Chapter Summaries

Han Shuo used his Demonic Treasures to injure the Ancient Giant Dragon, who petrified himself to blunt the attacks. Han Shuo repeatedly struck through the stone with the Demon-Slaying Edge, but the dragon escaped toward the Kasi Empire after recovering his soul.

• Han Shuo concealed the Explosive Destruction Beads, Soul-Piercing Needles, Heavenly Demon Jade Flame Shuttle, and Bloodlust Banner in dark clouds and unleashed them on the Ancient Giant Dragon.
• The Ancient Giant Dragon petrified his body, weakening the effects of the Heavenly Demon Jade Flame Shuttle and Bloodlust Banner while he worked to purge the Soul-Piercing Needles from his soul.
• Han Shuo drove the Demon-Slaying Edge into the dragon’s stone back and repeatedly struck the wounds, inflicting severe damage to several vital areas.
• After purging the Soul-Piercing Needles, the Ancient Giant Dragon emerged from petrification and blocked Han Shuo’s strike at his head.
• The Ancient Giant Dragon fled toward the Kasi Empire, and Han Shuo chose not to pursue him because he needed to recover and had another plan.

After defeating the Qio Continent’s guardian god, Han Shuo sent Emily, Fanny, and Phoebe away and moved the Death Cemetery to a remote island in the Boundless Sea. While exploring the area with his Divine Sense, he encountered an arrogant sea creature and sensed a barrier beneath a nearby island.

• Han Shuo reassured Emily, Phoebe, and Fanny after the battle, explained that powerful enemies from other planes threatened him, and told them to leave and avoid provoking other countries.
• Han Shuo used the Skeleton Magic Staff and a magic disc to raise the Death Cemetery, then flew it across the Boundless Sea to a remote gourd-shaped island.
• Han Shuo buried the Death Cemetery beneath the island, preserving the Spirit Demons’ formation, and had the Earth Armor Zombie and Wooden Armored Corpse repair the landing site.
• Han Shuo surveyed the surrounding sea with his Divine Sense and ignored a powerful nonhuman soul that ordered him to leave its territory.
• Han Shuo sensed a barrier beneath an isolated island that blocked his Divine Sense.

Han Shuo followed the wounded Ancient Giant Dragon to a hidden refuge in the Orcs Empire, hoping to destroy the Plane Teleportation Array and prevent hostile Other Plane Powerhouses from reaching Qio Continent. After finding the dragon alone behind a Water Element Barrier, Han Shuo broke through and rushed toward him, realizing the ancient Earth-Extreme Land could rapidly restore the dragon's strength.

• Han Shuo used the Death Cemetery and Teleportation Arrays to reach the Southern Border, then tracked the Ancient Giant Dragon into the Orcs Empire using the dragon's scattered flesh and blood.
• Han Shuo disguised himself as an Orc and crossed the barren empire and a vast plain before entering a rainy, beast-filled mountain region where he sensed the Ancient Giant Dragon.
• Han Shuo cautiously approached a Water Element Barrier and used the marks inside the Ancient Giant Dragon to sense that the dragon was sleeping underground and that no other souls were present.
• Han Shuo concealed the Demon-Slaying Edge's aura, then struck the Barrier with full force and opened a passage through it.
• Han Shuo sensed an ancient Earth-Extreme Land inside the Barrier and realized the Ancient Giant Dragon could recover quickly there, so he lunged toward the dragon.

Han Shuo defeated the Ancient Giant Dragon by overwhelming his soul with attacks from all three bodies, then let the Earth Armor Zombie claim the Earth Spirit Pearl and the dragon’s remaining divine soul. He destroyed the Plane Teleportation Array and declared that he had won, leaving his enemy unable to reach him through it.

