Chapter Summaries

Ren Qing advanced the Taotie Method to the Lifeless Immortal realm and tested its Dharma Form Manifestation while traveling toward Jing Province. He discovered the Blood Moon was corrupting the Blessed Earth Immortal, then withdrew to consider what the transformation meant for his own ascension.

• Ren Qing promoted the Taotie Method to the Lifeless Immortal realm, strengthening the stomach world and gaining Dharma Form Manifestation.
• Ren Qing tested Dharma Form Manifestation by projecting Prison Guards into a Heavenly Demon-corrupted pangolin rat and killing it.
• Ren Qing emerged near Jing Province and saw the Blood Moon’s moonlight disperse True Essence as the Blessed Earth Immortal roared in pain.
• Ren Qing observed that Heavenly Demon aura was eroding the Blessed Earth Immortal, transforming its upper body into writhing tentacles and flesh flowers.
• Ren Qing retreated several hundred li from Jing Province and had hundreds of fungal souls analyze what he had witnessed.

Ren Qing traveled to Marshwater to retrieve Wine and Meat Daoist’s corpse, intending to refine it into a Protector Puppet for Jailer Hall. After taking the corpse into the stomach world, he left a crude artificial heart to sustain Marshwater’s oasis and continued toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone in Xiangxiang.

• Ren Qing used Human World Walker to cross the wilderness in the form of a wild boar, then set out for Marshwater to recover Wine and Meat Daoist’s corpse.
• Ren Qing rode Husky across the plains while considering the Shadowless Ghost Arts and recording his deductions.
• At Marshwater, Ren Qing examined the fungus-filled oasis and found that its bacteria and remnant souls had transformed the local ecosystem around Wine and Meat Daoist’s corpse.
• Ren Qing returned Wine and Meat Daoist’s incomplete dantian to the corpse, then moved the corpse into his stomach world with Ghost Shadow and Strange Mouth.
• Ren Qing placed a crude, bacteria-bearing heart in the corpse’s former location to preserve the oasis for about a century and assigned the fungal soul to process the corpse.
• Ren Qing left Marshwater and headed toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone in Xiangxiang.

After a century of growth, the Immortality Forbidden Zone faced a massive assault by increasingly bizarre Longevity Species, whose exploding corpses and expanding Wind Holes threatened to overwhelm the town. Ren Qing arrived and erased the attackers, leaving the defenders stunned by his power.

• Zhou Wu rushed to the southern wall after Longevity Species attacked and joined more than five hundred Martial Arts Hall instructors in the defense.
• The attackers climbed the wall, and their corpses exploded into violent gales that cracked the defenses until Xu Sanliang and Huang Ziwang helped stabilize the line.
• Mu Yi reinforced the walls and sent Yin Messenger Realm cultivators to defend the other sides as Wind Holes widened into canyons and the Longevity Species transformed their arms into wings.
• As the siege dragged on, Huang Ziwang fought to contain the attackers while the defenders grew exhausted and residents sheltered in basements.
• Ren Qing appeared above the town and swept away the Longevity Species with waves of yin qi, while a phantom from Dream City dragged the survivors into nightmares.

Ren Qing rescued the town from the collapsing Immortality Forbidden Zone, destroyed an attacking Longevity Species, and moved the residents into Wuwei City. He suspected the zone’s transformation was connected to Wind God Boqiang and an immortal seat, and began using the zone as a base while seeking clues about Chen Changsheng.

• Ren Qing transformed into a coiling dragon and used five-colored lightning to dispel the darkness and whispers that were pulling the town into an abyss.
• Ren Qing destroyed the attacking Longevity Species and hurricane, then discovered that the Immortality Forbidden Zone had changed into an endless sea of clouds without collapsing under his power.
• Ren Qing brought Wuwei City into the zone, moved nearly a million residents into it, and uprooted the Longevity Tree to give to Ghost Shadow for refinement into the Forbidden Realm.
• Ren Qing recognized that the Longevity Species resembled the mythical Wind God Boqiang and considered whether the Immortality Forbidden Zone held clues to an immortal seat.
• Ren Qing resolved to investigate Chen Changsheng’s condition and the immortal-seat clues, using the Immortality Forbidden Zone as a foothold for Jailer Hall.
• Ren Qing opened a rift in Wuwei City, allowing cultivators from his stomach world to reunite with familiar people after decades apart.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wuwei City, constructed from magical artifacts, accommodates a million cultivators.
• Ren Qing refines the Forbidden Realm, allowing cultivators to use spells within Wuwei City.
• The Immortality Forbidden Zone transforms, with a sea of clouds converging towards an unknown source.
• Ren Qing promotes his Shadowless Ghost spell to Lifeless Immortal, fusing five eerie objects.
• Wuwei City moves towards the source of the hurricane in the Immortality Forbidden Zone.

