Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong faced the Purgatory Devil King, who confronted him over the death of a Devil General and the stolen Flame Essence. Lei Dong used the Flame Essence to deter an attack, but the Devil King vanished after hinting that someone else would soon come for him.

• The Purgatory Devil King appeared while Lei Dong repaired a Spirit Transmutation Puppet, and Lei Dong recognized him through deduction.
• Lei Dong asked the Purgatory Devil King to let him leave alive and denied trying to use Netherworld Old Ghost to pressure him.
• Lei Dong threatened to destroy the Flame Essence if the Purgatory Devil King tried to kill him.
• The Purgatory Devil King pressured Lei Dong with his aura, then vanished after saying to await someone's fury.
• Lei Dong suspected another powerful expert from the Purgatory Domain had arrived.

Lei Dong raced to repair the Spirit Transmutation Puppet before King Chi Gui arrived, while Ghost Thorn and the ghost soldiers tried to delay her. The puppet awakened just as King Chi Gui reached Lei Dong, and Mò Yáo intercepted her attack, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• The Purgatory Devil King told Lei Dong that King Chi Gui was less than half an hour away and offered to take the Flame Essence, but Lei Dong chose to face her himself.
• Lei Dong sent Ghost Thorn and a group of ghost soldiers to delay King Chi Gui, then sealed his six senses and focused on repairing the puppet.
• After three hours, Lei Dong repaired the final part, and Mò Yáo activated the formations inside the puppet.
• King Chi Gui defeated Ghost Thorn and confronted Lei Dong over Chi Wei's death; Lei Dong healed Ghost Thorn and sent him to the Soul Nurturing Pagoda.
• King Chi Gui attacked Lei Dong with her snake-shaped whip, but Mò Yáo appeared in the Spirit Transmutation Puppet and seized the real whip.

Mò Yáo fought the King Chi Gui, adapting to the Archaic War Giant Dana’s combat techniques until he began to gain the upper hand. The King Chi Gui attacked Lei Dong with her spiritual sense, but Lei Dong countered with Yang Sha Heavenly Thunder and a hidden spiritual-sense strike that pierced her Violet Palace.

• Mò Yáo met the King Chi Gui’s blazing lash with his fists, initially struggling against her attacks.
• Mò Yáo gradually absorbed War Giant Dana’s combat experience and the Fair Arena’s accumulated battle knowledge, turning the fight around.
• The King Chi Gui forced Mò Yáo back and rushed toward Lei Dong, attacking him with blades of spiritual sense.
• Lei Dong defended himself with the Indestructible Profound Yin Shield while secretly sending part of his spiritual sense through the earth.
• The King Chi Gui’s spiritual-sense attack struck Lei Dong’s Yang Sha Heavenly Thunder pellets, whose explosions damaged her Primordial Spirit.
• Lei Dong’s hidden spiritual-sense needle pierced the King Chi Gui’s Violet Palace, gravely wounding her Primordial Spirit.

Lei Dong badly wounded King Chi Gui with divine sense attacks and Netherworld Fingers, then relied on Mò Yáo and the Suicide Ghosts to keep her at bay while he recovered. The Purgatory Devil King watched from hiding and, impressed by Lei Dong’s strength, began considering recruiting him after securing the Flame Essence.

• Lei Dong countered King Chi Gui’s divine sense attack and pierced her with three Netherworld Fingers, then fled as she recovered from the wounds.
• King Chi Gui transformed into a giant crimson serpent and attacked Mò Yáo, who returned to the fight with his halberd.
• Lei Dong replenished his strength and gathered the Suicide Ghosts around himself, holding back the Big Belly Cannon Ghosts to avoid provoking the Purgatory Devil King.
• Mò Yáo kept King Chi Gui from reaching Lei Dong, while the Suicide Ghosts deterred her from closing in on him.
• The Purgatory Devil King reconsidered Lei Dong as a potential ally and recognized him as a newly risen Peak Expert because of his Spirit Transmutation Puppet.

