Recaps

Wang Yuan defeated Returning Pearl Pavilion’s three assassins in succession, displaying his strength and Qi Sensing before Liu Senzhai conceded its match. He then faced three Dream Spring Cave cultivators and challenged them to attack together.

• Wu Gou defeated Cen Guangyi with the White Soul Hook’s killing move, but Wang Yuan pierced Wu Gou with his Blood God Tribulation Finger and won their fight.
• Wang Yuan defeated Zhao Yingzi by sensing her true body among her bronze mirrors and dragging her out of the formation.
• Wang Yuan beat Returning Pearl Pavilion’s third assassin despite taking a small wound, while Luo Chen and the others discussed the Founding War’s unusual early division of spoils and Dream Spring Cave’s need for new resources.
• Liu Senzhai conceded its match, choosing to avoid damaging relations and accepting only shop number ten.
• Dream Spring Cave sent two women and one man to fight Wang Yuan, who refused to rest and challenged all three to come at him together.

Nalan Feng refused to commit Liu Senzhai to Fragrance Master’s proposed Great Snow Mountain campaign, while Wang Yuan challenged three Dream Spring Cave cultivators at once to push his martial arts toward a breakthrough. After surviving their combined water array and overpowering them, Wang Yuan called out the woman who intervened to save one of them and demanded a fight.

• Nalan Feng persuaded a Liu Senzhai disciple not to fight Wang Yuan, then avoided Fragrance Master’s request to join the Great Snow Mountain campaign until their supreme elder could decide.
• After hearing Wang Yuan had challenged all three opponents, Nalan Feng watched the fight with Fragrance Master while Luo Chen chose to let Wang Yuan continue under his protection.
• Wang Yuan overwhelmed the three Dream Spring Cave cultivators’ Flying Swords with his Pill Force and used Qi Sensing to evade their attacks.
• The Dream Spring Cave cultivators formed the Three Pools Converging Sea Array and unleashed Profound Dark Water, Gui Water True Essence, and Xiang Liu Poison Water against Wang Yuan.
• Wang Yuan turned the poison water into a sea of blood, seized one cultivator, and was stopped when a woman entered the stage and met his giant hand with her palm.
• Wang Yuan revealed his towering form, criticized the three cultivators, and challenged the woman to fight him with everything she had.

Wang Yuan won eighth place at the Dao Discussion Stage after resisting Yu Jiaolong’s Spiritual Pressure, and Luo Chen advised him to save his strength for the Founding War. Back at the Luo Tian Sect encampment, Luo Chen assessed the threat of the Howling Moon Wolf Clan, promised to seek help for Chu Kui, and began cultivating with a Myriad Stars Pill.

• Wang Yuan endured Yu Jiaolong’s Golden Core Spiritual Pressure until Luo Chen intervened, and Dream Spring Cave conceded the battle.
• The Sword Sect elder declared Wang Yuan the winner and advanced him to eighth place; Wang Yuan accepted Di Wuqi’s reward of Divine Wind Gale Force and a Wind Pouch.
• Luo Chen told Wang Yuan that Yu Jiaolong was a prodigy beyond his current strength and that the Howling Moon Mountain Range’s Third-Order Demon Beasts would be better opponents.
• Luo Chen learned that Wolf Emperor Ao Xiao commanded a vast pack, while more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators and a million cultivators were gathering for the Founding War.
• At the encampment, Luo Chen assigned Xu Huanzhen the Eighth Shop handover, told Wang Yuan to stay in, and promised to seek a way to clear the foreign mana obstructing Chu Kui’s Core Formation.
• Luo Chen swallowed a low-grade Myriad Stars Pill and circulated his cultivation method to refine its spiritual energy.

Luo Chen weighed the drawbacks of the Myriad Stars Pill and used it to settle the Luo Tian Alliance’s dispute over a Third-Order Cave Mansion. After receiving the cave mansion in Broken Moon Immortal City, he offered Fu Jiusheng a chance to deepen his ties to Luo Tian Sect by passing on his skills, leaving Fu’s response uncertain.