Character Developments

• Ren Qing focuses on refining the Forbidden Realm and promoting his Shadowless Ghost spell.
• The cultivators in Wuwei City benefit from the Forbidden Realm, allowing them to cultivate spells and enter Dream City while sleeping.

Significant Themes

• Power and Control: Ren Qing's promotion of his Shadowless Ghost spell increases his power and control over the Jailer Hall.
• Adaptation and Transformation: The Immortality Forbidden Zone's transformation and the cultivators' adaptation to Wuwei City highlight the theme of change and adaptation.
• Resource Management: The competition for resources among the Jailer Hall branches reflects the importance of resource management and allocation.

Character Interactions

• Ren Qing interacts with Li Tiangang, who handles the affairs of the Jailer Hall branches.
• The eerie objects of Ren Qing's spells interact and fuse, demonstrating their relationships and dependencies.
• Ren Qing's decision to move Wuwei City towards the source of the hurricane in the Immortality Forbidden Zone shows his leadership and curiosity.

Ren Qing investigated the strange fungi covering Wuwei City while trying to uncover the cause of Song Zongwu’s condition. He discovered that the fungi were corpse remains and that the Longevity Species were degenerating.

• Wuwei City stopped moving under the weight of fungi, so Li Tiangang sent cultivators to burn them off.
• Han Li heard chanting while the fungi burned and sent their ashes to Ren Qing for examination.
• Ren Qing traced Song Zongwu’s soul damage to Buddha aura linked to Linggan Temple and concluded that finding the Deer-Riding Arhat was necessary to restore him.
• Ren Qing examined the ashes and identified them as remains of corpse bones, then asked Han Li to bring fresh fungi.
• Han Li brought Ren Qing a dead Longevity Species found beneath Wuwei City, and Ren Qing realized the species had been losing its strength and intelligence.

Ren Qing discovered that tiny fungus people had spread across the Immortality Forbidden Zone and transformed them into a growing tribe loyal to the Jailer Hall. As their expansion stirred the hurricane, Chen Changsheng appeared and seemed to approve of Ren Qing’s actions.

• Ren Qing examined the spores and discovered that they contained microscopic fungus people, then captured them and found that their tribe covered the land beyond Wuwei City.
• Ren Qing concluded that the fungus people could help him take control of the Immortality Forbidden Zone, transformed tens of thousands with Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard, and released the resulting tribe near Wuwei City.
• The pseudo-draconified fungus people worshipped the Jailer Hall and defended Wuwei City, beginning a microscopic war against ordinary fungus people.
• Ren Qing increased the tribe’s supply of flesh and blood and used World Like a Dream to accelerate their growth, directing them to search for Boqiang’s temples and explore the clouds and underground.
• The hurricane grew more restless, and Chen Changsheng’s enormous face appeared in the sky before disappearing, seemingly accepting Ren Qing’s actions.

Ren Qing and Jailer Hall prepared for battle after Chen Changsheng appeared in a deranged state and spread pseudo-dragon Fungal Humans across the Sea of Clouds. They found Chen Changsheng beneath the clouds, where he had become a Turbid Immortal and unleashed malformed Longevity Immortals; Jailer Hall attacked while Ren Qing studied him.

• Chen Changsheng appeared above Wuwei City, warning Ren Qing not to become an Immortal while also asking for help to become one, and Ren Qing ordered Jailer Hall to prepare for war.
• Ren Qing spread pseudo-dragon Fungal Humans across the Sea of Clouds, where they uncovered buried Longevity Species embryos and helped him observe the region.
• Ren Qing led Wuwei City through the sky and down toward the barren land beneath the Sea of Clouds, where they found Chen Changsheng transformed into an enormous neck-covered vine.
• Chen Changsheng revealed that he had gathered and swallowed Eerie Objects to pursue immortality, then produced Longevity Immortals who charged at Wuwei City.
• Ren Qing sent Jailer Hall’s branches to fight the Longevity Immortals while he used Double Pupils to examine the Turbid Immortal aura emerging from Chen Changsheng.

Ren Qing fought Chen Changsheng and discovered that the immortal position sustaining his transformation was connected to the Primordial Heavenly Venerate. After extracting Chen Changsheng’s soul, Ren Qing sealed the recovering Bo Qiang Wind God immortal position underground and looked toward Jingzhou.

