Recaps

Luo Chen reviewed the Luo Tian Association’s profits and his own cultivation progress while helping Gu Cai Yi recover through medicinal baths and healing spells. He planned to stabilize his Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer cultivation and focus on alchemy, but Shi Lan arrived with an invitation from her master, Jueqing.

• Luo Chen received 150,000 Spirit Stones in net profits from Sima Hui Niang and praised her management of the Luo Tian Association.
• After spending the night with Sima Hui Niang, Luo Chen hurried to care for Gu Cai Yi, bathing and treating her damaged meridians while promising to repair her Dantian over time.
• Luo Chen concluded that frequent use of the Healing Spell was helping him refine his spiritual power and expected to stabilize his cultivation within half a year.
• Luo Chen examined his Attribute Panel, noted his gains in spells, pill arts, and physician skills, and decided to practice Mountain Collapse and Soul Subduing Art while making Jade Dew Pills.
• Shi Lan appeared outside Luo Chen’s cave mansion and told him that her master wanted to see him.

Luo Chen learned that the war between the two Nascent Soul Upper Sects had resumed and that Heartless Immortal had ordered the Luo Tian Association to join it. Unable to accept sending his people into battle, he returned to his cave mansion and began looking for a way to understand the crisis and respond before the forces departed in a month.

• Luo Chen explained to Heartless Immortal that he had delayed visiting her to care for Gu Cai Yi, and she gave him the damaged Shangshu Cauldron and the Azure Serpent Bracelet for Gu Cai Yi.
• Heartless Immortal told Luo Chen that the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect could be driven from its Third-Order Cave Mansion if the Luo Tian Association joined the war, and ordered everyone at Qi Refining Seventh Layer or above to mobilize.
• Luo Chen left Sky Wave Peak in despair, saw Chu Kui celebrating his breakthrough to Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer, and agreed that the women of Ice Fortress were fickle and moody.
• Luo Chen resolved that he could not accept sending the Luo Tian Association into the war and decided to learn what had happened during his year away before the forces departed in a month.

Luo Chen studied the Jade Cauldron Civil War and learned that Ice Fortress had ordered the Luo Tian Association to send its Qi Refining Seventh Layer and higher members to fight, leaving only one Foundation Establishment True Cultivator behind. As Sima Hui Niang planned for the association’s wartime changes, Luo Chen insisted she would not go in his place and began considering how his status as an Alchemy Grandmaster might protect him.

• Luo Chen read the Web’s dossiers tracing the Jade Cauldron Civil War from its beginnings through the battles in Soaring Sky Secret Realm, Black Water Swamp, and Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• Luo Chen concluded that the failed meeting between Han Zhan and Jade Cauldron True Person meant the war would continue and that Ice Fortress had joined the Fallen Cloud Sect’s side.
• Luo Chen told Sima Hui Niang that Ice Fortress Jueqing had ordered everyone in the Luo Tian Association at Qi Refining Seventh Layer or above to war, with only one Foundation Establishment True Cultivator permitted to stay at Danxia.
• Sima Hui Niang proposed closing or scaling back branches, suspending agency partnerships, revising business arrangements, and canceling the plan against the Bai Family of Flowing Light Market.
• Sima Hui Niang volunteered to coordinate the battlefield and suggested Luo Chen remain behind, but Luo Chen refused to let her risk her life and invoked his standing as an Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Luo Chen began to wonder whether his reputation as an Alchemy Grandmaster could keep him from being sent to the battlefield.

Luo Chen learned that the Jade Cauldron Civil War was drawing vassal forces toward the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains battlefield and sought to keep the Luo Tian Association from being used as expendable troops. He offered the Heartless Immortal a supply of powerful pills in exchange for the association’s cultivators, and she asked him to name his terms.

