Chapter Summaries

Lu Feng escaped the Alligator Dragon General by plunging into the Blood Sea, triggering a massacre that wiped out the armies nearby. The general survived and left, while Lu Feng faced a grave crisis inside the Blood Sea.

• Lu Feng cut through the Alligator Dragon General’s true qi and plunged into the Blood Sea rather than be captured.
• The Alligator Dragon General tried to pull Lu Feng back, but the Rusty Sword severed his true-qi chains.
• The Blood Sea erupted into streams of bloody qi that engulfed the Demon Race army and the nearby Immortal Race, Monster Tribe, Ghost King Sect, and Corpse Spirit Sect forces.
• The bloody qi dissolved the armies, leaving only patches of pus and blood that soon vanished into the earth.
• The Alligator Dragon General survived the Blood Sea’s surge, sensed a powerful presence within it, and told his commanders that Lu Feng was dead before leaving.
• Inside the pillar of blood, Lu Feng encountered a grave crisis.

Lu Feng entered the Blood Sea’s blood pillar, relying on the Five Directional Banners and the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique to withstand its pressure and corrosive vapor. After a powerful suction pulled him into a day-long fall, he passed through a strange energy layer and plunged into the Blood Sea below, where he began to wake.

• The Five Directional Banners protected Lu Feng from the blood pillar’s mental pressure and purified the vapor’s corrosive force, while its heat and damage drained his true qi.
• Lu Feng activated the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique to restore his body and true qi, then used the Greased-Soles Cultivation Technique to rush through the pillar.
• A powerful suction dragged Lu Feng and the Five Directional Banners downward, and the technique’s adverse effects caused him to fall unconscious.
• Lu Feng fell through the Blood Sea’s pillar for an entire day as the vapor repeatedly damaged his body and the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique restored it and increased his resistance.
• Lu Feng passed through a strange energy layer that slowed his descent and fell into the Blood Sea below.
• Several hours later, Lu Feng began to wake in the Blood Sea.

Lu Feng survived the Blood Sea’s annihilating force as the dark mass and Bronze Sword protected his vital cores while his body slowly adapted and regenerated. After escaping the sea and finding that the energy barrier above would absorb him, he flew off to search for another way out.

• The dark mass shielded Lu Feng’s purple mansion, and his Bronze Sword protected his dantians as the Blood Sea repeatedly destroyed and the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique restored his body.
• Lu Feng’s bones and flesh gradually recovered until a terrifying howl from the depths of the Blood Sea struck him with mental pressure.
• The dark mass answered with a louder demonic howl, and the source of the first howl fell silent.
• Lu Feng woke with his body restored, then swam to the surface of the Blood Sea and noticed the strange barrier separating it from the bloody mist.
• Lu Feng tried to fly upward but retreated when the barrier threatened to absorb him; the Rusty Sword could not break through because the energy immediately recovered.
• Lu Feng chose a direction and flew across the Blood Sea to search for another exit.

Lu Feng explored the Blood Sea for a way out and discovered that strange, invisible creatures made of bloody water were following him. After reaching the seabed, he spotted a place glowing with mystic light, suggesting that a treasure lay there.

• Lu Feng searched the energy layer above the Blood Sea but found no opening, so he plunged downward to look for an exit below.
• Lu Feng used the Mystic Origin Bright Dao Eye and discovered dense clusters of energy following him through the water.
• Lu Feng turned suddenly, collided with the clusters, and caught one, confirming they were living creatures that blended into the bloody water.
• Lu Feng recognized the creatures as likely beings born in the Blood Fiend Land, released the one he had caught, and continued toward the seabed.
• After many days of diving, Lu Feng reached the seabed and saw endless mystic light shining from one spot.

Lu Feng discovered an ancient stone city beneath the Blood Sea and entered it, hoping it might hold the key to escaping. After he cut a piece from its wall and triggered a violent disturbance, a strange unseen presence laughed behind him, and he pressed deeper into the city.

• Lu Feng found a silent stone city called Asura City beneath the Blood Sea and entered through its open gate.
• Inside the city, Lu Feng failed to break off a piece of its wall by hand, then used the Rusty Sword to cut away a chunk.
• The city shook as thunderous drumbeats sounded, but the disturbance soon ended without any visible danger.
• Lu Feng heard an eerie laugh behind him and suspected a powerful being was watching from the Blood Sea.
• Lu Feng turned back into the city and continued deeper, hoping to find a way to escape the Blood Sea.

