Recaps

As Golden Sky Black Sea appeared above the Sunken Sea, Ding Yi worried that the ruins might open before Luo Chen was ready. At Peng Lake, Luo Chen trained against Han Zhan’s Nascent Soul Domain and neared a breakthrough in body tempering before learning of the celestial phenomenon.

• Ding Yi learned that the Spiritual Qi Inversion vortex had not yet appeared, but feared the ruins might already have opened, so he decided to investigate the Sunken Sea.
• Ding Yi found Peng Lake sealed by powerful formations and sent Luo Chen a Sound Transmission Talisman before leaving.
• Luo Chen used the Abyssal Inferno and Mountain Suppression Form to resist Han Zhan’s Nascent Soul Domain, then attacked with Exploding Void Step and Thunder Kick.
• Luo Chen shattered Apricot Blossom Peak with a palm, and Han Zhan warned that Luo Chen still needed to advance his physical strength to threaten Nascent Soul True Persons.
• Luo Chen saw that his body-tempering progress had reached Desolate Antiquity Third Order 98/100, then received Ding Yi’s message that Golden Sky Black Sea had appeared.

Ding Yi urged Luo Chen to enter the Sunken Sea Secret Realm, but Luo Chen delayed while tempering his body and completing the Soul Heaven Sword Box. After Ding Yi stormed Peng Lake and retreated from its killing formation, he witnessed a surge of spiritual energy and sensed an Ancient Desolate Beast awakening beneath the lake.

• Ding Yi found the Sunken Sea Secret Realm opening early and warned Luo Chen that its entrances might not remain open, but Luo Chen asked for more time.
• Luo Chen completed Han Zhan’s Soul Heaven Sword Box and continued refining his Myriad Paths Convergence body-tempering method instead of joining Ding Yi.
• As cultivators rushed into the Sunken Sea, many died in its corrosive waters, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master realized their deaths were feeding Death Qi into the vortices.
• Over the following year, powerful figures entered the Sunken Sea, the Ten Thousand Immortals Society fell into disorder, and the Righteous-Demonic War halted, while Luo Chen remained focused on cultivation.
• Ding Yi attacked Peng Lake’s defenses with his Yellow Leather Gourd, but a deadly sword formation forced him to withdraw and threaten to leave without Luo Chen.
• Ding Yi witnessed clouds and spiritual energy rush toward the center of Peng Lake, then sensed a terrifying presence awakening in its depths.

Dragon Abyss True Person warned Chang Feng Zi, Guan Xiaoping, and Wu Tao about the dangers posed by Northern Sea demons and cultivators, while Luo Chen underwent a transformation that made him a Fourth-Order humanoid Desolate Beast. The chapter ended with Luo Chen testing his new Source Power and marveling at his strength.

• Dragon Abyss True Person explained the differences between Demon Cultivators and Desolate Beasts and cautioned the three Central Province cultivators against Northern Sea experts.
• Dragon Abyss True Person refused to explore the Sunken Sea, saying the Heaven Origin Dao Sect would send its most suitable candidate when the time came.
• Han Zhan ordered Tian Xuan to restrain the Zhang Family cultivators and Black King to guard Peng Island while Luo Chen advanced inside Starry Hall.
• Heaven-and-earth spiritual energy flooded Starry Hall, and Luo Chen’s body grew to nine zhang as he tempered it and transformed into a humanoid form.
• Luo Chen severed his left wrist, watched new flesh grow, then restored the hand and identified his new power as Source Power.
• Luo Chen realized he had become a Fourth-Order humanoid Desolate Beast with limb regeneration and clenched his fist, feeling his immense strength.

After nearly thirty years at the Ten Thousand Immortals Society, Luo Chen reviewed the gains from his body tempering, including an eight-hundred-year lifespan and powerful new techniques. He left Peng Lake with Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, setting out north as the lake’s protective mist disappeared.

• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel and saw that reaching Ancient Wilderness Fourth Order had increased his lifespan to eight hundred years, though his Qi Refining cultivation remained at Golden Core Sixth Layer.
• Luo Chen reflected on the seven moves he had assembled as Devil Monarch's Seven Scattered Hands and considered using his accumulated Achievement Points to complete the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture.
• Luo Chen decided it was time to leave Peng Lake and meet Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, who had been waiting for him.
• Half a month later, Luo Chen arrived at the lakeshore with Black King, apologized to Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, and set out north with them.
• Two hours after the three departed, the Rippling Cloud Mist vanished from Eight-Hundred-Li Peng Lake, and Azure Sun Zi was gone.

Luo Chen, Ding Yi, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master crossed the Sunken Sea toward an entrance to the Ancient Cultivator Ruins, but a colossal Desolate Beast attacked them. They escaped through a whirlpool and learned the monster was the legendary Ghost Immortal Tower.

• Ding Yi revealed that the Cloud Touching Cave Master had fused a Zhu Yuan Beast with a Black Green Treasure Basin Fish to create a vessel capable of crossing the Sunken Sea.
• Luo Chen crossed the sea on Black King, using the Profound Dust Armor to withstand the Void Burning Wind as the group approached a whirlpool entrance.
• Luo Chen spotted a colossal creature with Fourth Order Blood Lanterns for eyes and Great King Squid tentacles covering its body, then warned the others to flee.
• The creature seized Ding Yi's Treasure Basin Fish, while Ding Yi and the Cloud Touching Cave Master used their treasures and techniques to escape after Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen led the others into a whirlpool, where they escaped the pursuing tentacles and emerged in the ruins.
• Ding Yi identified their attacker as the legendary Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower.

Luo Chen learned that the Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower was an immensely powerful creature guarding the route to the ruins’ Spirit Medicine Garden. After pressing Ding Yi for information, he discovered the ruins were the Fallen Devil Land, once the residence of a legendary Void Refinement True Lord.

• Ding Yi explained Ghost Immortal Tower’s origins, its Blood Lantern parasites, and how its foul aura created illusions that had kept the beast out of most records.
• Ding Yi said Ghost Immortal Tower was at least as powerful as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and possibly close to Tier 5 Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen refused to protect Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master through the Void Burning Wind unless Ding Yi shared the ruins’ location and information.
• Ding Yi revealed that his Taisui-tainted flesh guided him toward its main body, and that his strongest perception came from the vortex occupied by Ghost Immortal Tower.
• Ding Yi disclosed that Primal Devil Sect records identified the ruins as the residence of a legendary Refining Void True Lord, giving the site its name, Fallen Devil Land.

Luo Chen explored the Fallen Devil Land, defeated an incarnation of Blood Nightmare Fiend, and forced Yan Nantian to serve him, before the narrative shifted into a series of disturbing visions. He finally found himself facing a plump old man from the Mountain Shattering Gang, who invited him to lead its Pill Hall.

• Luo Chen discussed Void Refinement and the origins of the Fallen Devil Land with Han Zhan while traveling with Ding Yi and the Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Luo Chen defeated and burned Blood Nightmare Fiend’s incarnation after it demanded his submission.
• Luo Chen spared Yan Nantian in exchange for a hundred years of service, then saw visions of sparing Flame Thunder Master and being hunted by his father.
• Luo Chen awoke from a nightmare in the Luo Tian Grand Hall, rejected Sima Hui Niang’s advances, and then saw a vision in which he killed Mi Li.
• A plump old man addressed Luo Chen on the azure stone pavement and asked him to join the Mountain Shattering Gang’s Pill Hall.

Luo Chen overcame the Li Wang Heaven illusion by accepting his past, then emerged into a stone hall and recovered while waiting for his companions. After Ding Yi arrived with an injured divine soul, Luo Chen opened the hall’s gate and found a vast landscape of sword-shaped peaks in the Sunken Sea.

• Luo Chen resisted the illusion’s attempt to make him regret his past, and the Rotten Ke Black Chess Piece crumbled after giving him its final warning.
• Luo Chen crossed the starry road through Li Wang Heaven and reached a stone hall where the Vortex Passage drew in violent spiritual energy.
• Luo Chen confirmed that Han Zhan, Black King, and Tian Xuan were safe, then used an array to absorb spiritual energy and restore his Second Nascent Pill.
• The Cloud Touching Cave Master emerged from Li Wang Heaven and entered a shell-shaped Magic Treasure to recover while Luo Chen kept watch.
• Luo Chen examined unfamiliar beast carvings in the hall, and Ding Yi emerged with an injured divine soul and eyes that briefly seemed unlike his own.
• Luo Chen opened the great gate and saw endless mountain peaks shaped like longswords rising from the Sunken Sea.

