Chapter Summaries

Mu Fusheng and the others learned that the Blood Wolf Sect had discovered Xiao Hei’s location and were pursued into Cloud Dream Marsh by Wolf King and Mo Li. Xiao Hei killed a late God King realm fighter with one punch, prompting Mo Li to prepare to fight him personally.

• Mu Fusheng and the others placed a talisman at the third location and learned the final location was half a day away.
• Cheng Yao received word that a Blood Wolf Sect spy had revealed Xiao Hei’s presence and destination, so Mu Fusheng warned that their pursuers would soon find them.
• Wolf King and Mo Li arrived with Blood Wolf Sect members and Demon King Domain fighters, and Yin Shilian, Yan Xuan, and Cheng Yao learned that Xiao Hei was the former Devil Master.
• Xiao Hei charged a late God King realm fighter and killed him with a single punch.
• Mo Li realized Xiao Hei’s strength had grown to the middle stage God King realm and began gathering Demonic Qi to fight him personally.

Xiao Hei fought Mo Li in Cloud Dream Marsh, but the late God Emperor Realm expert overwhelmed him despite Xiao Hei’s powerful bloodline and rapid regeneration. Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong planned to use illusions, talismans, and the marsh’s dangers to trap their pursuers and kill them.

• Mo Li unleashed his power and attacked Xiao Hei, while Xiao Hei’s Devil Master presence briefly made the Demon King Domain experts bend their knees.
• Mo Li struck Xiao Hei and shattered his arm, but Xiao Hei’s Demon God Bloodline regenerated his bones as Mo Li charged him again.
• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Fang Qiong assessed the enemy forces and agreed to use the Immortal Affinity Illusion Array to delay them.
• The group planned to retreat toward the marsh’s middle section using Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans and turn its Devil Beasts and illusion fog against their enemies.
• Mu Fusheng prepared talismans, and Ye Qiubai told Xiao Hei that they intended to eliminate Mo Li and the others in Cloud Dream Marsh.

Mo Li pursued Xiao Hei and the others into Cloud Dream Marsh after breaking their illusion array, while the group prepared hidden arrays as they fled. Mo Li grew suspicious of their changing route and ordered the Blood Wolf Sect to scout ahead and remove any traps.

• Xiao Hei used his bloodline to endure Mo Li’s attacks, then helped draw Mo Li into an illusion array that made him see a peak God Emperor Realm marsh beast.
• Mo Li broke the illusion array and led the Demon King Domain in pursuit; the Wolf King followed with the Blood Wolf Sect, leaving those below the God King Realm on the outskirts.
• As they fled through the middle reaches of Cloud Dream Marsh, Xiao Hei told Ye Qiubai that he needed half an incense stick to recover, while Yin Shilian warned that their pursuers were closing in.
• Mu Fusheng concealed arrays among branches and Fang Qiong planted array foundations as Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and their companions repeatedly changed direction.
• Mo Li noticed their erratic route and ordered the Blood Wolf Sect to scout ahead and remove anything they found, forcing the Wolf King to comply.

Mu Fusheng’s group lured Mo Li’s forces into a false sense of security before Fang Qiong activated a deadly formation around them. The group was trapped in the Annihilation Killing Formation as a storm of lightning talismans struck, while Cheng Yao and the others escaped.

• Lightning talismans formed nine pillars around Mo Li’s main force, killing several early God King Realm cultivators before Mo Li’s God Emperor Realm experts destroyed them.
• A middle God Emperor Realm expert used his black wings to clear more than fifty talismans and shield Mo Li’s group from the illusion mist, letting them close in on Xiao Hei’s group.
• Mu Fusheng gave Cheng Yao, Yan Xuan, and another companion Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans and explained that he had used the earlier talismans to deceive Mo Li into thinking the path was safe.
• Mo Li’s forces surrounded Xiao Hei’s group, and Mo Li offered to spare Xiao Hei’s fellow disciples if Xiao Hei surrendered.
• Fang Qiong activated the Annihilation Killing Formation with himself as its formation spirit, while Cheng Yao and the others escaped with their talismans and lightning talismans engulfed the trapped forces.

