Chapter Summaries

Long Ling and her companions lured the pursuing forces into traps, then faced a mysterious woman who emerged from a blood lotus in the sea of blood. After Long Ling led a combined attack that destroyed the woman, they pursued and defeated the remaining enemies, leaving the battlefield littered with corpses.

• Long Ling and her companions retreated to a mountain, laid traps, and ambushed the pursuing powerhouses from the various forces.
• Hei Feng and the others hunted down the trapped powerhouses as spikes and rolling boulders killed many of them.
• A blood lotus bloomed in the sea of blood, and a mysterious woman emerged as the Yin soldiers offered her energy and she absorbed the dead cultivators’ vital essence.
• The mysterious woman unleashed a blood-colored storm and blades that overwhelmed the powerhouses, while Long Ling and her companions struggled against her.
• Long Ling rallied her companions in a combined attack that struck the woman, causing her to disintegrate and the blood lotus to wither.
• Long Ling and her companions pursued the fleeing powerhouses and defeated them across the sea of blood.

After defeating the Blood Sea Master, Long Ling and her companions discovered a gateway beneath the Blood Sea and entered it, hoping it led to the ancient tower’s next level. The gateway closed behind them, leaving their next challenge unknown.

• Long Ling organized the group to treat injured allies, collect battlefield resources, and fortify the Blood Sea after the mysterious woman was defeated.
• A woman calling herself the Blood Sea Master emerged and attacked Long Ling and her companions with whirlpools, a blood-colored tornado, and waves of blood.
• Long Ling and her companions combined their powers to strike the Blood Sea Master and break the blood-colored cage she used to trap them.
• The Blood Sea Master dissipated into the sea, and the dark clouds cleared, but a crocodile-shaped gateway opened in the water.
• Long Ling led Hei Feng, Feng Yu, Yun Ying, Tie Ya, and Tie Shan through the gateway, which closed behind them.

Long Ling and her companions explored the ancient tower’s bone-strewn desert, discovering that its burls and symbols powered the tower and guarded dangerous restrictions. A burl transported them to a misty altar, where they uncovered a ritual linked to the three red suns and watched a mysterious figure awaken from a stone coffin.

• Long Ling’s group found a colossal black divine tree whose roots spread through the desert and bore twelve glowing, symbol-covered burls.
• Long Ling and her companions explored the desert and its ruins, learning that the burls were energy cores and the symbols recorded the tower’s history.
• Three blood-red suns appeared and empowered the burls as lightning and other strange phenomena swept across the desert.
• Long Ling saw petrified cultivators and led her companions onward with heightened caution as the desert’s restrictions claimed more victims.
• A burl exploded, and its vortex transported Long Ling and her companions to a mist-shrouded altar beside a stone coffin marked with three red suns.
• The coffin opened, and a towering figure in a blood-red robe slowly sat up.

Long Ling and her companions defeated the red-eyed being, then passed the man in white’s test of artistic conception and poetry. A pig-shaped crystal appeared, and when Long Ling touched it, it transported the group to a strange palace where Great Immortal Weasel recognized a building they had seen before.

• Long Ling’s group exploited the being’s weakness when it closed its eyes, defeated it, and escaped the collapsing altar space into the desert.
• The group found a man in white writing powerful characters and learned that he could test them on their search for the ancient tower’s secrets.
• Long Ling accepted the man’s challenge to paint with artistic conception and poetry, and she won their exchange with a landscape and poem.
• The man in white vanished, leaving a pig-shaped crystal that Long Ling touched and found responsive to her power.
• The crystal lit the building’s runes and carried Long Ling’s group into a strange palace, where Great Immortal Weasel recognized the canine-emblem building and warned that the palaces were interconnected.

Long Ling and her companions defeated the guardians of Xu Dog Palace and You Rooster Palace, then received the Fire Wu Tong’s blessing and grew stronger. In the chamber beyond You Rooster Palace, a phoenix transformed the flames into a Phoenix Jade Pendant and dropped it into Long Ling’s hand.

