Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya flew through the seventh layer while cultivators on the fifth layer completed their Ten Thousand Beasts Cubes and entered the Hell Tower’s deeper levels. Outside the tower, the Ancestor of Snow Domain refused to intervene in the Red Barbarian Race’s rescue attempt but gave them two tokens for returning to the sixth layer, leaving the outcome to Li Xiaoya as crimson flame dragons pursued him.

• Di Long Yunyi completed his Ten Thousand Beasts Cube on the fifth level and entered the gate formed by it.
• Qiong Nanqi and several other cultivators neared completion of their own Ten Thousand Beasts Cubes.
• The Red Barbarian Race cultivator told Elder Nodun that the missing Grand Elder Kui Tianyi was his brother and asked him to help seek the Ancestor of Snow Domain’s aid.
• The Ancestor of Snow Domain confirmed that Kui Tianyi had passed the tenth layer long ago, said he could monitor only through the fifth level, and gave the Red Barbarian Race two tokens to return to the sixth layer.
• The Ancestor of Snow Domain said the matter would depend on Li Xiaoya, who flew through a red-lit world as enormous crimson flame dragons chased him.

Li Xiaoya endured the Seventh Layer’s fire dragons with little difficulty while other cultivators battled the Red Barbarian Race on the Sixth Layer. Di Long Yunyi killed one of the Red Barbarian cultivators, leaving the burly man and female cultivator facing his next attack.

• Li Xiaoya fought off the Seventh Layer’s fire dragons and recalled that he only needed to survive their pursuit for three days.
• The five White-Scaled Heaven-Breaking Beasts returned to Li Xiaoya’s bracelet realm because they could not withstand the flames.
• Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi joined forces with two other cultivators to gain the upper hand against three Red Barbarian Race cultivators.
• The burly Red Barbarian leader unleashed a storm of Crescent Moon Sabers, giving himself and the female cultivator a chance to flee.
• The male Red Barbarian cultivator pursued Di Long Yunyi, who summoned a giant Blue Light Giant Sword and cleaved him in two.
• The burly man and female cultivator cried out over their companion’s death as Di Long Yunyi began forming seals to attack them.

Di Long Yunyi killed one of the cultivators trapped in the Hell Tower and wounded the burly man and female cultivator, who were then controlled by a sinister voice serving Lord Wugui. As the Red Barbarian cultivators re-entered the tower, Li Xiaoya completed the seventh-layer trial and arrived at the eighth layer, where he was told to cross the Ice Passage.

• Di Long Yunyi pursued the burly man and female cultivator through a spatial rift, striking them with a giant blue sword and leaving both injured.
• The burly man and female cultivator were punished by a sinister voice for losing their companion, then ordered to recover on the sixth layer and await instructions from Lord Wugui.
• The human-headed, bird-bodied creature lamented the loss of its servant and hesitated to disturb its master.
• Two Red Barbarian cultivators re-entered the Hell Tower, intending to pass its first five layers with help from Fellow Daoist Nodun's advice.
• Li Xiaoya endured the seventh layer's flames for three days, discovered traces of the law of fire, and was transported to the eighth layer.
• The red token instructed Li Xiaoya to cross the Ice Passage on the Water Layer and reach the entrance to the ninth layer.

Li Xiaoya recovered his magic power on the Hell Tower’s High Platform and prepared to cross the icy Water Layer passage using earth-type defenses. Meanwhile, other cultivators advanced through the tower, and Li Xiaoya left the platform only to encounter trouble.

• Li Xiaoya meditated on a cushion to restore his magic power and asked the five White-Scaled Heaven-Breaking Beasts to leave the Secret Realm Bracelet, but they refused to help him cross the passage.
• Two Red Barbarian Race cultivators found the Second Layer empty of Demon Beasts, learned that later entrants had slaughtered them for their valuable materials, and proceeded toward the Third Layer.
• Di Long Yunyi and three companions found a Teleportation Formation and were sent directly to the Sixth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya equipped himself with earth-based stone armor and an orange Light Barrier, then stepped beyond the platform’s protective light into the freezing passage.
• Li Xiaoya sprinted along the ice bridge, confident that his earth immortal root could withstand the water spiritual qi, but he still ran into trouble.

