Recaps

Jiang Changkong and the others discovered a hidden emerald space containing a real ginseng fruit tree and pool, but ten fruits and the pool concealed Chaos vicious beasts and a powerful blood presence. As the beasts emerged, Jiang Changkong recognized the force sealing the space as Blood River.

• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King discovered that kneeling on a prayer cushion revealed a secret in the Qingfeng statue, and Sun Qing activated it to open an emerald space.
• Jiang Changkong found a stone stele identifying the ginseng fruit tree as a branch transplanted by Qingfeng, and the group learned the pool held accumulated fruit essence.
• Jiang Changkong claimed the tree for himself and began uprooting it, sensing a faint blood aura as ten fruits started to tremble.
• Jiang Changkong exposed the ten fruits as disguises for Chaos vicious beasts and pulled Sun Qing, Sun Li, and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King away from the blood pool.
• The vicious beasts attacked as the pool awakened a higher-god-level power that sealed the space with the Law of Blood, and Jiang Changkong identified it as Blood River.

Jiang Changkong fought the Chaos fiendish beasts emerging from the Blood River, repeatedly killing even one nearing the Immortal Emperor realm while allowing the pool to revive them. As the group discussed the coming reorganization of the Heavenly Realm, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King warned that a dark age was approaching, and Jiang Changkong said he favored neither the Heavenly Court nor the Divine Court.

• The Blood River pool produced a Chaos fiendish beast whose laws and divine body had nearly reached the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Jiang Changkong blocked its attack and reduced it to ashes with Chaos Divine Power, then killed it repeatedly as the Blood River revived it.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King told Jiang Changkong he could destroy the blood pool to prevent the beasts from reviving, but Jiang Changkong kept it intact to see whether they could despair and to gain essence, qi, and spirit.
• More Chaos fiendish beasts emerged, and Jiang Changkong continued killing them while Sun Li, Sun Qing, and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King discussed the coming conflict among the Heavenly Realm's major forces.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King warned that a new age of chaos and darkness was coming, and Jiang Changkong declared that he favored neither the Heavenly Court nor the Divine Court.

Jiang Changkong destroyed the blood pool, took the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and left the Chaos ruins with the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and the Sun brothers. As the Ancient Heavenly Realm gathered ahead of a great era, Jiang Changkong set out alone, while Sun Wuxuan arrived to support the Demon Emperor with Flower-Fruit Mountain’s Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron.

• Jiang Changkong annihilated the river of blood and divided the remaining Ginseng Fruits among the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, Sun Li, and Sun Qing before taking the tree.
• Jiang Changkong and the others activated the pool’s teleportation formation, escaped the ruins, and agreed to exchange contact information.
• The group returned to the Ancient Heavenly Realm as its lands began reassembling, and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King departed.
• Jiang Changkong declined Sun Li and Sun Qing’s invitation to travel with them and went searching for Chaos Divine Stones.
• Sun Wuxuan arrived at the Demon Emperor’s hall and presented him with the Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron on behalf of Flower-Fruit Mountain.

At a banquet hosted by Eastern Emperor Changyue, Feng Jiu sought the Phoenix Immortal Scripture and offered information about the Underworld in exchange. He said the Demon Court had accepted Changyue as its Demon Emperor and would ask him to help compete for the method of opening the Underworld.

• Sun Wuxing contacted Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Sun Wuxuan arrived to protect Eastern Emperor Changyue after the Chaos Bell recognized him as Demon Emperor.
• Feng Jiu arrived at the banquet and explained that he wanted the Phoenix Immortal Scripture Sun Yuan had encountered in the Holy Land.
• The Demon Emperor revealed that the Heavenly Dao Palace was fabricated to capture the Demon Master, and Feng Jiu confirmed that the Phoenix Immortal Scripture was genuine.
• Feng Jiu asked to visit the Holy Land and then offered information about the Underworld in exchange for help obtaining the scripture.
• Feng Jiu told the Demon Emperor that the Demon Court had accepted him and would send a decree within three days, asking him to help fight for the method of opening the Underworld.

The Demon Court discussed the contest among the four great powers to open the underworld, while Jiang Changkong learned that Immortal Spirit could bring him into the ruins where the method was found. He traded a wisp of immortal office aura for three thousand top-grade sixth-rank immortal stones and prepared to let the Demon Court investigate Immortal Spirit.