• Long Ling and her companions entered Xu Dog Palace, defeated the hound guardians, and were drawn through a black-hole vortex into another palace.
• Long Ling identified the new palace as You Rooster Palace, also called Fire Phoenix Palace, and led the group against its flame-controlling guardian woman and fire-men.
• Long Ling and her companions defeated the woman, after which the palace’s lava surged and a Fire Wu Tong rose from the lava pool.
• The Fire Wu Tong’s chimes and falling seeds elevated Long Ling and her companions’ cultivation, and its radiance revealed a hidden door.
• Long Ling opened the door to a chamber with a giant phoenix, which transformed the flames into a Phoenix Jade Pendant and dropped it into her hand.

After entering the Spirit Peach grove, Long Ling and her companions pacified its guardians, fought a black-flamed monkey, and later faced another attack from the transformed peach trees. Long Ling found a monkey-shaped jade pendant and was transported to a snowy domain, while Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng had disappeared.

• Long Ling warned the group against eating the Spirit Peaches, but some cultivators picked and ate them, awakening the peach trees and trapping everyone in the grove.
• Long Ling urged the group to communicate with the peach trees, calming them; she picked the ancient tree’s golden Spirit Peach and shared it with her companions.
• After the group threw the peach pits, runes opened the sky and a black-flamed monkey arrived, declaring that trespassers in Shen Monkey Palace would die.
• Long Ling and her companions fought the monkey, and the Phoenix Jade Pendant boosted Long Ling’s strength enough for them to defeat it.
• Long Ling discovered that Great Immortal Weasel and Hei Feng were missing, then led the group in fighting a renewed attack from the peach trees and finding a monkey-shaped jade pendant among the ruins.
• The pendant transported Long Ling to a mysterious snowy domain.

Long Ling and her companions defeated the guardians in the snowy region and the Nethermist Abyss, gathered all twelve Zodiac jade amulets at Rat Cliff, and were transported to a strange starfield. There, they faced rival factions and an assault of star pillars around a mysterious black coffin.

• Long Ling and her companions destroyed the dragon-corpse puppets in the snowy region, but the monkey-shaped jade amulet transported them into the Nethermist Abyss.
• Long Ling and her companions fought the nine-headed demon serpent; after defeating it, they were transported to Rat Cliff.
• Long Ling reunited with Hei Feng, Great Immortal Weasel, and the others, and the group found the Zi Rat jade amulet, completing the set of twelve.
• The twelve jade amulets activated a teleportation formation that carried Long Ling and the others to a starfield containing a rune-covered black coffin.
• Long Ling proposed that the rival factions explore the coffin together, but the stars attacked, and she helped destroy the pillars of starlight.

Long Ling and the other cultivators opened an ancient coffin, fought the Demonic Soldiers it released, and discovered the coffin threatened to escape its seal. After exploring a hidden realm and finding records of the sealing ritual, they used the Twelve Zodiac Jade Amulets to seal the coffin again.

• Long Ling used her jade amulet to resist the stellar vortex and led everyone in arranging the Twelve Zodiac Jade Amulets, opening the black coffin and releasing Demonic Soldiers.
• Long Ling identified the Demonic Soldiers’ weakness, and the group attacked their true bodies while discovering that the soldiers’ runes were forming a rebirth formation on the coffin.
• Long Ling and the others shattered the formation and escaped the starfield, but found the coffin standing in the desert; they followed a newly appeared river into a secret realm.
• Long Ling and the group studied statues, steles, and an altar, then used the jade amulets to activate a teleportation array and travel to another world.
• The group found records describing the demon sealed inside the coffin and learned how to seal it using the Twelve Zodiac Jade Amulets.
• Long Ling and her companions channeled their power into the sealing ritual, suppressing the coffin’s aura and drawing it into the teleportation portal.

Long Ling and the cultivators were transported into the Ancient Pagoda World, where an ancient cave’s cursed jars and underground lake triggered deadly transformations. After defeating one transformed cultivator, the group faced several more who became red-furred monsters, and the battle continued as the chapter ended.

