Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong killed Earth Blood’s main soul and discovered that Little Gold’s Blood Poison Restriction remained active. He began recovering and investigating puppet techniques, then remembered the Three-Eyed Old Demon and assigned him to manage the Blood Flame Palace.

• Luo Hong’s Ghost Dao Incarnations overwhelmed Earth Blood’s main soul, which begged for its life before being torn apart and refined.
• Luo Hong returned to his body and found that Little Gold’s Blood Poison Restriction continued producing poisoned blood, so he decided to seek Qing Yuanzi’s help.
• Luo Hong asked Ying Ming about Earth Blood’s Purple Blood Puppet, and she explained that it needed to develop sentience to preserve its full power.
• Luo Hong searched the Blood Flame Palace, found Jade Slips about Puppet Technique, and planned to study them while recovering.
• Luo Hong remembered the Three-Eyed Old Demon, retrieved him from the Nether Pool, and assigned him responsibility for the Blood Flame Palace’s miscellaneous affairs.

Han Li escaped a clash between two Yaksha Kings through a damaged teleportation array and settled on an island to cultivate in seclusion. Meanwhile, the Flying Spirit Race agreed to prepare a blood sacrifice within a hundred years, while powerful outsiders planned to remove the seal on the Earth Abyss in search of the bearer of the Candle Dragon Golden Flame.

• Han Li and Fairy Xiao trapped two pursuing Yaksha Kings in the Great Geng Sword Formation and used a long-distance teleportation array to escape, though the damaged array sent Han Li to a sea island.
• Han Li found traces of a powerful battle and signs that Black Mist had been collected from the island, then built a cave abode and cultivated there for sixty years with True Toad Fluid.
• A Unicorn Alien and a Fish-eyed youth ordered Elder Ao and the Flying Spirit Race elders to gather enough living beings for a blood sacrifice within one hundred years.
• The Unicorn Alien told Elder Ao to remove the Earth Abyss seal after the war began, claiming the High Priestess had calculated that the person carrying the Candle Dragon Golden Flame was not an Earth Abyss demon.
• Han Li and Luo Hong remained unaware of the plans as about seventy years remained until the next Earth Abyss Trial.

After sixty years in seclusion, Han Li emerged at the peak of Spirit Transformation Mid-stage and was forced by Jin Yue to help Sky Peng Holy Sons Lei Lan and Bai Bi in the Earth Abyss Trial. As they traveled toward the second layer, Han Li found a mud doll that watched them leave, while a figure in Universe Palace recognized him as a long-awaited Junior Brother.

• Han Li refined the Brahma Saint Dharma Idol into a physical form during his long seclusion, but failed to break through his bottleneck.
• Jin Yue compelled Han Li to assist Lei Lan and Bai Bi in completing the Sky Peng Clan's Earth Abyss Trial.
• Han Li yielded the path to Ao Qing, whose anger stemmed from her missing betrothed, Xie Yuan, and learned that Xie Yuan had once defeated the Flying Spirit Emperor in a Dao debate.
• Han Li used his Spirit Devouring Heavenly Fire to destroy a swarm of Yin Spider Bees, impressing Lei Lan and Bai Bi.
• Han Li uncovered a mud doll absorbing Spiritual Qi, covered it again, and continued onward with Lei Lan and Bai Bi.
• The mud doll turned its eyes toward the departing trio, while a figure in Universe Palace watched them in a round mirror and called Han Li his Junior Brother.

Luo Hong arranged for Three-Eyed Old Demon to encounter Han Li and the others, hoping to draw Han Li into trouble during the Earth Abyss Trial. After the Leopard-Kirin Beast transformed and attracted Three-Eyed Old Demon, the old demon sent two powerful puppets to attack Han Li’s formation.

• Luo Hong decided to use Mu Qing’s interest in Han Li’s Exorcism Divine Thunder to steer Three-Eyed Old Demon toward Han Li, then asked the old demon to search for a Mystic Ice Baleful Crystal and gave him two puppets to test.
• Han Li, Lei Lan, and Bai Bi crossed the Ice Baleful Land as the Leopard-Kirin Beast devoured Ice Demons and broke through after Han Li killed an Ice Baleful Demon King.
• The Leopard-Kirin Beast developed the rare Nirvana Flesh Incense, and Han Li prepared a formation to protect it from the demons drawn by its fragrance.
• Three-Eyed Old Demon followed the fragrance and demanded that Han Li’s group hand over the beast, but hesitated when Han Li calmly challenged him.
• Three-Eyed Old Demon released two Black Giant Ape puppets, which smashed holes in the group’s crimson formation and shattered its defensive wind with a roar.

