Chapter Summaries

Lan Yue and her companions entered the Tower of the Abyss, where they fought through the first floor’s puppet trial while using the battles to train. After five days, they cleared the Puppet Path and prepared to continue deeper into the tower.

• The North Ridge Holy Lord sent Baili Xingzhou and others to accompany Lan Yue, Yun Xi, and the twins into the Tower of the Abyss.
• Lan Yue considered using her knowledge of the original novel to undermine the Devil Race’s plans, but dismissed the idea of traveling into the Demon Realm to recruit its spies.
• Baili Xingzhou explained that the first floor was the Puppet Path and warned the group to attack the puppets’ necks before leading them into battle.
• Lan Yue, Yun Xi, Wu Tianya, Wu Tianyu, and Nangong Ye fought the puppets, with Lan Yue recognizing that they adjusted their strength to match their opponents.
• The group spent five days training as they fought through the Puppet Path, and Wu Tianyu explained how his Gu Insects could extract the puppets’ glowing stones.

Lan Yue and her companions advanced through the Tower of the Abyss’s increasingly difficult Puppet Paths, conserving spirit jade marrow and using formations and pills to survive. At the final stage, they encountered lifelike puppets modeled on North Ridge Sacred Ground’s strongest figures, and Lan Yue saw a chance to use them for practice.

• Baili Xingzhou explained that spirit jade marrow rapidly restored spiritual power, and Lan Yue warned her companions to save it for later stages.
• Three Grand Cloud Sect disciples arrived, and the chubby boy mocked Lan Yue’s group before entering the Puppet Path and using up his spirit jade marrow.
• Lan Yue’s group cleared the first three stages while conserving their spirit jade marrow, and Lan Yue set up Spirit-Gathering Formations to help them recover.
• With more formations and Yun Xi’s pills, Lan Yue’s group barely cleared the fourth stage as the chubby boy ridiculed them.
• At the final stage, Lan Yue and Baili Xingzhou found lifelike puppets of North Ridge Sacred Ground’s historical powerhouses, and Lan Yue suggested using them as sparring partners.

Lan Yue and Yun Xi persuaded the group to use the genius puppets to improve their martial techniques, while Baili Xingzhou challenged a puppet modeled on the North Ridge Sacred Son and was swiftly knocked aside. Outside the Tower of the Abyss, the North Ridge Sacred Son claimed Lan Yue as a daughter, prompting the Southern Spirit Sect’s Grand Elder to insist that both Lan Yue and Yun Xi belonged to his sect.

• Lan Yue suggested using the puppets as sparring partners, and the youngsters agreed to train against them.
• Baili Xingzhou challenged the puppet resembling the North Ridge Sacred Son, whose spear strike sent him crashing into a wall.
• Outside the Tower of the Abyss, Baili Tusu worried about his daughters and proudly declared Lan Yue his other daughter.
• The North Ridge Holy Lord questioned Baili Tusu’s claim, while the Southern Spirit Sect’s Grand Elder arrived and objected to the North Ridge claiming Lan Yue and Yun Xi.
• The Grand Elder declared that he had reserved both girls as disciples of the Southern Spirit Sect, leaving Guangji puzzled about when he had become the Grand Elder’s disciple.

Lan Yue and her companions advanced through the Tower of the Abyss, hoping to find the Heaven-Witch Race inheritance and cultivate using the tower’s time difference. Yun Xi and then Lan Yue vanished after stepping on hidden inheritance marks, leaving their companions to accuse and restrain Hei Ya and the Black Snake Sect disciples.

• Lan Yue’s group cleared the Puppet Path, entered the Tower of the Abyss, and earned especially generous rewards because the Tower Spirit favored young, talented cultivators.
• Baili Xingzhou explained that time passed more slowly on higher floors, so Lan Yue and her companions decided to cultivate inside the tower after exploring.
• On the Third Layer, Lan Yue searched for signs of the Heaven-Witch Race inheritance as Hei Ya arrived with the Black Snake Sect disciples.
• Yun Xi stepped on a hidden mark and disappeared, prompting Lan Yue’s companions to suspect Hei Ya and his group.
• Lan Yue realized Yun Xi may have found the inheritance mark, but then she stepped into empty space and vanished as well.
• Baili Xingzhou and the others tied up Hei Ya and the two Black Snake Sect disciples, while Hei Ya protested that he had not had time to act.

Lan Yue woke inside the Tower of the Abyss and met its Tower Spirit, a little green blob who recognized the aura of the Nine-Story Formation Pagoda’s owner. The Tower Spirit offered to send Lan Yue to the tower’s Ninth Floor to receive a hidden Central Sacred Land legacy, while Yun Xi remained in the Heaven-Witch Race’s Legacy Grounds.

