Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong led Ye Xin and Han Li into the Demon Devouring Ant Swarm’s territory to stop the ants from taking the Azure Willow Wood, while the Long Family Ancestor and two others withdrew. As Chi Xiao’s group struggled against the giant ants, Chi Xiao chose to follow Luo Hong, while Han Qi fled on his own.

• The Long Family Ancestor, Elder Hui, and the Man surnamed Lin refused to join Luo Hong, but Ye Xin agreed and Han Li promised to follow him.
• Luo Hong gave the Long Family Ancestor a silver Formation Plate for their escape and rendezvous, then led Ye Xin and Han Li toward the ant swarm’s depths.
• Chi Xiao’s group of six was surrounded by giant Demon-Absorbing Ants, whose corrosive venom destroyed their defenses and badly injured Bing Qianren.
• As Chi Xiao prepared to use the Sacred Fire Drum, the ants fled toward Luo Hong’s group, giving the trapped cultivators a chance to escape.
• Chi Xiao decided to follow the ants after Luo Hong, and Bing Qianren and the yellow-haired big man followed him; Han Qi and the two Bronze Armored Warriors fled in the opposite direction.

Luo Hong used the ants’ devouring nature to refine a blood essence into a ritual disk that could locate the Ant Queen, then led Han Li and Ye Xin toward three beast groups besieged by the swarm. He planned to enlist the three beast kings to help confront the Ant Queen.

• Han Li gave Luo Hong and Ye Xin pills that Ye Xin recognized as refined from a hundred-thousand-year-old Saint Yuan Fruit.
• As elite ants attacked, Luo Hong asked Han Li and Ye Xin to protect him while he used the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand to draw them into the black mist.
• Luo Hong used Primordial Qi and Devouring Demonic Body blood essence to craft a ritual disk for locating the Ant Queen.
• Luo Hong led Han Li and Ye Xin through the ant swarm toward a battlefield where three beast groups were attempting to break out.
• Luo Hong explained that the beast groups had set aside their rivalries to survive the disaster and proposed joining forces with their three beast kings against the Ant Queen.

Luo Hong transported himself, the Three Beast Kings, and their forces into the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen’s Underground Palace, triggering a battle over the Azure Willow Wood. The Ant Queen revealed that she was using Nine Heavens Pure Qi to restore a shattered ancestral treasure, and the fight left her rune more damaged.

• The Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen rebuked Kui Xing for failing to seize the divine wood, then ordered him to guard her while she restored the ancestral treasure with Nine Heavens Pure Qi.
• Kui Chen reported that some outsiders had returned, and the Ant Queen warned that they would face her race’s fury if they lingered.
• Luo Hong used the Sky Breaking Spear and Space Law to transport the Three Beast Kings and their forces into the Underground Palace.
• The Three Beast Kings attacked the Ant Queen, but she used a black line of light to age and damage their strikes.
• The half-ant fiends and Giant Demon Devouring Ants joined the battle, and the Ant Queen ordered her forces to kill everyone as her golden rune grew more shattered.

Luo Hong, Han Li, and Ye Xin tried to seize Azure Willow Wood while the Three Beast Kings fought the Demon-Absorbing Ant clan, but the wood’s trap swallowed Ye Xin and forced Luo Hong and Han Li into battle. The Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen revealed her time-law abilities, and Luo Hong began cutting down her guards.

• Luo Hong recognized the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen’s black line as the Power of Time and changed the plan to steal Azure Willow Wood and escape.
• The Three Beast Kings fought the four half-ant devilmen, and the Golden Fur Bear struck Kui Xing with Whirlpool Golden Light to open a path toward the Queen.
• Luo Hong teleported himself, Han Li, and Ye Xin to three pieces of Azure Willow Wood, but black-purple demonic light trapped them and swallowed Ye Xin into the wood.
• Luo Hong and Han Li broke free, took two pieces of Azure Willow Wood, and faced the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen, who captured the Two-Headed Strange Eagle and Seven-Colored Giant Python.
• Luo Hong summoned the Sky Breaking Spear and killed Kui Chen and Kui Dou, then struck Kui Bei with Crimson Gold Spirit Flame.

Luo Hong killed Kui Bei and the other half-ant demons, then fought the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen after she revealed her true form. He left her badly wounded with a single punch and resolved to take her Devouring Demonic Armor.

