Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya transformed into an Earth Demon Dragon and led a combined assault with Di Long Yunyi and Ailishan against the gray light barrier. The barrier endured, but Li Xiaoya revealed that the Fire Dragon Sword had pierced deep into it, leaving the Man-Faced Crow horrified.

• Li Xiaoya used Beast Transformation to become a gigantic, golden-scaled Earth Demon Dragon, astonishing Di Long Yunyi and Ailishan.
• Li Xiaoya combined the Earth Anti-Gravity Technique and Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art to dive at the gray light barrier with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Di Long Yunyi and Ailishan joined Li Xiaoya's attack with the Blue-Light Jade Seal and Purple-Light Orb.
• The combined strike shook the barrier and dimmed its light, but did not break through.
• Li Xiaoya pointed out that more than half of the Fire Dragon Sword had pierced the barrier, and the Man-Faced Crow cried out in terror.

Li Xiaoya broke through the gray barrier by exploiting the cracks left by his allies’ combined attack, and the formation’s collapse injured its demon-beast anchors. Di Long Yunyi vanished in a flash of red light as Ailishan escaped, while Li Xiaoya emerged from underground before the Man-Faced Crow.

• Li Xiaoya burned his cultivation and lifespan, then used the Earth Anti-Gravity Technique and Dragon-Devouring God-Reversal Art to strike the damaged barrier repeatedly with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• The gray barrier shattered, and Li Xiaoya crashed into the ground while Ailishan and Di Long Yunyi escaped through the opening.
• The formation’s collapse sent astral winds and spatial rifts across the area, destroyed its mountain anchors, and scattered and injured the demon beasts.
• Di Long Yunyi vanished in red light, while Ailishan shielded herself from the violent astral winds and spatial rifts.
• The Man-Faced Crow urged the weakened demon beasts to attack the humans, but Li Xiaoya burst from beneath the ground and appeared in front of him.

Li Xiaoya overwhelmed the Man-Faced Crow on the Fourteenth Layer while Hell King Wugui ordered the demon beasts to attack. Di Long Yunyi emerged from the Hell Tower and spoke with Qiong Nanqi before the Ancestor of Snow Domain summoned them.

• Hell King Wugui ordered the demon beasts to attack Li Xiaoya, and the Man-Faced Crow urged them on.
• Di Long Yunyi appeared outside the Hell Tower after the gray barrier's interference ended, and Qiong Nanqi questioned him about the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Layers.
• The Ancestor of Snow Domain summoned Qiong Nanqi and Di Long Yunyi.
• Li Xiaoya used his golden wings and dragon claws to chase the Man-Faced Crow, knocking out many of his feathers as the demon beasts mostly attacked Ailishan.
• The Man-Faced Crow tried to escape through a black spatial vortex, but Li Xiaoya seized his tail and smashed him toward the ground.

Li Xiaoya battered the Man-Faced Crow, then turned to rescue Ailishan from a swarm of demon beasts. As he fought his way toward her, a terrifying Mighty One-stage presence emerged from the void.

• Li Xiaoya beat the Man-Faced Crow nearly unconscious, bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope, and hurled him away.
• Li Xiaoya saw that more than a hundred demon beasts had cornered Ailishan and charged through the beasts attacking him to reach her.
• Li Xiaoya's attacks killed or injured more than twenty demon beasts as he fought toward Ailishan.
• A gray-white skeletal hand reached out of the void, and Li Xiaoya sensed the overwhelming aura of a Mighty One-stage foe.

Li Xiaoya used the Earth Demon Dragon’s petrification ability to save Ailishan and slaughter Hell King Wugui’s demon beasts, but Hell King Wugui emerged and struck Li Xiaoya with a devastating death-qi attack. Li Xiaoya narrowly escaped the beam, which shattered the Fourteenth Layer’s ground, and realized that Hell King Wugui was beyond his ability to defeat.

• Hell King Wugui began emerging from the vortex as his demon beasts attacked Li Xiaoya and Ailishan.
• Li Xiaoya petrified the surrounding demon beasts, allowing Ailishan to escape behind him, then cut down dozens of them.
• Ailishan identified the arriving skeletal giant as Hell King Wugui, whose cultivation had reached the Mighty One Stage.
• Hell King Wugui attacked Li Xiaoya with a beam of death-imbued black-gray light that drained his magic power and vitality.
• Li Xiaoya used his antigravity spell to evade the beam, which struck the ground and triggered an enormous chain of explosions.

