Chapter Summaries

After the demons surrounded Xia Ping and his companions, Vaslai tried to turn them against Aldrich, but a sudden attack by evil ghosts killed Vaslai. Xia Ping realized the ghosts had targeted Vaslai because of the power of misfortune.

• The Rock Demon and a dozen Ancient Realm demons surrounded Xia Ping and the others after the other demons left.
• Vaslai blamed Aldrich for their troubles, and the Rock Demon demanded that Vaslai kill Aldrich to prove its loyalty.
• Vaslai and the other demon lords prepared to attack Xia Ping, while Vaslai spread poisonous gas across the area.
• More than a dozen evil ghosts emerged from the void and attacked Vaslai, tearing apart its soul despite its deadly poison.
• The other demons fled as the ghosts devoured Vaslai, and Xia Ping recognized the power of misfortune behind the attack.

Xia Ping realized that his Gaia Clone’s misfortune drew danger toward his hostile enemies, making him seem unusually lucky while disasters fueled his growth. As evil ghosts slaughtered the demons in the Demon God Ruins, Xia Ping trapped the fleeing survivors with his Spacetime Domain and confronted them.

• Xia Ping understood that his enemies’ hostility transferred his misfortune to them, while their resulting disasters strengthened his Disaster Body.
• Evil ghosts killed Vaslai, and the demons panicked and fled as the ghosts attacked them.
• The demons blasted the ghosts apart with their Creation Domains, but the ghosts reformed and resumed killing them.
• Rock Demon and the surviving demons tried to escape, but Xia Ping froze the surrounding spacetime with his Spacetime Domain.
• Xia Ping taunted the trapped demons and declared that he would not let them escape.

Xia Ping, posing as Aldrich, trapped the ancient demons in his Spacetime Domain and revealed that he was Fengdu, not Aldrich. He drew more evil ghosts to the demons, and the Rock Demon was torn apart, leaving the others terrified.

• Xia Ping held the ancient demons in his powerful Spacetime Domain as they tried and failed to break free.
• An ancient demon recognized that Xia Ping’s power was not Aldrich’s, and Xia Ping revealed that he had destroyed the real Aldrich and was called Fengdu.
• Xia Ping released a force of misfortune that drew another twenty or thirty evil ghosts to the trapped demons.
• The evil ghosts sensed the Rock Demon’s intense malice toward Fengdu, swarmed it, and devoured its soul.
• The surviving ancient demons watched the Rock Demon die and trembled in fear.

Xia Ping killed the ancient demons with evil ghosts, then trapped the ghosts inside Gaia Space, where they began to be refined. He collected the demons’ corpses and treasures, gaining over a million Hell Origin Stones.

• Xia Ping’s evil ghosts tore apart the souls of every ancient demon, and their deaths returned and strengthened his power of misfortune.
• The evil ghosts sensed Xia Ping’s powerful soul and attacked him with Yellow Springs aura that froze spacetime.
• Xia Ping used Gaia Space to trap the evil ghosts, where they could not escape and began to be devoured and refined.
• Xia Ping collected the ancient demons’ corpses for the World Tree and took their Space Rings, which contained over a million Hell Origin Stones and other treasures.

Xia Ping scavenged Agate Demon Marrow Stones from the Demon God-era city and sealed the evil ghosts drawn by his misfortune. He found no other treasures, but the Spear of Hell and Mourning Staff resonated with a mysterious power buried beneath the ruins.

• Xia Ping learned from the system that the city’s building material was Agate Demon Marrow Stone, a rare and exceptionally durable material from the age of Demon Gods.
• Xia Ping collected the broken stones throughout the city but could not remove its intact buildings, which were fused together by a powerful force.
• Over several days, Xia Ping sealed hundreds of evil ghosts that came after him, while finding no Demon Abominations or other valuable items.
• The Spear of Hell and Mourning Staff resonated with a mysterious power somewhere in the city, and Xia Ping followed the signal to a ruined area.
• Xia Ping sensed the power hundreds of meters underground and dug a large pit to uncover its source.

