Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing used the corpse water and Corpse Qi to accelerate the giant corpse Buddha’s transformation, while Jailer Hall struggled to protect its people from the corrosive acid rain. The Buddha sank deeper into the swamp, leaving its stomach and intestines flooded and overheated as Ren Qing worked to adapt its cultivation method.

• Ghost Shadow found corpse-ified bones in the swamp, and Ren Qing suspected the journey toward the forbidden zone was refining the giant corpse Buddha into a corpse-like creature.
• Jailer Hall sheltered Buddha Forest from the acid rain, repaired its artifacts, and diverted corpse water as the storm intensified.
• Miss Bai sent her flying sword into the acid clouds to absorb Corpse Qi, while Li Tiangang organized defenses and emergency supplies.
• Ren Qing used the Six Maladies Method and the Buddha Qi’s cooperation to accelerate the giant corpse Buddha’s organ and blood-vessel mutations, then began modifying the Netherworld Heavenly Worm Method.
• The Buddha’s skin adapted to the corpse water, but its heavier metal bones made it sink deeper, worsening the acid rain and flooding the stomach and intestines.
• Ren Qing heated the stomach with the Heart Burning Method to evaporate the acid rain before it reached Jailer Hall, while the cocoon people stayed behind to cultivate.

Ren Qing cultivated the Maitreya Worm Buddhist Scripture in the giant corpse Buddha, turning its Nether Essence dark gold and clearing the stomach of corrosive corpse water. He then used disease seeds to develop the Buddha’s insect eyes, leaving Jailer Hall closer to the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

• Ren Qing created the Maitreya Worm Buddhist Scripture and guided Nether Essence through the giant corpse Buddha, mixing it with Buddhist aura until the method was complete and the Buddha reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Jade Splendor True Person suspected Ren Qing intended to parasitize the giant corpse Buddha, while Han Li considered how Buddhist aura might strengthen the Jailer Method.
• The liquefied Buddhist Nether Essence destroyed the acid clouds, exposed Corpse Stone, and protected the stomach; Li Tiangang organized repairs and ordered a giant artifact flying sword to be refined.
• Ren Qing entered the giant corpse Buddha’s blood vessels and cultivated cancer and deformity disease seeds to prepare its body for future mutations and strange fetuses.
• Ren Qing formed Four Directions Compound Eyes and fused them with a Half-Corpse Realm strange fetus, revealing that the swamp had become a vast corpse-water lake and bringing Jailer Hall closer to the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

Li Yaoyang realized the corpse lake might be a place where corpses transformed, and the giant corpse Buddha was attacked by swarms of water corpses. Ren Qing used disease strains to mutate the giant corpse Buddha for underwater combat, but tentacles dragged the remaining water corpses into the lakebed abyss.

• Li Yaoyang suspected the corpse lake worked like a Gu-refining ground as the giant corpse Buddha sank beneath the water.
• Water corpses attacked the giant corpse Buddha, forcing Jailer Hall to prepare for danger and withdraw some cultivators to the stomach world.
• Ren Qing activated the Six Maladies Method and used malformed and cancerous disease strains to mutate the giant corpse Buddha.
• The giant corpse Buddha developed fish-like features, fought back against the water corpses, and killed several of them.
• Tentacles emerged from the lakebed and dragged the surviving water corpses into the darkness.

Ren Qing strengthened the giant corpse Buddha with his promoted Six Maladies Method and Tai Sui Scripture, then directed Jailer Hall to transform its remaining viscera. After months of travel, the giant corpse Buddha approached a desolate island across the corpse lake.

• Ren Qing used disease strains to give the giant corpse Buddha Double Pupils, while tentacles from the lakebed vanished before he could identify their source.
• Ren Qing examined his Yang God Realm Six Maladies Method and Tai Sui Fungus Body, then nurtured a Cold Fungus Soul from a disease fruit.
• Ren Qing implanted an insect root into the giant corpse Buddha's spine and returned to the stomach to organize Jailer Hall's preparations.
• Jailer Hall completed artifact transformations of the spleen, kidneys, and lungs using the Hundred Absorptions Method, Water Storage Method, and Lung-Born Sword.
• The giant corpse Buddha regained strength, began striding across the lake, and traveled north for several months until a barren island appeared in the distance.

