Recaps

Luo Chen helped Canglong undergo a second Nascent Soul tribulation, drawing an exceptionally powerful lightning storm as he aided her with the Mortal Fate Immortal Mirror. As Canglong faced the final nine bolts, Luo Chen punched into the lightning and sent his Sword Pellets, wrapped in molten Nine Yang Geng Metal, toward the thunderclouds to refine a treasure.

• Feng Yinuo visited Chu Mo with Frost Ice Wine, and they discussed the destruction of their families and sects before sensing a strange cold spreading through the city.
• Golden Core cultivators saw a vast spiritual-qi phenomenon and tribulation clouds gathering above Old Freak Ge's cultivation grounds, where Luo Chen was helping the sleeping Canglong undergo tribulation.
• Canglong awoke after refining a mid-grade Nascent Soul Pill, thanked Luo Chen, and flew out to face the tribulation with the Moonlight Ice Fortress and her flying sword.
• Luo Chen revealed his identity to Ge Wangji, accepted him as a Luo Tian Sect guest elder, and gave him a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Canglong endured the first two rounds of the tribulation, but nine immense lightning bolts descended in the final round.
• Luo Chen stepped in front of Canglong, punched into the lightning, and sent five Sword Pellets wrapped in molten Nine Yang Geng Metal into the thunderclouds.

Luo Chen protected Canglong through her Nascent Soul tribulation and used the lightning to refine his Sword Pellets, then traveled with her through the Azure Nether to visit the dying Fu Old. As Luo Chen recounted his past, they reached their destination and heard an aged voice welcome them.

• Luo Chen destroyed the tribulation lightning threatening Canglong and used the Heavenly Tribulation to refine five Sword Pellets, defeating a golden Thunder Dragon before the clouds dispersed.
• Canglong completed her breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, and Luo Chen departed the Upper Abyss Abandoned City with her and Ge Wangji aboard the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle.
• Luo Chen told Canglong that he was heading east to meet Fu Old of the Divine Talisman Sect, who had contacted him for a final reunion as his lifespan neared its end.
• Canglong asked about Luo Chen’s cultivation and his experiences, and he began recounting his past while they traveled through the Azure Nether.
• After the pair’s conversation continued beneath the stars, an aged voice greeted them, saying that they had finally come.

Luo Chen met the dying Fu Old, who asked him to take three promising Divine Talisman Sect disciples and safeguard their resources and inheritance at the distant Luo Tian Sect. After discovering that Chen Dongling was the daughter of his old acquaintance Chen Shuyi, Luo Chen agreed to take the three, then invited Fu Old to witness a major event.

• Fu Old told Luo Chen that Heaven Origin Dao Sect was pressuring Eastern Wasteland sects to fight the demon army gathering beyond the Far Eastern Six Domains.
• Fu Old explained that the Divine Talisman Sect lacked suitable successors and asked Luo Chen to take three chosen disciples to the Luo Tian Sect.
• Luo Chen met the three disciples, and Chen Dongling revealed that her late mother, Chen Shuyi, had known Luo Chen as Pill Dust Master.
• Fu Old entrusted Luo Chen with the sect's resources and much of its inheritance, and Luo Chen agreed to arrange for the disciples' cultivation.
• As Luo Chen prepared to leave with the three disciples, he invited Fu Old to come watch a major event.

Luo Chen invaded the Five Elements Divine Sect to confront Supreme Elder Divine Origin and collect a debt for the elder’s role in the danger he faced in Medicine King Domain. After Luo Chen destroyed Divine Origin Peak and subdued the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators, Divine Origin finally challenged him, and the battle began.

• Divine Fire Sect Master decided to visit Divine Origin Peak and persuade his Senior Brother to join the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s Star Gate for the sect’s protection in the coming war.
• Luo Chen appeared on Divine Origin Peak, fought its Starry Cloud Dragon formation, and used his power with Black King to collapse the mountain.
• Luo Chen faced Divine Fire, Qi Emei, Yao Hong, and the other Nascent Soul cultivators, declaring that he had come to settle the debt for Divine Origin’s involvement in the attack in Medicine King Domain.
• Luo Chen’s Nascent Soul Domain pinned down the four cultivators until Divine Origin released his own domain and Divine Fire ordered the sect to attack.
• Divine Fire attacked with his Source True Fire, but Luo Chen seized it and began drawing it out of him as the other three Nascent Soul experts joined the fight.

