Chapter Summaries

Alda visited his imprisoned father, who explained the Black Abyss King’s death had thrown Black Abyss Market into chaos and advised Alda on Hu Die’s plan to seize it. His father agreed to help but warned him to keep control of the market and remain cautious, since he did not believe the Black Abyss King was truly dead.

• Alda transformed into his demonic battle form and flew to the Divine Prison, where his father was chained to a pillar of divine light.
• Alda ate the food he had brought from the prison’s teleportation array and told his father that the Black Abyss King was dead and his five lieutenants were fighting over Black Abyss Market.
• Alda admitted Hu Die intended to use his strength to seize the market, and his father warned him to keep her as a puppet and retain real control.
• Alda’s father told him to use lesser devils and cave-dwellers as vanguard troops, stay within the limits of his father’s power, and retreat if challenged over the market.
• Alda’s father insisted that he did not believe the Black Abyss King was truly dead.

Lin Qi discovered that the completed Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture let him cultivate and switch between different Dou Qi methods, then revealed that he had opened his three seas to Elder Qing. Elder Qing promised to teach him how to condense the seven great chakras, but Lin Qi first faced an intimidating pile of exams from Yun.

• Lin Qi compared Profound Tiger Force with the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture and realized he could freely cultivate different Dou Qi methods.
• Lin Qi studied the Record of God Creation and successfully practiced the orc technique Golden Bear Emperor Heaven-Rending Dou Qi by simulating its missing qi channels and acupoints.
• Lin Qi practiced several more Dou Qi methods until he could raise their power instantly, then left the cave.
• Elder Qing sensed Lin Qi's aura and learned that he had opened his sea of qi, sea of blood, and sea of spirit in less than a month.
• Yun gave Lin Qi exams in state affairs, military affairs, astronomy, literature, and poetry, then threatened to add more subjects if he passed.
• Elder Qing explained that Lin Qi would learn to condense the seven great chakras starting the next day, and Lin Qi agreed to endure his studies.

Lin Qi used his battle qi and Profound Tiger techniques to destroy waves of lesser imps and cave dwellers attacking the city wall. After learning that Mr. Mo had framed him and sent him to the Black Abyss, Lin Qi hardened his resolve to take revenge, and Alda arrived with an elite force and Hu Die.

• Lin Qi jumped from the city wall and killed nearly a thousand lesser imps and cave dwellers with a tiger roar, startling the Hunting Party warriors.
• Lin Qi moved farther from the wall and unleashed a fire-infused roar that burned or killed thousands of enemies in the narrow cave passage.
• Fat Bear and Handsome Bear reacted to Lin Qi's fire-attributed battle qi, while Bilibili asked Fat Bear for more abyssal devil hounds.
• Lin Qi recalled how Mr. Mo had framed him as a Gods' Revelation apprentice and arranged for him to be imprisoned in the Black Abyss, then vowed to repay him.
• Lin Qi used his Profound Tiger qi force to wipe out the enemies in the thousand-meter cave passage and challenged their leaders to fight him directly.
• Alda appeared in Moon Demon form with Hu Die and led a large force of elite warriors out of the darkness.

After Lin Qi survived Elder Qing and Yun's three-day assessment, Elder Qing analyzed the forces behind his imprisonment and revealed that Mr. Mo had framed him, mistaking him for an agent of Master Ke Cha. Before Lin Qi could respond, horns sounded as someone attacked the Hunting Party's city.

• Lin Qi completed Elder Qing and Yun's punishing tests and was told his studies could help him understand his imprisonment.
• Lin Qi recounted his connection to Master Ke Cha, his survival after Ke Cha's potion accident, and the events that led to the Black Abyss Divine Prison.
• Elder Qing explained how Gerdas and the Temple of Punishment's conflict with the other temples left Lin Qi innocent, suggesting someone in the Gallic Empire had arranged his conviction.
• Elder Qing identified Mr. Mo as the likely culprit, reasoning that he had supplied Alpha with a potion and planted Gods' Revelation robes after mistaking Lin Qi for Ke Cha's agent.
• Shrill cries and horns sounded as an unknown attacker struck the Hunting Party's city.

Lin Qi and the Hunting Party prepared to defend their city when a vast horde of lesser imps and cavefolk charged from the Chaotic Caverns. Despite heavy losses from Lin Qi and Bilibili’s attacks, the horde reached the wall and began climbing it.

