Chapter Summaries

Su Han and Bi Yao used the Crystal Ball’s flickering light and the Silver Bell’s rhythm to slow the monster and defeat it. After the ruins settled, Bi Yao touched the Crystal Ball and began seeing something, leaving Su Han waiting to learn what she had witnessed.

• Su Han noticed the Crystal Ball flickered with his attacks, and Bi Yao agreed its light seemed connected to their fight.
• Su Han changed his attack rhythm while Bi Yao watched the Crystal Ball, then she matched his strikes with the Silver Bell.
• Their coordination made the Crystal Ball flicker regularly, slowing the monster and exposing flaws in its defenses.
• Su Han drove the Ceremonial Sword into the monster’s heart, killing it as the Crystal Ball’s light faded and the space calmed.
• Su Han and Bi Yao approached the Crystal Ball and saw new glowing patterns on its surface.
• Bi Yao touched the Crystal Ball, felt a familiar force flood her mind, and began seeing something as Su Han asked what she had seen.

Bi Yao’s vision guided her and Su Han deeper into the ruins, where they entered a mist-filled cave and encountered an unknown monster. The chapter ended with a gigantic lizard-like creature closing in as Bi Yao used the Silver Bell to disrupt its movements.

• Bi Yao saw a vision of a massive stone gate opening, and Su Han decided the Crystal Ball was guiding them deeper into the ruins.
• Su Han and Bi Yao followed the Crystal Ball through an ancient mural-lined passage to a mist-filled cave after hearing a roar.
• A massive claw attacked Su Han from the mist, and Bi Yao’s Silver Bell briefly restrained it.
• Su Han and Bi Yao turned to face a gigantic, blood-eyed lizard-like monster approaching through the mist.
• Su Han told Bi Yao to keep ringing the Silver Bell to disrupt the monster, and she obeyed.

Su Han and Bi Yao fought a lizard-like beast in a cave, using the Silver Bell and a stone to create an opening for Su Han to strike its eye. The beast died, but both of them were left exhausted and Su Han was injured.

• Bi Yao used the Silver Bell to disrupt the beast while Su Han attacked, but its scales deflected his sword and its poisonous mucus forced him back.
• The beast lunged at Su Han, and its claws cracked the Ceremonial Sword as he blocked.
• Bi Yao tore a sharp stone from the cave wall and threw it into the beast's eye, wounding it despite cutting her hand.
• Su Han drove the cracked Ceremonial Sword into the beast's injured eye, then was thrown to the ground and spat blood as the beast thrashed.
• The beast collapsed and stopped moving, and Bi Yao helped Su Han up before they both rested from exhaustion.

Su Han and Bi Yao discovered a vision inside a glowing box showing an ancient ritual and a monster invasion before the cave began to collapse. They escaped through a narrow passage, only to find themselves in a vast, brightly lit circular chamber.

• Su Han retrieved his broken Ceremonial Sword from the monster's corpse, and Bi Yao comforted him.
• Su Han and Bi Yao found a glowing box on a stone platform, which showed a ritual around a five-colored pearl and people being overwhelmed by monsters from a rift.
• The cave began to collapse, and Bi Yao found a narrow passage that she and Su Han crawled through to escape.
• Su Han and Bi Yao emerged just as the cave collapsed, then discovered they were in a vast circular space lined with glowing gemstones.

Su Han and Bi Yao used the box to open a hidden staircase beneath the stone pillar and descended into the ruins. They fought off the shadows with spiritual energy and the Silver Bell, but a more sinister presence awakened below them.

• Su Han placed the box into a groove in the pillar, causing it to rise and reveal a staircase.
• Su Han and Bi Yao descended the long, cold staircase together.
• Shadowy humanoid figures emerged from the walls and attacked Su Han and Bi Yao.
• Bi Yao changed the Silver Bell's rhythm, slowing and dispersing the shadows while Su Han attacked them.
• Su Han and Bi Yao eliminated the shadowy figures, but a sinister aura rose from below.

