Recaps

Li Yan questioned Buluo about Yellow Springs City, the wardens of Asura Prison, and possible escape routes, learning that powerful Nether Emperors controlled the prison and its interrealm teleportation array. A month later, he remained trapped in his cell, while the old man and yellow-haired young man had failed to reach Fan Nan and grew more fearful as their lifespans dwindled.

• Buluo explained that Yellow Springs City connected the living world, Fengdu City, and Asura Prison, and Li Yan concluded Zhao Min's group might be surviving there alongside Chu Yinghong and her poison cultivators.
• Buluo identified Nether Emperor Yeluo as the first level's warden and described Fan Nan and Deputy Jailor Chihan as Nether Kings, with additional Nether Kings guarding the prison.
• Buluo said the interrealm teleportation array was controlled by a Nether Emperor and described the uncertain Yellow Springs Road and Netherfall River as other possible escape routes.
• Li Yan suspected Fan Nan had examined him to warn him against escaping and realized other cultivators had already considered whether the Flowers of the Other Shore and Netherfall River could lead out.
• After a month in the cell, the old man and yellow-haired young man returned from failed attempts to speak with Fan Nan, while their lifespans continued to diminish.

Li Yan spent weeks trying to find a way to survive Fanan’s inspections as his two captive helpers weakened and his own strength declined. He finally chose to test a dangerous theory near the River of Netherfall, risking death in search of a chance to recover his combat strength.

• Li Yan continued sending the old man and the yellow-haired youth to gather Flowers of the Other Shore while keeping Buluo safe at the edge of the distorted space.
• Li Yan studied the prison and Fanan’s inspection habits, realizing the two men might survive only another five or six months and that Fanan would likely inspect him more often once they died.
• Li Yan took the old man and the yellow-haired youth to a remote patch of Flowers of the Other Shore, collected three flowers, and left the pair resting among the Ghost Thorns.
• Li Yan headed deeper through the Ghost Thorns toward the River of Netherfall to test whether the thorns could help him evade the river monsters.
• Li Yan decided to risk his life at the river, hoping to recover his combat strength and escape Fanan’s control.

Li Yan risked approaching the River of Netherfall to test whether its water could restore his body, using a Ghost Bramble to ward off the river’s bizarre monsters. He reached the Otherworld Flowers but was confronted by a red-clothed ghost, leaving him frozen and uncertain whether his disguise would protect him.

• Li Yan concluded that the River of Netherfall might contain the boundary power he needed and hurried toward it despite the danger.
• Near the riverbank, Li Yan stopped at the end of the Ghost Brambles and spotted a vast field of Otherworld Flowers beyond them.
• Li Yan uprooted a tall Ghost Bramble, but the noise drew numerous bizarre monsters into the flowers, so he waited behind the bramble.
• After the monsters vanished, Li Yan used the Ghost Bramble to creep toward the river, hoping it would keep the creatures away.
• A red-clothed woman appeared beside Li Yan and pressed her face and snake-like nostrils against the Ghost Bramble before suddenly vanishing.

Li Yan cautiously tested the Netherfall River and discovered that contact with its water caused a Ghost Thorn branch to grow eyes and the Other Shore Flower to draw on his life force. He survived the flower’s sudden transformation, but the river’s effects remained dangerous and unexplained.

• Li Yan reached the riverbank and watched faces struggle in the dark green water as he prepared to test it.
• Li Yan lowered Ghost Thorn branches into the river, then found them covered with blinking eyes when he raised them out.
• Li Yan used an Other Shore Flower to test the water, and its contact caused intense pain that nearly made him fall into the river.
• The Undying Nether Phoenix bloodline eased Li Yan’s agony, but the flower drew power from him and contracted around a mass of river water.
• Li Yan withdrew his arm immediately as the transformed flower bud continued struggling with water seeping over its surface.

Li Yan survived the Netherfall River’s lifespan-draining power and hid the altered Flower of the Other Shore to study later, though his investigation cost him more than two hundred years of life. Elsewhere, Gong Chen Ying, Zhao Min, Bai Rou, and six Nascent Soul cultivators struggled through a harsh region, uncertain how far they were from Yellow Springs City.

