Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing entered Wuwei City after killing a Bat Demon with his Eerie Transformation ability, then returned to his courtyard and studied Buddha Sense and Great King Linggan. He began developing a Nether Essence-storing spirit vein artifact, but realized he needed the diseased tree from the Immortality Forbidden Zone to make it regenerate.

• Ren Qing waited with Yu Dou and other cultivators outside Wuwei City until a Bat Demon attacked the crowd and wounded Yu Dou.
• Ren Qing used the Eerie Transformation Branch ability of the Eerie Belly Concealing Gate to make the Bat Demon lose its resistance, then killed it and entered the city.
• Jiang Feng identified Ren Qing to Yu Dou, who realized he had just treated the Lord of the Ghost Market casually.
• Ren Qing returned to the Changyuan Bodyguard Agency, directed the rescued monks to report to the new Yamen, and settled into the courtyard Xiao San'er had prepared.
• Ren Qing examined Buddha Sense and found that consuming it would gradually transform the body into an Indestructible Golden Body.
• Ren Qing tested Nether Essence in Great King Linggan and used it to grow a Tai Sui fungus tree, then concluded that he needed the diseased tree from the Immortality Forbidden Zone to create a regenerating spirit vein artifact.

Ren Qing sent a four-headed Split Soul into the Immortality Forbidden Zone to seek its core Arts and choose disease types for a new body. The Split Soul selected five diseases before losing consciousness, leaving Ren Qing to wonder whether it would survive after emerging.

• Ren Qing completed his Split Soul’s Marsh Immortal Method, then used demon qi to grow a fourth, Demonic Anomaly Head and judged the method’s potential limited.
• Ren Qing sent the Split Soul and Ghost Shadow into the Immortality Forbidden Zone while preparing to fuse more Eerie Transformation Branches into the Shadowless Ghost.
• Ren Qing searched the disease types and fused Gigantification, Hard Bone, Sleeplessness, and Cancer into the Split Soul.
• As the Split Soul’s body finished forming, Ren Qing endured severe pain and fused Muscle Hypertrophy before passing out.
• Ren Qing learned that the Split Soul had acquired five disease types and worried about whether it would survive once it emerged.

Ren Qing woke in Weian Town after Wang Qi and Wang Ling brought him in, and discovered his new body was gravely weakened but still held several Disease Seeds. As he began recovering and investigating the town’s strange customs, he suspected its cultivation system was connected to the Six Maladies Method.

• Wang Ling found Ren Qing in a tree hollow and mistook him for her dead brother, Wang Shanlu, so Wang Qi took him back to Weian Town for care.
• Xu Changzhou allowed Wang Qi to bring the outsider into town and said he would consult the clan elders, while news of Ren Qing’s arrival spread among the townsfolk.
• Ren Qing woke several days later with only seventeen days of lifespan, severe brain damage, and a body weakened by malnutrition.
• Wang Qi and Wang Ling cared for Ren Qing, while Ren Qing secretly used the Ghost Shadow to eat dried meat and absorbed Nether Essence from a jade pendant.
• Ren Qing investigated Weian Town through Wang Ling and noticed frequent funerals without graves, the absence of Fu Lu Shou Three Immortals worship, and hints of a blood-food custom.
• Ren Qing suspected Weian Town practiced a form of Hysteria Cultivation related to the Six Maladies Method, and the Ghost Shadow implanted the insect root into his spine as he rested.

Ren Qing struggled to nourish his disease-ridden body while secretly training in the Tiger Concealment Fist under a town watcher's surveillance. After his tiger-like practice frightened a group of orphaned children, the watcher recognized Ren Qing's unusual talent, leaving Ren Qing curious about the local cultivation methods.

• Ren Qing struggled with relentless hunger and planned to rely on martial arts training to strengthen his depleted body.
• Ren Qing spotted a watcher named Xu Sanliang nearby and practiced the Tiger Concealment Fist whenever the man was not looking.
• After half a day of training and eating, Ren Qing regained some color but realized his limited food would only last about ten days.
• Xu Tu led a group of orphaned children into Ren Qing's courtyard to steal food, but they froze when they saw him imitating a tiger.
• Wang Ling arrived with Ren Qing's meal, and Xu Sanliang sent the children away before recognizing Ren Qing's talent and questioning him.

