Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong continued toward the Earth Giant tribe after reflecting on his growing strength, his allies, and the treasures he had gained. When two unfamiliar Earth Giants insulted him and tried to bar his way, he prepared to demonstrate his power.

• Lei Dong recalled his Fierce Ghost Army, gave the Thunder Strike Divine Crocodile's flesh to A Chou and Ghost Thorn, and let them recover in his Upper Grade Spiritual Treasure Soul Nurturing Pagoda.
• Lei Dong reflected on his master Myriad Ghost Ancestor's rising strength and his pursuit of Flame Demon before continuing his journey.
• After two more months of travel, Lei Dong arrived near the Earth Giant tribe and introduced himself as Chief Rock's sworn brother.
• Two foreign Earth Giants dismissed Lei Dong as a lowly human and demanded that he leave while Rock met with their chief.
• Lei Dong challenged the pair to drive him out, and one Earth Giant angrily swung his wooden club at him.

Lei Dong defeated two Earth Giants who tried to drive him away, then faced their powerful leader, Kui Tu, until Rock arrived and stopped the fight. Rock was delighted to learn Lei Dong had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, while Kui Tu remained skeptical of his strength.

• Lei Dong crushed one Earth Giant's club and broke the pair's boulder attack with his Netherworld spells.
• The two Earth Giants fled, but Lei Dong caught up and harried them with Netherworld Finger strikes.
• Kui Tu arrived, used Gravity Technique and a stone spear against Lei Dong, and revealed his Nascent Soul Mid-tier strength.
• Rock rushed in and called Lei Dong his best brother, prompting both Lei Dong and Kui Tu to stop fighting.
• Kui Tu criticized Lei Dong's confidence, and Rock reacted with shock when he learned Lei Dong had reached Nascent Soul Early Stage.

Lei Dong defended his alliance with Rock as a bond rooted in mutual interest and genuine brotherhood, while Kui Tu challenged him to settle their dispute through strength. The chapter ended with Lei Dong raising the stakes and Kui Tu yet to answer.

• Rock celebrated Lei Dong's Nascent Soul cultivation and defended their friendship against Kui Tu's suspicions.
• Kui Tu urged Rock to unite the Earth Giant tribes and drive out those who would use them, but Rock refused to betray Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong admitted that he had initially befriended Rock partly to benefit from the Earth Giants' strength and explained that lasting alliances depended on mutual interest.
• Rock accepted Lei Dong's explanation and reaffirmed their brotherhood, while Kui Tu challenged Lei Dong to a fight over access to Earth Giant resources.
• Rock warned that Kui Tu had killed a Nascent Soul High-tier Monster Beast, and Lei Dong offered his life and ten billion Spirit Stones if he lost.

Lei Dong and Kui Tu sealed a life-or-pills wager and began their duel, each believing the other would lose. After Lei Dong’s Netherflame Bullet forced Kui Tu to take him seriously, Kui Tu summoned a Rock Puppet with the Law of Earth.

• Kui Tu accepted Lei Dong’s challenge, wagering a billion Spirit Stones’ worth of pills against Lei Dong’s life and staking his own life if he lost.
• Lei Dong and Kui Tu sealed their wager with a palm strike as Rock’s tribe and Qian Chang gathered to watch.
• Kui Tu attacked Lei Dong with a giant spear, but Lei Dong used Ghost Shadow Escape to evade the thrusts and appear behind him.
• Lei Dong struck Kui Tu with a Netherflame Bullet, whose flames spread up Kui Tu’s arm and forced him to expend effort extinguishing them.
• Kui Tu acknowledged Lei Dong’s unusual abilities and summoned a Rock Puppet by invoking the Law of Earth.

Lei Dong defeated Kui Tu by turning the Earth Giant’s advantage against him with his Ghost Kings and cannon ghosts. He persuaded Kui Tu to ally the Earth Giants with the Rock Clan, leaving his power poised to expand.

• Kui Tu summoned a powerful Rock Puppet, and it gained the upper hand against A Chou while Kui Tu pressed Lei Dong with gravity and earth techniques.
• Lei Dong revealed his demonic wings, escaped Kui Tu’s gravity cage, and summoned Ghost Thorn to join A Chou against the Rock Puppet.
• Lei Dong deployed the Netherflame Ghost Banner and hundreds of Big Belly Cannon Ghosts, whose barrage destroyed the Rock Puppet.
• With the Rock Puppet defeated and Lei Dong’s forces overwhelming him, Kui Tu admitted defeat and offered his life.
• Lei Dong told Kui Tu he wanted the Earth Giants and Rock Clan to be allies, and Kui Tu agreed to follow his instructions and form the alliance.

