Chapter Summaries

Shen Ge entered the Underworld with Zhu Xiu and City Lord Xue, where the Yin souls feared him and he found Other Shore Flowers. After they went their separate ways, City Lord Xue and Zhu Xiu both noticed something strange about Shen Ge’s presence.

• City Lord Xue led Zhu Xiu and Shen Ge through the entrance to the Underworld, where she warned them about the vicious ghosts and ghost kings.
• City Lord Xue noticed the Yin souls were unusually docile, while Zhu Xiu suspected they were afraid of Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge traveled through the Underworld unhindered, found red flowers he recognized as possible Other Shore Flowers, and moved them into the Ghost Gate Pass.
• City Lord Xue collected nether stones and Yin souls to use as artifact spirits, then watched Shen Ge thoughtfully.
• Zhu Xiu collected Three Lives Flowers and wondered whether Shen Ge had changed or taken up the Ghost Dao.

Shen Ge confronted a powerful ghost king and learned that the ghost king’s master, Weiyang, had left a stele describing his theories about samsara. The stele’s claim that souls return to heaven and earth left Shen Ge laughing through his sorrow.

• Shen Ge approached the strongest presence in the netherworld, and a ghost king emerged to attack him.
• A pitch-black door and a shifting ghostly figure appeared behind Shen Ge, making the ghost king wary and willing to answer his questions.
• The ghost king identified his master as Weiyang, who had ascended two hundred thousand years earlier, and led Shen Ge to a stone stele.
• Shen Ge read Weiyang’s account of the Three Lives Flower, which grew in the Land of the Nine Netherworlds.
• Shen Ge read Weiyang’s theory that souls return to heaven and earth and are remade through samsara, then collapsed into grief-struck laughter.

After discovering that the outcome he had pursued was an illusion, Shen Ge helped the Ghost King Yi escape and fell into despair. A year later, the Eight Domains war began, while Mo Qingyu battled a transformed Fenghuo and Shen Linfeng and Li Xue confronted Qingyu in a secret realm.

• Shen Ge emerged from his silence, told the Ghost King Yi he would take him out, and opened a black gate for him.
• Shen Ge sealed the gate as Ghost Qi churned around it, then brooded over his shattered hope and muttered about reincarnation.
• Zhu Xiu saw that the wind cave had closed, concluded Shen Ge had likely died, and vanished from Desert Wind City.
• One year later, an ethereal voice announced the start of the Eight Domains war, which allowed anyone below Mahayana to participate.
• Mo Qingyu confronted the transformed Fenghuo in the Archaic Region's Great Abyss and fought him and another opponent.
• Shen Linfeng and Li Xue met Qingyu in a Southern Li secret realm, where Shen Linfeng challenged him over the fake cultivation method and Qingyu urged them to hurry deeper inside.

A century after war erupted between the Heavenly Desolation Domain and the Devil Domain, Shen Ge joined Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Li Xue in a battle against Li Yuxin. Li Yuxin unleashed a Tribulation Transcendence treasure that nearly killed them, but Li Xue made it vanish, and the group fled after a distant expert struck them with divine sense.

• Ten years after Mo Qingyu's earlier defeat, Shen Ge remained missing while Shen Linfeng stayed active, and Zhu Tianyu realized Shen Ge was still alive.
• A hundred years later, the Devil Domain invaded, and the Heavenly Desolation Domain ordered cultivators at Nascent Soul Realm or above to fight at the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• During the war's third year, Su Liuyue and Mo Qingyu confronted Li Yuxin, and Shen Ge and Li Xue joined them after a night of fighting.
• Li Yuxin endured attacks from all four opponents before revealing a painting that summoned a mountain and crushed them beneath its pressure.
• Li Xue's red light erased the mountain and scroll and made Li Yuxin vanish, allowing the four fighters to recover and leave.
• A Tribulation Transcendence expert's divine sense swept the area and injured the four from afar before withdrawing.

