Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen and the Luo Tian Association left Great River Market aboard the Sky Eagle Flying Boat, joining the Li Family, the Nangong Family, the Great River Gang, and departing independent cultivators at Lancang Wharf. As the fleet set sail for Mount Tai Market, Luo Chen left his old home behind.

• Luo Chen prepared for the move by refining Jade Marrow Pills, cultivating Bright Spirit Breaking Evil, and helping Wang Yuan gather Earth Fire Fiend Qi.
• More than three hundred cultivators boarded the Sky Eagle Flying Boat, and Luo Chen worried that Qin Liangchen might miss his chance to reach Foundation Establishment.
• The Luo Tian Association arrived at Lancang Wharf, where Min Longyu received them and Sima Hui Niang organized their transfer to a Great River Gang ship.
• The Li Family, the Nangong Family, and independent cultivators gathered to join the journey, with many paying the Great River Gang for passage.
• At evening, the fleet raised its sails and departed Lancang Wharf, leaving Great River Market behind.

Luo Chen’s fleet was attacked by a vast school of Silver Shuttle Fish, and many rogue cultivators died while Wang Haichao refused to risk the ships by intervening. Afterward, Luo Chen and Li Yixian quietly recognized that Wang Haichao could not be trusted and began moving their families toward cooperation as the fleet continued toward Mount Tai Market.

• Luo Chen studied the Wang Family Secret Manual and considered buying Golden Jade Liquid in Mount Tai Market to advance his Body Refinement and later cultivate the Sky Peng Transformation.
• A vast school of Silver Shuttle Fish attacked the fleet, and the Luo Tian Association defended its ship while rogue cultivators and passengers on other ships were killed or dragged into the Lancang River.
• Wang Haichao argued that the Foundation Establishment cultivators should not use more than Qi Refining-level power, and he refused to save the rogue cultivators; Li Yixian and Luo Chen recognized that he could not be trusted.
• Li Yixian privately discussed cooperation with Luo Chen, while reprimanding Li Ao for his rash leadership during the attack and praising Nangong Qin’s steadier conduct.
• Luo Chen told Sima Hui Niang to steer the ship closer to the Li Family’s vessel, explaining that Li Yixian was a more reliable potential ally than Nangong Jin; Sima Hui Niang agreed to inform only the seven hall masters.
• Luo Chen considered rewarding Sima Hui Niang with help toward Foundation Establishment and reflected that his own cultivation would require access to a Second-Order Spirit Vein.

As the four factions traveled toward Mount Tai Market, Luo Chen learned more about the Jade Cauldron Domain before a Third-Order Swallowing River Toad attacked their convoy. He forced Wang Haichao and the families to feed it demonic beasts and pills, then the fleet escaped once the beast withdrew.

• Luo Chen asked Qin Liangchen about nearby Immortal Cities and learned that Sky Wave Immortal City was closer than Thousand Leaf Immortal City and jointly funded by the Jade Cauldron Seven Sects.
• A Swallowing River Toad emerged in the Lancang River and dragged the convoy’s leading ship and its cultivators into a giant whirlpool.
• Wang Haichao revealed that he had expected the Third-Order Demon Beast to appear because Pang Renxiong’s destruction of Nanwa Snow Mountain had driven it into the river.
• Luo Chen, Li Yixian, and Nangong Jin held back a second ship while Luo Chen persuaded Wang Haichao to buy the Li and Nangong families’ demonic beasts as bait.
• The families fed the Swallowing River Toad more than a thousand demonic beasts, and Luo Chen added Jade Marrow Pills until the whirlpool vanished.
• Luo Chen returned to his ship, and Wang Haichao ordered the convoy to flee downriver.

After arriving at Mount Tai Market, Luo Chen suspected Wang Haichao was withholding information about the local powers and secretly arranged with Li Yixian to investigate. He visited the Kang Family’s Gold and Stone Pavilion and offered a Top Grade All Wonders Pill to secure a meeting with Kang Dongyue.

• Luo Chen explained to Wang Yuan that he had distributed High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills to win support from the independent cultivators, and Wang Yuan revealed a powerful Body Refinement killer move.
• The fleet reached Mount Tai Market, where Wang Haichao told Luo Chen, Li Yixian, and Nangong Jin that they would have to wait for the Red Toad Mountain Huo Family’s Old Ancestor to leave seclusion before local powers decided whether to accept them.
• Luo Chen and Li Yixian met secretly and agreed that Wang Haichao was hiding information; Li Yixian proposed visiting the Yu Family of Yi Hua Mountain, and Luo Chen affirmed their agreement to advance and retreat together.
• Luo Chen entered the Mount Tai Kang Family’s Gold and Stone Pavilion, bought several low-grade pills, and offered a Top Grade All Wonders Pill for Kang Dongyue to appraise.
• The maid accepted Luo Chen’s request to see Kang Dongyue and led him upstairs.

