Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji returned to Primordial Expanse Town in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and learned that Saint Venerable Daweide and the others planned to kill the lake monster. The chapter ended with Divine Venerable Xuanjian explaining that the monster was too large to escape the lake, though its many heads could attack from the water.

• Lin Yunji told Nüwa that Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable had stayed in another universe, then entered the Vast Blue Illusory Realm.
• Lin Yunji returned to find Primordial Expanse Town rebuilt, and Saint Venerable Daweide and the others welcomed him in matching leather armor with bows and arrows.
• Saint Venerable Daweide told Lin Yunji that they planned to kill the monster and had already tested it once.
• Saint Venerable Daweide drew the monster as a ball of flesh with tentacle-like hands, and Lin Yunji was shocked by its appearance.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian recounted how the group chased a wounded wild dog king to the lake, where the monster attacked with more than a dozen heads but could not leave because its enormous body was wedged in the lake.

Lin Yunji learned that Divine Venerable Xuanjian and the others had found a way to trap and starve the monster in the pond, and he joined their plan to lure it out and kill it. He also heard about the dangers beyond Primordial Expanse Town and received the blood-absorbing spear Bloodthirst, leaving the group ready to continue exploring.

• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and Saint Venerable Daweide explained how they had wounded the pond monster and planned to starve it before luring it out with a wild dog.
• Lin Yunji accepted leather armor and a spear from Saint Venerable Daweide and agreed to help fight the monster.
• Saint Venerable Daweide told Lin Yunji about the impassable mountains, a swamp filled with venomous creatures and powerful zombies, and the village's history of plague.
• Saint Venerable Daweide identified the rusty spear as Bloodthirst, a weapon forged in Jade City that absorbed slain enemies' blood to heal its wielder and regain its sharpness.

Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide lured the wounded pond monster out with wild dog blood and offal, then attacked it with arrows. The monster remained trapped in the rocky fissure and fought back by spraying muddy water as the group took cover.

• Lin Yunji accepted the Blood-trait spear and agreed to help finish off the wounded monster.
• Saint Venerable Daweide and Lin Yunji led over a hundred people to the pond and used a bound wild dog to draw the monster toward the surface.
• Supreme Hongdu ordered everyone to fire arrows at the monster, which retreated into the pond.
• Saint Venerable Daweide had the group pour wild dog blood and organs toward the pond, provoking the starving monster to surge out.
• Supreme Hongdu ordered another volley, and the wounded monster lashed out and sprayed muddy water at the group.
• Lin Yunji asked whether the muddy water was dangerous, and Saint Venerable Daweide reassured him that it was not corrosive.

Saint Venerable Daweide explained that the pond monster was made of mud and had weakened from its injuries and hunger. Lin Yunji rejected the others’ plan to use themselves as bait and went to face the monster alone, which suddenly lunged at him from the pond.

• Saint Venerable Daweide explained that the monster scraped flesh from its prey with barbs and was made of ordinary mud, while its water jets could badly injure anyone they struck.
• Saint Venerable Daweide judged the wounded, hungry monster too difficult to lure out and proposed using fighters as bait so the Universe Level, Second Stage cultivators could attack it.
• Lin Yunji insisted that he would fight the monster alone because the others would be too weak to survive its attacks and would distract him.
• Lin Yunji walked to the pond as Saint Venerable Daweide and the others watched from behind the boulder.
• The monster burst from the still pond and pounced at Lin Yunji.

Lin Yunji killed a many-headed monster in the Vast Blue Illusory Realm and obtained a Red Jade Grade divine artifact, the Wandering Sword. He gave the artifact to the venerables, while Saint Venerable Daweide kept the Glazed Stone Bead that could improve energy efficiency.

• Lin Yunji fought off the monster’s many snake heads with his spear, then jumped into the water and killed it.
• The monster’s death gave Lin Yunji over a hundred points of energy and produced the Red Jade Grade Wandering Sword, which he tested with its Wandering Sword Shadow move.
• Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables approached Lin Yunji, who showed them the Wandering Sword.
• Saint Venerable Daweide revealed the White Porcelain Grade Glazed Stone Bead that had dropped when they killed the wild dog king, and Lin Yunji learned it increased energy efficiency by ten percent.
• Lin Yunji returned the Glazed Stone Bead to Saint Venerable Daweide and gave him the Wandering Sword because he felt it was not useful to him.

