Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong tested how the Gray Mist affected demon souls and concluded that an undetectable Curse Art within it eroded intelligence. He then traveled with Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi toward the mountain range’s core, where a mysterious howl scattered a Yin Ghost horde and revealed a source Luo Hong recognized as connected to the Curse Art.

• Luo Hong used a Great Evolution Talisman to confirm that the Gray Mist nourished demon souls, then tested how it affected the Hundred-Eyed Monster’s intelligence.
• After measuring the demon soul’s fluctuations, Luo Hong concluded that an undetectable Curse Art spread through the Gray Mist and that its strength increased with the mist’s concentration.
• Luo Hong, Nangong Wan, and Wuyouzi advanced toward the core of the Bell Spirit Mountain Range after dismissing their companions.
• Luo Hong detected a Yin Ghost horde approaching, and the three Nascent Soul cultivators fought it off with their magic treasures.
• A howl from the depths scattered the Yin Ghosts, and Luo Hong recognized that it came from the same source as the Curse Art.

Luo Hong, Nangong Wan, and Wuyouzi entered the Bell Spirit Mountain Range’s Core Region, where strange shadows attacked them and Luo Hong used fire to defeat them. When Wuyouzi claimed a share of the resulting Soul Nurturing Pearls, Nangong Wan rejected his argument, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Nangong Wan played the Seven Marvelous Immortal Music, and the three cultivators continued toward the Core Region.
• At the edge of the Core Region, Luo Hong sensed danger in the mist and warned Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi.
• Dark shadows attacked Wuyouzi and Nangong Wan, but Wuyouzi’s azure lightning and Nangong Wan’s Vermillion Bird Ring slowed them.
• Luo Hong surrounded the group with fire dragons, thinning the Gray Mist and weakening the shadows before burning them into two black pearls.
• Wuyouzi identified the pearls as Soul Nurturing Pearls and demanded one, but Nangong Wan said his claim was biased.

Luo Hong explained how to weaken and kill the Dark Shadows, then led Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi into the Core Region to hunt them. When ten Dark Shadows surrounded the group, Luo Hong vanished, leaving the others behind.

• Luo Hong gave Nangong Wan the Soul Nurturing Pearls and explained that fire-element spells could trap Dark Shadows until the Gray Mist weakened.
• Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi joined Luo Hong in entering the Core Region, where the dense Gray Mist restricted their vision and divine sense.
• Three Dark Shadows attacked, and Nangong Wan, Wuyouzi, and Luo Hong each killed one using their prepared techniques; only one Soul Nurturing Pearl appeared.
• Wuyouzi handed the pearl to Nangong Wan for safekeeping and claimed that each of them would receive one pearl from then on.
• Ten Dark Shadows surrounded the group, and Luo Hong suddenly disappeared, shocking Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi.

Luo Hong left Xiao Cui'er outside the Gray Mist and began a plan to disrupt the intelligent force behind the Dark Shadows, while Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi fought for their lives. The two were rescued by a trapped Deity Transformation cultivator, who asked them to retrieve a restricted Storage Bracelet and use its talisman to free him.

• Luo Hong met Xiao Cui'er above the Bell Spirit Mountain Range and descended to the Gray Mist’s edge to activate the Fire Element Banner.
• Nangong Wan protected Wuyouzi with the Vermillion Bird Ring while he fought the Dark Shadows with Azure Sky Divine Thunder, but the Gray Mist healed most of their injuries.
• An aged voice used the Soul Shocking Curse to drive away the remaining Dark Shadows and summoned Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi into a hidden space.
• Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi discovered a gray-haired Deity Transformation cultivator pinned beneath the Universe Inversion Mountain, who said he had been trapped for over sixty years.
• The Gray-haired Old Man asked them to take a Golden Patterned Spirit Talisman from his restricted Storage Bracelet, but Wuyouzi hesitated when he learned it could only be picked up by hand.

Wuyouzi and Nangong Wan were manipulated by the Gray-haired Old Man into retrieving a talisman, but the Gray Mist proved to conceal an illusion created by an Azure Shadow. Luo Hong appeared in time to stop the Outer Realm Sky Demon from entering Wuyouzi’s Nascent Soul, leaving Wuyouzi alive but badly weakened.

