Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen brought the group to Yuanzhao Kingdom to learn about the situation around Sky Wave Immortal City and investigate the cave where his body's original owner had found an opportunity. After leaving Li Yixian's mortals under Tao Yisheng's protection, the group departed for Sky Wave Immortal City, while Tao Yisheng revealed he hoped to recruit them as support for his sister's Dao Seed contest.

• Luo Chen persuaded Tao Yisheng to let the group stay at Star Plucking Tower, where he and his companions questioned Tao Yisheng about the war and Sky Wave Immortal City's situation.
• Luo Chen decided the group would rest for two days and arrange for Li Yixian's mortals to settle in Yuanzhao Kingdom before traveling on.
• Luo Chen visited the cave where the original owner had buried an old cultivator, but found the mound empty and restored it before leaving.
• Tao Yisheng agreed to protect Li Yixian's clansmen, and the three flying boats departed for Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Tao Yisheng told an Azure Pill Valley disciple that he had befriended Luo Chen, Nangong Jin, and Li Yixian as potential outside support for his sister's Dao Seed contest.

Luo Chen and the Luo Tian Association reached Sky Wave Immortal City after a grueling journey and were awed by its scale and prosperity. At the city’s mooring area, Luo Chen challenged Lu Rong after learning that washing and repairing their battered flying boat would cost money.

• Luo Chen’s group passed Peach Mountain and saw Sky Wave Immortal City, whose immense walls and waterfall left the arriving cultivators stunned.
• Luo Chen encouraged the Luo Tian Association cultivators to raise their heads and enter the city with confidence after a Foundation Establishment cultivator mocked them as country bumpkins.
• Old Xu stopped the three flying boats from landing wherever they pleased and sent Xu Xiaoliu to guide them to the Sky Wave Mooring Area.
• Min Longyu explained the fierce competition facing low-level cultivators in Sky Wave Immortal City and discussed the fallen Min Family and Mirror Lake Fu Family with Xu Xiaoliu.
• At the mooring area, Xu Xiaoliu urged Luo Chen to pay for washing and repairing the Sky Eagle Flying Boat, and Luo Chen challenged Lu Rong over the offer.

Luo Chen rejected Lu Rong’s inflated offers to wash and repair the Sky Eagle Flying Boat, paid the mooring fee, and hired Xu Xiaoliu as a guide through Sky Wave Immortal City. As the group headed into the city, Nangong Jin began to accept Luo Chen’s refusal to tolerate exploitation, while Li Yixian questioned whether she could lead her family there.

• Luo Chen challenged Lu Rong’s unclear pricing, refused his fifty-Spirit-Stone washing fee and four-thousand-Spirit-Stone repair estimate, and arranged to moor the Sky Eagle Flying Boat for ten days.
• Luo Chen hired Xu Xiaoliu as a guide, learned that he was a local rogue cultivator earning a ten-percent cut for soliciting customers, and asked him to explain the Divine Craftsmen Sect.
• Luo Chen dismissed Li Yixian and Nangong Jin’s concerns about offending Lu Rong, arguing that outsiders should not bow to people who tried to exploit them.
• Nangong Jin recalled how resistance had saved the Nangong Family and concluded that Luo Chen might be right, while Li Yixian doubted her ability to lead the Li Family in Sky Wave Immortal City.

Luo Chen entered Sky Wave Immortal City with the Luo Tian Association and learned its rules, crowded streets, and elaborate commercial system. After arriving at Yuelu Street to find affordable lodging, he asked Xu Xiaoliu where to rent a cave dwelling.

• Luo Chen crossed the suspension bridge after thanking Xu Jingnian, who assigned Xu Xiaoliu to guide the group.
• Xu Xiaoliu explained the city’s etiquette, ban on fighting and flight, and famous Dao Discussion Stage; Luo Chen’s group boarded a Black Python Beast Cart.
• Sima Hui Niang worried about the group’s frequent Spirit Stone expenses, and Luo Chen connected them to the city’s finely divided commercial practices.
• The group got off at Yuelu Street, where Xu Xiaoliu said lodging was cheaper and Luo Chen observed the area’s shops and considered the Luo Tian Association’s business strategy.
• Luo Chen asked Xu Xiaoliu where they could rent cave dwellings.

Luo Chen, Nangong Jin, and Li Yixian toured Sky Wave Immortal City by tiger carriage while Xu Xiaoliu explained its businesses and unusual incense products. They arrived at Ice Wave Palace to look at cave residences, while Luo Chen considered how the Luo Tian Association could earn a living in the city.