Lei Dong and Mò Yáo had gained the upper hand against the wounded King Chi Gui when the Flame Devil King burst free of his seal and attacked. The Purgatory Devil King claimed he had only released the Flame Devil King to honor a promise, leaving Lei Dong facing another powerful foe as the battle took a sudden turn.

• Lei Dong directed Suicide Ghosts to harass King Chi Gui while Mò Yáo grew stronger in battle, forcing her toward retreat.
• The Purgatory Devil King decided to intervene indirectly rather than break his promise to Lei Dong about the Flame Essence.
• A fireball burst from the magma abyss, and its flaming whip struck Mò Yáo and sent him crashing into a distant rock.
• The Flame Devil King emerged from the fireball and thanked the Purgatory Devil King for breaking his seal.
• The Purgatory Devil King denied responsibility for what the Flame Devil King did next, while Lei Dong and King Chi Gui realized the Flame Devil King had joined the battle.

Lei Dong learned that the Flame Essence could potentially be used to create a powerful, long-lived Flame Element clone, explaining why the Purgatory Devil King wanted it so badly. As the King Chi Gui revealed the Flame Essence was in Lei Dong’s hands, Lei Dong challenged the Purgatory Devil King to honor his promise not to seize it by force.

• Lei Dong asked Mò Yáo about the Flame Essence, and Mò Yáo explained its common uses and recalled rumors that it could be refined into a powerful clone.
• Mò Yáo warned that making such a clone required immense resources and a soul strong enough to reach the Void Refining stage, so Lei Dong could not use the technique himself.
• Lei Dong decided that keeping the Flame Essence at all costs was not worth the risk and began considering how to gain the greatest benefit from it.
• The King Chi Gui told the Flame Devil King that Lei Dong possessed the Flame Monarch’s essence, hoping to draw him into an alliance against the Spirit Transmutation Puppet.
• The Purgatory Devil King realized that the Flame Essence had slipped from his grasp after his elemental agent was killed and the treasure passed through an auction to Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong reminded the Purgatory Devil King that he had promised not to force him to surrender the Flame Essence if he defeated the King Chi Gui.

Lei Dong escaped the Purgatory Devil King’s domain with Mò Yáo while King Chi Gui and the Flame Devil King pursued him. After using Yin Sha Heavenly Thunders to collapse the underground passages, he emerged into the open and waited for the pursuers, where the Purgatory Devil King arrived first.

• Lei Dong rejected King Chi Gui’s opinion and fled on Mò Yáo as the Suicide Ghosts exploded around him.
• King Chi Gui and the Flame Devil King pursued Lei Dong, while the Purgatory Devil King watched before following.
• Lei Dong used his bond with Gui Ming to navigate the escape route and folded space with the True Word Technique to accelerate their flight.
• Lei Dong detonated Yin Sha Heavenly Thunders to collapse passages and unleash landslides and magma against his pursuers.
• Lei Dong emerged from the red canyon, summoned the Harem, and waited as the Purgatory Devil King arrived first and praised his escape.

Lei Dong negotiated with the Purgatory Devil King over the Flame Essence, using his strength and ties to the Netherworld Ghost Emperor to demand a steep price. The Purgatory Devil King threatened to break his word, and Lei Dong revealed he had recorded their conversation.

• The Purgatory Devil King recognized the Netherworld Ghost Emperor’s Flying Boat, and Lei Dong said it had been given to him by the Ghost Emperor.
• The Purgatory Devil King offered ten billion Spirit Stones for the Flame Essence, but Lei Dong countered with Heavenly Spirit Stones and a powerful Fire Element Spiritual Treasure.
• The Purgatory Devil King angrily rejected Lei Dong’s demand, while Lei Dong argued that the Flame Essence was rarer and more valuable than the requested treasure.
• The Purgatory Devil King threatened to give up the Flame Essence rather than pay an outrageous price, and Lei Dong warned that a Sound-fixing Talisman had recorded his promises.

Lei Dong negotiated the Flame Essence’s return to the Purgatory Devil King for seventy-three Heavenly Spirit Stones and a spirit treasure, with safeguards for the exchange. After King Chi Gui and Flame Devil King emerged battered from Lei Dong’s cave, the Purgatory Devil King rebuked King Chi Gui for underestimating him.

