Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing investigated the Buddhist aura surrounding the White Bones Four-Armed Guanyin and prepared to enter the Great Saint of White Bones's territory. After seeing Buddhist aura nearly destroy a hyena demon and Heavenly Demon aura revive it, he wondered whether Abhidi Hell had survived its own destruction in the same way.

• Ren Qing learned that Buddhist aura converted living beings and watched a Minor Sarira destroy the consciousness of a pseudo-dragon he created.
• He refined the Minor Sarira into a Buddha-Infused Artifact and used it to strip Buddhist aura from the hyena demon, though the process ruined its foundation.
• Ren Qing gathered and enlightened intelligent demon beasts, building a group of followers while disguising himself as a Demon Immortal on the way to the White Bones Four-Armed Guanyin Temple.
• The hyena demon began dying after losing its Buddhist aura, but Ren Qing used Heavenly Demon aura to restore its heartbeat and revive it.
• Ren Qing recalled that Abhidi Hell had once been Ksitigarbha King and questioned how it had survived after Heavenly Demon aura burned its body away.

Ren Qing arrived at White Bone Mountain amid a storm, where the Buddha aura had driven the demon beasts into chaos and infighting. He posed as a demon immortal, rallied the factions against the White Bone Four-Armed Guanyin Temple, and taught them the Divine Incarnation Technique while preparing to learn what the method concealed.

• Hu Wen punished and devoured Hu Shi, then ordered another fox demon to cultivate the Great Dao of the Sea of Suffering as the factions watched the growing Buddha aura.
• A sudden storm stirred the demon aura, and Hu Wen and the other demon beasts began slaughtering one another until Dragon Spine appeared in the clouds.
• Ren Qing rode Dragon Spine into view, attacked the temple with Five Elements Lightning, and called on the demon beasts to serve him against the White Bone Four-Armed Guanyin.
• The factions knelt to Ren Qing, while the Hyena demon tested the Buddha aura and proved he could pass through it without being affected.
• Ren Qing imparted the Divine Incarnation Technique and sent Heavenly Demon aura into the demon beasts as they studied the method.

Ren Qing studied the demon beasts’ attempts to cultivate the Spirit Devouring Method and created a new Demon Market within the dream market. After Hu Wen failed to master the method and sacrificed several fox demons to seek another chance, Ren Qing gave him the Ghost Envoy Realm of Five Viscera God and prepared more Jailer Methods for the other demon beasts.

• Ren Qing watched the demon beasts study the Spirit Devouring Method and sent a Soul Butterfly projection toward White Bone Four-Armed Guanyin Temple, where Buddha aura scattered it.
• Ren Qing turned the Heavenly Demon Dream Seed into a new street in the dream market, where a wild beast exploded and Heavenly Demon aura licked up its remains.
• After several days, Lu Yao mastered the Spirit Devouring Method, while only about half of the demon beasts managed to absorb the aura between their brows.
• Hu Wen failed to advance, then knelt before Ren Qing and offered flesh and blood in exchange for another chance to cultivate immortal arts; a Brocade Mouse Demon trapped fox demons, and Hu Wen killed them.
• Ren Qing gave Hu Wen the Ghost Envoy Realm contents of Five Viscera God and encouraged the demon beasts to exchange benefits and form factions.
• Ren Qing selected several more Jailer Methods for the demon beasts who could not master Five Viscera God.

Ren Qing gathered nearly a thousand demon beasts and led them in an assault on White Bone Mountain, where they uncovered Great Saint of White Bones and rescued Song Zongwu from a Buddhist aura cycle. Song Zongwu awoke with his lifespan nearly spent, and a colossal corpse elephant approached as he declared he was leaving.

• Ren Qing spread cultivation methods among the demon beasts, whose bodies developed grotesque abnormalities as they cultivated.
• Zhang Yi arrived at White Bone Mountain, saw the demonic cultivators gathered there, and joined them in learning the Spirit Devouring Method.
• Ren Qing organized the demon beasts to attack the White Bone Four-Armed Guanyin Temple and used the Buddhist Dream Seed to absorb the surrounding Buddhist aura.
• When Great Saint of White Bones attacked the demon beasts, Ren Qing struck it with lightning, revealing it as a giant bone turtle beneath White Bone Mountain.
• Ren Qing destroyed the temple and freed Song Zongwu from the Buddhist aura cycle, then swallowed Great Saint of White Bones into the Eternal Prison.
• Song Zongwu awoke after drinking Peach Wine, said his soul could scatter at any moment, and faced the approaching corpse elephant while declaring, "Fine wine, I'm off."

