Recaps

Luo Chen forced Xiao Feng to submit while allowing him to remain city lord, then used the resources and martial arts knowledge Xiao Feng provided to deepen his understanding of Body Tempering. The chapter ended with Luo Chen recognizing the baleful qi sealed in the urns delivered to him.

• Luo Chen killed Xiao Zirui and made Xiao Feng kneel and pledge to serve him, then ordered Xiao Feng to gather resources, reserve Moxian Smoke, and hand over breakthrough manuals.
• Luo Chen returned to the Luo Residence, where Jing Lan welcomed him and served him new dishes.
• Xiao Feng sent Luo Chen the Hundred Flaws Technique, his father's cultivation insights, and abundant food; Luo Chen studied the Furnace Realm and rejected the flawed breakthrough method.
• Luo Chen spent half a month consuming the provisions to build qi and blood and strengthen his gang qi.
• Chu Zhaonan watched as Luo Chen opened a sealed urn and calmly controlled the fierce black aura inside, which Luo Chen identified as Baleful Qi.

Luo Chen refined Red Leaf Sha into Red Leaf True Aura, then upgraded it with Nine Tribulation Earth Sha while cultivating in seclusion for ten years. After Chu Zhaonan reported a possible source of Unforgiven Heavenly Wind near Mofeng City, Luo Chen prepared to leave his cultivation behind and investigate.

• Luo Chen asked Chu Zhaonan to seek Nine Tribulation Earth Sha, and gave him the Wuyou Token to help secure it from Wuyou City.
• Luo Chen refined Red Leaf Sha with his Qi and Blood Furnace and fused it into his Gang Qi, realizing that Divine Wind was needed to make the resulting aura more agile.
• In the third year, Xiao Feng sent Luo Chen a gourd of Nine Tribulation Earth Sha from Wuyou City, and Luo Chen used it to transform his Red Leaf True Aura into Nine Tribulation True Aura.
• Luo Chen remained secluded for ten years, while Xiao Feng and Xiao Sanniang discussed the strain his growing supply demands placed on Remnant Immortal City's resources.
• Tie Xiong returned to Xiao Manor with a Flawless Golden Body but one arm missing, and Xiao Feng told his subordinates to meet Luo Chen's demands.
• Chu Zhaonan reported that a barren mountain near Mofeng City might contain Unforgiven Heavenly Wind, and Luo Chen recognized that it was time to act.

Luo Chen traveled with Xiao Feng’s convoy to Mofeng City, completed the Forbidden Technique Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel, and sensed a powerful Returnee in the city. He then headed toward the dangerous Huifeng Mountain Range to seek Divine Wind and refine his own Divine Adamantine Battle Qi.

• Xiao Feng told Luo Chen that former rulers who had gone to Wuyou City were returning, and said he was traveling to negotiate with them; Luo Chen learned that his father, Xiao Lin, had not returned.
• During the journey, Luo Chen studied and completed Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel, altering it so it could multiply his power without its original costs.
• The convoy reached Mofeng City, where Luo Chen sensed an aged Returnee; the old man felt pressure from Luo Chen’s presence.
• Xiao Feng arrived secretly that night, confirmed that the convoy had avoided contact with Mofeng City officials, and asked Chu Zhaonan to take Luo Chen to Huifeng Mountain the next day.
• Luo Chen and the others rode to Huifeng Mountain, where Chu Zhaonan explained that lingering Heavenly Wind made the range a deadly forbidden zone; Luo Chen eagerly sought the Unforgiven Heavenly Wind within it.

Luo Chen entered the Huifeng Mountain Range to refine Unforgiven Heavenly Wind into golden Gang Qi, while six injured city lords waited for a chance to ambush him. After ten years, they prepared to storm the basin valley, but a dragon-like howl interrupted them.

