Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen commissioned Gongsun Gan to forge a pair of wing-type Magic Tools from Blazing Cloud Peng wings so he could improve his speed and practice the Nine Myriad Miles secret art. After testing the completed Blazing Cloud Wings, Luo Chen launched himself into the sky to try the technique.

• Luo Chen told Gongsun Gan he wanted implantable wings powered by spiritual energy and blood and qi, and showed him the Blazing Cloud Peng wings he had saved.
• Gongsun Gan examined the aged wings, agreed to forge a Mid-Grade Magic Tool or better, and Luo Chen selected supplementary materials and paid a deposit.
• Half a month later, Gongsun Gan presented Luo Chen with high-grade wings made using Soft Thunder Sand, and Luo Chen bonded them with his Essence Blood and implanted them beneath his shoulder blades.
• Luo Chen healed his wounds, activated the Blazing Cloud Wings, and found their flight speed matched ordinary sword flight with little discomfort.
• Luo Chen paid Gongsun Gan five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and stayed behind to test the wings with the Nine Myriad Miles secret art.
• Luo Chen sprang into the air, spread the Blazing Cloud Wings, and shot upward over the mountains.

Luo Chen practiced Nine Myriad Miles and tested the Profound Flame Sword before Min Longyu returned from the war with news of heavy Luo Tian Association casualties. Sima Xian was dead, Wang Yuan was missing, and Luo Chen was left alone with a guilt-stricken Min Longyu.

• Luo Chen delivered pills to Ice Wave Palace, then practiced the Blazing Cloud Wings and Nine Myriad Miles in the wilderness.
• Luo Chen tested the Profound Flame Sword at high altitude and returned to Sky Wave Peak as time passed into the Luo Tian Association's second year of war.
• Min Longyu reported that the Flame Alliance had captured the Seventh Mountain and that the Luo Tian Association had lost forty-three Qi Refinement Cultivators, while Li Yingzhang was gravely wounded, Sima Xian was dead, and Wang Yuan was missing.
• Sima Hui Niang learned that Sima Xian's killer was called Dry Toad and opened his coffin after Min Longyu left.
• Min Longyu faced grieving cultivators seeking news of their relatives until Luo Chen arrived and sent the crowd away.
• Min Longyu knelt before Luo Chen, blaming himself for failing to protect the Luo Tian Association's cultivators, and Luo Chen ordered him to stand and speak.

After hearing Min Longyu’s account of the devastating battle at Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains, Luo Chen comforted Sima Hui Niang and resolved to lead the Luo Tian Association’s next expedition himself. He left Min Longyu to guard Danxia Peak, accepted his repaired formation treasure, and set out aboard the Langqi Flying Boat with supplies and cultivators.

• Min Longyu described how his Five Thunders Strike the Top array killed five Foundation Establishment Cultivators, but the Luo Tian Association suffered heavy losses, Wang Yuan disappeared, Li Yingzhang was gravely wounded, and Xu Huanzhen lost his White Crane Spirit Beast.
• Luo Chen restored Sima Xian’s corpse, and Sima Hui Niang mourned her brother before regaining her resolve and agreeing that the Battle Hall needed a new master.
• Luo Chen appointed himself Battle Hall Master and announced that he would personally lead the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators to Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• After Sima Xian and the other fallen cultivators were buried, Min Longyu asked to join the expedition, but Luo Chen ordered him to stay and guard Danxia Peak.
• Min Longyu gave Luo Chen the repaired Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc and recounted the battle again, while Luo Chen asked who had relentlessly pursued the retreating cultivators.
• Luo Chen departed on the Langqi Flying Boat with supplies and cultivators bound for the Ice Fortress, promising to bring everyone back after the war.

Luo Chen escorted a Luo Tian Association supply ship toward Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains and let Qin Liangchen lead the defense against a band of would-be robbers. When Hu Laoda and Kou Ji tried to flee after sensing Luo Chen’s power, Luo Chen killed Kou Ji with a towering Sword Light and called after Hu Laoda.

• Luo Chen studied the Sky Peng Transformation aboard the flying vessel as it traveled toward Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• Hu Laoda persuaded Kou Ji to ambush the Luo Tian Association caravan, believing it lacked a Foundation Establishment escort.
• Luo Chen detected the ambush, while Qin Liangchen confidently prepared the Luo Tian cultivators to fight.
• Qin Liangchen led the cultivators in killing the Qi Refining robbers, and Yuan Xiaoyue killed a Qi Refining Ninth Layer attacker with a surprise strike.
• Hu Laoda and Kou Ji confronted Qin Liangchen, then tried to flee when Luo Chen revealed his powerful aura.
• Luo Chen killed the fleeing Kou Ji with Sword Light and challenged Hu Laoda to stay.

