Ch. 1686Reaping What They Sowed
Luo Hong destroyed the Soul Locking Great Formation on Soul Locking Island, freeing the Thousand-faced Ghost Centipede and leaving the Tattooed Man and Purple-robed Woman to face its revenge. He took control of the island, offered its surviving cultivators three choices, and ended with two brothers asking to serve him.
- Luo Hong broke the Soul Locking Chains and freed the Thousand-faced Ghost Centipede, which attacked the Tattooed Man and Purple-robed Woman with swarms of Human-faced Centipedes.
- The Tattooed Man revealed that their master had died and that the island's cultivators had been forced into Soul Duels to nourish the ghost; Luo Hong left the pair to their fate.
- Luan Ni, Gu Wuhen, and Mu Yan Hong accepted Luo Hong's decision and went to bury Senior Brother Liu, while the island rose and its shroud of mist dispersed.
- Luo Hong gathered the surviving cultivators, healed them, declared himself the island's new master, and offered to relocate them, let them stay, or have them work for him under Restrictions.
- Luo Hong explained that the Thousand-faced Ghost Centipede had been raised using the cultivators' primordial spirits, and the mature youth and his younger brother knelt and asked to serve him.