• Sima Hui Niang told Luo Chen that the Luo Tian Association’s members were panicking, other forces were mobilizing for war, and Peach Mountain remained inactive.
• Luo Chen concluded that the Golden Core Sects planned to preserve their own strength by using their vassals as expendable troops, while his pill-refining skills could help reduce casualties.
• Luo Chen showed the Heartless Immortal a High-Grade Jade Dew Pill and offered to provide at least one hundred bottles a year if he received enough help preparing ingredients.
• Luo Chen presented his own Top-Grade Blood Burning Pill and offered to make more for the Heartless Immortal, arguing that the pills could save Foundation Establishment cultivators and strengthen her standing.
• The Heartless Immortal accepted the value of Luo Chen’s proposal and asked him to name his terms.

Luo Chen sent Wang Yuan, Duan Feng, Xu Huanzhen, and over a hundred Battle Hall cultivators to the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains battlefield on relatively safe assignments, then spent half a year refining pills and stabilizing his cultivation. After guiding Gu Cai Yi’s recovery, he revealed a Third-Order Rebirth Pill and promised to restore her cultivation path.

• Luo Chen gave Wang Yuan, Duan Feng, and Xu Huanzhen Blood Burning Pills, assigned Wang Yuan to lead the expedition, and urged all three to return alive.
• Luo Chen rallied the Battle Hall cultivators with the promise that battlefield merit could earn them Foundation Establishment Pills, and they departed for the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• Luo Chen met Sima Hui Niang aboard the Ice Fortress vessel, learned Tantai Jin would try to arrange relatively safe assignments, and then returned to Sky Wave Peak to refine pills.
• After half a year of pill refining, Luo Chen stabilized his cultivation at Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer and guided Gu Cai Yi in practicing the Five Viscera Nourishing Fist.
• Luo Chen showed Gu Cai Yi a Third-Order Rebirth Pill that could rebuild her Dantian and repair her meridians, and promised to restore her cultivation path.

Luo Chen used the Rebirth Pill and his medical techniques to rebuild Gu Cai Yi’s dantian, though she remained unconscious and would need time to recover. He then considered using the damaged Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror to help Gu Cai Yi and other Luo Tian Association cultivators establish their foundations, leaving him eager to test the idea after resting.

• Luo Chen prepared Gu Cai Yi for the Rebirth Pill by casting Spring Breeze Rain Spells and reassuring her that he would protect her.
• Gu Cai Yi swallowed the pill and endured the destruction and reconstruction of her dantian while Luo Chen spread the pain across her acupoints and guided spiritual energy into the new dantian.
• Luo Chen carried the unconscious Gu Cai Yi from the Cultivation Room, confirmed to Bai Mei Ling that the procedure had succeeded, and asked her to watch over Gu Cai Yi as she recovered.
• Luo Chen realized that the thick walls of Gu Cai Yi’s rebuilt dantian could make her Foundation Establishment breakthrough difficult.
• Luo Chen considered using the Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror with the Rotten Ke Black Chess Piece to simulate Foundation Establishment, potentially helping Gu Cai Yi and other Luo Tian Association cultivators break through.
• Luo Chen imagined producing Foundation Establishment cultivators in large numbers and then went to sleep.

Gu Cai Yi recovered enough to resume cultivation after Luo Chen reshaped her Dantian, and Luo Chen discussed the Luo Tian Association’s battlefield support and business strategy with Sima Hui Niang. The chapter ended with Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang sharing an awkward dinner before Hui Niang left.

• Gu Cai Yi woke to find her spiritual energy gathered and her Innate Cultivation Method working again, then reunited with Luo Chen and agreed to focus on recovery while helping Yuan Xiaoyue at the Golden Hall.
• Sima Hui Niang brought news that the Heartless Lineage had been assigned a dangerous outer area at Seventh Mountain, while the Luo Tian Association received a safer mountain-guarding duty.
• Luo Chen approved sending Min Longyu to provide formation support, but said he should wait until conditions settled and travel with a garrison rotation.
• Sima Hui Niang asked whether the Luo Tian Association should take over the Zheng Family’s failing pill business, and Luo Chen ordered her not to seize competitors’ vacant markets for now.
• Luo Chen pointed out that the Black Water Swamp and Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains battlefields offered better business opportunities, then Gu Cai Yi invited Sima Hui Niang to dinner.
• Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang ate in strained silence, and Luo Chen felt relieved when Hui Niang left.

