Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen returned to Golden Sand Floating Island, learned that the Four Sect Alliance had launched a counterattack and drawn hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators with the promise of Core Formation secrets, and worked to remove the tracking Flame Mark left on him. After making progress with the Blood Dissolving Demon Finger and Cleanse Spell, he was visited by independent cultivator Chu Kui, who asked if he wanted to pull off something big.

• Luo Chen entered Golden Sand Floating Island using Heartless Immortal’s elder token and learned from Xu Huanzhen that the Four Sect Alliance was counterattacking while hundreds of cultivators arrived seeking Core Formation Secret Techniques.
• Luo Chen used qi and blood to activate the Blood Dissolving Demon Finger and weaken the Flame Mark left by Flame Thunder Master.
• Luo Chen cast the Cleanse Spell on the mark and found that it further dimmed, giving him hope of removing it within a few days.
• Chu Kui visited Luo Chen’s encampment and asked whether he was interested in pulling off something big.

Chu Kui proposed joining Luo Chen to hunt Sword Sect Alliance cultivators and earn the Merit Points needed for the Fallen Cloud Sect’s Upper Method Core Formation Secret Technique, offering to join the Luo Tian Association if Luo Chen agreed. After considering the risks and deciding to remove his Flame Mark first, Luo Chen asked for half a month; on the tenth day, a huge Fallen Cloud Sect flying vessel arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island, and Chu Kui declared that the time was ripe.

• Chu Kui asked Luo Chen to team up against Sword Sect Alliance cultivators so they could earn merit toward the Upper Method Core Formation Secret Technique.
• Chu Kui explained that he wanted to join the Luo Tian Association and trusted Luo Chen to protect him, while Luo Chen considered how an alliance could gather the required Merit Points.
• Luo Chen agreed to decide after half a month, recognizing that Upper Method Core Formation could substantially improve his chances of success.
• Luo Chen planned to fight alongside Chu Kui without involving the Luo Tian Association’s cultivators, while he cultivated and worked to remove the Flame Mark from his forehead.
• On the tenth day, a Magic Treasure flying vessel arrived at Golden Sand Floating Island, and Chu Kui told Luo Chen that the time was ripe.

Luo Chen removed the last trace of the Flame Mark and met Qin Yuanjiang, who had come to check on his father. As the Four Sect Alliance launched its counterattack at Seventh Mountain, Linghu Jie unleashed the Fallen Cloud Sect’s War Golems, leaving the Sword Sect Alliance’s defenses in chaos.

• Luo Chen completely removed the Flame Mark and learned that Qin Yuanjiang had come to visit him.
• Luo Chen told Qin Yuanjiang that Qin Liangchen had been sent safely back to Sky Wave Immortal City, then warned him about joining the battlefield; Qin Yuanjiang defended his decision to fight for the sect.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui traveled with the Four Sect Alliance forces toward Sixth Mountain, where Luo Chen left Xu Huanzhen and Duan Feng behind.
• The Golden Core leaders attacked Seventh Mountain and shattered its weakened Third-Order Defense Grand Array.
• Linghu Jie ordered Fallen Cloud Sect disciples to fire their War Golems at Seventh Mountain, scattering the Sword Sect Alliance’s battle formation before calling the forces to charge.

Luo Chen and Chu Kui attacked the Deficient Blade Sect’s camp on the flank of the Seventh Mountain, killing its leader and three Foundation Establishment disciples while sparing most of its fleeing Qi Refining cultivators. After collecting spoils, they used the Water Mirror Art to search the battlefield and spotted another group of enemies, which Luo Chen ordered them to attack.

• The Heartless Immortal and Yinyue Forefather discussed keeping watch over Luo Chen as he and Chu Kui headed for the battlefield’s flank.
• Ximen Wuhai prepared to retreat if the battle turned against the Deficient Blade Sect and hoped to rise in power if his sect survived.
• Chu Kui engaged Ximen Wuhai while Luo Chen broke the Heavenly Deficient Blade Formation and killed Ximen Wuhai’s three Foundation Establishment disciples.
• Chu Kui killed Ximen Wuhai, and he and Luo Chen collected the camp’s spoils before deciding to spare most of the fleeing Qi Refining cultivators.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui combined their strength to cast the Water Mirror Art, spotted a nearby enemy group, and decided to attack.

Luo Chen and Chu Kui ambushed a retreating group of Jade Cauldron Sword Sect cultivators, killing them and taking their leader’s Sword Pellet. Han Zheng confronted Luo Chen over the attack as he and four fellow disciples prepared to fight.

