Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng spent two and a half years absorbing laws in the Heavenly Gate World before returning to Blue Radiance Star, where he learned his mother Liu Ling'er and the others had disappeared. Meanwhile, Ye Ruyan and the Saint Alliance talents planned to avoid Lin Heng and seek help against him.

• Lin Qiu led the battered Saint Alliance talents to Ye Ruyan, who ordered them to avoid Lin Heng while they recovered.
• The Saint Alliance talents discussed asking their elders to kill Lin Heng, while some warned that other races would also target him.
• After two and a half years in the stone hall, Lin Heng left the Heavenly Gate World and returned to Blue Radiance Star.
• Great Saint Wu Gang met Lin Heng, who thanked him with a box of high-grade tea leaves before departing.
• Lin Heng reached the planet where he had settled Liu Ling'er and the others, but found that they were gone.

Lin Heng searched for Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang after finding them missing, while the Saint Alliance discussed how to deal with his return. The Evil Emperor had taken Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang to Ghost Howl Mountain on Heaven-Abandoned Star to seek the secret realm where she had once found her fortune.

• Lin Heng found no sign of Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang and used a tracking Saint Artifact to search for them across the galaxy.
• Great Saint Tai Chen and Great Saint Wang Teng learned that Lin Heng had returned early from the Heavenly Gate World and discussed their failed plan to capture his family as leverage.
• Wang Teng and Tai Chen decided to keep searching for Lin Heng and his companions and wait for Ye Ruyan and the alliance leader to return.
• The Evil Emperor, who had awakened and reached the Great Saint Realm, brought Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang to her former home on Heaven-Abandoned Star.
• The Evil Emperor explained that Ghost Howl Mountain concealed a secret realm where she had found the opportunity that gave her the Evil Emperor Netherworld Pearl and Heaven-Devouring Art.

The Evil Emperor led Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang through Ghost Howl Mountain to the secret realm where she had found the Heaven-Devouring Art and the Evil Emperor Netherworld Pearl in her previous life. Inside, three strange flames recognized the Evil Emperor and assessed her companions, leaving all three women uneasy about what the flames intended.

• The Evil Emperor guided Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang through an underground tunnel and a cavern filled with venomous snakes to the secret realm entrance.
• The Evil Emperor, Liu Ling'er, and Duanmu Yunshang each touched the stone wall and passed through it together.
• The three women entered a vast, empty secret realm where three strange flames flickered and made bizarre sounds.
• A small flame recognized the Evil Emperor as its inheritor, and she explained that she had received the Heaven-Devouring Art and Netherworld Pearl before dying and being reborn.
• The small flame said Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang could receive opportunities only if its two brothers approved of them.
• The larger flames praised Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang's physiques, while all three women sensed that something was wrong.

The Nirvana Soul Flames possessed the Evil Emperor, Liu Ling'er, and Duanmu Yunshang, taking control of their bodies while the women sealed away their own awareness. The Three Evils left for the Primal Secret Realm, while Lin Heng arrived too late to find them and the Saint Alliance learned that Liu Ling'er was near the Chaotic Star Domain.

• The three Nirvana Soul Flames entered the women’s Saint Souls and gradually suppressed their self-awareness, which the women eventually sealed away to resist possession.
• After two months, the flames emerged in control of the three bodies and declared that the Three Evils had officially returned.
• The Evil Thearch briefly entered the Qiankun Ring, examined the Illusory Heart Grass, and then joined the others in setting off for the Primal Secret Realm.
• Three months later, Lin Heng reached Ghost Howl Mountain, found traces of the three women and sinister presences, and followed their trail toward the Chaotic Star Domain.
• Ma Wu told Great Saint Tai Chen that Liu Ling'er had been seen in the Banana Leaf Star Domain with two other women, and Tai Chen wondered whether Lin Heng was hidden in one of their spatial treasures.

