Recaps

Luo Chen discovered that the Wither Bloom Fire had gained a trace of spiritual awareness after refining thousands of sea snakes, then studied the Northern Sea’s Spirit-Attached Magical Items and arrived at Black Swan Island. The Cheng Family mistook him for a surviving Primal Devil Sect disciple, and Luo Chen chose to play along, introducing himself as Azure Sun.

• Luo Chen sensed that the Wither Bloom Fire had acquired spiritual awareness and might advance to Tier 5, while the vitality it shared seemed to increase his lifespan.
• Luo Chen questioned Cheng Haichang about the Demon Hunting Ship, Soul Refining Banner, Sea Soul Array, and Heavenly Origin Commerce League, then studied three Spirit-Attached Magical Items during the voyage.
• Luo Chen arrived at the Flying Swallow Islands, learned about the local powers, and followed Cheng Haichang to Black Swan Island, where he assessed the Cheng Family’s strength.
• Cheng Dou concluded that Luo Chen was likely a Primal Devil Sect survivor and ordered the Cheng Family to prepare a lavish welcome, including their two-hundred-year-old Rinsed Orange Wine and Seventh Sister.
• Luo Chen secretly overheard Cheng Dou and Cheng Haichang, realized they mistook his Flourishing Decay True Fire for Azure Sun Demonic Fire, and decided to use their assumption.
• Cheng Dou greeted Luo Chen, asked his name, and Luo Chen introduced himself as Azure Sun.

Luo Chen attended a feast on Black Swan Island, where Cheng Dou explained the North Sea’s history and the threat posed by South Heaven Immortal. After taking a temporary residence at Seaview Cliff, Luo Chen prepared to use the five captured Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and declared that defeating South Heaven Immortal would be like driving a tiger to devour a wolf.

• Cheng Dou guided Luo Chen through Black Swan Island and described the Flying Swallow Islands, the Primal Devil Sect, and the opportunities it gave mortals.
• At a banquet, Cheng Dou recounted the chaos after the Primal Devil Sect fell and explained how South Heaven Immortal had destroyed families and suppressed potential rivals.
• Cheng Dou praised Luo Chen as the one who could restore peace, but Luo Chen ended the conversation and chose Seaview Cliff as his temporary residence.
• Luo Chen opened a cave dwelling at Seaview Cliff and released five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Cheng Haixin offered to warm Luo Chen’s bed, but he declined for the moment and watched the waves beneath the night sky, confident he could use one threat against another.

Luo Chen enslaved five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and refined his fire-based combat system, mastering the Azure Sun Great Handprint and developing Exploding Void Step. After deciding to seek a Third-Order Spirit Land and a better pill, he returned to Seaview Cliff, where Cheng Haixin delivered a Jade Slip from Cheng Dou.

• Luo Chen used his Baleful Qi and Spirit Enslavement Seals to enslave five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes as guards.
• Cheng Dou pressured Cheng Haixin to win Luo Chen's favor so he would drive Yan Nantian from the Flying Swallow Islands and give Cheng Dou a chance to advance to the Golden Core Stage.
• Luo Chen perfected the Innate One Qi Great Handprint, renamed it the Azure Sun Great Handprint, and combined his fire-based arts and movement techniques into a more complete combat system.
• Luo Chen sent the five sea snakes to patrol Seaview Cliff and decided to seek a Third-Order Spirit Land and replace the Myriad Stars Pill.
• Cheng Haixin waited for Luo Chen at his cave residence, then gave him a Jade Slip from Cheng Dou and admitted she would not mind warming his bed.

Luo Chen learned that Yan Nantian was a powerful Golden Core cultivator hiding on Moon Invitation Island and pressed the Cheng Family to offer him everything in exchange for his help. As he prepared to build his forces and study True Flame Pill, he turned his attention to breaking the Ghost-Mist Grand Formation with the Blazing Fire Miasma.

