Chapter Summaries

Fu Ye watched as the Corpse Monarch and its undead army attacked the northern city wall, where Zhu Meng and Du Xiao struggled to hold the enemy back. The mages fought a losing battle, and Fu Ye judged that their forces could not withstand the invasion.

• Fu Ye stayed in the attic with Liu Ru and Liu Xian while the undead aura approached from the north, leaving Zhu Meng and the others to face the Corpse Monarch.
• Zhu Meng and Du Xiao prepared the city’s defenses as the Corpse Monarch arrived with Bone Generals, Corpse Generals, and Ghost Generals.
• Zhu Meng and Du Xiao attacked the Corpse Monarch’s black sphere, but could only suppress it as the undead army charged the wall.
• Mo Fan, Zhou Min, and Mu Bai helped fight the Corpse Generals, destroying several before more undead overwhelmed the defenders.
• The mages suffered mounting casualties as Zhu Meng and Du Xiao weakened, and Fu Ye concluded that their forces could not defeat the undead army.

Fu Ye arrived with Liu Xian and Liu Ru to defend Luohua Village from Fang Gu’s undead army, which Fang Gu had strengthened with Kun Jing Water after massacring five villages. Liu Xian began destroying the undead with overwhelming ease, leaving Fang Gu stunned.

• Fang Gu led his Kun Jing Water-tempered undead army to attack Luohua Village and confronted Xie Sang over his past refusal to help Yangyang Village.
• Fang Gu ordered the undead to slaughter the villagers, whose farm tools could not harm the strengthened creatures.
• Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Liu Ru landed on the village wall, and Fu Ye confronted Fang Gu.
• Liu Xian charged into the undead army and shattered a Bone Rhinoceros with one palm strike.
• Liu Xian continued tearing through the undead, reducing dozens to ash and leaving Fang Gu in disbelief.

Liu Xian defeated Fang Gu’s undead and captured him after he massacred five villages using Kun Jing Water, while Fu Ye saved Luohua Village and Zhu Meng ordered an investigation. Fu Ye suspected the Black Vatican was behind the events and considered spreading Kun Jing Water through the Parthenon Temple.

• Liu Xian destroyed Fang Gu’s undead army, knocked him unconscious, and took him to the Military Mages guarding the Ancient Capital.
• Liu Ru gave Xie Sang medicine to disperse the undead aura, and Fu Ye and his companions left Luohua Village.
• A Military Mage reported that Fang Gu had used Kun Jing Water to temper undead and slaughtered five villages, killing more than three hundred people.
• Zhu Meng ordered Fang Gu held under strict guard, sent investigators to the five villages, and rallied the mages defending the northern city wall.
• Fu Ye examined a Kun Jing Water crystal and speculated that scattering the supposed berserk potion throughout the Parthenon Temple could cause a special reaction.

The undead revived in a strange gray-black rain, ignoring the sunlight and overrunning the Ancient Capital's defenses. A Skeleton Hell Lord appeared and destroyed the northern city wall, leaving the city engulfed in demonic purple fog.

• Zhu Meng and Hunter King Xiao believed the surviving defenders had won as the morning sun began to destroy the undead.
• Gray-black rain fell, restoring the undead and making them stronger despite the sunlight; Mu Bai, Zhou Min, and Mo Fan recognized the danger.
• The revived undead charged the city, throwing its residents into panic as Zhu Meng ordered the mages to defend the wall.
• A vast pair of bone wings appeared above the city, and Zhu Meng identified the creature as the Skeleton Hell Lord.
• The Skeleton Hell Lord flapped its wings, scattering the mages and shattering the northern wall while Hunter King Xiao watched helplessly.
• The rain and mist thickened into demonic purple fog that enveloped the Ancient Capital.

Mo Fan, Zhou Min, Mu Bai, and the defenders fought as the Ancient Capital was besieged by the Skeleton Hell Lord and the Corpse of the Mountain Peak, while undead also appeared through a Black Hole inside the city. The defenses failed under the assault, and Zhang Xiaohou struggled to get residents to shelter as the undead spread through the city.

• Mo Fan, Zhou Min, and Mu Bai stood their ground at the collapsed city wall as the Skeleton Hell Lord's pressure swept over the Ancient Capital.
• Zhu Meng recognized the ash-black rain from the Bo City massacre, and the Corpse of the Mountain Peak revealed itself and released tens of thousands of undead toward the city.
• A Black Hole opened above the Ancient Capital and dropped flesh spheres that released Shadow Demons, Corpse Witches, and other undead into the city.
• Mo Fan used lightning to save Zhou Min from a Bone Dragon, while he and Zhou Min fought on despite their injuries and dwindling magic.
• Zhang Xiaohou led young mages in defending the shelter passage and urged residents to retreat underground as undead broke through the city's outer defenses.

