Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen learned that Duan Feng’s two Mithril Sealing Spheres contained Magic Treasure Embryos and discussed what materials and help would be needed to forge them. After Duan Feng’s Foundation Establishment and ceremony strengthened the Luo Tian Association, Luo Chen arranged through Xu Xiaoliu to approach Ice Fortress with a bottle of Jade Dew Pills, leaving the business deal about to begin.

• Duan Feng opened one Mithril Sealing Sphere and showed Luo Chen a nearly complete Water Attribute Flying Sword Magic Treasure Embryo, explaining how Min Longyu could help with its formations.
• Luo Chen tested a Jade Dew Pill and found that it aided his cultivation but left uncomfortable yin-cold energy in his Qi Sea.
• Luo Chen and Duan Feng appeared together at the Luo Tian Association, confirming Duan Feng’s Foundation Establishment and celebrating with the association’s Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators.
• Duan Feng asked Luo Chen to support his marriage to Feng Xia, and Luo Chen agreed to help make their wedding a grand affair.
• Luo Chen gave Xu Xiaoliu a bottle of Jade Dew Pills and asked him to have Xu Jingnian deliver it to Shi Boying as an offer to do business with Ice Fortress.

Shi Boying investigated Luo Chen’s offer to trade Jade Dew Pills with the Ice Fortress, while Luo Chen spent three months refining pills and training his disciple. After reaching Grandmaster Level in the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture and discovering its boost to Wood Element spells, Luo Chen received Shi Boying’s invitation and went to meet her.

• Xu Jingnian presented Luo Chen’s Jade Dew Pills to Shi Boying, who questioned whether Luo Chen could really refine them and asked Shi Lan to verify his abilities.
• Shi Boying left Luo Chen waiting for three months while he led the Luo Tian Association’s Pill Hall in refining nearly twenty thousand Jade Marrow Pills and advanced his Silk Washing Hand and Cloud Transformation Hand to Mastery Level.
• Qu Lingjun refined Mid-Grade Jade Marrow Pills, and Luo Chen rewarded him with a Small Spirit Gathering Array while instructing him to keep his talent secret.
• Luo Chen reached Grandmaster Level in the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture and discovered that his Wood Element spells had become far more powerful.
• Shi Boying sent Luo Chen a Sound Transmission Talisman inviting him to Yi One Cave Estate, and Luo Chen dressed carefully before setting out to meet her.

Luo Chen secured Ice Fortress’s backing for the Luo Tian Association by agreeing to supply Jade Dew Pills exclusively to the sect for a century. He returned to the association and launched a low-price campaign to capture the market for cultivation pills.

• Tantai Jin recognized that Luo Chen wanted Ice Fortress’s name and backing, then demanded a century of exclusive Jade Dew Pill supply, which he accepted.
• Shi Boying gave Luo Chen an Ice Fortress Badge that would protect the Luo Tian Association’s business in Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Tantai Jin told Shi Boying to keep the deal from the sect and revealed that Ice Fortress would not recruit Luo Chen because of his ties to Great River Market and Jade Cauldron Sword Sect.
• Luo Chen showed the Ice Fortress Badge to the Luo Tian Association and ordered its symbol placed on the association’s banners.
• Luo Chen set low prices for Mid-Grade and High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills and urged the association to win market share through a price war.

Zheng Kejian investigated the Zheng Family’s declining Fire Sesame Pill business and discovered that Danxia Hall, a low-priced shop run by the Luo Tian Association, might be taking its customers. Meanwhile, Luo Chen reviewed Danxia Hall’s accounts and found that its combined businesses had earned roughly four hundred thousand Spirit Stones in gross profit over the year.

• Zheng Kejian found that the Zheng Family’s surplus had dwindled and ordered an investigation into the Fire Sesame Pill business’s decline.
• Zheng Kejian disguised himself and entered Sky Wave Immortal City, where a Luo Tian Association cultivator gave him a Danxia Hall flyer advertising cheap pills and a route to Yuelu Street.
• Zheng Kejian suspected Danxia Hall’s Jade Marrow Pills were squeezing out the Zheng Family’s Fire Sesame Pills and rode a beast cart toward the shop.
• Luo Chen reviewed Danxia Hall’s accounts and noted that he had refined forty thousand Jade Marrow Pills while Qu Lingjun and Mi Li learned to produce pills for sale.
• Luo Chen calculated that Danxia Hall and Azure Secluded Valley had earned around four hundred thousand Spirit Stones in combined annual gross profit.