Kang Dongyue met Luo Chen at Gold and Stone Pavilion and was stunned by his Foundation Establishment cultivation and pill-refining skill. Their negotiations led to news of an upcoming auction for a Pill Poison detoxification method, while Kang Dongyue also asked whether Luo Chen had founded the Luo Tian Association.

• Kang Xian Qiong was affected by the All Wonders Pill’s fragrance, so Kang Dongyue scolded her and confined her to Repentance Cliff for three months.
• Kang Dongyue met Luo Chen at Gold and Stone Pavilion and discovered he had reached the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Luo Chen offered to sell a large quantity of High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills for fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and Kang Dongyue agreed to buy them using some equivalent-value resources.
• Luo Chen asked for Top Grade Golden Jade Liquid and a method to dispel Pill Poison, but Kang Dongyue said his family lacked the method and revealed that one would be auctioned soon.
• Kang Dongyue said the Huo Family was organizing the auction with support from the Flame Alliance, then asked whether Luo Chen had established the Luo Tian Association.

Luo Chen and Li Yixian learned that the Huo Family’s growing influence made its approval decisive for the Luo Tian Association’s future in Mount Tai Market. At the Huo Family auction on Red Toad Mountain, a dispute over a spirit herb exposed the family’s heavy-handed conduct, and Luo Chen’s group entered the auction amid tension.

• Luo Chen sold High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills to Kang Dongyue, received Spirit Stones, Golden Jade Liquid, herbs, and the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method, and gained cultivation advice.
• Kang Dongyue discussed winning Luo Chen over to the Kang Family, while Li Yixian told Luo Chen that the Huo Family’s rise meant its approval would decide whether the Luo Tian Association could remain in Mount Tai Market.
• Luo Chen decided to wait until after the auction before choosing what to do, then brought most of the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators to the Huo Family auction on Red Toad Mountain.
• A rogue cultivator challenged the Huo Family’s appraisal of a thousand-year spirit herb, and Huo Hu offered to buy it for three thousand Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen stopped Huo Hu from intimidating Su Xiaolin, then entered the auction’s private room with his group as Su Xiaolin apologized for speaking out of turn.

Luo Chen acquired the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method at the Huo Family auction, then noticed the bidding for the Profound Flame Sword was suspiciously intense. He and Li Yixian suspected the Huo Family was using the auction to pressure local factions into proving their allegiance to remain in Mount Tai Market, and Li Yixian asked whether Luo Chen would bid.

• Huo Hu began the delayed auction, and Luo Chen won the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method for five thousand Spirit Stones after observing the bidders.
• Luo Chen inspected the Jade Slip and confirmed that the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method had no major problems.
• The Profound Flame Sword's price soared as Wang Haichao and Nangong Jin competed, despite the sword seeming unsuitable for either of them.
• Luo Chen and Li Yixian suspected the Huo Family wanted local factions to bid high as a pledge of allegiance to remain in Mount Tai Market.
• Li Yixian asked Luo Chen whether he would bid on the Profound Flame Sword.

Luo Chen declined to compete for the Profound Flame Sword, then realized that Wang Haichao was willing to overpay because he had grown attached to power and leadership. When the Foundation Establishment Pills went up for auction, Luo Chen secured the first for the Luo Tian Association, while Wang Haichao waited for the next one.

• Luo Chen told Li Yixian that Mount Tai Market was no place for their family’s long-term future, and she gave up bidding for the Profound Flame Sword.
• Wang Haichao won the sword for eighty-three thousand Spirit Stones, forcing Nangong Jin to abandon his bid and consider leaving Mount Tai Market.
• Wang Yuan explained that Wang Haichao wanted to remain because he had become accustomed to commanding the Great River Gang, prompting Luo Chen to consider his own attachment to power.
• Huo Hu began auctioning three Foundation Establishment Pills, and Luo Chen promised to buy one for the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators.
• Luo Chen outbid a Qi Refining cultivator and bought the first pill for five thousand four hundred Spirit Stones.
• Wang Haichao told Min Longyu to wait for the second pill and make a decisive bid.