Ren Qing used the Gluttonous Great Stomach Method to replenish his body and trigger explosive growth, alarming Xu Sanliang. Xu Sanliang decided to take him to Qingfeng Hall soon, while Ren Qing’s rapid transformation began to slow.

• Ren Qing learned that Xu Sanliang’s Great Wind Sword Art was derived from the Six Maladies Method and considered how body martial arts might help him master it safely.
• After Wang Qi returned, he asked Xu Sanliang to take Wang Shanlu under his Qingfeng Hall rather than send him to the Martial Arts Hall.
• Xu Sanliang arranged for Ren Qing to study at Qingfeng Hall, while Ren Qing used the Information Flow to master the Gluttonous Great Stomach Method and consumed meat and Corpse Food.
• Xu Sanliang noticed Ren Qing grow taller and stronger overnight, then watched in disbelief as Ren Qing surpassed two meters and developed a powerful physique.
• Xu Sanliang resolved to take Ren Qing to Qingfeng Hall as soon as possible, while Ren Qing’s explosive growth came to an end.

Ren Qing arrived at Qingfeng Hall with Xu Sanliang, shocking its instructors and disciples with his enormous physique and overwhelming strength. After Xu Fu agreed to train him, Ren Qing demonstrated Tiger Concealment Fist, leaving the hall unsure whether ordinary martial arts could help him.

• Xu Fu instructed Qingfeng Hall's poor young disciples while they discussed martial arts, Xu Sanliang, and the rumored Wang Shanlu.
• Xu Sanliang arrived with Ren Qing, whom the disciples mistook for Wang Shanlu, and asked Xu Fu to take him on as a student.
• Xu Sanliang gave Xu Fu money for Ren Qing's food and explained that he would train at the hall by day and return home at night.
• Ren Qing lifted the hall's heaviest stone weight so easily that Xu Fu and Xu Sanliang questioned whether he needed ordinary martial arts training.
• Ren Qing began practicing Tiger Concealment Fist, frightening the disciples and prompting Xu Fu to consider weighted equipment for him instead.

Ren Qing used his immense strength and Nether Essence to train at Qingfeng Hall, alarming its disciples and earning Xu Fu’s support. After more than ten days of rapid growth and cultivation, he drove off Ruan Gang’s Black Stone Hall group without a fight, while Xu Sanliang watched from hiding.

• Ren Qing ate an enormous meal, trained with a hundred-jin stone pedestal, and absorbed Nether Essence while worrying that his cancer disease might erupt.
• Xu Fu gave Ren Qing an illustrated manual for the Qingfeng Breathing Technique, which Ren Qing mastered and later advanced to Level Nine despite its limited benefits.
• Over the next ten days, Ren Qing grew to an immense size, reached Mid-stage Qi Refining, and became the most respected disciple at Qingfeng Hall.
• Xu Sanliang spotted Ruan Gang and Black Stone Hall disciples approaching Qingfeng Hall, then entered the courtyard to watch.
• Ruan Gang saw Ren Qing handle a massive stone ball and tear apart an iron chain, then led his group away without challenging him.

Ren Qing continued cultivating at Qingfeng Hall as his insect body grew stronger, then learned that Weian Town faced coming turmoil and was allowed to pursue Body Martial Cultivation. He chose to remain with Qingfeng Hall as Wang Ling moved into Black Stone Hall.

• Ren Qing advanced the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method to the late Qi Cultivation stage and displayed overwhelming strength during training at Qingfeng Hall.
• Ren Qing encountered Xu Sanliang, Xu Shiwang, and Lu Changlu near his courtyard, then found Wang Qi waiting there with Wang Ling.
• Wang Qi told Ren Qing he would no longer stop him from pursuing Body Martial Cultivation and asked him to protect Wang Ling if she was in danger.
• Wang Qi warned Ren Qing that Weian Town would not remain peaceful and advised him not to offend immortals.
• Ren Qing chose Qingfeng Hall, and Wang Ling moved into Black Stone Hall the next day.

Ren Qing learned the Iron Grinding Sword Technique and Night Roaming Sword Art from Qingfeng Hall’s Disease Tree, then used his Information Flow to master both. The inheritances led him to suspect the Jailer Hall’s founders had escaped the Immortality Forbidden Zone, and he left Qingfeng Hall with Xu Fu assigned to teach him Body Martial cultivation.

