Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuanjiang and Ruan Huan'er arrived at Danxia Peak for Luo Chen’s Core Formation Ceremony, where guests from across the Cultivation World celebrated his achievement and connections. As the ceremony continued, Hong Ling arrived with apparent hostility, and Jin Buque of the Five Elements Divine Sect announced an extraordinary gift.

• Qin Yuanjiang visited Murong Qinglian, who stayed behind but sent Luo Chen a Tier 3 Metal Element Cultivation Method and a blessing for his future rise to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Qin Yuanjiang and Ruan Huan'er traveled to Sky Wave Immortal City, then watched the ceremony from the crowd as guests presented Luo Chen with gifts and praised his core-formation poem and generosity.
• Golden Core cultivators from across the Outer Domain arrived, including Fu Jiusheng, who gave Luo Chen a Tier 3 Pill Formula to ease his anxiety over their past enmity.
• Tao Wan congratulated Luo Chen and introduced a request from Azure Pill Valley’s Supreme Elder to meet him, while Luo Chen welcomed the arriving Fallen Cloud Sect delegation.
• Hong Ling of the Jade Cauldron Sect arrived looking hostile, and Jin Buque of the Five Elements Divine Sect announced that he had brought a Five Elements Divine Pill for Luo Chen.

Luo Chen’s Golden Core celebration drew congratulations from powerful sects across several domains, including the Five Elements Divine Sect, the Divine Talisman Sect, and Wind Flower Palace. The ceremony grew far grander than expected, and Luo Chen welcomed the guests while recognizing old acquaintances among them.

• Jin Buque of the Five Elements Divine Sect arrived with a Five Elements Divine Pill for Luo Chen, astonishing the assembled guests and prompting speculation about Luo Chen’s growing reputation and recruitment prospects.
• Luo Chen greeted Hong Ling before Jin Buque, easing the tension with the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect, then accepted the pill Jin Buque said suited his Five Spirit Roots.
• Luo Chen took his seat of honor with Sima Hui Niang and Gu Cai Yi as the celebration officially began, reflecting on the status he had earned through his own achievements.
• Ye Xiang of the Divine Talisman Sect arrived with Fu Xiu Xiu and a young woman Luo Chen suspected was Chen Shuyi, while Wind Moon Fairy of Wind Flower Palace also came to congratulate him.
• Luo Chen welcomed the new guests and raised a cup to the assembled dignitaries, who drank with him.

At his Core Formation Ceremony and wedding celebration, Luo Chen impressed the gathered cultivators, rebuffed several recruitment offers, and decided to refuse Jin Buque’s lavish invitation to join the Five Elements Divine Sect. In the bridal chamber, he gave Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang Nether Origin Pills as betrothal gifts before turning his attention back to them.

• Hong Ling challenged Luo Chen to an exchange, and he used the Innate One Qi Great Handprint and instant-cast Gazed Heaven Curtain to win the initiative before calling their match a draw.
• Jin Buque praised Luo Chen’s mastery of multiple elemental spells, while Di Wuqi and Feng Yue invited him to join their forces and Jin Buque offered to relocate the Luo Tian Sect to a Third-Order Spirit Vein in the Five Elements Domain.
• Luo Chen postponed answering the recruitment offers, and news of the Five Great Upper Sects attending his celebration spread through the Jade Cauldron Cultivation World.
• In the bridal chamber, Luo Chen told Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang that he planned to refuse Jin Buque’s offer after suspecting the Five Elements Divine Pill and generous terms came with a hidden cost.
• Luo Chen gave Gu Cai Yi and Sima Hui Niang Nether Origin Pills as betrothal gifts, then invited Sima Hui Niang to join him on the bed.

Luo Chen formed the Luo Tian Alliance by persuading Fu Jiusheng to join his coalition for the Founding War, while Tao Wan negotiated for his help refining Azure Pill Valley’s Nascent Soul Pill. Luo Chen agreed to visit Azure Pill Valley after half a month but demanded the Nascent Soul Pill Formula and asked the sect to support his alliance in the war.