• Blue True Disciple led eight wounded Sword Sect cultivators toward a retreat, while Han Zheng and four Fallen Cloud Sect disciples pursued them.
• Han Zheng urged his group to speed up after sensing danger, but Chu Kui’s Blazing Sun Spell struck the nine Sword Sect cultivators first.
• Chu Kui charged through the scattered formation and killed six cultivators, prompting Blue True Disciple and two others to flee.
• Luo Chen intercepted Blue True Disciple, dazed him with a strange gaze, and killed him with the Profound Flame Sword before taking his Sword Pellet.
• Chu Kui killed the two fleeing Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, then joined Luo Chen as Han Zheng confronted them with four disciples at his side.

Luo Chen and Chu Kui exploited the battlefield to kill enemy cultivators and accumulate Merit Points, while Luo Chen realized the Four Sect Alliance was reinforcing its forces to continue the war. After returning to camp to recover, he connected the conflict to a ruthless scheme that threatened the independent cultivators of the Jade Cauldron Domain.

• Han Zheng confronted Luo Chen over the death of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect cultivator but left without fighting after Luo Chen refused to answer.
• Luo Chen explained to Chu Kui that their status as allies protected them from Fallen Cloud Sect retaliation, then the pair hunted enemies through the night and earned 3,400 Merit Points.
• Luo Chen inferred that the Four Sect Alliance was reinforcing its troops to retake Eighth Mountain, and he and Chu Kui resumed hunting as the battle spread.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui saved Azure Pill Valley disciples from Three Flame Alliance Direct Disciples, and one Tao Family cultivator recognized them as Pill Dust Master and Chu Kui.
• The pair returned to the Luo Tian Association camp on Sixth Mountain to recover, and Luo Chen suspected the war was part of a ruthless scheme to strengthen sect rule over the Jade Cauldron Domain.

Luo Chen reasoned that the Jade Cauldron Civil War might be a scheme by the two Upper Sects to weaken the other powers and prepare Azure Pill Valley as another Fourth-Order Spiritual Land. He and Chu Kui joined the battle at the Eighth Mountain, then intervened when a group of Fallen Cloud Sect disciples was cornered in a canyon.

• Luo Chen concluded that the prolonged war was draining the Jade Cauldron Domain's other sects while the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect and Fallen Cloud Sect preserved their strength, and realized Azure Pill Valley might become a Fourth-Order Spiritual Land.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui headed to the Eighth Mountain, where Golden Core Immortals broke the defensive formation and the Fallen Cloud Sect puppet army clashed with the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect's Ten Thousand Swords Diagram.
• A thunderstorm destroyed the Sword Sect's formation, and Luo Chen and Chu Kui moved to the battlefield's outskirts to hunt isolated cultivators for Merit Points.
• Luo Chen spotted a battered young member of the Luo Tian Association trapped among Fallen Cloud Sect disciples and Flame Alliance vassals, then decided to intervene despite the odds.
• Zheng Tianfang's group overwhelmed the Fallen Cloud Sect disciples, and Qin Yuanjiang prepared a last stand after the other disciples were killed.
• Luo Chen appeared above the canyon and used Mountain Collapse to bring down both cliffs.

Luo Chen and Chu Kui fought their way across the battlefield, rescued Qin Yuanjiang’s group, and decided to enter the deadly main front to gather the merit points Luo Chen needed. After ambushing the feared Flash Thunder Sword Jiang Cheng, they encountered an old man whose arrival made Luo Chen’s Flame Mark burn, and who recognized him.

• Luo Chen caused a mountain collapse to attack the Flame Alliance cultivators, while Chu Kui and Qin Yuanjiang’s group helped defeat the survivors.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui killed their opponents, rescued Qin Yuanjiang and his Junior Brothers, and warned them to rejoin the main force.
• After accumulating eight thousand Merit Points, Luo Chen and Chu Kui chose to head for the dangerous main battlefield of the Eighth Mountain.
• Jiang Cheng, the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer Flash Thunder Sword, blocked their retreat, but Luo Chen and Chu Kui turned back and drove him off with a surprise attack.
• An old man approached Luo Chen and Chu Kui, causing Luo Chen’s Flame Mark to flare, and identified Luo Chen by name.

Di Wanyun identified Luo Chen as the killer of his son and pursued him, while Chu Kui used a Golden Core to fight Di Wanyun and buy Luo Chen time to escape. As Luo Chen fled toward the storm clouds over the Ninth Mountain, he decided to ambush and kill Di Wanyun rather than remain hunted.

