Recaps

Yun Che and You Xiaoli entered the unstable ice crevice, where they found dark energy harming the Wind Wolf Tribe members and other tribal youths. After rescuing them, Yun Che learned that Asa had gone to the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound, leaving him to press deeper into the ruins.

• Yun Che and You Xiaoli entered the ice crevice despite A Xiba's warning about its soul-eroding cold.
• Yun Che found three wounded Wind Wolf Tribe members below a collapsed section of ice, and Ling Xue helped weaken the dark aura in one of them before Yun Che healed and rescued all three.
• Yun Che and You Xiaoli continued deeper as the dark aura thickened and the ice began to crack.
• Yun Che killed an Ice-Armored Demon Bear that was attacking five tribal youths.
• She Qianjie recognized Yun Che, explained that dark energy disrupted connections to Guardian Spirits, and told him Asa had gone to the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound.
• Yun Che offered to take She Qianjie and the other youths out in his Domain Space, and they accepted.

Yun Che, You Xiaoli, and Ling Xue entered the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound and fought the resurrecting corpses within. After Ling Xue and You Xiaoli battled their way through the undead, a powerful hooded figure emerged from a massive ice coffin and attacked them.

• Yun Che discovered that the ice coffins formed a sinister formation that was awakening the corpses inside.
• Yun Che burned a corpse with golden flame, obtained a Corpse Core, and accepted a mission to collect ten thousand cores and free the Corpse God.
• Ling Xue used her Ice-Fire Glazed Light Divine Constitution to destroy zombies while Yun Che followed and plundered them.
• You Xiaoli joined the fight, then a tremor revealed a massive ice coffin opening deep within the mound.
• A hooded figure emerged and attacked the group with a palm of dark energy, but Yun Che's golden barrier blocked the strike and his Divine Hand plundered 330,000 Strength points.

Yun Che and his companions defeated the black-robed figure and his zombie horde with a fusion of Yun Che’s divine power and Ling Xue’s Icefire Glazed Light. They reached the ice altar, where the Corpse God awakened and prepared to attack, with Asa and the other tribal prodigies still bound nearby.

• Yun Che cut through the black-robed figure’s dark shield and wounded him with a golden Sword Aura.
• Yun Che, Ling Xue, and You Xiaoli fought off the zombie horde as the black-robed figure summoned more undead and attacked with a dark scythe.
• Yun Che and Ling Xue fused their powers into Icefire Glazed Light, which pierced the black-robed figure and purified him, leaving a black crystal.
• Yun Che collected Corpse Cores and annihilated the remaining zombies before the group headed deeper into the ice tomb.
• Yun Che, Ling Xue, and You Xiaoli found Asa, Shi Hansan, Mu Feilin, Yan Jin, and other tribal prodigies bound to ice pillars near the Corpse God.
• The Corpse God opened his eyes, declared that he would sacrifice the newcomers, and prepared to attack.

Yun Che fed the Corpse God ten thousand Corpse Cores, freed the ancient-tribe captives, and escaped the collapsing Upright-Coffin Ice Mound with the shrunken god. After rescuing one hundred more tribe members, Yun Che and his companions reached the Stone-Faced Gate, where rumors warned that no one who entered had returned.

• Yun Che fed ten thousand Corpse Cores to the Corpse God, causing him to shrink as he digested their energy, and claimed the Corpse Core Origin Heart.
• Yun Che broke the chains holding Asa, Shi Hansan, Mu Feilin, and Yan Jin, then brought them into his Domain Space as the ice mound began to collapse.
• The Corpse God led Yun Che through a hidden crack, and they escaped the Upright-Coffin Ice Mound before it collapsed.
• Yun Che completed the mission to free the Corpse God and earned a Talent Mutation Card, reputation, and experience; the Corpse God said he planned to recover his strength before seeking revenge.
• Three days later, Yun Che rescued one hundred ancient-tribe members and reached the deepest part of the Ancient Ruins with his companions.
• You Xiaoli identified the Stone-Faced Gate as their destination, and Cai Laoyao warned that those who entered had never returned alive.

Yun Che and his companions entered a strange realm filled with mask remnants, which he destroyed while collecting mask essence and experience. After reaching the late spirit god realm, he triggered a hidden reward and drew the Spacetime distortion mask attribute.