Shen Ge and the others escaped after an overwhelming divine sense attacked them, while Zhu Xiu fought five Devil Cultivators in the central war zone. Zhu Xiu broke their Five Devil Formation, and a flaming fist appeared in the Devil Qi as the battle continued.

• A Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator challenged a middle-aged Evil Qi cultivator for targeting Li Xinyu, who was only an avatar.
• Shen Ge and the others escaped using Li Xue's teleportation formation, and Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue went into seclusion to recover.
• Zhu Xiu fought five Devil Cultivators and used his Blood Qi and war hammer to injure and drive back their attackers.
• Zhu Xiu summoned a sky-piercing painted halberd and unleashed a blood dragon, but the Devil Cultivators countered with the Five Devil Formation.
• Zhu Xiu shattered the giant devil's hand, severely injuring one Devil Cultivator, who teleported away and caused the formation to collapse.
• A flaming fist emerged from the Devil Qi, leaving a Spirit Severing Early Stage Devil Cultivator with nowhere to dodge.

Zhu Xiu and Ye Xingchen gained fame through major battles in the Gods and Devils War, while Shen Ge emerged from seclusion at the Spirit Severing Middle Stage. The chapter ended with Shen Ge telling his master that his original body had vanished from Mo Wind City more than a century earlier.

• Zhu Xiu fought four Devil Cultivators, helped spark a three-day battle, killed eleven Devil Cultivators, and advanced to the Spirit Severing Middle Stage.
• Ye Xingchen used his new Law Treasure bow and joined forces with Wanye to fight a Devil Cultivator attack; he survived the costly battle and earned the title Tyrannical Alchemist.
• Shen Ge emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Spirit Severing Middle Stage and joined his master, senior sister, fellow disciples, and Su Sui at a pavilion.
• Shen Ge learned that Li Xue was still recovering from severe injuries and told Mo Qingyi that his original body had been missing from Mo Wind City for over a hundred years.

Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Shen Linfeng tracked Shen Ge to a ruined Ghost Dao secret realm in the Yellow Wind Sands. After entering through the Ghost Gate Pass, Mo Qingyu confronted Shen Ge for risking his life and staying away for more than five hundred years.

• Xu Yaoyang told fellow cultivators that a dangerous Ghost Dao secret realm had appeared in the Yellow Wind Sands and warned Nascent Soul cultivators against exploring it.
• Su Liuyue and Mo Qingyu sensed Shen Ge's trace in the Ghost Qi, and Shen Linfeng concluded that Shen Ge was devouring the realm to create an Underworld and restore Samsara.
• Mo Qingyu angrily ordered Shen Linfeng to lead them to Shen Ge, and the three searched the Ghost Qi for ten days.
• A doorway marked Ghost Gate Pass appeared, and Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Shen Linfeng entered before it vanished.
• Shen Ge revealed himself inside the realm, and Mo Qingyu scolded him for endangering himself and failing to contact them for more than five hundred years.

Shen Ge rejected Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue’s warnings and remained determined to find Mu Wan, even as his obsession threatened to consume him. After the others left the secret realm, Li Xue and Bai Lili arrived in the region, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Shen Ge argued that Mu Wan’s soul might vanish into heaven and earth and insisted he had to find her before it was too late.
• Su Liuyue challenged Shen Ge to consider whether he had the strength to defy heaven, reverse time, or establish Samsara, but Shen Ge ordered everyone out of the secret realm.
• Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue left in dismay, while Shen Linfeng worried that Shen Ge’s obsession could become a heart demon and privately desired independence from his original self.
• Five Spirit Severing Realm cultivators tried to question Mo Qingyu and her companions about the secret realm, but withdrew after recognizing them and Shen Linfeng.
• More than half a month later, Li Xue and Bai Lili appeared in the region thick with Ghost Qi.

Bai Lili visited Shen Ge while he devoured a ghost Dao secret realm to build an underworld, and offered to help him. She claimed their yin and yang Samsara Qi—and their fates—were bound together, leaving Shen Ge to withdraw while she joined his effort.