Luo Chen confronted the Five Elements Divine Sect and swiftly defeated its three newly ascended Nascent Soul cultivators before drawing out Divine Origin True Person. He discovered that Divine Origin had pursued a perilous path toward Spirit Transformation and wanted Luo Chen’s body, so their battle escalated into a clash of treasures.

• Luo Chen dismissed the attacks of Qi Emei and the other two Nascent Souls, then crushed them with his Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• The Divine Fire Sect Master activated the Sect Protecting Great Array, but Luo Chen challenged Divine Origin and found him beneath the shattered Divine Origin Peak.
• Divine Origin and Luo Chen exchanged handprints, and Divine Origin recognized Luo Chen’s Nascent Soul Sixth Layer cultivation.
• Luo Chen explained that Divine Origin had opened his Purple Mansion Barrier to draw in World Vitality, while Divine Origin revealed he wanted Luo Chen’s body to escape that dangerous path.
• Luo Chen and Divine Origin sent their Natal Magic Treasures against each other, and Luo Chen prepared five Sword Pellets to continue the fight.

Luo Chen fought Divine Origin True Person at the Five Elements Divine Sect, breaking through his defenses and seemingly killing him with the Yuan Tu Blood Sword. Divine Origin then transformed into a vast Primordial Spirit by absorbing World Vitality and his disciples, and he began pulling in cultivators who had practiced the Nascent Origin Divine Art as he turned his attention to Luo Chen.

• Luo Chen used the perfected Great Five Elements Sword Formation to trap Divine Origin True Person and shatter his Crystalline Flying Sword.
• Luo Chen overcame Divine Origin's spells and Inexhaustible Spring with the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, then feigned vulnerability to a soul attack before splitting Divine Origin's body and Nascent Soul with the Blood Sword.
• Divine Origin's divided Nascent Soul regenerated and began absorbing the Mana, blood essence, and souls of Five Elements Divine Sect disciples to transform into a Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Chen discovered that Divine Origin was being assimilated by heaven and earth, making his Primordial Spirit difficult to damage, and retreated as the Divine Sect cultivators fled.
• Divine Origin used the Nascent Origin Divine Art to drag in and swallow Qi Emei and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators, then declared that Luo Chen was next.

Luo Chen used a reversed Wither Bloom Dao Finger to push Divine Origin True Person beyond his control of World Vitality, causing his attempted Spirit Transformation to collapse and annihilating him and the Five Elements Divine Sect’s bound souls. After the Spirit Qi rain transformed the Five Elements Domain, Luo Chen parted ways with Canglong and Fu Old, and set off south with Black King.

• Divine Origin True Person drew in World Vitality across the Five Elements Domain, and Luo Chen recognized that his obsession with breaking through came from the same Five Spirit Roots struggles he had faced.
• Divine Origin swallowed Luo Chen, but Luo Chen endured with the Town Prison Soul Technique and reversed his Wither Bloom Dao Finger to make Divine Origin absorb more World Vitality.
• Divine Origin’s Primordial Spirit swelled beyond his control and collapsed, scattering Spirit Qi across the domain and erasing him and the souls he had forcibly preserved.
• Lingmu True Person, Skyscraper Old Ghost, and the other remnant souls dispersed in the Spirit Qi rain; Luo Chen killed the grieving Divine Fire Sect Master and returned to the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle.
• Luo Chen sent Canglong and the juniors back to Luo Tian Sect, while Fu Old returned to the Divine Talisman Sect; Luo Chen then departed south with Black King, and Fu Old died three days later.

Luo Chen killed Divine Origin and left the Five Elements Domain, while Shi Ju identified him as the attacker but was recalled before pursuing him. Luo Chen headed south to find the Demon Heart Gu Emperor and a Fourth Order Demon Heart Gu for Luo Lingxi, and Black King offered him something to inspect.