Luo Chen learned Mirror Flower Water Moon to control the Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror, helped Gu Cai Yi establish her foundation, and prepared to head to the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains battlefield as the war widened. After realizing the mirror’s simulations could endanger him, he set it aside and went to spar with Chu Kui.

• Luo Chen learned the three spells required for Mirror Flower Water Moon and used the illusion to gain control of the Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror.
• Gu Cai Yi successfully established her foundation, while the war spread across the Jade Cauldron Domain and the Jade Cauldron Seven Sects joined in full force.
• Luo Chen was told that a vital Luo Tian Association position had been devastated, and he set out for Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains because Ice Fortress could not send aid.
• Luo Chen realized the Heart Questioning Mirror had pulled him into another simulation and decided to limit its use after recognizing how it affected his mind and pill refining.
• Luo Chen went to the Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion to train with Chu Kui, who had recently reached Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.

Luo Chen sharpened his combat skills and prepared Gu Cai Yi for her Foundation Establishment attempt, while Chu Kui explained Core Formation methods and announced he was leaving for the Accumulated Thunder Mountain battlefield. The chapter ended with Luo Chen reflecting that the spreading war might eventually draw everyone in the Jade Cauldron Domain into its turmoil.

• Chu Kui praised Luo Chen's weapon-control techniques but warned that Luo Chen relied too heavily on fire spells despite his Wood Element spiritual power, and advised him to develop his strengths rather than rush to change paths.
• Luo Chen prepared an array of Foundation Establishment resources for Gu Cai Yi, encouraged her before her attempt, and left her inside the cave mansion as the Dragon Severing Stone sealed the entrance.
• Chu Kui explained Upper Method and Lower Method Core Formation, including how failed Lower Method attempts could leave cultivators in the Pseudo-Core Realm, and Luo Chen tried unsuccessfully to combine his Spiritual Liquid.
• Chu Kui told Luo Chen he was going to the Accumulated Thunder Mountain battlefield to seek resources for Core Formation, and said he would fight for whichever side offered the better terms.
• Luo Chen joked with Chu Kui before he departed, then worried that the war might eventually engulf the entire Jade Cauldron Domain.

Luo Chen sent more Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains as the war intensified, then welcomed Gu Cai Yi after she established her foundation. While Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang reorganized the Luo Tian Association’s businesses for the battlefield, Luo Chen sought help from Hundred Refinements Mountain to commission a Magic Tool for a technique that could quickly strengthen him.

• Luo Chen dispatched Min Longyu to establish formations and Li Yingzhang to reinforce the defenses, advising Li to reserve the Chi Dragon Sword and giving both men three Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills.
• Luo Chen welcomed Gu Cai Yi from seclusion, and the two spent a day together in Sky Wave Immortal City before returning to the association.
• Gu Cai Yi resumed command of the Luo Tian Gold Hall, and she and Sima Hui Niang consolidated businesses and sent a new team into the Accumulated Thunder Mountain battlefield.
• Sima Hui Niang arranged further recruitment and a magic robe partnership while Luo Chen focused on cultivating spells and strengthening himself.
• Luo Chen decided a technique from a Beast Skin could rapidly increase his strength but required an external item, so he went to Hundred Refinements Mountain to commission a Magic Tool from Gongsun.

Luo Chen commissioned Gongsun Gan to forge a pair of wing-type Magic Tools from Blazing Cloud Peng wings so he could improve his speed and practice the Nine Myriad Miles secret art. After testing the completed Blazing Cloud Wings, Luo Chen launched himself into the sky to try the technique.

