Chapter Summaries

Yang Yuanhong and the others fought Blood Corpses in the Blood Demon Blessed Land and discovered that killing them granted cultivation, while their blood energy also corrupted the mind. As the group’s cultivators succumbed to greed and bloodlust, Yang Yuanhong protected his companions and noticed greed in the True Person cultivator’s gaze.

• Yang Yuanhong warned Dongfang Yinghao to retreat into the wooden box if danger arose as hundreds of Blood Corpses attacked the group.
• The group discovered that killing Blood Corpses transformed their blood energy into cultivation, and two prodigies broke through while showing signs of corruption.
• Yang Yuanhong rescued Jiang Yinkong from a Blood Corpse and warned him that the blood energy could disrupt his mind.
• Yang Yuanhong interrupted Xuan Youli’s blood-fueled obsession with a punch, restoring her clarity, but two prodigies ignored his warnings and grew increasingly frenzied.
• Yang Yuanhong arranged for his team to wound Blood Corpses so he could deliver the final blows, while the True Person cultivator killed the three strongest Blood Corpses and revealed a trace of greed.

Yang Yuanhong killed a True Person who planned to murder him and his companions, then absorbed the blood qi and broke through to the Essence Condensation Eleventh Level. Meanwhile, Chen Yang reached a mysterious tomb tied to the Canglan Divine Palace and was greeted as its Palace Master.

• Two Heavenly Talents sank into the Sea of Blood, and a True Person killed them and absorbed their blood qi.
• The True Person tried to lure Yang Yuanhong and the others closer, intending to kill them, but Yang Yuanhong attacked first and overwhelmed him.
• Yang Yuanhong wounded the True Person and threw him into the Sea of Blood, where a Nine-Legged Fish dragged away his Primordial Spirit; Yang Yuanhong absorbed the blood qi and broke through to the Essence Condensation Eleventh Level.
• Jiang Yinkong divined a direction with comparatively less danger, and the four companions set off as cultivators across the Blood Demon Blessed Land began hunting one another.
• Chen Yang found himself in spirit-body form on a black mountain covered in gravestones, unable to withdraw to his stone body.
• A deep-blue divine body named Wu Chang greeted Chen Yang as the Canglan Divine Tomb Tomb Keeper and addressed him as My Lord Palace Master.

Chen Yang met Wu Chang, a Tomb Keeper in the hidden Changlan Divine Tomb, and learned that the ancient gods had established a flawed system of near-eternal life. Wu Chang explained that reincarnation had made the tombs obsolete, while his resentment toward the practice hinted at an old grudge.

• Wu Chang revealed that he had awakened when Chen Yang first entered the Changlan Divine Palace and invited him to the mountaintop.
• Chen Yang followed Wu Chang past twelve cemeteries and saw vacant burial grounds, a half-built cemetery, and a palace made of coffins and stone tablets.
• Wu Chang explained that the Divine Tomb had once buried deities who died when divine beings had finite lifespans.
• Wu Chang said the gods later established a system of near-eternal life, ushering in the Divine Dao's golden age and causing the tombs to fall into neglect.
• When Chen Yang asked about deities killed or corrupted, Wu Chang said they entered reincarnation and awaited rebirth, revealing his resentment toward the practice.

Chen Yang learned how Wu Chang survived the cataclysm and heard his proposal to rebuild the Divine Dao with Bai Di. Chen Yang rejected relying on Bai Di alone and insisted that the Divine and Immortal Daos must develop together through the Changlan Divine Palace and the Yang Family.

• Wu Chang told Chen Yang that the Old Divine Lord had exiled the Divine Mausoleum from the Divine Court, allowing Wu Chang to survive the cataclysm in his grave.
• Wu Chang explained that he had allied with Bai Di five years earlier to revive the Demonic Dao in exchange for help rebuilding the Divine Dao.
• Wu Chang urged Chen Yang to abandon the Yang Family and support Bai Di, arguing that Bai Di was a stronger partner for restoring the Divine Dao.
• Chen Yang considered Bai Di's ambition and the Yang Family's importance to his Immortal Dao, then questioned whether Bai Di could be trusted to share power.
• Chen Yang reminded Wu Chang that he had avoided approaching Zhuang Xuanji because she might seize and refine him, and warned that neither Zhuang Xuanji nor Bai Di would grant the Divine Dao equal standing.
• Chen Yang told Wu Chang that the Changlan Divine Palace and the Yang Family were both indispensable to forging a new path that united the Divine and Immortal Daos.