Luo Chen and his companions traveled through the Thousand Blade Mountains toward the Spirit Medicine Garden, where strange beasts yielded valuable mineral materials. After the group provoked a swarm of Black Gold Vipers, Luo Chen was swallowed, while Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master faced a Fourth Order Nine Yang Golden Eagle.

• Luo Chen sent Black King and Tian Xuan to scout the area and learned that the realm had distorted spiritual energy and might no longer be within the Sunken Sea.
• Ding Yi led Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master toward the Spirit Medicine Garden, and the group gathered materials from beasts inhabiting the mineral-rich mountains.
• Cloud Touching Cave Master provoked a swarm of Black Gold Vipers while seeking Kui Steel, forcing the three to flee from the shortest route.
• A black viper swallowed Luo Chen, and an azure bird and a Nine Yang Golden Eagle pursued Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Ding Yi identified the golden eagle as a Fourth Order beast and urged Cloud Touching Cave Master to fight alongside him, while a huge black python watched from the retreating viper swarm.

Luo Chen and his companions fought the Nine Yang Golden Eagle, which Han Zhan identified as a Spirit of Heaven and Earth formed from Nine Yang Geng Metal. After Ding Yi defeated the Golden Eagle, Luo Chen exposed him as Taisui and attacked, leaving the two locked in a confrontation.

• Black King revealed that he had infiltrated the viper pack in disguise and helped lure the group into the Golden Eagle's territory, while Tian Xuan confirmed he could still fight.
• Luo Chen and Han Zhan recognized the strange beasts of Thousand Blade Mountain as Spirit Monster Souls formed from minerals and other natural substances.
• The Nine Yang Golden Eagle overcame the Cloud Touching Cave Master's weapons and white flames, then struck him down.
• Ding Yi revealed an umbrella-shaped phantom that forced the Golden Eagle into its true form as a huge piece of Nine Yang Geng Metal.
• Luo Chen revealed that Ding Yi was Taisui, then attacked him with his domain, Seven Fiends Sword, and Ghost Kings as Ding Yi tried to trap him with the giant umbrella.

Luo Chen spared Taisui after learning that the intelligent Five Elements Lotus Platform wandered through Five Elements Heaven, binding Taisui with an oath and his Flourishing Decay True Fire in exchange for help finding it. When Crimson Corpse Forefather and three allies arrived to seize the Nine Yang Geng Metal, Luo Chen killed all four and then asked Taisui to explain Five Elements Heaven.

• You Ya took the finest Azure Evolution Lead from Crimson Corpse Forefather and ended their cooperation, then told him that the Nine Yang Golden Eagle was fighting nearby.
• Luo Chen exposed Taisui to Cloud Touching Cave Master and nearly killed Taisui, but paused when Taisui claimed he alone could locate the wandering Five Elements Lotus Platform.
• Taisui agreed to help Luo Chen find the Lotus Platform and asked him to free his trapped true body; Luo Chen accepted after Taisui swore an oath and received a ball of Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Crimson Corpse Forefather and three Golden Core cultivators arrived to claim the Nine Yang Geng Metal, and Luo Chen killed all four with his domain, swords, and Red-Robed Daoist form.
• Luo Chen sent Tian Xuan to collect the spoils and asked Taisui to tell him about Five Elements Heaven.

Luo Chen learned from Taisui about the Fallen Devil Land’s three heavens and the terrifying Heaven Refining Devil Monarch who created the Five Elements Heaven. After five days of travel, Luo Chen and his companions reached the edge of the Quicksand Sea, on their way to retrieve the Five Elements Lotus Platform from Blazing Purgatory.

