Chapter Summaries

Venerable Purple Flame sacrificed himself to weaken Tahe, but Qi Heming used the Resentful Demon Formation to drag the ancient demon into a mysterious passage. Qi Heming then targeted Ji Wuchang, and despite Yu Ling's attempt to cut him free, Ji Wuchang was being pulled toward the passage.

• Tahe overpowered Venerable Purple Flame until Purple Flame used Purple Flame Burns Heaven and Earth to trap him in a golden bowl of purple flames.
• Tahe shattered the bowl and emerged badly weakened, while Purple Flame's remnant soul escaped into the palace barrier.
• Qi Heming and his two companions used Tahe's blood to activate the Resentful Demon Formation and dragged Tahe into a void passage.
• Qi Heming and his companions then offered Ji Wuchang as a sacrifice, and black chains seized him despite his teleportation away.
• Yu Ling severed dozens of chains with her sword, but Ji Wuchang continued to be dragged toward the passage.

Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang broke free of Qi Heming’s trap, but Venerable Purple Flame possessed Jiang Shifei as the secret realm collapsed. After Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling left with the Lightning Origin, Purple Flame returned to the realm and discovered the lightning lake had been drained.

• Yu Ling shattered the chains and killed Qi Heming’s two attackers, while Ji Wuchang used his Divine Soul Dao Platform to break free and attack Qi Heming.
• Qi Heming escaped through a pitch-black passage, and the palace seized Jiang Shifei before sinking underground and opening a path out of the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang realized Venerable Purple Flame had chosen Jiang Shifei as his host, then left the secret realm with Yu Ling; Wu Caojun and Tian Huafeng departed separately.
• Nearly six hours later, Venerable Purple Flame emerged in Jiang Shifei’s body and celebrated his return.
• Venerable Purple Flame went to claim the Lightning Origin but found the lightning lake diminished, and cursed whoever had taken his opportunity.

Yu Ling took Ji Wuchang to the Heavenly Star Sect and arranged for him to meet Elder Zhou before she left Yunchuan Academy. After Ji Wuchang improved his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, Yu Ling brought him back toward the academy, leaving his future connection to the sect in place.

• Ji Wuchang spent twenty-nine years of cultivation experience mastering the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, gaining the ability to shrink the ground within three hundred li.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling traveled northeast through Lingtai Province and reached the Heavenly Star Sect in Heavenly Star Province.
• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang she would soon leave Yunchuan Academy and introduced him to Elder Zhou, the Heavenly Star Peak master, as someone he could seek out later.
• Yu Ling said she and Ji Wuchang had to return to Yunchuan Academy and left with him before Elder Zhou could speak further.

Yu Ling brought Ji Wuchang to the newly opened Land of Heavenly Loss, where they entered a misty valley and chose the right-hand passage. Six rogue-cultivator bandits followed them to a cliffside platform, believing the passage was a dead end, and closed in on them.

• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang that visiting Elder Zhou had been incidental and that she had come to explore the Land of Heavenly Loss.
• Ji Wuchang recalled exploring the dangerous land in his previous life, when only four of ten people had returned.
• Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang paid the entrance fee and chose the first path on the right after reaching a four-way junction.
• Chen Chujin and the Blood Baleful Intent Sixth Brother followed them, intending to rob them and seize Yu Ling.
• Yu Ling told Ji Wuchang to wait until they left the passage before killing the pursuers.
• The six bandits confronted Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling on a platform above sheer cliffs, mocking them for choosing a supposed dead end.

Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang crossed a blood bridge into a teleportation gate that separated them, while Yu Ling and Yu Gang discussed whether Ji Wuchang might be the surviving child of a forbidden Ji-Li union. Yu Ling had brought him there to test whether the blood pool would awaken his bloodline, and she followed him through the gate seeking an answer.

• Yu Ling killed the six men following her and Ji Wuchang, then used their blood to reveal a bridge across the mist.
• Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang crossed the bridge and reached a teleportation gate; Yu Ling warned that it would send them to different places and gave him a sensing jade token.
• Ji Wuchang entered the gate, and Yu Gang emerged from the void to ask Yu Ling whether she intended to nurture him.
• Yu Gang described a rumor that a surviving child of a Ji Family lord and a Li Family woman might be about fifty, but noted that Ji Wuchang was nineteen and showed no bloodline power.
• Yu Ling proposed that Ji Wuchang might have been sealed in a raw stone from birth, then said she had brought him to the blood pool to see whether it would awaken his bloodline.
• Yu Ling entered the teleportation gate with Yu Gang, intending to find out what Ji Wuchang would reveal.

