Recaps

At the Sea Emperor Whale’s feast, Luo Chen arrived as a newly advanced Spirit Transformation cultivator and confronted the host over the spoils taken from the Heaven Origin Dao Sect eighty years earlier. The Sea Emperor Whale accepted his demand for an explanation and challenged him to show what he could do.

• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother recognized Feng Ling Hermit as the Mad Rogue and recalled how he had once helped her learn pill refinement.
• The Sea Emperor Whale presented treasures from the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, and Sea Corner Heavenly Mother identified a Tier 5 Return Origin Pill formula she believed Luo Chen might be able to refine.
• Luo Chen entered the palace with another figure and clashed Divine Thoughts with the Sea Emperor Whale, revealing that he had reached the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• Luo Chen took a seat beside the Sea Emperor Whale by controlling the palace’s moisture, startling the host with his command of water.
• Luo Chen demanded an explanation for the Sea Emperor Whale’s seizure of the Dao Sect spoils, and the Sea Emperor Whale laughed and challenged him to a fight.

Luo Chen fought Sea Emperor Whale across the Giant Whale Sea, then used Nirvana Sacred Fire to force him to apologize and offer valuable cultivation books and a Tier 5 Return Origin Pill Formula. Sea Emperor Whale returned with Luo Chen to the banquet, but feared that Luo Chen’s growing power would soon threaten the Demon Race.

• Demon Emperor Saibo mocked Kong Chan for helping Luo Chen, but Kong Chan remained confident in his master.
• Sea Emperor Whale used his home-ground advantage to take control of the Sea Emperor Palace, but Luo Chen escaped into the sky and overwhelmed him with Water and Fire Source powers.
• Sea Emperor Whale fled through the sea, but Luo Chen caught up with him and revealed Nirvana Sacred Fire, making clear that he could threaten even a fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Sea Emperor Whale apologized and gave Luo Chen Dao Sect cultivation books and a Tier 5 Return Origin Pill Formula in exchange for ending the fight.
• Luo Chen called their battle a sparring match and invited Sea Emperor Whale back to the banquet, while Sea Emperor Whale worried that Luo Chen might eventually overpower the Demon Race.

After making peace with the Sea Emperor Whale, Luo Chen met Feng Ling Hermit, who used his True Demonic Power to unlock a body-tempering method recorded in a statue. Luo Chen left with the Demonic Aspect Technique and a new plan for improving his Natal Magic Treasure, directing Kong Chan toward Arctic Night Yama Heaven.

• Luo Chen ended hostilities with the Sea Emperor Whale after judging that killing it would be too costly, and secured cultivation manuals and other inheritances as compensation.
• Luo Chen reflected that his Primal Chaos Cauldron had fallen behind his Spirit Transformation cultivation and considered specializing its abilities.
• Luo Chen met Feng Ling Hermit on a small island and asked him to use his True Demonic Power on the Demonic Man Statue.
• Feng Ling Hermit unlocked the statue and revealed the Demonic Aspect Technique, which formed a durable external demonic aspect using blood-and-qi power; Luo Chen let him copy the method.
• Luo Chen declined to pressure Feng Ling Hermit into joining the Luo Tian Sect, then considered giving the technique to Wang Yuan to study.
• Luo Chen reviewed Li Canghai's Soul Drawing Spirit Binding art and ordered Kong Chan to turn the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle toward Arctic Night Yama Heaven.

Luo Chen evacuated Raging Sea Demon City, studied the Arctic Demon-Sealing Array, and seized Magnetic Mountain to refine it into his Primal Chaos Cauldron. After the array collapsed and unleashed a devastating storm, he flew with Kong Chan toward the Flying Swallow Sea Region to meet an old acquaintance.