• Luo Chen read Cheng Dou's intelligence and learned Yan Nantian's history, cultivation, and formidable Soul Banner.
• Cheng Haixin asked Luo Chen what reward would persuade him to deal with Yan Nantian, but he rejected her offers and sent her back to consult Cheng Dou.
• Cheng Dou concluded that the Cheng Family had to submit to Luo Chen without reservation, and he and Cheng Haixin agreed they had little choice.
• Luo Chen decided to replace Myriad Stars Pill with True Flame Pill and planned to have the Cheng Family gather its ingredients for him.
• Luo Chen examined the Ghost-Mist Grand Formation around Moon Invitation Island and resolved to use the Blazing Fire Miasma against it.

Luo Chen attacked Yan Nantian’s Myriad Souls Grand Array on Moon Invitation Island with Blazing Fire Miasma, while Cheng Dou gathered the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators to witness the battle. When Luo Chen discovered Yan Nantian was using the attack as cover to break through, he struck the island and forced Yan Nantian to emerge.

• Luo Chen released Blazing Fire Miasma against the Myriad Souls Grand Array, using Wither Bloom True Evil to erode the black mist and weaken its ghostly souls.
• Cheng Dou blocked the approaching cultivators and used a Water Mirror Art to show them Luo Chen’s battle, explaining that the Azure Sun Devil Monarch shared a lineage with the Devilbreak Sect’s founder.
• The cultivators recognized Peng Yu and other former residents among Yan Nantian’s enslaved souls, then learned that the banner held thousands of souls and a Golden Core Main Soul.
• Luo Chen sensed Yan Nantian gathering power to break through at the island’s center, then flew up and struck the island with the Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Yan Nantian emerged from the shattered island amid two blue dragons and attacked Luo Chen, who summoned the Profound Flame Sword to meet him.

Luo Chen defeated and killed Yan Nantian above Ten Li Calm Lake, then demanded that the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators gather at the ruined Moon Invitation Island in a month. The cultivators submitted, while Cheng Dou saw Luo Chen’s arrival as a chance to advance the Cheng Family and pursue his own ambitions.

• Luo Chen overwhelmed Yan Nantian with the Mountain Collapse Technique and detonated nine Blazing Sun Spells at once, destroying Yan Nantian’s body.
• Luo Chen caught Yan Nantian’s escaping Golden Core, crushed it, and collected the Myriad Souls Banner, Soul Severing Nail, Qi Breaking Nail, and Water Dividing Thorns.
• Cheng Dou led the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators in paying respects to Luo Chen, who ordered them to meet again at Moon Invitation Island in a month.
• Cheng Dou received Luo Chen’s Spirit-Gathering Vein-Fixing array and assigned the islands’ Formation Masters to restore the scattered Spirit Vein.
• The cultivators agreed to contribute labor and resources, and Cheng Dou decided that Luo Chen’s presence would help the Cheng Family rise to prominence.

Luo Chen refined the Myriad Souls Banner, put the Primal Chaos Cauldron into his Qi Sea, and planned to rule the Flying Swallow Islands while gathering ingredients for pills. A month later, he appointed the Cheng Family as his representatives and offered families access to the Azure Sun Pill Canon in exchange for their contributions.

• Luo Chen studied Yan Nantian’s remnant soul, began refining the Myriad Souls Banner, and concluded that strengthening his Divine Soul Foundation was his best hope of preserving his soul.
• Luo Chen put the Primal Chaos Cauldron into his Qi Sea for tempering and decided to prepare for an alchemy enterprise on Seaview Cliff.
• One month later, Luo Chen summoned the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators to Moon Invitation Island and named the Black Swan Island Cheng Family his representatives.
• Luo Chen gave Cheng Haixin the Water Dividing Thorns as his token and ordered the islands’ families to gather medicinal ingredients instead of paying tribute.
• Luo Chen placed the Azure Sun Pill Canon on Moon Invitation Island and let families exchange their contributions for access to its Core Formation secret technique.

Half a year after settling on Moon Invitation Island, Luo Chen received True Flame Pill ingredients and blood food from Cheng Haixin, setting terms for the Cheng Family to earn access to the Azure Sun Pill Canon. He began processing the herbs to refine pills and strengthen his cultivation while continuing to temper the Primal Chaos Cauldron.