• Luo Chen entered the Huifeng Mountain Range, and seven powerful figures followed his trail and discussed killing him to divide his Primordial Spirit.
• The Mofeng City Lord refused to join the attack, while the other six headed toward the mountains.
• Luo Chen found a basin valley filled with pale-gold Unforgiven Heavenly Wind and began refining it into Unforgiven Heavenly Aura.
• After several days, Luo Chen compared the golden aura with his Nine Tribulation True Aura and continued cultivating in the valley.
• Ten years later, six city lords were still waiting for Luo Chen to emerge, and the Xilong City Lord proposed storming the valley.
• A dragon-like howl rang across the land, startling the gathered city lords.

After refining two powerful kinds of Gang Qi, Luo Chen defeated six experts who had come to seize his Primordial Spirit and forced Xiang Fei to explain the Return to Ruins. Her account revealed a possible way out through the Gate of Annihilation, and ended with news that the realm’s supreme powers had once besieged a Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerate.

• After twenty years of cultivation, Luo Chen reached the Late Stage of the Furnace Realm and prepared to test a new technique on the six experts surrounding him.
• The six experts attacked Luo Chen, but he captured Xiang Fei and used his Heaven and Earth Inverse Wheel to kill the other five.
• Luo Chen questioned Xiang Fei, who explained that the Return to Ruins encompassed the Great Cataclysm Realm, the Corpse Immortal Domain, and the Sea of Stars.
• Xiang Fei described the Gate of Annihilation, the Nine Rings, and the rumor that crossing the Gate could allow someone to escape the doomed world.
• Xiang Fei explained that martial artists sought cultivators’ Primordial Spirits as a means of escape, and said that supreme beings had once joined forces to attack a Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerate.

Luo Chen returned to Remnant Immortal City, killed Xiao Feng for betraying him, and installed Jing Lan as the new city lord with Xiang Fei’s help. A year later, he began using Source Blood to merge his two types of Gang Qi into a unique Blood Refinement Divine Aura.

• Luo Chen questioned the injured Mofeng City Lord about the Nine Rings of Annihilation and learned that Chaos Energy could shatter a martial artist’s Qi and Blood Furnace.
• Xiao Feng feared Luo Chen’s return after the seven experts he had sent to kill him failed to report back, and he kept his fighters close while considering using Jing Lan as leverage.
• Luo Chen appeared on the street before Xiao Feng’s group, killed Xiao Feng with a strand of golden Gang Qi, and ordered Xiang Fei to kill the others.
• Luo Chen appointed Jing Lan city lord of Remnant Immortal City and told Xiang Fei to assist her, then moved into the former Xiao Manor.
• A year later, Luo Chen used a remaining drop of Source Blood to begin merging his Heavenly Phoenix and Nine Tribulation True Auras into Blood Refinement Divine Aura.

Luo Chen completed the Blood Refinement Divine Aura, treated Xiang Fei’s injuries, and left Remnant Immortal City for Red Leaf Ridge. There he discovered the supposed Red Leaf Tree was a Dreamwood and began planning a formation to attract stronger Ghost Nightmares.

• After three months of work, Luo Chen successfully merged Nine Tribulation Earth Sha and Unforgiven Heavenly Wind into the Blood Refinement Divine Aura, which destroyed the Tide Watching Pavilion with a tremor.
• Xiang Fei told Luo Chen that Ghost Nightmares gathered around the Red Leaf Tree during Ghost Rain, and Luo Chen decided to investigate it with Chu Zhaonan and the Mystic Armor Army.
• Luo Chen examined Xiang Fei’s severe injuries and promised to draw out the Chaos Energy in her body before departing, extending her lifespan.
• The next day, Luo Chen left Remnant Immortal City with Chu Zhaonan while Jing Lan and Xiang Fei stayed behind to gather martial cultivation resources and pressure Sanxiang City for Yan Zhi Oil.
• During the journey, Luo Chen refined Chaos Energy inside his body and increased his qi and blood.
• At Red Leaf Ridge, Luo Chen recognized the supposed Red Leaf Tree as a Dreamwood and began planning a formation to reshape the terrain and attract more powerful Ghost Nightmares.

Luo Chen reshaped Red Leaf Ridge with primitive formations intended to undo the Divine Soul Seal, then returned to Remnant Immortal City and realized he wanted to reach the Xuan World. After Xiang Fei explained the Furnace Realm breakthrough, Luo Chen sealed a major acupoint in an instant, astonishing her.

