Arc 30Death Knell and Black Mist

Jiang Chen and his allies survived the Death Knell, fought the Calamity Ghosts, and built their strength as turmoil spread across the Nine Provinces. The arc left Jiang Chen ambushing powerful figures in the black mist as Xu Fu and his companions emerged carrying a sealed object.

  • Jiang Chen defeated Li Xuanzhen and Ba, then made the watching Old Antiques pay admission fees while the Nine Provinces’ powerhouses prepared for further turmoil.
  • At Wuzhuang Temple, the ninth-stage powerhouses battled over Immortal Spiritual Qi, while Xiao Ji grew stronger through the Blood-Slaying Ancient Arts.
  • Jiang Chen gathered his allies at Ghost Gate Pass, where a bronze Death Knell formed and began killing people across the Nine Provinces with each toll.
  • Jiang Chen reached Cloudbird Town and endured the Death Knell’s attacks until his transformed forms shattered it, though he realized his Demon Transformations had bound him to immense karma.
  • Jiang Chen learned that Calamity Ghosts were spreading and went to Barren Earth, where he used black mist to turn the horde against itself and recruit Batu after Jiang Xiao Chen defeated him.
  • Jiang Chen raised the Soul Ancestor Commander’s strength, then examined the Barren Earth portal before confronting Li Xuanzhen and Zhao Gujin in the black mist around Qingqiu.
  • Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu robbed Yue Chi, Ba, Blood Man, and other groups leaving the Fierce Land, while the Old Antiques and Big Dipper fled with their treasures stolen.
  • Jiang Chen’s Yin Sha Commander killed the ginseng grower, but the ginseng child escaped, and Xu Fu, the Lord of the Hospital Ward, King You, and Shiqiu emerged with a sealed object as the black mist surrounded them.
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Ch. 726The Powers Converged on the Nine Provinces to Ask King Chen to Meet His Death

Jiang Chen and his companions divided the Great Power-level Weird Object remains they had looted from the Dragon Palace, while Li Xuanzhen, Ba, and Yue Chi set out for the Nine Provinces after deciding King Chen had taken the treasures. Jiang Chen sensed the approaching visitors and prepared to greet them.

  • Ba killed an Eighth Tier Old Antique during questioning, but Li Xuanzhen found no Weird Object remains after searching the Dragon Palace with Ba and Yue Chi.
  • The Old Antiques accused King Chen of looting the Dragon Palace before collecting their admission fees, and Yue Chi confirmed that they believed what they said.
  • Li Xuanzhen, Ba, and Yue Chi headed for the Nine Provinces, followed by the excited Old Antiques who expected them to kill King Chen.
  • In the Underground City, Jiang Chen set aside one Great Power-level corpse each for Er Leng and Zhou Tai before dividing the rest with Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Yin God Hammer.
  • Jiang Chen noticed the growing ghost qi and sensed his old acquaintances approaching, so he told his companions to pause their choices and go greet them.

Ch. 727Were you Ba Clan born without a sense of humor?

Jiang Chen confronted Ba and Li Xuanzhen, who arrived with a group of powerful experts and demanded that Mountain Xiao and Old Hou be handed over. After Jiang Chen matched Li Xuanzhen’s opening strike, Li Xuanzhen and Ba launched their attacks, leaving the battle underway.

  • Jiang Chen told Tie Zhu to stay behind and examine the Dark Gold Light Orb lodged in its belly.
  • Ba arrived off the East Sea coast with Li Xuanzhen and other powerful experts, alarming the Nine Provinces guards.
  • Jiang Chen and the King of Equality mocked Ba about its past, provoking its fury.
  • Li Xuanzhen demanded that Jiang Chen hand over Mountain Xiao and Old Hou, but Jiang Chen refused.
  • Li Xuanzhen struck Jiang Chen, who used a Six-Star Card and met the sword attack with golden light.
  • Li Xuanzhen unleashed Reverse-Birth Sword Lotus as Ba attacked with scorching fists, tearing open a spatial fracture.

Ch. 728Fierce battle!