• Lan Yue asked the little green blob about Yun Xi and learned that Yun Xi was safe in the Heaven-Witch Race’s Legacy Grounds.
• The little green blob recognized the miniature Nine-Story Formation Pagoda and identified itself as the Tower Spirit of the Tower of the Abyss.
• Lan Yue told the Tower Spirit about the ruins on Desperate Island and the power bestowed on her by the pagoda’s owner and the Flame Dragon.
• The Tower Spirit mourned the pagoda’s owner, then offered to send Lan Yue to the Ninth Floor to receive a hidden Central Sacred Land legacy.
• The Tower Spirit opened a Golden Vortex and urged Lan Yue to return after receiving the legacy.

Lan Yue discovered that the Tower of the Abyss’s inheritance mark had teleported her into the Demon Realm, so she transformed her spiritual power and body to hide her identity. She was captured by the Demon Realm’s Sixth Highness, who mistook her for a strange little rice-ball creature and carried her away.

• Lan Yue learned from the system that the golden stone was an incomplete Inheritance Mark and that the Devil Race’s Teleportation Array had sent her to the Demon Realm.
• Lan Yue spent points to convert her spiritual power into demonic power and reshape herself into a small black rice ball.
• After hopping out of the black fog, Lan Yue was picked up by the Sixth Highness, who was told that the North Ridge Sacred Ground’s Teleportation Array had activated.
• The Sixth Highness ignored his mission to search for the inheritance and carried Lan Yue away, deciding to feed and keep her.

The Tower Spirit discovered that Lan Yue had disappeared from the Tower of the Abyss, apparently taken by the Devil Race, and told her companions. As they prepared to seek help, the Tower Spirit revealed that a strange force had sealed the tower.

• The Tower Spirit found Lan Yue and the inheritance mark gone, with traces of a Teleportation Array on the top floor.
• The Tower Spirit recalled that Devil Race members had entered the tower before it fell asleep and suspected they had interfered with its memory and judgment.
• The Tower Spirit rushed to Lan Yue’s companions and told them she had vanished.
• Li Bai, Yuan Shuo, Wu Tianyu, Baili Xingzhou, and Nangong Ye discussed finding Lan Yue and seeking help from powerful allies.
• The Tower Spirit revealed that a strange force had sealed the Tower of the Abyss.

Lan Yue woke in the Demon King's Hall as a little black ball and was taken around by the Sixth Highness, who treated her as a pet. When the Second Highness arrived to insult him, Lan Yue's thoughts about the Second Highness's scandalous past were heard by the demons, leaving the Sixth Highness bewildered.

• Lan Yue woke on the Sixth Highness's forehead in the Demon King's Hall and planned to escape and expose his secrets.
• The Sixth Highness showed Lan Yue off to the demons and took her to the kitchens, where he offered her food and milk.
• The Second Highness entered and insulted the Sixth Highness and his half-demon heritage, and the two highnesses traded barbs.
• Lan Yue laughed and privately discussed with the System how the Second Highness had been caught with the Crimson Demon General's lover and had a hole in his head.
• The demons heard Lan Yue and the System's conversation in voices resembling the Sixth Highness's, and the bewildered Sixth Highness realized the Second Highness had heard it too.

Lan Yue and the system revealed that the Second Highness had sent a beauty from his manor to his father, the Demon King, who favored her without realizing his son’s scheme. The Second Highness tried to drown out their conversation in the Demon King's Hall, but the discussion continued inside his mind.

• Lan Yue asked the system to uncover more gossip about the Second Highness, and the system explained that its abilities had changed.
• The system revealed that the Second Highness had sent a beauty from his manor into the Demon King's tent as an offering.
• The Demon King favored the beauty and rewarded the Second Highness, unaware of the scheme.
• The Second Highness caught the conversation and flew around the Demon King's Hall in flames, trying to drown out the gossip.
• Lan Yue wondered whether the Second Highness had later stolen the beauty back from his father.

Lan Yue and the system exposed the Second Highness’s secret affair with the old Demon King’s lover, prompting the old Demon King to confront the Sixth Highness. The system revealed that the Second Highness had spent over a decade digging a tunnel beneath his father’s bed, leaving the old Demon King poised to investigate while his son panicked.

