Chapter Summaries

A Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivator attacked Cangwu Mountain, triggering a battle while Di Tian withheld support and pursued his own ambitions. In the dungeon, Lei Yu killed Tianyezi but spared Luo Chen, who revealed that Han Zhan had survived by faking his death.

• The black-robed old man used water vapor to trap Qing Shuang, but she escaped in her Azure Luan form and fought back as he tried to capture her.
• The old man ordered three cultivators to attack Cangwu Mountain, where Nether Spring emerged from her interrupted Transformation and battled the invaders alongside the demonic birds.
• Di Tian refused to help Cangwu Mountain and planned to use the battle to destroy Qixia Yuanjun’s faction and unite the Eastern Wasteland demons under his rule.
• Tianyezi took control of Luo Chen’s Primal Chaos Cauldron and tried to leave the dungeon with Han Zhan, but Lei Yu confronted them and destroyed Han Zhan’s exposed Nascent Soul.
• Lei Yu defeated Tianyezi, spared Luo Chen after hearing his value to Cangwu Mountain, and went to join the fight outside.
• Luo Chen rose after Lei Yu left and revealed a battered wooden figurine, remarking that Han Zhan’s method of faking his death was profound.

Luo Chen and Han Zhan tried to escape Cangwu Mountain through a teleportation array as the battle outside turned into a catastrophic inferno. They activated the array and vanished toward Great Snow Mountain, while a Great Shift Divine Power began to envelop the mountain’s three halls.

• Han Zhan revealed that his Nascent Soul survived in a damaged puppet incarnation, and Luo Chen chose to flee with him through the Cangwu Treasury’s teleportation array.
• Han Zhan concealed Luo Chen’s soul fluctuations, and Luo Chen used his Concealment Array to slip past the fighting in the Truth Crossing Hall.
• Luo Chen reached the Cangwu Treasury, where Han Zhan recognized Qing Shuang’s Azure Luan Feather and used it to activate the teleportation array.
• Divine Origin True Person fought the Thunder Prison Divine Peng and freed the dungeon captives, while Nether Spring invoked Qixia Yuanjun’s Nirvana Sacred Fire across Cangwu Mountain.
• The Nirvana Sacred Fire killed Hui Ping and Joyful Union Old Ancestor and badly burned Divine Origin True Person, while Luo Chen and Han Zhan endured the flames inside the treasury.
• Han Zhan sent Luo Chen toward Great Snow Mountain through the activated array, then Cangwu Mountain’s three halls became enveloped in a Great Shift Divine Power.

After a disastrous teleportation left him stranded beside an unfamiliar sea, Luo Chen considered killing the gravely weakened Han Zhan but chose to confine him in the Primal Chaos Cauldron instead. Once recovered, Luo Chen resolved to explore this new region and eventually find his way home, then set sail toward the southeast.

• Luo Chen woke in a cave with the ruined teleportation array, crushed the spent Azure Luan Feather, and destroyed one corner of the array to prevent pursuit.
• Luo Chen emerged to find an endless ocean and realized the teleportation had carried him far from Great Snow Mountain, possibly to the Southern Ocean or Northern Sea.
• Luo Chen considered killing Han Zhan, whose remnant soul lay helpless in the wooden figurine, but remembered Han Zhan’s past aid and sealed him inside the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• After half a month of cultivation, Luo Chen reviewed his Attribute Panel, reflected on his gains and the distance from home, and resolved to survive and return someday.
• Luo Chen left the cave, boarded a flying boat, and set off southeast across the sea.

Luo Chen traveled across the Demon Sea and found a Demon Hunting Ship besieged by a vast horde of Blue Ringed Sea Snakes. After destroying the serpents with his flames, he learned he had reached the Northern Sea, leaving him to discover more about his new surroundings.

• Luo Chen concealed his flying boat and traveled over the sea until he detected a besieged Demon Hunting Ship.
• The ship's dark-faced leader organized the crew's defense as countless Blue Ringed Sea Snakes dragged the vessel into a whirlpool.
• Luo Chen captured a late-stage Tier 2 Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snake, drawing the serpent horde's attention away from the ship.
• Luo Chen unleashed blue-crimson flames that killed tens of thousands of sea serpents and saved the surviving crew.
• The survivors recognized Luo Chen as a Golden Core Immortal, and the dark-faced leader told him they were in the Albatross Sea Area of the Demon Sea in the Northern Sea.

