Recaps

After escaping the Fallen Devil Land, Luo Chen recovered with Han Zhan and learned that the Ten Thousand Immortals Society had become the center of rumors and growing attention. Moon Rogue tightened her grip on the Society, but found Blood Rogue had fled; the chapter ended with Luo Chen waking aboard a merchant ship bound for the Azure Sea Alliance after an unexplained experience.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan emerged in the West Mist Sea Area, where Luo Chen healed from his wounds and watched the Fallen Abyss Dragon Sect be pulled back into the Sunken Sea.
• Shark Emperor Liu Jun negotiated with the Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower, promising it territory and help in exchange for support in breaking Arctic Night Yama Heaven's seal.
• Rumors about the Sunken Sea expedition spread, casting the Ten Thousand Immortals Society as its greatest winner and drawing attention to Blood Rogue, Moon Rogue, and Luo Chen.
• Moon Rogue ordered Zi Hou to investigate Luo Chen's associates, control Duan Li, and eliminate the Tu Sang Sect, then found Blood Rogue had abandoned Galuo Mountain.
• Luo Chen woke in a passenger cabin aboard a merchant ship bound for the Azure Sea Alliance and told Han Zhan that what had happened was hard to describe.

Luo Chen asked Han Zhan to refine the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion so he could protect the immature Purple Monkey Flowers from Moon Rogue and preserve his chance to make Nascent Soul Pills. As Han Zhan worked, Luo Chen investigated the restored but mana-draining Primal Chaos Cauldron and suspected it contained blood from the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch; three days later, he left a merchant ship and headed straight into a battlefield.

• Luo Chen reviewed how the mysterious spring and his bodily nirvana had raised his cultivation and physique while costing him the Five Elements Dao Physique, his Second Nascent Pill, and Taisui's main body.
• Luo Chen explained to Han Zhan that Moon Rogue might search for him and Purple Spirit Island, so he needed the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion refined to transplant the immature Purple Monkey Flowers.
• Han Zhan examined the pavilion and agreed to refine the restrictions needed to collect spirit medicines, though he could not quickly reach its deepest core restrictions.
• Luo Chen examined the restored Primal Chaos Cauldron, suspected the Gray Radiance had fused with it because of Heaven Refining Devil Monarch's blood in its foundation, and found that the cauldron was consuming his mana.
• Three days later, Luo Chen revealed his Golden Core cultivation to Sui Xie, left the merchant ship, and flew toward the fierce battle ahead on a Wooden Kite.

Luo Chen crossed the battlefield, revealed the strength of his Source Power, and rushed to Purple Spirit Island before Moon Rogue could reach it. He found Sang Jinghe tending the Purple Monkey Flowers and planned to transplant them and invite Sang Jinghe to leave with him.

• Luo Chen shattered an Azure Sea Alliance Golden Core Cultivator’s Flying Sword and wounded several Devilbreak Sect cultivators, then broke through the Sky-Rending Stream Master’s Nascent Soul Domain as three Azure Sea Righteous Path Alliance Nascent Soul True Persons arrived.
• Shang Junshu recognized Luo Chen as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch, while Luo Chen and Han Zhan hurried toward Purple Spirit Island to avoid Moon Rogue.
• Moon Rogue learned that Luo Chen had cultivated Purple Monkey Flowers on Purple Spirit Island and ordered Duan Li kept, the Tu Sang Sect disciples and Zhang Family killed, and the Zhou Family woman spared.
• Luo Chen reached Purple Spirit Island and found only Sang Jinghe there, then told him he would take the Purple Monkey Flowers and asked him to come along.
• Sang Jinghe hesitated over leaving the Tu Sang Sect, while Luo Chen went to the Heaven Pit and summoned the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion.

Sang Jinghe agreed to follow Luo Chen, while Moon Rogue arrived in Divine Origin City, used its teleportation array, and pursued Azure Sun to Purple Spirit Island. After surviving a trap that destroyed the island, she sent the Star Chasing Demon Beast after him but returned to the Ten Thousand Immortals Society when Zi Hou's emergency jade pendant broke.