• Di Wanyun attacked Luo Chen over the death of his son, but Chu Kui blocked his strikes with his staff and a secret technique powered by a Golden Core.
• Chu Kui told Luo Chen to flee, then drove Di Wanyun back with repeated blows as other battlefield experts watched.
• Di Wanyun unsealed his power, shattered a wall of ice, and blasted Chu Kui away before pursuing Luo Chen.
• Heartless Immortal caught the unconscious Chu Kui, gave him to Yinyue to care for, and set off after Di Wanyun.
• Luo Chen realized Di Wanyun had identified him through battlefield intelligence and the remnant Wither Bloom Mark, not by sensing it earlier.
• Luo Chen considered returning to the Four Sect Alliance camp, then resolved to ambush Di Wanyun near the Ninth Mountain's storm clouds.

Luo Chen lured Di Wanyun into Sunken Sky Valley and unleashed a succession of prepared attacks, surviving the Golden Core cultivator’s counterstrikes long enough to activate a great array that drew down the mountain’s accumulated thunder. The storm cleared, but Luo Chen’s fate remained uncertain after a pillar of light burst from the earth.

• Di Wanyun chased Luo Chen into Sunken Sky Valley, while Heartless Immortal hurried after them to save him.
• Luo Chen prepared Thorn Flower vines, Thousandfold Peaks, the Gray Sword Sheath, the Profound Ice Talisman, and the Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc before Di Wanyun arrived.
• Di Wanyun’s Golden Cloud Flying Sword pierced Luo Chen’s defenses, but Luo Chen stopped it with Turtle Spirit Armor and retaliated with vines, an exploding Thousandfold Peaks, and the Mountain Collapse Technique, which wounded Di Wanyun.
• Luo Chen used Mirror Flower Water Moon to distract Di Wanyun, then struck him with seven linked Sword Qi attacks before Heartless Immortal’s Profound Ice Talisman shielded Luo Chen from Di Wanyun’s hammer.
• Di Wanyun’s Divine Sense failed to kill Luo Chen underground, and Luo Chen activated the Zhou You Eighteen Array Disc to draw down a storm of heavenly thunder that engulfed Di Wanyun.
• Heartless Immortal watched the thunderstorm clear the mountain’s ancient clouds, then saw a vast pillar of light rise from the earth.

As the six sects and other cultivators entered the Spirit Transformation Remains on Accumulated Thunder Mountain, the Luo Tian Association feared Luo Chen had died in the thunderstorm that opened them. Sima Hui Niang confirmed he was alive and sent Chu Kui, Wang Yuan, and Min Longyu to find him, while Luo Chen survived inside by completing and cultivating a new body-tempering method.

• Yaoguang and Cheng Yan agreed to let each of the six sects send one Golden Core Immortal into the remains, while subordinate forces also entered.
• Heartless Immortal discovered that the Profound Ice Talisman protecting Luo Chen had vanished, leaving his fate uncertain.
• Sima Hui Niang used her Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu to confirm Luo Chen was alive and organized the Luo Tian Association's recovery and search efforts.
• Sima Hui Niang chose Chu Kui, Wang Yuan, and Min Longyu to enter the remains and search for Luo Chen.
• Trapped inside the remains with Thunder Force ravaging his body, Luo Chen spent forty-five Achievement Points to complete the Sky Thunder Body Refining Method.
• Luo Chen used pills and stolen resources to temper his body, completing several stages and beginning to form armor-like scales as he continued cultivating.

Luo Chen awakened in the Accumulated Thunder ruins after transforming his spiritual power into immense physical strength, then harvested rare Thousand-Year Thunder Essence and escaped a clash with powerful rogue cultivators. As he left the ruins, he came upon a battle involving two old acquaintances.

• The Lian Cang Four Elders found a lightning-shrouded palace and joined forces with Xiao Sanren, Zuo Song, and the Netherworld Two Fiends to break into its great hall.
• Luo Chen woke in the hall, discovered eighteen Thousand-Year Thunder Essence flowers and a high-grade Storage Ring, and harvested the flowers with a Magic Treasure shovel.
• Ming Sha attacked Luo Chen, but Luo Chen struck him down, wounded Zuo Song, resisted Xiao Sanren's soul attack, and escaped the hall.
• The Lian Cang Four Elders attacked Xiao Sanren while the injured Netherworld Two Fiends withdrew, and Luo Chen realized his body and Blazing Cloud Wings had grown far stronger.
• Luo Chen avoided the ruins' central region and traveled toward the exit, where he encountered a battle between two old acquaintances.