Li Xiaoya crossed the shifting Ice Bridge and raced up the collapsing Icicle Steps toward the summit of the Eighth Layer’s ice mountain. In the Sixth Layer, Ziyan entered the illusion, while two servants of Wugui plotted to escape; a towering shaft of blue light then erupted from the mountain’s peak.

• Li Xiaoya used Stone Spikes to keep his footing on the swaying Ice Bridge and reached the ice mountain.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the Icicle Steps shattered underfoot and that the mountainside launched icicles at climbers.
• As the Ice Bridge broke apart behind him, Li Xiaoya smashed it with a stomp and sprinted up the collapsing steps.
• Ziyan completed the Ten Thousand Beasts Cube, learned the Sixth Layer was an illusion, and used a purple-red Veil to block its visions.
• The burly Red Barbarian man and a female cultivator hid in a cave and planned to steal red Tokens so they could escape Wugui.
• Li Xiaoya neared the summit as a towering shaft of blue light burst into the sky.

Li Xiaoya fought through the Eighth Layer’s frost trial as a colossal ice monster attacked him and the Icicle Steps collapsed. He destroyed the monster’s head and reached the summit, leaving the trial’s outcome unresolved.

• A thirty-thousand-meter ice monster appeared above the summit and blasted Li Xiaoya with a devastating frost storm.
• Li Xiaoya used the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon as a shield, but the storm froze and shattered the Icicle Steps beneath him, sending him falling.
• Li Xiaoya broke free of the ice encasing him, summoned a Golden Giant Hand to grip the mountain wall, and climbed upward while the monster continued its assault.
• Li Xiaoya formed a thirty-thousand-meter Golden Light Giant Sword and pierced the ice monster’s head, forcing it to retreat behind the mountain.
• Li Xiaoya climbed the remaining three thousand meters and reached the summit.

Li Xiaoya defeated the ice monster atop the Eighth Layer, extracted a water spirit, and entered the Ninth Layer, where he discovered that the Layer of Earth Force imposed intense gravity. He left the arrival platform without resting and began walking toward the distant entrances.

• Li Xiaoya blasted half the ice monster’s head apart with his Golden Light Fist as he reached the summit.
• Li Xiaoya used the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon to extract the blue water spirit from the monster, then sealed it in a jade box as a gift for Liu Xian'er.
• Li Xiaoya entered the Teleportation Formation and arrived in the Ninth Layer, which the red Token identified as the Layer of Earth Force.
• Li Xiaoya noticed the layer’s vast earth plain, flight and divine sense restrictions, and distant entrances, then guessed that gravity was unusually strong.
• Li Xiaoya stepped outside the barrier, felt the gravity weigh down his foot, and strode forward without stopping to recover.

Li Xiaoya faced the Ninth Layer’s Earth Gravity Trial, where increasing gravity and hidden reverse-gravity attacks forced him to rely on his Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram and sense changes underground. Meanwhile, Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi arrived on the Eighth Layer and discussed the reward for clearing all ten layers, leaving one cultivator surprised to learn of it.

• Li Xiaoya hurried across the Ninth Layer, triggered a reverse-gravity blast, and crashed into the ground, then transformed using the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram to endure the impact.
• Li Xiaoya sensed earth spiritual qi beneath the ground and realized it launched reverse-gravity attacks, so he dodged the surges while advancing through the trial.
• Li Xiaoya covered a third of the Ninth Layer in less than half an hour despite the increasingly powerful gravity.
• Di Long Yunyi, Qiong Nanqi, and two Late Heaven-and-Earth Stage cultivators arrived on the Eighth Layer after passing the Seventh Layer together.
• Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi said they would go as far as they could, and one cultivator remarked that either might claim the reward for clearing all ten layers.
• The silent cultivator asked what reward they meant, revealing that he had not heard about it.

Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi recruited Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu to attempt the deeper layers of the Hell Tower after revealing its rewards and dangers. Meanwhile, Ziyan escaped an attack on the Sixth Layer, while Li Xiaoya approached the entrance to the Tenth Layer.

• Di Long Yunyi explained that the first cultivator to pass the Tenth Layer would earn a chance to visit Dao Mountain and soak in its five elements divine pool.
• Di Long Yunyi revealed that the Eighteenth Layer held the twin-pole netherflower and that clearing layers beyond the Eleventh brought additional chances at the divine pool.
• Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu agreed to join Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi, despite learning that the Fifteenth Layer was guarded by the powerful Hell King Wugui.
• Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi urged the group to recover their magic power before continuing deeper into the Hell Tower.
• On the Sixth Layer, Ziyan crushed her token to escape an attack by two Red Barbarian Race cultivators.
• On the Ninth Layer, Li Xiaoya moved to within a few dozen feet of the entrance to the Tenth Layer.

Li Xiaoya learned to control earth gravity and antigravity, overcame the Eighth Layer’s earth-gravity trial, and entered the next layer. Elsewhere, Di Long Yunyi and the other climbers found the water-spirit guardians gone, while two Red Barbarian cultivators solved their cubes and advanced.

• Li Xiaoya used his Earth Immortal Root to master gravity and antigravity, then countered the ground’s recoil and reached the Entrance beyond the Five-Colored Light Curtain.
• Li Xiaoya passed the earth-gravity trial with most of his magic power intact and entered the next layer.
• Di Long Yunyi reached the summit of his ice mountain without finding a water spirit, unaware that Li Xiaoya had killed the spirit creature and taken the water spirit.
• Two Red Barbarian cultivators completed their Ten Thousand Beasts Cubes and flew through the Entrances to the Sixth Layer.

On the Sixth Layer, two Red Barbarian cultivators killed a Greenfolk cultivator and used his Red Token to escape, but a Bone Monster tried to seize them. The female cultivator sacrificed herself to free her senior brother, who emerged from the Hell Tower, while Li Xiaoya reached the Tenth Layer and was immediately attacked by a massive Golden Light Blade.

• The Red Barbarian cultivators killed a Greenfolk cultivator, took his Red Token, and crushed their own tokens to escape.
• A Bone Monster trapped the pair with a Gray-Light Skeleton Giant Hand, but the female cultivator self-detonated to destroy it and let her senior brother escape.
• The Bone Monster gloated that leaving the Hell Tower would not free the cultivators from his control, then began chanting an incantation.
• The burly cultivator emerged from the Hell Tower, where Ziyan recognized him as the one who had ambushed her, and he flew toward the Ancestor of Snow Domain.
• Li Xiaoya appeared on the Tenth Layer, received notice that the Golden Frenzy trial was beginning, and faced an enormous Golden Light Blade.

Li Xiaoya faced a gigantic metal puppet on the tenth layer and unleashed the Heaven-Burning Fire Dragon technique, forcing the puppet back. Elsewhere, a colossal dragon awakened and recognized that the thing it sought was on the East Xia Continent.

• A gigantic metal puppet attacked Li Xiaoya with enormous Golden Light Battle Axes and storms of flying blades, while he dodged with Immortal Flash Carefree Journey.
• Li Xiaoya stopped fleeing, flew toward the puppet, and began preparing a powerful spell with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed the Heaven-Burning Fire Dragon, striking the puppet and making its body split and melt as it retreated.
• A super dragon ten thousand li long awoke, opened its eyes, and declared that the thing it sought was on the East Xia Continent.

The Dragon Ancestor learned that the powerful object his race sought was on the East Xia Continent and ordered preparations for war against the Human Race. After Li Xiaoya crippled the Metal Puppet with the Fire Dragon Sword, Wugui began enslaving Kui Tianyi at Hell Tower’s entrance, leaving Ancestor of Snow Domain trying to restrain him as he threatened to self-destruct.

