Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong and the others witnessed the Hundred-Armed Demoness attack after Ye Ying triggered a spatial restriction, while Han Li rescued her with Exorcism Divine Thunder. As the Demoness reclaimed the True Spirit Crystal Cores and trapped the powerful cultivators in demonic flames, she continued toward the cores.

• Ye Ying was struck by devilish qi while casting a spell, and Han Li used Exorcism Divine Thunder to free her after she warned the others about a spatial teleportation restriction.
• The Hundred-Armed Demoness attacked Zi Youzi with the Nine Li Fierce Wind, and Zi Youzi used Shape-Shifting Shadow-Movement to exchange places with Madam Li, who was destroyed.
• The Scholar Man and the Blood-colored Giant Insect recognized the Demoness's plan to combine the True Spirit Crystal Cores, and the Scholar Man transformed into a Gilded Lion to seize them.
• The Gilded Lion grabbed the cores but was bound by the Demoness's chains, while the Blood-colored Giant Insect's attacks gave it a chance to retreat and throw the cores away.
• The Hundred-Armed Demoness summoned demonic flames that burned away a leg of the Blood-colored Giant Insect and a forepaw of the Gilded Lion, then engulfed both as she continued toward the cores.

Luo Hong devised a plan to suppress the Hundred-Armed Demoness and help the trapped Mahayana Cultivators escape, while Han Li led the others toward the restriction entrance. Luo Hong drew the demon’s attacks and prepared to counter her with purple lightning, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Luo Hong told the group he could hold the Hundred-Armed Demoness back briefly and asked Xiao Guan for the Black Lotus Treasure Lamp and Liu Qing for her Spatial Tempering puppets.
• Luo Hong explained to True Lord Wentian, Zhu Ben, and Zi Youzi that Wentian’s Sky Swallowing Gourd could use the lamp’s same-origin flame to absorb the demonic flames trapping Jin Dou and the others.
• Luo Hong asked for the two trapped seniors’ Law True Essence, then rushed toward the Hundred-Armed Demoness as Han Li led the group toward the restriction entrance.
• The Hundred-Armed Demoness’s Nine Li Fierce Wind was swallowed by Luo Hong’s Little Black Ball through the Gate of Grotto-heaven, and her palm-shadow attack then met Luo Hong’s purple lightning fists.

Luo Hong fought the Hundred-Armed Demoness and used explosive puppets to weaken her Xiongqu Dharma Idol. He infused the Law True Essence of Old Ancestor Jin Dou and Qi Xuezi with Immortal Spiritual Qi, then sent it into the Demon Body with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, declaring that his plan had worked.

• Luo Hong endured the Hundred-Armed Demoness's attacks, used A Zi to counter her poison, and struck her with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, while realizing her Devouring Law made ordinary attacks ineffective.
• The Hundred-Armed Demoness sent the Black Scaled Great Serpent after Luo Hong, and four puppets containing his Time Illusion Bodies attacked it and exploded into Golden Glow Black Spheres.
• Old Ancestor Jin Dou and Qi Xuezi escaped the gray-red flames, learned that Luo Hong needed their Law True Essence, and each condensed a sphere of it for him.
• Luo Hong used the Immortal Yuan Stone to infuse both spheres with Immortal Spiritual Qi, then fired them at the Hundred-Armed Demoness inside Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• The Demon Body devoured the two Thunder Dragons carrying the Law True Essence, and Luo Hong said the plan had worked.

Luo Hong used Immortal Spiritual Qi to force the Hundred-Armed Demoness to expel her devilish qi, creating a brief chance for everyone to escape. After rejoining Han Li and the others, he warned them that the demon had only been quieted temporarily and urged them to run.

• Luo Hong's plan caused the Hundred-Armed Demoness to absorb Immortal Spiritual Qi, expel her devilish qi, and lose power while transforming into a spirit body.
• Qi Xuezi thanked Luo Hong, retrieved the Blood Crystal Glazed Tile Tower, and fled with Zi Youzi through the spatial array.
• Old Ancestor Jin Dou offered to compensate Luo Hong, but Luo Hong declined and teleported away to join Han Li and the others.
• Old Ancestor Jin Dou ordered the reinforcements and all Jia Tun Clan personnel to withdraw, then departed with Zhu Ben and True Lord Wentian.
• Han Li and the others reached the restriction entrance without encountering any Essence Devouring Beasts, and Luo Hong appeared before them through the formation plate.
• Luo Hong told Han Li and the others that he had only quieted the demon temporarily and urged them to run.