Lin Heng tracked his mother and her companions to the Chaotic Star Domain and learned that they had defeated the Saint Alliance before entering the Primal Secret Realm. When he reached the battlefield, the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion ambushed him and asked him to join.

• Great Saint Tai Chen and Great Saint Wang Teng planned to attack Liu Ling'er, Duanmu Yunshang, and Miao Xiyin in the Primal Secret Realm.
• Lin Heng arrived in the Chaotic Star Domain and learned that the three women had defeated the Saint Alliance, killing three Great Saints and more than thirty Saint Realm experts.
• Lin Heng confirmed that Liu Ling'er and Duanmu Yunshang had begun cultivating the Heaven-Devouring Art, and that the three women were known as the Three Evils.
• Lin Heng used the Space-Escaping Saint Alms Bowl to reach the battlefield and was surrounded by Heaven-Hunting Pavilion experts.
• A human Great Saint from the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion asked Lin Heng to join, but Lin Heng refused.

Lin Heng rejected the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion's offer and defeated its forces when they tried to recruit him by force. After collecting the fallen Great Saints' belongings, he entered the Primal Secret Realm, a vast sea of stars that contained the Gate of Longevity.

• Lin Heng refused Beilange's invitation to join the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion and warned the group to leave.
• Beilange and the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion experts attacked Lin Heng, who fought back with two giant wolf puppets and the Evil Emperor Netherworld Pearl.
• Lin Heng killed two Great Saints and drove Beilange and the surviving Heaven-Hunting Pavilion experts into retreat.
• Lin Heng collected the slain Great Saints' belongings and passed through the spatial rift into the Primal Secret Realm.
• Lin Heng arrived in the Primal Secret Realm, a star-filled world containing the Gate of Longevity.

Lin Heng entered the Primal Secret Realm to pursue the Three Evils, while the Saint Alliance learned of his arrival and planned to trap him. Miao Xiyin, Liu Ling’er, and Duanmu Yunshang reached the Yellow Springs Sea, where powerful presences rose from the waves around them.

• Lin Heng entered the Primal Secret Realm, activated his tracking artifact, and teleported away as a Saint Alliance observer followed and reported his victory over the Heaven-Hunting Pavilion.
• Great Saint Wang Teng learned Lin Heng had arrived, and he and Great Saint Tai Chen discussed the Three Evils’ growing strength and their alliance leader’s absence.
• Wang Teng used a Saint Artifact to scan the Netherworld Galaxy for powerful life forms and prepare to locate Lin Heng.
• Miao Xiyin, Liu Ling’er, and Duanmu Yunshang arrived at an isolated island in the Yellow Springs Sea.
• The sea surged around the Three Evils, and powerful presences approached, forcing them to prepare for another fight.

The Three Evils summoned the Netherworld Ship after enduring the Yellow Springs Sea’s attacks and setting up a Saint array. Meanwhile, Lin Heng reached the edge of the Netherworld Galaxy, where eight Great Saints and a host of Saint Realm experts ambushed him.

• The Three Evils fought off another wave of Yellow Springs experts and decided to summon the Netherworld Ship.
• Miao Xiyin set up a Saint array to protect the island while she performed the summoning ritual.
• After twelve days, the Netherworld Ship rose from the sea, and the Three Evils headed aboard as Yellow Springs experts rushed toward it.
• Lin Heng used a tracking Saint Artifact to confirm the Three Evils had entered the Yellow Springs Sea.
• The Saint Alliance trapped Lin Heng in a sealed array with eight Great Saints and dozens of Saint Realm experts.
• The eight Great Saints attacked Lin Heng at once with beams of Saint light.

Lin Heng used the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl to break the Saint Alliance’s formation and slaughtered its forces, killing Great Saint Wang Teng and another Great Saint. He then traveled to the Yellow Springs Sea to search for the Three Evils, while the surviving Great Saints returned in fear and worried that Tai Chen would answer to the alliance leader.