• Luo Chen found that six months of cultivation had raised his Golden Core progress by only one point, and he resolved to sell his low-grade Myriad Stars Pills while pursuing higher grades.
• The Luo Tian Alliance’s five Golden Cores argued over who would use the Third-Order Cave Mansion attached to the Eighth Shop first, and Luo Chen proposed that they take turns by year.
• Luo Chen gave each of the four other Golden Cores a bottle of Myriad Stars Pills, then offered to supply them in exchange for help gathering materials.
• The others accepted Luo Chen’s allocation and pill-supply conditions, and he went with Fu Jiusheng to inspect the cave mansion.
• Luo Chen received the cave mansion keys and promised Fu Jiusheng five free bottles of pills each year, then urged him to find disciples and pass on his herb-gathering and Formation Dao skills.

Luo Chen cultivated in his new Cave Abode, refined Myriad Stars Pills, and attended the Golden Core exchange meeting hosted by the Fallen Cloud Sect, where he met powerful cultivators and learned about the forces involved in the Founding War. After drawing attention from several prominent figures, he stepped aside with Lin Qingxuan, who thanked him.

• Luo Chen cultivated with Burning Wood True Art and the Micro Dust Origin Art, then tempered his body with Myriad Paths Convergence and Wither Bloom Fire.
• Luo Chen set up the Shangshu Cauldron in his Cave Abode and began refining Myriad Stars Pills.
• Luo Chen attended the Golden Core exchange meeting, where Fei Ming introduced him to prominent cultivators and Heartless Immortal explained the Ice Fortress's plans to support the Cloud Crane Couple at Great Snow Mountain.
• Meng Changshou recognized Luo Chen as a participant in the Nascent Soul Pill refinement and arranged to discuss alchemy with him another time.
• Luo Chen spoke with Jin Buque and approached Hu Yanzhuo, but Lin Qingxuan advised him against interrupting the Alchemy Grandmaster and invited him aside to talk.
• Lin Qingxuan thanked Luo Chen when they reached a secluded area.

Luo Chen learned that his reminder had restored Pang Renxiong’s sanity and heard Lin Qingxuan explain the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect’s feud with Fallen Cloud Sect. After Fallen Cloud Sect announced a rapid campaign to seize Howling Moon Mountain Range, Luo Chen and his allies struggled to choose a suitable Spirit Land, and he began seeking information through Meng Changshou.

• Lin Qingxuan thanked Luo Chen for helping Pang Renxiong recover his sanity and explained that the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect sought revenge for Ren Pingsheng, whose corpse Han Zhan Zhenren had refined into a puppet.
• Lin Qingxuan invited Luo Chen to become a guest elder of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect for his Pill Refinement Art, but Luo Chen said he needed time to consider.
• Cheng Yan presented a map of Howling Moon Wolf Clan forces and Spirit Lands, announcing that Fallen Cloud Sect would attack in one month and asking the groups to report their chosen targets.
• Luo Chen studied the map, found that thirteen major sects would compete for five large Third-Order Spirit Lands, and summoned Di Wuqi and the others to discuss the Luo Tian Alliance’s options.
• Luo Chen decided to gather more information before choosing a target, then welcomed Meng Changshou and invited him to discuss Pill Refining.

Luo Chen learned from Meng Changshou how to streamline Myriad Stars Pill refinement and gained a strategy for claiming multiple Spirit Mountains by moving them together. As the Founding War began, Luo Chen led the Luo Tian Alliance to Snow Wolf Plain and ordered an assault on its Demon Wolf defenders.

• Luo Chen discussed Myriad Stars Pill refinement with Meng Changshou, who taught him to process ingredients with similar properties in groups.
• Luo Chen identified mismatched Pill Fires as the likely cause of the Nascent Soul Pill's failure, and Meng Changshou shared a method for moving Spirit Mountains.
• The Founding War began, and Luo Chen led four Golden Core Cultivators aboard the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat toward Snow Wolf Plain to seize it before attacking other Spirit Mountains.
• Luo Chen learned the He Family was heading for Recall Dream Ridge and the Myriad Images Sect was targeting Iron Green Mountain, then ordered the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat to speed up.
• Luo Chen's forces reached Snow Wolf Plain, where a vast Demon Wolf army led by three Three-Headed Demon Wolves awaited them, and Luo Chen ordered the attack.

Luo Chen and the Luo Tian Alliance fought the Demon Wolves for control of the Howling Moon Mountain Range, and Luo Chen led the defeat of the Mid-Third Order Snow Wolf King. After claiming its Demon Core, he saw a shocking development on Fu Jiusheng’s battlefield and launched an enormous handprint.