Li Xiaoya fought Hell King Wugui after the demon king’s death aura injured him and trapped Ailishan. Li Xiaoya escaped the first attack and changed to humanoid form to wield his armor and staff, but Wugui’s relentless skull assault continued.

• Li Xiaoya drove Hell King Wugui’s death aura from his arms, and the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor restored their vitality.
• Hell King Wugui trapped Ailishan in a Gray-Black Light Barrier before she could crush the Red Token.
• Li Xiaoya teleported away from Wugui’s next attack, but Wugui pursued him with a wave of enormous spectral skulls.
• Li Xiaoya shrank into humanoid form, donned the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, and used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to smash the skulls.
• The skulls continued attacking despite being shattered, while their death aura weakened Li Xiaoya’s staff and Wugui sent another tide after him.

Li Xiaoya fought Hell King Wugui on the fourteenth layer of the Hell Tower while trying to reach the eighteenth layer for the twin-pole netherflower. Wugui immobilized him with a crown Heaven-Opening Treasure and blasted him into the ground, but the Immortal Dao Chain shielded him at the cost of its stored demon-sealing divine milk.

• Li Xiaoya resisted Hell King Wugui’s relentless attacks with the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor and Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff while searching for a way to continue toward the eighteenth layer.
• Hell King Wugui used a soul attack, but Li Xiaoya protected his soul with the Demon-Suppressing Divine Art and struck back with a golden “Begone.”
• Wugui, coveting Li Xiaoya’s treasures and hoping to escape the Hell Tower, activated the crown on his head, revealing it as a Heaven-Opening Treasure.
• The crown immobilized Li Xiaoya and fired a golden beam at him, but the Immortal Dao Chain produced a milky-white barrier that blocked the strike.
• The beam hurled Li Xiaoya through mountains and buried him underground, where he coughed blood and discovered the chain had turned black after expending its stored demon-sealing divine milk.

Li Xiaoya escaped Hell King Wugui’s devastating attack by using Earth Escape, but the Hell Crown pursued him and nearly struck again. The Heavenly Thunder Beast intervened, attacking the crown and confronting Wugui while Li Xiaoya remained underground.

• The Immortal Dao Chain protected Li Xiaoya from the Hell Crown’s golden beam, and he fled underground with Earth Escape as Hell King Wugui blasted the crater where he had been.
• Hell King Wugui used the Hell Crown to track Li Xiaoya and sent it racing after him.
• Li Xiaoya accelerated by channeling earth spiritual qi through his Earth Demon Dragon form, but the Hell Crown caught up and prepared to immobilize him.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast appeared and struck the Hell Crown with gray lightning, interrupting its attack on Li Xiaoya.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast repeatedly bombarded the Hell Crown, and Hell King Wugui arrived as a colossal lightning-wreathed claw descended toward the crown.

Li Xiaoya escaped underground while Hell King Wugui and the Heavenly Thunder Beast clashed, then turned back to rescue Ailishan after they left. He found a persistent tracking mark inside himself and discovered Ailishan still imprisoned among the surviving demon beasts, just as one threatened to eat her.

• Hell King Wugui met the Heavenly Thunder Beast’s attack with a massive fist, and their collision devastated the surrounding land.
• Li Xiaoya fled underground, then remembered Ailishan and decided he could not abandon her.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast pursued Hell King Wugui, and their voices eventually faded into the distance.
• Li Xiaoya found a tracking mark from the Crown inside himself, but it vanished whenever he tried to remove it.
• Li Xiaoya reached the gathered demon beasts and saw Ailishan trapped in a gray-black barrier while a demon beast threatened to eat her.

Li Xiaoya returned to the battlefield and slaughtered the weakened demon beasts while the Heavenly Thunder Beast battered Hell King Wugui. Hell King Wugui escaped a crushing blow and proposed that they join forces to break free from their human imprisonment.

• Li Xiaoya burst from underground and used the Fire Dragon Sword to kill four demon beasts before they could react.
• Li Xiaoya pursued the fleeing beasts, killing more than thirty and targeting the valuable Heaven-and-Earth Realm demon beasts.
• Hell King Wugui became distracted by Li Xiaoya’s return, allowing the Heavenly Thunder Beast to smash him into a vast crater.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast struck Hell King Wugui repeatedly, and Wugui teleported away from another devastating tail blow.
• Hell King Wugui asked the Heavenly Thunder Beast to join forces, suggesting they might escape the humans’ restrictions together.