• Lin Qi, Bilibili, and Handsome Bear rushed from the cave as Fat Bear organized the Hunting Party and positioned warriors at the city wall.
• Lin Qi and the others saw a dense horde of lesser imps and cavefolk advancing through the passage, and Fat Bear ordered his forces to kill them before they reached the city.
• Several hundred lesser imps fired poisoned thorns that fell among their own vanguard, while Lin Qi crushed enemies with a stone sphere and Bilibili blasted them with fireballs.
• Fat Bear called off the Hunting Party’s javelin volley after it killed only a few dozen enemies, and the horde piled up beneath the wall to climb it.

Lin Qi used his tiger roar and fire-attributed battle energy to slaughter the lesser fiends and cave dwellers, then faced the approaching elite warriors after resolving to repay Mr. Mo for sending him to Black Abyss. Alda appeared at the head of the force with Hu Die in his arms.

• Lin Qi leaped from the city wall and killed nearly a thousand lesser fiends and cave dwellers with his Profound Tiger roar.
• Lin Qi moved away from the wall and unleashed a fire-infused roar that burned and killed thousands more enemies.
• Lin Qi learned that Mr. Mo had framed him as a Gods' Revelation apprentice and arranged for him to be sent to Black Abyss, and vowed to take revenge.
• Lin Qi shattered the charging enemies with a Profound Tiger Force attack and challenged their leaders to fight him directly.
• Alda arrived in his Moon Demon form at the head of a force of elite warriors, holding Hu Die around the waist.

Lin Qi provoked Alda into a duel by mocking his appearance and manhood, then overwhelmed him in hand-to-hand combat. Alda’s three hundred warriors held back as Lin Qi beat their leader unconscious.

• Lin Qi mocked Hu Die for bringing Alda as her backer and ridiculed Alda’s shell-covered appearance.
• Alda stripped off his shell and boasted about his looks and physique, while Fat Bear and the others fell from the wall in shock.
• Lin Qi taunted Alda about his size, and Alda revealed that he was only eighteen and had not come of age by Moon Demon standards.
• Alda charged Lin Qi in a rage, and Elder Qing explained to Yun that Lin Qi had provoked the enemy commander into making a foolish choice.
• Lin Qi stunned Alda with a roar, grabbed him, and beat him until he lost consciousness while Alda’s warriors stayed back.

After Lin Qi captured Alda and his three hundred warriors, he decided to use Alda’s token to visit his father, a Saint Warrior, and demand a ransom. Fat Bear joined him, while Elder Qing hoped Lin Qi’s loyal followers and growing strength would one day support Yun.

• Lin Qi gained command of Alda’s three hundred demon warriors after binding Alda and forcing the troops to surrender.
• Elder Qing warned Yun that foolish family members holding part of the family’s power could endanger its future, then considered hiring Lin Qi long-term.
• Lin Qi announced he would take Alda’s token to his Saint Warrior father and extort him for a ransom, despite Elder Qing and Yun’s alarm.
• Lin Qi took Hu Die as his guide and threatened her with his bell, then set out toward the city gate.
• Fat Bear brought several hundred warriors to accompany Lin Qi, saying they would share both danger and reward.
• Elder Qing told Yun that Lin Qi’s followers might become his greatest support, and assured Yun that he was his student.

Lin Qi confronted Altut in the Black Abyss Divine Prison to negotiate Alda’s release, but the Soul God Church pontiff attacked him instead. Altut’s assault was absorbed by a mysterious violet blessing protecting Lin Qi’s soul, leaving Altut stunned and weakened.

• Lin Qi and his group reached Alda’s cave, where Altut killed Hu Die by draining her soul and flesh.
• Altut pulled Lin Qi into his prison cell and offered to negotiate for Alda, but insisted that Lin Qi must die.
• Altut attacked Lin Qi’s soul with most of his soul power, intending to torment and destroy him.
• A violet barrier and a mysterious phantom protected Lin Qi, purified Altut’s soul power, and transferred it to Lin Qi.
• Altut recognized the protection as the Soul Protection Grand Blessing Art and collapsed into his chair, wondering who had bestowed it on Lin Qi.

After Altut’s soul attack awakened memories of Lin Qi’s infancy, Lin Qi learned that the Soul God Church’s founder, Sha Ling, had cast a divine art to protect him. Lin Qi then beat Altut into surrendering his soul, though Altut tried to bargain for beautiful virgin elves instead.