• Luo Chen ordered the evacuation of the area around Red Leaf Ridge and began reshaping its mountains and waterways to establish three formations.
• Over ten years, Remnant Immortal City gathered the materials Luo Chen required, and he completed the foundations of the formations before returning with the workers.
• At a New Year’s meal, Luo Chen worried over Jing Lan’s declining health and decided that he wanted to travel to the Xuan World.
• Xiang Fei explained how Furnace Realm cultivators tempered their acupoints to prepare for the Unleaking Realm.
• Luo Chen used Blood Refinement Divine Aura to form a qi membrane in a major acupoint almost immediately, leaving Xiang Fei stunned.

Luo Chen’s cultivation had slowed because his Blood Refinement Divine Aura consumed immense resources, and he refused Wuyou City’s demand to stop extracting them from nearby cities. Special Envoy Fang Zhibai offered him an Immortal Yuan Stone in exchange for restraint and invited him to Wuyou City, leaving Luo Chen pondering the stone and the mysteries of the Return to Ruins.

• Luo Chen spent decades tempering his acupoints, slowing his progress when the resources needed to sustain his Gang Qi became scarce.
• Fang Zhibai attended Jing Lan’s seventieth birthday celebration, then visited Luo Chen and asked him to stop using force and unequal trade to take resources from other cities.
• Luo Chen refused to stop, and Fang Zhibai warned him that Wuyou City could send Martial Dao Human Immortals against him.
• Fang Zhibai offered Luo Chen an Immortal Yuan Stone, explaining that his Old Ancestor hoped Luo Chen would restrain his resource demands, grow stronger, and help find a way out of the Return to Ruins.
• Luo Chen used a sound-based technique to make Fang Zhibai reveal his true intentions, then learned that Fang Zhibai’s Old Ancestor was the Wuyou Realm Master and wanted Luo Chen to visit Wuyou City.
• After Fang Zhibai left, Luo Chen recognized the stone box as Empty Bud Crystal and wondered why the Return to Ruins contained both it and the Immortal Yuan Stone.

After twenty years of seclusion, Luo Chen refined the Immortal Yuan Stone and achieved the Flawless Golden Body, then mourned Jing Lan and visited her grave. He went to Red Leaf Valley to begin a formation using condemned prisoners as Ghost Rain arrived.

• Luo Chen spent twenty years refining the Immortal Yuan Stone and broke through to the Fourth Realm of Body Refining, forming the Flawless Golden Body and awakening changes in his Thunder Bone.
• Xiang Fei told Luo Chen that Jing Lan had died, and he learned that she had chosen Xiao Yuxin as Remnant Immortal City's new city lord.
• Luo Chen read Jing Lan's letter and inscribed her nameless gravestone as the tomb of his grateful friend.
• Luo Chen and Xiang Fei went to Red Leaf Ridge, which had become Red Leaf Valley, where he ordered condemned prisoners brought into the valley for Ghost Rain.
• Luo Chen sent Xiang Fei away, activated the Blood River Demonic Cloud Great Array and Dream Bubble Formation, and began the ritual as the first raindrop fell.

Luo Chen lured countless Ghost Nightmares into Red Leaf Valley and used his preparations to trap them, then awakened his Divine Thought long enough to kill the Ghost Nightmare King and retrieve his treasures. He left the ruined valley with Xiang Fei and continued toward Wuyou City, carrying newly recovered treasures while planning to cultivate the Martial Dao.

• Luo Chen inhaled seventy years' worth of Moxian Smoke, fell asleep in his thousand-zhang form, and drew a vast multitude of Ghost Nightmares toward Red Leaf Valley.
• Luo Chen's formations sealed the Ghost Nightmares inside his body, and the Ghost Nightmare King broke through his golden fire net and entered his Consciousness Sea.
• Luo Chen's weakened divine soul awoke and destroyed the Ghost Nightmare King with a single word before taking several items from his Purple Mansion; the Soul-Shaking Thunder Sound then knocked Xiang Fei unconscious.
• After the five peaks collapsed and the red leaves vanished, Xiang Fei found Luo Chen walking out of the valley, and he told her that freedom had never seemed so beautiful.
• In a carriage bound for Wuyou City, Luo Chen examined the Primal Chaos Cauldron, Yuan Tu Sword, and Vacuum Gu, and learned that the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire was barely alive.
• Luo Chen took out the Divine Adamantine Battle Qi and Demonic Aspect Technique books and considered his next steps in Martial Dao cultivation.

