Chapter Summaries

Great Ling’s forces gathered at Hundred Sulfur as a massive evil spirit army approached, led by a purple humanoid. Di Jiang prepared to face the horde while Zhang Rongfang watched remotely from his expanded stronghold, wondering whether Long was trying to stop him.

• A Human Character Division expert and his forces cleared the evil spirits at Hundred Sulfur, where scouts spotted the Da Ling Empire approaching.
• A new horde of more than a thousand evil spirits arrived, including towering Evil Spirit Elephants and a purple humanoid; a cloaked elder from the Spirit Limit Division identified the Elephants and said he would handle the confrontation.
• Di Jiang revealed his transformed body, shared with Jun Er, and Great Ling’s Blood Descendant experts gathered around him as the Evil Spirit Cars stopped short of their army.
• Zhang Rongfang used Blood Echo and Ultimate Organism to grow an eye on a Blood Bird, letting him observe the gathering armies remotely.
• Zhang Rongfang watched the forces near ten thousand evil spirits and over a thousand Great Ling elites, suspected the purple humanoid was a demon, and considered confronting Long after the battle.

Zhang Rongfang’s forces began a major assault on the Evil Spirit Army while he met with Long to discuss working together to open the final passage. As Di Jiang’s battle with Seng Xinaier escalated, he activated Final Solution and revealed a powerful new form.

• Meng Qian and Hunter Tiger told Zhang Rongfang they would each handle one of the northern and southern Interaction Zones, then left to adapt to their bodily modifications.
• Di Jiang and Jun Er led Great Ling’s attack on the Evil Spirit Army, and both sides suffered heavy losses around the entrance to Hundred Sulfur.
• Zhang Rongfang confronted Long in the Sea of Oblivion, agreed to work together on the final passage, and refused Long’s proposal to wager Di Jiang and Seng Xinaier.
• Di Jiang and Seng Xinaier fought at high speed until Seng Xinaier summoned a swarm of Stone Dragons to overwhelm him.
• Di Jiang activated Final Solution, grew twelve red-feathered wings, and spread Blood Blanket across the ground around him.

Di Jiang defeated Seng Xinaier, entered the Hundred Sulfur settlement, and slaughtered its inhabitants, while Zhang Rongfang coordinated with Long and La to unite the settlements and prepare a connected network. The chapter ended with Zhang Rongfang asking La for blood and offering to transform her into a Blood Descendant so they could strengthen themselves against Long.

• Di Jiang killed Seng Xinaier with his incredible speed, and Zhang Rongfang won his agreement with Long to divide their duties and restrain the Evil Spirits.
• After Seng Xinaier died, the Evil Spirits scattered, and Di Jiang led his companions into the Hundred Sulfur settlement, where he killed its defenders and destroyed the settlement.
• Zhang Rongfang and his forces cleared nearby Spirit Host settlements, sent invitations to settlement leaders, and began coordinating plans with La to connect the Interaction Zones.
• La explained her plan for linking the Interaction Zones, while Zhang Rongfang warned her that Long had allowed an attack on his people and had demonstrated frightening spatial power.
• Zhang Rongfang asked La for blood to study spatial techniques and offered to transform her into a Blood Descendant, leaving La wavering over his request.

Zhang Rongfang helped La advance her research, identifying a cloud bacterium that could resist Heavenly Light and Evil Energy radiation and planning a Sky Curtain city. The chapter then shifted to Yue Dewen teaching combat and explaining the Extreme Realm to young people in the Human Alliance.

• La explained that Long's power was more complex than simple spatial abilities, and Zhang Rongfang concluded they needed a chance to fight it.
• Zhang Rongfang offered La a body grown from his hair as an assistant, and La chose an appearance resembling the Heavenly Maiden.
• La gave Zhang Rongfang her cloud-composition research, and he identified Xi Bacteria as the most resistant of more than three hundred bacterial types.
• Zhang Rongfang and La agreed to begin constructing the largest Sky Curtain city on the surface.
• In the Human Alliance, Yue Dewen taught young people combat basics and explained that defeating stronger, faster opponents required a far higher martial arts realm or the Extreme Realm.