Jiang Chen fought Li Xuanzhen and Ba as the two Ninth Stage opponents unleashed their strongest techniques against him. The battle escalated as Li Xuanzhen prepared a peak-strength sword strike and Ba forced its body into a more powerful state, leaving all three ready to attack again.

  • Jiang Chen evaded the combined attacks of Li Xuanzhen and Ba, then wounded Li Xuanzhen with his Heaven-Opening Art and Eternal Close Quarters.
  • Li Xuanzhen summoned thousands of swords into a Sword Net, while Jiang Chen used his speed to attack from multiple directions.
  • Li Xuanzhen’s blood swords drew Jiang Chen into the Sword Net as Ba struck him from behind, but Jiang Chen blocked the blow with the Yin God Hammer and stood firm.
  • Jiang Chen endured the Sword Net and seized its swords, while Li Xuanzhen began charging a stored sword strike inside a Sword Stone.
  • Ba drove bloody holes into its chest to unleash greater strength, then leaped toward Jiang Chen as Li Xuanzhen’s Tongtian Ancient Sword phantom finished forming.

Ch. 729Dare refuse to pay? Kill them outright with Avici Purgatory!

Jiang Chen overwhelmed Ba and Li Xuanzhen, then returned to the Nine Provinces badly weakened with a handful of hair from a Yin God. He sent the terrified King of Equality to collect payment from the watching Old Antiques and urged him to use Avici Purgatory if they refused.

  • Jiang Chen summoned a golden avian head from his palm and tore away most of Ba’s body, then used the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle to block Li Xuanzhen’s Tongtian Ancient Sword.
  • Jiang Chen killed Li Xuanzhen’s body, but the incense ash from one of his brow’s three sticks let him escape into the earth before Jiang Chen could strike him again.
  • Jiang Chen pursued Ba and later returned from a clash with Yue Chi carrying a handful of hair, while his aura had weakened and he had reverted to human form.
  • The Nine Provinces’ people gathered around Jiang Chen, who reassured them and demanded performance fees from the Old Antiques watching nearby.
  • Jiang Chen ordered the King of Equality to collect payment, and when the King of Equality balked, Jiang Chen told him to kill the Old Antiques with Avici Purgatory if they refused.

Ch. 730Wuzhuang Temple, the Yin God Shiqiu

The King of Equality collected spectator fees from the Old Antiques while they avoided fighting King Chen, and the Nine Provinces' forces then entered seclusion. At Wuzhuang Temple, the powerhouses explored the ancient compound, and an Old Antique later broke through to the ninth stage peak after their group obtained a mysterious treasure.

  • The King of Equality demanded treasures from the Old Antiques in King Chen's name, and they paid spectator fees instead of attacking.
  • The Nine Provinces' powerhouses entered secluded cultivation as Jiang Chen worked on the remains of a great power-level Weird Object.
  • Wuzhuang Temple appeared on an overseas island, where powerful figures gathered and Xu Fu revealed the ninth-stage-peak Yin God Shiqiu.
  • King Tang struck Shiqiu with the Ancient Bronze Cauldron, severely wounding him, then claimed his hand had slipped.
  • The ninth-stage powerhouses explored Wuzhuang Temple together, fought through its dangers, and discovered they were searching for a book in an abandoned subsidiary temple.
  • The Old Antiques emerged with a mysterious dried corpse, and one of them soon broke through directly to the ninth stage peak.

Ch. 731The Ninth Stages Gather, a Battle That Shook the World

Xiao Ji seized power from Ba and Yin God Yue Chi, then joined the ninth-stage powerhouses in a raid on the Peach Garden, where they found rare immortal spiritual qi. Their struggle over the qi escalated into a chaotic battle between the era’s strongest fighters, leaving the Fierce Land trembling.

  • Xiao Ji defeated Ba and Yin God Yue Chi, took their blood, and used the Blood-Slaying Ancient Arts to enter a more terrifying realm.
  • The ninth-stage powerhouses joined forces to break through the Peach Garden’s defenses and reached a grove filled with spiritual treasures and immortal spiritual qi.
  • Li Xuanzhen, King Tang, Zhao Gujin, and Xiao Ji disputed who would claim the immortal qi, while Shiqiu seized a strand and Po Jun decapitated it.
  • Shiqiu revived after Po Jun reduced it to dust, while Ba struck Li Xuanzhen and King Tang attacked Yue Chi with his bronze cauldron.
  • Zhao Gujin challenged Xiao Ji, and the ninth-stage powerhouses erupted into battles that shook the Peach Garden.