Mo Li's forces used the Blood Sacrifice Devil Art to drain the Blood Wolf Sect and a middle God Emperor Realm expert, empowering black wings that overwhelmed the combined formation and talisman storm. As Fang Qiong and Mu Fusheng's defenses faltered, Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng powered up for a counterattack.

• Mo Li ordered a middle God Emperor Realm expert to activate the Blood Sacrifice Devil Art after the Lightning Prison Tremor Talismans and Annihilation Killing Formation threatened his forces.
• The expert drained the Blood Wolf Sect's cultivators and his own blood essence to strengthen enormous black wings, enraging the Wolf King.
• Xiao Hei recognized the sealed evil art as the Blood Sacrifice Devil Art, while Mo Li dismissed the distinction between good and evil.
• Fang Qiong and Mu Fusheng combined the formation and lightning talismans against the wings, but the wings drove them back and damaged their defenses.
• Mo Li ordered the expert to unleash his full power, and the wings grew until they blocked the moon as Fang Qiong and Mu Fusheng began to falter.
• Mu Fusheng and Ye Qiubai activated Divine Talismans of Creation, and Xiao Hei unleashed his bloodline as the group prepared to strike.

Mu Fusheng, Ye Qiubai, and Xiao Hei launched their strongest attacks against Mo Li’s blood-black wings, while Wolf King recognized Mu Fusheng’s Ancient Divine Lightning. As the clash drew attention across the Cloud Dream Star Region, Fang Qiong merged two arrays just as Mo Li charged toward them.

• Mu Fusheng used the Divine Talisman of Creation to strengthen himself, Ye Qiubai, and Xiao Hei for a planned final assault on Mo Li.
• Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng unleashed their attacks alongside Fang Qiong’s Annihilation Killing Formation and the talisman storm.
• Wolf King recognized Mu Fusheng’s four kinds of Ancient Divine Lightning, prompting Mu Fusheng to decide that none of their enemies could be allowed to escape.
• Mo Li’s blood-black wings collided with the attacks, shaking the landmass and drawing the attention of people near Cloud Dream Marsh and in Yunmeng City.
• Mo Li charged at Mu Fusheng and the others, but Fang Qiong merged the Annihilation Killing Formation with the Immortal Affinity Illusion Array.

Mu Fusheng and his companions killed Mo Li, the Wolf King, and the Demon King Domain expert in a swift battle in the Cloud Dream Marsh. They escaped with the Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman, but Mo Ji soon learned of Mo Li’s death and roared in fury.

• Fang Qiong trapped Mo Li in the Annihilation Illusion Killing Formation while Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Ye Qiubai overwhelmed the Demon King Domain expert and drained him of his blood essence.
• Mu Fusheng pierced the Wolf King’s heart with ancient lightning and destroyed his body, then the three companions attacked Mo Li as he escaped Fang Qiong’s formation.
• Mu Fusheng’s fused four kinds of ancient lightning annihilated Mo Li and devastated the Cloud Dream Marsh, leaving no bodies or clues for the arriving factions to find.
• The four companions used the Heavenly Lightning Escape Talisman to flee, and Mu Fusheng searched the Wolf King’s spatial ring for information about the Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Ye Qiubai urged the group to recover before completing their mission, while Mu Fusheng warned that the Demon King Domain might soon respond to Mo Li’s death.
• Mo Ji roared in fury when Mo Li’s soul tablet shattered.

Mo Ji learned that Mo Li had died and went to the Yin Yang Divine Sect as he considered revealing Xiao Hei’s growth to two Divine Lord-level forces. In Yunmeng City, Ye Qiubai and his companions negotiated with the city lord for secret information about the Cloud Dream Marsh, offering Cloud Illusion Pills in exchange.

• Mo Ji learned that Mo Li’s soul tablet had shattered, and Mo Ge questioned whether the Hao Tian Divine Domain or the person Mo Li had hunted was responsible.
• Mo Ji concluded that the Hao Tian Divine Domain had not acted and left for the Yin Yang Divine Sect to inform the two Divine Lord-level forces about Xiao Hei.
• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and their companions returned to Yunmeng City and learned that information about the Cloud Dream Marsh’s depths was controlled by its three major forces.
• Cheng Yao offered to speak with her father, and Ye Qiubai’s group visited the city lord to negotiate for the confidential information.
• Ye Qiubai offered the city lord their findings from the marsh and Cloud Illusion Pills that could resist illusions, prompting the city lord to ask how many pills they could provide.