• Luo Chen told Gongsun Gan he wanted implantable wings powered by spiritual energy and blood and qi, and showed him the Blazing Cloud Peng wings he had saved.
• Gongsun Gan examined the aged wings, agreed to forge a Mid-Grade Magic Tool or better, and Luo Chen selected supplementary materials and paid a deposit.
• Half a month later, Gongsun Gan presented Luo Chen with high-grade wings made using Soft Thunder Sand, and Luo Chen bonded them with his Essence Blood and implanted them beneath his shoulder blades.
• Luo Chen healed his wounds, activated the Blazing Cloud Wings, and found their flight speed matched ordinary sword flight with little discomfort.
• Luo Chen paid Gongsun Gan five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and stayed behind to test the wings with the Nine Myriad Miles secret art.
• Luo Chen sprang into the air, spread the Blazing Cloud Wings, and shot upward over the mountains.

Luo Chen practiced Nine Myriad Miles and tested the Profound Flame Sword before Min Longyu returned from the war with news of heavy Luo Tian Association casualties. Sima Xian was dead, Wang Yuan was missing, and Luo Chen was left alone with a guilt-stricken Min Longyu.

• Luo Chen delivered pills to Ice Wave Palace, then practiced the Blazing Cloud Wings and Nine Myriad Miles in the wilderness.
• Luo Chen tested the Profound Flame Sword at high altitude and returned to Sky Wave Peak as time passed into the Luo Tian Association's second year of war.
• Min Longyu reported that the Flame Alliance had captured the Seventh Mountain and that the Luo Tian Association had lost forty-three Qi Refinement Cultivators, while Li Yingzhang was gravely wounded, Sima Xian was dead, and Wang Yuan was missing.
• Sima Hui Niang learned that Sima Xian's killer was called Dry Toad and opened his coffin after Min Longyu left.
• Min Longyu faced grieving cultivators seeking news of their relatives until Luo Chen arrived and sent the crowd away.
• Min Longyu knelt before Luo Chen, blaming himself for failing to protect the Luo Tian Association's cultivators, and Luo Chen ordered him to stand and speak.

After hearing Min Longyu’s account of the devastating battle at Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains, Luo Chen comforted Sima Hui Niang and resolved to lead the Luo Tian Association’s next expedition himself. He left Min Longyu to guard Danxia Peak, accepted his repaired formation treasure, and set out aboard the Langqi Flying Boat with supplies and cultivators.

• Min Longyu described how his Five Thunders Strike the Top array killed five Foundation Establishment Cultivators, but the Luo Tian Association suffered heavy losses, Wang Yuan disappeared, Li Yingzhang was gravely wounded, and Xu Huanzhen lost his White Crane Spirit Beast.
• Luo Chen restored Sima Xian’s corpse, and Sima Hui Niang mourned her brother before regaining her resolve and agreeing that the Battle Hall needed a new master.
• Luo Chen appointed himself Battle Hall Master and announced that he would personally lead the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators to Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• After Sima Xian and the other fallen cultivators were buried, Min Longyu asked to join the expedition, but Luo Chen ordered him to stay and guard Danxia Peak.
• Min Longyu gave Luo Chen the repaired Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc and recounted the battle again, while Luo Chen asked who had relentlessly pursued the retreating cultivators.
• Luo Chen departed on the Langqi Flying Boat with supplies and cultivators bound for the Ice Fortress, promising to bring everyone back after the war.

Luo Chen escorted a Luo Tian Association supply ship toward Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains and let Qin Liangchen lead the defense against a band of would-be robbers. When Hu Laoda and Kou Ji tried to flee after sensing Luo Chen’s power, Luo Chen killed Kou Ji with a towering Sword Light and called after Hu Laoda.

• Luo Chen studied the Sky Peng Transformation aboard the flying vessel as it traveled toward Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• Hu Laoda persuaded Kou Ji to ambush the Luo Tian Association caravan, believing it lacked a Foundation Establishment escort.
• Luo Chen detected the ambush, while Qin Liangchen confidently prepared the Luo Tian cultivators to fight.
• Qin Liangchen led the cultivators in killing the Qi Refining robbers, and Yuan Xiaoyue killed a Qi Refining Ninth Layer attacker with a surprise strike.
• Hu Laoda and Kou Ji confronted Qin Liangchen, then tried to flee when Luo Chen revealed his powerful aura.
• Luo Chen killed the fleeing Kou Ji with Sword Light and challenged Hu Laoda to stay.

