Vol. 16The Hell Tower Ascent

Li Xiaoya advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, left the Skyvault Secret Realm to rescue Liu Xian'er, and prepared to enter the Hell Tower while searching for a way to save Zhang Hong. He conquered the tower’s first eleven layers and entered the Twelfth with five other cultivators, where powerful wood-element demon beasts trapped them.

  • Li Xiaoya explored the Skyvault Secret Realm, advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, and spent decades cultivating while Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong ascended in search of him.
  • After sensing Liu Xian'er was in danger, Li Xiaoya left the secret realm at once.
  • Li Xiaoya left the Skyvault Secret Realm, defeated a Devil Ancestor while rescuing Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, and learned that his family and friends had ascended.
  • He settled at the Purple Vitality Gate to prepare for the Hell Tower, but a search for rare herbs proved costly and a Giant Race cultivator approached him.
  • Li Xiaoya exposed corruption within the Purple Vitality Gate, trained for the Hell Tower, and entered its trials seeking the Twin-Pole Netherflower to save Zhang Hong.
  • After conquering the first five layers, he reached an illusion land and destroyed a town that recalled his past.
  • Li Xiaoya survived the Hell Tower’s Sixth through Eleventh Layers, became the first Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator to reach the Eleventh Layer, and earned a chance to cultivate in Dao Mountain’s Five Elements Divine Pool.
  • He entered the Twelfth Layer with five other cultivators, where powerful wood-element demon beasts surrounded them.
Chapters 1547–1650 Read from ch. 1547

Arc 61Ascension and Breakthrough

Li Xiaoya explored the Skyvault Secret Realm, advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, and spent decades cultivating while Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong ascended in search of him. The arc ended with Li Xiaoya sensing that Liu Xian'er was in danger and leaving the secret realm at once.

  • Li Xiaoya used Yao Zixiu’s map and the golden key to open the passage to the Sixth Layer, where he and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast discovered a Spiritual Qi Refining Furnace and its Five-Element Spirits.
  • Li Xiaoya gathered treasures and cultivation insights, stabilized Zhang Hong’s soul with refined soul flowers, and spent decades cultivating until he reached Great Void Stage Perfection.
  • Li Xiaoya prepared Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills and began a difficult breakthrough, while Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong chose to ascend without Mother Li and Li Muzhi, promising to return for them.
  • Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong reached the Thirty-Three Star Realm, learned that Li Xiaoya had not arrived there, and suffered an attack after Liu Xian'er fell into qi deviation.
  • Dong Santong fought the reception envoys and Elder Qianling to protect Liu Xian'er, but Elder Qianling pursued them and used her as leverage against him.
  • Li Xiaoya took three Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills as the Five-Element Spirits helped him overcome his heart demons and comprehend the Heaven-and-Earth Dao, sacrificing themselves to suppress his breakthrough’s celestial phenomenon.
  • Li Xiaoya advanced to the second layer of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm and, after about ninety-seven years, reached the middle stage before sensing Liu Xian'er was in danger and leaving the Skyvault Secret Realm.
Chapters 1547–1572 Summaries Read

Arc 62The Skyvault Skiff and Purple Vitality

Li Xiaoya left the Skyvault Secret Realm, defeated a Devil Ancestor while rescuing Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, and learned that his family and friends had ascended. He settled at the Purple Vitality Gate to prepare for the Hell Tower, but his search for rare herbs remained costly and a Giant Race cultivator approached him.

