Chapter Summaries

Shen Linfeng and Shen Ge bade farewell to someone in the Earth Marsh region as they turned their attention southwest. On the Vast Grassland, Hei Li killed Blood Lady, but her storage ring trapped him in a formation filled with vengeful souls, and an old ghost later searched the blasted battlefield to confirm Hei Li’s fate.

• Shen Linfeng sent a breeze southwest and returned to meditation as golden light consumed his cave abode, while Shen Ge appeared on White Mist Mountain, sighed, and vanished.
• Hei Li pursued Blood Lady across the Vast Grassland and killed her with a flying sword refined from Blood Stone.
• Hei Li took Blood Lady’s storage ring, but its formation activated and trapped him with the old ghost’s Ten Thousand Souls Banners and vengeful souls.
• Hei Li detonated himself in the formation, destroying countless yin souls and damaging several flags, while the old ghost survived and left with the remaining banners.
• The old ghost returned to the battlefield several times, blasting it with black light before concluding that Hei Li was dead.

Yueyin taught Shen Tianci how to survive deadly conflicts by studying a story about a cultivator ambushed by five opponents. She left him with advice to use every resource immediately and consider begging for mercy when cornered.

• Shen Tianci began studying "A Thousand Ways for a Cultivator to Die" at Yueyin's urging and analyzed a story about a Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement cultivator ambushed by five Eighth Layer opponents.
• Shen Tianci realized the cultivator could have used the Subtlety Perception Technique to detect the ambush before entering the attackers' encirclement.
• Shen Tianci identified the Gale Technique as a way to throw dust and stones into the attackers' eyes and create an opening to escape.
• Yueyin explained that the cultivator could have combined the Burst Talisman, Golden Sword Talisman, and Gale Talisman to flee, and said his overconfidence and reluctance to spend his resources had led to his death.
• Yueyin told Shen Tianci that begging for mercy while invoking a powerful backer could offer another chance of survival, though Shen Tianci looked disdainful.

Shen Ge recognized Bai Yu and Xie Fan when they entered his mountain ghost domain, then exposed their sinister Qi and destroyed their clones. The siblings escaped by detonating their bodies, and Xie Fan planned to involve the Dao Repository Academy in taking on Shen Ge.

• Bai Yu sensed danger in the mountains, and Xie Fan greeted Shen Ge when he appeared before them.
• Bai Yu recognized Shen Ge as Shen Yu, and Xie Fan recalled meeting him at the demon-sealing grounds over a thousand years earlier.
• Shen Ge invited Bai Yu and Xie Fan to his cave, where he drew sinister Qi from them and revealed that they were fated to meet.
• Bai Yu and Xie Fan attacked Shen Ge's clone, then fled when his ghost cultivators surrounded them.
• Bai Yu and Xie Fan detonated their bodies to escape, while Shen Ge regretted that he could not follow their split souls.
• After reuniting far away, Xie Fan vowed revenge and suggested asking the Dao Repository Academy to deal with Shen Ge.

Xie Fan and Bai Yu recovered from their injuries, accepted that the Dao Repository Academy was protecting the ghost domain, and set off for Azure Province to investigate a rumor that an Azure Origin Palace senior was about to become an immortal. Meanwhile, Su Liuyue escaped after killing a powerful Demon Beast, while Mo Qingyu fled from Mo Teng and two other Devil Cultivators in the Void Star Hall.

• At the Dao Repository Academy, Bai Shu asked the academy head whether they should stop Shen Ge and his companion from turning the Kuangqing Mountain Range into a ghost domain, but the old man chose to wait.
• Xie Fan and Bai Yu healed in White Dragon City, decided not to pursue their losses because the Dao Repository Academy was protecting the mountain range, and traveled toward Azure Province to seek opportunities amid rumors of an impending ascension.
• Su Liuyue killed a Demon Beast with Yazi bloodline in the Void Star Hall, collected its valuable corpse, and escaped under layers of concealment arrays.
• Mo Qingyu fled from Mo Teng and two other Late Spirit Severing Realm Devil Cultivators, trading taunts with Mo Teng as he pursued revenge for his earlier defeat.

Shen Ge and his companion faced a powerful Body Integration Realm lightning tribulation in the Kuangqing Mountain Range, drawing the attention of Bai Shu and other cultivators. Their strange presence reminded Gongsun Liyuan of Venerable Reincarnation as the next strike began.

• Bai Shu and Gongsun Liyuan arrived at the Kuangqing Mountain Range after sensing the tribulation, and Bai Shu explained that the academy head had approved the presence of ghosts there.
• A bolt of lightning blasted through the mountains, purifying much of their Yin Qi, before Shen Ge and his companion emerged from the lava pit with newly formed Body Integration Realm presences.
• Gongsun Liyuan and several nearby experts felt awe toward the pair, while their thousand-zhang dharma form suppressed the cultivators’ divine souls with a chilling presence.
• Gongsun Liyuan recalled Venerable Reincarnation’s similar presence and abandoned his suspicions about the pair.
• As another sea of lightning descended, the dharma form unleashed Yin Qi and struck it with a Yin-Yang Great Millstone, which onlookers doubted could stop the tribulation.