Luo Hong and Han Li returned to the World Embryo, where Luo Hong explained its nature and his plan to use the World Refining Immortal Embryo Great Law. Meanwhile, Qi Xuezi and Zi Youzi reported to Qing Cangzi, who dismissed their failures but ordered an investigation into Luo Hong’s puppet.

• Luo Hong led the group out of the restriction, destroyed its entrance, returned Xiao Guan’s Black Lotus Treasure Lamp, and parted ways with the others alongside Han Li.
• Han Li questioned Luo Hong’s use of Immortal Yuan Stones, and Luo Hong brought him back to the Secret Realm and explained that it was a World Embryo.
• Luo Hong explained that the World Refining Immortal Embryo Great Law could let them refine the World Embryo, and said he had transformed the Hundred-Armed Demoness to help secure it.
• Qi Xuezi and Zi Youzi appeared before Qing Cangzi and reported what had happened in the Essence Devouring Lesser Realm.
• Qing Cangzi dismissed Qi Xuezi and Zi Youzi without rewards, declared the polluted Lesser Realm worthless, and ordered them to investigate Luo Hong’s puppet.

Old Ancestor Jin Dou escaped the Essence Devouring Lesser Realm and warned the Jia Tun Clan that a great terror was awakening there. Luo Hong and Han Li remained inside the realm after Silver Fairy moved its spatial location, and Luo Hong prepared to leave with Han Li as the approaching Devouring Spirit Body remained unable to reach them.

• Old Ancestor Jin Dou returned to the Spirit World and, with Old Ancestor Wan Hun and the youth surnamed He, closed the restriction passage after warning that the Essence Devouring Beasts had died and a great terror was awakening.
• The restriction passage reappeared amid violent spatial tremors, and the three Mahayana Cultivators reinforced its Five-Colored Light Array until the danger subsided.
• Old Ancestor Jin Dou credited Young Friend Luo with preventing a calamity and said he would thank him when they met again.
• Luo Hong told Han Li that his Spatial Restrictions would keep the approaching Devouring Spirit Body away from them.
• Silver Fairy told Luo Hong she had moved the realm's spatial location, and he promised her the agreed Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• The White Dragon Fiend Spirit returned with Gray-Red Demonic Flames, and Luo Hong retrieved the Sky Breaking Spear and told Han Li to leave.

Luo Hong and Han Li reached the Flying Spirit Race through a Spatial Node, but found the route to Styx Land damaged and the army massed at Earth Abyss. While Han Li watched the army, Luo Hong reunited with the Zhongli Sisters, learned they had been imprisoned by Ao Qing, and discovered that his own rise as the Supreme Demon King had helped provoke the coming war.

• Luo Hong and Han Li left the World Embryo near Han Li’s former cave residence, removed its restrictions, and flew toward Earth Abyss after finding the route to Styx Land damaged.
• Luo Hong discovered the Flying Spirit Race army gathering near Earth Abyss under Nine Yue and Nan Long, so he sent Han Li to observe while he visited the Zhongli Sisters.
• Luo Hong revealed himself to the Zhongli Sisters, refined their flying swords, and learned Ao Qing had kept them confined on Yinghua Island.
• The Zhongli Sisters asked to follow Luo Hong, and he accepted them as prospective personal maidservants before asking about the Earth Abyss campaign.
• Zhongli Shuxiu explained that the Flying Spirit Race planned to seize a mineral vein on Abyss Layer Seven and had united for war because Luo Hong’s rise as the Supreme Demon King had strengthened the Earth Abyss demon race.

Luo Hong learned that the Abyss Demon Race had begun the war by striking the Flying Spirit Race’s vanguard with black ape puppets, and he warned the Five-Light Clan that the demons might be luring their forces into a trap. Li Zhuolin rushed to the Elder Council after learning that millions of troops were closing in on Luoling Slope, but arrived just as they prepared to crush the demon army.

• Luo Hong learned that an Abyss Demon army and black ape puppets had nearly destroyed the Flying Spirit Race’s vanguard camp, officially starting the war.
• Luo Hong realized that his old black ape puppets might have broken the camp’s restrictions and that the Three-Eyed Old Demon might still possess his Fusion Pearls.
• Luo Hong told Zhongli Shuxiu to warn Li Zhuolin that Xie Yuan’s powerful one-use treasure might have fallen into the Universe Demon King’s hands and could devastate the Flying Spirit army.
• Li Zhuolin received Zhongli Shuxiu’s warning and hurried to the Elder Council, where he learned that several million troops were converging on Luoling Slope to encircle the demon army.
• Li Zhuolin rushed into the council hall and shouted for the commanders to stop.