• Han Shuo attacked the still-dormant Ancient Giant Dragon with necromantic barriers, Death Withering, and the Demon-Slaying Edge, but the dragon shielded his head with the Earth Spirit Pearl.
• Han Shuo abandoned physical attacks and used the soul powers of his three bodies to trap and destroy the Ancient Giant Dragon’s consciousness.
• Han Shuo sent the Earth Armor Zombie into the dragon’s skull, where it claimed the Earth Spirit Pearl and absorbed the dragon’s remaining divine soul and Earth Element power.
• Han Shuo found the Plane Teleportation Array beneath the Ancient Giant Dragon’s body and destroyed it with the Demon-Slaying Edge.
• Han Shuo laughed and declared that he had won the battle.

Han Shuo used the Blood-Rending Demonic Escape Art to flee Ericson, a Middle God who had trapped him behind a reinforced barrier, but the escape shattered his body and left him helpless in the Orcs Empire. An orc boy found him and chopped down the tree he was hanging from, only to discover that Han Shuo’s heart was still beating.

• Han Shuo sent the Earth Armor Zombie to the Undead World with the Ancient Giant Dragon’s divine soul and Earth Spirit Orb, then faced Ericson’s reinforced barrier.
• Han Shuo unleashed the Blood-Rending Demonic Escape Art and vanished, leaving Ericson and Caesar’s group baffled as they searched for him and planned to find the Death Cemetery’s Plane Teleportation Array.
• Han Shuo appeared a thousand miles away in barren mountains, where his shattered meridians and bones left him unable to move or summon protection.
• An orc boy came to chop firewood, mistook Han Shuo for a dead man, and cut down the tree to bury him.
• The orc boy discovered Han Shuo’s heart was still beating and recoiled in fright.

Han Shuo recovered from his wounds with help from the kindhearted young orc Tuya Fu, then passed the Beast Bone Necklace’s Shaman inheritance to him before leaving. After returning to the Death Cemetery on Gourd Island, Han Shuo encountered a powerful marine beast that threatened him.

• Tuya Fu treated Han Shuo’s wounds and told him about the famine devastating the Orcs Empire and the orcs’ desperate raids for fertile land.
• Han Shuo’s Demonic Nascent Soul finished repairing itself, and he gave Tuya Fu the Beast Bone Necklace, passing on the Shaman inheritance.
• Han Shuo left Tuya Fu a message identifying himself as Brian and directing him to Buleiteer City if he wished to help the orcs.
• Tuya Fu realized he could become a great Shaman and celebrated as Han Shuo’s incarnation carried him back to Nanpu City and then to the Death Cemetery.
• Han Shuo resumed cultivating while his Death Element External Incarnation sensed a powerful marine Super-tier Magical Beast nearby, which threatened to kill him if he did not leave its territory.

Han Shuo defeated a sea monster that had challenged him, then spared him in exchange for being led to a mysterious barrier beneath an island. The barrier released the energy of the Life Law and repelled Han Shuo, so he summoned the Wooden Armored Corpse to investigate.

• The sea monster attacked Han Shuo, who weakened and trapped him with necromantic spells before injuring him with Soul Tremor.
• The sea monster begged for his life and offered to lead Han Shuo to a hidden treasure, so Han Shuo released him and followed him through the sea.
• At the base of an island, the sea monster revealed that energy from the hidden barrier had transformed him from a small octopus into a powerful creature.
• Han Shuo approached the barrier, but its green Life Law energy attacked him and forced him to retreat.
• Han Shuo realized that the barrier repelled his death-powered incarnation and summoned the Wooden Armored Corpse.

Han Shuo sent the Wooden Armored Corpse through a barrier to absorb the life force of a World Tree, which had formed from a deity who cultivated the Life Law. The Wooden Armored Corpse then used that power to heal Han Shuo’s badly injured main body, while Han Shuo took the great sea monster back to the Death Cemetery.

