Recaps

Luo Chen watched the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs and Flying Cloud Stream cooperate to break the Ringed Turtle Clan’s island defenses, while he searched for chances to collect Demon Crab corpses for medicine. After Gu Shaoshang returned to the battlefield alone, Luo Chen stole a dead Third Order Red Rock Crab but was spotted just as he considered targeting a wounded Ringed Turtle Demon King.

• Black King explained that Ringed Turtles refined either their Black Tortoise or Cliff Serpent bloodline as they grew stronger, and Luo Chen learned that ten million Demon Crabs had gathered against their clan.
• Luo Chen watched the Demon Crabs methodically seize nearly half the islands, defeat the Ringed Turtle reinforcements, and take the Longevity Three Islands while Gu Shaoshang’s array-breaking plan helped their campaign.
• The five Demon Crab clan leaders worried that their alliance with human cultivators would ruin their reputation, then agreed to denounce Gu Shaoshang as an enemy and kill him once their cooperation ended.
• Gu Shaoshang left with Gu Xiaolian and a shipload of Ringed Turtle corpses, then returned alone to collect the rest of the goods promised by the Demon Crabs.
• During the fighting, Luo Chen hid underwater and stored the corpse of a slain Third Order Red Rock Crab, then considered attacking a wounded Ringed Turtle Demon King.
• An unknown figure killed the Ringed Turtle Demon King instantly, gathered its remains, and looked toward Luo Chen’s hiding place.

Luo Chen secretly hunted Third-Order Demon Crabs while monitoring the war, then infiltrated Profound Rock Island in a concealed puppet as the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs launched their final assault. He reached Black King’s swamp base and began observing the battle through a Water Mirror, with Han Zhan stabilizing the spell.

• Luo Chen identified Gu Shaoshang as the other cultivator hunting Ringed Turtles but decided to focus on collecting Demon Crabs and Black Emperor Ointment instead of confronting him.
• Tian Xuan reported that only eighteen islands remained under Ringed Turtle control, and Luo Chen ordered Black King to infiltrate Profound Rock Island and bury the Sealing God Compass at a designated location.
• After the war continued for nearly a year, Jin Hun, Scarlet Flame, Zhu Xiang, Nine Claws, and Lüxiu led the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs in an assault on Profound Rock Island.
• Luo Chen concealed himself inside a Demon Crab Puppet, entered the island with the invading army, and avoided both the fighting and Gu Shaoshang, who was forced to retreat after being exposed.
• Luo Chen reached Black King’s swamp base and used the Sealing God Compass to cast a Water Mirror showing the battlefield.
• When the Water Mirror grew unstable under the surging Demon Qi and spiritual energy, Han Zhan stabilized it with a single point of his finger.

Luo Chen used Han Zhan’s Water Mirror Art to watch the battle on Profound Rock Island, then ambushed and killed an Azure Emperor Crab Demon King amid the Ringed Turtles’ desperate self-detonations. As the Demon Crabs neared victory, their leaders discovered that Tier 3 corpses were still vanishing after Gu Shaoshang had left, suggesting another hidden hand, just as Hai Luo entered the battle.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan surveyed the battlefield, where the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs outnumbered and overwhelmed the Ringed Turtle Clan.
• After a Ringed Turtle Demon King detonated himself, Luo Chen emerged from the swamp and killed an injured Azure Emperor Crab Demon King before hiding inside the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Han Zhan sent Luo Chen a message about another nearby target, and Luo Chen moved toward a battle in the sky where three Demon Kings were fighting one.
• As the Demon Crabs advanced and suffered heavy casualties from the Ringed Turtles’ self-detonations, their five Clan Leaders learned that Tier 3 corpses had repeatedly disappeared.
• Zhu Xiang connected the disappearances to Gu Shaoshang, but Jin Hun pointed out that corpses were still vanishing after Gu Shaoshang had left Profound Rock Island.
• The five Clan Leaders sensed that Hai Luo had finally entered the battle.

Luo Chen was discovered while trying to exploit the battle on Profound Rock Island and fought his way through pursuing Demon Kings to escape. He left the island behind, but the Nine Difficulties Demon King expected Golden Claw to intercept him at sea.