• Bai Lili sensed Shen Ge devouring the secret realm to transform the space beyond Ghost Gate Pass into a true world and stepped through a portal to reach him.
• Shen Ge confronted Bai Lili, who teased him about sparing her because her father, Fenghuo, had helped him.
• Bai Lili explained that their Samsara Qi drew them together and said she had come to join Shen Ge's attempt to create an underworld.
• Bai Lili infused the secret realm with her Samsara Qi, speeding its devouring by thirty percent.
• Bai Lili warned that fighting her would force their yin and yang Qi to merge, and argued that their linked fates meant she could not escape the heavenly punishment.
• Shen Ge accepted her help without further argument and dissolved into ghostly Qi, while Bai Lili remained in the secret realm.

Three months after Shen Ge and Bai Lili emerged from a secret realm, their attackers triggered Heavenly Punishment when Shen Ge became its target. As lightning battered the region and the hand from Ghost Gate Pass began to break apart, a formation Li Xue had prepared lit up beneath Shen Ge.

• Three months later, Shen Ge and Bai Lili emerged from the secret realm and faced attacks from cultivators hoping to seize their treasures.
• Bai Lili opened Ghost Gate Pass, and she and Shen Ge used the Six Paths of Samsara Visualization Method to summon a fearsome presence that drove back some of their attackers.
• A hand wielding a fangtian ji emerged from Ghost Gate Pass, and its appearance brought down Heavenly Punishment as the cultivators fled.
• The lightning killed the Nascent Soul cultivators and many Spirit Severing experts, while Shen Ge stood within a protected area as the summoned hand began to break apart.
• A composite formation that Li Xue had secretly laid a month earlier lit up beneath Shen Ge.

Shen Ge fought the Heavenly Punishment with help from Li Xue’s formation and Bai Lili’s Samsara Qi, but his Yin-Yang Great Millstone collapsed under the lightning. He summoned three ancient Demon Beasts from stone pages, leaving a Body Integration Realm expert shocked by their identities and the pages’ possible origin.

• Li Xue’s formation blocked the lightning, while Bai Lili lent Shen Ge her Samsara Qi and mocked his romantic entanglements.
• Shen Ge unleashed a black-and-white sword strike that split the sea of lightning, drawing the attention of a Body Integration Realm expert who suspected a connection to Samsara.
• Shen Ge formed a massive Yin-Yang Great Millstone that ground down lightning and let Bai Lili absorb its essence into Ghost Gate Pass.
• The Heavenly Punishment intensified and cracked the millstone, and a purple-tinged bolt struck Shen Ge before the formation collapsed.
• Shen Ge released three stone pages, summoning Little Kui Ox, Zhujian, and Wen; the Body Integration Realm expert recognized them as ancient exotic beasts and suspected the pages came from the Record of Exotic Beasts of the Bai Ze clan.

Shen Ge used six black vortices to absorb the Heavenly Punishment’s lightning, while Bai Lili struggled against the lightning filling her ghost domain. After locating Bai Lili, Shen Ge vanished toward the Lightning Origin, drawing the attention of onlooking experts who suspected a connection to Venerable Reincarnation.

• Three exotic beast imprints protected Shen Ge from the lightning, while Bai Lili considered using her Qiluo Pink Lotus.
• Five powerful figures appeared to watch the Heavenly Punishment, including Luo Lan and Zhang She.
• Shen Ge manifested six black vortices that grew to mountain size and swallowed vast amounts of lightning.
• Lightning flooded Bai Lili’s ghost domain, so she swallowed the Qiluo Pink Lotus and used a giant hand of Ghost Qi to suppress it.
• Shen Ge declared that he had found Bai Lili and disappeared toward the Lightning Origin, while Zhang She discussed capturing him with Luo Lan, who refused to take part.