• Feng Jiu told the Demon Emperor that the Immortal Court had found the underworld-opening method in an Immortal Emperor’s ruins and that the four great powers had agreed to compete for access.
• Sun Wuxuan speculated that Heaven might be preventing the Heavenly Court from sending an Immortal Emperor to kill Jiang Changkong.
• Jiang Changkong met Immortal Spirit, who offered to bring him into the ruins in exchange for the origin of a divine artifact.
• After Jiang Changkong said he only had Chaos Bell fragments, Immortal Spirit offered three thousand top-grade sixth-rank immortal stones for a wisp of immortal office aura.
• Jiang Changkong accepted the deal, received the stones, and planned to have the Demon Court investigate Immortal Spirit.

Jiang Changkong entered the chaos ruins undetected and waited for the factions to split up. When he captured Kun Yu, the Demon Master called for the Demon Sovereign, and the Heaven-Devouring Python recognized Jiang Changkong and tried to flee.

• The Demon Sovereign and the other factions entered the chaos ruins, while Jiang Changkong slipped inside through another entrance with help from the Immortal Spirit.
• Jiang Changkong hid in the deathly aura as his secondary body searched the ruins, while the Demon Sovereign and the other factions scattered.
• Kun Yu persuaded the Heaven-Devouring Python to search with him instead of staying with the Demon Sovereign, hoping they could claim the mission’s reward themselves.
• Kun Yu mistook Jiang Changkong for an illusion until Jiang Changkong appeared beside him, seized him, and took his spatial equipment.
• Kun Yu shouted for someone to invite the Demon Sovereign, and the Heaven-Devouring Python recognized Jiang Changkong and fled, but Jiang Changkong caught up with him.

Jiang Changkong tricked the Heaven-Devouring Python into taking the Phoenix Spear from Kun Yu, while the Python claimed credit for recovering it and pledged loyalty to the Demon Emperor. The Demon Emperor went to find Kun Yu, whom they discovered trapped in an immortal formation.

• Kun Yu and the Heaven-Devouring Python invoked the Demon Emperor’s name, and Jiang Changkong spared Kun Yu before leaving.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python boasted that an Immortal Emperor treasure would let them defeat Jiang Changkong, so Kun Yu threw him the Phoenix Spear and fled when Jiang Changkong seemed to return.
• Jiang Changkong revealed that he had used a decoy made of demonic qi to frighten Kun Yu into surrendering the spear.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python told the Demon Emperor that he had risked his life to reclaim the Phoenix Spear, and the Demon Emperor accepted it and set out with him to find Kun Yu.
• The Demon Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Python found Kun Yu caught in an immortal formation, battered by its death qi.

The Demon Emperor rescued Kun Yu from an immortal formation and found a broken artifact in the ruins. Elsewhere, Jiang Changkong met the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, then heard the Purple Star Heavenly King's offer to pay him to kill the True Martial Heavenly King.

• The Demon Emperor destroyed the formation's Nether Dragons, rescued Kun Yu, and gave the Heaven-Devouring Python a broken bowl as a reward.
• Jiang Changkong cleared another formation and watched the Purple Star Heavenly King and Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King separate from their companion.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King approached Jiang Changkong, surrendered his spatial equipment, and learned that Immortal Spirit had sent Jiang Changkong to the ruins.
• Jiang Changkong stopped the Purple Star Heavenly King, who offered resources in exchange for killing the True Martial Heavenly King.
• Jiang Changkong pointed out that the Purple Star Heavenly King's resources were already his for the taking, so they could not serve as payment.

Jiang Changkong accepted Purple Star Heavenly King’s offer to kill True Martial Heavenly King, then intercepted and killed True Martial after overhearing him plot against Purple Star. After handing over True Martial’s head, Jiang Changkong continued his search while the Demon Emperor agreed to capture him at Kun Yu’s suggestion.

• Purple Star Heavenly King gave Jiang Changkong resources and promised more if he killed True Martial Heavenly King, while revealing that immortal spirits had once threatened the Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Changkong overheard True Martial Heavenly King contacting an unknown ally and plotting to remove Purple Star Heavenly King, then demanded to know whom he had contacted.
• True Martial Heavenly King attacked Jiang Changkong, but Jiang Changkong shattered his sword, killed him, and found that a restriction prevented him from inspecting the soul’s memories.
• Jiang Changkong delivered True Martial Heavenly King’s head to Purple Star Heavenly King and secretly left Chaos Divine Power to spy on Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
• Kun Yu suggested that the Demon Emperor capture Jiang Changkong, and the Demon Emperor agreed.