Ren Qing developed blood-vessel waterways and sand-ship transport to help Jailer Hall move through the giant corpse Buddha, then strengthened its organs and increased its size as the island leading to the Dead Man Forbidden Zone drew near. He went alone to the sealed skull, preparing to test his influence over the Buddha’s brain and its possible Buddhist aura.

• Ren Qing created a Nether Essence pond and launched five sand ships that carried Jailer Hall cultivators between the stomach and organ regions in minutes.
• Ren Qing traveled to the spinal region, guided the worm root toward the Golden Core stage, and released Gigantification Disease, making the giant corpse Buddha grow by more than a hundred meters.
• Ren Qing formed a Golden Core above the stomach and merged Half-Corpse Realm strange fetuses into the giant corpse Buddha’s skeleton and several organs, while Jailer Hall’s blood-vessel waterways began operating.
• Ren Qing prepared to influence the brain as the island approached, then erased his sense of presence and went alone to the sealed skull.

Ren Qing altered the giant corpse Buddha’s brain to create a controllable secondary soul, then followed it into the Dead Man Forbidden Zone. The forbidden zone’s rules transformed the cultivators into corpse-like beings and left the giant corpse Buddha buried and immobile.

• Ren Qing discovered that Yuanzhi’s soul was the core of the giant corpse Buddha and chose to create a replacement secondary soul instead of trying to free him.
• Ren Qing used Soul Splitting Disease and the Bottled Person method to grow a second head, then refined its brain with Dream Flower and erased the new soul’s consciousness so he could influence the giant corpse Buddha through it.
• The giant corpse Buddha reached the central island, where severed limbs emerged from the White Bone Grit, and Li Tiangang prepared the cultivators for danger.
• As the giant corpse Buddha sank into the island, the cultivators’ heartbeats slowed and they collapsed; Ren Qing completed the secondary soul’s refinement despite the disturbance.
• The Dead Man Forbidden Zone turned the cultivators’ skin and flesh corpse-like, while Ren Qing used the Rebirth Art to clear his corpse spots.
• Ren Qing found that the giant corpse Buddha was buried and unable to move among other colossal corpses, and concluded that only corpses could enter the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.

Ren Qing discovered that the Dead Man Forbidden Zone caused corpse transformation while suspending the affected cultivators’ lifespans, and he used the Rebirth Art to restore them. He began investigating the condition and prepared a bladder artifact to sustain the Rebirth Art, leaving the stomach’s people temporarily protected.

• The cultivators’ bodies began rotting in the Dead Man Forbidden Zone, and Li Tiangang calmed them by explaining that the transformation would not kill them.
• Ren Qing arrived, confirmed the cultivators had no lifespans while transformed, and used the Rebirth Art to erase their corpse transformation.
• Ren Qing studied corpse deadening in his own body and determined he could safely maintain about thirty percent vitality, while planning regular Rebirth Art treatments.
• Ren Qing ordered artifact refiners to turn the giant corpse Buddha’s bladder into a container for the Rebirth Art and sought more Eerie Objects containing it.
• After three days, Ren Qing advanced the bladder artifact to the Half-Corpse Realm, creating a spring-water pond that he expected could supply the cultivators in the intestines.

Ren Qing studied corpse transformation, rescued cocoon people from a rat corpse, and continued refining the giant corpse Buddha as it reached the Dead Man Forbidden Zone. After discovering an inhabited ecosystem beyond its boundary, he entered alone to investigate.

• Ren Qing turned the world within his stomach into an eternal ice age to slow corpse transformation and preserve vitality.
• Sen Sheng sensed cocoon people inside a nearby rat corpse, so Ren Qing sent the Ghost Shadow with him to find them.
• Ren Qing rescued thousands of cocoon people from the rat corpse's kidneys and revived a little over one thousand in Yellow Springs Rebirth.
• Ren Qing assigned Sen Sheng to teach the recovered cocoon people the Human Skin Book and settled the others in an Underground Cave.
• The giant corpse Buddha's organs continued fusing with strange fetuses, but it stopped at an invisible barrier near the Dead Man Forbidden Zone.
• Ren Qing sent the human cocoons through the barrier, discovered an alternative ecological civilization, and entered the Dead Man Forbidden Zone alone.

Ren Qing emerged in the Dead Man Forbidden Zone, where he discovered that the scavengers were Stinging People who had undergone Stone Crushing Immortalization and learned of their Corpse Refining Method. He followed them into a hidden cave at night, while the giant corpse Buddha remained buried beneath the White Bone Hillocks.