• Luo Chen hid in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, but three Demon Spider Crab Kings sensed his Divine Sense and attacked, forcing him to flee.
• Luo Chen used his Breaking Moon Wings and sword to evade or defeat several Demon Crab interceptors, while Han Zhan guided him through the battlefield.
• Luo Chen broke through the Demon Spider Crabs' Heavenly Net with the Profound Flame Sword and Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen countered the Nine-Claw Poison King Crab Great Demon King's poison mist and Poison Hook with Blazing Fire Miasma and three black nails, then escaped past him.
• The Nine Difficulties Demon King told the converging Demon Kings that Golden Claw was waiting at sea and expected Luo Chen to run into him.

Luo Chen fought Golden Claw, a peak Late Stage Third Order Overlord Crab, and revealed his Heavenly Peng True Body after Golden Claw destroyed his Profound Flame Sword. After they traded devastating blows, Luo Chen fled as Golden Claw was summoned back to the island’s central battlefield to help kill Hai Luo.

• Luo Chen judged that his human form could contend with a Great Demon King but would struggle against one near Completion.
• Golden Claw ambushed Luo Chen with a Ringed Turtle corpse, trapped his Profound Flame Sword between his pincers, and shattered it.
• Luo Chen transformed into his Heavenly Peng True Body, and he and Golden Claw clashed nine times, badly injuring each other.
• Luo Chen struck Golden Claw with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and broke off one of his pincers, then introduced himself as Azure Sun and flew away.
• Golden Claw pursued Luo Chen until five demon clouds arrived and ordered the five clans’ Demon Kings to help kill Hai Luo; Golden Claw abandoned the chase and headed for the island’s center.

The Ringed Turtle Clan’s Hai Luo and Seven Rings tried to preserve their clan by confronting the Five Great Royal Clan leaders and drawing the Demon Crab Kings into Seven Rings’ tribulation. After the battle devastated Profound Rock Island, Black King seized the Demon Emperor Remains and Luo Chen struck the surviving Overlord Crab forces with a vast palm, leaving the fate of the survivors unclear.

• Hai Luo used the Demon Emperor Remains to withstand the Five Clan Leaders’ attacks, but their battle left him near death and Profound Rock Island in ruins.
• Seven Rings began his Transformation Tribulation, then linked his aura to the Demon Crab Kings and made the Tribulation Lightning strike them as well.
• Han Zhan sent Black King to seize the Demon Emperor Remains after the tribulation ended; the lightning killed Seven Rings, Hai Luo, Lüxiu, and Nine Claws, while the remaining clans suffered heavy losses.
• Jin Hun ordered Golden Claw and other Overlord Crab demons to take the remains, but Black King swallowed them first and fled toward the sea.
• Luo Chen appeared above the island and crushed the seven pursuing Overlord Crab demons with his Azure Sun Great Palm Seal before departing.

Luo Chen reunited with Han Zhan and Black King after escaping Profound Rock Island, then retreated to a hidden cave to process his spoils. Han Zhan revealed the Cliff Serpent’s corpse, which Luo Chen gave to Black King, leaving the group with a remarkable haul from their escape.

• Luo Chen searched for Han Zhan and Black King, then found Black King fleeing Gu Shaoshang with the Profound Rock Armor.
• Black King explained that Han Zhan had driven off Gu Shaoshang and that they had delayed their escape to avoid the Ringed Turtle Clan.
• Luo Chen took Han Zhan and Black King to the Coral Sea Trench, where Tian Xuan confirmed the hidden cave remained undiscovered.
• Han Zhan showed Luo Chen the many souls he had collected and revealed the failed Ringed Turtle’s hundred-zhang Cliff Serpent corpse inside the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Luo Chen gave the spiritually depleted Cliff Serpent corpse to Black King, who had helped seize the Profound Rock Armor.

Gu Shaoshang escaped after mistaking Luo Chen’s Soul Banner for a Nascent Soul threat, while Jin Hun planned to exploit the other clans’ losses. Luo Chen left the Coral Sea Trench with Black King, and Zhu Xiang arrived too late to find him.

• Gu Shaoshang fled Profound Rock Island, then reasoned that a Nascent Soul spirit in a Soul Refining Banner had frightened him away from the Demon Emperor Remains.
• Jin Hun accepted Golden Armor’s proposal to absorb the weakened Azure Emperor Crab and Nine-Claw Poison King Crab Clans, and sent Golden Armor to act quickly.
• Jin Hun learned that Zhu Xiang had left Profound Rock Island with most of the Demon Spider Crab Clan, while the Red Rock Crab Clan was establishing a camp there.
• Luo Chen assessed his gains and losses, packed his belongings, put Black King into the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and flew away on the Heavenly Pivot Gull.
• Zhu Xiang reached the Coral Sea Trench after Luo Chen had departed and threatened the Hidden Dust Sand Clan for misleading him.