Ch. 732Slaying the Yin God! I Heard You Killed Quite a Few Commoners

King Tang defeated Yue Chi and seized an Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura as the great powerhouses fought over the remaining strands. After the battles ended, the Second Round of Turmoil loomed, while Jiang Chen completed the Yin God Hammer in his secluded Cultivation Room.

  • Li Xuanzhen fought Ba and eventually defeated it, claiming an earthen-yellow Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura.
  • Po Jun trapped Shiqiu with a Secret Art and forced it to flee, then obtained another wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura.
  • King Tang crushed Yue Chi with a bronze cauldron, claimed a strand of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura, and warned that she had not died.
  • Zhao Gujin defeated Xiao Ji and took the final wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi Aura, while Xiao Ji escaped with help from a hidden Ninth Stage expert.
  • The powerhouses left the Fierce Land as preparations for the Second Round of Turmoil began across the Nine Provinces.
  • Jiang Chen admired the completed Yin God Hammer, now marked with strange scarlet patterns.

Ch. 733Emerging from Seclusion, the Second Round of Turmoil Imminent

Jiang Chen’s allies emerged from seclusion stronger as Fengdu’s next turmoil approached, and they began fortifying Ghost Gate Pass. Reports showed that the Old Antiques and Reincarnators were also preparing for what was coming.

  • Jiang Chen summoned three peak ninth-stage Yin Sha Commanders and tested their growing power alongside the Yin God Hammer.
  • Jiang Xiao Chen, Tie Zhu, and the others emerged from seclusion with substantial breakthroughs, including three ninth-stage powerhouses and Xiaohai at the supreme powerhouse fourth level.
  • Jiang Chen ordered the powerhouses to defend the restricted zone, and the group gathered before Ghost Gate Pass while he tried to pry its characters and doors loose.
  • Zhou Tai and Tang Yi guided the others as they set up formations and seals, while Er Leng continued gathering intelligence.
  • Er Leng reported that Old Antiques were regaining ninth-stage strength and that Shenji and Jing Shou had reached the ninth stage as the Reincarnators collected eight Heavenly Sacrifice Items.

Ch. 734Marking territory the ancient way

As the Ghost Gate opened into the Fengdu Forbidden Domain, Jiang Chen made Tie Zhu mark its entrance with dragon fluid, enraging Yin God She Sha. A harmless-looking phantom then began taking shape in the sky, leaving Jiang Chen wary of what it might become.

  • The Ghost Gate opened slowly, spreading soul-chilling yin qi while ordinary people across the Nine Provinces reacted to the unnatural dawn and the Netherworld and Dao Alliance guarded against unrest.
  • Jiang Xiao Chen, Zhou Tai, and the King of Equality sensed a terrifying presence beyond the gateway, and Tie Zhu warned Jiang Chen that something inside was watching them.
  • Jiang Chen forced Tie Zhu to urinate into the gateway, provoking Yin God She Sha and earning Jiang Chen a large amount of ghost qi.
  • Tie Zhu announced that he had marked his territory in the Fengdu Forbidden Domain, while the King of Equality and the other powerhouses reacted to his boast.
  • Black strands of energy rose inside the domain and formed patterns in the air; Jiang Chen found he could not touch them and feared what they might create.

Ch. 735The eerie death knell

Jiang Chen and the others failed to affect a forming bronze bell, which Xiaohai identified as the projection of a Wish Power artifact. As the group prepared for a possible catastrophe, they learned that elite monsters had emerged from Barren Earth.

