Chapter Summaries

Cheng Changyuan killed the Purgatory Fiends attacking him, then escaped after Venerable Peach Blossom warned him of an approaching danger. Meanwhile, the Spirit Transformation cultivators activated the array, causing five-colored mist to spread across the Blood Baleful Sea and forcing the Purgatory Clan to respond as the allied armies fought on.

• Cheng Changyuan used his nine bronze treasure towers to suppress and kill the Purgatory Fiends, then cleared the battlefield before heeding Venerable Peach Blossom’s warning and fleeing with a jade talisman.
• The allied Mortal Cultivators began retreating after receiving warnings, while Island-Moving Venerable and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to activate their plan.
• Cheng Buzheng and the other cultivators poured the origin power of laws into the array, making the five-colored mist expand and devour the Blood Baleful Sea.
• The Purgatory Clan’s divine envoy attacked in anger, while the Grand Divine Envoy and High Priest worried over the sea’s rapid depletion and decided to report to the Progenitor and summon their forces.
• Venerable Zongbao ordered the allied armies to retreat, but many soldiers stayed to attack Purgatory Fiends caught in the five-colored mist, and only some cautious cultivators obeyed at once.

Purgatory Clan experts slaughtered most of the allied Human and Demon cultivators on the frontlines before withdrawing, while Cheng Buzheng discovered that the expanded formation was draining the Blood Baleful Sea into its Wild Cauldrons. The Purgatory Clan Progenitor recognized the threat, emerged from seclusion, and chose to use a secret technique to recover from his injuries before the sea lost too much of its power.

• Purgatory Clan priests and divine envoys killed more than forty thousand allied cultivators, and only about a quarter of those on the frontlines escaped.
• Cheng Buzheng saw the empty eastern battlefield and realized the formation was absorbing vast quantities of blood-baleful energy into a Wild Cauldron.
• The High Priest and Grand Divine Envoy reported to the Purgatory Clan Progenitor that the two races' expanded formation was devouring the Blood Baleful Sea.
• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor used his divine sense to inspect the formation, identified its Formation Artifact, and vowed to seize it.
• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor destroyed his black coffin and appeared at the center of the Blood Baleful Sea, where he decided to use a secret technique to heal before the sea lost half its power.

The Purgatory Clan Progenitor unleashed the Myriad Blood Bats, which devoured the crimson Heavenly River and began draining the Blood Baleful Sea. As the bats appeared inside the formation, Cheng Buzheng and the other cultivators discovered that the array had stopped absorbing energy, and Island-Moving Venerable urged them to keep supplying law origin to break the obstruction.

• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor formed seals through intense pain, scattered into countless Blood Bats, and sent them to devour the crimson Heavenly River and Blood Baleful Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed danger, noticed the scarlet energy had stopped flowing into the Wild Cauldron, and halted his supply of law origin before informing the other cultivators.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators questioned Island-Moving Venerable about the array’s failure, but he said the change had happened too quickly for him to notice.
• Cheng Buzheng and the others saw Law Origin-bearing blood bats emerge through the five-colored mist, and Island-Moving Venerable warned that their forbidden artifacts still needed enough power to open the ascension passage.
• The cultivators agreed to continue the original plan, and Island-Moving Venerable said they could break the Purgatory Clan’s barrier by continuing to pour in law origin.

Cheng Buzheng and the Spirit Transformation cultivators faced an endless tide of lethal blood bats, which he recognized as the ominous vision from an earlier divination. Island-Moving Venerable used the Wild Cauldrons and the cultivators’ Law Origin to unleash the array’s ultimate sublimation, but the mystery of the Blood Canopy remained.

• Cheng Buzheng realized the blood bats matched the great ominous hexagram he had divined before setting out.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to spend the Wild Cauldrons’ blood-baleful power and their own strength to survive the approaching blood bats.
• Island-Moving Venerable activated the four Wild Cauldrons and merged the array’s five-colored mist, blood-red net, and the cultivators’ Laws.
• The [Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array] transformed into a colossal five-colored dragon that destroyed waves of blood bats and shielded the cultivators.
• The cultivators marveled at the dragon’s power and noted the risks of damaging the Formation Artifact, then questioned the nature of the endless Blood Canopy.

Island-Moving Venerable revealed that the Blood Bats could revive without weakening, while the formation dragon’s power was steadily draining. As the Spirit Transformation experts debated whether to retreat, he proposed destroying the four Wild Cauldrons to turn the tide.

