Chapter Summaries

Ling Shuang destroyed the remaining dharma corpses, while Chi Tian helped Yang Lingrui restore his shattered body. Unable to strike with Taicang’s sword intent guarding them, the Soul Law Spirit spent another hundred years of lifespan and faced a choice between preserving itself and obeying the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord.

• Ling Shuang annihilated the three wounded dharma corpses and the Earthly Baleful dharma corpse fighting Yang Yuanhong with a sweep of Sword Qi.
• Chi Tian greeted Yang Lingrui and used his soul-intent dao art to restore Yang Lingrui’s bones, limbs, flesh, and blood.
• Yang Lingrui recovered under Taicang’s protection, while the Soul Law Spirit found itself unable to approach him.
• The Soul Law Spirit condensed another hundred years of lifespan, bringing its total expenditure past half of its original reserve.
• The Soul Law Spirit hesitated between preserving its existence and carrying out the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s decree.

Ling Shuang fought an old Sword Cultivator summoned by the Soul Art spirit while Yang Lingrui continued deeper into the Soul Art with Shen Yue’s help. As the spirit’s power weakened, the berserk souls in the Canglan Righteous Path calmed, and Venerable Yuehan learned that Yang Lingrui had helped save him.

• Ling Shuang clashed with the old Sword Cultivator, who suppressed his attack by drawing three inches of his blade.
• Shen Yue sheltered Yang Lingrui from the sword qi as he rebuilt his body, and Yang Lingrui thanked him before continuing onward.
• Shen Yue joined Yang Lingrui for the final stretch through the Soul Art, and Yang Lingrui advanced with renewed resolve.
• The Soul Art spirit’s expenditure of two hundred years of lifespan caused the berserk phenomenon in the Canglan Righteous Path to subside.
• Venerable Yuehan regained control, and Venerable Xuansheng realized Yang Lingrui’s progress had likely calmed the souls.
• Venerable Yuehan learned Yang Lingrui’s name and resolved to remember his favor.

Ling Shuang faced the resurrected old Sword Cultivator and defeated his concealed-edge sword with her Wandering Dragon Pursues Truth technique. Before the clash ended, her sword intent inspired him to take a new step in the Sword Dao, though too late to change the tragedies of his life.

• The old Sword Cultivator attacked Ling Shuang with his fully unleashed concealed-edge sword as a Dragon Shadow descended.
• Ling Shuang invoked the Meishan patriarch’s teaching and used the Taicang Sword’s dragon aspect to pin down the old Sword Cultivator’s sword intent.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong joined their strength in her Wandering Dragon Pursues Truth strike, which broke the old Sword Cultivator’s great sword.
• The old Sword Cultivator answered with Silent Fate Pierces the Profound and, guided by Ling Shuang’s sword intent, took a new step on his path of the Dao.

Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong defeated the old Sword Cultivator and found Yang Lingrui safely comprehending the Soul Law beneath the Unbeaten Green Mountain. Unaware that the Soul Law Spirit had fused with the Soul Law Core to survive, the group reached the core, where Yang Lingrui prepared to enter alone.

• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered after their joint strike, and Yang Yuanhong confirmed he was only tired.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong followed a disturbance to Yang Lingrui, who had entered a state of enlightenment beneath the Unbeaten Green Mountain while Shen Yue watched over him.
• Ling Shuang raised the Taicang Sword above the mountain to protect Yang Lingrui, while the group grew wary of the Soul Law Spirit's silence.
• The Soul Law Spirit fused with the Soul Law Core to preserve its chance of survival and resist Yang Lingrui's Soul-Severing Karma Cut.
• Yang Lingrui and his companions passed through the Soul Law without further obstacles and reached the golden-breathed core, where Yang Lingrui thanked them and prepared to proceed alone.

The shadows of old causality empowered the Soul Law Spirit, allowing it to retain its consciousness and resist Yang Lingrui’s attempt to sever its connection to the Soul Law. The spirit drew Yang Lingrui and the summoned cultivators into the passage between soul and realm, then dispersed its spirituality.

• The shadows of old causality redirected their power into the Soul Law Land to protect the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s chances of surviving his tribulation.
• Causal power merged with the Soul Law Spirit and spell core, preserving the spirit’s consciousness and greatly strengthening its control over the Soul Law.
• Yang Lingrui found the Soul Law Spirit and swung his blade to Sever Karma.
• The Soul Law Spirit gathered the soul-returning power at the core, causing Yang Lingrui’s strike to miss and pulling him into the void passage between soul and realm.
• The soul intents of the cultivators Yang Lingrui had summoned were drawn into the same passage, and the Soul Law Spirit dispersed its spirituality.