• Sang Jinghe chose to follow Luo Chen after learning that Moon Rogue might target the Tu Sang Sect and its connection to him.
• Moon Rogue entered Divine Origin City, confronted Shen WanDou, and used the city’s Ultra-Long-Distance Teleportation Array to travel across the Northern Sea.
• Shen WanDou met the Dragon Abyss True Person, who explained his plan to enter the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven and seek a path to Spirit Transformation.
• Moon Rogue reached Purple Spirit Island and triggered a decades-old formation trap, but emerged unharmed and identified a Nascent Soul-stage puppet incarnation as bait.
• Moon Rogue summoned the Star Chasing Demon Beast and ordered it to track Azure Sun, then returned to the Ten Thousand Immortals Society after Zi Hou’s emergency jade pendant broke.

Luo Chen fled across the sea with Sang Jinghe while the Star Chasing Demon Beast pursued him using the aura of his Essence Blood. He lured the beast into the Yellow Springs Sea, where both it and Luo Chen were swallowed, leaving Moon Rogue to abandon her pursuit after recognizing Soul Severing Cliff.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan escaped Purple Spirit Island, but Moon Rogue’s Star Chasing Demon Beast tracked them through Luo Chen’s Essence Blood.
• Luo Chen realized his lost Concealment Array left his Essence Blood’s Source Power exposed and used his Heart Blood to give a puppet his aura as a decoy.
• Han Zhan sensed extraordinary danger in the Yellow Sea, and Luo Chen steered the Wooden Kite into it to escape the pursuing beast.
• The Star Chasing Demon Beast attacked the decoy near Soul Severing Cliff, but the Yellow Springs waves swept it and Luo Chen into the sea.
• Moon Rogue’s Split Soul also sank into the Yellow Springs Sea; recognizing the forbidden ground, she departed and resolved to return after attaining Spirit Transformation.

Luo Chen escaped Moon Rogue by sacrificing a puppet avatar and reached an unclaimed island with a hidden Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein, which he made his cultivation base. Three months later, he managed Dragon Abyss Island while searching for a way to save the unconscious Black King.

• Luo Chen fled into the Demon Sea, avoided Moon Rogue, and spent half a year traveling with Sang Jinghe until they found a vast island rich in spirit soil and Dragon Earthworms.
• Luo Chen recognized the island as the abandoned cultivation ground of the Fallen Abyss Dragon Sect and found its hidden Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein beneath a natural illusion formation.
• Luo Chen captured three Tier 3 Dragon Earthworm Demon Kings, descended into the Earth Abyss, and claimed the spirit vein as his Place of Dao Proving.
• Three months later, Sang Jinghe reported to Tian Xuan on planting herbs and studying the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree, while Tian Xuan oversaw the work on Dragon Abyss Island.
• Tian Xuan visited Luo Chen in the Earth Abyss, and he said Black King remained alive in hibernation while he continued seeking a way to save him.

Luo Chen built a Four Spirits Blood Pool from Dragon Earthworm blood and his own Essence Blood to try to heal the gravely injured Black King, while Han Zhan discussed his slow adjustment to Flying Cloud Child’s body. After half a year of cultivation, Luo Chen reached the Golden Core Ninth Layer and discovered that his Fire Spirit Body concealed a Five Elements Dao Physique; he then prepared to review his gains from the Fallen Devil Land.

• Luo Chen used Flourishing Decay True Fire to drive hundreds of thousands of Dragon Earthworms from the island, then had Tian Xuan and Sang Jinghe collect them for the Blood Pool.
• Luo Chen filled the Blood Pool with Dragon Earthworm blood and medicinal herbs, submerged Black King in it, and added a drop of his own Essence Blood.
• Han Zhan told Luo Chen that adapting to Flying Cloud Child’s body would take at least ten years, and Luo Chen asked him to help with Black King’s soul later.
• Luo Chen cultivated for half a year in the Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein and advanced to the Golden Core Ninth Layer despite intending to temper his foundation more slowly.
• Luo Chen saw that his Fire Spirit Body concealed a Five Elements Dao Physique, recognized that Myriad Paths Convergence had reached its limit, and began taking stock of his Fallen Devil Land treasures.

