Chapter Summaries

Mu Chen and his companions disabled the vortex-generating array and solved the console sequence, opening the way to the Sixth Floor of the Spiritual Power Tower. They defeated its Guardian Spirits and approached the Spiritual Power Altar to search for the Map Fragments and the Key.

• Mu Chen and his companions studied the console runes and operated its buttons and levers, but the resulting spiritual power vortices threatened to pull them in.
• Luo Li analyzed the shield around a concealed conduit, and the group used the ancient skill from the second-floor carvings to break it before Mu Chen severed the conduit and stopped the vortices.
• Mu Chen completed the console sequence, opening a gateway through which the group reached the Sixth Floor and found a Spiritual Power Altar guarded by enormous spirits.
• Mu Chen and his companions fought the Guardian Spirits together, adapting their attacks to the spirits' weaknesses until they defeated them all.
• The group approached the altar to search for the Map Fragments and the Key.

After reaching the sixth floor of the Spiritual Power Tower, Mu Chen’s group allied with the Silver Armor Family against a hostile black-robed team and learned more about the Dark Forces’ ritual. Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Silver Armor Family experts headed to the Spirit Illusion Abyss to search for the Map Fragments and the Key, where a vortex’s suction trapped them in a desperate struggle.

• Mu Chen’s group met several explorer teams, and the Silver Armor Family offered to cooperate against the Dark Forces.
• A black-robed team attacked Mu Chen’s group and the Silver Armor Family, but their combined assault disrupted the attackers and drove them off.
• The Silver Armor Family leader revealed that the Dark Forces had established resonance points to activate a ritual that could open a gateway to the Dark World.
• Mu Chen’s group showed the Gray-Clad Adventurer Team a route out, then joined the Silver Armor Family to search locations connected to the Map Fragments and the Key.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and Silver Armor Family experts fought off Spiritual Power Wolves on their way to the Spirit Illusion Abyss.
• A powerful vortex began pulling the team toward its center, so Luo Li told everyone to clasp hands and resist its suction together.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, and allied teams braved the Spirit Illusion Abyss, fought off the Black-Robed Team, and recovered a Map Fragment, a Key, and information about the Dark Forces’ plans. They regrouped with the other squads and prepared to search the Ruins for the remaining items and stop the Dark Forces.

• Mu Chen and the others studied runes near the Spirit Illusion Abyss that pointed toward a location within the vortex.
• The Silver Armor Family Leader united the arriving teams, and they used spiritual power ropes and their combined strength to approach the marked location.
• The Black-Robed Team attacked, but Mu Chen and the allies fought them while resisting the vortex and advanced to a platform holding a glowing box.
• Mu Chen killed the Black-Robed Team’s leader, causing the remaining enemies to flee.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the allied teams opened the box and found a Map Fragment, a Key, and information about the Ruins and the Dark Forces’ plans.
• The group returned to safety, shared their discoveries with the other squads, and planned to seek the remaining Map Fragments and Keys.

Mu Chen and his companions fought rival teams in a sealed valley over a Map Fragment, eventually driving them away and claiming the fragment. Its clues pointed deeper into the Ruins, and the group set out to find the remaining fragments and stop the Dark Forces.

• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family's experts arrived at a valley where the black-robed team and unfamiliar groups had gathered.
• The hostile teams attacked, and Mu Chen and his companions fought back, weakening the Dark Devouring Vortex and disrupting the enemy formations with the Astral Behemoth.
• A hidden black-robed expert attacked with black spikes, but Mu Chen and his companions defended together and targeted the weakness in the expert's abdomen.
• The black-robed expert was wounded, and the hostile teams fled the valley under the group's relentless assault.
• Mu Chen's companions found a Map Fragment in a sealed stone casket, and its clues led them deeper into the Ruins.

Mu Chen and his companions crossed a trap-filled corridor and fought Spiritual Power Puppets to enter an ancient hall. They secured more Map Fragments and scrolls revealing the Dark Forces’ plans, then continued their search to stop them.