• Jin Buque concluded that Luo Chen intended to build the Luo Tian Sect into an independent Golden Core force by seizing a Third-Order Spirit Vein in the Founding War.
• Luo Chen persuaded Fu Jiusheng to join an alliance with the Luo Tian Sect, Wind Rain Villa, and the Cen Family, forming a coalition of five Golden Core Cultivators.
• Tao Wan revealed that Azure Pill Valley wanted Luo Chen’s help refining a Nascent Soul Pill because he possessed Source True Fire, and offered High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills and a Pill Cauldron blueprint.
• Luo Chen asked to borrow the Nascent Soul Pill Formula, and Tao Wan agreed to convey his request to Azure Pill Valley’s Supreme Elder.
• Luo Chen said he would visit Azure Pill Valley in half a month after forming the alliance, then asked the sect to assist the Luo Tian Alliance if it encountered trouble in the Founding War.

Luo Chen studied Azure Pill Valley’s Primal Chaos Cauldron method and resolved to forge it as his Natal Magic Treasure, then prepared for a three-party alliance meeting on Danxia Peak. The meeting opened with tension when Luo Chen introduced Fu Jiusheng as a guest elder of Luo Tian Sect, leaving the other leaders uncertain about who would lead the alliance.

• Luo Chen gave Chen Shuyi and Fu Xiu Xiu Jade Dew Pills and arranged for Gu Cai Yi to provide them with Low-Grade Magic Treasures before they left.
• Luo Chen concluded that the Primal Chaos Cauldron suited his Alchemy Dao, assessed the materials he had and still needed, and copied its required arrays for Min Longyu to study.
• Luo Chen learned basic Artifact Forging Technique from Duan Feng and asked Sima Hui Niang to have Luo Tian Sect cultivators search for the ores needed to forge the cauldron.
• Di Wuqi, Jiang Yu, Cen Qiusheng, and Fu Jiusheng arrived at Danxia Peak for the alliance meeting.
• Luo Chen introduced Fu Jiusheng as a guest elder of Luo Tian Sect, prompting Di Wuqi and the others to question the balance of power in the alliance.
• Luo Chen asked the three leaders whether they objected to Fu Jiusheng joining the meeting.

Luo Chen completed a binding alliance contract with four Golden Core cultivators, then traveled to Azure Pill Valley to offer his Great Accomplishment Wither Bloom Fire for its Nascent Soul Pill refinement. The Azure Pill Valley elders confirmed the fire had reached the Fourth Order, and Qing Danzi prepared to explain what Luo Chen must do.

• Luo Chen and Fu Jiusheng, Cen Qiusheng, Di Wuqi, and Jiang Yu signed the Profound Yellow Heaven Earth Contract, pledging to support one another and their forces during the Founding War.
• Di Wuqi told Jiang Yu that Luo Chen was stronger than his low cultivation suggested, while the Wind Rain Villa and Cen Family forces traveled with Fu Jiusheng’s Luo Tian Sect troops to secure a foothold in the Howling Moon Mountain Range.
• Luo Chen headed toward Azure Pill Valley instead of joining the expedition, hoping to trade with Danyangzi and eventually unlock Qin Tairan’s Storage Ring for materials to forge the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Long Quan welcomed Luo Chen at Azure Pill Valley and escorted him to meet Qing Danzi, Danyangzi, Red Cauldron Immortal, Walking Cloud Immortal, and Qingyunzi.
• Luo Chen revealed his Source True Fire, and Qing Danzi confirmed that his Great Accomplishment Wither Bloom Fire had become a Fourth Order unusual fire.
• Luo Chen asked Qing Danzi what he needed to do to help refine the Nascent Soul Pill.

Luo Chen reviewed his Golden Core cultivation, identified his need for better resources and a Natal Magic Treasure, and went to the Grand Pill Institute to prepare for refining a Nascent Soul Pill. There, Qing Danzi taught him a secret art for refining magic treasures, while Luo Chen’s stamina surprised the other Golden Core cultivators; he then asked Danyangzi to speak with him.

