Chapter Summaries

A red dot revealed that Luo Zheng and the others were being drawn toward the core of the Profound Nether Cave, despite trying to flee. Yun Luo explained that the fog was a Space Law formation that required mastery of the third layer of the Space Law or its formation disc to escape, leaving the group to press onward as the Profound Nether Death Light began testing their defenses.

• Xue Luotian panicked as the silent crowd advanced, and Meng Chong threatened to kill him if he kept spreading despair.
• A Demon Night Race Peak Battle Venerable spotted a red dot, which Luo Zheng and Ling Yan recognized as a likely source of the Profound Nether Death Light.
• Meng Chong led the group away from the red dot, but Luo Zheng noticed his Sumeru Ring growing hotter as the dot grew larger.
• Yun Luo revealed that the fog was a Space Law formation and that escaping required mastery of the third layer of the Space Law or the formation disc.
• Yun Luo said the formation disc was probably in the core, and Meng Chong decided the group would keep moving toward it if necessary.
• The red dot became a huge disc, and the Profound Nether Death Light began penetrating the fog and testing the group's Protective True Essence.

The group learned that the mist’s Space Law would drag them toward the red dot even if they stood still, then found a burial pit containing Yun Luo’s elder brother, a former Realm Lord. Yun Luo recovered his bracelet and revived his dried corpse with a talisman, leaving the others shocked and wary.

• Xue Luotian refused to go farther, but Zhao Fenqin noticed the red dot growing larger while the group rested, and Yun Luo explained that the mist was pulling them toward it.
• Ling Yan led the group onward, where they found a vast pit filled with bones that crumbled to dust when touched.
• Yun Luo used the Wind Law to scatter a mound of bones and uncovered a dried corpse; Xun identified it as the lord of the Zhengyang Realm and Yun Luo’s elder brother.
• Meng Chong rushed toward the corpse, hoping to seize its treasures, but Yun Luo warned him not to interfere if he wanted to escape the mist.
• Yun Luo removed a Sumeru Bracelet from the corpse, placed a Yellow Paper Talisman on its chest, and made it open its eyes.

Yun Luo retrieved her brother’s corpse and gave Luo Zheng a strange crab pendant from his bracelet. The group found an enormous sword embedded in the ground, and Luo Zheng began using his Black Flame to melt it.

• Yun Luo stored the dried corpse, refined her brother’s bracelet, and took a crab-shaped pendant from it.
• Yun Luo placed the pendant around Luo Zheng’s neck and led the group onward through the fog.
• The group discovered a giant sword more than a hundred zhang tall, but neither Sumeru Spaces nor Meng Chong’s strength could move it.
• Luo Zheng sat beside the sword and sent out his Black Flame, which burned a small notch into the blade.

Luo Zheng refined a colossal sword into Heavenly Evolution Essence and learned that lighting all the Dragon Scales could let the Azure Dragon rebuild its body. As the group continued toward the red light, the strengthening Profound Nether Death Light began draining Meng Chong and Tian Hu’s Gang Essence faster than they could replenish it.

• Luo Zheng used Black Fire to refine the giant sword, collecting its immense supply of Heavenly Evolution Essence.
• The Azure Dragon told Luo Zheng that lighting all its Dragon Scales could help it forge a Heavenly Evolution Body, and Luo Zheng agreed to help after completing the Azure Dragon’s scales first.
• Luo Zheng finished refining the sword, and the group set out again through the devastated battlefield while Meng Chong, Tian Hu, and Xue Luotian searched unsuccessfully for valuable treasures.
• The group drew closer to the red dot as the Profound Nether Death Light grew stronger and consumed their protective energy more quickly.
• Meng Chong and Tian Hu found that their Gang Essence was being depleted faster than their bodies could produce it, leaving them at risk if it ran out.

As the group approached the Core Region, Luo Zheng used Yun Luo’s crab-shaped treasure to shield everyone from the Profound Nether Death Light. The group fled after Xue Luotian was killed by a deadly plant, only to see another one emerge ahead of them.

