Chapter Summaries

After escaping a colossal creature in the Blood-Colored Region, Jiang Chen learned from Tie Zhu that the Supreme Powerhouses had entered the eerie Grave Region deeper in the Restricted Zone. Although Tie Zhu urged him to seek its dangerous opportunities, Jiang Chen refused and walked on, leaving Tie Zhu and the Evil Self to follow.

• Jiang Chen and the Evil Self recovered from their desperate escape while Jiang Chen reasoned that the colossal creature had pursued him because of the enhanced aura of the Immortal's Finger.
• Jiang Chen asked Tie Zhu whether he had seen any Supreme Powerhouses, and Tie Zhu explained that they had headed deeper into the Restricted Zone.
• Tie Zhu relayed Er Leng's information about the Grave Region, including its deadly Broken Stele, Broken Grave, Old Grave, and Red Grave, and said that graves could also offer opportunities.
• Jiang Chen declared that he would not enter the Grave Region just to seek opportunities and strode away.
• The Evil Self worried that Jiang Chen reaching the pinnacle would threaten world peace, while Tie Zhu chased after Jiang Chen and urged him to build up an inheritance for the family.

Jiang Chen traveled toward the area of thirty-story buildings, robbing Reincarnators of their Sacrificial Offering Prototypes while sparing them. A violent disturbance from the depths of the Restricted Zone shook the Blood-Colored City, and Jiang Chen and the others hid as an unexpected development emerged.

• Jiang Chen and his companions took a route around the Huge Figure while he drove off Reincarnators and claimed the evil sha they had wounded.
• Jiang Chen decided to spare the Reincarnators because their survival could add powerful Nine-Step Kings to the world and give dangerous Old Antiques other targets.
• Jiang Chen began using his Loudspeaker and Jiang Xiao Chen's aura to demand Sacrificial Offering Prototypes from frightened Reincarnators in exchange for protection.
• Jiang Chen saw a Blood-Colored Region reduced to ruins and continued toward the area of thirty-story buildings with Tie Zhu and the Evil Self.
• Jiang Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Evil Self hid in a tall building as a tremendous surge of river water and unknown roars shook the Blood-Colored City.
• After waiting, Jiang Chen, Tie Zhu, the Evil Self, and the other outsiders realized that something unexpected had happened.

A Yin God’s enormous hand drained power from the blood-colored building districts, Outsiders, and evil sha, while Jiang Chen provoked it by looking at it through a puddle. The Yin God tried to erase him, but a beastly roar restored his vitality and startled the hand into retreating.

• A gigantic blood-red hand appeared over the building districts and absorbed curses, evil sha power, and the strength of Outsiders and evil sha.
• Jiang Chen urinated and used a puddle to look down at the Yin God, while Tie Zhu and the Evil Self tried to get away from him.
• The Yin God noticed Jiang Chen and decided to erase him, causing his flesh to decay and his vitality to fade.
• A beast roared in Jiang Chen’s mind, turning his eyes scarlet and restoring his lost vitality.
• The enormous hand shuddered, spent the power it had absorbed resisting a calamity, and withdrew after an unknown being roared at the thing at the bottom of the river.

Jiang Chen survived the Yin God’s assault, leaving Tie Zhu and the Evil Self awed by his hidden power, and set out to gather more ghost energy. He quietly approached a battle against a Nine-Step King of the Restricted Zone, where nine Outsiders were trying to kill it and claim its spoils.

• A Yin God’s battle with a crystalline skeleton shook the Blood-Colored City, and Jiang Chen’s sudden revival coincided with the Yin God withdrawing its hand.
• The Evil Self questioned Tie Zhu about Jiang Chen’s background, while Tie Zhu nervously called Jiang Chen “Father.”
• Jiang Chen said he was close to gaining a second Seven-Star Monster Transformation Card and urged Tie Zhu and Number Two to help him break through.
• Jiang Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Flood Dragon crossed several Blood-Colored Regions and spotted nine Outsiders fighting a weakened Nine-Step King.
• Zhao Congren and the other Outsiders launched their strongest attacks against the trapped Evil Sha, hoping to kill it and divide the spoils.