• Luo Chen used the Glazed Heaven Curtain to block the Snow Wolf Kings’ combined attack while Di Wuqi, Jiang Yu, Cen Qiusheng, and Fu Jiusheng engaged them.
• Luo Chen joined Di Wuqi and Jiang Yu against the Mid-Third Order Snow Wolf King, whose Snow Eating Method slowed their movement and attacks.
• Luo Chen countered the Snow Eating Method with his Source True Fire, and his Soul Severing Nail helped Jiang Yu and Di Wuqi press their assault.
• The Snow Wolf King destroyed Di Wuqi’s Flying Sword and damaged Jiang Yu’s Ocean Stabilizing Pearl, but Luo Chen unleashed the Sky Moon Purple Gold Wheel and flayed the wolf alive.
• Luo Chen seized the Snow Wolf King’s Demon Core and declared the battle won, then saw what was happening on Fu Jiusheng’s battlefield and shouted before striking with an enormous handprint.

Wang Yuan survived a Golden Core assassin’s ambush after Luo Chen rescued him, and the battle for Snow Wolf Plain ended in victory. Luo Chen then led Di Wuqi and Jiang Yu toward Recall Dream Ridge, leaving the others to secure the plain.

• Wang Yuan fought the Demon Wolf King until Fu Jiusheng’s formation trapped it, but a hidden Golden Core Cultivator struck him with vicious Mana.
• Luo Chen flattened the assassin’s mountain with a flaming Palm Seal, then killed the trapped Demon Wolf King and helped turn the battle into a rout.
• The Hundred Losses Daoist told Xiao Xiangzi he had killed Wang Yuan, while Xiao Xiangzi reassured him that Returning Pearl Pavilion would face no trouble from Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen used the Dragon Slaying Art to purge the assassin’s Mana from Wang Yuan, who woke and said he knew how to achieve Intent Gathering and Core Embrace.
• Luo Chen assigned Cen Qiusheng and Fu Jiusheng to hold Snow Wolf Plain, then departed aboard the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat with Di Wuqi and Jiang Yu.
• At daybreak, Di Wuqi told Luo Chen that they had reached Recall Dream Ridge.

Luo Chen’s alliance seized Recall Dream Ridge after killing a Tier 3 Demon Wolf, then followed another wolf to Iron Green Mountain, where Fifth Qi killed Yang Wenchang and the alliance confronted the surviving Myriad Images Sect. The chapter ended with the sect’s survivors facing Luo Chen, Fifth Qi, and Jiang Yu as they decided what to do next.

• Luo Chen killed a Tier 3 Demon Wolf King at Recall Dream Ridge, forcing the He Family to withdraw and securing the territory for the Luo Tian Alliance.
• Luo Chen ordered Chu Kui and Xu Huanzhen to hold Recall Dream Ridge, then flew with Jiang Yu toward Di Wuqi and Iron Green Mountain.
• Yang Wenchang’s Myriad Images Sect celebrated taking Iron Green Mountain, but a fleeing Tier 3 Demon Wolf attacked the mountain and fought Yang Wenchang.
• Fifth Qi secretly used Netherwind to cut Yang Wenchang in two, then killed the Demon Wolf and returned Yang Wenchang’s remains and belongings to the sect.
• Luo Chen, Fifth Qi, and Jiang Yu arrived before the surviving Myriad Images Sect members, who asked the three alliance leaders what they should do.

Luo Chen gathered ten Golden Core cultivators and the Myriad Images Sect disciples to move Iron Green Mountain and Recall Dream Ridge to Snow Wolf Plain, laying the foundation for a new sect territory. The mountains were placed in a protective formation, and the alliance began building the Trapped Dragon Great Array to consolidate its Spirit Vein.

• Luo Chen rejected Di Wuqi's proposal to kill the Myriad Images Sect disciples and instead kept them under the Luo Tian Alliance, angering Di Wuqi.
• Five days later, the Myriad Images Sect disciples boarded the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat and joined the Golden Core cultivators in Luo Chen's Moving Mountains Plan.
• Luo Chen and the assembled cultivators lifted Iron Green Mountain and transported it to the eastern side of Snow Wolf Plain, then moved Recall Dream Ridge to the west.
• Luo Chen arranged the mountains around Snow Wolf Plain and had the cultivators begin constructing the Trapped Dragon Great Array to contain and strengthen the Spirit Vein.
• Chen Xiuli congratulated Luo Chen on establishing a sect foundation, while Heartless Immortal told the curious Golden Core cultivators that Luo Chen had perhaps dabbled in array formations.