  • Jiang Chen ordered the group to unleash their formations and secret techniques, but their combined attacks left the black energy unharmed as it formed into a bronze bell.
  • People in nearby cities filmed the supernatural display, and the Netherworld warned civilians to stay away while online discussion of the supernatural world surged.
  • The Nine Provinces' powerhouses recognized death-like characters on the bell and feared it would bring death when it rang.
  • Xiaohai touched the bell and explained that it was the projection of an absent artifact linked to Wish Power; he offered to analyze it after it finished forming.
  • Jiang Chen agreed to wait, ordered the evacuation of two nearby cities, and asked for news from Reincarnation.
  • The King of the Fifth Office relayed Minister Wuhen's report that Barren Earth had unleashed hairless, gray-white humanoid monsters that crawled on all fours and spread an aura of extinction.

Ch. 736If he's dying, set the banquet!

King of the Fifth Office warned that Calamity Ghosts had begun spreading disaster, while King of Equality vowed to deal with them. King of Reincarnation was ambushed by the Heavenly Dao Society over the Book of Life and fought six Ninth Stage powerhouses alone.

  • King of the Fifth Office described the Calamity Ghosts, their strength, and the devastation they had already caused.
  • King of Equality promised to deal with the Calamity Ghosts after the group handled the bell.
  • A Formless Gate member used a Mysterious Mirror to expose King of Reincarnation's hiding place and accused him of killing his senior brother.
  • King of Reincarnation killed an Eighth Tier Peak Supreme Powerhouse and faced six Ninth Stage members of the Heavenly Dao Society, who wanted the Book of Life for their dying Old Ancestor.
  • King of Reincarnation mocked the Old Ancestor and held his own against the six attackers despite being wounded and weakened.

Ch. 737Uncle's Off First, the Great Bell Takes Shape

The King of Reincarnation killed Old Zheng, escaped the other five Ninth Stage powerhouses, and used the Book of Life to form a younger body. He resolved to stay away from the Nine Provinces for now, while at Ghost Gate Pass the great bell finished taking shape.

  • Old Zheng broke his seal and attacked the King of Reincarnation with his Earth-Collapse sword strike.
  • The King of Reincarnation regained Ninth Stage peak power and killed Old Zheng with Heaven-Opening.
  • The other five powerhouses broke their seals, but the King of Reincarnation let the Nine Dragons Heavenly Swords tear him apart and escaped as a remnant soul into the Book of Life.
  • The Book of Life formed a new body for the King of Reincarnation deep in an undersea canyon, and he said he could not return to the Nine Provinces yet.
  • At Ghost Gate Pass, the great bell took shape, making the gathered Nine Provinces powerhouses feel its terrifying presence.

Ch. 738The Death Knell That Brought Death

A brass Death Knell appeared to everyone across the Nine Provinces, triggering panic and empowering ghosts until the Special Handling Bureau and Netherworld forces intervened. After the bell tolled, more than a thousand villagers died instantly, and Jiang Chen and the other Supreme Powerhouses tried to uncover its killing rules while weighing the danger of destroying its true body.

  • Ordinary people across the Nine Provinces saw the bell and photographs of it showed each viewer their own corpse, sparking widespread fear and chaos.
  • A director of the Special Handling Bureau and the Netherworld Messengers killed ghosts in the cities, calming the unrest and reassuring civilians.
  • The Death Knell tolled, and people across the Nine Provinces felt as if they had passed through Ghost Gate Pass.
  • Tie Zhu brought the King of the Fifth Office back with news that 1,123 villagers, including Netherworld and Dao Alliance personnel, had died instantly without warning.
  • Tang Yi, Zhou Tai, and other Supreme Powerhouses investigated the victims and sought patterns in the bell's killings while Xiaohai analyzed it.
  • Jiang Chen concluded that destroying the bell required entering the Restricted Zone, but a Yin God guarded its entrance and a battle could attract even more dangerous beings.

Ch. 739A Haven Baptized by Disaster

The Death Knell killed people across the Nine Provinces every fifteen minutes, while the Netherworld and Dao Alliance struggled to discover how it selected its victims. After reports revealed that disasters were devastating the world and even the Nine Provinces were no longer safe, Yuan Tiansuan deciphered the bell’s method and identified its next targets in Dian City.

