Chapter Summaries

The Luo Tian Association’s enemies attacked Danxia Peak, but Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and the mountain’s defenses turned the assault into a disaster for the invaders. The Seven-Colored Spear killed Geng Lie, then flew toward the battle outside the mountain with power remaining for one more strike.

• Xing Zonghan and Ying Yang clashed outside Danxia Peak, while Duan Feng drove Fairy Miao Yu back with the He Luo Sword.
• Wang Yuan fought Lu Rong, survived the smoke-pipe Magic Treasure’s attacks, and revealed his powerful Body Tempering cultivation as the two prepared to battle hand-to-hand.
• Geng Lie and Geng Shuzhen entered a valley to sabotage the Mountain Protection Great Array, but Earthfire killed Geng Shuzhen and Min Longyu confronted Geng Lie.
• Min Longyu activated the fused Seven-Colored Danxia Array and pierced Geng Lie with its Seven-Colored Spear, then sent the spear toward the outside of the mountain for another strike.

Wang Yuan, Duan Feng, and Xing Zonghan helped the Luo Tian Association defeat the Foundation Establishment invaders, while Min Longyu’s Seven-Colored Spear turned the battles in their favor. At the funeral, Luo Chen revealed that every attacker had been killed, just as Pill Origin Master arrived to confront him.

• Wang Yuan killed Lu Rong with a blood-red strike and absorbed his Qi and Blood, while Min Longyu’s Seven-Colored Spear flew onward.
• Duan Feng exhausted his spiritual power fighting Fairy Miao Yu, and Min Longyu’s spear killed her before Duan Feng collected her belongings.
• Duan Feng returned to Danxia Peak, where he encountered the wounded Xing Zonghan and reported to Min Longyu.
• Observers outside Danxia Peak abandoned most plans to raid the mountain after seeing the Association’s defenses, while Luo Chen faced Hu Changxi and his brothers at Li Jinhuang’s funeral.
• Luo Chen told Hu Changxi that all invading enemies had been slaughtered, then continued the funeral procession despite Hu Changnu’s threats.
• Hu Changxi summoned Pill Origin Master to deal with Luo Chen, but Luo Chen said someone had been waiting for him.

Luo Chen used Li Jinhuang’s preserved vitality to revive him for a brief battle, then fought the three Hu Family brothers with transformed spells. Li Jinhuang chased Pill Origin Master away, while Luo Chen’s thorn vines overwhelmed Hu Changxi and left his fate unclear.

• Luo Chen opened the Jade Slip and summoned Li Jinhuang’s wandering soul, which joined with his corpse and regained enough strength to fight.
• Li Jinhuang summoned the Chi Dragon Sword and pursued Pill Origin Master downstream along the Scented Flower River.
• The three Hu Family brothers attacked Luo Chen, who used the Wave Technique, Earth Peak Technique, Gazed Heaven Curtain, and Blazing Sun Spell against them.
• Luo Chen engulfed Hu Changle and Hu Changxi in the Blazing Sun Spell, while Hu Changnu held back the falling mountain.
• Luo Chen trapped the remaining Hu Changxi in thorny vines, which pierced his defenses and bloomed with a blood-red flower.

Luo Chen killed Wei Tuo after defeating the three Hu brothers, then used his overwhelming strength to drive away cultivators eyeing the Li Family’s holdings. Yellow Sand Daoist abandoned his plan to seize the family’s resources after witnessing Luo Chen’s power, while Chu Kui headed toward the river.

• Li Jinhuang gave Luo Chen the Chi Dragon Sword for Li Yingzhang and dissolved into green smoke after entrusting Luo Chen with what came next.
• Wei Tuo tried to take charge of the Li Family, but Luo Chen revealed his Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment power and killed him with Mountain Collapse.
• Luo Chen’s attack blasted a vast cavern into the Scented Flower River, frightening nearby cultivators into abandoning any plans to target the Li Family.
• Yellow Sand Daoist considered taking the Li Family’s foundation, but Chu Kui warned him off and the two sensed Luo Chen’s devastating attack.
• After seeing Wei Tuo’s death, Yellow Sand Daoist gave up his claim and left, while Chu Kui flew toward the river and noticed something by a green mountain.

After honoring Li Jinhuang’s wishes, Luo Chen organized the Luo Tian Association’s retaliation against the factions that had attacked it. He assigned targets and commanders for a coordinated campaign beginning at dawn.

