Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya weighed the risks of attacking Hell King Wugui and learned that the Teleportation Formation was trapped and Wugui was badly injured. After preparing a plan to kill him, Li Xiaoya triggered a commotion outside the cavern, leaving Hell King Wugui to react in fury.

• Li Xiaoya found the passage and Teleportation Formation to the Sixteenth Layer but suspected the formation was trapped and refused to enter.
• Li Xiaoya resolved to kill Hell King Wugui rather than retreat, driven by his determination to revive Zhang Hong.
• Hell King Wugui sensed danger, then revealed that the formations were prepared and that the Heavenly Thunder Beast had badly injured him with lightning laws.
• Li Xiaoya listened from concealment and spent nearly a day preparing a plan to attack Hell King Wugui without giving him a chance to use the Hell Crown.
• Li Xiaoya set off explosions outside the cavern, and Hell King Wugui sprang up, suspecting that humans had entered again.

Li Xiaoya ambushed Hell King Wugui inside his cave, using traps and magic treasures to interrupt his spells and injure him. As Hell King Wugui fought back, Li Xiaoya damaged his life-bound scepter and brought down the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya used the Invisibility Cloak to enter Hell King Wugui’s cave and set up his treasures while Hell King Wugui rushed outside to investigate the explosions.
• Hell King Wugui realized Li Xiaoya was inside, sealed the cave, and blocked his attempt to escape with the Red Token.
• Li Xiaoya triggered the Earth Anti-Gravity Technique, hurled Hell King Wugui into the ceiling, and sent the Immortal-Binding Rope after him, but Hell King Wugui dodged and attacked with the Hell Crown.
• A Golden Light Orb struck Hell King Wugui’s wounded chest and blasted him across the cave, interrupting his spell as more golden beads flew toward him.
• Hell King Wugui swung his scepter at Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya blocked it with the Fire Dragon Sword and cracked the scepter.
• Li Xiaoya enlarged the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and brought it down at Hell King Wugui, who raised a giant skeletal hand to seize it.

Li Xiaoya fought Hell King Wugui with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, the Immortal-Binding Rope, and the Fire Dragon Sword. His final strike split Wugui’s body and the mountain, leaving the battle at its apparent conclusion.

• Hell King Wugui blocked the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff with his skeletal hand, but the staff shattered his bones and forced him to escape into the void.
• The Immortal-Binding Rope caught Hell King Wugui after he reappeared, but he destroyed it with gray-black blades, weakening his aura and injuring Li Xiaoya through the backlash.
• Li Xiaoya used the Earth Anti-Gravity Technique to launch Hell King Wugui upward, where the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff struck his back.
• Li Xiaoya’s Fire Dragon Sword slowed Hell King Wugui with a mysterious power and cleaved through his barrier and skeletal head.
• Li Xiaoya’s five-colored sword strike split the mountain and cut Hell King Wugui’s body in two before it burst apart in dazzling light.

Li Xiaoya killed Hell King Wugui after a carefully concealed ambush, then learned that the Twin-Pole Netherflower on the eighteenth layer could help him advance to the Immortal Tribulation Stage. The chapter left Li Xiaoya amid the collapsing mountain, with the path to the treasure still uncertain.

• The Ancestor of Snow Domain reacted excitedly to Li Xiaoya’s progress, while Di Long Yunyi and the others speculated that Li Xiaoya had reached the Sixteenth Layer.
• A five-colored figure praised Li Xiaoya and warned that the moment closest to success would also be the most dangerous.
• Li Xiaoya’s five-colored spiritual dragon caught Hell King Wugui’s fleeing nascent soul, and Wugui offered to reveal how to reach the eighteenth layer.
• Hell King Wugui lunged at Li Xiaoya when he appeared tempted by the Twin-Pole Netherflower, but Li Xiaoya’s Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor burned Wugui’s nascent soul to ash.
• Li Xiaoya dismissed Wugui’s claim about obtaining the Twin-Pole Netherflower and reflected on how he had concealed his traps and weapons to defeat him.