Yuan Yin, a Third Order Completion Hidden Dust Sand demon, followed Luo Chen across the sea and tried to ambush him on a small island. Luo Chen trapped and defeated him with the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array, then left when conch horns sounded nearby.

• Yuan Yin tracked Luo Chen and the Heavenly Pivot Gull for four days, waiting for Luo Chen to stop and heal.
• When Yuan Yin approached the island, Luo Chen revealed that he had detected him and trapped him in the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array.
• Yuan Yin revealed his Third Order Completion power and attacked with Myriad Pearl Barrage, but Luo Chen and his companions resisted his assault.
• Han Zhan identified Yuan Yin as a member of the Hidden Dust Sand Clan, and Luo Chen explained that they had set the ambush after Han Zhan located him.
• After conch horns sounded nearby, Luo Chen recalled the injured Black King and Tian Xuan and flew away.

Luo Chen returned to the Flying Swallow Islands after scouting for an ambush and found the cultivators struggling with a Demon King-level Heavenly Pivot Gull. He revealed himself as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch and returned to Ten Li Calm Lake, where Cheng Haixin told him that Blood Nightmare had come looking for him.

• Luo Chen waited in the Albatross Sea Area and sent Tian Xuan to scout the Flying Swallow Islands for signs of an ambush.
• The island families argued over how to handle the Heavenly Pivot Gull circling outside their defensive formation and fretted over their weakening position without Luo Chen.
• The Heavenly Pivot Gull left, then returned three days later carrying Luo Chen, and Cheng Haixin flew out to welcome him.
• Luo Chen ordered the gathered cultivators to disperse, released the Black Flood Dragon into Ten Li Calm Lake, and settled back onto Moon Invitation Island.
• Cheng Haixin told Luo Chen that a powerful visitor calling himself Blood Nightmare had come to see him.

Luo Chen learned that Blood Nightmare Fiend had visited and invited him to meet in Emerald Cold City, while Cheng Haixin revealed that her brother Cheng Dou had died after failing to form his core. After recovering and cultivating on Moon Invitation Island, Luo Chen decided the Flying Swallow Islands could not meet his needs and began preparing to leave by refining a large stock of pills.

• Luo Chen learned that Blood Nightmare Fiend had visited and wanted to meet him in Emerald Cold City, and Han Zhan concealed the Bloodmare Seal so it could not be used to locate him.
• Cheng Haixin told Luo Chen that Cheng Dou had failed to form his core and died, and that she now headed the Black Swan Island Cheng Family.
• Luo Chen dismissed Cheng Haixin and reflected that the Flying Swallow Islands lacked the resources he needed for faster cultivation.
• Luo Chen recovered from his injuries and resumed cultivation, but found Moon Invitation Island's Spirit Vein too weak to support his ambitions.
• Luo Chen decided to leave the Flying Swallow Islands eventually and began refining large quantities of pills to prepare for the journey and establish his reputation as an Alchemy Grandmaster.

Luo Chen endured the agony of using Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment and planned his next steps in body tempering, pill refining, and acquiring a defensive Magic Treasure. After treating Xu Muxian’s injuries, he considered the man’s uncertain prospects for Core Formation as Xu Muxian asked whether he had any hope of reaching it.

• Xu Muxian delivered settled Jade Dew Pills to Luo Chen, who checked them and stored the batch.
• Luo Chen endured the severe pain of absorbing Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment and decided to rely mainly on Tier 3 ointment until his body tempering stalled.
• Luo Chen rewarded Black King with a bottle of top-grade Tier 2 Pills and learned from Xu Muxian that Tian Xuan was living comfortably on Seaview Cliff.
• Luo Chen planned to refine high-grade Myriad Stars Pills and considered having the Profound Rock Armor crafted into a defensive Magic Treasure.
• Xu Muxian asked Luo Chen whether he had any hope of reaching the Core Formation Stage.

Luo Chen confronted Xu Muxian’s doubts about whether pursuing cultivation was worth the effort, then encouraged him to seek a wider world. After three years of pill refining on the Flying Swallow Islands, Luo Chen received an invitation to a major auction at Emerald Cold City and prepared to leave, ending by offering a Transformation Pill to Tian Xuan and Black King.