Han Li destroyed the Three-Eyed Old Demon’s Giant Ape Puppets, then watched the Leopard-Kirin Beast advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Ao Qing joined Han Li’s group after warning that they had angered a Demon King, and the Three-Eyed Old Demon fled while lamenting his losses.

• Han Li used the Great Geng Sword Formation and Exorcism Divine Thunder to destroy the Giant Ape Puppets, forcing the Three-Eyed Old Demon to retreat.
• The Leopard-Kirin Beast completed its advancement, revealed a Kirin bloodline phantom, and reached the Nascent Soul stage.
• Ao Qing appeared and insisted on traveling with Han Li, Lei Lan, and Bai Bi.
• Ao Qing revealed that the White-bearded Dwarf served the newly ascended Abyss Demon King and warned that the group would be pursued.
• Han Li accepted Ao Qing’s company for the journey to find the Netherflame Fruit, while she said their pursuers would arrive before they found it.
• The Three-Eyed Old Demon stopped to curse his misfortune and feared that losing his puppets would extend his service under Luo Hong by centuries.

The Three-Eyed Old Demon lured Han Li’s group into an ambush, but Ao Qing’s surprise attack and Han Li’s strength turned the battle against the demons. After Mu Qing captured Ao Qing to use her connection to Luo Hong, a thunderclap interrupted her.

• The Three-Eyed Old Demon recruited Mu Qing’s former subordinates and set an ambush for Han Li, Lei Lan, and Bai Bi at a Rotten Leaf Forest.
• Han Li killed the Black Spirit Holy Sons who tried to intercept his group, then confronted the demon ambush with Lei Lan and Bai Bi.
• Ao Qing revealed herself and attacked one of the bat-winged demons, allowing Han Li to kill him and drive Blood Lord into the Great Geng Sword Formation.
• The Three-Eyed Old Demon fled to draw Mu Qing into the conflict, while Han Li trapped Blood Lord and later ordered his companions to search for the Netherflame Fruit.
• Ao Qing chased the weakened Blood Lord until Mu Qing arrived, then demanded to know whether her husband had survived the previous trial.
• Mu Qing recognized Ao Qing’s connection to Luo Hong, paralyzed her with a soul-bound technique, and reached to seize her before a thunderclap interrupted her.

Luo Hong rescued Ao Qing from Mu Qing, removed the control over her, and told her a prepared story about his connection to Xie Yuan. He sent her away with a Fiend Beast, then manifested purple lightning from within his body.

• Luo Hong shattered Mu Qing's tree-claw attack, warned her off with his Golden Streamer, and took Ao Qing away before Mu Qing continued pursuing Han Li.
• Luo Hong removed the green strands controlling Ao Qing and stopped her from attacking when she awoke in the Universe Palace.
• Luo Hong claimed he was a new person formed from Xie Yuan's damaged Primordial Spirit and gave Ao Qing a Fiend Beast as Xie Yuan's bequest.
• Luo Hong teleported Ao Qing to the first level of the Earth Abyss, expecting her to bring the Fiend Beast to the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor.
• Purple lightning emerged from Luo Hong's body and formed a robe when he thought about his research.

Luo Hong completed the Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body and used his research into Nether Water, Spiritual Spirit Particles, and sentience to uncover ways to awaken spirits and create a living Nether River Spirit. He left the story having swallowed the creature and a pill, then demonstrated spiritual sense far beyond his cultivation before returning it to normal.

• Luo Hong completed refining Yu Dianzhu’s Thunder Beast, gaining effortless control of the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique and completing his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body.
• Luo Hong studied the Golden Palace Jade Book and discovered that the Spirit Refinement Immortal Transformation Technique used spirit nurturing and soul fusion to cultivate an immortal body suited to a law.
• Luo Hong’s experiments showed that Nether Water could dissolve primordial spirits and that Nether Spirit Water could awaken sentience in fiendish, blood, and yin qi.
• Luo Hong found that Nether Water saturated with sentience turned black and came to life, producing a small creature identical to a Nether River Spirit.
• Luo Hong swallowed the Nether River Spirit and a gray pill, then released spiritual sense far beyond a Void Refinement Early-stage cultivator’s level before retracting it several days later.

Luo Hong developed the Nether Spirit God-Reversing Technique to balance the growth of his divine sense and spirituality, then learned that Mu Qing had captured Han Li. Han Li was summoned to meet the Four Great Demon Kings, where a powerful spatial passage began opening inside the Wood Immortal Hall.