• Spiritual rain fell across the Five Elements Domain, and cultivators who entered the ruined Five Elements Divine Sect fought over the dead disciples’ belongings.
• Shi Ju investigated the destruction, recognized the Azure Sun Great Handprint and traces of Fire Source power, and identified Luo Chen as the one who had killed Divine Origin.
• Shi Ju pursued Luo Chen south but received an order from the Old Ancestor to prepare for an attack on the Demon Race, so he returned to the ruins.
• A subordinate told Shi Ju that the Divine Sect’s inheritance had vanished, and Shi Ju wondered whether Luo Chen had taken it.
• Luo Chen recovered on Black King's back after killing Divine Origin and resolved to seek the Demon Heart Gu Emperor for a Fourth Order Demon Heart Gu to help Luo Lingxi.
• Black King eagerly told Luo Chen that he had something good to show him.

Luo Chen discovered Breath Soil inside Divine Origin True Person’s damaged Five-Colored Pagoda and began dismantling it to strengthen his Primal Chaos Cauldron. In the Southern Border, Mountain Seeker Cheng Bai stumbled upon Luo Chen forging a treasure and was pulled before the mysterious cultivator.

• Black King gave Luo Chen Divine Origin True Person’s books and the damaged Five-Colored Pagoda, which Luo Chen examined and decided not to repair.
• Luo Chen detected a trace of Breath Soil in the pagoda and began burning away its formations to recover it and other useful materials for his Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Mountain Seeker Cheng Bai entered the Wilds of Mist to capture a Broken Tail Alligator Dragon and its rumored Formless Gu Larva.
• Following the alligator dragon’s tracks, Cheng Bai found it and other demon beasts subdued near a barren mountain where lightning and dark clouds gathered.
• Cheng Bai realized a powerful cultivator was forging a supreme Magic Treasure, but a rough voice stopped him and dragged him to the mountain.
• A tall, handsome young-looking cultivator in black armor emerged from the mountain and questioned Cheng Bai about the Thunderous Echo Cave Master.

Luo Chen adopted the identity of the body cultivator Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian and agreed to accompany Cheng Bai to Wind Thunder Gorge, where the Thirty-Six Cave Masters faced the Feng Family. After sealing his calamity-attracting Primal Chaos Cauldron and preparing other treasures, Luo Chen became interested in Southern Border Gu that could aid cultivation.

• Cheng Bai explained that Thunderous Echo Cave Master was a rogue cultivator and the only Nascent Soul among Wind Thunder Gorge’s Thirty-Six Cave Masters, whose territory the Feng Family sought to seize.
• Luo Chen revealed that he was not a Nascent Soul cultivator but could withstand ordinary True Persons with his fists, then discovered that his Primal Chaos Cauldron had attracted stray tribulation lightning after absorbing the Calamity Gu and other materials.
• Luo Chen sealed the Primal Chaos Cauldron and prepared several other treasures, choosing weapons that would suit his invented body-cultivator identity.
• Cheng Bai explained that a Formless Gu could help its user master movement arts, prompting Luo Chen to consider whether Gu might also improve his slow body-tempering progress.
• Luo Chen crushed the barren mountain with a gesture, flew off with Cheng Bai, and introduced himself as Qi Tian, known as Tyrant Cultivator.

Luo Chen arrived at Wind Thunder Gorge, agreed to help Thunderous Echo Cave Master defend it from the Feng Family in exchange for a high-level Body Tempering technique, and began investigating the Southern Border’s Gu-based cultivation path. As the deadline for surrendering the gorge approached, Thunderous Echo Cave Master doubted Luo Chen’s strength and prepared to use the Formless Gu, then called Cheng Bai back.

• Cheng Bai guided Luo Chen through Wind Thunder Gorge, where Luo Chen tested the Blade Wind and learned that Cheng Bai had secretly notified Thunderous Echo Cave Master.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master tested Luo Chen, revealed that his Thunder Frog Gu let him wield thunder within the gorge, and warned him that Feng Bu Yan planned to seize the area.
• Luo Chen agreed to face the Feng Family if they sent no Spirit Transformation expert, provided Thunderous Echo Cave Master offered a satisfying reward and access to a high-level Body Tempering technique.
• Luo Chen refined a Strength Gu and concluded that Southern Border’s Gu-based Body Tempering path might help him advance, while resolving to obtain the higher-level technique.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master told Cheng Bai that the Formless Gu could not help him master the Lightning Flash Art before the Feng Family’s deadline, doubted Luo Chen’s boast, and considered seeking other allies.
• After his Letter Gu brought no replies, Thunderous Echo Cave Master stared at the Formless Gu with a ruthless glint and called Cheng Bai back.