Li Zhuolin warned the Flying Spirit Race elders that the battle at Luoling Slope might be a trap, and Jin Yue helped limit the army’s exposure, but the demons’ plan still detonated a devastating attack. Han Li and Luo Hong arrived at the Abyss Gate just as the blasts engulfed the battlefield.

• Li Zhuolin warned the elders that the Earth Abyss demon army at Luoling Slope might be bait, and Jin Yue urged caution while the Red-Bearded Old Man argued for an aggressive attack.
• Ao Xiong compromised by sending only part of the Five Elements, Fire Melting, and Lei Ming Armies to blockade the demons while Hun Ling Army advanced; Jin Yue and the Red-Bearded Old Man privately gave their clans opposing orders.
• The Flying Spirit Race fought through waves of demon cannon fodder for a day, then advanced after the battered demons retreated, unaware that a clay puppet was observing them.
• In Universe Palace, the Three-Eyed Old Demon revealed that the demons had completed a Great Nether-Severing Formation and planned to release accumulated Darkness Qi during a decisive battle on the fourth layer.
• The Three-Eyed Old Demon activated two Five-Colored Formation Plates, unleashing Black-Red Mushroom Clouds over the fighting forces just as Han Li and Luo Hong arrived through the Abyss Gate.

Luo Hong separated from Han Li to investigate the war between the Earth Abyss Demon Race and the Flying Spirit Race, then used a clay puppet to return to Universe Palace. Meanwhile, Nine Yue Ancestor warned Nan Long Ancestor that the Earth Abyss demons planned to destroy their army with a controlled eruption of turbid qi, but believed Luo Hong had escaped their assassination attempt.

• Han Li found a Spatial Node near the third layer and set out for the Styx Land after Luo Hong gave him a jade slip for Senior Jiang.
• Luo Hong transformed into a white-haired demonic cultivator and used a clay puppet to transport himself to Universe Palace so he could intervene in the war.
• Luo Hong discovered that Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor had infiltrated the area near Universe Palace.
• Nine Yue Ancestor revealed to Nan Long Ancestor that the Earth Abyss demons planned to lure the Flying Spirit Race army to the fourth layer and annihilate it by triggering the turbid qi.
• Nan Long Ancestor crushed the captured Green Scale Demonic Cultivator, while Nine Yue Ancestor said Luo Hong had anticipated their assassination attempt and vanished.

Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor plotted to capture the Three-Eyed Old Demon and exploit the Great Nether-Severing Formation. Luo Hong returned to the Universe Palace, learned how the Three-Eyed Old Demon had kept its power intact, and prepared to reveal his strength as the Flying Spirit Emperors moved against them.

• Nan Long Ancestor and Nine Yue Ancestor concluded that they needed to destroy or seize control of the Great Nether-Severing Formation, and Nine Yue Ancestor planned to lure the Three-Eyed Old Demon into a trap.
• The Three-Eyed Old Demon returned to his residence and admitted that his battle plan had been a bluff intended to draw demons onto the battlefield while giving the Three-Eyed Rat Clan time to escape.
• Luo Hong appeared in the Three-Eyed Old Demon's room, and the old demon recounted how he had recruited Integration demonic cultivators and used a Fusion Pearl to suppress a potential rebel.
• Luo Hong revealed that Nine Yue Ancestor had impersonated Green Scale Demonic Cultivator and warned that the Flying Spirit Emperors would target the Three-Eyed Old Demon to sabotage the formation.
• The Three-Eyed Old Demon asked Luo Hong to protect him and questioned his cultivation, prompting Luo Hong to declare that he would make one of the old demon's lies come true.

The Universe Palace Master emerged from seclusion and revealed that he had mastered the Qian Kun Great Dao, forcing the Earth Abyss demons to kneel. He ordered them to carry out the plan to surround and kill the Flying Spirit Emperor.

• The Ox-Head Demonic Cultivator met with the Eight-Armed Spider Woman, the Leopard-Head Armored Warrior, and the Six-Eyed Monkey Head, who urged him to help destroy the Three-Eyed Rat Clan over its control of the Great Nether-Severing Formation.
• A pillar of Darkness Qi erupted around Wild Mountain, forcing the demons to flee and making them suspect the fox-tailed demoness had betrayed their gathering.
• The Darkness Qi formed a towering figure, and the Ox-Head Demonic Cultivator recognized the Universe Palace Master's divine sense as the Palace Master emerged from seclusion.
• The Universe Palace Master announced that he was Qian Kun, Lord of the Earth Abyss, and compelled the demons to kneel beneath his divine might.
• The Universe Palace Master commanded the demons to follow the original plan, and the Ox-Head Demonic Cultivator led his forces to surround and kill the Flying Spirit Emperor as the other demons gathered troops.

Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor discovered Luo Hong at Blood Flame Mountain and chose to attack before the Earth Abyss demons could surround them. Luo Hong fought Nine Yue Ancestor with the Death Qi Ghost Hand, but the battle escalated when Nine Yue used Soul Extinguishing Divine Light; Luo Hong broke the attack with a golden divine ability, leaving Nine Yue injured.

• Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor sensed Luo Hong’s emergence, realized their position had been exposed, and decided to attack him before the demons encircled them.
• Nine Yue Ancestor revealed his Nine-Headed Sha Spirit, and he and Nan Long Ancestor flew toward Blood Flame Mountain, with Nan Long staying behind to hold off the demons.
• Luo Hong gathered Darkness Qi with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and brought Three-Eyed Old Demon with him to meet the attackers.
• Luo Hong and Nine Yue Ancestor exchanged attacks; Luo Hong’s Ghost Hand absorbed the Nine Li Fierce Wind, blocked a bone mountain, and hurled it away.
• Nine Yue Ancestor unleashed Soul Extinguishing Divine Light, devastating nearby demons and forcing Luo Hong’s Ghost Hand to collapse.
• Luo Hong countered with golden light that formed a starry world and shattered Nine Yue Ancestor’s nine beams, making the bird’s nine heads spit blood.

Luo Hong repelled Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor at Blood Flame Mountain, then returned to the Universe Palace to recover and reflect on the Star Chart illusion that had broken Nine Yue Ancestor’s Soul Extinguishing Divine Light. With the Flying Spirit Emperors retreating, Luo Hong turned his attention to managing the Earth Abyss demons.

• Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor fled Blood Flame Mountain after their attack failed, while Luo Hong ordered the demons not to pursue too aggressively.
• Three-Eyed Old Demon confirmed Luo Hong was unharmed and accepted orders to receive the arriving demon kings.
• Luo Hong returned to the Universe Palace and used Five-Colored Divine Light to cleanse the turbid qi that had entered his body.
• Luo Hong realized that Star Pupils’ Star Chart illusion had distorted Nine Yue Ancestor’s perception of time and injured his primordial spirit, causing the Soul Extinguishing Divine Light to collapse.
• Luo Hong concluded that he should encourage the Earth Abyss demons to compete for entry into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven rather than force them inside.

After the Flying Spirit Race’s defeat at Luoling Slope, Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor planned to use their Sacred Towers to counter the Great Nether-Severing Formation, while keeping the identity of their informant secret. In Universe Palace, Luo Hong reorganized the demon forces and rewarded Bao Chong for raising troops, leaving the Eight-Armed Spider Woman begging for mercy.

• Ao Xiong offered the Chi Rong Clan a Nine Yin Sha Corpse to replace its injured Third Elder, while Jin Yue reported that Lei Lan had found two Universe Treasure Pearls at Falling Sun.
• The Nine Yue Spirit Emperor and Nan Long Spirit Emperor arrived, ordered the Flying Spirit Elders to stop investigating the warning from the Zhongli Sisters, and agreed to activate thirty-two Holy Towers against the Great Nether-Severing Formation.
• Luo Hong recognized that Black Thunder Crystal could strengthen True Spirit Bloodlines and decided that the Earth Abyss demons should obtain some for their cultivation.
• Luo Hong summoned the Integration-stage demons, asked them to report their forces, and announced that he would change the war plan after the Flying Spirit Race learned of it.
• Luo Hong praised and rewarded Bao Chong for cultivating subordinates, then turned his attention to the Eight-Armed Spider Woman, who begged him for another chance.

Luo Hong ordered the Earth Abyss demons to cultivate more spirit commanders and spirit generals, then prepared to negotiate peace with the Flying Spirit Race. As Three-Eyed Old Demon questioned the plan, Luo Hong revealed that Senior Jiang had arrived, suggesting the Earth Abyss had a Mahayana Cultivator.

• Luo Hong punished Eight-Armed Spider Woman by halving her stipend and ordered the demons to train their subordinates with daily cultivation, Blood Spirit Pills, competitions, and regular instruction.
• Luo Hong required spirit generals and above to collect a Cultivation Method Divine Ability from Universe Palace every hundred years, despite Three-Eyed Old Demon’s concern about the cost.
• Luo Hong told the demons he would negotiate peace with the Flying Spirit Race by trading Abyss Layer Seven’s Black Thunder Crystals for spiritual herbs.
• Luo Hong sent Iron Mask to deliver a peace proposal to the Flying Spirit Race and dismissed the gathered demons.
• Three-Eyed Old Demon doubted the peace talks could succeed, so Luo Hong revealed Senior Jiang and greeted him outside a door.