Mo Fan and his companions fought undead and Black Vatican cultists in Ancient Capital while protecting civilians. Just as they faced exhaustion and capture, Fu Ye announced that five Space Teleportation arrays could evacuate humans to Mist City.

• Mo Fan rallied the despairing mages by unleashing a powerful fire-and-lightning attack against the undead.
• Three Black Vatican members confronted Mo Fan’s group and attacked them with summoned demons while using injured civilians as bait.
• Zhang Xiaohou rescued the civilians but was seized by a chain, and Mu Bai was wounded while trying to help him.
• Mo Fan defended the group as the Black Vatican cultists tried to wear them down and surround them.
• Fu Ye’s voice announced five Space Teleportation arrays in Ancient Capital that would transport humans to Mist City and exclude undead and dark creatures.

Mo Fan and his allies drove off the Black Vatican cultists and escorted civilians to Fu Ye’s teleportation arrays, while the surviving mages prepared to confront the undead. The evacuation neared completion when Zhu Meng received a secret letter naming two senior members of the Ancient Capital Magician Association in blood.

• Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou fought the Black Vatican cultists, forcing their leader and another cultist to flee after Mu Bai stopped Mo Fan from pursuing them.
• Mo Fan and his allies escorted the remaining civilians to the Northern City teleportation array, where they were transported to safety.
• Zhu Meng, Hunter King Xiao, and other high-ranking mages arrived, praised Fu Ye’s rescue, and agreed to organize a plan against the undead.
• A guard reported that most civilians and low-tier mages had evacuated, while some mages remained trapped in the core area.
• Zhu Meng received a sealed letter bearing the Black Vatican’s aura, and Mu Bai recognized it before Zhu Meng found two Ancient Capital Magician Association members’ names written in blood.

Fu Ye explained why Salang had exposed the Black Vatican spies, and Zhu Meng ordered their arrest. With the Ancient Capital’s undead crisis still unresolved, the Skeleton Hell Lord and the Corpse of the Mountain Peak began to move.

• Zhu Meng and the others discovered a list of Black Vatican spies, and Fu Ye explained that Salang had exposed them after they outlived their usefulness.
• Fu Ye privately realized Salang knew his strength and had exposed the spies partly to avoid making him her enemy.
• Zhu Meng ordered his guards to arrest everyone on the list, and Mo Fan vowed not to let Salang escape responsibility for the Ancient Capital’s losses.
• The arrested spies confessed to infiltrating the Magic Association and sabotaging the Ancient Capital’s defensive formations, so Zhu Meng ordered them imprisoned until the crisis ended.
• Zhu Meng and the high-ranking mages thanked Fu Ye, who warned them that the Skeleton Hell Lord and the Corpse of the Mountain Peak had begun to move.

The Magic Council revealed that the Fiendish Abyss would consume the Ancient Capital unless someone entered its core and destroyed its source nexus, and Fu Ye identified Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou as possible entrants. Three days later, the core appeared, and Fu Ye prepared to take them inside as the undead crisis continued.

• A gray-robed messenger delivered the Magic Council's finding that the Fiendish Abyss had to be entered and its source nexus destroyed within seven days, using either the Earth Sacred Spring or the Ancient King's bloodline.
• The messenger pointed out that Mo Fan possessed the Earth Sacred Spring, and Zhu Meng asked him to help enter the Fiendish Abyss.
• Fu Ye said he would enter the Fiendish Abyss to retrieve something from the Ancient King's Mausoleum and revealed that Zhang Xiaohou descended from the Ancient King.
• Fu Ye explained that the residents of the villages around the Ancient Capital shared that bloodline, though they were too weak to survive entering the Fiendish Abyss.
• After three days of preparation, the Fiendish Abyss's core emerged, and Fu Ye offered to take Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou inside as Liu Xian and Liu Ru reached mid-level Monarch-level Demon strength.

Fu Ye prepared to enter the Fiendish Abyss core with Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou, while Fang Gu and Su Xiaoluo joined the expedition for very different reasons. The group set off through the undead monarchs’ attacks, with Fu Ye aware that Fang Gu’s greed would bring about his destruction.

• Zhu Meng brought Fang Gu to Fu Ye, explaining that the Ancient King’s descendant might help the team enter the Fiendish Abyss, and Fu Ye agreed to take him along.
• Fang Gu pretended to seek atonement, though he secretly intended to seize the Ancient King’s inheritance.
• Su Xiaoluo volunteered to join Fu Ye, and, after hearing her resolve, he healed her injuries and accepted her into the team.
• Fu Ye told Zhu Meng to hold back the undead monarchs, then gathered Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Su Xiaoluo, and Fang Gu to depart.
• Fu Ye led the group toward the Fiendish Abyss core through a Space Power passage, with Su Xiaoluo following close behind and Fang Gu rushing after the inheritance.