• Lin Heng endured the Saint Alliance’s relentless attacks until he unleashed the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl, paralyzing the Great Saints and stopping their formations.
• Lin Heng and his two giant wolf puppets killed Great Saint Wang Teng, another Great Saint, and dozens of Saint Realm experts as the six surviving Great Saints fled.
• Lin Heng cleaned up the battlefield, traveled to the Yellow Springs Sea, and began searching for the Three Evils while fighting off its inhabitants.
• Tai Chen and the five surviving Great Saints returned to their station and realized the Saint Realm experts who had accompanied them were likely dead.
• The surviving Great Saints criticized Tai Chen for failing to learn that Lin Heng possessed a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and warned that he would answer to the alliance leader.

Tai Chen reported the Saint Alliance’s losses to its leader, Kou Yan, who went to the Yellow Springs Sea to confront Lin Heng. While searching for the Three Evils, Lin Heng boarded the dangerous Netherworld Ship and encountered its corrupted inhabitants.

• Tai Chen sent the other Saint Alliance Great Saints back to the God Realm and waited for Kou Yan after realizing their forces could not defeat Lin Heng.
• Kou Yan arrived nearly two months later, heard Tai Chen’s account, and set off for the Yellow Springs Sea.
• Lin Heng found an island bearing traces of the Three Evils and materials linked to Liu Ling'er, then obtained a technique for summoning the Netherworld Ship.
• Lin Heng spotted the Netherworld Ship, boarded it through a hole in its hull, and killed a corrupted Great Saint Realm shrimp-like creature.
• Lin Heng searched through the ship’s dangerous ruins as corrupted Yellow Springs experts attacked him, and a blood-red phantom lunged from a strange gust of wind.

Lin Heng explored the Netherworld Ship, following the Three Evils’ lingering presence through its illusion-filled passages and fighting his way through ghosts and Yellow Springs experts. He reached a corridor of sealed cabins, where he discovered and defeated a zombie from the race that may have built the ship.

• Lin Heng found that ghosts fled from him and continued tracking the Three Evils’ presence through the Netherworld Ship.
• Lin Heng resisted the ship’s Netherworld Space and its illusions, then fought through a crowded cabin full of ghosts and Yellow Springs experts.
• Lin Heng escaped into a corridor, sensed the Three Evils had passed through, and found its dead Yellow Springs experts and ruined cabins.
• Lin Heng forced open a sealed cabin door and defeated a powerful zombie wielding a battle-axe.
• Lin Heng opened the remaining cabin doors and found that each contained a similar zombie from the same race.

Lin Heng found a blood jade token in a hidden cabin aboard the Netherworld Ship, while Kou Yan traced the Three Evils to the ship. Deep inside, the Three Evils fought powerful undead to reach a black lotus and blood pool, but the defenders still blocked their way.

• Lin Heng triggered a hidden mechanism by opening every cabin door, then defeated a stronger zombie and found a blood jade token in its cabin.
• Kou Yan examined the damaged Saint formation on the isolated island and suspected the Three Evils had come to summon the Netherworld Ship early.
• Kou Yan found the ship, concluded that Liu Ling'er and the other two had been possessed, and flew inside.
• The Three Evils battled ghosts, Yellow Springs experts, and nearly thirty powerful zombies to reach a blood pool containing a black lotus.
• The Evil Emperor used heavenly fire to hold off the enemies and repeatedly tried to reach the pool, but a Supreme Saint Realm defender and a soul-attacking force stopped her.

The black lotus trapped the Three Evils in a corrosive confinement domain as they tried to seize it. Lin Heng arrived and used the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl to free them, while the Evil Emperor claimed the lotus and Lin Heng received it as a system reward.