• Kong Chan ordered the demons to evacuate Raging Sea Demon City while Luo Chen studied the Arctic Demon-Sealing Array and prepared to disrupt it.
• Luo Chen led Kong Chan through the formation for three months, placing formation flags to block its spiritual-qi circulation and sever its connection to Magnetic Mountain.
• Luo Chen revealed his Five Elements mana and explained that he intended to seize Magnetic Mountain and strengthen the Primal Chaos Cauldron with its Yuan Magnetic Divine Light.
• Luo Chen used his immense body and Five Elements chains to lift Magnetic Mountain, then refined it into his cauldron over nine days and nights.
• The Arctic Demon-Sealing Array collapsed after losing Magnetic Mountain, unleashing a Primordial Qi storm that destroyed Raging Sea Demon City and shattered the Eternal Glacier.
• Luo Chen shielded Kong Chan and flew toward the Flying Swallow Sea Region, saying they would visit an old acquaintance before returning to the Eastern Wasteland.

As Moon Invitation Fairy prepared to form her Nascent Soul, a demon beast horde threatened Flying Swallow Islands, and Xu Muxian returned to protect her. After slaughtering the horde, he warned that Sky-Rending Stream Master might come to hunt her, and vowed to hold the line.

• The Cheng Family learned that a vast demon beast horde was approaching and sent its cultivators, joined by the other families and itinerant cultivators, to protect Moon Invitation Fairy’s breakthrough.
• Xu Muxian appeared amid the slain beasts and revealed that he had returned to protect his master's wife, Moon Invitation Fairy.
• Cheng Pingqiu recognized Xu Muxian as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch’s former Registered Disciple, and Xu Muxian confirmed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xu Muxian warned that Sky-Rending Stream Master might target Moon Invitation Fairy if she succeeded in forming her Nascent Soul.
• Xu Muxian vowed to stop Sky-Rending Stream Master from harming Moon Invitation Fairy, while the gathered cultivators feared the demonic titan’s arrival.

Xu Muxian returned to Sparrow Head Isle to protect Cheng Haixin as she formed her Nascent Soul, and confronted the Sky-Rending Stream Master when he tried to attack her. Luo Chen revealed himself as Xu Muxian’s master, while Cheng Haixin’s tribulation reached its final stage.

• Xu Muxian recalled how Luo Chen’s guidance had changed his life and prepared to defend Cheng Haixin’s Nascent Soul formation.
• The Sky-Rending Stream Master arrived and threatened to attack, but Xu Muxian blocked him with the Phoenix Nest.
• When Cheng Haixin’s Heavenly Tribulation appeared, the Sky-Rending Stream Master charged toward her, and Kong Chan intervened, naming Luo Chen as his Lord.
• The Sky-Rending Stream Master fled at Luo Chen’s name, and Kong Chan pursued him while containing their battle’s aftershocks.
• Luo Chen summoned Xu Muxian to Seaview Cliff, where Xu Muxian recognized his master and learned that he was the Spirit Transformation expert Luo Chen.
• As Cheng Haixin’s tribulation reached its peak, a tall figure appeared in the void, ready to face the Heavenly Tribulation.

Luo Chen watched Cheng Haixin survive her Nascent Soul tribulation while Kong Chan captured the Sky-Rending Stream Master and Nan Qi Old Ghost. After Cheng Haixin recovered, Luo Chen searched the Sky-Rending Stream Master's soul and questioned Nan Qi Old Ghost, who offered to reveal the treasure he had stolen from the Luo Sect.

• Luo Chen explained to Xu Muxian that he could not interfere with Cheng Haixin's tribulation without provoking a catastrophic backlash from heaven and earth.
• Kong Chan defeated the Sky-Rending Stream Master with help from Nan Qi Old Ghost, but Luo Chen stopped Nan Qi Old Ghost from escaping and Kong Chan captured both Nascent Souls.
• Cheng Haixin endured the final wave of Tribulation Lightning and successfully became a Nascent Soul True Person.
• Luo Chen treated Cheng Haixin's injuries, gave her a cultivation method for her seclusion, and went to question the two captured Nascent Souls.
• Luo Chen searched the Sky-Rending Stream Master's soul and crushed his Nascent Soul, then identified Nan Qi Old Ghost as Nan Yiqi, the Luo Sect's former Right Envoy.
• Nan Qi Old Ghost offered to tell Luo Chen what precious treasure he had stolen from the Luo Sect.

