Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong’s Demonic Skin Drum absorbed the Giant White Bone Bell, whose sound waves awakened the six Ancient Demons sealed in the Azure Jade Altars and caused them to sacrifice the Four-Armed Ancient Demon. After recovering, Luo Hong discovered the bell had merged with his drum and hurried with Yuan Yao toward the Dark Hall Fifth Floor as devilish qi neared his heart.

• The Giant White Bone Bell absorbed Luo Hong’s sound-wave attack, then released a blast that knocked Luo Hong and Yuan Yao unconscious and spread through the Void Sky Hall.
• The bell’s sound waves reached the six Azure Jade Altars and stirred the sealed Ancient Demon True Bodies.
• Five Ancient Demons opened their eyes and struck the Four-Armed Ancient Demon with red beams, turning its body into a pulsing Blood Mass before they fell asleep again.
• Yuan Yao woke Luo Hong and gave him a pill, and he discovered that devilish qi was close to invading his heart.
• Yuan Yao told Luo Hong that the Giant White Bone Bell had shrunk and entered the Demonic Skin Drum, and Luo Hong suspected he had completed an Ancient Demon scheme.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao crossed the Dark Hall Fourth Floor without encountering any Ancient Demons and hurried toward the Fifth Floor.

Han Li discovered a hidden scroll just before a disturbance disrupted Wan Tianming’s attempt to retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron. The Devil Dao and Righteous Cultivators confronted each other, then Wan Tianming withdrew, leaving everyone to turn their attention to Han Li.

• Han Li found a hidden compartment in a beast relief and removed a scroll, but the Inner Hall shook before he could examine it.
• Man Huzi, Extreme Yin Ancestor, and their companions entered the Heavenly Dipper Cover and found Wan Tianming’s Golden Silk Silkworms had failed to lift the Void Sky Cauldron after the disturbance snapped their silk.
• Wan Tianming accused Man Huzi of sabotaging his attempt and summoned his Cold Flood Dragon, while Tian Wuzi called forth his Li Turtle.
• Man Huzi denied responsibility, reminded Wan Tianming that another group might have caused the disturbance, and challenged him to leave or face his Sky Bearing Demonic Art.
• Wan Tianming put away his spirit beast and left the Heavenly Dipper Cover with the other Righteous Cultivators, while the Devil Dao group placed guards at the entrance and everyone turned to Han Li.

Han Li and the three old demons failed to retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron when the Dry Blue Ice Flame killed one of Ji Yin’s Fire Pythons. Luo Hong and Yuan Yao then appeared, and after Yuan Yao’s treasures badly wounded Ji Yin, Luo Hong offered the demons a chance to retrieve the cauldron with the help of his adult Fire Dragon Worm.

• Han Li sent the Blood Jade Spider to lift the Void Sky Cauldron while Ji Yin’s Fire Pythons assisted.
• The Dry Blue Ice Flame surged, froze and shattered one Fire Python, and the cauldron fell back into the cave.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao appeared through a teleportation, and Ji Yin attacked them.
• Yuan Yao summoned a Soul-Snatching True Demon Projection, which used two treasures to extinguish Ji Yin’s Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire and damage his Skeleton Head.
• Qing Yi Jushi and Man Huzi moved to seize Luo Hong and Yuan Yao’s treasures, but Yuan Yao relayed Luo Hong’s offer to help retrieve the cauldron with an adult Fire Dragon Worm.

Yuan Yao and Luo Hong faced Man Huzi’s suspicions after arriving in the Inner Hall, but Yuan Yao offered True Devilish Qi in exchange for his protection. Man Huzi accepted the bargain and ordered Ji Yin to help them take the treasure, while Luo Hong remained wary of a greater danger ahead.

• A Fire Dragon Worm appeared, and Qing Yi Jushi recognized it as capable of replacing Ji Yin’s Fire Python against the Dry Blue Ice Flame.
• Man Huzi demanded that Yuan Yao and Luo Hong explain the Inner Hall’s disturbances, threatening to kill them if they refused.
• Yuan Yao offered Man Huzi a bottle of True Devilish Qi and claimed it was payment for protecting them.
• Man Huzi consulted Mysterious Bone about the Green Lightning, then decided to protect the pair rather than risk angering Old Demon Sanyang and Six Paths Extreme Saint.
• Man Huzi ordered the injured Ji Yin to make his Fire Python cooperate with the three young cultivators in taking the treasure, while Luo Hong remained alert to an approaching crisis.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao reached the Demon Sealing Land and found the six sealed demon souls behind the Heavenly Dipper Cover. After the Jade Token opened a passage, Luo Hong stepped onto the altar’s identity-verification formation while the treasure retrieval continued above.