The Demon Emperor took Kun Yu and the Heaven-Devouring Python to confront the Divine Court’s three peak God Kings, overwhelming them and capturing them for ransom. He then headed toward the Heavenly Court, with Kun Yu once again forced to carry him.

• Kun Yu praised the Demon Emperor and agreed that they should eliminate the other factions before the Demon Emperor fought Jiang Changkong.
• The Demon Emperor brought Kun Yu and the Heaven-Devouring Python to the Divine Court’s three peak God Kings and offered to end their search of the relic.
• Ji Chang'an and the other two God Kings attacked with a God Emperor divine sword, but it barely pierced the Demon Emperor’s divine body.
• The Demon Emperor injured the three God Kings, seized their divine sword and spatial equipment, and handed them to the Heaven-Devouring Python to guard for ransom.
• The Demon Emperor set out to find the Heavenly Court’s Ziwei and Pagoda Bearer, then kicked Kun Yu and ordered him to carry the group.

Jiang Changkong discovered that three Immortal Court peak Immortal Kings had been hiding the method to open the Underworld, but their soul-restricting magic killed them before he could question them. He completed his Six-Revolution Mysterious Art and found Witch Clan essence blood that could open the Underworld, leaving him suspicious of the Immortal Spirit’s connection to the Immortal Court.

• Three Immortal Court peak Immortal Kings placed damaged immortal artifacts among the arrays and discussed giving the Underworld-opening method to the Demon Race.
• Jiang Changkong stopped the three Immortal Kings and tried to question them about the Immortal Spirit, but their restrictions destroyed their souls.
• Jiang Changkong collected the Immortal Kings’ resources and completed his Six-Revolution Mysterious Art, though he remained short of reaching the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Jiang Changkong searched the arrays and found a statue containing the method to open the Underworld and powerful Witch Clan essence blood.
• Jiang Changkong wondered whether the Immortal Spirit and the Immortal Court were allies or merely cooperating.

Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor exchanged three moves in the ruin, then stopped before their power destroyed it. The Demon Emperor left with the Heavenly Court’s captives and the method to open the Underworld, while Jiang Changkong escaped with the Divine Court’s men.

• Jiang Changkong met the Demon Emperor, who offered the Divine Court’s captives as stakes in exchange for the Underworld-opening method.
• The Demon Emperor and Jiang Changkong clashed with the Witch-Slaying Sword and Phoenix Divine Spear, while Kun Yu hoped to profit from their fight.
• On the third move, the Demon Emperor summoned a fragment of the Chaos Bell, and both fighters stopped when their power threatened to destroy the ruin.
• After the powers dispersed, the Demon Emperor took the Heavenly Court’s two Immortal Kings and departed with Kun Yu, while Jiang Changkong left with Ji Chang’an and the other Divine Court captives.
• Outside the ruin, the Demon Emperor announced that he had found the method to open the Underworld and departed in the War Chariot.

The Demon Sovereign questioned the captives about how Jiang Changkong entered the relic and learned that an Immortal Spirit had helped him. After returning to the Demon Court, he reclaimed Feng Jiu’s artifact and explained his cooperation with Jiang Changkong to Sun Wuxuan, who agreed that Jiang’s continued growth could strengthen the Demon Sovereign’s position.

• The Demon Sovereign learned from Sun Wuxuan and Immortal Emperor Qingkong that Immortal Spirits were elusive beings, then gave Sun Wuxuan the divine statue so he could open the Underworld.
• The Demon Sovereign summoned Feng Jiu, criticized the Demon Master’s conduct, and returned Feng Jiu’s Phoenix Spear after Feng Jiu promised to report the Demon Sovereign’s merits to the Demon Emperor.
• The Heaven-Devouring Python pledged loyalty to the Demon Sovereign and went to report to Sun Yuan that he wanted to join the Demon Sovereign’s followers.
• The Demon Sovereign told Sun Wuxuan that he was cooperating with Jiang Changkong and Purple Star Heavenly King, and claimed the Chaos Bell could suppress Jiang Changkong.
• Sun Wuxuan advised the Demon Sovereign not to interfere with Jiang Changkong, but the Demon Sovereign said Jiang’s growth would make his own position more secure.

