Chapter Summaries

Xuan Lan froze the passage into Black Abyss Divine Prison and demanded a hundred bulls, delaying the fanatics while they tried to reach Hassen and their commanders. As the eclipse began, the fanatics offered ninety bulls and wasted their last chance to stop Lin Qi and the others from acting.

• As the gondola neared the pool, Xuan Lan raised the water into a wave, hurled the gondola upward, and froze the passage with a massive block of ice.
• The fanatic leader told the fanatics above that Xuan Lan had blocked the passage over a demand for a hundred bulls, and they assumed Hassen had provoked him.
• The fanatics sent a messenger to the fortress, but delays and the three division commanders' secluded cultivation left them without instructions.
• The fanatics decided to satisfy Xuan Lan and drove ninety bulls toward the entrance, unsure how to make up the missing ten.
• As the eclipse began, the fanatics wasted their final chance to stop Lin Qi and the others from acting.

The eighteen saints discovered that Hassen and 480 others had vanished and that ice blocked the passage into the lowest level of the Black Abyss Divine Prison. As the Church’s forces desperately broke through the gates and ice, Lin Qi and Xuan Lan tried to buy time for the great array to destroy the Suppressing Divine Array.

• The eighteen saints found that Hassen and 480 others had disappeared, saw that ice sealed the passage, and ordered an all-out assault on the Black Abyss.
• The saints began smashing through the prison gates while thousands of fanatics rushed toward the lowest level.
• The three corps commanders broke free of their meditation and led warriors to attack the ice, killing the fanatics and bulls blocking their way.
• The corps commanders shattered more than a hundred meters of ice, while Lin Qi ordered the people below to keep freezing the passage.
• Xuan Lan used his magic to send water surging toward the ceiling as he ate the meat Lin Qi had given him, helping delay the attackers.

Yun persuaded Handsome Bear’s mother to leave the Black Abyss and protect her son in the outside world. After revealing Handsome Bear’s father’s remains, she consumed his bones so they would remain together, while explosions sounded near the pool’s exit.

• Yun warned Handsome Bear’s mother that her son would be in danger among the bearfolk and urged her to accompany him.
• Handsome Bear’s mother led Yun, Elder Qing, and Handsome Bear to a hidden cave containing his father’s golden skeleton.
• Handsome Bear’s mother wept as she ate her mate’s bones, using her magic to fuse his remains with herself.
• Handsome Bear asked for a bone to taste, and his mother slapped him flying across the cave.
• The cave trembled as muffled explosions came from the pool’s exit.

Lin Qi and Xuan Lan fought the Retribution fanatics in the Black Abyss Divine Prison, using frost and soul attacks to cripple their legion. Lin Qi left the final commander in Yi Feng’s grasp while Xuan Lan resealed the passage, then withdrew with his subordinates to recover.

• Xuan Lan used ten ice wands to freeze the passage and turned the Mystic Ice into blades that slaughtered the fanatics trapped inside.
• The three legion commanders shattered the ice with golden divine power, but Lin Qi’s group soul spell killed over ten thousand fanatics and incapacitated most of the rest.
• Lin Qi used Death Howl and Soul Extraction to weaken the commanders, burned one commander’s soul to ashes, and beheaded another.
• The last commander struck Lin Qi hard enough to crush four ribs, but Yi Feng seized him and smashed him against a stone wall.
• Lin Qi ordered his forces to restrain the commander and guard the area while Xuan Lan sealed the passage with his remaining magic power.
• Zali and Youyao led more than ten thousand subordinates toward Yi Feng, while Lin Qi withdrew with Xuan Lan and swallowed a bottle of healing potion.

Lin Qi reached the Hunting Plains with his allies and tens of thousands of followers, then forced Jiawu to open a passage out of the Black Abyss by threatening to expose his father’s escape plan. The chapter ended with Lin Qi’s men shooting Bakuite as Jiawu resisted.

• Lin Qi sealed the tunnels behind his group and left Yi Feng, Zali, Youyao, and thousands of drugged puppets to delay the Church’s reinforcements.
• Lin Qi met Yun, Handsome Bear, and Handsome Bear’s mother at the camp, and led them toward the Hunting Plains.
• The eclipse weakened the Suppressing Divine Array as the Void Teleportation Disintegration Array began disrupting it.
• Jiawu objected when he saw Xuan Lan and learned Lin Qi intended to take all his subordinates and their families through the passage.
• Lin Qi threatened to kill Jiawu and reveal his father’s plans to the Church unless Jiawu opened the passage.
• Lin Qi ordered several dozen heavy crossbows to fire at Bakuite, filling him with armor-piercing bolts.

