Chapter Summaries

The Luo Tian Association attacked Little Huan Mountain, where Duan Feng helped break the Duan Family’s Tier 2 protective formation and confronted Duan Qiankun. As Duan Qiankun faced Duan Feng and the Exploding Ape, Sima Hui Niang led the association’s forces up the mountain to fight the Duan Family.

• Luo Chen told the Luo Tian Association leaders that Duan Rui and a powerful puppet were additional threats, while Wang Yuan discussed his chances against Duan Qiankun.
• Duan Qiankun learned that Xiong Kun demanded greater payment and a Magic Treasure to serve the Duan Family, then planned to meet him and keep a low profile toward the Luo Tian Association.
• Sima Hui Niang led fifty Luo Tian Association cultivators toward Little Huan Mountain, supported by Blood Burning Pills and joined by onlookers who followed them.
• Duan Feng and three allies destroyed four High-Grade Magic Tools at specific array nodes, collapsing the Duan Family’s Seven Absolute Extinction Ring Array.
• Duan Qiankun attacked Duan Feng, but the Exploding Ape blocked his sword; Duan Feng denounced him, and Sima Hui Niang led the association’s fighters into battle on the mountain.

The Duan Family fought to repel the Luo Tian Association’s assault as Duan Qiankun battled Wang Yuan and tried to protect his clan’s grounds. Just as Qiankun seemed to defeat Wang Yuan, Pill Dust Master unleashed a blazing attack that swallowed the battlefield.

• Wang Yuan fought Duan Qiankun, but Qiankun’s flying sword kept him at a distance and inflicted heavy wounds.
• Duan Feng rampaged through the Duan Family grounds on an Exploding Ape, then pursued Duan Rui into the Forbidden Ground’s mist formation.
• Duan Qiankun trapped the Exploding Ape with the Universe Cover, but Wang Yuan and Nangong Jin attacked him; Nangong used the Azure Glaze Mirror to suppress the Ze Country Gui Diagram.
• Wang Yuan used Five Qi Return and caught the He Luo Sword between his fingers, but Duan Qiankun struck him with a Rattle Drum and sent him crashing beneath Little Huan Mountain.
• Nangong Jin retreated as Duan Qiankun sensed danger and saw Pill Dust Master summon a blazing sun that fell upon the battlefield.

Luo Chen destroyed the Duan Family’s forces at Little Huan Mountain, claimed the mountain for the Luo Tian Association, and secured allies and spoils. After organizing the aftermath and finding Duan Feng badly wounded but alive, Luo Chen entered the Duan Family’s forbidden ground and discovered the Ice Fire Spirit Spring.

• Luo Chen’s enormous Blazing Sun Spell turned the battlefield into a Fire Sea, and he announced that the Duan Family had been erased and Little Huan Mountain belonged to the Luo Tian Association.
• When Fang Chengshan tried to seize the mountain’s resources, Luo Chen killed him with his Sword Pellet and warned the gathered cultivators not to cross his line.
• Luo Chen exchanged the Ze Country Gui Diagram with Nangong Jin and agreed to give the Great River Gang a share in the Jade Marrow Pill business.
• Luo Chen ordered Liu Qiang to guard the mountain, assigned Sima Hui Niang to count casualties and spoils, and learned that Duan Feng was missing.
• Luo Chen found Duan Feng badly injured beside Duan Rui’s corpse in the Duan Family’s forbidden ground, stabilized Duan Feng, and entered the grass hut.
• Luo Chen discovered the Ice Fire Spirit Spring inside the hut.

After the battle at Little Huan Mountain, Luo Chen secured the Luo Tian Association’s position in Great River Market and found Wang Yuan using the Blood Evil Spirit-Seizing Array to seize Duan Qiankun’s cultivation. Seeking his own route to Foundation Establishment, Luo Chen advanced Emperor Flow Paste to 88/100 progress and planned to gain the remaining Achievement Points through training over the next two years.

• Luo Chen left the injured Duan Feng with Granny Yuan, then descended into the pit and discovered Wang Yuan draining Duan Qiankun with the Blood Evil Spirit-Seizing Array; Wang Yuan said he had to complete the process himself.
• Luo Chen sealed the cavern entrance, ordered guards to keep people away, and directed Qin Liangchen to cripple the surviving Duan cultivators while leaving the surviving mortals’ fate to Duan Feng.
• Luo Chen recognized that the battle had established the Luo Tian Association in Great River Market and considered Emperor Flow Paste as a fallback method for Foundation Establishment.
• Luo Chen used Achievement Points and his existing pill-refining knowledge to raise Emperor Flow Paste’s progress to 88/100, twelve points short of entry level.
• Luo Chen studied his Attribute Panel and planned to earn the remaining Achievement Points by improving his spells, pill arts, martial arts, and pill-refining proficiency during the next two years.