• Yun Che, You Xiaoli, Ling Xue, and Cai Laoyao entered a bizarre realm through the stone-faced door and found a river of golden liquid beneath a distant black tower.
• Cai Laoyao warned the group about the dangerous mask fragments, but Yun Che destroyed a divine realm mask remnant with one palm.
• Yun Che continued shattering increasingly powerful mask remnants as the group advanced, earning mask essence and experience while You Xiaoli and Cai Laoyao watched in disbelief.
• Yun Che collected 1,000 wisps of mask essence, triggered a hidden reward, and broke through to the late spirit god realm.
• Yun Che drew the Spacetime distortion mask attribute, which briefly delayed enemy attacks within three feet during combat.

Yun Che defeated a Heavenly God Realm mask remnant and obtained a Mask Source Core before entering a void chamber with an ancient sword. When the sword rejected him, he nearly shattered it, forcing its little goldfish spirit to yield.

• Yun Che used the Gluttony Mask's Spacetime Distortion and Lightning Hundred-Strike Whip to destroy the mask remnant, then extracted a Mask Source Core.
• Yun Che, Cai Laoyao, You Xiaoli, and Ling Xue entered a star-filled void chamber and found an ancient sword embedded in an energy altar.
• The sword and altar attacked the group with beams of energy, which Yun Che and You Xiaoli evaded or repelled while Cai Laoyao's armor cracked.
• Yun Che tried to pull the ancient sword from the altar but failed, then boosted his power and prepared to smash it.
• The sword's little goldfish spirit appeared and begged Yun Che to stop, but his strike cracked the blade before he halted and called the spirit wise for yielding.

Yun Che forced the ancient sword spirit Little Goldfish to submit, then learned that the black tower was the Ten-Thousand Souls Heart-Prison Tower and might hold a way to remove the Seven Sins Masks. The group entered the tower and faced its first Soul General, whom Yun Che attacked with Non-Sword transformed into a whip.

• Yun Che threatened to destroy the ancient sword until Little Goldfish agreed to submit and stay in his ring.
• Tuantuan welcomed Little Goldfish as a friend and carried it into Non-Sword, shocking Cai Laoyao with the artifact's two spirits.
• Little Goldfish identified the black tower as the Ten-Thousand Souls Heart-Prison Tower, a nine-floor divine artifact corrupted by demonic qi, with a possible secret sealed at its summit.
• You Xiaoli suggested that a way to remove the Seven Sins Masks might be at the tower's top, and Yun Che decided the group would enter and claim it.
• The tower doors opened as Yun Che, Cai Laoyao, You Xiaoli, and Ling Xue entered and encountered the red-haired first-floor Soul General.
• Cai Laoyao and You Xiaoli tried to stop the Soul General, but Yun Che slowed him with spacetime distortion and struck him with Non-Sword as a lightning-wreathed whip.

Yun Che obtained and mutated the Demon Spirit Sword Body into a Sword Body Comprehension Talisman, then swept through the tower’s lower floors and defeated a peak Heavenly God soul general on the eighth floor. After the victory, he broke through to the peak Spirit God Realm.

• Yun Che defeated the red-haired Divine Realm soul general and obtained the Demon Spirit Sword Body, then mutated it into a Sword Body Comprehension Talisman.
• Yun Che reached the second floor and destroyed the Darkscale Demon Axe General with one punch, earning the Mapo Nine-Turn Great Axe.
• Yun Che defeated the soul generals on the third through seventh floors as Cai Laoyao, You Xiaoli, and Ling Xue followed him upward.
• Yun Che fought the peak Heavenly God soul general on the eighth floor and killed it with the Great Yin Nether Heaven-Rending Claw.
• Yun Che gained experience and broke through to the peak Spirit God Realm.

Yun Che and his companions reached the ninth floor of the Ten-Thousand Souls Heart-Prison Tower, where Deng Xuhe revealed that the Tower Spirit might be able to remove their Seven Sins Masks. He challenged Yun Che to survive ten rounds, and the battle left the Myriad Heavens Spirit King Seal shattered.