• Meng Chong and Zhao Fenqin warned that the Profound Nether Death Light was growing too strong, and Yun Luo told Luo Zheng to pour True Essence into the crab on his chest.
• The crab created an orange-yellow barrier that weakened the Death Light, prompting Meng Chong to demand that Luo Zheng travel with his group.
• Yun Luo arranged for Luo Zheng to move ahead with her while the others followed together, and the group set off after agreeing to her terms.
• Xue Luotian left the barrier to approach a green plant, which bloomed into a monstrous face and disintegrated him.
• Yun Luo hurried Luo Zheng and the others away, but another matching plant emerged from underground ahead of them.

Luo Zheng and the others escaped the spreading ghost-faced plants, only to find a colossal sleeping beast ahead. Yun Luo identified it as Fierce Scorpion, Hell’s gatekeeper, and said Luo Zheng’s Jade Butterfly would show them where to go.

• Luo Zheng led the group at full speed through the mist as the ghost-faced plants spread beneath them, and the two Peak Battle Venerables of the Night Race fell behind and were killed.
• After the green plants disappeared, the exhausted group stopped, but Ling Yan spotted a gigantic sleeping beast ahead of them.
• Xun and Yun Luo said the beast would not wake easily, while the others huddled under Luo Zheng’s shield to avoid the Profound Nether Death Light.
• Yun Luo identified the beast as Fierce Scorpion, a ferocious beast and Hell’s gatekeeper, and ambiguously said Hell might exist.
• Yun Luo urged Luo Zheng onward and told him his Jade Butterfly would provide the answer, surprising him by revealing that she knew about it.

Luo Zheng learned that Yun Luo viewed him as an outsider caught in a deadly conflict, but she urged him to judge his own path after obtaining the inheritance. At the abyss, she told him to throw the Jade Butterfly down and began explaining why Heavenly Vast Daoist had left him without instructions, turning the conversation toward the Devil Race’s mysterious former Tower of Sin controller, Xiu Ye.

• Yun Luo called Luo Zheng an outsider caught in a dead-end game and urged him to make his own judgment after inheriting the thing Heavenly Vast Daoist had left him.
• Luo Zheng and the others reached the enormous abyss, where they saw the gigantic, spiked Fierce Scorpion stretched into the darkness.
• Yun Luo explained that hell was merely a door and ordered Luo Zheng to throw the Jade Butterfly into the abyss.
• Yun Luo asked Meng Chong and Tian Hu whether the Devil Race had once had a Peak Battle Venerable named Xiu Ye, and they confirmed his reputation as a former Tower of Sin controller.
• The chapter recounted how Xiu Ye had kept his cultivation suppressed for more than a hundred years, helping the Devil Race control the Tower of Sin, though how he managed it remained a mystery.

Yun Luo revealed that she had killed Xiu Ye, who had been waiting to guide Luo Zheng on Heavenly Vast Daoist’s behalf. After Luo Zheng dropped the Jade Butterfly into the Endless Abyss, a Southern Dipper Immortal Root emerged, its monstrous face staring at the group.

• Yun Luo told Meng Chong and Tian Hu that she had killed Xiu Ye and that the Tower of Sin had absorbed his body.
• Yun Luo explained that Xiu Ye had been Heavenly Vast Daoist’s puppet, assigned to meet Luo Zheng and take him to the Profound Nether Cave.
• Luo Zheng dropped the burning Jade Butterfly into the abyss, and Yun Luo told everyone to wait for its effects.
• Xun identified the abyss as the Endless Abyss and said someone had once spent fourteen hundred years falling into it before taking two thousand years to fly back out.
• After three hours, a Southern Dipper Immortal Root rose from the abyss, revealing a gigantic monster face that fixed its gaze on Luo Zheng and the others.