The powerhouses killed the Restricted Zone's Nine-Step King and began dividing the spoils, but Jiang Chen arrived claiming the dead creature as his brother. He performed an Ancestral Spell to resurrect it, and the Blood-Colored Region darkened as the powerhouses watched in shock.

• Zhao Congren and the other powerhouses unleashed their strongest techniques, shattered the Bright Yellow Shackling Formation, and destroyed the gravely wounded Nine-Step King.
• The powerhouses agreed to divide the spoils, with the spear-wielding man claiming that he and his partner would take forty percent.
• Jiang Chen arrived, gathered the Nine-Step King's remains into a Burlap Sack, and accused the powerhouses of murdering his Third Brother.
• The powerhouses mocked Jiang Chen and threatened to kill him, but he insisted he would first resurrect his brother with his Ancestral Spell.
• Jiang Chen performed a ritual with Incense, Candles, Joss Paper, a Broken Bowl, and Yellow Talismans, and the Blood-Colored Region darkened as the nine powerhouses froze.

Jiang Chen resurrected the Hundred-Handed Evil Sha and unleashed him against the powerhouses in the Restricted Zone. After the evil sha slaughtered their opponents, he killed the Blood-Armored Knight, leaving the remaining fighters fleeing.

• Jiang Chen used his Resurrection Technique to bring back the Hundred-Handed Evil Sha and retreated to watch the fight.
• The Hundred-Handed Evil Sha killed a bamboo-hatted man in black robes with a barrage of punches, then pursued the fleeing powerhouses.
• Jiang Chen's evil self trapped the Blood-Armored Knight and forced him to use up the soul power protecting him from the Restricted Zone's rules.
• The Blood-Armored Knight used Restricted Zone Talismans to escape, but the Hundred-Handed Evil Sha caught him and killed him.

Jiang Chen’s Evil Self slaughtered six of nine ancient powerhouses in the Blood-Colored Region, while three escaped, including a mysterious man tied to the Land Temple. After testing the Evil Self’s willingness to obey him, Jiang Chen gave him the Yin God Hammer and ordered him to slaughter the city.

• Jiang Chen’s Evil Self killed Zhao Congren and overwhelmed the fleeing Outsiders, but a Nine-Step female Martial King used an ancient book’s fist intent to hold him off briefly.
• A short Eight-Step King summoned a Purple Incense that sent buildings crashing toward the Evil Self, then escaped through an ancient Earth Escape technique; Tie Zhu suspected he was connected to the Land Temple.
• Only the female Martial King, the short man, and a speed-focused powerhouse escaped, leaving six high-ranking kings dead.
• Jiang Chen praised the Evil Self’s fighting and questioned whether he would kill on command, even without provocation; the Evil Self said he would obey his big brother.
• Jiang Chen handed the Evil Self the Yin God Hammer and ordered him to slaughter the city.

Jiang Chen and the Evil Self led a massacre across a Blood-Colored Region, driving away or killing every Evil Sha there and raising Jiang Chen’s Ghost Qi to 108 million. The Evil Self struggled with remorse but, after misreading Jiang Chen’s destruction of tainted Ghost Artifacts, insisted he could keep killing.

• The Evil Self unleashed the Yin God Puppets and led them in slaughtering the Blood-Colored Region’s Evil Sha while Jiang Chen urged the victims to join his murderous “family.”
• Jiang Chen’s speeches and the battle drove his Ghost Qi up by ten million as some Evil Sha fled and others were killed.
• Jiang Chen, Jiang Xiao Chen, and Tie Zhu crossed the region after more than ten minutes, leaving it silent and empty of Evil Sha.
• Jiang Chen realized his Ghost Qi had reached 108 million and asked the bloodied, exhausted Evil Self if he could continue.
• The Evil Self began to apologize for killing, but after seeing Jiang Chen destroy tainted Ghost Artifacts, he misunderstood his motives and said he could still kill.

