Chapter Summaries

Shen Luo retrieved a black-and-yellow ruler from the stele, but the black-robed man used a soul-seizing bell to immobilize everyone and steal it. After the man escaped through warped space, the enraged Asura Puppet Ghost turned on Shen Luo and Yan Wushi as they tried to flee.

• Shen Luo read the stele’s Flameburst Formula and watched the ruined palace get torn away, exposing the black-and-yellow ruler beneath it.
• A black bell overwhelmed Shen Luo, Yan Wushi, the Asura Puppet Ghost, and the Yin Beasts, allowing the black-robed man to take the ruler.
• Shen Luo attacked as soon as the bell’s effects weakened, but the black-robed man escaped through a spatial vortex created by the ruler.
• Shen Luo called for Yan Wushi to run as the enraged Asura Puppet Ghost charged them and sent over a hundred Yin Fiend Ghost Kings after Shen Luo.

Shen Luo rescued Yan Wushi from the Asura Puppet Ghost and escaped with him, while the blood-colored skeleton ordered every Yin Beast recalled to guard the Yin Cavern. Elsewhere, the black-robed man reunited with Mu Xiao and offered to help him integrate the Demon Clan bloodline if he joined his plan.

• Shen Luo used red lotus karmic fire to save Yan Wushi from the Yin Fiend ghostly mist, and the two escaped as the Asura Puppet Ghost battered the ground.
• The Asura Puppet Ghost reported his failure to the blood-colored skeleton, who ordered every Yin Beast recalled to defend the Yin Cavern.
• The blood-colored skeleton reassured his subordinates that the five formation-breaking demonic artifacts were unlikely to be gathered and that their seekers might turn against one another.
• The black-robed man emerged far from the palace using the Shrinking Earth Ruler and confronted Mu Xiao, who had been hiding nearby.
• The black-robed man demonstrated that his integrated Demon Clan bloodline let him activate the ruler, then offered to help Mu Xiao gain the same power and leave if he joined his plan.

Mu Xiao allied with the black-robed man in exchange for help integrating the Demon Clan bloodline, while Shen Luo and Yan Wushi escaped and tracked the man with the Black Jade Plate. The pair found a grove of nether spring bamboo and began harvesting it carefully after Yan Wushi explained how to preserve its spiritual energy.

• Mu Xiao agreed to help the black-robed man after he promised to help integrate Mu Xiao's Demon Clan bloodline, and warned him not to betray him.
• Mu Xiao told the black-robed man that a gigantic Puppet Armor occupied the Spirit Cavern and that Purple Bamboo's true body had been captured.
• Shen Luo and Yan Wushi escaped through the earth, and Shen Luo used the Black Jade Plate to track the black-robed man with a mark he had placed on the ruler.
• Shen Luo and Yan Wushi found a grove of nether spring bamboo and discovered a rare purple-jade Nether Spring Spirit Bamboo at its center.
• Yan Wushi explained how to harvest the grove without diminishing its spiritual energy, and Shen Luo summoned Zhao Feiji to help dig up the bamboo.

Shen Luo and Yan Wushi uncovered Purple Bamboo, a shapeshifting demon hiding in the Nether Spring Violet-Jade Spirit Bamboo, and spared her after learning she could guide them through the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern. Purple Bamboo revealed that they were nearing the Yin-Yang Twin Caverns, where the Spirit Cavern’s abundant spiritual energy contrasted with the perilous Yin Cavern.

• Yan Wushi asked Shen Luo for the Nether Spring Violet-Jade Spirit Bamboo, but Shen Luo claimed it for himself.
• Zhao Feiji sensed something beneath the bamboo, captured Purple Bamboo’s divine soul, and nearly devoured her before Shen Luo ordered him to stop.
• Shen Luo questioned Purple Bamboo, who explained that her original body had been seized and that she had hidden inside the spirit bamboo.
• Purple Bamboo said the group was close to the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern’s deepest point and described the Spirit Cavern and Yin Cavern that formed the Yin-Yang Twin Caverns.