Luo Chen reviewed the Luo Tian Association’s annual profits and expenses, then praised Xu Xiaoliu and Gu Cai Yi for their work at Danxia Hall. As he began arranging future duties, he sensed a distinguished guest waiting outside.

• Luo Chen calculated that the association earned one hundred thousand Spirit Stones in annual surplus after paying its expenses.
• Luo Chen considered investing his profits in cultivation resources and a higher-grade Cave Mansion rather than buying another Magic Treasure.
• Xu Xiaoliu explained that flyers and route maps had brought customers to Danxia Hall.
• Luo Chen praised Gu Cai Yi for managing the Gold Hall and offered her a new item intended to benefit female cultivators.
• Luo Chen told Gu Cai Yi to guide the maidservants at Azure Secluded Valley when she had time, then sensed a distinguished guest outside.

Zheng Kejian discovered that the Luo Tian Association’s low-priced, high-quality pills and welcoming shop threatened his family’s pill business, while its emblem suggested protection from the Ice Fortress. After investigating the association and its competitors, he returned to pill refining and prepared to use the Zheng Family’s strengths to counter the pressure.

• Zheng Kejian hesitated at Danxia Hall after spotting the Ice Fortress snowflake on the Luo Tian Association emblem, then entered to inspect its business.
• Gu Cai Yi welcomed Zheng Kejian with free milk tea and snacks, introduced the shop’s pills, and sold him a selection for two hundred Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen told Xu Xiaoliu that the Zheng Family would not resort to force, and he reassured Gu Cai Yi that the Luo Tian Association had entered the city’s pill market deliberately.
• Zheng Kejian learned that the Jade Marrow Pill was stronger than the Zheng Family’s Fire Sesame Pill yet much cheaper, and he ordered an investigation into other Tier 1 pill sellers.
• Zheng Kejian returned to the pill refining room to demonstrate Fire Sesame Pill refining to the family’s alchemists.
• After receiving reports that other pill factions were struggling even more than his family, Zheng Kejian resolved to put the Zheng Family’s foundations to use against the Luo Tian Association.

Luo Chen’s cultivation method repaired his hidden injuries and brought him close to Foundation Establishment Third Layer, while his alchemy skills continued to improve. He learned that Li Yixian had joined the weakened Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance and saw the Zheng Family competing for business in Sky Wave Immortal City.

• Luo Chen found that the Grandmaster Level Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture had healed old injuries, increased his lifespan, and brought him within thirteen progress points of Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
• Luo Chen assessed his gains in alchemy and recognized that producing more Jade Dew Pills would help him maintain and strengthen his alliance with Tantai Jin and the Ice Fortress.
• Luo Chen learned that Li Yixian had become a guest elder of the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance and moved her family to Little Cloud Mountain, but he chose not to get involved.
• Luo Chen encountered a Rolling Dragon Ridge Zheng Family cultivator distributing flyers and learned that Zheng Kejian was a Second-Order Alchemist supplying High-Grade Fire Sesame Pills.
• Luo Chen approved of the Zheng Family’s growing ambition and anticipated the competition between the family and the Luo Tian Association.

Luo Chen and Zheng Kejian secretly agreed to keep their public price war going, driving smaller pill businesses out of Skybillow Immortal City. After breaking through to Foundation Establishment Third Layer, Luo Chen learned that Kang Xian Qiong of the Kang Family had come to visit and recognized her when they met.

• Sima Hui Niang reported that the Zheng Family had increased pill production, expanded its shops, trained its staff, and cut prices to compete with Luo Tian Association.
• Pill Origin Sect and other local pill sellers welcomed the Zheng Family's price war, while rogue cultivators flocked to buy discounted pills from both sides.
• As the smaller sellers' incomes fell, Luo Chen recalled his cordial meeting with Zheng Kejian, where they agreed to keep their rivalry and publicity campaign going.
• Luo Chen refined two Rising Dragon Pills and broke through to Foundation Establishment Third Layer, then slept for five days as he recovered.
• Bai Mei Ling told Luo Chen that Kang Xian Qiong of the Kang Family had visited, and Luo Chen recognized her when he saw her on Danxia Peak.

Luo Chen learned that the Three-Legged Swallowing River Toad had destroyed the Huo Family and injured Kang Dongyue, then agreed to help Kang Xian Qiong secure a healing medicine at the upcoming auction in exchange for a partnership selling the Kang Family’s Golden Jade Liquid. The chapter ended with Luo Chen urging Wang Yuan to establish his foundation.