Su Han and Bi Yao descended the stairs and encountered a powerful, black-scaled monster. Their attacks failed to stop it, and the chapter ended with Su Han injured and Bi Yao rushing to help him.

• Su Han and Bi Yao continued down the stairs as the cold and sinister aura intensified.
• A huge black-scaled monster with burning green eyes appeared and pounced on them.
• Su Han dodged the monster and struck it with spiritual energy, but his attack only sparked against its scales.
• Bi Yao shook her silver bell, slowing the monster briefly and giving Su Han time to roll away.
• The monster struck Su Han with its foreclaws, sending him into the wall and making him spit blood.
• Bi Yao ran to Su Han and helped him up, asking how he was.

Su Han and Bi Yao fought the monster in the passageway, using the Silver Bell to slow and torment it. The monster broke free of the chime and sent Su Han flying again, leaving both of them in danger.

• The monster attacked Su Han and Bi Yao, and Su Han raised a spiritual energy shield to block its claw.
• Bi Yao poured spiritual energy into the Silver Bell, slowing the monster and making it thrash through the passageway.
• Su Han searched for the monster's weakness while he and Bi Yao's spiritual energy steadily dwindled.
• The monster found a flaw in the Silver Bell's chime and broke free of its restraint.
• Su Han formed a spiritual energy sword and struck the monster, but its claw blocked the blow and hurled him away, worsening his injuries.

After defeating the monster, Su Han and Bi Yao continued down the stairs and found a stream where they could drink and recover. Their rest was interrupted when Black Mist poured from cracks in the cavern walls, filled with countless glowing red eyes.

• Bi Yao struck the monster with the silver bell, and it collapsed before dissolving into Black Mist.
• Su Han and Bi Yao, exhausted and nearly out of spiritual power, continued down the dark stairs with the help of a night pearl.
• Su Han and Bi Yao found a clear stream in a cavern, drank from it, and began recovering their spiritual power.
• A strange sound startled Su Han and Bi Yao from meditation, and they saw Black Mist spilling from cracks in the cavern walls.
• Su Han shielded Bi Yao as countless red eyes flickered in the thickening mist that closed in around them.

Su Han and Bi Yao faced a swarm of creatures emerging from the Black Mist while weakened and low on spiritual power. As they became overwhelmed, Su Han spotted a narrow crack in the cave and urged Bi Yao to make a break for it.

• Su Han shielded Bi Yao as creatures with red eyes appeared in the Black Mist, and they prepared to defend themselves despite their injuries and lack of spiritual power.
• A larger creature lunged at Su Han, who knocked it down with his elbow, but it quickly recovered and the rest of the creatures surged forward.
• Su Han and Bi Yao fought back-to-back, with Su Han using his fists and legs while Bi Yao cast support spells to slow the creatures.
• The swarm overwhelmed them, leaving Su Han wounded and Bi Yao drained, so Su Han pointed out a narrow crack and proposed they escape through it.

Su Han and Bi Yao escaped the creatures by squeezing through a narrow crevice into a vast underground cavern. There, they encountered a gigantic monster, and Su Han knew their injuries left them with little chance against it.

• Bi Yao agreed to follow Su Han through the crevice, and they fought their way through the creatures surrounding them.
• Su Han pushed Bi Yao into the narrow opening, then squeezed in after her as the creatures failed to follow.
• Su Han and Bi Yao crawled through the dark, cramped crevice and emerged into a massive underground cavern.
• They cautiously crossed the cavern, and Su Han slipped on a slime-covered rock, prompting a deep roar from the darkness.
• A huge, dark-green, scaled monster approached, and Su Han realized he and Bi Yao were in no condition to fight it.

Su Han and Bi Yao killed the monster by bringing down a stalactite, but strange sounds from deeper in the cavern suggested more creatures were nearby. As they cautiously pressed onward, they found shattered bones that Bi Yao recognized as belonging to the same kind as the monster.

