Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing completed the Insect Molt Pseudo-Dragon and returned to find Wuwei City under a desperate demon beast siege. After helping power the White Bone Glazed Top, he flew out to place the anomalies and discovered the dangerous Rabbit Toad Cultivator Xuan Gongyue watching the battle.

• Ren Qing sorted out the Moon Patterns and completed the Heavenly Demon transformation of the three anomalies, creating an Insect Molt Pseudo-Dragon.
• Ren Qing learned that Wuwei City’s defenders were exhausted and fed the Insect Molt into the White Bone Glazed Top to supply it with Nether Essence.
• Ren Qing saw the demon beasts battering Wuwei City’s walls, while Han Li stopped a fallen Forbidden Guard’s Eerie Object from reviving.
• Ren Qing flew beyond the siege to place the anomalies and summoned Hu Wen and the other demon beasts to a sheltered spot.
• Ren Qing discovered Xuan Gongyue, a nearly Yang God Realm Rabbit Toad Cultivator, seated on a White Bone Throne and devouring demon beasts.

Ren Qing used Heavenly Demon aura to create Black Goats and a Fleshified valley, then unleashed the creatures against the Rabbit Toad Cultivators. Their spreading destruction disrupted the beast tide, leaving Jingzhou in growing chaos as the Rabbit Toad Cultivators responded.

• Ren Qing watched Xuan Gongyue create four Demon Kings and warned Song Zongwu that they were attacking Wuwei City.
• Ren Qing cultivated vegetation demons in a secluded valley and released a Heavenly Demon-transformed Anomalous Heavenly Demon underground.
• Ren Qing lured five demon beasts to a forest, transformed four into Black Goats, and captured the fleeing Fan Liu in Eternal Prison.
• Ren Qing learned from Fan Liu's memories that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators planned to use the Waning Moon Layer as a springboard to reach the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm.
• Ren Qing planted two more Anomalous Heavenly Demons in the valley and left after Wugui concealed its presence.
• Black Goats caused successive eruptions of Heavenly Demon aura, stalling the beast tide and forcing the Rabbit Toad Cultivators to respond.

Hu Wen and Zhang Yi led a procession of pseudo-demons toward Wuwei City after the Tongtian River’s Water Immortal offered them a deadly refuge. After surviving the journey, they arrived at Wuwei City, whose grotesque inhabitants and bloody work appeared to the exhausted demonic beasts as an Immortal Palace.

• Hu Wen and Zhang Yi watched the pseudo-demons approach the Tongtian River, where the Whale Water Immortal transformed some arrivals into Water Demons while others died and became coral nourishment.
• Wu Qingyue impaled the Whale Water Immortal with a stone pillar, and aquatic demonic beasts stormed the river and destroyed the coral palaces.
• Hu Wen and Zhang Yi used Zhang Yi’s illusion to divert the procession south, and Hu Wen persuaded some of the demonic beasts to follow his lead toward Wuwei City.
• Hu Wen taught the pseudo-demons the Jailer Method and guided the procession through Black Goat attacks, losing hundreds of demonic beasts and many of Zhang Yi’s eyes.
• A Black Dragon carried the survivors through the clouds to Wuwei City, where Hu Wen declared that its demon immortals offered the only place to cultivate.

Ren Qing brought demon beasts into Wuwei City and used Ghost Shadow to transform the city walls and ground into a vast artifact, then demonstrated the artifact spirit method to Jailer Hall’s cultivators. As he entered seclusion to advance the Four-headed Heavenly Dao Worm, he discovered that the giant tree in the Immortality Forbidden Zone had grown through its well opening and spread branches toward Jingzhou.

• Ren Qing arranged for Hu Wen to lead able demon beasts into city work, while aged and frail ones were placed in Eternal Prison.
• Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to refine Wuwei City’s walls and ground, strengthening the city against the demon beast tide.
• Ren Qing inscribed the artifact spirit patterns across Wuwei City and demonstrated the artifact spirit method to Jailer Hall’s cultivators.
• The demon beasts withdrew more than a hundred li from Wuwei City, giving its exhausted defenders a chance to rest.
• The Four-headed Heavenly Dao Worm reached Nascent Soul Grand Completion, and Ren Qing entered seclusion to help it absorb Nether Essence.
• Ren Qing discovered that the giant tree in the Immortality Forbidden Zone had grown through the well opening, with its branches and leaves facing Jingzhou.