Luo Chen forced Nan Qi Old Ghost to surrender the Vacuum Gu, then let him undergo Soldier's Demise and examined the spoils from the dead cultivators. He learned how to nurture the Gu and planned to master it while waiting for Cheng Haixin to emerge from seclusion.

• Luo Chen used Meng Shentong's Letter Gu to pressure Nan Qi Old Ghost into surrendering the Vacuum Gu, which contained a trace of Space Law True Intent.
• Nan Qi Old Ghost removed his blood mark from the Vacuum Gu, and Luo Chen sealed it with Spatial Restrictions before asking him about the Calamity Gu's lingering aura.
• Luo Chen granted Nan Qi Old Ghost the chance to undergo Soldier's Demise, and Nan Qi Old Ghost disintegrated his Nascent Soul while preserving a chance at reincarnation.
• Luo Chen advised Kong Chan to cultivate the Moonlight Pure Heart Mantra and sent him to settle the surrounding Demon Race.
• Luo Chen searched the Storage Bags of the Sky-Rending Stream Master and Nan Qi Old Ghost, finding Vacuum Gu cultivation techniques and learning that it fed on Empty Bud Crystals.
• Luo Chen decided to make the Vacuum Gu acknowledge him as its master and use it to study Universe in the Sleeves while Cheng Haixin remained in seclusion.

Luo Chen perfected the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve, spent several years teaching Cheng Haixin and preparing her for his departure, then confirmed Li Canghai had ascended. Cheng Haixin chose to remain in the Northern Sea, while Luo Chen returned to the Eastern Wasteland and set out to attend to another matter.

• Luo Chen used the Vacuum Gu, Spatial Restrictions, and a specially made sleeve to create the Great Luo Heavenly Sleeve, then began teaching it to Cheng Haixin.
• Luo Chen refined a True Artifact Dharma Robe for Cheng Haixin and taught her cultivation methods and combat techniques while searching unsuccessfully for Blood Nightmare Fiend.
• Xu Muxian returned with news that the Sea Race had withdrawn and that Li Canghai might have ascended; Luo Chen visited the Edge of the Sky and found Li Canghai gone, with a powerful defensive killing array left behind.
• Cheng Haixin refused to leave the Flying Swallow Islands, so Luo Chen returned to the Eastern Wasteland with Kong Chan and Xu Muxian, while Cheng Haixin revealed she was expecting a child.
• Luo Chen reunited with He Qingzi and Tian Xuan at Cangwu Mountain, sent Kong Chan and Xu Muxian to the Luo Tian Sect, and left to handle a matter elsewhere.

Luo Chen learned how Mi Realm Mountain formed and gained the Life and Death Gate’s permission to take it, while lending the sect his name as it reclaimed its territories. He transported the mountain and its rogue cultivators to Nine Clouds Immortal City, then revealed that he still needed another great Spirit Mountain for his cauldron.

• True Person Zi Yan explained that Mi Realm Mountain was a half-formed Grotto-heaven stabilized by Divine Lord You Li, and Luo Chen asked the Life and Death Gate for permission to take it.
• Luo Chen agreed to let the Life and Death Gate borrow his name, allowing it to reclaim its former lands and industries without resistance.
• Ning Yuzhuo and other rogue cultivators refused to leave Mi Realm Mountain, but Luo Chen tore open the sky and drew the mountain into his cauldron.
• Luo Chen deposited more than ten thousand rogue cultivators in Nine Clouds Immortal City, and Ning Yuzhuo wondered why the white-robed Daoist seemed familiar.
• Luo Chen told True Person Zi Yan that he needed another top-grade Spirit Mountain for his cauldron, and Zi Yan suspected he was heading toward Hanging Blade Peak.

Fu Qinglan struggled with guilt over Luo Chen as he secretly soothed her Heart Demon, then left the Southern Heaven Dao Palace. At Heaven and Earth Island, Luo Chen refined Heaven Earth Peak into the Primal Chaos Cauldron and began preparing to ascend, but a sudden glimmer on the damaged island caught his attention.