Lu Feng entered the Asura Palace and discovered two living blood cocoons drawing refined energy from across the Blood Sea. As he stood on their throne, a strange pressure overtook him, and he suddenly saw the entire Blood Sea spread out before him.

• Lu Feng explored the stone city and entered the palace marked Asura Palace.
• Lu Feng saw two blood cocoons on the throne, absorbing energy carried through vein-like patterns from across the Blood Sea.
• Lu Feng concluded that living beings were inside the cocoons and tried to take them for the Eldest Miss and the Second Miss.
• Lu Feng failed to touch or lift the cocoons, and the purple Gourd could not draw them in because a strange force protected them.
• Lu Feng climbed onto the throne with the Rusty Sword, then felt the world shrink as he gained a clear view of the Blood Sea, its jagged mountains, and its blood fiend creatures.

Lu Feng used the throne’s power to survey the Blood Sea, discovered a powerful bodiless presence, and concluded it might be the Blood Sea itself or a being it was nurturing. When he withdrew his divine sense, he found countless masses of blood energy gathered outside Asura City.

• Lu Feng surveyed the Blood Sea from the throne and spotted a strange stone gate at its eastern edge.
• Lu Feng detected a terrifying mental presence that had been evading his searches and tracked it across the Blood Sea.
• Lu Feng examined the bodiless presence and suspected its true form was the Blood Sea itself or a powerful being still taking shape within it.
• Lu Feng withdrew his divine sense and saw countless masses of blood energy packed outside Asura City.

Lu Feng left Stone City after calming the blood-mist masses by putting away his Rusty Sword, then crossed the Blood Sea toward the cavern. After more than three years, he reached the far stone gate and read the words “Hell Gate” above it.

• Lu Feng realized the blood-mist masses were reacting to his threat to the two blood cocoons, then put away his Rusty Sword and watched their hostility subside.
• Lu Feng left Stone City and traveled east, while the powerful Mental Power stopped following him.
• The blood-mist masses streamed toward Stone City, leaving none in the Blood Sea ahead of Lu Feng within three months.
• Lu Feng spent more than three years crossing the Blood Sea, strengthening his True Qi along the way.
• Lu Feng reached the cavern’s stone gate and discovered the words “Hell Gate” above its opening.

Lu Feng discovered that the Stone Cavern gate led to hell, and blood-red beams guarding it nearly overwhelmed him before the Five Directional Banners destroyed them. He recognized two floating stone swords above the gate as possible Innate Supreme Treasures and began plotting to claim them.

• Lu Feng realized the cavern gate was his only apparent way out of the Blood Sea and led to hell.
• When Lu Feng approached the gate, two blood-red beams struck him and tried to pierce the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner.
• The Five Directional Banners blocked the beams and shredded them with the power of the five elements.
• Lu Feng spotted two floating stone swords above the gate and used the Mystic Origin Bright Dao Eye to inspect them.
• Lu Feng recognized the swords' innate Dao resonance and grew eager to claim what he believed might be Innate Supreme Treasures.

Lu Feng tried to claim two unfinished Innate Supreme Treasure sword embryos in the Blood Sea, but their attacks repeatedly overwhelmed him. After using the purple gourd and Rusty Sword to draw off and block their defenses, he neared the swords, only for them to unleash boundless sword light.

• Lu Feng discovered that the stone swords were likely Innate Supreme Treasure embryos and decided to take them before they fully formed.
• He tried to approach while blocking one blood-red beam with the Rusty Sword, but another beam struck him and nearly shattered his consciousness.
• Lu Feng recovered and used the purple gourd to send starlight toward the swords, but their beams destroyed it, forcing him to retreat.
• He tried again, using the gourd to distract the swords while the Rusty Sword intercepted their attacks, and advanced toward them.
• As Lu Feng drew closer, the stone swords unleashed boundless sword light that blotted out the sky and covered the earth.

Lu Feng fled the stone swords through the Hell Gate, where a savage wind and a deadly aura of death repeatedly tore apart his body. After surviving through the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique and his treasures, he emerged in a silent darkness and discovered a group of armored warriors nearby.