• Mu Chen led the group deeper into the Ruins, where they endured rune attacks and disrupted a spiritual power vortex to pass through the traps.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts studied the hall’s carvings and imitated the depicted techniques to weaken its spiritual light curtain.
• Spiritual Power Puppets appeared and attacked, so the group fought them while continuing to strike the curtain.
• Mu Chen and his companions found the curtain’s crucial frequency and shattered it, causing the puppets to collapse.
• Mu Chen collected the Map Fragments, and the group read Ancient Scrolls revealing that the Dark Forces sought control of all spiritual power in the Spirit Road World.
• Luo Li and the others took the fragments and scrolls and left the hall to seek the remaining fragments and stop the Dark Forces.

Mu Chen and his companions fought their way through the ruins, defeated Black-Scaled Wolves and a Spiritual Power Flood Dragon, and recovered more Map Fragments. They encountered the Ancient Giant, who agreed to let them take what they sought if they survived its trial, and the battle began.

• Mu Chen and his companions fought off a pack of Black-Scaled Wolves by targeting their eyes and bellies and working together in formation.
• The group entered a cavern, defeated the Spiritual Power Flood Dragon by attacking the core in its belly, and found Map Fragments in the pool.
• A towering Ancient Giant confronted the group and demanded to know why they had entered its Guardian Land.
• Mu Chen told the Ancient Giant they were trying to stop the Dark Forces, and the giant offered them a trial: withstand its attacks for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• The Ancient Giant launched two expanding spheres of spiritual light at Mu Chen and his companions, who prepared their strongest defenses.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family fought the ancient giant guarding the Ruins, endured its attacks, and discovered that the crystal in its head was its vital point. After shattering the crystal and defeating the giant, they rested briefly and continued deeper into the Ruins with their Map Fragments.

• Mu Chen and the others joined their defenses against the giant’s spiritual light spheres, then dodged its barrage of blades as a Silver Armor Family expert was injured.
• Mu Chen spotted a brief opening after the giant’s attacks, and the group struck it before escaping the spreading black flames with help from Mu Chen’s Astral Behemoth.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family attacked the giant together, damaging its leg and abdomen before its shockwave knocked them down.
• Mu Chen noticed the crystal in the giant’s head and directed the group to attack it while the giant recovered.
• The group shattered the crystal, causing the ancient giant to fall, then gathered their Map Fragments and continued deeper into the Ruins.

After defeating the Ancient Giant, Mu Chen and his companions studied the creatures’ weaknesses and fought through living vines and dark red soul figures in the Ruins. They defeated both threats and continued deeper, prepared to face more challenges.

• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts reviewed the Ancient Giant’s attack patterns and recalled weaknesses they had found in the Black-Scaled Wolves and Spiritual Power Flood Dragon.
• Mu Chen’s group was attacked by thorny vines, traced them to an enormous rootstock powered by a spiritual power vortex, and destroyed it with attacks from above.
• Mu Chen and his companions encountered dark red soul figures whose blasts could injure their souls, and discovered ordinary spiritual energy attacks had little effect.
• Mu Chen showed the group that attacks infused with soul power could weaken the figures, and they adapted their tactics to strike after the figures released their soul blasts.
• Mu Chen’s group defeated the soul figures and continued deeper into the Ruins.

Mu Chen and his companions defeated an ambush by Soul Shadows in a dark red mist, then drove back Spiritual Power Beetles and invisible spiritual power cheetahs as they explored deeper into the Ruins. They continued toward the Ruins’ depths, determined to stop the Dark Forces.

• Mu Chen detected the Soul Shadows moving through the mist and led his companions in repelling their ambush and resisting their Soul Shockwaves.
• Mu Chen’s group pursued the Soul Shadows and destroyed them through coordinated attacks, after which the mist dispersed.
• Mu Chen and his companions encountered Spiritual Power Beetles and discovered that their joints were vulnerable when they charged.
• Mu Chen’s group spotted distortions in the air around invisible spiritual power cheetahs and counterattacked, driving them back.
• Mu Chen and his companions continued deeper into the Ruins to confront further dangers and pursue their goal of stopping the Dark Forces.

Mu Chen and his companions overcame the hall’s traps and opened a casket containing the remaining Map Fragments. With the complete map revealing the route to the Source of Darkness, they set out toward it to confront the Dark Forces.