• At a peace gathering, Fu Qinglan and Shi Ju argued over whether the Heaven Origin Dao Sect should seek revenge on the Eastern Wasteland, while the sect’s leaders warned that it lacked strength and needed to rebuild its younger generation.
• Fu Qinglan blamed herself for the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s decline, and her anger caused her to blast Shi Miaoyin into a wall when she asked about Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen secretly used an illusion and the Moonlight Pure Heart Mantra to soothe Fu Qinglan’s soul, then left without meeting her and judged that the Heaven Origin Dao Sect remained no match for the Eastern Wasteland.
• Luo Chen found Mirage Qi and Ming Water leaking from the damaged Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven on a barren island, then began carefully refining Heaven Earth Peak into the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• After several months, Luo Chen collected Heaven Earth Peak into the cauldron, stabilized its inner spaces, and discovered that it could automatically attract Azure Sky Qi.
• Luo Chen sensed that the world was rejecting him as he prepared to ascend, then noticed a brilliant glimmer in the damaged Heaven and Earth Island.

Luo Chen discovered that the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven was the Mirage Dragon’s inner core and decided to preserve it and use it to grow spirit herbs and nurture the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree. He gathered his companions, including Gu Cai Yi, and prepared to travel to the Desolate Wastes.

• Luo Chen used his Crimson-Eyed Golden Pupils to find and retrieve the Mirage Dragon inner core, discovering that its grotto-heaven had shrunk and its time flow had slowed.
• Luo Chen decided to stabilize the grotto-heaven with Ming Water and formations, then ordered a journey to the Desolate Wastes.
• Tian Xuan gathered Xuan Ming, Black King, Kong Chan, and Gu Cai Yi at the Pill Saint Blessed Land, and they traveled to Cangwu Mountain.
• Fairy Hua Mei brought Gu Cai Yi and the others to Profound Understanding Hall, where Luo Chen was hearing He Qingzi report on the Demon Race and Cangwu Mountain.
• Gu Cai Yi asked to accompany Luo Chen, and he welcomed her; he then sent Xuan Ming into the Mirage Dragon inner core to clear a patch of pure land with its innate talent.
• Luo Chen confirmed that Tian Xuan had brought the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree and led the group out for the Desolate Wastes.

Luo Chen hunted Tier 5 Desolate Beasts in the Desolate Wastes, using the battles to restore the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire and train in Spirit Transformation combat. After defeating a Gui Li and a Chaos Void Stone Monkey, he resolved to continue deeper into the wastes to prepare for ascension.

• Luo Chen and Gu Cai Yi watched the Four Spirits Great Array battle a Tier 5 Gui Li in the Kun Mang Ancient Forest, and Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to capture it after it tried to flee.
• Luo Chen killed the Gui Li, fed its vitality to the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, and distributed its remains among the spirit beasts while ordering Black King to join him in future battles.
• Luo Chen led the group toward the Rocky Void Zone, where he fought the Ancient Desolate Chaos Void Stone Monkey for three days and nights before claiming its heart.
• Luo Chen told Gu Cai Yi he would keep hunting Desolate Beasts to gain experience controlling World Vitality and Grand Divine Abilities before ascending.

At Loulan Ancient City, Luo Chen uncovered the primordial Totem Pillar and began comprehending the Totem Body Refining Technique, then used Yuan Tu to deflect a massive Rushing Star. As he pondered how to harness celestial forces, the meteor drew the Golden-Winged Great Peng King away from Qi Ying, who remained trapped in Golden Sand Cave.

• Luo Chen explained that native humans built Loulan Ancient City in the Desolate Wastes after desolate beasts drove them from the Five Continents, and that the city was later destroyed by the beasts’ return.
• Luo Chen restored the city’s altar and Totem Pillar, then recognized its surviving bloodline power as belonging to the Divine Bird Bi Fang and began learning a beast-oriented body cultivation method.
• A Rushing Star descended, and Luo Chen shielded Gu Cai Yi and the four great spirit beasts before striking the meteor with Yuan Tu, though its remains destroyed Loulan Ancient City.
• Luo Chen pondered how to imitate the meteor’s destructive force and merged his Primordial Spirit with the surrounding heaven and earth.
• In Golden Sand Cave, the Golden-Winged Great Peng King questioned Qi Ying about refining a Sarira Pill, then rushed out to pursue the fallen meteor and ordered Qi Ying to stay behind.