• Yuan Yao commanded the Fire Dragon Worm to help Man Huzi and the others lift the Void Sky Cauldron as Ji Yin watched the blue-lit cave mouth with a livid expression.
• Luo Hong entered the Demon Sealing Land with Yuan Yao and used a spider-silk veil to protect them from the Dry Blue Ice Flame’s cold.
• Luo Hong recognized the floor runes as detection restrictions and warned Yuan Yao that they could proceed only on foot.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao found six demon souls sealed in ice around an Azure Stone Altar, with the red and black light balls dimmer than the others.
• Luo Hong’s Jade Token opened a door through the Heavenly Dipper Cover, and he stepped onto the altar’s formation to verify his identity.

Luo Hong survived the demonic qi’s attack with Yuan Yao’s help, then used the Four Directions Ruyi Altar to refine the Demon Head into a powerful artifact. As he and Yuan Yao prepared to leave, a mysterious milky-white light struck Luo Hong between the brows and showed him a terrifying vision.

• Luo Hong used the Four Directions Ruyi Altar to refine the Demon Head while demonic qi threatened to break through his heart aperture.
• Yuan Yao extracted the demonic qi from Luo Hong, and he used the Eternal Wood, Yin-Yang Transformation secret art to heal his battered body.
• Luo Hong used the Restriction Wooden Token to connect to the altar and ordered it to turn the Demon Head into the core of a Drum Bell Demon Artifact.
• The six sealed demonic souls stirred when someone moved the Void Sky Cauldron, but the Coiled Dragon Pillar restrained them as the altar finished refining a Demon Head Hammer.
• As Luo Hong and Yuan Yao prepared to leave, a milky-white light mass struck Luo Hong between the brows and showed him a terrifying scene.

Luo Hong was marked by a restriction after receiving a damaged half of the Golden Palace Jade Book, but he began refining it while Yuan Yao carried him away from the Ancient Demon. As the Righteous and Devilish cultivators fought over the Void Sky Cauldron’s treasures, Luo Hong and Yuan Yao tried to avoid the battle and escape toward the Soul Nurturing Wood, but Man Huzi drew two hostile cultivators toward them.

• Luo Hong learned that the jade token contained a Spirit World treasure and that he had to suppress the Ancient Demon within three hundred years, while its restriction temporarily severed his connection to his body.
• Yuan Yao carried the incapacitated Luo Hong into a Teleportation Array after he whispered for her to run, and Luo Hong later began refining the restriction on the half of the Golden Palace Jade Book.
• Wan Tianming, Tian Wuzi, and the Old Farmer in Black arrived as the Devil Dao cultivators tried to retrieve the Void Sky Cauldron, and the two factions began fighting.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao avoided the escaping Ancient Treasures and planned to reach the Soul Nurturing Wood chamber, then leave the fifth level without encountering the Ancient Demon.
• Man Huzi knocked a white Coin Ancient Treasure toward Luo Hong and Yuan Yao, drawing Tian Wuzi and the Old Farmer in Black toward them with murderous intent.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao were drawn into the struggle over the Ancient Treasure as Man Huzi manipulated the conflict to weaken the Righteous Path. The Two Elders of Star Palace then attacked, killing the Blood Jade Spider and leaving Han Li’s fate unknown, while Luo Hong and Yuan Yao survived a sword strike with the Golden Palace Jade Book.

• Yuan Yao used the Demon Bell Drum’s Green Lightning to cripple the Old Farmer in Black, and Man Huzi followed with a Golden Ring attack that badly injured him.
• Tian Wuzi rescued the Old Farmer in Black and retreated, while Man Huzi left Yuan Yao with the Coin Ancient Treasure and joined Ji Yin.
• Luo Hong realized Man Huzi had used the treasure as bait to weaken the Righteous Path, and he watched the Void Sky Cauldron’s lid approach the cave entrance.
• A Junior of Star Palace's Two Elders revealed himself, then a second attacker cut the Blood Jade Spider in two and sent Han Li flying with Crescent Moon Sword Qi.
• The Star Palace elder struck at Luo Hong and Yuan Yao, but Luo Hong blocked the attack with the half-copy of the Golden Palace Jade Book, and the Two Elders vanished using Incarnation Talismans.

