Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing advanced Rebirth Art to the Yin Messenger Realm, then broke through Eternal Prison to Releasing Yin God and spent over two years fusing Eerie Transformations. As Buddha corpses grew larger and food shortages worsened, he left seclusion to investigate Ci Shi and the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

• Ren Qing transformed Rebirth Pagoda into a bamboo forest that gathered vitality and death aura, and he chose Life Preservation, Corpse Storage, and Bamboo Artifact as its Eerie Transformations.
• Ren Qing advanced Rebirth Art to the Yin Messenger Realm, expanding the bamboo forest’s reach across Eternal Prison and allowing him to use vitality and death aura to heal or attack.
• Ren Qing sacrificed the Split Soul to the Longevity Tree, restored his lifespan beyond five hundred years, and advanced Eternal Prison to Releasing Yin God.
• Ren Qing began fusing Eerie Transformations in seclusion, completing six over more than two years as Buddha corpses near the surface grew to two hundred meters tall.
• Ren Qing saw that Eternal Prison’s food supply had become barely self-sufficient while the Immortality Forbidden Zone faced severe shortages, and he climbed toward the surface to check on Ci Shi and ask about the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing emerged from the Bottomless Abyss into Heavenly Heaven, a town where the Ci clan’s monks worshipped the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva. By observing Great Master Huiwu’s transformation into a corpse whose bones resembled gold, Ren Qing began to suspect the clan had a method of extending lifespan, but the truth remained dangerous and unclear.

• Ren Qing sensed the Buddhist aura’s hidden decay and resentment as he climbed through the Bottomless Abyss, then used his Double Pupils to survey Heavenly Heaven.
• Ren Qing discovered that the town held only male monks and children, and learned through Information Flow that Great Master Huiwu was three years old despite his elderly appearance and had a lifespan of over a thousand years.
• Great Master Huiwu mistook Ren Qing for the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, absorbed the surrounding Buddhist aura, and began dying as nearby monks gathered to chant.
• Monks from Vajra Temple dressed Huiwu and carried him to the Bottomless Abyss, where they sealed him in an earthen jar and burned him while he pleaded for help.
• After Huiwu died, the monks removed his bones, which shone like gold, while Ren Qing inferred that the Ci clan might possess a method of extending lifespan.

Ren Qing discovered that Heavenly Heaven's monks were trapped in a cycle where each day aged them by a year, and he began considering whether a convincing puppet could let him steal their lifespan. Meanwhile, cultivators in the Great Dream Market struggled to refine the Moon Devouring Method, until Li Yaoyang gave Xiao San'er a Heavenly Dao Worm Egg to study; the chapter ended as Ren Qing heard something climbing out of the Bottomless Abyss again.

• Ren Qing watched Heavenly Heaven and learned that its monks lived without ordinary desires, while Vajra Temple ground Huiwu's bones into powder.
• At sunrise, Ren Qing saw the monks age rapidly and realized that three days carried them through a cycle from childhood to old age and rebirth.
• Ren Qing examined Buddha Bone and Buddha Skin, then considered refining a lifelike puppet to exploit the monks' lifespan.
• Ren Qing released the Moon Devouring Method in the Great Dream Market, where cultivators struggled with its demanding artifact-refining techniques.
• Li Yaoyang showed Xiao San'er a revived Heavenly Dao Worm Egg, and Xiao San'er took it to study as a possible material for Moonfall.
• Ren Qing heard something climbing from the Bottomless Abyss while he was about to review the cultivators' findings.

Ren Qing watched a Buddha corpse rise from the Bottomless Abyss and discovered that Cishi’s monks lived in separate childhood, adulthood, and old-age states as part of a cycle tied to the Buddha corpses. After witnessing the corpse’s transformation and the monks’ brutal rituals, he chose to avoid entering Cishi’s scheme for now and retreat deeper into the abyss.

• Ren Qing concealed his presence and observed as monks gathered to welcome a flayed Buddha corpse from the Bottomless Abyss.
• Ren Qing used Jueyi’s memories to learn that Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva divided the monks’ memories among childhood, adulthood, and old age, while the Buddha aura drove many monks mad.
• The monks killed Jueyi and others, then used Buddha Soul, Buddha Skin, and Buddha bones to restore the corpse’s appearance and gild it.
• The Buddha corpse walked to a mountain, merged into it, and revealed a cycle that linked monks sitting in death, Buddha corpses rising from the abyss, and the mountain-like vats.
• Ren Qing decided against entering Cishi’s scheme for now and used the Ghost Shadow to expand his cavern in the Bottomless Abyss so he could cultivate and study the Moon Patterns.