Luo Chen considered how to advance his Martial Dao and decided to create a Body Tempering Cultivation Method suited to himself, using the Demonic Aspect Technique as a possible foundation for future Dual Cultivation of Dharma and Body. On the road to Wuyou City, he entered the Mist of Annihilation, fought Chaos Beasts, and returned shaken by the mist’s threat to even powerful martial artists.

• Luo Chen judged the Unleaking Realm to be a transitional stage and reflected on the limits of Wang Yuan’s Divine Adamantine Battle Qi.
• Luo Chen studied the Demonic Aspect Technique and decided not to replace his current method yet, instead resolving to create a Body Tempering Cultivation Method tailored to himself.
• Xiang Fei drove toward Wuyou City, wondering whether to challenge the Nine Rings of Annihilation again after Luo Chen had healed her.
• Luo Chen spotted the Mist of Annihilation approaching and left Xiang Fei’s carriage to investigate it.
• Luo Chen entered the mist, discovered that it obscured even his Crimson-Eyed Golden Pupils, and killed Chaos Beasts until the Yuan Tu Sword warned him to stop.
• Luo Chen returned to Xiang Fei and concluded that the Mist of Annihilation could bury even Unleaking Realm martial artists, resolving to learn when the next Great Annihilation Mist would arrive.

Luo Chen explored Wuyou City and discovered that many stranded immortal cultivators had abandoned hope, while others still struggled to cultivate. After meeting Chi Mo, a determined Golden Core cultivator, Luo Chen urged him to convert to martial Dao and returned to Yuelong Lane at daybreak, reflecting on the different ways people endured life in the Great Cataclysm Realm.

• Luo Chen entered Wuyou City with Xiang Fei and learned that stranded immortal cultivators lived in Pingyang Lane and gathered at places such as the Exiled Immortal Tower.
• Xiang Fei explained that Wuyou City’s residents included its natives, invited martial artists, and immortal cultivators, and that the Nine-Layered Tower would not open for another sixteen years.
• Luo Chen settled into Yuelong Lane and began planning a new martial Dao cultivation method based on Divine Adamantine Battle Qi, the Demonic Aspect Technique, and his accumulated knowledge.
• Luo Chen visited Chi Mo in Pingyang Lane and learned that the Golden Core Great Perfection cultivator had drifted into the Great Cataclysm Realm after finding an inheritance in an Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• Luo Chen urged Chi Mo to disperse his Golden Core and convert to martial Dao, then toured Wuyou City’s businesses that profited from struggling immortal cultivators.
• Luo Chen returned to Yuelong Lane at daybreak, where Xiang Fei greeted him.

Luo Chen spent three years deriving Divine Demon Formless, a cultivation method that let him divide his soul among the Gang Qi in his Acupoints and advance toward the Human Immortal Realm. After completing its first stage, he went out with Xiang Fei, witnessed Chi Mo die while attempting a breakthrough, and asked Fang Zhibai to take him to the Nine-Layered Tower.

• Luo Chen combined Human, Desolate Beast, and Devil cultivation methods to derive Divine Demon Formless, which let him place small portions of his soul into his Acupoints without triggering the Soul-Shaking Thunder Sound.
• Luo Chen told Xiang Fei that he had completed one stage of the method, then went with her to explore Wuyou City.
• Luo Chen sensed an aura rising in Pingyang Lane, and a bolt of lightning struck as Chi Mo died during a breakthrough attempt.
• Fang Zhibai arrived and questioned Luo Chen about Chi Mo, while Wuyou City soldiers began clearing the scene.
• Luo Chen told Fang Zhibai that he had already been in Wuyou City for three years and asked him to lead the way to the Nine-Layered Tower.

