Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen completed several massive refinements of True Flame Pills, building a reserve of 3,500 pills while recovering and studying formations between batches. After preparing for his next stage of cultivation and entrusting Moon Invitation Island to Cheng Dou, he departed for the Profound Rock Sea Area.

• Luo Chen spent half a month refining 427 high-grade True Flame Pills in a single batch, astounding the cultivators watching from the Ten Li Calm Lake.
• After resting, Luo Chen considered asking Han Zhan to teach him the Fallen Cloud Sect’s soul-refining legacy, then studied formations with him instead.
• Luo Chen refined pills in repeated batches over six months, eventually amassing 3,500 True Flame Pills and using all the ingredients supplied by the Flying Swallow Islands.
• Luo Chen lent Moon Invitation Island to Cheng Dou for his attempt to reach the Golden Core Stage and instructed Cheng Haixin to support Xu Muxian and continue seeking ingredients.
• Luo Chen boarded the Cheng Family’s Demon Hunting Ship and set out for the Profound Rock Sea Area, escorted by five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes and a Black Flood Dragon.

Luo Chen traveled to the Profound Rock Sea Area to obtain materials for refining Black Emperor Ointment and resume body tempering. After avoiding a dangerous Nine-Claw Poison King Crab lair, he captured a Heavenly Pivot Gull alive and prepared to establish a temporary cave dwelling on its island.

• Luo Chen studied Han Zhan’s Black Emperor Ointment recipe and chose the nearby Profound Rock Sea Area to hunt for suitable main ingredients.
• Han Zhan concealed the tracking mark on the Bloodmare Seal, and Luo Chen layered Concealment Arrays onto his Storage Ring.
• Luo Chen traveled with Cheng Ji and the recovering Black Scale Flood Dragon, then sent Cheng Ji back with five Blue Ringed Giant Fang Sea Snakes as guards.
• Luo Chen avoided an island occupied by a Nine-Claw Poison King Crab and searched the Profound Rock Sea Area for a safer place to settle.
• Luo Chen used the Black Scale Flood Dragon to lure a Heavenly Pivot Gull into battle, injured it, and enslaved it with a Spirit Enslavement Seal.
• Luo Chen explained that the Heavenly Pivot Gull would help him watch the sea and sky, then decided to build a temporary cave dwelling on Heavenly Pivot Island.

Luo Chen established a concealed cultivation cave on Heavenly Pivot Island and began using Black Emperor Ointment to temper his body. While the Black Scale Flood Dragon hunted crabs for him, she ran into a Tier 3 Overlord Crab, and Tian Xuan carried Luo Chen to the fight.

• Luo Chen carved out a cavern on Heavenly Pivot Island and set up a Spirit Gathering Array to conceal and enrich it.
• Luo Chen had the Black Scale Flood Dragon capture an Azure Emperor Crab, refined its shell into Tier 3 Low-grade Black Emperor Ointment, and let Han Zhan extract its soul.
• Luo Chen applied the ointment and tempered his body, finding that it made his skin tougher and more resistant to the Profound Flame Sword.
• The Black Scale Flood Dragon brought Luo Chen crabs from the Five Great Royal Clans, and Tian Xuan once rescued her from a Tier 3 Demon Spider Crab.
• Tian Xuan urgently called Luo Chen to help the Black Scale Flood Dragon, who was being pursued in the deep sea by a Tier 3 Overlord Crab.

After the Black Scale Flood Dragon was rescued from an ambush, Luo Chen treated its wounds and tested Top-Grade Emperor Flow Paste on it. Five years later, the paste had awakened the Flood Dragon’s devouring demonic art, while Luo Chen advanced to the Golden Core Fourth Layer and Han Zhan left after suspecting Tian Xuan was in danger.