Yue Dewen learned that the Blood Alliance had joined forces with Instant Tower and Perpetual Palace, while mysterious merchants warned the Human Alliance that Instant Tower was seeking a passage to White Pupil. In Great Ling, representatives of Perpetual Tower and Instant Tower gathered at Heavenly Curtain Pavilion to witness the Blood Alliance’s ceremony.

• Yue Dewen heard that the Blood Alliance, Instant Tower, and Perpetual Palace had formed an alliance, and he decided not to reveal his connection to Great Ling.
• Mu Balaha told A Sa Lu, Ou Nan, Lin Hu, and the other Human Alliance leaders that Instant Tower sought the Three Great Secret Locks to open a passage to White Pupil, and asked them to help stop it from finding Faerga.
• Mu Balaha and his two companions revealed their bodies to the Human Alliance leaders, shocking them.
• In July of Year Four of the New Calendar, Blood Descendants and invited Perpetual Tower representatives gathered at Heavenly Curtain Pavilion for the Blood Alliance ceremony.
• Di Mo and Sandra arrived with Perpetual Tower’s Stone Statue Troop as Instant Tower’s Evil Spirit Elephants approached, carrying Aufika and the purple-crystal demons.

At the Blood Alliance’s opening ceremony, Zhang Rongfang welcomed powerful guests and unveiled a vast blood-powered construction that drew the attention of rival factions and hidden observers. The ceremony’s first spectacle ended with six blood crystal pillars rising from the earth to support an enormous lotus in the Blood Cloud.

• Aufika arrived with two demonized subordinates, alarming Sandra and Di Mo, while Blood Immortal Path envoy Ran Xin Yue escorted her toward the ceremony.
• Aufika’s Evil Energy radiation destroyed the Blood Blanket beneath her boots, but the Blood Blanket rapidly regenerated and absorbed the radiation.
• Zhang Rongfang addressed guests from the Perpetual Palace and Instant Tower as squads brought enormous Black Boxes to the Heavenly Curtain Pavilion.
• Sol and the black-robed observers judged Zhang Rongfang powerful for gaining the factions’ respect and prepared to withdraw while awaiting four Bloodline Users.
• Zhang Rongfang transformed his body into bats and Blood Mist as bloodwater from the Black Boxes filled the sky above the ceremony.
• Six blood pillars struck into the earth and crystallized, supporting an enormous lotus forming within the Blood Cloud.

Zhang Rongfang’s Blood Lotuses transformed a vast area into Yuan City, while the Instant Tower began an operation to break the seal on the First Secret Lock. The Secret Keepers prepared to resist the alliance of the Instant Tower, Perpetual Palace, and Blood Alliance, hoping Mu Balaha had found their masters’ Bloodline Users.

• Zhang Rongfang used Blood Lotuses to spread the Blood Blanket and create an expanding Sky Curtain, prompting Aufika and her subordinates to leave after witnessing his power.
• Great Ling established Yuan City, where Blood Crystal Trees strengthened Blood Descendants and suppressed evil spirits and other intruders.
• La and Zhang Rongfang continued their plans as La constructed a black-gray structure in the Great Abyss and the Instant Tower began breaking the seal on Faerga, the First Secret Lock.
• The Instant Tower teleported evil spirits into Spirit Map Province, where a mysterious force neutralized their Evil Energy pollution.
• Two Secret Keepers watched the invasion and said they could no longer stop the allied powers alone, leaving their hopes with Mu Balaha finding their masters’ Bloodline Users.

Zhang Rongfang sent Fan Qianyu to confront Perpetual Palace’s delegation for blood samples while another fighter went to intercept Aufika’s Evil Spirit Army. Fan Qianyu faced Di Mo and Sandra, while Aufika ordered De Lin to challenge the towering Blood Descendant blocking her army.

• Zhang Rongfang explained that he would avoid revealing his own strength and assigned Fan Qianyu to handle Perpetual Palace’s team while someone else dealt with Aufika.
• Zhang Rongfang spent one hundred Attribute points on vitality and gained the Soul-Guiding Cry trait as Yuan City’s Taiji Pavilion was being built.
• Fan Qianyu demanded a blood sample from Sandra, but she refused and challenged him after he drew his saber.
• A towering Blood Descendant blocked Aufika’s Evil Spirit Army and declared he would beat them all to death.
• Aufika recognized the Bloodline King’s power in the giant and sent De Lin to fight him.