Jiang Changkong joined the Rogue Cultivator Alliance in exchange for ten thousand peak sixth-grade immortal stones, while remaining suspicious of the Immortal Spirit’s motives. At the Demon Emperor Hall, the Demon Emperor and Sun Wuxuan prepared to take Jiang Changkong to the Underworld and learned that the Demon Court had purged Immortal Emperors spying on its Heavenly Dao.

• The Immortal Spirit offered Jiang Changkong protection and a place among the rogue cultivators in exchange for the aura of Heaven, but Jiang demanded more immortal stones.
• The Immortal Spirit agreed to pay ten thousand peak sixth-grade immortal stones and gave Jiang Changkong a jade token identifying him as a member of the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• The Demon Emperor asked Sun Wuxuan to bring Jiang Changkong to the Underworld because Jiang’s suspected Witch Clan identity and Witch-Slaying Sword could help locate the Heavenly Dao fragments.
• Jiang Changkong told the Demon Emperor and Sun Wuxuan about the Immortal Spirit and its offer, prompting them to question how it could protect him from the four great powers.
• Feng Jiu revealed that the Demon Emperor had purged several Immortal Emperors for spying on the Demon Court’s Heavenly Dao, and the Demon Emperor wondered whether the Heavenly Court had faced a similar incident.

Sun Wuxuan reopened the Underworld and entered it with the Demon Emperor and Jiang Changkong to search for their friends. Jiang Changkong found a little ghost and the Immortal King Little Croak, who warned him to hide but did not explain what threat was coming.

• Sun Wuxuan summoned the Underworld gateway, whose returning power injured the four Immortal Emperors guarding the ruins.
• Sun Wuxuan brought the Demon Emperor through the Ghost Gate, and the two joined Jiang Changkong in exploring the empty Underworld.
• Jiang Changkong used a Yellow Springs Lineage method to call for his friends and encountered a little ghost who knew little about the Underworld.
• The little ghost led Jiang Changkong to Little Croak, an Immortal King toad who said the Ascension Pool was elsewhere and urged him to hide.
• Jiang Changkong asked what danger threatened them, and Little Croak gave no answer before the chapter ended.

Jiang Changkong learned from Little Croak that Shura hunted Ghost Immortals in the Underworld and that powerful forces ruled its upper reaches. When Solar Divine Fire erupted in the distance, he went to aid the Demon Emperor, leaving an avatar and a monkey hair to protect Little Croak and the five little ghosts.

• Little Croak led Jiang Changkong to five little ghosts and accepted a spatial ring in exchange for letting him hide there.
• Jiang Changkong reviewed what he knew about the Immortal Spirits, then asked Little Croak about the danger nearby.
• Little Croak explained that Shura treated the area as a breeding ground, preyed on Ghost Immortals, and had several Ghost Emperors among them.
• Little Croak told Jiang Changkong that the Underworld's powerful forces had abandoned the surface and that trespassers faced Ghost Emperors above.
• Solar Divine Fire flared in the distance, and Jiang Changkong recognized the Demon Emperor's presence.
• Jiang Changkong left a divine power avatar and monkey hair with Little Croak, then crossed the void to the Demon Emperor's battleground, where savage Shura had gathered.

Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor confronted the Asura lineage in the Underworld, where the Demon Emperor revealed his Immortal Emperor strength and the Chaos Bell. As two mid-stage Asura Immortal Emperors emerged to attack, Sun Wuxuan arrived and killed one with a single blow.

• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor faced an Asura army led by a female Immortal Emperor, who attacked the Demon Emperor after rejecting his demand for submission.
• The Demon Emperor revealed his Immortal Emperor strength and fought the female Asura Emperor, while Jiang Changkong remained unharmed by their clash.
• A burly Asura attacked Jiang Changkong, and the Demon Emperor used the Chaos Bell to repel the attacker and the female Asura Emperor.
• Two mid-stage Asura Immortal Emperors emerged from underground and one tried to seize the Demon Emperor, seeking to claim the Chaos Bell.
• Sun Wuxuan arrived and crushed the attacking mid-stage Asura Immortal Emperor with a single strike from his iron staff.