• At Li Jinhuang’s funeral, Luo Chen gave Li Yingzhang a Talisman Treasure and told him to keep the Chi Dragon Sword until he established his Foundation.
• Luo Chen ordered Li Yingzhang to lead a surprise attack on Tanqiu Mountain and wipe out the Hu Family.
• Luo Chen paid Chu Kui the remaining Spirit Stones for standing by during the Battle of Scented Flower River, and Chu Kui revealed that Tantai Jin had previously visited Sky Wave Immortal City.
• At Luo Tian Hall, Luo Chen ordered Wang Yuan to destroy the Pill Origin Sect and Sima Xian to attack Jade Truth Temple and Heavenly Eagle Peak with Xing Zonghan’s help.
• Luo Chen assigned Min Longyu to target the Geng Family and arranged for the association’s other halls and Outer Sect cultivators to provide support.
• Luo Chen ordered the Luo Tian Association to capture its targets within three days and sent its forces out at dawn.

The Qinhua Li Family destroyed the Hu Family on Tanqiu Mountain as the Luo Tian Association launched attacks on the Pill Origin Sect and Heavenly Eagle Peak. Wang Yuan drove off Shen Gongyi and advanced on Yuanhe Mountain, where he prepared to break the Pill Origin Sect’s defenses.

• Li Yingzhang led the Qinhua Li Family in wiping out the Hu Family on Tanqiu Mountain, while Li Yingjun agreed to send most of the seized resources and the Alchemy Dao books to Luo Chen.
• A rogue cultivator reported that more than two hundred Luo Tian Association members had split into two groups to attack the Pill Origin Sect and Heavenly Eagle Peak.
• Li Yingzhang told Li Yingjun to give Yuan Dongsheng seventy percent of the seized resources and all the Alchemy Dao books for delivery to Luo Chen.
• Shen Gongyi promised to protect the Pill Origin Sect in exchange for ten years of free pill refining, then confronted Wang Yuan outside Yuanhe Mountain.
• Wang Yuan’s Blood God Tribulation Finger wounded Shen Gongyi, who fled and abandoned his Sky Net.
• Wang Yuan tore free of the Sky Net and sent a powerful palm strike toward Yuanhe Mountain’s defenses.

The Luo Tian Association attacked the Pill Origin Sect, Heavenly Eagle Peak, Jade Truth Temple, and the Geng Family, wiping out their forces and seizing their resources. Luo Chen accepted Min Longyu’s excessive slaughter of the Geng Family, then declared that Lu Rong and Wei Tuo still had debts to pay; the Association’s next move was to wait.

• Wang Yuan broke the Pill Origin Sect’s array with one palm, killed its Elder of Teaching Skills, and led the Luo Tian Association’s forces in taking the sect.
• Sima Xian and Xing Zonghan attacked Heavenly Eagle Peak, where Xing Zonghan avenged his clan by killing Eagle Family cultivators while Sima Xian’s team seized the Seven Eagle Nests.
• Min Longyu reversed the Geng Family’s defensive array and slaughtered its cultivators, while Murong Qinglian led the survivors in collecting the family’s resources.
• Luo Chen received reports that the Pill Origin Sect, Heavenly Eagle Peak, Jade Truth Temple, and Geng Family had fallen, and he told Min Longyu not to act alone without orders.
• Luo Chen gave Min Longyu Geng Shuzhen’s Storage Bag as his personal spoils and said that Lu Rong and Wei Tuo still had debts to pay before deciding to wait.

During Sky Wave Immortal City’s chaotic handover, the Luo Tian Association seized the wealth and resources of several defeated forces, alarming nearby groups. The Wei Family considered seeking peace while the Divine Craftsmen Sect planned to use Iron Sword Hall against Luo Chen and take the Association’s newly acquired holdings.

• As the Ice Fortress and Azure Pill Valley handed over control of Sky Wave Immortal City, the Luo Tian Association destroyed rival forces and transported their resources to Danxia Peak.
• Rogue cultivators watched the Association’s flying ships carry away Spirit Plants, Eagle Nests, Pill Refiners, and other spoils, then went searching through the defeated forces’ ruins for leftovers.
• Wei Bufan sent Wei Pingan to deliver a letter to Luo Chen after realizing the Wei Family might negotiate, while his Foundation Establishment allies refused to stay and defend them.
• Fei Changqiu and the First Elder decided to remain at the Divine Craftsmen Sect and report the Luo Tian Association to Iron Sword Hall, hoping to have the Association removed and claim its spoils.

Luo Chen evaluated Qi Yi and Xu Jie’s pill-refining skills and recruited them into the Luo Tian Association, assigning them to the Pill Hall with teaching duties and support. He then asked Qi Yi to explain the Nourishing Origin Pills’ poor profitability, leaving their future production in question.

