Chapter Summaries

Shen Luo searched Doll City for Fu Donglai and found him badly injured in a vermilion hall, where he helped him recover. Fu Donglai explained how he had survived and preserved one of Shen Luo’s Magic Power Marks, leaving the two reunited as Fu Donglai began a long recovery.

• Shen Luo followed a resonating Magic Power Mark to an empty vermilion hall in Doll City.
• Fu Donglai revealed himself, and Shen Luo gave him Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Marrow and helped him recover enough to meditate.
• While Fu Donglai rested, Shen Luo refined the Free-and-Easy Mirror, breaking eight more Restrictions and discovering a purple bamboo grove and stream inside it.
• Fu Donglai told Shen Luo that he had escaped his pursuer with the Asura Invisibility Technique, though using it consumed his Magic Power and Innate Vital Energy.
• Fu Donglai explained that he had hidden one of Shen Luo’s Magic Power Marks, while Ghost Yan had carried the other four away to mislead Shen Luo.

Shen Luo failed to break through Doll City’s evolved defenses and headed toward Little Master, but Purple Bamboo sensed her true body nearby. She led him to a concealed hall filled with treasures Ghost Yan had taken from the Spirit Cavern.

• Shen Luo stored Fu Donglai in the Free-and-Easy Mirror and attacked the stone wall surrounding Doll City, but the wall remained undamaged.
• Little Master and Ghost Yan fought while the eight Earthly Fiend Female Corpse Kings aided Ghost Yan with the Heavenly Demon Dance and demonic music.
• Shen Luo abandoned his attempt to escape Doll City and flew toward Little Master, then stopped when Purple Bamboo sensed her physical body nearby.
• Shen Luo followed Purple Bamboo to a concealed hall and removed the concealment talisman from its doors.
• Shen Luo entered the hall and found treasures from the Spirit Cavern, including two Immortal Crystals, while Purple Bamboo grew excited at the sight of her true body nearby.

Shen Luo found Purple Bamboo’s original body, but Ghost Yan’s fading Forbidden Thunder prevented her from returning to it, so he promised to help her later. He then discovered Little Master and Ghost Yan competing to refine the Doll Stele, the control hub of Doll City, as their forces fought around them.

• Shen Luo stopped Purple Bamboo from approaching her immortal bamboo body after Forbidden Thunder blasted her back, and he promised to find a way to remove the restriction if it did not fade within three months.
• Shen Luo collected the treasures in the hall, then stealthily reached the golden hall where Little Master’s Thousand Mechanism Sword and black wooden bird fought the eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings.
• Shen Luo recognized the Doll Stele and realized that Little Master and Ghost Yan were racing to refine it and gain control of Doll City.
• Ghost Yan used the Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance to disrupt Little Master’s refinement, but Little Master steadied himself with a crystalline mark and empowered his weapons.
• The Thousand Mechanism Sword and black wooden bird shattered the eight Earthly Fiend Corpse Kings, but their undying bodies began restoring themselves.

Shen Luo broke Ghost Yan’s Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance Formation and helped Fu Donglai suppress Xie Yuxin inside the Free-and-Easy Mirror. Ghost Yan used the Spirit-Gathering Pearl to feed living human souls into the Doll Stele, overwhelming Little Master’s refining light while Shen Luo struggled to break through the Yin-Yang Umbrella.

• Shen Luo used his Wind-Thunder Spirit Runes to destroy the eight earthly fiend corpse kings and break the Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance Formation.
• Shen Luo drew Xie Yuxin’s corpse fragments into the Free-and-Easy Mirror, where Fu Donglai repeatedly struck her with the Azure Lion Fang and pinned her beneath the Azure Blood Gan-Yue.
• Ghost Yan produced the Spirit-Gathering Pearl, which Little Master recognized, while Shen Luo continued bombarding Ghost Yan’s Yin-Yang Umbrella with golden lightning.
• Ghost Yan sent living human souls from the Spirit-Gathering Pearl into the Doll Stele, making his black light surge and push back Little Master’s white refining light.
• Little Master demanded to know where Ghost Yan had obtained the souls, but Ghost Yan ignored him and continued feeding souls into the stele.

Little Master and Shen Luo escaped Doll City after Ghost Yan revealed he had destroyed the Langxia Kingdom to gather souls and gained control of the city. As the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples fled the Spirit Cavern, Shen Luo collected a hidden Spirit-Attaching Jade, and the group stopped at the junction leading to the Yin Cavern and the exit.