Ye Qiubai secured the Yunmeng City factions’ interest in buying Cloud Illusion Pills and contacted Lu Changsheng to ask Uncle Liu to deliver more. Liu Ziru eagerly escaped Lu Changsheng’s brutal pill testing by taking the errand, while Huang Qian avoided becoming the next test subject.

• The city lord of Yunmeng agreed that the three factions would buy all the Cloud Illusion Pills Ye Qiubai could provide.
• Ye Qiubai contacted Lu Changsheng, who initially suspected that his disciple had caused trouble again.
• Lu Changsheng revealed that Liu Ziru had been testing pills and had reached Half-Step Divine Lord, though he was left barely able to stand.
• Ye Qiubai asked Liu Ziru to collect Cloud Illusion Pills from Mu Wan'er and deliver them to the Cloud Dream Star Region, ideally setting up a spatial teleportation array.
• Liu Ziru took Lu Changsheng’s teleportation array scrolls and hurried toward the Mid-Latitude Realm, while Huang Qian left to avoid testing the next batch of pills.

Hong Ying’s group arranged for Mu Wan’er to supply Cloud Illusion Pills, creating a potential resource trade for the Cloud Phoenix Empire. In Yunmeng City, Ye Qiubai and the others learned of the dangers in the Cloud Dream Marsh and decided Mu Fusheng should devise a way to counter its Gravity Magnetic Field before their expedition.

• Liu Ziru told Mu Wan’er that Ye Qiubai wanted her to refine Cloud Illusion Pills for a long-term trade with powerful factions in the High-Latitude Realm, which could provide resources for the Cloud Phoenix Empire.
• The Yunmeng City Lord and the leaders of the Talisman Master Alliance and Formation Master Alliance met Ye Qiubai’s group, agreed to guide them into the Cloud Dream Marsh, and provided information about its dangers.
• Ye Qiubai and the others learned that the marsh’s depths contained God Emperor Realm Devil Beasts, a Divine Lord-level Lord of the Marsh, a Gravity Magnetic Field, and two exceptionally dangerous sites where one of the three souls might be found.
• Xiao Hei suggested counteracting the Gravity Magnetic Field by reducing gravity, and Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Fang Qiong turned to Mu Fusheng to make a talisman for their expedition the next day.

Mu Fusheng and his companions entered the depths of Cloud Dream Marsh with three peak God Emperor experts, then insisted on visiting two forbidden locations marked on their map. A roar from the Lord of the Marsh halted their argument, and Xiao Hei sensed that the creature was crying out in pain, suggesting a connection to one of his three souls.

• Luo Feng, Xu Luo, and Yun Ze escorted Mu Fusheng and his companions through Cloud Dream Marsh and warned them to stay close in its dangerous depths.
• Ye Qiubai showed the three seniors two red-marked locations on the map and said the group needed to go there, but they refused and urged them to turn back.
• A violent roar shook the marsh, and Luo Feng identified its source as the Lord of the Marsh, a God Lord realm existence.
• Xiao Hei sensed that the Lord of the Marsh's roar sounded like a call for help, and Ye Qiubai and the others suspected it was connected to one of Xiao Hei's three souls.

Ye Qiubai and the others entered the marsh despite the Lord of the Marsh’s premature roar, hoping to investigate a suspected connection. The abyssal maw swallowed them, and they woke inside its flesh-lined interior with only three days to escape.

• Luo Feng warned Ye Qiubai and the others to leave after the Lord of the Marsh roared, but they insisted on entering the depths.
• Luo Feng, Xu Luo, and Yun Ze accompanied the group, while Mu Fusheng’s talismans helped them resist the Gravity Magnetic Field as they fought through the marsh.
• A giant abyssal maw erupted from the marsh, intensified the Gravity Magnetic Field, and swallowed everyone after Mu Fusheng’s Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans failed.
• Ye Qiubai and the others fell unconscious in the maw and later woke among corroded skeletons inside its blood-red walls of flesh.
• Luo Feng said the lack of Spiritual Qi and the draining Gravity Magnetic Field meant they had only three days to escape.

Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, Fang Qiong, and Xiao Hei were trapped inside a Swamp Behemoth, where Yun Ze, Luo Feng, and Xu Luo failed to damage its flesh with their strongest attacks. The four disciples identified a way to use their own Power of Rules and prepared to try a more focused attack rather than call Lu Changsheng for help.

• Yun Ze explained that the group was inside a Swamp Behemoth, whose corrosive slime and depleted Spiritual Qi and Immortal Qi made escape seem nearly impossible.
• Mu Fusheng confirmed that Lu Changsheng's jade pendant still worked, but the disciples chose to attempt an escape themselves first.
• Yun Ze, Luo Feng, and Xu Luo struck the blood-red wall of flesh together, but it absorbed their force and rebounded their attacks, leaving the wall unharmed.
• Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei reasoned that a concentrated strike might pierce the flesh, while Mu Fusheng and Fang Qiong realized that Luo Feng and Xu Luo had used their own Power of Rules.
• Ye Qiubai and the others decided to combine their abilities and try to break through without calling Lu Changsheng again.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Fang Qiong combined their powers to pierce the fleshy wall and escape the enormous mouth. They emerged in an unfamiliar swamp inside a true Forbidden Zone of Life, where Xiao Hei could not sense the three souls.

• Ye Qiubai reached the Sword God Realm, while Xiao Hei summoned his devil god phantom, Fang Qiong formed a killing array with his body, and Mu Fusheng used Divine Talismans of Creation to strengthen the group.
• Ye Qiubai guided Xiao Hei and Fang Qiong's concentrated attacks into one point on the fleshy wall, piercing deeper into it without letting their power disperse.
• The wall shook, and fierce gales expelled Ye Qiubai's group and the others from the enormous mouth, which burrowed back into the swamp.
• Yun Ze urged the group to return to Yunmeng City, but Xu Luo recognized an ancient leafless tree and realized they had entered a Forbidden Zone of Life.
• After taking medicinal pills, Ye Qiubai asked Xiao Hei whether he could sense the three souls, and Xiao Hei said something seemed to block his perception.

Luo Feng, Mu Fusheng, and their companions met Tu Wenheng in the Cloud Dream Marsh, where he offered to guide them toward the Illusion Realm Core. He led them to the core and claimed his own methods could not affect it, leaving Mu Fusheng suspicious of his motives.

• Luo Feng and Mu Fusheng’s groups found numerous Devil Beast corpses and encountered Tu Wenheng, who admitted he had killed them and offered to cooperate.
• Tu Wenheng explained that the illusion mist grew denser near the Illusion Realm Core, and the groups agreed to follow him through the marsh.
• Mu Fusheng and Xiao Hei privately warned the others that Tu Wenheng seemed unusually powerful and familiar, but Ye Qiubai decided they had little choice but to continue with him.
• Tu Wenheng led the groups to a pink orb embedded in a crooked-necked tree and said breaking it would let them leave.
• Mu Fusheng questioned why Tu Wenheng would not break the core himself, and Tu Wenheng claimed his methods had no effect on it, making Mu Fusheng suspect he was hiding something.

Mu Fusheng’s suspicions of Tu Wenheng grew as Tu explained that the illusion core was a portal to a dangerous core world. Fang Qiong entered it to test his illusion-formation skills, leaving Ye Qiubai and the others to warn Tu Wenheng against betraying them.

• Tu Wenheng revealed that the visible illusion core was a portal into the core world, where the real core could be found.
• Ye Qiubai questioned Tu Wenheng’s motives, and Tu admitted that anyone entering might remain trapped unless they could subdue the core.
• Tu Wenheng explained that a strong state of mind and proficiency in illusion formations were needed, and Xu Luo admitted he was not sufficiently skilled.
• Fang Qiong volunteered to enter, and despite Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng’s warnings, stepped through the portal.
• Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei threatened Tu Wenheng if Fang Qiong died, while Mu Fusheng hinted that Tu might regret underestimating them.