• Ren Qing approached Chen Changsheng, endured his attack, and fought him while using nether energy to transform him into a jiangshi.
• Ren Qing grew into a hundred-meter draconic form and overwhelmed Chen Changsheng as Li Tiangang and Li Yaoyang cleared longevity immortals from the battlefield.
• Ren Qing entered Chen Changsheng’s body and used the Information Flow to identify his immortal position as Bo Qiang Wind God, linked to the Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Treading Wind Art.
• Ren Qing removed Chen Changsheng’s distorted soul from the immortal position and sent it to the Flesh and Blood Furnace.
• Ren Qing buried Chen Changsheng and sealed the Bo Qiang Wind God immortal position beneath a giant grave mound, then looked toward Jingzhou.

Ren Qing fed Eerie Objects to the Immortality Forbidden Zone, helping its fungal humans grow while gaining greater control over it. After piecing together Chen Changsheng’s memories, he discovered the zone was attached to the Wine and Meat Daoist’s missing stomach and began considering turning the forbidden corpse into a network of small worlds.

• Ren Qing moved Wuwei City into his stomach world and left fungal humans in the Immortality Forbidden Zone to reproduce under his distant control.
• Ren Qing fed the Forbidden Zone a Flesh Rōran Eerie Object, causing flesh-like fruit to grow and giving the fungal humans a food source.
• Ren Qing fed the Forbidden Zone a Queen Bee Eerie Object, and more than a hundred intelligent Fungal Kings emerged as the fungal tribes fell into conflict.
• Ren Qing preserved Chen Changsheng’s damaged soul as a Mountain God and learned from his memories that the Forbidden Zone was attached to the Wine and Meat Daoist’s missing stomach.
• Ren Qing realized that he might turn the forbidden corpse’s interior into a Forbidden Zone and expand its capacity into a complete small world.
• Ren Qing dragged the Immortality Forbidden Zone deep underground, where few people could find it.

Ren Qing refined the Forbidden Corpse body with the Dead Bone Disease Type and Gate God Court, shrinking it while beginning work to integrate a Forbidden Zone into its stomach. Through Song Zongwu’s remnant soul, he discovered Linggan Temple was searching for a Buddha child to inherit the Deer-Riding Fruit Status, and prepared for the temple’s arrival.

• Ren Qing repeatedly failed to create a suitable Disease Type before gestating Dead Bone, which let the Forbidden Corpse body change size, and linked it to Gate God Court.
• Ren Qing spread Dead Bone through the Forbidden Corpse body and refined Gate God Court into it, shrinking the body to about three hundred meters while increasing its maximum height.
• Ren Qing placed a Taotie Method Eerie Object in the body’s stomach to expand the Forbidden Zone, then left Xiao San’er, Old Man Coffin, and the other artifact refiners to integrate it.
• Ren Qing entered the Deer-Riding Arhat statue and saw Linggan Temple monks lead the Hole People through a ritual that ended with the monks slaughtering them and forcing one survivor to take refuge.
• Ren Qing realized Linggan Temple was searching for a Buddha child to inherit the Deer-Riding Fruit Status and concluded that the temple would eventually come to him.

Ren Qing used the Zhi Li Technique to free Huang Ming from the Deer-Riding Buddha energy’s delusion and reshape him into an informant, then withdrew to cultivate while Linggan Temple gathered believers. Years later, Huang Ming visited Dream City during Spring Festival and heard Ren Qing reject the path of becoming an Immortal or Buddha.

• Ren Qing entered Huang Ming’s Niwan Palace through a dream and showed him the souls trapped within the Deer-Riding Buddha energy.
• Ren Qing pulled Huang Ming into Dream City, altered his beliefs, and implanted the Great Compassion Maitreya Vajra Scripture and stone disease strain.
• Huang Ming pretended to follow the Deer-Riding Arhat while secretly longing for Dream City, and Ren Qing arranged for the fungal soul to monitor him.
• Ren Qing entered seclusion to advance the Stomach World and organize Ascension Methods as Jing Province underwent upheavals.
• Years later, Huang Ming watched Wuwei City’s Spring Festival celebrations from Dream City’s wall, where Ren Qing told him that Immortals and Buddhas were corpses wrapped in skin.

Ren Qing advanced the Taotie Method to the Ascension Ladder and witnessed memories revealing how Wine and Meat Daoist and other cultivators created its five Arts. The Heavenly Dao then drew Ren Qing into another encounter with Primordial Heavenly Venerate, whose appearance had changed and whose repeated demand that Ren Qing pay respects left him uncertain.