Hunter Tiger lost to Aufika but revived in Zhang Rongfang’s blood pool with the Blood Saint Body, gaining the ability to return as long as Zhang Rongfang survived. After Fan Qianyu brought him Sandra’s remains, Zhang Rongfang revived her and used her Verdant Moon New Devil Art to open a rift to the Great Abyss.

• De Lin attacked Hunter Tiger, but Hunter Tiger’s Roc Dawn overwhelmed him and left him gravely wounded; Aufika recognized Hunter Tiger’s power and faced him in battle.
• Damir told Tong Zhang that Hunter Tiger had died, then urged her to seek Zhang Rongfang for answers about her aimless life.
• Zhang Rongfang revived Hunter Tiger and explained that his blood and awakened abilities let Hunter Tiger be reborn unless his soul was seized.
• Hunter Tiger left the cave eager to fight stronger opponents, while Zhang Rongfang considered how to grow stronger despite the alliance pact.
• Fan Qianyu brought Zhang Rongfang Sandra’s head and Heart Burning Furnace, and Zhang Rongfang revived Sandra by placing them in the blood pool.
• Zhang Rongfang used Sandra’s Verdant Moon New Devil Art to open a rift leading to the Great Abyss.

The Blood Alliance expanded Yuan City while the Nether King Army and the Secret Keepers clashed over Faerga’s First Secret Lock in Spirit Map Province. As Horudila attacked the incoming Evil Spirit army, Zhang Rongfang watched the battle from Yuan City and asked whether the giant was another supreme creation of the Spirit Eye Clan.

• The Blood Alliance expanded Yuan City, spread across Black Sand Continent, and gathered resources to grow its Blood Blanket and Sky Curtain.
• Ming led the Nether King Army toward Faerga’s First Secret Lock, while Bixilis noted that the Blood Alliance was trailing them.
• Lord Pacifier Horudila rose from the desert and examined Ou Nan, Song Hengxiu, Andula, Gongsun Yi, and Geerwei, confirming they were pure Bloodline Users.
• Horudila fired a golden beam into the Evil Spirit army, destroying many Evil Spirit Cars and horses as the Nether King defended his chariot.
• Chang Yuqing and Zhang Zhenhai watched the battle through Blood Alliance scouts in Yuan City, and Zhang Rongfang arrived and asked about Horudila.

Zhang Rongfang monitored the Great Abyss war while seeing how Yuan City had grown into a refuge and trading hub for Blood Descendants, demons, and Spirit Hosts. He met Heavenly Maiden Tong Zhang at the Five Spirits Pavilion, where he planned to fulfill both of their wishes.

• Zhang Rongfang learned that Horudila, King of the Secret Keepers, was fighting the King of Ming and ordered Zhang Zhenhai to monitor the Great Secret Locks around the clock.
• Zhang Rongfang traveled through Yuan City and saw its Blood Descendant residents greet him with familial warmth beneath the expanding Sky Curtain.
• At Ding Yu's Five Spirits Pavilion, Zhang Rongfang learned that demons and Spirit Hosts had begun visiting Yuan City and that Spirit Separation Machines were helping Spirit Hosts become Blood Descendants.
• Zhang Rongfang watched the bustle of Blood Descendant life and reflected that becoming one had not changed human nature.
• Heavenly Maiden arrived, and Zhang Rongfang recognized her worsening forgetfulness as they spoke about their wishes.

Tong Zhang lost her purpose after Damir’s revival, so Zhang Rongfang kept her at his side and sealed her powers while beginning a life with Zhang Zhenhai. Nine days after their wedding, Zhang Rongfang rushed to Golden Cloud Tower when he heard Zhang Zhenhai had suffered severe abdominal pain and apparently laid an egg.

• Tong Zhang told Zhang Rongfang that she no longer knew what to live for, and he threatened to kill Damir if she left before deciding to keep her near him.
• Zhang Rongfang knocked Tong Zhang unconscious and used Blood Mist to seal her blood and vital-energy nodes, while Zhang Zhenhai declared that she wanted three children and became his Dao companion.
• Zhang Rongfang and Zhang Zhenhai held their Dao wedding in early August, and Tong Zhang was forced to observe the ceremony and their wedding night.
• Nine days after the wedding, a Daoist reported that Zhang Zhenhai had suffered abdominal pain at Golden Cloud Tower and apparently laid an egg, so Zhang Rongfang and Tong Zhang hurried there.