• Lei Dong revealed that he knew the Flame Essence could help the Purgatory Devil King refine a Flame Monarch avatar and used that knowledge to negotiate a higher price.
• The Purgatory Devil King agreed to offer seventy-three Heavenly Spirit Stones, and Lei Dong required a Six Extremes Yang Fire spirit treasure, a meeting at the Purgatory–Netherworld border, and Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix as witnesses.
• The Purgatory Devil King added that Lei Dong must remain under his control while Netherworld Ghost Emperor vouched for him, and Lei Dong accepted.
• King Chi Gui and Flame Devil King emerged from the cave battered, and King Chi Gui threatened to kill Lei Dong.
• The Purgatory Devil King stopped King Chi Gui and warned her that dismissing Lei Dong’s abilities and relying on narrow ideas of strength could bring disaster upon the Crimson Fire Snake Clan.

After the Purgatory Devil King protected Lei Dong from King Chi Gui and Flame Devil King, he later arranged a meeting with powerful witnesses to buy back the Flame Essence Lei had stolen. The chapter ended with the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix learning that Lei had stolen it from the Devil King and forced him to negotiate.

• The Purgatory Devil King threatened King Chi Gui with the Purgatory Devil Army and declared that Lei Dong was under his protection.
• The Purgatory Devil King offered to make King Chi Gui's future heir his goddaughter, and King Chi Gui agreed to withdraw from the conflict.
• Flame Devil King and King Chi Gui left, ending their attempt to pursue Lei Dong.
• Several months later, Lei Dong met the Purgatory Devil King, Netherworld Ghost Emperor, Evil Phoenix, and Netherworld Black Snake at a teleportation point to arrange a witnessed deal.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix offered to defend Lei Dong if the Purgatory Devil King had forced him into the deal.
• The Purgatory Devil King explained that he only wanted to buy back what Lei Dong had stolen, and the witnesses realized Lei had taken the Flame Essence from him.

Lei Dong completed a trade with Purgatory Devil King, gaining seventy-three Heavenly Spirit Stones, the Blazing Dragon Cannon, and an alchemy and artifact-refining cauldron. After traveling to the Netherworld Ghost Domain, he kept the secret of what he had traded, leaving Evil Phoenix astonished by the deal’s value.

• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix learned that Lei Dong had reached peak powerhouse strength, and Purgatory Devil King confirmed their trade had been voluntary and fair.
• Lei Dong received seventy-three Heavenly Spirit Stones, bringing his total to eighty-one, and examined the Blazing Dragon Cannon and an ancient cauldron in the storage ring.
• Purgatory Devil King gave Lei Dong a Jade Slip with instructions for using the Blazing Dragon Cannon, and Lei Dong promised to answer his call for help in the future.
• Lei Dong declined Purgatory Devil King’s invitation to stay and traveled with the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix to the Netherworld Ghost Domain.
• Evil Phoenix asked what Lei Dong had traded for the treasures, and he refused to reveal the secret but confirmed he had also received seventy-three Heavenly Spirit Stones.

Lei Dong revealed the Chaos Pagoda’s power to the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix while seeking their help and strengthening their alliance. The chapter ended with them learning that a Heavenly Spirit Stone could let the pagoda refine a Top Grade Spirit Ghost.

• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix questioned Lei Dong about his enormous trade with the Purgatory Devil King, and Lei Dong hinted that the item could greatly increase the Devil King’s strength.
• Lei Dong proposed a valuable deal to the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix, and they traveled to a secluded canyon to discuss it in secret.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix swore not to reveal Lei Dong’s secret or covet his treasure.
• Lei Dong recounted their encounter with powerful Demon Spirit Realm avatars in the Dark Void, and Evil Phoenix explained that Lei Dong’s ghost soldiers had turned the fight in their favor.
• Lei Dong revealed the Chaos Pagoda and explained that it could refine a Top Grade Spirit Ghost using one Heavenly Spirit Stone.