• Cheng Haixin delivered seventy-eight sets of True Flame Pill herbs gathered by the Flying Swallow Merchant Group, and Luo Chen questioned her about the North Sea’s prices and supply routes.
• Cheng Haixin presented Luo Chen with a cooked Dragon Tiger Grouper, and he ordered her to arrange at least ten portions of blood food each month and bring its cook to meet him.
• Cheng Haixin asked how the Cheng Family could earn an opportunity to receive the Azure Sun Pill Canon, and Luo Chen set the requirement at six thousand sets of True Flame Pill materials.
• Cheng Haixin left for Black Swan Island to tell Cheng Dou that the family had a chance to pursue Core Formation through the Azure Sun Pill Canon.
• Luo Chen ate the Dragon Tiger Grouper, then began arranging the medicinal herbs for processing and True Flame Pill refinement while continuing to temper the Primal Chaos Cauldron.

Luo Chen refined his first Tier 3 True Flame Pill, developed the Blazing Heaven Sevenfold Rings defensive spell, and recruited assistants on Moon Invitation Island to process medicinal ingredients. After consuming the pill, he experienced its immense, fiery medicinal power.

• Luo Chen failed his first attempt at refining a True Flame Pill, identified the need to concentrate its medicinal power during the slow-cooking stage, and continued developing his cultivation and spells.
• Luo Chen created the Blazing Heaven Sevenfold Rings, whose Wither Bloom fire-serpent rings could melt an incoming high-grade Flying Sword.
• Cheng Haixin brought eighteen candidates to Moon Invitation Island to process ingredients, and Luo Chen approved most of them while choosing the talented Xu Muxian to stay.
• Luo Chen celebrated successfully refining a low-grade True Flame Pill and consumed it, then endured its fierce medicinal power surging through his body.

Luo Chen advanced his cultivation, refined the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and used the Azure Sun Pill Canon to drive the Flying Swallow families to gather herbs. After granting Cheng Haixin’s family access to the canon, he sensed someone awakening inside his cauldron and confronted the hidden presence.

• Luo Chen discovered that True Flame Pill fire toxin clung to his Golden Core and used the Fourth-Order Dragon Slaying Art to remove it, considering how its vicious aura might be used against enemies.
• With eighteen Medicine Apprentices handling herbs, Luo Chen advanced his cultivation and techniques while the Flying Swallow families depleted their resources to exchange for the Azure Sun Pill Canon and gather Nascent Soul Pill materials.
• After three years of progress, Luo Chen praised Xu Muxian’s pill-refining talent, gave him top-grade Water Condensation Pills, and rewarded Cheng Haixin with Jade Dew Pills.
• Luo Chen told Cheng Haixin that her Cheng Family had earned enough contribution points for Cheng Dou to receive the Azure Sun Pill Canon, and she hurried to Black Swan Island to inform him.
• Luo Chen refined the Primal Chaos Cauldron with Azure Flame until he sensed its hidden presence awaken, then challenged the unseen senior to appear openly.

Luo Chen negotiated with Han Zhan, a remnant Nascent Soul trapped in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and secured his help in exchange for a time-limited Great Dao Oath. Han Zhan entered Luo Chen’s Myriad Souls Banner as a Living Soul, giving Luo Chen a powerful ally as he prepared to roam the Demon Sea.

• Luo Chen weighed whether to kill, release, or control Han Zhan, while Han Zhan admitted he wanted to live freely and pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen demanded a Great Dao Oath, and Han Zhan agreed to help him form his Nascent Soul until Luo Chen became a True Person in exchange for help gathering materials.
• Han Zhan swore the oath, and Luo Chen released him from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Luo Chen proposed using the Ghost Mystery Records to let Han Zhan take shelter in the Myriad Souls Banner, and Han Zhan entered it to study the method.
• Luo Chen concluded that Han Zhan’s presence in the banner gave him confidence to roam the Demon Sea.