• The Dragon Ancestor ordered the dragons to find the object on the East Xia Continent and prepare to wage war against the Human Race in a thousand years.
• Li Xiaoya’s Heaven-Burning Fire Dragon strike crippled the Metal Puppet, and he flew toward its enormous melted opening to investigate its power source.
• A creature deep inside Hell Tower sensed Li Xiaoya’s aura and began chanting to send the humans a sinister gift.
• Kui Tianyi reunited with Ancestor of Snow Domain, who recognized that Li Xiaoya had smashed something.
• Wugui’s demonic energy surged through Kui Tianyi and began enslaving him, while Ancestor of Snow Domain bound him with golden runes.
• Kui Tianyi warned Ancestor of Snow Domain that he could not control his magic power and was about to self-destruct.

Kui Tianyi escaped the Five-Colored Light Barrier and detonated himself, while the Ancestor of Snow Domain gathered his belongings and summoned Kui Tianyi’s brother. Elsewhere, the Bone Monster reprimanded its servant for letting human cultivators reach the sixth layer, and the servant roused the demon beasts as someone found something amid golden metal.

• Kui Tianyi asked the Ancestor of Snow Domain to give his belongings to his younger brother, then broke through the barrier and self-detonated outside it.
• A five-colored vortex absorbed the blast, and the Ancestor of Snow Domain collected Kui Tianyi’s belongings and sent a message to the Red Barbarian Race cultivators.
• The burly Red Barbarian Race cultivator emerged from the Hell Tower, and the Ancestor of Snow Domain began explaining what had happened to Kui Tianyi.
• The Bone Monster ordered the Human-Headed Bird-Bodied monster to prevent human cultivators from disturbing it, and the monster howled to summon the demon beasts.
• Someone among a heap of golden metal cried out in delight after finding something.

Li Xiaoya found a supreme-grade sharp gold spirit stone and the Metal Puppet’s core, then deduced that the tenth layer’s exit lay ahead along the tracks that guided the puppet. He flew toward the gateway he discovered, while Ancestor of Snow Domain privately explained the fate of the Red Barbarian cultivator’s elder brother.

• Li Xiaoya found a supreme-grade sharp gold spirit stone inside the fallen Metal Puppet and took its furnace-like core into his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• Ancestor of Snow Domain told the Red Barbarian Race cultivator what had happened to his elder brother and asked him to keep it secret; the cultivator left with his belongings.
• Li Xiaoya searched the Metal Puppet for the eleventh-layer entrance, then spotted the giant tracks and realized the exit was likely ahead in the direction the puppet had traveled.
• Li Xiaoya reasoned that the tenth layer’s puppet drove cultivators forward while the Five Elements Divine Pool reward tempted a worthy candidate to join the Human Race Alliance.
• After flying a thousand miles along the tracks, Li Xiaoya saw an enormous gateway glowing with five-colored spiritual light.

Li Xiaoya reached the Hell Tower’s Eleventh Layer and learned that advancing farther required a group, while the layers beyond the twelfth were beyond the Human Race Alliance’s control. As cultivators struggled through the lower trials, Tree Demon Beasts prepared an ambush for those who entered the twelfth layer.

• Li Xiaoya entered the Eleventh Layer, where a red Token named him the first Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator to arrive and awarded him a chance to cultivate in the Dao Mountain Five Elements Divine Pool.
• The Token told Li Xiaoya that at least five cultivators had to enter the twelfth layer together and warned that the layers beyond it were extremely dangerous and outside the Human Race Alliance’s control.
• Li Xiaoya discovered that the Eleventh Layer’s High Platform was powered by supreme-grade spirit stones and meditated there to restore his magic power.
• The Ancestor of Snow Domain and a mysterious figure above the Hell Tower noted Li Xiaoya’s arrival and said the true trial was beginning.
• Di Long Yunyi used ice to slide past reverse-gravity bursts on the ninth layer, while Qiong Nanqi, Hai Kuliuyin, and Dong Liuzu also advanced through its trial.
• At the entrance to the twelfth layer, a colossal tree-like monster ordered the Tree Demon Beasts to prepare to trap any humans who entered.