The Heavenly Thunder Beast and Hell King Wugui agreed to cooperate against the human cultivators in the Hell Tower, but their alliance collapsed when the beast demanded Wugui's Hell Crown. The Heavenly Thunder Beast attacked Wugui with a prepared lightning strike.

• Hell King Wugui conceded that he could not defeat the Heavenly Thunder Beast and proposed joining forces against the human cultivators.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast agreed, and Hell King Wugui recounted how his demonic cultivation method had led the Human Race to destroy the Hell Race.
• Hell King Wugui urged the Heavenly Thunder Beast to attack the humans, especially Li Xiaoya, whose treasures tempted them both.
• The Heavenly Thunder Beast declared itself the Hell King and demanded that Hell King Wugui hand over the Hell Crown.
• Hell King Wugui refused and stored the crown, so the Heavenly Thunder Beast attacked him with a devastating burst of gray lightning.

Li Xiaoya captured the Man-Faced Crow and weakened its divine sense so he could search its memories for a way to reach the Fifteenth Layer and remove the Hell Crown's mark. He used a soul-searching helmet and found what he was looking for, though the chapter did not reveal the discovery.

• Li Xiaoya killed a Demon Beast, collected its body, and fled tens of thousands of miles, still unable to remove the Hell Crown's mark.
• After rescuing Ailishan and capturing the Man-Faced Crow, Li Xiaoya recalled that the Fire Dragon Sword had gained the ability to absorb Demon Beasts' magic power and imprison their souls.
• Li Xiaoya brought out the bound Man-Faced Crow and used blue light to disperse its divine sense, ignoring its pleas and curses.
• Li Xiaoya put a soul-searching helmet on himself and another on the Man-Faced Crow, then activated them to search its memories.
• In fewer than a hundred breaths, Li Xiaoya found the information he sought.

Li Xiaoya uncovered the hidden entrance to the Fifteenth Layer, then secured the ruined area and prepared to free Ailishan. He delayed entering the next layer because Hell King Wugui was there and could sense the Hell Crown’s mark on him.

• Li Xiaoya used the black feather and the Man-Faced Crow’s memories to break the concealed formation hiding the entrance to the Fifteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya reached the Tall Tower and found its Five-Colored Teleportation Formation, then reactivated the surrounding barrier to keep Hell King Wugui at bay.
• Li Xiaoya released Ailishan from his Secret Realm but told her he needed to recover his magic power before breaking her restraints.
• Li Xiaoya decided to remove the Hell Crown’s mark before descending, since Hell King Wugui could detect him on the Fifteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya recovered some magic power with elixirs and meditation, then summoned the Fire Dragon Sword to begin freeing Ailishan.

Hell King Wugui returned to the Fifteenth Layer badly injured after the Heavenly Thunder Beast ambushed him, while Li Xiaoya rescued Ailishan from his barrier. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoya asking Ailishan to lend him her physical body, alarming her.

• Hell King Wugui emerged from a formation on the Fifteenth Layer, healed his shattered bones, and discovered that Li Xiaoya was still on the Fourteenth Layer and had found the entrance below.
• Hell King Wugui summoned demon beasts and devoured several of them to restore his cultivation.
• Li Xiaoya battered the Gray-Black Light Barrier until it broke and freed Ailishan.
• Ailishan thanked Li Xiaoya for saving her, and he said he needed her help with something.
• Li Xiaoya asked to borrow Ailishan's physical body, and she backed away in alarm.

Li Xiaoya asked Ailishan to help him remove the Hell Crown’s soul mark so he could reach the Sixteenth Layer of the Hell Tower. After explaining that he planned to transfer the mark to her and have her carry it out, he left Ailishan wary and wondering how he intended to do it.

• Ailishan told Li Xiaoya that she had entered the Hell Tower to surpass her brother Ailisi Le, who had reached the Fourteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya claimed the Purple Vitality Gate needed him to reach the Sixteenth Layer, and Ailishan warned him that the layer was infested with formidable Corpse Puppet Insects.
• Li Xiaoya learned that Ailishan knew about the Sixteenth Layer because her brother had told her before she entered the Hell Tower.
• Ailishan refused Li Xiaoya’s invitation to venture farther, explaining that she planned to leave after reaching the Fifteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya revealed that Hell King Wugui’s Hell Crown had marked him and asked Ailishan to take the soul mark out through the teleportation formation.
• Ailishan grew wary and wondered how Li Xiaoya planned to transfer the mark to her.