• Island-Moving Venerable noticed that the Blood Bats reformed after being torn apart and ordered Venerable Zongbao to evacuate the armies from Stone Island.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the danger through his Dharma Eyes but decided to stay because his divination had promised great fortune if he survived a calamity.
• Island-Moving Venerable told the other Spirit Transformation experts that the battle was perilous and asked whether they should fight or retreat.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea warned that a retreat would leave them exposed to the Blood Bats and could doom those who fled.
• Island-Moving Venerable proposed self-destructing the four Wild Cauldrons, and the other experts promised to compensate him for the loss.

Island-Moving Venerable detonated four forbidden artifacts, unleashing a blast that wiped out the surrounding Blood Bats and swept away the Spirit Transformation cultivators. As the survivors fled the law-power aftershock, Cheng Buzheng saw that the Blood Bats were still resisting the fading explosion, while Island-Moving Venerable remained unreachable.

• Island-Moving Venerable activated the five-colored dragon, which detonated four forbidden artifacts and unleashed devastating sound waves that swept away Cheng Buzheng's avatar and the nearby cultivators.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea survived the sound waves with the help of a coiling-dragon jade pendant, which shattered after protecting him.
• The explosion annihilated space and drove the Spirit Transformation cultivators to flee its law-power aftershock; they later tried to contact Island-Moving Venerable, but he did not answer.
• Venerable Zongbao agreed to investigate Island-Moving Venerable's condition while the other cultivators waited for news.
• Cheng Buzheng used his Dharma Eye empowered by the Nirvana Heart Sutra to observe the battlefield and saw the fading multicolored explosion clash with the Blood Bats' blood-colored beams.

Cheng Buzheng watched the [Cosmic Direct-Reverse Heavenly River Great Array] weaken as endless blood bats overwhelmed its five-colored dragon, while the Spirit Transformation old monsters argued over Island-Moving Venerable’s actions. Island-Moving Venerable finally warned them to flee and trap the taboo creatures if possible, leaving everyone running for their lives.

• The blood-red pillar overwhelmed the five-colored giant dragon, which shrank and became covered in blood bats as the four Wild Cauldrons’ power waned.
• Venerable Zongbao explained that the four Wild Cauldrons could no longer suppress the blood bats and defended Island-Moving Venerable’s earlier aid.
• A demon venerable denied that Island-Moving Venerable had saved them, but the other Spirit Transformation old monsters rebuked him for refusing to acknowledge the favor.
• Island-Moving Venerable kept controlling the formation until the dragon vanished, then fled as the blood bats pursued him.
• Island-Moving Venerable warned the Spirit Transformation old monsters that the blood bats were likely taboo creatures and told them to flee and use every means to trap them.
• The Spirit Transformation old monsters abandoned their plans and fled without looking back.

The Spirit Transformation cultivators struggled to survive the Purgatory Clan Progenitor’s blood bats as Demon Venerable Nether Sea finally used the golden dragon pearl. The bats transformed into a vast blood-red river, while the pearl vanished into gathering auspicious clouds, leaving Nether Sea unable to control what happened next.

• Blood bats pursued the fleeing Spirit Transformation cultivators, and their strongest techniques could only delay the swarm.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea decided to act before the cultivators were overwhelmed and urged them to hold on.
• Cheng Buzheng learned through the Jade Tray that Nether Sea was about to make a move, while concealing that Venerable Peach Blossom had almost no resources left.
• A majestic dragon’s roar sounded, and auspicious clouds gathered as Nether Sea sacrificed the golden dragon pearl.
• The blood bats abandoned their pursuit and merged into a blood-red heavenly river, while the golden dragon pearl flew into the clouds and slipped beyond Nether Sea’s control.

Cheng Buzheng realized that the blood bats and crimson giant were forms of the Purgatory Clan Progenitor, Prison Twelve, who confronted Ao Zhenghai, a True Dragon descendant whose bloodline origin Prison Twelve had stolen. As Prison Twelve threatened the Golden Flood Dragon Clan and Ao Zhenghai weighed whether to fight, the clan’s elders urged their Progenitor to stop, arguing that their plan to open the ascension path had already failed and that Ao Zhenghai could help them ascend.