• Wuyouzi sent a Spirit Crane to retrieve the Storage Bracelet, but the Gray-haired Old Man blocked him from probing it and allowed him to take only the Golden Patterned Spirit Talisman.
• Nangong Wan questioned the origins of the Gray Mist and Black Domain Demons, and the Gray-haired Old Man threatened that they would be devoured if they refused to help him escape.
• The Gray-haired Old Man suddenly urged Wuyouzi to retrieve the talisman, and crimson flames revealed that Wuyouzi and Nangong Wan had entered an illusion created by an Azure Shadow.
• The Azure Shadow restrained Wuyouzi’s Nascent Soul with a Cyan Tentacle and tried to send a Cyan Tumor into it, while Nangong Wan’s Vermillion Bird Ring passed through the tentacle harmlessly.
• Luo Hong appeared and used Spirit Talismans to erase the Cyan Tumor and sever the tentacle, freeing Wuyouzi’s Nascent Soul at the cost of severely weakening it.

Luo Hong sealed the powerful azure shadow and rescued Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi, then left the Bell Spirit Mountain Range with them. Before Nangong Wan departed, he told her Han Li was preparing for Nascent Soul Formation, prompting her to make a decision about their relationship.

• Luo Hong’s Nuclear Black Flames disrupted the azure shadow’s Curse Art, and he carried Nangong Wan and Wuyouzi out of the Spherical World.
• Luo Hong trapped the Spherical World inside the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda and sealed the tower with Soul Scattering Talismans.
• Luo Hong explained that the azure shadow was likely an Outer Realm Evil Entity equivalent to a Deity Transformation Stage cultivator, while Wuyouzi recovered and questioned his actions.
• After the Spirit Boat left the Bell Spirit Mountain Range, Wuyouzi departed with a Pure Void Sect Elder, and Nangong Wan gave Luo Hong two Soul Nurturing Pearls.
• Luo Hong told Nangong Wan that Han Li was preparing for Nascent Soul Formation, and she left after asking when he would succeed.
• Luo Hong told Xiao Cui'er to return to the sect and keep their conversation secret.

After killing the Black Domain Demons and sealing the Azure Domain Demon in Bell Spirit Mountain Range, Luo Hong persuaded Ancestor Linghu to bring Alliance Leader Wei and the Nine Nations Alliance into the matter. Back at Yellow Maple Valley, Luo Hong began studying his four Soul Nurturing Pearls to learn the demons’ Curse Arts.

• Luo Hong explained to Ancestor Linghu that he had killed the Black Domain Demons but sealed a dangerous Azure Domain Demon, and urged him to summon Alliance Leader Wei.
• Ancestor Linghu agreed that Yellow Maple Valley could not handle the threat alone and hurried to the Flowing Mind Sect.
• Luo Hong revealed that he had exaggerated the danger to make the Alliance share responsibility, hoping to keep the Azure Domain Demon for study and gain benefits for Yellow Maple Valley.
• Luo Hong realized that the Azure Domain Demon had entered the Mortal World through a passage created by his lost Black Helium Bead, and resolved to be more cautious with experiments.
• Luo Hong returned to his cave abode and began examining the four Soul Nurturing Pearls to study the Black Domain Demons’ Curse Arts.

Luo Hong weighed three ways to control the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and chose to develop both a Dharma Image Divine Eye and a risky beast-eye clone, while continuing to study the Soul Nurturing Pearl. When Wei Wuya and the Nine Nations Alliance’s representatives arrived, Luo Hong led them to the sealed Azure Domain Demon and opened the tower for three powerful cultivators to enter.

• Luo Hong considered using a Mysterious Yin Eye, a Buddhist Dharma Image Divine Eye, or a cloned Three-eyed Leopard eye to control the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, and decided to pursue the latter two plans in parallel.
• After studying the Soul Nurturing Pearl for a month, Luo Hong received a summons from Ancestor Linghu and went to Yellow Maple Valley’s sect gate.
• Luo Hong met Wei Wuya and more than thirty Nascent Soul Cultivators representing the Nine Nations Alliance, then traveled with them to the Bell Spirit Mountain Range.
• The cultivators searched the core region for the Black Domain Demon but found no trace of it, then reached the Golden Giant Tower, whose Soul Scattering Talismans had partly burned away.
• Luo Hong warned Wei Wuya, Sect Master Bai, and Daoist Song about the demon’s curse arts and opened a Light Gate in the tower wall so they could enter.

Luo Hong watched Wei Wuya and two allies challenge the Azure Domain Demon, but they emerged badly injured and failed to defeat it. As Wei Wuya promised to find another solution, Luo Hong discovered that the Gray Mist Curse Art remained active despite the demon’s sealing.