Luo Chen captured Hu Wei after the robber attacked the Langqi Flying Boat, extracted what he knew about the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains, and killed him when he hesitated over his plans. The flying boat reached the battlefield without further trouble, and Luo Chen prepared to disembark.

• Qin Liangchen subdued Hu Laoda with the Sword Pellet and Repeating Seal, then brought him to Luo Chen aboard the Langqi Flying Boat.
• Luo Chen used the Soul Seizing Art and Soul Bewitching Art to learn Hu Wei’s identity, motives, and intelligence about the forces at the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• When Hu Wei hesitated to answer how he would have attacked the flying boat, Luo Chen killed him and ordered Qin Liangchen to hang his head from the flagpole.
• Luo Chen studied the two robbers’ Storage Bags, found Soft Thunder Sand ore, and took more than forty thousand Spirit Stones and Hu Wei’s defensive shield.
• A nearby band of Robber Cultivators retreated after seeing Hu Wei’s head, and the Langqi Flying Boat reached the golden-yellow land several days later.

Luo Chen arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island, reunited with the Luo Tian Association’s battered cultivators, and examined Li Yingzhang’s wounds from Earth Fire Fiend Qi. When a powerful visitor confronted the encampment, Luo Chen stepped forward to face him.

• Luo Chen arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island with Duan Feng and learned that other Ice Fortress affiliates were pressuring the Luo Tian Association over its residence.
• Luo Chen greeted the Battle Hall cultivators, promised to remain and fight alongside them, and sent Duan Feng to collect supplies.
• Luo Chen examined Li Yingzhang and found that Earth Fire Fiend Qi had damaged his foundation, though treatments from Ice Fortress and Azure Pill Valley had stabilized him.
• Luo Chen reassured Li Yingzhang that he would likely recover, then hurried outside after a commotion broke out at the encampment.
• Senior Qu threatened Bu Junjie and demanded to speak with the person in charge, so Luo Chen appeared and faced him.

Luo Chen defended the Luo Tian Association’s Spirit Land by defeating Qu Zhenbiao in a single exchange and claiming his sword. After driving off the Qu Family and dismissing the Divine Water Sect, he returned to the compound and offered the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword to Yingzhang.

• Luo Chen rejected Qu Zhenbiao’s demand to surrender the Luo Tian Association’s Spirit Land and challenged him to settle the dispute with one move.
• Luo Chen stopped Qu Zhenbiao’s Flying Sword with a Glazed Light Screen and struck him with a devastating sword attack before a Golden Core Immortal from the Ice Fortress intervened.
• Luo Chen took Qu Zhenbiao’s Flying Sword Magic Treasure, the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword, and ordered the Qu Family to leave.
• Xu Xiang and Luo Jiangnan of the Divine Water Sect greeted Luo Chen by his titles, and he said he would meet them later.
• Luo Chen returned to the stone house, told Old Xu to list the injured, and asked Yingzhang whether he wanted the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword.

After defeating Qu Zhenbiao, Luo Chen faced scrutiny from the Four Sect Alliance and confronted Tantai Jin over the Heartless Lineage’s treatment of the Luo Tian Association. Summoned by Yinyue Forefather, he refused her offer to switch allegiances until he consulted Heartless Forefather, who arrived and accused Yinyue of overstepping.

• Cultivators from the Fallen Cloud Sect and Azure Pill Valley discussed Luo Chen’s combat skills, while Duan Feng and Tantai Jin hurried to finish the Luo Tian Association’s goods handover after his clash with Qu Zhenbiao.
• Tantai Jin visited Luo Chen, and they argued over the Heartless Lineage’s failure to protect the Luo Tian Association and his decision to fight the Qu Family.
• A messenger summoned Luo Chen to Yinyue Forefather, who questioned him about Qu Zhenbiao before offering him resources, support, and a place in her lineage.
• Luo Chen thanked Yinyue Forefather but said he needed to consult Heartless Forefather before deciding whether to change allegiances.
• Heartless Forefather entered the Ice Palace and told Yinyue Forefather that she had overstepped.