Shen Luo learned that a gigantic Puppet Armor had taken Purple Bamboo’s body and recognized it as Doll City, then persuaded her to lead the group to the Spirit Cavern. At its entrance, he saw that Ghost Yan, Doll City, and Little Master’s group were nearby and chose to wait for reinforcements before entering.

• Purple Bamboo explained the origins of the Yin-Yang Twin Caverns and described the Spirit Cavern’s powerful flower monster and its conflict with the Yin Beasts and their Vampire Ancestor.
• Purple Bamboo revealed that a gigantic Puppet Armor had defeated her and taken her original body, and Shen Luo and Yan Wushi recognized it as Doll City.
• Shen Luo promised to help Purple Bamboo recover her body if she led them to the Puppet Armor, then bound her divine soul inside the Nether Springs Purple Jade Bamboo and gave the staff to the Ghost General.
• Purple Bamboo guided Shen Luo, Yan Wushi, and the Ghost General to the Spirit Cavern’s enormous entrance, where Shen Luo’s Black Jade Plate detected the black figure and Magic Power Mark nearby.
• Yan Wushi tried to enter immediately, but Shen Luo stopped him and proposed waiting for Little Master and the others to arrive.

Shen Luo, Yan Wushi, and Zhao Feiji were captured by Mo Xin’s group and sent into the Yin-Yang Cavern. Shen Luo arrived in the Spirit Cavern without Yan Wushi and discovered an immense trove of spiritual materials and ancient herbs.

• Shen Luo tried to escape the Nine Netherworld Yin Wind, but Yuan Ming used the Radiant Light Treasure Casket to immobilize him, Yan Wushi, and Zhao Feiji.
• Mo Xin ordered spirit insects placed on the captives, then Yuan Ming transported all three away with the treasure casket’s five-colored light.
• A mysterious black-robed figure told Mu Xiao that the outside cultivators who had arrived would not leave alive, and they waited for more visitors.
• Little Master and his party continued building a treasure ship beside the Weak Water.
• Shen Luo and Zhao Feiji arrived in the Spirit Cavern, where Shen Luo found abundant precious spiritual materials and herbs, while Yan Wushi was nowhere to be seen.

Shen Luo discovered Doll City feeding on a Dark-Gold Spirit Copper vein and confronted the bald man controlling two powerful beasts marked with Puppet Armor Yan Patterns. After the beasts exposed him and attacked, Shen Luo fought back with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff, leaving the Giant Strength Divine Ape badly struck.

• Shen Luo concealed himself and flew deeper into the cave after hearing digging sounds.
• Shen Luo found Doll City gnawing through a Dark-Gold Spirit Copper vein and recognized the bald man who had fought him there before.
• The bald man summoned the Devouring Heaven Tiger and Giant Strength Divine Ape, then used blood-tinged Soul Threads to awaken their Yan Patterns and True Immortal power.
• The Devouring Heaven Tiger detected Shen Luo and engulfed him in crimson flames, while the Giant Strength Divine Ape attacked him with its iron rod.
• Shen Luo countered with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff, shattered the ape’s rod shadows, and blasted the Giant Strength Divine Ape backward until it spat black blood.

Shen Luo fought off the Devouring Heaven Tiger and the Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings, then fled deeper into the sealed Spirit Cavern after their combined assault badly injured him. Purple Bamboo told him there was no known exit, but revealed a place to hide near the cavern’s deepest point.

• Shen Luo froze the pursuing Devouring Heaven Tiger with Indigo Sea, but the bald, brawny man sent eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings after him.
• Shen Luo used the Pure Yang Sword and Red Lotus Karmic Fire to resist their attacks, but the corpse kings, the Giant Strength Divine Ape, and the Devouring Heaven Tiger overwhelmed him.
• Shen Luo burst from the resulting explosion with grave injuries and fled deeper into the Spirit Cavern as the Devouring Heaven Tiger and two stone hands pursued him.
• Shen Luo used Wingspan Thousand Li to evade his pursuers and asked Purple Bamboo how to escape the sealed cavern.
• Purple Bamboo said the passage to the Yin Cavern had been sealed, but revealed a place to hide at the Spirit Cavern’s deepest point.