Luo Chen captured Hu Wei after the robber attacked the Langqi Flying Boat, extracted what he knew about the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains, and killed him when he hesitated over his plans. The flying boat reached the battlefield without further trouble, and Luo Chen prepared to disembark.

• Qin Liangchen subdued Hu Laoda with the Sword Pellet and Repeating Seal, then brought him to Luo Chen aboard the Langqi Flying Boat.
• Luo Chen used the Soul Seizing Art and Soul Bewitching Art to learn Hu Wei’s identity, motives, and intelligence about the forces at the Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains.
• When Hu Wei hesitated to answer how he would have attacked the flying boat, Luo Chen killed him and ordered Qin Liangchen to hang his head from the flagpole.
• Luo Chen studied the two robbers’ Storage Bags, found Soft Thunder Sand ore, and took more than forty thousand Spirit Stones and Hu Wei’s defensive shield.
• A nearby band of Robber Cultivators retreated after seeing Hu Wei’s head, and the Langqi Flying Boat reached the golden-yellow land several days later.

Luo Chen arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island, reunited with the Luo Tian Association’s battered cultivators, and examined Li Yingzhang’s wounds from Earth Fire Fiend Qi. When a powerful visitor confronted the encampment, Luo Chen stepped forward to face him.

• Luo Chen arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island with Duan Feng and learned that other Ice Fortress affiliates were pressuring the Luo Tian Association over its residence.
• Luo Chen greeted the Battle Hall cultivators, promised to remain and fight alongside them, and sent Duan Feng to collect supplies.
• Luo Chen examined Li Yingzhang and found that Earth Fire Fiend Qi had damaged his foundation, though treatments from Ice Fortress and Azure Pill Valley had stabilized him.
• Luo Chen reassured Li Yingzhang that he would likely recover, then hurried outside after a commotion broke out at the encampment.
• Senior Qu threatened Bu Junjie and demanded to speak with the person in charge, so Luo Chen appeared and faced him.

Luo Chen defended the Luo Tian Association’s Spirit Land by defeating Qu Zhenbiao in a single exchange and claiming his sword. After driving off the Qu Family and dismissing the Divine Water Sect, he returned to the compound and offered the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword to Yingzhang.

• Luo Chen rejected Qu Zhenbiao’s demand to surrender the Luo Tian Association’s Spirit Land and challenged him to settle the dispute with one move.
• Luo Chen stopped Qu Zhenbiao’s Flying Sword with a Glazed Light Screen and struck him with a devastating sword attack before a Golden Core Immortal from the Ice Fortress intervened.
• Luo Chen took Qu Zhenbiao’s Flying Sword Magic Treasure, the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword, and ordered the Qu Family to leave.
• Xu Xiang and Luo Jiangnan of the Divine Water Sect greeted Luo Chen by his titles, and he said he would meet them later.
• Luo Chen returned to the stone house, told Old Xu to list the injured, and asked Yingzhang whether he wanted the Nine Ditch Spirit King Sword.

After defeating Qu Zhenbiao, Luo Chen faced scrutiny from the Four Sect Alliance and confronted Tantai Jin over the Heartless Lineage’s treatment of the Luo Tian Association. Summoned by Yinyue Forefather, he refused her offer to switch allegiances until he consulted Heartless Forefather, who arrived and accused Yinyue of overstepping.

• Cultivators from the Fallen Cloud Sect and Azure Pill Valley discussed Luo Chen’s combat skills, while Duan Feng and Tantai Jin hurried to finish the Luo Tian Association’s goods handover after his clash with Qu Zhenbiao.
• Tantai Jin visited Luo Chen, and they argued over the Heartless Lineage’s failure to protect the Luo Tian Association and his decision to fight the Qu Family.
• A messenger summoned Luo Chen to Yinyue Forefather, who questioned him about Qu Zhenbiao before offering him resources, support, and a place in her lineage.
• Luo Chen thanked Yinyue Forefather but said he needed to consult Heartless Forefather before deciding whether to change allegiances.
• Heartless Forefather entered the Ice Palace and told Yinyue Forefather that she had overstepped.