• Kang Xian Qiong told Luo Chen she had come to Sky Wave Immortal City to find a Tier 3 healing medicine for her injured grandfather, Kang Dongyue.
• Kang Xian Qiong explained that the Three-Legged Swallowing River Toad had attacked Red Toad Mountain during its early mating season, destroying the Huo Family and leaving Kang Dongyue bedridden.
• Luo Chen realized his three Top Grade All Wonders Pills might have caused the toad’s mating season to arrive early, and he felt relieved that Huo Quan and the Huo Family no longer threatened him.
• Luo Chen showed Kang Xian Qiong the sunset over Danxia Peak’s sea of clouds, and she asked him to help her obtain the healing medicine at the Immortal City Auction.
• Luo Chen proposed that the Kang Family and the Luo Tian Association cooperate to sell Golden Jade Liquid, and Kang Xian Qiong agreed to discuss the arrangement.
• Luo Chen went to Wang Yuan’s thatched hut and urged him to establish his foundation.

Wang Yuan used the Blood Evil Spirit-Seizing Array to seize Huo Hu’s essence, foundation, and soul in an attempt to establish his foundation, while Luo Chen guarded him through the process. One month later, Wang Yuan’s aura rose from Danxia Peak, and Sima Hui Niang realized that the Luo Tian Association had gained a third Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Luo Chen questioned Wang Yuan about his preparations, and Wang Yuan said his array was perfected and his Divine Soul Foundation had strengthened through Spirit Communication Pills.
• Wang Yuan chose Huo Hu as the target of his spirit-seizing process, and Luo Chen agreed to guard him as he attempted foundation establishment.
• Wang Yuan activated the Blood Evil Spirit-Seizing Array, whose blood snakes drained Huo Hu’s essence, foundation, and soul before enclosing Wang Yuan in a cocoon.
• Luo Chen stayed nearby for a month, watching over Wang Yuan while he waited for the process to finish.
• Qu Lingjun and Mi Li refined pills at the Luo Tian Association’s Pill Hall, while Sima Hui Niang checked on their progress.
• A powerful aura rose from Danxia Peak, and Sima Hui Niang recognized Wang Yuan’s breakthrough and announced that the association now had three Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Wang Yuan reached Foundation Establishment, and the Luo Tian Association celebrated Duan Feng and Feng Xia’s wedding, showcasing its growing strength to neighboring forces. Afterward, the association gained new business opportunities and received a marriage proposal from the declining Scented Flower River Li Family, which wanted Qu Lingjun as its candidate.

• Wang Yuan emerged from seclusion after successfully reaching Foundation Establishment, and Luo Chen returned Huo Hu’s Storage Bag to him as a congratulatory gift.
• Luo Chen arranged for the Luo Tian Association to host Duan Feng and Feng Xia’s wedding, where he healed Feng Xia’s throat and the cultivators celebrated together.
• The wedding displayed the Luo Tian Association’s strength to surrounding forces, and the association gained the Geng Family’s cooperation and better terms from suppliers.
• Sima Hui Niang told Luo Chen that the Scented Flower River Li Family sought a marriage alliance to secure a backer as its Old Ancestor neared death.
• Luo Chen agreed to consider the alliance after learning that the Li Family had proposed Qu Lingjun as the marriage candidate for Li Yingjun.

Luo Chen arranged to turn the Qinhua Li Family’s proposed marriage alliance to his advantage, then opened Wang Haichao’s Storage Bag and uncovered a vast fortune and a Foundation Establishment Pill. The pill gave him a chance to help the Luo Tian Association gain another Foundation Establishment Cultivator as he prepared for Sky Wave Immortal City’s grand auction.

• Luo Chen rejected the idea of refusing the Qinhua Li Family’s marriage proposal and ordered Sima Hui Niang to offer Sima Xian and Yuan Dongsheng as additional candidates alongside Qu Lingjun.
• Luo Chen opened Wang Haichao’s Storage Bag and found 160,000 Spirit Stones, including 300 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, along with Magic Tools, pills, materials, and cultivation manuals.
• Luo Chen found Wang Haichao’s cultivation insights for the Gazed Heaven Curtain and set aside the Bamboo Slip to study.
• Luo Chen discovered a Foundation Establishment Pill in a Jade Box and realized it could help the Luo Tian Association gain another Foundation Establishment True Cultivator.
• Luo Chen considered his increased wealth and reviewed Xuan Yunzi’s invitation as he prepared for the grand auction in Sky Wave Immortal City.

