Chapter Summaries

Luo Zheng returned to the Tower of Sin and demonstrated that he could descend through its floors directly, astonishing the tower’s inhabitants. On the Tenth Layer, he watched Xia Shuang defeat a giant, as the human race’s growing confidence reflected the Devil Race’s newfound caution.

• Luo Zheng entered the Tower of Sin with Ling Yan and the others, then said he would take another route and fell through a crack beneath his feet.
• Luo Zheng passed through the floors and landed on the Tenth Layer, leaving the other inhabitants astonished by his rapid descent.
• Xia Shuang fought a giant on the Tenth Layer and killed it with her ice technique, Swift Ice Feather.
• Luo Zheng applauded Xia Shuang as he approached the Martial Arts Arena, drawing the attention of the Tenth Layer’s inhabitants.
• Xia Shuang smiled at Luo Zheng, hopped down from the arena, and walked toward him.

Luo Zheng told Xia Shuang that he would do his best to drive the Devil Race from the Tower of Sin, while the Purple Heart Saint Land wondered whether he would stay loyal to humanity. The Devil Race’s Seat Controllers argued over how to respond, setting the stage for negotiations with Luo Zheng.

• Xia Shuang and the human battle generals praised Luo Zheng, whose victory over the Devil Race had made him famous across the Sea God Continent.
• The Purple Heart Saint Land learned that Luo Zheng had arrived from another continent through an ancient Teleportation Array and worried that he might not help humanity.
• Xia Shuang asked Luo Zheng how far he was willing to help humanity, and he said he would try to drive every member of the Devil Race out of the Tower of Sin.
• Xia Shuang warned that the Devil Race might negotiate with Luo Zheng, and he replied that their success would depend on their sincerity.
• The Devil Race’s twenty-six Seat Controllers gathered repeatedly and argued over their response.

The Devil Race’s Seat Controllers debated how to deal with Luo Zheng and ultimately agreed to negotiate, while Luo Zheng stayed on the Tenth Layer to gather Light of Creation. The chapter ends as a Beast Race Battle Venerable challenges Luo Zheng and threatens to eat him if he wins.

• Meng Tian and the Devil Race’s Peak Battle Venerables argued over whether to attack Luo Zheng, test his control of the Tower of Sin, or negotiate with him.
• Meng Tian revealed that the Twin Devil Saint Land had ordered them to negotiate, and the Seat Controllers accepted the decision while boasting that their forces could threaten the Purple Heart Saint Land.
• Luo Zheng remained on the Tenth Layer to collect Light of Creation and defeated several Battle Generals who challenged him.
• A Second Order Battle Venerable from the Beast Race arrived after climbing through Empty Arenas and challenged Luo Zheng, but Luo Zheng noted that the opponent carried no Light of Creation.
• The Beast Race Battle Venerable threatened to eat Luo Zheng’s flesh if he won.

Luo Zheng faced a Second Order Beast Race Battle Venerable in the Martial Arts Arena and used his mastery of space to evade the opponent’s first assault. When the Beast Race fighter entered a berserk state, Luo Zheng chose to confront him head-on with his Saint Grade High Rank longsword, leaving the crowd uncertain whether he could withstand the attack.

• Luo Zheng drew a Saint Grade High Rank longsword as the Beast Race Battle Venerable charged with two battle axes.
• Luo Zheng used a backward flip and a kick to turn aside the Beast Race fighter’s thrown axe, then escaped dozens of strikes by traversing space.
• The Beast Race Battle Venerable grew enraged by the spectators’ remarks and entered his berserk state, which made him stronger but uncontrollable.
• The Beast Race Battle Venerable charged at Luo Zheng again, spinning with his battle axes in a deadly wheel of light.
• Luo Zheng stood his ground and invoked Qian Kun Rotation, while Xia Shuang wondered whether he planned to meet the attack head-on.