Ling Shuang led a group of survivors through the frozen wilderness to the valley refuge, where they mourned Uncle Wang and celebrated reaching warmth. She reunited with Yun Xiwu and learned that Dongfang Yingcai had made new progress investigating the world's origins, while Yang Yuanhong was still away.

• Ling Shuang assured the survivors that they would endure the calamity, and the dying Uncle Wang encouraged them to keep moving before he passed away.
• A young boy vowed to carry Uncle Wang's conviction and strive to live on, and Ling Shuang led the group into the valley.
• Ling Shuang opened the wind curtain with her stonewood sword, and the survivors entered the warm refuge and wept with relief.
• Yun Xiwu greeted Ling Shuang and told her that Yang Yuanhong had not returned after half a month away.
• Yun Xiwu took Ling Shuang to Dongfang Yingcai, whose research into the origins of the world had made new progress.

Ling Shuang, Yun Xiwu, and Dongfang Yingcai considered how the Soul Law Spirit might have created the strange realm and suspected an unseen force was helping him. Yang Yuanhong returned with news of powerful dharma corpses hidden in the wind and snow, leaving the group warned of a new threat.

• Dongfang Yingcai's deduction led Ling Shuang and Yun Xiwu to suspect the Soul Law space had been formed from the souls of those killed in Azure Waves' great calamity.
• Ling Shuang suggested that something was aiding the Soul Law Spirit, though she could not tell whether it was a person.
• Shenwu informed Ling Shuang, Yun Xiwu, and Dongfang Yingcai that Yang Yuanhong had returned, and they gathered with Chi Tian and Shen Yue at the valley entrance.
• Yang Yuanhong showed the group a wound on his dragon arm and reported that special dharma corpses had fused with the realm's wind and snow aura.
• Yang Yuanhong explained that the dharma corpses were near the group's cultivation level but could draw on the world's wind and snow in battle.

The seven cultivators prepared for an assault on the snow peak to find Yang Lingrui, assigning reconnaissance, crafting, and supply duties while Yun Xiwu stayed behind to protect the valley’s survivors. After three months, they had identified three types of dharma corpses and learned that the strongest ones remained dangerous despite their cultivation being suppressed.

• Yang Yuanhong and Ling Shuang took charge of scouting the snow peak, while Dongfang Yingcai, Chi Tian, Shen Yue, and Shenwu prepared implements, supplies, protective writings, and turtle shells.
• Yun Xiwu chose to remain in the valley and sustain her wind arts to protect the commoners, despite wanting to join the effort to find Yang Lingrui.
• Over the next three months, the cultivators gathered information about the dharma corpses surrounding the snow peak.
• They learned that mindless dharma corpses were the most numerous, enlightened dharma corpses used spells and ambushes, and complete-form dharma corpses posed the greatest threat.
• The cultivators discovered that most complete-form dharma corpses had Qi Gathering cultivation and a few had Essence Condensation cultivation, while the world’s Dao laws severely restricted the cultivators’ own abilities.

The Soul Law Spirit tormented Yang Lingrui with visions of his loved ones dying, but his grief strengthened his resolve to cleave souls and sever karma, wounding the Spirit. As Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong’s groups reached the snowy peak, the Spirit intensified the storm to make their real battle more dangerous.

• The Soul Law Spirit showed Yang Lingrui repeated visions of Yang Yuanhong, Ling Shuang, Dongfang Yingcai, Shen Yue, Chi Tian, Shenwu, and the person he loved most dying horribly.
• Yang Lingrui remained outwardly unmoved, while his fury at the visions fed his soul-cleaving and Sever Karma intent, which pierced deeper into the Soul Law Spirit.
• The Soul Law Spirit realized its illusions had reignited Yang Lingrui’s fighting spirit instead of breaking his will.
• The groups led by Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong reached the outskirts of the snowy peak region.
• The Soul Law Spirit stirred karma to unleash fiercer winds and colder weather, increasing the danger for the cultivators while empowering the Dharma Corpses.

The cultivators began climbing the snowy peak, only to be ambushed by complete-form law corpses. As the two groups fought to hold their ground, the Soul Law Spirit watched from the summit and waited for them to lose hope.

• The warning spirit treasures on the cultivators broke as twelve complete-form law corpses descended on their ridge.
• Yang Yuanhong flew off to fight the three Core Formation Realm law corpses, leaving Dongfang Yingcai and Shenwu to face the others.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Shenwu struck down two law corpses and worked together to defend against the remaining attackers.
• Complete-form law corpses attacked Ling Shuang's group, while Sword Immortal Taicang handled the fighting and Chi Tian and Shen Yue supported Ling Shuang.
• The Soul Law Spirit watched both battles from the summit, confident that even the cultivators would eventually despair.