• The Evil Emperor held off the Supreme Saint Yellow Springs expert while the Evil Thearch reached for the black lotus and the Evil Venerable collected blood from the pool.
• The black lotus released its nine blood-colored seeds, trapping the Three Evils in a powerful domain whose blood mist corroded their Saint Bodies and threatened their lives.
• Lin Heng followed the Three Evils' traces to the cabin and cautiously observed them, suspecting their bodies might have been taken over.
• Lin Heng used the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl to suppress the lotus seeds and dissolve the confinement space.
• The Evil Emperor seized the black lotus and found a scaled black arm beneath its stem, while Lin Heng received the Netherworld Black Lotus as a system reward.

Lin Heng reunited with the Three Evils in the Netherworld, where they pretended to have repented and urged him to keep exploring. After the Evil Emperor attacked him with the Netherworld Black Lotus, Lin Heng resisted its sealing force and advanced toward them, believing they had killed his family and friends.

• The Evil Emperor claimed the Netherworld Black Lotus by feeding it her blood and soul and striking it with Taiji Magnetic Force.
• Lin Heng questioned the Three Evils about their new evil cultivation and warned them that entering the Netherworld had been reckless.
• The Three Evils secretly planned to kill Lin Heng and devour his powerful body, but refused to leave or let him see Hong San and Dongfang Yan.
• The Evil Emperor suddenly struck Lin Heng and activated the Netherworld Black Lotus, sealing him alone with its nine blood-colored lotus seeds.
• Lin Heng remained uninjured and stepped forward through the sealing force, forcing the Evil Emperor to retreat despite her taunt.

Lin Heng fought the Three Evils and learned that Liu Ling'er and the other women might still be saved because their self-awareness had not been destroyed. After the Evil Thearch let Liu Ling'er briefly awaken, Lin Heng accepted the Three Evils' claim and asked about the other captives and whether they could change hosts.

• Lin Heng summoned his own Netherworld Black Lotus, broke free of the Evil Emperor's pressure, and struck her before pursuing the Evil Venerable and Evil Thearch.
• Lin Heng seized the Evil Thearch and demanded that she leave Liu Ling'er's body, but the Evil Emperor warned that killing the Three Evils might destroy the women's remaining chance of survival.
• The Evil Emperor said the women's self-awareness could last for hundreds of years, and the Evil Thearch agreed to stop suppressing Liu Ling'er so she could speak to Lin Heng.
• Liu Ling'er briefly regained control, embraced Lin Heng, and told him how the women had been possessed; Lin Heng urged her to keep believing he would save them.
• The Evil Thearch's Nirvana Soul Flame forced Liu Ling'er's self-awareness to seal itself again, convincing Lin Heng that the Three Evils had not yet erased it.
• Lin Heng asked whether Yue Linglong, Hong San, and Dongfang Yan were unharmed and whether the Three Evils could possess other cultivators.

Lin Heng followed the Three Evils through the Netherworld Ship, using the blood jade plaque to open the way to its eighth level. As they entered, a sinister wind carrying a powerful presence swept toward them.

• The Three Evils told Lin Heng that he had to reach the Nirvana Realm to destroy their Nirvana Soul Flames, while Lin Heng agreed to accompany them through the ship.
• Kong Rong learned that Lin Heng had killed two Heaven-Hunting Pavilion experts and headed to the Yellow Springs Sea to find him.
• Lin Heng and the Three Evils reached the blood curtain blocking the stairway to the Netherworld Ship's eighth level.
• Lin Heng fitted the blood jade plaque into a recess beside the curtain, causing it to withdraw, and the Three Evils praised and teased him.
• Lin Heng failed to sign in after entering the eighth level, whereupon the blood curtain returned behind them.
• A sinister wind carrying a powerful presence swept toward Lin Heng and the Three Evils as they explored the eighth level.

Lin Heng and the Three Evils fought their way through powerful ghosts and Yellow Springs foes before reaching the Nether Marshal’s chamber on the eighth level, where Lin Heng acquired the Nether Marshal’s Scepter. The Three Evils balked at the chamber’s overwhelming crowd of enemies, while Kou Yan and Kong Rong each advanced toward the Netherworld Ship.