Luo Chen continued refining the Primal Chaos Cauldron and True Flame Pills on Moon Invitation Island, while Han Zhan shared the Black Emperor Ointment Recipe and prepared to confront a visitor. Wu Qi of the Devilbreak Sect arrived seeking Luo Chen after learning of his pill-refining skill, and Han Zhan sent a Ghost King to delay him.

• Han Zhan explained that Tianyezi’s contingencies in the Primal Chaos Cauldron were temporary and described how he and Tianyezi had studied the Emptiness Restrictions, improving the cauldron into a treasure capable of spatial suppression and holding living creatures.
• Han Zhan explained how True Artifacts amplified a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s domain, then gave Luo Chen the Black Emperor Ointment Recipe as the first step in their cooperation.
• Luo Chen reached the brink of Great Perfection in True Flame Pill refinement and asked Han Zhan to entertain an arriving guest while he continued working.
• Kun Jiao told Wu Qi that Yan Nantian had died fighting Luo Chen, whom the Flying Swallow Islands knew as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch, and described Luo Chen’s Golden Core cultivation and Tier 3 alchemy.
• Wu Qi decided to capture Luo Chen for the sake of his Wu Family, ordered Kun Jiao to hold off the others, and led a surging tidal wave toward the Flying Swallow Islands.
• Han Zhan sent a Tier 3 Ghost King and more than a hundred Ghost Generals to delay Wu Qi while Luo Chen finished refining his pills.

A Golden Core cultivator named Wu Qi attacked the Flying Swallow Islands with a tsunami, forcing Luo Chen to interrupt his pill refining and confront him. Luo Chen met Wu Qi’s assault with the Azure Sun Great Handprint and prepared another attack, while Wu Qi asked to negotiate.

• A fast-moving tsunami approached the Flying Swallow Islands, and Cheng Dou ordered the Town Sea Great Array activated while abandoning the mortals at the docks.
• Cheng Dou called on Luo Chen, and Han Zhan sent a hundred Ghost Generals and a Ghost King to hold back Wu Qi’s tsunami and water dragons.
• Han Zhan admitted the damaged Myriad Souls Banner could not sustain the Ghost King, so Luo Chen left his pill room after completing ten Top-Grade True Flame Pills at Great Perfection.
• Luo Chen struck Wu Qi with the Azure Sun Great Handprint, and the collision drove Luo Chen back while forcing Wu Qi into the sea.
• Luo Chen prepared his Profound Flame Sword and summoned nine blazing suns, and Wu Qi emerged from the waves and asked him to talk things through.

Luo Chen settled his dispute with Wu Qi, a servant of the Blood Nightmare Fiend, after Wu Qi killed Kun Jiao and gave him Kun Jiao’s belongings. Wu Qi then invited Luo Chen to join the Devilbreak Sect, but Luo Chen remained wary and ended the chapter examining his Top-Grade True Flame Pills.

• Wu Qi identified himself as a Devilbreak Sect cultivator serving the Blood Nightmare Fiend, and Luo Chen demanded an explanation for his arrival ready to fight.
• Wu Qi killed Kun Jiao, whom he blamed for misleading him, and offered Luo Chen Kun Jiao’s Storage Bag and a Black Scale Flood Dragon; Luo Chen accepted the settlement.
• Wu Qi recognized the lingering fragrance of Luo Chen’s Top-Grade True Flame Pill and concluded that Luo Chen was a Master Level Tier 3 Alchemist.
• Wu Qi invited Luo Chen to join the Devilbreak Sect and offered him a Bloodmare Seal, but Luo Chen refused to commit and accepted the token for later consideration.
• After Wu Qi left, Luo Chen discussed the risks with Han Zhan, put away the token, and returned to his cave residence with the bottle of Top-Grade True Flame Pills.

Luo Chen weighed the cost of his True Flame Pills and resolved to improve his combat strength, prepare for future Nascent Soul resources, and seek Black Emperor Ointment beyond the Flying Swallow Islands. After the islands’ families supplied ingredients, he began a public Hundred Pills Simultaneous Refinement with one hundred batches in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, leaving its success uncertain.