• Ancestor Linghu told Luo Hong that Wei Wuya, Sect Master Bai, and Daoist Song had brought treasures and abilities suited to confronting the Azure Domain Demon.
• Luo Hong suspected Wei Wuya planned to test the demon before potentially having the gathered Nascent Soul Cultivators attack it for its resources.
• Wei Wuya and his allies fought inside the Giant Tower, while the demon’s Curse Arts forced the surrounding cultivators to retreat; Luo Hong sent out Soul Scattering Talismans to protect them.
• Wei Wuya, Sect Master Bai, and Daoist Song emerged from the tower injured, and Wei Wuya admitted that their attempt had failed.
• Wei Wuya asked Luo Hong to keep sealing the demon for another month and left with the other cultivators to discuss a solution.
• Luo Hong studied the Gray Mist and realized its spiritual-intelligence-devouring Curse Art remained active and was only a low-level Curse Art.

Luo Hong uncovered the true nature of the Gray Mist Curse Art and made a breakthrough in understanding how Curse Arts worked. After a month of research, he accepted responsibility for sealing the Azure Domain Demon in exchange for spirit materials and permission for Yellow Maple Valley to sell low-grade talismans in the Nine Nations Alliance.

• Luo Hong concluded that Curse Arts worked through primordial spirit tremors and that the Gray Mist Curse Art was not a conventional Curse Art but the tremor itself spreading through the mist.
• Luo Hong used his incarnation primordial spirit to link internal tremors to their outward ripples, then spent a month deciphering the Gray Mist Curse Art.
• Wei Wuya and the Five Sects' Nascent Soul cultivators asked Luo Hong to take charge of sealing the Azure Domain Demon, and Luo Hong pretended to weigh their request.
• Luo Hong demanded that Wei Wuya gather the spirit materials for Condensing Dharma Idol and allow Yellow Maple Valley to open shops selling low-grade talismans.
• Wei Wuya agreed to Luo Hong's conditions, and Luo Hong accepted responsibility for the seal, allowing his Demon Feeding Plan to proceed.

Luo Hong prepared the Demon Sealing Tower to raise Gray Shadows by trapping them near the Boundary Membrane and feeding them stolen intelligence. He confirmed the plan worked and intended to spread an Emotion Stealing Curse through low-grade talismans sold across the Nine Nations Alliance.

• Luo Hong told Ancestor Linghu he could maintain the tower's seal with array patterns and Spirit Stones, then described a Printing Formation that could mass-produce low-grade talismans.
• Luo Hong covered the Boundary Membrane with a Blood Marrow Shield, separated the Gray Shadow from his Heart Demon, and built forty-nine Restriction Prison Cages.
• Luo Hong used the Heart Demon as bait and captured dozens of Gray Shadows with the Five Elements Reversal Formation.
• Luo Hong tested his feeding pens by exposing a Demon Soul to the Gray Mist, and the trapped Gray Shadows grew stronger as they consumed its extracted intelligence.
• Luo Hong planned to mix Heavenly Demon Sand into low-grade talismans so their hidden Emotion Stealing Curse would feed the Gray Shadows without permanently harming cultivators.

Luo Hong established a Rearing Pen in the Demon Sealing Tower and developed a way to use cheap talismans to condition low-level cultivators’ primordial spirits to cooperate with the Emotion Stealing Curse. After his talisman operation spread across the Nine Nations Alliance, he left the growing Gray Shadows to mature and planned to return in five years to raise Black Domain Demons.

• Luo Hong finished sealing the Demon Sealing Tower for future Black Domain Demons and assigned a new body for his Deity Transformation primordial spirit to manage the Rearing Pen, where White Shadows often entered and were devoured by Gray Shadows.
• Xiao Cui'er brought Luo Hong to the newly completed Demon Sealing Hall at White Flame Mountain, where he ordered her and Yu Ying to prepare the site for a formation that would condense Pure Yang Flame.
• Luo Hong devised Magic Artifact scrolls carrying the Soul Bewitching Curse and planned to make talismans require the incantation, “Supreme Lord Hong, Command to Exterminate Enemies!”
• Luo Hong completed two Talisman Printing Formations, and Ancestor Linghu opened shops across the Nine Nations Alliance that sold low-grade talismans at half price.
• Luo Hong oversaw the Demon Sealing Tower, saw the Gray Shadows growing stronger, and decided to resume cultivation until the Black Domain Demons were ready in five years.

