Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong arrived in time to rescue Yuan Yao and Zi Ling, then defeated the Two-Headed Tiger Monster and captured its two main souls. He reunited with Han Li and asked for his help using the Exorcism Divine Thunder, leaving Han Li curious about the Demon Head.

• Luo Hong found Yuan Yao and Zi Ling surrounded by Horned Evil Ghosts and sent the Demon Head to devour the attackers.
• Luo Hong stepped in to fight the Two-Headed Tiger Monster, allowing Han Li to withdraw from the battle.
• Luo Hong smashed the monster with the Tablet-Slamming Hand and captured its two fleeing main souls.
• Luo Hong asked Yuan Yao and Zi Ling to give him and Han Li privacy, then praised Han Li's Core Formation and Life-bound Flying Swords.
• Luo Hong requested Han Li's help with a troublesome matter involving the Demon Head, and Han Li asked whether it was Luo Hong's magic treasure.

Luo Hong told Han Li that the Demon Head contained an ancient demon’s Demonic Thought and asked him to destroy it with Exorcism Divine Thunder. When the thunder failed to stop the Thought from regenerating, Luo Hong concluded that its true body was sealed inside the Void Sky Hall and that the answer lay deeper within.

• Luo Hong explained to Han Li that ancient demons came from the Demon Realm and that the Demon Head held a wisp of an ancient demon’s Demonic Thought.
• Luo Hong partially released the Demon Head’s restrictions, and Han Li attacked it with Golden Lightning from his Exorcism Divine Thunder.
• The Demon Head boasted that it could not die while its true body remained, and its Demonic Thought regenerated as Han Li’s thunder eroded it.
• Yuan Yao and Zi Ling watched outside the Lightless Shield and worried that Luo Hong and Han Li might turn on each other.
• Luo Hong resealed the Demon Head and told Han Li that its true body was likely imprisoned in the Void Sky Hall, where he planned to seek a way to destroy it.

After parting from Han Li and the others, Luo Hong entered the Central Area of the Land of Ghostly Grudges to seek a hidden route toward the Void Sky Inner Hall. He learned to destroy Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits with Silver Spirit Eyes, expanded his Blood Puppet Flying Ants, and pressed deeper until he saw something horrifying.

• Zi Ling accused Yuan Yao of having a connection to the Iron Mask Cultivator, and Yuan Yao angrily denied it before suspecting that he might be someone she knew.
• The barrier vanished, and Luo Hong departed alone; Han Li recognized Yuan Yao, who removed her hood and revealed her face.
• Luo Hong forced the Green Fire Ghost Face to guide him toward the Central Area, where a Nascent Soul cultivator had once fled from Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits.
• Luo Hong entered the Central Area and repelled the flying spirits’ soul-hooking chains with Spiritual Sense Manifestation.
• Luo Hong used Silver Spirit Eyes to destroy the Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits, letting the Demon Head devour them and empowering his Blood Puppet Flying Ants.
• Luo Hong split his twelve Blood Puppet Flying Ants into one hundred and twenty, then continued onward and encountered a sight that made his scalp tingle.

Luo Hong entered the bone-filled execution pit, where he fought and defeated a Crimson-faced Desolate Corpse by using the Demon Head to devour it. He recovered the corpse’s demonic drum, while the Demon Head grew stronger but remained sealed by the Blood Puppet Flying Ants.

• Luo Hong deduced that the white membrane blocked cultivators but allowed ghosts through, then crossed it while the Demon Head and Blood Puppet Flying Ants protected him from the Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits.
• Luo Hong reached the pit’s center and discovered that the crimson-faced Ancient Demon was a preserved Wild Corpse; he attacked it with a Five Elements Lightning Pearl and the Sea Suppressing Bead.
• The Crimson-faced Desolate Corpse recovered by devouring Soul-Snatching Flying Spirits, then summoned a demonic drum whose sound wave penetrated Luo Hong’s shield and shook his body.
• Luo Hong ordered the Demon Head to bite the corpse, disrupting its attempt to strike the drum and allowing the Demon Head and Blood Puppet Flying Ants to consume it.
• After the Demon Head devoured the corpse and failed to break its seal, Luo Hong collected and shrank the demonic drum artifact.