• Luo Hong realized the Great God-Reversing Technique was increasing his divine sense too quickly, so he used a Nether Spirit to develop the Nether Spirit God-Reversing Technique and raised his Primordial Spirit to Integration Early-stage.
• Luo Hong learned Mu Qing had captured Han Li, while Han Li accepted Life-Ending Water to suppress the green threads from Mu Qing’s whip wound.
• After seven days, Blood Lord escorted Han Li to the Wood Immortal Hall to meet the other Demon Kings and discuss the plan that required his Exorcism Divine Thunder.
• Han Li recognized Yuan Yao and Yan Li among the figures accompanying the White-Haired Beauty, who agreed Mu Qing could make use of him.
• A white spatial rift opened in the Wood Immortal Hall despite its restrictions, startling Han Li with the strength of the spatial ability.

Han Li reunited with Luo Hong, who had become one of the Four Great Demon Kings, and learned that both were trapped in the Earth Abyss. At Universe Palace, Luo Hong revealed his plans to exploit Styx Land and the armies under his control, then summoned a strange spirit beast to help Han Li interfere with Mu Qing’s forces.

• Mu Qing, Luo Hong, the Ghost Hag, and Six-Leg agreed that Han Li would train with Mu Qing for two years, then help Luo Hong at Universe Palace before cultivating in seclusion.
• Han Li went with the Blood Lord to Wood Spirit Cave, and two years later Luo Hong brought him to Universe Palace.
• Han Li and Luo Hong reunited privately, and Luo Hong explained that he had entered the Earth Abyss as a Five-Light Clan Holy Son while seeking Yuan Yao and Yan Li.
• Luo Hong revealed that his method for killing Earth Blood had worked only once and that he had destroyed the spatial node to Styx Land to keep the Demon Kings from leaving without him.
• Luo Hong told Han Li that Styx Land was a Mayfly Race forbidden land and that he had tampered with the Ghost Hag’s and Earth Blood’s armies, leaving Mu Qing’s army as the remaining obstacle.
• Luo Hong summoned a strange dog-and-dragon-like spirit beast whose condensed aura startled Han Li.

Luo Hong offered Han Li a Blood Beast to help him seize control of Mu Qing’s demon beast army, then traded several treasures for Han Li’s Exorcism Divine Thunder. The two agreed to share Heavenly Net Pills and exchanged transformation techniques, while Luo Hong began studying the Twelve Transformations of Awakening.

• Luo Hong explained that his Blood Beast could refine blood food and help Han Li poison and control Mu Qing’s Spirit Generals.
• Luo Hong demonstrated his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body and offered three treasures in exchange for Han Li’s Exorcism Divine Thunder.
• Han Li accepted a Puppet Technique jade slip, an outer page of the Golden Tower Jade Book, and a Green Luo Fruit pit, then agreed to split future Heavenly Net Pills with Luo Hong.
• During their banquet, Luo Hong gave Han Li the Flying Spirit Race’s twelve branch transformation secret arts, and Han Li exchanged them for the Twelve Transformations of Awakening.
• Luo Hong began studying the Twelve Transformations of Awakening to investigate the connections between laws.

Luo Hong opened a passage through the Space Storm, and the three Demon Kings used Han Li’s Sacrifice Thunder Technique to force a crossing of the Nether River. The group arrived safely in Styx Land, where Six-Leg required Luo Hong to help obtain the Nether River Divine Milk before pursuing his own goals.

• Luo Hong used the Sky-Breaking Halberd Fragment to carve a temporary passage through the Space Storm for the demon armies and puppets.
• Mu Qing led the demon army through the passage first, and the three Demon Kings worked with Han Li to open a route across the Nether River.
• Mu Qing sent low-level demon creatures ahead as bait, drawing out a Nether River Spirit that Six-Leg and the other Demon Kings killed to seize its Nether Spirit Crystal.
• The group crossed the passage and reached Styx Land, where Six-Leg told Luo Hong he must help obtain the Nether River Divine Milk before leaving.
• Luo Hong agreed to cooperate and said he also wanted to explore the Demon Tomb with the three Demon Kings.

Luo Hong led the Puppet Army through Styx Land, fought off its yin creatures, and captured powerful beings for his Netherworld Grotto-heaven. As Mu Qing grew alarmed at his collecting and strength, she urged Six-Leg to make Ghost Hag take the lead.