Ren Qing advanced his Heavenly Dao Method to the Spirit Severing stage while Wuwei City prepared for renewed danger from the Beast Tide and the Blood Moon. After testing the Four-headed Heavenly Dao Worm's ability to parasitize another host, he heard the city's warning horn and returned to seclusion.

• Xiao San'er placed the Martial Human Realm Taotie Method Eerie Fetus in Wuwei City, which absorbed it and became harder.
• Li Tiangang used Demon Beast blood to nourish Wuwei City, while Song Zongwu and Great Dream True Person prepared defenses and discussed a possible retreat from Jing Province.
• Song Zongwu sensed an aura near the Yang God Realm within the White Bone Glazed Top and realized Ren Qing was nearing a breakthrough.
• Ren Qing advanced the Four-headed Heavenly Dao Worm to the Spirit Severing stage and tested its ability to parasitize a wild wolf through the storyteller's ability.
• The Beast Tide struck again as the Blood Moon drew part of the Forbidden Zones into the Waning Moon Layer, and Ren Qing returned to seclusion.

While a beast tide threatened Wuwei City, Ren Qing used his remaining lifespan to advance several Arts to the Yang God Realm and began sensing the path toward fusing Eerie Objects. The defenders then faced the arrival of a chained corpse elephant, whose appearance marked a dangerous escalation in the siege.

• Ren Qing chose Ancient Storyteller Master, gaining the ability to parasitize others without consuming his own lifespan, though the host paid twice the usual cost.
• Ren Qing advanced the Dragon Snake Spine to Coiled Dragon Shedding and the Human Skin Book to Primal Fetus Membrane, gaining a dragon pearl and skin that adapted to foreign auras.
• Ren Qing advanced the Armored Physique Art to Spirit Marrow Bone Immortal, gaining bones that could form armor and weapons and endure briefly without flesh.
• Ren Qing sensed connections forming between five Eerie Objects as the Yang God Realm Arts advanced, while Song Zongwu and the Great Dream True Person watched his breakthroughs.
• A storm and a wave of corpse-tainted demon aura swept toward Wuwei City, and Han Li identified the chained giant emerging from the mist as a corpse elephant.

Demon aura from the corpse elephant transformed corpses and drove the Beast Tide into a desperate assault on Wuwei City. The elephant exploded after the defenders brought it down, damaging the city and injuring its fighters, while Wuwei City’s artifact spirit grew stronger and Xiao San'er began integrating the Half-Corpse Realm Eerie fetus.

• The corpse elephant released dense demon aura that transformed battlefield corpses and made the demon beasts charge Wuwei City, overwhelming the defenders.
• Li Tiangang ordered fire-wielding Forbidden Guards to burn the corpses, while Li Yaoyang, Miss Bai, Chen Haoyu, Li Mo, and other Yin Messenger Realm cultivators reinforced the city walls.
• Xuan Gongyue, Wu Qingyue, and Tu Muyue watched the battle from a cliff, and Wu Qingyue proposed refining Wuwei City's residents into Demon Spirits.
• The corpse elephant approached Wuwei City, and Miss Bai, Chen Haoyu, and Li Yaoyang attacked it until it crashed near the southern wall.
• The corpse elephant exploded, badly injuring Chen Haoyu and Li Yaoyang and damaging Wuwei City, but its artifact spirit consciousness grew stronger from the demon aura.
• Xiao San'er began integrating the Half-Corpse Realm Eerie fetus as Wuwei City transformed, and a more frenzied Beast Tide surged toward it.

Ren Qing emerged from seclusion as the defenders of Wuwei City prepared to counterattack the Rabbit Toad Cultivators and use their bodies to strengthen the city. Song Zongwu engaged Tu Muyue, Great Dream True Person confronted Wu Qingyue, and Xuan Gongyue rushed toward Wuwei City.

• Xuan Gongyue transformed the reluctant demonic beasts into mindless monsters and sent them charging into Wuwei City.
• Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu revealed their plan to kill the three Rabbit Toad Cultivators and blood-refine Wuwei City, then waited for Ren Qing to awaken.
• Ren Qing emerged from seclusion, accepted Great Dream True Person's plan, and agreed it was time for Jailer Hall to leave Jing Province.
• Song Zongwu unleashed his Wrathful Asura form and charged into the Beast Tide, then fought Tu Muyue as the two devastated the surrounding terrain.
• Great Dream True Person confronted Wu Qingyue, trapping her in the stamen of a flower as she began petrifying it.
• Xuan Gongyue rushed toward Wuwei City, assembling demonic beasts' flesh and bones onto his body and declaring that Jing Province belonged to the Taiyin Star Lord.