Xia Ping unearthed and refined the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain, a powerful hell jailer weapon with the ability to pierce souls, suppress captives, and resist destruction. A group of ancient demons arrived and recognized the treasure, and their leader demanded that Xia Ping surrender it.

• Xia Ping dug up a giant demon-like corpse holding a black chain and identified the chain as a hell magic treasure.
• Xia Ping refined the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain and learned its powers and its place alongside the Spear of Hell and the Mourning Staff.
• More than a dozen ancient demons surrounded Xia Ping after sensing the treasure.
• The ancient demons praised their leader, the Prophet Demon, for foreseeing the treasure and recognized the chain as a rare weapon of hell jailers.
• One ancient demon ordered Xia Ping to hand over the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain, threatening him while claiming it would spare his life.

Xia Ping used the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain to attack the ancient demons, piercing their bodies and sealing their souls. The demons fought back with their Creation Domains and ultimate arts, but the battle continued with Xia Ping's artifact striking from the void.

• The prophet demon sensed that Xia Ping was dangerous but could not see his future through the force of fate.
• Xia Ping unleashed the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain, trapping the demons in a vast cage and piercing one ancient demon through its body and soul.
• The ancient demons erupted with their Creation Domains to suppress Xia Ping, but the chain slipped through the void and pierced three or four more demons.
• Several ancient demons attacked Xia Ping with their ultimate arts, including Baleful Slaughter Millennium Fist, Five Thunderbolt Claw, and Raging Yin Wind Slash.

Xia Ping used Four Seasons Alternation and Gaia’s curse to weaken the ancient demons, then killed them with the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain. He concluded that the curse was powerful but consumed too much of his Gaia Clone’s soul energy to use carelessly.

• Xia Ping unleashed Four Seasons Alternation, grinding away the ancient demons’ attacks with a spacetime wheel.
• Xia Ping cursed the remaining seven or eight ancient demons with the Five Declines of Heavenly Beings, causing their bodies and souls to decay and their power to fade.
• The Prophet Demon recognized the effect as a nearly irreversible curse and urged the others to kill Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping sent the Yin-Yang Soul-Locking Chain through the weakened demons, killing them and devouring their souls.
• Xia Ping realized the curse consumed nearly a third of his Gaia Clone’s soul energy and decided he could not use it lightly.

Xia Ping discovered that the Demon God Ruins were linked by Bridges of No Return and chose an easy-rank bridge to explore another city. As he crossed it, he encountered the Yellow Springs River and the trapped ghosts and corpses that called out to him.

• Xia Ping collected the ancient demons’ corpses and Space Rings, then searched the city for more treasures.
• At the city’s edge, Xia Ping found that chaotic airflow enclosed it and that ancient bridges served as its exits.
• Xia Ping learned that the Bridges of No Return were made from Yellow Springs Stone and led to cities ranked easy, difficult, nightmare, or extinction by danger.
• Xia Ping chose a rarely visited easy-rank bridge and stepped onto it, finding himself surrounded by chaos above the Yellow Springs River.
• The ghosts and corpses in the river called out to Xia Ping, offering treasures and inheritances if he would save them.

On the Bridge of No Return, Xia Ping resisted the evil ghosts’ mind-bending power and used their howls to create a new soundwave divine ability, Yellow Springs Movement. Its notes purified countless evil ghosts in the Yellow Springs River, leaving the rest fleeing in terror.

• The evil ghosts’ spiritual power stirred Xia Ping’s emotions and memories, but his soul repelled their attempt to drag him off the bridge.
• Xia Ping recognized that the ghosts’ howls contained hell notes and drew on his knowledge of soundwave divine abilities to comprehend a power of his own.
• Xia Ping formed the Yellow Springs Movement and sent its notes across the Yellow Springs River.
• The notes cleansed countless evil ghosts of their darkness, and the purified ghosts vanished into the river.
• The remaining evil ghosts panicked and fled, clearing the area beneath the Bridge of No Return.