Fu Ye led the group into the Fiendish Abyss, where its deathly aura and mounting mental pressure tested their protections and strength. At the lower level, most of the team collapsed, while Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Liu Ru faced an undead army and spotted a figure seated on a bone throne.

• Fu Ye blocked the Skeleton Hell Lord's attack and led the group through the Fiendish Abyss entrance.
• Mo Fan's Loach Pendant shielded him, the Ancient King bloodline protected Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo, and Fu Ye's Space Barrier guarded Liu Xian and Liu Ru.
• Fu Ye cleared the undead as the group crossed the middle region, while Fang Gu sensed the Ancient King's inheritance ahead.
• A crushing mental pressure struck at the lower level, knocking Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo unconscious.
• Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Liu Ru remained standing before an army of Commander Level undead, six sleeping Monarch level undead, and a figure seated on a white bone throne.

Fu Ye and Liu Xian reached the throne of Jiu You Empress in the depths of the Fiendish Abyss. After a mental assault knocked Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo unconscious, Jiu You Empress awakened and looked toward Fu Ye and the others.

• Fu Ye recognized the awakened undead on the bone throne as Jiu You Empress, the Ancient King's loyal subordinate who guarded the Fiendish Abyss.
• As the team descended, the Fiendish Abyss's mental erosion weakened Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, and Su Xiaoluo, while Fang Gu became increasingly obsessed with the Ancient King's inheritance.
• An invisible mental storm overwhelmed Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo, trapping each of them in a nightmare and leaving them unconscious.
• Jiu You Empress opened her eyes and met the gazes of Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Liu Ru, while Fu Ye noticed that the others had suffered a Mind System assault.

Fu Ye protected Mo Fan and the others from the Fiendish Abyss’s nightmares, and they awoke in the Pure Realm before the Ancient King's Mausoleum. After explaining the mausoleum’s ancient barrier, Fu Ye told the group to rest before entering and warned them to follow his commands.

• Fu Ye shielded the unconscious Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Fang Gu, and Su Xiaoluo from the undead’s mental erosion while suppressing the approaching undead with his Space Power.
• Mo Fan and the others awoke on a white jade floor and found Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Liu Ru standing before a vast white mausoleum.
• Fu Ye explained that the Fiendish Abyss contained separate Corpse Rain and Pure Realm spaces, divided by the Ancient King’s enduring space and Earth magic formation.
• Fang Gu eagerly fixated on the mausoleum’s entrance, believing the Ancient King’s inheritance lay inside, while Su Xiaoluo asked whether they should enter.
• Fu Ye told the group to rest before entering and warned them to follow his commands because the mausoleum was full of mechanisms and dangers.

Mo Fan and the others reached the Ancient King's Mausoleum, where Fang Gu used a hidden fragment of the Evil Eye Bronze Mirror to open its gate. Inside, Fu Ye warned them that the Endless Corridor’s Soul Hooking Paintings and overlapping Space Barriers made the passage dangerous.

• Fu Ye led the group to the mausoleum’s sealed gate, where they found a shattered Evil Eye Bronze Mirror embedded in the stone doors.
• Fang Gu revealed he had hidden the mirror’s missing half, which he said his family had preserved to open the mausoleum.
• At Fu Ye’s order, Fang Gu fitted the fragment into the gate, and the mirror’s black beam opened the stone doors.
• Mo Fan nearly became entranced by a mural in the corridor until Fang Gu warned him that the Soul Hooking Paintings could trap people in illusions.
• Fu Ye explained that the Endless Corridor contained overlapping Space Barriers and instructed everyone to look straight ahead, avoid the murals, and keep walking.

Mo Fan and the others resisted the Soul Hooking Paintings’ temptations and escaped the Endless Corridor into the Ancient King’s front palace. They discovered an Eternal Life Lotus, while the Azure Dragon Pendant reacted to it and Lord Fu Ye appeared to notice Mo Fan’s secret.

• Lord Fu Ye warned the group to keep their eyes forward as Fang Gu struggled against the murals’ temptations and Mo Fan stayed wary of him.
• Mo Fan, Su Xiaoluo, and the others endured the paintings’ illusions and followed Lord Fu Ye out of the Endless Corridor.
• The group entered a vast white-jade palace decorated with starry carvings, dragon pillars, and statues of the Ancient King’s guards.
• Su Xiaoluo identified a glowing flower at the palace’s center as the Eternal Life Lotus, and Lord Fu Ye explained its power over undead creatures.
• Mo Fan felt the Azure Dragon Pendant react to the lotus and suspected Lord Fu Ye had noticed it; Lord Fu Ye said the lotus could not be destroyed without Forbidden Curse-level power.