Luo Hong uncovered reliefs in the Giant Pit that revealed the location of the Void Sky Hall’s Demon Sealing Land, then escaped the Land of Ghostly Grudges at the last moment. In the Void Sky Secret Realm garden, he reunited with Yuan Yao, agreed to protect her, and entered the Teleportation Array with her to begin the next stage of their journey.

• Luo Hong discovered that hidden reliefs beneath the Giant Pit’s wall depicted the ancient war and revealed an inverted tower as the Void Sky Hall’s Demon Sealing Land.
• Luo Hong escaped the Land of Ghostly Grudges just before it closed and arrived at the garden where the other cultivators were waiting.
• Yuan Yao asked Han Li about the missing Iron Mask cultivator, and Luo Hong appeared shortly afterward as the Teleportation Array opened.
• Luo Hong agreed to protect Yuan Yao after she explained her grudge against Qingyang Sect, and he told her to call him Brother Luo instead of Uncle Luo.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao entered the Teleportation Array together to reach the Void Sky Secret Realm.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao entered the Void Sky Secret Realm, where Yuan Yao led him to an underwater palace guarded by the ancient demon Xi Wu. Luo Hong tested his Blood Puppet Flying Ants against the beast, and Xi Wu began gathering power for a new attack as the ants overwhelmed its defenses.

• Luo Hong chose to recover his Magic Power at the Lake Heart Pavilion while Yuan Yao searched the Secret Realm, but she secretly used a beast-hide scroll to locate a site of interest.
• Yuan Yao used her Flat-billed Beast to find a ruined Underwater Palace beneath the lake and joined Luo Hong there after he finished meditating.
• Luo Hong stirred the lake with the Water Element Banner, drawing out the giant demon Xi Wu, and shielded himself and Yuan Yao from its Primordial Energy Water Thunder.
• Luo Hong released his Blood Puppet Flying Ants, which survived Xi Wu's thunder and extreme cold before recovering and attacking its protective shield.
• Xi Wu's Twin Serpent Tail struck at the ants with red light, revealing that the attack could redirect some of its force onto Luo Hong through his Divine Restraint Technique.
• As the flying ants devoured its defenses, Xi Wu gathered power and formed a semi-real, semi-illusory Two-headed Serpent above its shell.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao defeated Xi Wu, explored an underwater medicine garden, and divided its rare Spiritual Herbs before reaching the entrance to the Ice Fire Path. As the passages opened, Luo Hong anticipated the danger ahead and prepared to face the trials and the Nascent Soul cultivators’ coming slaughter.

• Luo Hong shattered Xi Wu’s spiritual-sense attack, and his Blood Puppet Flying Ants overwhelmed the demon while he and Yuan Yao searched the underwater palace.
• Luo Hong broke through the palace’s restrictions and found a hidden medicine garden, where Yuan Yao identified the Moon-Concealing Glazed Lotus and explained its effects.
• Yuan Yao consumed a petal, and Luo Hong divided the remaining petals and Spiritual Herbs between them after noticing silver runes on the lotus.
• Luo Hong gave Xi Wu’s empty turtle shell to Yuan Yao, and they traveled to the Gorge’s Ice Fire Path entrance.
• The mountain wall opened to reveal the Mysterious Crystal Path and Molten Lava Road, while Luo Hong recognized that the passage ahead held dangers beyond its heat and cold.

Luo Hong found Yuan Yao on the Molten Lava Road and rescued her from Bu Xu, who was trying to steal her fire-resistant treasure. After they crossed the grassland together, they reached a dangerous Lava River and prepared to cross it.

• Luo Hong used the Water Element Banner to withstand the Molten Lava Road's heat, then followed Yuan Yao's Azure Lightning Seed signal.
• Bu Xu confronted Yuan Yao and demanded her ice hairpin, but she used an Azure Lightning Seed to repel his attack and flee.
• Bu Xu caught up with Yuan Yao, but Luo Hong arrived and blocked his Taiyang True Fireballs with a fiery-red banner.
• Luo Hong summoned the Five Elements Divine Thunder and killed Bu Xu after Bu Xu's attempt to flee triggered a lightning strike from the sky.
• Luo Hong healed Yuan Yao's injured legs and shielded her as they crossed the flame grass together.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao reached a wide Lava River, where Luo Hong asked whether she preferred to cross in front or behind him.