Luo Zheng defeated a transformed Beast Race Battle Venerable with a single full-powered punch, demonstrating his strength before the Devil Race invited him to negotiate. By nightfall, the races’ Seat Controllers had gathered for the talks with Meng Tian.

• Luo Zheng’s sword deflected against the Beast Race Battle Venerable’s transformed scales, and the opponent’s charge knocked Luo Zheng to the ground.
• Luo Zheng rose unharmed, opened all his Dragon Scales, and struck the Beast Race Battle Venerable’s chest with a full-powered punch, killing him.
• A Devil Race Battle Venerable told Luo Zheng that Meng Tian wished to speak with him that night.
• Mu Qingyang notified Ling Yan, and Xia Shuang notified Lord Jing as they arranged protection for Luo Zheng.
• By nightfall, the human, Demon Night, and Devil Race Seat Controllers had gathered for the negotiations.

Luo Zheng demonstrated that he could control the Tower of Sin and confronted Meng Tian over the Devil Race’s attempts to kill him. Meng Tian offered five seats to the human race as a gesture toward peaceful coexistence, but Luo Zheng had not yet accepted, and Ling Yan believed he could demand more.

• Meng Tian questioned how much control Luo Zheng had over the Tower of Sin, and Luo Zheng made the hall’s surrounding walls disappear to demonstrate his power.
• Luo Zheng challenged Meng Tian to settle the score for the Devil Race’s attempts to kill him, and Meng Tian said he wanted the races to coexist peacefully.
• Zhao Fenqin and Zhou Zhuhe hoped the Devil Race would give up seats in the Profound Nether Cave, while Ling Yan recognized that Luo Zheng had room to bargain.
• Meng Tian offered five seats to the human race, exciting Zhao Fenqin and Zhou Zhuhe as Ling Yan silently judged the offer too modest to accept without negotiating.

Luo Zheng rejected the Devil Race’s offer of five seats and demanded that they surrender all their seats and leave the Tower of Sin. When Moqi attacked, Luo Zheng used the tower’s power to kill him, leaving the remaining races wary of his control.

• Moqi threatened Luo Zheng when he delayed answering the Devil Race’s offer, while Zhao Fenqin urged Luo Zheng to accept five seats through True Essence Voice Transmission.
• Luo Zheng accused the Devil Race of repeatedly trying to kill him and demanded that it abandon all its seats and leave the Tower of Sin.
• Meng Tian refused Luo Zheng’s demand and asked him to name another condition, but Moqi charged at Luo Zheng in anger.
• Ling Yan moved to intercept Moqi, but an invisible force from the Tower of Sin trapped him before he reached her web.
• Luo Zheng ordered Moqi killed, and the invisible force tore Moqi apart, startling the Devil Race, Demon Night Race, and human fighters.

Luo Zheng used his control of the Tower of Sin to demand that the Devil Race leave, while Meng Tian threatened the Purple Heart Saint Land in response. Luo Zheng gave the Devil Race one month to withdraw and revealed that the Heaven Feather Saint Land could protect the humans.

• Luo Zheng demanded that Meng Tian accept his conditions, but Meng Tian refused despite knowing Luo Zheng could kill the Devil Race members in the Tower of Sin.
• Meng Tian warned that the Twin Devil Saint Land could destroy the Purple Heart Saint Land if Luo Zheng expelled the Devil Race.
• Luo Zheng gave the Devil Race one month to leave the Tower of Sin, declaring that any who remained afterward would be killed.
• When Meng Tian challenged Luo Zheng's indifference to the human race's fate, Luo Zheng pointed out that the Twin Devil Saint Land would have to contend with the Heaven Feather Saint Land.
• Xun appeared beside Luo Zheng, and Ling Yan and the other Demon Night Race Peak Battle Venerables knelt before her as their Wang.