• Luo Chen examined his Attribute Panel and assessed his slow cultivation, advancing physique, and the resources he needed to pursue next.
• Luo Chen visited the Grand Pill Institute, noticed Xuan Yunzi He Yun’s body possession, and learned that Azure Pill Valley planned to use an array of cauldrons and alchemists to refine a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Qing Danzi taught Luo Chen a secret art that used Source True Fire to refine a Magic Treasure twice as fast, and Luo Chen began refining his assigned Sub-Cauldron.
• After several days, Luo Chen endured the refining process as long as Qingyunzi, surprising him and Danyangzi with his strength.
• Luo Chen asked Danyangzi if they could talk before leaving the hall.

Luo Chen traded with Danyangzi for materials to forge his Primal Chaos Cauldron, then joined Azure Pill Valley’s attempt to refine a Nascent Soul Pill. After twelve failures, Sky Sail City arrived outside Yuanhua Mountain while the latest attempt was underway.

• Luo Chen bought three pieces of Geng Metal, five pieces of Black Sinking Wood, and three pounds of Source Mud from Danyangzi, leaving only Fire Spirit Diamond among the cauldron’s primary materials still missing.
• Three months later, Qing Danzi summoned Luo Chen and the other alchemists to Inner Core Valley, where Azure Pill Valley began refining a Nascent Soul Pill.
• Luo Chen recognized Qingyunzi’s Azure Sun Demonic Fire and Qing Danzi’s Pill Fire as the alchemists warmed their cauldrons and processed the medicinal materials.
• The first pill-refining attempt failed, and Qing Danzi continued directing the team through repeated attempts until twelve had failed and the valley’s Spirit Land advanced to Tier 3.
• Tao Wan and four other Golden Core Immortals took to the sky as Azure Pill Valley activated its Mountain Protection Great Array against an approaching enemy.
• A nine-story palace observatory belonging to Sky Sail City arrived outside Yuanhua Mountain, and a voice from within told Azure Pill Valley to carry on with its pill refining.

Tao Wan faced the arrival of three Nascent Soul True Persons as Qing Danzi pushed ahead with a final attempt to refine the Nascent Soul Pill. The cauldron exploded, killing most of the Second-Order Alchemists and leaving Qing Danzi to claim that he had saved Azure Pill Valley and its Mother Cauldron.

• Tao Wan recognized Hu Yanzhuo and feared that Tianyezi had come to Azure Pill Valley in his Wind Thunder Palace.
• Cloud Crane True Person arrived with his wife, and Qing Danzi invited both groups into the valley.
• Luo Chen noticed the pressure on Qing Danzi as he ordered the Pill Refiners to combine all seven remaining batches of materials.
• Cloud Crane True Person considered recruiting Luo Chen, but Tianyezi warned him not to set his sights on the Pill Dust Master.
• After ten days, Qing Danzi began forming the Nascent Soul Pill, but the cauldron exploded and killed twenty-one of the thirty Second-Order Alchemists.
• Qing Danzi saved the Mother Cauldron, while Tianyezi and Cloud Crane True Person departed and Qing Danzi declared that he had saved the sect.

Luo Chen reflected on Qing Danzi’s failed attempt to refine the Nascent Soul Pill and concluded that the calamity may have freed Azure Pill Valley from threats on several fronts. Back at the Luo Tian Sect, he learned the Founding War had stalled after a Wolf Emperor united the Howling Moon Mountain Range’s wolf tribes, and he chose to prepare while the allied forces built an immortal city.

• Luo Chen parted from Tao Wan, who returned to Azure Pill Valley grieving over Qing Danzi’s loss.
• Aboard his flying boat, Luo Chen considered why Qing Danzi had failed and reasoned that the attempt might have broken Azure Pill Valley’s deadlock by reducing its rivals’ hostility.
• Luo Chen returned to the Luo Tian Sect and heard from Sima Hui Niang and Xing Zonghan that the Founding War had produced only minor skirmishes.
• Xing Zonghan explained that a transformed Wolf Emperor had united seventeen wolf tribes and stopped the allied army after it advanced eight thousand li.
• Luo Chen learned the Fallen Cloud Sect was building a vast immortal city on a captured Third-Order Spirit Land and planned to gather the land’s Spirit Veins.
• Luo Chen decided to enter short-term seclusion to refine the Sky Moon Purple Gold Wheel and improve his spells while the immortal city was being completed.