• Four sand guardians formed a teleportation array that carried Long Ling and the cultivators from the desert to a strange grassland in the Ancient Pagoda World.
• Long Ling and the group explored the grassland, its ruins, a lake, and an underground palace before a burst of light sent them into a cave.
• A cultivator broke a ghost-faced jar, and a silkworm cocoon entered another cultivator’s mouth and transformed him into a metallic monster.
• Long Ling and the group fought and destroyed the metallic creature, then continued deeper into the cave and found an underground lake surrounded by matching jars.
• Several cultivators transformed into red-furred baboon-like monsters near the lake, and Long Ling led the group in fighting them as their power increased.

Long Ling and the cultivators survived the Red-haired Fiends, the demons emerging from Purgatory, and the Nine-Headed Hellhound. A Celestial Ladder then led them to a sacred palace, where they met the Artifact Spirit of the Ancient Pagoda.

• The cultivators discovered that destroying the Red-haired Fiends' hearts and runes weakened them, then defeated the last of the monsters.
• Cracks opened in the ground and released demons from Purgatory, whose powerful flames overwhelmed the cultivators' attacks.
• A Nine-Headed Hellhound emerged from the depths of hell, and Long Ling summoned her Bone Avatar to fight it alongside the cultivators.
• Long Ling and the cultivators exploited a weakness in one of the Hellhound's heads and eventually destroyed the beast through their combined assault.
• A golden Celestial Ladder appeared, carrying the cultivators from hell to a sacred plaza and palace.
• Long Ling led the group into the palace, where a deity welcomed them and revealed himself as the Artifact Spirit of the Ancient Pagoda.

Long Ling and the cultivators fought the Xingyi Queen inside the ancient pagoda, where the Twelve Zodiac Jade Amulets merged into a Jade Plate that helped drive them out. Outside, the pagoda transformed into a world-threatening fiendish object, and Long Ling’s group found a damaged construction blueprint that might reveal how to reactivate its seal.

• The Artifact Spirit revealed a deadly treasure vault, where greedy cultivators died to traps and Xingyi insects emerged from underground to attack the survivors.
• Long Ling led the cultivators in finding the xingyi’s weak points, but an xingyi king appeared and forced them into a desperate battle.
• The Xingyi Queen emerged, activating the pagoda’s sealing formation as the Twelve Zodiac Jade Amulets formed a Jade Plate that destroyed xingyi and healed the cultivators.
• Long Ling and the cultivators attacked the Xingyi Queen, and the Jade Plate’s power transported them out of the ancient pagoda.
• The pagoda transformed into a blood-lit disaster surrounded by blood rain and lava, prompting cultivators and sect leaders to seek a way to stop it.
• Long Ling’s group gathered information, found a damaged construction blueprint in an ancient cultivator’s legacy, and identified a symbol that might be the pagoda’s weakness.

The ancient tower's seal broke, unleashing aliens that overwhelmed the Sky Zenith Domain and reproduced by devouring cultivators and their Divine Soul Bodies. Long Ling and the gathered cultivators faced another coordinated alien assault as the disaster escalated.

• Xuanji Zi, the Nether Old Ancestor, Jian Wuchen, and the Spirit Medicine Matriarch united the forces at the ancient plain and organized preparations to seal the tower.
• Qin Shi Huang and the Great Sage Monkey King persuaded Lihu City's leaders to join the gathering while secretly seeking to strengthen Earth cultivators and complete the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The tower's seal shattered, fire rain spread across the domain, and aliens emerged to slaughter cultivators.
• The aliens spawned young that hunted and devoured cultivators' Divine Soul Bodies, growing stronger as their numbers increased.
• The aliens communicated through their horns and launched another assault, prompting Long Ling to warn the cultivators to prepare.

Long Ling and the cultivators killed the Xingyi Queen, causing the xingyi army to collapse, but a mysterious force from the ancient tower unleashed nine flaming wheels that devastated the battlefield. As nine flame-born beings emerged, Long Ling and the survivors faced a new battle.