After the battle, Luo Chen reorganized the Luo Tian Association, moved its headquarters to Little Huan Mountain, and personally treated the wounded. He then used a Spirit Communication Pill to try to awaken Duan Feng, whose soul had been damaged, and Duan Feng’s eyes began to move.

• Murong Qinglian reported the Luo Tian Association’s casualties, the Duan Family’s losses, and the spoils; Luo Chen ordered the Duan Family survivors imprisoned until Duan Feng could decide their fate.
• Luo Chen ordered the association’s headquarters moved to Little Huan Mountain while keeping cultivators at Slanting Moon Valley, and he planned new halls and recruitment to rebuild the association.
• Luo Chen visited injured cultivators and repeatedly cast the Healing Spell, raising it to Grandmaster Level proficiency as he encouraged and cared for them.
• Feng Xia told Luo Chen that Duan Feng remained unconscious because Duan Rui had damaged his soul; Luo Chen healed Duan Feng’s physical injuries with his Grandmaster Level Healing Spell.
• Luo Chen gave Feng Xia a Spirit Communication Pill to strengthen Duan Feng’s soul, and she chose to give it to him; Luo Chen catalyzed its medicinal power, and Duan Feng’s eyes moved.

Luo Chen discovered that Wang Yuan’s attempt to seize Duan Qiankun’s Dao Foundation had failed, leaving him unstable and influenced by a residual soul, so he gave him the Soul Binding Oath to cultivate in isolation. Back on Little Huan Mountain, Luo Chen began refining pills with its Earthfire and produced a Top Grade All Wonders Pill that made him lose his composure, then considered testing it as Zeng Wen’s wedding gift.

• Luo Chen heard that Zeng Wen wanted to marry Xiu Gu and arranged for their Dao Companion Ceremony to accompany the Luo Tian Association’s celebration feast.
• Luo Chen entered the sealed cave beneath the lake, where Wang Yuan admitted that his attempt to seize Duan Qiankun’s Dao Foundation had failed and left his cultivation fluctuating while Duan Qiankun’s residual soul influenced him.
• Luo Chen taught Wang Yuan the Soul Binding Oath, and Wang Yuan decided to remain imprisoned beneath the lake until he could cultivate it to Great Accomplishment.
• Luo Chen returned to Little Huan Mountain and set up his Four Symbols Cauldron by the Earthfire so he could refine pills and improve his proficiency.
• After a month of pill refining, Luo Chen produced a Top Grade All Wonders Pill whose scent caused an unusually strong physical reaction, and he considered giving it to Zeng Wen as a wedding gift.

After two years of steady cultivation and rebuilding the Luo Tian Association, Luo Chen reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and began refining Emperor Flow Paste to prepare for Foundation Establishment without a Foundation Establishment Pill. After several failures, Tian Xingzi’s token suddenly reacted, leaving Luo Chen eager to discover what had happened.

• Zeng Wen told Luo Chen about the effects of the Top Grade All Wonders Pill, and Luo Chen gave him several pills.
• Luo Chen brought Jade Marrow Pills to Great Perfection, evaluated the poor profits of Top Grade pills, and used them to supplement his cultivation.
• Luo Chen developed the Luo Tian Association’s Medicine Hall and Artifact Hall, then entered a period of secluded cultivation while Duan Feng took responsibility for the Duan Family cultivators.
• Two years later, Luo Chen reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and prepared to attempt Foundation Establishment using his gathered resources and Emperor Flow Paste.
• Luo Chen began refining Emperor Flow Paste, failed several times, and then noticed Tian Xingzi’s token reacting as he prepared to leave the mountain.

Luo Chen overcame a Pill Poison Barrier with Emperor Flow Paste and successfully established his foundation after repeated attempts. A year later, as Nangong Jin pressed the Luo Tian Association for pills, Luo Chen emerged in a display of his new Foundation Establishment power and invited Nangong Jin to speak.