Ren Qing completed his final Eerie Transformation Fusion and reached Yin Messenger Realm Grand Completion, while using Shore Flowers and the King of Firewood in the Furnace to produce Pseudo Souls. He discovered that his new supernatural ability, Dharma Form Manifestation, differed from the transformation he remembered and was tied to the stomach world.

• Ren Qing sealed himself inside a hidden cave abode and spent more than two months completing his ninth Eerie Transformation Fusion despite a Buddha corpse disturbing his seclusion.
• Ren Qing asked Jiang Feng to cultivate Shore Flowers, then used the King of Firewood in the Furnace to consume them and produce Pseudo Souls.
• Ren Qing spent 567 years of lifespan fusing Eternal Prison's final Eerie Transformation Branches and advanced to Yin Messenger Realm Grand Completion.
• Ren Qing examined the Pseudo Souls and confirmed that they could nourish souls but carried a risk of Aberration.
• Ren Qing discovered that his new supernatural ability was called Dharma Form Manifestation and realized that its stomach-world-based form differed from the ability in his past-life myths.

Ren Qing tested his newly condensed Dharma Form Manifestation, discovering that he could manifest Wuwei City's walls and its cultivators across his body without weakening their abilities. He then began refining a Flesh and Blood Puppet from a Heavenly Dao Worm Egg and prepared Moonfall as a Pseudo-Dragon, leaving him waiting for an opportunity to use it.

• Ren Qing manifested traits from several Prison Guards and began merging Wuwei City's walls into his body.
• The manifested city walls appeared across Ren Qing's shoulders, alarming Han Li, Xiao San'er, Chen Haoyu, and the other cultivators until Ren Qing reassured them.
• Ren Qing tested the manifested cultivators' strength and confirmed that damage to the manifested walls would not harm Wuwei City in Eternal Prison.
• Ren Qing considered Dharma Form Manifestation's limits and resumed refining Flesh and Blood Puppets to pursue Heavenly Heaven's opportunity.
• Ren Qing fused a Pseudo Soul into a Heavenly Dao Worm Egg, shaped the result into a Magical Artifact Soul, and transformed Moonfall into a Pseudo-Dragon.

Ren Qing sent the Moon-Falling Pseudo-Dragon toward Outer Heaven to infiltrate Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva’s domain and help him steal lifespan. The creature survived the city’s Buddha energy and entered Outer Heaven, while Ren Qing wondered why that energy behaved differently from the Deer-Riding Arhat Buddha energy.

• Ren Qing waited for the Moon-Falling Pseudo-Dragon to reach Outer Heaven, intending to use it to steal lifespan.
• Old Monk Kudū led tens of thousands of refugees toward Outer Heaven, while Black Tiger threatened the monks and the procession’s women and children.
• The Moon-Falling Pseudo-Dragon emerged from the darkness and burrowed into Black Tiger, leaving him to continue with the refugees unharmed.
• Outer Heaven’s Buddha energy killed the women, children, and mountain bandits, while Black Tiger survived and Old Monk Kudū died just outside the city.
• The surviving refugees entered Outer Heaven with their cognitions distorted, and Ren Qing confirmed that the Moon-Falling Pseudo-Dragon had infiltrated the city.

Ren Qing investigated Heavenly Heaven’s Buddha energy through Black Tiger and suspected that the mountains sealed the Buddha corpses of past cultivators. As Black Tiger’s three age-based consciousnesses merged and he met the conditions for nirvana, Ren Qing planned to steal lifespan and leave Cishi.

• Ren Qing learned that Heavenly Heaven’s Buddha energy turned its residents into Indestructible Golden Bodies and suspected it was gathering vessels for a reincarnated Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.
• Ren Qing examined Black Tiger’s memories and discovered that Buddha energy had created childhood, prime-of-life, and elderly consciousnesses, with the elderly one named Wu'ai at Golden Light Temple.
• Ren Qing learned that Cishi’s fiends and ghosts grew more dangerous farther from Heavenly Heaven, and that Black Tiger had been a cannibalistic villain whose evil nature survived the Buddha energy.
• Ren Qing tested demonic Qi on Black Tiger’s heart and found that the Buddha energy searched for the Qi but ignored the independent heart and the moon-fall pseudo-dragon.
• Ren Qing suspected that the mountain ranges sealed the Buddha corpses of past cultivators and decided to gather lifespan to advance the Eternal Prison before escaping Cishi.
• Black Tiger’s heart remained strong as he aged, causing his childhood, prime-of-life, and elderly consciousnesses to merge and making him eligible to enter nirvana.

