Chapter Summaries

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race entered the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave to find the Spirit Baleful Lake and gain baleful ghost bodies for surviving the Land of Despair. As Ye Han confronted the cave’s baleful energy, an unknown presence awakened deep inside.

• Ye Han prepared to lead the way with his Thunderclap Divine Armor, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Teacher Lan Qing equipped their own defenses.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned that the cave’s baleful energy was extremely dangerous and that they would have to search for the Spirit Baleful Lake themselves.
• The three traveled to a huge cave entrance surrounded by damaged sealing restrictions, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race told Ye Han to enter first.
• Ye Han entered the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave, where blood-red specters and demons surged toward him through the baleful energy.
• A pair of blood-red eyes opened deep inside the cave, and an unknown being noticed that someone had arrived.

A mysterious figure summoned baleful ghosts to herd Ye Han and his companions through the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave. Ye Han recognized the trap as Blood Baleful Old Devil’s doing, and the group faced the danger of being driven somewhere perilous.

• Blood Baleful Old Devil sent swarms of powerful baleful ghosts through the cave to drive intruders toward him.
• Ye Han used demon-breaking divine thunder and the Ghost Skull Mirror to destroy the ghosts and absorb their baleful spirits, while Teacher Lan Qing protected the group with Green Lightning.
• Ye Han noticed that the ghosts were steering the group toward cave passages with fewer of them.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race identified Blood Baleful Old Devil as the one controlling the ghosts and suspected he was alive and mobile.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race discussed how to avoid the dangerous trap Blood Baleful Old Devil was setting.

Ye Han concluded that the Blood Baleful Old Devil was unable to leave his position and led the group in a rapid charge through the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave. After breaking through powerful baleful ghosts, they reached a vast lake that might be the Spirit Baleful Lake.

• Ye Han and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race realized the Blood Baleful Old Devil might be controlling the baleful ghosts, contrary to what they had been told.
• Ye Han argued that the Old Devil was likely unable to move and that delaying would only give him time to learn their abilities, so they should attack immediately.
• Ye Han charged ahead with demon-breaking divine thunder, while Teacher Lan Qing guarded the rear and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race focused on defense.
• The baleful ghosts funneled the group through passages with fewer enemies as the killing intent and the ghosts grew stronger.
• Ye Han blasted through the final group of baleful ghosts and emerged before a vast lake surrounded by mountain walls.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing encountered Blood Baleful Old Devil in the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave, where he raised a colossal baleful ghost and claimed to be the master of the Tower of Hell. Ye Han proposed that they cooperate to escape, then revealed he had located Blood Baleful Old Devil’s hidden position.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race recognized Blood Baleful Old Devil’s aura in the lake, and the passage behind Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing collapsed as a colossal baleful ghost formed.
• Blood Baleful Old Devil claimed to be the King of Hell and the master of the Tower of Hell, while Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing pretended to seek his help leaving.
• Ye Han realized Blood Baleful Old Devil was gathering strength and suggested they cooperate, arguing that killing them would not help him escape.
• Blood Balefal Old Devil showed interest in Ye Han’s proposal, and Ye Han said he would free him if he guided them through the Tower of Hell.
• Ye Han identified Blood Balefal Old Devil’s location by a distant cliff, surprising him and prompting the enormous baleful ghost to move aside.

Ye Han demonstrated that his swordsmanship and thunder arts could suppress the Blood Baleful Old Devil’s two-headed baleful ghost, then pressed the old devil to agree to cooperate. The Blood Baleful Old Devil offered to guide Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing out of the Tower of Hell but asked them to help him escape first.