• Xu Ji delivered two Foundation Establishment Pills, retrieved Mi Shuhua's Human Puppet, and learned that the Duan Family had been destroyed and its ancestral grounds had become Little Huan Mountain.
• Xu Ji visited the Luo Tian Association seeking a sword sheath from the Duan Family's transaction, but Sima Hui Niang refused to let him meet Luo Chen after Wang Yuan revealed Foundation Establishment-level power.
• Luo Chen failed twice to establish his foundation, discovering that his Dantian was blocked by a Pill Poison Barrier formed from years of consuming pills.
• Luo Chen drank three portions of Emperor Flow Paste, broke through the Pill Poison Barrier, and formed a Qi Sea, successfully reaching Foundation Establishment.
• After Luo Chen remained in seclusion for a year, Nangong Jin came to the Luo Tian Association demanding pills and threatened to inspect him, but Wang Yuan confronted him with pseudo-Foundation Establishment power.
• Luo Chen emerged above Little Huan Mountain with a Foundation Establishment aura and invited Nangong Jin to speak.

Luo Chen successfully entered Foundation Establishment, learned that Li Yixian might possess the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture, and prepared to stabilize his new realm. After examining his transformed Qi Sea and testing his upgraded abilities, he discovered that his lifespan had risen to 150 years and his Great Perfection Spirit Eye Art could see a thousand li; at dawn, something in a familiar direction caught his attention.

• Luo Chen demonstrated his powerful Divine Soul Foundation to Nangong Jin, who explained that Li Yixian might have the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture Luo Chen wanted.
• Luo Chen invited Nangong Jin to his Foundation Establishment Ceremony, then celebrated with Wang Yuan, whose Qi Refining cultivation had stabilized at Great Perfection but who still faced two chances to succeed through Blood Path Foundation Establishment.
• Luo Chen examined his new Qi Sea and concluded that he needed the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture to refine the spiritual energy left from five portions of Foundation Establishment Elixir.
• Luo Chen saw that his lifespan had risen to 150 years and tested his spells and Magic Tools, finding that his Foundation Establishment power greatly improved them.
• Luo Chen used his Great Perfection Spirit Eye Art to see a thousand li, then noticed something in a familiar direction as dawn broke.

Luo Chen celebrated his Foundation Establishment with the Luo Tian Association, received Qu Lingjun’s first Jade Marrow Pill, and learned about rising tensions among powerful factions. Wang Haichao’s dramatic spiritual attack arrived at the ceremony, where Luo Chen dispelled it with a single sweep.

• Luo Chen reunited with Zeng Wen, Xiu Gu, their son Zeng Yilong, Tang Quan, Mi Li, and Qu Lingjun at the ceremony.
• Luo Chen discovered that Qu Lingjun had refined a Low-Grade Jade Marrow Pill with Mi Li and Tang Quan’s help, then ordered Sima Hui Niang to reward them and forbade further unauthorized pill refining.
• Luo Chen reviewed the past year’s affairs and received congratulations from the Luo Tian Association’s hall masters, including Qin Liangchen, Duan Feng, Gu Cai Yi, and Granny Yuan.
• Nangong Jin presented a five-hundred-year spirit ginseng, and Li Yixian presented an agreed-upon Tier 2 Cultivation Method while informing Luo Chen that Zhou Qing had been recalled amid conflict between the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect and the Fallen Cloud Sect.
• Wang Haichao sent an azure flood dragon surging into the hall, and Luo Chen dispelled it with a single sweep of his hand.

At Luo Chen’s Foundation Establishment ceremony, he impressed the guests with a display of strength and shared insights that illuminated the path to Foundation Establishment and beyond. As the ceremony ended, Nangong Qin reconciled with Qin Liangchen by gifting him Seven Apertures Lotus Root, while the guests continued reflecting on Luo Chen’s teachings.

• Luo Chen effortlessly dispelled Wang Haichao’s probing spell, establishing himself as an equal among the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Luo Chen explained how the divine soul aided Foundation Establishment, and the Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators listened closely.
• Li Yixian shared her Yi Wood cultivation insights, followed by Nangong Jin and Wang Haichao discussing their own paths, giving Luo Chen new direction.
• Nangong Qin apologized to Qin Liangchen for the Slanting Moon Valley conflict and offered him Seven Apertures Lotus Root to help restore his body.
• Qin Liangchen accepted the gift, forgave Nangong Qin, and promised to offer incense to the cultivators who had died in their conflict.
• Nangong Qin returned to find Li Da and Min Longyu still absorbed in Luo Chen’s teachings.

Luo Chen accepted Qu Lingjun as his personal disciple and entrusted the Luo Tian Association to Sima Hui Niang before entering the Great River Ghost City to seek a Second-Order Spirit Vein. In the ruined market, he encountered Li Da, killed him after he attacked, and took his belongings.