After surviving the heavenly punishment, Shen Ge and Bai Lili merged, and Bai Lili discovered that Shen Ge came from another world. Shen Ge awakened with new control over the ghost domain as a mysterious figure declared that he had found the Lord of Reincarnation.

• The heavenly punishment ended, Shen Ge vanished from the magma, and Luo Lan and Liu Xianyang departed while Zhang She remained wary of acting.
• Inside the ghost domain, its remaining ghost Qi and Bai Lili flowed into the unconscious Shen Ge, forming a Xiantian Taiji diagram around him.
• A black-mist figure absorbed a wisp of Reincarnation Qi and proclaimed that he had found the Lord of Reincarnation.
• After seeing some of Shen Ge's memories, Bai Lili teased him about being from another world and provoked the reincarnation power before leaving his sea of consciousness.
• Shen Ge awoke and granted Lan Yu and Ghost King Yi partial authority over the ghost domain, while Bai Lili appeared and affirmed that she agreed with his decisions.

Shen Ge faced Venerable Reincarnation, whose clone trapped his own, and learned that the powerful stranger carried an elusive hostility resembling the Heavenly Dao. Unable to settle their conflict by force, Shen Ge proposed a ten-thousand-year contest between their clones, which Venerable Reincarnation accepted.

• Venerable Reincarnation restrained Shen Ge's clone, but Shen Ge's attempt to affect him with the Jade Pure Numinous Treasure Heavenly Venerable's image failed.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili sensed a faint hostility connected to the Heavenly Dao, while Ghost King Yi and Lan Yu judged Venerable Reincarnation too powerful to defeat safely outside their world.
• Shen Ge sent another clone out to confront Venerable Reincarnation and acknowledged that the Return of the Soul Instruction had helped him regain a human body.
• Shen Ge refused to hand over his cultivation method and proposed that each side send ten thousand clones to hunt one another for ten thousand years.
• Venerable Reincarnation accepted the wager on the condition that their clones could sense one another, and Shen Ge left him a strand of Reincarnation Qi.

Shen Ge sent ten thousand soul fragments into the world to grow stronger, hoping to use them to break through to Tribulation Transcendence, and began a ten-thousand-year wager with Venerable Reincarnation. As their fragments scattered, the wager began, while a man in Azure Origin Palace sensed that the cultivation world’s future had changed.

• Shen Ge created ten thousand soul fragments, instilled them with the Life and Death Art and a desire to kill, and sent them into the night to grow stronger.
• Shen Ge told Bai Lili that he had sealed away some memories and intended to become an immortal and develop the Underworld.
• Venerable Reincarnation entered Shen Ge’s ghost domain, admired the complete little world, and left after Bai Lili opened a portal and checked for hidden measures.
• Shen Ge told Bai Lili to help him cultivate, and she agreed while resolving to make his sealed memories disappear forever.
• Venerable Reincarnation’s clone created ten thousand soul fragments, infused them with reincarnation Qi, and declared that he would claim the Lord of Reincarnation’s Dao.
• A handsome man in Azure Origin Palace sensed that the future of the cultivation world had grown grander and speculated that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi would erupt again.

A young man who returned from the dead terrorized East Forest Village before a woman in white killed him, while a wealthy merchant’s son was born after a breeze seemed to turn a difficult labor around. The merchant named the child Shen Tianci, believing the heavens had spared him.

• An old man found a dead young man on a forest path, but the man revived, attacked him, and left rumors of a man-eating living corpse near East Forest Village.
• A few days later, a woman in white pursued and killed the revived young man with her flying sword, puzzled by how he had returned to life.
• In Green Leaf Town, a wealthy merchant waited anxiously as his wife struggled to give birth and ordered the midwife to save her when the child’s life was in danger.
• A breeze passed through the courtyard, the baby began to emerge, and the midwife later announced that both mother and son were safe.
• The wealthy merchant named his newborn son Shen Tianci, believing the heavens had intervened to save the family.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili traveled to White Dragon City, where the Dao Repository Academy recognized Shen Ge as the new master of its divine sword, Southern Splendor. Bai Shu approached them as Shen Ge revealed the sword, leaving its reception—and the surrounding cultivators’ interest—in question.