• Su Han and Bi Yao split up to distract the charging monster, and it pursued Su Han.
• Su Han lured the monster beneath a stalactite and shoved it down, crushing the creature to death.
• Su Han and Bi Yao heard strange sounds from deep in the cavern and prepared to investigate.
• Su Han and Bi Yao moved along the cavern wall and discovered shattered, bluish-white bones.
• Bi Yao touched a finger bone, which crumbled into powder and made a sound like a crying infant.

Su Han and Bi Yao escaped a swarm of bat-like monsters by climbing through a crevice into a cavern with an underground lake and a bone island. They faced a giant spore-covered creature rising from the lake as tentacles and smaller monsters closed in.

• Su Han and Bi Yao climbed a rock wall to escape creatures that feared flames but learned to imitate and use fire.
• Su Han led Bi Yao through a narrow crevice as the monsters crashed against the rock behind them.
• Su Han and Bi Yao reached an underground lake and saw a bone island topped by a human skull with a broken torch lodged in its eye socket.
• Bi Yao's torch sparked over the lake, drawing bubbles and tentacles that reached toward the light.
• A giant creature erupted from the lake, released smaller monsters from its mouth, and sent spores that made the water boil as tentacles lashed toward Su Han and Bi Yao.

Su Han and Bi Yao fought the gigantic creature and its coordinated monsters in a cavern as corrosive spores filled the air and fires drove them toward the lake. They leaped into the water to escape, only to find tiny suckers attaching themselves to their skin.

• Su Han shielded Bi Yao from the gigantic creature’s tentacles and spores, then saw its severed tentacles rapidly regenerate.
• The creature released small monsters that used shadows and coordinated attacks to encircle Su Han and Bi Yao.
• Su Han fought off the monsters while Bi Yao struck the rock wall to confuse them, but the thickening spores blurred Su Han’s vision.
• Bi Yao realized the monsters were using spores to fuel the flames, which spread across the cavern and forced them toward the lake.
• Su Han grabbed Bi Yao and leaped into the lake as the horde pounced, where countless tiny suckers latched onto them.

Su Han and Bi Yao escaped the lake’s gigantic creature by breaking the rune seal on an opening beneath the white bone island, then entered a dark stone passage. Following slime-marked footprints, they discovered signs of an infected person and heard chains dragging ahead as Su Han prepared to face whatever was coming.

• Su Han found a rune-sealed opening beneath the bone island and used a fire starter to break its restriction just before the gigantic creature reached them.
• A powerful current dragged Su Han and Bi Yao through the passage, where they landed on damp sand and found carvings depicting a sacrificial ritual.
• Su Han and Bi Yao followed the stone path deeper into the cave as the torch sputtered in the damp air.
• Su Han discovered slime-edged footprints and concluded that they belonged to a person infected by the monsters.
• Su Han pulled Bi Yao behind him and drew his dagger when they heard iron chains dragging ahead.

Su Han and Bi Yao fled through the cavern and found a half-map that led them behind a waterfall to an altar holding an Azure Flame. A vision revealed the flame’s history, and the Rune Arrays lit up red as the monsters closed in.

• An infected man warned Su Han to run, shoved him away, and fled deeper into the passage as monsters blocked their route.
• Su Han and Bi Yao followed the man, but found him dead and took the half-map he had been clutching.
• Su Han used the map to guess that they should pass through a waterfall, and he pulled Bi Yao behind it.
• Su Han and Bi Yao found a bone-and-crystal altar with a pulsing Azure Flame at its center.
• Glowing spores showed that humans had once offered the flame to the lake monsters for peace, but the monsters betrayed them and took the flame.
• The Rune Arrays around the altar lit up with blinding red light as the vision faded.

Su Han and Bi Yao watched the Rune Array’s seal break, releasing a half-human, half-beast monster and a horde of creatures into the cave. They were surrounded by the monsters and faced their enormous leader, with their chances of escape uncertain.