• Li Yan discovered that contact with the Netherfall River had greatly increased the Flower of the Other Shore’s power to drain lifespan, and he tested the river with gray grass that vanished where it had been submerged.
• Li Yan carried the closed flower away from the river, losing more of his lifespan before his Undying Nether Phoenix bloodline power could contain its extraction.
• Li Yan concluded that entering the Netherfall River would mean certain death and suspected the flower had sealed in river water while reaching a balance between yin and yang.
• Li Yan waited less than half a day, found no clear change in the flower, and hid it beneath Ghost Brambles to examine during a future mission.
• Gong Chen Ying, Zhao Min, Bai Rou, and six Nascent Soul cultivators discussed their situation while Zi Kun and others scouted the area, battered by the harsh conditions and unsure of their distance from Yellow Springs City.

Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, Bai Rou, and Zi Kun volunteered to lure away the ghost cultivators pursuing the two sects, hoping the others could escape and leave markers for them to follow. Ten days later, Li Yan returned to the Netherfall River region and hurried away carrying two half-dead people, wary after Fa Nan unexpectedly examined him.

• A Life Extinction Sect cultivator proposed that the two sects split their forces to distract their pursuers, but Senior Brother Ding objected to dividing their strength.
• Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, Bai Rou, and Zi Kun volunteered to lure the enemy away, and Gong Chenying argued that the four worked best together.
• The bearded Life Extinction Sect cultivator agreed to supply the four with spirit stones and pills and vowed that his sect would take a similar mission next time.
• Ten days later, Li Yan returned to the distorted Netherfall River region, left Bu Luo behind, and flew off carrying two half-dead people.
• Li Yan reflected that Fa Nan's unexpected inspection of his physical condition had shown him how risky even his trusted judgments could be.

Li Yan tested whether Nether Sinking River water stored in an Other Shore Flower could restore his body, after noticing the flower’s effects had changed slightly over ten days. He leaves the chapter enduring a fierce reaction after dripping one drop onto his deliberately damaged little finger.

• Li Yan collected three usable Other Shore Flowers and carried the old man and yellow-haired youth to Ghost Bramble Mountain.
• Li Yan found the flower that had held Nether Sinking River water for ten days and observed that its petals had become unusually resilient.
• Li Yan opened a gap in the petals, checked that no bizarre monster was inside, and set the flower among the Ghost Brambles.
• Li Yan returned to the flower, broke the bones and tendons in his little finger, then dripped one drop of river water onto it.
• Li Yan felt extraordinary cold and then stabbing pain surge through his finger and spread across his body.

Li Yan survived testing a drop of River of Oblivion water, and the Undying Nether Phoenix bloodline regenerated his ruined hand. Seeking more time to rebuild his body, he bargained with Fa Nan for extra manpower by offering to lead a dangerous expedition for rare Flowers of the Other Shore.

• Li Yan placed the Flower of the Other Shore back in the Ghost Thorn bush and let a drop of river water destroy his hand before the Undying Nether Phoenix bloodline restored it.
• Li Yan concluded that the river water could trigger his bloodline's power of rebirth and considered using it to reforge his damaged meridians, dantian, and sea of qi.
• Li Yan calculated that rebuilding his torso would take longer than the four days allowed for a mission and began planning how to gain more time from Fa Nan.
• Ten days later, Li Yan's team returned with four flowers, including one more than five hundred years old, and Li Yan stayed behind to ask Fa Nan for more people.
• After Fa Nan refused to assign manpower, Li Yan offered to bring back six Flowers of the Other Shore more than six hundred years old if Fa Nan granted his requests.
• Fa Nan weighed the danger of the proposed expedition against the risk of losing Li Yan, who still had plenty of lifespan left.

Li Yan negotiated twenty days with Fa Nan to gather six old Flowers of the Other Shore, then entered the twisted space and secretly began preparing to restore his body. On the eighteenth day, Bu Luo waited anxiously as a lone figure approached, and the chapter ended before he could identify it.

