Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi pursued and wounded the evil ghost Balte, but Balte lured him into a trap where Jiawu's Hellfire Explosion appeared to incinerate him. As the evil ghosts prepared to receive materials for Jiawu's Reverse God-Breaking Formation, Lin Qi's voice came from the lava, revealing he had survived.

• Lin Qi taunted Balte during the chase, then scattered into shadows to evade his attack and stabbed Balte's thigh with a poisoned, barbed spike.
• Lin Qi followed the bleeding Balte into a torchlit cave, where Balte claimed Lin Qi was doomed and Jiawu's black fireball struck him.
• Jiawu emerged with Victor and seven Heaven-rank mages, while Balte explained how Lin Qi had injured him and more than a hundred evil ghosts gathered.
• Jiawu told the evil ghosts to prepare for incoming people and materials needed to build the Reverse God-Breaking Formation.
• Lin Qi's derisive voice rose from the lava pile, showing that he had survived the explosion.

Lin Qi survived Jiawu’s fire attack and revealed his immunity to extreme heat as he confronted the Black Abyss King over control of Black Abyss Market. The chapter ended with Jiawu discovering that Lin Qi was also immune to his dark magic.

• Lin Qi absorbed the heat and beneficial substances from the magma, then used Balte’s name to torment him with a minor soul curse.
• Lin Qi emerged from the cooled magma, incapacitated Victor and the other seven Heaven-ranked mages with the Heart-Corroding Gelsemium bell, and challenged Jiawu.
• Lin Qi claimed Black Abyss Market as his territory and demanded that Victor and the others die because Jiawu’s people had killed one of his subordinates.
• Jiawu offered Lin Qi his friendship and compensation, but Lin Qi refused and mocked him, prompting Jiawu to attack with three blades of dark magic.
• Lin Qi walked into Jiawu’s dark blades unharmed, and Jiawu realized that Lin Qi was immune to dark magic.

Lin Qi defeated Jiawu’s evil ghost warriors and resisted Jiawu’s lightning magic, then seized him and demanded compensation for the dark elf he had killed and a role in Jiawu’s plans. Jiawu agreed to talk and hinted that his plan went far beyond blowing up the Divine Prison.

• Jiawu ordered Balte and the evil ghosts to kill Lin Qi and recover the bell while the seven favored disciples remained incapacitated.
• Balte warned the attackers that Lin Qi was a powerful warrior, but Lin Qi killed one evil ghost with Golden Tiger God Dou Qi and charged toward Jiawu.
• Jiawu struck Lin Qi with lightning, but Lin Qi’s immunity to most magic left him unharmed.
• Lin Qi shattered Jiawu’s Flame God Shield, punched him in the abdomen, and grabbed him by the throat.
• Lin Qi demanded compensation for the slain dark elf and insisted on joining Jiawu’s plan, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Jiawu agreed to talk and said his plan went far beyond blowing up the Divine Prison.

Lin Qi brought Jiawu and Balte’s fiends to the Hunting Party’s city, where overwhelming forces kept them under guard. Elder Qing revealed that he had long suspected Jiawu survived, and the two went inside with Lin Qi to discuss possible cooperation.

• Lin Qi displayed the Hunting Party’s elite troops, and Fat Bear welcomed the captured fiends while ordering them kept under guard.
• Fat Bear escorted Balte and the others into the dining hall, where hundreds of warriors surrounded them as they feasted.
• Jiawu acknowledged Lin Qi’s strength and learned that the Chaotic Caverns had submitted to him and that Altut was his teacher.
• Elder Qing confronted Jiawu, who admitted that Qing’s old attack had given him the chance to fake his death.
• Elder Qing and Jiawu agreed to discuss cooperation, while Lin Qi followed them with a blade ready and Jiawu’s life in his hands.

Jiawu revealed that he was the son of an ancient being sealed beneath the Nightmare Mountains and had come to destroy Black Abyss Divine Prison’s divine suppression formations to free his father. He proposed that Elder Qing help him in exchange for freedom, while Lin Qi learned that Jiawu’s father could not simply help them escape.