  • A five-colored cultivator saved Liu Xian'er, punished Elder Qianling, and sent Dong Santong to gather rare herbs for her treatment in the Flowing Light Star Realm.
  • Second Better gave Li Xiaoya the Skyvault Skiff and stayed behind in the secret realm to cultivate and study the Skyvault Flying Boat.
  • Li Xiaoya discovered Skyreach Vine in the Healing Spirit Pool and learned how to collect its spirit sap.
  • Li Xiaoya rescued Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru by defeating the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, then freed them from his cauldron.
  • The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch helped Li Xiaoya contact his parents, who told him that Liu Xian'er, Dong Santong, Qianshan, Buddha Xuanmen, and Hehuan had ascended.
  • Li Xiaoya settled in a secret realm at the Purple Vitality Gate and began preparing for the Hell Tower while Dong Santong hunted demon beasts in the Flowing Light Star Realm.
  • Li Xiaoya sought rare herbs at Purple Vitality Market, but learned that Purple Jade Lingxin Grass required millions of race contribution points.
  • Li Xiaoya entered the market's inner square, where a Giant Race cultivator recognized him and strode toward him.
Chapters 1573–1598 Summaries Read

Arc 63The Hell Tower Trials

Li Xiaoya exposed corruption within the Purple Vitality Gate, trained to prepare for the Hell Tower, and entered its trials seeking the Twin-Pole Netherflower to save Zhang Hong. After conquering the first five layers, he reached an illusion land that provoked him into destroying a town from his past.

  • Li Xiaoya exposed Ceno and Jerkov’s demonic-treasure trade, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch sentenced them to the Race Battlefield after a five-colored figure extracted their memories.
  • Li Xiaoya smelted demonic treasures in the Heavenfire Furnace while Liu Xian'er set out for the Renlan Star Realm to find him and Dong Santong searched for him there.
  • Li Xiaoya learned that Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong were safe, then spent fifty years training and preparing to reach the Hell Tower’s eighteenth layer for the Twin-Pole Netherflower.
  • Li Xiaoya joined Ziyan, Radley, and Gul Yuehai in the Hell Tower trials, passed the first layer, and fought alone through the demon beasts on the second.
  • Li Xiaoya used a Destiny Teleportation Formation to reach the fourth layer, killed the Bloodthirsty Gorilla, and entered the fifth layer.
  • Li Xiaoya solved the Ten Thousand Beasts Cube while the other cultivators struggled with the trials and a hidden master set demon beasts loose against them.
  • Li Xiaoya completed the cube and entered the sixth layer, where he crossed an illusion land despite his suppressed divine sense.
  • Li Xiaoya saw a false Treasure Immortal Town and a filthy child thrown from a crowd, recalled a painful scene, and crushed the town with a hand of five-colored spiritual light.
Chapters 1599–1624 Summaries Read

Arc 64The Hell Tower Trials

Li Xiaoya survived the Hell Tower’s trials from the Sixth through the Eleventh Layers, becoming the first Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator to reach the Eleventh Layer and earn a chance to cultivate in Dao Mountain’s Five Elements Divine Pool. He joined five other cultivators to enter the Twelfth Layer, where they were surrounded by powerful wood-element demon beasts.

  • Li Xiaoya reached the Sixth Layer, made an oath with five White-Scaled Heaven-Breaking Beasts to guide him, and entered the Seventh Layer while the Red Barbarian cultivators ambushed other participants.
  • Li Xiaoya survived the Seventh Layer’s fire dragons and the Eighth Layer’s Ice Passage, defeated the ice monster, and took its blue water spirit for Liu Xian'er.
  • Li Xiaoya mastered the Ninth Layer’s gravity and antigravity trial, then defeated the metal puppet on the Tenth Layer and found a supreme-grade sharp gold spirit stone.
  • Li Xiaoya became the first Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator to reach the Eleventh Layer and earned a chance to cultivate in the Dao Mountain Five Elements Divine Pool.
  • Di Long Yunyi, Qiong Nanqi, Dong Liuzu, Hai Kuliuyin, and Ailishan joined Li Xiaoya, and the six entered the Twelfth Layer together.
  • The six cultivators fought off the first assault by wood-element demon beasts, then followed Di Long Yunyi toward the stronger beasts in search of the Entrance.
  • The demon beasts enclosed the group in overlapping vine nets, and Di Long Yunyi’s sword rays cut into the barriers without severing them.
Chapters 1625–1650 Summaries Read
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