Song Zongwu fought the Yang God Realm corpse elephant while resisting the Buddhist aura that could help him break through. Ren Qing drove the elephant away, and Song Zongwu abandoned his chance to advance before asking Ren Qing to accompany him on a journey.

• Song Zongwu revealed the Buddha patterns on his back and faced the approaching corpse elephant, while Ren Qing recognized its spine as the Eerie Fetus Artifact he had once forged.
• The corpse elephant’s cultivators pleaded for Buddha to save them, and Ren Qing learned they had sought Buddhist aura after finding Glazed Mountain, which had briefly eased their torment.
• Song Zongwu transformed and battled the Yang God Realm corpse elephant, refusing to rely on Buddhist aura even as he neared death.
• After Buddhist aura appeared to heal Song Zongwu and loosen his bottleneck, Ren Qing used the Eerie Fetus Artifact Forging Method to calm the corpse elephant’s cultivators and send the beast away.
• Song Zongwu lost his chance to break through, recovered somewhat with Ren Qing’s Peach Wine, and asked Ren Qing to join him on a journey.

Song Zongwu revealed the deadly nature of Buddhist cultivation and chose to risk death rather than advance through Buddha aura. After leaping from a cliff, he awakened the Asura Method and reached the Yang God Realm, becoming the Six-armed Asura.

• Song Zongwu told Ren Qing that Buddhist spells led to Buddhahood, where Buddha aura eventually consumed cultivators into a Fruit Status, and explained his Immovable Sutra and its Deer-Riding Arhat status.
• Song Zongwu refused to rely on Buddha aura to extend his life and climbed a mountain with Ren Qing, insisting he would either attain the Yang God Realm or die trying.
• As he fell from the cliff, Song Zongwu recalled his childhood as Liaowu, when he discovered the Asura Method and Diting Art and his master killed him to transfer his soul into a mutilated infant's body.
• Song Zongwu remembered the conditions of the two Jailer Methods and resisted the Immovable Sutra's pull, declaring that every step led to life or death.
• Song Zongwu's two extra arms grew, his Six Eyes turned pitch-black, and he reached the Yang God Realm as the Hundred Buddhas Painting was suppressed by the underworld.

Ren Qing sent the Demon Beasts into the dream-born Demon Market, where its Heavenly Demon aura aided cultivators of the Beast Pen method and opened a new path for trade and training. The Demon Beasts formed a sect while Ren Qing planned to expand the market, and Song Zongwu later awoke free of his Buddhist temperament.

• Ren Qing sent the Demon Beasts into the Eternal Prison and transformed the Demon Market with Heavenly Demon aura.
• Teng Ning and the Demon Cultivators saw the Demon Beasts enter the market, and Han Li agreed to bring them Arts at Ren Qing’s instruction.
• Ren Qing recognized the market’s cultivation and trading benefits and decided to gradually open it to Jailer Hall while limiting some visitors’ time inside.
• Hu Wen formed a Demon Sect from several hundred Demon Beasts, and Ren Qing used dream Arts to help unify them as they concealed the Demon Market.
• Song Zongwu awoke ten days later without his Buddhist temperament, and Ren Qing told him about the Demon Beasts.

Ren Qing strengthened Eternal Prison by refining his Taotie-related Arts and finally merged Winter Worm Summer Grass into the Tai Sui Scripture. He left the Scripture unpracticed until he could understand or counter its corpse-transforming effects, while the crescent moon continued to darken with black specks.

• Ren Qing delegated the demon cultivators to Han Li while Wuwei City remained calm and the intelligent demon beasts increasingly cultivated the Jailer Method.
• Ren Qing promoted Eternal Prison to Melding Yin God and developed new Eerie Transformation abilities that created wine resources, nourished its ecosystem, and produced mineral veins.
• Ren Qing spent more than a year merging Winter Worm Summer Grass, creating the incomplete Blood Mycelium Record and the Tai Sui Scripture.
• Ren Qing examined the Tai Sui Scripture’s corpse-transforming nature and concluded that the Corpse Scripture might help him cultivate it and pursue the Longevity Dao Fruit.
• Ren Qing checked his Information Flow, saw his lifespan had reached 786 years, and observed black specks appearing on the crescent moon.

