Chapter Summaries

Zhang Rongfang dealt with the gray force stirring inside Zhang Zhenhai and went to the Great Abyss to question Bottom Crawler about Yi and the Decayed World. Meanwhile, Instant Tower sent Hong Xu to hunt Bloodline Users in Yuan City, and Zhang Rongfang noticed a different essence within Bottom Crawler through his Netherworld Eye.

• Zhang Rongfang moved Zhang Zhenhai to Heavenly Lotus Palace to suppress the gray force, then sent his consciousness toward the Great Abyss to seek answers from Bottom Crawler.
• Ming, Aufika, and Latiye Lan decided to send Hong Xu after the Bloodline Users and discuss a search for the Secret Locks with the Blood Alliance at the Great Abyss meeting.
• Hong Xu secured Hong Ye's permission to search Yuan City, with orders to preserve the city's ordinary life and avoid provoking Zhang Rongfang.
• Zhang Rongfang met Bottom Crawler on the ninth level of the Great Abyss and offered it a place in the palace being built there.
• Zhang Rongfang began asking Bottom Crawler about the Decayed World, then saw a different essence around it through his Netherworld Eye.

Zhang Rongfang learned that spatial passages could invite Silent Sound from the Decayed World, then explored the ghosts and statues in the Sea of Oblivion. In Yuan City, Ou Nan and his allies scattered to evade pursuit, and Ou Nan returned home to ask Yue Dewen about Great Ling and the Blood Alliance.

• Bottom Crawler told Zhang Rongfang that the Spirit Eye Clan called the Decayed World Yi and that it contained Silent Sound, which had invaded through spatial passages.
• Zhang Rongfang questioned Bottom Crawler about the Spirit Eye Clan, brought him to the conference palace, and suspected he knew more about his identity than he could prove.
• Zhang Rongfang used the Netherworld Eye to see countless human-faced ghosts in the Sea of Oblivion, then flew to the central island and examined its lifelike stone statues.
• Geerwei told Ou Nan and Gongsun Yi that Heavenly Lotus Palace had not reacted to their rumors and that Instant Tower and Perpetual Palace were investigating them, so the three agreed to scatter.
• Ou Nan returned to his settlement and found Yue Dewen living beside his home; he asked whether Yue Dewen's former Interaction Zone was Great Ling and mentioned the Blood Alliance.

Ou Nan realized that Yue Dewen’s apprentice Zhang Rongfang was the Blood Immortal Ancestor and fled with Yue Dewen when demons attacked their settlement. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongfang learned that Yue Dewen wanted to see him, but Yue was still outside the city.

• Yue Dewen told Ou Nan about his past in Great Ling and asked him to find out how his former apprentices Zhang Qingzhi and Zhang Rongfang were doing in Yuan City.
• Ou Nan recognized Zhang Rongfang’s name as belonging to the Blood Immortal Ancestor after Yue Dewen described his apprentice.
• Demons entered the Human Alliance settlement under Lady Hong Xu’s orders to find the Bloodline User, and a white-haired female demon spotted Ou Nan.
• Ou Nan grabbed Yue Dewen and fled, deciding that Yuan City was their best chance of escaping the demons.
• At Heavenly Lotus Palace, the Heavenly Maiden said something named Yi was trying to be born through Zhang Zhenhai’s womb.
• Chang Yuqing told Zhang Rongfang that Yue Dewen had sent word requesting a meeting, though Yue was not in the city.

Zhang Rongfang learned that Master Yue had appeared near Yuan City and sent forces to retrieve him. In the Hong Yuan Ruins, Yue Dewen helped Ou Nan escape pursuing demons by revealing a way to stop an Evil Spirit Elephant from regenerating, and the pair raced toward Yuan City with the demons still after them.