• Luo Chen invited Nangong Jin and Li Yixian to inspect cave residences, and Li Yixian left Li Ao behind to watch over the Li Family at the inn.
• Luo Chen and his companions rode a tiger carriage toward Ice Wave Palace as Xu Xiaoliu described the city's carriage routes and shops.
• Xu Xiaoliu explained that Fragrance Dining Pavilion sold Soul Summoning Incense, Vigorous Spirit Incense, and Unique Essence Incense, and revealed that the Golden Core Fragrance Master owned it.
• Luo Chen, Nangong Jin, and Li Yixian considered how their families and association could make a living in Sky Wave Immortal City, and Luo Chen decided to have Sima Hui Niang research the market.
• The group arrived at Ice Wave Palace, and Luo Chen entered to inspect its cave residences.

Luo Chen and his companions toured Sky Wave Peak’s cave estates and chose low-grade accommodations, while Luo Chen asked Shi Lan to watch for an opening in a high-grade estate. Settled in, he began searching for a Spirit Land where the Luo Tian Association could stay, and his attention settled on a location marked on the map.

• Shi Lan showed Luo Chen, Nangong Jin, and Li Yixian the cave estate options and explained their grades, prices, and Sky Wave Peak’s defensive formation.
• Luo Chen and his companions inspected mid-grade and high-grade cave estates, but judged their spiritual energy gains too small for the higher rents.
• Nangong Jin and Li Yixian chose low-grade cave estates, and Luo Chen rented one temporarily while asking Shi Lan to reserve a high-grade estate when one became available.
• Ling Yuzhi scorned Luo Chen and his companions as poor outsiders, while Chu Kui suggested he might introduce himself to them later.
• Luo Chen settled into his cave estate and studied Shi Lan’s map for an unclaimed Spirit Land to accommodate the Luo Tian Association, focusing on one location.

Luo Chen reviewed the Luo Tian Association’s spoils from the battle at Gaoling Plain, then promised Sima Hui Niang a Foundation Establishment Pill and his protection if she reached Qi Refining Completion. He took her to Ice Wave Palace to choose a place for the association, where Shi Lan presented several possible sites before Luo Chen asked about a grayish-white location.

• Sima Hui Niang reported that the association had gathered seventy-five Storage Bags, 130,000 Spirit Stones, Magic Tools, cultivation texts, and other spoils from the battle.
• Luo Chen praised Sima Hui Niang’s work and promised her a Foundation Establishment Pill, his protection, and use of a Second-Order Cave Estate if she reached Qi Refining Completion.
• Luo Chen took Sima Hui Niang to Ice Wave Palace, where Shi Lan greeted them and led them to a sand table of available lands.
• Shi Lan described Mirror Lake, Bamboo Sea, Phoenix Tree Mountain, and Moonmist Bay as possible sites, but Luo Chen rejected most of them.
• Luo Chen pointed to a grayish-white point on the sand table, and Shi Lan revealed a towering mountain glowing with seven-colored radiance.

Luo Chen bargained with Shi Lan to lease Danxia Peak for the Luo Tian Association, then visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and bought a Langqi Flying Boat. He and Sima Hui Niang took it for a ride through Sky Wave Immortal City and headed toward Danxia Peak to inspect its current occupants.

• Shi Lan explained Danxia Peak's damaged Spirit Vein, high rent, and rogue cultivators, while Luo Chen negotiated the annual price down to one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen and Sima Hui Niang visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, where they learned it no longer bought back used Magic Tools.
• Luo Chen bought an eight-thousand-Low-Grade-Spirit-Stone Langqi Flying Boat to replace the Luo Tian Association's nearly ruined Sky Eagle Flying Boat.
• Luo Chen activated the boat's concealment formation and sped through Sky Wave Immortal City, drawing curious and envious looks from passersby.
• Luo Chen invited Sima Hui Niang to leave the city with him and visit the previous occupants of Danxia Peak.

Luo Chen assessed Danxia Peak and its rogue cultivators, then prepared to move the Luo Tian Association there while working to clear his Pill Poison and refine his treasures. At the Mooring Yard, he destroyed a sabotaged flying boat, humiliated Lu Rong, and led the Association aboard the Langqi Flying Boat toward Danxia Peak.