Feng Bu Yan led the Feng Family to seize Wind Thunder Gorge, but the Thunderous Echo Cave Master resisted with the gorge’s terrain and lightning. Luo Chen and the White-Robed Monk entered the fight, leaving Luo Chen facing the monk after blocking his demonic and Buddhist blade aura.

• Feng Bu Yan led more than ten thousand Feng Family cultivators toward Wind Thunder Gorge with Goat Daoist and the White-Robed Monk as hired allies.
• The Thunderous Echo Cave Master rallied the gorge’s independent cultivators to defend their strongholds, and Feng Bu Yan entered the gorge to challenge him.
• The Thunderous Echo Cave Master used lightning and the terrain to pursue Feng Bu Yan, while Goat Daoist joined the fight with his wooden staff.
• Luo Chen appeared in black armor as Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian and snapped Goat Daoist’s Natal Staff with his bare hand.
• The White-Robed Monk sent a blade aura containing demonic and Buddhist Qi, but Luo Chen crushed it and struck back with a giant palm.
• Luo Chen flew out of Wind Thunder Gorge and demanded the White-Robed Monk’s name.

Luo Chen defeated Goat Daoist and forced Ning Yuzhuo back, making Feng Bu Yan withdraw his army from Wind Thunder Gorge. After the gorge’s ownership was negotiated, Luo Chen questioned the weakness and restraint of Southern Border cultivators, then warned the Thunderous Echo Cave Master against probing his origins.

• Luo Chen recognized the White-Robed Monk as Ning Yuzhuo and beat back his attacks, breaking his blade light and forcing him to retreat.
• Luo Chen challenged Feng Bu Yan and the other two to attack together, but Feng Bu Yan ordered the Feng Family army to withdraw.
• The Thunderous Echo Cave Master thanked Luo Chen and proposed that Wind Thunder Gorge belong to them, while Luo Chen wondered why the Sacred Land, the Life and Death Gate, could no longer intervene.
• Luo Chen moved into a cave abode as one of Wind Thunder Gorge’s Thirty-Six Cave Masters and asked for Body Tempering Cultivation Methods while reflecting on his opponents’ constrained strength.
• The Thunderous Echo Cave Master reported that Feng Bu Yan had accepted the territorial agreement and asked them to perform one task, then admitted Feng Bu Yan wanted to learn Luo Chen’s origins.
• Luo Chen warned the Thunderous Echo Cave Master that probing into another person’s secrets invited disaster.

Luo Chen studied Southern Border body-tempering methods, developed a speed technique, and exposed a flaw in Thunderous Echo Cave Master's Lightning Flash Art. After learning that Feng Bu Yan had turned against Demon Buddha Jue Ning, Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master set out for Mi Realm Mountain as cultivators across the Southern Border converged there.

• Luo Chen persuaded Thunderous Echo Cave Master to support his claim that he was a cultivator from Wind Thunder Gorge and asked when they would leave for Mi Realm Mountain.
• Luo Chen studied the body-tempering methods submitted by Wind Thunder Gorge cultivators and adapted a speed method using Tier 3 Swift Travel Gu.
• Luo Chen raced Thunderous Echo Cave Master and identified a flaw in his Lightning Flash Art that allowed opponents to track and restrain him.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master revealed that Feng Bu Yan had recruited him to help ambush Demon Buddha Jue Ning, who escaped by exploiting that flaw.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master hesitated to let Luo Chen examine the Lightning Flash Art, then chose to refine it himself.
• Three days later, Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master departed for Mi Realm Mountain as cultivators from across the Southern Border gathered there.

Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master reached the Shadow Reflection Sect and met its master, the Lantern Bearer, after discussing Mi Realm Mountain and the closed circles of Southern Border cultivators. The Lantern Bearer claimed he had missed helping Thunderous Echo because of a cultivation deviation, while he wondered whether Luo Chen was the one leading the pair.