Shen Luo escaped into the spirit spring to evade Ghost Yan, but Ghost Yan sealed the pool with a puppet city and trapped Shen Luo deep underwater. Shen Luo used the Thousand-Dipper Golden Goblet to withstand the crushing force, yet he remained trapped near a spatial rift and could barely move.

• Shen Luo dove into the spirit spring to hide among its shifting spatial rifts, and Ghost Yan warned his followers not to pursue him.
• Ghost Yan transformed brass spiritual material into a Brass City and used it to seal the pool while his followers guarded the Spirit Cavern.
• Shen Luo formed a concealed Water Domain and waited underwater, but Ghost Yan’s sealing force swept it away and pinned him beside a spatial rift.
• The Thousand-Dipper Golden Goblet shielded Shen Luo from most of the pressure, but he could rise only half a zhang before exhausting his magic power.

Shen Luo recovered inside the sealed Spirit Spring Water pool and decided to use its extraordinary spiritual energy to attempt a breakthrough to the True Immortal Stage. After preparing his treasures and talismans, he began attacking the Mud-Pill Palace with the aid of a Ginkgo Spirit Fruit, and the chapter ended with his breakthrough attempt still underway.

• Shen Luo learned from Purple Bamboo that the dark-gold spirit materials were high-grade and suitable for crafting Puppet Armor.
• Shen Luo tried to contact Little Master with the Black Jade Plate, but Ghost Yan's Restriction prevented his messages from being sent.
• Shen Luo realized the Spirit Spring's spiritual energy could loosen his Mud-Pill Palace and decided to attempt a breakthrough while using the True Immortal Tribulation to shatter the Restriction.
• Shen Luo recovered, nurtured his Magic Treasures, and crafted seven or eight Earth-Rooted Thunder-Calling Talismans.
• Shen Luo swallowed the Ginkgo Spirit Fruit and repeatedly struck the Mud-Pill Palace with his Magic Power until it began to loosen.

Little Master and his companions encountered Elder Mei under attack by a Dragonfish beast and savage monster fish on the Weak Water River. Mo Wang rescued Elder Mei with the Army Breaker Divine Crossbow and Cloudfrost Arrows, and the group continued aboard the treasure ship.

• Little Master and his companions sailed downstream and encountered a Dragonfish beast fighting Elder Mei's Puppet Armor boat.
• The Dragonfish destroyed Elder Mei's Fierce Tiger Puppet Armor while savage monster fish damaged his boat, leaving him in danger of drowning.
• Mo Wang shouted for Elder Mei to duck and fired three Cloudfrost Arrows from the Army Breaker Divine Crossbow, freezing the Dragonfish and driving it away.
• Mo Wang pulled Elder Mei aboard the treasure ship, and Elder Fu lamented the crossbow and arrows spent to save him.
• Elder Mei thanked Mo Wang for saving his life.

Heavenly Mechanism City’s party crossed the Weak Water and split up to search for Yan Wushi, while Shen Luo broke through to the True Immortal Stage in the Spirit Eye Deep Pool. The chapter ended as four Law-Enforcing Heavenly Soldiers appeared to begin his Heavenly Tribulation.

• Elder Mei told Little Master that Yan Wushi and Shen Luo had crossed the Weak Water, so Little Master led the group across to find them.
• Elder Mei traced Yan Wushi to the left passage of a cavern, while Little Master detected Puppet Armor traces in the right passage.
• Elder Fu and Elder Mei took most of the disciples into the Yin Cavern, while Little Master led the others into the Spirit Cavern; Yuan Ming’s party and Mu Xiao also entered the Yin Cavern.
• Shen Luo broke open his Mud-Pill Palace, greatly strengthened his magic power, body, and divine soul, and reached the True Immortal Stage.
• Three beats of the Kui Drum announced Shen Luo’s Heavenly Tribulation, and four Law-Enforcing Heavenly Soldiers appeared in golden clouds above him.