Lei Dong revealed that the Chaos Pagoda could refine Top Grade Spirit Ghosts from Heavenly Spirit Stones and negotiated with the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix. The two leaders agreed to form an alliance with the Dragon Clan to explore the Nine Nether Abyss and prepare for threats from the Three Realms.

• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor reacted with shock to Lei Dong's claim that Heavenly Spirit Stones could produce Top Grade Spirit Ghosts, then offered fifty stones for forty-five ghosts.
• Evil Phoenix also offered fifty Heavenly Spirit Stones for forty-five Top Grade Spirit Ghosts, while the Netherworld Ghost Emperor tried to buy her stones with resources.
• Lei Dong urged the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix to stop competing over immediate gains and cooperate to explore the Nine Nether Abyss, warning that powers from the Three Realms could bring upheaval.
• The Netherworld Ghost Emperor proposed that the ghost, Nether Phoenix, and Dragon Clans form an alliance, and Evil Phoenix agreed to persuade the old dragon.

Lei Dong secured a secret alliance with the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and the Evil Phoenix, then returned to Kang Prefecture after trading Top Grade Spirit Ghosts for Heavenly Spirit Stones. He reached Yin Sha Sect, now the dominant Evil Sect in the prefecture, and overheard young cultivators discussing Ding Wanyan as a senior at the entrance exam.

• Lei Dong proposed a secret alliance among the Netherworld Domain's races, and the Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Evil Phoenix invited his forces to join their pact as a fourth faction.
• Lei Dong traded ninety Top Grade Spirit Ghosts for a hundred Heavenly Spirit Stones, while the Netherworld Ghost Emperor formed a Guard Army for Xiao You.
• Lei Dong left the Netherworld Palace with Mò Yáo and the Mystic Snake and returned to Kang Prefecture after a journey of about ten years.
• Lei Dong found that Yin Sha Sect had annexed the other Evil Sects, gained territory and resources, and begun recruiting Rogue Cultivators and promising youths.
• Lei Dong descended invisibly near Yin Sha Sect's main gate and heard a young woman ask whether Ding Wanyan was presiding over the disciple entrance exam.

Lei Dong learned that Ding Wanyan and Dongfang Fu had reached the Nascent Soul High-tier, then disguised himself as a Rogue Cultivator to revisit the Yin Sha Sect. At the sect’s bustling outer city, he unexpectedly reunited with Zhao Baiwan, the old fellow disciple whose sale of the Soul Devouring Pagoda had changed Lei Dong’s life.

• Lei Dong overheard cultivators discuss Ding Wanyan, Dongfang Fu, and Tantai Bingyun as Kang Prefecture’s leading hopes for reaching Spirit Transmutation.
• Lei Dong disguised himself as a Rogue Cultivator and wandered through the market town at the foot of the Yin Sha Sect.
• An elderly Foundation Establishment cultivator recognized Lei Dong as Junior Brother Lei, but Lei Dong initially failed to recognize him.
• Zhao Baiwan revealed his identity, and Lei Dong recalled how Zhao had once sold him the Soul Devouring Pagoda as a worthless item.
• Lei Dong warmly invited Zhao Baiwan to have a drink and reminisced about their old connection.

Lei Dong reunited with Zhao Baiwan, defended himself from Zhao Renjie’s attack, and left after restoring some of Zhao Baiwan’s health. A warning sounded at the Yin Sha Sect, where its powerful elders gathered to face an unknown danger, including the Netherworld Devil Venerable.

• Zhao Renjie mocked Lei Dong and attacked him with poisoned spikes hidden in a fan, but the strikes could not pierce Lei Dong’s body.
• Lei Dong forgave Zhao Renjie, gave Zhao Baiwan Netherworld Ghost Qi to heal his injuries, and told him he could use Lei Dong’s name to seek help from a Grand Elder.
• Lei Dong vanished, and Zhao Baiwan’s descendants realized he was the legendary Ghost Asura and likely a Nascent Soul powerhouse.
• A danger warning rang through the Yin Sha Sect, and Lei Dong saw its elders, Ding Wanyan, Dongfang Fu, and Qi Feifei gather in the sky.
• The Netherworld Devil Venerable arrived on dark clouds, and the others respectfully greeted him.

