Chapter Summaries

Su Han fled through the underground passages with the weakened Bi Yao while Shi Yuan pursued them, and fought a winged bat monster in a mist-filled cavern. After dodging black tentacles, he opened a rune-covered stone door, revealing an ancient book and a glowing blue pearl.

• Su Han carried Bi Yao through the underground maze as Shi Yuan's roars and the collapsing passages followed them.
• At a fork, Su Han chose the left passage, but a collapse sealed their way back and a growl sounded from the right.
• Su Han entered a mist-filled cavern and fought a winged bat monster, discovering that its eyes were vulnerable.
• Bi Yao warned Su Han about black tentacles reaching through a crack in the cavern wall, and he dodged them while carrying her.
• Su Han recognized the stone door's runes from Nether Valley and activated them, opening the door to a chamber containing an ancient book and a blue-glowing pearl.

Su Han awakened the Tomb Keeper, who revealed that Erosion Abyss could be destroyed by breaking the Demon Core that powered it. She marked the Core’s location in Su Han’s consciousness, and its movement showed that Erosion Abyss was nearby.

• Su Han discovered a hidden passage in the ancient book and carried the unconscious Bi Yao into a chamber beneath the stone platform.
• Su Han used Bi Yao’s jade token to open a rune-covered coffin and awakened the Tomb Keeper, who explained she had slept for thousands of years.
• Su Han told the Tomb Keeper about their encounter with Erosion Abyss, and she said its Demon Core was its source of power and its weakness.
• The Tomb Keeper guided Su Han’s spiritual power so he could sense Erosion Abyss’s Demon Core and marked its location in his consciousness.
• Su Han sensed that the Demon Core had moved, and the Tomb Keeper concluded that Erosion Abyss was nearby.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper encountered an Octopus Monster while searching for Erosion Abyss in the underground labyrinth. After they defeated it, a much larger monster emerged from the river, leaving them facing another battle.

• The Tomb Keeper led Su Han and Bi Yao to a dangerous underground river that blocked their path.
• An Octopus Monster attacked, and Su Han fought it while Bi Yao was unable to help because of the Soul Devouring Curse.
• The Tomb Keeper warned Bi Yao that the jade tablet's power was sealed.
• Su Han struck the Octopus Monster's eye, then Bi Yao's curse erupted and she burned its tentacles with Black Flame.
• Su Han used the Cold Jade Art to pierce the Octopus Monster's eye and bring it down.
• A larger black-scaled monster emerged from a whirlpool, and the Tomb Keeper sensed a familiar but confusing aura from it.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper fought a powerful monster that emerged from the underground river. After discovering that its black markings were its weakness, they focused their attacks on them, and Su Han launched his strongest Cold Jade Art as the monster faltered.

• The Tomb Keeper identified the monster as a powerful being resembling Erosion Abyss and suggested exploiting its slow movement.
• As the monster neared the shore, the Tomb Keeper used her secret power despite the tremendous price it would cost her.
• Su Han and Bi Yao attacked the monster with the Cold Jade Art and Black Flame combined with azure spiritual energy, but it fought back with its tentacles.
• Su Han noticed black markings connected to the monster's life force and told the others to target them.
• Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper concentrated their attacks on the markings until they began to vanish, and Su Han unleashed a massive pillar of ice with his strongest Cold Jade Art.

After defeating the underground monster, Su Han and his companions continued searching for a way out and faced a sudden eruption of mysterious Black Flame. Bi Yao awakened a faint glow from her jade tablet that seemed to resonate with the flames, but their danger remained unresolved.

• Su Han and his companions defeated the monster, then set out to find Erosion Abyss's Demon Core and destroy Erosion Abyss.
• Bi Yao said her Soul Devouring Curse had not improved, though she felt stronger after using the jade tablet, while the Tomb Keeper recovered from spending her spiritual energy.
• Su Han's spiritual energy became disordered as the group searched along the riverbank, and a fissure opened beneath them, releasing Black Flame.
• Su Han used the Cold Jade Art against the Black Flame, but the flames briefly retreated before surging back stronger.
• Bi Yao tried to use her jade tablet against the flames and, after concentrating and adjusting her spiritual energy, made it glow faintly in resonance with them.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper faced a mysterious figure controlling the Black Flame after the jade tablet weakened the flames. Bi Yao and Su Han struck back, slowing the figure and its Black Mist.