Four Reincarnators recovering in the Blood-Colored City praised Jiang Chen and dismissed the chance of trouble, only to watch a vast army of blood-colored Weird Objects sweep through the city. A Peak Nine-Step King cornered them, but Jiang Chen’s side offered them a way out: surrender their belongings and leave.

• Four Reincarnators discussed Jiang Chen’s potential and recalled how he had robbed them in the Ghost Prison Restricted Zone.
• The Reincarnators decided that the Blood-Colored City was too dangerous and powerful a place for Jiang Chen to cause trouble.
• A blood-colored army flooded the city, destroying high-rises and devouring Evil Sha as the four Reincarnators watched from the sky.
• The Reincarnators recognized a towering Evil Sha as a restricted zone’s Peak Nine-Step King and tried to flee.
• A Peak Nine-Step King’s palm descended on the Reincarnators, but a cold voice told them to hand over everything and get lost.

Jiang Chen spared four Reincarnators but robbed them, offering Guan advice on becoming stronger and claiming the valuables were protection money. As the group left, they watched Jiang Chen’s powerful little brother treat him with deference and decided Jiang Chen might become a taboo figure known as the Disaster Demon.

• The four Reincarnators offered their valuables after the Evil Sha stopped its attack, then recognized Jiang Chen when he appeared with a Megaphone.
• Jiang Chen robbed Guan, criticized his poor haul, and encouraged him to take risks, pursue breakthroughs, and become a Sage; Guan sincerely thanked him for the guidance.
• Jiang Chen took the Reincarnators’ valuables, returned what he did not want, and called the payment protection money in exchange for keeping his little brother from harming them.
• Jiang Chen sent the four Reincarnators away from the battle between the blood-colored forces, and they saw his peak nine-step king little brother address him respectfully as big brother.
• The four Reincarnators left through the Blood Mist and agreed to stop calling Jiang Chen Dog Bandit, settling on Disaster Demon as a name and resolving to record his deeds.

Jiang Chen reviewed the spoils from the battle and decided to give Tie Zhu a Grand Sacrifice, recognizing the flood dragon as the one ally who would stand by him unconditionally. He sent Tie Zhu to fight the Evil Sha for training while inspecting his new weapons and treasures.

• Jiang Chen decided to give Tie Zhu the Sacrificial Offering Prototypes as a Grand Sacrifice because Tie Zhu had remained loyal through their past battles.
• Jiang Chen gave Tie Zhu two large bags, but Tie Zhu mistook the gesture for an inheritance and asked whether Jiang Chen was about to die.
• Jiang Chen ordered the Evil Self to kick Tie Zhu into a crowd of Evil Sha, where the injured flood dragon began fighting them.
• Jiang Chen examined the Blood-Armored Nine-Step King's Pseudo-Supreme Powerhouse spear and a black bottle containing nine Ancient Strange Snakes.
• Jiang Chen had the Evil Self smash the nine snakes with the Yin God Hammer, adding them to the hammer's collection.
• Jiang Chen considered exchanging his unwanted weapons and treasures for Underworld Points and ordering Azure Yang Pills from the Shangqing Sect.

Jiang Chen swept through the Blood-Colored Building Region, growing his ghost army and gathering information about other Reincarnators. After destroying five sections and accumulating nearly two hundred million Ghost Qi, he drew the attention of a familiar giant emerging from the Blood Mist.