Luo Chen examined the treasures he had brought back from the Fallen Devil Land, discovered that the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul could draw in spiritual energy, and spent seven years cultivating, studying alchemy, and preparing to refine a Nascent Soul Pill. The chapter ended when Tian Xuan reported that Black King was waking while his soul presence faded, and Luo Chen went to the Blood Pool.

• Luo Chen considered forging a weapon to channel his Source Power, inspected the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion and Soul Summoning Banner, and set aside the treasures he could not yet use.
• Luo Chen drew a wisp of the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul and realized that it could attract spiritual energy, possibly allowing a Spirit Vein to grow stronger.
• Luo Chen attempted Three Treasures Unification, but his powerful body ran wild and punched through a mountain wall, so he focused on tempering his mana.
• Luo Chen studied the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch's alchemical inheritance, opened his stored treasures over seven years, and prepared vessels and materials for refining a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Tian Xuan told Luo Chen that Black King was waking but his soul presence was fading, and Luo Chen went with her to the Blood Pool.

Luo Chen and Han Zhan used the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul to give Black King a last chance to survive after his soul began to fade. Black King swallowed the remnant soul and lived, though his memories were badly damaged, leaving Luo Chen free to prepare for Nascent Soul Formation.

• Luo Chen found Black King's body restored by the blood pool, but Black King's soul was fading despite the Blood Pill and years of care.
• Black King asked Luo Chen to fulfill his old promise to make a protective Magic Treasure for Zhang Jingqing, then bid him farewell as his soul weakened.
• Han Zhan proposed using the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul to replenish Black King's Soul Origin, and Luo Chen agreed to sacrifice it.
• Han Zhan drew out the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul and helped Black King devour it over half a month.
• Black King swallowed the final wisp, returned to his body, and transformed into a hundred-zhang One-Horned Flood Dragon, though he had lost much of his memory.
• Han Zhan confirmed Black King had survived and was recovering, while Luo Chen turned to preparing a Nascent Soul Pill.

Luo Chen toured Dragon Abyss Island’s Spirit Medicine gardens, learned from Han Zhan about taking a Nascent Soul Pill, and refined thirty Essence Condensing Pills before successfully producing ten Nascent Soul Pills. He wondered whether he could improve the finished pills’ quality with another method.

• Luo Chen harvested twelve mature Fourth-Order Divine Irises and learned from Sang Jinghe about Dragon Abyss Island’s abundant Spirit Soil and medicinal plants.
• Luo Chen asked Han Zhan about his experience taking a Nascent Soul Pill, and Han Zhan described its effects and cautioned him about the process of forming a Nascent Soul.
• Luo Chen and Han Zhan reflected on their decades in the Northern Sea as the transformed Black King leaped from the ocean.
• Luo Chen refined thirty Essence Condensing Pills and gave three to Tian Xuan to pass to Sang Jinghe as a reward.
• Luo Chen used the Reverse Five Elements Spirit Array to restrain the Five Elements Lotus Platform and spent three months refining ten Fourth-Order Low-Grade Nascent Soul Pills.
• Luo Chen considered a method that might improve the quality of the completed Nascent Soul Pills.

Luo Chen began nurturing nine Nascent Soul Pills in the Dragon Nurturing Basin and learned from Han Zhan how the Three Treasures must unite before Nascent Soul Formation. As Black King advanced along the Desolate Beast Evolution Path, Luo Chen secluded himself, reached Golden Core Great Perfection, and achieved Fetal Movement.

• Luo Chen placed nine Nascent Soul Pills in the Dragon Nurturing Basin and used an array and a Fire Seed of Flourishing Decay True Fire to nurture them.
• Han Zhan explained that Nascent Soul Formation required balancing Essence, Qi, and Spirit until they merged into a Nascent Embryo and resonated with heaven and earth.
• Luo Chen and Han Zhan sensed a celestial phenomenon over the sea, and Luo Chen recognized that Black King was advancing along the Desolate Beast Evolution Path.
• Black King emerged from the sea as a true Flood Dragon, and Luo Chen asked him to protect Dragon Abyss Island while he prepared to attempt Nascent Soul Formation.
• Luo Chen secluded himself, reached Golden Core Great Perfection, and began uniting his Essence Blood, Golden Core, and soul.
• Three years later, Luo Chen opened his eyes after achieving Fetal Movement.