After forcing Heartless Immortal to recognize the Luo Tian Association’s importance, Luo Chen treated its injured cultivators and discovered that his Cleanse Spell could remove Earth Fire Fiend Qi. The discovery inspired him to consider using baleful qi to advance his Body Tempering Aperture Opening, but Tian Xingzi of the Fallen Cloud Sect arrived with a visiting card.

• Luo Chen reflected on how he had used Yinyue Forefather’s interest to pressure Heartless Immortal into valuing him and the Luo Tian Association without changing allegiance.
• Luo Chen treated injured Luo Tian Association cultivators and tested whether his Cleanse Spell could remove harmful qi from their bodies.
• Luo Chen used the Spring Breeze Rain Spell and Cleanse Spell to remove some of the Earth Fire Fiend Qi from Li Yingzhang.
• Luo Chen realized that baleful qi might help him open acupoints and advance the Aperture Opening stage of Body Tempering.
• Duan Feng told Luo Chen that Tian Xingzi of the Fallen Cloud Sect had sent a visiting card, and Luo Chen asked to see it.

Tian Xingzi visited Luo Chen, confirmed his identity, and gave him intelligence linking Wang Yuan to the Blood Demon rumors around the Ninth Mountain. Luo Chen kept Wang Yuan’s secret, ordered the search for him to continue, and began testing a method of opening his body’s apertures with Baleful Qi.

• Tian Xingzi met Luo Chen, revealed that he knew Luo Chen’s identity, and gave him three Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills as a gift in return for their old friendship.
• Tian Xingzi told Luo Chen that scouts had found a lead on Wang Yuan near the Ninth Mountain, where neither side had taken control.
• Luo Chen told Xu Huanzhen, Duan Feng, and Li Yingzhang that Wang Yuan was connected to the Blood Demon legend, then ordered them to keep the information secret and continue searching for him.
• Luo Chen resolved to protect Wang Yuan, heal Li Yingzhang, investigate the Ninth Mountain, and keep exploring Aperture Opening before the Luo Tian Association’s next defense rotation.
• Yuan Xiaoyue collected ten portions of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi for Luo Chen, who then drew Baleful Qi from a Rock Float Stone to begin testing his Aperture Opening method.

Luo Chen discovered that using several threads of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi could open his acupoints, then arranged to obtain more while securing safer battlefield arrangements for the Luo Tian Association. He learned he had nearly been matched with Ice Soul Fairy, and the chapter ended with Qin Liangchen realizing Luo Chen would not return to Skybillow with the others.

• Luo Chen opened another acupoint by using three threads of Second-Order Earth Fire Fiend Qi at once and calculated the immense cost of completing Aperture Opening.
• Luo Chen bought Tantai Jin's hundred portions of Earth Fire Fiend Qi and arranged for Shi Lan to seek more at the next cultivator trade gathering.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that Ice Soul Fairy was Yinyue Martial Aunt's eldest disciple and a candidate for the next sect leader, and Luo Chen realized Yinyue Forefather had wanted him to support Ice Soul.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that the Luo Tian Association would move back in half a month and that she would arrange its assignment; Luo Chen welcomed the safer prospect of serving under her.
• Qin Liangchen told Luo Chen that his son Qin Xiaohu had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection and was attempting Foundation Establishment, then asked why Luo Chen would not return with the others.

Luo Chen watched his companions depart Golden Sand Floating Island, studied the Alliance’s Merit List, and prepared the Luo Tian Association for battle. He set out with Tantai Jin and the other cultivators toward the thunder-shrouded mountains, joining the vast force entering the battlefield.

• Luo Chen bid farewell to Yuan Xiaoyue, Qin Liangchen, and Li Yingzhang as the Langqi Flying Boat carried them back toward Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Luo Chen examined the Merit List, recalled the Luo Tian Association’s battlefield record, and decided his forces should retreat rather than risk themselves for unappealing rewards.
• Luo Chen reflected on how opening fifty-six acupoints had increased his spiritual power reserves and considered the strength he might gain by opening all seven hundred and twenty.
• Tantai Jin joined her hundred-person squad with Luo Chen and the Luo Tian Association cultivators, and the combined force departed Golden Sand Floating Island.
• Tens of thousands of cultivators from the Four Sect Alliance converged and flew toward the nine thunder-shrouded mountains in the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sand.

Luo Chen joined the Four Sect Alliance’s forces at Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains and learned the dangers of the battlefield before reaching the Luo Tian Association’s relatively safe post on Sixth Mountain. He discovered the Heartless Forefather had secured the post by trading away most of his Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills, then prepared to settle in and face the coming battles.