• Luo Hong burned Kui Bei to green smoke with the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, killing all three half-ant demons.
• The Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen revealed that the four half-ant demons had been her incarnations and transformed into a woman with a white silkworm lower body.
• Luo Hong sent the Queen’s black-purple sphere back at her with a Silver Light Array, but she used the Time Law to reverse its damage.
• The Queen became a Purple Armored Fierce Insect and charged Luo Hong, who blocked her mandibles and struck her with a thunderous punch.
• The wounded Queen recognized Luo Hong’s Myriad Power, and Luo Hong realized her Devouring Demonic Armor had saved her and declared he would take it.

Luo Hong defeated the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen by exploiting his greater mastery of the Time Law, then rescued Ye Xin and returned with her and Han Li from the ant nest. After Chi Xiao and his companions tried to claim the Azure Willow Wood, Luo Hong summoned Feng Xie and Cheqi Gong, and the group began dividing the spoils while the demons attacked their prey.

• The Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen unleashed her Time Law ability, reversing time in the cave, shrinking the ants, weakening Han Li, and reflecting the Golden Fur Bear’s attack back at it.
• Luo Hong accelerated himself past the Queen’s time reversal, pulled out her Demonic Core, and caused her to die from the backlash of the Time Law.
• Luo Hong freed Ye Xin, and he, Han Li, and Ye Xin escaped the ant nest and returned to the beast hordes, where Chi Xiao, Bing Qianren, and their companion confronted them over the Azure Willow Wood.
• Luo Hong summoned Feng Xie and Cheqi Gong, who attacked Chi Xiao’s group, while Luo Hong asked Ye Xin to keep their existence secret.
• Luo Hong and Han Li divided the Nine Heavens Pure Qi and Azure Willow Wood with Ye Xin, and Luo Hong secretly told Han Li that one piece contained a Medicine Spirit Bone for his Zhi Xian incarnation.

After killing the Demon-Absorbing Ant Queen, Luo Hong used her demonic core to control an ant swarm and lead the group across the wasteland. He later discovered that the queen’s Time Law came from a mysterious insect egg, which he suspected was a backup plan left by the Mother of Parasitic Insects.

• Luo Hong returned to the Long Family Ancestor and Elder Hui, refined the queen’s demonic core into the White Bone Demonic Boat, and used a controlled ant swarm to frighten away wasteland creatures.
• Han Qi learned that the Frost Crystal Insects he had planted had died and that the ant swarms had scattered, then hurried back to the Snowy Demon Realm with two Bronze Armored Warriors.
• Several days into the journey, Luo Hong examined the queen’s corpse and found that her armor plates could help him refine the Heavenly Fiend Evil Dragon Armor.
• Luo Hong extracted a pure white insect egg from the queen’s remains and discovered that it contained a powerful life force, a Primordial Era baleful aura, and a Time Law restriction.
• Silver Fairy suggested that Luo Hong use the Blood Refining Method to comprehend part of the egg’s Time Law.

Luo Hong kept a Larval Incarnation egg and planned to use the Demon Feeding Tower to alter its sentience. A year later, a Space Storm brought him and his companions to Demonic Hand Valley, where his display of power revealed to the Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor’s children that he was their father’s killer.

• Luo Hong decided to preserve the Larval Incarnation egg and eventually use the Demon Feeding Tower to help it break its seal from within.
• At Illusion Night City’s martial contest, Zhao Danghai explained to three Netherworld Demon Venerables why the four great families competed for Eight-leaf Grass.
• A Space Storm tore through Demonic Hand Valley’s defensive formation and destroyed much of its Eight-leaf Grass before a swarm of Demon-Absorbing Ants emerged from the rift.
• Luo Hong and his five companions came out of the White Bone Demonic Boat, and Luo Hong refused to compensate the families for the damage.
• When the Demon Venerables threatened Luo Hong, he released the White Dragon Fiend Spirit and overwhelmed their combined baleful aura.
• The three Netherworld Demon Venerables recognized the Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor’s aura in Luo Hong’s baleful aura, and Luo Hong noticed their strange reactions.

Luo Hong captured three demons connected to Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor and learned the route from Illusion Night City to the Underground Demon World. After arriving in Illusion Night City, he and Han Li headed for the Myriad Slave Tower while their companions pursued other plans.