• Ren Qing crawled from a pit among the White Bone Hillocks and joined scavengers transporting four shriveled bodies.
• Ren Qing used the Information Flow to identify a scavenger named Pi Jie as a Pseudo-Zombie cultivating the Corpse Refining Method.
• Ren Qing read Pi Jie's memories and learned that Stinging People replaced their organs, then underwent Stone Crushing Immortalization when their lifespans ended.
• Ren Qing suspected that beings connected to the Dead Man Forbidden Zone could become immortal, but rejected the idea of adapting Jailer Hall because the process destroyed souls.
• The scavengers reached a secluded mountain at night, opened a hidden cave by moving a white bone boulder, and entered with Ren Qing.

Ren Qing followed scavengers into the zombie settlement to learn about the Corpse Refining Method and found a way to infiltrate the Yamen by impersonating a Corpse Raiser. He ended the chapter with a copy of the method and a supply of corpses to test whether zombification could coexist with the Jailer Method.

• Ren Qing identified Li Yiliang as a White Zombie guarding the cave entrance, then followed the scavengers underground while considering how the Corpse Refining Method might affect him.
• Ren Qing observed the giant corpse Buddha's stomach world struggling through the Ice Age and strengthened the Wine Sea ecosystem with Reincarnation Remnant Souls.
• Ren Qing followed the scavengers to a tent where Zhu Dashuang placed three cocoon-men in coffins and used runes to help them gather yin energy.
• Ren Qing captured Zhu Dashuang's memories with the Fatty Liver Disease Type and learned that the Corpse Raisers herded pseudo-zombies for the Yamen.
• Ren Qing impersonated Zhu Dashuang, took a copy of the Corpse Refining Method, and prepared to test it on the corpses in the tent.

Ren Qing studied the Corpse Refining Method, experimented with raising zombies, and followed Zhu Dashuang to a walled town in the Dead Man Forbidden Zone. He discovered that the town’s zombies were rapidly dying from a mutated cold connected to the Immortal Devouring Method and the Wine and Meat Daoist’s Flesh and Blood Furnace.

• Ren Qing used Information Flow to confirm that the Corpse Refining Method had been created in the Dead Man Forbidden Zone and decided to investigate Zombie Town after noticing the giant corpse Buddha seemed closer.
• Ren Qing found bacteria in Zhu Dashuang, transformed them into a disease strain, and altered Zhu Dashuang’s memories so he would lead the way to town.
• Ren Qing tested the Corpse Refining Method on Zhu Dashuang’s zombies, destroying many by forcing yin qi into them before successfully strengthening others by raising the yin qi around them in a coffin.
• Ren Qing followed Zhu Dashuang through the moving Underground Cave for more than ten days, and the surviving seventeen zombies became Purple Zombies.
• Ren Qing reached the walled town and sensed the Immortal Devouring Method within it, while his disease tree revealed that all 35,672 residents had a severe mutated cold and five zombies were dying every breath.
• Ren Qing realized the town’s Immortal Devouring Method aura resembled the Wine and Meat Daoist’s Flesh and Blood Furnace; the author then announced that only one chapter would be released that day.

Ren Qing infiltrated the nameless corpse city disguised as a Purple Zombie and discovered that its inhabitants lived under extreme cold and a rigid, unsettling order. After the yamen runners tested the Purple Zombies’ flesh, they sent Ren Qing and the others whose flesh did not burn easily toward the Furnace of Molten Fire.

• Ren Qing disguised himself as a Purple Zombie and entered the town with Zhu Dashuang’s horde after the yamen runners registered them without concern.
• Lu Liang led the newcomers through a freezing passage into the corpse city, where Ren Qing saw grave-like mounds crowded with White Zombies.
• Lu Liang tore out a Purple Zombie’s heart and replaced his own before leading the group deeper into the city.
• Ren Qing encountered Chen Chuan, a Green Zombie yamen runner whose information revealed she practiced both the Corpse Refining Method and the Immortal Devouring Method.
• Chen Chuan’s yamen runners roasted pieces of the Purple Zombies’ flesh, then sent Ren Qing and the other zombies whose flesh did not burn readily to the Furnace of Molten Fire.

Ren Qing investigated Corpse City, discovered that its Furnace of Molten Fire produced the Corpse Ash used to suppress the cold plague, and experimented with refining a zombie. After the zombie’s advancement revealed a troubling flaw in the Corpse Refining Method, he wondered whether the mysterious creator of the method was behind the eerie door.