• Lu Feng fled the stone swords by plunging into the Hell Gate, where its suction pulled him into a dark world.
• A savage wind swept Lu Feng onward, and he repeatedly used the Withered Wood Rejuvenation Cultivation Technique to survive its torment.
• The wind slowed as a deathly aura began turning Lu Feng's body to ash, and he endured a month-long recovery with help from his treasures and cultivation technique.
• Lu Feng woke in a silent, pitch-black place and used the Mystic Origin Bright Dao Eye to locate nearby concentrations of energy.
• Lu Feng moved closer and saw a group of tall, heavily built people dressed as warriors in iron armor.

Lu Feng discovered a hundred thousand lifeless iron-armored cultivators whose mental power began to stir when the Five Directional Banners scattered starlight over them. As a Black Great Bell approached and its sound drove him toward despair and suicide, Lu Feng realized it was causing his sorrow.

• Lu Feng found an army of a hundred thousand armored Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and suspected they had served the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor.
• The Five Directional Banners resonated with the army and awakened its mental power, while fixing the surrounding space and trapping Lu Feng.
• A deep bell note overwhelmed Lu Feng with sorrowful thoughts, and he nearly used the Rusty Sword to kill himself.
• Lu Feng snapped out of the suicidal impulse when a buzzing erupted in his mind, then recognized that the bell's sound had caused his despair.
• The Black Great Bell hurtled through the darkness toward Lu Feng, radiating black mystic light.

Lu Feng watched the Black Great Bell overwhelm the Five Directional Banners and the hundred thousand armored soldiers, while his Bronze Sword protected him from the bell’s mind-breaking tolls. The chapter ended as the banners’ defenses shattered and weeping echoed through heaven and earth.

• The Black Great Bell appeared, and the Five Directional Banners abandoned Lu Feng to shield the armored army from it.
• The bell sealed the space with its sound, trapping Lu Feng and battering the banners as the soldiers began to awaken.
• A Bronze Sword formed from Lu Feng’s Golden Core surfaced in his Purple Mansion and protected his mind from the bell’s tolling.
• Lu Feng tried to help the banners by sending the Rusty Sword at the bell, but the sword turned back without striking.
• The Black Great Bell broke through the Five Directional Banners’ defenses, and weeping echoed through heaven and earth.

Lu Feng witnessed the Ironclad Guards’ cries reveal the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor’s failed assault on the Ninefold Heavenly Realm and began connecting its Blood-Colored Great Bell to other mysteries. He concluded that Pangu might still be alive and secretly plotting something.

• The Ironclad Guards cried out for Empress Wa, and Lu Feng saw the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor lead his army through the Heavenly Gate before they suffered a crushing defeat.
• Lu Feng realized the visions showed the true fate of the Nine-Headed Heavenly Emperor and his army, who had become trapped between life and death.
• Lu Feng noticed that the Blood-Colored Great Bell resembled the Black Great Bell and the mysterious statue in the Panshen Heavenly Palace.
• Lu Feng connected the similar inscriptions on the Pangu Statue, Zixiao Palace, Asura City, Asura Palace, and the Hell Gate plaque, reasoning that they shared one writer’s resonance of the Dao.
• Lu Feng conjectured that Pangu had transformed extraordinary places into innate existences and might still be alive, plotting in secret.

Lu Feng realized the black Great Bell was a Death Knell that erased the souls of the awakened Ironclad Guards, while the Five Directional Banners failed to protect them and returned to his body. The Rusty Sword protected Lu Feng and briefly communicated with the Death Knell, but the bell then charged at him.

• Lu Feng connected the Ninefold Heavenly Realm and Pangu's surviving handiwork to his unknown origins and wondered whether his parents came from beyond the nine heavens.
• The Black Great Bell swept away the Five Directional Banners and sent sound waves at the Ironclad Guards.
• The bell erased the Ironclad Guards' souls, and the injured Five Directional Banners returned to Lu Feng's body.
• Lu Feng realized the Black Great Bell was the Death Knell of hell and feared it would erase him next.
• The Rusty Sword blocked the Death Knell's probing sound, flew to the bell, and communicated with it before returning to Lu Feng.
• The Death Knell charged straight at Lu Feng.