• Luo Chen let Tian Xuan rescue the badly wounded Black Scale Flood Dragon from Golden Claw and the Demon Crab Clan, who then turned their attention to attacking Profound Rock Island.
• Luo Chen spent ten days treating the Flood Dragon, rewarded it with Second-Tier Demon Cores, and gave it Top-Grade Emperor Flow Paste to test its effects.
• Over the next five years, the Black Scale Flood Dragon and Tian Xuan caught more than a thousand live Demon Crabs for Luo Chen, enduring repeated battles and near-fatal dangers.
• After consuming Emperor Flow Paste, the Black Scale Flood Dragon awakened a bloodline inheritance that let it devour and refine nearby creatures, and it began serving Luo Chen wholeheartedly.
• Luo Chen used a Top-Grade True Flame Pill and the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to advance to the Golden Core Fourth Layer.
• Han Zhan noticed his Sound Transmission Ghost was missing, suspected Tian Xuan had encountered trouble, left Luo Chen a Sound Transmission Talisman, and flew south.

The Demon Spider Crab Clan’s ambush was interrupted when Flying Cloud Stream captured the Heavenly Pivot Gull, but Han Zhan and the Black Scale Flood Dragon stole it back during a ghost attack. On Heavenly Pivot Island, Luo Chen confronted three Demon Spider Crab cultivators who had followed them.

• Beneath the sea, the Demon Spider Crab Clan’s Seventh Elder chose to watch as Flying Cloud Stream attacked the Heavenly Pivot Gull, believing the ship’s hidden expert made intervention too dangerous.
• Gu Shaoshang trapped the Heavenly Pivot Gull with the Heavenly Silk Cloud Thread and gave Gu Xiaolian a Demon Suppression Talisman to tame it.
• Han Zhan unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner against Flying Cloud Stream’s Demon Hunting Ship while a massive shadow dragged the Heavenly Pivot Gull into the sea.
• The black mist vanished, and Han Zhan’s group escaped with the gull to Heavenly Pivot Island.
• Luo Chen appeared before the Black Scale Flood Dragon and the gull, then challenged three Demon Spider Crab cultivators as they emerged from the water.

Luo Chen fought three Demon Spider Crabs after they pursued Big Black and rescued Tian Xuan, killing two and facing Zhu Qi’s Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array. He broke through the array with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and killed Zhu Qi, leaving one wounded crab alive for the moment.

• Tian Xuan asked Big Black to help Luo Chen, but Big Black admitted his Demon Power was nearly exhausted; Luo Chen told him to stay back and faced the three Demon Spider Crabs alone.
• Luo Chen used his Desolate Antiquity Late Third Order physique and Cloud Searching Divine Claw to tear off one crab’s pincers, then killed another with a close-range strike.
• Luo Chen used the Soul Breaking Three Nails and the Profound Flame Sword to fatally wound the crab that tried to flee beneath the sea.
• Zhu Qi revealed his Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array and trapped Luo Chen in an enclosure powered by the sea, while a water crab made from the array entangled Big Black.
• Luo Chen hurled the Primal Chaos Cauldron through the array’s barrier and killed Zhu Qi, then retrieved the brown compass and turned toward the wounded crab.

After defeating the Demon Spider Crab attackers, Luo Chen abandoned Heavenly Pivot Island and established a concealed dwelling in the Coral Sea Trench. He freed Tian Xuan from a Demon Suppression Talisman and sent her to investigate the Flying Cloud Stream cultivators while he considered how to respond.

• Luo Chen collected the spoils from the defeated Demon Spider Crabs and concluded that Heavenly Pivot Island was exposed, so he packed up and left.
• Luo Chen questioned Han Zhan about his hidden strength, and Han Zhan revealed that he needed the body of a Human Race Nascent Soul Cultivator to rebuild his body and Dao Foundation.
• Luo Chen moved to the Coral Sea Trench, where he named the Black Scale Flood Dragon Black King and used Zhu Qi's compass to set up a concealed Azure Cloud Dense Mist Array.
• Luo Chen removed the Demon Suppression Talisman from the Heavenly Pivot Gull, whom he called Tian Xuan, and asked her to locate the Flying Cloud Stream cultivators without alerting them.
• Luo Chen resolved to learn why the cultivators had come to the Profound Rock Sea Area, then closed his dwelling and began stabilizing his Golden Core Fourth Layer cultivation.

The Demon Spider Crab Clan learned that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor had died and prepared to compete for his remains and Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein on Profound Rock Island. Meanwhile, Gu Shaoshang’s group also set course for the island, unaware that the Heavenly Pivot Gull was flying toward their ship.