• Li Yan persuaded Fa Nan to grant him twenty days in exchange for six Flowers of the Other Shore over six hundred years old, with Fa Nan agreeing to transfer one person if he succeeded.
• Li Yan entered the twisted space, knocked out the old man and yellow-haired youth, and told Bu Luo to wait while he went ahead alone.
• Li Yan gathered Flowers of the Other Shore near the River of Netherfall and threw the two unconscious men into it to conceal his plans.
• Li Yan found a high peak on Ghost Thorn Mountain, built a concealed place to soak his body in river water, and began the process of restoring it.
• On the eighteenth day, Bu Luo grew worried that Li Yan had entered the River of Netherfall and might never return.
• Bu Luo hid in the hollow Li Yan had prepared when he heard someone approach, then saw a lone figure that he could not clearly identify.

Li Yan returned from the River of Netherfall with six Flowers of the Other Shore, while Buluo learned that two cultivators had died and no escape route had been found. Back in the cell, Li Yan discovered that his body and some spiritual power had recovered, but the bloody death restriction still sealed his Nascent Soul and Divine Sense, leaving him searching for a way to remove it safely.

• Buluo hid as Li Yan arrived, and Li Yan told him that bizarre creatures in the River of Netherfall had killed two cultivators while he collected several Flowers of the Other Shore.
• Li Yan returned to the cell with a dying cultivator assigned by Fan Nan and kept his recovered condition concealed.
• Li Yan found that reconstructing part of his body had restored his eight extraordinary meridians and opened his purple mansion dantian, but the bloody death restriction still sealed his Nascent Soul and Divine Sense.
• Li Yan used the Flowers of the Other Shore, sealed his cultivation, and filled his body with Illusion Poison to prevent Fan Nan from discovering his recovery.
• Li Yan reasoned that the restriction likely had no Divine Sense imprint, but his spiritual power vanished whenever he tried to strike it, so he concluded he needed to restore his Divine Sense.

Trapped in the Netherworld and unable to break the Blood-Colored Death Restriction by ordinary means, Li Yan remembered the Qiongqi Purgatory Art’s Prison Break secret art as a possible solution. He began testing the technique during a mission, but Fa Nan remained unaware of his plan.

• Li Yan concluded that his mana attacks had made no progress and feared the Nether Emperor would discover his hidden cultivation.
• As he mourned the family and companions he might never see again, Li Yan recalled A-Ying and realized he could try the Prison Break secret art.
• Li Yan decided to cultivate Prison Break, which the Tianli Clan inheritance described as a powerful way to shatter restrictions.
• Li Yan assumed a strange posture and began practicing the secret art, while his bones rumbled faintly.
• Fa Nan inspected Li Yan’s latest mission results, saw that he had brought back three Other Shore Flowers, and ordered him to withdraw.

Li Yan risked a longer mission to cultivate the prison break technique while keeping Buluo alive, but his attempt to manifest its Qiongqi phantom caused his body to tear apart. The chapter left him in agony as two fierce ghosts searched the twisted zone for him and Buluo.

• Buluo urged Li Yan to let him gather the Flowers of the Other Shore, but Li Yan insisted that he stay in the cell with him.
• Li Yan secretly managed how much lifespan the flowers consumed and decided to stake everything on a concentrated attempt to cultivate prison break.
• Li Yan negotiated twenty-two days for his next mission and brought Buluo to the Ghost Thorn mountain, leaving him in a sheltered spot while he focused on cultivation.
• When Li Yan and Buluo failed to return on time, two fierce ghosts entered the twisted zone to search for them, while Buluo feared Li Yan had been trapped in the River of Netherfall.
• Li Yan forced the prison break technique to form Qiongqi over his body, but its head would not emerge, and the pressure burst veins through his skin as his body strained to heal.

Li Yan used the two Ghost Officers’ attacks to break through the Blood-Red Death Seal and complete the foundational stage of the prison-breaking art. After killing them and absorbing their power, he regained control of his cultivation and prepared to act in the distorted region.