The Black Funeral Bell carried Lu Feng through nineteen restrictions and dropped him at Hell’s entrance, where he found a stone road that might lead back to the Primordial Continent. He followed it through a desolate land and a strange sea of red flowers, sensing that the exit was near.

• The Black Funeral Bell enveloped Lu Feng, carried him upward through nineteen restrictions, and spat him out near a stone stele marked Hell.
• Lu Feng realized the stone-paved road led away from Hell and might lead back to the Primordial Continent, but he discovered that he could not fly.
• Lu Feng followed the road through a barren landscape while a yellow river branched away toward a distant waterfall.
• Lu Feng crossed a sea of blood-red flowers as eerie weeping filled the air, then emerged into another black landscape.
• Lu Feng sensed that the exit was close.

Lu Feng reached the cave exit and studied its nine runes, learning to imitate the qi and auras of different races. After nearly a year memorizing their transformations, he left the cave able to switch between nine borrowed auras and his own Human Race aura.

• Lu Feng examined the nine runes with his Mystic Origin Bright Dao Eye and realized their patterns resembled methods of circulating true qi.
• Lu Feng reproduced the runes' patterns, transforming his qi into death qi, poisonous qi, and other distinct auras.
• Lu Feng recognized that one rune's aura resembled Fenfen Chengkuai's and wondered whether Fenfen Chengkuai was human.
• Lu Feng remained at the cave entrance and spent nearly a year memorizing every transformation in all nine runes.
• Lu Feng mastered ten auras, including his Human Race aura, and walked out of the cave unharmed by the death qi.

After escaping Hell, Lu Feng traveled southwest toward the Kunlun Immortal Realm and hid at Hell’s boundary when he encountered a battle. Watching demons blast zombies and skeletons into the deadly deathly energy, he realized the Abyss was too chaotic to cross without learning more about the situation.

• Lu Feng emerged from Hell and discovered that the Black Great Bell had depleted the Five Directional Banners so severely that he could no longer summon them.
• Lu Feng flew southwest, hoping to reach the Kunlun Immortal Realm, and saw people disappear as they entered Hell’s deathly energy.
• Lu Feng concealed himself near Hell’s boundary and spotted a battle between zombies and skeletons and a group of four-winged, horned demons.
• The demons drove most of the zombies and skeletons into Hell, where its deathly energy destroyed them instantly.
• Lu Feng concluded that the Abyss was too dangerous to navigate without more information and noticed Golden Immortals passing nearby, giving him an idea.

Lu Feng watched a devastating war among the Demon Race and captured a wounded Heavenly Demon Sect cultivator to learn about the Abyss. After interrogating him, Lu Feng obtained a map showing the locations of Hell, the Blood Sea, and the major sects.

• Lu Feng hid in a tunnel and saw powerful Demon Race cultivators fighting across the battlefield, where even the shock waves from their clashes could destroy him.
• Lu Feng ambushed a badly wounded Heavenly Demon Sect Golden Immortal and dragged him into an underground chamber.
• Lu Feng beat the captive and questioned him about Hell, the Blood Sea, the Ghost King Sect, the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• The captive struggled to explain the Heavenly Demon Sect's location, then offered Lu Feng a sheepskin map.
• Lu Feng took the map and found that it marked the major landmarks and sects of the Abyss.

Lu Feng forced a Heavenly Demon Sect golden immortal to explain the Abyss demon realm and the war between Blood Charm Ancestor and Qiongtian Ancestor. As Lu Feng considered how to escape the conflict, the golden immortal suggested that someone had secretly engineered the war.

• Lu Feng studied the map and beat the Heavenly Demon Sect golden immortal into staying and answering his questions.
• The golden immortal explained that Blood Charm Ancestor and Qiongtian Ancestor were fighting over the vacant Venerable's seat after Black Tortoise Venerable's death.
• The golden immortal described the Abyss's Eight Demon Race Sects and recounted how Black Tortoise Venerable had been murdered four years earlier.
• He explained that Blood Charm Ancestor blamed Qiongtian Ancestor for the murder, while Qiongtian Ancestor accused Blood Charm Ancestor of poisoning the Venerable and framing him.
• As Lu Feng considered how to get out of the ongoing war, the golden immortal suggested that someone behind the scenes had started it.