Xuan Gongyue attacked Wuwei City with his monstrous body and swarms of flesh demons until Li Tiangang awakened a new divine ability to protect the city. Ren Qing revealed his overwhelming power and fought Xuan Gongyue, leaving the battle unresolved as he prepared another attack.

• Xuan Gongyue assaulted Wuwei City's walls with flesh demons and bloody water while Li Tiangang struggled to hold him back.
• Li Tiangang advanced to Yin Messenger Realm Grand Completion and used Hundred Cities of Books to distort the city and divert the blood rain.
• Ren Qing transformed into a lightning dragon, revealed his power to the city, and struck Xuan Gongyue with Judgment of Death.
• Xuan Gongyue transformed into a demonic banyan tree and sent swarms of Rabbit Toads to attack Ren Qing's lightning dragons.
• Ren Qing's lightning dragons adapted to demonic qi, and his Ghost Shadow became a huge coiling dragon that clashed with Xuan Gongyue.
• A judge's block thundered from the clouds as Ren Qing and Xuan Gongyue continued fighting.

Ren Qing killed Xuan Gongyue and discovered that the Rabbit Toad Cultivators relied on moonfall vessels, while Great Dream True Person and Song Zongwu defeated their own opponents. As Wuwei City underwent blood refinement, the Blood Moon’s corruption spread across the Waning Moon Layer, and a strange sapling appeared beyond the Immortality Forbidden Zone.

• Ren Qing used his arts to destroy Xuan Gongyue’s body, removed the moonfall from his abdomen, and sent his corpse back to Wuwei City for blood refinement.
• Ren Qing examined the moonfall and concluded that Rabbit Toad Cultivators used it as a weakness and that their Moon Devouring Method refined artifact bodies.
• Great Dream True Person trapped Wu Qingyue in layered dreams, drained her lifespan, and removed the moonfall from her petrified corpse.
• Song Zongwu found the moonfall inside Tu Muyue, struck it with a coordinated attack, and killed him before returning to Wuwei City with Great Dream True Person.
• Song Zongwu and Great Dream True Person saw that blood refinement had begun in Wuwei City and that the Blood Moon’s black spots were spreading as Heavenly Demon Anomalies appeared across the Waning Moon Layer.
• A sapling grew from a well beyond the Immortality Forbidden Zone, with its leaves facing Jing Province.

Ren Qing helped Wuwei City absorb a Ghost Envoy Realm Eerie Fetus while Jailer Hall prepared to evacuate Xiangxiang from a devastated Jing Province. He uncovered how Moonfall stored Rabbit Toad Cultivators’ memories and concluded that the Blood Moon was an independent Earth Immortal-level artifact as Wuwei City completed its transformation.

• Ren Qing used two Yang God Realm Rabbit Toad Cultivator corpses to help Wuwei City’s artifact spirit contain a Ghost Envoy Realm Eerie Fetus.
• Song Zongwu returned with a transformed Rabbit Toad Cultivator head and reported that Jing Province was lifeless, prompting Jailer Hall to prepare to evacuate Xiangxiang.
• Ren Qing erased the consciousness of the Spirit of the Hill Eerie Object and fed its Eerie Fetus to Wuwei City.
• Ren Qing examined Moonfall and learned that it stored Rabbit Toad Cultivators’ memories and supported their Moon Devouring Method cultivation.
• Ren Qing concluded that the Blood Moon was an independent Earth Immortal-level artifact, and Wuwei City completed its transformation into the Ghost Envoy Realm.

Ren Qing led Wuwei City away from Jing Province as the blood moon descended and showed signs of awakening into a terrifying artifact. When the Giant Rabbit Toad’s rampage awakened the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm, Wuwei City fled at full speed with its inhabitants stripping the city to lighten its load.

• Ren Qing used the Ghost Shadow’s lightning to free Wuwei City from the demonic qi binding it to the ground, then directed it toward Xiangxiang.
• Han Li and the cultivators saw the blood moon hanging over Jing Province, and Ren Qing realized it was being pulled toward the ground by the Heavenly Demon aura.
• Ren Qing observed the Giant Rabbit Toad feeding living beings to the blood moon and warned Song Zongwu and the others that it might be an artifact activating.
• The cultivators sealed Wuwei City and prepared defenses as the blood moon followed them and its Moon Patterns began to flow.
• The blood moon revived into a malicious, one-eyed face as the Giant Rabbit Toad rampaged through Jing Province and awakened the Earth Immortal Heavenly Dao Worm.
• Wuwei City fled faster while the cultivators dismantled buildings and sent their contents into the Eternal Prison to reduce its weight.