• The Rune Array came alive, and its red light spread as the Azure Flame changed color and the cave shook.
• Su Han shielded Bi Yao from falling rocks as a three-dimensional sealing network appeared around the altar.
• The bones on the altar collapsed, and a half-human, half-beast monster emerged from the Azure Flame before vanishing.
• Monsters appeared throughout the cave and surrounded Su Han and Bi Yao without attacking.
• A massive, rune-shelled monster with glowing red eyes emerged and confronted Su Han and Bi Yao at the head of the horde.

Su Han and Bi Yao discovered that three key nodes on the altar could break the Rune Array and extinguish the Azure Flame. Bi Yao activated two nodes while Su Han fought the Monster King, and she searched for the last one as the red light faded.

• Su Han handed Bi Yao the stone slab and charged at the monster horde to hold them off.
• Bi Yao read the slab’s clues and learned they needed to activate three hidden key nodes on the altar at once.
• Bi Yao reached the altar, found a crystal node, and pressed it as the Monster King attacked her.
• Su Han fought the Monster King and wounded it by stabbing a gap in its shell.
• Bi Yao removed a bone from a sunken groove, weakening the Rune Array, then hurried to find the final node.

Bi Yao and Su Han fought the Monster King and the monster horde while trying to activate the altar’s Rune Array. After Bi Yao placed a Golden Rune into the altar, its red glow turned white, but the final confrontation with the Monster King remained unresolved.

• Bi Yao found a hidden ring around the Flame Totem, and pressing it triggered a rune net that trapped her.
• Su Han was wounded fighting the Monster King while Bi Yao pressed protrusions on the totem to slow the contracting net.
• Bi Yao found a hot protrusion and pressed it, shattering the rune net and causing flames to erupt from cracks beneath the altar.
• Bi Yao and Su Han searched the flames for the final node, and Su Han shielded her arm so she could retrieve a Golden Rune.
• As the Monster King charged, Su Han protected Bi Yao, who inserted the Golden Rune into the altar’s center, changing the Rune Array’s red glow to white.

Su Han and Bi Yao escaped the collapsing altar and found an ancient ruin containing a Giant Stone Tablet that revealed how to defeat the monster horde. As the Monster King attacked and the ruin’s barrier began to fail, they searched for the three Divine Artifacts needed to win.

• Su Han carried Bi Yao out of the collapsing altar as the Monster King and monster horde pursued them.
• A meteor crashed into the woods, where Su Han and Bi Yao discovered an ancient ruin and a Giant Stone Tablet.
• Bi Yao deciphered the runes while Su Han fought the Monster King, then activated a barrier that trapped the horde outside.
• Bi Yao learned that three Divine Artifacts could defeat the monster horde and told Su Han.
• Su Han and Bi Yao searched the trap-filled ruin for the artifacts as the barrier cracked under the horde’s attacks.

Su Han and Bi Yao escaped the ruins’ traps, found a map to three Divine Artifacts, and claimed the first artifact from an armored skeleton. After the chamber’s floor dropped them into an underground river, they reached a cave where a barrier trapped Bi Yao at a Crystal Altar.

• Bi Yao led Su Han through an eastern corridor, where they stopped a volley of arrows and drove bronze snakes back with fire.
• Bi Yao fitted altar fragments into matching wall recesses, stopping the spreading black liquid and opening access to a bone-filled chamber.
• Bi Yao deciphered a rune map marking three Divine Artifacts, while Su Han fought off the Monster King’s attack.
• Bi Yao copied the armored skeleton’s rune-like movements, defeated it, and received the first Divine Artifact.
• The chamber floor flipped, sending Su Han and Bi Yao into an underground river, and they emerged in a luminous cave.
• Bi Yao approached the Bronze Compass above the Crystal Altar, and a transparent barrier rose to trap her.