Luo Chen survived the Nascent Soul Tribulation, formed his Nascent Soul, and fought off Han Zhan, who had tried to seize his body. With Han Zhan’s soul apparently defeated, Luo Chen noticed fragments of the Soul Splitting Art in the Consciousness Sea.

• Luo Chen discovered that his Fire Spirit Body let him enter fetal movement at will, then found that his nurtured Nascent Soul Pills had produced one Fourth-Tier High-grade pill.
• After twenty years of quiet cultivation on Dragon Abyss Island, Luo Chen began forming his Nascent Soul as the island trembled and Tribulation Lightning gathered.
• Luo Chen endured the lightning, tempered his body, and used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to swallow the Thunder Beast formed in the final strike.
• Luo Chen’s Golden Core cracked and his Nascent Soul emerged, but Han Zhan and Black King entered his body, triggering a struggle over his newly formed Purple Mansion.
• Han Zhan bound Luo Chen’s Nascent Soul and entered his Consciousness Sea, where Luo Chen destroyed Han Zhan’s Split Souls and defeated his Main Soul with the Dragon Slaying Art.
• Luo Chen recovered his soul from the golden waves and recognized fragments of Han Zhan’s Soul Splitting Art.

After surviving Nascent Soul Formation and defeating Han Zhan, Luo Chen returned to Dragon Abyss Island, where he ordered the survivors to repair the devastation before entering seclusion. He examined his new Purple Mansion and discovered that Han Zhan's refined mana had become a valuable inheritance, while his Primal Chaos Cauldron had finally become usable again.

• Luo Chen found Black King badly injured but recovering, and learned that his Undying Body let him reconnect his severed halves without Source Power.
• Tian Xuan brought Sang Jinghe to Luo Chen, who ordered the island's restoration and told everyone to leave the White Tiger Puppet untouched while he entered seclusion.
• Luo Chen settled in a new cave and inspected his body and Purple Mansion, confirming that he had formed a Nascent Soul and gained five points of Ancient Wilderness progress.
• Luo Chen discovered that the Wither Bloom Fire Spirit had refined Han Zhan's remaining mana, leaving pure Wood Attribute power that Luo Chen could absorb to stabilize his realm.
• Luo Chen examined his damaged treasures and found that he could finally activate his Natal Magic Treasure, the Primal Chaos Cauldron.

Luo Chen recovered the Primal Chaos Cauldron, studied Han Zhan’s incomplete Soul Splitting Art, and endured years of seclusion to cultivate it while healing his damaged soul. Ten years after entering seclusion, he emerged with his Nascent Soul realm fully consolidated, leaving Dragon Abyss Island under the pressure of his power.

• Luo Chen discovered that the Primal Chaos Cauldron had advanced to the True Artifact level and gained the ability to unleash tribulation lightning.
• Luo Chen examined Han Zhan’s remains and memories, obtained most of the Soul Splitting Art, and used Open Thatch Art and Locked Pearl Curtain to fill in part of its missing method.
• Luo Chen’s Attribute Panel identified the incomplete Soul Splitting Art as a Seventh Order cultivation art, and he decided to split his damaged Main Soul to cultivate it.
• Luo Chen spent more than half a year enduring agonizing attempts to divide his Main Soul, while Tian Xuan and Black King were kept out of the Earth Abyss.
• During Luo Chen’s ten years in seclusion, Sang Jinghe tried a new method to cultivate the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree, and Dragon Abyss Island’s Spiritual Qi and scenery improved.
• Luo Chen emerged from the Earth Abyss with his Nascent Soul realm consolidated, and Black King, Sang Jinghe, and Tian Xuan congratulated him.

After emerging from seclusion as a Nascent Soul cultivator, Luo Chen improved Sang Jinghe and Tian Xuan’s cultivation methods and discovered Black King could gather spiritual energy while sleeping. He learned Dragon Abyss Island’s Earth Vein was irreversibly fracturing, began preparing to leave, and considered how to strengthen his Split Soul.