• Six-Leg assigned Luo Hong’s Puppet Army to lead, Mu Qing’s demon army to follow, and Ghost Hag’s ghost army to bring up the rear; Luo Hong accepted the arrangement while suspecting the others meant to test him.
• Luo Hong’s puppets halted a Bone Ghoul tide, and he pursued and subdued the hidden Void Refinement Late-stage ghost controlling it.
• Luo Hong’s forces fought Blood Bats in a swamp, and he ordered the Golden Rune Puppets to kill their demon leader after discovering it had refined demonic qi.
• In the Blue Mist, ghosts broke through the Puppet Army’s line and attacked the demon army, but Luo Hong drew them into a Black Vortex with the Power of Space.
• A month later, Mu Qing complained that Luo Hong was collecting every creature he defeated and suggested that Ghost Hag serve as the vanguard instead.

Six-Leg, Mu Qing, and the Ghost Hag led their forces into an ambush in the Yin Mist, where seven Mayfly Race Possessed Puppets and a massive puppet army attacked them. The Possessed Puppets divided the leaders among themselves, with one singling out Luo Hong.

• Six-Leg persuaded Mu Qing to help him target Luo Hong, offering her the Silver Broken Spear in return.
• After finding the Yingu Mountain Range’s usual ghosts gone, Luo Hong recognized the disruption as part of the ambush he expected and considered how to use hidden pieces Old Demon Han had planted in the demon army.
• A vast Ghost Army surrounded the three forces on a plateau, and Formation Flags unleashed Yin Mist that disrupted spiritual sense and split the armies apart.
• Six-Leg, Mu Qing, and the Ghost Hag reached Luo Hong and led him toward the edge of the mist, where a poisoned black spear killed three demon beasts and the seven Possessed Puppets appeared.
• The Purple Armor Puppet demanded to know whether the intruders had companions outside, then ordered the seven Possessed Puppets to attack, sending one alone after Luo Hong.

Luo Hong sabotaged the demon and ghost armies while fighting the Three-Eyed Puppet, then revealed that he knew the Mayfly Race’s limits. The battle shifted when a White Sun erupted near Six-Leg, bringing an overwhelming Spiritual Pressure and prompting Luo Hong to warn his opponent to flee.

• Luo Hong endured the Three-Eyed Puppet’s assault, secretly activated a blood talisman, and spread his Curse Art while continuing to fight.
• Cursed Earth Abyss Demon Generals broke their battle arrays and were slaughtered by the Nether River Fierce Ghosts.
• Six Dark Armor Ghost Kings and many Dark Armor Profound Ghosts lost control, allowing the Blood-armored Puppets to counterattack.
• Luo Hong explained that he had planted Ghost Dao Incarnations among Ghost Hag’s forces and told the Three-Eyed Puppet he had been coerced into entering Styx Land.
• A White Sun erupted near Six-Leg, its light pierced the Yin Mist, and Luo Hong advised the Three-Eyed Puppet to flee.

Luo Hong and his companions fought their way through the Mayfly Race’s Holy Land, where the surviving Possessed Puppets escaped and a Heavenly Mayfly projection appeared. Six-Leg admitted his Mayfly origins and persuaded the others to continue toward the Yingu Mountain Range, while Luo Hong concealed his strength and insisted on compensation for using his puppets.

• Luo Hong’s White Sun unleashed a hurricane that destroyed the Fog Sea and many nearby puppets, while Six-Leg killed the Three-Headed Puppet and pursued the fleeing Purple Armor Puppet as the Three-Eyed Puppet escaped in another direction.
• Mu Qing and Ghost Hag learned that the Possessed Puppets were Golden Mayfly Elders, and Luo Hong pretended to be incapacitated by a distant shriek to mislead them about his Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• A colossal Heavenly Mayfly projection appeared and attacked Six-Leg, but it soon shattered, allowing Six-Leg to return to the group.
• Six-Leg confirmed that the area was the Mayfly Race’s Holy Land and explained that he had not expected guards to be there; Mu Qing and Ghost Hag agreed to continue toward the Yingu Mountain Range.
• Six-Leg asked Luo Hong and Ghost Hag to provide their forces for the journey, and Luo Hong said he would need more Spirit Stones to activate all his Golden Rune Puppets.

Luo Hong and Six-Leg’s group reached the Divine Pool in the Yingu Mountain Range, while the Mayfly puppets prepared to use the Five Dragon Guillotine against them. At the restriction, Luo Hong refused Six-Leg’s offer to lure away the Nether Lightning Beast, and Six-Leg shifted to his backup plan as the group prepared to summon Han.