Luo Chen learned about the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower, the Gate of Annihilation, and the danger of the coming Mist of Annihilation before spending thirteen years preparing his soul for entry. He emerged exhausted, learned the Wuyou Realm Master had stayed inside the tower, and planned to meet returning cultivators and trade for rare resources.

• Fang Zhibai took Luo Chen through a crude teleportation array to view the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower and explained its connection to the Gate of Annihilation.
• Fang Zhibai told Luo Chen that the Fang Clan feared another Mist of Annihilation could arrive within a hundred to a thousand years, while Xiang Fei described how cultivators survived and advanced through the tower's rings.
• Luo Chen decided to enter the tower when it opened in thirteen years and told Xiang Fei he would remove her Blood-Qi Restriction before then.
• Luo Chen entered seclusion to split at least seven hundred and twenty Split Souls and conceal them in his acupoints.
• Thirteen years later, Luo Chen emerged haggard and learned that the Wuyou Realm Master had not left the tower.
• Xiang Fei suggested Luo Chen meet the cultivators who had come out to rest and trade pills for Empty Bud Crystals or Immortal Yuan Stones, and Luo Chen agreed.

Luo Chen attended Nine Smoke Tower’s high-level Trade Fair, where his reputation and the presence of Martial Dao Human Immortal Gu Xun drew attention. After observing the demand for medicine that repaired damaged meridians, he offered a Fourth-Tier High-Grade Meridian-Supplementing Pill, shocking the attendees.

• Luo Chen presented his golden Wuyou Token and entered the Trade Fair with Xiang Fei, taking a seat in the hall’s highest section.
• Zixia City Lord and the other attendees recognized Luo Chen’s history and speculated that the Wuyou Realm Master favored him.
• Gu Xun arrived, and Luo Chen sensed his aura before introducing himself to the Martial Dao Human Immortal.
• Fang Zhibai opened the Trade Fair by auctioning a Blood Dragon Ginseng, which Zixia City Lord bought for one hundred and twenty thousand Golden Beads.
• Luo Chen offered a Fourth-Tier High-Grade Meridian-Supplementing Pill that could fully repair an Unleaking Realm martial artist’s damaged meridians, and the crowd erupted in commotion.

Luo Chen traded Meridian Supplementing Pills for Empty Bud Crystal and learned that the rare material could aid martial artists in reaching the Seventh Realm. After receiving little Empty Bud Crystal and testing alternatives for his Vacuum Gu, he entered the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower with Xiang Fei, intent on using its energy to fill his Acupoints and form Martial Dao Divine Spirits.

• Luo Chen offered Meridian Supplementing Pills in exchange only for Empty Bud Crystal, trading with a masked martial artist and later with Gu Xun.
• Gu Xun explained that Empty Bud Crystal could improve the odds of breaking through the Nine Rings of Annihilation and reaching the Seventh Realm, and he traded Luo Chen more crystals and cultivation insights.
• Luo Chen tested Profound Heaven Crystal and Empty Prism Aperture with the Vacuum Gu, which ate a little Empty Prism Aperture before rejecting it.
• Luo Chen waited in Wuyou City for more Empty Bud Crystal, then traded low-grade Pill Recipes to Fang Zhibai for a large supply of Empty Prism Apertures.
• Luo Chen entered the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower with Xiang Fei after dividing his Main Soul into seven hundred and twenty Split Souls, hoping to gain enough energy to fill his Acupoints.

Luo Chen entered the Ninth Ring of Annihilation with Xiang Fei and discovered that his Primal Chaos Cauldron could refine Chaos Energy far more effectively than his Qi and Blood Furnace. As he began cultivating on a small Cultivation Stone, the cauldron produced a stream of liquid that the furnace transformed into pure qi and blood with astonishing efficiency.