After twenty-five years of cultivation, Han Li traveled to Yuanwu Kingdom to fulfill his promise to destroy the Fu Family. He captured a strange green being and discovered that talismans bearing Luo Hong’s incantations were circulating widely, leaving him concerned that his senior brother was in serious trouble.

• Han Li disguised his cultivation and waited for the Fu Family Ancestor’s birthday, planning to infiltrate the celebration and wipe out the Fu Family.
• The Peng Yi Twin Fiends lured Han Li into a valley, where a green little person revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation and devoured Peng Yi’s primordial spirit.
• Han Li trapped the green little person with his Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords and golden thunder, then captured her in a jade box.
• Han Li caught the Bald Big Man and learned that the talismans he carried came from a Supreme Elder of Yellow Maple Valley called Lord Hong.
• Han Li discovered Chaotic Star Sea incantations on the talismans and suspected Luo Hong had made them for a reason.
• At a market near Purple Dao Mountain, Han Li heard cultivators repeatedly reciting the talismans’ incantation and concluded that Luo Hong must have encountered serious trouble.

Han Li visited Luo Hong’s talisman shop and learned that Lord Hong’s curse formula and the shop’s rules were feared throughout the market. After reciting the formula and sensing a faint connection to Luo Hong’s portrait, Han Li left, while a Nascent Soul female cultivator entered a hidden cave in Yuanwu Kingdom.

• Han Li questioned Miao Yuanda about the crowded Yellow Maple Valley shop and learned that Lord Hong had killed a Core Formation cultivator remotely and that a giant eagle had repelled a Nascent Soul elder.
• A fast Puppet Strange Bird delivered two Jade Boxes of talismans, and the shop opened for business.
• Han Li recognized Luo Hong in a portrait inside the shop and sensed a faint, unexplained familiarity.
• Han Li bought six talismans after reciting the shop’s required curse formula, “Supreme Lord Hong, Command to Exterminate Enemies!”
• A Nascent Soul female cultivator with two Ghost Fire Skulls flew into a cave in Yuanwu Kingdom.

Old Demon Qingyang, inhabiting Lu Qian’s body, reunited with the Female Demonic Entity and prepared to enter the Rakshasa Ghost Mansion. He revealed the risks behind his life-replacement forbidden art and demanded that she bind herself to a Netherworld Ghost Contract before they proceeded.

• The Female Demonic Entity descended through a lava-filled cavern and congratulated Lu Qian, who revealed himself as Old Demon Qingyang after recovering his cultivation through the Great Art of Life Replacement.
• Old Demon Qingyang explained that the life-replacement art had nearly failed and that his success depended on a rare target possessing both a demon body and a demon heart.
• Old Demon Qingyang opened a hidden passage, and the cavern behind them collapsed as the pair entered a chamber containing a Rakshasa Blood Pearl and an array.
• Old Demon Qingyang explained that the pearl needed to absorb enough essence blood to activate the Yin Luo Blood Kill Formation and open the Rakshasa Ghost Mansion.
• The Female Demonic Entity promised to seek only Profound Yin Ghost Qi inside the mansion, but Old Demon Qingyang presented a Netherworld Ghost Contract and told her to offer a drop of essence blood.

Old Demon Qingyang and the Female Demonic Entity prepared to activate the Yin Luo Blood Kill Formation, while Han Li’s attack on the Fu Family unexpectedly supplied the Rakshasa Blood Pearl with blood qi. The Guanyin Diagram then teleported Han Li, Luo Hong, and people at other locations toward the Rakshasa Ghost Mansion.

• The Female Demonic Entity signed the Netherworld Ghost Contract and helped Old Demon Qingyang reveal the Evil Ghost Diagram by burning away its Buddhist seal.
• Fu Tianhua received a Guanyin Diagram from a relative and ordered him to keep its existence secret.
• Han Li arrived at the Fu Family Fortress, killed the large man, and sent Silver Moon after Fu Tianhua while he slaughtered the Fu Family clansmen.
• The Rakshasa Blood Pearl absorbed the Fu Family’s blood qi, alarming Old Demon Qingyang and the Female Demonic Entity as the formation began activating.
• Han Li took the blood-lit Guanyin Diagram from Fu Tianhua’s belongings and was caught in its teleportation; Luo Hong and people at two other locations were also engulfed in blood light.