• Ren Qing followed Lu Liang through Corpse City and learned that Corpse Ash suppressed the cold plague by causing complete corpseification.
• Ren Qing found the Furnace of Molten Fire, recognized it as the Wine and Meat Daoist’s dantian, and watched Tian Fang burn Purple Zombies to produce Corpse Ash.
• Ren Qing secretly refined a pseudo-dragon zombie in a Yin Gathering Coffin, using Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard to create it from a lump of flesh.
• After several months, the pseudo-dragon zombie advanced to Green Zombie but suffered severe flesh collapse, revealing a flaw in the Corpse Refining Method.
• Ren Qing suspected that the method’s creator had developed it to intervene in a flaw in the Corpse Scripture and wondered whether they were behind the eerie door.

Ren Qing studied the Corpse Refining Method and began combining it with the Corpse Eater Art to create a safer version that produced an Eerie Object. After learning how Corpse City’s zombies were trapped in endless decay, he brought Tian Fang into Dream City for Old Man Coffin to guide while he finished his work.

• Ren Qing watched the pseudo-dragon zombie dissolve into toxic corpse water after a month of Yin Qi nourishment and concluded that the Green Zombie stage of the Corpse Refining Method was flawed.
• Ren Qing chose the Corpse Eater aberration path as a model and worked to combine it with the Corpse Refining Method so the body could absorb Yin Qi and produce an Eerie Object.
• Ghost Shadow found clues suggesting Green Zombies had been sealed in underground coffins because their flesh and blood collapsed, while Ren Qing considered whether zombies could cultivate the Jailer Method.
• Tian Fang questioned Ren Qing’s orderly behavior, then revealed that Corpse City’s zombies suffered for thousands of years as Yin Qi drove them toward bodily collapse and the Furnace of Molten Fire caused cold poison.
• Ren Qing moved Tian Fang into Dream City and left him with Old Man Coffin to learn the Jailer Method while Ren Qing focused on completing the Corpse Refining Method.

Ren Qing perfected the Corpse Refining Method and cultivated it, merging its Zombie Body with his Yellow Springs Immortal Body. After advancing to Green Zombie, he discovered that his Corpse Core grew stronger over time, suggesting the method could offer another way to build cultivation.

• Tian Fang woke from his dream of Dream City and left the Furnace of Molten Fire after promising to help Ren Qing if he escaped his suffering.
• Ren Qing finished creating the Corpse Refining Method, which began at Purple Zombie and advanced through the zombie realms using Yin Qi.
• Ren Qing spent one year of lifespan to begin cultivation, endured the clash between his Zombie Body and Yellow Springs Immortal Body, and transformed into a White Zombie.
• After Tian Fang left with Lu Liang, Ren Qing spent three hundred years of lifespan to advance to Green Zombie and formed a Corpse Core in his dantian.
• Ren Qing discovered that his Corpse Core grew stronger with time and considered whether the Corpse Refining Method could let him gain cultivation by consuming lifespan through other Arts.

In Dream City, Old Man Coffin’s zombie apprentices began making improved coffins, and Tian Fang and Lu Liang were freed to explore the city. They met Ren Qing in the Great Dream Art Tower, revealed secrets about Corpse City, and spread his teachings among the zombies as Ren Qing recruited more of them and prepared for his promotion to Lifeless Immortal.

• A demon bought a coffin from Old Man Coffin, whose zombie workers had learned coffin-making and improved the craft under his instruction.
• After receiving Ren Qing’s message, Old Man Coffin freed Tian Fang and Lu Liang, who wandered Dream City before discovering the Great Dream Art Tower.
• Ren Qing appeared to the two zombies as an immortal, and they revealed details about Corpse City and a Green Zombie who had found a way around the Corpse Refining Method’s flaws.
• Ren Qing gave Tian Fang a perfected Corpse Refining Method and Lu Liang access to the Yearly Resolution, prompting them to spread his teachings and praise him as the Lord of the Dream Market.
• Ren Qing drew more zombies into Dream City for ordinary work and accelerated time in the stomach world as he prepared to advance to Lifeless Immortal.

Ren Qing helped Tian Fang spread the Corpse Refining Method among the zombies while weighing the costs of their cultivation for Jailer Hall. As Ren Qing’s lifespan grew, the discovery of a surviving Yang God Realm zombie beneath Corpse City left a hidden danger unresolved.