• Luo Chen sent Sima Hui Niang to investigate Danxia Peak, where she found about eight hundred rogue cultivators, rentable Earth Fire Caves, and three Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Bian Zhong worried that Luo Chen's inspection signaled danger and told Gan Xiaoyan he would seek work so they could afford to move to a better cave estate.
• Luo Chen advanced his Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method, saw his realm reach Foundation Establishment Second Layer 2/100, and spent the night refining the Rotten Ke Go Piece and Profound Flame Sword.
• Luo Chen summoned Nangong Jin and Li Yixian, and Sima Hui Niang led more than a hundred Luo Tian Association cultivators out of Sky Wave Immortal City.
• At the Mooring Yard, Luo Chen accused Lu Rong of tampering with the Sky Eagle Flying Boat and smashed it before paying him one Spirit Stone to sweep the ground.
• Luo Chen launched the Langqi Flying Boat and departed with the Luo Tian Association, while Lu Rong obeyed the pavilion's warning and swept the yard.

Luo Chen led the Luo Tian Association to take possession of Danxia Peak and ordered its residents to leave. He defeated three Foundation Establishment cultivators with one strike, establishing his authority over the mountain.

• Luo Chen told Wang Yuan that smashing Divine Craftsmen Sect's flying boat would damage its standing with Sky Wave Immortal City, and said the Luo Tian Association needed to show force when moving into Danxia Peak.
• Luo Tian Association displayed its lease contract and gave Danxia Peak's residents one incense stick to leave, while Sima Xian refused to negotiate with Divine Craftsmen Sect and the Geng Family.
• Bian Zhong, Lü Xiaoyan, and Cao Wanchun confronted Luo Chen and refused to leave, so Luo Chen challenged all three to withstand one move from him.
• Luo Chen unleashed the Great Sun Falls spell and defeated Bian Zhong, Lü Xiaoyan, and Cao Wanchun in a single strike, leaving the watching cultivators afraid to challenge him.

Luo Chen secured Danxia Peak for the Luo Tian Association, killed Cao Wanchun, and drove off a challenge from the Divine Craftsmen Sect and the Geng Family. The chapter ended with Luo Chen warning Wang Yuan not to target Huo Hu yet and suggesting Min Longyu help him improve the Heavenly Craft Spirit-Seizing Array.

• Wang Yuan caught Cao Wanchun’s Flying Sword and snapped his neck after Luo Chen had defeated the opposing cultivators.
• Bian Zhong thanked Luo Chen for showing mercy and left Danxia Peak with the badly injured Lü Xiaoyan.
• Luo Chen assigned Min Longyu to inspect Danxia Peak and build a Mountain Protection Great Array, which Min Longyu said he could roughly set up in half a month.
• Li Yixian told Nangong Jin that Danxia Peak’s annual rent was fifteen thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones as Fei Changqiu, Geng Lie, and Geng Shuzhen arrived to challenge the Luo Tian Association’s claim.
• Luo Chen confronted the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators with Wang Yuan and two other allies, and Fei Changqiu and the Geng Family cultivators withdrew without fighting.
• Luo Chen told Wang Yuan not to target Huo Hu and suggested that Min Longyu study the Heavenly Craft Spirit-Seizing Array to help improve Wang Yuan’s formation.

After the Luo Tian Association took over Danxia Peak, Luo Chen oversaw its restoration and gave Duan Feng the cultivation resources Duan Qiankun had prepared for him. Duan Feng struggled with the revelation but accepted Luo Chen’s reassurance and left to process it alone, while Luo Chen turned his attention to advancing his pill-refining technique.

• Granny Yuan restored Danxia Peak’s Spirit Farmland and asked Luo Chen to find Yuan Dongsheng a marriage if he had not established his foundation by sixty; Luo Chen promised to honor her request.
• The Luo Tian Association began rebuilding Danxia Peak, with Min Longyu surveying for a formation, the Battle Hall constructing buildings, Qu Lingjun taking charge of the Earth Fire Caves, and Gu Cai Yi tasked with researching the Jade Marrow Pill market.
• Luo Chen summoned Duan Feng and gave him the resources Duan Qiankun had gathered for his Foundation Establishment, including Tier 1 Elf Pills and an Eight Hundred Year Heaven and Earth Root.
• Duan Feng realized Duan Qiankun had prepared the resources for him and became torn over his revenge; Luo Chen calmed him and told him he had been right to act as he did.
• Duan Feng left to be alone, and Luo Chen arranged for Su Xiaolin and Bian Zhen to manage the Artifact Hall before planning to advance the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method.