  • The Death Knell tolled again and killed hundreds in a city, while Sister Hong suspected the victims’ five-element attributes were connected to their deaths.
  • King of Equality and Tie Zhu failed to save people selected by later tolls, and a Netherworld Bureau Director died despite having undergone King-Sealing.
  • Yuan Tiansuan urged the investigators to keep searching as the bell continued killing people and panic spread throughout the Nine Provinces.
  • Reports from other countries revealed deadly ghosts, disasters, strange artifacts, and ancient gods destroying cities around the world.
  • At the tenth toll, Yuan Tiansuan identified the Inverse Star Position and named the targeted people in Dian City’s Cloudbird Town.
  • Tie Zhu hurried away with Jiang Chen, Zhou Tai, and King of Equality to reach the newly identified targets.

Ch. 740How vast is the forbidden zone, and can it bury me?

Jiang Chen faced the Great Bell’s death toll in Cloudbird Town after the King of Equality evacuated the residents. The bell vanished after cracking under Jiang Chen’s resistance, leaving him alive but questioning the karmic burden tied to his Demon Transformation.

  • The King of Equality and his allies evacuated Cloudbird Town’s residents, while Jiang Chen entered the town to face the bell in their place.
  • Jiang Chen challenged the Great Bell, and it tolled three times as a Yin God attempted to kill him.
  • The bell cracked, its characters changed, and it vanished after Jiang Chen’s transformed forms shattered its tolling.
  • The Nine Provinces’ powerhouses celebrated the bell’s disappearance and rushed to check on Jiang Chen.
  • Jiang Chen stood among the ruins and realized his Demon Transformations had bound him to immense karma that he might need to help ancient beings resolve.

Ch. 741Er Leng returned, the situation outside

After the deadly bell vanished, Jiang Chen returned to the Underground City and tried to reassure its leaders as they feared the ongoing second round of turmoil and the coming Yin God. Er Leng then returned with reports on the Big Dipper, the Old Antiques, the Reincarnators, and other factions, while the wider situation remained dangerous.

  • Jiang Chen led everyone back to the Underground City, where the Yamas and Dao Alliance sect masters concluded that the second round of turmoil was still underway because it was still dark and no False Gods had emerged.
  • Jiang Chen proposed a drill for the coming Yin God, jokingly let Tie Zhu reveal the Underground City's location, and described plans to lure enemies into prepared formations, easing the group's anxiety.
  • Er Leng reported that the Big Dipper had been hunting Spectral Angels and advancing in strength, but Po Jun was badly injured, No. 01 had exhausted his trump cards, and Giant Gate escaped with the group.
  • Er Leng said the Old Antiques were building a fortified Fierce Land on an enormous shell-like stone at Overseas Lonely Island, while the Reincarnators were pursuing Sacred Artifacts for a Heavenly Sacrifice and had encountered a terrifying aura.
  • Er Leng reported that several Fierce Lands had appeared and that Li Xuanzhen had tried to take his Pig-Butchering Knife, claiming the Land Temple could offer him safety if he surrendered it.

Ch. 742Part of the Truth Behind the History of Calamity

Er Leng reported worsening supernatural threats abroad and warned that the recovering Spiritual Qi signaled heaven and earth were dying, prompting Jiang Chen to prepare the Nine Provinces for the coming upheaval. As Jiang Chen set out to confront external enemies, a fog-bound city suffered a series of deadly disasters and reports of monsters.

  • Er Leng told Jiang Taichong and the others that Calamity Ghosts were multiplying, the Polar Bear Empire was infiltrated by religious orders, and the Fierce Lands were acting with purpose.
  • Er Leng revealed that the Spiritual Qi was recovering toward the Daochang age, and Jiang Taichong explained that the Heavenly Dao was weakening as heaven and earth approached their end.
  • Jiang Chen connected the revelations to the Immortals and Buddhas Era and wondered about the Restricted Zones, the vanished Immortals and Buddhas, and his own origins.
  • Jiang Chen ordered the Dao Alliance and Netherworld to expand recruitment, assigned Zhou Tai to manage the Nine Provinces, and left to eliminate external enemies.
  • In a desolate city, a string of deadly accidents and an epidemic struck while fog trapped those trying to flee, and some disappearing residents shouted that monsters were there.