• Lin Heng and the Three Evils drove back ghosts and battled Supreme Saint Realm Yellow Springs powerhouses, with Lin Heng overpowering his opponent through physical attacks.
• Kou Yan found the blood pool chamber empty of the black lotus and restrained its guardian before forcing his way through the blood curtain toward the eighth level.
• Kong Rong discovered that someone had summoned the Netherworld Ship early and suspected Lin Heng or the Three Evils knew a lost secret art, then set out to board it.
• Lin Heng received the Nether Marshal’s Scepter from the system in the eighth-level Nether Marshal’s chamber and learned the Netherworld Ship had been built by the Netherworld Clan.
• The Three Evils saw the chamber’s many foes, including at least a dozen Supreme Saints, and hesitated to enter because they had found no other promising route or stairs to the ninth level.

Lin Heng and the Three Evils fled the Nether Commander's cabin but were intercepted by Kou Yan, the Saint Alliance's Supreme Saint leader. With two Netherworld Black Lotuses and the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl, Lin Heng fought Kou Yan, who eventually struck back with his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and nearly forced Lin Heng to his knees.

• Lin Heng and the Three Evils fled as ghosts, Yellow Springs beings, and zombies poured out of the Nether Commander's cabin.
• Kou Yan confronted them, identified himself as the Saint Alliance's leader, and vowed to kill them for slaughtering his alliance's cultivators.
• The Evil Emperor and Lin Heng activated their Netherworld Black Lotuses, and Lin Heng also summoned the Taiji Heavenly Magnetic Pearl as the pursuing beings entered the overlapping sealed spaces.
• Lin Heng and Kou Yan exchanged blows, while the Three Evils fought the Yellow Springs beings and Netherworld Clan zombies.
• Kou Yan summoned his seal-shaped Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure and smashed it down on Lin Heng, who blocked it with a punch but was driven nearly to his knees.

Lin Heng and the Three Evils fled into the Nether Marshal's cabin after Kou Yan's soul-attacking conch horn threatened to shatter Lin Heng's Saint Soul. Cornered by Kou Yan and the cabin's hostile inhabitants, Lin Heng activated the Nether Marshal's Scepter, whose gemstone released blood-red ripples.

• Lin Heng used the Primordial Azure Lotus Platform to withstand Kou Yan's repeated attacks and taunted him about Ye Ruyan's surrender.
• Kou Yan unleashed a conch horn that attacked Lin Heng's and the Three Evils' souls, and Lin Heng realized he could not endure many more sound waves.
• Lin Heng fled with the Three Evils toward the Nether Marshal's cabin, using the Primordial Azure Lotus Platform to keep Kou Yan at bay.
• The four entered the cabin, where the Evil Emperor struggled to hold off its hostile inhabitants as Kou Yan pursued them.
• Lin Heng activated the Nether Marshal's Scepter, and its blood-red gemstone released a ring of ripples.

Lin Heng used the Nether Marshal's Scepter to escape the Nether Marshal's cabin with the Three Evils, while the awakened Nether Marshal zombie drove Kou Yan back. Kong Rong arrived on the eighth level as Kou Yan tried to make sense of what had happened.

• Lin Heng used the scepter's blood-colored ripples to command the dead experts and warned the Three Evils to flee while they held Kou Yan back.
• Lin Heng and the Three Evils found the stairs to the ninth level, where a zombie sat on a throne with a scepter like Lin Heng's.
• The zombie rose, and Lin Heng used his scepter to dispel the blood curtain blocking the stairs before he and the Three Evils descended.
• The Nether Marshal zombie charged Kou Yan and knocked away his seal treasure, but stopped pursuing him after Kou Yan retreated to the stairs to the seventh level.
• Kou Yan wondered whether the zombie had taken the scepter from Lin Heng, then met Kong Rong, who had arrived on the eighth level.