The Foundation Establishment Pills went to Luo Chen, Li Yixian, and the Yihua Mountain Yu Family, while the auction exposed the weakening unity among the Great River Market cultivators. After the auction, Luo Chen revealed that he had long planned to travel to Sky Wave Immortal City, leaving Li Yixian to consider whether the Li Family might follow.

• Li Yixian won the second Foundation Establishment Pill for 7,000 Spirit Stones, and Yu Rou won the third for 7,100 after Wang Haichao withdrew.
• Luo Chen bought Tier 2 Elf Pills and Soul Calming Incense, then taught the Luo Tian Association cultivators about auction bidding techniques.
• Li Yixian won the Mist Chill Gauze, and Luo Chen ordered Sima Hui Niang to ready the Sky Eagle Flying Boat before attending the Huo Family's banquet.
• Wang Haichao confronted Nangong Jin over the costly auction bids, then left the Great River Market cultivators, causing their alliance to fall apart.
• Luo Chen told Li Yixian that he intended to go to Sky Wave Immortal City, and Li Yixian wondered whether the Li Family should join him.

After Huo Hu chose the Great River Gang to remain in Mount Tai Market and ordered the other factions to leave, Luo Chen prepared the Luo Tian Association to travel toward Sky Wave Immortal City. He began cultivating the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method, expelled Pill Poison overnight, and departed as Li Yixian and Nangong Jin watched from shore.

• Huo Hu announced that only Wang Haichao's Great River Gang could remain in Mount Tai Market and suggested Flowing Light Market to Nangong Jin and Li Yixian.
• Kang Dongyue gave Luo Chen an updated map showing three relatively safe routes to Sky Wave Immortal City, and Luo Chen resolved to leave the next morning.
• Luo Chen explained that Mount Tai Market was only a temporary stop and studied the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method to treat the Pill Poison in his body.
• Luo Chen practiced the method overnight and expelled black filth, discovering that even its initial level could remove some Pill Poison and improve his complexion.
• Luo Chen boarded the Luo Tian Association's flying vessel and departed while Li Yixian and Nangong Jin watched from the shore.

As the Luo Tian Association, the Li Family, and the Nangong Family traveled toward Flowing Light Market, Luo Chen sensed the Swallowing River Toad upstream and steered the flying boat away from the river. At Red Toad Mountain, Wang Haichao and Huo Hu plotted to ambush the migrating families at Gaoling Plain and seize the Ze Country Gui Diagram, confident that their assembled forces would overwhelm them.

• Luo Chen chose the safer route toward Flowing Light Market and ordered the Sky Eagle Flying Boat away from the Lancang River after sensing the Swallowing River Toad upstream.
• Li Yixian and Nangong Jin sped up their families' pursuit of the flying boat, while Li Yixian reflected on the burdens of leading his family.
• Wang Haichao told Huo Hu that the migrating families were likely heading for Sky Wave Immortal City and suggested attacking them at Gaoling Plain.
• Huo Hu agreed to target the families and sought the Ze Country Gui Diagram, while Wang Haichao and Tu Shan negotiated over the spoils.
• Huo Hu assembled Wang Haichao, Tu Shan, and other Foundation Establishment cultivators for the attack, and claimed he would handle Wang Yuan.

Luo Chen’s group was ambushed at Gaoling Plain by Huo Hu, Tu Shan, and Wang Haichao, who had damaged the Sky Eagle Flying Boat and trapped the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators in a Stone Forest. As the battle spread, Luo Chen appeared to flee while Tu Shan and Wang Haichao pursued him.

• Luo Chen sensed that the Bai Family was watching his flying boat and changed course to avoid Flowing Light Market; Nangong Jin chose to stop and settle there while the Li Family continued with Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen agreed to camp at Gaoling Plain, but recognized the danger as three attacks struck the Sky Eagle Flying Boat and damaged its flight array.
• Luo Chen identified Huo Hu, Tu Shan, and Wang Haichao as the attackers, while Wang Yuan engaged Huo Hu and the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators fought Min Longyu’s Great River Gang forces in the Stone Forest.
• Luo Chen used his Sword Pellet to intercept Wang Haichao’s Flying Sword, then retreated at extreme speed; Tu Shan pursued underground with Earth Escape Technique as Wang Haichao followed by sword.

Li Yixian tried to reach Luo Chen but Yu Rou blocked her and demanded the Magic Treasure she had bought, while warning her to stay out of the battle. At the Nangong encampment, Nangong Jin broke the unspoken rules of combat to slaughter Bai Family cultivators, then withdrew with a small band of survivors after Bai Lun halted the fighting.