• Yun Che and the others found a peaceful garden on the tower’s ninth floor and approached a white-robed man playing a silent zither.
• Yun Che used Selective Grasping on the man and gained Strength, Stamina, and Agility points.
• The man introduced himself as Deng Xuhe, a Main God who controlled the Law of Sound, and explained that the Tower Spirit might sever the masks’ connection to their souls.
• Deng Xuhe said Yun Che had to withstand ten rounds against him to earn the Tower Spirit’s help, then attacked with sound blades.
• Yun Che repelled Deng Xuhe’s first attacks with Spacetime Distortion, Soul Guard, and the Non-Sword.
• Deng Xuhe unleashed Soul Suppression, and the sonic fiends shattered Yun Che’s Myriad Heavens Spirit King Seal.

Yun Che used his hundredfold combat power to fight Deng Xuhe in a brutal fist battle and unexpectedly defeated him with the One-Hit Kill attribute of his gloves. Deng Xuhe let Yun Che pass and revealed that he was a Main Domain Township Lord of the Land of Shells, leaving Yun Che wary of the powerful enemies pursuing him.

• Yun Che countered Deng Xuhe's Sound Python with the Seal Art: All Things Reduced to Ash, but Deng Xuhe continued attacking with vibrations that disrupted Yun Che's blood and vital energy.
• Yun Che activated his Hundredfold Combat Power Experience Card, matching Deng Xuhe's strength and trading punches with him beyond their agreed ten rounds.
• Yun Che's Black Jade Spider-Silk Fist Gloves triggered One-Hit Kill, briefly exploding Deng Xuhe's divine body before it rapidly reformed.
• Deng Xuhe declared that Yun Che had passed, then revealed he was a Main Domain Township Lord of the Land of Shells and said he did not know the organization's true purpose.
• Yun Che watched Deng Xuhe leave and decided to focus on dealing with the Seven Sins Masks.

Yun Che entered the Ten-Thousand Souls Heart-Prison Tower and endured its trial to gain the Tower Spirit’s help removing the Seven Sins Masks. The Tower Spirit began separating the masks from his soul, leaving Yun Che in unbearable pain as the original sin was purified.

• Yun Che entered a sea of stars within his consciousness and asked the Tower Spirit to strip the Seven Sins Masks from him and his companions.
• The Tower Spirit tested Yun Che with the resentment of ten thousand souls, unaware that he was immune to mental attacks.
• Yun Che pretended to suffer through the trial until the Tower Spirit withdrew it and recognized him as its new master.
• The Tower Spirit warned that separating the masks could destroy Yun Che’s cultivation or disintegrate his Soul Body, then began drawing on his divine power to open a rift between mask and soul.
• Yun Che endured the soul-tearing pain by focusing his mind and using the Star-Stealing Dao Scripture to resonate with the Tower Spirit’s power.
• The Tower Spirit purified gray wisps of original sin escaping Yun Che’s body as the separation continued.

Yun Che freed the Gluttony Mask from his soul and returned to the Ice Soul Tribe, where he received major mission rewards. On his way to the Star-Catching Ancient Sect, he upgraded his talents and Divine Hand, while the Pioneer promised to explain her origins once he became a Transcendent.

• Yun Che severed his soul bond with the Gluttony Mask, received its Mask Emperor Heart, and learned that the Ten-Thousand Souls Heart-Prison Tower could refine imprisoned soul bodies into soul beads.
• Yun Che returned to the Ice Soul Tribe, where a system reward granted him an Emperor Level Talent Upgrade Card, a second-stage Soulguard Armament Source Core for Luo Xianing, reputation, and experience.
• The Pioneer issued Yun Che a God-Tier mission to retrieve her Source Core from the Chen Family and promised to reveal her origins after he became a Transcendent.
• Yun Che took Ling Xue to the Huo Family, then headed for the Star-Catching Ancient Sect and chose upgrades for his talents and Sword Soul Tuantuan.
• Yun Che used a Talent Mutation Card on Immunity to Restrictions, gaining the ability to ignore deities' divine intent at the cost of random teleportation after every three uses.
• Yun Che upgraded Divine Hand to Emperor Level, gaining selective grabs, one daily chance to mutate a grabbed item, and a Void Grand Grab when his grab points reached 100%.

Yun Che learned that outsiders had breached the Heavenly Domain and its cultivation restrictions had vanished, then set out for the Chen Family after discovering Zu Tangtang had been captured. The chapter left Zu Tangtang trapped in a formation as the Chen Family prepared to turn her soul into a Soul Guard.