• Xu Sanliang led Ren Qing into a woodshed and showed him Qingfeng Hall’s Disease Tree, where he chose the Iron Grinding Sword Technique and Night Roaming Sword Art.
• Ren Qing studied the techniques and inferred that Body Martial cultivation had shaped the Jailer Hall’s realms and that its founder had traveled from the Immortality Forbidden Zone to Xiangxiang.
• Ren Qing used his Information Flow to master both techniques, accelerating his Hard Bone Disease Seed and partially recovering his sight before pain forced him to close his eyes.
• Ren Qing emerged after resting, and Xu Sanliang noticed a fleeting trace of sword light in his eyes.
• Xu Sanliang assigned Xu Fu to teach Ren Qing Body Martial cultivation while he handled urgent matters in Weian Town.

Ren Qing initiated the Iron Grinding Sword Technique while continuing to cultivate the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method, reaching Qi Refining Grand Completion and preparing to advance. As Weian Town grew increasingly unsettled, he strengthened his bones and gained a small tail, while signs of impending danger mounted.

• Ren Qing moved into Qingfeng Hall and examined how Body Martial Cultivation stimulated Disease Types, then accepted iron balls from Xu Fu.
• Ren Qing swallowed molten iron and initiated the Iron Grinding Sword Technique, astonishing Xu Fu with his talent and endurance.
• Ren Qing continued cultivating for hours without reaching his limit and brought the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method to Qi Refining Grand Completion.
• Ren Qing heard that Weian Town was urgently recruiting soldiers, repairing houses, and surveying its population as signs of disorder spread.
• Ren Qing used the Information Flow to advance the Iron Grinding Sword Technique, strengthening his bones and growing a small tail.
• Weian Town's Martial Arts Halls shut their doors as chaos and funerals increased, foreshadowing the arrival of an “immortal.”

Ren Qing followed a disease beast and discovered that Weian Town’s Body Martial Cultivators were deliberately using it to make prisoners and townspeople lose control of their disease seeds for the immortals’ arrival. After killing Nan Feng, he secretly marked the prisoners in the cells with his Ghost Shadow and returned to Qingfeng Hall.

• Ren Qing pursued a disease beast and watched Nan Feng, Xu Sanliang, and Qi Yun use it to create chaos and kill townspeople.
• Nan Feng and Qi Yun revealed their willingness to sacrifice people as routine preparations for the immortals, while Xu Sanliang objected but ultimately backed down.
• Ren Qing killed Nan Feng before her disease seed could fully emerge, and tiny hands from the ground dragged the seed underground.
• At the yamen, Ren Qing saw constables feed pieces of the disease beast to prisoners, causing their disease seeds to lose control and turning them into monsters.
• Ren Qing sent part of his Ghost Shadow into the cells to mark the prisoners, then returned to Qingfeng Hall, where Xu Sanliang mistook him for Shanlu.

Ren Qing trained relentlessly at Qingfeng Hall while disease outbreaks killed and mutilated hundreds in Weian Town, and Xu Sanliang brought orphaned children to the hall. As Ren Qing neared Foundation Establishment, Qi Yun attacked him and Xu Sanliang before Xu Shiwang killed Qi Yun and offered Ren Qing a Body Martial Art as compensation.

• Ren Qing focused on cultivating the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method and tempered his body as the hysteria outbreak spread through Weian Town.
• Soldiers discovered Nan Feng's headless corpse, while hundreds of residents suffered disease-strain outbreaks and died.
• Xu Sanliang brought seventeen or eighteen orphaned children to Qingfeng Hall, where they were cared for by the disciples.
• Ren Qing neared a breakthrough into Foundation Establishment as Qi Yun arrived and attacked Xu Sanliang, then charged into Qingfeng Hall toward Ren Qing.
• Xu Shiwang killed Qi Yun before the attack landed and offered Ren Qing a Body Martial Art as compensation.

Ren Qing accompanied Xu Shiwang to Black Stone Hall, where he received a new Body Martial Cultivation before a Longevity Species devastated Weian Town. As the town’s people succumbed to delirium, Ren Qing learned a clue about the Patriarch’s identity and entered the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method.