After the Luo Tian Alliance seized three spirit lands, Luo Chen hosted the helping cultivators and began settling his sect on Snow Wolf Plain. As he prepared to build the Trapped Dragon Array, he discovered how much he still had to learn about formations.

• Luo Chen hosted a dawn-long banquet, thanked his allies, and invited them to visit the Luo Tian Alliance's new territory.
• Heartless Immortal warned Luo Chen that rival Golden Core sects might covet his spirit land, and he assigned Snow Wolf Plain, Iron Green Mountain, and Recall Dream Ridge among the Luo Tian Sect, Wind Rain Villa, and Cen Family.
• Luo Chen moved into the best cave estate on Snow Wolf Plain and assessed its Tier 3 Spirit Vein while the alliance began laying foundations for its new sanctuary.
• Fu Jiusheng told Luo Chen that the Trapped Dragon Array needed five Formation Masters, so Luo Chen offered to help and learned about the Seven Fundamental Restrictions.

Luo Chen learned about the Seven Fundamental Restrictions while helping Fu Jiusheng construct the Trapped Dragon Array, and he began using the Obscurity Restriction to direct Spiritual Energy into the sect’s Spirit Land. After Min Longyu arrived at Snow Wolf Plain, he agreed to develop an auxiliary array that could conceal the signs of Luo Chen’s spells, while Luo Chen resolved to study Formation Dao more broadly.

• Fu Jiusheng explained the Seven Fundamental Restrictions to Luo Chen and assigned him to draw in earth energy and guide Spiritual Energy for the Trapped Dragon Array.
• Sima Hui Niang announced that the Luo Tian Sect had captured a Spirit Land with a Third-Order Spirit Vein in the Howling Moon Mountain Range and sent Min Longyu with five Foundation Establishment Cultivators to Snow Wolf Plain.
• Luo Chen used the Obscurity Restriction to gather Spiritual Energy within the sect’s Spirit Land and considered using it to conceal his spells.
• Luo Chen asked Min Longyu and Fu Jiusheng about integrating the Obscurity Restriction into spells, and Min Longyu proposed building an auxiliary array to hide their Mana fluctuations.
• Min Longyu began working on the array and advised Luo Chen to study the other basic restrictions as well; Luo Chen decided to pursue Formation Dao under Min Longyu and Fu Jiusheng.

Luo Chen refined Top-Grade Myriad Stars Pills, calculated how to fund his cultivation, and arranged to sell pills to allies and friends. When a Mid-Third Order Wolf King attacked Iron Green Mountain, Luo Chen used an unfamiliar technique to freeze it long enough for three Golden Core Cultivators to kill it.

• Luo Chen refined ten Top-Grade Myriad Stars Pills and tested how quickly they advanced his cultivation.
• Luo Chen calculated that his annual pill costs exceeded the Luo Tian Sect's income and decided to sell Myriad Stars Pills to alliance members and close friends.
• Luo Chen sent Zeng Yilong to offer pills to Song Mi and Chen Xiuli, then visited Min Longyu and Fu Jiusheng to check on their work and study restrictions.
• A Mid-Third Order Wolf King attacked near Iron Green Mountain, where Di Wuqi, Jiang Yu, and Yu Jiaolong were fighting it.
• Luo Chen used a strange technique to make the Wolf King freeze, allowing Di Wuqi, Jiang Yu, and Yu Jiaolong to strike it down.

Luo Chen defeated a Mid-Third Order Demon Wolf King with Mirror Flower Water Moon, then proposed expanding the Luo Tian Alliance's defenses and territory. After Min Longyu explained the Concealment Array, Luo Chen learned it in three months and planned to inscribe it on himself, improve his spell, and repair his damaged treasures.

