Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong and the others crossed the Black Abyss wind passage aboard the Star Falcon Flying Boat, where a beast attack and a surge of starlight forced them to abandon the vessel and teleport. Luo Hong arrived alone in the Great Ruins and headed toward a distant ruined palace to search for the others.

• Madam Liu Hua guided the Star Falcon Flying Boat through the gorge, while E Kuai and Sha Xin helped it survive the hurricane and the suction of a Black Mist Vortex.
• An enormous flood-dragon-like beast struck the flying boat, and E Kuai killed it with a blow that opened a Space Black Hole.
• Eight more flood dragons surrounded the boat, then transformed as Luo Hong’s released Primordial Law aura and the descending Power of Stars revealed that Ji Lin Kong Jing had formed because the myriad worlds were suppressing the place.
• The overwhelming starlight threatened to break the flying boat, so Madam Liu Hua used a white disc to open Spatial Rifts and ordered Han Li to take Qian Xun into the largest one.
• Luo Hong led the people of Baiyan City through a rift and landed unharmed in the Great Ruins, where he spotted a ruined palace and set out toward it.

Luo Hong explored Ye Sha Hall, defeated its puppet guards and the Puppet City Lord, then found Han Li, Gu Qianxun, Shi Chuankong, and Shi Zhanfeng in a tense standoff. He exposed Gu Qianxun’s connection to Shi Pokong and stopped Shi Zhanfeng from leaving so he could address the conflict.

• Luo Hong entered Ye Sha Hall, destroyed its puppet guardians, and discovered the complex had been looted long ago.
• The Puppet City Lord attacked Luo Hong through a six-armed Wisdom King puppet, but Luo Hong resisted his strikes, located him, and defeated him when his Curse Art rebounded.
• Luo Hong stored the six-armed Wisdom King in his Myriad Treasures Pouch and continued underground, destroying more puppets along the way.
• Luo Hong found Han Li and Gu Qianxun fighting over the injured Shi Chuankong while Shi Zhanfeng and two companions watched nearby.
• Gu Qianxun stopped attacking when Luo Hong arrived and said she needed to kill Shi Chuankong; Luo Hong identified her as Shi Pokong’s agent.
• Shi Chuankong asked why Shi Pokong wanted him dead, and Luo Hong invited Shi Zhanfeng to stay and hear the explanation.

Luo Hong revealed that the Ye Yang Imperial Family’s inheritance required Space Law cultivators to be sacrificed, then traded knowledge of the Heavenly Net Corpse Slaying Technique with Shi Zhanfeng and Shi Chuankong. After Shi Zhanfeng departed and Gu Qianxun abandoned her assassination attempt, Shi Chuankong warned Luo Hong and Han Li about the Ji Lin Sacred Remains before suddenly cutting off his own left arm.

• Luo Hong explained that Shi Pokong sought to kill Shi Chuankong because only one of them could survive the imperial inheritance struggle, and Shi Zhanfeng recognized clues supporting the claim.
• Luo Hong used his Primordial Spiritual Domain to sever Shi Zhanfeng’s bloodline pact, then exchanged the inheritance secrets from Shi Zhanfeng and Shi Chuankong for the corpse-severing technique’s hidden instructions.
• Luo Hong discovered flaws in the Heavenly Net Corpse Slaying Technique, gave the princes the information they requested, and refused Shi Zhanfeng’s offer to join the search for the Ji Lin Sacred Remains.
• Luo Hong persuaded Gu Qianxun to leave rather than continue her attempt to assassinate Shi Zhanfeng, and Shi Zhanfeng departed with his men.
• Shi Chuankong told Han Li that he had entered Ji Lin Kong Jing with a personal goal and asked Luo Hong to prevent Shi Zhanfeng from obtaining the Ji Lin Sacred Remains.
• Shi Chuankong suddenly raised his palm and severed his own left arm, leaving Han Li to ask what he was doing.

Luo Hong refined E Kuai’s essence blood with the sealed gray heart, then joined Han Li and Shi Chuankong in exploring a hidden temple and securing its Holy Key. The chapter ended with Luo Hong’s bone array disrupting the star power that animated six puppets.

• Shi Chuankong explained how he forced E Kuai’s essence blood from his body, and Luo Hong captured the drop and agreed to guard him while he recovered.
• Luo Hong used the gray heart sealed in his dantian to alter the essence blood, then resealed the heart as Shi Chuankong recovered over seven days.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and Shi Chuankong found a hidden temple containing a Holy Key, an illusion array, and six star-powered puppets.
• Han Li crossed the illusion array toward the key while Luo Hong sent Shi Chuankong to draw the puppets’ attacks.
• Luo Hong trapped the six puppets within eight White Jade Bone Pillars, disrupting their star power and forcing them to kneel.