• Ren Qing prepared a hidden passage to the Immortality Forbidden Zone, then advanced the Taotie Method without disturbing the stomach world.
• Ren Qing witnessed Wine and Meat Daoist's childhood imprisonment, the Human-Faced Dog's transformation and death, and Wine and Meat Daoist's acquisition of the Taotie Method.
• Ren Qing saw Wine and Meat Daoist create the Immortal Devouring Method and Dionysian Method, then observed Son of Heavenly Dao create Dao Dao Dao while doubting its guidance.
• Ren Qing witnessed Longevity Dao Lord create the Rebirth Art after pursuing immortality through false scriptures and contact with the Heavenly Dao.
• Ren Qing faced Primordial Heavenly Venerate again, heard voices demand that he pay respects, and saw the Venerate appear as a flesh-like, jade-colored figure surrounded by seven-colored radiance.

Ren Qing completed a new Ascension Method, Heaven and Earth Growth, after confronting the increasingly grotesque Primordial Heavenly Venerate, then began advancing it in his stomach world. He warned the Jailer Hall to prepare for possible upheaval as the stomach world began expanding.

• Ren Qing discarded his first Ascension Method, the Penglai Immortal, and devised a more radical method while Primordial Heavenly Venerate's body melted into a sea of malformed corpses.
• Ren Qing completed Heaven and Earth Growth and escaped Primordial Heavenly Venerate's presence, returning to his body in an underground cave.
• The Information Flow suppressed the lingering dread and revealed Ren Qing's new Immortal Position, Zhenyuan Dizhu (False).
• Ren Qing began advancing Heaven and Earth Growth toward Primal Chaos, causing the stomach world to expand steadily.
• Ren Qing notified the Jailer Hall, whose branches sent cultivators toward Wuwei City and Dream City in preparation for possible danger.

Ren Qing advanced Heaven and Earth Growth, transforming the stomach world into a realm with a Heavenly Palace and a Yellow Springs Underworld, where the dead reincarnated as zombies. After advancing further, he created the Merman Tribe and began forming specialized palaces for Jailer Hall’s cultivation methods.

• Ren Qing advanced Purity and Turbidity, causing the Land of White Bones to sink underground and become a Yellow Springs Underworld beneath the stomach world.
• Ren Qing used the underworld’s rules to reincarnate a dead cultivator as a Purple Zombie, establishing a cycle in which the stomach world’s dead became zombies.
• Ren Qing advanced Heaven and Earth Growth further, and the Wine Sea’s long-tailed fish transformed into the Merman Tribe, which he taught the Water Control Heart Scripture and placed under Kunpeng’s supervision.
• Ren Qing expanded the Heavenly Palace, absorbed the Blessed Earth Immortal’s insect molt into a new Heavenly Dao Palace, and buried Heavenly Dao Worm Eggs as secondary spirit veins.
• Ren Qing placed the Forbidden Realm’s Blood Moon, Longevity Tree, and Abhidi Hell in a new Jailer Palace for Jailer Method cultivation.

Ren Qing prepared a counterfeit Western Pure Land in the Immortality Forbidden Zone to contain the Deer-Riding Arhat’s Buddha energy and claim its Fruit Status. After Ren Qing contacted Huang Ming, Linggan Temple set out for the location he provided.

• Ren Qing expanded the Immortality Forbidden Zone with the Corpse Core, Jianmu Merit's Eerie Object, and Metal Essence Method, transforming it with White Bones, vines, and a gold ore vein.
• Ren Qing used the gold to build Lesser Thunderclap Monastery and filled its Buddhist hall with Buddha statues animated through the Dragon's Roar in the Scabbard and Zhi Li Technique.
• Ren Qing contacted Huang Ming and ordered him to bring Linggan Temple to the new location.
• Huang Ming told Abbot Liao Shan that the Buddha had revealed the location of a Buddha Soul needed to inherit the Fruit Status, while Ren Qing ensured the monks believed him.
• Liao Shan agreed to depart, and the entire Linggan Temple rose into the air.

Ren Qing captured Linggan Temple’s monks and extracted the Deer-Riding Buddha energy, then examined its candle-like flames and discovered traces of Heavenly Dao Transformation. The energy remained dormant, leaving him to consider whether connected Buddhist Fruit Statuses could be replicated.