• Luo Chen mastered the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture overnight by transitioning from the Perfected Evergreen Art.
• Luo Chen made Qu Lingjun his personal disciple, gave him pill-refining materials and a magic tool, and arranged generous monthly support for him.
• Luo Chen assigned Sima Hui Niang to oversee the association and entered seclusion plans before heading to the Ghost City three days later.
• Luo Chen used his concealment art to pass among the ghosts and walked toward Fallen Phoenix Mountain, where he believed a Second-Order Spirit Vein lay.
• Luo Chen found Li Da in a ruined house and demanded his Ghost Mother Needles and banner, but Li Da attacked and tried to escape.
• Luo Chen destroyed Li Da with the Great Perfection Entangling Spell, gathered his belongings, and left before the commotion attracted more ghosts.

Luo Chen crossed Great River Ghost City, using the Soul Refining Banner, Ghost Mother Needles, and his spells to survive the journey to Fallen Phoenix Mountain. He purified a hidden spirit land and began cultivating there, while leaving Luo Tianhong's ghost behind at White Stone Plaza.

• Luo Chen examined Li Da's Soul Refining Banner and Ghost Mother Needles, then used the needles to capture Yin souls and strengthen the banner.
• After cautiously reaching White Stone Plaza, Luo Chen recognized Luo Tianhong as a ghost guarding the area but continued into Fallen Phoenix Mountain.
• Luo Chen crossed the ruined Dao Discussion Stage and located Pang Renxiong's crude cave dwelling, where dense spiritual qi was mixed with Yin Qi, ghost qi, and Baleful Qi.
• Luo Chen used his Great Perfection Cleanse Spell to remove the unwanted auras from the cave dwelling and set up defensive and concealment formations.
• Luo Chen sat down to cultivate with the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture, and the first drop of liquefied Spiritual Qi fell into his Qi Sea.

After three years of cultivation, Luo Chen stabilized at Foundation Establishment Second Layer and realized he needed a way to remove pill poison before relying on pills to advance. He went mining beneath Fallen Phoenix Mountain for Spirit Stone Ore, but awakened Pang Renxiong, who had become a Ghost King, and fled as the Ghost Domain erupted.

• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel, saw that three years of cultivation had raised him to Foundation Establishment Second Layer, and concluded that he needed a Detoxification Method to safely use more pills.
• Luo Chen reviewed his Tier 2 spells, then left his cave abode to handle the Luo Tian Association’s affairs and seek cultivation resources.
• Luo Chen noticed the First-Order Spirit Vein beneath Fallen Phoenix Mountain and used his Sword Pellet to dig for Spirit Stone Ore.
• Luo Chen sensed an immense surge of spiritual energy underground and saw Pang Renxiong awaken as a Ghost King, so he fled at full speed.
• Fallen Phoenix Mountain shook as ghostly energy erupted, and the awakened Ghost King’s aura caused the creatures of Great River Ghost City to prostrate themselves.

Luo Chen subdued the Ghost General Luo Tianhong in the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and recovered the black chess piece of the Rotten Ke Chess Piece. As Ghost King Pang Renxiong’s seal weakened and Great River Market faced danger, Luo Chen left wondering where to go next.

• Pang Renxiong awakened beneath Fallen Phoenix Mountain but was forced back by Linghu Yong’s Sword Cauldron Resonance, then attacked Luo Chen with ten thousand swords before stopping at the Sword-Shaped Token’s call.
• Luo Tianhong pursued Luo Chen over the Sword Pellet, and Luo Chen lured him into the Spirit Medicine Pavilion’s White Mist Concealment Formation.
• Luo Chen used the Soul Refining Banner and Soul Subduing Art to subdue Luo Tianhong, raising the banner’s quality to top-grade.
• Luo Chen retrieved the Rotten Ke Chess Piece’s black chess piece from Luo Tianhong and recognized it as a Low-Grade Defensive Magic Treasure.
• Luo Chen considered leaving Great River Market because Pang Renxiong might break free, then noticed an illusory figure watching him from the Spirit Medicine Pavilion’s entrance.

After three years in seclusion, Luo Chen returned to the Luo Tian Association at Foundation Establishment Second Layer and learned how the organization had changed in his absence. He approved plans to strengthen the association, then announced that it would leave Great River Market in three months.

• Luo Chen returned to Little Huan Mountain, learned that the association had grown but that Little Red and its young ape had escaped, and told Wang Yuan he could remove Duan Qiankun’s remnant soul.
• Luo Chen’s return brought association members to pay their respects, while Gu Cai Yi and Qu Lingjun headed to Universe Hall to see him, with Qu Lingjun insisting Mi Li come along.
• Sima Hui Niang reported on the association’s finances, its fifteen Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators, and Qu Lingjun’s progress in refining Low-Grade Jade Marrow Pills.
• Luo Chen approved establishing a Law Enforcement Hall and chose Zhou Yuanli to lead it.
• Luo Chen told the gathered high-level personnel that the Luo Tian Association would leave Great River Market in three months.

