Recaps

Ji Tian and his companions faced the lightning covering Netherworld Mountain, and Ji Tian pressed on after the Demonic Dragon charged ahead. The Demonic Dragon gained a new golden body through the lightning, while Ji Tian gave up his protection and endured the Purple Divine Lightning, ending with his conviction and a surge of vitality still alive within him.

• Ji Tian sent a Ghost into the lightning, where it was destroyed, and then watched the Demonic Dragon charge into the storm.
• Inspired by the Demonic Dragon, Ji Tian entered the lightning and used Pangu's Remains to shield himself and absorb its strange power.
• Ji Tian found the Demonic Dragon reduced to Flesh and Blood and hurled the Black Bone Relic at a bolt of Purple Divine Lightning aimed at its head.
• A Dragon Pearl formed from the Demonic Dragon's battle intent and gathered its Flesh and Blood into a new golden body.
• Believing the lightning could transform him, Ji Tian withdrew the relic's protection and endured strikes that destroyed his ghostly body and sea of consciousness.
• Ji Tian clung to his conviction as the sun remained in his mind, surrounded by boundless vitality and surging spiritual energy.

Ji Tian awakened as a Ghost Immortal and reunited with the transformed Demonic Dragon, whom he named Ao Cang. At the mountaintop, Nine Fear drained the Heavenly Pool and revealed a black lotus that lured Ji Tian toward it, so Ji Tian refined Soul Stabilizing Grass to resist its influence.

• Ji Tian discovered he had become a Ghost Immortal with a Yang God and formed a robe from spiritual energy.
• Ji Tian reunited with the Demonic Dragon, taught him to change his shape, and named him Ao Cang.
• Ji Tian and Ao Cang reached the mountaintop, where Ao Cang nearly lost his vitality to the Heavenly Pool before Ji Tian pulled him back.
• The Spirit of Fear entered the pool, absorbed its power, and took physical form as the nine-headed Nine Fear.
• As Nine Fear devoured the pool, a black lotus appeared and drew Ji Tian toward it, but Ao Cang's warning brought him back to his senses.
• Ji Tian refined Soul Stabilizing Grass to resist the lotus's influence, while Nine Fear finished draining the pool and fell asleep.

Ji Tian nearly lost himself in the Demonic Lotus’s illusion, but Nine Fear destroyed it and awakened him. After Ji Tian began recovering on Netherworld Mountain, Ao Cang and the others searched Netherworld Land for a way out.

• Ji Tian tried to refine the black lotus, but its power trapped him in an illusion of a beautiful valley and mountains.
• Nine Fear attacked the illusion with black rain and corrupted the lotus, restoring Ji Tian’s killing intent and resentment.
• Nine Fear used his primordial spirit to break through the mist in Ji Tian’s sea of consciousness and wake him.
• Ao Cang told Ji Tian that Nine Fear had returned to his body and that the Demonic Lotus seemed to have entered with him.
• Ji Tian began recovering on the mountaintop while Ao Cang accused the Great Desolate Skeleton and Heavenly Ghost of being untrustworthy.

Luo Hou fought Yellow Springs in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, drawing on the Netherworld Land’s death qi and overpowering Yellow Springs’ attacks. As Ji Tian and his companions approached, Heavenly Ghost reported that Yellow Springs was losing and had established a deadly formation.

• Ji Tian sensed a familiar aura in the gorge and sent Heavenly Ghost to investigate before following with Ao Cang and Great Desolate.
• Luo Hou attacked Yellow Springs and revealed that he was the demon sealed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Yellow Springs fought back with blood-red swords and Blood God Sons, but Luo Hou destroyed the creatures and refined their curse with death qi.
• Luo Hou gathered the Netherworld Land’s death qi, formed a blood-red halberd, and used it to resist Yellow Springs’ attacks.
• Yellow Springs considered summoning his companion treasure despite the risk of Heavenly Dao punishment, while Ji Tian and his companions rushed toward the battle.
• Heavenly Ghost arrived trembling and told Ji Tian that Yellow Springs was losing and had set up a deadly formation.

Luo Hou battled Yellow Springs and the Heavenly Ghost before confronting Ji Tian, who tried to stop his killing. Luo Hou revealed he could use the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art to turn Ji Tian back into an Artifact Spirit, but Ji Tian was swallowed by a nine-headed Black Lion.