Ch. 743Eerie Black Mist, Terrified Calamity Ghosts

A horde of Calamity Ghosts crossed the wilderness, but a spreading black mist began abducting their warriors and showing their leader Batu eerie Netherworld Soldiers. Batu tried to lead his clan to safety, yet some Calamity Ghosts turned against him, and he killed one of them.

  • The Calamity Ghost leader sent his horde across the land while a group carried human corpses toward the Barren Earth Portal for a sacrifice.
  • Black mist surrounded the advancing Calamity Ghosts, and nineteen warriors vanished before the clan realized something was wrong.
  • Batu led the survivors away, but the mist followed them and a huge black snake began snatching several Calamity Ghosts at a time.
  • Batu pierced the mist and saw armored Yin-Person Soldiers beckoning to him, including figures bearing the auras of his missing clansmen.
  • Batu tried to carry his followers out of the mist, but several Calamity Ghosts accused him of being controlled and attacked him.
  • Batu killed one of the attackers, causing the remaining Calamity Ghosts to grow suspicious of him.

Ch. 744The one behind it all

Jiang Chen used black mist to trick Batu and the Calamity Ghosts into slaughtering one another, then revealed his Yin Sha Commanders and confronted the survivors. Batu unleashed a devastating curse against Jiang Xiao Chen, and Jiang Chen revealed that he had raised the fallen Calamity Ghosts as Yin Sha, provoking Batu’s fury.

  • Jiang Chen used the Soul Ancestor Commander’s black mist and his other commanders to weaken the Calamity Ghosts and turn them against one another.
  • Batu and the two junior commanders joined the battle as the Calamity Ghosts slaughtered their own kin for over half an hour.
  • Jiang Chen and his allies emerged from the mist, and Batu absorbed the accumulated misfortune of the dead warriors.
  • Batu struck Jiang Xiao Chen with a curse, and Tie Zhu rescued him as he struggled against the misfortune.
  • Jiang Chen invited Batu to join his group and revealed the fallen Calamity Ghosts standing behind him as Yin Sha.
  • Batu recognized Jiang Chen as the one who had taken the warriors’ souls and unleashed a vast wave of misfortune at him.

Ch. 745I fought all the way, never stopping

Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen fought Batu and the Calamity Ghost commanders, while Jiang Xiao Chen insisted on facing Batu alone to master Great Cultivator-level power. After surviving a brutal beating, he developed Batu’s racial talent into his own Dao of Law and prepared to counterattack.

  • Batu’s attack on Jiang Chen was disrupted by a backlash of calamity, and Jiang Xiao Chen rescued his father before challenging Batu.
  • Jiang Xiao Chen clashed with Batu using his door slab and more than a hundred Daos of Law, while the Three Yin Sha Commanders engaged the two Calamity Ghost commanders.
  • The Three Yin Sha Commanders destroyed both Calamity Ghost commanders, while Batu battered Jiang Xiao Chen.
  • Jiang Chen withdrew the commanders at Jiang Xiao Chen’s request, and Jiang Xiao Chen endured Batu’s attacks until he developed Batu’s racial talent into a Dao of Law.
  • Jiang Xiao Chen gained control of Great Cultivator-level power, took on an awe-inspiring aura, and raised the door slab for his counterattack.

Ch. 746The origins of the Restricted Zone's gate

Jiang Xiao Chen killed the Calamity Ghost Chief and reached Great Cultivator-level combat strength, while Jiang Chen empowered the Soul Ancestor commander. At Barren Earth, Tie Zhu explained that its gate was an ancient treasure refined by Earth Immortals in an attempt to seal the Restricted Zones.

  • Jiang Xiao Chen crushed the Calamity Ghost Chief with his black gate technique, then took an elixir from Jiang Chen and recovered with greatly increased strength.
  • Tie Zhu praised Jiang Xiao Chen in a way that pushed him toward taking on more dangerous fights, and Jiang Xiao Chen bowed to Jiang Chen and pledged his service.
  • Jiang Chen collected the Calamity Ghosts' remains and used them to raise the Soul Ancestor commander to Great Cultivator level.
  • Tie Zhu carried Jiang Chen and Jiang Xiao Chen to Barren Earth, where they found a massive black gate lying in a sinkhole.
  • Tie Zhu explained that, according to legend, Earth Immortals had refined Barren Earth's gate from Primordial Immortal Jade to help seal the Restricted Zones.