• Xu Shiwang killed Qi Yun, then led Ren Qing to Black Stone Hall and offered him a Body Martial Cultivation as compensation.
• Ren Qing obtained the Giant Strength Palm Technique and found Wang Ling at Black Stone Hall.
• A gigantic plant erupted from the ground and transformed into a Longevity Immortal statue, wrecking Weian Town and killing or injuring many people.
• Ren Qing used one punch to destroy a falling boulder and protect the ordinary disciples, while Xu Shiwang failed to stop the Longevity Species.
• Ren Qing asked Xu Shiwang about Shattered Void, and Xu Shiwang recalled a nameless, heaven-abandoned person called a taboo who had released imprisoned Immortals.
• As delirium spread through the town and prison inmates praised the Longevity Immortal, Ren Qing began circulating the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method without restraining his Nether Essence.

Ren Qing advanced his Body Martial arts while the Longevity Immortal statue devoured Weian Town’s hysterical patients. He restored Xu Sanliang’s consciousness and obtained another body-tempering art, but the lifespan required for the next realm left his progress uncertain.

• A hysteria-stricken cultivator touched the Longevity Immortal statue’s roots and appeared to ascend, while the roots drained him into a husk.
• Xu Sanliang emerged from the ruined Black Stone Hall, recognized Ren Qing’s terrifying strength, and tried to protect him from the patients converging on him.
• The Longevity Species announced that Fu Xian and Lu Xian were dead, and the patients began devouring corpses as the statue consumed hundreds more victims.
• Ren Qing awakened with abundant Nether Essence, advanced the Giant Strength Palm Technique to the Half-Corpse Realm, and used Nether Essence to restore Xu Sanliang’s consciousness.
• Ren Qing found Madam Chen’s Martial Arts Hall and advanced Golden Bell Body Tempering to the Half-Corpse Realm, but learned that reaching the Yin Messenger Realm would require over a hundred years of lifespan.

Ren Qing transformed into a monstrous Body Martial Cultivator and fought the revived Longevity Species, killing them as his cancerous Disease Seed spiraled out of control. He collapsed and died, but the diseased tree underground caught him, and his main body awoke to find the Split Soul's incubation had changed.

• Ren Qing advanced his Body Martial techniques, transformed into a giant, and unleashed a roar that suppressed the Longevity Immortal statue's hysterical aura.
• The Peach Blossom Immortal revived, and the Longevity Immortal statue released a hysterical aura that overwhelmed the people of Weian Town.
• Ren Qing attacked the Longevity Species, killed the Peach Blossom Immortal and another Longevity Species, then pursued and killed the Sword Hurricane Immortal and Thick Earth Immortal.
• Ren Qing's Cancer Disease Seed grew out of control, and his cancer cells consumed the Longevity Species' corpses before his lifespan rapidly drained away.
• Ren Qing collapsed and died, but the diseased tree wrapped him in its branches as the Disease Seed saplings grew into a towering tree.
• Ren Qing's main body opened his eyes and realized the Split Soul's incubation process had changed.

Ren Qing used the lifespan gained in the Immortality Forbidden Zone to advance the Shadowless Ghost and its associated Arts to Yin Messenger Realm Grand Completion, then caused alarm across Wuwei City before waking unharmed. The chapter ended with his updated status showing eighty-six years of lifespan and the new Shadowless Yin Demon.

• Ren Qing discovered that his dead Split Soul had become a giant tree connected to the Sick Tree and absorbed its body-cultivation records.
• Ren Qing spent his temporary lifespan completing the Shadowless Ghost's Eerie Transformations and advancing its associated Arts, including the Human Skin Book, Armored Physique Art, and Dragon Snake Spine.
• Ren Qing's breakthrough caused eerie auras to erupt through Wuwei City, prompting Li Tiangang to assemble the Yin Messenger Realm Forbidden Guards and order others to retreat.
• Li Yaoyang's Gu Insects found Ren Qing undergoing his breakthrough, but the alarming aura vanished after he yawned and woke.
• Ren Qing emerged from the damaged courtyard, told Li Tiangang he had more or less reached Releasing Yin God, and checked his status, which showed eighty-six years of lifespan.