As Wuwei City fled Jing Province for Xiangxiang, Ren Qing saw the Giant Rabbit Toad recover and head toward Yellow Sand City, raising fears that it might discover survivors. In Xiangxiang, a vast network of diseased vines erupted from the ground, lifting and destroying Sanxiang City and every other town and village.

• Wuwei City fed on provisions from the streets and pushed through the sandstorm toward Xiangxiang.
• The Giant Rabbit Toad healed itself by devouring demon beasts, then headed toward Yellow Sand City as Ren Qing worried about civilians left behind.
• Jailer Hall prepared to evacuate Xiangxiang while unrest spread through its towns.
• Huang Ziwang found a diseased vine outside Sanxiang City, and touching it gave him a Chronic Illness.
• Vines erupted beneath Xiangxiang, formed a gigantic arm, and overturned Sanxiang City and every other town and village, including the airborne sandships.

Ren Qing and Wuwei City were pursued by the Giant Rabbit Toad as they crossed the Gobi and reached the ruined Xiangxiang, while contact with Abhidi Hell and Xiangxiang was lost. At the Immortality Forbidden Zone, the sapling in the well grew into a scarred humanoid figure, and the Man in the Well's appearance sent Jing Province into turmoil.

• The Giant Rabbit Toad devoured the Dao Officers and remaining people in Yellow Sand City before charging into the sandstorm toward Wuwei City.
• Ren Qing and Song Zongwu fought off the Giant Rabbit Toad while the Great Dream True Person reported that contact with Abhidi Hell and Xiangxiang was lost.
• Ren Qing used the Ghost Ship and a vast store of flesh and wild beasts to help Wuwei City escape the Giant Rabbit Toad temporarily.
• Wuwei City reached Heshantown and found Xiangxiang reduced to a barren ruin, while the Giant Rabbit Toad released a miniature Blood Moon that spread demonic aura.
• Vines and flesh seized the miniature Blood Moon, and the sapling in the well grew into a giant humanoid covered in Chronic Illness as Jing Province erupted into turmoil.

Ren Qing and the others learned that Jailer Hall’s founder, Chen Changsheng, had entered the Immortality Forbidden Zone to seek advancement and had pulled Xiangxiang inside to save himself. After Chen Changsheng confronted the Blood Moon and unleashed a plague in the marsh, Ren Qing set out to find the Corpse Scripture and pursue immortality.

• The Man in the Well destroyed the Giant Rabbit Toad and moved the small Blood Moon away from Wuwei City, while Ren Qing explained that Xiangxiang’s people were inside the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• A poison outbreak struck Wuwei City, and Ren Qing sent the city into the Eternal Prison to protect its cultivators.
• Chen Changsheng transmitted memories revealing that he had founded Jailer Hall, entered the Immortality Forbidden Zone as a Longevity Species, and pulled Xiangxiang inside in an effort to save himself.
• After Chen Changsheng’s brain collapsed, Ren Qing, Song Zongwu, and Great Dream True Person agreed to meet again in a hundred years, and Ren Qing left to seek the Corpse Scripture.
• Chen Changsheng fought the Blood Moon’s demonic beasts with plague pathogens as Ren Qing watched from the marsh’s edge and continued north.

Ren Qing traveled through the Bottomless Abyss toward Cishi, while considering the food shortages in the Eternal Prison and Immortality Forbidden Zone. After finding a vast mass of mutilated corpses, he continued deeper without discovering what had caused them.

• Ren Qing monitored the Eternal Prison and Immortality Forbidden Zone, where dwindling food supplies threatened thousands of cultivators and mortals.
• Ren Qing planned to reach Cishi by crossing the Bottomless Abyss and prepared a Fetal Flesh artifact to conceal himself.
• Ren Qing entered the Bottomless Abyss, using the Disaster Aversion Method and Mirror Immortal's illusion to hide his presence.
• Ren Qing found corpses thrown into the abyss and discovered they had been force-fed water mixed with metal before being mutilated.
• Ren Qing traveled through the abyss for several days and passed tens of thousands of corpses, growing numb to the sight.