• Yang Tao and Yuezheng Xiangling told Yun Che that an unknown force had breached the Heavenly Domain's border and that the Divine Realm restriction had disappeared.
• Yun Che ordered the Star-Catching Ancient Sect to strengthen its defenses, monitor newly ascended Divine Realm cultivators, and investigate the border without engaging the outsiders.
• Yun Che used the Heavenly Secrets Mirror and a Person-Locating Talisman to discover that Zu Tangtang was in the Chen Family's custody.
• Yun Che accepted an SSS Rank mission to save Li Muling from being refined into a demon at the Demon Refining Platform within one month.
• Chen Zhou told Chen Yishan he wanted to make Zu Tangtang into a powerful Soul Guard, and Chen Yishan approved as she hung in the formation.

Zu Tangtang resisted the Chen Family’s attempt to turn her into Chen Zhou’s Soul Guard and detonated her soul rather than submit. Yun Che arrived moments later, found the hall in ruins and demanded to know where she was.

• Chen Yishan dismissed Zu Tangtang’s warning about Yun Che and ordered the elders to activate the soul-stripping formation.
• As the formation tore at her soul, Zu Tangtang used Bestow Dragon Qi, broke free briefly, and detonated her soul.
• Zu Tangtang’s soul blast shattered the formation and injured Chen Zhou, Chen Yishan, and the elders; she left behind Yun Che’s bloodstained jade pendant and a final promise that he would avenge her.
• Chen Yishan vowed to erase the Star-Catching Ancient Sect, while Chen Zhou picked up the pendant and threatened to destroy it.
• Yun Che broke through the Chen Family’s concealment formation, entered the ruined hall, and asked where Zu Tangtang was.

Yun Che learned that Zu Tangtang had detonated her soul and destroyed the Chen Family in fury, then used her jade pendant to recover her remnant soul. He defeated the Chen Family’s ancestors, searched their ruins for soul-healing medicine, and completed the mission to retrieve the Pioneer Core.

• Yun Che demanded to know what happened to Zu Tangtang, and Chen Zhou confessed that she had detonated her soul.
• Yun Che killed Chen Zhou, destroyed the Chen Family’s formation, and extracted Chen Yishan’s soul before recovering Zu Tangtang’s bloodstained jade pendant.
• Yun Che activated the jade pendant and gathered Zu Tangtang’s fragile remnant soul, whose consciousness had already dissipated.
• Yun Che used Fire God Annihilation Form, Niter of the End, to annihilate the Chen Family ancestors and reduce the estate to scorched earth.
• Yun Che found little god-level Spirit Medicine among the Chen Family’s resources, but retrieved the Pioneer Core and completed the God-Tier Mission.

Yun Che returned to the Star-Catching Ancient Sect and told Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang that Zu Tangtang had died, promising to find a way to bring her back. After learning that the Many Treasures Fishmen Clan was invading the Heavenly Domain in search of an ancient treasure, he accepted a mission to drive them out and set off with the two women.

• Yun Che told Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang that Zu Tangtang had detonated her soul, and promised he would find a way to revive her.
• Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang told Yun Che that the Many Treasures Fishmen Clan was invading the Heavenly Domain to find an ancient secret treasure.
• Yun Che accepted the Emperor Level hidden mission to drive out the Fishmen Clan and claim the Sea Treasure.
• Yun Che received rewards for completing the Bright Moon Heavenly God's wrath mission after Zhang Dabo killed the Bright Moon Heavenly God in the First Parallel World.
• Yun Che, Yuezheng Xiangling, and Ye Qingshuang left the Star-Catching Ancient Sect to join the others fighting the fishmen, with Yun Che planning to head to the Divine Domain afterward.

Yun Che arrived at the Heavenly Domain's Border Battlefield and watched the Star-Catching Ancient Sect fight the fishmen before using Divine Hand to take valuable drops from rival factions. After silencing the rivals' plans, he gained another Void Grand Grab and discovered its destination was the virtual world of Dragon Ball.