Luo Chen reached minor success in the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method, allowing its vortex to operate on its own and purge pill poison. He tested a Harmony Qi Pill and confirmed that it was converted into spiritual qi while expelling impurities, but it did not visibly advance his cultivation.

• Luo Chen withdrew his Spiritual Sense and watched the Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method's vortex restart on its own, confirming that the technique had reached minor success.
• Luo Chen examined his Attribute Panel, discovered that his lifespan limit had increased by five years, and noted his slow Foundation Establishment progress and new defensive Spirit Sense Golden Membrane.
• Luo Chen reviewed his pills and recipes, decided to save his Achievement Points rather than spend them on the Blood Fiend Pill, and planned to visit the Luo Tian Association to check Gu Cai Yi's market research.
• Luo Chen swallowed a Harmony Qi Pill and watched the autonomous vortex convert its medicinal power into spiritual qi while expelling faint gray and black impurities.
• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel and found that the Harmony Qi Pill had not increased his Foundation Establishment progress, so he planned further experiments.

Luo Chen compared the Harmony Qi Pill and Rising Dragon Pill, chose the faster but harsher Rising Dragon Pill for cultivation, and considered how to obtain more. After receiving messages from Li Yixian, Chu Kui, and Sima Hui Niang, he left his cave mansion for Danxia Peak, worried that his savings would not cover the cost of a high-grade cave mansion.

• Luo Chen found that Tier 2 pills had doubled his cultivation speed, judged the Rising Dragon Pill more potent but more damaging, and chose it as his primary cultivation pill.
• Luo Chen reviewed how he had divided Duan Qiankun's resources between Duan Feng, Wang Yuan, and the Luo Tian Association while keeping some items for himself.
• Bai Mei Ling told Luo Chen that Li Yixian, Sima Hui Niang, and a fierce Foundation Establishment cultivator had visited, and Luo Chen read their messages, including Chu Kui's invitation to meet.
• Luo Chen asked Bai Mei Ling to guard the cave mansion, then left for Danxia Peak after she declined to visit Feng Xia and Gu Cai Yi.
• Luo Chen realized that his remaining eighty thousand Spirit Stones could barely cover a year in the high-grade cave mansion he had reserved, and resolved to earn more Spirit Stones.

Luo Chen returned to Danxia Peak and paid tribute to Yuan Yuejiao, who was dying after exhausting herself to subdue a Black-Spine Stone Dragon. Her death and the rewards he granted her family led him to reflect on what he wanted to leave behind, and he reaffirmed that his own goal was longevity.

• Luo Chen planned to restart the Luo Tian Association’s pill-refining enterprise, then flew from Sky Wave Immortal City back to Danxia Peak.
• Xu Jingnian told acquaintances that Luo Chen had defeated three opponents at Danxia Peak, rewarded Xu Xiaoliu generously, and hired him into the Luo Tian Association.
• Yuan Dongsheng explained that Yuan Yuejiao had been bedridden since the Black-Spine Stone Dragon injured her while she opened twenty plots of Spirit Farmland.
• Luo Chen verified Yuan Yuejiao’s contributions and promised rewards to her family, including cultivation resources and a share of the new farmland’s proceeds.
• Luo Chen took Zeng Yilong away from the grieving courtyard and realized that his own deepest ambition was to live a long life.
• Luo Chen led Zeng Yilong toward the Luo Tian Grand Hall, while Sima Hui Niang received a sudden summons to see him.

Luo Chen reviewed the Luo Tian Association’s finances and plans, ordered large-scale Jade Marrow Pill production, and reorganized its halls and Outer Sect. Duan Feng prepared to establish his foundation, while Luo Chen returned to Sky Wave Immortal City to shop for cultivation supplies.

• Gu Cai Yi reported that Jade Marrow Pills faced a saturated market, rising ingredient costs, and pressure from powerful factions, but Luo Chen said he would handle the pressure from above and use the pills’ low cost to compete.
• Luo Chen ordered the Pill Hall to begin large-scale Jade Marrow Pill production, allocated ten thousand Spirit Stones for ingredients, and gave Sima Hui Niang a list of herbs to buy discreetly.
• Duan Feng revealed that he had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and planned to attempt foundation establishment within two days; he also gave Luo Chen a booklet about the contents of two silver spheres.
• Luo Chen named Bian Zhen Medicine Hall master and assigned Feng Xia and Yuan Dongsheng as Spirit Plant Elder and Spirit Medicine Elder, then ordered Sima Hui Niang to organize an Outer Sect for general duties.
• Luo Chen attended Granny Yuan’s funeral, returned to Sky Wave Immortal City with Duan Feng, and began shopping for cultivation supplies.