• As the jade tablet suppressed the Black Flame, a shadowy figure rose from the fissure and declared that the intruders would die.
• Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper joined their strength to form a defensive barrier against the figure's Black Mist.
• The Tomb Keeper warned Su Han that the figure might be using an illusion, while Bi Yao urged them to counterattack before their spiritual power ran out.
• Bi Yao gathered her remaining spiritual power into the jade tablet and pierced part of the mist with its beam, making the figure howl and pause its assault.
• Su Han unleashed the Cold Jade Art, freezing the black threads that controlled the mist and slowing the figure's movements.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper fought the shadow by combining their attacks and a runic defensive formation. They destroyed its Black Crystal Core, and the Black Flame died away as the exhausted trio nearly collapsed.

• The shadow took a humanoid form and launched black arrows that wounded Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper.
• Bi Yao used the jade tablet to create a runic defensive formation with the Tomb Keeper's help while Su Han held off the shadow.
• The formation pinned the shadow in place, allowing Su Han to strike its chest with the Cold Jade Art.
• Bi Yao discovered the Black Crystal Core and struck it with the jade tablet's power, shattering it.
• The shadow turned to ash, the Black Flame faded, and Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper were left exhausted.

After recovering from their battle, Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper suspected the shadowy figure was connected to Erosion Abyss. A tiny spirit guardian appeared and revealed that it knew something about Erosion Abyss, leaving Su Han asking about its weakness.

• Su Han checked on Bi Yao, who said using the jade token left her weak, and the Tomb Keeper warned that it could cause irreversible harm.
• Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper rested and discussed whether the shadowy figure was a minion of Erosion Abyss.
• Su Han sensed movement in the mist and alerted Bi Yao and the Tomb Keeper.
• A glowing, jellyfish-like spirit entity landed on Su Han's palm and briefly eased his exhaustion.
• The spirit guardian shared information about itself and Erosion Abyss, prompting Su Han to ask about Erosion Abyss's weakness.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper tried to learn Erosion Abyss’s weakness from a spirit body, but a Shadow Demon Lizard attacked them. After the beast self-destructed, Su Han found the wounded Tomb Keeper shielding Bi Yao.

• Su Han began to decipher information from the spirit body, but interference made it unstable, and Bi Yao used a rune-covered jade slip to calm it.
• A Shadow Demon Lizard emerged from the mist, drawn by the spirit body, and charged at Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper.
• Su Han attacked the lizard while Bi Yao struck it with purple lightning and the Tomb Keeper shielded her from its tail.
• Su Han wounded the lizard’s hind leg, but the beast began swelling with deathly energy and the three fled before it exploded.
• The blast hurled the three apart, and Su Han found the wounded Tomb Keeper shielding Bi Yao.

Su Han learned the approximate location of Erosion Abyss's weakness from the spirit entity, and he, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper pressed onward despite their injuries. They survived an attack by winged centipede-like insects and continued toward the dangerous abyss.

• Su Han found the faintly glowing spirit entity and received an image showing a ghostly blue light inside a black vortex as the location of Erosion Abyss's weakness.
• Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper agreed to continue toward the weakness despite their injuries and the dangers ahead.
• Black insects with bat wings poured from cracks in the ground and attacked the three with corrosive venom.
• Bi Yao realized the insects feared fire, so Su Han and the Tomb Keeper burned their wings while she drove them back with a wall of flame.
• The three defeated the insects, rested briefly, and continued their journey toward Erosion Abyss's weakness.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper fought Erosion Abyss-corrupted insects and thorny growths in the wasteland. Su Han used his blood and the Xuantian Sword to repel the swarm and summon the spirit of a little boy, but the Tomb Keeper warned that the spirit was bait before the boy’s corpse suddenly grew enormous.

• The Tomb Keeper spotted the mist forming tentacles, while Bi Yao’s spreading golden mark warned that the fog carried a dangerous poison.
• A carrion-eating worm attacked the group, and Bi Yao burned it with a blood talisman as corrupted Gu insects poured from its shell.
• Su Han recognized blue lights inside the worm and used his bloodied Xuantian Sword to drive back the insects and thorns.
• A transparent little boy appeared and begged for help as the corrupted worm corpses melted into sludge.
• The Tomb Keeper warned that Erosion Abyss was using the dead’s memories as bait, then the boy’s corpse swelled to ten times its size.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper fought as the Erosion Abyss rewrote the wasteland and the mutated corpse unleashed its power. Su Han’s Jade Bottle resonated with an ancient seal, and the crumbling mountain began assembling itself into a star chart.