After forcing Heartless Immortal to recognize the Luo Tian Association’s importance, Luo Chen treated its injured cultivators and discovered that his Cleanse Spell could remove Earth Fire Fiend Qi. The discovery inspired him to consider using baleful qi to advance his Body Tempering Aperture Opening, but Tian Xingzi of the Fallen Cloud Sect arrived with a visiting card.

• Luo Chen reflected on how he had used Yinyue Forefather’s interest to pressure Heartless Immortal into valuing him and the Luo Tian Association without changing allegiance.
• Luo Chen treated injured Luo Tian Association cultivators and tested whether his Cleanse Spell could remove harmful qi from their bodies.
• Luo Chen used the Spring Breeze Rain Spell and Cleanse Spell to remove some of the Earth Fire Fiend Qi from Li Yingzhang.
• Luo Chen realized that baleful qi might help him open acupoints and advance the Aperture Opening stage of Body Tempering.
• Duan Feng told Luo Chen that Tian Xingzi of the Fallen Cloud Sect had sent a visiting card, and Luo Chen asked to see it.

Tian Xingzi visited Luo Chen, confirmed his identity, and gave him intelligence linking Wang Yuan to the Blood Demon rumors around the Ninth Mountain. Luo Chen kept Wang Yuan’s secret, ordered the search for him to continue, and began testing a method of opening his body’s apertures with Baleful Qi.

• Tian Xingzi met Luo Chen, revealed that he knew Luo Chen’s identity, and gave him three Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills as a gift in return for their old friendship.
• Tian Xingzi told Luo Chen that scouts had found a lead on Wang Yuan near the Ninth Mountain, where neither side had taken control.
• Luo Chen told Xu Huanzhen, Duan Feng, and Li Yingzhang that Wang Yuan was connected to the Blood Demon legend, then ordered them to keep the information secret and continue searching for him.
• Luo Chen resolved to protect Wang Yuan, heal Li Yingzhang, investigate the Ninth Mountain, and keep exploring Aperture Opening before the Luo Tian Association’s next defense rotation.
• Yuan Xiaoyue collected ten portions of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi for Luo Chen, who then drew Baleful Qi from a Rock Float Stone to begin testing his Aperture Opening method.

Luo Chen discovered that using several threads of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi could open his acupoints, then arranged to obtain more while securing safer battlefield arrangements for the Luo Tian Association. He learned he had nearly been matched with Ice Soul Fairy, and the chapter ended with Qin Liangchen realizing Luo Chen would not return to Skybillow with the others.

• Luo Chen opened another acupoint by using three threads of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi at once and calculated the immense cost of completing Aperture Opening.
• Luo Chen bought Tantai Jin's hundred portions of Earth Fire Fiend Qi and arranged for Shi Lan to seek more at the next cultivator trade gathering.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that Ice Soul Fairy was Yinyue Martial Aunt's eldest disciple and a candidate for the next sect leader, and Luo Chen realized Yinyue Forefather had wanted him to support Ice Soul.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that the Luo Tian Association would move back in half a month and that she would arrange its assignment; Luo Chen welcomed the safer prospect of serving under her.
• Qin Liangchen told Luo Chen that his son Qin Xiaohu had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and was attempting Foundation Establishment, then asked why Luo Chen would not return with the others.

Luo Chen watched his companions depart Golden Sand Floating Island, studied the Alliance’s Merit List, and prepared the Luo Tian Association for battle. He set out with Tantai Jin and the other cultivators toward the thunder-shrouded mountains, joining the vast force entering the battlefield.