• Yellow Springs trapped Luo Hou in a blood drop and attacked him with the Asura Blood Sword, but Luo Hou broke free and overwhelmed Yellow Springs.
• The Heavenly Ghost trapped Luo Hou in shifting illusions and attacked with Nether Bamboo, but Luo Hou tore off its hand and drove it away.
• Ji Tian appeared and tried to stop Luo Hou, arguing that he should follow the Heavenly Dao's rules.
• Luo Hou attacked Ji Tian, then summoned the Heaven Devouring Halberd and used the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art to pull Ji Tian toward becoming an Artifact Spirit again.
• Ji Tian resisted Luo Hou's control, but a nine-headed Black Lion pounced on Luo Hou and swallowed him whole.

Luo Hou and Ji Tian’s clash with the sword mountain left them both gravely wounded, and Ji Tian detonated his primordial spirit to stop Luo Hou from taking over his body. Yellow Springs survived the battle and sent Ao Cang and the Great Desolate Skeleton toward the Blood Sea, while the Black Lotus returned to Luo Hou.

• Luo Hou forced his way through the sword mountain’s killing intent and clashed with its Dao Sword, but the attack shattered his wings and badly wounded him.
• The sword mountain’s backlash shattered the Nine Fear and devastated Ji Tian’s sea of consciousness, while Luo Hou used the turmoil to try to seize Ji Tian’s body.
• Ji Tian refused to submit and detonated his primordial spirit, blasting Luo Hou into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yellow Springs tried to take the Black Lotus, but it evaded him and flew toward Luo Hou, so he chose not to pursue.
• Yellow Springs opened a portal to the Blood Sea and told Ao Cang and the Great Desolate Skeleton to escape before returning to his cultivation place.

Ao Cang encountered a Black Tiger whose body was protected by an earthy-yellow pearl, then refined the pearl and broke through to the Heavenly Immortal realm. He identified it as the Earth Spirit Pearl, a treasure containing the essence and laws of the earth.

• Ao Cang wandered the Primordial World, unable to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and troubled by a violent aura within him.
• Ao Cang spared a Black Tiger, but it repeatedly attacked him, so he fought back and discovered that its body could withstand his blows.
• Ao Cang transformed into a dragon, but the Black Tiger wounded him until he froze and shattered it with his Dragon Breath.
• Ao Cang found an earthy-yellow pearl inside the Black Tiger, then concealed himself when a Hou appeared above the mountain.
• Ao Cang refined the Earth Spirit Pearl over time, strengthening his body and primordial spirit and breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal realm.

After breaking through to Heaven Immortal, Ao Cang fought the Fire Hou, whose Flame Blade nearly overwhelmed him. Ao Cang detonated the high-temperature earthen beads he had prepared, but the Fire Hou survived the explosions.

• Ao Cang broke through, killed three Savage Bulls, and devoured their Inner Cores before the Fire Hou appeared.
• The Fire Hou attacked Ao Cang with blazing kicks, but Ao Cang held his ground and struck it down with his tail.
• The Fire Hou summoned its Flame Blade and attacked with Cross-Shaped Fire Chains, while Ao Cang used the Earth Spirit Pearl to form a stone wall and scatter the flames into high-temperature earthen beads.
• The Fire Hou pressed its attack with the Flame Blade, severely injuring Ao Cang and nearly exhausting his spiritual power.
• Ao Cang activated the earthen beads, unleashing a barrage of explosions that devastated the mountains, but the Fire Hou roared from within the smoke.

Ao Cang survived his battle with Fire Hou after Ao Qu rescued him and brought him to the Dragon Clan’s ancestral home. As the Ancestral Dragon learned of Ao Cang’s arrival and ordered him rewarded, Ao Cang began cultivating with renewed determination amid the rising tensions among the clans.

• Ao Cang fought on despite his exhaustion, and Ao Qu trapped and destroyed Fire Hou before freeing him.
• Ao Qu urged Ao Cang to abandon mercy in the dangerous Primordial World and invited him to return to the Dragon Clan.
• Ao Qu explained the origins and rivalries of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans during their journey to the Dragon Clan’s ancestral mountains.
• Ao Qu reported Ao Cang’s arrival to the Ancestral Dragon, who ordered a spiritual treasure granted to him and the news of an Innate Spiritual Root kept secret.
• Ao Cang absorbed Dragon Qi in his cave and vowed to cultivate until he could rival the world’s strongest beings.