Luo Hong subdued the Star Puppets to protect the Xia Ling Tribe and arranged for Han Li to act publicly while he hid and prepared to move against E Kuai. After Han Li claimed the Holy Key, the divine hall began collapsing, and strange creatures emerged from the ground.

• Luo Hong used Great Black Sky Thunder to disable the Thunder Duke Puppet and six halberd-wielding puppets, then altered their cores so he could take them to the Spirit World.
• Luo Hong told Han Li he planned to investigate the Sea Race’s suspicious unification and leave Star Puppets with the Xia Ling Tribe, while Han Li asked him to bring Nangong Wan to the Immortal World.
• Han Li broke the stellar restriction around the woman’s statue and took the Holy Key, which fused into his body; Luo Hong declined the key and asked Shi Chuankong to leave.
• Luo Hong told Han Li he would hide in the patterns on Han Li’s robes while they moved against E Kuai, and warned him not to trust Zhu Yan with their plans.
• Han Li and Shi Chuankong fled as the divine hall collapsed, and grotesque heads and arms began emerging from the ground.

Han Li and his companions defeated a massive puppet army with Luo Hong’s Great Black Sky Thunder Seals, then traveled deep into the Great Ruins and crossed an endless stretch of fiery-red sand. After Luo Hong identified the yellow clouds as the Great Yellow Sky Restriction, Han Li discovered a massive river ahead.

• Han Li used a spatial slash of his curved blade to redirect the Snake-headed Puppets’ arrows, then led Shi Chuankong away from the pursuing army.
• Han Li gathered Fang Chan and the other Baiyan City cultivators, and Luo Hong gave the group Great Black Sky Thunder Seals that could disable puppets.
• Han Li and the other five repelled the Puppet Army, forcing it to retreat, then stored the disabled puppets in the Flower Branch Grotto-heaven for Zi Ling to sort.
• Han Li and his companions traveled for two months across the fiery-red sands, and Shi Chuankong demonstrated that the yellow clouds destroyed anything that touched them.
• Luo Hong identified the clouds as the Great Yellow Sky Restriction and explained that the Great Ruins’ former master had used it in an attempt to expand the Great Ruins.
• Han Li abruptly changed direction and led the others to a massive river.

Han Li and Shi Chuankong explored an altar beneath Youming Hall, where Han Li subdued several Heavenly Kui Mystic Generals and secured the pillars that nurtured them. Han Li reached a vast hall where four familiar figures were fighting and went ahead to investigate.

• Han Li led his group through a crimson oasis and an empty city to the Youming Hall altar, then decided to explore it for treasures despite not needing its Holy Key.
• Han Li split the group at a three-way passage, giving Fang Chan a new Great Black Sky Thunder Seal before taking the right branch with Shi Chuankong.
• Han Li used the Sword of Spiritual Sense to stop a Heavenly Kui Mystic General and sealed its talisman with a Chain of Spiritual Sense.
• Han Li and Shi Chuankong found four more Heavenly Kui Mystic Generals and five star-absorbing pillars; Han Li sent Shi Chuankong away, subdued the talismans, and removed the pillars' sealed rods.
• Han Li reached a staircase leading to a large hall where fighting was underway, recognized the four fighters as acquaintances, and descended to investigate.

Han Li joined forces with Chen Yang and Zhu Yan’s group to clear the guardians of an altar, while testing their loyalty to Luo Hong. After the group opened a second divine hall and found another Holy Key above an ancient bronze tree, Zhu Yan’s party struggled against its saber-wielding statues while Han Li’s side quickly subdued the other guardians.

• Han Li revealed himself and used his Chain of Spiritual Sense to destroy a White-Armored Mystic General, then helped Zhu Yan and Chen Yang’s group defeat the first hall’s guardians.
• Han Li challenged Chen Yang and Zhu Yan to follow his orders, but Xuanyuan Xing and Xu Yinglong rejected his authority, and Fang Chan brought his men to Han Li’s side.
• Chen Yang chose to cooperate after Zhu Yan warned him that Fang Chan’s group had Luo Hong’s thunder art and that Luo Hong’s restrictions could kill them.
• The group opened the Green Stone Door and found a second Holy Key above a bronze tree surrounded by armored statues, Red Armored Puppets, and Heavenly Kui Mystic Generals.
• Zhu Yan charged the tree, awakening the saber-wielding Battle Saber Puppets, and suffered a cut from one of their Star Artifacts.
• Han Li and Fang Chan’s group quickly sealed most of the Red Armored Puppets and Heavenly Kui Mystic Generals, while Chen Yang’s group struggled against the Battle Saber Puppets.