Han Li trained in the Demon Market, then entered the Eternal Prison to deliver new Arts and resources to the Demon Cultivator tribes. After visiting every tribe, he began planning their integration into the outside world by establishing a small escort agency in Wuwei City, though Ren Qing worried about the dangers beyond the city.

• Han Li trained in the Demon Market, where the Heavenly Demon aura strengthened his soul but left him shaken by visions of Black Goats.
• Han Li entered the Eternal Prison and caught a wine fish on Wine Lake Island before visiting the Great Dream Art Tower.
• Han Li bought the Ice Crystal Method for Teng Ning's tribe, and Ren Qing advised him to cultivate the Blood Mycelium Record to manage his Food Eater aberration.
• Ren Qing gave Han Li Jailer-related Arts and resources to deliver to the tribes, and Han Li traveled to the Ice Crystal Tribe to teach them a new method.
• Han Li visited all the Demon Cultivator tribes within about a month and established a small escort agency in Wuwei City to help them enter the outside world.
• Ren Qing considered the escort agency a possible path to integration but worried that the area beyond Wuwei City was unsafe.

Han Li’s Demon Cultivators uncovered black hair inside a demon beast carcass, which transformed into a monster and triggered a chain of explosions at the slaughterhouse. Ren Qing traced the hair to the Heavenly Demon and discovered that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators’ arrival had disturbed the Heavenly Demon Egg near the Blood Moon.

• Ren Qing helped secure reluctant acceptance of Demon Cultivators in Jing Province, but Han Li’s escort agency found no work and its members instead processed demon beast carcasses.
• Zhang Yu found long black hair inside a demon beast’s spleen, and Han Li recognized it as resembling the aura he had seen at the Demon Market.
• The carcass transformed into a black-haired half-human, half-goat monster and exploded, setting off explosions in the other carcasses until Ren Qing contained the blast with Ghost Shadow.
• Ren Qing identified the black hair as Heavenly Demon Hairpin and saw that the Blood Moon’s black spots had shifted.
• Ren Qing entered a deeper layer of Jing Province and found Heavenly Demon aura spreading, along with Rabbit Toad Cultivators and newly transformed Anomalies.
• Ren Qing concluded that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators had disturbed the Heavenly Demon Egg and wondered whether Son of Heavenly Dao had planned for the Blood Moon’s entanglement with Heavenly Demon aura.

As Jingzhou faced a growing Heavenly Demon threat, Jailer Hall sealed Wuwei City and planned defenses while Ren Qing continued cultivating and helped Li Yaoyang pursue the Heavenly Dao Method. The chapter ended with Ren Qing learning that he could master Dao Dao Dao by spending fifty years of lifespan.

• Ren Qing told Li Tiangang about the Heavenly Demon aura, and Jailer Hall traced its source near the Bottomless Pit before sealing Wuwei City's gates.
• Ren Qing met with the city's Yin Messenger Realm cultivators, learned Li Yaoyang had advanced to Melding Yin God, and gave him four Heavenly Dao Worm dead eggs to investigate.
• Qingsongzi offered to bring Li Yaoyang into Dao of Non-action Monastery, and Li Yaoyang accepted on the condition that Ren Qing receive Dao Dao Dao.
• Li Tiangang and the Yin Messenger Realm cultivators agreed to use Forbidden Zones to guard Wuwei City's blind spots, expand the city walls, and send demon cultivators outside to help with construction.
• Qingsongzi copied Dao Dao Dao for Ren Qing, who used the Information Flow and learned he could master the method by spending fifty years of lifespan.

Ren Qing advanced Dao Dao Dao and discovered that it let him alter the rules of Eternal Prison, then merged the Demon Market with the other dream markets to accelerate his lifespan growth. As Wuwei City prospered and his lifespan passed nine hundred years, he learned that Hu Wen planned a rescue mission to the fallen Bottomless Pit, while Ren Qing’s breakthrough into the Yang God Realm drew near.

• Ren Qing advanced Dao Dao Dao to Foundation Establishment and used it to adjust Eternal Prison’s time flow and temperature.
• Ren Qing watched Wuwei City’s construction progress and merged the Demon Market with the other dream markets to boost lifespan extension.
• Cultivators flocked to the newly opened Demon Market, where its Great Dream Pavilion sold unique resources and its shops were available to skilled cultivators.
• Ren Qing’s lifespan surged past nine hundred years as the markets saw heavy consumption.
• Ren Qing overheard that Hu Wen planned to lead the Demon Sect to the Bottomless Pit to rescue the trapped Toad Demonic Beasts.