• Long Ling realized the xingyi followed the Xingyi Queen’s commands, while Tiger King, Golden Peng King, Great Sage Monkey King, and the cultivators from Earth used the Myriad Souls Banner to hinder the xingyi’s reproduction.
• Long Ling fought the Xingyi Queen with her Bone Avatar and the powers of wind, fire, thunder, and lightning, ultimately crushing her body.
• With the Xingyi Queen dead, the sect cultivators pursued the disorganized xingyi army and drove it toward the ancient tower.
• The ancient tower released nine flaming wheels that formed firestorms, burning cultivators and forcing Long Ling and the other powerhouses to resist together.
• Nine giant beings formed from flame and spiritual power emerged from the wreckage, and Long Ling’s Bone Avatar attacked the flaming giant with its light sword.

Long Ling and the cultivators defeated the fiery creatures awakened by the collapsed nine fire wheels, revealing a divine pearl, but the patriarchs of the eight great factions then attacked under the command of a silver-white figure. Reinforcements arrived as the cultivators struggled to hold their line, and the chapter ended with the eight patriarchs leading a renewed assault on the exhausted Cosmos cultivators.

• Long Ling directed the cultivators to attack the nine flame creatures together, and they defeated them as the fire wheels transformed into islands surrounding a divine pearl.
• The patriarchs of the eight great factions emerged and launched a coordinated assault on the Cosmos cultivators.
• A silver-white figure appeared from cracks in the sky, commanded the factions to seize the Sky Zenith Domain, and shattered the cultivators' defenses with a nihility sword.
• Long Ling urged the cultivators to hold their ground until reinforcements arrived, and reserve forces from the various sects emerged from the heavens and joined the battle.
• The silver-white figure rallied the eight factions into a fiercer assault, and their patriarchs charged the retreating Cosmos cultivators.

Long Ling and the Earth cultivators returned to Lihu City, recovered, and monitored the escalating battle around the Ancient Pagoda. Master Huiguang and Qiguang Temple’s monks joined the fighting, where their Buddhist powers first drew contempt from other factions and then earned growing respect.

• Long Ling led the surviving Earth cultivators back to Lihu City, where Qin Shi Huang activated the city’s defensive formation and Long Ling’s group began secluded cultivation.
• Perfected Person Ziyang Zhang Boduan established an observation post near the Ancient Pagoda and sent reports on the battle back to Lihu City.
• After several days, Long Ling and the others emerged stronger, while Qin Shi Huang urged them to avoid unnecessary losses and watch the conflict unfold.
• Master Huiguang arrived with Qiguang Temple’s monks, and Great Sage Monkey King escorted them to the Ancient Pagoda battlefield, where their Buddhist light soothed divine-soul remnants and dispersed the Nine-Wheeled Beings.
• The Eight Clans of the Ancient Pagoda and Cosmos cultivators condemned Qiguang Temple’s unconventional tactics, but the monks continued fighting in their own way and demonstrated powerful techniques against strange creatures.
• Cosmos cultivators began reassessing the monks after witnessing their Buddhist defenses, spells, and Master Huiguang’s strength against a strange general.

At the ancient tower battlefield, Master Huiguang and Qiguang Temple’s monks used guerrilla tactics and disguises to turn the battle against the Nine Wheels and Eight Tribes, who withdrew. Afterward, some Cosmos cultivators joined the Buddhist Sect, and the monks began spreading its teachings throughout the Sky Zenith Domain.

• Master Huiguang led Qiguang Temple’s monks in guerrilla attacks that wore down the Nine Wheels and Eight Tribes cultivators.
• The monks shaved enemy cultivators’ heads, disguised themselves among their ranks, and confused them with surprise attacks; Cosmos cultivators began copying their tactics.
• The Nine Wheels and Eight Tribes forces argued over whether to retreat, then withdrew as the monks and Cosmos cultivators took control of the battlefield.
• Master Huiguang welcomed Cosmos cultivators who wished to join the Buddhist Sect, and some shaved their heads, left home, and began training as monks.
• The new monks studied Buddhist teachings, helped villagers, and joined Master Huiguang in spreading the Dharma throughout the Sky Zenith Domain.

Master Huiguang and the Qiguang Temple monks investigated the Ancient Pagoda’s influence, stopping one golden-egg breeding site before finding a deeper cavern where a mysterious red-robed entity emerged. The monks discovered that its power weakened when its eyes were closed, but the entity remained a threat.