• Luo Chen watched Qi Yi refine Nourishing Origin Pills and assessed his technique, while Xu Jie described their former earnings at the Pill Origin Sect.
• Luo Chen revealed that the Luo Tian Association paid its alchemists better and offered more support, prompting Xu Jie to wonder about his prospects there.
• Xu Jie lost focus and failed his refinement, after which Luo Chen appointed both him and Qi Yi as Pill Refiners in the association.
• Luo Chen set their initial salaries, added monthly teaching stipends, assigned Qi Yi to teach Qiu Ying and Xu Jie to teach Ma Shoupou, and arranged assistants for both.
• Qi Yi warned Luo Chen that Nourishing Origin Pills had almost no profit left amid competition from Jade Marrow Pills and the Zheng family’s Fire Sesame Pills, and asked whether they should keep producing them in large quantities.

After the Luo Tian Association gained Pill Origin Sect alchemists and valuable resources, Luo Chen expanded its plans for pill production and cultivation. He then gave Must Dust Mountain’s envoy three days to accept his terms or face Luo Chen personally ascending the mountain.

• Luo Chen learned that the Li Family would supply Origin Mother Grass at cost, allowing Qi Yi and Xu Jie to refine Nourishing Origin Pills for the Luo Tian Association.
• Luo Chen calculated the profits the two alchemists could bring and warned himself not to repeat Mi Shuhua’s methods of controlling others.
• Yuan Dongsheng explained that Danxia Peak’s shaded back mountain could support transplanted Ink Mulberry and requested Late Qi Refining cultivators to guard the fields.
• Luo Chen agreed to transfer guards from the Battle Hall and recognized that the Luo Tian Association needed an inheritance system to manage its growing affairs.
• Wei Pingan arrived on behalf of Must Dust Mountain to seek reconciliation, and Luo Chen demanded additional guarantees, future service from Wei Bufan, and exclusive sales of the family’s Tier 1 cultivation pills.
• Luo Chen gave Wei Pingan three days to secure the Wei Family’s agreement and warned that he would personally ascend Must Dust Mountain if they refused.

Luo Chen secured the Wei Family’s reconciliation, divided the spoils from his campaign, and considered how to strengthen the Luo Tian Association. Just as he began reviewing the alchemy books he had acquired, Shi Boying arrived and warned him of a great calamity.

• Wei Bufan accepted Luo Chen’s conditions except for the promise to intervene, then agreed after Wei Pingan confirmed he would only face opponents at his own cultivation realm.
• The Wei Family sent the Luo Tian Association one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and five High-Grade Magic Tools, and Luo Chen sent them High-Grade Jade Marrow Pills in return.
• Luo Chen reviewed the campaign’s spoils, approved rewards for the association’s cultivators, and reserved funds for new industries while assigning Murong Qinglian to oversee the money until Hui Niang emerged from seclusion.
• Luo Chen reflected on the alchemy books and pill recipes he had acquired, hoping to improve his Pill Refinement Art and find cultivation pills suitable for Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment.
• Shi Boying arrived at the Luo Tian Grand Hall, praised Luo Chen as the Fire Spirit Lord, and warned him that a great calamity was hanging over his head.

Luo Chen learned that Tantai Jin had quietly protected him during the Scented Flower River battle, and Tao Wan dismissed Zuo Song’s accusations against the Luo Tian Association. Tantai Jin confirmed that Ice Fortress would retain control of Sky Wave Immortal City and continue protecting the association, leaving Luo Chen to consider how to obtain high-grade cultivation pills and deal with lingering troubles.

• Luo Chen thanked Tantai Jin for helping him at Scented Flower River, though she denied making a move and credited Chu Kui.
• Zuo Song accused the Luo Tian Association before Tao Wan, but she rebuked him and sent him to Tantai Jin with his complaints.
• Tao Wan greeted Luo Chen and said Tantai Jin deserved his thanks for intervening on his behalf.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that Ice Fortress would control Sky Wave Immortal City for another ten years and continue their Jade Dew Pill cooperation, while the Heartless Lineage would protect the Luo Tian Association.
• Luo Chen learned from Shi Boying that Ice Fortress lacked a reliable supply of high-grade cultivation pills and considered approaching Tao Wan for help.
• As Luo Chen left Ice Wave Palace, he spotted Zuo Song watching him from a restaurant and exchanged a smile with him.

Luo Chen led the Luo Tian Association to confront Divine Craftsmen Sect, whose sect master refused his terms and trusted in the strength of its defensive formation. Min Longyu began organizing the assault, while Luo Chen considered the cultivation methods the association had accumulated.