Luo Zheng used Xun’s support to give Meng Tian a month to test whether Twin Devil Saint Land would attack Purple Heart Saint Land, allowing the Devil Race to shift responsibility for leaving the Tower of Sin to its leaders. As the month unfolded, Purple Heart Saint Land and the Demon Night Race declared war on Twin Devil Saint Land, and Liu Yu led Heaven Feather Saint Land’s forces to threaten the Devil Race if it attacked.

• Luo Zheng summoned Xun’s sword spirit and told Meng Tian that Heaven Feather Saint Land would support Purple Heart Saint Land, a promise Ling Yan confirmed and Xun ordered fulfilled.
• Luo Zheng explained that the Devil Race had a month to test Heaven Feather Saint Land’s response to an attack on Purple Heart Saint Land; Meng Tian accepted the arrangement and thanked him before leaving.
• Zhao Fenqin asked whether the Demon Night Race would help Purple Heart Saint Land, and Luo Zheng told him to wait and see while he prepared to inform the Saint Land.
• Twin Devil Saint Land declared war on Purple Heart Saint Land, which answered with its own declaration; ten days later, the Demon Night Race also declared war on Twin Devil Saint Land.
• As Flame Devil Saint Land and Terror Devil Saint Land sent a million warriors toward Purple Heart Saint Land, Liu Yu led Heaven Feather Saint Land’s elites beside Flame Devil Saint Land and threatened to destroy Twin Devil Saint Land if it attacked.

Purple Heart Saint Land and the Twin Devil Saint Land weighed the consequences of their standoff as Luo Zheng’s actions in the Tower of Sin threatened the Devil Race’s future. Liu Yu led Heaven Feather forces into Flame Devil territory and waited, leaving the Devil Race trapped between retreat and war.

• Ouyang Haotian discussed the frightened mood in Purple Heart Saint Land with two Divine Sea Realm elders and recognized that its fate depended on Luo Zheng.
• Situ Haotian waited for the month-long crisis to resolve while human martial artists continued to distrust Luo Zheng and some families fled the Saint Land.
• The Twin Devil Saint Land faced a dilemma: attacking Purple Heart could provoke Heaven Feather, while backing down could cost the Devil Race its position in the Tower of Sin.
• Liu Yu occupied the Flame Devil Saint Land under Xun’s orders and stood ready to keep the Devil Race under pressure without attacking unless it moved against Purple Heart.

Luo Zheng advanced to the Eleventh Layer after Battle Generals on the Tenth Layer stopped challenging him, while the Devil Race faced the deadline to leave the Tower of Sin. Two Devil Race Battle Venerables challenged him, and Luo Zheng declared that he would set the Tower’s new rules before entering the Martial Arts Arena.

• Luo Zheng advanced to the Eleventh Layer after three days of Empty Arenas and several more days without opponents on the Tenth Layer.
• The Devil Race grew desperate as its fifteen-day deadline approached to seize the Purple Heart Saint Land or kill Luo Zheng, or else be expelled from the Tower of Sin.
• Two Third Order Devil Race Battle Venerables taunted Luo Zheng and challenged him upon his arrival on the Eleventh Layer.
• Luo Zheng used an invisible force to drop one Devil Race Battle Venerable in the safe zone, then declared that he would establish the new rules.
• Luo Zheng entered the Martial Arts Arena and offered the Devil Race fifteen days to keep challenging him, prompting one Battle Venerable to charge onto the arena.

Xun took Luo Zheng’s place on the Martial Arts Arena and defeated two Devil Race Battle Venerables with her spear. After her swift victories, more Devil Race challengers hesitated to face her.

• Xun asked Luo Zheng for his spear and stepped forward to fight the Devil Race Battle Venerable who charged at him.
• Xun pierced the first Battle Venerable from behind, and her Baleful Intent vortex tore his body apart before he could strike Luo Zheng.
• A second Devil Race Battle Venerable challenged Xun, but she shattered his weapon and pierced his throat with her spear.
• The Light of Creation from both defeated Battle Venerables flowed to Luo Zheng, while the remaining Devil Race Battle Venerables lost their nerve.