Ren Qing used the Moonfall Pseudo-Dragon to make Black Tiger’s consciousness merge, leading him to kill Wu Hui and enter seated death before his corpse was recovered and altered by Ren Qing. Ren Qing then infected No Thoughts with a fourth consciousness modeled on Black Tiger, but stopped before sending it into the Dream Market and considered creating a secondary small world instead.

• The Moonfall Pseudo-Dragon extracted Black Tiger’s memories, and Black Tiger awoke, killed Wu Hui, and entered seated death.
• No Thoughts ordered Black Tiger’s corpse placed in an earthen jar and thrown into the Bottomless Abyss, where Ghost Shadow retrieved it for Ren Qing.
• Ren Qing put a fragment of Buddha bone into Black Tiger’s corpse, fused his soul with his body, and attached the Flesh and Blood Statue.
• Ren Qing used the Moonfall Pseudo-Dragon to infect No Thoughts with a fourth consciousness modeled on Black Tiger and filled it with Black Tiger’s memories.
• When No Thoughts’s new consciousness emerged in his sleep, Ren Qing hesitated to send it into the Dream Market and considered constructing a secondary small world with Heaven and Earth Manifestation.

Ren Qing oversaw the forging of South Mountain into a small world that could be separated from the Eternal Prison and hidden within his body. After discovering that he could harvest lifespan from Heavenly Heaven monks through the small world, he began calculating how far he could advance before he had to stop.

• Ren Qing assigned Xiao San'er to lead the Jailer Hall in refining South Mountain into an Eerie Fetus Artifact, while he refined a second Moonfall Pseudo-Dragon.
• Xiao San'er recruited Han Li and Teng Ning, and Jiang Feng organized more than a thousand cultivators and eerie beasts to work on South Mountain.
• Han Li revealed his Shattered Stone Eerie Transformation and became a sandstorm to locate South Mountain's cracks and caves.
• Ren Qing used Dharma Form Manifestation to help refine South Mountain, added Moon Patterns and Eerie Fetuses to create a small world, and tested that it could conceal the Eternal Prison's aura when merged with his heart.
• Ren Qing tested lifespan extraction on hyenas, then pulled No Thoughts's consciousness into the small world and successfully took and returned a breath of lifespan.
• Ren Qing planned to spread dissociative identity disorder among hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Heaven monks, while weighing how much lifespan he could safely harvest.

Ren Qing used Moonfall Pseudo-Dragons to spread dissociative identity disorder among monks in Heavenly Heaven, then transformed the dream artifact by feeding it the nightmare aura of their malicious thoughts. The fused Soul Butterfly gained the ability to grow Dream Flowers, giving Ren Qing a more efficient and concealed way to infect the monks.

• Ren Qing sent five Moonfall Pseudo-Dragons into towns near Heavenly Heaven, but infected only a little over a hundred monks overnight because controlling them with the Six Maladies Method took too much effort.
• Two novice monks found Abbot No Thoughts suffering in his chambers, unaware that his consciousness had been transported to the South Mountain small world.
• Ren Qing discovered that the monks’ fourth consciousnesses had become monstrous malicious thoughts, which produced abundant nightmare aura but threatened to overwhelm their primary consciousnesses.
• The nightmare aura pushed the dream seeds and Soul Butterfly past their bottleneck, causing them to fuse into a new dream artifact named Soul Butterfly.
• Ren Qing learned that the fused artifact could grow Dream Flowers, which could build concealed dream markets and let him use the Six Maladies Method on multiple targets at once.

Ren Qing refined South Mountain into a Ghost Envoy Realm artifact and discovered he could gain vast amounts of lifespan by feeding the monks’ evil thoughts in its small world. After gaining nearly a thousand years in one night, he moved his cave abode deeper into the Bottomless Abyss to hide and prepare for a breakthrough.