• Luo Chen used Mirror Flower Water Moon to help defeat the Mid-Third Order Demon Wolf King, and Yu Jiaolong identified the beast as an escapee from Seven Kings Mountain.
• Yu Jiaolong declined Luo Chen's invitation to visit the sect and returned to Dream Spring Cave, whose forces had suffered heavy losses.
• Luo Chen proposed building defenses a thousand li beyond the sect's Blessed Land to mark out territory for the Luo Tian Alliance, and Di Wuqi and Jiang Yu agreed.
• Min Longyu explained that Luo Chen could conceal his Mana by engraving the Concealment Array on his body, but that Luo Chen would need to learn the Tier 3 Formation himself.
• Luo Chen learned the Concealment Array in three months, then planned to raise his formation and Mirror Flower Water Moon proficiency and have Hu Yanzhuo repair his damaged treasures.
• Luo Chen cast Mirror Flower Water Moon on a restrained Second-Order Demon Wolf, trapping it in an illusion of running through the mountains beneath the setting sun.

Luo Chen had Hu Yanzhuo repair his damaged Magic Treasures, then reached Grandmaster Level in Mirror Flower Water Moon and discovered it cast faster and could harm its target’s soul. After returning to the Luo Tian Alliance, he learned that someone from the Fallen Cloud Sect had arrived.

• Luo Chen paid Hu Yanzhuo to repair the Profound Flame Sword and Sky Moon Purple Gold Wheel after learning Nether Turbid Liquid had damaged the latter more seriously than he realized.
• Luo Chen surveyed the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion’s repair business, then visited the Luo Tian Alliance’s Eighth Shop and told Xu Huanzhen to reject offers to buy it.
• Luo Chen trained Mirror Flower Water Moon on a Xuan Gold Wolf until the spell reached Grandmaster Level, discovering that simplified hand seals made it faster and that it could weaken its target.
• Luo Chen returned the weakened Xuan Gold Wolf to Xu Huanzhen and collected his repaired Magic Treasures from Hu Yanzhuo.
• After Luo Chen returned to the Luo Tian Alliance, Chu Kui told him that someone from the Fallen Cloud Sect had arrived.

Qu Xibai pressured the Luo Tian Alliance to send cultivators to the Nine Sects Sword Holding Hall, forcing Luo Chen to negotiate a rotation and choose Jiang Yu, Zeng Yilong, Mei Ruoqi, and others for the front. As they departed, Luo Chen revealed his plan for Zeng Yilong to become the Luo Tian Sect’s Dao Seed and fighting powerhouse, while Qu Lingjun would inherit its alchemy legacy.

• Qu Xibai invited the Luo Tian Alliance’s high-level cultivators to serve in the Nine Sects Sword Holding Hall, and Luo Chen explained that refusing would cost the alliance its claim to the Spirit Land.
• Luo Chen negotiated a three-year rotation and offered pills and Spirit Stones, and after a month the alliance chose Jiang Yu as its first candidate for the front.
• Luo Chen sent Zeng Yilong and Mei Ruoqi with protective supplies, then instructed Xing Zonghan to gather intelligence and watch over them.
• Luo Chen told Xing Zonghan that Zeng Yilong was being tested as the Luo Tian Sect’s future Dao Seed and explained his plan for Zeng Yilong to become its fighting strength while Qu Lingjun became its alchemy figurehead.
• Zong Jiulang boarded the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat for the front as Luo Chen reflected on the Myriad Images Sect’s decline and his own plans for the Luo Tian Sect.

Luo Chen strengthened the Luo Tian Sect while rapidly cultivating, then tried to inscribe a Great Perfection Concealment Array onto his body. His powerful physique rejected the array ink, so he began carving the formation into himself with the Profound Flame Sword, enduring severe pain as the black patterns spread across his body.

• Luo Chen planned to nurture Zeng Yilong as a future protector of the Luo Tian Sect and observed the shifting priorities of the Myriad Images Sect, Wind Rain Villa, and Cen Qiusheng.
• After settling in the Howling Moon Mountain Range, Luo Chen spent heavily on cultivation resources and advanced to 58 percent of the First Layer of the Golden Core Stage while improving his arts and pills.
• Luo Chen reviewed his progress and used materials prepared by Min Longyu to attempt to inscribe a Great Perfection Concealment Array across his body.
• When the array ink failed to merge into his Desolate Antiquity Third Order physique, Luo Chen realized his strengthened body was resisting the formation.
• Luo Chen used the Profound Flame Sword to cut himself and force the ink into his flesh, blood, bones, and sinews while applying Obscurity Restrictions, causing black lines to spread over his body.