• Ye Han severed one of the two-headed baleful ghost’s heads with a lightning-wreathed sword strike, then withstood its renewed attacks.
• The Blood Baleful Old Devil stopped the fight after realizing Ye Han was demonstrating his strength to persuade him to cooperate.
• Teacher Lan Qing displayed his Green Lightning, and the Blood Baleful Old Devil recognized that both cultivators could help him escape.
• The Blood Baleful Old Devil claimed he knew how to leave the Tower of Hell and proposed that they work together.
• Ye Han challenged the old devil to show sincerity, and the Blood Baleful Old Devil asked Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing to help free him first.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing negotiated with the Blood Baleful Old Devil for a reward before agreeing to help free him. After the devil offered the Immortal Spirit Qi Bowl and a purple-gold thunderclap stone, Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing crossed a bridge of baleful energy and entered the cave where the devil was trapped.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing demanded a valuable token of goodwill before they would help the Blood Baleful Old Devil escape.
• The Blood Baleful Old Devil released the Immortal Spirit Qi Bowl and the purple-gold thunderclap stone from a sealed cave, and Ye Han seized both treasures.
• The Blood Baleful Old Devil revealed that the bowl had sustained him in the Tower of Hell and invited Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing to the Spirit Baleful Lake inside the cliff.
• A two-headed baleful ghost formed a bridge of baleful energy, and Ye Han crossed it safely as Teacher Lan Qing followed.
• Ye Han entered the cave passage, with Teacher Lan Qing close behind.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing reached the Blood Baleful Old Devil, who offered more treasures if Ye Han freed him. After learning that the Old Devil’s proposed method required great power, Ye Han revealed the Gods-and-Devils Hand, leaving the Old Devil startled.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing crossed the damaged, rune-sealed cavern and found the Blood Baleful Old Devil bound within a lake of baleful energy.
• Ye Han offered to free the Blood Baleful Old Devil, who promised further treasures and a possible Spirit Transformation Stage opportunity in return.
• The Blood Baleful Old Devil gave Ye Han a beast hide marking thirty-six formation nodes and a method for breaking the restrictions with Thunder Arts and swordsmanship.
• Ye Han questioned whether his attacks would be powerful enough, and the Blood Baleful Old Devil pointed to the Immortal Spirit Qi Bowl and Purple-Gold Thunderclap Stone he had given him.
• Ye Han claimed he had a better method and revealed the Gods-and-Devils Hand, shocking the Blood Baleful Old Devil.

Ye Han attacked Blood Baleful Old Devil with the Gods-and-Devils Hand instead of freeing him, and the strike blasted Blood Baleful Old Devil to ashes. The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Teacher Lan Qing survived the storm, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race wondered whether the Gods-and-Devils Hand had vanished too.

• Blood Baleful Old Devil recognized Ye Han's Gods-and-Devils Hand and suspected he might be a human from the Upper Realm.
• Ye Han charged the Gods-and-Devils Hand with spell power, and Blood Baleful Old Devil realized Ye Han meant to attack him.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race emerged from a spatial rift and taunted Blood Baleful Old Devil, who accused it of bringing Ye Han there.
• Ye Han unleashed the Gods-and-Devils Hand, crushing Blood Baleful Old Devil's shields and saber while the restriction weakened his power.
• Ye Han's attack shattered the Restriction Formation and reduced Blood Baleful Old Devil to ashes as the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Teacher Lan Qing endured the storm.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race stared at the spatial rift and wondered whether the Gods-and-Devils Hand had disappeared.

Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to find and capture Blood Baleful Old Devil’s fleeing nascent soul and primordial spirit, then claimed his Space Ring despite the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member demanding his promised first choice of treasure. Ye Han erased the ring’s seals, while Teacher Lan Qing watched and privately considered Ye Han’s body.

• Ye Han tracked Blood Baleful Old Devil with the Ghost Skull Mirror and sealed his nascent soul and primordial spirit inside it.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member reached for Blood Baleful Old Devil’s Space Ring, but Ye Han stopped him with the Five Elements Golden Cudgel and took the ring.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member reminded Ye Han that he had promised him first choice of a treasure, and Ye Han said he was checking the ring for traps.
• Teacher Lan Qing noticed Ye Han’s power of the stars and considered whether she could take his body, but doubted she could manipulate him.
• Ye Han erased Blood Baleful Old Devil’s Blood-Drip Recognition and soul seal from the Space Ring.

Ye Han discovered that the Blood Baleful Old Devil’s ring held Baleful Spirit Pearls and a mysterious bottle, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow eagerly wanted the pearls. Ye Han gave him fifty-six pearls but kept the rest, and the fellow asked to trade for more.