• Lan Yue and the system discussed how the Second Highness had secretly fooled around with his father’s lover, while the Sixth Highness tried to hide his reaction.
• The old Demon King burst into the kitchen, accused the Sixth Highness of slandering him and his son, and threatened him.
• The system explained that the Second Highness had cultivated a false image of frugality and fidelity to deceive his father.
• The system revealed that the Second Highness had spent decades digging a tunnel from his Palace to beneath his father’s bed.
• The old Demon King said he would have the other devils investigate and personally silence the Sixth Highness, while the Second Highness silently dreaded the consequences.

The old Demon King learned that the Second Highness had used a tunnel beneath his bed to have an affair with his lover and furiously beat and hurled him around the Demon King's Hall. As more Demon Kings gathered to watch, someone asked the Sixth Highness why he had not reported back from his mission.

• The Second Highness tried to leave after the old Demon King let him go, but the old Demon King dragged him back after discovering the tunnel beneath his bed.
• The old Demon King accused the Second Highness of having an affair with his lover and repeatedly smashed him into the floor and hurled him through the air.
• Several Demon Kings gathered and discussed the Second Highness's affair while the Sixth Highness watched from a corner with the little black ball.
• Someone addressed the Sixth Highness as Xiao Feng and asked why he had not reported the results of his mission to his father.

Luan Feng recorded Demon King Luo beating his son, and the ensuing confrontation between Luo and Luan Feng’s father was interrupted by the Demon King Conference. Hidden in Luan Feng’s robe, Lan Yue considered exploiting the Demon Kings’ divisions as part of her new plan.

• Luan Feng ignored his eldest brother’s warning and used Recording Stones to capture Demon King Luo thrashing the Second Highness.
• Demon King Luo tried to strike Luan Feng, but Luan Feng’s father broke the attack with a fiery-red fist and challenged Luo to explain himself.
• Demon King Luo accused Luan Feng of colluding with the Cultivation World, while Luan Feng’s father dismissed the accusation and defended his son.
• The Demon King Conference was called, and both Demon Kings brought the Second Highness and Luan Feng with them.
• Lan Yue hid inside Luan Feng’s robe, reflected on the Demon Kings’ hostility toward each other, and considered putting her new plan into action.

Lan Yue plotted to use the Gossip System to turn the Demon Kings against one another while the unreachable system secretly allied with Luan Feng. At the Demon Kings’ gathering, a powerful blue-clad Devil asked Luan Feng whether he had completed his assignment, leaving the Sixth Highness under intense pressure.

• Lan Yue decided that exposing the Demon Kings’ secrets could provoke them to fight and weaken their threat to the Cultivation World.
• The system appeared in Luan Feng’s mind, and the two secretly agreed on a plan.
• Demon King Luo entered carrying his unconscious son, and Demon King Ji mocked him about being cuckolded.
• The Demon Kings speculated that the one who had summoned them might inherit the former Devil Lord’s legacy and become the future Devil Lord.
• A powerful blue-clad Devil appeared, made the Demon Kings wary with an illusion, and asked Luan Feng whether he had completed his previous assignment.

Luan Feng told the Demon King Conference that he had obtained a Profound Artifact capable of uncovering secrets, and the sky-blue figure ordered him to keep it safe while leaving the North Ridge Sacred Ground matter to other devils. Later, Demon King Luo caught his Second Highness with another beauty, but Lan Yue’s gossip spread the scandal across the Demon King's Hall and left Luo humiliated.

• Luan Feng explained that he had found a Profound Artifact in a Primordial Secret Realm and accidentally exposed the Second Highness’s affair, then described where he had found it.
• The sky-blue figure told Luan Feng to keep the Profound Artifact safe and leave the North Ridge Sacred Ground matter to other members of the Devil Race before vanishing.
• Demon King Luo fell through his damaged bed into the tunnel, where he found the Second Highness with a beauty and beat them both.
• Demon King Luo dragged the Second Highness outside, where Ji Ren guessed that Luo’s son had cuckolded him again and the Second Highness blurted out that he would not do it again.
• Lan Yue’s inner thoughts revealed that the Second Highness had secretly met multiple beauties from Demon King Luo’s harem, drawing laughter from the gathered Demon Kings.

The Demon Kings and devils learned that Demon King Luo’s beauties remained devoted to him because he suffered from a private ailment, and they mocked him over it. The chapter ended with the devils recalling that the Frost Palace fairies had once beaten Luo for three months, leaving him unable to recover.

• Demon Kings speculated that Demon King Luo’s beauties were plotting to kill him and take his position.
• The system revealed that Demon King Luo was not up to the task, explaining the beauties’ devotion and the Second Highness’s concern for him.
• Lan Yue reacted with sympathy for the beauties, and the system said they publicly praised Luo’s virility to protect his dignity.
• The Demon Kings and other devils burst into laughter as Luo trembled in humiliation.
• The Demon Kings recalled that Frost Palace fairies had beaten Luo for three months, and the devils concluded that the attack had left him unable to recover.