• Lin Qi saw a memory of a gaunt old man using a divine art to shield his infant soul and take a drop of his heart’s blood.
• Lin Qi’s soul power surged, defeating Altut’s attack and expanding his spiritual perception across a ten-li radius.
• Altut recognized the old man as possibly Sha Ling, the Eastern founder of the Soul God Church, who had supposedly died thousands of years ago.
• Lin Qi called out to Fat Bear, then asked Altut about Sha Ling and how much soul power he had left.
• Lin Qi beat Altut after he refused to become Lin Qi’s slave and threatened to have demons take turns with him.
• Altut agreed to hand over his soul but demanded ten beautiful virgin elves in return.

Lin Qi forced Altut to submit to their soul contract, then robbed him of his treasures and made him and Alda his slaves. After Lin Qi left the divine prison, Altut was left weeping over how badly his life had gone awry.

• Altut realized the soul contract had made him Lin Qi’s utterly loyal slave and feared the consequences if Lin Qi died.
• Lin Qi demanded Altut’s three spatial rings and whipped his soul until Altut surrendered them and explained their powers.
• Lin Qi claimed the rings, bound them to his fingers, and learned they held powerful soul attacks and concealed vast wealth.
• Lin Qi transferred his belongings into Altut’s rings, gave Altut some hams and rum, and ordered him to clean the prison and keep quiet.
• Lin Qi declared that Alda was his slave too, then left Altut alone to weep over the loss of his freedom and wealth.

Lin Qi punished Alda for trying to use him to escape and then offered him a chance to leave the divine prison. Alda surrendered his soul to Lin Qi, giving him another powerful fighter.

• Lin Qi realized Alda had expected Altut to seize control of him and free Alda, then revealed that Altut was already under his control.
• Lin Qi ordered Bilibili and four abyss centaurs to repeatedly beat Alda, using Magic Beast blood to heal him between rounds.
• After Alda attacked Lin Qi and was blasted away by his dragon breath, Lin Qi offered him hope of leaving the divine prison in exchange for submission.
• Alda drew a phantom from between his brows and surrendered his soul to Lin Qi.

After two years of training and study, Lin Qi had become a high Heaven-rank warrior and a mid Heaven-rank mage when a powerful death in the Abyss Ink Sea shook the Black Abyss Divine Prison. He hurried toward the disturbance, where four red-robed saints and their fanatics had arrived and seized an elderly prisoner.

• Lin Qi brought the Chaotic Caverns under the Hunting Party's control, added thousands of warriors to its ranks, and linked its water supply to their camp.
• Over two years, Lin Qi trained intensively under Elder Qing, reached high Heaven-rank in battle qi and mid Heaven-rank in magic, and mastered extensive knowledge.
• A tremendous boom from the Abyss Ink Sea sent a magical hurricane and cries of souls through the Black Abyss Divine Prison, signaling the death of a supreme powerhouse.
• Lin Qi rushed toward the Abyss Ink Sea with Bilibili and his companions, taking life-saving potions from Elder Qing on the way.
• Four red-robed saints and armed fanatics entered the prison, and the fanatics seized the oldest-looking elder among the watching prisoners.

Lin Qi followed the Church’s clergy toward the Abyss Ink Sea and secretly prepared a poison for a fanatic who had once stolen his armor. After killing an ogre who had attacked Yun, Lin Qi learned Yun had followed the procession to witness a Saint’s death, and hurried on toward the sea with him.

• Lin Qi followed four saints and their clergy through the cave passage while spies from across the Black Abyss Divine Prison trailed behind.
• Lin Qi mixed herbs and centipede venom into a vial, then told Bilibili to throw it at a fanatic when he gave the signal.
• An ogre grabbed Yun, and Lin Qi killed the ogre with a dark fireball that left a large pool of lava.
• Yun fled to Lin Qi and said he had followed to watch the death of a Saint, which his grandfather had said might bring benefits.
• Lin Qi scolded Yun, gripped his shoulder, and urged the centaur toward the Abyss Ink Sea.

Lin Qi watched the saints replace a dead Saint-level prisoner in the Abyss Ink Sea and recognized signs that the man had been poisoned. The chapter ended with Lin Qi concluding that someone had murdered the expert using Demon Essence Dragon Saliva Quarter-Hour Flower.

• Lin Qi and his companions surveyed the Abyss Ink Sea and watched a newly teleported ichthyosaur get dragged underwater by a lightning-wielding beast.
• Lin Qi learned that the fading lights escaping a nearby divine prison were the battle qi essence of a dead Saint-level expert.
• The four saints escorted a captured old man to the empty prison, removed the dead expert’s weapons and possessions, and chained the prisoner to the golden pillar.
• Lin Qi examined the dead expert’s body and detected an unusual scent and discoloration.
• Lin Qi hurried back toward the Hunting Party’s camp, convinced that the Saint-level expert had been murdered with Demon Essence Dragon Saliva Quarter-Hour Flower.