• The Demon Spider Crab Clan Leader confirmed that a Human Race cultivator had killed Zhu Qi and other clan members, and arranged for the Hidden Dust Sand Clan to help track him down.
• The Clan Leader revealed that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor had died three hundred years earlier, then decided to lead his clan to Profound Rock Island to seize the opportunity there.
• Aboard the Demon Hunting Ship, Gu Shaoshang learned that someone had broken his Third-Order Demon Suppression Talisman and suspected the culprit was a powerful cultivator tied to the Heavenly Pivot Gull.
• Gu Shaoshang dismissed his companions’ concerns and ordered the ship to head for Profound Rock Island to hunt Ringed Turtles and gather their shells.
• The Heavenly Pivot Gull rose from the sea and flew toward the Demon Hunting Ship.

After three months of secluded cultivation, Luo Chen stabilized at the Golden Core Fourth Layer and reviewed his advances, resources, and 151 Achievement Points. New intelligence about a fierce conflict on Profound Rock Island revealed a chance to obtain Third-Order Demon Crabs, and he decided to get involved.

• Luo Chen completed his seclusion, confirmed his Golden Core Fourth Layer realm, and examined his Attribute Panel.
• Luo Chen reflected on the gains and risks of his past cultivation, including his late-stage Desolate Antiquity Third Order physique and the difficulty of obtaining materials for Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment.
• Luo Chen reviewed his improved cultivation methods, combat skills, alchemy, and formations, then considered using his 151 Achievement Points to deduce a Nascent Soul Pill Recipe.
• Luo Chen received intelligence from Tian Xuan describing the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs, Flying Cloud Stream, and the Ringed Turtle Clan fighting near Profound Rock Island, with several Third-Order Demon Kings killed.
• Luo Chen suspected the conflict could let him obtain enough Demon Crabs to make Tier 4 Black Emperor Ointment and declared that the job had to be done.

Luo Chen used the Sealing God Compass to find a hidden island within the Profound Rock Sea Area and began establishing a base while learning that the Ringed Turtle Clan’s formation was protected by a powerful array. Meanwhile, the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crab leaders sought a way to break the array, and Zhu Xiang revealed that he had brought in Gu Shaoshang of Flying Cloud Stream.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan identified the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Array around Profound Rock Island and concluded that the Profound Rock Demon Emperor was likely absent.
• Han Zhan explained the Soul-Seeking Spirit-Searching Array, and Luo Chen used the formation disk to locate an unpatrolled barren island for his base.
• Luo Chen named the formation disk the Sealing God Compass and began settling on the island.
• Jin Hun, Lüxiu, Nine Claws, and Scarlet Flame discussed their failed attacks on Profound Rock Island and the need to break its array.
• Zhu Xiang announced that Zhu Qi had died, then offered to help break the array on the condition that the other leaders help hunt down Luo Chen.
• Zhu Xiang admitted Gu Shaoshang of Flying Cloud Stream into the meeting, prompting Jin Hun to warn that they might be inviting a wolf into the house.

Luo Chen watched the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs and Flying Cloud Stream cooperate to break the Ringed Turtle Clan’s island defenses, while he searched for chances to collect Demon Crab corpses for medicine. After Gu Shaoshang returned to the battlefield alone, Luo Chen stole a dead Third Order Red Rock Crab but was spotted just as he considered targeting a wounded Ringed Turtle Demon King.

• Black King explained that Ringed Turtles refined either their Black Tortoise or Cliff Serpent bloodline as they grew stronger, and Luo Chen learned that ten million Demon Crabs had gathered against their clan.
• Luo Chen watched the Demon Crabs methodically seize nearly half the islands, defeat the Ringed Turtle reinforcements, and take the Longevity Three Islands while Gu Shaoshang’s array-breaking plan helped their campaign.
• The five Demon Crab clan leaders worried that their alliance with human cultivators would ruin their reputation, then agreed to denounce Gu Shaoshang as an enemy and kill him once their cooperation ended.
• Gu Shaoshang left with Gu Xiaolian and a shipload of Ringed Turtle corpses, then returned alone to collect the rest of the goods promised by the Demon Crabs.
• During the fighting, Luo Chen hid underwater and stored the corpse of a slain Third Order Red Rock Crab, then considered attacking a wounded Ringed Turtle Demon King.
• An unknown figure killed the Ringed Turtle Demon King instantly, gathered its remains, and looked toward Luo Chen’s hiding place.