• Luo Chen revised Sang Jinghe’s Core Formation Secret Technique and gave Tian Xuan a revised Cosmic Feather Mystic Scripture intended to develop her Xun Wind Body.
• Black King demonstrated his Fourth Order abilities, including gathering spiritual energy from across a thousand li while asleep, which Luo Chen recognized as an inheritance from the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul.
• Black King told Luo Chen that Dragon Abyss Island’s Earth Vein had fractured, and Luo Chen confirmed the damage was irreversible before ordering Black King to find Spirit Stone Ore and Tian Xuan to gather graded Spirit Soil.
• Luo Chen ordered Black King to scatter Han Zhan’s body, which had belonged to Flying Cloud Child, into the sea with soil and ashes.
• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel, confirmed his lifespan had increased to 1,500 years, and decided to finish cultivating the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture before seeking another Fourth Order Fire Attribute method if needed.
• Luo Chen examined the Great Soul Pill recipe as a way to strengthen his Split Soul, but worried that collecting enough of its main ingredient would be difficult.

Luo Chen strengthened his combat methods, opened Han Zhan's Storage Bag, and discovered the Great Five Elements Sword Formation. Three years later, he found Flying Cloud Child's Sword Pellet refining method and a True Artifact-grade Metal Attribute Sword Pellet, giving him a path toward assembling the formation.

• Luo Chen studied the Great Soul Pill recipe and recognized that gathering Soul Essence would be its chief challenge.
• Luo Chen assessed his Nascent Soul abilities and planned to combine the Abyssal Inferno's True Fire State with his Nascent Soul Domain.
• Luo Chen improved the Azure Sun Great Handprint by combining the Innate Seal and Spirit Enslavement Seal, driving the attack through eight hundred miles of sea.
• Luo Chen opened Han Zhan's Storage Bag, found ten Metal Attribute Top Grade Spirit Stones, and discovered the Great Five Elements Sword Formation on a Soul Nourishing Wood tablet.
• Luo Chen spent three years refining the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion and Flying Cloud Child's belt, then found Flying Cloud Artifact Refining Records and a True Artifact-grade Metal Attribute Sword Pellet.

After ten years of cultivation on Dragon Abyss Island, Luo Chen completed the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, gained a powerful new ability, and prepared to leave with the island’s remaining resources. Sea Corner Heavenly Mother arrived to claim the island’s Spirit Soil and Dragon Earthworms, only to find the island stripped bare.

• Luo Chen inventoried Flying Cloud Child’s treasures, found a ten-thousand-jun halberd made from Primal Heavy Heavenly Ridge Stone, and added it to his arsenal.
• Luo Chen spent years refining his True Artifacts and completed the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, gaining control over surrounding fire and empowering his Abyssal Inferno with the Melting Void ability.
• As Dragon Abyss Island’s spiritual energy declined, Luo Chen ordered Sang Jinghe, Tian Xuan, and Black King to collect the island’s Spirit Soil, Spirit Stone Ore, and Dragon Earthworms before he prepared to leave.
• Luo Chen went to Xiaqiu Mountain and began subduing the giant White Tiger Puppet with his seals and Split Soul.
• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother led more than a hundred Tier 3 clansmen toward Dragon Abyss Island to seize its resources, but she arrived to find the island stripped bare.

Luo Chen bound Black King with a Servant Seal and learned that the Northern Sea Demon Alliance was attacking the Human Race heartland. After finding the Yellow Springs Sea gone and discovering that the teleportation array to Cangwu Mountain had been repaired, he resolved to return to the Eastern Wasteland by another route.

• Luo Chen removed Black King's Source Blood restriction, took his Soul Blood, and planted a Spirit Enslavement Seal, promising to restore his freedom and Soul Blood when he was ready to reach Tier 5.
• Luo Chen questioned a Red Rock Crab Demon King and learned that the Northern Sea Demon Alliance had assembled under the North Departure Great Saint and Sea Emperor Whale to attack the Human Race heartland.
• Luo Chen traveled through the Profound Rock Sea Area, found several islands missing, and discovered that Soul Severing Cliff and the Yellow Springs Sea had vanished.
• Luo Chen reached the Albatross Sea Area and found that the ancient teleportation array leading to Cangwu Mountain had been repaired within the past twenty or thirty years.
• Luo Chen realized that his Wither Bloom Fire Spirit could activate the array, but he chose not to use it and left to seek another route back to the Eastern Wasteland.