• Ghost Yan admitted he had destroyed the Langxia Kingdom to gather divine souls and infused the Spirit-Gathering Pearl into the Doll Stele, strengthening his control of Doll City.
• Little Master used his blood essence to hold Ghost Yan back and teleported himself and Shen Luo out of Doll City, while the Earth-Rooted Thunder-Calling Talisman shattered Ghost Yan's barrier.
• Back in the Spirit Cavern, Little Master ordered the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples to retreat because Ghost Yan had taken control of Doll City and only the Seal of Returning Origin could challenge him.
• Purple Bamboo told Shen Luo where to find a hidden treasure, and he uncovered a large piece of Spirit-Attaching Jade and stored it in the Free-and-Easy Mirror.
• Shen Luo caught up with the fleeing disciples, and Little Master stopped at the junction and looked toward the Yin Cavern as thunderous explosions sounded within.

Shen Luo entered the Yin Cavern to help rescue Yan Wushi and found the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples and other cultivators battling hordes of yin beasts. As he searched for Yan Wushi, the powerful Blood Skull Ancestor appeared and began slaughtering the intruders, forcing Shen Luo to hide among the beasts.

• Little Master led Heavenly Mechanism City disciples into the Yin Cavern to rescue Yan Wushi, Elder Fu, and Elder Mei, and Shen Luo followed after deciding not to abandon Yan Wushi.
• Shen Luo entered the cavern and saw Elder Fu, Elder Mei, Yuan Ming, Elder Lin, and the Beast Taming Sect woman surrounded by yin beasts led by the Netherworld Scholar and a Night Rakshasa.
• Shen Luo fought through swarms of yin beasts while searching for Yan Wushi and saw Heavenly Mechanism City cultivators die amid the fighting.
• Blood Skull Ancestor appeared riding a giant elephant-like yin beast and used a divine soul attack to threaten everyone in the cavern.
• Blood Skull Ancestor killed a Heavenly Mechanism City disciple with a blood-light attack, then turned toward Shen Luo, who hid among the yin beasts and concealed his aura.

Shen Luo found the gravely wounded Yan Wushi and helped Little Master recover him from the Yin Cavern. The Essence-Devouring Demon Wand then led Shen Luo to a huge demonic formation and a black stone pillar at the cavern’s depths.

• Blood Skull Ancestor killed Hall Master Zhong by burning away his blood essence, and Mo Xin and Mu Xiao fled the skeletal phantom.
• Shen Luo searched deeper into the Yin Cavern while concealed and found Yan Wushi unconscious inside a damaged Tianxing Silver Egg.
• Little Master arrived, explained that Yan Wushi had used the Yan Heart Feigned Death Technique, and stored the silver egg away.
• The Essence-Devouring Demon Wand trembled and pointed Shen Luo toward a vast demonic formation and a black stone pillar surrounded by dense demonic qi.

Shen Luo and Little Master discovered that the black sphere from the Hundred-Cry Beast had transformed into a Black Demonic Ring, then encountered Mo Xin and his allies fighting the poisoned Blood Skull Ancestor. When Blood Skull Ancestor fled toward the depths of the Yin Cavern and Mo Xin’s group pursued him, Shen Luo asked Little Master whether they should follow.

• Shen Luo sensed the immense Demonic Formation but chose to leave with Little Master, then discovered that the black sphere had transformed into a Black Demonic Ring reacting alongside the Essence-Devouring Demon Wand.
• The Giant Elephant Yin Beast crashed down nearby, poisoned and weakened, and Blood Skull Ancestor fell after it with the same purplish-black blotches on his body.
• Shen Luo and Little Master saw Mo Xin, Yuan Ming, the fat man, and the young married woman in green confront Blood Skull Ancestor, and Little Master persuaded Shen Luo to stay and learn why Mo Xin had come to the cavern.
• Blood Skull Ancestor accused Mo Xin of orchestrating the influx of cultivators into the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern, then Mo Xin and his allies attacked him.
• Blood Skull Ancestor broke through the group’s encirclement and fled into the Yin Cavern, prompting Mo Xin and the others to pursue him as Shen Luo asked Little Master whether they should follow.