After defeating the Asura clan’s four Immortal Emperors, Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor learned that Fierce Ghosts ruled the Underworld’s skies and agreed to infiltrate their territory. With Sun Wuxuan, the Asura Empress, and Little Croak accompanying them, they entered Ghost Gate Pass to investigate the Heavenly Dao fragment and search for Little Croak’s friend.

• Sun Wuxuan overwhelmed the four Asura Immortal Emperors, who surrendered and agreed to serve the Demon Emperor.
• The Asura Empress explained that powerful Fierce Ghosts lived in the skies, barred the Asura clan from going there, and might be connected to the Underworld’s ruined buildings.
• Jiang Changkong and the Demon Emperor decided to infiltrate the skies, while the Demon Emperor insisted on going to sense the Heavenly Dao fragment himself.
• An Immortal King Evil Ghost escorted Jiang Changkong, the Demon Emperor, Sun Wuxuan, the Asura Empress, and Little Croak to a passage and issued them ghost plaques for a seven-day stay.
• The group entered Ghost Gate Pass and followed a black stone road toward a city filled with eerie yin energy.

Jiang Changkong and his companions entered the ghost city, where Little Croak reunited with Feng He and learned that he could help locate the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and the Nether Dragon. While Feng He sought news, Jiang Changkong received a response from both friends and set out with the Empress Shura to find them.

• Jiang Changkong asked Little Croak to contact his old companions, and Little Croak found them after spreading his ghostly qi.
• Feng He, a late-stage Ghost King and Little Croak's friend, arrived and invited the group to his home.
• Jiang Changkong told Feng He he had come to find the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and the Nether Dragon, and Feng He offered to investigate their whereabouts.
• Feng He gave the Demon Emperor a Ghost King Token and left to gather information, while Jiang Changkong stayed behind with the Empress Shura.
• Jiang Changkong called to the infant and the Nether Dragon, received a response guiding him to a nearby place, and set out with the Empress Shura.

Jiang Changkong met two Ghost Emperors guarding the entrance to the Yellow Springs and Ghost Mother Lineages and warned them that the Immortal Realm’s factions would soon arrive for fragments of the Heavenly Dao. After Sun Wuxuan clashed with a powerful ghost in the sky, the Ghost Emperors brought Jiang Changkong and the Asura Empress beneath the lake into the Nether Dragon Lineage’s territory.

• Jiang Changkong and the Asura Empress reached a black lake, where a Ghost Emperor woman and a Yellow Springs Nether Dragon confronted them.
• The Ghost Emperors questioned Jiang Changkong about the Immortal Realm, and he described its major factions and warned that they would soon come for fragments of the Heavenly Dao.
• The Nether Dragon threatened to capture Jiang Changkong, but Sun Wuxuan’s arrival and display of power revealed that the Demon Court’s vanguard was near.
• A powerful ghost attacked Sun Wuxuan, and the Ghost Emperor woman and Nether Dragon took Jiang Changkong into the lake to escape the clash.
• The Asura Empress followed Jiang Changkong into the Nether Dragon Lineage’s hidden territory, where Nether Dragons and Ghost Mothers gathered with their nine infants.

Jiang Changkong reunited with the Ghost Mother and Nether Dragon clans, learned that the Heavenly Ghost Emperor ruled the Underworld and guarded the suspected location of the Heavenly Dao fragment, and hid when the Heavenly Ghosts arrived. Meanwhile, the Demon Monarch and Sun Wuxuan discussed forcing their way into the guarded region, but their small army faced overwhelming opposition.

• Jiang Changkong met the Ghost Mother and Nether Dragon clans, who told him that the Heavenly Ghost Emperor ruled the Underworld and possessed the Reincarnation Disk.
• Ghost Mother Immortal Emperor explained that the Heavenly Ghost Emperor guarded the only entrance to the region where he suspected the Heavenly Dao fragment lay.
• After a Nether Dragon warned that the Heavenly Ghost had arrived, Ghost Mother Fifteen hid Jiang Changkong and the Asura Empress in a dark space.
• Ghost Mother Fifteen told Jiang Changkong that Feng He had exposed him to gain credit, and then she left to deal with the Heavenly Ghosts.
• The Demon Monarch and Sun Wuxuan learned that Feng Jiu and one peak Immortal Emperor were the only reinforcements sent, leaving them doubtful that they could force their way through.