• Luo Chen led Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and more than one hundred cultivators to Divine Craftsmen Sect, where Fei Changqiu waited behind the Copper Walls Iron Walls Grand Formation.
• Zuo Song refused to answer Fei Changqiu’s pleas for help, choosing not to risk angering Ice Fortress and keeping the gifts Fei had sent.
• Luo Chen offered Fei Changqiu three choices: resist and face destruction, fight him at the Dao Discussion Stage, or pay one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, surrender the artifact-forging manuals, and leave Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Fei Changqiu rejected the choices and declared that Divine Craftsmen Sect would rely on its formation to withstand the Luo Tian Association.
• Min Longyu said he could find the formation’s weakness, and Luo Chen gave him three days and placed all the cultivators, including himself and Wang Yuan, under his command.
• Min Longyu divided the cultivators into five teams by their Five Elements Spirit Roots as Luo Chen reflected on the eleven Tier 2 cultivation methods the association had collected.

Min Longyu analyzed the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s Copper Walls Iron Walls Grand Formation and led the Luo Tian Association in constructing a fire-element formation to counter it. With the Nine Revolutions Flame Dragon Grand Array ready and the Profound Flame Sword set as its array eye, Min Longyu launched its first attack, leaving the battle against the formation underway.

• Min Longyu directed the Five Elements Squad’s probes, taught basic formation knowledge, and identified weaknesses in the Copper Walls Iron Walls Grand Formation.
• Wang Yuan struck the formation’s Qian Palace position, narrowly escaped its counterattack, and Min Longyu announced he could break the formation within seven days by using another formation.
• Min Longyu had the Luo Tian Association build the Nine Revolutions Flame Dragon Grand Array, using five hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and the Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc as its core.
• Min Longyu asked Luo Chen to lend him the Profound Flame Sword to suppress the new array and explained that its power might also help Luo Chen refine the sword.
• Min Longyu activated the Nine Revolutions Flame Dragon Grand Array and summoned its first fire dragon, Hidden Dragon Ascends the Mountain, which charged toward the Copper Walls Iron Walls Grand Formation.

Luo Chen used the Nine Revolutions Flame Dragon Grand Array to refine his Profound Flame Sword while Min Longyu drove the assault on Divine Craftsmen Sect's defenses. As the formation neared its limit, three cultivators arrived to intervene, but Luo Chen rejected their self-interested offers and ordered the final attack.

• Luo Chen joined the grand array through the Dragon Transformation Restriction and began using its Fire Element spiritual energy to sacrificially refine the Profound Flame Sword.
• Min Longyu increased the Flame Dragon's power over four days, while Divine Craftsmen Sect's Grand Elder realized the metal-heavy defenses were vulnerable to the pure Fire Element formation.
• On the fifth day, Zuo Song, Ling Yuzhi, and Luo Feng arrived to plead for Divine Craftsmen Sect, and Luo Chen confronted them about their promised rewards.
• Luo Feng revealed he wanted a business deal and a Foundation Establishment Pill, Zuo Song had been promised mining material, and Ling Yuzhi had been offered Spirit Stones.
• Luo Chen ordered Min Longyu to launch the final assault, and the eight-turn Flame Dragon crashed into Divine Craftsmen Sect's golden barrier.

Luo Chen broke the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s defenses, killed Fei Changqiu, and drove off the three cultivators who had come to aid him. After the Luo Tian Association secured the sect, Sima Hui Niang joined Luo Chen, who examined the Profound Heaven Crystal they had obtained.

• Min Longyu’s formation broke the Copper Walls Iron Walls Grand Formation, killing the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s grand elder and the Late Qi Refining Stage cultivators bound to it.
• Fei Changqiu attacked Luo Chen, but Luo Chen’s Profound Flame Sword pierced Fei Changqiu’s chest while Wang Yuan helped him withstand Fei Changqiu’s counterstrike.
• Luo Chen ordered Zuo Song, Luo Feng, and Ling Yuzhi to leave; all three departed, and he then had Min Longyu withdraw the formation.
• The Luo Tian Association spent a day and night clearing the battlefield and let the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s remaining disciples leave after searching them.
• Sima Hui Niang arrived after establishing her foundation, and Luo Chen examined the Profound Heaven Crystal before she warned him about risking himself against powerful opponents.

After the Luo Tian Association’s victory over the Divine Craftsmen Sect, Luo Chen planned how to distribute the spoils and use rumors of Foundation Establishment Pills to support the Association’s future growth. Newly established Sima Hui Niang returned to Danxia Peak and chose to devote herself to managing the Association, determined to make it a leading Foundation Establishment force.