• Thunderous Echo Cave Master told Luo Chen about Mi Realm Mountain, the Great Cultivator Songyang True Person, and the difficulty outsiders faced joining Southern Border cultivator circles.
• Luo Chen asked whether Thunderous Echo Cave Master had experienced the Demon Heart Gu calamity, but the Lantern Bearer called to them from below before he could answer.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master explained that the Lantern Bearer had once introduced him to the Nascent Soul circle but had failed to respond when the Feng Family attacked Wind Thunder Gorge.
• Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo descended to the Shadow Reflection Sect, where Lantern Bearer greeted them and learned Luo Chen was a Body Refining Cultivator.
• Lantern Bearer said a cultivation deviation had prevented him from helping Thunderous Echo, then invited them to discuss it inside.
• Luo Chen walked toward the mountain gate first, and Lantern Bearer wondered whether Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian was the leader.

Luo Chen discovered that the Shadow Reflection Sect’s unusually dense World Vitality made cultivation dangerously efficient and could cause his Nascent Soul to lose itself to Heaven and Earth Assimilation. He awakened from a daze with help from his Split Souls and Mortal Fate Immortal Mirror, realizing the surroundings were abnormal.

• Luo Chen examined a basic Shadow Gu, then began cultivating with the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture and noticed his Nascent Soul was unusually restless.
• The Thunderous Echo Cave Master told Luo Chen he planned to gather independent cultivators in Wind Thunder Gorge and build a power, seeking Illuminating Spirit Gu and a method to produce Spirit Stones.
• After the Thunderous Echo Cave Master left, Luo Chen used his Crimson-Eyed Golden Pupils to spot unusually dense spiritual energy and pure World Vitality around the Cultivation Room.
• Luo Chen prepared formation flags, his three Split Souls, and the Mortal Fate Immortal Mirror before resuming cultivation in the palace.
• After several days, Luo Chen’s cultivation became dangerously uncontrolled, and his Split Souls used Soul Voice to wake him from a dazed state.
• Luo Chen realized the World Vitality was concentrated like an ocean and could lull cultivators into gradual Heaven and Earth Assimilation.

Luo Chen broke out of deep cultivation, discovered the Shadow Reflection Sect had used concentrated spiritual qi to trap him and the Thunderous Echo Cave Master, and crushed the sect’s ambush. After Black King looted the sect, Luo Chen found a Jade Box labeled “Spirit Illuminator.”

• Luo Chen realized that the unusually dense World Vitality could draw cultivators into dangerous, effortless cultivation and recalled that the Lantern Bearer had deliberately diverted spiritual qi to trap Qi Tian.
• The Lantern Bearer tried to kill the Thunderous Echo Cave Master to make another Thunder Lantern, while Shadowed Spirit True Person led disciples to ambush Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen arrived with the Chaos Heaven Staff and killed Shadowed Spirit True Person with one strike, then shattered the Lantern Bearer’s lanterns and pinned his body with Life-Stealing Golden Feathers as his Nascent Soul escaped.
• Luo Chen learned that the Thunderous Echo Cave Master had used the Human Refining Gu method on Cheng Bai and lamented Cheng Bai’s death.
• Black King returned with a Storage Bag taken from the Shadow Reflection Sect, and Luo Chen discovered a Jade Box marked “Spirit Illuminator.”

Luo Chen studied and refined an Illuminating Spirit Gu while traveling with Thunderous Echo Cave Master, then learned how the Demon Heart Gu once caused a bloody catastrophe in the Southern Border. The account revealed that a mysterious cultivator had killed the first Demon Heart Gu Emperor through backlash, and Luo Chen wondered where that successor had gone as a sudden cultivation matter drew him back to his cabin.

• Black King found an adult Illuminating Spirit Gu, and Luo Chen studied its use as a means of observing changes during cultivation.
• Luo Chen swallowed the Illuminating Spirit Gu and slowly refined it with his soul inside his Nascent Soul.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master explained that Demon Heart Gu enabled rapid cultivation and let users convert one another’s mana, which sparked widespread slaughter.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master said the first Demon Heart Gu Emperor harvested Gu cultivators until a coalition of Southern Border factions pursued him.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master revealed that a low-level cultivator had killed the Gu Emperor through backlash and then vanished, after which Demon Heart Gu was suppressed across the region.
• Luo Chen pondered the mysterious successor’s whereabouts, then excused himself to attend to a cultivation matter.