• Luo Chen concluded that High-Grade True Flame Pills best balanced cultivation gains and cost, and planned to leave the Flying Swallow Islands in ten years to seek Nascent Soul resources and ingredients for Black Emperor Ointment.
• After Luo Chen drove back Wu Qi, the major families stopped complaining and increased their offerings of True Flame Pill ingredients.
• Three months after the battle, four damaged islands remained submerged, leaving the Flying Swallow Thirty-Six Islands reduced to thirty-two.
• Luo Chen appeared before a crowd at Ten Li Calm Lake, expanded the Primal Chaos Cauldron to nine zhang, and enveloped it in Azure Flame.
• Luo Chen placed one hundred batches of medicinal ingredients into the cauldron and prepared to test Hundred Pills Simultaneous Refinement.
• A voice from the black banner praised Luo Chen’s alchemy and called him Pill Dust Master.

Luo Chen completed several massive refinements of True Flame Pills, building a reserve of 3,500 pills while recovering and studying formations between batches. After preparing for his next stage of cultivation and entrusting Moon Invitation Island to Cheng Dou, he departed for the Profound Rock Sea Area.

• Luo Chen spent half a month refining 427 high-grade True Flame Pills in a single batch, astounding the cultivators watching from the Ten Li Calm Lake.
• After resting, Luo Chen considered asking Han Zhan to teach him the Fallen Cloud Sect’s soul-refining legacy, then studied formations with him instead.
• Luo Chen refined pills in repeated batches over six months, eventually amassing 3,500 True Flame Pills and using all the ingredients supplied by the Flying Swallow Islands.
• Luo Chen lent Moon Invitation Island to Cheng Dou for his attempt to reach the Golden Core Stage and instructed Cheng Haixin to support Xu Muxian and continue seeking ingredients.
• Luo Chen boarded the Cheng Family’s Demon Hunting Ship and set out for the Profound Rock Sea Area, escorted by five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and a Black Flood Dragon.

Luo Chen traveled to the Profound Rock Sea Area to obtain materials for refining Black Emperor Ointment and resume body tempering. After avoiding a dangerous Nine-Claw Poison King Crab lair, he captured a Heavenly Pivot Gull alive and prepared to establish a temporary cave dwelling on its island.

• Luo Chen studied Han Zhan’s Black Emperor Ointment recipe and chose the nearby Profound Rock Sea Area to hunt for suitable main ingredients.
• Han Zhan concealed the tracking mark on the Bloodmare Seal, and Luo Chen layered Concealment Arrays onto his Storage Ring.
• Luo Chen traveled with Cheng Ji and the recovering Black Scale Flood Dragon, then sent Cheng Ji back with five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes as guards.
• Luo Chen avoided an island occupied by a Nine-Claw Poison King Crab and searched the Profound Rock Sea Area for a safer place to settle.
• Luo Chen used the Black Scale Flood Dragon to lure a Heavenly Pivot Gull into battle, injured it, and enslaved it with a Spirit Enslavement Seal.
• Luo Chen explained that the Heavenly Pivot Gull would help him watch the sea and sky, then decided to build a temporary cave dwelling on Heavenly Pivot Island.

Luo Chen established a concealed cultivation cave on Heavenly Pivot Island and began using Black Emperor Ointment to temper his body. While the Black Scale Flood Dragon hunted crabs for him, she ran into a Tier 3 Overlord Crab, and Tian Xuan carried Luo Chen to the fight.

• Luo Chen carved out a cavern on Heavenly Pivot Island and set up a Spirit Gathering Array to conceal and enrich it.
• Luo Chen had the Black Scale Flood Dragon capture an Azure Emperor Crab, refined its shell into Tier 3 Low-grade Black Emperor Ointment, and let Han Zhan extract its soul.
• Luo Chen applied the ointment and tempered his body, finding that it made his skin tougher and more resistant to the Profound Flame Sword.
• The Black Scale Flood Dragon brought Luo Chen crabs from the Five Great Royal Clans, and Tian Xuan once rescued her from a Tier 3 Demon Spider Crab.
• Tian Xuan urgently called Luo Chen to help the Black Scale Flood Dragon, who was being pursued in the deep sea by a Tier 3 Overlord Crab.