• The Wooden Armored Corpse passed through the barrier without resistance and revealed a World Tree hidden beneath the island.
• Han Shuo recognized the tree as a World Tree and told the Wooden Armored Corpse to absorb its power through Green Jade Wood.
• The Wooden Armored Corpse drained the World Tree until it withered into bones, gaining its life energy.
• Han Shuo buried the World Tree’s remains and brought the shrunken great sea monster to the Death Cemetery in a water-filled glass vessel.
• The Wooden Armored Corpse channeled life energy into Han Shuo’s main body, rapidly healing his severe injuries.

Han Shuo recovered in the Death Cemetery, advanced his Death Element incarnation, and refined three spirit demons while waiting for the Other Plane Powerhouses. Caesar’s group found and slaughtered the Black Dragon Clan to learn the route into the Underground World, and Han Shuo’s Plane Teleportation Array lit up as they departed.

• The Wooden Armored Corpse helped Han Shuo recover, and Han Shuo’s Death Element incarnation advanced to the middle stage of Lower God.
• Han Shuo awakened three newly refined spirit demons, recalled his external incarnations, and waited beside the Plane Teleportation Array.
• Caesar and Ericson failed to find Han Shuo, then agreed to seek the route to the deepest depths of the Underground World.
• Gilbert left his grandfather Gilges and the Black Dragon Clan to return to Han Shuo.
• Caesar’s group demanded the Black Dragon Clan’s secret, killed the clan, and had Dian extract the route from Gilges’s soul.
• Han Shuo’s Plane Teleportation Array suddenly blazed with light.

Han Shuo received Donna and her party of Other Plane Powerhouses, then led them toward the Underground World. He revealed that he had destroyed the enemy’s Plane Teleportation Array and escaped a Middle God’s Barrier, leaving Donna impressed and eager to reward him while Cobert remained displeased.

• Han Shuo welcomed Donna, Livy, Cobert, Borton, and Bowen after they arrived through the Plane Teleportation Array, then briefed them on the Qio Continent and their enemies.
• Livy tried to take the giant sea monster from Han Shuo, but he swiftly rescued it from her and released it into the sea.
• Han Shuo led Donna’s party toward the Dark Forest by way of the Boundless Sea instead of using the convenient Teleportation Array route.
• When Donna asked how he knew a Middle God from the Ice and Snow God Temple had arrived, Han Shuo said he had met him after killing the Plane Guardian and destroying the Plane Teleportation Array.
• Donna accepted Han Shuo’s claim and promised to reward him for giving her side a strategic advantage, while Borton mocked him and Donna worried that Cobert might retaliate.

Han Shuo led Donna and her companions toward the entrance to the Underground World after learning the Black Dragon Clan guarded its secret route. They arrived too late to save the clan, and Han Shuo used Gilges's lingering soul to reveal the massacre and identify Caesar and Erickson as the killers.

• Han Shuo met Gilbert near the former site of the Death Cemetery, learned the Black Dragon Clan's secret, and sent Gilbert to safety.
• Donna warned that the Black Dragon Clan could be targeted, and Borton suggested wiping it out before Han Shuo objected.
• Han Shuo and the others hurried to the Black Dragon Clan's territory and found Gilges and the clan members dead.
• Han Shuo used Gilges's remaining soul to reproduce images of the massacre, revealing Caesar and Erickson as the attackers.
• Donna cautioned Han Shuo not to confront Caesar and Erickson rashly, and Han Shuo acknowledged that he knew his limits.

Han Shuo led Donna's group toward the entrance to the Underground World's Third Layer, where they carefully avoided traps set by Caesar and Erickson. In the pitch-black cave, Han Shuo secretly tripped Livy and the others, until Donna returned the prank and left him stumbling too.

• Han Shuo guided Donna, Livy, Borton, Bowen, and Cobert through the dangerous second layer toward the hidden passage.
• Donna detected traps in a narrow gorge with her Crystal Compass and took the lead, helping the group avoid several barriers.
• Han Shuo found the concealed cave entrance, and the group entered after Cobert restored the vines behind them.
• Donna warned the group not to use lights near Caesar's Light Barrier, and Han Shuo secretly placed rocks in Livy's path, making her and the others stumble.
• Borton noticed Han Shuo seemed unaffected, but Han Shuo also tripped and realized Donna had played a prank on him.