Lei Dong entered the Nine Nether Abyss aboard the Flying Boat Xiao You gave him, renamed it Harem, and pursued treasures for himself and his companions. The chapter left him playing chess with his newly freed younger brother Lei Long as the boat traveled deeper into the perilous abyss.

• Xiao You gave Lei Dong the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s prized Flying Boat, Other Garden, and Lei Dong renamed it Harem and added a lightning bolt to its bow.
• Lei Dong traveled into the Nine Nether Abyss to seek Ten Thousand Year Nether Milk and Netherworld Ghost Tiger Essence Blood.
• Lei Dong planned to use the Nether Milk to loosen the Blood Sacrifice restraints and the Essence Blood to strengthen his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger’s bloodline.
• Lei Dong summoned ghost soldiers for protection and brought along his brother Lei Long, whom he had freed from the former Devil Emperor’s palace.
• Lei Dong played chess with Lei Long aboard the Harem while the two-winged flying dragon, who resembled him, proudly called himself Lei Dong’s younger brother.

Lei Dong traveled through the Netherworld with Lei Long and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s elite guards, but a vague premonition left him wary of danger ahead. Seeking ways to grow stronger, he checked on his Ghost Soldier with the damaged Fair Arena’s Artifact Spirit.

• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor respected Lei Dong more after seeing that Lei Long, a powerful Spirit Transmutation cultivator, called him big brother.
• Lei Long lost a game of Go to the Netherworld Ghost Emperor, then pestered Lei Dong until Xiao You took his place.
• Lei Dong watched the floating mountains from his room aboard the “Harem” ship and considered his uncertain premonition of future trouble.
• Lei Dong resolved to stay cautious and seek strength through cultivation and external treasures, reflecting on how the Soul Devouring Pagoda had shaped his life.
• Lei Dong asked the Fair Arena’s Artifact Spirit about his Ghost Soldier, and the Artifact Spirit criticized it while complaining that Lei Dong had damaged the Arena Tower.

Lei Dong discussed the Arena Tower’s repair costs with the Arena Spirit and agreed to study weapon refining while collecting the needed materials. He proposed combining Yin Souls into weapons, and the chapter ended with the two completing a seven-soul gun design that Lei Dong prepared to test on a Netherworld Monster Beast.

• The Arena Spirit gave Lei Dong an initial repair-material list, then provided a more realistic minimum list after he objected to its cost and rarity.
• Lei Dong promised to gather the materials within a hundred years, and the Arena Spirit asked him to study weapon refining so he could repair the Arena Tower.
• Lei Dong proposed refining separate Yin Souls into components and combining them into stronger weapons, demonstrating the idea with a Big Belly Cannon Ghost design.
• Lei Dong and the Arena Spirit developed a weapon resembling an assault rifle, assembled from seven Yin Souls.
• Lei Dong extended his divine sense from the Flying Boat, found a Golden Core-level Netherworld Monster Beast more than ten li away, and prepared to test the gun.

Lei Dong tested a prototype Netherflame weapon and considered how arming mortals could help him develop the Great Desert and prepare for powerful enemies. After refining the design during his journey, he created an Initial-stage Netherworld Gun capable of letting trained soldiers threaten Monster Beasts far stronger than themselves.

• Xiao You restrained a Netherworld Venom Scorpion so Lei Dong could test his prototype gun, which wounded the Golden Core-level beast but failed to kill it.
• Lei Dong explained that weapons usable by mortals could help armies defend settlements and support his plans to develop the Great Desert.
• Lei Dong reflected on the threat posed by the Three Races and the need to build forces beyond his personal strength.
• Lei Dong identified the prototype gun's excessive recoil and slow firing rate as shortcomings while traveling toward the Nether River.
• Lei Dong and the artifact spirit tested and revised designs until they created the Initial-stage Netherworld Gun, which could fire more than a hundred shots when fully charged.

A Nether Phoenix Race party and the Insect Emperor searched the Red Sha Cloud Mist for Nether God Hall ruins and a Nine Nether Soul Devouring Insect King. Meanwhile, Lei Dong’s group reached the mist’s edge, where Xiao You warned them they had to continue on foot toward a cave her father had found.

• The Insect Emperor and the Nether Phoenix Race’s blindfolded leader arrived near the Nether River to search for Nether God Hall ruins.
• The Insect Emperor confirmed that he sought the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Insect King and reminded the Nether Phoenix Race that it had ten years to help him find it.
• The Insect Emperor ordered his group to search the Red Sha Cloud Mist carefully and remain alert.
• Lei Dong and his group reached the edge of the Red Sha Cloud Mist aboard the Flying Boat.
• Xiao You explained that the group could not use the Flying Boat in the dangerous terrain and that her father had found a nearby Nether River Stalactite Cave.