Luo Chen drove off the Golden Winged Great Peng with his newly comprehended Starfire Burn World technique, then led his companions toward the Western Desert. There, he met Qi Ying, a disciple of his old acquaintance Mister Xuan Yan, cured him of the Golden Winged Great Peng’s blood, and agreed to let him travel with the group.

• Kong Chan retrieved a Spirit Transformation Crystal from the meteorite crater, but the Golden Winged Great Peng arrived and demanded it.
• The Golden Winged Great Peng attacked Gu Cai Yi and the others, and Luo Chen wounded him with the Yuan Tu Sword before driving him away with Starfire Burn World.
• Luo Chen said his growing connection to the Mountain Sea World threatened his ability to ascend, then took the group toward the Western Desert to fulfill a promise to a friend.
• Qi Ying stopped in the Vast Sea Desert to suppress the Golden Winged Great Peng’s source blood, and Luo Chen recognized him as Mister Xuan Yan’s disciple.
• Luo Chen used his power over Metal Origin to remove the source blood’s effect and welcomed Qi Ying onto the group’s journey.

Luo Chen refined the Spirit Transformation Crystal into the Burial Bone Umbrella while traveling to the Hanging Temple. There, he honored his agreement with Xuan Du by strengthening the seal imprisoning Mahakala, then received a silent salute from Xuan Du.

• Luo Chen decided to use the Spirit Transformation Crystal to restore the Burial Bone Umbrella and began refining it with the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire.
• At the Hanging Temple, Luo Chen revealed his Spirit Transformation cultivation and told the monks he had come to offer incense in keeping with his agreement with Xuan Du.
• Luo Chen entered the Emerald Screen's Adamantine Wind, reached the Lapis Lazuli Pure Land, and clashed with Mahakala through their Divine Thoughts.
• Luo Chen set up a modified Arctic Demon Sealing Array that drew the Emerald Screen into the Lapis Lazuli Pure Land to wear down Mahakala and reinforce his imprisonment.
• After Luo Chen completed the array and addressed Xuan Du, Xuan Du appeared through the clouds and offered him a Buddhist salute.

Luo Chen tended the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree as it began to form four Heartbond Fruits, while Gu Cai Yi invited Qi Ying to join the Luo Tian Sect as a guest elder. At Yanfu Mountain, Luo Chen and his allies began breaking the palace restrictions to raise the mountain and establish the Luo Tian Sect’s control over the Nether Abyss.

• Luo Chen inspected the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree and found four flower buds growing from the hearts of the four Tier 5 Desolate Beasts he had slain.
• Gu Cai Yi showed Qi Ying the Luo Tian Sect and invited him to become its first Nascent Soul Stage guest elder in the Pill Hall; Qi Ying expressed interest.
• Luo Chen, Heavenly Capital Child, Deng Taiyue, and Little White climbed Yanfu Mountain and prepared to break the restrictions on its three palaces.
• Luo Chen used Heaven Underworld Palace’s formation to draw Water Source toward the empty Ming Water Spring Eye, aiming to make it form again inside the palace.
• Little White left to coordinate the Luo Tian Sect’s formation work, Deng Taiyue began stabilizing Yanfu Mountain, and Heavenly Capital Child went to break Tian Yuan Palace’s restrictions.
• Luo Chen began examining the defensive formation around Heaven Water Palace, the former abode of Black Marsh Old Ancestor.

Luo Chen looted Heaven Water Palace and Tian Yuan Palace, then spent ten years preparing the Ming Abyss for a world-creation undertaking. The chapter ends as he shuts himself inside Heaven Underworld Palace and releases an aura across the Nether Abyss, while Luo Tian Sect braces for the upheaval.