Luo Hong and the other cultivators were teleported to a perilous Buddhist hall, where Yan Jing explained the Animal Skin Buddha Paintings and the ancient calamity linked to the place. Old Monster Tianhen tried to unite the group and question the suspicious Demon Cultivators, and the chapter ended with him recognizing Luo Hong by reputation.

• Luo Hong arrived in the golden hall and recognized Old Demon Han, Han Yunzhi, Han Shiquan, Old Demon Qingyang, and the wary Old Monster Tianhen among the cultivators.
• Yan Jing used Mind Reading to address the group, then revealed that he was from Great Jin's Jade Heavens Sect and that the Animal Skin Buddha Painting was tied to an ancient calamity in Southern Sky.
• Zhen Lan introduced herself as a disciple of the Immortal Transformation Sect, while the cultivators realized Yan Jing did not know how to escape the dangerous hall.
• Old Monster Tianhen proposed that the group work together and demanded introductions, focusing suspicion on Fairy Xuansha and her companion.
• Fairy Xuansha identified her companion as Junior Brother Lu, and Lu Lian claimed he was a newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator; Han Li and Luo Hong privately recognized that he was actually at Nascent Soul Mid-stage.
• Han Li and Luo Hong introduced themselves, and Old Monster Tianhen greeted Luo Hong with wariness, saying he had long admired his name.

Luo Hong and the other cultivators escaped the golden hall into a vast realm of corpse mountains and began flying toward a distant black mountain that might hold an exit. As Luo Hong questioned Han Li about the incident, silver-armored corpses burst from a nearby mountain.

• Old Monster Tianhen tried to recruit Luo Hong as an ally, but Luo Hong rejected his offer.
• Yan Jing identified the Great Sumeru Vajra Forbidden Zone and taught the cultivators a Magic Art that transported them from the golden hall to its top.
• The cultivators discovered a Vajra Talisman Seal on their palms that shielded them from the realm’s dense Corpse Qi.
• Old Monster Tianhen led the group toward a distant mountain, while the cultivators split into smaller groups and avoided the corpse mountains.
• Luo Hong secretly inspected the distant mountain and saw that it was made of black stone, then asked Han Li whether he had caused the incident.
• Dozens of dried corpses wearing mottled silver armor rolled out of a shaking Corpse Mountain.

Luo Hong and the others fought unusually tough Silver Armored Corpses in the Ghost Mansion, revealing powerful abilities and gathering their valuable armor. After the battle, Luo Hong and Han Li discussed the Soul-Crying Beast and prepared to continue, wary of a powerful Corpse King nearby.

• Zhen Lan, Han Li, Old Demon Qingyang, Old Monster Tianhen, and Han Shiquan fought the Silver Armored Corpses, which proved much tougher than ordinary ones.
• Old Monster Tianhen beheaded a Silver Armored Corpse with his Golden Moon Flying Dagger, while Han Shiquan's Spirit Toad swallowed several others.
• Luo Hong used the Mysterious Yin Eye to destroy the Silver Armored Corpses attacking him and Han Li, drawing Fairy Xuansha's greedy attention.
• Zhen Lan used her Curse Arts and Gu Worms to control one Silver Armored Corpse, and Luo Hong studied the technique's primordial spirit fluctuations.
• Luo Hong warned Han Li that Soul-Crying Beast sensed a powerful Corpse King nearby, then told him he could use Exorcism Divine Thunder freely.
• Luo Hong collected Silver Corpse Armor and flew toward Han Shiquan.

Luo Hong revealed his connection to Han Yunzhi and arranged for her protection while the group traveled through the Corpse Mountains. When a Half-step Corpse King attacked, he used the Soul Capturing Curse to seize control of it and the accompanying Silver Armored Corpses, leaving Old Monster Tianhen suspicious of his intentions.

• Luo Hong acknowledged Han Yunzhi as an old acquaintance and privately discussed a matter with Han Shiquan, who released two Silver Armored Corpses for him.
• Luo Hong crippled the two corpses with the Demon Head Hammer and provoked Zhen Lan into using the Soul Capturing Curse to make tokens for them.
• Luo Hong gave one token and Silver Armored Corpse to Han Yunzhi for protection, then rejoined Han Li and the others as they headed toward the Black Stone mountain peak.
• A Half-step Corpse King and several Silver Armored Corpses attacked the group, but Luo Hong used the Soul Capturing Curse to capture their remnant souls and command the creatures.
• Old Monster Tianhen demanded to know what Luo Hong intended to do with the captured corpse creatures.