• Zhang Rongfang recognized the name Yue as likely referring to Master Yue and dispatched Blood Descendants and Four Divisions experts to retrieve Yue Dewen from the Hong Yuan Ruins.
• Ou Nan led Yue Dewen through the ruins while evading evil spirits and used an Evil Spirit Horse’s explosion to hinder their pursuers.
• An Evil Spirit Elephant blocked their escape, and Ou Nan prepared to face it while Yue Dewen urged him to follow his instructions.
• Yue Dewen guided Ou Nan’s saber strike into the elephant’s wrist, preventing the limb from regenerating, and the two fled.
• The white-haired demon ordered the evil spirits to pursue Ou Nan and Yue Dewen as they headed for Yuan City.

Yue Dewen and Ou Nan reached Yuan City while evading Mo City, only to be cornered by Hong Xu. A mysterious figure intervened, while Zhang Rongfang faced the Three Evil Kings above Heavenly Lotus Palace.

• Yue Dewen and Ou Nan dodged Mo City's attacks until a Blood Fairy erupted from the ground and engaged her in battle.
• Ou Nan brought Yue Dewen to Yuan City's outskirts, where Hong Xu confronted them and offered Yue Dewen a chance to work for him.
• Hong Xu summoned Blood Lotuses and cast a vast black net over Ou Nan and Yue Dewen, but a mysterious man appeared beneath it with a living flesh-and-blood sword.
• Zhang Rongfang faced Ming above Heavenly Lotus Palace as Aufika and Latiye Lan arrived and surrounded him.

Meng Qian fought Hong Xu while Zhang Rongfang faced the three Evil Kings above Heavenly Lotus Palace. The battles left Hong Xu under attack from Meng Qian’s Qiongqi and Zhang Rongfang locked in an evolutionary clash with Ming’s viral black vapor.

• Meng Qian identified himself to Hong Xu and blocked his black net before Hong Xu unleashed his Devil Body and fired a barrage of purple beams.
• Meng Qian summoned Qiongqi with the ninth stance of his Mountains and Rivers Sword Path, and the beast vanished before descending on Hong Xu from above.
• Zhang Rongfang rejected Aufika’s demand for cooperation and struck her, corrupting her before she withdrew and rejoined the fight against him.
• Ming turned his body into a river of pathogenic black vapor, but Zhang Rongfang countered it with freezing mist and Blood Mist.
• Ming’s black vapor and Zhang Rongfang’s Blood Mist began adapting to and consuming each other as the battle became a clash of evolution.

Zhang Rongfang defeated the Three Evil Kings by exploiting their weakness to spiritual attacks, but Yi of the Decayed World began stirring again. Long arrived to ask for the Three Kings, and Zhang Rongfang kept them as guests while recognizing his returning master Yue Dewen.

• Zhang Rongfang used a soul-stirring sonic wave to incapacitate Latiye Lan, Aufika, and Ming, then approached them intending to devour them.
• Yi of the Decayed World began struggling inside Heavenly Lotus Palace, drawing Zhang Rongfang's attention away from the Three Kings.
• Meng Qian defeated Qiongqi and found Hong Xu dead, while Long appeared and asked Zhang Rongfang to spare the Three Kings.
• Zhang Rongfang recognized Yue Dewen, who denied being his master and called himself Yue Sanwen, embarrassed by his disciple's power.
• Zhang Rongfang refused to release the Three Kings, and Long left through a transparent fissure.

Zhang Rongfang reunited with Yue Dewen, learned that extracting his Spirit Threads had left him physically weakened, and converted him into a duke-level Blood Descendant. After four days, Yue Dewen’s transformation triggered a powerful burst that shocked Zhang Rongfang; meanwhile, preparations continued for the coming conference at Morning Dawn Palace.

• Yue Dewen explained that extracting his Spirit Threads had left him an ordinary, weakened person, and asked Zhang Rongfang to protect Ou Nan and the Underground City.
• Zhang Rongfang told Yue Dewen that the world faced destruction within four hundred years and invited him to the conference in Great Abyss five days later.
• Zhang Rongfang gave Yue Dewen duke-level Blood Descendant essence blood, and Yue Dewen entered a blood cocoon as Zhang Rongfang watched over him.
• After four days, Yue Dewen emerged with dark-red eyes and unleashed a burst that shattered the tea room, forcing Zhang Rongfang to contain him with spatial distortion.
• In Great Abyss, workers hung the plaque for Morning Dawn Palace as Bottom Crawler complained about its red lettering.