After the Black Scale Flood Dragon was rescued from an ambush, Luo Chen treated its wounds and tested Top-Grade Emperor Flow Paste on it. Five years later, the paste had awakened the Flood Dragon’s devouring demonic art, while Luo Chen advanced to the Golden Core Fourth Layer and Han Zhan left after suspecting Tian Xuan was in danger.

• Luo Chen let Tian Xuan rescue the badly wounded Black Scale Flood Dragon from Golden Claw and the Demon Crab Clan, who then turned their attention to attacking Profound Rock Island.
• Luo Chen spent ten days treating the Flood Dragon, rewarded it with Second-Tier Demon Cores, and gave it Top-Grade Emperor Flow Paste to test its effects.
• Over the next five years, the Black Scale Flood Dragon and Tian Xuan caught more than a thousand live Demon Crabs for Luo Chen, enduring repeated battles and near-fatal dangers.
• After consuming Emperor Flow Paste, the Black Scale Flood Dragon awakened a bloodline inheritance that let it devour and refine nearby creatures, and it began serving Luo Chen wholeheartedly.
• Luo Chen used a Top-Grade True Flame Pill and the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to advance to the Golden Core Fourth Layer.
• Han Zhan noticed his Sound Transmission Ghost was missing, suspected Tian Xuan had encountered trouble, left Luo Chen a Sound Transmission Talisman, and flew south.

The Demon Spider Crab Clan’s ambush was interrupted when Flying Cloud Stream captured the Heavenly Pivot Gull, but Han Zhan and the Black Scale Flood Dragon stole it back during a ghost attack. On Heavenly Pivot Island, Luo Chen confronted three Demon Spider Crab cultivators who had followed them.

• Beneath the sea, the Demon Spider Crab Clan’s Seventh Elder chose to watch as Flying Cloud Stream attacked the Heavenly Pivot Gull, believing the ship’s hidden expert made intervention too dangerous.
• Gu Shaoshang trapped the Heavenly Pivot Gull with the Heavenly Silk Cloud Thread and gave Gu Xiaolian a Demon Suppression Talisman to tame it.
• Han Zhan unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner against Flying Cloud Stream’s Demon Hunting Ship while a massive shadow dragged the Heavenly Pivot Gull into the sea.
• The black mist vanished, and Han Zhan’s group escaped with the gull to Heavenly Pivot Island.
• Luo Chen appeared before the Black Scale Flood Dragon and the gull, then challenged three Demon Spider Crab cultivators as they emerged from the water.

Luo Chen fought three Demon Spider Crabs after they pursued Big Black and rescued Tian Xuan, killing two and facing Zhu Qi’s Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array. He broke through the array with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and killed Zhu Qi, leaving one wounded crab alive for the moment.

• Tian Xuan asked Big Black to help Luo Chen, but Big Black admitted his Demon Power was nearly exhausted; Luo Chen told him to stay back and faced the three Demon Spider Crabs alone.
• Luo Chen used his Desolate Antiquity Late Third Order physique and Cloud Searching Divine Claw to tear off one crab’s pincers, then killed another with a close-range strike.
• Luo Chen used the Soul Breaking Three Nails and the Profound Flame Sword to fatally wound the crab that tried to flee beneath the sea.
• Zhu Qi revealed his Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array and trapped Luo Chen in an enclosure powered by the sea, while a water crab made from the array entangled Big Black.
• Luo Chen hurled the Primal Chaos Cauldron through the array’s barrier and killed Zhu Qi, then retrieved the brown compass and turned toward the wounded crab.

After defeating the Demon Spider Crab attackers, Luo Chen abandoned Heavenly Pivot Island and established a concealed dwelling in the Coral Sea Trench. He freed Tian Xuan from a Demon Suppression Talisman and sent her to investigate the Flying Cloud Stream cultivators while he considered how to respond.