Ao Cang rescued a young Dragon Clan member from a Kirin and accidentally sent a broken crescent treasure toward the Sea of Blood. There, the fragment joined Luo Hou’s Heaven Devouring Halberd and helped him break Yellow Springs’ Blood River Great Formation, leaving Yellow Springs to attack.

• Ao Cang used his aura to stop a Kirin from killing an injured young Dragon Clan member, then gave the young man a healing elixir.
• The young Dragon Clan member left Ao Cang with a radiant treasure, which resisted Ao Cang’s control and flew toward the Sea of Blood.
• Luo Hou confronted Yellow Springs over a sealed treasure as Yellow Springs trapped him inside the Blood River Great Formation.
• Luo Hou’s black lotus absorbed Yellow Springs’ Blood God Sons, while a broken Heaven Devouring Halberd fragment emerged from Luo Hou’s body.
• Ao Cang’s fragment pierced the formation and merged with Luo Hou’s Heaven Devouring Halberd, destroying several Blood River banners.
• Yellow Springs unleashed two enormous swords of Killing Qi and Killing Intent at Luo Hou.

Luo Hou defeated Yellow Springs, devoured his primordial spirit, and revealed his plan to become Great God Pangu again. A wisp of Xuanhuang’s consciousness resisted him and sealed the Netherworld Land, though Luo Hou challenged how long the seal could hold.

• Luo Hou overwhelmed Yellow Springs in battle, and his final halberd strike split Yellow Springs’s body while revealing a trace of the Law of Force.
• Luo Hou turned into black smoke, devoured Yellow Springs’s primordial spirit, and declared that he would recreate Pangu’s Body and settle the score with the Heavenly Dao.
• Xuanhuang’s consciousness emerged within Yellow Springs’s primordial spirit and confronted Luo Hou over the Demonic Heart Black Lotus.
• Luo Hou attacked Xuanhuang with the black holes in his sea of consciousness, but Xuanhuang escaped and formed a diagram that sealed the Netherworld Land.
• Luo Hou sneered at Xuanhuang’s seal and said he would see how long Xuanhuang could keep him trapped.

Luo Hou went to Mount Buzhou to exploit a battle between the Dragon Clan and the Kirin Clan, harvesting their fallen souls with his soul banners. After capturing a wounded Kirin primordial spirit and learning the Dragon Clan had ambushed the Beast Tribe, he saw through its attempted attack and moved to devour it.

• Luo Hou followed the killing intent to Mount Buzhou, disguised himself as a golden lion, and approached the Dragon Clan and Kirin Clan armies disputing an Innate Spiritual Root.
• Ao Ming's attack seemingly blasted Luo Hou's disguise apart, prompting a Kirin elder to strike the Dragon army and both sides to begin a full-scale battle.
• Luo Hou revealed his survival, set up eighty-one soul banners around the battlefield, and used them to consume the fallen warriors' primordial spirits.
• Luo Hou captured a fire Kirin primordial spirit, which told him the Dragon Clan had ambushed the Beast Tribe with three Great Luo fighters and that a fellow Kirin had sacrificed itself to help it escape.
• The fire Kirin tried to attack Luo Hou with a red branch, but he anticipated the betrayal and used Demon Devours the World to sweep toward it.

After refining the Fire Kirin's soul and gaining insight from Pangu's will on Mount Buzhou, Luo Hou pursued the hidden Ancestor Ginseng through the Earth Veins. A powerful lightning-wielding giant confronted him, and their clash damaged Mount Buzhou before Luo Hou escaped.

• Luo Hou refined the Fire Kirin's soul with the Eighty-one Soul Banners, broke the seal on one head, and devoured the battlefield's Killing Qi and Blood Qi.
• Luo Hou sensed Pangu's will within Mount Buzhou, strengthening his Dao Heart and breaking the seal on another head.
• Luo Hou searched the Earth Veins for the Ancestor Ginseng and chased its fleeing innate light into a dangerous region.
• A voice challenged Luo Hou for threatening Mount Buzhou's spiritual treasure, and a mountain transformed into a Three Heads Six Arms giant that attacked him with Purple Divine Lightning.
• Luo Hou used Illusion Demon and Black Hole Devouring, then clashed with the giant in a battle that shattered trees and rocks across Mount Buzhou.
• After Xuanhuang Qi descended around the damaged mountain, Luo Hou was blasted away and vanished at the edge of the sky.