The Four-Armed Ancient Demon escaped its failing seal after the Void Sky Cauldron fell, while the Nascent Soul cultivators fought over the Sky-Mending Pill. It reached the Land of Ghostly Grudges and smashed through the pit wall before the restrictions bound it in silver-rune chains.

• The Two Elders of Star Palace discussed the Void Sky Cauldron and Luo Hong's strange Green Lightning before leaving to avoid the other cultivators.
• The Void Sky Cauldron fell, and a Sky-Mending Pill appeared above the cave entrance, drawing the Six Old Freaks into a struggle.
• The falling cauldron weakened the Demon Sealing Great Formation, allowing the Four-Armed Ancient Demon to break out of the Azure Jade Altar and be teleported from the Sealed Land.
• The Four-Armed Ancient Demon endured the Silver Lightning and flew to the Land of Ghostly Grudges, where it found the empty Rune Altar and attacked the relief carvings.
• The Four-Armed Ancient Demon shattered part of the pit wall, but chains bearing Silver Runes erupted from the wall and bound it.

The Four-Armed Ancient Demon broke the restriction chain’s power, claimed the treasure, and followed the Blood Infant’s guidance to the garden at the exit of the Land of Ghostly Grudges. There he revealed himself as the Great Strength True Demon and attacked Madam Wen, leaving her Nascent Soul trapped in his grasp.

• The Four-Armed Ancient Demon tainted the restriction chains with demonic light, claimed the chained treasure, swallowed the Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits, and used the Blood Infant to find a direction.
• The Four-Armed Ancient Demon teleported into the garden where Madam Wen and six Core Formation cultivators were waiting, and his black armor deflected the hall’s Silver Lightning.
• Madam Wen recognized him as the Great Strength True Demon and attacked with her sword, but he destroyed the sword and broke through her protective magic treasure.
• Madam Wen fled with her Nascent Soul, but the Great Strength True Demon’s Suction Force immobilized it and left her trapped.

Man Huzi seized the Sky-Mending Pill and escaped down the stone steps as the other cultivators pursued him. Left on Han Li Platform, Luo Hong tried to leave with Yuan Yao, but she was tempted by Mysterious Bone’s offer, and Mysterious Bone killed Wu Chou after revealing his overwhelming advantage.

• Wan Tianming used his Nascent Soul to seize the Sky-Mending Pill, but Man Huzi weakened his lightning divine ability, captured his body, and took the pill.
• Man Huzi hurled Wan Tianming’s body aside and escaped down the stone steps, while the other five cultivators chased him.
• Mysterious Bone urged Luo Hong and Yuan Yao to help kill Wu Chou, but Luo Hong refused and prepared to leave with Yuan Yao.
• Mysterious Bone offered the Void Sky Cauldron and a pill formula to persuade Luo Hong and Yuan Yao to stay, and Yuan Yao stopped to consider the offer.
• Wu Chou sent the two Heavenly Capital Demon Corpses to attack Mysterious Bone and called on Han Li to help, but Mysterious Bone defeated the corpses and killed Wu Chou.

Luo Hong rejected Mysterious Bone’s offer and hurried Yuan Yao away after warning her that a Void Refinement Ancient Demon had escaped. They reached a treasure chamber on the second level, where Yuan Yao found a Spirit Spring and the Soul Nurturing Wood she sought, while Luo Hong worried about how long they could safely remain.

• Luo Hong declined to stay for the Void Sky Cauldron treasure, accepted a Sound Transmission Talisman from Mysterious Bone, and left with Yuan Yao.
• Han Li chose to remain with Mysterious Bone and pursue the treasure despite suspecting that Mysterious Bone intended to kill Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong told Yuan Yao that one of the six sealed Ancient Demons had escaped and urged her to leave the Void Sky Hall quickly.
• Yuan Yao led Luo Hong through secret passages and Teleportation Arrays from the fourth level to the second level.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao defeated a Snake Guard Puppet and entered a treasure chamber, where Yuan Yao discovered a Spirit Spring and the Soul Nurturing Wood.