As the solar eclipse drove the Church to mobilize against a crisis in the Black Abyss Divine Prison, Lin Qi subdued Jiawu and the evil ghosts on the Hunting Plains. Jiawu agreed to open teleportation passages as total darkness fell over the world.

• The eclipse caused panic and a rush to buy Atonement Talismans, while the Church’s senior clergy and ancient beings hurried toward the Black Abyss Divine Prison.
• Church leaders ordered an investigation into the prison crisis and targeted the Temple of Punishment’s Fanatic Legion for a purge.
• Lin Qi revealed that he had overheard Bakuite and Balte plotting to kill him, Jiawu, and their allies; the evil ghosts killed Balte, and Lin Qi poisoned the remaining warriors and Jiawu.
• Lin Qi threatened Jiawu and ordered Break Mountain and Xiao to kill the poisoned evil ghosts, then had Alda prepare to strike Victor.
• Jiawu agreed to open teleportation passages for Lin Qi and his companions, and ordered the Hunting Party to bring the blood of captured Magic Beasts to the array.
• The Magic Beasts were slaughtered to fill the array with blood, and the sun disappeared completely as the world fell into darkness.

The Evil Ghost lords sacrificed over a million captives to channel power into the Black Abyss Divine Prison, where Jiawu used the resulting projection to destroy the Suppressing Divine Arrays. The three hundred and sixty Saint-realm mighty ones escaped, and Lin Qi led the Hunting Party through the opening passage while Elder Qing watched Jiawu for signs of betrayal.

• Long Ennan ordered the Evil Ghost warriors to slaughter more than a million captives, whose blood fed the altar and opened a connection between the Evil Ghost Abyss and the Black Abyss Divine Prison.
• Jiawu directed the ancient middle-aged man's phantom to batter the Suppressing Divine Array while Elder Qing's isolation array prevented the imprisoned Saint-realm mighty ones from reinforcing it.
• The phantom destroyed the array cores, freeing all three hundred and sixty Saint-realm mighty ones, who used Lin Qi's prepared scrolls to teleport to the passage.
• Alda celebrated his father's escape and boasted about becoming Pope, so Altut slapped him and told him to shut up.
• Lin Qi ordered Jiawu to widen the passage, sent Altut and the other freed mighty ones through first, then led the Hunting Party after them.
• Elder Qing moved beside Lin Qi and kept watch on Jiawu, ready to kill him if he acted suspiciously.

Lin Qi left Yi Feng and more than fourteen thousand Frenzied Corpse Powder puppets to block the Fanatic Legion in the Black Abyss Divine Prison. As the fanatics broke through the ice passageway, the puppets turned their poison and regenerative power against them, and the battle began to multiply the ranks of the walking corpses.

• Yi Feng and more than fourteen thousand puppets gathered beside the pool to seal the passageway for Lin Qi.
• The surviving Fanatic Legion forces descended on iron chains, and nearly a thousand fanatics burned their lives to break through Xuan Lan's Mystic Ice.
• Yi Feng led the puppets in a charge against the fanatics as they leaped into the chamber.
• The puppets' poison and the fanatics' soul-burning erased the souls of two fanatic regiment commanders, turning them against their comrades.
• Yi Feng's transformed division commander and the other puppets infected and killed more fanatics, creating still more walking corpses.

The Church’s elders and forces broke through the gates into Black Abyss Divine Prison to stop the Suppressing Divine Arrays from collapsing. They encountered a vast horde of walking corpses and discovered signs that an heir of Gods' Revelation had used Frenzied Corpse Powder.

• Nearly a hundred Church Saints melted through the rune-inscribed gates as more powerful elders and temple guardians arrived.
• The Church forces broke through the final gate, found that most of the fortress’s defenders had gone deeper into the prison, and pursued them.
• The elders discovered fanatics and walking corpses near the passage, and a red-robed Elder warned them to protect their souls from Altut’s attacks.
• Yi Feng sent fanatics to attack an executioner Elder, whose holy artifact caught them in golden rings.
• The executioner Elder recognized Frenzied Corpse Powder and accused an heir of Gods' Revelation of using it, shocking the Church elders.

Lin Qi rushed the remaining people through the teleportation passage as the array’s power faltered and the Church’s forces approached. He forced Jiawu to summon his father’s projection to guard the exit while he, Yun, and Elder Qing waited to evacuate together.

• Lin Qi hurried his warriors and their families toward the passage, scolding stragglers and sending Xuan Lan ahead to secure the other side.
• As Xuan Lan crossed, the passage stabilized, and Jiawu warned that the array was consuming his father’s origin power.
• Lin Qi told Yun and Elder Qing to leave first, but Yun insisted that they would depart together.
• Lin Qi sensed that the spiritual mark inside Yi Feng had been destroyed and warned that the pursuers were close.
• Lin Qi demanded that Jiawu summon his father’s projection to hold the exit, and Jiawu summoned the lean man to guard it as the last few thousand people continued toward the passage.