• Ye Han opened the Blood Baleful Old Devil’s Space Ring and found Baleful Spirit Pearls and a strange bottle.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow recognized a pearl and demanded all the Baleful Spirit Pearls, while Ye Han secretly kept most of them because the Purple Cauldron reacted to one.
• Teacher Lan Qing reminded the fellow that he had only earned the right to choose one treasure first, and Ye Han agreed to give him one pearl.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow offered Ye Han first choice of a future treasure, but Ye Han insisted the ring held only pearls.
• Ye Han gave the fellow fifty-six Baleful Spirit Pearls, refused to hand over the rest, and heard him ask whether he could trade for them.

Ye Han refused to give Old Thief more Baleful Spirit Pearls, concealing that the Purple Cauldron reacted to them and distrusting Old Thief’s motives. After Old Thief left, Ye Han entered Spirit Baleful Lake to cultivate the Baleful Ghost Body, where the lake’s spiritual energy and killing intent began circulating through him.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing told Old Thief they needed the Baleful Spirit Pearls and would only spare him any that remained.
• Old Thief demanded to know why Ye Han wanted the pearls, while Ye Han suspected Old Thief had manipulated events and was hiding his true purpose.
• Ye Han refused to explain and told Old Thief he could leave if he no longer wanted to work with them.
• Old Thief accepted the refusal, said he would use what he had, and vanished into a rift in the void to cultivate elsewhere.
• Ye Han entered the replenished Spirit Baleful Lake and began circulating Old Thief’s technique for cultivating the Baleful Ghost Body.

Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to refine Baleful Spirit Pearls into Purple-Red Mushrooms, then ate one and finally began mastering the Baleful Body Cultivation Technique. The resulting surge of killing intent drew Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s attention as they wondered what Ye Han was doing.

• Ye Han secretly fed Baleful Spirit Pearls to the Purple Cauldron, which sprouted blood-red mushrooms and began recovering its aura.
• After seven days, Teacher Lan Qing had mastered the baleful ghost body, but Ye Han still struggled because his powerful body and complex spirit roots hindered the technique.
• The Purple Cauldron transformed the pearls into Purple-Red Mushrooms, and Ye Han sensed that one might help him master the baleful ghost method.
• Ye Han ate a Purple-Red Mushroom and successfully circulated the Baleful Body Cultivation Technique, drawing immense killing intent into himself from the Spirit Baleful Lake.
• Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race emerged from the lake and watched the enormous vortex, wondering what Ye Han was doing.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing traveled through Spirit-Devouring Mountain in baleful ghost bodies, conserving their spell power as they approached the Land of Despair. The Immortal-Thief Outsider reached them near the Gate of Despair and warned that trouble lay ahead.

• Ye Han used the Baleful Body Art to move through Spirit-Devouring Mountain with Teacher Lan Qing, relying on the killing-intent meridian and golden core he had formed after eating the purplish-red mushroom.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider left Spirit Baleful Lake and traveled for more than four months toward the Land of Despair.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing spent pills to sustain their spell power as spirit-devouring aura drained it rapidly, and they avoided the Greater Spirit-Devouring Beasts by slipping between their breaths.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider emerged from a spatial rift near the Gate of Despair and told Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing that there was trouble.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider reached the Gate of Despair, only to find the Hell Messenger blocking the entrance to the Land of Despair. Ye Han questioned whether they should risk entering, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider urged them to continue, and Teacher Lan Qing hesitated.