Zhang Zhenhai gave birth to forty-nine human-faced worms that Zhang Rongfang named Blood Fairies and confined for observation. The Blood Fairies increased Yuan City's Blood Mist, and one began transforming into a giant moth as Zhang Rongfang insisted it learn to control its instincts.

• Zhang Rongfang arrived at Golden Cloud Tower and found Zhang Zhenhai laying blood-red eggs that carried his powerful bloodlines.
• A human-faced worm hatched from an egg and attacked a midwife, but Zhang Rongfang caught it and recognized it as his child.
• More eggs hatched into human-faced worms that called Zhang Rongfang their father, consumed Blood Mist, and released corrosive black-red mist; Zhang Zhenhai laid forty-nine eggs before collapsing.
• Zhang Rongfang comforted Zhang Zhenhai, named the hatchlings Blood Fairies, and arranged for them to be raised in separate rooms as news of their birth spread through Yuan City.
• Zhang Rongfang observed that the Blood Fairies' birth had increased the city's Blood Mist and kept them confined while they grew rapidly and developed mature minds.
• When one Blood Fairy complained of hunger and demanded to eat freely, Zhang Rongfang told it to control its instincts; it then shed its worm husk and emerged as a giant gray-white moth.

Zhang Rongfang released the Blood Fairies while worrying about Zhenhai, as Long prepared to connect with White Pupil. In Spirit Map Province, the Underworld King defeated Horudila and broke the First Secret Lock, while Sol and the other Secret Keepers escaped.

• Zhang Rongfang allowed all forty-nine Blood Fairies to leave Yuan City after they agreed not to attack humans who shared their aura.
• Long sensed his connection with White Pupil growing stronger and opened a vortex through which a beast claw briefly reached toward him.
• The Underworld King adapted to Horudila’s powers and transformed into a purple crystal version of him during their battle in Spirit Map Province.
• Sol crushed a black bead, causing himself and the nearby Secret Keepers to vanish with part of the ground as Horudila was overwhelmed and dissolved.
• The First Secret Lock was broken when Horudila was destroyed, and Instant Tower began searching Spirit Map Province for the Second Secret Lock.
• Sol disbanded the Bloodline User teams and told them to hide until their identities could be confirmed.

Ou Nan and his companions decided to investigate why Perpetual Palace and the Blood Alliance had joined the Instant Tower factions, hoping to find a way to oppose Long. Meanwhile, La and Di Mo found a Blood Fairy had destroyed a gathering place, and Zhang Rongfang arrived to crush it and discuss a unified coalition.

• Ou Nan persuaded Gongsun Yi, Song Hengxiu, and the others to investigate Perpetual Palace and the Blood Alliance rather than abandon the fight.
• Gongsun Yi proposed splitting into groups to investigate La and the Blood Immortal Ancestor after they returned to their gathering place to prepare.
• La and Di Mo arrived at Yu Dong City, where La sensed that a Blood Fairy had gathered all the underground life auras into itself.
• Di Mo found the gathering place destroyed and its inhabitants dead as the Blood Fairy attacked La and the Stone Statue Troop.
• Zhang Rongfang appeared, claimed the Blood Fairy as his child, and crushed it after it fled from him.
• Zhang Rongfang and La discussed jointly inviting the factions to a comprehensive conference, and La reacted with shock when he said the Blood Fairy had violated his immortal laws.

Zhang Rongfang met with La to settle plans for the Great Abyss conference while La worried that his blood could eventually consume the world. Back in Yuan City, Zhang Rongfang recognized Meng Qian, Damir, and Di Jiang as Human Immortals and bestowed blue flowers on them.

• Zhang Rongfang and La agreed on the Great Abyss entrance location and discussed the energy source and remaining Secret Locks.
• Di Mo warned La that Blood Fairy-tainted lands were turning red and drawing blood from living creatures, while La said the red earth would eventually degrade.
• La privately feared Zhang Rongfang's adaptable blood cells could consume the world, then ordered her people to build the transmission point underground.
• Zhang Rongfang gathered Meng Qian, Damir, and Di Jiang at Heavenly Lotus Palace and explained the standards they had met to become recognized Immortals.
• Zhang Rongfang grew three blue flowers from his palm and sent one toward each of the three Human Immortals.