• Luo Chen collected the spoils from the defeated Demon Spider Crabs and concluded that Heavenly Pivot Island was exposed, so he packed up and left.
• Luo Chen questioned Han Zhan about his hidden strength, and Han Zhan revealed that he needed the body of a Human Race Nascent Soul Cultivator to rebuild his body and Dao Foundation.
• Luo Chen moved to the Coral Sea Trench, where he named the Black Scale Flood Dragon Black King and used Zhu Qi's compass to set up a concealed Azure Cloud Dense Mist Array.
• Luo Chen removed the Demon Suppression Talisman from the Heavenly Pivot Gull, whom he called Tian Xuan, and asked her to locate the Flying Cloud Stream cultivators without alerting them.
• Luo Chen resolved to learn why the cultivators had come to the Profound Rock Sea Area, then closed his dwelling and began stabilizing his Golden Core Fourth Layer cultivation.

The Demon Spider Crab Clan learned that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor had died and prepared to compete for his remains and Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein on Profound Rock Island. Meanwhile, Gu Shaoshang’s group also set course for the island, unaware that the Heavenly Pivot Gull was flying toward their ship.

• The Demon Spider Crab Clan Leader confirmed that a Human Race cultivator had killed Zhu Qi and other clan members, and arranged for the Hidden Dust Sand Clan to help track him down.
• The Clan Leader revealed that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor had died three hundred years earlier, then decided to lead his clan to Profound Rock Island to seize the opportunity there.
• Aboard the Demon Hunting Ship, Gu Shaoshang learned that someone had broken his Third-Order Demon Suppression Talisman and suspected the culprit was a powerful cultivator tied to the Heavenly Pivot Gull.
• Gu Shaoshang dismissed his companions’ concerns and ordered the ship to head for Profound Rock Island to hunt Ringed Turtles and gather their shells.
• The Heavenly Pivot Gull rose from the sea and flew toward the Demon Hunting Ship.

After three months of secluded cultivation, Luo Chen stabilized at the Golden Core Fourth Layer and reviewed his advances, resources, and 151 Achievement Points. New intelligence about a fierce conflict on Profound Rock Island revealed a chance to obtain Third-Order Demon Crabs, and he decided to get involved.

• Luo Chen completed his seclusion, confirmed his Golden Core Fourth Layer realm, and examined his Attribute Panel.
• Luo Chen reflected on the gains and risks of his past cultivation, including his late-stage Desolate Antiquity Third Order physique and the difficulty of obtaining materials for Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment.
• Luo Chen reviewed his improved cultivation methods, combat skills, alchemy, and formations, then considered using his 151 Achievement Points to deduce a Nascent Soul Pill Recipe.
• Luo Chen received intelligence from Tian Xuan describing the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs, Flying Cloud Stream, and the Ringed Turtle Clan fighting near Profound Rock Island, with several Third-Order Demon Kings killed.
• Luo Chen suspected the conflict could let him obtain enough Demon Crabs to make Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment and declared that the job had to be done.

Luo Chen used the Sealing God Compass to find a hidden island within the Profound Rock Sea Area and began establishing a base while learning that the Ringed Turtle Clan’s formation was protected by a powerful array. Meanwhile, the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crab leaders sought a way to break the array, and Zhu Xiang revealed that he had brought in Gu Shaoshang of Flying Cloud Stream.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan identified the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array around Profound Rock Island and concluded that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor was likely absent.
• Han Zhan explained the Soul-Seeking Spirit-Searching Array, and Luo Chen used the formation disk to locate an unpatrolled barren island for his base.
• Luo Chen named the formation disk the Sealing God Compass and began settling on the island.
• Jin Hun, Lüxiu, Nine Claws, and Scarlet Flame discussed their failed attacks on Profound Rock Island and the need to break its array.
• Zhu Xiang announced that Zhu Qi had died, then offered to help break the array on the condition that the other leaders help hunt down Luo Chen.
• Zhu Xiang admitted Gu Shaoshang of Flying Cloud Stream into the meeting, prompting Jin Hun to warn that they might be inviting a wolf into the house.