• Luo Chen broke Heaven Water Palace’s formation and found the Radiant God Pill recipe, the Myriad Marsh True Scripture, and Black Marsh Old Ancestor’s cultivation notes.
• Luo Chen and Heavenly Capital Child opened Tian Yuan Palace, and Luo Chen took its treasures to strengthen Luo Tian Sect’s inheritance.
• Heavenly Capital Child left with copies of Mingyuan Sect’s formation texts, while Deng Taiyue settled in Heaven Water Palace and waited to pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Over ten years, Luo Tian Sect’s disciples and allies prepared formations and resources throughout the Ming Abyss Old Site as Luo Chen awaited the right moment.
• Luo Lingxi sensed the Nether Abyss’s gathering calamity clouds and ordered the sect to raise its protective array and keep away from the abyss.
• Luo Chen entered Heaven Underworld Palace to begin his world-creation undertaking, and a profound aura spread across the Nether Abyss.

Luo Chen restored the Ming Water Spring Eye, raised the former Mingyuan Sect lands from the Nether Abyss, and established a new foundation for the Luo Tian Sect. Bound by the Heaven-and-Earth Shackles, he announced that he would ascend in ten years, leaving the Eastern Wasteland’s leaders to wonder why he had invited them to witness it.

• Luo Chen used the Ming Water Spring Eye and his mastery of World Vitality to command the Nether Abyss and raise the former Mingyuan Sect’s continent.
• Luo Chen lifted a mountain above the new land, and Deng Taiyue congratulated him on rebuilding the Divine Wasteland as the Luo Tian Sect’s foundation.
• Luo Chen sensed that the Heaven-and-Earth Shackles would make further cultivation and exertion costly, and decided it was time to leave.
• Luo Chen told Luo Lingxi to arrange an Ascension Ceremony ten years later and invite the Eastern Wasteland’s top powerhouses.
• News of Luo Chen’s planned ascension spread across the Eastern Wasteland, while its powerful cultivators questioned why he wanted them to attend.

As Luo Chen prepared to ascend, he reviewed the Luo Tian Sect’s arrangements and met with Nine Spirits Yuan Jun to secure the sect’s future. He left the Eastern Wasteland’s experts with a choice between promising not to attack the sect and risking his retaliation, while offering them a chance to pursue Spirit Transformation at Yanfu Mountain.

• Gu Cai Yi reported that the Luo Tian Sect had organized Luo Chen’s teachings and succession arrangements, while Canglong confirmed the Spirit Communication Formation was ready to attempt contact with him after his ascension.
• Luo Lingxi dismissed fears that the Luo Tian Sect would weaken after Luo Chen left, revealed his recent breakthrough, and noted that the Nine Spirits Sect had responded to the ascension invitation.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun visited Luo Chen and affirmed that the Nine Spirits Sect would never be an enemy of the Luo Tian Sect.
• Luo Chen demanded that the current generation of Eastern Wasteland experts promise not to attack the Luo Tian Sect in their lifetimes, offering them access to Yanfu Mountain to attempt Spirit Transformation in return.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun agreed to convey Luo Chen’s terms, and Luo Chen told Luo Lingxi that he wanted to prevent former allies from becoming enemies of the sect.
• Luo Chen had already passed on his cultivation knowledge and Magic Treasures, and secretly entrusted Luo Lingxi with three powerful killing techniques to defend the Luo Tian Sect.

Luo Chen’s ascension ceremony brought powerful guests from across the cultivation world, while Qing Tong met Luo Lingxi and learned he was her older brother. Luo Chen performed unprecedented ascension phenomena, briefly acknowledged Qing Tong, and departed for the Immortal World as the crowd bid him farewell.

• Xu Muxian brought Cheng Haixin and Qing Tong to Yanfu Mountain, where they joined the crowds gathered for Luo Chen’s ascension.
• Luo Lingxi met Qing Tong, recognized her resemblance to Luo Chen, gave her a jade pendant, and suspected she was his younger sister.
• Luo Chen’s Primordial Spirit appeared, drew in immense Spiritual Opportunity, and produced four extraordinary ascension phenomena.
• As Luo Chen departed, he briefly reached Qing Tong, who realized her father had seen and spoken to her.
• Pure Qi descended over Luo Tian Continent, and the ceremony ended as cultivators everywhere chanted their farewell to Luo Chen.