After breaking the Divine Sense restriction on Qin Tairan’s Storage Ring, Luo Chen found the Flame Alliance elder’s enormous hoard and summoned his companions to inventory it for the Luo Tian Sect. The inheritance restored Luo Chen’s wealth and yielded valuable cultivation resources and potential new weapons, while he planned how to use them and discovered a gourd of Wither Bloom True Evil that could strengthen his Blazing Fire Miasma.

• Luo Chen perfected Limb Regeneration Art, Kusanagi Gengjin Sword Art, Soul Bewitching Art, and Flower Fairy, which sent Mirror Flower Water Moon’s proficiency surging.
• Luo Chen unlocked Qin Tairan’s Storage Ring after nearly eleven years and found it packed with Spirit Stones and resources.
• Luo Chen summoned Sima Hui Niang, Gu Cai Yi, Duan Feng, and Min Longyu to sort and record Qin Tairan’s legacy for the Luo Tian Sect.
• Luo Chen found eight million mid- and high-grade Spirit Stones, over a hundred bottles of Three Yuan Pills, and resources that addressed his cultivation needs.
• Duan Feng discovered seven fine Magic Treasure Embryos, while Min Longyu found the Incense Burning Spirit-Seizing Array and an Array Compendium detailing how to inscribe formations onto Magic Tools.
• Luo Chen identified a gourd of Wither Bloom True Evil and realized he could refine it into his destroyed Blazing Fire Miasma using his Source True Fire.

Luo Chen distributed the Flame Alliance treasury's treasures among himself and his companions, inspected Luo Tian Sect's leaders, and arranged resources to support their cultivation. With the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat loaded and his sect ready, he departed Scarlet Clouds for his old homeland, Howling Moon.

• Luo Chen inventoried the Flame Alliance's treasury, took materials for forging the Primal Chaos Cauldron and other valuable items, and let his companions choose their shares.
• Sima Hui Niang accepted the Mystic Iron Ring for Luo Tian Sect, while Luo Chen kept the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat after learning his companions had saved it for him.
• Luo Chen inspected Sima Hui Niang, Min Longyu, Gu Cai Yi, and Duan Feng, then allocated High-Grade Rising Dragon Pills to Duan Feng and ordered the Micro Dust Origin Art kept secret if Wang Yuan completed it.
• Sima Hui Niang told Luo Chen that the Fallen Cloud Sect's super immortal city was nearly complete.
• One month later, Luo Chen boarded the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat with Xu Huanzhen and Yuan Xiaoyue and departed Scarlet Clouds for Howling Moon.

Luo Chen arrived at You Bai Mountain, where he resolved the Heavenly Blade Sect’s claim by offering Song Mi another Second-Order Spirit Land at Yi Hua Mountain. He sent Kang Dongyue’s family to claim it, but the plan brought him into a confrontation with Yu Rou’s allied families, and the chapter ended with Yu Rou recognizing Luo Chen and greeting him as Senior Pill Dust Master.

• Luo Chen arrived at You Bai Mountain aboard the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat and learned from Feng Xia that the Heavenly Blade Sect wanted a share of the mountain’s business.
• Song Mi boarded Luo Chen’s boat, and the two Golden Core cultivators parted amicably after agreeing that Song Mi would wait for Luo Chen at Mount Tai Market.
• Luo Chen assured Kang Xian Qiong that her family could move to You Bai Mountain and asked Kang Dongyue to claim Yi Hua Mountain for the Heavenly Blade Sect.
• Yu Rou warned her two business partners that a Golden Core Immortal had come to Mount Tai Market, then faced Kang Dongyue’s forces as they surrounded Yi Hua Mountain.
• Luo Chen arrived above Yi Hua Mountain aboard the dragon boat, and Yu Rou recognized him before formally greeting him as Senior Pill Dust Master.

Luo Chen settled his old grievance with Yu Rou at Yi Hua Mountain, then arranged support and resources for the Luo Tian Sect before arriving at Broken Moon Immortal City. Seeing the vast city built amid the Founding War, he suspected the Fallen Cloud Sect had used the conflict to create a powerful commercial hub and ordered his boat to enter.