• Luo Chen prepared to enter the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower with Xiang Fei, while other newcomers watched him with curiosity and resentment.
• Luo Chen and Xiang Fei absorbed and refined the Chaos Energy outside the tower, then passed through its barrier into the desolate Ninth Ring.
• Xiang Fei explained the dangers of the Nine Rings and guided Luo Chen through the darkness to a small Cultivation Stone before departing for Sanxiang City.
• Luo Chen sat down to cultivate in his Divine Demon Formless posture and directed a surge of Chaos Energy into his Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• The cauldron calmed the Chaos Energy and released drops of liquid into Luo Chen's Qi and Blood Furnace, which refined them into pure qi and blood at more than a hundred times his earlier rate.

Luo Chen discovered that the Gray Radiance in the Primal Chaos Cauldron let it refine Chaos Energy completely and absorb Law Fragments, which he named the Light of Order. He used the cauldron to cultivate continuously and rapidly improve his Martial Dao realm, then gave Yu Huai his cultivation spot as the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower closed.

• Luo Chen observed the Gray Radiance merge with the Primal Chaos Cauldron, refine Chaos Energy with a sense of order, and help the cauldron absorb Law Fragments.
• Luo Chen named the Gray Radiance the Light of Order and resolved to uncover its secret, believing it might help him escape the Return to Ruins.
• Luo Chen tested opening all his acupoints to absorb Chaos Energy continuously, suffered internal injuries, and concluded that controlling the number of open acupoints would let him cultivate safely.
• Luo Chen gradually increased the Chaos Energy flowing into his body, and his Martial Dao realm advanced rapidly over the following year.
• When the Nine-Layered Immortal Tower closed, Luo Chen gave his Cultivation Stone to the newly arrived Yu Huai and departed.
• Yu Huai settled on the meteorite and later realized the Chaos Energy there had surged back, suspecting Luo Chen had absorbed it all.

Luo Chen left the Ninth Ring, passed through the Eighth, and reached the Seventh Ring in search of denser Chaos Energy. There, he acquired the Zixia City Lord’s Cultivation Stone with a Meridian Supplementing Pill and confronted Old Monster Qu, who had come to challenge her for it.

• Luo Chen decided the Ninth Ring could no longer support his cultivation and headed toward the Central Platform after Fang Zhibai warned him about the dangers and the scarcity of Cultivation Stones in the Middle Three Rings.
• Luo Chen endured the Chaos Energy torrent through the Central Platform, entered the Eighth Ring, judged its energy insufficient, and continued on to the Seventh Ring.
• The injured Zixia City Lord faced Old Monster Qu’s challenge for her Cultivation Stone after losing a previous challenge in the Sixth Ring.
• Luo Chen offered the Zixia City Lord a Meridian Supplementing Pill in exchange for her Cultivation Stone, and she agreed to give it to him.
• Old Monster Qu objected to Luo Chen taking the Cultivation Stone, so Luo Chen beckoned him to fight.

Luo Chen killed Old Monster Qu to secure his Cultivation Stone and establish a safe place to cultivate in the Seventh Ring. Nine years later, he reached the Middle Stage of the Unleaking Realm and set out to ask the Zixia City Lord about the Middle Three Rings.

• Luo Chen rejected Old Monster Qu's offer and killed him with the Cloud Searching Divine Claw, then warned the crowd not to disturb him.
• Luo Chen offered to trade Meridian Supplementing Pills and other items for Empty Bud Crystals, and the Zixia City Lord explained how the Cultivation Stone's membrane could shield objects from Chaos Energy.
• Luo Chen used the stone membrane to protect his Vacuum Gu and Empty Bud Crystal, inspected Old Monster Qu's belongings, and prepared to cultivate.
• Luo Chen opened ninety Acupoints in the Seventh Ring and found its Chaos Energy far denser than that of the Ninth Ring.
• After nine years of cultivation, Luo Chen reached the Middle Stage of the Unleaking Realm and left to seek the Zixia City Lord's advice about the Middle Three Rings.

Luo Chen learned about the Middle Three Rings and the Vulture Alliance before heading to the Sixth Ring to claim a Cultivation Stone. He defeated Cui Zhuo with his improved Great Luo Five Dragons Hand and took Cui Zhuo’s place, while sparing him.