Luo Chen visited the Qinhua Li Family to arrange Yuan Dongsheng’s marriage to Li Yingjun and learn about the upcoming Immortal City Auction, including its risks and quotas. A month later, the Sky Wave Trade Fair opened, and Luo Chen disguised himself to search its stalls for bargains.

• Luo Chen and Li Jinhuang agreed to Yuan Dongsheng and Li Yingjun’s marriage, strengthening ties between the Luo Tian Association and the Qinhua Li Family.
• Li Jinhuang explained the auction’s dangers, the five-thousand-Spirit-Stone price for a Foundation Establishment Pill, and offered Luo Chen the Li Family’s quota.
• Li Jinhuang warned Li Yingjun that the conflict between the two Nascent Soul Sects would resume and ordered her to bring her brother into the Luo Tian Association if he achieved Foundation Establishment.
• One month later, the Immortal City opened its nine-day trade fair, and the Luo Tian Association rented three stalls to sell pills, Magic Tools, and snacks.
• Luo Chen disguised himself and browsed the trade fair, hoping to find bargains among the goods brought by cultivators from across Southern Heaven and the Five Lakes.

Luo Chen bought Profound Dark Water for Duan Feng and acquired three damaged Magic Treasures at the free trade fair. Back in his cave dwelling, the Bronze Mirror reacted to his Rotten Ke Go Piece and enveloped him in seven-colored light, leaving him unresponsive as a figure appeared inside the mirror.

• Luo Chen bargained for three drops of Profound Dark Water and bought them for seven thousand five hundred Spirit Stones to give to Duan Feng.
• Luo Chen examined a stall’s damaged Magic Treasures, bought the compass, Soul Gathering Banner, and Bronze Mirror for sixty thousand Spirit Stones, and left the marketplace.
• Luo Chen tested the compass and Soul Gathering Banner in his cave dwelling, then gave Bai Meiling the banner to study.
• Luo Chen connected the Bronze Mirror’s glow with his Rotten Ke Go Piece, and their lights merged before enveloping him.
• Bai Meiling found Luo Chen unresponsive and saw a familiar figure opening its eyes inside the Bronze Mirror.

After losing Gu Cai Yi and seeing the Luo Tian Sect destroyed, Luo Chen survived as the feared Blood Demon and returned to Sky Wave Immortal City to attempt Core Formation. The chapter ended with him drawing on his secret techniques and vast spiritual energy to charge into the Golden Core Stage.

• Luo Chen discovered the damaged Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror was nearly useless and regretted spending thirty thousand Spirit Stones on it.
• Luo Chen's Foundation Establishment attempts for Min Longyu failed, while Sima Hui Niang, Gu Cai Yi, Murong Qinglian, and Zhou Yuanli later succeeded with his support.
• The war between the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect and Fallen Cloud Sect devastated the Luo Tian Association, and Wang Yuan died after offending a Golden Core Immortal.
• At age two hundred, Luo Chen married Gu Cai Yi after years of relentless cultivation, then resumed his pursuit of the Great Dao after she died twenty years later.
• Luo Chen formed the Luo Tian Sect and allied with other groups to attack the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect, but a Nascent Soul True Cultivator suppressed the forces and the Luo Tian Sect was wiped out.
• At age three hundred and thirty, Luo Chen returned to Sky Wave Immortal City at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and began his attempt to form a Golden Core.

After using the Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror, Luo Chen slept for seven days and woke with his body and divine soul exhausted. He learned how the mirror simulated his possible future and, with the auction one day away, began recovering in time to take part.

• At the Ice Wave Palace, Sima Hui Niang received Luo Chen’s instructions and one hundred thousand Spirit Stones from Duan Feng, who said Luo Chen needed to recuperate.
• Duan Feng reassured Min Longyu that Luo Chen had already secured a Foundation Establishment Pill slot for him.
• Luo Chen awoke after a three-hundred-year simulated life in the Ghost God Heart Questioning Mirror and reflected on how his choices had led to failure and near-loss of his Dao Heart.
• Luo Chen realized the simulation had overtaxed his body and divine soul, so he took a Spirit Communication Pill and ate a spirit-food feast.
• Bai Mei Ling told Luo Chen that he had slept seven days and that Duan Feng and Wang Yuan had come to visit.
• Luo Chen learned that only one day remained before the auction and said there was still time.

Despite his weakened condition, Luo Chen attended the third day of Sky Wave Immortal City's auction, where Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators competed for rare resources. He rewarded Sima Hui Niang with a Foundation Establishment Pill, learned more about the auction crowd and Wang Yuan’s cultivation, and prepared to bid as the Heartless Immortal presented Warm Sun Gentle Fragrance.