Han Shuo led Donna and the others into the third level of the Underground World, where he discovered Profound Yin Qi and encountered Xuan Demons attacking a group of deities. As his Spirit Demon reached the energy’s source, Han Shuo realized the supposed natural treasure ground was actually an enormous Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation.

• Han Shuo guided the group through the hidden paths and down a vast pit to the third level of the Underground World.
• Han Shuo sensed Profound Yin Qi and became excited by the prospect of cultivating Demonic Essence there.
• Livy consulted her grandfather’s notebook and led the group toward the densest Profound Yin Qi.
• Han Shuo and the others found Erickson, Caesar, and their companions under attack by Xuan Demons.
• The Xuan Demons attacked Han Shuo’s group, and Han Shuo secretly sent a Spirit Demon toward the energy’s source.
• Han Shuo discovered through the Spirit Demon that the Profound Yin Qi gathered in an enormous Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation.

Han Shuo and the others resisted the Xuan Demons near the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation, while Han Shuo wondered who had created it and secretly weakened the demon attacking him. When the Xuan Demons withdrew, Donna ordered her group to seize the chance and attack Caesar and Erickson’s exhausted companions.

• Han Shuo examined the vast Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation and ruled out Chu Canglan as its creator, while his Spirit Demon watched from outside it.
• Livy panicked when a Xuan Demon invaded her body, but Cobert told her to use soul attacks, and she drove it out.
• Han Shuo, Donna, and the brothers Borton and Bowen each found ways to resist the Xuan Demons, while Livy and the others held their attackers off.
• Erickson charged at Han Shuo, but Donna spread Absolute Darkness and deterred Erickson and Caesar from attacking; they withdrew to conserve strength.
• Donna noticed the Xuan Demon attacking Han Shuo had grown weaker, but Han Shuo concealed the reason as Donna suspected he was hiding a secret.
• The Xuan Demons suddenly fled back toward the formation, and Donna ordered her group to attack Caesar and Erickson’s companions while she held off the two Middle Gods.

Han Shuo watched Donna’s group battle Caesar and Erickson while searching the nearby formations for a way to kill them. When new arrivals appeared, the opposing sides paused, and Han Shuo recognized Kaili accompanying a middle-aged man whose arrival unnerved Donna and drew bitter greetings from Caesar and Erickson.

• Donna attacked Caesar and Erickson while Borton, Livy, Bowen, and Cobert engaged their four Lower God companions, and Han Shuo stayed back to watch.
• Han Shuo spotted the Five Directions Poison Cloud Miasma and Yin Wind Black Sha Gang formations and considered luring his enemies into them.
• Han Shuo sensed danger and warned Donna that more people were approaching from behind.
• Donna halted the fighting and confirmed Han Shuo’s warning, while Borton accused Han Shuo of lying about destroying the teleportation array.
• Kaili arrived beside a smiling middle-aged man, whose presence made Donna wary and Caesar and Erickson greet him with bitter apologies.

Han Shuo joined Donna's group as they encountered Alder, a powerful Life Law cultivator searching for his ancestor's remains, and learned that they came from the Continent of the Gods. At the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation, the group hesitated to enter its dangerous depths, but Han Shuo led the way.

• Han Shuo recognized Kaili and realized that Donna's group might be forced into conflict with him and Alder.
• Alder explained that he had come to find his ancestor's remains, prompting Han Shuo to suspect they were connected to the World Tree he had buried near the Death Cemetery.
• Alder warned Donna that he would oppose anyone seeking to destroy life, then showed interest in Han Shuo because he cultivated Death Element power.
• Donna cautioned her companions not to provoke Alder and told Han Shuo that they came from the Continent of the Gods.
• The groups reached the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation and marveled at its immense, seemingly artificial design.
• When everyone hesitated to enter the formation's dangerous depths, Han Shuo went ahead and urged Donna to follow.