Ji Wuchang entered the Land of Heavenly Loss, where the lack of spiritual power and distorted terrain forced him to rely on stored resources. After escaping a flock of Ghost Eagles, he learned from Ji Yaoyao that the land was an ancient battlefield between humans and the Devil Race.

• Ji Wuchang found that the Land of Heavenly Loss had no spiritual power and ground ten times harder than normal, which also weakened Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Seven fifth-rank Ghost Eagles pursued Ji Wuchang, and he used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch repeatedly to escape them at the cost of half his spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang restored his spiritual power with spirit stones and hurried away to avoid another encounter with the Ghost Eagles.
• Ji Yaoyao identified the place as the Land of Heavenly Loss and explained that it had been an ancient battlefield where the human race defeated the Devil Race at great cost.

Ji Wuchang learned about the Heavenly Star Sect’s origins and searched the Land of Heavenly Loss for a Supreme’s skeleton to help Ji Yaoyao resurrect. A Flame Devil Turtle and growing flocks of Ghost Eagles pursued him, and he spotted a formidable figure ahead as his escape continued.

• Ji Yaoyao explained that the Heavenly Star Sect had been founded by people left behind after an ancient battle, and that it served as a stepping stone to Jiangshan Academy.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang to search the Blood Pool for a complete Supreme’s skeleton, and he agreed to help her.
• Ji Wuchang discovered that the hill beneath him was a camouflaged Flame Devil Turtle and fled using Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Ghost Eagles joined the pursuit, and Ji Wuchang swallowed Primordial Qi Pills while repeatedly using his escape technique.
• More than twenty Ghost Eagles and the Flame Devil Turtle continued chasing Ji Wuchang until he spotted a towering, ferocious figure ahead.

Ji Wuchang escaped the ferocious beasts by using the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s pressure, then witnessed the Land of Heavenly Loss transform as rosy light brought daylight and spiritual energy. He hid near a group led by Gu Qieyong, who warned that night was approaching and that they were searching for the legendary Blood Pool.

• Ji Wuchang summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow’s phantom, frightening off the Violent Demon Ape and Ghost Eagles as the Violent Demon Ape and Flame Devil Turtle fought.
• Ji Wuchang watched the battle while recovering, until rosy light appeared and both beasts fled or buried themselves beneath rocks.
• The rosy light filled the Land of Heavenly Loss with heat and mixed energies, allowing Ji Wuchang to absorb fire-attribute spiritual power.
• Ji Yaoyao explained that the land’s damaged laws made it operate by its own rules, with daytime lasting twelve hours and barriers disappearing in daylight.
• Ji Wuchang sensed people, hid nearby, and overheard Gu Qieyong warn his eight companions about the deadly night as they searched for the Blood Pool.

Gu Qieyong led a group through the Land of Heavenly Loss in search of the legendary Blood Pool, while two rival groups joined them and Ji Wuchang followed from hiding. As the heat grew unbearable, one of Gu Qieyong’s companions collapsed before they found the pool.

• Gu Qieyong explained that ancient texts and a ferocious beast’s vitality convinced him the Blood Pool existed and could improve their innate aptitude.
• Wang Zishun, Li Qinyi, Li Luoyi, and Liu Zhi of the Heavenly Leisure Sect arrived and insisted on joining Gu Qieyong’s group.
• Gu Qieyong revealed that Wang Quanfu, Yang Guohao, and Dang Qinglai had also followed them, bringing the number of competing groups together.
• Ji Wuchang realized Gu Qieyong had spotted him and continued following the party as Gu Qieyong searched for the Blood Pool.
• The heat intensified as the party traveled, and four hours later one of Gu Qieyong’s companions collapsed.

As Gu Qieyong led the group toward the blood pool, Ji Wuchang used the extreme heat to cultivate and broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm sixth level. After spending his draws and a flash sale on an Appearance Enhancement Card, he detected that his senior sister Yu Ling was nearby.

• Gu Qieyong gave the exhausted travelers Water Ling Pills and led them onward, while Ji Wuchang noticed his concealed disgust and killing intent.
• Ji Wuchang absorbed the heat through his cultivation, strengthened his body, and advanced from the Purple Mansion Realm fifth level to the sixth.
• Ji Wuchang used two system draws and received 250 Fortune Points, then bought an Appearance Enhancement Card in a flash sale.
• Ji Wuchang crushed the card and felt his skin become smoother, then checked the system shop and his updated cultivation status.
• Ji Wuchang felt Yu Ling's sensing jade token grow hot, indicating that she was within two hundred li.

Ji Wuchang killed Liu Zhi and Qian Long after Gu Qieyong’s group sent them to deal with him. While they remained unaware of the deaths, Gu Qieyong directed the others to destroy a hill, revealing a formation beneath it.