• Yun Che arrived at the battlefield and saw Situ Kong, Ning Yi, Feng Chu, Nangong Meng, and Eunuch Cao fighting the fishmen.
• Yun Che sent Ye Qingshuang and another woman into the battle while he watched and figured out that the fishmen's storage spaces let them drop treasures.
• Yun Che used Divine Hand to grab the best items from fishmen fought by hostile families and factions, leaving their drops far less valuable than those of the Star-Catching Ancient Sect.
• Angered family heads considered joining forces to seize the sect's treasures, but Yun Che killed an Emperor Level fishman and made them abandon the scheme.
• Yun Che accumulated enough grab value to trigger Void Grand Grab and learned that its destination was the virtual anime world Dragon Ball.

Yun Che effortlessly killed the fishman Spirit God and turned the battle against the fishmen into a rout. He discovered that the real fishman force had slipped into a dried-up Undersea Palace to search for the Sea Treasure and led the others toward its entrance.

• Yun Che obtained the God Level Potala Earrings, which let two people fuse and increase their combat power.
• A fishman Spirit God attacked the battlefield with a giant hand, but Yun Che erased it and pulled the golden-scaled fishman out of hiding.
• Yun Che killed the fishman Spirit God, then ordered the humans to clear the field as the fishman army collapsed into a rout.
• Yun Che used World Eye to find a dried-up Undersea Palace beneath the battlefield and realized the surface attack was a diversion.
• Yun Che explained the fishmen’s real objective to Yuezheng Xiangling, Qingshuang, and the others, then led them toward the underground palace entrance.

Yun Che led his companions into the dried-up undersea palace to stop the Many-Treasure Merman Clan from claiming its power. He cut through the clan’s defenders with a sword technique, while the Merman Clan Chief continued attacking the formation around the Sea God Statue.

• Yun Che told the group that powerful merman guards were below the fissure and that the clan sought something that could strengthen it.
• Yun Che killed the two merman guards at the palace entrance, and he and his companions entered the ruins.
• A Golden-Scaled Fishman and dozens of silver-scaled mermen confronted the group, but Yun Che slew them with Mental Thought Swords.
• Yun Che and the others reached the main hall, where the Merman Clan Chief was trying to break the formation protecting the Sea God Statue.
• Yun Che used That One Sword, Twilight and Dawn to destroy the three Spirit God Realm mermen and cut through the Divine Realm and Emperor Realm defenders.

Yun Che defeated the Merman Clan Chief, claimed the Sea God's Secret Blood, and upgraded the Twelve-Path Lotus into the Divine Crown Dao Lotus. While his companions searched the undersea palace for treasures, he discovered a hidden chamber and triggered a mandatory mission by trying to seize a mysterious coffin.

• Yun Che erased the Sea God's Protection formation, shattered the Sea God statue, and took the Sea God's Secret Blood.
• Yun Che killed the Merman Clan Chief, completed the Sea Treasure mission, broke through to Early Lower Position God, and found the Uncrowned Divine Crown.
• Yun Che upgraded the Twelve-Path Lotus into the Divine Crown Dao Lotus, while his companions discovered treasures throughout the hall.
• Yun Che used World Eye to uncover a secret chamber beneath the palace containing treasures, Sea God secret manuals, and an ice-blue coffin inside a sphere of water energy.
• Yun Che tried to seize the coffin with his upgraded Divine Hand and triggered the mandatory God-Tier Mission, Sea God's Daughter's Sigh.

Yun Che and his companions entered the secret chamber to find three Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and reinforce the seal protecting the Sea God's daughter’s remnant soul. They survived the first monster wave while Yun Che gained vast Experience Points, and the second wave began with monsters at the Divine Realm or higher.

• Yun Che read the mission requirements and warned his companions that failure would bring severe penalties.
• Yun Che assigned the group to defend the chamber and search for the pearls as abyssal monsters began attacking.
• Yuezheng Xiangling, Ye Qingshuang, Eunuch Cao, and Feng Chu repelled the first tentacles while Yun Che searched with Situ Kong and Ning Yi.
• Ning Yi found the first Sea-Calming Divine Pearl beneath rubble.
• Yun Che slaughtered the first wave of monsters and gained Experience Points as his companions fought together.
• The second wave arrived, and Yun Che took on the Divine Realm-or-higher monsters himself.