Mo Fan and the others failed to destroy the Eternal Life Lotus, so Fu Ye used spatial magic to capture it and open the gate to the Ancient King's Mausoleum core. The group entered and found the Nine Deaths One Life Bridge, with ten identical paths stretching over an abyss.

• Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, and the others attacked the Eternal Life Lotus, but it repeatedly regenerated.
• Fu Ye seized the lotus with a spatial vortex, while Mo Fan struggled to keep the Azure Dragon Pendant from reacting and drawing suspicion.
• Removing the lotus destabilized the front palace and opened a stone gate leading to the mausoleum's core area.
• Fu Ye warned the group to obey his commands, and they passed through the gate.
• Mo Fan and the others discovered ten identical bridge paths over a bottomless abyss, and Su Xiaoluo recognized the Nine Deaths One Life Bridge.

Fang Gu hid his knowledge of the Nine Deaths One Life Bridge and chose the rightmost bridge after Fu Ye led Mo Fan and the others onto the leftmost one. Fu Ye destroyed the dead path’s Savage Souls and guided the group across, while Fang Gu reached the far side alone.

• Fang Gu pretended not to know which bridge was the living path and waited for others to choose first.
• Fu Ye chose the leftmost bridge, and Zhang Xiaohou, Su Xiaoluo, and Mo Fan followed him.
• Fang Gu revealed that he knew the living path and crossed the rightmost bridge, claiming he would seize the Ancient King's inheritance.
• Savage Wind erupted from the bridge, shattered Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou’s defenses, and nearly swept them and Su Xiaoluo into the Abyssal Plane.
• Fu Ye used Space Power and an energy blade to kill the Savage Souls, calm the wind, and restore the bridge.
• Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, and Su Xiaoluo followed Fu Ye across the bridge as Fang Gu reached the other side by himself.

After crossing the Nine Deaths One Life Bridge, Mo Fan and his companions fought through a horde of undead and reached the Ancient King's Altar. Fang Gu had seized the Ancient King Armor Robe, whose power transformed him as the group arrived.

• Fang Gu chose the Gate of Death and hurried toward the inheritance, while Fu Ye declared that the Ancient King's Altar would become his burial ground.
• Mo Fan and the others reached a vast square, where spatial rifts opened and released a horde of undead.
• Liu Xian and Liu Ru led the fight, and Fu Ye, Mo Fan, and Zhang Xiaohou joined them to quickly defeat the undead.
• Fu Ye raced up the black stone staircase, and the group followed him to the altar platform.
• The group found Fang Gu wearing the Ancient King Armor Robe, which merged with him and unleashed Blood Fiend Energy that raised his power to the peak of Commander Level, with signs of a Monarch Level breakthrough.

Fang Gu was devoured by the Ancient King Armor Robe after its power overwhelmed him, and Fu Ye took the armor from the altar. When the armor tried to possess him, Fu Ye destroyed the Ancient King's Remembrance within it.

• Fang Gu attacked Mo Fan and the others with Blood Fiend Energy, but Fu Ye stopped and dissolved his energy blade with Space Power.
• Fang Gu charged Fu Ye, and the Ancient King Armor Robe drained his life force and magical energy until he became a skeleton.
• The Ancient King Armor Robe slipped from Fang Gu's remains and returned to the blood-colored throne before Fu Ye approached the altar.
• Fu Ye drew the armor into his hand, restrained it with Space Power, and erased the Ancient King's Remembrance within it.

Fu Ye subdued the Ancient King Armor Robe, raised Liu Xian and Liu Ru to Little Emperors, and ended the Ancient Capital disaster. Six months later, as the World University Tournament selections began, Mu Ningxue and Ding Yumian made the main team while Mo Fan secured a reserve spot, leaving Fu Ye displeased with the roster.

• Fu Ye dismantled the Ancient King Armor Robe and divided it into two capes for Liu Xian and Liu Ru, raising both sisters to the Little Emperor realm.
• Fu Ye placed Liu Xian and Liu Ru in control of the Fiendish Abyss and ordered them to move it to the Divine Land's border, ending the threat to the Ancient Capital.
• Fu Ye helped Su Xiaoluo awaken Blessing Magic, and she became an assistant to Liu Xian and Liu Ru.
• Over the next six months, Mu Ningxue earned a main team spot under Qin Yuer's protection, Ding Yumian joined her on the main team, and Mo Fan secured a reserve position.
• Fu Ye examined the World University Tournament roster and was displeased as the final selection stage began.