• Luo Chen declined Yu Rou’s offer of Yi Hua Mountain, but Kang Dongyue’s allies withdrew, leaving Yu Rou to surrender the mountain to Kang’s forces.
• Luo Chen struck Yu Rou’s Emerald Feather White Eagle with a Palm Seal, spared her, and claimed the beast as an apology for the battle on Gaoling Plain.
• Luo Chen arranged for the Kang Family to receive a share of Heavenly Blade Sect’s business, while telling Song Mi that the Luo Tian Sect sought a Third-Order Spirit Vein and might need his help.
• Luo Chen gave the Emerald Feather White Eagle to Xu Huanzhen to support his work overseeing the Luo Tian Sect’s branch and demon beast trade.
• Luo Chen traveled past newly established Marketplaces to Broken Moon Immortal City, suspected the Fallen Cloud Sect had deliberately used the Founding War to build it, and ordered the Crimson Flame Dragon Boat to enter.

Luo Chen arrived at Broken Moon Immortal City and learned that the Luo Tian Alliance was competing for ownership of its prime shops. He negotiated a share of the profits for Wang Yuan, then watched as the alliance began its challenge for a better-ranked shop.

• Luo Chen entered Broken Moon Immortal City with Xu Huanzhen and met Zeng Yilong, praising his progress in martial cultivation and giving him a bottle of Blood Increasing Pills.
• Zeng Yilong told Luo Chen that the shop ownership duels had begun early, so Luo Chen hurried to the Jade Cauldron Dao Discussion Stage.
• Luo Chen found Di Wuqi, Jiang Yu, Cen Qiusheng, and Fu Jiusheng, then objected that Wang Yuan had been left to fight after the other families' challengers were defeated or injured.
• After learning Wang Yuan wanted to fight for Divine Wind Gale Force, Luo Chen secured an agreement that the three families would give Wang Yuan ten percent of Eighth Shop's profits if the alliance won it.
• The Luo Tian Alliance began its challenge against Returning Pearl Pavilion, and Cen Guangwei took the stage to face the Silver-Ranked Assassin Wu Gou.

Wang Yuan defeated Returning Pearl Pavilion’s three assassins in succession, displaying his strength and Qi Sensing before Liu Senzhai conceded its match. He then faced three Dream Spring Cave cultivators and challenged them to attack together.

• Wu Gou defeated Cen Guangyi with the White Soul Hook’s killing move, but Wang Yuan pierced Wu Gou with his Blood God Tribulation Finger and won their fight.
• Wang Yuan defeated Zhao Yingzi by sensing her true body among her bronze mirrors and dragging her out of the formation.
• Wang Yuan beat Returning Pearl Pavilion’s third assassin despite taking a small wound, while Luo Chen and the others discussed the Founding War’s unusual early division of spoils and Dream Spring Cave’s need for new resources.
• Liu Senzhai conceded its match, choosing to avoid damaging relations and accepting only shop number ten.
• Dream Spring Cave sent two women and one man to fight Wang Yuan, who refused to rest and challenged all three to come at him together.

Nalan Feng refused to commit Liu Senzhai to Fragrance Master’s proposed Great Snow Mountain campaign, while Wang Yuan challenged three Dream Spring Cave cultivators at once to push his martial arts toward a breakthrough. After surviving their combined water array and overpowering them, Wang Yuan called out the woman who intervened to save one of them and demanded a fight.

• Nalan Feng persuaded a Liu Senzhai disciple not to fight Wang Yuan, then avoided Fragrance Master’s request to join the Great Snow Mountain campaign until their supreme elder could decide.
• After hearing Wang Yuan had challenged all three opponents, Nalan Feng watched the fight with Fragrance Master while Luo Chen chose to let Wang Yuan continue under his protection.
• Wang Yuan overwhelmed the three Dream Spring Cave cultivators’ Flying Swords with his Pill Force and used Qi Sensing to evade their attacks.
• The Dream Spring Cave cultivators formed the Three Pools Converging Sea Array and unleashed Profound Dark Water, Gui Water True Essence, and Xiang Liu Poison Water against Wang Yuan.
• Wang Yuan turned the poison water into a sea of blood, seized one cultivator, and was stopped when a woman entered the stage and met his giant hand with her palm.
• Wang Yuan revealed his towering form, criticized the three cultivators, and challenged the woman to fight him with everything she had.