Han Li and Luo Hong avoided taking sides in a clash over the Holy Key until E Kuai arrived and restored order. After Han Li obtained a second Holy Key and learned about the treasure at the heart of the Great Ruins, E Kuai led the group out as the altar collapsed and Red Armored Puppets pursued them.

• Qin Yuan, Fu Jian, and Shao Ying entered the temple and attacked Zhu Yan and Chen Yang's group while Han Li held back on Luo Hong's advice.
• E Kuai arrived with Madam Liu Hua and the Zhu siblings, reprimanded Shao Ying, and had both sides destroy the Battle Saber Puppets together.
• E Kuai let Han Li claim the second Holy Key, which merged with the first and opened a mystic aperture in Han Li's body.
• E Kuai revealed that he and Sha Xin sought a powerful skeleton deep in the Great Ruins, while Chen Yang told Han Li of his past as E Kuai's spy and his grudge over his brother's death.
• E Kuai led everyone from the collapsing altar and out of the city as Red Armored Puppets emerged, while Madam Liu Hua used a Star Artifact to slow their pursuit.

E Kuai led the group through the Sulfur Flame Mist Sea, where the promise of Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds scattered them in search of treasure. Han Li uncovered E Kuai’s hidden Blood Restriction, refined two safe clouds with Luo Hong’s help, and caught up with the group as they neared the end of the mist sea.

• E Kuai led the group into the Sulfur Flame Mist Sea and explained that Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds formed there, prompting Chen Yang to seize and swallow one.
• Chen Yang’s profound apertures began opening, and the others—including Han Li—scattered to search for more clouds despite E Kuai’s warning to stay together.
• Luo Hong pointed out that E Kuai had likely planted the cloud Chen Yang found, and Han Li later discovered two clouds bearing a concealed Blood Restriction.
• Luo Hong removed the restriction, and Han Li swallowed the two clouds while Luo Hong slowed their scorching energy with the Time Law.
• Han Li opened more than twenty profound apertures and neared the Peak Taiyi Realm, while Luo Hong collected some of the blood mist for Xue’er and the Blood Sea.
• Han Li caught up with E Kuai and the others as the blood mist thinned and they approached the edge of the mist sea.

E Kuai led Han Li and the others to a blood-red palace, where they opened the sealed entrance with five Holy Keys and discovered a vast store of Beast Cores and a sacrificial Blood Pool. Han Li and Luo Hong realized that E Kuai intended to use the formation around the pool for a hidden, dangerous purpose, but the group had not yet learned what would happen when it was activated.

• Shi Chuankong told Han Li that he had found no Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds, while Fang Chan and the others had fared the same and several rivals had obtained them.
• E Kuai led the group through a barren blood-red mountain range to a huge palace, where five Holy Keys opened the stone doors after the group negotiated how to divide the treasures inside.
• The group entered a plaza beneath a ceiling filled with Earth-grade and Heaven-grade Beast Cores, then crossed a bridge to an altar above a bottomless abyss.
• E Kuai showed the group a sacrificial Blood Pool and explained that five Black Scale Beast sculptures served as the formation's feet, offering the gathered vital energy and bones to five cultivators who activated it.
• Han Li and Luo Hong concluded that E Kuai had concealed his true intentions and that the violent vital energy in the Blood Pool pointed to a dangerous scheme.

Han Li left the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation to explore the halls beyond it, while Luo Hong descended into the abyss and uncovered a hidden prison. The chapter ended with Luo Hong finding a white-haired man in purple robes seated inside an extravagant cell.

• E Kuai, Fu Jian, Qin Yuan, Chen Yang, and Zhu Yan activated the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation and began absorbing blood mist as their cultivation rose.
• Han Li defied Shao Ying’s order to stay by the formation and led Fang Chan and the others to explore the bridges behind it.
• Han Li reached a plaza with stone doors depicting Scale Howlers, while Luo Hong descended into the abyss on Blood Mosquitoes refined by Xue'er.
• Luo Hong confirmed that the abyssal mist carried an aura connected to Black Abyss and searched the bottom until he found a hidden cave.
• Luo Hong followed the cave’s empty prison cells to an extravagant chamber, where he discovered a white-haired man in purple robes.

Luo Hong uncovered the imprisoned Demon Lord Shi Kongjie’s plan to trick him into entering the cell and learned that Shi Kongjie’s Self Corpse had been forced to power a revival scheme. The Self Corpse then begged Luo Hong to bring someone who could help it escape.