Shen Luo began his True Immortal Tribulation in the Spirit-Eye Pool, using the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff to shatter its first three waves and absorb their lightning. Above him, Ghost Yan mobilized his forces against the arriving Heavenly Mechanism City group, while Shen Luo strengthened his body and forged a much more powerful Earth-Rooted Thunder-Calling Talisman.

• The four Law-Enforcing Heavenly Soldiers destroyed the restriction above the pool and began Shen Luo's Thunder Tribulation, while Ghost Yan sent his Corpse Kings and Puppet Armors to stop Shen Luo and repel the Heavenly Mechanism City group attacking the cavern entrance.
• Shen Luo shattered the first white lightning bolt with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff and absorbed the scattered lightning, strengthening his body and refining demonic energy from his meridians.
• Shen Luo used the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff to break the second wave's two silver-white bolts and absorbed their lightning as well.
• Shen Luo shattered the third wave's silver lightning sphere while protecting himself with the Bloodthirst Banner and Tortoise Spirit Shield.
• The Earth-Rooted Thunder-Calling Talisman absorbed the scattered lightning and became several times more powerful before Shen Luo drew it back.

Shen Luo endured the final waves of his Thunder Tribulation and advanced to the True Immortal Stage. After refusing an offer to serve the Heavenly Court, he examined his transformed body and wondered whether the demonic energy within him had been dispelled.

• Shen Luo used his talismans and Magic Treasures to withstand the seventh wave, while his Wind-Thunder Spirit Runes absorbed the golden lightning and grew stronger.
• The eighth wave appeared as Supreme Yang Divine Lightning rather than Profound Yin Lightning, destroying Shen Luo’s defenses and injuring him.
• A massive lightning dragon swallowed Shen Luo and struck him with many kinds of lightning, but he survived by circulating the Huangting Scripture and the Nameless Art.
• A life-filled radiance healed Shen Luo, whose body completed its transformation as he reached the True Immortal Stage.
• A Law-Enforcing Heavenly Soldier invited Shen Luo to serve at the Heavenly Court, but Shen Luo refused because he still had worldly ties.
• After the heavenly soldiers departed, Shen Luo inspected his body and focused on whether the Thunder Tribulation had dispelled his demonic energy.

After surviving the Thunder Tribulation, Shen Luo discovered that some Chi You Demonic Aura remained and followed Purple Bamboo’s advice to search the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Spirit Eye for Immortal Crystals. He found two crystals but unknowingly entered the distorted region near the Spatial Rift, where an unseen force began pulling at his leg.

• Shen Luo sensed that the Thunder Tribulation had not completely purged the Chi You Demonic Aura, but resolved to seek a solution later.
• Purple Bamboo urged Shen Luo to search the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Spirit Eye for Immortal Crystals and warned him not to absorb too much spiritual energy or approach the Spatial Rift carelessly.
• Shen Luo descended into the Spirit Eye, sensed the danger of absorbing its spiritual energy, and stopped drawing it in.
• Shen Luo searched the black terrain and found two transparent Immortal Crystals, then continued toward a red flash in a crack.
• Shen Luo nearly fell when an unseen force began tugging at his leg, and realized he had entered the area where the void was distorted.

Shen Luo discovered that the dark crimson mirror trapped in a spatial fissure was the rare Free-and-Easy Mirror, and Purple Bamboo urged him to retrieve it in exchange for helping her reclaim her true body and escape the Spirit Cavern. After surviving the distorted space and claiming the mirror, Shen Luo began refining it.

• Shen Luo identified the object inside the spatial fissure as an ancient mirror, and Purple Bamboo recognized it as the Free-and-Easy Mirror, a spatial Magic Treasure that could hold living beings.
• Purple Bamboo asked Shen Luo to help reclaim her true body from Ghost Yan and take her out of the Spirit Cavern, and Shen Luo agreed to do his utmost.
• Shen Luo entered the distorted space to retrieve the mirror, but a powerful pulling force sent him flying deeper into it.
• Shen Luo used his Dragon-Elephant Power to fight his way out of the distorted space with the Free-and-Easy Mirror in hand.
• Shen Luo found that pouring magic power into the mirror had no effect, so he began refining it with the Primordial Artifact Refinement Art.