Luo Chen secretly hunted Third-Order Demon Crabs while monitoring the war, then infiltrated Profound Rock Island in a concealed puppet as the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs launched their final assault. He reached Black King’s swamp base and began observing the battle through a Water Mirror, with Han Zhan stabilizing the spell.

• Luo Chen identified Gu Shaoshang as the other cultivator hunting Ringed Turtles but decided to focus on collecting Demon Crabs and Black Emperor Ointment instead of confronting him.
• Tian Xuan reported that only eighteen islands remained under Ringed Turtle control, and Luo Chen ordered Black King to infiltrate Profound Rock Island and bury the Sealing God Compass at a designated location.
• After the war continued for nearly a year, Jin Hun, Scarlet Flame, Zhu Xiang, Nine Claws, and Lüxiu led the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs in an assault on Profound Rock Island.
• Luo Chen concealed himself inside a Demon Crab Puppet, entered the island with the invading army, and avoided both the fighting and Gu Shaoshang, who was forced to retreat after being exposed.
• Luo Chen reached Black King’s swamp base and used the Sealing God Compass to cast a Water Mirror showing the battlefield.
• When the Water Mirror grew unstable under the surging Demon Qi and spiritual energy, Han Zhan stabilized it with a single point of his finger.

Luo Chen used Han Zhan’s Water Mirror Art to watch the battle on Profound Rock Island, then ambushed and killed an Azure Emperor Crab Demon King amid the Ringed Turtles’ desperate self-detonations. As the Demon Crabs neared victory, their leaders discovered that Tier 3 corpses were still vanishing after Gu Shaoshang had left, suggesting another hidden hand, just as Hai Luo entered the battle.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan surveyed the battlefield, where the Five Great Royal Clan Demon Crabs outnumbered and overwhelmed the Ringed Turtle Clan.
• After a Ringed Turtle Demon King detonated himself, Luo Chen emerged from the swamp and killed an injured Azure Emperor Crab Demon King before hiding inside the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Han Zhan sent Luo Chen a message about another nearby target, and Luo Chen moved toward a battle in the sky where three Demon Kings were fighting one.
• As the Demon Crabs advanced and suffered heavy casualties from the Ringed Turtles’ self-detonations, their five Clan Leaders learned that Tier 3 corpses had repeatedly disappeared.
• Zhu Xiang connected the disappearances to Gu Shaoshang, but Jin Hun pointed out that corpses were still vanishing after Gu Shaoshang had left Profound Rock Island.
• The five Clan Leaders sensed that Hai Luo had finally entered the battle.

Luo Chen was discovered while trying to exploit the battle on Profound Rock Island and fought his way through pursuing Demon Kings to escape. He left the island behind, but the Nine Difficulties Demon King expected Golden Claw to intercept him at sea.

• Luo Chen hid in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, but three Demon Spider Crab Kings sensed his Divine Sense and attacked, forcing him to flee.
• Luo Chen used his Breaking Moon Wings and sword to evade or defeat several Demon Crab interceptors, while Han Zhan guided him through the battlefield.
• Luo Chen broke through the Demon Spider Crabs' Heavenly Net with the Profound Flame Sword and Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen countered the Nine-Claw Poison King Crab Great Demon King's poison mist and Poison Hook with Blazing Fire Miasma and three black nails, then escaped past him.
• The Nine Difficulties Demon King told the converging Demon Kings that Golden Claw was waiting at sea and expected Luo Chen to run into him.

Luo Chen fought Golden Claw, a peak Late Stage Third Order Overlord Crab, and revealed his Heavenly Peng True Body after Golden Claw destroyed his Profound Flame Sword. After they traded devastating blows, Luo Chen fled as Golden Claw was summoned back to the island’s central battlefield to help kill Hai Luo.