• Xu Muxian told Luo Chen that he feared years of cultivation might lead nowhere and wished to spend his life pursuing happiness and meaning.
• Luo Chen reflected on how rewards had sustained his own cultivation and urged Xu Muxian to leave the Flying Swallow Islands someday and see the wider world.
• Luo Chen spent three years refining large quantities of pills, while the Flying Swallow families endured the strain of supplying his work.
• Cheng Haixin delivered an invitation from Wu Qi to an auction in Emerald Cold City, and Luo Chen realized the city’s ruler was preparing to choose an alliance amid the Northern Sea’s turmoil.
• Luo Chen decided to attend the auction, but Cheng Haixin hesitated to leave her family and departed after he told her to go for now.
• Luo Chen summoned Tian Xuan and Black King and offered them the Transformation Pill he had refined.

Luo Chen gave Tian Xuan a Transformation Pill after Black King declined it, believing his bloodline might favor the ancient Desolate Beast cultivation path. As Luo Chen prepared to leave the Flying Swallow Islands, he summoned the region’s leaders and began making arrangements for the Cheng Family to govern in his absence.

• Luo Chen explained the Transformation Pill to Black King and Tian Xuan, but Black King gave it to Tian Xuan, citing his lingering Cliff Serpent essence and an instinct that the Desolate Beast path suited him better.
• Tian Xuan accepted the pill, thanked Black King, and flew back to Seaview Cliff while he returned to Ten Li Calm Lake.
• Cheng Haixin considered joining Luo Chen but decided she could not abandon the Cheng Family, whose safety might be threatened after he left.
• Luo Chen sensed the families’ unease about his departure and summoned Cheng Haixin, the family heads, and the archipelago’s Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators to Moon Invitation Island.
• Luo Chen announced that he would leave in three months and ordered the Cheng Family to become the temporary Lord of the Flying Swallows, controlling Moon Invitation Island’s grand formation access tokens until a local Golden Core Cultivator emerged.

Luo Chen secured the Cheng Family’s position on the Flying Swallows Islands with a blood contract, then prepared for his departure by training and accepting robes from Cheng Haixin. On the night before he left, Cheng Haixin declared her feelings, and the two spent the night together.

• Luo Chen appointed the Cheng Family temporary Lord of the Flying Swallows, protected them with rules for borrowing Spirit Lands, and ended the families’ obligation to supply him with medicinal ingredients.
• Luo Chen bound the families to the three agreements with a Flying Swallow Blood Contract and hid it beneath Moon Invitation Island’s Third-Tier Spirit Vein.
• Luo Chen discussed Spirit Stone Ore and the method for making Spirit Stones with Han Zhan, then left to train his body for three months before departing.
• Cheng Haixin brought Luo Chen three feathered Dharma Robes in red, black, and white, and helped him change into the white one.
• Cheng Haixin told Luo Chen she was willing to give herself to him despite his impending departure, and they spent the night together.

Cheng Haixin chose to remain on Moon Invitation Island and cultivate, while Luo Chen traveled under an assumed identity with Tian Xuan to avoid attracting the Devilbreak Sect’s attention. Aboard a White Family merchant ship, Luo Chen examined Tian Xuan’s transformed body and began assembling a suitable demon cultivation method.

• Cheng Haixin refused to become the Cheng Family head, entrusted its leadership to Cheng Haichang, and resolved to cultivate on Moon Invitation Island with Luo Chen’s Tier 3 Puppet and five sea snakes protecting her.
• Luo Chen explained to Han Zhan that he had left Cheng Haixin a safe retreat, then arrived at White Sand Island under the name Luo Hai with Tian Xuan, whose Demon Qi remained difficult to conceal.
• Luo Chen paid to board the White Family merchant ship, concealing his Golden Core cultivation and choosing the slower route so Tian Xuan could practice hiding her aura without drawing the Flying Swallow Merchant Group’s notice.
• The White Family Old Ancestor examined Luo Chen and Tian Xuan, mistook them for low-level cultivators, and ordered Bai Xiang to double their passage fee.
• Luo Chen examined Tian Xuan’s transformed body and told her he expected to devise a suitable cultivation method within days, then explained to Han Zhan that he planned to combine methods with similar principles.

Luo Chen helped defend the Bai Family merchant ship from a demon-beast horde, but a Golden Core cultivator named He Yuan arrived and commandeered the vessel. Back in his cabin, Luo Chen sensed strange Mana from He Yuan, and Han Zhan identified it as pure Demonic Qi.