Lin Qi discovered that a saint warrior had been killed with a rare poison and suspected the death was connected to the divine suppression arrays and a plot to escape Black Abyss Divine Prison. After seven new prisoners arrived together, Lin Qi ordered them given a double dose of Heart-Corroding Gelsemium.

• Lin Qi identified the dead saint warrior’s poison as Demon Essence Dragon Saliva Quarter-Hour Flower and considered how the death might disrupt the divine arrays.
• Yun calculated that destroying an energy node could cause fifteen seconds of turbulence, possibly allowing a passage through the seal, and said it might be their hope of escape.
• Lin Qi and Yun returned to Xuan Lan, who announced that seven newcomers had arrived at the pool.
• The seven men provoked Lin Qi, and Alda and his beastmen beat them unconscious before Lin Qi ordered them searched for hidden items.
• Xuan Lan said the seven were the only newcomers in three months, and Lin Qi ordered Yun to give each man a double dose of Heart-Corroding Gelsemium.

Lin Qi tortured seven imprisoned mages until Victor revealed a hidden cache of wealth, which Lin Qi seized. He released the men but ordered Alda to keep them under surveillance, suspecting their arrival might present an opportunity.

• Lin Qi used the Heart-Corroding Gelsemium bell to torture Victor and six other mages until they begged him to stop.
• Victor explained that he and his companions had run a criminal cult and were imprisoned after offering the Order of Penitent Knights a strange metal from an ancient ruin.
• Lin Qi demanded their hidden wealth, and Victor revealed an elven spatial ring concealed inside his chest.
• Lin Qi transferred the ring's rare metals and magic crystals into his own possession, then released Victor and the other mages.
• Lin Qi told Alda to have dark elves and shadow demons watch the seven men and report their movements and contacts.

Lin Qi, Elder Qing, and Yun discovered that the divine suppression arrays might be weakening because the gods who powered them were awakening. After Ayouli was murdered with a Saint-level dark technique, Lin Qi suspected the supposedly dead Black Abyss King had returned and went to investigate.

• Lin Qi, Elder Qing, and Yun calculated how the divine suppression arrays worked and concluded that the gods might be awakening and no longer supplying them with power.
• Elder Qing explained that if all three hundred and sixty prisoners died, the arrays would weaken and Saint-realm mages in Black Abyss Divine Prison would recover their strength.
• Alda reported that Ayouli had been killed with Dark Stiletto, and Elder Qing and Yun identified the Black Abyss King as the only known Saint-realm dark mage outside the divine prisons.
• Lin Qi ordered Alda to warn his father against eating food from the Church's teleportation array and to send out scouts to search for suspicious people.
• Lin Qi told Handsome Bear to gather the brothers, then summoned a shadow demon to take him to Ayouli's body.

Lin Qi investigated Ayouli’s murder and discovered signs that a powerful outsider had killed her before a fiend tried to ambush him. He killed the attacker, confronted a much larger fiend, and met its charge with his blade.

• Lin Qi found Ayouli’s corpse, identified a Dark Stiletto wound, and used the Spirit-Peering Art but found her soul had been removed.
• Lin Qi detected Alda’s scent and sulfur on Ayouli, concluding that a powerful outsider accustomed to darkness had killed her.
• Lin Qi sensed a fiend sneaking up behind him and cut it in half with a Viper Warrior blade.
• The dying fiend breathed sulfurous flames at Lin Qi, but his dragon-enhanced body resisted them and he broke its neck.
• A larger fiend revealed itself, spoke of a companion, and charged Lin Qi with a trident; Lin Qi met its weapon head-on.

Lin Qi fought Long Po, an evil ghost trapped in Black Abyss Divine Prison, and revealed his superior weapons and strength. After Long Po fled through a narrow passage, Lin Qi chased after him.

• Lin Qi and Long Po exchanged blows, and Lin Qi concealed his true name while learning Long Po's identity and allegiance.
• The two traded concealed weapons, but Lin Qi deflected Long Po's needle and pulled his own poisoned dagger back with psychic force.
• Lin Qi brought out Wrath of the Earth and struck Long Po with its fivefold Gravity Field, damaging Long Po's curved blade.
• Long Po fled into a narrow passage, and Lin Qi hurried after him.