• Cheng Buzheng recognized that the endless blood bats were the Purgatory Clan Progenitor, who had condensed into a towering crimson giant.
• Prison Twelve called to Ao Zhenghai in the auspicious clouds, and Ao Zhenghai accused him of stealing his bloodline origin and ruining his standing in the clan.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea and the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s elders realized their ancestor’s descendants had inherited only Golden Flood Dragon forms because their bloodline origin had been drained away.
• Prison Twelve demanded that Ao Zhenghai withdraw and threatened the Golden Flood Dragon Clan with annihilation if they refused to leave.
• Ao Zhenghai refused to yield, but a Golden Flood Dragon Clan elder urged him to stop fighting, explaining that their gathered Blood Baleful Intent had been exhausted and their plan to open the ascension path had failed.
• Another elder argued that with Ao Zhenghai present, the clan should still be able to ascend to the Spirit Realm.

Ao Zhenghai rejected Prison Twelve’s attempt to make him withdraw and fought the Purgatory Clan Progenitor in a battle that trapped the surrounding Spirit Transformation cultivators between the two sides. Ao Zhenghai’s golden ring began suppressing Prison Twelve, but the Progenitor answered with another bloodline divine ability.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea stayed silent as the other Spirit Transformation cultivators questioned his stance, while the Purgatory Clan Progenitor hoped Ao Zhenghai would compromise.
• Ao Zhenghai refused Prison Twelve’s demand and attacked with thunderfire from the Mountain River Diagram, while Prison Twelve countered with a heavy blood axe.
• Ao Zhenghai wounded Prison Twelve with the Mountain River Diagram’s shattered fragments and repelled nine gluttonous beasts with Grand Unity Tribulation Light, piercing twelve of Prison Twelve’s shields.
• Prison Twelve tried to corrupt Ao Zhenghai’s dragon scale and send it back as a weapon, but Ao Zhenghai sensed the trap and burned it to ashes with dragonfire.
• Ao Zhenghai and Prison Twelve intensified their battle as Cheng Buzheng and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators watched, unable to flee.
• Ao Zhenghai’s illuminated scales formed a vast golden ring that trapped Prison Twelve and burned away his flesh, but Prison Twelve began using another bloodline divine ability.

The Purgatory Clan Progenitor and Ao Zhenghai unleashed their trump cards and fought with devastating power while the Spirit Transformation cultivators withdrew from the battlefield. Their battle continued within a collapsed void, leaving the distant observers puzzled by the lack of shockwaves.

• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor summoned three thousand powerful blood-baleful clones, which joined the fight against Ao Zhenghai’s golden dragon.
• Ao Zhenghai’s cracked scales darkened as he gathered purple law lightning, while the Purgatory Clan Progenitor raised a Blood Sun and sent the two powers crashing together.
• Venerable Peach Blossom explained that the Purgatory Clan Progenitor’s avatars demonstrated law comprehension at least at the third realm, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators reconsidered their earlier assumptions.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea relayed Ao Zhenghai’s condition that the cultivators cover the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s retreat, and the Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed and moved to protect them.
• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor tried to strike the retreating cultivators, but Ao Zhenghai scattered the blood light with purple lightning and resumed his battle with the Progenitor.
• Ao Zhenghai and the Purgatory Clan Progenitor restrained their power as they fought inside the collapsing void, while the distant Spirit Transformation cultivators heard explosions but felt no shockwaves.

Ao Zhenghai trapped Prison Twelve inside the Dragon Soul Death Bell, forcing the Purgatory Clan Progenitor to choose between remaining sealed and killing Ao Zhenghai by breaking free. Prison Twelve found a way around the dilemma and appeared among the Purgatory Clan powerhouses, disguised as the Eighth Divine Envoy.

• Ao Zhenghai activated his True Dragon Runes and transformed into the Dragon Soul Death Bell, sealing Prison Twelve and destroying the blood-baleful avatars within it.
• Prison Twelve recognized the bell’s life-or-death nature and realized that breaking it would kill Ao Zhenghai, while remaining trapped would leave him vulnerable.
• Prison Twelve recalled a secret art, formed a blood-red rune within his protective Light Screen, and prepared to counter Ao Zhenghai’s scheme.
• The Purgatory Clan powerhouses watched the sealed bell and took comfort in the Progenitor’s strength.
• The Eighth Divine Envoy vanished, and Prison Twelve appeared in his place.