Shen Luo and Little Master pursued Blood Skull Ancestor to the Demonic Formation, where they discovered that Yuan Ming’s black casket was releasing the Demonic Poison. Mo Xin sent a blood bone infused with Chi You Demonic Aura into the formation, triggering its pillars and drawing demonic artifacts—including Shen Luo’s—toward them, exposing Shen Luo.

• Shen Luo and Little Master followed Mo Xin and the others into the Yin Cavern’s deepest section while discussing the Demonic Poison afflicting Blood Skull Ancestor.
• Blood Skull Ancestor activated the Demonic Formation, replenished his strength, and repelled Mo Xin’s Blood Demon Blade and the others’ Magic Treasures with a colossal blood-colored palm.
• Shen Luo used the Netherworld Ghost Eye to discover that purple-black smoke was leaking from Yuan Ming’s black casket and warned Little Master about its poison.
• Mo Xin placed a blood bone carrying Chi You Demonic Aura inside the Radiant Light Treasure Casket and sent it through the Demonic Formation’s opening to the stone pillar.
• The blood bone merged into the stone pillar, activating five black pillars that pulled Yuan Ming’s casket and Shen Luo’s demonic artifacts toward the formation.
• The Essence-Devouring Demon Wand and Black Demonic Ring broke Shen Luo’s concealment, revealing him.

Shen Luo and the others activated the Demonic Formation with five demonic treasures, revealing the Chi You Martial Art and a sealed demonic treasure beneath the stone pillar. The pillar shattered, unleashing crimson light and causing Shen Luo's Chi You Demonic Aura to erupt more violently than before.

• The Essence-Devouring Demon Wand, Black Demonic Ring, short black-and-yellow ruler, and black bell joined the formation, while Blood Skull Ancestor recognized the Black Demonic Ring as Nine Serenities.
• Purple Bamboo revealed to Shen Luo that Elder Mei was the flower demon who had escaped the Spirit Cavern, and Elder Mei flew to the formation alongside Mu Xiao.
• The five demonic artifacts linked into a huge black ring, dispelled the formation's black mist, and exposed a stone pillar surrounded by a crimson barrier.
• Black characters appeared on the barrier and revealed the Chi You Martial Art, which Shen Luo read and committed to memory before the barrier collapsed.
• Purple Bamboo told Shen Luo that a powerful demonic treasure connected to Chi You was sealed in the pillar, and the pillar then exploded in crimson light.
• Shen Luo and Little Master avoided the blast, but Shen Luo struggled to suppress the violent eruption of Chi You Demonic Aura within him.

Shen Luo and the others discovered a blood-red bone staff that killed Blood Skull Ancestor and Elder Mei when they tried to seize it. As Mo Xin began using a bone fang on himself, Shen Luo and Little Master attacked, while Yuan Ming and his companions boosted their cultivation with talismans.

• Little Master gave Shen Luo primordial energy that suppressed the demonic energy within him.
• Blood Skull Ancestor and Elder Mei tried to seize the Blood-Colored Bone Staff, but its blood light drained them into corpses and triggered the deaths of their cursed subordinates.
• Shen Luo pulled his Divine Sense away from the bone staff before it could devour it, and Mo Xin landed beside the staff.
• Mo Xin stabbed a dark-red bone fang into his arm, staining it with blood light like the staff.
• Shen Luo and Little Master attacked Mo Xin, while Mu Xiao fled underground and Yuan Ming, the fat man, and the green-robed young woman used Primordial Spirit Talismans to raise their cultivation.

Shen Luo killed Mo Xin with the Pure Yang Instant Kill Sword, but Mo Xin revived and mastered the Blood-Colored Bone Staff. Mo Xin then slaughtered Yuan Ming and his companions and pursued Shen Luo, Little Master, and the fleeing people of Heavenly Mechanism City out of the Yin Cavern.

• Shen Luo used the Pure Yang Instant Kill Sword to split Mo Xin in two, but Mo Xin regenerated and survived.
• Mo Xin used the Blood-Colored Bone Staff to block Shen Luo's attacks and then mastered the artifact, causing the five demonic artifacts to fall inert.
• Little Master pulled Shen Luo back as Yuan Ming, the obese man, and the young woman in green approached Mo Xin to congratulate him.
• Mo Xin turned on Yuan Ming and the other two, killing them with a wave of blood-red light.
• Shen Luo escaped underground while Little Master fled through the air and warned Heavenly Mechanism City's people to leave the Yin Cavern.
• Mo Xin transformed into a streak of blood-red light and chased after the fleeing people.