Lei Dong returned to the Yin Sha Sect, reunited with his master and Ding Wanyan, and met the newly advanced Netherworld Devil Venerable. When the sect investigated an alarm about a Spirit Transmutation Demon Beast near Evil Dragon Ridge, Lei Dong identified it as an ally he had borrowed from Evil Phoenix.

• The Netherworld Devil Venerable sensed Lei Dong hiding nearby, welcomed him back, and asked him to speak with him later.
• Lei Dong greeted the Myriad Ghosts Devil, who welcomed him home and asked about his journey to the Great Gan Continent.
• Lei Dong embraced Ding Wanyan and apologized for leaving her alone, while Dongfang Fu and the Yin Sha Devil Venerable teased them.
• Blood Demon reminded everyone that the alarm had called them together, and the Yin Sha Devil Venerable explained that a Spirit Transmutation Demon Beast had entered Evil Dragon Ridge.
• Lei Dong stopped the Yin Sha Devil Venerable from gathering the sect's disciples and used his spiritual sense to confirm that the beast was a Netherworld Black Snake he had borrowed from Evil Phoenix.

Lei Dong returned to the Yin Sha Sect with the Mystic Snake, then traveled to the Yaksha Sea to check on the Heavenly Demon. He found her injuries stable but unresolved and vowed to obtain the Water of Life, even if he had to slaughter the Light Domain.

• The Mystic Snake arrived at Lei Dong's call, and Lei Dong casually smacked him before the serpent transformed and greeted him obsequiously.
• Lei Dong introduced the Mystic Snake to Netherworld Devil Venerable and arranged for him to advise and protect the newly advanced Spirit Transmutation elder.
• Lei Dong introduced his companions and Ding Wanyan as his wife, then settled briefly at the Yin Sha Sect headquarters.
• Lei Dong traveled to the Yaksha Sea and found the Heavenly Demon preserved by the Soul of Water Separation near the Azure Wave Illusion Realm.
• The Yaksha King told Lei Dong that the Heavenly Demon's condition was stable and she could last another seventy or eighty years, and Lei Dong vowed to obtain the Water of Life for her.

The chapter described the Bright Holy Domain’s history, isolationist Winged God Clan, and formidable defenses. Lei Dong planned to seize the Life Divine Water by targeting the weaker King of Dawn, whose Dawn Continent guarded its teleportation route with a powerful fortress.

• The Bright Holy Domain’s floating continent was shattered during a war between the Winged God Clan, Devils, and Immortal Race, and the Winged God Clan later became the Immortal Race’s warriors.
• The domains and Nine Provinces remained connected by ancient teleportation routes, while the Winged God Clan excluded outsiders from the Bright Holy Domain.
• The Winged God Clan’s nine Spirit Transmutation Experts and heavily defended Sky Main Cities made the Bright Holy Domain one of the Six Domains’ two traditional powers.
• Lei Dong judged King of Dawn a weaker target than the Twin Kings of Radiance, though King of Dawn still ruled a vast continent and army.
• Dawn No. 15, commanded by Merk, guarded a teleportation route with Winged God troops, Iron Blood Knights, and extensive personnel.

Lei Dong assessed Fortress No. 15’s defenses and the strengths and weaknesses of the Bright Holy Domain’s human armies. A disguised Yi Kong arrived at the fortress with human attendants and greeted its guard, Andrew, setting up Lei Dong’s planned assault.

• Lei Dong’s intelligence revealed that Fortress No. 15 was protected by Winged God People, Light Cannons, and ten thousand disciplined Iron Blood Knights.
• The chapter explained how the Winged God Clan enslaved humans, controlled their cultivation, and selectively transformed some into Winged God People.
• Lei Dong judged that the Iron Blood Knights posed a serious threat but remained confident he could capture the fortress.
• Yi Kong arrived through the fortress’s defensive teleportation array with a squad of humans dressed as Battle Masters and mages.
• Andrew recognized Yi Kong and asked about his return from the Netherworld Ghost Domain, and Yi Kong said he had gone there on business and had to support himself as an orphan.