Xia Ping created the Yellow Springs Movement, a divine ability that purified souls and commanded Yellow Springs evil ghosts. After using it to cleanse many evil ghosts, he received more than a hundred drops of Yellow Springs Holy Water from the Yellow Springs River.

• Xia Ping discovered that the Yellow Springs Movement could purify dark forces, summon evil ghosts, and strengthen his soul.
• The Yellow Springs River produced crystalline drops, which Xia Ping collected in a jade bottle.
• The system identified the drops as Yellow Springs Holy Water, a treasure that could purify bodies and souls and repair cultivation foundations.
• The Yellow Springs River sent Xia Ping a message revealing that the holy water rewarded him for purifying its evil ghosts.
• The system explained that the weakened river had rewarded Xia Ping so generously because few beings remained capable of cleansing its ghosts.

Xia Ping crossed into a vast, more dangerous city in the Demon God Ruins after resolving to harvest Yellow Springs Holy Water on a future visit. There, ancient demons captured him and other primordial demons, leading them toward a temple deep in the city.

• Xia Ping realized that the Yellow Springs evil ghosts had fled, so he planned to purify ghosts at other Bridges of No Return next time.
• Xia Ping crossed the bridge and arrived in a city far larger and more dangerous than the previous one.
• Several ancient demons and dozens of primordial demons surrounded Xia Ping and demanded that he come with them.
• Xia Ping pretended to submit and followed the ancient demons, noticing that they had also captured the other primordial demons.
• The ancient demons led the group past evil ghosts and Demon Abominations to an ancient temple in the city's deepest area.

Xia Ping and the ancient demons discovered an intact hidden temple in an Easy-class city, but the primordial demons intended to use them as cannon fodder to probe its deadly defenses. As the trapped demons considered their lack of escape, Xia Ping’s power of misfortune spread among them and obscured his presence.

• Xia Ping and the demons found a concealed ancient temple protected by powerful restriction formations.
• The demons learned that primordial demons had discovered the temple but feared attacking it because its defenses could retaliate and attract monsters.
• An ancient demon explained that primordial demons were forcing ancient and medieval demons to test the formations, and that more than a thousand ancient demons had already died.
• The ancient demons realized the primordial demons had sealed off escape routes, leaving them trapped as cannon fodder.
• Xia Ping sensed his power of misfortune spreading as gray mist over the surrounding demons, while his presence faded.

Dozens of primordial demons forced ancient demons to probe the temple’s deadly restriction formation. Xia Ping watched cautiously as the formation killed the first scout, leaving the primordial demons to choose another victim.

• The primordial demons ordered the ancient demons to enter the temple and explore its restriction formation, but one ancient demon refused.
• A Swamp Demon killed the protesting ancient demon with its Swamp World, frightening the others into silence.
• An Ice Demon ordered another ancient demon to enter the formation and gave it directions through the traps.
• The ancient demon followed the Ice Demon’s route until its final step triggered the formation, and a bolt of law lightning annihilated its body and soul.
• Xia Ping observed the primordial demons’ overwhelming strength and resolved to remain cautious.

Xia Ping was chosen to enter the temple’s deadly restriction formations, but he refused and released several hundred evil ghosts to confront the Primordial demons. The demons fell silent as the ghosts’ power filled the void.

• The Swamp Demon ordered three Ancient demons into the temple, and they tried to flee instead.
• The Ice Demon froze and shattered the fleeing demons, terrifying the remaining Ancient demons into giving up on escape.
• The Swamp Demon selected Xia Ping and two others to enter the temple, but Xia Ping asked to stay out.
• Xia Ping provoked the demons by saying they would run out of cannon fodder if they killed more captives.
• When the Sandstorm Demon demanded to know who opposed it, Xia Ping released several hundred evil ghosts from his Gaia Space, silencing the demons.