• Luo Hong subdued Green Crystal Demon Venerable, Red Crystal Demon Venerable, and Pink Crystal Demoness, while Han Li gave the Purple-clothed Woman Nishang Pills to end her group’s involvement.
• Luo Hong recognized the three demons as Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor’s children and learned that Netherworld Soul Holy Ancestor and Yellow Springs Holy Ancestor might also seek revenge.
• Green Horn Demon Venerable showed Luo Hong the route to the Underground Demon World’s entrance, and Luo Hong arranged for the group to rent Eight-legged Demon Lizards from the Long Family Ancestor.
• Luo Hong sent the three captive demons into his Cave Heaven, where they met a beautiful Holy Ancestor-level woman, then traveled with his companions to Illusion Night City.
• The Long Family Ancestor and Elder Hui went to borrow Eight-legged Demon Lizards, while the man surnamed Lin and Ye Xin explored the city, and Han Li accompanied Luo Hong to the Myriad Slave Tower.

Luo Hong and Han Li visited the Myriad Slave Tower in Illusion Night City to seek clues about Nangong Wan, but found no cultivators from other realms there. Luo Hong bought a group of Earth Yin Tribe slaves and asked the tower master to reserve future arrivals from other realms, presenting a tower-shaped token to help secure her cooperation.

• Luo Hong explained that the Myriad Slave Tower captured cultivators from other realms, and Han Li hoped it might hold news of Nangong Wan.
• Luo Hong and Han Li entered the tower, where Tower Master Zhong Yueqiu welcomed them and brought them to see high-grade slaves.
• Luo Hong bought all twelve Earth Yin Tribe slaves for three fingers' worth of Demon Stones.
• Luo Hong told Zhong Yueqiu that he wanted to reserve cultivators from other realms, but she said the tower could not make reservations or transfer such slaves from other cities.
• Luo Hong produced a tower-shaped token bearing the character “Slave” and said it would let Zhong Yueqiu help him.

Luo Hong and Han Li secured Zhong Yueqiu’s cooperation, then met with the Bai Family to borrow Eight-legged Demon Lizards. After revealing the Zhao Family’s stronghold as their destination, Luo Hong proposed helping the Bai Family capture it, but refused to join their family dispute beyond that.

• Luo Hong placed restrictions on Zhong Yueqiu, gave her the Elder Token, and ordered her to prioritize and confine cultivators from other realms while he took the Earth Yin Tribe cultivators away.
• Luo Hong and his companions arrived at the Bai Family estate, where Futian Jushi and Bai Xi Jiao received them and explained that the Zhao Family controlled the stronghold they wanted to approach.
• Bai Xi Jiao used the Guangyin Treasure Mirror to inspect the group, discovering Han Li’s Purple Marrow Golden Bones before the mirror nearly broke when it revealed Luo Hong’s power.
• The Purple-haired Woman explained that helping them reach the Zhao Family’s stronghold risked war between the Bai and Zhao Families, and asked them to destroy the Zhao Family.
• Luo Hong refused to join the Bai Family’s dispute but offered to help capture the stronghold after identifying it as an entrance to the Underground Demon World.

Luo Hong and the others joined the Bai Family’s plan to attack the Zhao Family Stronghold, then entered the Illusory Howling Desert with Bai Xi Jiao’s forces. As the desert’s restrictions suppressed their magic and blocked flight, Luo Hong began investigating and absorbing the strange force behind them.

• The Purple-haired Woman agreed to lend the Eight-legged Demon Lizards in exchange for Luo Hong and the others helping the Bai Family breach the Zhao Family Stronghold, and arranged for her elder brother to lead the attack in three days.
• The Zhao Family’s old man secretly rode an Eight-legged Demon Lizard into the Illusory Howling Desert while Luo Hong’s group stayed at the Bai Family’s residence.
• Luo Hong and the others traveled to the desert with Bai Xi Jiao and more than twenty Eight-legged Demon Lizards, then mounted the beasts to proceed across the sand.
• The desert’s restrictions suppressed more than ninety percent of their magic power and prevented them from using escape techniques.
• Luo Hong tested the strange Heaven and Earth energy with a Five-Colored Orb, deduced that it involved high-frequency vibrations, and began absorbing it with the Little Black Ball.

