Recaps

Luo Chen advanced his cultivation, expanded his businesses, and secretly developed Blood Burning Pills as Great River Market descended into disorder. As rival forces gathered around newly discovered ruins, he entered the Zhenlong Black Market to pursue a safer path for his plans.

• Luo Chen reached Qi Refining Seventh Layer, repaired his damaged meridians, expanded Jade Marrow Pill production, and attended an auction where Mi Shuhua bought the Four Symbols Cauldron and Luo Chen secured more cultivation supplies.
• Robber cultivators ambushed Luo Chen, but he killed two pursuers with his prepared defenses before Mi Shuhua intervened, and the gang later uncovered how Lu Huaiben’s group had learned his delivery schedule.
• Luo Chen opened Mixue Bingcheng with Feng Xia, concealed his Spirit Vein Cave, and used a Small Spirit Gathering Array to improve his cultivation while teaching apprentices to refine All Wonders Pills.
• Luo Chen secretly developed a Blood Burning Pill and tested it on a Frost Wolf, finding that it temporarily increased strength but caused severe aftereffects, while Wang Yuan later tested it on human cultivators without loss of reason.
• Luo Chen perfected the Evergreen Art, reached Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and learned that Wang Yuan hoped to use the Blood Burning Pill to gain strength for a chance at Foundation Establishment.
• As disorder spread and the Dao Discussion Stage closed, Luo Chen increased pill production, improved his movement with Carefree Wind Riding, and protected his business interests while cultivators prepared to seek treasure in newly discovered ruins.
• Luo Chen helped Duan Feng establish a Magic Tool shop, refined more Blood Burning Pills using Demon Fire from Azure Grain Sprites, and learned that Mi Shuhua had sent a five-hundred-person force to the Ancient Origin Mountain Range.
• After learning that Sikong Shoujia’s son had entered the ruins, Luo Chen disguised himself, used a Zhenlong token to enter the Zhenlong Black Market, and joined its high-end gathering.

Luo Chen survived the destruction of the Mountain Shattering Gang, defeated the attackers at Slanting Moon Valley, and founded the Luo Tian Association. As the association rebuilt, he began maneuvering against the Fu Family by spreading the story of its Blood Talisman, while Cool Moon Fairy’s appearance set the next conflict in motion.

• Luo Chen bought and sold goods at the Zhenlong Black Market, then stole the Azure Musk Gathering Dragon Flag after Qiu Bai and Liu Han attacked the Sima siblings.
• After the Beast Tide and ruin expeditions cost the Mountain Shattering Gang many people, Luo Chen learned that Mi Shuhua had returned injured and received a Foundation Establishment Pill on the condition that he refine Jade Marrow Pills.
• The Great River Gang and its allies besieged Slanting Moon Valley while coordinated attacks struck the Mountain Shattering Gang, and Mi Shuhua was betrayed and killed by Elder Zhou and the others.
• Luo Chen destroyed Gao Tingyuan’s forces with Jade Marrow Scrap Beads, helped rout the Great River Gang, and saw Steward Miao assert the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect’s claim to the valley.
• Luo Chen founded the Luo Tian Association, distributed the spoils, appointed hall leaders, and gave Qin Liangchen Mi Shuhua’s Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Miao Wen killed the Mi Family survivors at Severing Cloud Mountain but spared Mi Li, while Luo Chen expanded the association and helped Qin Liangchen regain his arm.
• Luo Chen and Wang Yuan planned a limited war against the Fu Family, and Luo Chen sold a Blood Talisman at the black market while claiming it came from a Fu Family cultivator.
• At Seven Stars Slope, a black-robed woman killed Wang Yuan with a Fu Family Blood Talisman, and Luo Chen recognized her as Cool Moon Fairy while Fu Zhang angrily read Luo Chen’s letter.

After the Ghost Kings’ attack shattered Great River Market, Luo Chen built up the Luo Tian Association while cultivating and pursuing new pill-refining methods. He delegated more of the association’s work, delivered pills to Tian Xingzi, and set his sights on an entire Blazing Cloud Peng corpse.

• Luo Chen led the Luo Tian Association’s Battle Hall against Wubao Fort, where Wang Yuan broke through the defenses and Luo Chen confronted Fu Zhang’s Talisman Treasure attack.
• Luo Chen reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer, perfected Spirit Eye Art, and joined Miao Wen and Luo Tianhong in tracking down the killer of Fei Bai Wen, while Pang Renxiong defeated the black-robed Golden Core Cultivator.
• Three Ghost Kings escaped beneath Great River Market, forcing Luo Chen and the association’s survivors to flee as Pang Renxiong and the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect fought to contain the disaster.
• Luo Chen used Pang Renxiong’s token and the market’s upheaval to strengthen the Luo Tian Association, resumed trade with the Great River Gang, and sought Elf Pills and other resources through the Zhenlong Black Market.
• Luo Chen learned the Emperor Flow Paste formula, bound a Sword Pellet to himself, and partnered with Tian Xingzi to supply Blood Burning Pills in exchange for materials and a Water Method Pill Refining Technique.
• Luo Chen refined Spirit Communication Pills, strengthened his divine soul with them and the Soul Subduing Art, and continued developing his spells while dealing with the Nangong Family’s losses and Duan Feng’s desire for revenge.
• Luo Chen appointed Sima Hui Niang to take on greater responsibility in the Luo Tian Association, then delivered fifty pills to Tian Xingzi and demanded the entire Blazing Cloud Peng corpse from Xiong Kun.

Luo Chen destroyed the Duan Family, established the Luo Tian Association at Little Huan Mountain, and advanced to Foundation Establishment before discovering that a Ghost King threatened Great River Market. He arranged a joint relocation to Mount Tai Market and began strengthening his body and divine soul before the departure.

• Luo Chen captured the Second-Order Explosive Ape during the Beast Tide, traced its arrival to Ke Yuelin’s purchase of its cub, and used the Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture to subdue it.
• Luo Chen led the Luo Tian Association in destroying the Duan Family, claimed Little Huan Mountain, and discovered the Ice Fire Spirit Spring while rescuing the wounded Duan Feng.
• Luo Chen supported the association’s recovery, refined Emperor Flow Paste, and overcame a Pill Poison Barrier to establish his foundation after repeated failures.
• Luo Chen celebrated his Foundation Establishment Ceremony, reunited with Zeng Wen and his family, received the Yi Wood cultivation method from Li Yixian, and dispelled Wang Haichao’s probing spell.
• Luo Chen mastered the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture, entered Ghost City, killed Li Da, and cultivated beneath Fallen Phoenix Mountain until Pang Renxiong awakened as a Ghost King.
• Luo Chen subdued Luo Tianhong and took Duan Qiankun’s black chess piece, then warned the Luo Tian Association that a Ghost King would soon break free and ordered its members to leave Great River Market.
• Luo Chen persuaded Nangong Jin and Li Yixian to support Wang Haichao as Alliance Leader, and the four forces tentatively chose Mount Tai Market as their destination.
• Luo Chen named the strengthened Luo Tianhong Little Black, helped Bai Mei Ling cultivate with yin souls, and began tempering his body with Earth Fire Fiend Qi under Wang Yuan’s instruction.