• Tian Fang demonstrated the Corpse Refining Method to skeptical Green Zombies, transformed into a White Zombie, and displayed strength that won their trust.
• Thousands of zombies entered Dream City, where Tian Fang taught them the Corpse Refining Method and the Yearly Resolution; Ren Qing judged that zombies struggled to cultivate other Arts and warned Li Tiangang against letting Jailer Hall cultivators become them.
• Ren Qing remained in the Furnace of Molten Fire as his lifespan surpassed three thousand years, while the zombies’ growing mastery of the method reduced their reliance on the furnace.
• Tian Fang and the zombies unearthed coffins containing surviving Green Zombies, whose tentacles withdrew underground when Ren Qing’s Ghost Shadows converged on them.
• Ren Qing pulled the Green Zombies’ consciousness into Dream City so they could learn the Corpse Refining Method, then returned to the dimming Furnace of Molten Fire as the seasons passed.

Zhu Dashuang encountered parasitic corpses and a colossal Corpse Crab on the surface, forcing the zombies to evacuate toward the corpse city. As the Corpse Crab threatened the underground settlement, Ren Qing continued his breakthrough to the Lifeless Immortal, facing the added danger of the Corpse Refining Method advancing.

• Zhu Dashuang gathered scavengers and pseudo-zombies with a Corpse Summoning Bell, but discovered strange insect-shelled corpses among their haul.
• The strange corpses parasitized several pseudo-zombies, and their faces warned that something was coming.
• A gigantic Corpse Crab burst from underground, and Zhu Dashuang fled with the survivors toward the entrance after destroying the parasitized zombies and corpses.
• Li Yiliang opened the entrance, and Zhu Dashuang and the other zombies hurried toward the corpse city as the Corpse Crab attacked the surface.
• The zombies rang the city's bronze bell to warn everyone, while Ren Qing sensed the Corpse Crab and continued promoting the Eye-less Method to the Lifeless Immortal.
• Ren Qing completed the Nightmare Art's promotion to the Nightmare Demon Emperor and began his breakthrough, while the Corpse Refining Method threatened to advance to the Fuzzy Zombie stage.

Ren Qing completed his transformation into a Lifeless Immortal while the Corpse Crab attacked the corpse city and fought the hidden Corpse Lizard. He saved Tian Fang and used World Like a Dream to infect and destroy the Corpse Crab, leaving the city’s zombies’ fate unresolved.

• Ren Qing slowed his absorption of Yin Qi as he transformed into a Fuzzy Zombie, while the Corpse Crab dug toward the corpse city and sent its zombies into chaos.
• Tian Fang and Lu Liang organized the city’s defenses, and Xiao San'er supplied thousands of coffins and protective Artifacts so the zombies could hide underground.
• Tian Fang remained behind after the zombies sealed themselves in coffins, but the Corpse Crab broke through the cave and began destroying the city.
• A gigantic Corpse Lizard emerged from beneath the city and fought the Corpse Crab; Tian Fang realized it was the ancient Green Zombie, transformed through the Corpse Refining Method.
• As Tian Fang neared death beside the Furnace of Molten Fire, Ren Qing emerged from his Fuzzy Zombie form, healed him, and revealed his Lifeless Immortal power.
• Ren Qing spread a dreamscape over the battlefield, infecting the Corpse Crab with disease strains and nightmares until it was devoured and became nourishment.

Ren Qing destroyed the Corpse Crabs and discovered that Crab Men had controlled them, then found the nearly dead Corpse Ghost fused with the Corpse Lizard's Furnace of Molten Fire. The Corpse Ghost revealed the zombies' forgotten ancestral land, and just as Ren Qing offered to take it there, the ground began shaking again.

• The Corpse Crabs died and became part of White Bone Hillock, while Ren Qing stored their shells and discovered Crab Men inside their kidneys.
• Ren Qing absorbed the spreading spores into his transformed Plague Dream Tree and reviewed how his five Arts had fused into the Lifeless Immortal realm.
• Ren Qing exposed the Corpse Ghost fused to the Corpse Lizard and revived it by feeding Kindling Fire to the Furnace of Molten Fire.
• The Corpse Ghost recalled the zombies' ancestral land to them, and the zombies agreed to follow Ren Qing there.
• Ren Qing asked the Corpse Ghost to enter his service and travel to the ancestral land, but the ground began shaking violently.