Luo Hong recovered his Magic Power with Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk while Yuan Yao studied the Soul Nurturing Wood’s Restriction and refined a set of divination coins. Yuan Yao’s divination warned of misfortune in the south, and Han Li appeared through the Teleportation Array just as she attacked him, before Luo Hong stopped the fight.

• Luo Hong drank a drop of Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk and meditated to restore his Magic Power.
• Yuan Yao failed to break the Soul Nurturing Wood’s Restriction, divided the remaining Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk with Luo Hong, and used the Spirit Spring to recover.
• Yuan Yao refined the seven copper coins as the Seven Star Money and received a Divination Sign warning of great misfortune in the south.
• Yuan Yao identified the Teleportation Array to the south and struck at it with her Demonic Hammer as Han Li appeared.
• Han Li’s Gold Devouring Insects surged toward Yuan Yao and her weapon, but Luo Hong stopped Yuan Yao and Han Li recognized him.

Luo Hong reunited with Han Li and Yuan Yao in the Void Sky Hall, where they divided valuable treasures and made plans to escape the released Ancient Demon. The chapter ended with Luo Hong finding a way to weaken the barrier that would teleport them out.

• Yuan Yao apologized to Han Li, and Luo Hong explained that he and Han Li were former fellow disciples.
• Luo Hong revealed that an Ancient Demon had escaped after he damaged a seal, and said breaking the Treasure Chamber barrier would let them leave the Void Sky Hall.
• Han Li identified the Soul Nurturing Wood and asked for part of its root, while Luo Hong confirmed that Han Li possessed the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng and pill formula.
• Luo Hong offered Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk for a chance to obtain the Nine-Bend Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill, and Yuan Yao agreed to trade her Soul-Devouring Beast for a pill.
• Han Li rested by the spiritual pool while Luo Hong studied the barrier and found its connection points, allowing the group to weaken it and break it in less than one shichen.

Luo Hong, Yuan Yao, and Han Li struggled to break the Teleportation Array restriction as the Blood Refining Divine Light began corroding it. Meanwhile, Man Huzi swallowed the Sky-Mending Pill to escape his pursuers, but a mysterious figure burst through the floor and left all six Nascent Soul cultivators horrified.

• Yuan Yao explained that her Seven Star Money divination had warned of great misfortune in the south, and Luo Hong interpreted the Kan as Water Hexagram as a sign of repeated danger.
• The Blood Refining Divine Light began corroding the Teleportation Array and blocked Luo Hong's attempt to break it.
• Man Huzi escaped the Old Farmer in Black's illusion with help from his Three-eyed Flower Leopard, but Ji Yin attacked the beast and Wan Tianming and Tian Wuzi caught up.
• Cornered by five pursuers, Man Huzi swallowed the Sky-Mending Pill, making them hesitate over whether to attack him.
• The Void Sky Cauldron and the floor shook violently, and a tall, bizarre figure blasted through the restricted floor with an object in hand, terrifying the six Nascent Soul cultivators.

Great Strength True Demon attacked the cultivators in the Bluestone Passage, overwhelming their defenses and driving them to flee. Wan Tianming escaped by sacrificing the Old Farmer in Black, whom the demon killed and captured.

• Great Strength True Demon revealed Madam Wen's crippled Purple Spirit Infant and targeted Man Huzi to replenish his strength.
• Man Huzi's Golden Scale Transformation Shield began to break under the demon's attack, but the Three-eyed Flower Leopard turned the demon's arm to stone and severed it.
• Wan Tianming and the others attacked while Man Huzi used his Bronze Bell and a golden talisman to shield the Three-eyed Flower Leopard from the demon's sound wave.
• Man Huzi and the others recognized the demon as Six Paths True Demon after seeing it use the Body Tempering Secret Art, then fled toward the Treasure Chambers.
• Great Strength True Demon pulled Wan Tianming back with his Suction Force, but Wan Tianming used a Little Man Talisman to switch places with the Old Farmer in Black.
• Great Strength True Demon crushed the Old Farmer in Black and imprisoned his Nascent Soul, while the other cultivators escaped and vanished from the demon's senses.

The Great Strength True Demon pursued Luo Hong, Han Li, and Yuan Yao as they escaped the Void Sky Hall, then forced his way through a Spatial Rift to reach them. Luo Hong’s Restriction Breaking Talismans failed to stop the demon from emerging, but the rift severed his lower body as he crossed.