Luo Chen returned to the Flying Swallow Islands after abandoning his attempt to cross the perilous Southern Ocean, where he discovered that Cheng Haixin had stayed and continued her quiet cultivation. After spending the night with her and leaving her pills and cultivation treasures, he departed for Cold Light Island with Tian Xuan.

• Luo Chen crossed the Southern Ocean’s misty border, burned the Gu Eggs he had inhaled, and decided to travel through the established route instead.
• Luo Chen reunited with Cheng Haixin at Seaview Cliff and learned that the Xu Family’s Third Elder had left for a richer cultivation region and Xu Muxian had gone out into the world after establishing his foundation.
• Luo Chen offered Cheng Haixin the chance to leave with him, but she chose to remain on Moon Invitation Island and pursue peaceful cultivation.
• Luo Chen cleared impurities from Cheng Haixin’s body and gave her pills, a cultivation method, and a sealed flying sword before spending the night with her.
• Luo Chen departed the Flying Swallow Islands with Tian Xuan the next morning and ordered him to head for Cold Light Island.

Luo Chen met Mei Yiqi of Langya Mountain and learned that the worsening demon threat had pushed the Azure Sea Alliance and Devilbreak Sect toward a ceasefire. At the end, Luo Chen asked about the Primal Devil Sect’s Soul Essence method, prompting Mei Yiqi to suspect he was one of its survivors.

• Luo Chen studied the Island-Connecting Array Formation and realized it could strengthen scattered islands and help cultivate powerful Spirit Veins.
• Luo Chen encountered Mei Yiqi of Langya Mountain and accepted his invitation to board Lang Xuan Cloud Crossing.
• Mei Yiqi told Luo Chen that demon forces had overrun major strongholds, leaving the Azure Sea Alliance unable to continue the Righteous-Demonic War.
• Mei Yiqi explained that Blood Nightmare Fiend had lost his standing after turning Primal Devil Sect disciples into Blood God Children, and that the ceasefire assembly would also allow Nascent Soul cultivators to trade resources.
• Luo Chen asked whether Devilbreak Sect forces still made Soul Essence, and Mei Yiqi questioned whether Luo Chen was a remnant of the Primal Devil Sect.

Luo Chen learned from Langya True Person about Nascent Soul cultivation and the risks tied to the Purple Mansion, then traveled with him to the stalled truce talks at Mo Lan Court. There, Luo Chen spotted a Golden Core cultivator connected to an old grievance and summoned Sang Jinghe into the rain.

• Luo Chen revealed his upright, blazing mana to Langya True Person, who accepted that he was not a remnant of the Primal Devil Sect and discussed Soul Essence with him.
• Langya True Person explained that a thick Purple Mansion barrier protected a Nascent Soul from heaven and earth but could obstruct a future breakthrough to Spirit Transformation; Luo Chen realized his own barrier was exceptionally vast.
• Luo Chen learned that Devilbreak Sect Stream Masters still produced Soul Essence and decided to seek it at the Truce Assembly, which might also offer a chance to meet an intermediary for his return to the Eastern Wasteland.
• At Mo Lan Court, Luo Chen and Langya True Person discussed the negotiations, the Azure Sea Alliance's choice of Mu Lan Gaoxiong as its representative, and the Penglai Immortal Sect's influence through the mediation process.
• Golden Core cultivators from the Devilbreak Sect and Azure Sea Alliance traded accusations and threats, and Langya True Person lamented that a Penglai cultivator had killed his disciple.
• Luo Chen recognized the cultivator demanding vengeance for a family member and sent his Divine Sense to Sang Jinghe, who quietly went out into the rain.

Luo Chen learned that Flying Cloud Stream had been destroyed and that Gu Shaoshang and Gu Xiaolian might have survived with powerful legacies, leaving him wary of their future revenge. At the Halting War Assembly, he clashed with the Sky-Rending Stream Master and overwhelmed him in a contest of Nascent Soul Domains, earning recognition as one of the Northern Sea’s four Great Rogues.