Chen Yang accepted Wu Chang’s wager that they would watch Yang Yuanhong face the dangers of the Blood Demon Blessed Land without intervening. As Yang Yuanhong’s group escaped a deadly encounter, a demonic cultivator personally raised by Bai Di killed two Gold Ranking prodigies and captured their Primordial Spirits.

• Wu Chang proposed that Chen Yang let Yang Yuanhong fend for himself in the Blood Demon Blessed Land, and Chen Yang agreed to the wager.
• Wu Chang projected the Blood Demon Blessed Land into the palace, where Chen Yang watched Yang Yuanhong and his group find six cultivators transformed inside blood cocoons.
• Yang Yuanhong killed the six trapped cultivators before they became Blood Corpses, then led his group away when Jiang Yinkong detected two approaching cultivators.
• Two clear-minded Spiritual Connection Realm prodigies arrived and killed Blood Corpses, but a black-robed demonic cultivator confronted them and attacked after learning their Gold Ranking positions.
• The demonic cultivator used a sound art and Dead Water-infused demonic qi to destroy the two prodigies’ bodies, then captured their Primordial Spirits in a sack.

Yang Yuanhong’s group crossed the Blood Demon Blessed Land, learning that unknown Demonic Dao cultivators were killing powerful entrants and seeking allies for survival. After three days of dangerous travel, they found the three spirit monkeys fighting a masked True Person, who turned his attention toward them when they arrived.

• Jiang Yinkong divined that two powerful cultivators approaching the group had been killed, and he failed to identify their killer because of the person’s heavy karmic ties.
• Yang Yuanhong suspected Demonic Dao cultivators were responsible and asked Jiang Yinkong to locate Ling Shuang and Rui Qingxue, but Jiang could not calculate either woman.
• Dongfang Yinghao suggested locating the three spirit monkeys instead, and Jiang sensed them fighting and led the group toward them.
• Yang Yuanhong’s group survived a blood-corrupted True Person, a treacherous Gold Ranking prodigy, and several near-ambushes while traveling for three days.
• The group found the three spirit monkeys battling a masked True Person who had killed at least twenty people and held the advantage over them.
• The masked True Person and the spirit monkeys paused their fight when Yang Yuanhong’s group arrived, and the True Person showed interest in the Gold Ranking prodigies.

Yang Yuanhong agreed to help Rui Qingxue after learning that a demonic cultivator had attacked her and incapacitated three of her generals. Meanwhile, Ling Shuang faced two demonic cultivators while shielding rescued righteous cultivators, and wondered why Luo Qianchou had joined forces against him.

• Yang Yuanhong transformed into a dragon and drove off the True Person who had been hunting the three spirit monkeys.
• The leading spirit monkey told Yang Yuanhong that a black-robed demonic cultivator had driven Flood Dragon True Lord and Owl True Lord mad, while Turtle True Lord had imprisoned them and lost his ability to fight.
• The three spirit monkeys begged Yang Yuanhong to save Rui Qingxue, and Yang Yuanhong decided that helping her was necessary to resist the demonic cultivators.
• The spirit monkeys led Yang Yuanhong and the three Jiang Yinkongs toward Rui Qingxue, while other Golden Roll cultivators were also trapped in battles against demonic cultivators.
• Ling Shuang stood against two demonic cultivators beneath merging demonic clouds, protecting the righteous cultivators sheltered by her Taicang Sword Intent.
• Ling Shuang recognized that the two attackers had joined forces because they could not find the supreme expert, and reflected on his past defeats by Luo Qianchou.

Ling Shuang faced two demonic cultivators while Rui Qingxue fought to protect her demon subordinates and awaited help. Yang Yuanhong arrived with reinforcements and proposed that Rui Qingxue use the Beast Taming Art to control him and defeat the enemy.