While recovering in a remote valley, Luo Hou encountered the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors and claimed the Innate Spiritual Treasure as his own. He resolved to pursue the Great Dao by gathering power from the living beings of the Primordial World.

• Luo Hou hid in an Extreme Yin Land after the Purple Heavens Divine Lightning severely injured him and his Nine-Headed Lion clone.
• Luo Hou recovered his strength and carved formations into the valley to gather wandering souls and Yin energy.
• Luo Hou discovered a rift emitting light and found two Flood Dragons that transformed into the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• The Golden Flood Dragon Scissors recognized Luo Hou as their master, and he tested their power by cutting a mountain peak in half.
• Luo Hou resolved to shatter Heaven and make the living beings of the Primordial World fuel his pursuit of the Great Dao.

Luo Hou created a Dragon-shaped Clone to infiltrate the Dragon Clan and set out toward the Primordial Continent in search of a way to stir conflict among the three tribes. After encountering a Vampire Vine, he severed its attacks but found himself enclosed in a thorny net.

• Luo Hou watched the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Tribes reveal their power and decided to undermine them through schemes rather than fight them directly.
• Luo Hou used the Soul Banners to create a Dragon-shaped Clone at the Early Taiyi Golden Immortal level and sent it toward the Dragon Clan.
• Luo Hou transformed into a Nine-Headed Lion, left the Eighty-one Soul Banners gathering souls in his valley, and flew toward the Primordial Continent.
• Luo Hou encountered a Vampire Vine, identified its ability to drain living creatures, and released it after cutting off one of its branches.
• The Vampire Vine attacked Luo Hou with its branches, then enclosed him in a thorny net made from its rooted cuttings.

Luo Hou discovered that the Vampire Vine was feeding on countless beings to nurture twelve fierce souls, and he resolved to help them emerge by breaking the seal. In the Origin Land of Heaven and Earth, the guardian sent Yellow Springs back to the Primordial Continent, while the white cluster remained behind.

• Luo Hou’s Golden Flood Dragon Scissors became trapped in the Vampire Vine, and its fragrant red mist seeped through his defenses until he expelled it with an Ice Mountain Snow Lotus.
• Luo Hou drove the Vampire Vine away with a fiery branch, followed it underground, and found a cavern where giant vines drained countless living beings to nurture a deep-purple vine bearing twelve soul auras.
• Luo Hou recognized the twelve souls as fierce beings born of Heaven and Earth and decided to help them emerge, while his true body struck the Heaven and Earth seal at the cost of his Essence Blood and cultivation.
• In the Origin Land of Heaven and Earth, the blood-red cluster asked the Xuanhuang cluster about Heaven’s Will and requested a return to the Primordial Continent.
• The Xuanhuang cluster sent golden light from the golden cluster into the blood-red cluster, casting Yellow Springs out of the Azure Palace, and told the white cluster it could leave when it merged with the light cluster in the sky.

Luo Hou recovered in Extreme Yin Valley with the help of a rapidly growing Vampire Vine, while Ao Yi watched the Dragon Clan hunt a White Tiger youth. The youth’s father rescued him and slaughtered the pursuing dragons, then swore the White Tiger Clan would remember the Dragon Clan’s attack.

• Luo Hou opened a Space Tunnel to bring Killing Qi from the Netherworld Land to the Twelve Fierce Fiends, then returned to the Primordial Continent exhausted.
• Luo Hou used souls absorbed by his Soul Banner to recover, and a Vampire Vine seed grew into a vast plant that fed him Soul Power.
• Ao Yi, a Dragon Clan Dark Division member, observed hundreds of dragons pursuing a White Tiger youth who fought back with his Fang Tian Hua Ji.
• The Dragon Clan overwhelmed the wounded youth, but his father appeared, restrained his soul, and killed the pursuing dragons.
• The White Tiger youth’s father refined the dragons’ souls to restore his son, then warned the Dragon Clan that the White Tiger Clan would remember the attack.