• Jiawu entered Lin Qi’s cave, recognized Elder Qing’s formation diagrams, and agreed to explain his origins and plans.
• Over a feast, Jiawu said his human mother had been a demon-worshipping cult’s saintess and that his father, an ancient being sealed in the fifth abyssal world, had fathered him during a solar eclipse.
• Jiawu explained that he had become the cult’s pope and sought to destroy Black Abyss Divine Prison’s formations, which drew power from the sealed beings, to free his father.
• Jiawu showed Elder Qing the formation diagrams he had made while infiltrating the abyss and proposed that they work together to free his father and gain their own freedom.
• Jiawu said his father had pulled him into the abyss two years earlier, but warned Lin Qi that his father would not spend the strength needed to help them escape unless they first damaged the divine formations.

Lin Qi, Elder Qing, Yun, and Jiawu negotiated a pact to free Jiawu’s father from the Gods’ Seal in exchange for their escape from the Black Abyss Divine Prison. Lin Qi forced Jiawu to include his thousands of subordinates, and the two men took poisons they believed would keep each other honest, though Lin Qi knew Jiawu’s potion could not harm him.

• After a meal, Elder Qing and Jiawu agreed that Elder Qing would help destroy the Gods’ Seal while Jiawu arranged for Lin Qi and Yun to escape safely.
• Lin Qi threatened Jiawu until he agreed to take Lin Qi’s subordinates and allies out of the prison as well, and Yun argued that the expanded bargain was fair.
• Jiawu demanded assurance that Lin Qi would not sabotage the plan, and Lin Qi demanded the same assurance from Jiawu.
• Lin Qi gave Jiawu ten Heart-Corroding Gelsemium pills, while Jiawu gave Lin Qi a Soul-Corrosion Potion, and both men swallowed the other’s poison.
• Jiawu believed his potion would restrain Lin Qi, but Lin Qi knew his inheritance made him immune to its effects, while Elder Qing and Yun recognized the imbalance.

Lin Qi entered the Lava Forest to seize its powerful evil ghosts and Saint-realm prisoners before the solar eclipse created a chance to break the Black Abyss Divine Prison’s seal. He subdued the prisoners and forced the eight hundred evil ghosts to surrender, then prepared to gather more forces before the eclipse.

• Lin Qi entered the Lava Forest alone, intending to bring its eight hundred evil ghosts under his control.
• He ambushed the dark prayer master Xie Rui with soul attacks, subdued her, and forced her to identify the other Saint-realm prisoners.
• Over half a month, Lin Qi ambushed and subdued the prisoners in all thirty divine prisons and took their savings.
• Lin Qi’s three thousand elite warriors surprised the evil ghosts, who surrendered.
• Lin Qi continued preparing to gather forces before the solar eclipse arrived.

Lin Qi prepared to subdue the powerful demons of Nightmare Gorge while Balte and Bakuite plotted to betray him and seize the rewards for freeing their fiend ancestor. After overhearing their scheme, Lin Qi continued toward the gorge, aware that the brothers meant to strike during the final ritual.

• Lin Qi approached Nightmare Gorge, where hundreds of high-ranking demons and thousands of other residents could strengthen his forces.
• Balte told Bakuite that Lin Qi’s growing following would make the sealed lord spend more power opening a passage out of Black Abyss Divine Prison.
• Balte persuaded Bakuite that they should kill Jiawu, Lin Qi, and the others near the end of the plan and claim the credit for freeing their ancestor.
• Balte proposed attacking while a million-person blood sacrifice on the Fifth Abyss side was underway, when its controllers could not move.
• Lin Qi overheard the brothers’ conversation from a distance while eating, then headed toward Nightmare Gorge, planning to subdue its Saint-realm experts when the prison drained their power.