• Ling Shuang answered two demonic cultivators’ threats by readying her sword to fight.
• Rui Qingxue battled a demonic cultivator for more than two days as her strength waned and Turtle True Lord struggled to restrain two Demon Lords.
• Rui Qingxue prepared to erase her contracts with her three demons, knowing it could gravely harm her mind and cultivation.
• Three spirit monkeys brought Yang Yuanhong and three other cultivators to Rui Qingxue, and Yang Yuanhong shattered the demonic cultivator’s attack.
• Yang Yuanhong donned his black armor and asked Rui Qingxue to use the Beast Taming Art to control him and eliminate the demons.

Rui Qingxue and Yang Yuanhong turned the battle against the demonic cultivator by combining the Four Sages' power with the Rui Clan's Beast Taming and Spirit Awakening Technique. Rui Qingxue destroyed his body, but his Primordial Spirit escaped inside a Blood Corpse.

• Yang Yuanhong charged recklessly and was bound by the Dragon Imprisoning Rope while the demonic cultivator attacked Rui Qingxue with black flames.
• Yang Yuanhong ambushed the demonic cultivator, and Rui Qingxue used monkey wine to transform into a golden condor and escape the encircling attacks.
• Rui Qingxue struck eight Beast Taming Spirit Seals into Yang Yuanhong, awakening the Four Sages' power and enabling him to shatter much of the demonic clouds.
• The demonic cultivator's Demonic Seal failed to affect Yang Yuanhong, and Rui Qingxue killed the cultivator's fleshly body with her Seven Apertures of Exquisite technique.
• Rui Qingxue discovered that the demonic cultivator's Primordial Spirit had escaped into a Blood Corpse fleeing across the sea.

Rui Qingxue freed the two Demon Lords with Yang Yuanhong’s help, while the escaped Demonic cultivator searched the Sea of Blood for a body to seize. He was hooked and hauled ashore by an odd cultivator surrounded by Blood Corpses.

• Rui Qingxue released the two Demon Lords, and Yang Yuanhong beat the Demonic Seals’ influence from them until they regained their senses.
• The two Demon Lords thanked Yang Yuanhong, while Rui Qingxue acknowledged his help and regretted that the Demonic cultivator had escaped.
• Jiang Yinkong collapsed after attempting a calculation and recovered only after the others came to his aid.
• The Demonic cultivator fled through the Sea of Blood in a Nine-Legged Fish body, seeking a suitable cultivator to possess.
• The Demonic cultivator spotted an island, but a fishhook caught him and dragged him from the sea.
• An ordinary-looking cultivator celebrated his catch as three rows of Blood Corpses watched him with bright eyes.

Luo Qianchou defeated the demonic cultivator possessing the Nine-Legged Fish, roasted him, and used the meat to test the Blood Corpses. He awakened the last Blood Corpse and took him and the rescued cultivators back to the Dao Academy.

• Luo Qianchou identified the defeated demonic cultivator’s connections by scent and introduced himself as the first-ranked heaven’s chosen.
• Luo Qianchou roasted the Nine-Legged Fish with the demonic cultivator’s Primordial Spirit still inside, then distributed the meat among the Blood Corpses.
• Luo Qianchou destroyed the Blood Corpses that ate without permission and tested the final one, which said the meat in its hands was its life.
• Luo Qianchou welcomed the awakened Blood Corpse as his junior brother and led him to the mountain of corpses.
• Luo Qianchou released the cultivators trapped in blood cocoons and restored them to life.

Yang Yuanhong’s group joined Long Zhu’s party, and Jiang Yinkong read the marriage fortunes of Liu Yanqing, Xuan Youli, and Yang Yuanhong. Long Yuan then invited Yang Yuanhong to speak with him atop the mountain, leaving Yang Yuanhong to accept the invitation.

• Yang Yuanhong’s group traveled through the blessed land and gathered cultivators who had fled the hunt or quit hunting in time.
• Rui Qingxue’s group encountered Long Zhu’s party, including Long Yuan, Yun Xiwu, Liu Yanqing, and Chu Jingxiao, who had helped repel demonic cultivators.
• Liu Yanqing reunited with Dongfang Yinghao, checked that he was unharmed, and teased him into agreeing to explore Fuyao Mountain’s Forbidden Ground with her.
• Jiang Yinkong said Liu Yanqing and Dongfang Yinghao were a destined match, advised Xuan Youli to let her marriage fate unfold naturally, and revealed Yang Yuanhong had an exceptionally auspicious bond with someone.
• Long Yuan approached Yang Yuanhong, praised his deeds, and invited him to talk atop the mountain; Yang Yuanhong accepted.