Luo Chen learned that the Primal Devil Sect had fallen and the Azure Sea Alliance now ruled much of the Northern Sea, then ordered Cheng Haichang’s ship to take him to Black Swan Island. After witnessing Cheng Haichang secretly harvest the dead with a Soul Banner, Luo Chen considered how to survive in the Northern Sea and discovered that the vitality he had gained from the sea serpents could be a great opportunity.

• Luo Chen recalled the Five Continents and learned from Cheng Haichang that the Flying Swallow Islands were governed by the Azure Sea Alliance.
• Cheng Haichang explained that Sea Demons had destroyed the Primal Devil Sect’s Arctic Night Yama Heaven a century earlier and that a powerful man surnamed Li had founded the Azure Sea Alliance.
• Luo Chen ordered Cheng Haichang to take him to Black Swan Island, while Cheng Haichang and his companions feared he was a fiend using soul-confounding arts.
• Cheng Haichang used a supreme-tier Soul Banner to collect the souls of the dead, including Cheng Family cultivators, while Luo Chen watched through a Water Mirror.
• Luo Chen considered the Primal Devil Sect’s Curse Life Seven Astral Art and the need to conceal his name and origins as he traveled the Northern Sea.
• Luo Chen examined the vitality he had absorbed from more than ten thousand sea serpents and saw the Northern Sea as a possible opportunity.

Luo Chen discovered that the Wither Bloom Fire had gained a trace of spiritual awareness after refining thousands of sea snakes, then studied the Northern Sea’s Spirit-Attached Magical Items and arrived at Black Swan Island. The Cheng Family mistook him for a surviving Primal Devil Sect disciple, and Luo Chen chose to play along, introducing himself as Azure Sun.

• Luo Chen sensed that the Wither Bloom Fire had acquired spiritual awareness and might advance to Tier 5, while the vitality it shared seemed to increase his lifespan.
• Luo Chen questioned Cheng Haichang about the Demon Hunting Ship, Soul Refining Banner, Sea Soul Array, and Heavenly Origin Commerce League, then studied three Spirit-Attached Magical Items during the voyage.
• Luo Chen arrived at the Flying Swallow Islands, learned about the local powers, and followed Cheng Haichang to Black Swan Island, where he assessed the Cheng Family’s strength.
• Cheng Dou concluded that Luo Chen was likely a Primal Devil Sect survivor and ordered the Cheng Family to prepare a lavish welcome, including their two-hundred-year-old Rinsed Orange Wine and Seventh Sister.
• Luo Chen secretly overheard Cheng Dou and Cheng Haichang, realized they mistook his Flourishing Decay True Fire for Azure Sun Demonic Fire, and decided to use their assumption.
• Cheng Dou greeted Luo Chen, asked his name, and Luo Chen introduced himself as Azure Sun.

Luo Chen attended a feast on Black Swan Island, where Cheng Dou explained the North Sea’s history and the threat posed by South Heaven Immortal. After taking a temporary residence at Seaview Cliff, Luo Chen prepared to use the five captured Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and declared that defeating South Heaven Immortal would be like driving a tiger to devour a wolf.

• Cheng Dou guided Luo Chen through Black Swan Island and described the Flying Swallow Islands, the Primal Devil Sect, and the opportunities it gave mortals.
• At a banquet, Cheng Dou recounted the chaos after the Primal Devil Sect fell and explained how South Heaven Immortal had destroyed families and suppressed potential rivals.
• Cheng Dou praised Luo Chen as the one who could restore peace, but Luo Chen ended the conversation and chose Seaview Cliff as his temporary residence.
• Luo Chen opened a cave dwelling at Seaview Cliff and released five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Cheng Haixin offered to warm Luo Chen’s bed, but he declined for the moment and watched the waves beneath the night sky, confident he could use one threat against another.

Luo Chen enslaved five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and refined his fire-based combat system, mastering the Azure Sun Great Handprint and developing Exploding Void Step. After deciding to seek a Third-Order Spirit Land and a better pill, he returned to Seaview Cliff, where Cheng Haixin delivered a Jade Slip from Cheng Dou.

• Luo Chen used his Baleful Qi and Spirit Enslavement Seals to enslave five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes as guards.
• Cheng Dou pressured Cheng Haixin to win Luo Chen's favor so he would drive Yan Nantian from the Flying Swallow Islands and give Cheng Dou a chance to advance to the Golden Core Stage.
• Luo Chen perfected the Innate One Qi Great Handprint, renamed it the Azure Sun Great Handprint, and combined his fire-based arts and movement techniques into a more complete combat system.
• Luo Chen sent the five sea snakes to patrol Seaview Cliff and decided to seek a Third-Order Spirit Land and replace the Myriad Stars Pill.
• Cheng Haixin waited for Luo Chen at his cave residence, then gave him a Jade Slip from Cheng Dou and admitted she would not mind warming his bed.