Hungry and worried about Lin Qi, Xuan Lan rushed to Black Abyss Market when he heard screams and found Wolfhead Gods attacking the people under his protection. After eating the attackers, he saw a magma-covered giant arrive with thousands of demons, including more Wolfhead Gods.

• Xuan Lan lamented that Lin Qi had been gone for months and feared he might have died, while hunger drove him to drink boiling water from his pool.
• Xuan Lan heard screams and found two Blood Goblin guards dead and several dozen Wolfhead Gods attacking the cave where elders under his protection had taken shelter.
• Xuan Lan froze the fleeing Wolfhead Gods and ate all seventy-odd of them after scrubbing them clean.
• The elders told Xuan Lan that the attackers had appeared without warning and that a hidden assassin had killed the guards.
• A magma-covered giant over ten meters tall arrived with more than four thousand demons, including around three thousand Wolfhead Gods.

Xuan Lan confronted a dwarven king whose lava-giant blood had awakened, but the king rejected Xuan Lan’s claims of an ancient covenant and fought to conquer Black Abyss Market. After demons helped trap Xuan Lan and the king struck his ankle, Xuan Lan abandoned his appeals to their shared ancestry and prepared to fight.

• Demons surrounded Xuan Lan while the elders retreated behind a psychic barrier and spread poisons to defend their cavern entrance.
• Xuan Lan greeted the magma-covered dwarven king as a kinsman, but the king smashed his finger with a hammer and fought his retaliatory punch.
• Xuan Lan appealed to an ancient covenant between giants and dwarves, but the king denied knowing it and declared that he had been ordered to conquer Black Abyss Market.
• Xuan Lan guessed that the king’s giant bloodline had been awakened by an external force and urged him to become an ally, but the king kept attacking and tried to break Xuan Lan’s ankle.
• Demons threw ropes around Xuan Lan’s feet, allowing the dwarven king to strike his ankle; Xuan Lan invoked Lin Qi and vowed to eat the family of anyone who harmed him.

Xuan Lan defeated the Dwarf King, but Lin Qi returned before he could eat him and captured the Dwarf King for his own purposes. After learning that a Saint-realm astrologer had sent the Dwarf King to attack Black Abyss Market, Lin Qi resolved to accelerate his campaign against the settlements.

• Xuan Lan smashed the Dwarf King into the ground, and the demons knelt to him as their new king.
• Lin Qi arrived and stopped Xuan Lan from eating the Dwarf King, then supplied him with Magic Beast corpses.
• Lin Qi's army of more than ten thousand elite warriors surrounded and captured the demons.
• Lin Qi treated the Dwarf King's wounds with potions laced with Heart-Corroding Gelsemium, then forced him to submit.
• The Dwarf King revealed that a Saint-realm astrologer from Gloomwind Cave had sent him to attack Black Abyss Market after a divination warned of a major upheaval.
• Lin Qi decided to speed up his campaign against the settlements, wary of the powerful beings imprisoned there.

Lin Qi brought every force in the Black Abyss Divine Prison under his control, gathering a huge army, hundreds of Saint-level prisoners, and thousands of expert artisans. As the solar eclipse approached, he helped analyze the suppressive divine formation and amassed wealth while preparing to escape and pursue revenge.

• Lin Qi conquered the remaining settlements and gained control of the Divine Prison’s forces, including 360 Saint-level beings and nearly 3,000 heretical experts.
• Lin Qi considered the power he would wield after escaping and resolved to make his enemies despair before taking on the Church.
• Lin Qi joined Elder Qing and Jiawu in analyzing the suppressive divine formation, and the Saint-level prisoners’ calculations accelerated their work.
• Jiawu explained that Grand Lord Long Ennan would use a million creatures in a blood sacrifice during the solar eclipse to weaken the formation and help his father break free.
• Lin Qi gathered valuable materials and sent hundreds of thousands of lesser imps and cave dwellers to work in the mines, while thinking of Arthur and vowing to return.