Long Yuan explained how Acquired Dragon Bodies advanced and asked Yang Yuanhong to help open a Dragon Tomb in the Dragon Transformation Pool. Yang Yuanhong weighed the danger before Long Yuan offered resources, treasures, and protection from a Venerable's clone.

• Long Yuan explained that Acquired Dragon Bodies needed providence to advance and revealed that his Frost Dragon Body had stalled at its third tier.
• Long Yuan said he had found a Dragon Tomb in the Dragon Transformation Pool that could advance his body, but opening it required jade marrow from Dragon Bodies of five colors.
• Long Yuan explained that Yang Yuanhong could help fulfill the final color requirement because he had a rare Dragon Body and might soon reach Spiritual Connection Realm.
• Yang Yuanhong considered the danger of entering the forbidden land and his uncertainty about Long Yuan's character.
• Rui Qingxue and Long Zhu vouched for Long Yuan, who offered Yang Yuanhong resources for his first two advancements, three treasures from Penglai Palace's treasury, and protection by a Venerable's clone.

Yang Yuanhong accepted Long Yuan’s offer to visit the Dragon Transformation Pool after settling his affairs, then joined the righteous cultivators gathering beneath Ling Shuang’s Taicang Sword. After demonic cultivators revealed that Daozhen and Ji Wanyue had been killed, Ling Shuang seized their heads and led the gathered cultivators toward battle.

• Yang Yuanhong accepted Long Yuan’s invitation and took the storage spirit ring, agreeing to travel to the East Sea after returning to the mountains.
• Ling Shuang used the Taicang Sword to summon surviving righteous cultivators, and Yang Yuanhong joined Rui Qingxue and the others aboard the sword vessel.
• Ling Shuang asked Yang Yuanhong for his real name, and Yang Yuanhong revealed that he was Yang Yuanhong.
• Mo Yunzhou and Xuanyuan Xinghe arrived, while Ling Shuang worried that Daozhen and Ji Wanyue might have fallen to the demons.
• Eight demonic cultivators displayed Daozhen and Ji Wanyue’s severed heads, prompting Ling Shuang to seize them and command the righteous cultivators to kill.

Ling Shuang, Mo Yunzhou, Xuanyuan Xinghe, Rui Qingxue, and Long Zhu fought the demonic cultivators while Long Yuan and the righteous cultivators defended the sword vessel from Blood Corpses and sea creatures. After the demonic light calmed the boiling sea, waves of resentful souls began appearing beneath the water, leaving the cultivators facing another attack.

• Ling Shuang attacked the demonic clouds, while Mo Yunzhou trapped two demonic cultivators in his Heavenly Saint Demon-Slaying Game after their silver chess pieces failed to disrupt it.
• Xuanyuan Xinghe charged into the fight, and Rui Qingxue and Long Zhu engaged the remaining demonic clouds.
• Blood Corpses and frenzied creatures surged from the sea, and Long Yuan rallied the righteous cultivators to defend the sword vessel.
• Yang Yuanhong tore the tentacles from the Nine-Legged Fish and stored them, recognizing their corrosive slime as a material related to Dead Water.
• After the cultivators fought for more than half a day, the demonic light calmed the sea, but resentful souls gathered beneath its surface and forced everyone back onto the sword vessel.

The resentful ghosts overwhelmed the cultivators aboard the sword vessel until Jiang Yinkong used the Great Evolution Dao Method to help them foresee attacks. Yang Yuanhong then faced Daozhen's powerful ghost alone and held on despite being brutally injured, ending the chapter as he invoked “Sweet! Rain!”

• Resentful ghosts, including the ghosts of Daozhen and Ji Wanyue, emerged from the water, and Long Yuan restrained Ji Wanyue while Yun Xiwu and other prodigies fought Daozhen.
• The ghosts drove the cultivators toward collapse, and Jiang Yinkong's fear of the death tribulation returned.
• Yang Yuanhong charged away from the formation, destroying two ghosts and easing Jiang Yinkong's ominous premonition.
• Jiang Yinkong cast the Great Evolution Dao Method, allowing cultivators across the battlefield to foresee the ghosts' next moves.
• Yang Yuanhong asked Yun Xiwu and the others to return to the sword vessel, then seized Daozhen's ghost and endured its savage blows to keep it occupied.
• Badly injured but still gripping Daozhen's ghost, Yang Yuanhong forced out the words “Sweet! Rain!”