Fighting spread across the prehistoric world as Luo Hou gathered souls and a mysterious young swordsman slaughtered Scale Armor cultivators on his way to the Dragon Clan’s heartland. After a Dragon Clan fighter fell to the youth’s killing aura, Scale Armor warriors rallied and charged him, prepared to detonate their primordial spirits.

• A Fire Sparrow killed dozens of Scale Armor warriors with Innate True Fire before Dragon Clan forces killed it and took its Innate Fire Pearl.
• A pack of beasts attacked a black turtle on a northern beach, but the Mystic Turtle crushed them beneath its enormous true form.
• Luo Hou watched souls flow into the Soul Summoning Banner and hoped the world’s slaughter would grow fiercer as he restored his cultivation to the Grand Unity realm.
• A mysterious young swordsman killed and devoured souls on his way toward Ten Thousand Dragon Mountain, defeating Dragon Clan and Scale Armor fighters despite his Golden Immortal cultivation.
• A Grand Unity Dragon Clan cultivator attacked the youth but was wounded by his killing aura, while a late-stage Golden Immortal fighter detonated his primordial spirit.
• The Scale Armor cultivators overcame their fear and charged the youth, ready to detonate their primordial spirits to stop him.

A bat-winged youth slaughtered Scale Armor cultivators across Dragon Clan territory until Ao Qu confronted him. Though the youth claimed his early Golden Immortal cultivation was enough, their battle forced Ao Qu to summon his Five Elements Ring.

• The bat-winged youth sealed space to escape a wave of primordial spirit detonations, then continued killing Dragon Clan cultivators and consuming their primordial spirits.
• The terrified Scale Armor cultivators began fleeing or taking their own lives until Ao Qu arrived and struck the youth into a mountainside with his tail.
• The youth emerged and refused to reveal a higher cultivation level, telling Ao Qu that Golden Immortal cultivation was enough to kill him.
• Ao Qu attacked with his axes, breaking the youth's black sword, but the youth transformed into a black-scaled monster and fought him hand to hand.
• The youth's killing intent distracted Ao Qu, who was sent crashing into a mountain; Ao Qu then raised his aura and summoned a Five Elements Ring.

Ao Qu trapped a demonic youth in the Five Elements Ring’s elemental formations, but the youth learned to use rebound force to shatter the barriers and defeat him. The Dragon Clan learned that Ao Qu had fallen, while the youth’s identity was revealed as one of Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clones.

• Ao Qu used the Five Elements Ring to draw the demonic youth into a frozen realm, where an Ice Dragon and a thick glacier trapped him.
• The youth realized the ice reflected the force of his blows and used that rebound force to crack the glacier and escape.
• The Five Elements Ring produced realms of water, earth, wood, fire, and metal, but the youth broke through each force with ease.
• Ao Qu acknowledged that his limited control of the Five Elements Ring had failed and was slain by the youth.
• The Dragon Clan received news of Ao Qu’s defeat, and Ao Cang recognized the youth as Luo Hou, who had escaped the Netherworld Land.
• The chapter revealed that the youth was a Killing Thought Clone of Luo Hou, not his true body.

As the three clans’ war spread across the Primordial World, its growing Killing Qi strengthened Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone. Minghe agreed to free the clone in exchange for its treasures and teachings, while Luo Hou absorbed the battlefield’s Killing Qi and prepared to challenge the Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor.

• The Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan armies clashed, while the Scale Armor Race attacked the Beast Tribe, leaving devastation across the Primordial Continent.
• Luo Hou’s Ju Nian Clone saw the spreading Killing Qi and realized his Killing Thought Clone could use the war to cultivate.
• Yellow Springs, reborn in the sea of blood as Minghe, negotiated with Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone and agreed to free him for the clone’s insights into the Way of Slaughter and its companion spirit treasures.
• The Nine-Headed Lion reluctantly supplied Soul Power to Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone through the Vampire Vine.
• Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone devoured the gathered Killing Qi, studied the slaughter across the battlefield, and unleashed a devastating Killing Intent technique.
• Luo Hou resolved to use the power of slaughter to challenge the Heavenly Dao and named Dragon Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor as his next opponents.

Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone slaughtered cultivators and absorbed their souls, while the Nine-Headed Lion confronted True Man Ji Yin after he invaded Extreme Yin Valley and coveted its treasures. The Nine-Headed Lion seized control of the Mysterious Pearl, leaving True Man Ji Yin horrified.