Ling Shuang and the other cultivators faced a second attack by thirty-six complete-form Arcane Corpses after the Soul Law Spirit scattered them. Meanwhile, worsening cold reached the valley, and a mortal young man turned the commoners against the Immortal Masters as their fear grew.

• Ling Shuang sensed thirty-six complete-form Arcane Corpses and called the six cultivators together, but the Soul Law Spirit used spatial Daoist Magic to scatter them.
• Yun Xiwu felt the wind and snow press deeper into the valley, where the mortal commoners began noticing the falling temperature.
• A young man seized an old man and argued that the Immortal Masters would abandon the commoners if conditions worsened, while the old man defended those who had saved them.
• As the cave dwelling neared freezing, the young man questioned why the Immortal Masters had rescued the commoners and blamed them for the three years of wind and snow.
• The commoners began whispering and murmuring as the young man's accusations stirred suspicion.

Yun Xiwu held back the wind and snow to protect the common folk, even as the cold froze her in place and pushed her to the brink. Five people emerged from the underground and, realizing she was saving them, went back to prepare a fire while she struggled to stay conscious.

• The old man led the common folk up the staircase, and only five people reached the upper level after others turned back from the cold.
• The five saw Yun Xiwu frozen at the valley entrance, holding back the wind and snow from the underground dwelling.
• Yun Xiwu urged them to return underground, and the young man realized she was risking her life to protect them.
• The old man led the four young people back to gather firewood and bring a fire up to melt the ice and snow around Yun Xiwu.
• Yun Xiwu fought off sleep and clung to hope that Senior Sister Ling and Yuan Hong would succeed.

The Soul Law Spirit repeatedly turned Snow Peak to exhaust the six cultivators, while Yang Lingrui refused its offer to surrender. As the injured group struggled toward the summit, the Soul Law Spirit sensed an unexplained disturbance and turned its attention to Yun Xiwu in the valley.

• The Soul Law Spirit flipped Snow Peak again, forcing the six cultivators to fight through another group of Arcane Corpses as their strength dwindled.
• The Soul Law Spirit showed Yang Lingrui the six cultivators' dire condition and offered to send everyone back to the Canglan Continent if she stopped casting her spell.
• Yang Lingrui rejected the offer, and the Soul Law Spirit turned the mountain over once more.
• The six cultivators regrouped and continued climbing, but Shen Yue, Shenwu, Chi Tian, Dongfang Yingcai, and Yang Yuanhong suffered grave injuries as Ling Shuang fought to protect them.
• The Soul Law Spirit felt unease that did not come from Yang Lingrui or the six cultivators, so it searched the valley for Yun Xiwu.

An unseen power restored sunlight, warmth, vegetation, and abundant spiritual energy to the Wind-Snow World, leaving the Soul Law Spirit unable to find or fight its mysterious opponent. Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered enough to clear the corpses around them, while the Soul Law Spirit clung to the hope that the realm’s laws still favored his law corpses.

• The Soul Law Spirit accused Yang Lingrui of creating the mysterious voice, then lost his composure when a golden sun appeared and suppressed the wind and snow.
• The unseen being summoned Zi Xue and Cui Zhu, whose purple snow and emerald light awakened plants and life throughout the Wind-Snow World.
• The unseen being shattered hidden spaces, releasing torrents of pure spiritual energy across the realm.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered their strength and cleared the surrounding corpse horde with dragon breath and Sword Qi.
• The Soul Law Spirit urged the law corpses to attack, then reassured himself that they could still win because the realm’s laws remained unchanged.

Blood Sun Venerable God led the Canglan Divine Host into the Wind-Snow Void Realm to protect Yang Lingrui and turn the fight against the Soul Law Spirit. The Soul Law Spirit and the old shadows of karma realized that the Canglan gods had overturned their advantage and made the struggle a direct battle for survival.

• Blood Sun Venerable God thanked Chen Yang for restoring him and pledged to protect Yang Lingrui.
• Blood Sun Venerable God ordered Liuli, Fu Yin, Ku Yun, Bai Que, Wu Hua, Huang Ding, Cang Jue, and Yu Xun to join him on an expedition.
• Blood Sun Venerable God opened a crimson river through the Canglan void, and the Canglan Divine Host descended into the Wind-Snow Void Realm.
• The Soul Law Spirit was overwhelmed by the gods' power and began considering surrender.
• The old shadows of karma were stunned when the Canglan gods entered the conflict, and they recognized that the outcome was no longer under their control.