Hu Wen led Jin Mao, Zhang Yi, and two fox demons into the Bottomless Pit to investigate Old Toad and gather clues for the Demon Immortal. They found the cave transformed by the Heavenly Demon aura, and after Old Toad revealed himself as a Black Goat, the four demons were overwhelmed and their cries fell silent.

• Hu Wen gathered Jin Mao and the other demons at the Bottomless Pit, then used Human skin Daoist robes to protect them from its Heavenly Demon aura.
• The group entered the cave and found severed limbs embedded in shifting Stone Walls; one fox demon was swallowed, and Jin Mao barely escaped being dragged inside.
• Hu Wen guided the remaining demons deeper, where they saw the cave changing and encountered Old Toad among corpses and summoning patterns.
• Old Toad shed his skin and became a Black Goat, distorting the cave and forcing Hu Wen to deploy a mushroom artifact for protection.
• Hundreds of toad demons emerged from the walls and transformed into Black Goats, burying the four demons beneath the Heavenly Demon aura as their cries faded.

Ren Qing advanced to the Yang God Realm, learned the stages that lay ahead, and discovered that demons who had entered the Bottomless Pit were in danger. He transformed into a black dragon and left Wuwei City to investigate.

• Ren Qing consumed the Wine Mine, then merged with his Ghost Shadow and completed his advancement to the Yang God Realm, destroying his courtyard in the process.
• Ren Qing learned that reaching Myriad Yang Immortal required advancing all his secondary Arts, while later realms involved fusing his Eerie Objects.
• Ren Qing found Hu Wen, Zhang Yi, and two other demons wandering the Demon Market in distress, but they vanished after he restored their clarity and heard them warn that something was in the Bottomless Pit.
• Ren Qing decided to investigate the Bottomless Pit, transformed into a hundred-meter black dragon, and broke through Wuwei City's barrier.
• Song Zongwu watched Ren Qing depart and wondered whether the Eye-less Method was truly his greatest specialty.

Hu Wen and Zhang Yi nearly became Black Goats under the Heavenly Demon aura before Ren Qing arrived and absorbed much of it. Ren Qing found the aura’s source in a transformed Eerie Object embedded in the Stone Wall, where an infant’s cries suggested the Rabbit Toad Cultivator of the Waning Moon Layer might have descended early.

• Hu Wen woke beside Jin Mao and discovered that the Heavenly Demon aura was transforming them into Black Goats.
• Hu Wen found Zhang Yi alive, but the fox demon had dissolved into pus, and Jin Mao later chose suicide in despair.
• A flesh-and-blood altar stirred, and Hu Wen and Zhang Yi began losing control as the Black Goats charged toward them.
• Ren Qing entered the cave, used the Ghost Shadow to suppress the aberration, dissolved the severed limbs with pseudo-dragon blood, and drew Hu Wen and Zhang Yi into the Demon Market.
• Ren Qing expanded the Ghost Shadow across the Bottomless Pit, then pursued the Heavenly Demon aura to its source: a birdlike Eerie Object partly transformed into a Black Goat and embedded in the Stone Wall.
• Ren Qing heard an infant crying inside the Eerie Object and suspected that the Rabbit Toad Cultivator of the Waning Moon Layer had descended early.

Ren Qing destroyed the Black Goat at the Bottomless Pit with sustained lightning and warned Li Tiangang that the altar’s summoning had gone awry. They planned to prepare Wuwei City for possible migration, while Ren Qing considered ways to exploit the altar and strengthen the Netherworld Cultivation Method.

• Ren Qing fought the Black Goat, which repeatedly healed by absorbing Heavenly Demon aura, and finally reduced it to ashes with sustained lightning.
• Li Yaoyang’s Gu Insects found the Bottomless Pit devastated, and Li Yaoyang reported the damage to Li Tiangang.
• Ren Qing told Li Tiangang about the Black Goat and the altar, prompting them to discuss preparing Wuwei City for long-distance migration as an Eerie Fetus Artifact.
• Ren Qing considered whether he could reverse the altar’s patterns to summon the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm, but recognized the idea’s risks and difficulties.
• Ren Qing planned to refine the imprisoned Great Saint of White Bones into a flesh-and-blood artifact like the Dragon Tree.

Ren Qing organized Wuwei City's defenses, aided several allies, and advanced Dao Dao Dao to Snail Dojo while preparing for the coming immortal descent. The chapter ended with him refining a transparent artifact capable of collecting Nether Essence from tens of thousands of people.