Nearly three hundred leaders of evil-god sects were sent to the lowest level of Black Abyss Divine Prison, where Bilibili’s demons robbed them and brought them to Lin Qi. Jiawu then confronted Lin Qi, furious that the prisoners were his disciples and had been made to drink a potion.

• The Church transferred nearly three hundred captured leaders of twenty-eight evil-god sects to Black Abyss Divine Prison and ordered them imprisoned rather than executed.
• The fanatics threw the prisoners into the lowest level, where many were scalded in a boiling pool before they managed to reach shore.
• Bilibili led several hundred demons in stripping the prisoners of their valuables and ordering them taken to Lin Qi.
• Bilibili ordered the prisoners to drink a potion so they could become slaves.
• Jiawu stormed up to Lin Qi and said the prisoners were his disciples, whom he had sent to deliver materials, and demanded to know why Lin Qi had given them the potion.

Jiawu confronted Lin Qi over the mistreatment and poisoning of his followers, then accepted Lin Qi’s promise to provide an antidote after they left the Black Abyss. His followers revealed the Void Magic Crystals they had secretly brought to help break the divine suppression arrays, greatly strengthening the plan.

• Jiawu discovered that Lin Qi had poisoned and forced his followers to clean the beast pens, and demanded that they be treated as guests and given an antidote.
• Lin Qi claimed he had only ten doses of antidote and promised to prepare more, while ordering Bilibili to clean up, feed, and house Jiawu’s followers.
• Alda angered Jiawu by proposing cave-dweller girls for the followers, while Lin Qi refused to return the possessions Bilibili had taken from them.
• Jiawu told his followers to reveal the materials he had ordered them to gather three hundred years earlier.
• The followers used a paired technique to produce 146 head-sized Void Magic Crystals, and Lin Qi and Elder Qing recognized them as powerful aids for breaking the divine suppression arrays.

Lin Qi, Elder Qing, and Jiawu completed the Void Teleportation Disintegration Array and began studying how to weaken the Suppressing Divine Arrays before the solar eclipse. Elder Qing then prepared additional arrays and investigated the prisoners' energy-draining chains, while warning Yun that freeing Lin Qi's tens of thousands of followers might require exhausting Jiawu's father.

• Bilibili supervised cave dwellers and dwarves as they cleared the ground and carved the foundation for the grand array.
• Jiawu praised Lin Qi's ability to organize the workforce, and the array's foundation was filled with melted magic crystals.
• Elder Qing designed the array around eighty-one Void Magic Crystals, while Lin Qi took the remaining crystals for safekeeping.
• Jiawu and Elder Qing completed the Void Teleportation Disintegration Array and its auxiliary arrays, then Victor and six other disciples began probing the Suppressing Divine Array.
• Elder Qing built energy-confining arrays beside twelve subsidiary Suppressing Divine Arrays and studied the chains attached to the three hundred and sixty Saint-realm prisoners.
• Elder Qing told Yun that rescuing Lin Qi's tens of thousands of followers could require draining Jiawu's father's source power, and urged her to make Lin Qi her man if he succeeded.

Lin Qi patrolled Black Abyss Market, gathering valuable goods, when Yi Feng confronted him with a newly assembled force and demanded his submission. A Church inspection interrupted their standoff, and Lin Qi tried to misdirect the zealots away from Jiawu’s disciples, who were staying with the Hunting Party.

• Lin Qi collected a Ghostface Mushroom and spotted an Abyss Blackstar Stone at a market stall.
• Yi Feng seized the ore, while Zali and Youyao appeared with him and demanded Lin Qi submit.
• Lin Qi took the ore back and injured Yi Feng with a punch, then ordered him to kill Zali and Youyao and submit.
• Yi Feng prepared to attack with his several thousand followers, but the Church’s armored zealots arrived for a routine inspection.
• When the zealots asked about Jiawu’s disciples, Lin Qi claimed they were cleaning the Hunting Party’s beast pens, as Bilibili slipped away.