• You Ya escaped after witnessing the Red-Robed Daoist kill Crimson Corpse Forefather and decided to use Azure Evolution Lead to strengthen her Shadow Escape Technique.
• Blood Nightmare Fiend, Emerald Cold Fairy, and Ji Yuan entered the Teleportation Array through the Spiritual Qi Tornado to reach the Inheritance Land and seek a chance at Spirit Transformation.
• A mysterious flesh lump watched them enter and said that events were about to begin.
• Taisui explained Li Wang Heaven and Five Elements Heaven to Luo Chen, then identified the realm’s creator as the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch, an existence who was neither human, demon, nor devil.
• After five days, Luo Chen and his companions left the Thousand Ren Mountains and prepared to cross the Quicksand Sea toward Blazing Purgatory, where the Five Elements Lotus Platform was located.

Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master learned that the Quicksand Sea held a hidden attempt to refine Breath Soil, while a Little Mud Man prepared an army to hunt a fugitive. Luo Chen discovered three Golden Core cultivators performing a ritual, and the chapter ended as a colossal dragon head emerged from the clouds amid their cries of “Soul, Return!!”

• Cloud Touching Cave Master found an unusual Earth Attribute crystal in a Stone Monster’s remains, and Luo Chen claimed it while sending Black King and Tian Xuan to scout.
• Luo Chen questioned Taisui about the spirits and learned that Heaven Refining Devil Monarch had tried to recreate Breath Soil from gathered Earth Attribute materials, but the process had stopped one step short and left behind something called Heavenly Soil.
• A Little Mud Man summoned incomplete mud creatures and ordered them to capture a fugitive that had arrived three hundred years earlier.
• Black King killed Stone Monsters and collected their yellow crystals as Ti Yang secretly watched, while Cloud Touching Cave Master concealed the bird’s report from Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen showed Cloud Touching Cave Master and Taisui an image of three Late Stage Golden Core cultivators performing a ritual, then headed toward them with a trembling yellow crystal.
• The three cultivators chanted “Soul, Return!!” as black clouds descended and a colossal dragon head emerged from within them.

Luo Chen and his companions witnessed Devilbreak Sect cultivators use a Soul Summoning Spell to draw out an ancient Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, which Taisui identified as a Spirit Transformation soul. As the Quicksand Sea erupted into battle against the Stone Monsters and the ritual weakened the dragon, Luo Chen left his companions’ protective golden sphere and charged into the danger.

• Luo Chen recognized Wu Qi, Eagle Demon, and Hundred Transformations Old Monster as Devilbreak Sect cultivators performing a Soul Summoning Spell, and realized Blood Nightmare Fiend might also be nearby.
• Taisui identified the summoned dragon soul as the remnant of a Spirit Transformation powerhouse, while Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that the area was about to change.
• The Gobi Desert was surrounded by quicksand, and Stone Monsters emerged to battle the Yellow Sand Giants as the disturbance spread.
• Taisui recognized the Little Mud Men as Heavenly Soil and carried Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master away inside a golden-sand sphere.
• Wu Qi urged his companions to intensify the ritual, using their essence blood to weaken the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul before the Quicksand Sea overwhelmed them.
• Luo Chen suddenly burned an opening through the golden-sand sphere and flew alone into the rolling Quicksand Sea.

Luo Chen ambushed the Devilbreak Sect cultivators, seized the Soul Summoning Banner and Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, then fought his way out of the Quicksand Sea. He escaped into Blazing Purgatory with Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master while Heavenly Soil failed to reclaim the soul.

• Luo Chen told Han Zhan that he intended to take revenge on the Blood Nightmare Fiend and gave Han Zhan the two Late Stage Golden Core Refined Corpses to control.
• Luo Chen concealed himself above the battlefield and began gathering power for the Azure Sun Great Handprint as Wu Qi and the other Devilbreak Sect cultivators prepared to flee with the captured Dragon Soul.
• After Wu Qi drew the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul into the Soul Summoning Banner, Heavenly Soil shattered the altar, and Luo Chen struck the fleeing cultivators with the Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Luo Chen severed Wu Qi's arm, took the Soul Summoning Banner, and killed him before Heavenly Soil demanded the Stone Dragon from the Sea of Sand.
• Luo Chen fought through Heavenly Soil's pursuing sand hands and barriers, then reached Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master and escaped with them into Blazing Purgatory.
• Heavenly Soil tried to restore Wu Qi's body but failed, then raged over losing the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul.