Prison Twelve forced Ao Zhenghai to abandon his plan to summon the Golden Flood Dragon Clan by threatening the clan and swearing a Heart Demon Great Oath to protect it. Ao Zhenghai was sealed in a prepared cavern, where its blood-colored barriers trapped him and a beam of light put his dragon soul to sleep.

• Ao Zhenghai's golden flames killed the Eighth Divine Envoy after Prison Twelve escaped by switching places with a Purgatory Clan junior.
• Prison Twelve threatened to slaughter the Golden Flood Dragon Clan if Ao Zhenghai self-destructed, and Ao Zhenghai agreed to seal himself beneath the sea in exchange for the clan's safety.
• Ao Zhenghai repeatedly corrected Prison Twelve's Heart Demon Great Oath until it barred him from scheming against the Golden Flood Dragon Clan by any means.
• Prison Twelve opened a vast black hole, and Ao Zhenghai's dragon-shaped bell sank into it before the black hole vanished.
• Ao Zhenghai arrived as a golden pearl in a cavern, discovered blood-colored barriers behind its walls, and fell asleep beneath a descending pillar of light.

The Progenitor of the Purgatory Clan pursued the fleeing Spirit Transformation cultivators after defeating the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s ancient ancestor. His attacks spared the Golden Flood Dragon Clan, stirring suspicion among the other cultivators, who then looked to Venerable Peach Blossom for a way to survive.

• A golden treasure pearl fell into a bronze jar in a mysterious cavern as the Progenitor of the Purgatory Clan watched the black hole disappear and set off after the fleeing cultivators.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators questioned Demon Venerable Nether Sea about the vanished dragon-shaped bell, but he said he knew nothing of the ancient ancestor’s fate.
• Venerable Peach Blossom sensed danger and saw the Purgatory Clan’s Progenitor racing toward them, just before the Progenitor unleashed waves of light against the fleeing cultivators.
• The Progenitor’s attacks veered away from the Golden Flood Dragon Clan, leading Cheng Buzheng and the other cultivators to suspect the clan had secretly reached an understanding with the Purgatory Clan.
• As the Progenitor closed in, the Spirit Transformation cultivators asked Venerable Peach Blossom to use a hidden trump card to save them.

Cheng Buzheng convinced the fleeing Spirit Transformation cultivators that Venerable Peach Blossom could use a secret technique to escape if they gathered rare law Spiritual Items. After collecting several from the group, he began casting the technique, but the Purgatory Clan Progenitor appeared before he could finish.

• Cheng Buzheng told the Spirit Transformation cultivators that his secret technique required eight law Spiritual Items, though fewer could still delay their pursuer.
• The cultivators pooled their resources and agreed to meet at a coordinate Cheng Buzheng selected, while the Purgatory Clan Progenitor continued pursuing them.
• The Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered and handed their law Spiritual Items to Cheng Buzheng, who promised the contributors compensation if they survived.
• Cheng Buzheng collected the remaining law Spiritual Items and began casting the secret technique to open a passage through the void.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted the Purgatory Clan Progenitor approaching in a streak of blood-red light.

Venerable Peach Blossom led the Spirit Transformation old monsters of the two races through a teleportation black hole to escape the Purgatory Clan Progenitor, who then destroyed Stone Island’s Teleportation Array to cut off their retreat. In the southeastern Forbidden Sea, Demon Venerable Xuanba proposed risking the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area to ascend to the upper realm, while Demon Venerable Nether Sea noticed something in the void.

• Venerable Peach Blossom used law-based Spiritual Items to stabilize a teleportation black hole as the Purgatory Clan Progenitor pursued the two clans.
• Cheng Buzheng and the Spirit Transformation old monsters fled through the black hole moments before the Purgatory Clan Progenitor’s blood swords shattered the space behind them.
• The Purgatory Clan Progenitor failed to locate the escapees with his sensory secret art, then removed Stone Island’s Teleportation Array and destroyed the island.
• Cheng Buzheng identified their new location as the southeastern corner of the Forbidden Sea and said the Purgatory Clan Progenitor would not find them soon.
• Demon Venerable Xuanba proposed entering the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area to attempt ascension, though the old monsters feared the deadly law thunder and Ascension Passage.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea suddenly looked toward the empty void, drawing questions from the other old monsters.