• Two Ghost Officers found Li Yan cultivating near the Netherfall River and realized he was trying to break through the Blood-Red Death Seal.
• The Ghost Officers attacked Li Yan repeatedly, shattering his defenses and leaving him badly injured as Buluo rushed toward the battle.
• A Qiongqi phantom appeared across Li Yan’s body, and his Divine Sense and cultivation returned as he used the Ghost Officers’ attacks to complete his breakthrough.
• Li Yan killed the two Ghost Officers and destroyed their ghost souls before they could escape and expose him.
• After taking a medicinal pill, Li Yan confirmed that the restraints on his Nascent Soul and sea of consciousness had vanished, restoring his cultivation to his control.

Li Yan rescued Buluo on Ghost Thorn Mountain, removed the blood-colored death restriction, and repaired his meridians. Buluo regained much of his cultivation, while Li Yan planned for him to recover and advance as they continued searching for a way out of the Netherworld.

• Li Yan escaped the fierce ghosts and found Buluo crawling toward him across Ghost Thorn Mountain.
• Li Yan broke the blood-colored restriction on Buluo and reconnected his severed meridians, leaving Buluo unconscious during the treatment.
• Buluo awoke with spiritual power and Divine Sense restored, then carefully inspected his body at Li Yan's urging.
• Buluo tested his recovered strength by cutting through a Ghost Thorn and flying above the mountain.
• Buluo told Li Yan that he had nearly three hundred years of lifespan left and roughly sixty to seventy percent of his former combat strength.
• Li Yan told Buluo to recover in the Spirit Storage Space and aim for the late Nascent Soul stage, while warning that they still had to plan carefully to escape the Netherworld.

Li Yan decided to investigate how the blood-colored death restriction’s collapse might alert Fan Nan and the other ghost creatures while avoiding a fight. He concealed the weakened Buluo in a conjured space with medicinal pills, and Buluo prepared to recover while offering to risk his life if Li Yan needed help.

• Li Yan rejected Buluo’s offer to fight and explained that he would investigate whether the ghost creatures could sense the blood-colored death restriction’s collapse.
• Li Yan told Buluo that his depleted lifespan and lack of magic treasures left him too weak to fight, then sent him into a conjured space.
• Li Yan gave Buluo six fifth-grade Spirit Sea Reversion Pills and told him to cultivate and recover.
• Buluo thanked Li Yan and asked him to release him if even a brief sacrifice could help Li Yan survive.
• Li Yan agreed, left Buluo to recover, and vanished to continue his investigation.

After Li Yan killed two ghosts and could no longer return to prison, Fa Nan learned that Li Yan, Bu Luo, and the Blood-Glutton Two Ghosts had failed to come back. Fa Nan discovered that the two ghosts’ names had vanished from the records and went to investigate the Netherfall River himself.

• Fa Nan captured a message from Chi Han, who reported that Li Yan, Bu Luo, and the Blood-Glutton Two Ghosts had not returned and that he planned to investigate the Netherfall River.
• Fa Nan checked the prison’s records and learned that the Blood-Glutton Two Ghosts’ names had disappeared.
• Fa Nan berated Chi Han and ordered him to investigate the disappearance within half a day without reporting rumors.
• Chi Han took forty percent of the prison’s manpower with him, and Fa Nan decided to investigate the Netherfall River personally because the warden had taken an interest in Li Yan.

Fan Nan flew toward the place where Li Yan had entered the twisted zone while the chapter followed Qiu Ling and the cultivators of the Extinction Sect and Phantom Sect as they struggled through a deadly region of flying stones. The group kept advancing under a mobile formation, and the chapter left them searching for a way to make it safer and more effective.

• Fan Nan instructed the two White Impermanences to guard the prison, then flew toward the River of Nether Oblivion to search near Li Yan’s last known location.
• Qiu Ling nearly lost the formation position when a mountain-sized boulder struck, but Zi Kun punched it away and Senior Brother Feng took over for her.
• Qiu Ling returned to the ancient ape puppet to recover, while the cultivators relied on its powerful defenses and the formation to endure the flying stones.
• Zhao Min and the other three had reunited with the main group after searching for more than a month, and their return without losing anyone astonished the cultivators.
• The two sects advanced deeper into the flying-stone region, where mounting injuries and exhaustion forced them to abandon separate defenses and form a joint mobile formation.
• The cultivators discussed how to improve their mobile formation, since moving formations could develop vulnerabilities.