Ren Qing explored Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard and the Six Maladies Method, turning Great King Linggan and the Nether Essence fungal tree into a walking Dragon Tree and advancing the Split Soul's disease-based Art to Plague Dispelling Lord. He then learned that Song Zongwu's situation had grown dire as he approached promotion to the Yang God Realm.

• Ren Qing used Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard to fuse Great King Linggan with the Nether Essence fungal tree, creating a powerful, instinct-driven Dragon Tree that could walk and feed.
• Ren Qing observed the people of Weian Town rebuilding around the Sky-Piercing Tree as the Martial Arts Halls joined together to form Forbidden Martial Arts.
• Xu Tu mastered Body Martial cultivation, and Ren Qing gained five years of permanent lifespan through the Six Maladies Method.
• Ren Qing nurtured his Split Soul, mastered the Six Maladies Method through it, and advanced its secondary Art to Hundred Illness Bearer and then Plague Dispelling Lord.
• Ren Qing obtained the Winter Worm Summer Grass manuals from the Great Dream True Person, who also warned him that Song Zongwu's condition had become dire as he neared promotion to the Yang God Realm.

Ren Qing set out to help Song Zongwu, whose consciousness had sunk into a heart-demon tribulation, while investigating how the Winter Worm and Summer Grass Arts might be combined. In the Immortality Forbidden Zone, his Split Soul discovered that the Sky-Piercing Tree was a Longevity Tree formed from the Rebirth Art, leaving Ren Qing determined to obtain that Art.

• Great Dream True Person told Ren Qing that Song Zongwu was in danger of qi deviation and could not be awakened by Soul Butterflies, so Ren Qing decided to go check on him alone.
• Ren Qing studied the Winter Worm and Summer Grass Arts and concluded that they were likely two halves of one original Art that he might reconstruct using the Information Flow.
• Ren Qing left Ghost Shadows in Wuwei City and sent his Split Soul toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone with the Six Maladies Method Eerie Object.
• The Split Soul entered a fruit in the Immortality Forbidden Zone, absorbed its juice, and emerged from the Sky-Piercing Tree with body-cultivation methods and disease strains.
• Ren Qing identified the Sky-Piercing Tree as a Longevity Tree formed from the Rebirth Art and learned that it could preserve memories, absorb life force, and nurture Split Souls.
• Ren Qing began cultivating the Nether Essence Heavenly Worm Method while his Split Soul remained in Weian Town, and he turned his attention toward investigating Jingzhou.

Ren Qing traveled deep into demon-infested Jing Province to find Song Zongwu and learned that the intelligent demons knew of Rabbit Toad Cultivators as Demon Immortals. After controlling and empowering a porcupine demon, he rode it north toward the Great Saint of White Bones’s dwelling.

• Ren Qing left Wuwei City and sensed Song Zongwu deep in the forest, where Song Zongwu appeared surrounded by bones and corpses but remained stable.
• After several days of travel, Ren Qing encountered a Giant Elephant Demon and used Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard to dissolve it and gather its demonic energy.
• Ren Qing fed the demonic energy to a porcupine demon, raising it to the Ghost Envoy Realm and transforming its body.
• Ren Qing learned that the porcupine demon knew of Rabbit Toad Cultivators as Demon Immortals and that the Great Saint of White Bones lived where bones were piled into mountains.
• Ren Qing used a Brain Dragon to take control of the porcupine demon and rode it north on his mountain patrol.

Ren Qing rescued Yu Dou and his companions from a Hyena demon that had been using twisted Buddhist rites to make golden pellets. After taking control of the demon, Ren Qing learned of White Bones Four-Armed Guanyin and wondered whether a demon immortal had descended.

• Yu Dou and his companions used Demon Luring Blood on a Green Ox Demon corpse, but a Hyena demon and its pack surrounded them.
• The Hyena demon took the three men to its cave, where it made golden pellets and forced them to eat.
• Yu Dou swallowed the pellets, and the Hyena demon cut open his abdomen and took his golden gallbladder.
• Ren Qing arrived on Little Drifter, recovered Yu Dou's gallbladder, and trapped the Hyena demon with his Art.
• Ren Qing drained the hyenas' demon aura, raised the Hyena demon's cultivation, and demanded to know where its Buddhist methods came from.
• Ren Qing wondered whether a demon immortal named White Bones Four-Armed Guanyin had descended.