The factions gathered at Morning Dawn Palace were confronted by Long, who encircled the palace and tested Zhang Rongfang's power. Zhang Rongfang drove Long away and reassured La, though he privately considered killing her and the other powerful visitors before they returned to Earth.

• Fen and the Spirit Alliance watched the Human Alliance argue over the Three Kings' imprisonment, then saw La arrive with Perpetual Palace.
• Long emerged from the dark mist, coiled around Morning Dawn Palace, and trapped the gathered representatives inside a barrier.
• Zhang Rongfang arrived and used his Gathering Spirit pressure against Long, then returned the Three Kings' samples in a bottle.
• Long swallowed the samples and withdrew after confirming Zhang Rongfang's strength and sensing his unfamiliar power.
• Zhang Rongfang told La they were friends, while privately acknowledging that he had considered killing her and the other powerful beings.

Zhang Rongfang dismissed Ou Nan and his companions after their recording failed to show evidence that Long intended to open a passage to White Pupil, then secured cooperation to build a long-distance passage. As research and construction began, La urged him not to underestimate Long, and Zhang Rongfang considered accepting its challenge.

• Zhang Rongfang gave Ou Nan, Gongsun Yi, and Geerwei five minutes to present evidence, but their recording device showed only a blank screen, so he had them removed.
• At the assembly, Hong Ye proposed a joint research center to build a long-distance passage, and the Blood Alliance and Perpetual Palace offered free basic transformations to encourage cooperation.
• Zhang Rongfang and La watched the meeting, discussed the warning about Long, and La urged Zhang Rongfang to fight it; he considered accepting Long's challenge.
• The Spirit Alliance and Human Alliance joined the coalition, researchers gathered at Perpetual Palace, and the Blood Alliance began building a second Blood Descendant city named Hope.
• Zhang Rongfang told Bottom Crawler that Long's humanoid form resembled him, and Bottom Crawler denied any connection to the monster.

Zhang Rongfang tried to free Bottom Crawler from the Great Abyss but could not bring him out, then went to Instant Tower to seek Long. Meanwhile, Sol convened a secret meeting where the gathered factions backed Long in the coming conflict, and he began revealing a discovery about changes the Blood King had caused in the world.

• Zhang Rongfang took Bottom Crawler upward through the Great Abyss, but Bottom Crawler was stopped by an invisible barrier and vanished when Zhang Rongfang tried to teleport him out.
• Zhang Rongfang found Bottom Crawler back on the ninth level, then left after guessing that the Great Abyss's rules prevented him from escaping.
• Zhang Rongfang arrived at Instant Tower, where Bells claimed Long was sleeping and tried to keep him from discovering that Long was absent.
• Zhang Rongfang insisted on entering Instant Tower, while Bells hurried to stall him until Long returned from the Sea of Forgetfulness.
• Sol gathered La, Xiu Zelas, Fen, and other figures for a secret meeting and said they hoped Long would defeat the Blood King.
• Sol announced that a new discovery about the Blood King's effects on the world had prompted him to call the meeting.

Sol and La revealed that Blood Descendant contamination had spread through the atmosphere and groundwater, threatening to transform all living things within about twenty-one years. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongfang entered Instant Tower and joined Long in traveling to the perilous Evil Forest, where their confrontation was set to begin.

• Sol told the secret meeting that Blood Descendant contamination had been found in the atmosphere, and La confirmed it was also present in groundwater.
• Sol and La calculated that all living things would become ordinary Blood Descendants in roughly twenty-one years, and Sol said destroying the Blood King would eradicate the contamination.
• Sol said the Secret Keepers' response depended on who won between Long and the Blood King.
• Zhang Rongfang pushed open Instant Tower's gate, but Long confronted him inside.
• Zhang Rongfang and Long agreed to go to Evil Forest and used spatial passages to reach its dangerous heart.