• Shen Ge and Bai Lili left their ghost domain to see the world, while the chapter recounted the fortunes of Shen Ge’s disciples and clone after the war.
• At Falling Rosy Clouds City, Shen Tianci tested as having supreme-grade metal and fire Spirit Roots and drew attention from Gale Sword Valley.
• Bai Lili shopped with Shen Ge in White Dragon City as the Dao Repository Academy’s Bai Shu sensed the Southern Splendor Sword and alerted the academy.
• Bai Shu told the academy’s experts not to seize the sword because it had acknowledged Shen Ge and he had ties to Venerable Xu.
• Bai Shu greeted Shen Ge and Bai Lili, and Shen Ge produced Southern Splendor, drawing greedy looks from nearby cultivators.

Shen Ge traded the Southern Splendor Sword for five years of access to the Dao Repository Academy's Scripture Pavilion, where he and Bai Lili studied rare cultivation methods. After another five years passed, Bai Lili neared the Body Integration Realm, and Shen Ge finished his contemplation and prepared to leave.

• Shen Ge agreed to give Bai Shu the Southern Splendor Sword in exchange for letting him and Bai Lili study in the Scripture Pavilion for five years.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the pavilion, where Shen Ge found his Divine Sense blocked from examining the higher floors and Bai Lili chose two illusion techniques.
• Bai Shu met with several Body Integration Realm experts, and the Southern Splendor Sword flew deeper into the academy after they confirmed it had been returned.
• Bai Lili completed an illusion cultivation that perfected her State of Mind and brought her to the threshold of the Body Integration Realm.
• After another five years of study, Shen Ge opened his eyes, revealed a brief Sword-Ray, and said it was time to leave.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the Void Star Hall, where Shen Ge fought a three-headed lion and completed a new sword technique. He then summoned the Samsara Qi for a decisive attack as the battle continued.

• Bai Shu invited Shen Ge and Bai Lili to enter the Void Star Hall with the Dao Repository Academy, and they agreed to go when it opened a year later.
• Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue discussed sending clones into the Void Star Hall and worried about Shen Ge’s absence and Zhang Fengge’s failing lifespan.
• Mo Shang taught students in Blue Sea Town after earning a fearsome reputation as the Yin-Harvesting Devil Lord.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the Void Star Hall using split souls, and Shen Ge began collecting Star Stone before a three-headed lion attacked him.
• Shen Ge fought the three-headed lion to temper his swordsmanship, then used Spring and Autumn to destroy the lion’s claw marks and complete the technique.
• Shen Ge declared he was done playing and summoned Samsara Qi, preparing a sword force that could decide life and death.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili continued their cultivation and returned to Moon-Supporting City, where Shen Ge encountered one of his separated soul fragments living as a child. Elsewhere, Zhang Fengge’s lifespan ended, and she bade farewell to Su Sui and Lu Xiu before vanishing.

• Shen Ge and Bai Lili split off numerous Peak Nascent Soul clones, including ten figures created by Bai Lili’s Lost Po and Departed Soul Method, then left to conduct an experiment.
• Three years later, Shen Ge and Bai Lili reunited in the Void Star Hall and defeated ten opponents at their realm, earning a formidable reputation.
• At the Hundred Flowers Pavilion in Moon-Supporting City, Bai Lili stayed behind while Shen Ge went out to explore and found a boy who was one of his soul fragments.
• Shen Ge followed the boy to a room where five young girls lived, recognized their Earth Spirit Roots and the boy’s Metal Spirit Root, and sent cultivation methods into the boy’s mind.
• Zhang Fengge regained her youthful appearance before her death, said farewell to Su Sui and Lu Xiu, and vanished into streams of light.