• Golden Peng King, Tiger King, and Great Sage Monkey King learned that Qiguang Temple had converted Cosmos cultivators and visited Master Huiguang to confirm it.
• The three kings saw the former Cosmos cultivators meditating as monks, while Buddhism spread through the Sky Zenith Domain and brought aid to war-torn communities.
• Master Huiguang led monks into a forest, where they destroyed a cavern altar and golden eggs that were accelerating the growth of misshapen creatures.
• Master Huiguang and the monks later found a deeper cavern filled with larger golden eggs and fought creatures that sprang from its walls.
• A blood-red-robed entity emerged from a pillar of light and asked whether the monks had come to awaken it.
• Master Huiguang and the monks noticed that the entity weakened when its eyes were closed, and its strength began to diminish.

The masters of Qiguang Temple defeated Blood Fiend Demon Lord, the Dao Protector of the Submergence Clan, and the cultivators of the Sky Zenith Domain prepared to unite against the Ancient Pagoda. Just as the sects began rallying around Qiguang Temple, the Ancient Pagoda unleashed a new blood-fiend calamity across the land.

• The Ancient Pagoda's guardians emerged from beneath the earth, and the cultivators fought together until they shattered one statue.
• Blood Fiend Demon Lord rose from the shattered statue and drove cultivators into illusions, but Master Huiguang and the masters of Qiguang Temple defeated him with Buddhist Law.
• Long Ling urged the cultivators in Lihu City to unite, defend their homes, and prepare for the Ancient Pagoda's next attack.
• Profound Heaven Sect and the Nether Palace offered support to Qiguang Temple, while cultivators formed defenses around Master Huiguang and one Profound Heaven Sect disciple died shielding him.
• The sky turned blood-red as the Ancient Pagoda's power transformed the land, and hideous faces gathered in the clouds while the cultivators' protective shields began to crack.

Baleful Intent transformed cultivators into zombies and spawned Blood Curse Corpse Worms, forcing Long Ling and the Cosmos cultivators to fight for survival. They defeated the Corpse Worm King by discovering its head was vulnerable, but the ancient tower’s secrets remained unresolved.

• Baleful Intent spread from the ancient tower, turning cultivators into zombies that Long Ling directed the others to fight by targeting their heads.
• Fallen cultivators’ Divine Soul Bodies formed the Zombie King, which became a source for swarms of Blood Curse Corpse Worms.
• Long Ling ordered the cultivators to use fire and lightning against the corpse worms, while the search for a way to seal the ancient tower continued.
• The Corpse Worm King emerged from the tower and attacked the cultivators with poisonous mist, swarms, and powerful blows.
• An old cultivator used an ancient jade talisman to expose the Corpse Worm King’s head as its weakness, and the cultivators concentrated their attacks there.
• The cultivators shattered the Corpse Worm King’s head and pursued the fleeing Blood Curse Corpse Worms, winning a temporary victory while the ancient tower’s secrets remained unknown.

Long Ling and Master Huiguang prepared the Pudu Sutra’s power to fight the ancient tower’s creatures, then led the cultivators through battles against a Dragon Bat and a Wolf King’s werewolves. After the werewolves fell, a mysterious Blood-colored Flower emerged from the cracking ground, leaving a new threat unresolved.

• Long Ling and Master Huiguang planned to weaken the ancient tower’s creatures with Pudu Sutra artifacts and Buddhist formations, then led the prepared cultivators into battle.
• The cultivators used the sutra’s power to defeat the tower’s creatures, but blood-drinking bats attacked and the Blood-colored Evil Coffin absorbed the origins of fallen cultivators.
• The coffin released a colossal Dragon Bat, which Master Huiguang and the monks defeated with the Eight Divine Dragons summoned through the Pudu Sutra.
• The Dragon Bat’s blood activated the tower’s runes and summoned a Wolf King, whose light-rain revived fallen cultivators as werewolves.
• Long Ling rallied the cultivators to exploit the werewolves’ weaknesses, and they destroyed the creatures and pursued the fleeing Blood Curse Corpse Worms.
• The ground cracked after the battle, and a Blood-colored Flower rose from the earth, drawing vitality as blood-colored light gathered around it.