Luo Chen learned that Yan Nantian was a powerful Golden Core cultivator hiding on Moon Invitation Island and pressed the Cheng Family to offer him everything in exchange for his help. As he prepared to build his forces and study True Flame Pill, he turned his attention to breaking the Ghost-Mist Grand Formation with the Blazing Fire Miasma.

• Luo Chen read Cheng Dou's intelligence and learned Yan Nantian's history, cultivation, and formidable Soul Banner.
• Cheng Haixin asked Luo Chen what reward would persuade him to deal with Yan Nantian, but he rejected her offers and sent her back to consult Cheng Dou.
• Cheng Dou concluded that the Cheng Family had to submit to Luo Chen without reservation, and he and Cheng Haixin agreed they had little choice.
• Luo Chen decided to replace Myriad Stars Pill with True Flame Pill and planned to have the Cheng Family gather its ingredients for him.
• Luo Chen examined the Ghost-Mist Grand Formation around Moon Invitation Island and resolved to use the Blazing Fire Miasma against it.

Luo Chen attacked Yan Nantian’s Myriad Souls Grand Array on Moon Invitation Island with Blazing Fire Miasma, while Cheng Dou gathered the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators to witness the battle. When Luo Chen discovered Yan Nantian was using the attack as cover to break through, he struck the island and forced Yan Nantian to emerge.

• Luo Chen released Blazing Fire Miasma against the Myriad Souls Grand Array, using Wither Bloom True Evil to erode the black mist and weaken its ghostly souls.
• Cheng Dou blocked the approaching cultivators and used a Water Mirror Art to show them Luo Chen’s battle, explaining that the Azure Sun Devil Monarch shared a lineage with the Devilbreak Sect’s founder.
• The cultivators recognized Peng Yu and other former residents among Yan Nantian’s enslaved souls, then learned that the banner held thousands of souls and a Golden Core Main Soul.
• Luo Chen sensed Yan Nantian gathering power to break through at the island’s center, then flew up and struck the island with the Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Yan Nantian emerged from the shattered island amid two blue dragons and attacked Luo Chen, who summoned the Profound Flame Sword to meet him.

Luo Chen defeated and killed Yan Nantian above Ten Li Calm Lake, then demanded that the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators gather at the ruined Moon Invitation Island in a month. The cultivators submitted, while Cheng Dou saw Luo Chen’s arrival as a chance to advance the Cheng Family and pursue his own ambitions.

• Luo Chen overwhelmed Yan Nantian with the Mountain Collapse Technique and detonated nine Blazing Sun Spells at once, destroying Yan Nantian’s body.
• Luo Chen caught Yan Nantian’s escaping Golden Core, crushed it, and collected the Myriad Souls Banner, Soul Severing Nail, Qi Breaking Nail, and Water Dividing Thorns.
• Cheng Dou led the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators in paying respects to Luo Chen, who ordered them to meet again at Moon Invitation Island in a month.
• Cheng Dou received Luo Chen’s Spirit-Gathering Vein-Fixing array and assigned the islands’ Formation Masters to restore the scattered Spirit Vein.
• The cultivators agreed to contribute labor and resources, and Cheng Dou decided that Luo Chen’s presence would help the Cheng Family rise to prominence.

Luo Chen refined the Myriad Souls Banner, put the Primal Chaos Cauldron into his Qi Sea, and planned to rule the Flying Swallow Islands while gathering ingredients for pills. A month later, he appointed the Cheng Family as his representatives and offered families access to the Azure Sun Pill Canon in exchange for their contributions.

• Luo Chen studied Yan Nantian’s remnant soul, began refining the Myriad Souls Banner, and concluded that strengthening his Divine Soul Foundation was his best hope of preserving his soul.
• Luo Chen put the Primal Chaos Cauldron into his Qi Sea for tempering and decided to prepare for an alchemy enterprise on Seaview Cliff.
• One month later, Luo Chen summoned the Flying Swallow Islands’ cultivators to Moon Invitation Island and named the Black Swan Island Cheng Family his representatives.
• Luo Chen gave Cheng Haixin the Water Dividing Thorns as his token and ordered the islands’ families to gather medicinal ingredients instead of paying tribute.
• Luo Chen placed the Azure Sun Pill Canon on Moon Invitation Island and let families exchange their contributions for access to its Core Formation secret technique.