Li Xiaoya killed Hell King Wugui through a carefully prepared ambush and collected the Hell Crown and Wugui’s remains. After recovering and claiming the crown, he prepared to break through the restriction and enter the Sixteenth Layer.

• Li Xiaoya’s hidden measures interrupted Hell King Wugui’s use of the Hell Crown, and Li Xiaoya killed him amid the ruins of his mountain lair.
• Hell King Wugui’s death dissolved the slave contracts on the Demon Beasts, which fled rather than approach Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya used Earth Escape to retrieve the Hell Crown, Wugui’s skeletal remains, and his skull scepter, while discovering that the battle had destroyed Wugui’s storage space.
• Li Xiaoya confirmed the Teleportation Formation to the Sixteenth Layer remained intact beneath the rubble and decided to recover his magic power and refine the Hell Crown before proceeding.
• After three or four days, Li Xiaoya had recovered and gained the Hell Crown’s acknowledgment, so he took out the Fire Dragon Sword to break through the restriction.

Li Xiaoya reached the Sixteenth Layer, where demonic mist and bones filled a silent landscape, and began searching for a route onward. His search ended when a towering swarm of corpse puppet insects rushed toward him.

• Li Xiaoya broke through the restrictive formation beneath the rocks and entered the Sixteenth Layer through its Teleportation Formation.
• Human Race cultivators fought overwhelming numbers of wood-type demon beasts on the Twelfth Layer, while others gathered on the Eleventh Layer and continued battling near the Ninth Layer.
• The Red Token awarded Li Xiaoya four million Race Contribution Points, two cultivation sessions in the Dao Mountain Five Elements Divine Pool, and Earth Martial General privileges.
• Li Xiaoya found that the Sixteenth Layer's demonic mist restricted his divine sense and made recovering magic power difficult, so he kept his Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor on and searched for the next entrance.
• Li Xiaoya heard rustling and tried to hide with his Invisibility Cloak, but a towering wave of grotesque insects surged through the mist toward him.

Li Xiaoya fought a vast swarm of Corpse Puppet Insects and discovered that his Steel-armored Beetles could devour them. The insects began strengthening themselves by consuming one another, then trapped the beetles in sticky webs, prompting Li Xiaoya to attack their strongest members.

• Li Xiaoya revealed himself and used the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor to burn thousands of Corpse Puppet Insects, but some devoured its flames before being eaten by their kin.
• Li Xiaoya released his Steel-armored Beetles, which attacked the Corpse Puppet Insects and began devouring them as the beetles proved resistant to the insects' bites.
• Li Xiaoya sent out two more swarms of Steel-armored Beetles, which overwhelmed the insects and grew stronger by consuming them.
• The Corpse Puppet Insects began devouring one another, growing larger and stronger until some reached the Great Void Stage.
• The strongest Corpse Puppet Insects spat gray-white webs that bound the Steel-armored Beetles, and Li Xiaoya struck at the Spirit Communion Stage insects with golden fist blasts.

Li Xiaoya fought the corpse puppet insects in Sixteenth Layer and discovered that they grew stronger by devouring one another, while complete destruction of their bodies prevented them from feeding. After fleeing their seemingly endless hordes and encountering Great Void Stage insects, he realized his flames could kill them but not fully burn their bodies, then thought of a way to stop them from growing stronger.

• Li Xiaoya watched the corpse puppet insects devour their fellows and evolve to Spirit Communion Stage, while his steel-armored beetles broke free and attacked the stronger insects.
• Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to bombard a hundred-mile area, burning tens of millions of corpse puppet insects to ash, but another vast horde soon arrived.
• Li Xiaoya flew away with his steel-armored beetles as the insects pursued him, then discovered that restrictions prevented him from rising above roughly two thousand zhang.
• Several enormous Great Void Stage corpse puppet insects flew up, and Li Xiaoya bound them with flame beasts summoned from his Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor.
• Li Xiaoya's flames killed the bound insects but left their bodies intact, so he realized other insects could devour them and suddenly thought of a way to deal with the horde.