Wang Yuan won eighth place at the Dao Discussion Stage after resisting Yu Jiaolong’s Spiritual Pressure, and Luo Chen advised him to save his strength for the Founding War. Back at the Luo Tian Sect encampment, Luo Chen assessed the threat of the Howling Moon Wolf Clan, promised to seek help for Chu Kui, and began cultivating with a Myriad Stars Pill.

• Wang Yuan endured Yu Jiaolong’s Golden Core Spiritual Pressure until Luo Chen intervened, and Dream Spring Cave conceded the battle.
• The Sword Sect elder declared Wang Yuan the winner and advanced him to eighth place; Wang Yuan accepted Di Wuqi’s reward of Divine Wind Gale Force and a Wind Pouch.
• Luo Chen told Wang Yuan that Yu Jiaolong was a prodigy beyond his current strength and that the Howling Moon Mountain Range’s Third-Order Demon Beasts would be better opponents.
• Luo Chen learned that Wolf Emperor Ao Xiao commanded a vast pack, while more than a hundred Golden Core cultivators and a million cultivators were gathering for the Founding War.
• At the encampment, Luo Chen assigned Xu Huanzhen the Eighth Shop handover, told Wang Yuan to stay in, and promised to seek a way to clear the foreign mana obstructing Chu Kui’s Core Formation.
• Luo Chen swallowed a low-grade Myriad Stars Pill and circulated his cultivation method to refine its spiritual energy.

Luo Chen weighed the drawbacks of the Myriad Stars Pill and used it to settle the Luo Tian Alliance’s dispute over a Third-Order Cave Mansion. After receiving the cave mansion in Broken Moon Immortal City, he offered Fu Jiusheng a chance to deepen his ties to Luo Tian Sect by passing on his skills, leaving Fu’s response uncertain.

• Luo Chen found that six months of cultivation had raised his Golden Core progress by only one point, and he resolved to sell his low-grade Myriad Stars Pills while pursuing higher grades.
• The Luo Tian Alliance’s five Golden Cores argued over who would use the Third-Order Cave Mansion attached to the Eighth Shop first, and Luo Chen proposed that they take turns by year.
• Luo Chen gave each of the four other Golden Cores a bottle of Myriad Stars Pills, then offered to supply them in exchange for help gathering materials.
• The others accepted Luo Chen’s allocation and pill-supply conditions, and he went with Fu Jiusheng to inspect the cave mansion.
• Luo Chen received the cave mansion keys and promised Fu Jiusheng five free bottles of pills each year, then urged him to find disciples and pass on his herb-gathering and Formation Dao skills.

Luo Chen cultivated in his new Cave Abode, refined Myriad Stars Pills, and attended the Golden Core exchange meeting hosted by the Fallen Cloud Sect, where he met powerful cultivators and learned about the forces involved in the Founding War. After drawing attention from several prominent figures, he stepped aside with Lin Qingxuan, who thanked him.

• Luo Chen cultivated with Burning Wood True Art and the Micro Dust Origin Art, then tempered his body with Myriad Paths Convergence and Wither Bloom Fire.
• Luo Chen set up the Shangshu Cauldron in his Cave Abode and began refining Myriad Stars Pills.
• Luo Chen attended the Golden Core exchange meeting, where Fei Ming introduced him to prominent cultivators and Heartless Immortal explained the Ice Fortress's plans to support the Cloud Crane Couple at Great Snow Mountain.
• Meng Changshou recognized Luo Chen as a participant in the Nascent Soul Pill refinement and arranged to discuss alchemy with him another time.
• Luo Chen spoke with Jin Buque and approached Hu Yanzhuo, but Lin Qingxuan advised him against interrupting the Alchemy Grandmaster and invited him aside to talk.
• Lin Qingxuan thanked Luo Chen when they reached a secluded area.