• The Great Strength True Demon regenerated his arm, consumed the Three-eyed Flower Leopard, and used the Blood Infant’s guidance to pursue his targets.
• The Two Elders of Star Palace witnessed the demon’s appearance and decided to return to Star Palace to warn the Twin Saints.
• Luo Hong broke the restriction in the Soul Nurturing Wood Treasure Chamber, allowing himself, Han Li, and Yuan Yao to teleport out before the blood light overtook them.
• The Great Strength True Demon reached through the Spatial Rift and attacked, but Luo Hong protected Han Li with the Dazzling Light Demonic Mirror.
• Luo Hong and Han Li attacked the demon, and Luo Hong used Restriction Breaking Talismans to strip away the blood light around the rift.
• The Great Strength True Demon forced his way through as the Spatial Rift closed, severing everything below his chest and abdomen.

Luo Hong fought the Great Strength True Demon while Han Li stayed to help and Yuan Yao escaped. Luo Hong used an ancient sealing restriction to open a Space Gate to the Void Sky Hall, but the demon ensnared him in a Blood Mass as he was being dragged toward the gate.

• The Great Strength True Demon enlarged himself with Heavenly Manifestation and sent Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits after Luo Hong, who urged Han Li and Yuan Yao to flee.
• Han Li stayed to help Luo Hong, while Yuan Yao took the stone tablet and retreated two hundred li away.
• Luo Hong broke through the spirits with his Silver Spirit Eye, and Han Li's Gold Devouring Insects and Luo Hong's Blood Puppet Flying Ants attacked the demon's arms.
• The Great Strength True Demon used the Great Strength True Demon Force, and Luo Hong activated the Golden Palace Jade Book's restriction to summon an Azure Jade Altar Projection and bind the demon with Silver Light Chains.
• Luo Hong opened a Space Gate to the Void Sky Hall and began dragging the Great Strength True Demon through it, but the demon spat a Blood Mass that trapped Luo Hong and pulled him toward its mouth.

Luo Hong escaped the Great Strength True Demon’s blood mass with Little Gold’s help, and the Azure Jade Altar sent the headless demon back to the Void Sky Hall. After Luo Hong and Han Li fled, Man Huzi and the other Nascent Soul cultivators argued over who had taken the Void Sky Cauldron.

• Little Gold broke Luo Hong free from the Great Strength True Demon’s blood mass and destroyed the demon’s head with her Form-Destroying Golden Light.
• The Azure Jade Altar’s restriction dragged the weakened Great Strength True Demon through the Space Gate, and Luo Hong collected his spirit beasts and the Three-eyed Flower Leopard’s essence soul.
• Luo Hong traded twelve Restriction Breaking Talismans to Han Li for five bottles of Spirit Feeding Pills, then used a Four Symbols Teleportation Talisman to flee with him.
• Man Huzi, Wan Tianming, Qing Yi Jushi, Ji Yin, and Tian Wuzi gathered over the demon-tainted sea and debated how the Great Strength True Demon had been restrained.
• Wan Tianming accused Man Huzi’s nephew of taking the Void Sky Cauldron, while Man Huzi blamed the Six Paths and Three Suns successors and suspected Mysterious Bone had fled with the cauldron.

After escaping the Void Sky Hall, Luo Hong and Han Li set out for the Outer Sea as turmoil spread through the Inner Star Sea. They stopped at Nanming Island to buy supplies, where Luo Hong went to Su Yuan Zhai seeking ancient records about demonic divine abilities and was led to meet its master.

• Luo Hong reunited with Yuan Yao and Han Li, then gave Yuan Yao a Mystic Transformation technique before she departed to handle her own affairs.
• Luo Hong and Han Li raced toward Tianxing Island, with Little Gold outlasting Han Li's Ancient Treasure-powered flight after Han Li ran short on Magic Power.
• Han Li learned that the Twin Saints' Tianxing Order had driven Star Palace's hidden opponents to form the Inverse Star Alliance, pushing the Inner Star Sea toward war.
• Luo Hong and Han Li reached Nanming Island, bought materials, and separated so Han Li could seek Pill Formulas while Luo Hong visited Su Yuan Zhai for ancient books.
• A maid at Su Yuan Zhai led Luo Hong toward the Zhai Master after he asked for Nascent Soul-level texts, and Luo Hong grew curious about the master she described as a gentle mortal.