Immortal Venerable Hongluo claimed the divine artifact, and Lin Yunji and the other venerables discussed how to find stronger creatures to hunt. Lin Yunji decided to scout the swamp’s zombies first, then travel south if they proved too dangerous.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo took the Wandering Sword, and the villagers butchered the dead monster and dragged its meat ashore.
• Lin Yunji and the others arranged for a Universe Level, Second Stage cultivator to guard the wild dogs’ spawning ground and watch for the Wild Dog King.
• Saint Venerable Daweide and the other venerables discussed hunting stronger creatures because quests and low-level monsters yielded little energy.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan suggested clearing the swamp zombies, but Saint Venerable Daweide and Immortal Venerable Hongluo warned that they were too dangerous.
• Lin Yunji asked about routes through the surrounding wasteland and mountains, then decided to inspect the swamp before considering the southern route.

Lin Yunji and the other venerables entered a lifeless swamp and found a motionless zombie that resisted an arrow. Lin Yunji pierced it repeatedly with the Formation-Breaking Vajra Spear, but it rose again, leaving the group facing an enemy that seemed impossible to kill.

• Lin Yunji and the venerables traveled west from Primordial Expanse Town to a swamp filled with purplish-black reeds and no signs of life.
• Lin Yunji spotted a zombie standing motionless in the reeds, and his arrow bounced harmlessly off its head.
• Lin Yunji charged the zombie with the Formation-Breaking Vajra Spear, tore it from the mud, and stabbed holes throughout its body.
• Lin Yunji realized the zombie was still alive because he had gained no energy, and it slowly stood up again in the swamp.

Lin Yunji killed a formidable zombie by tearing apart the black Qi connecting its head and body, then led the venerables deeper into the swamp. After the group killed around forty zombies, Saint Venerable Daweide broke through to Universe Level, Third Stage, though he felt uneasy at how quickly it had happened.

• Lin Yunji severed the black Qi linking the zombie's head and body with the Green Jade Ghost Hand, finally killing it and gaining energy.
• Lin Yunji explained that the zombie was Universe Level, Third Stage and that its black Qi had to be handled like a ghost.
• Saint Venerable Daweide, Immortal Venerable Hongluo, Emperor Venerable Wuxuan, and the other venerables agreed to keep exploring.
• Lin Yunji led the group through the swamp, chopping off zombies' heads and letting the others deliver the final blows.
• Lin Yunji lent Saint Venerable Daweide the Green Jade Ghost Hand, and after roughly forty zombies, Daweide broke through to Universe Level, Third Stage.

Lin Yunji and the others killed 231 zombies in the swamp, but Lin Yunji realized something unseen might be watching them and could only move at night. They returned to Primordial Expanse Town to ask the old clan leader for advice, but learned he knew little about his grandfather’s expedition, leaving them to find another way to prepare.

• Lin Yunji and the others spent more than a month killing zombies in the swamp, bringing their total to 231.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo noticed that the number of zombies exceeded the number of people said to have joined the old clan leader’s grandfather’s expedition.
• Lin Yunji revealed that he had sensed something watching them since their tenth day in the swamp and suspected it came out only at night.
• Lin Yunji and the venerables agreed to prepare for a dangerous, possibly ghostlike creature and returned to Primordial Expanse Town to seek the old clan leader’s advice.
• The old clan leader explained that he knew little about his grandfather’s expedition, so Lin Yunji and the others had to seek another solution.

Lin Yunji equipped his group with items to fight Specters and led them back into the swamp to wait for the night’s threat. When a bell warned of a nearby Specter, they lit the swamp and spotted a figure whose presence resembled the source of the plague.

• Lin Yunji bought Nether Beast blood potion, Five-Colored Stones, and a bell that sensed Specters.
• Lin Yunji led Saint Venerable Daweide and the others back to the swamp, where they built a raised platform and waited overnight.
• Lin Yunji felt they were being watched, and the bell began ringing.
• Lin Yunji and the others coated their weapons with potion and scattered Five-Colored Stones, lighting up the swamp.
• Lin Yunji and the others saw a floating, ragged figure surrounded by deathly and plague-like presences.
• Supreme Hongdu asked Lin Yunji whether they should attack, just as the figure began to speak.