• Mu Chen led the group into a circular hall where an array attacked them as they approached a casket.
• Mu Chen identified gaps in the array’s attack pattern, and he, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts reached the platform.
• Luo Li and Mu Chen deciphered the casket’s barriers using the colors and flickering patterns of the Spiritual Power Crystals, then shattered them with their combined spiritual energy.
• Mu Chen opened the casket, found the remaining Map Fragments, and assembled them into a complete map marking the Source of Darkness.
• After resting briefly, Mu Chen and his companions followed the map toward the Source of Darkness.

Guided by the complete map, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family fought through dangerous passages, a shifting maze, and a valley guarded by Spiritual Power Qilin. They found a hidden passage behind a waterfall and descended toward the Source of Darkness.

• Mu Chen and his companions followed the map through a mural-lined passage and repelled a swarm of venomous Spiritual Power Snakes by targeting their weak points.
• Mu Chen deciphered the changing rune lights in the Spiritual Energy Maze, guiding the group past looping passages and hidden Spiritual Power Spikes to the exit.
• The group crossed a misty valley while avoiding suction traps in its pools, then battled and drove back a group of Spiritual Power Qilin.
• Mu Chen led the exhausted group through a passage behind a waterfall and down toward the Source of Darkness.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family's experts broke through a five-element restriction and defeated a Black Monster in the passage behind the waterfall. They continued deeper into the Ruins toward the Source of Darkness, knowing greater dangers awaited them.

• Mu Chen and the others encountered dark red patterns and a powerful barrier that activated in the passage.
• The group deciphered the barrier's five-element rune sequence and shattered it with coordinated spiritual power attacks.
• A Black Monster appeared, and Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family's experts fought it but initially could not penetrate its scales.
• Mu Chen spotted the monster's exposed belly as its weak point, and the group concentrated their attacks there until they defeated it.
• After resting briefly, Mu Chen and the others continued toward the Source of Darkness.

Mu Chen and his companions studied and broke through a rune-covered barrier on their way to the Source of Darkness. Another, more complex barrier appeared ahead, and they prepared to face it.

• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts found a shifting blue barrier blocking the passage and failed to break it with direct attacks.
• Mu Chen spotted a rune pattern and led the group in constructing a spiritual energy lock, but their first attempt triggered a shock wave that injured them.
• Mu Chen noticed the runes also had a subtle frequency, and the group rebuilt the lock to match their attributes, strengths, sequence, and frequency.
• Mu Chen urged everyone to hold the lock steady until cracks appeared, and Luo Li encouraged them to pour in more energy; the barrier shattered.
• The group discovered a new barrier made of enormous rune-covered pillars of spiritual light, and Mu Chen prepared to confront it.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family's experts deciphered the shifting runes on a spiritual energy barrier and fought off attacks from the evil power. They broke through the barrier and continued toward the Source of Darkness as the evil power grew more frenzied.

• Mu Chen and his companions examined the pillars and discovered that the shifting runes formed a complex pattern connected to the evil power.
• The evil aura attacked their minds, but Mu Chen raised a Spiritual Energy Shield while Luo Li and the Silver Armor Family's experts helped resist it.
• Mu Chen recognized that the runes followed an ancient stellar alignment pattern, and the group attacked its crucial nodes to destabilize the barrier.
• The evil power summoned black ghosts, which Mu Chen and the others destroyed by combining spiritual energy with soul power.
• The group resumed attacking the rune nodes until the pillar barrier cracked and collapsed, then continued toward the Source of Darkness.

Mu Chen and his companions deciphered the black mirror barrier’s markings and broke it by touching them in the reversed ritual sequence. They survived the ensuing surge of evil power and continued closer to the Source of Darkness.

• Mu Chen warned the group that the black mirror barrier could absorb spiritual energy, and Luo Li suggested studying its dark red markings.
• Mu Chen and his companions identified the markings as stages of an ancient dark sacrificial ritual and recorded their changing patterns.
• The barrier released soul-corroding black smoke, and Luo Li and the Silver Armor Family experts shielded the group as Mu Chen searched for the ritual’s sequence.
• Mu Chen recalled that the ritual’s stages had to be reversed, and the group touched the markings in that order until cracks spread across the barrier.
• The shattered barrier unleashed a black tsunami of evil power, which Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts resisted with their strongest defenses.

Mu Chen and his companions entered the ruins’ Core Area, discovered that the Dark Forces planned to unleash the sealed evil power, and learned how to reinforce its seal. After finding and positioning five divine artifacts around the Spiritual Power Fountain, they prepared to begin the Sealing Ritual as the chamber trembled.