Ren Qing encountered Buddha Corpses in the Bottomless Abyss and discovered they were created by fragments of the Maitreya Skin and White Bone Scriptures. He suspected a long-standing Buddhist anomaly in Ci and continued toward it while strengthening his resistance to Buddha qi.

• Ren Qing summoned the ghost ship after finding mangled corpses and used the Ghost Shadow to capture three monsters carrying murmuring Flesh and Blood Statues.
• Ren Qing identified the monsters as Buddha Corpses formed from the Maitreya Skin Scripture and realized their statues caused the corpses to move.
• Ren Qing cut the statues from the Buddha Corpses, turning them into ordinary corpses and revealing that the statues were pieces of Buddha Skin.
• Ren Qing considered the danger of the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva's inheritance and decided to travel to Ci to investigate the abnormality.
• Ren Qing found Bone-Extraction Buddha Corpses formed from the Maitreya White Bone Scripture and began eroding his skin with Buddha qi to strengthen the Primal Fetus Membrane before continuing.

Ren Qing discovered that Chen Changsheng had hidden the small Blood Moon and the Abhidi Hell within the Longevity Tree, giving him a path toward protecting Jailer Hall and studying the Rebirth Art. After mastering the Moon Patterns needed to fuse them, Ren Qing realized the ghost ship had drifted deep into a region of the Bottomless Abyss feared even by Chen Changsheng and turned back as white light appeared.

• Ren Qing used the Buddha Qi from the Buddhist Dream Seed to temper his Primal Fetus Membrane while traveling through the Bottomless Abyss.
• Ren Qing found the small Blood Moon, identified as the Eight Directions Demonic Realm, concealed near the Longevity Tree's roots in the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• Ren Qing discovered that Chen Changsheng had hidden the Abhidi Hell inside the Eight Directions Demonic Realm and planned to fuse them to strengthen Jailer Hall and explore the Rebirth Art.
• Ren Qing studied the Moon Patterns until he learned how to inscribe them onto the Abhidi Hell and improve his Eerie Fetus Artifact Forging Method.
• Ren Qing realized the ghost ship had entered the Bottomless Abyss's feared heartland and turned it around when faint white light appeared in the darkness.

Ren Qing encountered a deceptive Giant Corpse Buddha in the Bottomless Abyss, then entered the Immortality Forbidden Zone and fused Abhidi Hell with the Eight Directions Demonic Realm. He obtained the Rebirth Art and left the Forbidden Guards able to control their Eerie Objects again, while the Split Soul continued studying the Moon Patterns.

• Ren Qing saw a magnificent Buddha statue reveal itself as a Giant Corpse Buddha concealing a pile of struggling corpses, and he steered the ghost ship away.
• Ren Qing prepared a cave near the discarded corpses and sent his Main Soul consciousness into the Immortality Forbidden Zone as a Split Soul.
• Ren Qing inscribed Moon Patterns on Abhidi Hell, fused it with the Eight Directions Demonic Realm, and renamed the artifact the Forbidden Realm.
• Ren Qing used the Forbidden Realm to connect with the Longevity Tree, discovered signs that the Fu and Lu Immortals were reviving, and obtained the Rebirth Art.
• Ren Qing returned to his main body at dawn, and the Forbidden Realm restored Jailer Method cultivators' control over their Eerie Objects.

Ren Qing chose the Reborn branch of the Rebirth Art and promoted it to the Ghost Envoy Realm, then linked its Rebirth Pagoda to the Eternal Prison. As a hundred-meter Buddha corpse climbed out of the Bottomless Abyss, the Stomach World began a powerful transformation.

• Ren Qing examined the Rebirth Art’s three branches and searched Weian Town’s records for clues about their effects.
• After learning that the Rebirth Art Wraiths of the Longevity Species might follow the Reincarnator path, Ren Qing rejected Reincarnator and chose Reborn.
• Ren Qing discovered that Reborn extracted his vitality to place him in a feigned-death state, which could last no more than five days.
• Ren Qing promoted Rebirth Pagoda to the Ghost Envoy Realm and decided to make the Rebirth Art a secondary Art of the Taotie Method rather than the Corpse Scripture.
• A hundred-meter Buddha corpse climbed up from the Bottomless Abyss as the Rebirth Pagoda was swallowed by the Eternal Prison, causing the Stomach World to transform dramatically.