The white figure killed Xuan Yu, the Blood Demon, after he nearly wiped out Han Zheng and the Fallen Cloud Sect cultivators. Linghu Jie escorted Han Zheng out of the cave dwelling and sealed its entrance, planning to return with the sects to claim the Spirit Transformation cultivator’s remains.

• Xuan Yu revealed himself as the Blood Demon and overwhelmed Han Zheng’s group, killing most of the Fallen Cloud Sect cultivators.
• Xu Ji fled after taking a Blood Burning Pill, while Xuan Yu struck Han Zheng down and pursued Xu Ji.
• A white figure killed Xu Ji with a giant sword, then tore out Xuan Yu’s heart and ripped his body apart before taking his red silk Magic Treasure, Storage Bag, and a puppet.
• Han Zheng survived thanks to his Substitute Puppet, identified the Blood Demon as Xuan Yu, and decided not to tell Linghu Jie about the white figure or Xu Ji’s betrayal.
• Linghu Jie explained that the cave dwelling’s Thunder Dao Laws had annihilated the fallen cultivators’ souls and said the sects would join forces to clear the area.
• Linghu Jie ordered the cave dwelling sealed against entry and had everyone leaving scanned with a Magic Treasure.

After escaping the Spirit Transformation Remains, Luo Chen reunited with Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and Chu Kui, then planned to use their Merit Points and spoils to strengthen the Luo Tian Association. When Chu Kui returned from exchanging rewards with pursuers on his heels, the group ambushed them, and Luo Chen recognized one survivor as Fellow Daoist Ling.

• Luo Chen assessed his improved strength, reflected on his grudges against Xu Ji and Blood Demon, and headed toward Sky Wave Immortal City after receiving messages from his allies.
• Luo Chen met Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and Chu Kui in a forest, where Min Longyu set up a Concealment Array and the friends exchanged news.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui counted their spoils and Merit Points, then agreed to exchange them for Core Formation secret techniques, Foundation Establishment Pills, and other resources for the Luo Tian Association.
• Luo Chen learned that Heartless Immortal had entered the Spirit Transformation Remains to search for him and told Wang Yuan that Blood Demon had been Xuan Yu of Peach Mountain.
• Chu Kui returned with pursuers behind him, and Luo Chen, Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and Chu Kui trapped and attacked the three Late-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Luo Chen killed one pursuer and confronted the survivors, recognizing the wounded woman as Fellow Daoist Ling and asking why she had become a Robber Cultivator.

Luo Chen and his allies defeated Ling Yuzhi and Old Devil Feng after they ambushed Chu Kui, then took Old Devil Feng’s Thunder Immortal Pearl. They left for Sky Wave Immortal City, while another group discovered the battle site and headed toward Scarlet Clouds to pursue them.

• Old Devil Feng threatened Luo Chen and the others with a Thunder Immortal Pearl, while he and Ling Yuzhi blamed each other for arranging the ambush on Chu Kui.
• Luo Chen appeared to agree to give Old Devil Feng a Core Formation Secret Technique, then Wang Yuan and Luo Chen incapacitated him and killed him, taking the Thunder Immortal Pearl.
• Luo Chen ordered Ling Yuzhi killed, and Wang Yuan and another ally attacked her until she perished.
• Chu Kui, Wang Yuan, Min Longyu, and Luo Chen collected the spoils, erased their traces, and left in a high-grade flying boat.
• A group arrived at the battle site, found no traceable aura, and decided to pursue the four toward Scarlet Clouds.

After more than a year away, Luo Chen returned to Sky Wave Peak and reunited with Bai Mei Ling, Gu Cai Yi, and Sima Hui Niang before recovering from the exhaustion of his time at the Spirit Transformation Remains. He examined his growth, renamed his body-tempering method Myriad Paths Convergence, and turned his attention to his cultivation realm.

• Disguised as Qu Lingjun, Luo Chen entered Sky Wave Peak after learning that Wang Pingzhi had died and receiving a warning about the dangers around Sky Wave Immortal City.
• Luo Chen revealed himself to Bai Mei Ling and reunited with her and Gu Cai Yi, then spent the night with Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang.
• Luo Chen slept for three days and nights, awoke feeling restored, and resumed cultivating with the Ageless Evergreen Scripture and his body-tempering method.
• Luo Chen reviewed his system panel and found that his lifespan had risen to 250 years and his body-tempering realm had become Desolate Antiquity Third Order.
• Luo Chen realized the system had merged his accumulated techniques into the Sky Thunder Body Refining Method and renamed it Myriad Paths Convergence.
• Luo Chen examined his Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer progress at 30/100.