Fierce Scorpion awakened in the Profound Nether Cave and roared, unleashing a gale that forced Luo Zheng and the others to dig deep underground for shelter. The roar spread across the Sea God Continent, leaving the inhabitants of the Tower of Sin and the great races in fear as the wind finally began to subside.

• The Southern Dipper Immortal Root's roar shook the Profound Nether Cave, and Fierce Scorpion awoke beneath the intensified Profound Nether Death Light.
• Fierce Scorpion roared at the Southern Dipper Immortal Root, and Yun Luo ordered Luo Zheng to dig a pit before the resulting hurricane reached them.
• Luo Zheng, Meng Chong, and the others repeatedly dug deeper as the gale tore away the ground above, eventually sheltering in a pit two hundred zhang deep.
• Ziyu left the Talent Monument with the Demon Night Race's third-best result but felt unable to challenge Luo Zheng, who had entered the Profound Nether Cave.
• The roar and tremors reached the Tower of Sin and spread throughout the Sea God Continent, frightening the inhabitants of the great races and their holy lands.
• After the roar faded and the gale weakened, Luo Zheng and the others pushed aside the rubble and slowly crawled out of their pit.

Luo Zheng and the others survived the Fierce Scorpion’s roar, only to be swept into its mouth while following Yun Luo’s plan to escape the mist. As they entered, their true essence and astral essence vanished, and they fell into the darkness below.

• Luo Zheng and the others emerged from their pit and watched the Fierce Scorpion defeat the Southern Dipper Immortal Root.
• Xun told Luo Zheng that the Southern Dipper Immortal Root was food for super divine beasts, and the Fierce Scorpion began swallowing it.
• Yun Luo told everyone to cling to Luo Zheng, and they were pulled toward the Fierce Scorpion’s enormous mouth.
• When the group entered the Fierce Scorpion’s mouth, their true essence and astral essence disappeared, leaving them tumbling into the darkness below.

Luo Zheng and the others reached a Small Thousand World inside Fierce Scorpion, where true essence and astral essence could not be used. As the group struggled to understand their surroundings and plan a way back, Yun Luo broke Meng Chong’s arm with jujutsu and led them onward.

• Luo Zheng and the others tumbled through Fierce Scorpion’s body for several sticks of incense before reaching a lit world inside its belly, where most of them had suffered injuries.
• Luo Zheng learned from Yun Luo and Ling Yan that the world was a Small Thousand World, and Xun said no one had solved whether the universe itself existed inside another being.
• Meng Chong demanded that Yun Luo explain what to do next, then reached for her when she told everyone to follow.
• Yun Luo used jujutsu to snap Meng Chong’s arm, warned the others to stop wasting time, and walked ahead.
• Luo Zheng realized that basic martial techniques were the only way to fight in a place where true essence and astral essence were forbidden.

Luo Zheng and the others encountered a swarm of Dire Rats in the wilderness, where their true essence and astral essence were suppressed. The rats stripped Luo Zheng’s clothes but could not harm him, and he changed into a spare set of clothes.

• Yun Luo warned the group to beware of the Dire Rats as a swarm emerged and attacked.
• Meng Chong, Zhao Fenqin, and the others fought off the rats and ran across the plain.
• A mass of Dire Rats overwhelmed Luo Zheng, while Xun stopped Zhao Fenqin from rushing to rescue him.
• The rats covering Luo Zheng were blasted away and killed, revealing that he was unharmed.
• Luo Zheng blushed at being exposed and took spare clothes from his Sumeru Ring.

Luo Zheng and the others survived the Dire Rat swarm, only to be confronted by flying Green-skinned People whose abilities worked despite the world's seals on true essence and gang yuan. Yun Luo spoke with the Green-skinned People and persuaded them to capture the group instead of killing them, leaving everyone bound in a net and being carried toward their lair.