Luo Chen refined his Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture with the aid of the Illuminating Spirit Gu, developing a natural air of nobility as he traveled with Thunderous Echo Cave Master to Nine Clouds Immortal City. There, he discovered that powerful Nascent Soul cultivators had gathered amid rumors of a major move by the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance, and Daoist Zheng Guan recognized him as Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian.

• Luo Chen used the Illuminating Spirit Gu to spot flaws in his cultivation and rapidly improved his mastery of the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture by correcting them.
• After six months, Thunderous Echo Cave Master brought Luo Chen to Nine Clouds Immortal City, where Luo Chen's newly cultivated bearing made him seem naturally noble.
• Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master overheard rumors that the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance was gathering experts for a major undertaking and entered the city despite the brewing danger.
• Luo Chen sensed seven Nascent Soul True Persons in the city, while Thunderous Echo Cave Master was astonished by his precise count.
• Hu Jin welcomed Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master on Daoist Zheng Guan's orders and led them to the palace.
• Daoist Zheng Guan greeted Luo Chen as Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian, leaving Thunderous Echo Cave Master surprised and another Nascent Soul expert wondering whether Luo Chen was the person he suspected.

Luo Chen met Bei Puti and Daoist Zheng Guan in Nine Clouds Immortal City, where he learned that rising spirit qi and Nascent Soul cultivators Going Astray might signal a catastrophic Spirit Qi Tidal Surge tied to the Life and Death Gate. After hearing Bei Puti’s history, Luo Chen recognized an aura connected to Old Ghost Nan Qi and prepared to cultivate at Mi Realm Mountain.

• Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master met Bei Puti, the Luo Sect’s Left Envoy, and introduced themselves as cultivators from Wind Thunder Gorge.
• Bei Puti sought the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance’s method for preventing Going Astray but hesitated to risk making the Luo Sect an enemy of the Life and Death Gate.
• Daoist Zheng Guan warned that intensifying spirit qi could bring a Spirit Qi Tidal Surge, with the Life and Death Gate at the root of the calamity.
• Luo Chen and his companions arranged to attend Mi Realm Mountain’s Nascent Soul exchange gathering, and Luo Chen judged Zheng Guan’s warning possibly alarmist.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master described the Luo Sect’s past upheaval involving Nan Yiqi, and Luo Chen recognized Bei Puti’s familiar aura as connected to Old Ghost Nan Qi from the Northern Sea.

Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master arrived at Chengjun Hall to enter Mi Realm Mountain, where Luo Chen’s clash with Ning Yuzhuo was stopped by Daoist Zheng Guan. Luo Chen crossed the dangerous Sumeru Passage unaided and reached Sumeru Mountain ahead of the others, drawing the Purple Robe Marquis’s attention as he headed uphill.

• Luo Chen and Thunderous Echo Cave Master went to Chengjun Hall, where they found more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators waiting to enter Mi Realm Mountain.
• Ning Yuzhuo attacked Thunderous Echo Cave Master with his domain, but Luo Chen shielded him and challenged Ning Yuzhuo until Daoist Zheng Guan intervened.
• Daoist Zheng Guan opened the Sumeru Passage and used a Magic Treasure to protect the group, but Luo Chen entered ahead of everyone without its protection.
• Luo Chen navigated the spatial severance inside the passage and emerged unharmed at Sumeru Mountain before the rest of the cultivators arrived.
• The Purple Robe Marquis learned that Luo Chen was Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian, while Luo Chen ignored him and started up Sumeru Mountain.

Songyang True Person and Red Leaf Granny discussed the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance’s plan to attack the Life and Death Gate and the motives of those seeking to join. After learning about Southern Border’s formidable cultivators and the alliance’s ties to the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, Luo Chen decided to join so he could search for the Demon Heart Gu Emperor and study Mi Realm Mountain’s spatial restrictions.

• Songyang True Person told Red Leaf Granny that the alliance planned to attack the Life and Death Gate with support from the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, while many newcomers hoped to seize the Sacred Land’s resources.
• Songyang True Person and Red Leaf Granny watched the climbers and considered recruiting Qi Tian, whom they saw walking at the front.
• Luo Chen studied Mi Realm Mountain’s stable overlapping spaces and wondered whether their spatial restrictions could help stabilize the Nether Abyss and counter Qing Shuang’s Space Laws.
• Zheng Guan welcomed the arrivals and announced that the ten-day exchange gathering would begin the next day.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master told Luo Chen that Li Tian Shi owned the High-Order Body Tempering Art and warned him about the alliance’s powerful members.
• After Thunderous Echo Cave Master left, Luo Chen decided to join the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance to search for the Demon Heart Gu Emperor and remain in Mi Realm Mountain; the next day, Nascent Soul cultivators gathered at its summit.