• Luo Chen explained to Sima Hui Niang that Ice Fortress would continue commanding Sky Wave Immortal City, leaving the Association free to consolidate its gains without immediate danger.
• Luo Chen awarded Min Longyu the Divine Craftsmen Sect Grand Elder’s Storage Bag and kept Fei Changqiu’s Storage Bag, hinting that it contained multiple Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Sima Hui Niang inferred that Luo Chen wanted outsiders to believe the Association had gained many Foundation Establishment Elixirs, making future Foundation Establishment breakthroughs seem natural.
• Sima Hui Niang returned to Danxia Peak, where Sima Xian urged her to consolidate her newly established realm, but she argued that managing the Association was her greater responsibility.
• Sima Hui Niang declared her ambition to build the Luo Tian Association into Sky Wave Immortal City’s foremost power beneath the Golden Core Sects, then ordered Sima Xian to submit his Battle Hall’s merit and fault list.

Sima Hui Niang proposed reorganizing the Luo Tian Association to manage its expanding industries and personnel, and Luo Chen approved her plan. The association would grow from seven halls into the Luo Tian Nine Halls, with new departments, expanded recruitment, and a restructured Battle Hall.

• Luo Chen rewarded Min Longyu, Wang Yuan, and Duan Feng for their contributions to the campaign, while Sima Hui Niang prepared rewards and merit records for the other cultivators.
• Sima Hui Niang explained that the association lacked both workers and clear responsibilities for its new spirit farms, spirit beasts, and other industries, and Luo Chen agreed it needed to change.
• Sima Hui Niang proposed adding the Agriculture Hall, Beast Hall, and Skill Transmission Hall, recruiting more cultivators, and giving most halls a goal of at least one hundred members.
• Sima Hui Niang proposed merging the Law Enforcement Hall into the Battle Hall while retaining an Enforcement Team and establishing a dedicated intelligence team; Luo Chen approved.
• Luo Chen renamed the association's halls palaces, establishing the Luo Tian Nine Halls, and praised Sima Hui Niang's plan for the association to grow until it towered into the heavens.

After the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s destruction, Luo Chen focused on cultivation and restored the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Ageless Evergreen Scripture by perfecting the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture. He learned that it cultivated body, spiritual energy, and soul together, then found that his realm progress had increased only slightly before opening his Attribute Panel.

• Luo Chen handed the Luo Tian Association’s overhaul to Sima Hui Niang and concentrated on cultivation, recognizing that the Ice Fortress’s influence depended on his own strength.
• One month after the Divine Craftsmen Sect’s destruction, Luo Chen perfected the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture and restored it into the Foundation Establishment Chapter of the Ageless Evergreen Scripture.
• Luo Chen used projected Spiritual Sense to capture wood spiritual energy, open minor meridians, refine his body, and strengthen his soul as he cultivated.
• Luo Chen studied Alchemy Dao texts and learned the Nourishing Origin Hand, the Scale Turning Hand, and a Tier 2 Water Method Pill Refining Technique, while continuing to refine Jade Dew Pills and Top-grade Netherworld Pills.
• After more than half a month, Luo Chen saw that his cultivation progress had risen only slightly, accepted the scripture’s other benefits, and opened his Attribute Panel.

After reviewing his cultivation and planning to sell Mid-Grade Jade Dew Pills, Luo Chen learned a Spirit Planting Art and heard that Snow Lotus Market had shipped demon beast corpses to Sky Wave Immortal City. At Snow Lotus Hall, he met Shi Boying and recognized a familiar young woman who came out to answer her summons.

• Luo Chen reviewed his Attribute Panel, hid several Great Perfection spells, and planned to begin revealing that he could refine Mid-Grade Jade Dew Pills for Tantai Jin and the Heartless Immortal.
• Yuan Dongsheng visited Luo Chen, discussed the Luo Tian Association’s affairs, and taught him the Kusanagi Gengjin Sword Art, which Luo Chen quickly learned to use.
• Yuan Dongsheng told Luo Chen that a large batch of complete demon beast corpses had arrived from Snow Lotus Market near the Great Snow Mountain, so Luo Chen left for the association.
• Three days later, Luo Chen and Wang Yuan entered Snow Lotus Hall and found Shi Boying greeting customers; she explained that the shop belonged to Ice Fortress and hosted a small auction.
• Shi Boying summoned a young woman, and Luo Chen and Wang Yuan recognized her as someone familiar.