Zhang Rongfang challenged Long and discovered that Long’s Ever-Changing realm could dismantle him on the molecular level. After reviving, Zhang Rongfang unveiled a nine-headed form and unleashed an amplified Soul-Guiding Cry, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Zhang Rongfang questioned Long about the limits of martial arts, and Long explained that the Spirit Eye Clan had developed higher realms beyond Great Grandmaster.
• Long used the Heaven and Earth Extinction Molecular Sword to pulverize Zhang Rongfang, who regenerated from a scattered spore.
• Long explained that he had reached the Ever-Changing realm and then destroyed Zhang Rongfang’s expanded Final Form with molecular sword techniques.
• Zhang Rongfang revived, acknowledged Long’s strength, and transformed into a giant with nine heads.
• Zhang Rongfang amplified his Soul-Guiding Cry ninefold through Nine Heads and unleashed it against Long.

Zhang Rongfang fought Long, whose power destroyed him, then revived and resolved to prepare for another confrontation by seeking Master Yue’s guidance and investigating the Spirit Eye Clan. Fourteen years later, Zhang Rongyu told her son Zhang Huanqing that it was time for him to train in the Outer Scene.

• Zhang Rongfang’s spirit-level howls slightly affected Long, who explained that Zhang Rongfang was an unpredictable variable beyond his calculations.
• Long attacked Zhang Rongfang with molecular sword formations, disintegrating his body, and Zhang Rongfang promised to return.
• Zhang Rongfang revived in Heavenly Lotus Palace and decided to seek Master Yue’s guidance, cultivate martial realms, and investigate the Spirit Eye Clan while preparing for Long.
• Fourteen years later, Zhang Rongyu told Zhang Huanqing that he should go to the Heavenly Road for Outer Scene training, and he said he was ready.

Zhang Huanqing left for the Outer Realm but was abducted when the Heavenly Road was destroyed, prompting Zhang Rongfang to decide to confront the force behind the attack. Unable to find a way to defeat Long, Zhang Rongfang turned his attention to the Spirit Eye Clan’s Three Great Secret Locks.

• Zhang Rongyu instructed Zhang Huanqing to visit his Uncle and deliver a letter before he departed for the Outer Realm.
• Zhang Huanqing led First Squad and the Great Ling youths into the Outer Realm Heavenly Road, where they boarded a vehicle bound for Yuan City.
• A blue light struck and destroyed the Heavenly Road, flinging Zhang Huanqing and the others into the air before invisible ripples swallowed them.
• Zhang Rongfang learned that the organization Stars had destroyed the passage and abducted the trainees, including Zhang Huanqing.
• Zhang Rongfang chose to let Stars draw him out and focused on the Spirit Eye Clan’s Three Great Secret Locks as a possible key to overcoming Long.

Ou Nan and Gongsun Yi joined Stars and helped prepare an ambush using the Second Secret Lock to stop the redification crisis. Zhang Rongfang arrived at the battle site and watched his forces face teleportation attacks and the Secret Keepers below.

• Ou Nan and Gongsun Yi entered the underground cavern, where Secret Keepers explained that the awakened Second Secret Lock could transport consciousness into an unknown space.
• Zhang Ruofang and Zhang Linhan led Blood Descendants to the desert vortex and ordered a sonic attack to expose the underground entrance.
• A burst of blue light teleported away half the Blood Descendants, and Zhang Ruofang urged the rest to charge into the vortex.
• Zhang Rongfang arrived after the fighting began and saw Blood Descendants being teleported away while Secret Keepers besieged the two Blood Fairies.
• Zhang Rongfang suspected Stars was connected to the Secret Keepers and held back, letting his Blood Descendants test the ambush.