Demon Venerable Nether Sea revealed that the ancient Teleportation Array had been destroyed, leaving the Spirit Transformation Venerables cut off as they argued over how to escape the Purgatory Clan. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng celebrated the haul of law Spiritual Items he had obtained through his incarnation and considered how they could help Wanwan.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea told the Spirit Transformation Venerables that the imprint he had placed in the Teleportation Array's core had vanished, confirming that the Purgatory Clan Progenitor had destroyed it.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea assured the group that the erased imprint could not be used to track them, and Venerable Zongbao explained that outsiders could not use the ancient array to invade the Boundless Sea.
• Venerable Zongbao argued that fleeing into Thunder Abyss should remain a last resort, prompting Demon Venerable Xuanba's supporters to clash with her allies until Island-Moving Venerable demanded unity.
• The Spirit Transformation Venerables looked to Demon Venerable Nether Sea, Island-Moving Venerable, and Venerable Peach Blossom for a solution, but Demon Venerable Nether Sea admitted he could not locate his clan's distant ancestor, whose dragon soul might have opposed the Purgatory Clan Progenitor.
• In Ping'an City, Cheng Buzheng admired the law Spiritual Items his incarnation had swindled from the Purgatory Clan Progenitor and stored them in his Cosmic Thumb Ring.
• Cheng Buzheng reflected that the treasures could benefit Wanwan, who had recently reached the Half-Venerable Realm.

Cheng Buzheng decided to give Murong Wanwan the Phoenix Flame Crystal Soul to help her comprehend the Fire Law and reach Spirit Transformation. Meanwhile, the Spirit Transformation cultivators debated how to survive the Purgatory Clan threat, and Island-Moving Venerable revealed a suicidal array as his last resort before Demon Venerable Luosha appealed to Venerable Peach Blossom.

• Cheng Buzheng recognized the Phoenix Flame Crystal Soul as a treasure that could aid Murong Wanwan’s cultivation and rushed to find her.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea confirmed he had no other way to deal with the Purgatory Clan threat, leaving the gathered cultivators desperate.
• Blood Sea Demon Venerable and the others pressed Island-Moving Venerable to reveal a hidden trump card, but he said he had already used the power of blood baleful intent needed for his ascension plan.
• Island-Moving Venerable disclosed the Soul-Burning Dao-Incinerating Return-to-Void Array, which would consume every participant’s law origins and souls and could not be stopped once activated.
• The cultivators recoiled from the array’s cost, and Demon Venerable Luosha turned to Venerable Peach Blossom and asked whether he had another option.

Cheng Buzheng told the Spirit Transformation cultivators that he had no way to defeat the Purgatory Clan Progenitor beyond his costly teleportation art. The group chose to enter the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area, while Demon Venerable Nether Sea insisted that the Golden Flood Dragon Clan would join them despite his elders urging him to withdraw.

• The Spirit Transformation cultivators asked Venerable Peach Blossom for a strategy, and Cheng Buzheng said his teleportation secret art was his only remaining trump card.
• The cultivators concluded that entering the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area was their only chance, since using Cheng Buzheng’s art would damage their foundations and leave them too weak for the ascension passage.
• Most of the Spirit Transformation cultivators agreed to risk the forbidden area, but the Golden Flood Dragon Clan’s elders hesitated over signs that the Purgatory Clan Progenitor might have another target.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea rejected a proposal to split from the group and declared that the Golden Flood Dragon Clan would honor the alliance.
• Nether Sea warned his elders through divine-sense transmissions that the others were testing them and would attack if they tried to leave, but the elders insisted they would sacrifice themselves to ensure his return to the clan.

Demon Venerable Nether Sea pledged to remain with the other Spirit Transformation experts, who chose to enter the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area aboard a concealed star boat. As the group departed under Venerable Wantong’s watch, two Purgatory Clan agents waited nearby with a Nether Blood Mirror, uncertain whether it would reveal the travelers.

• Demon Venerable Nether Sea rejected his clan’s pleas to retreat and swore to advance and retreat together with the other experts.
• The Spirit Transformation experts agreed that entering the Thunder Abyss Forbidden Area was their only viable option and selected the Nine Heavens Star Cloud Boat for their journey.
• Cheng Buzheng recommended Venerable Wantong to monitor for hidden sentries, and the experts entrusted him with the task.
• The experts boarded the Nine Heavens Star Cloud Boat, which vanished with them under its concealment array.
• A blood-armored divine envoy and a blood-robed priest discussed the Nether Blood Mirror and waited for the two races’ experts, admitting that their chance of discovering them was uncertain.