Venerable White Dragon observed Shen Ge and his companion’s small world during their three-day lightning tribulation and recognized signs of Samsara. After the tribulation, he protected the surviving pair from Gongsun Liyuan and the other Body Integration Realm experts, who wanted to seize their world.

• A black curtain sealed off the Kuangqing Mountain Range as Yin Qi engulfed the lightning tribulation, while an imprisoned half-demon beneath the Dao Repository Academy sensed a chance to reach Tribulation Transcendence and demanded that Venerable White Dragon release her.
• Venerable White Dragon left the academy and observed the small world, praising Shen Ge and his companion’s Cultivation Method and wondering whether its mysterious principle was Samsara.
• Lightning filled the small world for three days, and onlookers feared the pair would die as their dharma form dwindled.
• When the tribulation ended, the small world broke away from heaven and earth, but Gongsun Liyuan and the other experts tried to seize it.
• Venerable White Dragon burned away their attacks with Great Sun Golden Flame and ordered them to disperse, forcing the experts to withdraw.

In Azure Origin City, cultivators discussed whether unexplained hostility between strangers could come from past lives or from powerful experts’ clones. Huang Yi was shaken by the possibility that he was a clone, while Ye Xingchen advised him to have a Body Integration Realm expert examine his soul.

• Azure Origin Palace sent a handsome youth to Azure Origin City to keep order ahead of a patriarch’s ascension.
• Huang Yi told Xie Fan, Bai Yu, and other cultivators that he had felt murderous hostility toward two strangers despite having no prior grievances with them.
• The cultivators speculated that Huang Yi’s experiences might be tied to Samsara or to powerful experts’ clones.
• Ye Xingchen suggested Huang Yi might be a clone, prompting Huang Yi to insist that he had lived his own life and was not someone’s fragment of divine soul.
• Ye Xingchen advised Huang Yi to have a Body Integration Realm expert examine his soul, and Huang Yi sat brooding over the possibility.

Venerable Reincarnation Qin Busi and Demon Emperor Feng Jiutian learned that Hai of the Azure Origin Palace was nearing ascension, and Feng Jiutian sent Qingxia to attend his ceremony. Feng Jiutian then met Qin Busi, who revealed he was delaying his own ascension until he settled a wager, while she expected to face her tribulation within five thousand years.

• Qin Busi caught a powerful vicious beast in the Marsh Sea Domain and decided to bring Hai a generous gift for his ascension.
• Feng Jiutian emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion and learned from Qingxia that Hai of the Azure Origin Palace would soon ascend.
• Feng Jiutian instructed Qingxia to choose someone to attend Hai's ceremony, and Qingxia agreed to go after Bi Xiao and Lu Shang refused.
• Feng Jiutian found Qin Busi on Sea Rosy Clouds Island and questioned why he had delayed ascension after reaching the Peak Tribulation Transcendence Realm eighty thousand years earlier.
• Qin Busi said he would consider ascending after settling a wager with a junior, while Feng Jiutian said she expected to undergo her tribulation within five thousand years.

One year after Venerable Hai ascended, Shen Ge and Bai Lili traveled as avatars to the Netherworld Domain to establish separate factions. Their arrival drew the attention of Sun Yu, an avatar of Venerable Reincarnation, and Lan Yu attacked him on Shen Ge’s behalf, but he survived and fled.

• Venerable Hai ascended from Azure Origin Palace as Shen Ge and Bai Lili watched from an attic in Azure Origin City.
• Shen Ge entered seclusion while Bai Lili declined to do so.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili arrived at Red Flame Mountain in the Netherworld Domain and agreed to build factions separately.
• Bai Lili summoned three Spirit Severing Peak Stage ghost cultivators who served as her subordinates, while Shen Ge departed alone.
• Sun Yu, waiting in Hundred Ghost Town, sensed Shen Ge’s arrival and set out to confront him.
• Shen Ge summoned Lan Yu, who pierced Sun Yu with a ghostly spear; Sun Yu survived the blast and fled, vowing to retaliate.

Shen Ge created Ghost Gate Pass on Yin Mountain and formed the Heaven and Earth Millstone to establish Samsara in the Netherworld. A powerful cyan-robed Daoist subdued the Heavenly Dao, which surrendered its authority over Samsara, and Shen Ge’s followers were tasked with guarding it for a hundred thousand years.

• Shen Ge wiped out the Yin souls and creatures on Yin Mountain, then created Ghost Gate Pass and drew weaker Yin souls toward it.
• Shen Ge merged with Bai Lili and used his Law Power to create the Heaven and Earth Millstone after a month of upheaval in the ghost domain.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered world-destroying tribulation Qi to strike, but a cyan-robed Daoist appeared beside the millstone and dispelled it.
• The Daoist declared that Samsara must be established, and the Heavenly Dao surrendered its authority after punishing ghost emperors who reached for its offerings.
• Six black holes appeared behind the millstone, and the Daoist ordered Shen Ge’s followers to guard Samsara for a hundred thousand years in exchange for hope of reaching Daluo.