Luo Hong’s group crossed the Illusory Howling Desert, survived its demonic beasts, and detoured around a deadly patch of Earth Submerging Sand. At an oasis, they discovered a pack of Illusory Howling Demon Wolves and began fighting them.

• Giant scorpions ambushed the travelers, but Bai Xi Jiao’s Void Refinement clansmen killed them with a combined sword formation.
• Bai Xi Jiao halted the group at Earth Submerging Sand, and the Long Family Ancestor’s bird was swallowed when he tested the treacherous ground.
• Luo Hong chose a southern detour to an oasis, and the group reached it after five days.
• Luo Hong sensed fifty Illusory Howling Demon Wolves near the abandoned Earth Yin Tribe buildings and went to confront them with Han Li and the others.
• Bai Xi Jiao ordered his clansmen to protect the Eight-legged Demon Lizards, then watched Luo Hong’s Ghost Hand drain three attacking wolves into mummified corpses.

Luo Hong’s group waited out Soul Falling Wind in an oasis while he obtained the Earth Yin Tribe’s demonic-rune secret art. When Earth Submerging Sand surrounded their oasis and left their Eight-legged Demon Lizards helpless, Luo Hong prepared to force out whatever was controlling it.

• Bai Xi Jiao explained that the Illusory Howling Demon Wolves’ presence warned of approaching Soul Falling Wind, so Luo Hong had the Earth Yin Tribe slaves repair the oasis’s protective runes.
• Zhao Wenji told the Horse-faced Monster and the green-skinned big man that Luo Hong’s group had captured the three dragon sons, but Soul Falling Wind forced the two incarnations to delay their pursuit.
• After the wind passed, Luo Hong recognized Huang Cheng’s concealed knowledge of the Earth Yin Tribe’s demonic runes and persuaded him to hand over the secret art in exchange for freedom.
• Luo Hong’s group found their Eight-legged Demon Lizards incapacitated and discovered that Earth Submerging Sand surrounded the oasis.
• When Han Li offered to investigate, Luo Hong refused and said he had gained an insight that would let him force out the thing behind the sand.

Luo Hong used a demonic formation to expose a mysterious beast controlling the Earth Submerging Sand, and the group killed it after it ambushed them. He found a slave token among its remains and realized it had likely been drawn to him by an identical token from the Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor’s relics.

• Luo Hong summoned a vast formation that absorbed the Illusory Howling Desert’s natural energies and unleashed a storm of yellow wind blades.
• A beetle-like demonic beast emerged and attacked Luo Hong’s group with Earth Submerging Sand, while the Long Family Ancestor warned that it could attack the Nascent Soul directly.
• The beast trapped the group with sand chains and targeted the Eight-legged Demon Lizards, but Luo Hong used spatial power to transport it into the Bai Family members’ midst.
• The group killed the mysterious demonic beast, and Luo Hong found a token bearing the demonic inscription for “slave” among its remains.
• Luo Hong recognized the token as identical to one from the Poison Dragon Holy Ancestor’s relics and suspected it had attracted the beast.

Luo Hong and his allies launched a surprise attack on the Zhao Family Stronghold after discovering that two Holy Ancestor Incarnations were guarding it. Luo Hong killed one incarnation with an illusion, but the demon survived through the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Luo Hong detected three Demon Venerable-level auras at the Zhao Family Stronghold, forcing the group to revise their attack plan.
• Luo Hong ordered the allies to strike quickly, assigning the Long Family Ancestor, Bai Xi Jiao, Ye Xin, and Han Li their targets.
• Ye Xin used Luo Hong's compass and her Spatial Divine Ability to transport the attackers near their targets as Luo Hong created a disturbance.
• Luo Hong killed the large man wreathed in green light with the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, but the demon's demonic core proved false and his body transformed into the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet.
• Han Li reported that he was at a disadvantage against the Horse-faced Monster, while the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet summoned Blood Corpses to attack Luo Hong's Yellow Springs Ghost Claw.

Luo Hong and Han Li fought the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet’s wielder and a horse-faced Holy Ancestor Incarnation at the Zhao Family Stronghold, defeating their attacks but failing to stop the incarnation from escaping. They took the Ling Mo Cloak and the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet, while Luo Hong decided to continue toward the Underground Demon World despite the danger.