• The swollen corpse attacked as vines and talismans spread across the wasteland, draining Bi Yao’s spiritual power and marking the Tomb Keeper with black patterns.
• Su Han was hurled into a blood-mist hollow, where the Jade Bottle’s blue motes entered his forehead and revealed nine seals breaking around a Crystal Coffin holding a boiling galaxy.
• Bi Yao warned the Tomb Keeper that the talisman was draining him, while Su Han recognized the talismans as a Sacrifice Array and grabbed one of the Jade Bottle’s bands of light.
• Su Han’s intervention warped the array into seven layers of ripples, and the Tomb Keeper cut free from the spider silk as the earth veins and mutated Gu worms went wild.
• Bi Yao saw the southeast mountain reassembling into a Three Enclosures Star Chart, and the Jade Bottle’s matching grooves aligned with a falling stone as the wasteland blazed blood-red.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the Tomb Keeper struggled against Erosion Abyss as the Jade Bottle resonated with the Three Enclosures Star Chart. The chapter ended with Erosion Abyss altering the Three Enclosures Seal and revealing that it had already begun opening it.

• Su Han’s Jade Bottle resonated with the star chart, unleashing energy that shook the earth while the Tomb Keeper and Bi Yao warned that Erosion Abyss was reconstructing the star paths.
• Black vines descended from a crack in the sky and devoured Su Han’s Azure Flame Sword, spreading black markings across his hand.
• Su Han refused to destroy the Jade Bottle and tried to shield it with Bi Yao’s Phoenix True Fire, but the bottle swallowed the flames.
• The mountains formed the Three Enclosures Star Chart, and the Tomb Keeper identified the Jade Bottle’s markings as key marks for the Ziwei Enclosure Seal.
• Bi Yao revealed that Erosion Abyss was reversing time and had planted the mist as bait three days earlier.
• Seven stone pillars and patterned Bronze Chains emerged as the Tomb Keeper’s Azure Flame was swallowed, and he declared that Erosion Abyss had altered the Three Enclosures Seal.

Su Han and Bi Yao fought to stop Erosion Abyss from breaking the seal, but the Tomb Keeper was assimilated and Bi Yao was dragged underground. After Su Han shattered the final chain, a voice from the Star River Giant’s heart revealed that it was the seal and prison of Erosion Abyss, as a star map appeared across the ground.

• Su Han realized Erosion Abyss was pulling something from beneath the seal and trying to tear apart the Three Enclosures Star Track.
• The Tomb Keeper ordered Su Han to sever the chains and Bi Yao to burn the Gu Worms, but the little boy’s corpse struck him with red beams and Erosion Abyss assimilated him.
• Bi Yao drew the Gu Worms away while Su Han leaped to a stone pillar and shattered a chain with the Azure Flame Sword.
• Bi Yao was gnawed by the Gu Worms and dragged underground by black vines after placing a golden barrier talisman on Su Han.
• Su Han broke the final chain, exposing the Star River Giant’s heart and the blood-red eyes within its nebula vortex.
• A starlight face told Su Han it was the seal itself, the prison of Erosion Abyss, as the sky split open and a star map formed on the ground.

Su Han and Bi Yao faced the transforming wasteland as the Erosion Abyss revealed visions tied to Su Han’s bloodline. After a voice called him the “Child of Bloodline,” Su Han awoke atop a basalt cliff, holding a star-sand spear aimed at a Bronze Giant Gate.

• Su Han discovered that starlight flowed through his scorched meridians as the wasteland transformed and a barbed black vine attacked him.
• Bi Yao used Phoenix True Fire to make a flaming sword and threw it to Su Han, who cut through the star map and saw visions of an ancestor, falling stars, and a girl resembling him.
• The star map’s sealing nodes went dark, and black mist bearing the faces of people Su Han knew called him the “Child of Bloodline.”
• Bronze Coffins opened beneath the wasteland, releasing star-sand that formed countless images of Su Han and pointed toward a newly appeared basalt cliff.
• Su Han awoke on the cliff with a star-sand spear aimed at a Bronze Giant Gate engraved with a star map.

Su Han used the Star Devouring Art to pull the death-filled duplicates from the Bronze Giant Gate, but the seal ruptured and revealed a Star Gate System built to suppress an unknown existence. At the system's core, he found a version of himself who warned that he was not the first and would not be the last.