• Gu Qieyong said the blood pool was likely below the hill and pointed out Ji Wuchang following them.
• Gu Qieyong and Wang Zishun each sent a subordinate to kill Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang swiftly killed Liu Zhi and Qian Long, absorbed their Primordial Spirits, and erased the traces of the fight.
• Gu Qieyong placed thirteen markers around the hill and told the others to strike them together.
• The group blasted the peak apart, revealing a formation beneath it.

Gu Qieyong revealed that the formation required six human sacrifices and had his allies capture and kill six followers to activate it. Their blood summoned a massive devil eye that alerted people across the Land of Heavenly Loss to the Blood Pool, while Ji Wuchang stayed to see what would happen next.

• Gu Qieyong explained that six people had to be sacrificed to fill the formation’s blood-shaped grooves and identified six of his followers as the offerings.
• Yang Guohao, Wang Quanfu, Dang Qinglai, Wang Zishun, Li Qinyi, and Li Luoyi seized the six followers as they tried to flee.
• Gu Qieyong ordered the six captives killed, and their blood flowed across the Devil Creature designs into the formation.
• The captives’ bodies shriveled as the completed formation released six pillars of Devil Qi that converged into a huge blood-red devil eye.
• Ji Wuchang watched the devil eye appear, while people across the Land of Heavenly Loss recognized it as a sign that the Blood Pool had appeared and rushed toward it.

The blood-red devil eye bewitched people across the Land of Heavenly Loss, driving them to slaughter one another so their blood could fuel the opening of a blood-pool passage. Ji Wuchang resisted its influence and suspected Senior Sister Yu Ling had come prepared for the blood pool, while powerful forces began pouring into the region.

• Ji Wuchang nearly succumbed to the devil eye’s murderous influence, but his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the murderous aura and restored his clarity.
• Dang Qinglai killed Yin Feilan, and her blood streamed into the devil eye; Yang Guohao wounded Wang Quanfu, whose pain broke the eye’s bewitchment and whose severed arm regenerated at the cost of his blood essence.
• Wang Zishun killed Li Luoyi while bewitched, then regained his senses as her blood and Primordial Spirit were drawn toward the devil eye.
• Ji Yaoyao told Ji Wuchang that the eye was a key to opening a blood-pool passage, and Ji Wuchang suspected Senior Sister Yu Ling had come for the blood pool with a Dao Protector.
• The devil eye announced that fifty more sacrifices were needed, then twenty-five more, as forces from across Heavenly Star Province rushed into the Land of Heavenly Loss.
• Gu Qieyong severed Dang Qinglai’s leg, breaking his bewitchment; Dang Qinglai fled in terror as Gu Qieyong regained his own clarity.

Ji Wuchang entered a hidden passage after the six blood pool passages appeared and fought his way through its dangers. He discovered a stone puppet blocking the route ahead and faced it as its ninth-level Soul Splitting Realm power emerged.

• Six Devil Creatures absorbed the red pillars, opened six blood pool passages, and then exploded as the formation collapsed.
• Ji Wuchang entered a separate passage that appeared beneath the character for “blood” just before it sealed.
• Ji Wuchang advanced through the crimson passage, destroyed a giant skeleton, and killed five venomous red snakes with his small swords.
• Ji Wuchang reached a secret chamber and realized the stone man guarding its stone door was a real body turned into a puppet after its Primordial Spirit had been extracted.
• Ji Wuchang struck the stone man with Great Sun Divine Fist, destroying one of its eyes, then dodged its attack and prepared another punch as its aura revealed ninth-level Soul Splitting Realm strength.

Ji Wuchang defeated the stone man, found a blood-red token, and opened the sealed Blood Pool Secret Realm. He and Yu Ling were drawn into a blood-red space above the vast pool as the other entrants stared at it with intense longing.

• Ji Wuchang bound the stone man with the Immortal-Binding Rope, shattered its head, and caught a blood-red token marked "Blood" as it flew out.
• Ji Wuchang opened the stone door and discovered a plaza filled with hundreds of thousands of human and Devil Race skeletons.
• Ji Wuchang reached a blood-red stele inscribed "Blood Pool," and his token resonated with it, causing the stele to shatter the barrier overhead.
• Yu Ling flew to Ji Wuchang as an indifferent voice announced that nine in ten people entering the Blood Pool would die, then a suction force pulled everyone inside the stele.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling arrived in a blood-red space above a vast blood pool, where the gathered entrants felt their blood boil and gazed down greedily.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling entered the Blood Pool’s barrier while a blood-red dragon slaughtered the cultivators gathered outside. The surviving fighters prepared to unleash their full strength against the dragon, while Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling proceeded inside.