Yun Che destroyed the demons in the third wave, reaching late-stage Lower Position God before restoring the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and freeing the Sea God's Daughter. He received her hidden reward and mission rewards, including an inheritance from the unrecognized god Ji Guangqiang, a divine weapon, and major attribute increases, then prepared to leave.

• Yun Che defeated the third wave of demons and broke through to middle-stage and then late-stage Lower Position God.
• Ning Yi and Situ Kong returned the three Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to their places, purifying the chamber and allowing the Sea God's Daughter's remnant soul to emerge.
• The Sea God's Daughter blessed Yun Che with a permanent stamina increase, thanked him, and revealed her name was Ao Xiao'ao before vanishing.
• Yun Che received the Sea God's Daughter's mission rewards and learned that the unknown god-level inheritance belonged to Ji Guangqiang, an unrecognized ice-law Main God tied to the Ao Family.
• Yun Che examined Ji Guangqiang's inheritance and the Tears of the Vast Sea, then gained a permanent increase to all attributes and decided to head back.

Yun Che made final arrangements for the Star-Catching Ancient Sect and Azure Sparrow before departing for the Divine Domain. He left a clone and several powerful items behind, then entered the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation as his companions watched him leave.

• Yun Che offered to send members back to Azure Sparrow and announced a competition with the Holy City, promising Thrones as rewards if Azure Sparrow could qualify as a Holy Dynasty.
• Yuezheng Xiangling, Ye Qingshuang, and Cao Taichun volunteered to return to Azure Sparrow.
• Ye Qingshuang reported that the Demon Hall had repeatedly sent its Demon Army against Azure Sparrow and that Hidden Martial Practitioners had grown stronger; Yun Che ordered the Mutated Demon Corps to deal with lawbreakers and postponed confronting the Demon Hall.
• Feng Chu told Yun Che that people had begun encountering Dark-Side Bodies comparable to or stronger than themselves, and Yun Che warned everyone not to underestimate them.
• Yun Che left a clone with the Sea God's Protection Grand Formation, Ji Guangqiang's Inheritance, and the Potala Earrings to take to Azure Sparrow.
• Yun Che entered the Heaven and Earth Grand Formation and departed for the Divine Domain.

Yun Che headed toward Demon Hall’s outpost to rescue Li Muling, but along the way he intervened in a betrayal and obtained the Great Dao Treasure, the World-Saving Golden Scroll. He killed the unfaithful wife and confronted the disciple, while the rescued master was left grieving.

• Yun Che chose to travel to Demon Hall’s outpost before the seven-day deadline to rescue Li Muling.
• Yun Che followed a refined man fleeing his wife and disciple, used Divine Hand on them, and obtained the World-Saving Golden Scroll.
• The silver-armored disciple launched a lethal attack on his wounded master, accusing him of hiding the treasure.
• Yun Che caught the disciple’s strike, healed the refined man, and revealed that he had saved him for a mission.
• The woman in red threatened Yun Che with Heavenly Tomb Hall, but he said he was already at odds with the clan.
• Yun Che hurled the silver-armored disciple into distant mountains and killed the woman in red, while the refined man mourned without feeling avenged.

Yun Che accepted Cui Zhongfa’s mission to rescue Gu Xiaochun, then discovered that he had taken the World-Saving Golden Scroll from Cui Zhongfa. After learning that good deeds could unlock powerful abilities, including one that might revive Zu Tangtang, Yun Che continued toward the Demon Hall outpost to save Li Muling first.

• Yun Che killed Cui Zhongfa’s pursuers and urged him to explain what help he needed.
• Cui Zhongfa revealed that the Heavenly Tomb Hall had destroyed the Azure Mist Divine Sect, captured Gu Xiaochun, and taken his daughter to make a Ten Thousand Demons Devouring God Pill.
• Yun Che accepted the God-Tier Mission to rescue Gu Xiaochun within twenty days and left for the Demon Hall outpost to save Li Muling first.
• Cui Zhongfa searched his Storage Ring and realized that the World-Saving Golden Scroll was missing.
• Yun Che identified the World-Saving Golden Scroll and learned that Goodwill Points from good deeds could unlock abilities, including one that might restore a dying person to their peak condition.
• Unable to find a good deed to test the scroll in the wilderness, Yun Che continued toward the Demon Hall outpost.