• Jiang Chen taunted fleeing Evil Sha into turning back to defend their Blood Buildings, then had the Yin God Puppets defeat them and swell his army.
• Jiang Chen decided to keep the Yin God Hammer's full strength hidden after imagining it becoming a walking Restricted Zone, while Tie Zhu loudly boasted about Jiang's power.
• Jiang Chen swept through more Blood-Colored Regions and traded with the Three Heroes of the Shadow Sect, obtaining treasures and Sacrificial Offering Prototypes.
• Jiang Chen learned that Tang Yi and his companions, along with the man who possessed the Yin God's left hand, had entered the Grave Region, but he found no information about Uncle Wei.
• After Jiang Chen cleared five sections and neared two hundred million Ghost Qi, the ruined region's malice intensified and a familiar giant with six pairs of eerie eyes emerged from the Blood Mist.

Jiang Chen and his companions fled a Blood-Colored Region after a terrifying twelve-eyed giant attacked them, but the giant pursued them despite the Crystalline Leg Bone’s power. Jiang Chen escaped into the feared Grave Region, carrying his badly wounded companions with him.

• Jiang Chen used Sacrificial Offering Prototypes to break through the region’s sealed space as the giant pursued him and his companions.
• The Evil Self smashed the Crystalline Leg Bone against the giant, and the collision sent Jiang Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Evil Self flying into the blood mist with severe injuries.
• Jiang Chen sustained the Evil Self with a Sacrificial Offering Prototype, took a Purple Yang Pill, and fled using Somersault Cloud.
• After the giant resumed its pursuit, Jiang Chen crossed three Blood-Colored Regions and entered the Grave Region.

Jiang Chen escaped the giant by fleeing into the Grave Region, where he treated his injured companions and reasoned that a Yin God had targeted him. He decided to draw another Seven-Star Card for protection and stayed still after learning the Grave Region’s danger depended on luck.

• Jiang Chen used Somersault Cloud to flee across the Grave Region, and the giant stopped at its boundary.
• Jiang Chen gave Tie Zhu and the Evil Self enhanced elixirs, and the Evil Self gradually recovered from his injuries and curses.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the Yin God was behind the attack and that the giant had tracked him after he destroyed five Blood-Colored Regions.
• Jiang Chen asked Tie Zhu about the Grave Region’s dangers and learned that remaining still was generally safe, though rare dangers could still arise.
• Jiang Chen told the system to draw one Seven-Star Card.

Jiang Chen drew the Seven-Star Monster Transformation Card: Kunpeng and wondered whether something had gone wrong with Yaochi. He then checked Tie Zhu and the Evil Self’s injuries before setting off to explore the misty place, where Tie Zhu began sharing his nephew’s intelligence.

• Jiang Chen experienced a vision of Kunpeng roaring for Yaochi and received a drop of its blood essence before drawing the Seven-Star Monster Transformation Card: Kunpeng.
• Jiang Chen questioned why Kunpeng had challenged the Queen Mother of the West and suspected that something might be wrong with Yaochi after noticing its dark water.
• Tie Zhu tried to get more elixirs from Jiang Chen, while the Evil Self said its abilities had grown stronger after enduring the curses.
• Jiang Chen led Tie Zhu and the Evil Self into the mist to search the area while they waited for the River of Forgetfulness to return.
• Tie Zhu told Jiang Chen that his nephew Er Leng the Fool had supplied detailed intelligence about the place.

Jiang Chen, his Evil Self, and Tie Zhu traveled through the Grave Region as Tie Zhu explained the dangers and opportunities posed by its graves. After describing the origins of the old and red graves, Tie Zhu warned the Evil Self to flee if it encountered a red grave.

• Tie Zhu warned Jiang Chen's Evil Self to respect graves and call for Jiang Chen if it encountered anything strange in the fog.
• Tie Zhu explained that new graves held remains from the past thousand years and could be carefully opened, but only three handfuls of earth could be taken before making offerings.
• Jiang Chen asked what remained in the graves, and Tie Zhu said they held eerie power rather than beings with intact consciousnesses.
• Tie Zhu said old graves came from Dao Prosperity Era Great Powers who buried themselves to become Yin Gods, creating a disaster later contained by powerful figures and sent into the Restricted Zone.
• Tie Zhu told the Evil Self that red graves belonged to Great Powers and warned it to run if it saw one.