Shen Luo refined eight restrictions on the Free-and-Easy Mirror and discovered it could store objects and absorb spiritual energy, but its use enlarged the distorted void. Returning to the Spirit Cavern, he found Heavenly Mechanism City battling Ghost Yan and the Yan Beasts, then turned invisible and approached the Devouring Heaven Tiger.

• Shen Luo broke through eight of the Free-and-Easy Mirror's restrictions, stored a black rock inside it, and used it to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
• The mirror's absorption caused the distorted void to expand and unleash a powerful suction force, so Shen Luo put the mirror away and escaped to the Spirit Cavern.
• Shen Luo found Little Master and Elder Mo Wang fighting Ghost Yan, the eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings, and the Yan Beasts while Doll City continued absorbing dark gold copper ore.
• Shen Luo noticed the battle seemed more like a contest than a fight to kill, then activated an Invisibility Talisman to approach the creatures he resented.
• The Devouring Heaven Tiger fought Elder Mo Wang's Green Lion Puppet Armor and summoned the phantom of an enormous crimson tiger.

Shen Luo defeated the Devouring Heaven Tiger and the Giant Strength Divine Ape after revealing that he had reached the True Immortal Stage. As the Yan Beasts faltered, he headed for the Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings, while Ghost Yan attacked the Little Master with the Dragon Roar Bell.

• The Devouring Heaven Tiger's flaming bone swords destroyed Elder Mo Wang's Green Lion Puppet Armor, but Shen Luo crushed the tiger with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff.
• Shen Luo killed the Giant Strength Divine Ape, and the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples rallied as Ghost Yan's Yan Beasts fell into disarray.
• The Little Master asked Shen Luo to join Elder Mo Wang in defeating the Yan Beasts, but Shen Luo headed toward the eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings.
• Ghost Yan used the Dragon Roar Bell to strike the Little Master and the black wooden bird with golden sound waves.

Ghost Yan trapped Shen Luo and the Heavenly Mechanism City group inside the Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance, while Doll City completed its transformation and unleashed a force that shook the Spirit Cavern. Ghost Yan rushed toward the city, and Little Master attacked him to stop him.

• Ghost Yan activated a purple-mist formation with the eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings, enchanting Shen Luo and the others.
• Shen Luo resisted the dance’s enchantment with the Buzhou Suppression Divine Art and tried to escape, but illusions repeatedly struck him with overwhelming seductive power.
• Little Master recognized the formation as the Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance and demanded to know where Ghost Yan had learned it.
• Doll City finished devouring dark gold copper ore, transformed into a glowing golden city, and caused violent tremors and fissures throughout the Spirit Cavern.
• Ghost Yan abandoned his fight with Little Master and raced toward Doll City, while Little Master sent sword-qi serpents and the black wooden bird after him.

Little Master and Ghost Yan fought over Doll City, but both Shen Luo and Ghost Yan entered the city after Little Master. The Heavenly Mechanism City disciples were left in the Spirit Cavern, where Elder Mo Wang directed them to clear the Yan Beasts and gather materials while they waited.

• Ghost Yan used the Heaven-Devouring Bottle and Weaver Girl Fan to trap Little Master, but Little Master escaped with a Wind-Calming Pearl and bound Ghost Yan with the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Little Master revealed a Doll Stone, entered Doll City, and left Ghost Yan behind.
• Shen Luo burst free of the purple formation and entered Doll City, prompting Ghost Yan to destroy his Puppet Armor and follow him with the eight Earthly Fiend Female Corpse Kings.
• The yellow light over Doll City faded, the Yan Beasts became motionless, and the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples emerged from the shattered formation.
• Elder Mo Wang ordered the disciples to destroy the Yan Beasts and gather the cavern's spiritual materials while they waited for the City Lord and the others.