Sixth Highness enjoyed the rumors about Demon King Luo and clashed with two arrogant demon twins who challenged his place in the Demon King's Hall. After their mother left him a mysterious black orb, Luan Feng briefly erupted in fury before regaining his composure.

• Sixth Highness learned that Demon King Luo had lost face and Second Highness had been sent to mine, then teased Lan Yue by giving her increasingly unwelcome names.
• Big Brother warned Sixth Highness to keep a low profile, but two demon twins arrived and insulted him for being a half-demon.
• Sixth Highness mocked the twins for never defeating the previous Sixth Highness, and their mother stopped them from escalating the argument.
• The twins' mother gave Luan Feng a black orb containing a pair of eyes, then left with them.
• Luan Feng gripped the orb and flew into a brief, terrifying rage before returning to his usual indifferent expression.

Lan Yue learned that the eyes belonged to the Sixth Highness’s mother, but Luan Feng responded by taking her to raid his father’s secret realm. After they emptied it, Lan Yue stopped him from destroying the living treasures and revealed that she could speak.

• Lan Yue used the system to learn that the eyes belonged to a human woman related by blood to the Sixth Highness, who was his mother.
• Luan Feng took Lan Yue to raid his father’s secret realm and explained that he had copied its key from the devil who managed it.
• Luan Feng and Lan Yue emptied the secret realm, with Lan Yue storing most of its contents in her System Space.
• Luan Feng tried to destroy the heaven and earth treasures, but Lan Yue rescued the little winged balls and shouted that she would handle it.
• Luan Feng froze when he realized that Lan Yue could talk.

Lan Yue swallowed every Heaven and Earth Treasure in the secret realm, helping the Sixth Highness clear it out before they returned to the Demon King's Hall. There, the Sixth Highness faced the twin Demon Generals and their mother, while Lan Yue's unfiltered thoughts abruptly insulted the twins.

• Lan Yue convinced the Sixth Highness to let her handle the Heaven and Earth Treasures, then swallowed them all and fell asleep after the system explained she could use them to form a high-quality Golden Core.
• The Sixth Highness erased his traces and left the emptied secret realm with Lan Yue, then heard devils spreading gossip about Demon King Luo.
• Lan Yue woke and eagerly listened to the gossip before the Sixth Highness encountered a female devil and her twin Demon General sons.
• The twins confronted the Sixth Highness over his treatment of their mother and secretly discussed how to bring him under their control.
• Lan Yue's inner voice called the twins ugly, shocking them.

Demon King Jiang arrived at the Demon King's Hall and heard Lan Yue mock his twin sons' appearance, then learned they had supposedly been stepped on by their parents as infants. As Demon King Jiang questioned how that could have happened, Demon King Luo stopped a female demon from attacking the Sixth Highness.

• Demon King Jiang hurried to the hall to prevent his wife from clashing with the Sixth Highness, but overheard Lan Yue describe his twin sons as flat-faced and ugly.
• Demon King Luo mocked Demon King Jiang and warned him that he would suffer as Demon King Luo had, while Demon King Jiang insisted his sons were filial and well-behaved.
• Lan Yue and the System claimed the twins had been accidentally stepped on by their parents at birth, leaving Demon King Jiang confused because he had been away in the Cultivation World.
• A female demon tried to strike the Sixth Highness, but Demon King Luo slapped her claws away and knocked her to the ground.

Lan Yue and the system exposed that the twin Demon Generals were not Demon King Jiang's sons, but the children of his younger brother, who had fathered them while Jiang was away. Demon King Jiang was restrained by the other Demon Kings as the gossip continued, while the Sixth Highness watched Lan Yue and suspected she knew more than she let on.

• The Sixth Highness wondered whether the Profound Artifact was acting independently and considered using it to take revenge on the Demon Kings who had bullied his mother.
• The system said the twin Demon Generals' parent had flattened them as newborns, and Lan Yue mocked Demon King Jiang for raising another devil's sons for over a thousand years.
• The system revealed that Demon King Jiang's younger brother had fathered the twins while Jiang spent nearly a hundred years undercover in the Southern Spirit Sect.
• Demon King Jiang tried to attack his son, but the other Demon Kings restrained him so they could hear more gossip.
• The Sixth Highness gave Lan Yue a Red Fruit, and she silently decided to reveal the twins' true parentage to him after enjoying the gossip.