Luo Hong carried Yuan Yao across the Lava River, guided her through the Lava Swamp, and reached the Black Desert, a trap controlled by Star Palace. He sent his Blood Puppet Flying Ants to battle a swarm of Iron Fire Ants, which were ideal prey for expanding his swarm.

• Luo Hong carried Yuan Yao across the Lava River while avoiding a fierce gray wind dragon, then apologized after accidentally bruising her thigh.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao crossed the Lava Swamp, and Luo Hong recognized the Black Desert as a restriction released by Star Palace.
• Luo Hong led Yuan Yao into the Black Desert, where they found a female cultivator fleeing a swarm of Iron Fire Ants.
• Luo Hong released over two hundred Blood Puppet Flying Ants to fight the Iron Fire Ants as the female cultivator fled.

Luo Hong grew his Blood Puppet Flying Ant swarm by hunting Iron Fire Ants in the Black Desert, then entered the Treasure Light Pavilion seeking Ancient Treasures. He left the chapter on its second floor, choosing which treasures to pursue.

• Luo Hong expanded his Blood Puppet Flying Ants tenfold and hunted Iron Fire Ant swarms with Yuan Yao, using the ants’ ability to revive inside their prey to overcome them.
• Han Li found Refining Crystal in the Black Desert, fled from an enormous Iron Fire Ant swarm, and recognized Luo Hong’s blood-red insects overwhelming it before continuing toward the exit.
• After the two hundred thousand Blood Puppet Flying Ants devoured the Iron Fire Ants, Luo Hong sent part of his swarm into the Demon Head’s mouth to reinforce its seals and stored the rest before leaving with Yuan Yao.
• Luo Hong, Yuan Yao, and Han Li reached the stone hall, where the four passages opened toward the pavilions and the next trial; Yuan Yao chose the left passage, while Luo Hong followed Han Li into the right.
• Luo Hong climbed to the Treasure Light Pavilion and passed its first floor, then examined the varied Ancient Treasures on the second floor, favoring a Black Light Treasure Mirror and the Five Elements Ring.

Luo Hong broke through the Treasure Light Pavilion’s restriction long enough to claim the Five Elements Ring and Black Light Treasure Mirror, then discovered the mirror contained a powerful Ancient Demon artifact spirit. Armed with the mirror’s abilities, he left for the Wonderful Illusion Realm more confident that he could kill the Demon Head in Void Sky Hall.

• Luo Hong used the Jade Dragon Gourd to study the pavilion’s restriction and employed the Five Elements Banners to retrieve the Five Elements Ring and Black Light Treasure Mirror before the barrier collapsed.
• The restriction swept Luo Hong into a small stone room before the passage to the Wonderful Illusion Realm, where he examined his two new treasures.
• Luo Hong imprinted the Five Elements Ring and learned to wield it, then unsealed the Black Light Treasure Mirror using an ancient incantation.
• The mirror revealed an Ancient Demon artifact spirit that sent Luo Hong its instruction manual, explaining the Dazzling God Demonic Light and True Demon Incarnation abilities.
• Luo Hong learned that the mirror’s artifact spirit contained part of the Soul-Snatching True Demon’s demonic soul, stored the mirror, and headed toward the passageway, resolved to kill the Demon Head.

Luo Hong overcame the Illusory Black Hall’s Heart Demon trials and strengthened his primordial spirit, but the Demon Head used the opportunity to launch a sneak attack. A True Demon Seed entered Luo Hong’s body as the Demon Head absorbed the Hall’s Demonic Thoughts and began breaking free of his seal.

• Luo Hong resisted the Wonderful Illusion Realm’s seductive visions and entered the Illusory Black Hall.
• Luo Hong faced Heart Demons resembling a giant sword disciple and the Qingyang Sect spies he had killed, refusing to let their accusations shake his resolve.
• Luo Hong destroyed illusions of the evil cultivators he had captured, clarified his principles, and advanced his primordial spirit beyond the Four Evolutions Realm.
• Luo Hong realized the Demon Head had secretly consumed a Heavenly Demon Pill, but the Demon Head launched a planned attack and sent a ghost face into Luo Hong’s chest.
• The Demon Head revealed that the ghost face carried a True Demon Seed, then absorbed the Black Hall’s Demonic Thoughts and began pushing back the Blood Puppet Flying Ants sealing him.