The Church's high-ranking forces and hall-guardian dragons crushed Yi Feng's puppet army and raced to reinforce the Suppressing Divine Arrays. Lin Qi's blocked passages delayed the Church long enough for him and Elder Qing to reach a final confrontation at the Hunting Plains, where the Suppressing Divine Array came under attack.

• The execution elders discovered that Frenzied Corpse Powder made the puppets heal from their wounds, so they burned and smashed them while the hall-guardian dragons joined the battle.
• The dragons and Church clergy destroyed Yi Feng and burned the tens of thousands of puppets to ashes within half an hour.
• The Church split into thirteen groups to reinforce the Suppressing Divine Arrays, and Lin Qi's blocked passages delayed the force headed for the Hunting Plains.
• Three execution elders arrived at the Hunting Plains and found Jiawu maintaining the Void Teleportation Disintegration Array while the last prisoners waited by the passage.
• Jiawu demanded that the Suppressing Divine Array be destroyed, and Lin Qi ordered Elder Qing to attack it as he carried Yun toward the transmission passage.

Lin Qi and the others escaped the Black Abyss through the passage while a powerful energy projection overwhelmed the Church forces trying to stop them. Jiawu followed them into the Fifth Abyss after helping grind apart the Suppressing Divine Array, leaving the Church with a warning that his father would soon be free.

• Jiawu's father's energy projection drove back the three Execution Elders and grievously wounded the Temple Guardian Dragons.
• The Church clergy attacked the projection with divine arts, but it vanished and shattered their breastbones with a single blow each.
• Lin Qi warned the Execution Elders not to ask the projection for its name, then carried Yun into the passage as Elder Qing and Jiawu followed.
• Elder Qing vowed that the family would take revenge on the Church, while Jiawu declared that his father was about to break free of his seal.
• The Temple of Life elders reached the passage after it had closed, and Lin Qi's group escaped into the Fifth Abyss.

Lin Qi brought his people into the Fifth Abyss, where they faced a vast army of evil ghosts led by Long Ennan and the other grand lords. Jiawu returned and declared that Lin Qi’s forces had killed the warriors sent to help him, turning the standoff into open hostility.

• Lin Qi arrived in the Fifth Abyss with Yun and found his forces facing hundreds of thousands of evil ghost warriors, while Altut and the Saints’ rapid recovery kept the grand lords wary.
• Lin Qi told Long Ennan he intended to take his people to the surface and would fight anyone who tried to stop him.
• Alda boasted about the evil ghost women, but Yao Yao frightened him by touching his chest, and Lin Qi punished Yao Yao for provoking him.
• Jiawu and Elder Qing emerged from the teleportation passage, and Long Ennan demanded to know what had happened to the warriors he had sent out.
• Jiawu demanded that Lin Qi remove the poison from him and his people, then told Long Ennan that Lin Qi’s people had killed the dispatched warriors.

Lin Qi confronted Jiawu and the seven great evil ghost lords after killing their elites, but refused to give Jiawu an antidote until his people could leave safely. The seal on Jiawu’s father collapsed, and the colossal Ghost Ancestor emerged in his true form, releasing thousands of egg-shaped sacs.

• Lin Qi admitted he had killed the evil ghosts who tried to claim credit for freeing the Ghost Ancestor, while Xuan Lan, Barrel, Bilibili, and Elder Qing stood ready to fight Long Ennan’s group.
• Jiawu demanded the antidote for himself and his disciples, but Lin Qi refused to hand it over before he had safely led his people away.
• The divine sword sealing the black mountain range faded, and Jiawu’s father’s enormous true body burst free from the crater.
• The Ghost Ancestor rose before the kneeling evil ghosts, then blasted thousands of sickly green egg-shaped sacs from beneath his body.

Ghost Ancestor confronted Lin Qi and his companions with thousands of Dragon Demon War Ghosts, intending to devour them for energy. As Lin Qi questioned Jiawu’s father about the realms of power and the gods, Elder Qing used a rune to try to send Ghost Ancestor back to his seal.

• Ghost Ancestor hatched more than three thousand Dragon Demon War Ghosts, and Elder Qing identified them as powerful first-generation Heavenly Ghosts.
• Lin Qi realized Ghost Ancestor meant to attack them and asked Jiawu whether the enormous being was his father.
• Jiawu’s father appeared in a solid avatar, declared that he would devour the group, and praised Jiawu for bringing him food.
• Lin Qi questioned Jiawu’s father about the stages of power, and he described the Disciples, Enlightened, Lost Ones, and Awakened while warning that gods were generally Awakened or Lost Ones.
• Lin Qi and Elder Qing exchanged a shocked look, then Elder Qing cast a massive rune and ordered Ghost Ancestor to return to his seal.