Luo Chen attended the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance’s exchange gathering, where Songyang True Person laid down strict rules and Li Tian Shi lectured on Gu cultivation. After arranging a private meeting, Luo Chen learned that Li Tian Shi had a high-grade body refinement technique for sale, and the chapter ended with Li Tian Shi asking whether Luo Chen wanted to buy his Hundred Poisons Body Refinement Technique.

• Luo Chen arrived at Mi Realm Mountain and saw that the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance had gathered more than forty True Persons, including several cultivators he recognized.
• Songyang True Person welcomed the visitors, banned coercive trades and combat, and warned that anyone who fought within Mi Realm Mountain would be killed.
• Luo Chen took a prominent seat, told Bei Puti that the person he resembled was called the Nan Qi Old Ghost, and agreed to spar with Purple Robe Marquis.
• Li Tian Shi lectured on understanding Gu insects as manifestations of the Great Dao and cultivating in harmony with them to pursue Law True Intent.
• Luo Chen met Purple Robe Marquis and Li Tian Shi privately, and Li Tian Shi asked whether he wanted to purchase the Hundred Poisons Body Refinement Technique.

Luo Chen agreed to help Li Tian Shi explore a Primordial Era secret realm in exchange for the Hundred Poisons King Gu, its body tempering technique, and help joining the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance. As the exchange meeting ended, Luo Chen began investigating whether the elusive Burial Old Man was the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, then witnessed Zhan Bingtao of the Heaven Origin Dao Sect arrive.

• Luo Chen accepted Li Tian Shi's offer to obtain the Hundred Poisons King Gu and its technique by helping investigate a dangerous secret realm that might contain the original Same Life, Same Death Gu formula.
• Luo Chen asked Li Tian Shi to recommend him for the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance and investigate the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, and Li Tian Shi agreed to both requests.
• Luo Chen traded for rare poisons and began preparing to cultivate the Hundred Poisons Body Refinement Technique, while Thunderous Echo Cave Master visited and warned him that the Burial Old Man might be the Demon Heart Gu Emperor.
• Thunderous Echo Cave Master left Mi Realm Mountain, and Luo Chen saw the Burial Old Man at the exchange meeting the next day, wondering why Li Tian Shi and Purple Robe Marquis had not connected him to the Demon Heart Gu Emperor.
• Zhan Bingtao of the Heaven Origin Dao Sect arrived at the hall to pay a visit.

At Mi Realm Mountain, Luo Chen helped Songyang True Person break Zhan Bingtao’s challenge and watched the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance ally with the Heaven Origin Dao Sect to attack Life and Death Gate. After the gathering, Luo Chen studied the mountain’s spatial restrictions, and Purple Robe Marquis gave him the Hundred Poisons King Gu.

• Zhan Bingtao challenged the alliance’s strength, and Luo Chen intervened to break the clash between their Nascent Soul Domains, earning the alliance leaders’ public support.
• Zhan Bingtao revealed that Life and Death Gate’s internal changes had caused the Southern Border’s anomalous conditions, and the Heaven Origin Dao Sect and the Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance agreed to cooperate against it.
• Purple Robe Marquis explained that the Fierce Peak Seal used the Fierce Peak Gu to protect Nascent Souls from Heaven and Earth Assimilation while slowing cultivation.
• After the gathering ended, Songyang True Person claimed there was a thirty percent chance of opening Life and Death Gate’s forbidden defense without borrowing Spirit Transformation power, and Zhan Bingtao agreed that the chance was sufficient.
• Luo Chen stayed at Mi Realm Mountain to study its natural spatial restrictions, then caught Purple Robe Marquis using his Body Transformation Blood Spring technique.
• Purple Robe Marquis gave Luo Chen a Storage Bag from Li Tian Shi, and Luo Chen found the Hundred Poisons King Gu inside.