• Luo Chen deduced a new Cultivation Method during the voyage while Tian Xuan practiced her concealment art.
• A demon-beast horde attacked the merchant ship, and Luo Chen joined Bai Xiang and the other passengers in fighting it.
• Bai Xiang used his Magic Treasure to kill a Black Green Treasure Basin, but five more Late-Stage Tier 2 Sea Demons appeared and killed two fleeing cultivators.
• He Yuan arrived, killed the three Golden Arrow Demon Fish, commandeered the ship, and ordered it to sail straight to Emerald Cold City.
• Luo Chen withdrew to his cabin and asked about He Yuan's strange Mana, and Han Zhan said it was pure Demonic Qi.

Luo Chen learned from Han Zhan that He Yuan was a direct descendant of the Primal Devil Lineage and chose to observe him rather than make contact. During the voyage to Cold Light Island, Luo Chen used Han Zhan’s guidance to create a cultivation method for demons, arriving at the harbor with the method completed and promising Tian Xuan a path to the Great Dao.

• Han Zhan explained the nature of Demonic Qi, and Luo Chen realized He Yuan was a genuine Primal Devil Sect cultivator from the Primal Devil Lineage.
• Luo Chen decided not to approach He Yuan until he learned more about his temperament and origins.
• He Yuan’s presence deterred demon beasts during the Bai Family Merchant Group’s voyage, while Foundation Establishment cultivators discussed pledging allegiance to him.
• Luo Chen spent the journey drafting a demon cultivation method, incorporating principles from the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture.
• The merchant ship reached Cold Light Island, and Luo Chen announced that he had completed the method for Tian Xuan.

Luo Chen created a cultivation method for Demon Cultivators and gave it to Tian Xuan before arriving at Cold Light Island. A dockside mix-up let him avoid the Devilbreak Sect’s welcome, and he headed toward Emerald Cold City while learning why He Yuan could command respect despite being only a Golden Core Cultivator.

• Luo Chen gave Tian Xuan his newly created Demon Cultivator method, and she knelt to thank him as her Master.
• Luo Chen, Tian Xuan, and Han Zhan left the ship and watched Wu Qi mistakenly welcome He Yuan, who demanded to see the Blood Nightmare Fiend before Wu Qi recognized his pure Demonic Qi.
• Wu Qi’s group escorted He Yuan away, while Luo Chen slipped off the White Family merchant ship unnoticed and Bai Xiang wondered where Luo Hai had gone.
• Luo Chen and Han Zhan discussed how He Yuan’s status as a gifted direct successor of the Primal Devil Lineage let him speak boldly to a Nascent Soul True Person.
• Luo Chen decided to settle in Emerald Cold City and walked toward the city at sunset.

After settling in Emerald Cold City, Luo Chen secured a secluded cave mansion and prepared to sell the demon crab materials he had collected. While refining a cultivation method for Tian Xuan, he entered an Epiphany that could transform his strength or smooth his future path.

• Luo Chen saw through Liu Zhenwei’s attempt to lure him into a scam and used Mirror Flower Water Moon to make Liu step aside.
• Luo Chen rented a Tier 3 cave mansion from the Zhou Family and concealed the valley with the Azure Cloud Dense Mist Great Array, which Han Zhan strengthened.
• Luo Chen sorted his demon crab materials and sent Tian Xuan to sell them at several shops before the Trade Fair.
• Luo Chen began writing the Cosmic Feather Mystic Scripture, comparing its methods with his own Qi Refining and Body Tempering cultivation.
• Han Zhan recognized that Luo Chen had entered an Epiphany and strengthened the valley’s array to protect him.

Tian Xuan sold batches of Demon Crab materials across Emerald Cold City, learning to negotiate and amassing millions of Spirit Stones for Luo Chen. She entered the Heavenly Origin Commerce League with her final, most valuable batch, where a cultivator detected that she was a Transformation Demon Cultivator.

• Tian Xuan sold a large batch of Azure Emperor Crab materials to Qian Datong for seven hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones after using her Spiritual Pressure to force a better price.
• Tian Xuan reflected on her master's request and decided to improve her trading skills rather than let merchants take advantage of her.
• Tian Xuan learned to sell Tier 2 materials to smaller shops and reserve Tier 3 Demon King materials for larger establishments, then accumulated millions of Spirit Stones.
• Tian Xuan brought her remaining materials from several kinds of Third Order Demon Kings to Emerald Cold Central Avenue and entered the Heavenly Origin Commerce League.
• A fat cultivator on the tower's seventh floor saw Tian Xuan in a Bronze Mirror and exclaimed that she was a Transformation Demon Cultivator.