After the allied cultivators suffered a devastating defeat at Ao Xiao Wolf Court, Luo Chen emerged from seclusion to heal Mei Ruoqi and learn what had happened. With Jiang Yu dead and Cen Qiusheng leaving for the battlefield, Luo Chen prepared to accelerate his plans before his own turn to fight arrived.

• Xu Huanzhen led Yao Mingyue, Yuan Xiaoyue, and Luo Tian Sect disciples to the sect’s new headquarters at Snow Wolf Plain.
• Zeng Yilong returned aboard the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat with Jiang Yu’s remains and an unconscious Mei Ruoqi, reporting heavy losses at Ao Xiao Wolf Court.
• Luo Chen emerged from seclusion, removed the Frost Demon Qi from Mei Ruoqi, healed Zeng Yilong’s scar, and heard his account of the defeat.
• Luo Chen joined Di Wuqi, Cen Qiusheng, and Fu Jiusheng as they discussed the casualties and the need to send another Golden Core cultivator to the battlefield.
• Cen Qiusheng agreed to leave for the front lines after securing protection for the Cen Family and Cen Guangyi, and Luo Chen promised to safeguard Cen Guangyi during Core Formation.
• After seeing off the departing cultivators, Luo Chen left the alliance Spirit Land and resolved to move faster before his turn to fight came.

Two years after returning to Broken Moon Immortal City, Luo Chen arranged for Hu Yanzhuo to craft flight wings and learned how a Primal Chaos Cauldron could be made. He bought a living third-order Gray Leaf Wolf King at the auction and left the city to train Mirror Flower Water Moon against it.

• Luo Chen returned to Broken Moon Immortal City, arranged a meeting with Hu Yanzhuo, and learned that the Artifact Crafter could not make him a Primal Chaos Cauldron soon.
• Luo Chen persuaded Hu Yanzhuo to craft him a bespoke pair of flight wings after discussing the difficulties of making a Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Luo Chen decided he needed a living Third-Order Demon Beast to improve his Mirror Flower Water Moon technique before heading to the front line.
• At the Fallen Cloud Sect auction, Di Wuqi noted that Taihe Gate had been devastated, while Luo Chen waited for the Demon Beast lots he wanted.
• Luo Chen bid one million Spirit Stones for a third-order Gray Leaf Wolf King, collected it backstage, and left Broken Moon Immortal City to train.

Luo Chen cultivated Mirror Flower Water Moon while the Fallen Cloud Sect changed its campaign strategy, then acquired powerful Breaking Moon Wings and advanced to Golden Core Second Layer. After bringing Mirror Flower Water Moon to Great Perfection, he suddenly shed blood and tears as a familiar memory resurfaced.

• Luo Chen used the Tier 3 Gray Leaf Wolf King as a target for Mirror Flower Water Moon and learned that the Fallen Cloud Sect was systematically capturing territory and cutting off Ao Xiao Wolf Court's reinforcements.
• Luo Chen claimed the Breaking Moon Wings Hu Yanzhuo forged, tested their speed, and reluctantly paid five hundred thousand Spirit Stones for them.
• Luo Chen gave Zeng Yilong the Rising Dragon Wings and began teaching him the Nine Myriad Miles flying technique.
• Two years later, Luo Chen broke through to Golden Core Second Layer, concealed his new cultivation level, and saw that Mirror Flower Water Moon had reached 997/1000 proficiency.
• Luo Chen repeatedly cast Mirror Flower Water Moon on the Gray Leaf Wolf King until the technique reached Great Perfection, then clutched his eyes as blood tears flowed and a familiar memory returned.

Luo Chen killed Rotten Tree after discovering that Mirror Flower Water Moon had merged into his eyes, then used the altered illusion technique to defeat Di Wuqi in one move. The confrontation ended as Cen Guangyi failed to form his Core, while Luo Chen warned Di Wuqi not to break the alliance apart prematurely.