Luo Zheng drove the Devil Race out of the Tower of Sin, while Meng Tian and several Peak Battle Venerables secretly planned to return by killing him in the Profound Nether Cave. After reaching the tower’s Fifteenth Layer, Luo Zheng summoned the Seat Controllers to establish a new rule.

• Meng Tian proposed that Devil Race Peak Battle Venerables hide in the secret passage, break through to the Battle Saint Realm, and wait for Luo Zheng to enter the Profound Nether Cave.
• Meng Tian chose Yuan Bai and Tian Hu to remain behind and kill Luo Zheng when he entered the cave.
• After Luo Zheng’s deadline expired, the Devil Race withdrew its forces and left the Tower of Sin, while Luo Zheng reached the cultivation of a Sixth Order Battle General.
• Luo Zheng noticed Meng Tian’s strange smile and suspected the Devil Race still had plans against him.
• Luo Zheng traveled through the Tower of Sin to the Fifteenth Layer and called the Seat Controllers together to establish a new rule.

Luo Zheng reshaped the Tower of Sin’s seat rules after expelling the Devil Race, making the human and Demon Night Race seats permanent. He distributed the Devil Race’s twenty-six seats and left the human race newly elevated as the tower’s second-largest force.

• Luo Zheng declared that the rules through the Fourteenth Layer would remain unchanged and that he would distribute the Devil Race’s twenty-six seats.
• Luo Zheng made the human race’s and Demon Night Race’s seats permanent, preventing either from losing or expanding them through competition.
• The Peak Battle Venerables accepted Luo Zheng’s plan without objection.
• Luo Zheng gave eight of the Devil Race’s seats to the Demon Night Race, bringing its total to twenty-four, and the human race’s total rose to twenty-two.
• Ling Yan remained calm about the Demon Night Race’s new seats, while Zhao Fenqin and Zhou Zhuhe struggled to decide how to divide the human race’s eighteen new seats.

Luo Zheng visited the Purple Heart Saint Land after helping the human race fill the Tower of Sin’s Seat Controller positions. He admitted to Situ Haotian that he planned to leave after exploring the Profound Nether Cave and asked about its secrets.

• Zhao Fenqin contacted Luo Zheng about the shortage of Peak Battle Venerables, and the human race filled the vacant Seat Controller positions with experts from the Purple Heart Saint Land.
• Luo Zheng traveled to the Purple Heart Saint Land with Xia Shuang and several Seat Controllers, where a crowd welcomed him as a hero.
• Situ Haotian, Si Kongming, and Li Jiuhai greeted Luo Zheng and escorted him to the main hall, where young human talents admired him.
• Situ Haotian recognized that Luo Zheng’s arrangements for the Tower of Sin prepared the human race for his eventual departure.
• Luo Zheng confirmed that he would leave after exploring the Profound Nether Cave and asked Situ Haotian about its secrets.

Luo Zheng told Situ Haotian that he intended to enter the Profound Nether Cave, and learned that it was an ancient battlefield with increasingly dangerous outer, inner, and core regions. Situ Haotian warned him that everyone who had entered the Core Region—including seventy-six Peak Battle Venerables—had died, but Luo Zheng remained unsure which region he would enter.

• Situ Haotian asked Luo Zheng whether he planned to enter the Profound Nether Cave, and Luo Zheng confirmed that he did.
• Situ Haotian explained that the Profound Nether Cave was an ancient battlefield where peerless Upper Realm powerhouses had fought, and described its outer, inner, and core regions.
• Situ Haotian recounted that he had risked his life in the inner perimeter and gained a powerful sword formation and relics.
• Luo Zheng asked about the Core Region, and Situ Haotian said that no one who had entered it had returned.
• Situ Haotian warned Luo Zheng that seventy-six Peak Battle Venerables had once entered the Core Region and all had died; Luo Zheng said he could not yet decide whether to enter it.