Li Xiaoya used his Steel-armored Beetles to devour Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insects, hoping to evolve them into a stronger weapon for the dangers ahead. After feeding them hundreds of insects across the Sixteenth Layer, he saw the beetles begin to change.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that his Steel-armored Beetles could devour bound Corpse Puppet Insects and grow larger and stronger.
• Concerned about stronger insects and an unknown danger in the Sixteenth Layer, Li Xiaoya decided to advance cautiously while evolving the beetles.
• Li Xiaoya trapped groups of high-ranked Corpse Puppet Insects with his Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor and fed them to the Steel-armored Beetles.
• Li Xiaoya traveled through the area, repeatedly killing Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insects and directing the beetles to devour them.
• After the Steel-armored Beetles consumed hundreds of high-ranked Corpse Puppet Insects, they began to change.

Li Xiaoya watched Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insects devour one another, hoping the resulting evolution would help his Steel-armored Beetles advance. A Heaven-and-Earth Realm Red-Gold Corpse Puppet Insect emerged from the final insect’s transformation, and Li Xiaoya struck it down with a powerful punch.

• Li Xiaoya found that his Steel-armored Beetles had reached the peak of the Spirit Communion Stage and could not evolve further by devouring Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insects.
• Li Xiaoya spotted dozens of Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insects devouring one another and held back his beetles to see what they would produce.
• The insects merged through successive bouts of cannibalism until one peak Great Void Stage Corpse Puppet Insect swallowed the other and transformed into an enormous egg.
• Li Xiaoya attacked the egg with two Golden Light Blades, causing it to burst and release a Heaven-and-Earth Realm Red-Gold Corpse Puppet Insect.
• The Red-Gold Corpse Puppet Insect charged Li Xiaoya and knocked his Steel-armored Beetles aside, but Li Xiaoya punched it away and shattered its wings.

Li Xiaoya’s Steel-armored Beetles evolved into Great Void Stage crimson-gold beetles after devouring a Heaven-and-Earth Realm Corpse Puppet Insect. With their power, he crossed the Sixteenth Layer’s vast insect sea and finally found a place that seemed to lead onward.

• Li Xiaoya watched a quarter of his Steel-armored Beetles transform, absorb swarms of Corpse Puppet Insects, and emerge as crimson-gold Great Void Stage beetles.
• The crimson-gold Steel-armored Beetles reached the Great Void peak stage and devoured the Corpse Puppet Insects rushing toward Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya realized the beetles needed to consume Heaven-and-Earth Realm Corpse Puppet Insects to evolve, then helped the rest of his beetles evolve in the same way.
• Li Xiaoya traveled through the sea of insects with his evolved beetles, which easily killed the Corpse Puppet Insects they encountered.
• After traveling tens of thousands of miles without finding a way onward, Li Xiaoya headed toward areas with more high-level insects and reached a place that appeared to lead to the next layer.

Li Xiaoya fought his way through the Sixteenth Layer’s skeletal canyon and discovered a basin filled with more than ten thousand Heaven-and-Earth Realm corpse puppet insect eggs, with a Teleportation Formation beyond them. After clearing his pursuers, he began a risky spell that caused the eggs to crack, leaving the insects on the verge of awakening.

• Li Xiaoya used his steel-armored beetles to fight and devour Heaven-and-Earth Realm corpse puppet insects while flying through the skeletal canyon.
• Mutated corpse puppet insects began using corrosive and elemental attacks, forcing Li Xiaoya to fight them himself while his beetles devoured their corpses.
• Li Xiaoya escaped the canyon and found a vast basin full of over ten thousand eggs containing Heaven-and-Earth Realm corpse puppet insects, with a Teleportation Formation visible in the distance.
• Li Xiaoya turned back to kill the pursuing insects, then sent his steel-armored beetles to guard the canyon entrance.
• Li Xiaoya began casting a spell with three spheres of fire, water, and earth energy, and the eggs in the basin started writhing and cracking.