Lei Dong and his companions entered the poisonous Crimson Sha Blood Mist near the Netherworld River and advanced toward the coordinates left by the Netherworld Ghost Emperor. After Lei Dong's group killed a Crimson Sha Blood Dove, Lei Long collected the blood-mist essence from its nest for the guards to divide.

• Lei Dong tested the Red Sha Cloud Mist's corrosive power and agreed that everyone could share any essence they collected equally.
• The Ghost King guards accepted Lei Dong more warmly as they traveled toward the Netherworld Ghost Emperor's coordinates.
• Lei Dong's group formed a protective formation and advanced through the dangerous swamp.
• A Crimson Sha Blood Dove attacked Lei Dong, but he restrained it while the guards and Xiao You killed it.
• Lei Long collected blood-mist essence from the Blood Dove's nest as the guards eagerly offered their containers.

Lei Dong and his companions reached the Nether River, where Xiao You and the guard captain explained how the river gave rise to the ghost race. The artifact spirit revealed that the Nether God had created the river and ghost race, leaving Lei Dong to wonder why their powerful enemies had not destroyed them.

• Lei Dong fairly divided the blood mist essence and led the group safely to the Nether River after more than a month of travel.
• A vengeful spirit leapt from the river but retreated when a Ghost King guard displayed his power.
• Xiao You told Lei Dong that the Nether River washed away ghosts’ hostility, resentment, and memories before they returned as Spirit Ghosts, and the guard captain warned him to keep this secret.
• The guard captain explained that souls drawn into the river were cleansed and became high-quality Spirit Ghosts, while some evolved into vengeful spirits.
• The artifact spirit told Lei Dong that the Nether God had created the ghost race and woven the Nether River’s law into the universe, but its effects on powerful souls produced vengeful spirits.
• Lei Dong suspected the Nether God had created the ghost race to oppose powerful beings and wondered why those beings had not wiped it out.

Lei Dong, Xiao You, Lei Long, and the Ghost King guards traveled through the dangerous Nether River aboard Xiao You’s Five-Colored Shuttle and reached a hidden cavern rich in rare Chaos Spirit Qi. After discovering the cavern’s value, Lei Dong learned that the artifact spirit could teach him a formation to gather and store the Qi.

• Xiao You summoned her Five-Colored Shuttle, and the group divided the Ghost King guards into shifts to escort it through the Nether River.
• The shuttle carried Lei Dong, Xiao You, and Lei Long through violent currents while the guards fought off attacking river creatures.
• Following the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s map, the group descended more than a hundred and fifty miles and entered a cavern that kept out the river waters.
• Lei Dong and Xiao You discovered that the golden cavern contained traces of Chaos Spirit Qi, which Lei Long also found familiar.
• The artifact spirit told Lei Dong about the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation, which could collect and store the rare Chaos Spirit Qi.

Lei Dong used the artifact spirit’s guidance to set up a Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation and collected two bottles of the rare Chaos Spirit Qi. He shared it with Xiao You and Lei Long, compensated the Ghost King guards with their Crimson Sha Blood Mist Essence, and continued searching for more.

• Lei Dong asked the artifact spirit to explain how to set up the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation.
• With the artifact spirit’s guidance, Lei Dong assembled the formation and used it to gather Chaos Spirit Qi into a jade bottle.
• Lei Dong collected two bottles of Chaos Spirit Qi before the crude formation exhausted the nearby supply.
• Lei Dong decided to share the Chaos Spirit Qi with Xiao You and Lei Long while giving the Ghost King guards their share of the Crimson Sha Blood Mist Essence instead.
• The guard captain accepted Lei Dong’s decision, and Lei Dong led the group onward to search for more Chaos Spirit Qi.

Evil Phoenix and Insect Emperor found Chaos Spirit Qi beneath Nether River Valley and negotiated to share it, with Evil Phoenix taking six parts to his four. Elsewhere, Lei Dong and the Ghost clan collected Chaos Spirit Qi until Lei Long sensed a denser source and warned them of a powerful Monster Beast.

• Evil Phoenix stopped Feng Juan from arguing with Insect Emperor and ordered her to enter life-or-death seclusion after their expedition.
• Insect Emperor admitted he had sought Evil Phoenix because he hoped she knew how to form a Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation, and she confirmed her clan's inheritance contained the method.
• Evil Phoenix and Insect Emperor negotiated a six-four split of the Chaos Spirit Qi and began collecting it.
• Lei Dong and the Ghost clan gathered eight small jade bottles of Chaos Spirit Qi as they traveled deeper into the cavern.
• Lei Long sensed denser Chaos Spirit Qi ahead, led the group toward a possible Chaos Spirit Cave, and warned them when he detected a powerful Monster Beast.
• A foul, nauseating wind rushed toward Lei Dong and the others.