Luo Zheng prepared to enter Profound Nether Cave after helping arrange a possible alliance between Purple Heart Saint Land and Heaven Feather Saint Land, then spent months cultivating in the Tower of Sin. When the cave opened, Yun Luo asked to accompany him, but Xun warned him not to agree and questioned whether Yun Luo knew what awaited inside.

• Luo Zheng accepted Situ Haotian’s request to pass an alliance proposal to Heaven Feather Saint Land, and Ling Yan agreed to relay it.
• Luo Zheng trained for several months, advanced to the Ninth Order Battle General realm, and reached the Fourteenth Layer of the Tower of Sin.
• The Artifact Spirit told Luo Zheng that the Profound Nether Death Light had weakened, signaling Profound Nether Cave’s opening.
• Zhao Fenqin explained that Yun Luo had applied for one of the human race’s places, and Yun Luo told Luo Zheng she wanted to travel with him through the cave.
• Xun appeared and told Luo Zheng not to accept Yun Luo’s request, then asked whether Yun Luo knew what was inside Profound Nether Cave.

Luo Zheng learned that the Profound Nether Cave was likely the remnant of a battle between Realm Lords and that Yun Luo was herself a human Realm Lord. He let Yun Luo join the expedition, and the group entered the cave, where they faced the dangerous Profound Nether Death Light and possible Demonic Beasts.

• Xun and Azure Dragon told Luo Zheng that the Land of Curse was likely a curse domain created by a fallen Curse Realm Lord.
• Azure Dragon revealed that Yun Luo was a human Realm Lord who had divided her soul into a million incarnations, while Xun warned Luo Zheng that she might be using him.
• Luo Zheng decided to allow Yun Luo to join them in the Profound Nether Cave despite Xun's misgivings.
• The Demon Night Race entered the cave first, followed by the humans, including Luo Zheng and Yun Luo.
• Luo Zheng and the others encountered the cave's dark-red Profound Nether Death Light, and Zhou Zhuhe warned them that flying could attract vicious Demonic Beasts.

Luo Zheng and the human team entered the Profound Nether Cave and were immediately attacked by giant Tunna Birds that preyed on even Peak Battle Venerables. As a bird charged at Luo Zheng, Xun prepared to meet it with her spear while Yun Luo held back.

• Luo Zheng landed in the cave with Xun beside him and noticed plants that could withstand the Profound Nether Death Light.
• A flock of Tunna Birds attacked the Beast Race martial artists, swallowing several as they tried to flee toward the Tower of Sin.
• Zhao Fenqin led the humans away and ordered Chen Fei and He Tie to use fire, which briefly kept the birds back before they flew over the flames.
• A Tunna Bird swallowed a young genius and then killed a Peak Battle Venerable whose true-essence arrow failed to pierce its hide.
• A Tunna Bird targeted Luo Zheng, prompting Zhao Fenqin and Zhou Zhuhe to call for his protection while Xun thrust her spear and Yun Luo restrained herself.

Xun and Luo Zheng fought off the Strange Birds attacking the group in the Profound Nether Cave, while the growing flock forced the Peak Battle Venerables to make a stand. The group killed many birds but lost two people, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Xun pierced and twisted a Tunna Bird with her spear, making it crash to the ground as Luo Zheng's group pressed onward.
• More Tunna Birds gathered around the fleeing group, and Zhao Fenqin feared they would be overwhelmed before they could protect Luo Zheng.
• When over a dozen Strange Birds dove at them, Xun, Yun Luo, Luo Zheng, and the Peak Battle Venerables turned to fight instead of continuing to run.
• Luo Zheng used Starfall Earthshake to trap a diving Strange Bird in a vortex and drive its beak into the ground.
• Yun Luo blinded another Strange Bird with two beams of finger radiance, while the Peak Battle Venerables fought back and killed more than ten birds.
• The Strange Birds still snatched away two Peak Battle Venerables during the fighting.