The Demon Sovereign and Sun Wuxuan learned that Immortal Spirits had been uncovered within the four major powers, leaving them unable to send further reinforcements. They launched an assault on the Underworld to force the Heavenly Ghost Emperor to let them search for the Heavenly Dao fragment, and the chapter ended with an Immortal Venerable’s power arriving.

• Aoyin Yume explained that the power of heaven had exposed Immortal Spirits hiding throughout the four major powers, preventing them from sending more forces.
• The Demon Sovereign proposed confronting the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, who possessed the Reincarnation Disk and guarded a region where the Heavenly Dao fragment might be hidden.
• The Demon Sovereign sent Sun Wuxuan to recruit a helper, then activated the Chaos Bell fragment as the group began attacking the Underworld.
• Demon Master Kun Yu and the Heaven-Devouring Python led the Demon Race army into battle while the Heavenly Ghost Emperor fought back with the Reincarnation Disk.
• An ancient divine might quelled the chaos and shook the Reincarnation Disk, and Sun Wuxuan declared that the Immortal Venerable was coming.

The Demon Emperor used the Ginseng Fruit Tree to enlist an Immortal Venerable from the Zhenyuan Immortal Sect, forcing the Heavenly Ghost Emperor to let the Demon Race search the Underworld for a Heavenly Dao fragment. Jiang Changkong followed the fragment’s reaction into a hidden realm beneath the River of Forgetfulness, where he and the others fell into a river surrounded by fierce ghosts.

• The Immortal Venerable’s presence intimidated the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, who agreed to let the Demon Race search for the Heavenly Dao fragment.
• Jiang Changkong revealed that he had traded the Ginseng Fruit Tree with the Zhenyuan Immortal Sect to secure the Immortal Venerable’s support.
• The Demon Emperor entered Ghost City with Jiang Changkong and the others, then led them through a rift to a blood-yellow river where the Heavenly Ghost Emperor had found the Reincarnation Disk.
• Jiang Changkong sensed the Heavenly Dao fragment below the river and descended as Kun Yu and the Demon Emperor followed.
• A wail and a surge of ghostly qi revealed a hidden world, and Jiang Changkong and the others fell into another blood-yellow river surrounded by fierce ghosts.

Jiang Changkong and the others escaped the blood-yellow River of Forgetfulness by following Little Croak’s advice to walk across it with empty minds. They reached an ancient road leading to a ghost city, where Jiang Changkong sensed the Underworld Heavenly Dao fragment, but freezing flames erupted across their path.

• The group discovered that swimming toward shore only brought them back to the same place, and Sun Wuxuan’s Sea-Quelling Divine Needle Iron could not reach the bank or ancient bridge.
• Jiang Changkong went beneath the river and found that Little Croak remained unharmed; following its instructions, he walked across the water with his mind empty.
• The Demon Emperor and the others followed Jiang Changkong’s method and crossed to the bank, then headed along an ancient road toward a ghost city while the Wheel of Reincarnation destroyed incoming fireballs.
• Jiang Changkong sensed that the Heavenly Dao fragment was inside the ghost city, but flames erupted across the road with intense heat and an icy chill, forcing Kun Yu to race toward the city.

Jiang Changkong and his companions entered the ghost city in search of the Heavenly Dao fragment, but a trap separated the Heavenly Ghost Emperor and several others from the group. Little Croak recognized the image of an ancient being, and the activated pattern merged with Jiang Changkong before revealing a pit containing the fragment.

• Kun Yu rushed out of the ancient road first, and the group followed him into the ghost city after the Heavenly Ghost Emperor opened its gates with the Samsara Disk.
• Little Croak stopped Jiang Changkong before a section of street collapsed, swallowing the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, Kun Yu, Feng Jiu, Aoyin, and Prison Annihilation.
• Jiang Changkong, the Demon Emperor, and Sun Wuxuan continued toward the Heavenly Dao fragment, leaving the missing group behind because the Samsara Disk would keep them alive.
• The three found a ruined divine hall and uncovered a pattern depicting an ancient being; Little Croak said it seemed to have seen her before.
• Jiang Changkong activated the pattern, which drained their divine power and merged its divine-power figure into his back, revealing a pit with the Heavenly Dao fragment.
• Jiang Changkong entered the pit with Little Croak.