Bai Rou’s mobile formation helped the cultivators of the two sects survive the flying-stone region, while Fa Nan searched the River of Netherfall and followed traces through the Ghostthorn Mountains. Li Yan remained concealed and watched the searchers, then sensed a familiar figure approaching as he considered capturing the deputy jailer.

• Bai Rou revealed a puppet-centered defensive formation, and the cultivators of the two sects used high-grade spirit stones to strengthen it while crossing the flying-stone region.
• Zhao Min, Gong Chenying, and Zi Kun showed how effectively the body cultivators could hold the formation and clear paths through the stones.
• Fa Nan searched along the River of Netherfall, found broken Ghostthorn spikes and signs of someone’s presence, and followed the trail toward the riverbank.
• Fa Nan examined a fallen Ghostthorn tree but found no clear evidence of a battle, then returned toward a patch of unpicked Other Shore Flowers.
• Li Yan watched the searching ghosts from concealment, identified one powerful ghost as likely Chi Han, and sensed a familiar figure approaching.

Li Yan trapped Fan Nan in a looping illusion while concealing his own role, and Fan Nan struggled to escape and contact others. Fan Nan remained confident that the Warden would find him if he stayed missing too long.

• Li Yan abandoned his plan to target Chi Han and followed Fan Nan, leaving traces and poison to set up a sneak attack.
• Fan Nan followed the broken Ghostthorn spikes, then realized the scenery repeated and the Netherfall River had vanished from sight and Divine Sense.
• Fan Nan revealed himself and searched for a barrier, but his attacks and the Ten Thousand Ghosts Red Wind technique failed to alter the looping landscape.
• Fan Nan sent a transmission talisman, but a force swallowed it and severed his connection to it.
• Fan Nan struck at the empty air without effect and concluded that the Warden would find him if he remained missing too long.

Fa Nan searched for a weakness in the restriction on Ghost Thorn Mountain, but Li Yan lured him into triggering it and sent him through to the Yang Realm. Li Yan returned to his concealed array while Fa Nan found himself in a scorching desert beneath five shining rings.

• Fa Nan scattered emerald-green points of light with his spell to sense the space around Ghost Thorn Mountain.
• Fa Nan detected a subtle fluctuation between two Ghost Thorn plants and attacked it with his trident.
• Li Yan manipulated the restriction’s forces, causing Fa Nan to be pulled away when he charged forward.
• Li Yan removed his array flags, evaded approaching vicious ghosts, crossed the River of Nether Oblivion, and returned to his grand array.
• Li Yan left a duplicate to guard the array while Fa Nan awoke in the Yang Realm, surrounded by dense fire spiritual energy.

Li Yan captured Fan Nan by luring him through a carefully staged trap into Tuban, then subdued him with the power of that world. He moved the ghost to a safe, cold location and began extracting information through a painful soul technique, hoping Fan Nan would survive.

• Fan Nan was drawn through Li Yan’s Ghost Trail formation and swept into Tuban when Li Yan released the restrictions and used his Divine Sense.
• Li Yan knocked Fan Nan unconscious with Tuban’s overwhelming power before Fan Nan could see him.
• Li Yan considered using Soul Search but feared it would kill Fan Nan because of the different laws governing the Yin and Yang Worlds.
• Li Yan moved Fan Nan from the scorching western desert to the Snow Mosquito Clan’s mountain cave and sealed his senses and movement with runes.
• Li Yan pierced Fan Nan’s skull with a red, hook-shaped spike and began pulling at his soul, causing Fan Nan to convulse in agony.

Li Yan extracted and recombined most of Fa Nan’s souls and spirits, leaving him lucid enough to answer questions but too muddled to lie. Fa Nan explained Shura Hell’s hierarchy and routes, including the guarded passages to Fengdu City and Yellow Springs City, while the River of Nether Oblivion remained only a dangerous legend.