• Ren Qing refined South Mountain’s chaotic artifact spirit with dream Arts, then let it devour an eerie fetus and advance to the Ghost Envoy Realm.
• He found that more than fifty thousand monks had developed dissociative identity disorder and tested drawing their evil thoughts into South Mountain’s small world.
• Ren Qing restrained the evil thoughts on prayer cushions and experimented with food, discovering that temple meals and then corpse limbs greatly increased the lifespan he gained.
• The evil thoughts mutated into monstrous forms during their feast, but when Ren Qing removed the dream, they returned to their hosts as the monks’ consciousnesses shifted.
• Ren Qing found his lifespan had reached 975 years and sailed the ghost ship into the depths of the Bottomless Abyss to relocate his cave abode and conceal himself.

Ren Qing watched dissociative identity disorder spread through Heavenly Heaven, where it drove monks to eat rotten rice and revealed that Buddha Qi had turned them into puppets. He uncovered Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva’s scheme to free souls from Buddha Qi and, after surviving a giant corpse Buddha in the Bottomless Abyss, prepared for his next plan in the South Mountain small world.

• Monks across Heavenly Heaven began cooking and ravenously eating rotten rice, and the hunger spread to the monks sent to stop them.
• Ren Qing hid in a cave in the Bottomless Abyss as a giant corpse Buddha passed nearby, then resumed excavating when it vanished.
• Ren Qing discovered that several hundred thousand monks had contracted dissociative identity disorder and realized Buddha Qi had absorbed their souls, leaving them as puppets with independent thought.
• Ren Qing concluded that Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva was using seated passing to free souls from Buddha Qi and transform some into enormous corpse Buddhas.
• Ren Qing avoided Buddhist spells and began preparing to use the South Mountain small world’s dream to improve his lifespan-extension efforts.

Ren Qing used the monks’ growing madness to gain lifespan, but a sudden influx of refugees forced him to delay his breakthrough and rescue them from the starving monks. He brought the refugees into Eternal Prison and began preparing to advance his Arts.

• Ren Qing drew monks with milder split personality disorder into the South Mountain small world, where their evil thoughts and flesh aberrations helped him gain lifespan.
• After reaching 1,978 years of lifespan, Ren Qing prepared to promote Eternal Prison to the Yang God Realm, but spotted tens of thousands of refugees approaching Heavenly Heaven.
• The elder master entered Heavenly Heaven alone and was devoured by the mad monks, while Ren Qing preserved his soul in the Flesh and Blood Furnace.
• Ren Qing sent the Ghost Shadow to take the refugees into Eternal Prison, where they found food and farming supplies and received the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method.
• Ren Qing resumed his preparations to break through, and the Information Flow offered him the Stomach Containing Wine Sea branch of the Dionysian Method for 200 years of lifespan.

Ren Qing advanced the Immortal Devouring Method, transforming Eternal Prison with primordial fire and Abhidi Hell’s cycle of life and death. In the stomach world, new life began spreading through the wine sea as Ren Qing tested the power of reincarnation.

• The Ci Clan people discovered that the barren land beyond their valley had become an expanding ocean, and Tang Sheng resolved to travel west to find someone who could decipher the Heavenly Worm Method.
• Ren Qing used the Dionysian Method to expand Eternal Prison into a wine sea and moved South Mountain onto its surface as an island.
• Ren Qing advanced the Immortal Devouring Method’s Primordial Flame branch, creating temperature differences, geological changes, and a growing supply of mineral veins in the stomach world.
• Ren Qing advanced Abhidi Hell, causing living beings in the stomach world to produce Reincarnation Remnant Souls as they were born and died.
• Ren Qing used a Reincarnation Remnant Soul to help aquatic grass adapt to the wine sea and another to hatch and multiply wine fish; the Prison Guards then fell dormant.

Ren Qing fled deeper into the Bottomless Abyss as Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva’s Buddha aura drove Heavenly Heaven’s monks to die and become corpse Buddhas. He heard the giant corpse Buddha searching for the current Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva and shouting that something was undying, leaving him with a possible clue about the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

• Ren Qing completed Heaven and Earth Manifestation, observed the starving monks and rising deaths in Heavenly Heaven, and gained lifespan by drawing their malice into the South Mountain small world.
• After the giant corpse Buddha’s footsteps briefly sounded outside his cave, Ren Qing prepared the ghost ship to flee and pulled the monks’ malice into South Mountain.
• The monks stripped their skin and bones, leaped into the Bottomless Abyss, and became nourishment for corpse Buddhas that sealed themselves into the mountains.
• Ren Qing saw hundreds of corpse Buddhas form and more than seven hundred peaks appear, then destroyed Dream Flower and escaped deeper into the Bottomless Abyss.
• The giant corpse Buddha roared that it had found someone and shouted that something was undying, leading Ren Qing to suspect Buddha aura was trying to revive a past Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva.