Yang Yuanhong endured the Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost’s relentless assault, using the pain to advance his Black Dragon Variant Body while gambling his life on finishing its transformation. As his consciousness faltered, he reached Wu Tong through their soul flames, and she sent him strength from the Eastern Frontier Forbidden Ground.

• The Three Divine Armguards and a green glow healed Yang Yuanhong repeatedly as he endured the Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost’s attacks for a quarter-hour.
• Yang Yuanhong used the assault to temper his variant body, and his Black Dragon Variant Body began transforming as his scales became more resilient.
• Chen Yang watched Yang Yuanhong’s life-or-death gamble and refused Wu Chang’s implied request to intervene, saying the wager must be left alone.
• As the Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost battered him, Yang Yuanhong became dazed and reached Wu Tong through their soul flames.
• Wu Tong called to Yang Yuanhong from the Yang Family’s Eastern Frontier Forbidden Ground and poured her intent into his soul flame.

Wu Tong and Yang Lingqing sacrificed their vitality to help Yang Yuanhong endure a deadly trial in the Blood Demon Blessed Land. As Yang Yuanhong recovered, Chen Yang urged Wu Chang to reconsider the Divine Dao's past and embrace learning from the Immortal Dao.

• Wu Tong used her thoughts to send Yang Yuanhong strength across the distance, draining her lifespan and vitality.
• Yang Lingqing joined Wu Tong and shared the cost, comforting her as they supported Yang Yuanhong together.
• Yang Yuanhong recovered his resolve and vitality, surviving Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost's attacks as Long Yuan rejoiced.
• Wu Chang wondered how low-realm Immortal Dao cultivators could use divine powers without a deity's permission.
• Chen Yang argued that the Divine Dao's past calamity might have resulted from its own mistakes and urged Wu Chang to learn from the Immortal Dao.

Yang Yuanhong helped defeat the Resentful Ghosts and avert the death calamity, earning the righteous cultivators’ gratitude and a place among the Central Region’s rising names. The battle ended with the demonic cultivators defeated or gravely wounded.

• Ling Shuang sent her snow-white flying sword to Yang Yuanhong, who used it to gain the upper hand against the Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost.
• Yang Yuanhong and the other righteous cultivators killed the Dao Zhen Resentful Ghost and Ji Wanyue’s Resentful Ghost, ending the crisis aboard the sword vessel.
• Jiang Yinkong survived after using the Great Evolution Dao Method, though its backlash left him severely injured, and he thanked Yang Yuanhong for risking his life to save everyone.
• The righteous cultivators praised Yang Yuanhong for his actions, and his name spread across the Central Region as a worthy second-page Gold Ranking cultivator.
• Xuanyuan Xinghe killed a demonic cultivator, Mo Yunzhou captured two demonic cultivators’ lingering resentment in black chess pieces, and Rui Qingxue and Long Zhu forced their opponents to flee.

Ling Shuang and the other prodigies discovered that the final three demonic cultivators had forged a powerful Earth Fiend remnant claw with divine power. They restrained it and Ling Shuang began breaking it apart with sword techniques, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Ling Shuang's charged sword strike cracked the demonic light, revealing a scarlet claw that Mo Yunzhou identified as a remnant limb of Earth Fiend Old Ancestor.
• Ling Shuang sensed that the claw contained an unknown power, and Yang Yuanhong recognized divine power infused into it by Bai Di.
• The claw teleported above the sword vessel and knocked many righteous cultivators unconscious, but Ling Shuang and four other first-page prodigies restrained its fingers and forced it back into the sky.
• Mo Yunzhou trapped the claw in his Heavenly Prison World-Trapping Game while Xuanyuan Xinghe and the others lent Ling Shuang their sword support.
• Ling Shuang used Xuanyuan Xinghe's star phenomenon to strike the claw with Starfall, then used Yun Xiwu's wind phenomenon to blast its interior.
• Ling Shuang borrowed Long Yuan's freezing phenomenon and used Mystic Ice Pestle to freeze the claw into a crystalline sculpture.