• Luo Hong recognized that the purple-robed prisoner was Shi Kongjie’s Self Corpse and refused to enter the cell despite its offers and urgent demands.
• Luo Hong revealed that E Kuai had betrayed Shi Kongjie, and the prisoner’s illusion vanished, exposing a Golden Armor Puppet bound inside a Star Rune array.
• The Golden Armor Puppet explained that Shi Kongjie had forced his Three Corpses to refine the Power of Stars to resist Demonic God Power, while the array converted most of that power into Origin Power for Shi Kongjie’s revival.
• The Golden Armor Puppet urged Luo Hong to capture someone and bring them to the cell, promising him the Ji Lin Sacred Scroll and a reward in exchange for its escape.

Luo Hong obtained and refined the Ji Lin Sacred Scroll before leaving the Golden Armor Puppet, while E Kuai revealed his scheme to trap and drain the other City Lords at the Blood Pool. Han Li returned with Fang Chan and the others as the captives’ allies fought E Kuai’s subordinates, and Shi Chuankong questioned why Han Li was unaffected by the Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud.

• Luo Hong traded White Light Beams that weakened the Golden Armor Puppet’s corruption for the Ji Lin Sacred Scroll, refined it with Primordial Immortal Yuan, and left.
• At the Blood Pool, E Kuai and the other City Lords strengthened themselves through the Blood Sacrifice Magic Array as the pool revealed a Blood-Colored Light Gate instead of the Sacred Remains.
• E Kuai used the Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds to restrain Chen Yang, Zhu Yan, Fu Jian, and Qin Yuan, then began draining them through the statues.
• Xu Yinglong and the others tried to rescue the City Lords, but Shao Ying, Zhu Ziyuan, and Zhu Ziqing blocked them and forced them into a disadvantage.
• Han Li returned with Fang Chan and the others, and Shi Chuankong told him what had happened before asking why Han Li was unharmed by the Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud.

Han Li revealed that he had deliberately lured E Kuai into fully activating the Blood Weeping Great Formation so he could seize its resurrection power. After entering the formation and taking control of it, Han Li began absorbing the blood light, leaving E Kuai weakened and the captives still trapped.

• Han Li refused E Kuai’s offer and attacked the formation while Fang Chan and the others fought Shao Ying and Zhu Ziyuan’s group.
• Fu Jian used a Soul Blade Talisman to free himself and partially release Chen Yang and the other captives, but E Kuai encased them in blood cocoons.
• E Kuai drew viscous blood light from beyond the Light Gate, purified it through the cocoons, and absorbed its power to open more Profound Apertures.
• Han Li revealed that his apparent failure to break the Blood Curtain had been a ruse, passed through it using an array eye, and took control of the formation.
• Han Li absorbed the purified blood light, draining E Kuai’s power; when Xu Yinglong demanded that he save the captives, Han Li ignored him and formed a Blood Lotus Platform that drew the blood light directly into his body.

E Kuai escaped Han Li’s control of the Weeping Blood Great Formation, but a trap set by Sha Xin left him badly injured before he recovered with Han Li’s blood light. Sha Xin arrived with reinforcements and attacked E Kuai using a Golden Winged Owl puppet, leaving their battle underway.

• E Kuai tried to break out of the formation, but Han Li maintained control as the viscous blood light entered his body without harming him.
• E Kuai dragged Zhu Yan and Chen Yang from their blood cocoons, then pulled Fu Jian and Qin Yuan out as well, but a bolt of Divine Restriction Thunder struck and killed Fu Jian and Qin Yuan.
• Chen Yang activated a Yin Yang Lightning Guiding Mirror, causing the lightning to pursue E Kuai; E Kuai survived the strike but lost his right arm.
• E Kuai intercepted the pure blood light Han Li had spat out, restoring much of his strength and regenerating his arm, while Xuanyuan Xing was blasted from the altar.
• Sha Xin and six others descended onto the altar, and she accused Chen Yang of failing to follow her instructions before declaring her intent to kill E Kuai.
• Sha Xin summoned a Golden Winged Owl puppet, which fought E Kuai and began aggravating his injuries.

Luo Hong intervened in Sha Xin and E Kuai’s battle, then joined forces with E Kuai to escape with Shi Chuankong and Madam Liu Hua. The group fled while Sha Xin pursued them, unaware that Luo Hong had already poisoned E Kuai.