• The Tomb Keeper used Temporal Anchoring and urged Su Han to reverse the pull with the Star Devouring Art.
• Su Han drew thousands of death-recording duplicates from the Bronze Giant Gate, causing the stone pillars and their Oracle Bone Script to decay.
• The central pillar tore open into an abyssal rift, and a black-misted vine struck the Tomb Keeper, carbonizing her arm and marking her with the pillars' runes.
• Su Han reversed the Star Sand Spear into the rift, inverting the surrounding space and realizing the Erosion Abyss had used the system to suppress an existence sustained by the Tomb Keeper's bloodline.
• Su Han touched a dark-purple star core and saw an identical version of himself at the Star Gate System's core, who told him he was neither the first nor the last.

Su Han and the Tomb Keeper confronted the star-core mechanism as Mirror Su Han revealed that Su Han's choices and parallel selves were part of a repeating system. The chapter ended with Mirror Su Han claiming every cycle converged on the same solution.

• The Tomb Keeper warned Su Han that his blood was reversing the erosion of the star core and that the prophecy of the Child of Shi Yuan was coming true.
• Mirror Su Han detached Su Han's shadow and reached through his chest as parallel versions of Su Han fell from the collapsing space and became bronze pillars recording their deaths.
• The Tomb Keeper connected a glowing conduit to Su Han's spine and shoved him toward the fissure while the vines dragged her away.
• Su Han fell toward the central star core as Mirror Su Han's duplicates formed a bridge of light, and he caught a grain containing his infant self.
• Su Han touched the central star core with his spear and saw the Tomb Keeper pinned to a spatial node as Mirror Su Han declared that Su Han was the lubricant keeping the system's gears turning.
• The space folded into a repeating passageway, where Mirror Su Han said that each cycle created new variables but all converged on the same solution.

Su Han uncovered evidence that his memories, deaths, and genetic awakening were engineered as part of a system tied to the Bronze Giant Gate. As the altar disintegrated and his memories began to be rewritten, the star core split between his spine and the altar, leaving him with only the burning sensation at his spear tip and a foreign presence in his spine.

• Su Han’s star core opened, revealing memories of his childhood meteor strike, nanobot implantation, and the Tomb Keeper’s warning about his blood corroding the core.
• Su Han fell onto an altar where Mirror Su Han and seventeen duplicates appeared, while gears beneath the floor matched runes on his back.
• Tentacles bearing the Tomb Keeper’s face seized a mirror duplicate, whose blood became gear components after it stabbed itself.
• Su Han entered the star map projected by the core and discovered that his lives across eras had fueled the Bronze Giant Gate and that the meteor strike was a calculated genetic trigger.
• Su Han encountered his younger self, learned that the star core had devoured his pain receptors, and saw a warning that his consciousness contamination level was 99 percent.
• The star core split between Su Han’s spine and the altar as the Tomb Keeper described a cycle of system resets, and Su Han’s memories began to blur.

Su Han emerged from an illusion in Dripping Blood Cave and found Bi Yao alive beside a pool of blue water. He hid the full truth of what he had experienced, leaving the meaning of the vision unresolved.

• Su Han awoke kneeling on the damp stone floor of Dripping Blood Cave with blood covering his hands.
• Su Han followed a sound through a narrow fissure and found Bi Yao beside a pool of deep-blue water.
• Su Han touched Bi Yao to confirm she was alive, and she asked where he had gone.
• Su Han told Bi Yao he had dreamed about the Black Witch Clan, an altar, and becoming someone else.
• Bi Yao said Su Han had been too tired lately, and he did not argue.

Su Han and Bi Yao fled a cavern as the Black Witch Blood Curse activated, black mist seized Bi Yao, and a scaled monster attacked them. They escaped the collapsing cave, but Bi Yao was left staring in fear at a pillar of light rising from a magic circle.

• Su Han noticed the dark red markings on Bi Yao and asked about her injuries, while she watched the pool uneasily.
• The cavern shook, and a ceiling fissure poured corrosive Black Witch Blood Curse over Su Han as the runes began forming a new pattern.
• Su Han tried to lead Bi Yao toward a crack, but black mist caught her ankle and began draining her strength.
• A scaled monster attacked Su Han, and Bi Yao blinded it briefly with burning rubble so they could flee.
• Su Han and Bi Yao escaped as the cavern collapsed, then saw the runes draw the pool into a magic circle and raise a pillar of light; Bi Yao stared at it without answering Su Han.