Lin Qi deceived a procession of Church fanatics into believing the Hunting Party was keeping evil cultists under control, then bribed their leader to secure their departure. After the group returned to its preparations for the coming eclipse, Yi Feng arrived to seize the Hunting Party, and Lin Qi ordered Barrel to capture him and his followers alive.

• Lin Qi led the fanatics to the Hunting Party’s camp, where they saw prisoners being tormented and believed the Church’s interests were being served.
• The fanatical leader rewarded Lin Qi with food and supplies and ordered him to report on the prisoners every three months; Lin Qi bribed him with magic gemstones.
• After the fanatics left, Elder Qing, Jiawu, and the others returned and resumed preparations for the eclipse.
• Yi Feng brought Zali, Youyao, and his followers to the gates, expecting to take over the Hunting Party.
• Lin Qi ordered Barrel to capture Yi Feng’s group alive, and the ten-meter-tall dwarf king attacked them with his hammer.

Lin Qi consolidated control over Black Abyss Divine Prison and prepared to escape during the coming solar eclipse. As he and Yun awaited the plan, Yun revealed that returning home might mean reclaiming his family’s inheritance, and Lin Qi promised to help him.

• Barrel captured Yi Feng and his more than ten thousand men, whom Lin Qi imprisoned, and Lin Qi later captured Gu Tu and gained control of his thousand soldiers.
• Lin Qi used soul curses and Heart-Corroding Gelsemium to bring Black Abyss Divine Prison’s strongest prisoners under his control while trading with Hassen, a commander of the Fanatic Legion.
• Elder Qing and Jiawu completed preparations for the Void Teleportation Disintegration Array, leaving three days until the eclipse and their planned escape.
• Lin Qi spoke with Yun about what they would do after escaping, and Yun explained that Elder Qing was his appointed personal guard and that they had been imprisoned for nearly fifteen years.
• Yun worried that his family had taken the property left to him and his mother, so Lin Qi promised to help him reclaim it.

As a solar eclipse approached, Lin Qi prepared to escape the Black Abyss with Elder Qing and Yun, while trying to persuade Handsome Bear's mother to come along. Hassen arrived with Church forces to inspect the prison, and Lin Qi mobilized allies and prisoners to stall them until the eclipse opened their way out.

• Elder Qing explained that an unseen celestial body had replaced the vanished moon and caused solar eclipses, then asked Lin Qi to escort him and Yun to Port Vias.
• Yun gave Elder Qing an Emperor Life-Saving Pill that restored his strength for one month, and Elder Qing vowed to get Yun out safely.
• Lin Qi failed to persuade Handsome Bear's mother to leave, while Yun approached her to ask why she wanted to stay.
• Bilibili reported that Hassen had brought Church forces into the Black Abyss to inspect it ahead of the solar eclipse.
• Lin Qi ordered Bilibili to mobilize the Pengfolk, his warriors and their families, hidden magic scrolls, and Saint-realm prisoners to prepare for a confrontation.
• Elder Qing told Lin Qi that a little over an hour remained until the eclipse, and Lin Qi headed to the entrance where Xuan Lan was stationed.

Lin Qi lured Hassen to the grassland containing the Suppressing Divine Array’s core and killed him with a poisoned blade. With Xuan Lan, he slaughtered Hassen’s fanatics and ordered Xuan Lan to block the passage above the pool.

• Hassen told Lin Qi that he had come to patrol because of a solar eclipse and ordered him to lead the fanatics to the grassland.
• Lin Qi revealed that the grassland held the Suppressing Divine Array’s core and stabbed Hassen through the heart with Viper’s poisoned blade.
• Xuan Lan tore Hassen apart, then attacked the fanatics gathered by the pool.
• Xuan Lan froze and shattered nearly two hundred fanatics while Lin Qi burned nearly a hundred others with dragon breath.
• Lin Qi ordered Xuan Lan to block the passage above the pool.