• Luo Chen entered Sixth Mountain with the Four Sect Alliance’s army and listened as Xu Huanzhen explained the battlefield’s defenses, lightning experts, and hazards.
• Luo Chen recognized Li Yixian among the departing Connecting Cloud Commerce Alliance, while the Connecting Cloud Grand Elder lamented the alliance’s losses and envied Luo Chen’s safer assignment.
• Tantai Jin led Luo Chen to the Luo Tian Association’s post near a stand of Lightning Struck Wood, a rear position unlikely to attract enemy attacks.
• Tantai Jin told Luo Chen that the Heartless Forefather had traded nearly seventy percent of his Top-Grade Blood Burning Pills to secure the post, and Luo Chen reconsidered his anger at her decision.
• Luo Chen accepted the assignment and took the Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc from his Storage Bag.

Luo Chen kept the Luo Tian Association safe in the rear while he trained and searched for more Earth Fire Fiend Qi. After discovering that lightning could strengthen Lightning Struck Wood and experimenting with a Lightning Attraction Net, he began considering whether Thunder Force could help him open his acupoints.

• Luo Chen established Min Longyu’s Raging Thunderous Waves Formation in the Lightning Struck Wood Forest and kept it charging with Spirit Stones.
• The Luo Tian Association spent a mostly peaceful month on the Sixth Mountain while Luo Chen opened more than fifty acupoints using Earth Fire Fiend Qi.
• After running out of Earth Fire Fiend Qi, Luo Chen sent Bu Junjie to seek more at the front-line encampments and checked the formation’s progress.
• Luo Chen saw lightning help a Lightning Struck Wood tree advance toward Tier 2 and experimented with using Thunder Force to temper his body.
• Duan Feng lent Luo Chen a Lightning Attraction Net, and Luo Chen found that lightning gave him only slight benefits because he lacked a Thunder Spirit Root.
• Luo Chen connected his Sky Peng Transformation knowledge to his acupoint-opening method and considered using the forest’s lightning to open acupoints.

Luo Chen learned that the Heartless Immortal had arranged for him to become Ice Fortress’s only Foundation Establishment Guest Elder, securing the Luo Tian Association’s withdrawal from the front lines. After leaving the Sixth Mountain, he returned to Golden Sand Floating Island and found the four sects offering astonishing resources, including Core Formation Secret Techniques.

• Luo Chen discovered he could use controlled lightning to open his acupoints, then bought five hundred portions of Earth Fire Fiend Qi from the Heartless Immortal.
• The Heartless Immortal told Luo Chen that the Luo Tian Association would withdraw to the rear in six months and revealed that Ice Fortress had appointed him a Guest Elder.
• Luo Chen accepted the appointment, weighed its benefits, and continued cultivating with pills and Earth Fire Fiend Qi while waiting for the next rotation.
• The Luo Tian Association left the Sixth Mountain, and Duan Feng told Luo Chen that Qu Zhenbiao and many cultivators from other subordinate forces had died.
• Luo Chen heard that Wang Yuan might be near the Ninth Mountain, then returned to Golden Sand Floating Island with Xu Huanzhen and Duan Feng.
• Luo Chen saw four extraordinary resources announced on the Merit List monument, including four Core Formation Secret Techniques and the Upper Method Core Formation Technique.

Luo Chen weighed the new Merit Point rewards for Core Formation techniques and decided to enter the dangerous Ninth Mountain to search for Wang Yuan. There, Wang Yuan continued hunting the cultivators who had once pursued him, while Dry Toad fled deeper into the mountain to face him.

• The Four Sect Alliance offered Core Formation Secret Techniques for Merit Points, and Luo Chen warned Xu Huanzhen and Duan Feng not to risk their lives chasing rewards they could not realistically earn.
• Luo Chen revealed that he had become an Ice Fortress Guest Elder, reassured Xu and Duan that they could seek techniques through his connections later, and considered searching the Ninth Mountain for Wang Yuan.
• Luo Chen entered the Ninth Mountain and sent Wang Yuan a message, but the Sound Transmission Jade Pendant received no reply.
• Dry Toad and the two surviving cultivators who had helped hunt Wang Yuan argued over whether to abandon the pursuit; Dry Toad stayed behind while Brother Chu and the blue-robed cultivator tried to flee.
• Wang Yuan killed the blue-robed cultivator and struck Brother Chu with a blood-finger attack, but Brother Chu escaped; Wang Yuan then pursued Dry Toad deeper into the Ninth Mountain.