The Soul Art Spirit regained his strength and used it to kill Yang Lingrui’s companions as they tried to reach the summit. After Ling Shuang and the others died, his taunts drove Yang Lingrui into Qi Deviation, and the Soul Art Spirit believed he had won.

• Ultimate Splendor descended and restored the Soul Art Spirit’s power, allowing him to suppress Yang Yuanhong and the others and restore the world’s wind and snow.
• The Soul Art Spirit killed Yun Xiwu, Shen Yue, Shenwu, and Chi Tian as Yang Yuanhong tried to protect the group.
• Ling Shuang climbed the snowy peak alone, reached the summit for the fourth time, and was sent back by the Soul Art Spirit before dying in a final charge.
• Yang Yuanhong self-destructed his dragon body to die with Dongfang Yingcai, and Ling Shuang later died on the mountain.
• The Soul Art Spirit taunted Yang Lingrui over the deaths of his loved ones, causing him to suffer backlash and fall into Qi Deviation.
• Yang Lingrui turned his blade on himself and died, while the Soul Art Spirit declared that he had won.

Ling Shuang and the others prepared to use a formation to help Yang Yuanhong refine a mysterious mass of qi so they could break the ice crystal and save Ling Rui. Outside the Wind-Snow World, Blood Sun Venerable God continued battling the karmic shadows, but the accumulating karmic suppression was beginning to sever his connection to the world.

• Yang Yuanhong explained that the mysterious black mass of qi had appeared when he refined his true essence after the blood-colored river descended, and the others sensed that their own true essence had also grown stronger.
• Ling Shuang and the others witnessed a fleeting vision of a scarlet shadow fighting pitch-black shadows beyond the heavens, then realized the battle involved the forces behind the Soul Law Spirit and the power that had helped them.
• Ling Shuang urged the group to focus on saving Ling Rui, and Yang Yuanhong said he could refine the black mass of qi but needed more time and help.
• Ling Shuang asked Chi Tian to set up the Spirit Firmament Treasure-Transformation Formation while the others contributed their spiritual essence to help Yang Yuanhong refine the mass.
• Blood Sun Venerable God used the Blood Refining Divine Technique to protect the Wind-Snow World and refine invading karmic shadows, but the growing karmic suppression began to make him lose his connection to the world.

Liuli rushed to defend Fu Yin and Blood Sun Venerable God from the shadows of old karmic ties, then used her inherited divine power to guide the river of blood and fire into the empty pool. She was overwhelmed and swallowed by the karmic force after completing the task.

• Fu Yin used the Illusory Colors Divine Technique to trick the shadows of old karmic ties, but they retaliated against her and nearly shattered her consciousness.
• Liuli arrived with the gods, shielded Fu Yin and the others with her rainbow garment, then flew toward the empty pool to protect Blood Sun Venerable God.
• Liuli burned away the karmic power sent against her and released the divine power sealed within her body.
• Liuli stabilized the empty pool and guided the entire river of blood and fire into it, then was swallowed by the shadows' immense karmic force.

Blood Sun Venerable God exposed and attacked the true bodies of the shadows of old karma, driving them to fuse and invoke the Canglan Immortal Dao’s karma for protection. The immortal-path karma answered their rite and turned against him.

• Blood Sun Venerable God used his divine technique to damage the shadows of old karma, then exposed their true forms within the void.
• Liuli recognized the grotesque bodies as remnants of the calamity that had destroyed the Divine Path ten thousand years earlier.
• Blood Sun Venerable God wrapped the karmic poisons in bloody threads and began shredding them with the Blood Refining Divine Technique.
• Facing annihilation, thirteen clumps of shadows of old karma fused and performed a rite linking themselves to the Canglan Immortal Dao’s karma.
• The immortal-path karma responded to the fused shadows, making Blood Sun Venerable God’s attack draw its hostility.

Withered vines stopped Yang Lingrui from killing the Soul Law Spirit, leaving them frozen on a gray expanse while the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord continued his ascent. A rescued mortal boy carrying a burning torch entered the scene, and the Soul Law Spirit used his remaining power to distract him.

• Withered vines restrained Yang Lingrui's saber just before it struck the Soul Law Spirit, transporting them to a silent gray expanse beside a rift.
• The Soul Law Spirit realized the vines had saved him and hoped the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord would ascend before Yang Lingrui could act again.
• A gaunt boy whom Ling Shuang and the others had rescued approached across the rift with a burning torch, despite the fate power freezing Yang Lingrui and the Soul Law Spirit.
• The Soul Law Spirit used his remaining soul consciousness to make the boy dizzy, and the boy heard a familiar call from behind him.