Ren Qing used the Shadow Dream Flower to investigate Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva while working to connect the stomach world with the Immortality Forbidden Zone. The connection opened a dream market where the two worlds could exchange supplies, as the Immortality Forbidden Zone continued to face attacks from the Longevity Species.

• Ren Qing transformed a Dream Flower with the Ghost Shadow's aura, sent it to spy on Heavenly Heaven, and ordered cultivators to prepare supplies for the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• The Shadow Dream Flower found Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva's giant corpse being repaired and strengthened by monks using Buddha bones, Buddha Skin, and Buddha aura.
• Ren Qing possessed a body in the Immortality Forbidden Zone and learned that the Longevity Species had been besieging its towns, forcing Xiangxiang and Weian to unite behind fortified walls.
• Ren Qing sent the Ghost Shadow to aid Weian Town while he connected the stomach world's dream market to the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• The dream market appeared beside the Longevity Tree, and stomach-world cultivators brought grain and meat while Xiao San'er reunited with Xiao Wu as a projection.

Ren Qing helped Jailer Hall use the Ghost Market’s food and trade to strengthen the Immortality Forbidden Zone, then focused on advancing his own Arts. After the Longevity Species withdrew, he raised the Mirror Immortal to the Yin Messenger Realm and discovered its dangerous ability to create nested doubles.

• Ren Qing and Mu Yi organized the collection and sealing of Eerie Objects from slain Longevity Species so Jailer Hall could exchange them for Blood Crystals and extract their Arts.
• Ren Qing examined the Immovable Method Eerie Object, while the Longevity Species abruptly stopped attacking and withdrew from the town.
• The Ghost Market filled with traders, and Ren Qing decided to preserve his lifespan for future needs rather than promote his stomach world to the Myriad Yang Immortal.
• Ren Qing spent two hundred years of lifespan to advance the Mirror Immortal to the Yin Messenger Realm.
• Ren Qing learned that Eerie Mirror Walker could create a perfect double that could use the same ability to create further doubles, potentially trapping them indefinitely.

Ren Qing worked to improve his ability to survive the Great Compassionate Maitreya Bodhisattva, abandoning a difficult flesh-artifact project and cultivating lifelike clones instead. He advanced the Dao of Non-action Dojo, gaining power over the stomach world and a teaching ability, while Heavenly Heaven continued to deteriorate.

• Ren Qing abandoned his attempt to refine living flesh fibers and used Reincarnation Remnant Souls to cultivate an opossum clone resembling him, then made additional clones of birds, beasts, and insects.
• Ren Qing promoted the Dao of Non-action Dojo at the cost of five hundred years of lifespan, expanding the stomach world and gaining the ability to influence its land and weather.
• Ren Qing discovered that Dao of Non-action Dojo could impart understanding of Arts to objects, helping lower-realm cultivators comprehend them, rather than directly altering objects' rules.
• Ren Qing considered using Ghost Shadow to parasitize his clones, since he could not control them or communicate with Ghost Shadow while hiding inside one through the Storyteller.
• More than half a year passed as Ren Qing kept watch over Heavenly Heaven, where the situation grew increasingly bizarre.

Ren Qing investigated the giant corpse Buddha and learned that it was heading toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone, while rescuing Ci Clan refugees from the Buddha light. He sent Ghost Shadow after the Buddha as it departed Heavenly Heaven, uncertain whether its decaying body would survive the journey.

• Ren Qing sent the Buddhist Dream Flower into the giant corpse Buddha and used its dream abilities to uncover blurry memories pointing toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• The giant corpse Buddha awakened, devoured thousands of monks with Indestructible Golden Bodies, and absorbed the Buddha light that surged toward it.
• Ren Qing used Ghost Shadow to gather Ci Clan refugees who were drawn to Heavenly Heaven, then settled them near the village governed by Tang Sheng.
• After the Buddha light receded, the giant corpse Buddha spoke of immortality and set off north toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• Ren Qing sent his ghost ship sailing through the Bottomless Abyss and had Ghost Shadow follow the giant corpse Buddha with the dream artifact.