Zhang Rongfang was drawn into a trap built around Na Bu Xiu Si, the King of Secret Keepers of the Second Secret Lock, and became trapped in Format Space. The conspirators celebrated that his consciousness was sealed, believing they could now deal with the Redification problem without restraint.

• Zhang Rongfang sent waves of Blood Descendants to probe the desert, but Na Bu Xiu Si’s blue light teleported most of them away.
• The Black-Robed Figure released the bronze door’s aura, and Na Bu Xiu Si emerged beneath the underground island as a colossal bronze giant.
• Zhang Rongfang teleported toward Na Bu Xiu Si, but its blue light pulled him into Format Space and presented him with the Mind Stone Steps trial.
• Na Bu Xiu Si told Zhang Rongfang that the Three Great Secret Locks guarded against the spread of disaster, then explained that he had to solve three levels to leave.
• Zhang Rongfang found that his spatial ability, fire, and other powers could not escape the blue light’s enclosure.
• Sol, La, Fen, Xiu Zelas, and the Three Kings of the Instant Tower gathered on the island and celebrated that Zhang Rongfang’s consciousness had been sealed in Format Space.

Zhang Rongfang was trapped in the Second Secret Lock’s strange space, while the absence of his main consciousness unleashed the Blood Descendants’ suppressed instincts. As Stars argued over the remaining Secret Locks, Stellar Instrument warned that the Blood Descendants had become aggressively destructive and threatened planetary life.

• Zhang Rongfang stepped onto Ling’s first stone stair, failed to understand its question, and began chatting with the remnant consciousness.
• When Zhang Rongfang’s main consciousness was locked away, Blood Descendants across the planet lost their restraints and began expanding and craving the destruction of non-Blood Descendants.
• Zhang Zhenhai saw the Decayed World’s aura spreading from her belly and watched Yuan City’s Blood Blanket and Sky Curtain expand.
• Long sensed the changes among the Blood Descendants and praised their transformation.
• Ming and La confronted Sol over the remaining Secret Locks, and Sol revealed a spatial distortion barrier around the Second Secret Lock.
• Stellar Instrument warned Stars that Blood Descendant contamination was spreading rapidly and that the new cells had shifted toward devouring, destruction, and reproduction.

La discovered that Blood Descendant contamination had accelerated despite the Blood King's exile, prompting the factions to debate whether to bring him back. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongfang learned about the path to Subtlety from Ling but was pulled out of Format Space before he could consult the other powerful consciousnesses.

• La displayed the planet's growing Blood Descendant contamination and explained that it was now consuming other life directly and adapting to its opponents.
• La urged the factions to release the Blood King, arguing that he had previously restrained the contamination, but Aufika warned that his return might make it worse.
• Ling told Zhang Rongfang about his past as a dragon and explained that Zhang's chaotic consciousness prevented him from reaching Subtlety.
• Ling offered Zhang Rongfang two paths: purify himself by abandoning all but one trait or forge a difficult path capable of encompassing them all.
• Ling directed Zhang Rongfang to seek guidance from the stronger consciousnesses Dao and Yuan, but Na Bu Xiu Si summoned him out of Format Space before he could reach them.

Zhang Rongfang emerged from Format Space and used his Progenitor Bloodline to stop the Blood Descendants’ global rampage, though the damage already done remained. As the Stars assessed the aftermath, Long appeared and was attacked by Na Bu Xiu Si.

• Zhang Rongfang returned from Format Space and demanded that the abducted people and Blood Descendants be recovered, along with the ability to enter and leave the space.
• Zhang Rongfang reached the surface and commanded the Blood Descendants to stop, halting the spread of the Sky Curtain, Blood Blankets, and other corruption.
• Zhang Zhenhai’s gray light surged against the weakened secret-lock barrier before contracting, and she collapsed unconscious.
• La saw the corruption retreat from the planet phantom and began to assess the aftermath with Fen and Xiu Zelas.
• Long appeared in the underground space, said he wanted to live, and was struck at by Na Bu Xiu Si’s enormous hands.