Li Xiaoya explained that he could imitate Ailishan’s spiritual qi and use their connected energy to transfer the Hell Crown’s soul mark into her body. As he began channeling his power into her arm, Ailishan felt something enter it, leaving the transfer underway.

• Li Xiaoya proposed using his secret art to imitate Ailishan’s spiritual qi and move the Hell Crown’s soul mark into her body.
• Ailishan mistook his request to connect their spiritual qi for an attempt at dual cultivation, then became surprised when he demonstrated his ability to imitate her aura.
• Li Xiaoya transformed his magic power to match Ailishan’s and asked her to give him her hand.
• Ailishan relaxed her spiritual qi as Li Xiaoya channeled his power into her arm and prepared to guide the soul mark out of his body.
• Ailishan felt something extra appear inside her arm as Li Xiaoya’s spiritual qi flowed into it.

Li Xiaoya transferred Hell King Wugui’s soul mark to Ailishan and gave her the Purple Rainbow Flying Sword before entering the Fifteenth Layer alone. Ailishan followed after his talisman broke, while Li Xiaoya arrived to find dozens of demon beasts setting up a formation.

• Li Xiaoya successfully transferred the soul mark to Ailishan and gave her the Purple Rainbow Flying Sword as a gift.
• Li Xiaoya told Ailishan to wait for his signal and gave her a talisman that would break when the Fifteenth Layer was safe.
• Li Xiaoya transformed his appearance and entered the Fifteenth Layer alone, hoping to reach the Sixteenth Layer while Hell King Wugui was occupied.
• After the talisman broke, Ailishan took the Red Token and entered the Fifteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya appeared in a dim, gray place and saw dozens of demon beasts setting up a formation.

Li Xiaoya and Ailishan entered the Fifteenth Layer and used Red Spiritual Tokens to escape Hell King Wugui and his Demon Beasts. Hell King Wugui punished the failed ambush and returned to his lair, unaware that Li Xiaoya remained hidden underground nearby.

• Li Xiaoya entered the Fifteenth Layer, drew the Demon Beasts away from Ailishan, and fled from Hell King Wugui.
• Ailishan arrived, crushed her Red Token, and vanished before Hell King Wugui reached her.
• Hell King Wugui realized the woman had escaped and rushed after Li Xiaoya, who disappeared after taunting the pursuing Demon Beasts and crushing his own Red Token.
• Hell King Wugui struck the Demon Beast leader for failing to stop Li Xiaoya, then ordered the others to finish setting up the formation.
• Hell King Wugui returned to his lair, unaware that Li Xiaoya was concealed beneath the ground nearby.

Li Xiaoya hid deep beneath the Fifteenth Layer after tricking Hell King Wugui into believing he had escaped, then waited for his magic power to recover before continuing. Ailishan returned to the entrance and revealed that she and Li Xiaoya had reached the Fifteenth Layer, while Li Xiaoya remained underground and eventually set off toward an unknown destination.

• Li Xiaoya explained how he used Ailishan, a fake Red Token, the Invisibility Cloak, and Earth Escape to evade Hell King Wugui and hide underground.
• Li Xiaoya took medicinal pills and meditated until his magic power recovered, delaying his attempt to enter the Sixteenth Layer because of the Corpse Puppet Insects.
• Ailishan teleported out of the Hell Tower and drew the attention of the waiting cultivators.
• The Ancestor of Snow Domain announced that Ailishan had reached the Fifteenth Layer, shocking Qiong Nanqi and Di Long Yunyi.
• Cultivators on the tenth layer agreed to gather and challenge the deeper layers together, while word of Ailishan’s achievement spread among those outside.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into orange light and used Earth Escape to travel underground beneath the Fifteenth Layer.

Li Xiaoya secretly approached Hell King Wugui’s cave to reach the teleportation formation to the Sixteenth Layer. He discovered that Hell King Wugui was wounded and healing, and began considering a surprise attack.

• Li Xiaoya used Earth Escape to travel toward Hell King Wugui’s cave while avoiding detection.
• He chose not to lure Hell King Wugui away, fearing that exposure would let the ruler pursue him into the Sixteenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya recalled that the Man-Faced Crow’s memories offered little information about the twin-pole netherflower, though they indicated it was on the eighteenth layer.
• After slowly reaching the cave, Li Xiaoya sensed that Hell King Wugui’s aura had weakened and suspected the Heavenly Thunder Beast had injured him.
• Li Xiaoya crept within about a hundred yards of Hell King Wugui and considered launching a sneak attack.