Luo Chen announced that the Luo Tian Association would leave Great River Market within three months because a Ghost King was expected to escape Ghost City. He then questioned Qu Lingjun’s wish to become Dao companions with Mi Li, leaving their decision unresolved as he taught them pill refining.

• Luo Chen told the Luo Tian Association that a Ghost King would likely break free within six months to a year and ordered them to prepare to leave Great River Market in three months.
• Qu Lingjun told Luo Chen he wanted to become Dao companions with Mi Li, and Luo Chen challenged him to consider their different lifespans and his goal of establishing his foundation.
• Luo Chen asked Qu Lingjun to reconsider until he reached the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, while privately reaffirming that he would not begin a romance unless deeply moved.
• The Luo Tian Association began selling herbs, Magic Tools, hunting grounds, and its holdings at Slanting Moon Valley as cultivators grew uneasy about its departure.
• Luo Chen demonstrated Jade Marrow Pill refining to Qu Lingjun and Mi Li, producing forty High-Grade Pills before asking Qu Lingjun how much he had learned.

Luo Chen prepared the Luo Tian Association to leave Great River Market, rescued Bai Mei Ling’s ghost from Ghost City, and worked to break Duan Qiankun’s Storage Bag restriction. He revealed that Pang Renxiong was becoming a Ghost King and proposed that the four allied forces relocate together, but Wang Haichao asked who would lead them.

• Luo Chen planned to spend three months refining High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills to fund the Luo Tian Association’s departure.
• Luo Chen recognized Bai Mei Ling in Ghost City, found her hiding in a Ghost Millstone, and brought her to Little Huan Mountain to cultivate the Soul Refining True Art.
• Luo Chen continued wearing away the Spiritual Sense restriction on Duan Qiankun’s Storage Bag, hoping to uncover its contents.
• Nangong Jin, Li Yixian, and Wang Haichao asked Luo Chen whether the Luo Tian Association was leaving, and he confirmed that a Ghost King would emerge from Pang Renxiong within a year.
• Luo Chen proposed that the four allied forces relocate together and support one another, and Wang Haichao asked who would lead the alliance.

Luo Chen helped Wang Haichao become leader of the Four-Family Alliance while steering the families toward Mount Tai Market, then explained why Wang needed the title to keep the Great River Gang together. A month later, Luo Tianhong defeated Duan Qiankun inside the Soul Refining Banner and became Little Black, while Luo Chen began looking for ways to strengthen his divine soul without Spirit Communication Pills.

• Luo Chen declined to vie for leadership and persuaded Li Yixian and Nangong Jin to support Wang Haichao as Alliance Leader.
• The four leaders discussed relocation options, rejected Snow Lotus Market and Flowing Light Market, and tentatively chose Mount Tai Market as their destination.
• Luo Chen explained to Sima Hui Niang that Wang Haichao needed the Alliance Leader title to retain the Great River Gang's followers, and he set departure for two months later.
• Luo Tianhong defeated and devoured Duan Qiankun inside the Soul Refining Banner, and Luo Chen named the strengthened Ghost General Little Black.
• Luo Chen took Bai Mei Ling to Ghost City, where she ground three yin souls into Yin Soul Power and absorbed it through the Soul Refining True Art.
• Luo Chen considered cultivating with Baleful Qi to strengthen his divine soul because he feared Spirit Communication Pills could harm it.

Luo Chen induced Earth Fire Fiend Qi into his body, strengthening his divine soul and unexpectedly reaching First Body Refinement Realm Completion. He left the chapter eager to test whether improving Bright Spirit Breaking Evil further would increase its effect on his divine soul.

• Luo Chen asked Wang Yuan to help him collect Earth Fire Fiend Qi from Little Huan Mountain’s earthfire, and Wang Yuan returned with ten pieces of Rock Float Stone.
• Luo Chen used the Fiend Control Art to induce Earth Fire Fiend Qi into his body while Wang Yuan instructed him to break and merge with the fiend qi.
• Luo Chen endured the pain through the night, contained the flames within his body, and expelled black smoke at dawn.
• Wang Yuan confirmed that Luo Chen had reached First Body Refinement Realm Completion and explained that low-level body tempering depended heavily on resources.
• Wang Yuan gave Luo Chen his Wang Family Secret Manual to study and told him to return it after a while.
• Luo Chen checked his cultivation and found Bright Spirit Breaking Evil had reached Perfect 401/500, encouraging him to pursue further improvement to strengthen his divine soul.