamber and the dark-yellow leg bone he had found.

The Feng Lineage Ancestor discovered that Fang Guangjun had attacked the Foundation Establishment ghost alone and rushed to save him. As the ancestor’s crescent spade blocked the ghost’s strike, the ghost counterattacked with black vapor and severed nails, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Feng Lineage Ancestor sensed a fight near the Foundation Establishment ghost’s tomb and sent Feng disciples to check on Feng Zaiyu’s group.
• The Feng Lineage Ancestor saw the badly wounded Fang Guangjun fleeing the gaunt woman’s soul and realized Fang had gone after her alone.
• The gaunt woman pursued Fang Guangjun and struck at his back as the Feng Lineage Ancestor hurried to intercept her.
• The Feng Lineage Ancestor’s crescent spade blocked the ghost’s claws and broke off her fingers, but she attacked the spade with a rope of black vapor.
• The ghost’s severed nails shot toward Fang Guangjun while the Feng Lineage Ancestor pulled his spade free of the vaporous rope.

Li Yan arranged for Fang Guangjun to die in a ghost’s attack so the Feng Lineage would not suspect him. The Feng Lineage’s old ancestor investigated the death but found the circumstances baffling and concealed Fang Guangjun’s corpse in his Storage Pouch.

• Li Yan’s hidden interference briefly disrupted the ghost’s black qi rope, allowing the thin, lanky evil woman to strike Fang Guangjun with five ghostly streams and kill him.
• The Feng Lineage’s old ancestor caught Fang Guangjun’s falling body and fled, while the thin, lanky evil woman abandoned her pursuit after sensing an inexplicable presence.
• Li Yan revealed that he had planned Fang Guangjun’s death, using concealed poison and the ghost attack to hide his own involvement.
• The Feng Lineage’s old ancestor contacted Feng Zaiyu, learned the others had found a massive blood pool, and examined Fang Guangjun’s corpse in an empty tomb cavern.
• Unable to explain why Fang Guangjun had sought out the ghost alone, the Feng Lineage’s old ancestor placed the corpse in his Storage Pouch.

The Feng Lineage Ancestor discovered the disastrous toll of the Yin Tomb and gathered the survivors, while Li Yan privately considered how the losses might pressure the Feng Lineage into acting against Fang Guangjun. After leaving the tomb, the Feng Lineage Ancestor showed his Third Ancestor Fang Guangjun’s corpse, and the two searched for an explanation for his baffling death.

• The Feng Lineage Ancestor found the remains of a Falling Star Valley disciple and learned that corpse bees and mutilated bodies had left several Feng Lineage disciples dead or missing.
• The Feng Lineage Ancestor gathered the survivors, where Feng Tao recognized her senior brother’s clothing and Feng Zaiyu reported that Feng Zaihua and other disciples were missing.
• The Feng Lineage Ancestor searched the tomb again, then brought the survivors, including Li Yan, out after daylight; Li Yan considered how the deaths might force the Feng Lineage to deal with Fang Guangjun.
• Feng Zaiyu reported the deaths to Feng Tao’s Third Ancestor, who worried about Falling Star Valley’s response and waited for the Feng Lineage Ancestor’s return.
• The Feng Lineage Ancestor showed his Third Ancestor Fang Guangjun’s corpse and described his death, but neither could explain how he had been killed so quickly.

The Feng Patriarch suspected Fang Guangjun had come to the Feng Lineage with a hidden agenda and opened his Storage Pouch despite the risks. The discovery of bodies inside complicated the Feng Lineage’s position, and the chapter ended as a wisp of soul emerged from a strange bottle.

• The Feng Patriarch and the Third Patriarch debated Fang Guangjun’s suspicious actions and whether to inspect his Storage Pouch before Falling Star Valley arrived.
• The Feng Patriarch opened Fang Guangjun’s Storage Pouch, overcoming its remaining divine sense restriction.
• The Feng Patriarch found the bodies of Feng Zaihua, three other Feng Lineage disciples, and Tian Denghu, raising fears that Falling Star Valley could blame the Feng Lineage for Fang Guangjun’s death.
• The Feng Patriarch and the Third Patriarch examined Fang Guangjun’s possessions but found no clear proof of his identity among his cultivation methods, belongings, or clothing.
• The Third Patriarch opened a small blue-green bottle, and a wisp of soul drifted out as the Feng Patriarch suspected it was a soul-capturing bottle.

Tang Tian and Wu Yizhen revealed that Fang Guangjun was a spy who had attacked the Feng Lineage, while the Feng patriarchs tried to understand his motives. They notified Falling Star Valley and had Feng Zaiyu question Zhang Ming, whose survival and identity remained under scrutiny.

• Tang Tian emerged from a soul-storage bottle, identified Fang Guangjun as a spy, and told the Feng patriarchs that Fang had killed Feng Lineage disciples and destroyed his body.
• The Feng patriarch showed Tang Tian Fang Guangjun's corpse, then returned Tang Tian to the bottle to recover and opened another bottle, releasing Wu Yizhen's soul.
• After hearing Tang Tian and Wu Yizhen's accounts, the Feng patriarchs concluded Fang had been an enemy spy but could not explain why he had gone alone to attack a Foundation Establishment ghost creature.
• The Feng patriarch decided to investigate the ghost creature's nest alone, notify Falling Star Valley, and seek compensation for the Feng Lineage's losses.
• The Feng patriarch ordered Feng Zaiyu to keep watch on Zhang Ming, and Feng Zaiyu visited him to discuss the incident before leaving.