• Mu Chen led the exhausted group into the Core Area, where they found a five-colored Spiritual Power Fountain surrounded by treasure chests and ancient artifacts.
• Mu Chen and the others deciphered the stone pillars and learned the ruins had been built to seal an evil power that the Dark Forces sought to release.
• Mu Chen discovered a trap near a treasure chest, and the group learned to match their spiritual power to the surroundings to avoid triggering traps and mechanisms.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts defeated the Spiritual Power Puppets by exploiting their poor coordination.
• The group found the Golden Scepter, icy-blue long dress, Flame Shield, Jade Spiritual Bow, and Star Helmet, then placed them around the fountain to prepare the Sealing Ritual.

As the Sealing Ritual neared, the treasures in the Core Area of the Ruins tempted several people, and their greed led to gruesome deaths. Mu Chen brought the survivors back to their purpose as the Spiritual Power Array Formation formed and the ritual was about to begin.

• A Silver Armor Family member reached for a gem-studded Treasure Chest and was blasted away, prompting Mu Chen to warn everyone against touching the treasures.
• Another treasure seeker approached Spiritual Power Battle Armor and was consumed by its black Spiritual Power Chains.
• A black-robed adventurer grabbed gems, triggering an alarm and a surge of dark spiritual power that made his body explode.
• A Silver Armor Family expert seized a Spiritual Power Accessory despite Mu Chen's attempt to stop him, and it absorbed his soul.
• Mu Chen warned the survivors that the treasures were tainted by evil power, and they refocused on the Sealing Ritual.
• The Spiritual Power Fountain and five Divine Artifacts formed an enormous Spiritual Power Array Formation, and Mu Chen and the others took their positions as the ritual was about to begin.

Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family deciphered the ancient sealing ritual and completed it despite corrupted souls and the evil power's resistance. The seal descended into the Ruins, containing the evil power and leaving the group exhausted but victorious.

• Mu Chen and his companions studied the images on the stone pillars to learn the ancient sealing ritual's gestures and incantations.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts coordinated their spiritual power to activate the array and the five divine artifacts.
• The corrupted souls of their dead companions attacked, and the group used soul power to purify them while protecting the ritual.
• Mu Chen and the others poured their remaining strength into the seal as the evil power resisted from underground.
• The completed multicolored seal descended into the Ruins and bound the evil power.

After stabilizing the seal, Mu Chen and the others uncovered clues that the Ruins connected the Spirit Road World to the Dark World and found a map of sites that might sever that connection. They destroyed a Dark Crystal beneath the Underground Dark River that was corroding the seal, then set out to explore the mapped locations.

• Luo Li and the others studied the murals and learned the Dark Forces had found the Ruins using a mysterious Crystal Fragment.
• Mu Chen and the others discovered that the Ruins were a nexus between the Spirit Road World and the Dark World, and Luo Li found a map marking locations that might sever the connection.
• Black threads began corroding the Five-Colored Spiritual Power Seal, and Mu Chen traced them to the Underground Dark River.
• Mu Chen and the others fought Dark Spiritual Power Crocodiles in the river and found a Dark Crystal generating the black threads.
• Mu Chen broke the crystal's protective barrier with Astral Scripture: Myriad Forms Return to One, and the group destroyed the Dark Crystal, stabilizing the seal.
• Mu Chen and the others left the river and headed toward the locations marked on the map.

After stabilizing the seal, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts made their way through the Ruins, fought off Golden-Scaled Spiritual Lions, and broke through the final rune barrier. They left with crucial information to use against the Dark Forces, though their mission remained unfinished.

• Mu Chen said they needed to leave the Ruins quickly and act on the information they had obtained, while Luo Li warned that the way out could still be dangerous.
• Mu Chen noticed that the Vine Traps had grown stronger, so the group took a safer route around them and hurried past the Spiritual Energy Maze.
• Golden-Scaled Spiritual Lions charged from the maze, and Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Silver Armor Family experts fought while retreating, using bright spiritual power to disrupt the creatures.
• Mu Chen and his companions matched their spiritual power to the surrounding rhythm and shattered the ancient rune barrier blocking the exit.
• The group left the Ruins and set out to use their information to thwart the Dark Forces.