• Zixia City Lord explained the Middle Three Rings’ cultivation requirements, scarce Cultivation Stones, and the Vulture Alliance led by Dugu Cheng.
• Zixia City Lord revealed that the Wuyou Realm Master required Unleaking Realm martial artists to enter the Nine Rings of Annihilation, and suggested Luo Chen wait for a Cultivation Stone to become available.
• Luo Chen refused to wait, gave Zixia City Lord permission to return to her former Cultivation Stone as payment, and went to the Sixth Ring’s Central Platform.
• Cui Zhuo invited the unfamiliar Luo Chen to talk, but Luo Chen demanded his Cultivation Stone and insisted on challenging him immediately.
• Luo Chen defeated Cui Zhuo with one use of his refined Five Dragons Flourishing Spirit, which he named Great Luo Five Dragons Hand.
• Luo Chen spared Cui Zhuo, revealed his name, and watched him leave.

Dugu Cheng arranged for Xiao Lin to challenge Luo Chen, hoping the fight would justify the alliance’s intervention over Luo Chen taking Cui Zhuo’s Cultivation Stone. After strengthening his martial arts and Blood Cloth Armor, Luo Chen defeated Xiao Lin, leaving the watching cultivators to decide what to do next.

• Dugu Cheng persuaded Cui Zhuo that the alliance should uphold its rules and planned to use Xiao Lin’s grudge against Luo Chen to provoke a fight.
• Luo Chen spent more than half a year stabilizing his Leakless Realm Middle Stage and developed Blood Cloth Armor, a defensive martial art powered by his qi and blood.
• Luo Chen inspected the Vacuum Gu, then noticed Xiao Lin approaching with twenty or thirty cultivators behind him.
• Xiao Lin challenged Luo Chen over his son’s death and the seizure of Remnant Immortal City, and the two exchanged several martial arts techniques.
• Xiao Lin unleashed a move he had created after studying Chaos Energy, but Luo Chen broke through its waves with a sword strike and defeated him.

After defeating Xiao Lin, Luo Chen faced the Vulture Alliance’s attempt to extort him and crushed their attack with his World-Destroying Millstone, until Human Immortal Gu Xun intervened. Twenty years later, after discussing martial arts with Xiao Lin, Luo Chen began considering a new Martial Dao Divine Ability that could unleash his full strength in a single strike.

• Xiao Lin admitted defeat to Luo Chen, ended the dispute over Remnant Immortal City, and vowed to challenge him again in the future.
• Dugu Cheng demanded that Luo Chen compensate Cui Zhuo with miraculous pills and medicines, but Luo Chen refused and challenged the seventeen Vulture Alliance martial artists to attack together.
• Luo Chen used the World-Destroying Millstone to overwhelm the Vulture Alliance, killing nine members before Gu Xun intervened and forced him to stop.
• After Gu Xun departed, the surviving martial artists fled, and Luo Chen returned to cultivation, stockpiling Blood Refinement Divine Aura in his acupoints to nurture a Martial Dao Divine Spirit.
• Over the next twenty years, Xiao Lin repeatedly challenged Luo Chen and discussed martial theories with him, prompting Luo Chen to consider creating a one-strike Martial Dao Divine Ability.

Luo Chen struggled to create a Martial Dao Divine Ability that could release his overwhelming power at once, then discovered a promising method using the Split Souls in his Acupoints. He left the Sixth Ring to challenge martial artists in the Fifth and Fourth Rings, while Xiao Lin continued advancing behind him.

• Luo Chen realized his vast foundations made it difficult to unleash all his power in one strike, and a discussion with Xiao Lin led him to experiment with his Acupoints.
• Luo Chen used Split Souls within the Acupoints in his arm to drive Gang Qi into an ordinary punch, injuring himself but proving the method could increase its power.
• After five more years of contemplation, Luo Chen left the Sixth Ring and wrote that he would challenge experts in the Fifth and Fourth Rings to hone his Martial Dao Law True Intent.
• Xiao Lin reached the Fifth Ring ten years later and learned that Luo Chen had defeated all eighteen Grandmasters there in less than half a year using only Gang Qi punches.
• Luo Chen entered the Fourth Ring, while Xiao Lin resolved to keep pursuing him.