• Ren Qing advised Li Tiangang to refine Wuwei City's walls and ground separately, and Jailer Hall began the work across the city.
• Ren Qing used the Immortal Market's Nether Essence to strengthen the Heavenly Dao Worm and had the Ghost Shadow refine the Great Saint of White Bones into an artifact.
• Ren Qing freed Hu Wen and Zhang Yi, warned them about their unstable bodies, and gave them Eerie Objects and Eerie Dust to help them survive the coming calamity.
• Ren Qing advanced Dao Dao Dao to Snail Dojo, expanding the Eternal Prison and giving it distinct seasons.
• Ren Qing used the artifact made from the Great Saint of White Bones to create a transparent fungus-tree vessel for collecting Nether Essence.

Ren Qing learned that the Rabbit Toad Cultivator had descended into Qingqiu and was feeding on fox demons while recovering from its ruined state. He tasked Li Tiangang with secretly sealing anomalous entities and continued refining his own power as the Primordial Transformation approached.

• Hu Wen and Zhang Yi witnessed Ren Qing's White Bone Glazed Top cover Wuwei City, then parted ways to investigate separate factions.
• Hu Wen returned to Qingqiu and discovered that fox demons were collecting blood for a wounded figure inside Great Grandmother's cave.
• Hu Wen identified the figure as the Rabbit Toad Cultivator and secretly recorded the altar's patterns before fleeing Qingqiu.
• Hu Wen reported his discoveries to Ren Qing, who concluded that the Rabbit Toad Cultivator had descended into the Waning Moon Layer to recover by consuming flesh and blood.
• Ren Qing asked Li Tiangang to secretly seal anomalous entities while he refined them into Artifacts and stabilized the Mirror Immortal.
• Ren Qing learned that the giant tree in the Immortality Forbidden Zone had grown to a hundred meters and continued his seclusion while preparing for the approaching Primordial Transformation.

Ren Qing completed the Storyteller and Mirror Immortal’s Eerie Transformations, then advanced Dao Dao Dao and the Six Maladies Method. As Li Tiangang led cultivators to confront the anomalous horrors near Wuwei City, Ren Qing tested his new Nightmare ability and discovered it could nourish dream Artifacts.

• Ren Qing chose Fostering and Plant Demon for the Storyteller, and Glazed, Phantom Body, and True Illusion for the Mirror Immortal.
• Ren Qing asked Li Tiangang to leave the Demon Beasts alive for Eternal Prison, and Li Tiangang agreed.
• Ren Qing advanced Dao Dao Dao to Tank Dojo, expanding Eternal Prison and accelerating its flow of time.
• Ren Qing chose Layered Dreams, Prolonged Dreams, and Nightmare for the Six Maladies Method.
• Ren Qing tested Nightmare on Kunpeng and absorbed its fear, which produced Nightmare Demon aura that began changing the Dream Seed.
• Li Tiangang led cultivators out to seal the anomalous horrors surrounding Wuwei City.

The Jailer Hall suppressed Anomalies near Wuwei City with help from Zhang Yi’s tiger demons, while Ren Qing studied an altar and an Earth Immortal’s worm molt. As demon beast attacks intensified, Ren Qing warned that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators were trying to saturate Jing Province with demon qi, and Song Zongwu agreed to draw the Heavenly Demons into the province; the chapter ended with the possibility that the Beast Tides had gathered every demon beast in Jing Province.

• Li Tiangang led a sand ship from Wuwei City and suppressed a pangolin-like Anomaly while Zhang Yi’s tiger demons attacked the lizard demons.
• Zhang Yi led the Jailer Hall to two more nearby Anomaly factions, and the tiger demons departed after the Anomalies were sealed.
• Ren Qing received three Anomalies and more than two hundred demon beasts, placed them in Eternal Prison, and assigned them to gather materials while he studied the altar and tried to pseudo-dragonize the worm molt.
• As demon beast attacks grew stronger and more frequent, Ren Qing gathered the Yin Messenger Realm cultivators and warned that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators were using the attacks to increase the demon qi in Jing Province.
• Song Zongwu approved Ren Qing’s plan to summon Black Goats into the Waning Moon Layer and draw the Heavenly Demons into Jing Province, while the Jailer Hall prepared defenses.
• The chapter ended with Wuwei City appearing to benefit from the Beast Tides, though Ren Qing wondered whether they had gathered every demon beast in Jing Province.