• The green-light big man used the Blood Spirit Corpse Tablet and a blood-filled bowl to attack Luo Hong, but Luo Hong countered with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, Five-Colored Divine Light, and a snow-white dragon tail.
• Luo Hong unleashed Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, which destroyed the blood-light giant, but the Blood Flame Giant Sword survived and sacrificed the giant’s blood to grow stronger.
• Han Li transformed into a golden-haired giant ape and merged with his Vatican Saint Golden Body to attack the horse-faced monster, but the monster’s ghost hands and demonic spears broke his Whirlpool Golden Light.
• Luo Hong struck the horse-faced monster through his protective screens, but the monster turned gray-blue, shattered, and vanished through an incarnation technique before they could silence him.
• Han Li could not activate the seized Ling Mo Cloak, and Luo Hong concluded he lacked a crucial component; Luo Hong then resolved to continue toward the Underground Demon World, suspecting the two demons sought Poison Dragon’s token.

After interrogating Zhao Wenji, Luo Hong and his companions entered the Underground Demon World and crossed it without encountering any major danger. They reached the surface seven years later, while Netherworld Soul and Huang Quan prepared an ambush for them, unaware that the group had already passed through.

• Luo Hong used a secret technique to learn that the Zhao Family traded surface materials and huge quantities of devil beast crystals with the Underground Demon World, then left Zhao Wenji in Bai Xi Jiao's custody.
• Luo Hong led Han Li and the others down the Giant Pit and explained their route through the Netherworld Demon Domain to a passage back to the surface.
• Huang Quan told Netherworld Soul about the outsiders who had destroyed Poison Dragon's incarnation, and the two Holy Ancestors decided to ambush them at a place connected to their goal.
• Seven years later, Luo Hong's group emerged near Iron Sand Ridge after a remarkably peaceful journey through the Underground Demon World.
• Luo Hong and Han Li wondered why they had faced no serious obstacles, while Luo Hong remained convinced that the token held a hidden secret.

Luo Hong agreed to let Han Li and Ye Xin pursue Azure Luan True Blood while he stayed behind to prepare for his advancement at the Spirit Washing Pool. With Cheqi Gong and Feng Xie’s help, they destroyed the Azure Wing Clan and returned with gains, allowing the group to resume its journey.

• Luo Hong persuaded the group to rest at Iron Sand Ridge, where he and Han Li discussed their plans and Ye Xin arrived seeking help.
• Ye Xin explained that she wanted Azure Luan True Blood from the Azure Wing Clan, and Han Li agreed to join her despite the danger of encountering a Holy Ancestor Lingyuan Incarnation.
• Luo Hong summoned Cheqi Gong and Feng Xie and proposed that Han Li and Ye Xin lure out the clan’s Demon Venerables while the two Holy Ancestors destroyed the Azure Wing Clan.
• Cheqi Gong, Feng Xie, Han Li, and Ye Xin departed to carry out the plan while Luo Hong stayed behind to restore his condition.
• A month later, Cheqi Gong and Feng Xie returned, boasting that they had feasted, and Han Li reported that he and Ye Xin had both gained much.
• Luo Hong opened his eyes and ordered the group to continue its journey.

Luo Hong and his companions searched the Demon Origin Sea for Bitter Spirit Island while avoiding a Bronze Demon Turtle and packs of demonic beasts. Using a formation to send his Nascent Soul exploring, Luo Hong found Yuan Yan’s island and then located Demonic Ape Reef, identifying the direction of Bitter Spirit Island.

• Luo Hong’s group traveled through the Demon Origin Sea by vessel because its chaotic qi and lightning prevented them from flying.
• A Bronze Demon Turtle pursued the vessel, so the Long Family Ancestor empowered the Water Flood Dragons with Golden-Thread Blood Pills, and Luo Hong strengthened them further.
• The Water Flood Dragons’ blood qi attracted octopus-faced demonic beasts, which Han Li and the others fought off before the group escaped the turtle and reached a reef.
• Luo Hong set up the Grand Void Spirit Wandering Array, and he and the five others entered its pillars so Luo Hong could send his Nascent Soul exploring.
• Luo Hong’s Nascent Soul discovered a large island with a medicine field that confirmed Yuan Yan’s presence, then searched onward.
• Luo Hong’s Nascent Soul found Demonic Ape Reef and determined that Bitter Spirit Island lay in the direction the ape faced.