• Li Yan extracted Fa Nan’s three souls and five spirits, bound them with runes, and recombined them into a vacant phantom while leaving two spirits in Fa Nan’s body.
• Li Yan questioned Fa Nan and learned that the Scarlet Death Restriction contained no hidden entrance because an imprint could trigger backlash near the River of Nether Oblivion.
• Fa Nan described the Netherworld’s hierarchy, the roles of Fengdu City and Yellow Springs City, and the rules governing travel and trade between them.
• Li Yan learned that the passages to Fengdu City and Yellow Springs City lay inside Fallen Soul Mountain, fifty thousand li from the prison, and were guarded by a rotating Nether Emperor.
• Fa Nan said rumors offered no other known way out of the Netherworld, while the River of Nether Oblivion remained perilous and mysterious even to powerful ghost cultivators.

Li Yan questioned Fan Nan about Yellow Springs City and Shura prison, learning that escape would be difficult because powerful Nether Emperors could quickly reinforce the prison. He discovered that Ye Luo had personally dragged him and the others into the Netherworld to capture cultivators from the Phantom Sect and the Miesheng Sect, but Fan Nan did not know why.

• Li Yan learned that Fan Nan had already used his sole annual opportunity to visit Yellow Springs City and that reaching it would require special permission or persuading a Nether Emperor.
• Fan Nan explained that Ye Luo was the prison’s strongest being, that several powerful Nether Emperors and Nether Kings could respond quickly, and that the guards deliberately encouraged prisoners to gather misleading escape information.
• Li Yan learned that Yellow Springs City was a restricted realm linked to the Yang Realm, and that ordinary beings could not use its soul-hooking emissaries’ passage.
• Li Yan realized Chi Han might return soon and expose Fan Nan’s disappearance, so he had his clone watch the search near the Netherfall River.
• Fan Nan revealed that Ye Luo had personally brought Li Yan and the others into the Netherworld to capture cultivators from the Phantom Sect and the Miesheng Sect, though Fan Nan did not know the reason.
• Li Yan questioned Fan Nan about Ye Luo’s ability to drag people across the realms, but Fan Nan gave no answer.

Li Yan learned that Zhao Min and the others had fled into the perilous region around Yellow Springs City, where Body Integration ghost cultivators were searching for them, and that Chu Yinghong and the Spirit Transformation cultivators had died in the bottomless black hole. He disguised himself as Fan Nan to escape detection, but remained trapped in the underground prison with Ye Luo’s arrival looming.

• Fan Nan told Li Yan that Zhao Min and the other Nascent Soul cultivators had evaded capture by fleeing into the deadly region near Yellow Springs City, prompting the Ghost Sect to send Body Integration cultivators after them.
• Fan Nan revealed that Chu Yinghong and all the Spirit Transformation cultivators she carried had perished in the bottomless black hole after Ye Luo intervened.
• After learning from his clone that the ghosts were preparing to leave, Li Yan possessed Fan Nan’s soul, emerged from Tuban, and used his clone to impersonate Fan Nan while carrying Li Yan away.
• Li Yan ordered a fierce ghost to summon Chi Han, then departed while claiming that Buluo was dead and that he needed to take Li Yan back for interrogation.
• Chi Han returned to find that Fan Nan had taken Li Yan into the underground prison, but the entrance restrictions prevented him from following.
• Li Yan hid alone in the underground prison and worried that Chi Han would discover his clone or that Ye Luo would arrive before he found a way out.

Li Yan disguised himself as Fan Nan and lured Chihan into Tuban, then questioned him about the Underworld and Underworld Emperor Yeluo. Chihan’s answers revealed that he had been sent to watch for Li Yan by another powerful Underworld Emperor on the first level of Shura Hell.

• Li Yan used illusion poison and a staged Soul Search to make Chihan rush into the dungeon, where Li Yan knocked him into Tuban.
• Li Yan questioned Chihan about routes to the Yang Realm, Fengdu City, Yellow Springs City, and Yeluo’s order to attack the two sects’ cultivators.
• Li Yan realized Chihan did not know who had issued the order attributed to the Underworld Emperor.
• Li Yan learned that Chihan was Fan Nan’s deputy warden to keep him in check and served another powerful Underworld Emperor on the first level of Shura Hell.
• Chihan revealed that the other Underworld Emperor had ordered him to watch for a cultivator named Li Yan.