Shen Luo recovered three demonic artifacts and escaped while Mu Xiao fled his Indigo Sea attack. Outside the Yin-Yang Cavern, Ghost Yan emerged with Doll City transformed into a Creation Immortal Puppet and attacked Heavenly Mechanism City, as Mo Xin prepared to face the descending city.

• Shen Luo and Mu Xiao fought over five demonic artifacts, and Shen Luo collected the Essence-Devouring Demon Wand, Yuan Ming's black box, and Nine Serenities.
• Shen Luo used fourth-level Indigo Sea to freeze the ground and force Mu Xiao to escape with the Yi Wood Escape Technique, then gathered treasure and fled underground.
• Little Master ordered Heavenly Mechanism City's disciples to scatter as Mo Xin pursued them, but Mo Xin appeared ahead and blocked their way.
• Doll City broke through the cavern wall after completing its advancement, and Ghost Yan emerged with an aura close to the taiyi realm.
• Little Master attacked Ghost Yan with the Thousand Mechanism Sword, but Ghost Yan expanded Doll City, shattered the sword light, and sent the city crashing toward the group.
• Mo Xin raised the Blood-Colored Bone Staff as Doll City descended, and Ghost Yan noticed the immense demonic energy within it.

Shen Luo escaped the destruction of Doll City and Yin-Yang Cavern, only to be pulled through a Spatial Rift and awaken in the Boundless Sea of Sand. After finding the Spirit-Gathering Pearl among the ruins, he discovered its power to collect Divine Souls and put it away.

• Mo Xin's Blood-Colored Bone Staff shattered Doll City and absorbed Ghost Yan.
• The Blood-Colored Bone Staff struck Yin-Yang Cavern, causing it and the surrounding space to collapse into a Spatial Rift that swallowed Shen Luo, Little Master, and the Heavenly Mechanism City disciples.
• Little Master shielded the disciples with the Golden Armor Immortal Garment, while Shen Luo protected himself with the Bloodthirst Banner and Thousand-Dipper Golden Goblet before losing consciousness.
• Shen Luo awoke injured in the Boundless Sea of Sand, treated himself, and flew away after recovering enough to move.
• Shen Luo found fragments of Yin-Yang Cavern and Doll City, split the broken Doll Stele, and recovered the Spirit-Gathering Pearl.
• Shen Luo tested the pearl, learned it could draw out and collect Divine Souls, and put it away.

Shen Luo discovered a hidden coffin containing Yan crystals, an unfinished Puppet Armor corpse, and the Heavenly Corpse True Scripture. He realized the corpse was a half-transformed heavenly fiend corpse king and considered seeking Heavenly Mechanism City’s help to complete its transformation.

• Shen Luo stored the fragments of Doll City and uncovered a black coffin buried beneath them.
• Shen Luo opened the coffin and found high-tier Yan crystals, an unfinished corpse Puppet Armor, and two jade boxes.
• Shen Luo read the Heavenly Corpse True Scripture and learned how earthly and heavenly fiend corpse kings were refined, including that Xie Yuxin’s soul could still enter reincarnation.
• Shen Luo activated the dried corpse and saw its golden wings emerge, revealing it as a half-transformed heavenly fiend corpse king.
• Shen Luo realized he could not complete the corpse’s Puppet Armor transformation himself and considered asking Heavenly Mechanism City for help.

Shen Luo discovered the complete Heavenly Mechanism Scroll and learned how to finish refining the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King, but decided to keep the scroll secret for now. After hiding the black coffin and leaving the site, he found a small moonlit pool in a Gobi sinkhole.

• Shen Luo read about the Heavenly Demon Silk-Spinning Dance Formation and realized Ghost Yan’s formation had been countered by his abilities.
• Shen Luo found the complete Heavenly Mechanism Scroll, including the Thoughts Swift as Lightning Art and the forbidden Ghost Puppet Technique.
• Shen Luo learned that he could finish the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King’s transformation with a powerful Yin Soul Pearl and believed his Spirit-Gathering Pearl would suffice.
• Shen Luo decided to keep the scroll safe until he could return it to Heavenly Mechanism City, then stored the black coffin in the Free-and-Easy Mirror and erased his traces.
• Shen Luo flew across the sea of sand to a Gobi wasteland and descended to inspect a moonlit pool in a sinkhole.