Han Shuo led Donna’s group into the Five Directions Poison Cloud Miasma, where his Body-Protecting Astral Shield proved immune to the corrosive poison. As Livy and Donna took shelter beside him, Han Shuo revealed that the group had been trapped in a looping illusion and could not retreat, leaving them to search for the way out.

• Han Shuo entered the Five Directions Poison Cloud Miasma, and Donna followed with Borton, Livy, Bowen, and the others.
• The poisonous miasma attacked the group, but Han Shuo’s Body-Protecting Astral Shield remained unharmed while the others’ protections began to corrode.
• Livy asked to shelter inside Han Shuo’s shield, and Donna joined her after pleading with him; Han Shuo refused to admit Borton, Bowen, and Cobert.
• After the group failed to escape the seemingly small area, Donna suggested that Borton, Bowen, and Cobert turn back, but Han Shuo warned that retreat would trap them too.
• Han Shuo explained that they had been circling the same area and said they needed to discover the miasma’s pattern to escape.

Han Shuo led Donna, Livy, Borton, Cobert, and Bowen out of the Five Directions Poison Cloud Miasma by following its flow pattern. The group recovered at the junction before the Yin Wind Black Sha Gang, where a distant scream suggested someone else had died.

• Han Shuo recognized a pattern in the Five-Color Miasma and told the group to follow his movements.
• Han Shuo guided everyone through the shifting miasma, and Borton, Cobert, and Bowen emerged safely with the others.
• Borton apologized to Han Shuo and invited him to visit his family, while Livy also invited him to visit hers.
• The group rested at the junction between the two Magic Arrays, and Han Shuo observed Borton and Bowen cultivating the Law of Destruction.
• A bloodcurdling scream sounded in the distance, and Han Shuo and Donna concluded that someone had met a disastrous end.

Han Shuo discovered that his Demonic Essence protected him from the Yin Wind Black Sha Gang and used his unobstructed Divine Sense to locate Donna’s group, whose members were trapped in deadly illusions. He carried Livy, Borton, Bowen, and Cobert out, then found Donna overcome by grief and kissing him as he approached.

• After two more explorers screamed in the distance, Donna warned her party that the next obstacle could kill them and invited anyone who wished to retreat to turn back.
• Borton, Livy, Bowen, and Cobert chose to press on, and Donna led them into the Yin Wind Black Sha Gang after Han Shuo advised them to raise their defenses.
• Han Shuo found that the winds and astral gales turned aside from his Demonic Essence, while his death External Incarnation remained vulnerable without it.
• Han Shuo realized that the formation also trapped intruders in illusions and used his Divine Sense to locate the unstable souls of Donna’s party.
• Han Shuo knocked out Livy, Borton, Bowen, and Cobert in turn and carried them out of the formation.
• Han Shuo approached Donna and saw her overwhelmed by grief; she embraced him and kissed him wildly.

Han Shuo led Donna’s party through the dangers surrounding the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation, earning their trust and advising them not to attack Alder’s wounded group. After both parties entered the formation, Han Shuo discovered that Alder and the others could not see them and announced that they had a chance to strike.

• Han Shuo knocked Donna unconscious to free her from the illusions, carried her out of the formation, and explained the kiss she gave him while bewitched.
• Donna’s party recognized Han Shuo’s repeated rescues and asked for his advice; he recommended pressing onward into the Nine Earth Profound Yin Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Alder, Kaili, Caesar, and Erickson emerged badly wounded, but Han Shuo warned Donna that Alder remained dangerous, so she ordered her party not to attack.
• Han Shuo urged Donna’s party to enter the formation before their opponents could recover, prompting Alder’s group to follow them inside.
• The formation transported Donna’s party to a stone forest where Alder’s group could not see them, and Han Shuo called for them to prepare an attack.