After returning from the battlefield, Luo Chen reviewed his cultivation and began copying Myriad Paths Convergence, then asked Wang Yuan to help him develop methods suited to his Third-Order body. Wang Yuan studied the technique and offered an idea, though its effectiveness remained untested.

• Luo Chen reviewed his progress, planned to restore his spiritual power, find methods to use his powerful physique, and prepare for Core Formation.
• Luo Chen copied Myriad Paths Convergence onto a Jade Slip and recognized that cultivating it was becoming difficult even for him.
• Luo Chen gave Wang Yuan the Jade Slip and explained that the technique had transformed his body.
• Wang Yuan studied the method and was shocked by Luo Chen's account of his body-refinement achievements, including completing a blood exchange and condensing Body Protecting Qi Armor.
• Luo Chen discovered that his stronger physique let him digest three High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills, boosting his potential cultivation speed.
• Wang Yuan said he had an idea for methods suited to Luo Chen's physique, but they would need to test whether it worked.

Luo Chen transformed into his Heavenly Peng True Body and tested its speed and combat techniques, impressing Wang Yuan with the power it unleashed. Wang Yuan warned that Luo Chen still needed to master the form and develop a coherent set of fighting methods, and they headed home to continue their work.

• Luo Chen followed Wang Yuan’s advice and transformed into his Heavenly Peng True Body, adding white scales, Blazing Cloud Wings, and the silvery spine of a thunder dragon.
• Luo Chen practiced flying and used the Cloud Grasping Claw to cut a thousand-zhang mountain peak in half.
• Wang Yuan recognized the transformation’s power but noted that Luo Chen’s movements were stiff and his use of the demon body remained shallow.
• Luo Chen practiced more Killer Moves and fire spells before returning to Wang Yuan, who cautioned him against overestimating his chances against Golden Core Immortals.
• Wang Yuan offered to refine Luo Chen’s combat methods and study Myriad Paths Convergence, then urged him to eat more; Luo Chen looked forward to Bai Mei Ling’s cooking.

Luo Chen and Chu Kui examined Fallen Cloud Sect’s Locked Pearl Curtain, an Upper Method Core Formation Secret Technique that required dividing the soul. Luo Chen gave Chu Kui Spirit Communication Pills to strengthen his soul so he could test the technique, then began studying another Core Formation method himself.

• Luo Chen explained that his Body Tempering progress depended on resources and external force, while he continued preparing his body for Wang Yuan’s revised Sky Peng Transformation.
• Chu Kui told Luo Chen that Locked Pearl Curtain formed mana-like Spiritual Liquid by dividing the soul into threads and binding them to the liquid.
• Luo Chen and Chu Kui recognized that splitting the soul carried severe risks, and Luo Chen suggested Fallen Cloud Sect’s disciples might possess a soul-strengthening Cultivation Method.
• Luo Chen gave Chu Kui top-grade Spirit Communication Pills and asked him to attempt Core Formation with Locked Pearl Curtain first; Chu Kui agreed to test the dangerous technique.
• After Chu Kui left to cultivate, Luo Chen reviewed the four Core Formation Secret Techniques he possessed and began reading Ailao Mountain’s Escaping the Cage.

Luo Chen returned to the Luo Tian Association and helped capture a group of cultivators spying on the association, while its leaders investigated why rumors about its Core Formation Secret Techniques kept attracting enemies. The chapter ended with Su Xiaolin revealing that the Flame Alliance had publicized the association’s exchange for four secret techniques.

• Luo Chen studied Escaping the Cage and Azure Pill Valley’s Primal Chaos Method while continuing his cultivation and training for a year.
• Min Longyu, Su Xiaolin, and Wang Yuan trapped three suspicious cultivators in a formation, and Luo Chen defeated their Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer leader with Heavenly Peng True Body.
• Luo Chen returned to Danxia Peak and learned that the Zheng Family had acquired at least five outside Foundation Establishment cultivators, disrupting Sima Hui Niang’s plans to expand the association’s business.
• Su Xiaolin reported that the captured cultivator had traced the widely spread news about the Luo Tian Association’s four Core Formation Secret Techniques to the Flame Alliance.