Luo Chen entered Blazing Purgatory with Taisui and Cloud Touching Cave Master, learned why Heavenly Soil sought the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, and rested to replenish his Mana. Elsewhere in Fallen Devil Abyss, Blood Nightmare Fiend and his companions pursued paths toward Bright Decree Heaven as Moon Rogue arrived and drove Old Daoist Ji Yuan to flee.

• Taisui explained that Heavenly Soil wanted the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul to complete his incomplete Earth Element laws, and revealed that Blood Sea Old Ancestor had died in the Inheritance Land.
• Luo Chen and his companions concluded that Blood Sea Old Ancestor’s death and removal of the remnant soul had weakened the Primal Devil Sect, helping bring about its destruction.
• Luo Chen flew to a hill in Blazing Purgatory, set up a cave and formation, and replenished his Second Nascent Pill’s Mana while Tian Xuan stood guard.
• Cloud Touching Cave Master sensed that Blazing Purgatory’s spiritual energy could greatly advance his cultivation and help him establish an artifact-refining sect.
• Blood Nightmare Fiend learned that Wu Qi and the other two Golden Core cultivators had been killed, then entered the path marked by the dimmest starlight in search of Blood Sea Old Ancestor’s legacy.
• Moon Rogue appeared on the ancient stone platform, prompting Old Daoist Ji Yuan to flee into a starlight path.

Luo Chen discovered a Tier 3 Red Lotus Earth Fire beneath a dead volcano and used the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to make his Flourishing Decay True Fire devour it faster. After quelling the volcano’s eruption, he joined the others and learned that the Five Elements Lotus Platform had gone to Vermillion Bird Mountain to seek Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire.

• Luo Chen replenished his mana in Blazing Purgatory, then followed the restless Flourishing Decay True Fire through the rock to a hidden magma pool.
• Luo Chen found a Tier 3 Red Lotus Earth Fire and let the Flourishing Decay True Fire begin devouring it.
• Luo Chen used the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to accelerate the devouring, realizing the scripture could control his true fire to consume other flames.
• Two days later, Taisui complained that Luo Chen had kept them waiting while Tian Xuan and the Cloud Touching Cave Master defended his seclusion.
• Luo Chen emerged amid the volcano’s eruption, subdued the flames and earth qi, and rejoined the others.
• Taisui pointed toward Vermillion Bird Mountain, explaining that the Five Elements Lotus Platform needed its Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire to advance.

Luo Chen searched Blazing Purgatory for Source-less Fires and devoured several of them to strengthen his Flourishing Decay True Fire. He left Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master near Vermillion Bird Mountain and entered the dangerous clouds to refine the powerful Sky Burning Fire.

• Taisui told Luo Chen that a Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire dwelled within Vermillion Bird Mountain, while Luo Chen focused on finding Source-less Fires.
• Luo Chen recognized a Lapis Fire Fir, shattered the lapis mountain beneath it, and captured its Tier 2 Lapis Fire with his Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen spent nearly half a day devouring the Lapis Fire, strengthening his Source True Fire and revealing a verdant flame tree.
• Over the next two months, Luo Chen searched Blazing Purgatory and collected numerous Source-less Fires, including Red Lotus Earth Fire, Amber Flame, and several unknown demonic fires.
• Luo Chen sensed a powerful Sky Burning Fire within a vast bank of crimson clouds and chose to pursue it before continuing to Vermillion Bird Mountain.
• Luo Chen reinforced himself with Qi Armor, Breaking Moon Wings, Abyssal Inferno, and True Fire State, then entered the clouds as the Sky Burning Fire began to awaken.

Luo Chen subdued the Fourth Order Sky Burning Fire and discovered that his Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture had reached Grandmaster Level, greatly accelerating his ability to devour Source-less Fire. As he considered pushing his Source True Fire toward Tier 5, Han Zhan warned that he might become a Wither Bloom Fire Spirit.

• Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master spotted Dao Lan and two Great Demon Kings activating a formation on Vermillion Bird Mountain, then decided to wait for Luo Chen.
• Shark Emperor Liu Jun found the Five Elements Lotus Platform beneath a volcano and tried to seize it as it began to sink into the Magma Lake.
• Luo Chen defeated the Sky Burning Fire Spirit with the Primal Chaos Cauldron’s spirit-binding chains and began absorbing the Fourth Order Source-less Fire.
• Luo Chen discovered that the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture had reached Grandmaster Level, making his Source True Fire devour Source-less Fire more than ten times faster.
• Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that continuing to absorb fire might transform him into a Wither Bloom Fire Spirit, leaving Luo Chen stunned.

Luo Chen learned that the intelligent Wither Bloom Fire Spirit threatened to overwhelm him and was affecting his state of mind, so he abandoned gathering more Source-less Fire. At Vermillion Bird Mountain, Han Zhan discovered that Dao Lan and two demon kings were helping someone refine the Five Elements Lotus Platform, and Luo Chen confronted the hidden figure: Shark Emperor Liu Jun.

• Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that the Wither Bloom Fire Spirit had begun altering his Qi Sea and could eventually overpower him, so Luo Chen decided to stop devouring Source-less Fire.
• Han Zhan cautioned Luo Chen that the fire spirit was also making him impatient and reckless, and Luo Chen steadied his mind before reaching Vermillion Bird Mountain with Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Han Zhan used his Divine Sense to discover a figure inside the mountain attempting to refine the Five Elements Lotus Platform, and Luo Chen ordered Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master to engage the Great King Squid and Dao Lan.
• Luo Chen charged toward the Naha Sea Golden Toad while Tian Xuan and the Black-Scale Flood Dragon Python blocked it; the Cloud Touching Cave Master faced Dao Lan, and Taisui confronted the Great King Squid.
• Luo Chen reached the Magma Lake, struck its azure barrier with the Cloud Searching Divine Claw, and recognized the person within as Shark Emperor Liu Jun.

Luo Chen fought Shark Emperor Liu Jun in the Blazing Purgatory, using the fiery environment and his powerful physical techniques to overcome Liu Jun’s Nascent Soul Domain and drive him from the Magma Lake. Liu Jun unleashed a dangerous blue lamp flame, but Luo Chen sacrificed his left hand and summoned two Fourth Order Fire Spirits, then flew toward another erupting volcano determined to kill him.

• Luo Chen recognized Flow Monarch as Shark Emperor Liu Jun and attacked him while Liu Jun healed on the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but Liu Jun’s singing nearly bewitched Luo Chen before Han Zhan awakened him.
• Liu Jun’s Nascent Soul Domain and Truefire failed to suppress Luo Chen, who used the Blazing Purgatory’s fire energy to counterattack with Azure Sun Great Handprints and the Seven Fiends Sword Array.
• Luo Chen and Liu Jun exchanged powerful blows, and the Five Elements Lotus Platform sank into the Magma Lake as Liu Jun’s attempt to retrieve it failed.
• Luo Chen pursued Liu Jun into the sky, where Liu Jun used a deep-blue oil lamp to release a flame that consumed Luo Chen’s vitality, forcing Luo Chen to sever his left hand.
• Luo Chen shattered a mountain and released a Silver Great Python Fire Spirit, then sent his own Fire Tree Spirit against Liu Jun and flew toward another erupting volcano to continue the fight.

Luo Chen used Blazing Purgatory’s Fire Spirits to drive Shark Emperor Liu Jun away, then reunited with his companions and restored his severed hand. He returned to Vermillion Bird Mountain to seek the Five Elements Lotus Platform, learning that it was hiding dangerously close to the legendary Vermillion Bird Fire Spirit.

• Luo Chen summoned a black tiger Fire Spirit to join the battle against Shark Emperor Liu Jun, who fled after striking the Four Great Fire Spirits with divided blue flames.
• Luo Chen and Flourishing Decay True Fire helped the Silver Fire Python shake off the blue flame, and the Fire Spirit showed Luo Chen goodwill before retreating underground.
• Black King, Tian Xuan, and Taisui reunited with Luo Chen; Taisui reported that the Great King Squid was dead, Cloud Touching Cave Master was unconscious, and Dao Lan had died in the volcanic crater.
• Luo Chen used the Dragon Slaying Art to extinguish the blue flame and regenerated his severed left hand, prompting Taisui to recognize his Desolate Beast body and covet it for his main body.
• Luo Chen returned to Vermillion Bird Mountain and learned that the Five Elements Lotus Platform was hiding near the legendary Vermillion Bird Fire Spirit.

Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and Han Zhan’s help to drag the fiercely resisting Five Elements Lotus Platform out of Vermillion Bird Mountain. After reaching the magma bank, he sat on the platform and began cultivating, puzzling Taisui because Luo Chen lacked a Nascent Soul to withstand the spiritual energy it gathered.

• Luo Chen questioned Han Zhan about soul refinement and learned that Han Zhan lacked a treasure needed to advance the Soul Splitting Art, while a Nascent Soul tribulation transformed a cultivator’s Divine Soul.
• Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and nine Five Elements Mana chains to seize the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but its near-Tier 5 strength resisted him.
• Luo Chen exhausted his Mana and began drawing on his Destiny Golden Core before Han Zhan lent his strength, helping them drag the lotus platform out of the sacred fire’s reach.
• Taisui told the awakened Cloud Touching Cave Master that the Five Elements Lotus Platform helped Nascent Soul cultivators absorb spiritual energy, and promised to guide him toward Heaven Refining Devil Monarch’s inheritance.
• Luo Chen brought the Five Elements Lotus Platform to the magma bank, restrained it with the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and sat atop it to cultivate; Taisui wondered how he could endure its spiritual energy without a Nascent Soul.

Luo Chen cultivated with the Five Elements Lotus Platform, defeated a Golden Core cultivator who tried to steal it, and realized he needed to rely more on his body when facing powerful enemies. After recovering, he and his companions crossed the Hundred Crow Ghost Forest under Taisui’s guidance and reached the Wood Heaven Plains.

• Luo Chen used his Second Nascent Pill in place of a lotus seed and cultivated with the Five Elements Lotus Platform, which filtered spiritual energy and rapidly replenished the pill.
• Luo Chen reflected on his loss of momentum against Shark Emperor Liu Jun while cultivating in Blazing Purgatory, and Han Zhan told him he had made no major mistakes in the battle.
• A black-clad Golden Core cultivator attacked Luo Chen to seize the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but Luo Chen caught his sword and struck him down before Tian Xuan finished him with her Banana Leaf Fan.
• Luo Chen concluded that relying on spells and Magic Treasures had limited him against Nascent Soul-level enemies, and resolved to make better use of his powerful body.
• After the Cloud Touching Cave Master recovered, Taisui led him and Luo Chen through the Hundred Crow Ghost Forest, where the Wood Spirits recognized Taisui and made way for them.
• Taisui revealed that he had once been one of the forest’s three great powers, and Luo Chen saw the Wood Heaven Plains, the former Spirit Medicine Garden of the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch.

Luo Chen and Han Zhan were trapped in a powerful Twilight Curtain illusion, where Han Zhan offered to teach Luo Chen an escape technique in exchange for help possessing a Nascent Soul cultivator in Fallen Devil Land. After Taisui reunited with the ancient spirits of Wood Heaven Plains, he led Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master onward, while Old Ghost and the Wood Man King learned of his plan to free his main body.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan discovered that a powerful, apparently non-hostile illusion had isolated them, and Han Zhan taught Luo Chen the Open Thatch Art in return for Luo Chen's promise to help him seize a Nascent Soul body.
• Han Zhan explained that he wanted a new body because his remnant self planned to take advantage of the coming battle among Nascent Soul True Persons in Fallen Devil Land.
• Taisui told Old Ghost that he had a thirty percent chance of freeing his trapped main body and asked him not to stop his escape plan; Old Ghost requested two copies of Taisui's method.
• Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master broke free of the Twilight Curtain, and Taisui warned them not to disturb the sentient trees before tempting them with the resources of Wood Heaven Plains.
• Old Ghost and the Wood Man King learned that Taisui had returned to take his main body and leave, and they wished him success as the black crow flew around Hundred Crow Ghost Forest.