• Yu Ling explained that the Blood Pool could awaken bloodlines and improve cultivation, but warned that entering it would be troublesome.
• A Soul Splitting Realm elder rushed toward the pool, and the blood-red dragon emerged, swallowed him, then attacked the crowd.
• The dragon killed more than twenty people before the cultivators rallied to fight back, though weaker cultivators could not withstand the battle’s force.
• Yu Ling opened the barrier with a silver seal and led Ji Wuchang inside; others who tried to follow were pierced by red light and killed.
• As the blood-red dragon continued its slaughter, the seventh-level Six Spirits Realm elder urged the survivors to stop holding back and began using a technique that doubled his strength.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling entered the Blood Pool, while the cultivators above fought over its blood. Long Batian arrived with the Heavenly Star Sect, followed by Jun Piaopiao, and the gathered factions turned their attention to him and the rivalry between the two women.

• Ji Wuchang entered the Blood Pool with Ji Yaoyao protecting him and dove toward the Supreme's bones at its bottom.
• Yu Ling entered the Blood Pool in a blood cocoon and watched Ji Wuchang descend before her cocoon sank beneath the surface.
• A Six Spirits Realm Seventh Level elder cut the blood-colored dragon apart, and the cultivators fought viciously over the rain of blood.
• Long Batian arrived with Chu Yanran and more than twenty Heavenly Star Sect disciples, silencing the fighting with his Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level pressure.
• Jun Piaopiao arrived with her followers and greeted Long Batian, drawing attention to the rivalry between her and Chu Yanran.

Ji Wuchang and Ji Yaoyao retrieved a Supreme's bones from the Blood Pool, but removing them destabilized the eight trigrams formation and awakened a Demon Venerable. Ji Wuchang gathered eight strange drops of blood and rushed out to rescue Yu Ling, warning her that disaster was coming.

• Chu Yanran and Jun Piaopiao nearly fought over Long Batian, but he stopped them and ordered his followers to break the Blood Pool's barrier after learning two people had entered.
• Ji Wuchang descended through the Blood Pool as demonic Qi surged toward him and found a Supreme's skeleton protected by a barrier.
• Ji Yaoyao absorbed the phantom clinging to the bones and shrank the bones into light, storing them in Ji Wuchang's ring.
• Ji Wuchang discovered an eight trigrams formation beneath the bones, saw it crack, and heard a Demon Venerable announce that it would escape after ten thousand years of imprisonment.
• Ji Wuchang collected eight peculiar drops of blood, escaped the Blood Pool, and hurried to Yu Ling's blood cocoon to warn her that something big was about to happen.

Yu Ling and Ji Wuchang escaped through a passage as Long Batian and hundreds of others entered the Blood Pool to cultivate, unaware that a demonic old man beneath it was devouring them. Yang Guohao broke through to the Six Spirits Realm, spurring those still outside to fight for a place in the pool.

• Yu Ling used a jade token to open a passage and took Ji Wuchang away just before the barrier above the Blood Pool shattered.
• Long Batian entered the Blood Pool to awaken more of his Ice Dragon Bloodline, and the crowd rushed in, sparking deadly fights over space.
• The Eight Trigrams Array beneath the Blood Pool shattered, freeing a demonic old man who dragged people underwater and devoured them to restore his strength.
• Long Batian sensed danger but found no threat nearby, while doubting that the Blood Pool's energy could sufficiently awaken his bloodline.
• Yang Guohao broke through from the Purple Mansion Realm Ninth Layer to the Six Spirits Realm First Level, making those still outside eager to enter.

The Blood Pool’s chaotic battle fed Huang Sen, an ancient devil sealed beneath it, restoring his strength and appearance. After he devoured hundreds more people, the survivors realized the danger and fled the pool in terror.

• Yang Guohao’s breakthrough spurred hundreds of cultivators to attack the rogue cultivators occupying part of the Blood Pool, and many were killed in the clash.
• Huang Sen devoured the dead and abducted cultivators from beneath the Blood Pool, growing stronger as an Ancient Devil Star on his brow lit up.
• Gu Qieyong and Dang Qinglai broke through, while Wang Quanfu was dragged under the Blood Pool and swallowed along with others.
• Huang Sen recovered his former build and appearance, revealed as a peak eight-star Ancient Devil once equivalent to a Supreme Realm Ninth Level expert, and devoured more than a hundred people.
• The mass disappearances alerted the survivors, but Huang Sen dragged another hundred people below, prompting Long Batian, Jun Piaopiao, Chu Yanran, and the others to flee the Blood Pool.