• E Kuai used a starlight vortex to deflect the Golden Winged Owl’s feathers, but his injuries worsened as Sha Xin prepared another attack.
• Luo Hong arrived, revealed his Mid Da Luo Realm strength by damaging Sha Xin’s giant ape puppet, and teamed up with E Kuai against her.
• Luo Hong and E Kuai forced Sha Xin’s Golden Winged Owl back, while Madam Liu Hua struck it with Taiyin Primordial Magnetic Aurora and helped E Kuai escape through a hole in the wall.
• Luo Hong followed E Kuai with Shi Chuankong and revealed that he had secretly poisoned E Kuai through his refined Xue Guang.
• Sha Xin pursued the fleeing group with two Silver Giant Birds.

Luo Hong, E Kuai, and Shi Zhanfeng joined forces to break the seal on Thousand Mechanisms Hall and prepare to betray Sha Xin, who was pursuing them to claim the Sacred Bone. The doors were blasted open, leaving the group poised to enter the hall before Sha Xin arrived.

• Sha Xin warned Shi Zhanfeng that E Kuai was heading to Thousand Mechanisms Hall and urged him to stay hidden until they met.
• After nine days of travel, Luo Hong and the badly injured E Kuai reached Thousand Mechanisms Hall, where Madam Liu Hua began deciphering its Star Restriction.
• Shi Zhanfeng arrived and offered to help E Kuai ambush Sha Xin, revealing that he wanted the Sacred Bone to sever his evil corpse rather than revive the Demon Lord.
• Luo Hong confirmed Shi Zhanfeng's claims, knocked Shi Chuankong unconscious, and agreed with E Kuai and Shi Zhanfeng to divide the Sacred Bone.
• Shi Zhanfeng gave E Kuai a Void Breaking Realm Talisman, and Madam Liu Hua weakened the hall's restriction with a Silver Light Array.
• E Kuai activated the talisman, and the resulting blast opened the hall's doors without destroying them.

E Kuai led Luo Hong and the others to the Crystal Coffin containing the Demon Lord’s corpse, while Luo Hong secretly coordinated with Crab Daoist and poisoned E Kuai. Sha Xin and Shi Zhanfeng arrived, and their clash with E Kuai ended with Sha Xin trapping E Kuai and Luo Hong in a puppet formation as she rushed toward the coffin with Shi Zhanfeng.

• Shi Zhanfeng accepted E Kuai’s Black Tribulation Worm and left to meet Sha Xin while E Kuai led Luo Hong, Shi Chuankong, and Madam Liu Hua into the Thousand Mechanisms Hall.
• E Kuai revealed that the Ji Lin Sacred Remains were the corpse of the Demon Lord, whose two true disciples were E Kuai and Sha Xin, then opened a hidden passage to the underground Blood Lake and Crystal Coffin.
• Luo Hong secretly spoke with Crab Daoist, who recognized the Death Emotion Ash poison in E Kuai’s eyes and realized Luo Hong intended to take E Kuai’s body.
• E Kuai called for Luo Hong to bring Shi Chuankong to the Crystal Coffin, and Sha Xin arrived to challenge him over the Demon Lord’s remains.
• Shi Zhanfeng joined Sha Xin and revealed his Ye Yang Imperial Family bloodline; E Kuai attacked him while Luo Hong held Sha Xin back, but Sha Xin’s puppets trapped E Kuai and Luo Hong in a formation.
• Sha Xin grabbed the injured Shi Zhanfeng and hurried with him toward the center of the Blood Lake while the formation held E Kuai and Luo Hong.

Sha Xin unsealed the Ji Lin Sacred Remains and tried to free the heart meant to revive the Demon Lord, but Shi Zhanfeng betrayed her and stole it. E Kuai turned on Shi Zhanfeng after poison afflicted his primordial spirit, and Luo Hong intervened to protect Shi Chuankong and return the heart to Sha Xin; E Kuai then realized Luo Hong was responsible, though Luo Hong said he had no antidote.

• Sha Xin used Shi Zhanfeng's blood essence to unseal the Crystal Coffin and reveal the Ji Lin Sacred Remains.
• Sha Xin revealed the heart she had nurtured inside herself, but Shi Zhanfeng stabbed her and seized the crystal sphere containing it.
• E Kuai and Luo Hong broke free of the Bone Armor Puppets, and Shi Zhanfeng joined E Kuai in exchange for help removing the Black Tribulation Worm.
• Sha Xin summoned an Eight-Armed Vajra and began preparing her Heavenly Dipper Four Symbols War Puppet, but E Kuai was suddenly struck by poison and demanded an antidote.
• E Kuai attacked Shi Zhanfeng and searched him for the antidote, then lunged at Shi Chuankong before Luo Hong knocked him away and returned the crystal sphere to Sha Xin.
• E Kuai recognized Luo Hong as the one who poisoned him and demanded an antidote, but Luo Hong said he had none.