Fang Qiong faced the illusion realm’s replay of the massacre that destroyed his family, but Lu Changsheng’s Mental State Dharma Body helped him overcome his hatred and break through. He absorbed the formation spirit Qi and approached the Illusion Realm Core, while Lu Changsheng realized Fang Qiong had been the first disciple to activate the protection he had left behind.

• Fang Qiong entered the ruins of his former home and was overwhelmed by vivid memories of his family’s slaughter.
• The illusion showed Fang Qiong’s father dying in battle and his mother urging him to flee before she was killed.
• Fang Qiong’s mental defenses began to shatter until Lu Changsheng’s voice and golden light repaired his state of mind.
• Fang Qiong rejected despair, absorbed the ruins’ formation spirit Qi, and advanced to the middle stage God King Realm.
• Fang Qiong saw the Illusion Realm Core and moved to claim it, while Lu Changsheng noted that Fang Qiong had activated his Mental State Dharma Body first.

Fang Qiong emerged unharmed from Xiangliu’s illusion realm and absorbed the Illusion Realm Core, which brought him face-to-face with the Lord of the Marsh. Xiangliu revealed that the Ghost Race had weakened him for more than ten thousand years and asked Fang Qiong’s group for help, promising to give them the item Xiao Hei sought.

• Fang Qiong broke through the illusion realm and returned with the Illusion Realm Core, relieving Ye Qiubai and the others.
• Tu Wenheng said the danger in the red-marked area had lifted and continued deeper into Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Fang Qiong absorbed the Illusion Realm Core to strengthen the Immortal Affinity Illusion Array, then encountered Xiangliu in a strange, colorless place.
• Xiangliu offered to give Fang Qiong the item Xiao Hei needed if he helped him through his crisis.
• Xiangliu explained that the Ghost Race had trapped him and used a Ghost Flame Array to reduce his strength to less than a tenth over more than ten thousand years.
• Xiangliu revealed that an unknown expert had entrusted him with one of the Devil Master's three souls, saying its owner would one day save him.

After learning that Xiangliu’s plight and the Ghost Race’s array were tied to events foreseen or arranged ten thousand years earlier, Ye Qiubai and his companions went deeper into Cloud Dream Marsh to help the Lord of the Marsh. They began dismantling the Ghost Flame Array, and Mu Fusheng revealed that he had hidden far more strength than he let on.

• Fang Qiong relayed Xiangliu’s words, and Ye Qiubai’s group decided to help the Lord of the Marsh while leaving the mystery of the ten-thousand-year plan for their Master to judge.
• Mu Fusheng suspected Tu Wenheng was working with the Ghost Race, and the four set off deeper into the marsh while Luo Feng, Yun Ze, and Xu Luo tried unsuccessfully to stop them.
• Following Xiangliu’s coordinates, the four reached the Ghost Flame Array, where Mu Fusheng located its nine foundations and Fang Qiong began absorbing their formation spirits.
• Tu Wenheng confronted the group after Fang Qiong broke three foundations, and Ye Qiubai urged Mu Fusheng to fight without involving their Master.
• Mu Fusheng revealed a Half-Step Divine Lord Realm presence, then placed a Divine Talisman of Creation on his chest.

Mu Fusheng used the Divine Talisman of Creation to break through to the Early God Lord Realm and unleashed the Lesser Five Elements Primordial Chaos Divine Lightning against Tu Wenheng. After Tu Wenheng escaped one attack and summoned a ghostly hand to destroy another, an old man descended from a black hole as Tu Wenheng greeted him as the Ghost King.

• Mu Fusheng used the Divine Talisman of Creation to reach the Early God Lord Realm, shocking Tu Wenheng.
• Mu Fusheng summoned the Lesser Five Elements Primordial Chaos Divine Lightning and struck at Tu Wenheng, who escaped by covering himself in ghost flames.
• Mu Fusheng sent a lightning dragon after Tu Wenheng, who threw a compass into the sky to open a black hole.
• A black hand reached from the black hole and crushed Mu Fusheng's lightning dragon.
• Tu Wenheng knelt and greeted the Ghost King as an old man descended from the black hole.