Ch. 747Meeting Li Xuanzhen Again

Jiang Chen and his companions examined the Immortal-Burying Platform and learned why it had resisted attempts to open it, then continued toward the Polar Bear Empire. At Qingqiu, they encountered Li Xuanzhen after he emerged from the Fierce Land following a battle.

  • Tie Zhu explained the history of the Immortal-Burying Platform and how the Restricted Zone portals had been sealed and opened across different eras.
  • Jiang Xiao Chen asked whether sealing the portals could end the Disorder of the Ultimate Number, and Tie Zhu said the necessary methods were likely lost or ineffective for most portals.
  • Jiang Chen touched the polluted Immortal-Burying Platform and found its cold made his body and soul sluggish.
  • Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu left the portal and headed toward the Polar Bear Empire, but Tie Zhu detected a Fierce Land nearby.
  • The group reached Qingqiu, where Li Xuanzhen emerged looking disheveled after a battle inside.

Ch. 748Jiang, a Man of Impeccable Courtesy

Jiang Chen ambushed the badly wounded Li Xuanzhen, stripped him of his possessions, and mocked him before letting him escape. After inspecting Li Xuanzhen’s loot, Jiang Chen hid with his companions, while Zhao Gujin appeared nearby carrying a legendary Fox Heart Stone.

  • Jiang Xiao Chen and the Soul Ancestor Commander attacked Li Xuanzhen, breaking his body and severely damaging his soul.
  • Jiang Chen had Tie Zhu take Li Xuanzhen’s Sumeru Bag, then used nude photographs to demand five hundred High-Grade Sacrificial Offerings for the negatives.
  • Jiang Chen twice had the Soul Ancestor Commander attack Li Xuanzhen as he tried to leave, until Li Xuanzhen finally vanished into the earth.
  • Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu examined the bag’s contents, including a spoiled Immortal Jade Fruit pit, and Jiang Chen decided to investigate it later.
  • Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu disappeared into the black mist, and Zhao Gujin soon appeared with a legendary Fox Heart Stone.

Ch. 749People from the Heavenly Dao Society

Jiang Chen and his allies ambushed Zhao Gujin and other travelers emerging from the Fierce Land, forcing Zhao Gujin to escape and robbing the others. The chapter ended with Jiang Chen recognizing the next group as people from the Heavenly Dao Society.

  • Zhao Gujin entered the black mist to recover the Fox Heart Stone, but Soul Spears and other attacks forced him into a difficult fight against Jiang Chen's forces.
  • Zhao Gujin was struck by the Incense Burner and tore an Ancient Talisman to escape before Jiang Chen could decide whether to keep him there.
  • Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu resumed collecting admission fees from people leaving the Fierce Land.
  • Jiang Chen's group trapped Yue Chi, Ba, and Blood Man in the black mist, robbed their gains, and killed Blood Man repeatedly before they fled.
  • Jiang Chen recognized the next group of old men by their rotten smell as people from the Heavenly Dao Society.

Ch. 750The eerie black mist that stole things

Jiang Chen used the Soul Ancestor Yin Sha Commander’s black mist to attack groups emerging from the Fierce Land, stealing their possessions while concealing his involvement. The ginseng child escaped after its keeper died, and Xu Fu, the Lord of the Hospital Ward, King You, and Shiqiu were trapped in the mist as they tried to leave with a sealed object.

  • The old men recognized the black mist’s power as that of the Soul Ancestor, pierced their foreheads to unleash greater strength, and fled.
  • Po Jun apologized to Xiao Ji’s group after No. 01 killed an Old Antique, but Xiao Ji led them away when more black mist arrived.
  • Jiang Chen used the mist to attack the Old Antiques and Big Dipper members, and they fled after their treasures and No. 01’s severed head were stolen.
  • Jiang Chen’s Yin Sha Commander killed the ginseng grower, but the ginseng child broke free and fled with an aura surpassing the Great Cultivator level.
  • Xu Fu, the Lord of the Hospital Ward, King You, and Shiqiu emerged carrying a sealed object, then were surrounded by black mist.
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