Jiang Chen found a Dark Alliance expert trapped in a grave’s curse, then mutilated him to stop his forced atonement and test the grave’s power. The man’s body erupted in a burst of blood while Jiang Chen stood unmoved.

• Jiang Chen, Tie Zhu, and the Evil Self followed the sound of repeated thuds and found a Seven-Step King kowtowing before a fresh grave.
• Jiang Chen realized the man was losing his vitality and fortune as he atoned for digging at the grave more than three times.
• Jiang Chen recognized the man as a fellow Dark Alliance member, smashed his legs, and severed his arms to stop him from kowtowing.
• Jiang Chen plugged the man’s wounds and mouth, interrupting his atonement so he could test the grave’s curse.
• The man’s body convulsed and exploded in blood, while the Evil Self and Tie Zhu shielded themselves and Jiang Chen remained still.

Jiang Chen deliberately exposed himself to the new grave’s karmic power, stopped it from spreading through his body, and dug up its treasures. He found that the grave’s remaining sinister power had no independent consciousness and asked whether the Yin God Hammer could absorb it.

• Jiang Chen watched a Dark Alliance expert die from the new grave’s karma and stepped onto the mound to test the power himself.
• Jiang Chen thrust King Artifact spears into the grave to check for a ghost, while Tie Zhu loudly defended his father.
• A bloodline of karma climbed Jiang Chen’s leg before a roar in his mind stopped it, and the grave’s sinister aura faded.
• Jiang Chen dug up a Nine-Step King’s skull, an ancient book, several Sacrificial Offerings, and other powerful treasures.
• Jiang Chen asked Tie Zhu to translate the writing in the pit and found a human-shaped mass of sinister power without independent consciousness.
• Jiang Chen asked whether the Yin God Hammer could absorb the remaining power.

Jiang Chen discovered that the graves’ uncanny power could destroy his Yin God Puppets, then learned to absorb it into the Yin God Hammer by using sacrificial offerings and sharing its karma. After gathering power from several graves and discovering the River Earl had transformed into an uncanny amalgamation, he stopped at a scorched, cracked area whose familiar aura seemed to belong to another relative.

• Jiang Chen dug up a grave and struck its uncanny amalgamation with the Yin God Hammer, but the resulting karma destroyed more than ten thousand Yin God Puppets.
• Jiang Chen repaired the hammer with Sacrificial Offering Prototypes and devised a way to absorb grave power by taking on its karma and reinforcing the weapon with wish power.
• Jiang Chen and Tie Zhu and the Evil Self searched the fog for graves, and Jiang Chen successfully absorbed the power of another grave at the cost of several hundred Yin God Puppets.
• Jiang Chen dug up nine graves and discovered that the River Earl had transformed into an amalgamation of uncanny power after absorbing the hammer’s ominous energy.
• The Evil Self noticed a terrifying aura beneath the cracked, crimson ground, and Jiang Chen called its source his rebellious little nephew and said they would go chop him up.

Zhou Tai, Fei Yaoyu, and Tang Yi struggled to survive against the Young Ba, which grew stronger as it ate the remains of an old Ba. As the Mountain God barrier began to fail and Tang Yi prepared to sacrifice herself, a familiar man approached through the fog.

• The Young Ba battered Zhou Tai's Mountain God barrier while Tang Yi searched the Mystery Sect Dao Master's ancient volume for a way to escape.
• Fei Yaoyu prepared to use the Demon Snake Short Blade's life-consuming trump card as the trio's desperation grew.
• The trio recalled finding powerful inheritances in their ancestors' graves before the Young Ba attacked and began eating an old Ba's remains.
• After devouring part of the corpse, the Young Ba overwhelmed the trio, forcing them to flee behind the Mountain God barrier.
• With the barrier cracking, Tang Yi told Zhou Tai and Fei Yaoyu to run and began forming an ancient formation to hold off the Young Ba.
• A familiar man approached through the fog and chuckled, asking if everyone was there.