Several hundred evil ghosts suddenly appeared and attacked the demons, while Xia Ping escaped into hiding. The ghosts proved immune to the demons’ domains and attacks, and the Swamp Demon was devoured as the remaining primordial demons struggled to survive.

• The Sandstorm Demon suspected Xia Ping had summoned the hundreds of evil ghosts, but Xia Ping denied it and warned that survival was what mattered.
• The evil ghosts sensed the demons’ life auras, unleashed a soul-shaking attack, and killed several ancient demons.
• Xia Ping used his Gaia Clone’s spatial abilities to slip away and hide while the primordial demons turned to face the ghosts.
• The primordial demons unleashed their world domains, but the evil ghosts became incorporeal and evaded their attacks.
• More than a hundred evil ghosts ambushed the Swamp Demon inside its world and devoured its soul in moments.

Xia Ping watched as evil ghosts grew stronger after killing a Primordial Realm Swamp Demon, while the surviving Primordial demons struggled to escape and blamed him for their predicament. A Dragon-Horn Demon revealed a bottle of Netherglow Purple Liquid, a rare substance capable of injuring evil ghosts.

• More than a hundred evil ghosts tore a Primordial Realm Swamp Demon to death and grew stronger by devouring its soul.
• The Primordial demons realized that fleeing was nearly impossible because the evil ghosts were fast and could sense hidden life.
• The Sandstorm Demon and Ice Demon blamed Xia Ping for bringing the evil ghosts and vowed to kill him after they escaped.
• A Dragon-Horn Demon produced a bottle of Netherglow Purple Liquid, which the other Primordial demons recognized as a rare weapon against evil ghosts.

The Dragon-Horn Demon used Netherglow Purple Liquid to kill dozens of evil ghosts, then urged the archaic demons to flee before its supply ran out. Xia Ping watched from hiding and realized that Demon Abominations had already surrounded them.

• The Dragon-Horn Demon blasted an evil ghost with Netherglow Purple Liquid and watched it melt into ashes.
• The evil ghosts focused their attack on the Dragon-Horn Demon, which spent more than half its liquid killing dozens of them.
• The Dragon-Horn Demon refused to waste its remaining supply and told the archaic demons to escape while the evil ghosts were afraid.
• Xia Ping observed the battle from the shadows and sensed that nearby Demon Abominations had surrounded the archaic demons.

Xia Ping watched as Primordial Realm demons were surrounded by tens of thousands of evil ghosts and nearly a hundred thousand regenerative Demon Abominations. The Ice Demon froze the advancing monsters, but evil ghosts descended on it and extinguished its consciousness.

• Demon Abominations and more than ten thousand evil ghosts surrounded the Primordial Realm demons near the temple.
• Xia Ping observed that Demon Abominations could rapidly regenerate and infect other life-forms with their corrupting powers.
• The Primordial Realm demons realized their Netherglow Purple Liquid was no match for the overwhelming horde.
• A Blackwater Demon attacked the Demon Abominations with corrosive water, but they quickly healed and kept charging.
• The Ice Demon spread its Ice World domain and froze the Demon Abominations.
• More than a thousand evil ghosts surrounded the Ice Demon, and its consciousness fell into darkness.

Xia Ping watched the Primordial Ancient Demons fight the Demon Abominations and evil ghosts, then waited until the survivors fled and the monsters were weakened. He used his Gaia Domain to capture the remaining monsters and drag them into his Gaia Space.

• The Demon Abominations regained their mobility after the Ice Demon died, leaving the Primordial Ancient Demons facing both them and the evil ghosts.
• The Primordial Ancient Demons blamed Xia Ping for drawing the evil ghosts to them and fought desperately against the monsters.
• After an hour, most of the Primordial Ancient Demons were slaughtered, but the Dragon-Horn Demon and the Stealth Demon escaped with grave injuries.
• Xia Ping decided not to pursue the two escaped demons and waited for the remaining monsters to weaken.
• Xia Ping expanded his Gaia Domain over the area and pulled one hundred thousand Demon Abominations and over ten thousand evil ghosts into his Gaia Space.