Li Xiaoya waited on the Eleventh Layer for enough cultivators to activate the formation to the twelfth, then met Di Long Yunyi, Qiong Nanqi, and Dong Liuzu as they arrived. When the group expected Hai Kuliuyin to complete their numbers, an unfamiliar female cultivator appeared instead.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that neither he nor the five White-Scaled Heaven-Breaking Beasts could activate the formation without Red Spiritual Tokens, so he continued waiting.
• Di Long Yunyi arrived, learned that at least five cultivators were needed to enter the twelfth layer, and met Li Xiaoya, who introduced himself as a disciple of the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Li Xiaoya suggested that Di Long Yunyi recover his magic power, and Di Long Yunyi meditated at a distance under a restriction.
• Qiong Nanqi arrived, followed later by Dong Liuzu, and the four cultivators waited for a fifth person, expecting Hai Kuliuyin.
• An unfamiliar, exceptionally beautiful female cultivator appeared instead of Hai Kuliuyin.

Li Xiaoya and the others met Ailishan on the Eleventh Layer of the Hell Tower and discussed challenging the tower and the benefits of becoming a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General. Ailishan revealed that her brother Ailisi Le had urged her to participate, leaving Li Xiaoya suspicious that she had deliberately promoted the opportunity.

• Ailishan arrived as the fifth cultivator to reach the Eleventh Layer, and Di Long Yunyi and Qiong Nanqi recognized and greeted her.
• Li Xiaoya recalled Ailishan's fame and her brother Ailisi Le's history, while Di Long Yunyi invited her to join their group in challenging the Hell Tower.
• Ailishan learned that Li Xiaoya had reached the layer before Di Long Yunyi and expressed interest in the Five Elements Divine Pool on Dao Mountain.
• Ailishan said she was participating as a rogue cultivator and revealed that Ailisi Le, now an elder of the Human Race Alliance's Elder Council, had sent her to pursue the benefits of becoming a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General.
• Li Xiaoya became tempted by the prospect of advancing to the Mighty One Stage, then suspected Ailishan had been deliberately promoting the opportunity.

Li Xiaoya and five companions entered the Hell Tower’s Twelfth Layer after discussing the dangers and preparing their defenses. They arrived in the middle of a vast siege by wood-element demon beasts and immediately fought back, with Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu shielding the group.

• Li Xiaoya remained suspicious of Ailishan’s story but chose not to confront her, and the group waited for Hai Kuliuyin to arrive.
• The six cultivators discussed the dangers below the Twelfth Layer, prepared defensive treasures, and entered the Teleportation Formation.
• Their Red Tokens warned them of the danger before teleporting them to the Twelfth Layer.
• A vast host of wood-element demon beasts attacked the newly arrived cultivators with a giant vine net and a barrage of projectiles.
• Di Long Yunyi, Li Xiaoya, Ailishan, and Qiong Nanqi attacked while Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu raised defenses, and their powers collided with the beasts’ assault.

Six cultivators fought through a vast host of wood-type demon beasts on the twelfth layer, following Di Long Yunyi toward a concentration of stronger beasts. The beasts surrounded them with layered vine nets, and Di Long Yunyi’s sword rays could only cut into the barriers, leaving the group trapped in a worsening fight.

• Di Long Yunyi, Li Xiaoya, Ailishan, and Qiong Nanqi unleashed powerful attacks that swept aside the demon beasts, while Hai Kuliuyin and Dong Liuzu defended themselves.
• The cultivators sensed that the layer was filled with evil-aura wood-type demon beasts, mostly at the great void stage, and that their Red Tokens gave no guidance.
• Di Long Yunyi reasoned that the Entrance lay near the strongest beasts, and Ailishan detected several heaven-and-earth realm beasts hundreds of miles away.
• Di Long Yunyi led the group toward the stronger beasts, with Ailishan clearing the way beside him and the others guarding their formation as they fought through pursuing hordes.
• After the group flew about a hundred miles, the demon beasts formed overlapping dark green vine nets around them and reinforced the barriers with beams of light.
• Di Long Yunyi struck the nets with dozens of sword rays, but they only cut into the barriers instead of severing them.