• Luo Chen told Wang Yuan he would attend the auction despite his frail condition, warned him against demonic cultivation, and offered to bid on a Tier 2 Body Tempering Cultivation Method for him.
• At Ice Wave Palace, Luo Chen saw Li Yixian and Nangong Jin with the Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance, then met Sima Hui Niang, Duan Feng, and Kang Xian Qiong.
• Sima Hui Niang reported the Luo Tian Association’s purchases and Dharma Robe order, and Luo Chen gave her the Foundation Establishment Pill they had won.
• Duan Feng said at least two hundred Foundation Establishment True Cultivators had attended the auction, while Sima Hui Niang described a cultivator killed by Sky Wave Immortal City’s aerial prohibition.
• The Heartless Immortal began hosting the third day’s auction, and Luo Chen recognized Warm Sun Gentle Fragrance as the resource he wanted to bid on.

Luo Chen competed for several auction items, securing Warm Sun Gentle Fragrance, materials for Duan Feng, Wang Yuan’s cultivation method, and an Ice Silkworm Futon while withdrawing from costly bids for other treasures. The auction then introduced Harmony Qi Pills, which Luo Chen was determined to obtain.

• Luo Chen won Warm Sun Gentle Fragrance for 7,500 Spirit Stones to help restore his depleted soul.
• Luo Chen bought Tier 3 ore for Duan Feng and outbid Lu Rong for the Qi Body Source Unification cultivation method, which he let Wang Yuan study.
• Luo Chen withdrew from bidding on a Second-Order Spirit Gathering Array after Zheng Kejian won it for 28,000 Spirit Stones, then secured an Ice Silkworm Futon for 9,000.
• Luo Chen competed for an unrefined Sword Pellet but withdrew when the price reached 30,000 Spirit Stones, allowing the Shaohua Mountain Yue Family to win it.
• Heartless Immortal announced one hundred bottles of Mid-Grade Harmony Qi Pills for auction, and Luo Chen resolved to buy as many as he could.

Luo Chen bought Mid-Grade Harmony Qi Pills and secured Kang Xian Qiong’s Tier 3 healing medicine at the auction, then watched Xuan Yu win the Core Formation Spirit Medicine. After settling his purchases, Luo Chen attended Ice Fortress’s post-auction banquet and found Chu Kui drinking alone.

• Luo Chen spent nearly forty thousand Spirit Stones on thirty bottles of Mid-Grade Harmony Qi Pills, then won Kang Xian Qiong’s Tier 3 healing medicine for five thousand more Spirit Stones than he had expected.
• Luo Chen watched Golden Core cultivators purchase powerful Magic Treasures and saw Xuan Yu win the Transformation Dragon Pill and Ice Phoenix Pellet, which could raise the chance of Core Formation by ten percent.
• Luo Chen settled his auction purchases with Shi Boying, inspected the items, and accepted her invitation to Ice Fortress’s post-auction banquet.
• Luo Chen attended the banquet alone after Wang Yuan, Duan Feng, Sima Hui Niang, and Kang Xian Qiong each left or declined to join him.
• Luo Chen found Chu Kui drinking alone and asked why he was drowning his sorrows; Chu Kui replied that Luo Chen already knew the reason.

At the auction banquet, Luo Chen learned more about the limits facing independent cultivators and grew suspicious that Xuan Yunzi had seen the All Wonders Pill Recipe. He was summoned by Heartless Immortal, who offered resources in exchange for a decade of Jade Dew Pill production, and left with a Tier 2 High-Grade Cave Mansion reserved for him.

• Chu Kui explained that even talented cultivators such as Xuan Yu struggled to obtain Core Formation resources within great sects, and Luo Chen considered the plight of independent cultivators.
• Xuan Yunzi questioned Luo Chen about the All Wonders Pill, and Luo Chen realized Xuan Yunzi knew its recipe’s North Sea Jade Scallops ingredient, suggesting he might be possessed by someone connected to the Medicine King Sect disciple.
• Tao Yisheng introduced Luo Chen to his elder sister Tao Wan, who questioned Luo Chen about his relationship with Xuan Yunzi, while Tao Yisheng objected to her attitude.
• Shi Boying escorted Luo Chen to meet Heartless Immortal, who gave him pill-refining insights and Ice God Jade in exchange for at least one thousand Jade Dew Pills annually for ten years.
• Luo Chen secured a Top-Grade Pill Cauldron and Second-Order Earth Fire, then learned from Shi Lan that his Tier 2 High-Grade Cave Mansion had been reserved.