Luo Chen searched the Ninth Mountain for Wang Yuan and discovered that Wang Yuan’s pursuers had been struck by a new blood-based technique, while the rumored Blood Demon was a different cultivator. Luo Chen fought the masked Blood Demon, but a sudden thunderstorm let him escape before either could finish the battle.

• Luo Chen followed Wang Yuan’s traces and found evidence that Wang Yuan was healthy and may have turned the hunt around on his pursuers.
• A dying cultivator told Luo Chen that Wang Yuan had attacked him, then exploded into blood when Luo Chen tried to heal him; Luo Chen suspected Wang Yuan had developed a new area attack.
• The masked Blood Demon appeared, revealed that he coveted Luo Chen’s Essence Blood, and began pursuing him after Luo Chen fled with his flying spell.
• Luo Chen used vines, the Great Perfection Earth Peak Technique, Thousandfold Peaks, and the Blazing Sun Spell to slow and injure Blood Demon.
• A thunderstorm broke out, allowing Luo Chen to retreat while Blood Demon withdrew from the lightning and vowed to catch him next time.

Luo Chen escaped the Ninth Mountain’s thunderstorm after driving off Blood Demon, then followed a jade ornament deeper into the mountain. There, he encountered Flame Thunder Master overseeing a formation battle against Wang Yuan, just as an earthquake threatened to free Wang Yuan and a man in a Red Cloud Daoist Robe arrived.

• Luo Chen assessed his fight with Blood Demon, confirmed the wounded cultivator was fleeing, and concluded he had likely prevented him from pursuing further.
• Luo Chen rested under a Cloud Mist Illusion Formation, refined a High-Grade Rising Dragon Pill, and sensed a nearby presence through his jade ornament.
• Dry Toad and Yang Wei used the Thunder Prison Grand Formation to restrain Wang Yuan, but Wang Yuan grew to enormous size and began breaking through the array.
• Dry Toad entered the formation to fight Wang Yuan while Flame Thunder Master watched, expecting the array’s Seven Thunders Suppressing Prison to subdue him.
• An earthquake shook Sunken Sky Valley and threatened to disrupt Yang Wei’s formation, but before Flame Thunder Master could join the fight, a man in a Red Cloud Daoist Robe appeared with a Profound Flame Sword.

Luo Chen destroyed the Thunder Prison Grand Formation with Mountain Collapse, killed Flame Thunder Master, and reunited with Wang Yuan after Wang Yuan defeated Dry Toad Huo Quan. As they cleared the battlefield, Wang Yuan noticed what appeared to be a door beneath Sunken Sky Valley.

• Luo Chen used Mountain Collapse to collapse the surrounding mountains and break the Thunder Prison Grand Formation, then killed Flame Thunder Master despite a protective pendant and a lingering Flame Mark curse.
• Luo Chen found Wang Yuan pursuing Dry Toad, who revealed that he wanted revenge for Wang Yuan killing his son, Huo Hu, and taking his Dao Foundation.
• Dry Toad tried to destroy Luo Chen and Wang Yuan with a final attack, but Wang Yuan used Transformative Force to turn him into a rain of blood.
• Luo Chen learned that the formation master had died in the collapse and took the surviving formation disc before cleansing traces from the battlefield.
• Wang Yuan returned to the former site of Sunken Sky Valley and told Luo Chen he thought there was a door beneath it.

Di Wanyun left seclusion to avenge his son, whose dying act had marked his killer. Meanwhile, Luo Chen and Wang Yuan discovered an ancient cave abode beneath the Ninth Mountain and realized that lightning was the key to its doors, but they concealed the site and left.

• The Flame Alliance’s artifact trade prospered during the war, while Di Wanyun told the Alliance Master that his son had died and received permission to leave seclusion for revenge.
• Di Wanyun revealed that his son had placed a Wither Bloom Mark on the killer, then departed the valley despite the danger to his dwindling lifespan.
• Luo Chen and Wang Yuan found ancient double doors beneath the Ninth Mountain, but their strength and spiritual power could not open them.
• A bolt of lightning struck the doors, leading Luo Chen to conclude that lightning was the key to opening the cave abode.
• Luo Chen and Wang Yuan chose to hide the entrance until they were stronger and the war had ended, then buried the site and left.