• Luo Zheng used Dragon Scale Power to shake the Dire Rats off, and a distant drumbeat made the swarm flee.
• Dozens of Green-skinned People surrounded the group, and one of them tore open the earth with a spear to seize the Dire Rat king.
• The Green-skinned People prepared to attack, but Yun Luo spoke their language and persuaded them to capture the group instead.
• Xun entered Luo Zheng's body after Yun Luo warned that Luo Zheng would be in danger if she did not listen.
• The Green-skinned People hoisted the group in a golden-thread net, and Yun Luo defended her actions by saying the Mist Array would otherwise have dragged them into the abyss.

Yun Luo explained that the natives of Fierce Scorpion had captured the group and that the inheritance object Luo Zheng sought was inside its inner world. She revealed that the Profound Nether Cave was tied to a conflict between two Celestial Lords and described the Three Great Factions, leaving the dispute between Divine Edict Celestial Lord and Original Sin Celestial Lord unexplained.

• Yun Luo led Luo Zheng and the others into the Green-skinned People's stockade, where they were imprisoned.
• A Green-skinned Person tried to take Luo Zheng's Sumeru Ring, and Yun Luo persuaded him to hand it over, promising they would retrieve it.
• Luo Zheng demanded an explanation, and Yun Luo revealed that his inheritance object was inside Fierce Scorpion's inner world.
• Yun Luo said the Profound Nether Cave involved a conflict between two human Celestial Lords over a fragment.
• Yun Luo explained that the human race was divided among the factions led by Original Sin Celestial Lord, Divine Edict Celestial Lord, and Thunder Punishment Celestial Lord.
• Xun boasted about the Demon Night Race's strength, and Yun Luo replied that its low reproduction rate limited its power before offering to explain the dispute between Divine Edict Celestial Lord and Original Sin Celestial Lord.

Yun Luo revealed that the Green-skinned People’s Sacred Object was the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, which Luo Zheng had to inherit because she lacked a complete soul. After negotiations failed and the group learned they would be executed, Luo Zheng struck first and began fighting his way out of prison.

• Yun Luo told Luo Zheng that the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao belonged to humanity and that she could not bear it because she was only a clone without a complete soul.
• Yun Luo explained that the Green-skinned People’s prophet kept the fragment as their race’s Sacred Object and that finding it would let the group leave.
• The Green-skinned People’s leader rejected Yun Luo’s attempt to communicate and announced they would execute the prisoners the next day.
• Luo Zheng beckoned the Green-skinned Person who had taken his Sumeru Ring, reclaimed it, and kicked down the prison bars, crushing the thief beneath them.
• Luo Zheng drew his Broken Flying Knife while Xun caught a spear, and he sent the knife flying toward the Green-skinned People.

Luo Zheng and his companions fought their way through the Green-skinned People to find the Sacred Object, forcing the army to retreat to a walled city. At the city gate, Luo Zheng approached the colossal boulder blocking their way and punched it to demonstrate his strength.

• Luo Zheng, Xun, and their companions attacked the Green-skinned People, and Luo Zheng killed their leader after he refused to reveal the Sacred Object's location.
• Luo Zheng, Xun, Ling Yan, Meng Chong, and Zhao Fenqin slaughtered the Green-skinned People army until its survivors fled.
• Yun Luo told the others to follow the retreating army, and they pursued it roughly a hundred li to a city.
• The Green-skinned People blocked the city gate with a colossal boulder and attacked Luo Zheng from the walls, but their arrows and spears could not hurt him.
• Luo Zheng stopped Xun from flying over the wall, gathered Dragon Scale Power, and punched the boulder to show the Green-skinned People the difference in their strength.

Luo Zheng obtained the Fragments of the Heavenly Dao and an array disc from the Green-skinned People, then began retracing his way out of Profound Nether Cave. As the Tower of Sin closed its passage and many assumed Luo Zheng was dead, Meng Tian returned with the Devil Race to reclaim the tower and confronted its Seat Controllers.