Li Xiaoya unleashed his newly mastered Three-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave, blasting through the Corpse Puppet Insects and the five-element barrier before reaching the Tall Tower. He entered the barrier with the Steel-armored Beetles as the attack detonated behind him.

• Li Xiaoya fused red, blue, and orange spheres into a three-element dragon as tens of thousands of Corpse Puppet Insects emerged and attacked him.
• Li Xiaoya sent the enormous dragon charging through the basin, vaporizing insects and hurling others aside.
• The dragon struck and shattered a five-element spiritual light barrier that Li Xiaoya had suspected was blocking the way to the pagoda.
• Li Xiaoya flew through the broken barrier, gathered the Steel-armored Beetles into his sleeve, and entered the Tall Tower’s barrier.
• The Three-Element Dragon-Devouring Wave detonated after Li Xiaoya disappeared inside.

Li Xiaoya reached the Seventeenth Layer, where he found the same corpse puppet insects that had overrun the Sixteenth Layer. While recovering, he fed Hell King Wugui’s corpse to his Steel-armored Beetles, triggering a brutal evolution that left two beetles encased in stone-like eggs, just as a vast swarm of corpse puppet insects closed in.

• Ancestor of Snow Domain gathered cultivators who had reached the Eleventh Layer as the Hell Tower shook, while the five-colored figure praised Li Xiaoya for reaching the Seventeenth Layer.
• Li Xiaoya’s Red Token confirmed that he had reached the Seventeenth Layer and warned him that vicious corpse puppet insects occupied it, but he decided to continue toward the Eighteenth Layer to save Senior Sister Zhang Hong.
• Li Xiaoya restored his magic power and released his Steel-armored Beetles, then fed them Hell King Wugui’s corpse in hopes of strengthening them.
• After devouring the corpse, the Steel-armored Beetles turned on one another, and only two remained before hardening into giant, stone-like eggs.
• Li Xiaoya sensed approaching corpse puppet insects, then saw a thousand-foot wave of them and hundreds of Heaven-and-Earth Realm insects rushing toward him.

Li Xiaoya fought off a vast swarm of Corpse Puppet Insects in the Entrance to the Seventeenth Layer while his Steel-armored Beetle eggs devoured the attackers and completed their evolution. The two beetles emerged at the Heaven-and-Earth Realm peak, and Li Xiaoya ordered them to attack the swarm.

• Li Xiaoya tried to retrieve the Steel-armored Beetle eggs, but they absorbed his Golden Giant Hands as the Corpse Puppet Insects closed in.
• Li Xiaoya grew to a hundred zhang and wielded the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, blasting back the insects while avoiding their attacks with Immortal Flash Carefree Journey.
• Li Xiaoya used his staff to send the eggs through the swarm, where they devoured countless Corpse Puppet Insects, though more insects kept arriving and drained his magic power.
• The eggs vanished amid the swarm, then cracked open and revealed two enormous gray-white Steel-armored Beetles at the Heaven-and-Earth Realm peak.
• Li Xiaoya celebrated their evolution and ordered the two Steel-armored Beetles to kill the Corpse Puppet Insects.

Li Xiaoya fought through the Seventeenth Layer of the Hell Tower with two Steel-armored Beetles, following the growing demonic spiritual energy. After he dodged a gigantic ball of flesh, it exploded and released countless Corpse Puppet Insects.

• The Steel-armored Beetles slaughtered and devoured Corpse Puppet Insects as Li Xiaoya battled through the swarm and ordered them to clear a path.
• Li Xiaoya took shelter between the beetles, swallowed elixirs to treat his injuries, and realized the insects on the Seventeenth Layer could not be exterminated.
• Li Xiaoya pressed toward the densest demonic spiritual energy, relying on the beetles as higher-rank and mutated Corpse Puppet Insects grew more numerous.
• Li Xiaoya sensed an unknown divine probe, then spotted a gigantic gray-white ball of flesh plunging toward him.
• Li Xiaoya dodged the ball of flesh as it crashed into the insect swarm and burst apart, releasing countless Corpse Puppet Insects.