Luo Hong subdued the Demon Head with the Dazzling Light Demonic Mirror and learned he had three days before the True Demon Seed reached his heart. Still gravely injured, he forced his way toward the Void Sky Inner Hall, where he clashed with the Nascent Soul cultivators and confronted Man Huzi.

• Luo Hong used the Dazzling Light Demonic Mirror and his Black Scaled Demonic Arm to capture the Demon Head, who warned that the True Demon Seed would enter Luo Hong's heart within three days.
• Luo Hong emerged near the Inner Hall with demonic qi corrupting his chest, rejected Yuan Yao's healing medicine, and headed for the entrance while she followed.
• Extreme Yin Ancestor sent his Heavenly Capital Corpses to attack Luo Hong and Yuan Yao, but Luo Hong destroyed the corpses and struck Extreme Yin Ancestor's primordial spirit with Thought Needles.
• Luo Hong hurled the Heavenly Capital Corpses at Extreme Yin Ancestor, but Man Huzi intervened and challenged Luo Hong to fight.
• Yuan Yao entered the Inner Hall after her Azure Lightning Seed checked Man Huzi's golden blade, while Luo Hong charged Man Huzi and flashed silver light from his eyes.

Luo Hong escaped Man Huzi and Extreme Yin Ancestor by entering the Void Sky Inner Hall, where Han Li and the other cultivators also proceeded. The Two Elders of Star Palace emerged from the Black Hall and hurried after them, fearing the Void Sky Cauldron might be taken.

• Luo Hong used the Great Strength True Demon Force against Man Huzi, then escaped Extreme Yin Ancestor's Black Serpent with the Dazzling Light Demonic Mirror and entered the Giant Tower.
• Man Huzi identified Luo Hong as a successor of Six Paths Extreme Saint, and the Demonic Path cultivators discussed the newcomers' motives before entering the Inner Hall.
• Extreme Yin Ancestor ordered Han Li to stay close, while Wu Chou acted amiably toward him; Han Li entered the Void Sky Inner Hall, hoping to reunite with Luo Hong.
• Three or four shichen later, the Two Elders of Star Palace emerged from the Teleportation Array after escaping a heightened Heart Demon Illusion in the Black Hall.
• The Two Elders of Star Palace hurried toward the Inner Hall, fearing the Void Sky Cauldron could be taken by someone outside Star Palace.

After surviving Ji Yin’s attack, Luo Hong followed Yuan Yao through the Void Sky Inner Hall and learned that her map led to a mysterious sealed area. The pair joined forces to reach its entrance, where Yuan Yao destroyed a giant wolf puppet.

• Luo Hong reunited with Yuan Yao, swallowed two of her pills, and recovered enough to continue after his battle with Ji Yin.
• Luo Hong asked Yuan Yao why she knew the Void Sky Hall so well, and she revealed a scroll that transformed into a map of a circular maze.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao identified a mysterious space at the maze’s center that could only be reached through a Teleportation Array guarded by ancient puppets.
• Luo Hong agreed to let Yuan Yao help him reach the destination, and they followed her map through the Inner Hall.
• A golden Giant Wolf Puppet appeared in the passage, and Yuan Yao used an Azure Lightning Seed and her Demonic Hammer to split it apart.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao reached the entrance to the Demon Sealing Land, where Luo Hong used the Ancient Demon latched to his chest to activate the sacrificial altar. Yuan Yao chose to follow him into the Void Sky Dark Hall, and the pair began exploring its silent first floor.

• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao fought through successive waves of Wolf-headed and Snake Guard Puppets before teleporting to a room containing a massive sacrificial altar.
• Luo Hong recognized the altar as the entrance to the Demon Sealing Land and used the Ancient Demon in his chest to fill its array with demonic blood.
• The altar opened a passage into the Dark Hall, and a Jade Token marked “Sacrifice” flew to Luo Hong.
• Yuan Yao recognized the black qi below as True Devilish Qi and insisted on joining Luo Hong despite the danger.
• Luo Hong used the Jade Token to descend with Yuan Yao into the Dark Hall, where they found a prison of cells holding Ancient Demon remains.
• Luo Hong followed the token’s guiding light through the silent, grid-shaped first floor, suspecting the route to the next level lay at its center.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao fought through the second level of the Void Sky Dark Hall, where Gray Skin Wild Corpses guarded the entrance to the third level. After their Blood Puppet Flying Ants devoured the corpses and the Giant Flesh Ball, the insects began devouring one another, producing more than a dozen ants with Core Formation Stage auras.

• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao entered the second level, where a Gray Skin Wild Corpse ambushed them and Luo Hong's Blood Puppet Flying Ants devoured it.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao encountered more Wild Corpses and found a Giant Flesh Ball guarding the entrance to the third level.
• Luo Hong sent swarms of Blood Puppet Flying Ants against the Wild Corpses, allowing the insects to break free of their Divine Restraint Technique and attack in overwhelming numbers.
• Luo Hong used the Five Elements Banner to strike the Flesh Ball with Five Elements Divine Thunder, and the Blood Puppet Flying Ants devoured the wounded monster.
• The Blood Puppet Flying Ants began devouring one another, and more than a dozen emerged with Core Formation Stage auras as Luo Hong watched without intervening.

Luo Hong subdued the Nascent Soul-level Giant Flying Ant with Yuan Yao’s help, then guarded her as she collected True Devilish Qi on the third level. A Green Shadow attacked with lightning that disabled Luo Hong’s Five Elements Banner, and he prepared to block its next strike with the Life-Taking Claw.

• The final six thousand Blood Puppet Flying Ants fused into a Giant Flying Ant, and Luo Hong struggled to impose the Divine Restraint Technique on it.
• Yuan Yao struck the Giant Flying Ant with the Demonic Hammer eight times, helping Luo Hong complete the restriction and collect the ant in his Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao descended to the third level, where Yuan Yao began collecting True Devilish Qi while Luo Hong set up the Five Elements Banner to guard them.
• A Green Shadow appeared and shattered the Five Elements Banner’s barrier with Green Lightning, severing Luo Hong’s connection to the flags.
• The Green Shadow’s tentacles failed to penetrate Luo Hong’s Lightless Shield, and Luo Hong’s Dark Green Seed passed through the creature without interrupting its next Green Lightning attack.
• Luo Hong brought out the Life-Taking Claw to block the incoming Green Lightning.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao discovered that the Green Shadow was sustained by the Bone Bell and destroyed it with Yuan Yao’s Soul-Urging Bells. As they prepared to continue through the level, Luo Hong considered how the bell’s sound-based Green Lightning might be countered.

• Luo Hong sent his Life-Taking Claw and Blood Puppet Flying Ants against the Green Shadow, but its Green Lightning destroyed hundreds of ants.
• Luo Hong realized the Bone Bell was the Green Shadow’s true body and attacked it, weakening the shadow when the bell released Green Lightning.
• Yuan Yao used her Soul-Urging Bells, and the Bone Bell retaliated with Green Lightning that blasted through Luo Hong’s defenses.
• Yuan Yao’s bell chimes cracked and destroyed the Bone Bell, making the Green Shadow disperse.
• Yuan Yao explained that she had guessed the Bone Bell used demonic sound abilities, while Luo Hong considered how to weaken its Green Lightning.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao found a way to counter the Weird Green Shadows with a Giant Flying Ant, allowing Yuan Yao to gather enough True Devilish Qi. At the entrance to the fourth level, they faced a huge gathering of ghosts and a Giant White Bone Bell, so Luo Hong used the Demonic Skin Drum to clear their path.

• Luo Hong realized the Green Lightning had ruined several of his magic treasures and devised a plan to have his Nascent Soul-level Giant Flying Ant block it.
• Yuan Yao and Luo Hong destroyed another Weird Green Shadow, and the Giant Flying Ant’s Blood-colored Thunderbolt canceled the Green Lightning.
• Luo Hong fed the weakened Giant Flying Ant Blood Puppet Flying Ants to restore its strength as he and Yuan Yao continued onward.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao destroyed more than twenty Weird Green Shadows, and Yuan Yao collected five full bottles of True Devilish Qi.
• Luo Hong and Yuan Yao found a huge crowd of Weird Green Shadows and a Giant White Bone Bell guarding the fourth-level entrance.
• Luo Hong struck the Demonic Skin Drum, annihilating the gathered ghosts and their Bone Bells, while the Giant White Bone Bell remained intact.