• Luo Zheng shattered the Green-skinned People’s boulder with his bare fist, and their emperor gave him the Sacred Object after Luo Zheng refused to help attack another race.
• Luo Zheng touched a Fragment of the Heavenly Dao and experienced a vision of the universe’s evolution, but Yun Luo knocked it from his hand and warned that his soul could not yet contain it.
• Luo Zheng’s group took the fragments and an array disc, then left the Green-skinned People’s city to retrace their route through the World Within.
• After a month without the group’s return, Lord Mei closed the passage to the Tower of Sin’s top floor as the Profound Nether Death Light began to recover.
• Meng Tian returned to the Tower of Sin with the Devil Race’s Peak Battle Venerables, climbed to the top floor, and summoned the Seat Controllers.
• The Night Race sided with Meng Tian, while the human race and Demon Night Clan’s Peak Battle Venerables came out last; Meng Tian mocked the humans, and Lord Mei demanded to know what he wanted.

Meng Tian demanded that the Demon Night Race surrender half its seats and that every human in the Tower of Sin die, then began killing human Peak Battle Venerables when they refused. Lord Mei could not save the humans on the top floor, so she ordered the others to flee into the Land of Curse.

• Meng Tian ordered the Demon Night Race to surrender half its seats and demanded that all humans in the Tower of Sin commit suicide.
• Lord Mei challenged Meng Tian’s assumption that the Demon Night Race had no other strength, but Meng Tian claimed the Devil Race still controlled Battle Saints and the secret passage in the Profound Nether Cave.
• A human Peak Battle Venerable offered to lead the humans out of the Tower of Sin, but Meng Tian rejected the concession and killed him.
• Meng Tian attacked another human Peak Battle Venerable and declared that strength was the only rule in the Tower of Sin, prompting the remaining humans to prepare to fight.
• Lord Mei ordered the humans on the lower floors to withdraw into the Land of Curse, while many had already begun leaving the Tower.

Luo Zheng and his companions escaped the Profound Nether Cave, while the others realized his treasures could help the human and Demon Night races retain control of the Tower of Sin. They reached the tower’s sealed exit as Meng Tian attacked the humans gathered inside, and Luo Zheng began knocking from outside.

• Yun Luo pushed Meng Chong and Tian Hu out of the pendant’s protection, and the Profound Nether Death Light killed them before they could attack Luo Zheng.
• Luo Zheng and his companions escaped the dissipating Mist Array and traveled through the Profound Nether Cave while its Demonic Beasts remained dormant.
• Ling Yan and the others recognized how the pendant and array disk could help their races, and Luo Zheng promised to entrust both treasures to Zhao Fenqin if he left Sea God Continent.
• The group reached the Tower of Sin, but Ling Yan found the exit closed, so Luo Zheng struck the door with his fist.
• Inside the tower, Meng Tian had killed two human Peak Battle Venerables and injured another as the humans and Devil Race prepared to fight.
• The Peak Battle Venerables heard Luo Zheng knocking from outside, and the Devil Race warriors feared he had returned.

Luo Zheng returned to the Tower of Sin with his companions just as the Devil Race was about to annihilate the human Peak Battle Venerables. He revealed that Meng Chong and Tian Hu had died in the Profound Nether Cave, leaving Meng Tian and the Devil Race’s plans in ruins.

• As the Profound Nether Death Light threatened the Tower of Sin, Meng Tian refused to open the door while Lord Mei argued that Luo Zheng could enter on his own.
• Luo Zheng and his companions entered through a crack in the tower wall, and the human and Demon Night Peak Battle Venerables welcomed them.
• Luo Zheng saw the dead and wounded human Peak Battle Venerables and threatened to kill Meng Tian and the Devil Race without mercy.
• Meng Tian asked how Luo Zheng had returned and what had happened to Meng Chong and Tian Hu.
• Ling Yan and Yun Luo told Meng Tian that Meng Chong and Tian Hu had died, shocking the human and Demon Night Peak Battle Venerables with the revelation that Battle Saints had pursued Luo Zheng.