• Luo Hong accepted Six-Leg’s Feather Bag of Spirit Stones, and the White-Haired Beauty revealed the five hundred elite Dark Armor Profound Ghosts she had refined; Luo Hong offered to lead with his Golden Rune Puppets.
• At a cave, the Purple Armor Puppet obtained the Five Dragon Guillotine in exchange for Yin Water Sunflower Essence, and he and the Three-Eyed Puppet planned to eliminate the outsiders at the Divine Pool.
• The Three-Eyed Puppet proposed winning Luo Hong over and bringing him to a dangerous location, where his Exorcism Divine Thunder could help them complete another mission; the Purple Armor Puppet agreed.
• After a month of travel and heavy puppet and demon losses, Luo Hong’s group arrived at the restriction protecting the Divine Pool, with the elite ghost soldiers nearly unharmed.
• Six-Leg offered Luo Hong a share of the Nether River Divine Milk if he lured away the Nether Lightning Beast, but Luo Hong refused, suspecting the danger and the threat of the Five Dragon Guillotine.
• Six-Leg chose his backup plan and privately resolved to capture Luo Hong later, while the White-Haired Beauty told Mu Qing to summon Han.

Luo Hong’s group used Han Li as bait to draw out a Nether Lightning Beast while they attacked the restriction protecting the Nether River Divine Milk. Han Li resisted Six-Leg’s control and learned Luo Hong’s escape plan, while the group discovered a second Nether Lightning Beast after breaking through the barrier.

• Mu Qing called Han Li over, and Six-Leg used a Cilieh Fierce Beast eye to appear to control him and assign him the task of luring away the Nether Lightning Beast.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li the Universe Pearl, and Lan reluctantly lent him the Universe Banner before Mu Qing concealed the group with a Heavenly Flower Chaotic Leaf Formation.
• Six-Leg and Ghost Hag attacked the restriction, drawing out a Nether Lightning Beast that pursued Han Li as he fled.
• Han Li regained control of himself, used the Universe Banner to unlock Luo Hong’s message in the Universe Pearl, and learned that Luo Hong planned to rescue Yuan Yao and Yan Li and escape toward the Demon Tomb.
• Han Li resolved to shake off the pursuing beast, while Six-Leg and the others broke through the restriction and found a second Nether Lightning Beast charging toward them.

Six-Leg sent Mu Qing and the Ghost Hag to hold off the Nether Lightning Beast while he severed the divine milk’s connection to the spirit vein. After Mu Qing and the beast tested Luo Hong’s strength, Luo Hong absorbed its thunder attacks and pierced past its seven-layer shield, forcing it to use a desperate escape technique.

• Six-Leg asked Mu Qing and the Ghost Hag to delay the Nether Lightning Beast while he went to sever the divine milk’s connection to the spirit vein.
• Mu Qing and the Ghost Hag attacked the beast, but it used Shadow Escape and its thunder abilities to pressure Mu Qing.
• Mu Qing lured the beast into attacking Luo Hong, who revealed that his body could absorb its thunder and enlarged the Sky-Breaking Halberd Fragment.
• Luo Hong thrust the halberd through the beast’s seven thunder shields, and the beast used a life-saving technique to flee through them at high speed.

Luo Hong fought a Nether Lightning Beast while secretly negotiating with the Three-Eyed Puppet and the Purple Armor Puppet to help them kill Six-Leg, Mu Qing, and Ghost Hag. He seized the beast by its silver horn and stopped its mate from attacking by threatening to break it.

• Luo Hong battled the Nether Lightning Beast in close combat while Mu Qing and the White-Haired Beauty turned their attention to Six-Leg breaking the Divine Pool restriction.
• The Three-Eyed Puppet and Purple Armor Puppet secretly offered Luo Hong an alliance and revealed their plan to use the Five Dragon Guillotine against Six-Leg, Mu Qing, and Ghost Hag.
• Luo Hong agreed to help create an opportunity for the strike in exchange for the White-Haired Beauty’s Five Hundred Ghost Soldiers and the Nether Spirit Crystal in the insect-eyed man’s Storage Bracelet.
• Luo Hong decided Six-Leg and the others had to die to prevent the Mayfly Race from discovering his connection to the Mysterious Heaven Golden Flame.
• Luo Hong badly injured the Nether Lightning Beast, immobilized him with a curse, and seized his silver horn.
• The Female Nether Lightning Beast rushed in, but Luo Hong threatened to snap her husband’s horn, forcing her to stop.