• Sang Jinghe told Luo Chen that Flying Cloud Stream had been sacked and its disciples slaughtered, while reports about the Gu Siblings remained uncertain.
• Luo Chen recalled that Gu Shaoshang and Gu Xiaolian had emerged from the Dark and Bright Halls with likely inheritances, and resolved to deal with them if they appeared.
• Langya True Person briefed Luo Chen on the influential cultivators expected at the Halting War Assembly, including the Sky-Rending Stream Master.
• The Sky-Rending Stream Master insulted Luo Chen outside Returning Origin Palace and challenged him, while Langya True Person tried to defend his friend.
• Luo Chen’s crimson Nascent Soul Domain overpowered the Sky-Rending Stream Master’s azure domain, forcing him to put away his Flying Sword and withdraw.
• The Nascent Soul True Persons witnessed Luo Chen’s victory, and one declared that the Northern Sea now had four Great Rogues.

Luo Chen demonstrated his strength at the gathering of Northern Sea Nascent Soul cultivators, then spent one hundred million Spirit Stones to buy the remaining Grand Spirit Grass. When Netherfire Stream Master offered Soul Essence, he invited Luo Chen to speak privately, leaving Nan Qi Old Ghost's planned trade in doubt.

• Luo Chen entered Returning Origin Palace after overpowering Sky-Rending Stream Master in a clash of Nascent Soul Domains, and Netherfire Stream Master welcomed him before Shang Si Hai could speak.
• Shang Si Hai offered Ying Yuanjun's Fourth Order Grand Spirit Grass for one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones per stalk, and Luo Chen bought all one thousand remaining stalks for one hundred million Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen collected the herbs in his Penglai Octagonal Pavilion, while Shang Si Hai suspected he was concealing a powerful background and spatial treasure.
• Luo Chen ignored the other goods being traded and waited for Soul Essence, while Nan Qi Old Ghost continued buying it.
• Netherfire Stream Master offered his Soul Essence, rejected Nan Qi Old Ghost's proposed trade, and invited Luo Chen to speak privately, unsettling Nan Qi Old Ghost and surprising Sky-Rending Stream Master.

Nether Fire Old Freak asked Luo Chen to remove the sentient Netherfire consuming his body, and Luo Chen devoured it with his Flourishing Decay True Fire over nine days. After Fu Chaosheng revealed that he had recognized Luo Chen, Luo Chen thanked him for his past help, and Fu Chaosheng asked him to return the favor.

• Nether Fire Old Freak explained that feeding his Netherfire Soul Essence had made it sentient, causing it to turn on him and burn through his body.
• Nether Fire Old Freak arranged for Luo Chen to treat him under Fu Chaosheng's guarantee, offering a bottle of Soul Essence as payment.
• Luo Chen used his Flourishing Decay True Fire to absorb the Netherfire throughout Nether Fire Old Freak's body instead of destroying it.
• After nine days, Nether Fire Old Freak recovered and left Fu Chaosheng to deliver the promised Soul Essence to Luo Chen.
• Fu Chaosheng revealed that he had recognized Luo Chen through Tian Xuan's recorded aura in his True Spirit Treasure Mirror.
• Luo Chen thanked Fu Chaosheng for his past guidance, and Fu Chaosheng asked him to help with something in return.

Luo Chen learned about the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s Five Hundred Year Competition and negotiated with Fu Chaosheng to guard his granddaughter in exchange for Soul Essence, a guest elder recommendation, and other assistance. Meanwhile, Nan Qi Old Ghost and the Sky-Rending Stream Master plotted to kill Luo Chen after the Halting War Assembly, unaware that he had already left Mo Lan Court and was traveling toward Cold Light Island.

• Fu Chaosheng explained the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven and the Five Hundred Year Competition, then asked Luo Chen to guard his granddaughter.
• Fu Chaosheng cited Luo Chen’s past feats and offered Soul Essence, a Dao Sect guest elder position, and help with other matters; Luo Chen agreed to bargain over the terms.
• Nan Qi Old Ghost urged the Sky-Rending Stream Master to kill Luo Chen after the Halting War Assembly, and the two agreed to plan the attack.
• Luo Chen traveled inside Black King’s stomach with Sang Jinghe, planning to visit Cold Light Island before heading to Divine Origin City to meet True Person Fu.