Tian Xuan sold her Demon Crab materials to Fu Chaosheng and browsed Heaven Origin Tower, where she coveted a powerful fan but could not afford it. After Fu Chaosheng protected her from a planned ambush, he followed her to a hidden valley and witnessed signs of Nascent Soul Formation.

• Tian Xuan sold Fu Chaosheng Tier 3 Demon Crab materials for three million Spirit Stones, paid in High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Tian Xuan admired the Nine Wind Banana Leaf Fan but declined to buy it because it cost three million Spirit Stones.
• Five Golden Core cultivators plotted to kill Tian Xuan and divide her belongings, but Fu Chaosheng’s pressure stopped them and forced them to retreat.
• Fu Chaosheng followed Tian Xuan’s Evasive Light to a guarded valley and sensed an unfamiliar Nascent Soul aura.
• A surge of spiritual energy gathered over the valley, and Fu Chaosheng recognized the signs of Nascent Soul Formation.

Luo Chen’s attempt to understand a cultivation method unexpectedly triggered signs of Nascent Soul Formation, leaving him badly injured. Fu Chaosheng visited the valley, gave him a Returning Yang Pill, and departed; Luo Chen took the pill and secluded himself to recover and prepare for future cultivation.

• Fu Chaosheng sensed signs of Nascent Soul Formation outside Luo Chen’s valley, entered after the strange aura vanished, and found Luo Chen struggling to control his surging Mana and Divine Sense.
• Fu Chaosheng learned that Luo Chen was a Golden Core Fourth Layer cultivator, then gave him a distinguished guest token and a Returning Yang Pill before leaving.
• Tian Xuan reported her conversation with Fu Chaosheng, and Luo Chen reassured her that the visitor had helped rather than caused trouble.
• Luo Chen consulted Han Zhan, who explained that Fu Chaosheng had not discovered him and that the Returning Yang Pill could repair the damage from his breakthrough attempt.
• Luo Chen recalled that perfecting the Cosmic Feather Mystic Scripture had led him to comprehend a Nascent Soul Method, then swallowed the pill and entered seclusion to recover.

After recovering from his epiphany, Luo Chen visited Fu Chaosheng to repay the Returning Yang Pill and seek advice about the Northern Sea’s major powers. Fu Chaosheng warned him about the Blood Nightmare Fiend and cast doubt on the Azure Sea Alliance, leaving Luo Chen uncertain where to seek shelter when Dan Shubao entered with a Banana Leaf Fan.

• Luo Chen recovered over three days, raised his Golden Core Fourth Layer progress to thirty percent, and learned to convert his Mana among the Five Elements.
• Luo Chen took Tian Xuan to Heaven Origin Tower and presented Fu Chaosheng with specialties, Emperor Flow Paste, and Thousand-Year Thunder Essence in repayment for the Returning Yang Pill.
• Fu Chaosheng explained the strengths and weaknesses of the Devilbreak Sect, Penglai Immortal Sect, Azure Sea Righteous Path Alliance, and Ten Thousand Immortals Society.
• Fu Chaosheng warned Luo Chen not to serve the Blood Nightmare Fiend, saying his apparent kindness was a mask and that disciples of the Primal Devil Sect would be in danger.
• Luo Chen abandoned his hope that Fu Chaosheng would help him approach the Heaven Origin Dao Sect and worried over where to go next as Dan Shubao entered holding a Banana Leaf Fan.

Luo Chen attended a Golden Core gathering at Heaven Origin Tower, where he puzzled over Fu Chaosheng’s favors and suspected a political alliance involving Penglai Immortal Sect and Devilbreak Sect. He traded his Emperor Flow Paste for a defensive Magic Treasure refinement method from Yu Gao, leaving the gathering with the method he wanted.

• Fu Chaosheng sold Luo Chen a Nine Wind Banana Leaf Fan at a steep discount and invited him to a private gathering of Golden Core Cultivators.
• Luo Chen discussed Fu Chaosheng’s favors with Han Zhan, then gave Tian Xuan the Cosmic Feather Mystic Scripture and the Banana Leaf Fan.
• At Heaven Origin Tower, Luo Chen observed Yu Gao of Penglai Immortal Sect and five Devilbreak Sect cultivators arriving and suspected their factions were forming an alliance through the Heavenly Origin Commerce League.
• During the gathering’s barter exchange, Luo Chen offered Top-Grade Emperor Flow Paste and Spirit Stones for a method of refining a defensive Magic Treasure from a demon turtle shell.
• Yu Gao offered a complete defensive Magic Treasure refinement method for five bottles of Emperor Flow Paste and two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and Luo Chen accepted.