• Luo Chen overcame Mirror Flower Water Moon’s backlash, killed Rotten Tree with the Flourishing Decay True Fire, and discovered the illusion technique had taken root in his eyes.
• After three months of seclusion, Luo Chen sensed Cen Guangyi attempting Core Formation at Recall Dream Ridge as the Cen Family guarded the site.
• Di Wuqi approached Recall Dream Ridge and challenged Luo Chen to settle who should lead the Luo Tian Alliance with one move.
• Luo Chen used his altered eyes to overwhelm Di Wuqi instantly, and Di Wuqi admitted defeat.
• Cen Guangyi’s Core Formation failed, and Luo Chen warned Di Wuqi that the alliance pact still mattered before heading toward Recall Dream Ridge.

Luo Chen prepared for the front lines by strengthening Mirror Flower Water Moon, arranging the Luo Tian Alliance’s defenses, and leaving Di Wuqi in charge. After Cen Qiusheng returned with seventy extra years of life, Luo Chen departed for the Howling Moon Mountain Range, where the next campaign against the Ao Xiao Wolf Court was approaching.

• Luo Chen decided to nurture the Rotten Ke Black Chess Piece as a Divine Soul defense treasure and considered using vitality from the Flourishing Decay True Fire to heal the strain Mirror Flower Water Moon caused his eyes.
• Cen Qiusheng returned to the Luo Tian Alliance after finding a Seven Stars Heavenly Lantern Flower that extended his life by seventy years, then told Luo Chen about the forces gathering at the front lines.
• Cen Qiusheng thanked Luo Chen for protecting Cen Guangyi and asked him to help confront Di Wuqi, but Luo Chen refused and urged Cen Qiusheng to focus on guiding Cen Guangwei.
• Luo Chen prepared the Luo Tian Sect for his absence, assigned Sima Hui Niang and Gu Cai Yi to oversee its affairs, arranged defenses for Snow Wolf Plain, and persuaded Di Wuqi to hold the alliance together with the promise of Mid-Grade Myriad Stars Pills.
• Luo Chen departed aboard the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat with eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators, while Sima Hui Niang watched from Snow Wolf Plain and trusted that he would return safely.

Luo Chen arrived at the Fallen Cloud Sect’s frontline camp, registered as the Luo Tian Alliance’s representative, and met Linghu Jie at the Nine Sects Sword Holding Hall. As Linghu Jie sought intelligence on Luo Chen’s strength, Han Zheng considered asking Martial Uncle Mu to look out for him.

• Luo Chen reached Heaven Drum Plains with the other cultivators and learned that the Fallen Cloud Sect’s forces had encircled much of the Ao Xiao Wolf Court’s territory while preparing for a final battle.
• Luo Chen arrived at the Fallen Cloud Sect’s camp, registered with Immortal Cheng Yan, and received an identity token before heading to the Nine Sects Sword Holding Hall.
• Luo Chen met Linghu Jie, learned that his missions would involve patrols, emergency response, and law enforcement, and was told he could settle in until called.
• Linghu Jie summoned Han Zheng and asked about Luo Chen’s strength; Han Zheng described Luo Chen as formidable and went to obtain intelligence on him.
• Han Zheng worried that Luo Chen might face unfavorable arrangements and considered asking Martial Uncle Mu for help, then went to find the sect master and ask for Junior Brother Qin.

Luo Chen reunited with Qin Yuanjiang and Murong Qinglian, then exchanged alchemy insights with Mu Yunyan and learned the names and requirements of the Nascent Soul Pill’s main ingredients. After Mu Yunyan left, Luo Chen began arranging a gathering of Golden Core cultivators to make connections, sell Myriad Stars Pills, and seek Fire Spirit Diamond.

• Qin Yuanjiang and Murong Qinglian visited Luo Chen, and he learned Qin had married Ruan Huan'er and that Murong had reached the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer.
• Murong Qinglian told Luo Chen that Mu Yunyan wanted to visit, and Luo Chen agreed to welcome the Fallen Cloud Sect's Chief Alchemist.
• Luo Chen and Mu Yunyan discussed alchemy and reviewed the past attempt to refine a Nascent Soul Pill, with Mu Yunyan explaining the process and its mistakes.
• Mu Yunyan identified the Divine Iris, Purple Monkey Flower, and Five Elements Lotus Platform as main ingredients and said the lotus platform needed to be at least five hundred years old.
• Luo Chen invited Mu Yunyan to a gathering of Golden Core cultivators, then summoned Zeng Yilong to help arrange it so he could meet cultivators, find buyers for Myriad Stars Pills, and seek Fire Spirit Diamond.