Shen Luo sent Mirror Demon back to the East Sea with powerful magic treasures and entrusted her with the sealed Heavenly Mechanism Scroll. After Mirror Demon and Tear Demon agreed she could enter the Northern Darkness Secret Realm, Shen Luo dispersed the Spirit-Linking Water Cave and released Fu Donglai and Xie Yuxin from the Free-and-Easy Mirror.

• Shen Luo reassured Mirror Demon, gave her a storage bracelet containing pills, true water, magic treasures, and a sealed white jade box, then sent her back to the East Sea.
• Tear Demon warned Mirror Demon against trusting Shen Luo, but Mirror Demon defended him and asked to cultivate with her in the Northern Darkness Secret Realm.
• Mirror Demon showed Tear Demon three high-grade magic treasures, and Tear Demon agreed she could enter the dangerous secret realm with her next time.
• Mirror Demon remembered Shen Luo's warning not to reveal or open the sealed white box, then swallowed the bracelet to keep it safe.
• Shen Luo dispersed the Spirit-Linking Water Cave and used the Free-and-Easy Mirror to release Fu Donglai and Xie Yuxin, who were still together with Fu Donglai restraining her.

Shen Luo freed Xie Yuxin’s Divine Soul from her Earthly Fiend Corpse King body and used the Soul Condensation Technique to purge its resentment and stabilize it. Her soul and spirit rejoined her, but she remained vacant and unresponsive.

• Shen Luo bound Xie Yuxin and studied the jade tablet, finding that destroying the corpse king’s core would release her soul but leave it dangerously vicious.
• Purple Bamboo offered to separate Xie Yuxin’s Divine Soul from her corpse, while Zhao Feiji volunteered to absorb the released Yin Baleful Qi.
• Shen Luo shattered Xie Yuxin’s core corpse pill, and Zhao Feiji absorbed the baleful qi as Purple Bamboo severed her Divine Soul from her body.
• Shen Luo used the Soul Condensation Technique to burn away the soul’s resentment, then merged Xie Yuxin’s extracted soul and spirit back into it.
• After nearly half an hour of repeated treatment, Shen Luo stabilized Xie Yuxin’s Divine Soul, though she remained vacant.

Shen Luo sent Xie Yuxin’s remnant soul to the Netherworld and helped Purple Bamboo reunite with her true body and leave the Black Abyss Mystery Cavern. After recovering and stabilizing his True Immortal Realm, he examined his spoils and began refining Nine Serenities.

• Shen Luo used a Guiding Talisman to send Xie Yuxin’s remnant soul onto the Yellow Springs Road, while Zhao Feiji absorbed the female corpse’s Yin Baleful Qi.
• Shen Luo told Purple Bamboo that the Forbidden Thunder mark had vanished, and she reunited with the purple immortal bamboo.
• Purple Bamboo chose to explore the Mortal Realm, gave Shen Luo three message-bearing leaves, and left with maps and local gazetteers from him.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai rested in the Sky Pit; after two days, Shen Luo had recovered and stabilized his True Immortal Realm.
• Shen Luo refined the Free-and-Easy Mirror, inspected his treasures, and suspected Ghost Yan’s black coffin was made from Undying Wood.
• Shen Luo refined Nine Serenities and used its demonic ring to engulf and destroy a large boulder.

Shen Luo finished refining the Free-and-Easy Mirror and explored its small inner world with Fu Donglai, while concealing the coffin linked to the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll. The Little Master contacted Shen Luo and invited him back to Heavenly Mechanism City to have his Magic Treasures repaired, so he and Fu Donglai set off for the city.

• Shen Luo refined the Plague Box and continued refining the demonic treasures and the Free-and-Easy Mirror.
• Shen Luo completed the mirror's final restriction and sent Fu Donglai into its inner world to explore.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai inspected the bamboo building, and Shen Luo concealed the black coffin in a warded room.
• Shen Luo showed Fu Donglai the treasures Ghost Yan had plundered from the Spirit Cavern and gave him several useful materials.
• The Little Master contacted Shen Luo and asked him to return to Heavenly Mechanism City for the promised repairs to his Magic Treasures.
• Shen Luo and Fu Donglai left for Heavenly Mechanism City.