• Ye Han realized the Immortal-Thief Outsider had grown stronger through the Baleful Spirit Pearls and suspected he had a secret objective deeper in the Land of Despair.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider revealed that the Hell Messenger was blocking the Gate of Despair, the only entrance to the Land of Despair.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider saw the Hell Messenger pacing outside the immense gate, apparently unwilling to enter.
• Ye Han guessed that the Hell Messenger had chased a member of the Big-Eared Moon Race into the Land of Despair.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider argued that they should still enter, but Ye Han asked Teacher Lan Qing whether they should proceed, and Teacher Lan Qing hesitated.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race avoided the Hell Messenger guarding the Gate of Despair and searched for another way into the Land of Despair. They found the place where Teacher Lan Qing had entered before, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race’s assurances about surviving inside left Ye Han suspicious.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race proposed luring Spirit-Devouring Beasts into a fight with the Hell Messenger, but Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing recalled that Teacher Lan Qing had once entered the Land of Despair elsewhere.
• Teacher Lan Qing remembered a stretch of rugged, peculiar peaks, so Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race searched for it for more than a month.
• The three found the blasted hillside, and Teacher Lan Qing identified the foot of the mountain as the place where he had entered before.
• Ye Han asked whether the Baleful Ghost Body could evade the Land of Despair’s chaos energy, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race said it could.
• Teacher Lan Qing accused the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race of planning to escape through a Spatial Rift, but he insisted he could not do so once they entered, prompting Ye Han to question his claim.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member entered the Land of Despair through a spatial rift after the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member stabilized the passage. There, Teacher Lan Qing sensed his original physical body, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member asked whether it was still in good condition.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member warned Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing that spatial abilities would not work inside and urged them to stay alert for chaos aura attacks.
• The three reached a spatial rift in a mountain wall, and Teacher Lan Qing identified its destination as a mountain inside the Land of Despair.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member transformed into a powerful baleful ghost body and used hand seals to tear open and stabilize the spatial vortex.
• Before entering the rift, Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han to keep himself safe if there was no way to restore his physical body, and Ye Han nodded.
• Ye Han crossed the spatial passage and found the Land of Despair rich in spiritual energy but filled with chaotic, indistinguishable Five Elements energy.
• Teacher Lan Qing emerged and sensed the location of his original physical body, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member asked whether it was still intact.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider entered the Land of Despair and set out to find Teacher Lan Qing’s physical body. Their search was interrupted when a chaos-energy attack burst from a spatial rift.

• Teacher Lan Qing sensed that his physical body was extremely weak and hinted that his cultivation might be above Spirit Transformation.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider urged the group to find Teacher Lan Qing’s body, while Ye Han resolved to prioritize caution and keep the Purple Cauldron’s power sealed.
• The three crossed a smooth cliff fissure into a rocky expanse riddled with bottomless holes and chaos water, then followed Teacher Lan Qing toward his body.
• A spatial rift opened beside the group, and a sword of chaos energy struck toward them as the Immortal-Thief Outsider activated Baleful Ghost Intangibility.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider traveled through the Land of Despair while using baleful ghost bodies to evade chaos energy and hidden demons. After they concealed themselves from a disturbance, Ye Han recognized the streak of white light as the rabbit.

• Chaos energy sword-rays struck Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider, drawing out traces of their souls and nascent souls.
• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron’s aura was restoring the damage to his nascent soul and felt more confident about surviving the Land of Despair.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider urged the group to hurry before the chaos dark demons discovered them, and they raced onward in their concealed forms.
• The three passed chaos dark demons hiding in pools and entered a depression where the pools and demons grew more numerous and dangerous.
• Thunderous explosions sounded nearby, Teacher Lan Qing hid with the others, and Ye Han recognized a streak of white light as the rabbit.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider chased the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit after it swallowed a key to the Despair Treasure Chest, only to discover it was luring them into danger. The rabbit escaped, leaving the three surrounded by Chaos Black Fiends.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider spotted a golden key in the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit’s mouth, and the rabbit swallowed it before fleeing.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider told Ye Han the key was the legendary key to the Despair Treasure Chest, and the three pursued the rabbit as Chaos Black Fiends followed.
• Ye Han realized the rabbit was slowing down and leading them past pools of Chaos Water to draw more Chaos Black Fiends toward them.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider attacked the rabbit, which transformed into his likeness and caused his Ghost Claw to seize his own neck.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing attacked the rabbit, but it accelerated away and the Chaos Black Fiends turned on the three companions.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing escaped the Chaos Black Fiends after realizing the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator had deliberately separated them from the others. They continued toward Teacher Lan Qing’s physical body and arrived beneath a towering Sky-Piercing Pillar.

• The Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit lured Chaos Black Fiends toward Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing before fleeing, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator pursued him and sent Death Dolls after him.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing struggled against the Chaos Black Fiends, whose attacks drained their Nascent Soul and soul essence, and Ye Han found his sword-rays could not injure them.
• Ye Han urged Teacher Lan Qing to abandon the pursuit and search for his physical body, and they fled the Chaos Black Fiends.
• Teacher Lan Qing and Ye Han concluded that the rabbit and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator had both acted deliberately to leave them behind.
• After more than two hours, Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing reached a landscape of towering Sky-Piercing Pillars as the Chaos Black Fiends retreated.