Zhang Rongfang advised Meng Qian, Damir, and Di Jiang, then strengthened his bloodline abilities and discovered that yin souls connected to a ruined world whose force could decay living things. He preserved a yin soul as a crystal and suspected La might know the force’s origin.

• Zhang Rongfang gave Meng Qian, Damir, and Di Jiang Blood Alliance marks and promised them protection and special treatment.
• Zhang Rongfang helped Di Jiang accept Jun Er as an independent person, and Di Jiang’s bloodline grew stronger.
• Zhang Rongfang fused his descendants’ abilities into the martial art Guiding Immortal Light and raised his vitality to 4,100, gaining six Nine Phoenix talents.
• Zhang Rongfang’s new abilities spread a supernatural chill through Yuan City and let him see and control human-faced yin souls.
• Zhang Rongfang discovered that a yin soul connected to a destroyed, gray world whose force began to decay his eyes, then destroyed it and condensed it into a black crystal.
• Zhang Rongfang recognized the force as resembling the sea of forgetfulness and considered asking La about its origin.

La ordered Aisass to recruit brigades as the Perpetual Palace prepared to contend with the Instant Tower and Blood Alliance, while Song Hengxiu and Andula struggled to deliver evidence about Long to La. In Yuan City, Geerwei proposed spreading the evidence to prompt the Blood Alliance’s leaders to investigate, as Zhang Rongfang returned from the Great Abyss with few answers about the Decayed World.

• La consulted her old research on the decaying force, then ordered Aisass to recruit brigades for the Perpetual Palace.
• Song Hengxiu and Andula discussed how to get their evidence about Long to La without having it intercepted by a traitor.
• Gongsun Yi, Ou Nan, and Geerwei entered Yuan City and witnessed a Blood Lotus devour an unauthorized stowaway.
• Geerwei proposed spreading news about Long’s identity so the Blood Alliance’s leaders would investigate, and her companions began planning how to do it.
• Zhang Rongfang returned from the Great Abyss without finding much about the Decayed World, carrying a black vortex that only he could see.

Zhang Rongfang explored his new ghost-related abilities, then learned that Zhang Zhenhai had begun laying Blood Fairy eggs again. He discovered that her fused Ultimate Cells were absorbing yin-soul aura connected to the Decayed World and concluded that they were expelling it as eggs, leaving him to find a way to stop the process.

• Zhang Rongfang used Ghost Mansion to absorb a ghost soul and examined his new abilities for transforming land, blood, and sinful yin souls.
• Chuan Ming brought Hong Ye to Heavenly Lotus Palace with Guiding Immortal Light, and she reported that Zhang Zhenhai had laid ninety-nine Blood Fairy eggs that hatched and scattered.
• Zhang Rongfang learned that the Blood Fairies had been attacking caravans and spirits, and that people had begun calling Zhang Zhenhai the Blood Worm Mother.
• Zhang Rongfang traveled to Heavenly Curtain Pavilion and found Zhang Zhenhai continuously laying eggs, with Heavenly Maiden Tong Zhang beside her.
• Zhang Rongfang used Netherworld Communication to detect that Zhang Zhenhai's Ultimate Cells were absorbing yin-soul aura carrying the Decayed World's power and expelling it through the eggs.
• Zhang Rongfang reassured Zhang Zhenhai and ordered the devouring roots inside her to stop.

Zhang Rongfang contained a dangerous Decayed World power that emerged within Zhang Zhenhai, but the incident left him questioning why that force was trying to enter their world and what secrets lay behind the Spirit Eye Clan’s choices.

• Zhang Rongfang discovered that Zhang Zhenhai’s Blood Fairies had changed into yin-soul-like forms and drew them back into her body.
• Zhang Zhenhai began emitting a gray, decaying light that aged everything nearby and overwhelmed Zhang Rongfang’s suppression.
• Zhang Rongfang broke free with his lotus power and used his Soul Plunder ability while two mysterious forces contained the gray light, eventually halting it.
• Zhang Rongfang named the remaining power inside Zhang Zhenhai Yi and reassured her that he would protect her.
• Zhang Rongfang wondered why the Decayed World’s power sought to descend and why the Spirit Eye Clan had destroyed its strongest means of escape.