Luo Chen failed to ascend to the Immortal World and was stranded in the universe, where Qixia Yuanjun and Qing Shuang found him and attacked him to seize his Spiritual Opportunity. Qing Shuang sent Luo Chen into the Void Turbulence before Qixia Yuanjun could finish killing him, and the Star Gate closed with Luo Chen's fate uncertain.

• Luo Chen's ascension stalled, and three figures on the Cloud Sea Continent found four rings on the Ascension Platform and concluded that his chance at immortality had been severed.
• Luo Chen reached a dying ocher planet and tried to steady his Dao Heart, but Qixia Yuanjun and Qing Shuang appeared through a Star Gate and revealed they had tracked him using the Same Life, Same Death Gu.
• Qixia Yuanjun attacked Luo Chen to refine his Spiritual Opportunity, but Luo Chen resisted by burning his True Spirit Source Blood and suppressing the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture's influence.
• Qixia Yuanjun ordered Qing Shuang to help, and Qing Shuang struck Luo Chen, leaving him unable to resist as Qixia Yuanjun drained his Mana and Spiritual Opportunity.
• When Luo Chen tried to self-destruct, Qing Shuang opened a Space Rift and banished him into the Void Turbulence, angering Qixia Yuanjun.
• Qixia Yuanjun entered the Star Gate, and Qing Shuang followed as the gate closed and the collapsing planet was left behind.

After being battered by a cosmic tide, a wounded giant was swept away as a gray butterfly connected to the Calamity Gu vanished. The man awakened in a poor, rain-leaking room, unable to use his Divine Thought, and told the woman caring for him that his name was Luo Chen.

• A gray butterfly emerged from the giant and altered the cosmic tide, sending the giant drifting toward an unknown place.
• Luo Chen woke on a rough bed in a cramped room, his body in pain and his Divine Thought sealed.
• Luo Chen surveyed the dilapidated room as thunder and rain poured outside, and he silently blamed a demon for his condition.
• A woman entered, lit a fire, tended to Luo Chen, and brought him thin porridge.
• The woman noticed Luo Chen was awake and questioned him, and he rasped out his name: Luo Chen.

Luo Chen recovered from his severe injuries while learning from Jing Lan about the Great Cataclysm Realm and its deadly Three Great Calamities. A month later, he finally left the house and reunited with a delighted Jing Lan.

• Luo Chen learned that Jing Lan had found him after Heavenly Wind passed through, and he began trying to heal his shattered meridians by driving his remaining Source Blood with sheer will.
• Jing Lan cared for Luo Chen and told him about her work at the Qingshan Tobacco House, where the new Steward Yan mistreated the workers.
• Jing Lan explained that the remote Qingshan Town faced Heavenly Wind, Ghost Rain, and the Mist of Annihilation, and Luo Chen studied Dreamstone's effects while continuing his recovery.
• After a month, Luo Chen walked out of the house for the first time and saw the green fields beneath three setting suns.
• Jing Lan spotted Luo Chen sitting on the threshold, hurried over, and celebrated that he had finally awakened.

Luo Chen learned from Jing Lan that the Great Cataclysm Realm trapped those who entered and lacked spiritual energy, leaving him unable to use his usual cultivation methods. He began repairing his shattered body with Source Blood and a basic Healing Spell, while resolving to settle his score with Qixia Yuanjun if he ever escaped.

• Jing Lan celebrated her birthday with Luo Chen, and he gave her his wishes instead of a gift.
• Luo Chen let Jing Lan sleep in the bed while he took the straw bedding, then asked her about immortals and cultivators in the Great Cataclysm Realm.
• Jing Lan explained that immortals were rare, people could not leave the region, and Smoke Workshop’s Steward Yan was said to be a cultivator.
• Luo Chen discovered his meridians were blocked and ruptured, his soul was sealed, and Qingshan Town had no spiritual energy.
• Luo Chen used a drop of Source Blood to fuel a basic Healing Spell and began treating his wounds.
• Luo Chen reflected on Qing Shuang’s role in his survival and vowed to settle his blood debt with Qixia Yuanjun if he could escape.