Luo Hong secured Qing Yuanzi’s agreement to exchange spirit materials for Nether River Divine Milk, gave Yuan Yao a powerful Profound Heaven Remnant Treasure, and reunited with her in private. Meanwhile, Iron Mask led Flying Spirit Race leaders to peace talks at Yellow Wind Ridge, where they encountered an unfamiliar Flying Spirit Emperor alongside Luo Hong and the Three-Eyed Old Demon.

• Luo Hong showed Qing Yuanzi the Thunder Calamity Breaking Armor and promised to refine stronger armor, winning his agreement to the conditions in the jade slip.
• Luo Hong exchanged spirit materials for a lamp of Nether River Divine Milk and gave Yuan Yao the Linglong Brocade Ball, revealing its restored power as a Profound Heaven Remnant Treasure.
• Qing Yuanzi let Luo Hong and Yuan Yao spend time alone, and Luo Hong asked about her half-ghost body before they withdrew together for several days.
• In the Abyss Second Layer, Iron Mask led the Nine Yue Ancestor, the Nan Long Ancestor, and other Flying Spirit Race leaders through a sandstorm toward peace talks at Yellow Wind Ridge.
• The Flying Spirit Race party found Luo Hong and the Three-Eyed Old Demon waiting with an unfamiliar long-eared old man whose aura marked him as a Flying Spirit Emperor.

Luo Hong confronted the Flying Spirit Race’s ancestors and offered to trade Black Thunder Crystal for Spirit World resources, while warning that the Abyss Demon Race could call on Mahayana cultivators from Styx Land. He left the ancestors to decide whether to negotiate or risk an all-out war.

• Luo Hong trapped the Red-Bearded Old Man in a spatial claw, but Nan Long Ancestor rescued him, and the Flying Spirit elders accepted their standing places.
• Luo Hong explained that Qing Yuanzi was a Changyuan Race cultivator and proposed exchanging Black Thunder Crystal for resources from the Spirit World.
• Luo Hong guessed that the Flying Spirit Race planned to use the Heavenly Origin Influx against the Great Nether-Severing Formation.
• Luo Hong had Iron Mask describe Styx Land and claimed he could summon enough Mahayana cultivators to give the Abyss Demon Race more Flying Spirit Emperors than its enemy.
• Luo Hong warned Nine Yue Ancestor and Nan Long Ancestor to choose between a peaceful crystal trade and a war that could endanger their foundations, then teleported away with Qing Yuanzi and the others.

After securing peace in Earth Abyss, Luo Hong returned to Sunset Tomb and spent decades preparing to refine Supreme Yang Star Fortress with the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace. During the Nine Dusk Yang Tribulation, he raised the fortress to the second-grade limit, then stopped because further refinement would make it too difficult to move and use.

• The Flying Spirit Race and Abyss Demon Race signed a ten-thousand-year peace treaty, and Luo Hong returned to Sunset Tomb with Han Li.
• Luo Hong sent Han Li to deliver Eight Wonders Powder to Xu Xuechuan, then entered seclusion to cultivate the Nether Spirit God-Reversing Technique.
• Eighty years later, Luo Hong presided over the completion ceremony for the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace as the Nine Dusk Yang Tribulation began.
• Luo Hong compressed Supreme Yang Star Fortress through space, placed it inside the furnace, and used the tribulation's energy to raise its grade through repeated Spirit Ascensions.
• Luo Hong stopped the refinement at the fortress's second-grade limit because raising it further would make it too difficult to move or activate.

Luo Hong rewarded the cultivators who helped refine the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace, then completed the Spirit Ascension of the Supreme Yang Star Fortress and set course for the Night Dragon Realm. There, a low-level cultivator team encountered a Mountain Searching Soldier while seeking herbs for Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Luo Hong released treasures from the furnace for the attending cultivators to collect, limiting each person to three items and forbidding them to harm one another.
• Luo Hong asked Yu Ruoxi to host the cultivators while he traveled to the Night Dragon Realm, where he feared the Cultivation World might be destroyed.
• Luo Hong entered the furnace, brought out the Spirit-Ascended Supreme Yang Star Fortress, and ordered the Ghost King and others to advance toward the Night Dragon Realm.
• A five-person Qi Refining team searching for Foundation Establishment Pill herbs hid in trees as an Earth Element Abnormal Ghost's Mountain Searching Soldier passed beneath them.
• After the figure left, Senior Brother Lou corrected the Round-faced Woman and warned the group that the Mountain Searching Soldier was still too dangerous for them to face.