Half a year after settling on Moon Invitation Island, Luo Chen received True Flame Pill ingredients and blood food from Cheng Haixin, setting terms for the Cheng Family to earn access to the Azure Sun Pill Canon. He began processing the herbs to refine pills and strengthen his cultivation while continuing to temper the Primal Chaos Cauldron.

• Cheng Haixin delivered seventy-eight sets of True Flame Pill herbs gathered by the Flying Swallow Merchant Group, and Luo Chen questioned her about the North Sea’s prices and supply routes.
• Cheng Haixin presented Luo Chen with a cooked Dragon Tiger Grouper, and he ordered her to arrange at least ten portions of blood food each month and bring its cook to meet him.
• Cheng Haixin asked how the Cheng Family could earn an opportunity to receive the Azure Sun Pill Canon, and Luo Chen set the requirement at six thousand sets of True Flame Pill materials.
• Cheng Haixin left for Black Swan Island to tell Cheng Dou that the family had a chance to pursue Core Formation through the Azure Sun Pill Canon.
• Luo Chen ate the Dragon Tiger Grouper, then began arranging the medicinal herbs for processing and True Flame Pill refinement while continuing to temper the Primal Chaos Cauldron.

Luo Chen refined his first Tier 3 True Flame Pill, developed the Blazing Heaven Sevenfold Rings defensive spell, and recruited assistants on Moon Invitation Island to process medicinal ingredients. After consuming the pill, he experienced its immense, fiery medicinal power.

• Luo Chen failed his first attempt at refining a True Flame Pill, identified the need to concentrate its medicinal power during the slow-cooking stage, and continued developing his cultivation and spells.
• Luo Chen created the Blazing Heaven Sevenfold Rings, whose Wither Bloom fire-serpent rings could melt an incoming high-grade Flying Sword.
• Cheng Haixin brought eighteen candidates to Moon Invitation Island to process ingredients, and Luo Chen approved most of them while choosing the talented Xu Muxian to stay.
• Luo Chen celebrated successfully refining a low-grade True Flame Pill and consumed it, then endured its fierce medicinal power surging through his body.

Luo Chen advanced his cultivation, refined the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and used the Azure Sun Pill Canon to drive the Flying Swallow families to gather herbs. After granting Cheng Haixin’s family access to the canon, he sensed someone awakening inside his cauldron and confronted the hidden presence.

• Luo Chen discovered that True Flame Pill fire toxin clung to his Golden Core and used the Fourth-Order Dragon Slaying Art to remove it, considering how its vicious aura might be used against enemies.
• With eighteen Medicine Apprentices handling herbs, Luo Chen advanced his cultivation and techniques while the Flying Swallow families depleted their resources to exchange for the Azure Sun Pill Canon and gather Nascent Soul Pill materials.
• After three years of progress, Luo Chen praised Xu Muxian’s pill-refining talent, gave him top-grade Water Condensation Pills, and rewarded Cheng Haixin with Jade Dew Pills.
• Luo Chen told Cheng Haixin that her Cheng Family had earned enough contribution points for Cheng Dou to receive the Azure Sun Pill Canon, and she hurried to Black Swan Island to inform him.
• Luo Chen refined the Primal Chaos Cauldron with Azure Flame until he sensed its hidden presence awaken, then challenged the unseen senior to appear openly.

Luo Chen negotiated with Han Zhan, a remnant Nascent Soul trapped in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and secured his help in exchange for a time-limited Great Dao Oath. Han Zhan entered Luo Chen’s Myriad Souls Banner as a Living Soul, giving Luo Chen a powerful ally as he prepared to roam the Demon Sea.

• Luo Chen weighed whether to kill, release, or control Han Zhan, while Han Zhan admitted he wanted to live freely and pursue Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen demanded a Great Dao Oath, and Han Zhan agreed to help him form his Nascent Soul until Luo Chen became a True Person in exchange for help gathering materials.
• Han Zhan swore the oath, and Luo Chen released him from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Luo Chen proposed using the Ghost Mystery Records to let Han Zhan take shelter in the Myriad Souls Banner, and Han Zhan entered it to study the method.
• Luo Chen concluded that Han Zhan’s presence in the banner gave him confidence to roam the Demon Sea.

Luo Chen continued refining the Primal Chaos Cauldron and True Flame Pills on Moon Invitation Island, while Han Zhan shared the Black Emperor Ointment Recipe and prepared to confront a visitor. Wu Qi of the Devilbreak Sect arrived seeking Luo Chen after learning of his pill-refining skill, and Han Zhan sent a Ghost King to delay him.