• Linggan Temple arrived at Xiangxiang, where Ren Qing used an illusory display of Buddha Qi and the Zhi Li Technique to lure the monks toward the Immortality Forbidden Zone.
• Ren Qing drew the ordinary people into the Stomach World and sent Huang Ming to Wuwei City after the monks followed moving Buddha statues into a dry well.
• Ren Qing led Liao Shan and the other monks into Lesser Thunderclap Monastery, where Jia Rulai’s preaching and a life-extending pill persuaded many to kneel as Dream Flower stripped away their Buddha Qi.
• Ren Qing gathered the Deer-Riding Buddha energy into a wooden box and took it underground to examine it safely.
• Ren Qing found that the Buddha Qi burned like candle flames, detected traces of Heavenly Dao Transformation, and determined that the dormant energy could be separated without danger.

Ren Qing freed Song Zongwu from the Deer-Riding Buddha Qi, though Song Zongwu had to endure Karma Fire Burning Body to evade the Buddhist sect’s notice. Ren Qing sent the weakened Fruit Status to Lesser Thunderclap Monastery to feed on Liao Shan while he continued studying it and extracting its trapped souls.

• Ren Qing tested ways to separate the souls from the Deer-Riding Buddha Qi and discovered that deathly Qi could free them without destroying them, though they entered the Yellow Springs beyond his reach.
• Ren Qing brought Song Zongwu’s body near the Deer-Riding Buddha Qi, whose reaction exposed Song Zongwu’s Heavenly Soul and triggered a fierce burst of Karma Fire.
• Song Zongwu accepted the Karma Fire to help separate his soul from the Buddha Qi, then warned Ren Qing not to touch him because the transformation concealed him from the Buddhist sect.
• Ren Qing moved Song Zongwu into the underworld and suppressed his remaining Karma Fire with deathly Qi.
• Ren Qing trapped the weakened Deer-Riding Buddha Qi in the Immortality Forbidden Zone and directed it into Liao Shan at Lesser Thunderclap Monastery.
• Ren Qing planned to keep draining the Fruit Status and exiling its souls into the Yellow Springs while investigating how Buddhist Fruit Status transferred Heavenly Dao Transformation.

Ren Qing learned from Song Zongwu how Buddhist fruit statuses consumed cultivators and decided to keep stealing Buddha energy while avoiding the dangers of destroying a fruit status. He opened the Heavenly Palace to Jailer Hall cultivators and began investigating Buddhist spells as the Heavenly Dao rift neared its next breakthrough.

• Ren Qing watched souls in the Yellow Springs develop into Nether Ghosts, some of whom gained independent thought and could eventually join the underworld.
• Song Zongwu told Ren Qing that Buddha energy consumed Buddhist disciples and could replace an Arhat fruit status with a higher-ranking one, making it dangerous to destroy fruit statuses.
• Ren Qing decided to keep the Deer-Riding Fruit Status sealed while continuing to steal its Buddha energy, and he learned that Song Zongwu could not recall what fruit statuses concealed without his karma fire flaring up.
• Ren Qing showed Song Zongwu Jailer Hall's growth and opened the Heavenly Dao Palace and Jailer Palace to qualified cultivators.
• Ren Qing began using fungus souls to deduce Buddhist spells while the Heavenly Dao rift continued healing toward Heavenly Eerie Realm.

During Ren Qing’s secluded cultivation, the mortal world settled into a more ordinary life while he struggled to deduce Buddhist spells and investigate the Deer-Riding Fruit Status. After Liao Shan died and was denied reincarnation, Ren Qing glimpsed the Fruit Status as an ordinary copy of the Immovable Sutra and turned his attention to advancing to the Heavenly Eerie Realm.

• Ren Qing moved Dream City into the Heavenly Palace as Zhi Li Palace and oversaw the mortal world’s shift away from widespread cultivation.
• Ren Qing created the Nirvana Buddha Method, gave Song Zongwu a copy, and kept the original secured in the Heavenly Palace’s Treasury Pavilion.
• Ren Qing observed the monks of Lesser Thunderclap Monastery and secretly planted an obsessive disease strain in Liao Shan to track what happened when he died.
• Liao Shan died, and the Deer-Riding Buddha energy consumed his soul instead of allowing him to reincarnate, then entered Zhi Hui’s body.
• Ren Qing used Liao Shan’s soul to glimpse the Fruit Status and saw an old copy of the Immovable Sutra signed Pukong.
• Ren Qing withdrew from the Immortality Forbidden Zone and decided to prepare for advancement to the Heavenly Eerie Realm.