Li Xiaoya fought through swarms of corpse puppet insects and discovered that a moving mountain of flesh was their source. He left his Steel-armored Beetles to devour the attackers and flew toward the mountain, sensing a dangerous Mighty One Stage aura.

• A giant ball of flesh burst open, releasing pale Golden Core Stage corpse puppet insects that the other insects devoured, transforming into faster, blood-red attackers.
• Li Xiaoya’s two Steel-armored Beetles stunned and devoured the pursuing insects with their sound waves and suction ability.
• Li Xiaoya spotted a distant moving mountain and blasted a descending flesh ball with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, releasing scarlet-gold corpse puppet insects.
• The Steel-armored Beetles trapped and impaled the scarlet-gold insects while Li Xiaoya flew toward the mountain.
• Li Xiaoya saw that the mountain was a mass of writhing flesh and sinew that spewed demonic spiritual energy, and sensed a Mighty One Stage aura from it.

Li Xiaoya battled the Two-Headed Corpse Puppet Insects guarding a colossal Mighty One Stage insect mother and tried to strike it with the Fire Dragon Sword. The insect mother blocked his enormous sword ray with a gray-black curtain of light.

• The insect mother hurled flesh balls at Li Xiaoya, releasing a swarm of Two-Headed Corpse Puppet Insects that attacked him as spinning black rings.
• Li Xiaoya fought back with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, but the insects’ assault drove him several thousand feet backward.
• Li Xiaoya summoned his two Steel-armored Beetles, which spun into silver spheres and knocked the Two-Headed Corpse Puppet Insects back.
• Li Xiaoya attacked the insect mother with the Fire Dragon Sword and severed a group of newly spawned Two-Headed Corpse Puppet Insects with five-colored sword rays.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed a thirty-thousand-foot sword ray at the insect mother, but it raised a gray-black light curtain that shattered the attack.

Li Xiaoya battled the gigantic Insect Mother, whose gray-black power drained spiritual energy and neutralized his attacks. After the Steel-armored Beetles were swallowed and his strongest strikes failed to break its defenses, the Insect Mother suddenly screamed in pain and began spewing black-purple blood.

• Li Xiaoya’s probing Fire Dragon Sword attack failed, and the Insect Mother released gray-black power that drained the world’s spiritual qi and chased him with a giant maw.
• The Steel-armored Beetles intercepted the maw, but it swallowed them; Li Xiaoya transformed into an Earth Demon Dragon and slashed a massive gash through it.
• Li Xiaoya tried to attack the Insect Mother with Fire Dragon Spits Pearl and a barrage of golden dragon-claw punches, but its gray-black barrier dissolved both attacks.
• The Insect Mother prepared to hurl balls of flesh at Li Xiaoya, then screamed in pain and writhed as gray-black light and black-purple blood poured from its body.

Li Xiaoya attacked the Insect Mother while it writhed in pain, and discovered that his orange beam could petrify its body. After the Steel-armored Beetle tore its way out from within, Li Xiaoya wounded the Insect Mother with the Fire Dragon Sword, and it collapsed as it struggled against the damage.

• Li Xiaoya struck the Insect Mother with an orange beam, which rebounded but began petrifying the impact site.
• Corpse Puppet Insects swarmed toward Li Xiaoya as he fired another beam, but the Insect Mother raised its gray-black barrier and blocked it.
• Li Xiaoya sensed the Steel-armored Beetle inside the Insect Mother as bone spikes burst through its body and purple-black blood sprayed out.
• Li Xiaoya slashed the Insect Mother with the Fire Dragon Sword, carving a massive wound and weakening it.
• The Insect Mother sucked swarms of Corpse Puppet Insects into its body to heal its wound, but the bone spikes and writhing flesh caused it to stop and collapse.