• Luo Chen bid farewell to Yuan Xiaoyue, Qin Liangchen, and Li Yingzhang as the Langqi Flying Boat carried them back toward Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Luo Chen examined the Merit List, recalled the Luo Tian Association’s battlefield record, and decided his forces should retreat rather than risk themselves for unappealing rewards.
• Luo Chen reflected on how opening fifty-six acupoints had increased his spiritual power reserves and considered the strength he might gain by opening all seven hundred and twenty.
• Tantai Jin joined her hundred-person squad with Luo Chen and the Luo Tian Association cultivators, and the combined force departed Golden Sand Floating Island.
• Tens of thousands of cultivators from the Four Sect Alliance converged and flew toward the nine thunder-shrouded mountains in the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sand.

Luo Chen joined the Four Sect Alliance’s forces at Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains and learned the dangers of the battlefield before reaching the Luo Tian Association’s relatively safe post on Sixth Mountain. He discovered the Heartless Forefather had secured the post by trading away most of his Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills, then prepared to settle in and face the coming battles.

• Luo Chen entered Sixth Mountain with the Four Sect Alliance’s army and listened as Xu Huanzhen explained the battlefield’s defenses, lightning experts, and hazards.
• Luo Chen recognized Li Yixian among the departing Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance, while the Connecting Cloud Grand Elder lamented the alliance’s losses and envied Luo Chen’s safer assignment.
• Tantai Jin led Luo Chen to the Luo Tian Association’s post near a stand of Lightning Struck Wood, a rear position unlikely to attract enemy attacks.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that the Heartless Forefather had traded nearly seventy percent of his Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills to secure the post, and Luo Chen reconsidered his anger at her decision.
• Luo Chen accepted the assignment and took the Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc from his Storage Bag.

Luo Chen kept the Luo Tian Association safe in the rear while he trained and searched for more Earth Fire Fiend Qi. After discovering that lightning could strengthen Lightning Struck Wood and experimenting with a Lightning Attraction Net, he began considering whether Thunder Force could help him open his acupoints.

• Luo Chen established Min Longyu’s Raging Thunderous Waves Formation in the Lightning Struck Wood Forest and kept it charging with Spirit Stones.
• The Luo Tian Association spent a mostly peaceful month on the Sixth Mountain while Luo Chen opened more than fifty acupoints using Earth Fire Fiend Qi.
• After running out of Earth Fire Fiend Qi, Luo Chen sent Bu Junjie to seek more at the front-line encampments and checked the formation’s progress.
• Luo Chen saw lightning help a Lightning Struck Wood tree advance toward Tier 2 and experimented with using Thunder Force to temper his body.
• Duan Feng lent Luo Chen a Lightning Attraction Net, and Luo Chen found that lightning gave him only slight benefits because he lacked a Thunder Spirit Root.
• Luo Chen connected his Sky Peng Transformation knowledge to his acupoint-opening method and considered using the forest’s lightning to open acupoints.

Luo Chen learned that the Heartless Immortal had arranged for him to become Ice Fortress’s only Foundation Establishment Guest Elder, securing the Luo Tian Association’s withdrawal from the front lines. After leaving the Sixth Mountain, he returned to Golden Sand Floating Island and found the four sects offering astonishing resources, including Core Formation Secret Techniques.

• Luo Chen discovered he could use controlled lightning to open his acupoints, then bought five hundred portions of Earth Fire Fiend Qi from the Heartless Immortal.
• The Heartless Immortal told Luo Chen that the Luo Tian Association would withdraw to the rear in six months and revealed that Ice Fortress had appointed him a Guest Elder.
• Luo Chen accepted the appointment, weighed its benefits, and continued cultivating with pills and Earth Fire Fiend Qi while waiting for the next rotation.
• The Luo Tian Association left the Sixth Mountain, and Duan Feng told Luo Chen that Qu Zhenbiao and many cultivators from other subordinate forces had died.
• Luo Chen heard that Wang Yuan might be near the Ninth Mountain, then returned to Golden Sand Floating Island with Xu Huanzhen and Duan Feng.
• Luo Chen saw four extraordinary resources announced on the Merit List monument, including four Core Formation Secret Techniques and the Upper Method Core Formation Technique.