Luo Chen bought cultivation supplies from Azure Pill Valley, met the renowned alchemist Xuan Yunzi, and received an invitation to a major auction featuring high-grade Rising Dragon Pills. He then visited Duan Feng before Duan Feng began Foundation Establishment seclusion, leaving Luo Chen to hope his friend would emerge successfully.

• Luo Chen bought Rising Dragon Pills in bulk at Azure Pill Valley and received a Nine-Pattern Guest Token and an invitation to the Sky Wave Immortal City auction from Xuan Yunzi.
• Luo Chen noticed that Xuan Yunzi carried both strong life force and deathly intent, then purchased Vigorous Spirit Incense and Hundred Flowers Dew at Fragrance Dining Pavilion.
• Luo Chen visited Duan Feng and reviewed the Foundation Establishment process with him, even simulating the surge of spiritual energy through his meridians.
• Duan Feng gave Luo Chen the incantation to enter his cave and warned him to retrieve his body if he had not emerged after a month.
• Duan Feng entered closed-death seclusion, and Luo Chen left hoping to hear that he had broken through.

Luo Chen tested Vigorous Spirit Incense, then prepared his new cave estate and began learning the Tier 2 Jade Dew Pill recipe. Min Longyu visited while Duan Feng attempted Foundation Establishment, and Luo Chen’s encouragement eased Min Longyu’s doubts about his own future breakthrough.

• Luo Chen found that Vigorous Spirit Incense increased his cultivation cycles, planned to improve his Spirit Communication Pill proficiency, and checked his progress toward filling his Qi Sea.
• Min Longyu brought medicinal ingredients to Luo Chen’s cave estate, where Luo Chen inspected them and saw that Qu Lingjun had processed them well.
• Luo Chen told Min Longyu that Duan Feng was attempting Foundation Establishment, and Min Longyu admitted he hoped Duan Feng would succeed because it would reassure him about his own breakthrough.
• Luo Chen encouraged Min Longyu to prepare thoroughly and trust his own path, and Min Longyu left with renewed confidence.
• Bai Mei Ling organized Luo Chen’s medicinal herbs, and Luo Chen used ten Achievement Points to raise the Jade Dew Pill recipe to Entry Level.

Luo Chen successfully refined his first batch of Jade Dew Pills and considered how to use them as a stepping stone without drawing unwanted attention. He met Chu Kui, who offered to deal with the Divine Craftsmen Sect and Geng Family for a fee.

• Luo Chen used his advanced pill-refining techniques to complete a day-long Jade Dew Pill refinement, producing ten pills, while Bai Mei Ling found that their Pill Qi accelerated her Yin Qi.
• Luo Chen calculated the costs and possible selling price of Jade Dew Pills, deciding that the pills should serve as a stepping stone rather than his main source of wealth.
• Chu Kui visited Luo Chen and shared Taibai Wine, which helped refine spiritual power but was scarce and supplied exclusively to the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect.
• Chu Kui brought up Luo Chen's troubles with the Divine Craftsmen Sect and Geng Family, then offered to take care of them for a small sum of Spirit Stones.

Chu Kui offered to eliminate Luo Chen’s enemies for a steep fee, but Luo Chen declined as the Luo Tian Association focused on rebuilding. When Duan Feng began establishing his foundation, Luo Chen protected his cave until the breakthrough succeeded; Duan Feng then pledged to help develop the Artifact Hall and revealed two confirmed Magic Treasure Embryos.

• Chu Kui quoted rates of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones to handle Early Foundation Establishment cultivators and two hundred thousand for Mid-Stage cultivators, while Luo Chen declined to hire him.
• Luo Chen sensed Duan Feng’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough and drove away cultivators probing the cave with their Spiritual Sense.
• After three days, Duan Feng successfully established his foundation and thanked Luo Chen for supporting him.
• Duan Feng said he could stabilize his realm while continuing to work at the Artifact Hall, using a method that tempered his spiritual power through forging.
• Duan Feng produced two silver-white spheres and confirmed that they were Magic Treasure Embryos.