Lin Qi and Elder Qing used a rune to restore the divine seal and trap Jiawu’s father again, then attacked the Fifth Abyss’s evil ghosts. Jiawu and the seven great lords were left defeated as the seal strengthened.

• Elder Qing’s rune restored the divine array, and the golden greatsword forced Jiawu’s father back into the seal.
• Lin Qi revealed that he and Elder Qing had prepared to betray Jiawu’s plan, while Jiawu accused them of breaking their agreement.
• As the solar eclipse ended, the divine power and repaired arrays grew stronger, sealing Jiawu’s father beneath the returning mountain stones.
• Lin Qi distributed jars of potions, and the group hurled them into the evil ghosts, making countless enemies collapse.
• Altut unleashed a soul shock that knocked Jiawu and the seven great lords to the ground.

Lin Qi used potions to incapacitate Jiawu’s forces in the Fifth Abyss, then enslaved their leaders and forced Heart-Corroding Gelsemium pills on the rest. Jiawu was left in despair over becoming Lin Qi’s slave, while Lin Qi promised to help rescue his father if he served him.

• Xuan Lan knocked away the Dragon Demon War Ghosts and, with Lin Qi’s permission, ate the ones he had injured.
• Lin Qi’s potions incapacitated hundreds of thousands of evil ghosts, while Altut’s soul attack left Jiawu and the other leaders badly weakened.
• Lin Qi extracted soul threads from sixty-three Saint-realm evil ghosts and made them sign enslavement contracts, then had the rest fed his improved Heart-Corroding Gelsemium pills.
• Jiawu fainted after seeing his forces captured, then wept when Lin Qi gave him an antidote and he realized Lin Qi controlled his soul and life.
• Lin Qi promised to help Jiawu rescue his father if Jiawu served him, making Jiawu cry even harder.

Elder Qing urged Yun to keep Lin Qi close, seeing the Fifth Abyss’s warriors and resources as a path to greater power for Yun. He then advised Lin Qi to secure the direct bloodlines of every evil ghost family, leaving the subdued lords with little hope of resisting.

• Yun asked Elder Qing about Lin Qi’s control of the seven great lords and the Fifth Abyss, and Elder Qing explained the region’s wealth and military strength.
• Elder Qing told Yun to persuade Lin Qi to remain by his side, but Yun worried that Lin Qi would refuse to involve himself in the family’s affairs.
• Elder Qing reminded Yun that he had promised Yun’s mother to protect him and urged him to fight for influence within the family.
• Yun agreed to return and see the family head after Lin Qi settled matters in the Fifth Abyss.
• Elder Qing told Lin Qi to gather every evil ghost family’s direct bloodlines in Long Ennan’s lord city.
• Lin Qi ordered the lords to compile lists of their secluded Saint-realm experts and descendants, while warning that he could monitor their souls.

Lin Qi and Yun agreed to help each other pursue their enemies and family interests. Lin Qi then confronted the ancestral fiends who had arrived over his control of their descendants’ souls, using their bloodlines to keep them from attacking.

• Yun asked Lin Qi to remain his guard and proposed that his family help Lin Qi take revenge in exchange for Lin Qi helping him reclaim power and his mother's inheritance.
• Lin Qi accepted Yun's proposal, and the two agreed to help each other against their enemies.
• Lin Qi left Yun and entered Long Ennan's council hall, where more than three hundred ancestral fiends faced Altut and the others.
• A fiend challenged Lin Qi, who confirmed he controlled the souls of their direct descendants and warned that killing him could doom their bloodlines.
• More ancestral fiends arrived as Lin Qi remained on Long Ennan's throne, confident that the descendants' bloodlines restrained them.

Lin Qi’s forces conquered the Fifth Abyss’s Evil Ghost families and used their descendants as leverage over the ancestors. He persuaded the ancestors to join his campaign against the Church, and 658 Evil Ghost Saints signed the Abyss Covenant with him.

• Fat Bear led Black Abyss warriors into Three Tree City, where they subdued the Crodael Family and seized its wealth.
• Over three days and nights, Lin Qi’s forces swept through the Fifth Abyss’s families, forced their direct members to take Heart-Corroding Gelsemium, and placed key descendants under soul control.
• The Evil Ghost ancestors arrived in Black Desert City but could not challenge Lin Qi without endangering their descendants.
• Lin Qi explained his origins and promised the ancestors a chance to return openly to the surface world if they served him against the Church.
• Lin Qi signed the Abyss Covenant with the Fifth Abyss’s ancestors, bringing 658 Evil Ghost Saints into his camp.