• Li Yixian flew toward Gaoling Plain to investigate the fighting, but Yu Rou intercepted her on the Emerald Feather White Eagle and demanded she surrender her Magic Treasure and stay out of the battle.
• Li Yixian challenged Yu Rou when she realized Yu Rou had also attacked the Nangong Family, but she could not get past her to aid Luo Chen.
• Nangong Jin extinguished the Fire Dragons attacking the Nangong encampment, then faced Bai Lun and the Bai Family cultivators alongside Flowing Light Market Robber Cultivators.
• Nangong Jin opened a path for Nangong Qin to escape, then attacked Bai Family cultivators with his defensive Magic Treasure and killed more than thirty of them despite Bai Lun's counterattack.
• Bai Lun stopped his own clansmen and drove off the Robber Cultivators, ending the fighting after Nangong Jin's slaughter forced him to relent.
• Nangong Jin gathered the few surviving Nangong Family cultivators, burned their dead, and left by flying boat after Bai Lun warned that Huo Hu wanted his defensive Magic Treasure.

Luo Chen killed Tu Shan and fought Wang Haichao, using his Ghost General and Azure Musk Gathering Dragon Flag to gain the upper hand. After destroying Wang Haichao’s defenses and defeating him with the Rotten Ke Go Piece, Luo Chen took the Profound Flame Sword and hurried toward Gaoling Plain to confront Huo Hu.

• Tu Shan chased Luo Chen with his Earth Escape Technique, but Luo Chen and Little Black ambushed and killed him.
• Wang Haichao arrived and fled after seeing Tu Shan’s instant death, but Luo Chen’s nine Azure Musk Flood Dragons surrounded him.
• Luo Chen wore down Wang Haichao with the Flood Dragons and Azure Musk Poison Incense, while Wang Haichao fought back with his sword and defensive Magic Tool.
• Wang Haichao unleashed the Profound Flame Sword’s Magic Treasure strike, but Luo Chen used the Rotten Ke Go Piece to dissipate it and killed him.
• Luo Chen took Wang Haichao’s Storage Bag and Profound Flame Sword, then flew toward Gaoling Plain to pursue Huo Hu.

The Luo Tian Association escaped the Gaoling Plain formation and turned the fight against the Great River Gang, while Li Yixian and Yu Rou watched Wang Yuan battle Huo Hu. Wang Yuan struck Huo Hu down, but vines and a blazing sun appeared to catch his falling body as Yu Rou rushed to intervene.

• Gu Cai Yi used the Giant Bear Puppet to blast open a route through the formation, and Sima Hui Niang led the Luo Tian Association out of the Gaoling Plain.
• Min Longyu detonated the stone pillars, killing cultivators on both sides, while Duan Feng noticed that the formation seemed to have protected the Luo Tian Association.
• Sima Hui Niang organized the surviving Luo Tian Association cultivators into a counterattack that pushed back the Great River Gang.
• Li Yixian told Yu Rou that Huo Hu was outmatched by Wang Yuan, then tried to stop Yu Rou from interfering in their battle.
• Wang Yuan shot Huo Hu through the chest with a blood-colored strike, and Yu Rou rushed after Huo Hu as vines trapped his falling body beneath a rising blazing sun.

Luo Chen stopped Yu Rou from taking Huo Hu, forced her to keep quiet about the battle, and led the Luo Tian Association to victory over the Great River Gang. As he assessed the heavy casualties, he learned that Zeng Wen had died protecting his family and promised to raise Zeng Wen’s son, Zeng Yilong.

• Luo Chen confronted Yu Rou and warned her not to tell Huo Quan the details of the battle, threatening the Yu Family if Huo Quan retaliated; Yu Rou left with the Emerald Feather White Eagle.
• Wang Yuan confirmed that Huo Hu was badly wounded but alive, and Luo Chen handed the captive over to him to hold as leverage against the Huo Family.
• Li Yixian returned to her camp, while Luo Chen surveyed the battlefield, exposed Great River Gang cultivators feigning death, and helped secure the Luo Tian Association’s victory.
• Sima Hui Niang reported that at least 157 Luo Tian Association cultivators had died, including Zeng Wen, who was wounded while protecting his wife and child.
• Luo Chen found Zeng Wen’s body beside his son, Zeng Yilong, embraced the child, and promised that Zeng’s son would live on.

After the survivors of Gaoling Plain joined forces and fled, Luo Chen vowed to return and take revenge on the Huo Family. Meanwhile, the Three-Legged Swallowing River Toad struck Red Toad Mountain, triggering a volcanic eruption that destroyed it.