• Han Zhan explained that Tianyezi’s contingencies in the Primal Chaos Cauldron were temporary and described how he and Tianyezi had studied the Emptiness Restrictions, improving the cauldron into a treasure capable of spatial suppression and holding living creatures.
• Han Zhan explained how True Artifacts amplified a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s domain, then gave Luo Chen the Black Emperor Ointment Recipe as the first step in their cooperation.
• Luo Chen reached the brink of Great Perfection in True Flame Pill refinement and asked Han Zhan to entertain an arriving guest while he continued working.
• Kun Jiao told Wu Qi that Yan Nantian had died fighting Luo Chen, whom the Flying Swallow Islands knew as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch, and described Luo Chen’s Golden Core cultivation and Tier 3 alchemy.
• Wu Qi decided to capture Luo Chen for the sake of his Wu Family, ordered Kun Jiao to hold off the others, and led a surging tidal wave toward the Flying Swallow Islands.
• Han Zhan sent a Tier 3 Ghost King and more than a hundred Ghost Generals to delay Wu Qi while Luo Chen finished refining his pills.

A Golden Core cultivator named Wu Qi attacked the Flying Swallow Islands with a tsunami, forcing Luo Chen to interrupt his pill refining and confront him. Luo Chen met Wu Qi’s assault with the Azure Sun Great Handprint and prepared another attack, while Wu Qi asked to negotiate.

• A fast-moving tsunami approached the Flying Swallow Islands, and Cheng Dou ordered the Town Sea Great Array activated while abandoning the mortals at the docks.
• Cheng Dou called on Luo Chen, and Han Zhan sent a hundred Ghost Generals and a Ghost King to hold back Wu Qi’s tsunami and water dragons.
• Han Zhan admitted the damaged Myriad Souls Banner could not sustain the Ghost King, so Luo Chen left his pill room after completing ten Top-Grade True Flame Pills at Great Perfection.
• Luo Chen struck Wu Qi with the Azure Sun Great Handprint, and the collision drove Luo Chen back while forcing Wu Qi into the sea.
• Luo Chen prepared his Profound Flame Sword and summoned nine blazing suns, and Wu Qi emerged from the waves and asked him to talk things through.

Luo Chen settled his dispute with Wu Qi, a servant of the Blood Nightmare Fiend, after Wu Qi killed Kun Jiao and gave him Kun Jiao’s belongings. Wu Qi then invited Luo Chen to join the Devilbreak Sect, but Luo Chen remained wary and ended the chapter examining his Top-Grade True Flame Pills.

• Wu Qi identified himself as a Devilbreak Sect cultivator serving the Blood Nightmare Fiend, and Luo Chen demanded an explanation for his arrival ready to fight.
• Wu Qi killed Kun Jiao, whom he blamed for misleading him, and offered Luo Chen Kun Jiao’s Storage Bag and a Black Scale Flood Dragon; Luo Chen accepted the settlement.
• Wu Qi recognized the lingering fragrance of Luo Chen’s Top-Grade True Flame Pill and concluded that Luo Chen was a Master Level Tier 3 Alchemist.
• Wu Qi invited Luo Chen to join the Devilbreak Sect and offered him a Bloodmare Seal, but Luo Chen refused to commit and accepted the token for later consideration.
• After Wu Qi left, Luo Chen discussed the risks with Han Zhan, put away the token, and returned to his cave residence with the bottle of Top-Grade True Flame Pills.

Luo Chen weighed the cost of his True Flame Pills and resolved to improve his combat strength, prepare for future Nascent Soul resources, and seek Black Emperor Ointment beyond the Flying Swallow Islands. After the islands’ families supplied ingredients, he began a public Hundred Pills Simultaneous Refinement with one hundred batches in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, leaving its success uncertain.

• Luo Chen concluded that High-Grade True Flame Pills best balanced cultivation gains and cost, and planned to leave the Flying Swallow Islands in ten years to seek Nascent Soul resources and ingredients for Black Emperor Ointment.
• After Luo Chen drove back Wu Qi, the major families stopped complaining and increased their offerings of True Flame Pill ingredients.
• Three months after the battle, four damaged islands remained submerged, leaving the Flying Swallow Thirty-Six Islands reduced to thirty-two.
• Luo Chen appeared before a crowd at Ten Li Calm Lake, expanded the Primal Chaos Cauldron to nine zhang, and enveloped it in Azure Flame.
• Luo Chen placed one hundred batches of medicinal ingredients into the cauldron and prepared to test Hundred Pills Simultaneous Refinement.
• A voice from the black banner praised Luo Chen’s alchemy and called him Pill Dust Master.