• Luo Hou’s clone massacred Dragon Clan cultivators and absorbed the black Qi released from their bodies, while his slaughter spread across the Primordial World.
• The Nine-Headed Lion watched from Extreme Yin Valley and considered improving his soul-devouring method by learning from the Killing Thought Clone.
• True Man Ji Yin entered Extreme Yin Valley and used the Mysterious Pearl to devour Soul Power, pacify the Vampire Vine, and covet the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.
• The Nine-Headed Lion attacked True Man Ji Yin, who defended himself with the Mysterious Pearl against the Soul Banners and their spirits.
• The Nine-Headed Lion took control of the Mysterious Pearl and recognized it as a treasure containing a fragment of the law governing the origin of souls.

The Nine-Headed Lion subdued True Man Ji Yin and sent him to follow a demon, while Luo Hou's Killing Thought Clone fought the Dragon Ancestor and learned about Origin Power. The Dragon Ancestor persuaded Luo Hou to join him, then revealed a mysterious blue supreme treasure.

• The Nine-Headed Lion used his Spiritual Sense to control the Mysterious Pearl, forced True Man Ji Yin to submit, and gave him a Vampire Vine branch and a soul-banner method.
• The Nine-Headed Lion ordered True Man Ji Yin to find and follow a demon, but True Man Ji Yin left the valley planning to cultivate and use the Vampire Vine's Soul Power.
• The Dragon Ancestor confronted Luo Hou's Killing Thought Clone, broke his sword, wounded him, and explained the power of Origin Power.
• The Dragon Ancestor restrained Luo Hou and offered to teach him Origin Power and dragon transformation in exchange for joining the Dragon Clan.
• Luo Hou questioned the Dragon Ancestor about gathering the Great Dao fragments inside living beings, then agreed to join him.
• The Dragon Ancestor released Luo Hou from his restraints, and a mysterious blue supreme treasure appeared in the sky.

The Killing Thought Clone survived the Dragon Ancestor’s attack and recovered by using the Vampire Vine to absorb life and soul power. After learning to turn himself into Killing Qi, he practiced devouring prey and confronted a powerful crocodile cultivator, testing his abilities against the cultivator’s light spheres.

• The Dragon Ancestor caught Luo Hou’s treasure and dried Luo Hou into a near-death corpse with a divine ability, while Luo Hou’s Killing Thought Clone asked the Nine-Headed Lion for help.
• The Vampire Vine fed on a bear and spread across the land, devouring its living creatures as the Nine-Headed Lion taught the Killing Thought Clone a method to absorb others’ essence.
• The Killing Thought Clone cultivated with power from the Vampire Vine, transformed into Black Mist, and devoured Spiritual Beasts and Savage Beasts to restore his body and cultivation.
• The Killing Thought Clone asked the Vampire Vine to bring him a Grand Unity cultivator, and it delivered a crocodile cultivator.
• The Killing Thought Clone attacked the crocodile cultivator with Killing Qi, while the cultivator’s light spheres absorbed and weakened the attacks; the Killing Thought Clone pressed him to fight again.

Luo Hou's Killing Thought Clone faced two White Jade Spiders and nearly succumbed to their corrosive webs and the negative emotions within his killing qi. He touched the laws of slaughter, survived his mental tribulation, and began transforming, though he could not fully grasp or devour their source.

• Two White Jade Spiders attacked Luo Hou's Killing Thought Clone, and their webs corroded his killing qi and shattered his sword.
• As the webs trapped him, the clone absorbed the despair and fear carried by killing qi, while Luo Hou's true body sent his understanding of slaughter toward him.
• The Vampire Vine pulled the nearly collapsing clone out of reach of the spiders, giving him time to face the mental tribulation threatening his soul.
• Luo Hou's understanding soothed the clone's rampaging emotions, and he realized that slaughter was heaven and earth's power to establish, destroy, nurture, and defend the Dao.
• The clone glimpsed a strange force between heaven and earth, but his black dragon could not swallow it; his body crumbled into black qi as he continued trying to comprehend it.
• After an unknown span of time, two beams of light emerged from the shifting black cloud, making living beings beneath their gaze feel profound danger.