• Luo Chen, Li Yixian, Nangong Jin, and Wang Yuan agreed to travel together against the Huo Family, and Luo Chen allowed the Li Family mortals aboard the flying boats on the condition they be left behind in safe territory.
• Nangong Jin and Nangong Qin vowed that the Nangong Family would one day destroy the Bai Family, while Luo Chen swore to return and avenge his fallen friend against the Huo Family.
• Yu Rou blamed Luo Chen and Li Yixian for the Battle of Gaoling Plain and planned to shift responsibility for the defeat onto them when Huo Quan emerged from seclusion.
• The Three-Legged Swallowing River Toad emerged from the Lancang River and leapt toward Red Toad Mountain, drawn by something on the mountain.
• A cultivator broke out of seclusion and tried to stop the toad with a white ruler, but the toad slapped the Magic Treasure aside and crashed into Red Toad Mountain.
• Red Toad Mountain erupted, sending pillars of fire and lava across the slopes as Yu Rou watched in shock.

Luo Chen sorted through the spoils from the battle and claimed a Profound Flame Sword and Repeating Seal for his own use. He then questioned Min Longyu, who explained why he had aided Luo Chen and left his future in Luo Chen’s hands.

• Luo Chen sorted the captured Storage Bags, broke the mark on one low-level cultivator’s bag, and found the Turtle Spirit Armor technique among its contents.
• Luo Chen kept the Profound Flame Sword and Repeating Seal, while deciding that other captured weapons would be distributed to Luo Tian Association cultivators according to merit.
• Luo Chen summoned Min Longyu, who endured his spiritual intimidation and came to meet him in his cabin.
• Min Longyu told Luo Chen that he had come from the fallen Min Family, had once served Zhou Qing, and had cooperated with Wang Haichao for the promise of a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Min Longyu explained that Wang Haichao and Huo Hu were unlikely to deliver the pill before he grew too old to attempt Foundation Establishment.
• Luo Chen asked Min Longyu why he trusted him not to kill him once he had explained his reasons.

Luo Chen recruited Min Longyu into the Luo Tian Association under a binding oath, promising to find him a Foundation Establishment Elixir as Min helped repair the Sky Eagle Flying Boat’s formations. Five days later, Luo Chen finally broke Duan Qiankun’s Spiritual Sense restriction on a Storage Bag and prepared to inspect what it contained.

• Min Longyu asked Luo Chen for protection while seeking a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Luo Chen required him to swear an oath of loyalty and assist the Luo Tian Association with formations.
• Luo Chen promised to find Min Longyu a Foundation Establishment Elixir before he turned sixty, and Min Longyu swore the oath while Luo Chen made a Medicine-Seeking Oath.
• Murong Qinglian registered Min Longyu as an ordinary association member and explained how he could earn merits and obtain Nourishing Origin Spirit Liquid.
• Min Longyu began repairing the Sky Eagle Flying Boat’s formations, prompting Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators to worry that he might receive the Foundation Establishment Pill they had been promised.
• Luo Chen spent five days undoing the Spiritual Sense restriction on Duan Qiankun’s Storage Bag and succeeded.

Luo Chen sorted through Duan Qiankun’s spoils, discovering a sword sheath that grew stronger when paired with Sword Pellets and a Heaven and Earth Root labeled for Duan Feng. As Luo Chen and his companions traveled toward Sky Wave Immortal City, Tao Yisheng of Azure Pill Valley stopped them to explain the restrictions on cultivators entering Yuanzhao Kingdom.

• Luo Chen examined Duan Qiankun’s hoard and found Magic Tools, Mithril, Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and a High-Grade Spirit Stone whose spiritual energy he could absorb directly.
• Luo Chen tested a gray sword sheath with his Sword Pellet and discovered it rose from Low-Grade to Mid-Grade and could potentially become a Magic Treasure Embryo with seven Sword Pellets.
• Luo Chen sorted the remaining spoils, finding Rising Dragon Pills and an Eight Hundred Year Heaven and Earth Root labeled “Duan Feng.”
• Sima Hui Niang reported that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had blocked their route, and Luo Chen left the room to meet him.
• Tao Yisheng identified himself as a disciple of Azure Pill Valley and warned Luo Chen, Nangong Jin, and Li Yixian that cultivators could stay in Yuanzhao Kingdom only for limited periods.
• Luo Chen realized that Yuanzhao Kingdom lay ahead of them.