Lei Long killed a Nascent Soul Peak Netherworld Black Snake and gave its Demon Infant to Lei Dong. While searching the snake’s lair for treasure, the group found a Chaos Spirit Qi vortex surrounding a flower that Lei Dong’s Artifact Spirit identified as the Chaos Golden Lotus.

• A Netherworld Black Snake ambushed Lei Dong and the others, but Lei Long warned them and identified it as a Nascent Soul Peak beast.
• Lei Long fought the snake and killed it with ease, then sealed its Demon Infant in a Soul Sealing Ball and gave it to Lei Dong.
• At Lei Long’s suggestion, the group split up to search the passages for treasures the snake might have guarded.
• Xiao You found a small stone chamber with a Chaos Spirit Qi vortex and a nearly blooming flower inside.
• Lei Dong’s Artifact Spirit recognized the flower as the Chaos Golden Lotus.

Lei Dong’s group encountered Evil Phoenix and the Insect Emperor’s powerful parties in a hidden chamber, where both sides discovered a Chaos Golden Lotus. The groups assessed each other’s strength and prepared for a confrontation over the treasure.

• Xie Feng spotted the Chaos Golden Lotus as her group entered the chamber and came face-to-face with Lei Dong’s party.
• Lei Long warned Lei Dong that the newcomers included two Spirit Transmutation-level experts.
• The Insect Emperor and Evil Phoenix recognized Lei Long’s powerful aura and wondered whether the Netherworld Ghost Emperor was with Lei Dong’s group.
• Evil Phoenix declared that she would fight for the Chaos Golden Lotus, even if the Netherworld Ghost Emperor were present.
• Lei Dong’s guard captain identified the black-robed expert as the Insect Emperor and the closed-eyed woman as Evil Phoenix, empress of the Nether Phoenix Race.

Lei Dong’s group encountered the Insect Emperor and Evil Phoenix over the Chaos Golden Lotus, and Lei Long tried to conceal the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s location while provoking them. The two sides prepared to fight for the treasure.

• Lei Dong recognized Evil Phoenix and the Insect Emperor as leaders of two of the Netherworld’s four great races and considered the conflict between them and the Ghost Race.
• The Insect Emperor proposed dividing the Chaos Golden Lotus among the three races and questioned Lei Long about his origins and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s whereabouts.
• At Xiao You’s instruction, Lei Long introduced himself as a Crown Prince and traded barbed remarks with the Insect Emperor.
• The Insect Emperor tried to learn whether the Netherworld Ghost Emperor was nearby, but Lei Long refused to reveal his location and mocked him.
• Evil Phoenix declared that she and the Insect Emperor would take the Chaos Golden Lotus, and Lei Long welcomed a fight over it.

Xiao You used Lei Long’s apparent arrogance and wealth to make Evil Phoenix and the Insect Emperor suspect that he came from a powerful force, possibly the Demon Realm. Her deception made the Clan Leaders hesitate to attack, leaving Xiao You and Lei Dong safer for the moment.

• The Insect Emperor urged Evil Phoenix to avoid provoking Lei Long until they knew more about his background, and she calmed down.
• Lei Long taunted the two Clan Leaders and offered a thousand Top Grade Spirit Stones and ten bottles of Chaos Spirit Qi as stakes in a fight.
• Evil Phoenix agreed to fight Lei Long outside in the Nether River and offered goods and ten bottles of Chaos Spirit Qi of her own.
• The Insect Emperor and Evil Phoenix inferred from Lei Long’s resources and talk of the Chaos Spirit Gathering Formation that his clan had deep roots.
• Xiao You’s verbal traps led the Clan Leaders to suspect Lei Long might have come from the Demon Realm, making them wary of a possible invasion.
• The hesitation Xiao You engineered left her and Lei Dong safer from the stronger opponents.

Lei Long and Evil Phoenix sparred in the Nether River, where their fire and frost proved evenly matched until Evil Phoenix unleashed her hereditary Innate Spiritual Treasure, Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens. Lei Long transformed into his giant-dragon form to withstand its feather attack, though the contest continued.

• Xiao You temporarily pacified the Insect Emperor and Evil Phoenix, and Evil Phoenix and Lei Long left the valley floor to spar in the Nether River.
• Evil Phoenix’s Nether Frost clashed with Lei Long’s True Sun Fire, annihilating river water and harming creatures for miles around.
• Evil Phoenix summoned Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens, whose thousands of phoenix feathers pierced Lei Long and drew blood.
• Lei Long transformed into his enormous Archaic dragon form and raised a divine-sense shield that weakened the feathers’ force.
• The feathers pierced Lei Long’s outer skin, but his thick scales left him barely harmed.