• Luo Chen judged that his human form could contend with a Great Demon King but would struggle against one near Completion.
• Golden Claw ambushed Luo Chen with a Ringed Turtle corpse, trapped his Profound Flame Sword between his pincers, and shattered it.
• Luo Chen transformed into his Heavenly Peng True Body, and he and Golden Claw clashed nine times, badly injuring each other.
• Luo Chen struck Golden Claw with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and broke off one of his pincers, then introduced himself as Azure Sun and flew away.
• Golden Claw pursued Luo Chen until five demon clouds arrived and ordered the five clans’ Demon Kings to help kill Hai Luo; Golden Claw abandoned the chase and headed for the island’s center.

The Ringed Turtle Clan’s Hai Luo and Seven Rings tried to preserve their clan by confronting the Five Great Royal Clan leaders and drawing the Demon Crab Kings into Seven Rings’ tribulation. After the battle devastated Profound Rock Island, Black King seized the Demon Emperor Remains and Luo Chen struck the surviving Overlord Crab forces with a vast palm, leaving the fate of the survivors unclear.

• Hai Luo used the Demon Emperor Remains to withstand the Five Clan Leaders’ attacks, but their battle left him near death and Profound Rock Island in ruins.
• Seven Rings began his Transformation Tribulation, then linked his aura to the Demon Crab Kings and made the Tribulation Lightning strike them as well.
• Han Zhan sent Black King to seize the Demon Emperor Remains after the tribulation ended; the lightning killed Seven Rings, Hai Luo, Lüxiu, and Nine Claws, while the remaining clans suffered heavy losses.
• Jin Hun ordered Golden Claw and other Overlord Crab demons to take the remains, but Black King swallowed them first and fled toward the sea.
• Luo Chen appeared above the island and crushed the seven pursuing Overlord Crab demons with his Azure Sun Great Palm Seal before departing.

Luo Chen reunited with Han Zhan and Black King after escaping Profound Rock Island, then retreated to a hidden cave to process his spoils. Han Zhan revealed the Cliff Serpent’s corpse, which Luo Chen gave to Black King, leaving the group with a remarkable haul from their escape.

• Luo Chen searched for Han Zhan and Black King, then found Black King fleeing Gu Shaoshang with the Profound Rock Armor.
• Black King explained that Han Zhan had driven off Gu Shaoshang and that they had delayed their escape to avoid the Ringed Turtle Clan.
• Luo Chen took Han Zhan and Black King to the Coral Sea Trench, where Tian Xuan confirmed the hidden cave remained undiscovered.
• Han Zhan showed Luo Chen the many souls he had collected and revealed the failed Ringed Turtle’s hundred-zhang Cliff Serpent corpse inside the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Luo Chen gave the spiritually depleted Cliff Serpent corpse to Black King, who had helped seize the Profound Rock Armor.

Gu Shaoshang escaped after mistaking Luo Chen’s Soul Banner for a Nascent Soul threat, while Jin Hun planned to exploit the other clans’ losses. Luo Chen left the Coral Sea Trench with Black King, and Zhu Xiang arrived too late to find him.

• Gu Shaoshang fled Profound Rock Island, then reasoned that a Nascent Soul spirit in a Soul Refining Banner had frightened him away from the Demon Emperor Remains.
• Jin Hun accepted Golden Armor’s proposal to absorb the weakened Azure Emperor Crab and Nine-Claw Poison King Crab Clans, and sent Golden Armor to act quickly.
• Jin Hun learned that Zhu Xiang had left Profound Rock Island with most of the Demon Spider Crab Clan, while the Red Rock Crab Clan was establishing a camp there.
• Luo Chen assessed his gains and losses, packed his belongings, put Black King into the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and flew away on the Heavenly Pivot Gull.
• Zhu Xiang reached the Coral Sea Trench after Luo Chen had departed and threatened the Hidden Dust Sand Clan for misleading him.

Yuan Yin, a Third Order Completion Hidden Dust Sand demon, followed Luo Chen across the sea and tried to ambush him on a small island. Luo Chen trapped and defeated him with the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array, then left when conch horns sounded nearby.

• Yuan Yin tracked Luo Chen and the Heavenly Pivot Gull for four days, waiting for Luo Chen to stop and heal.
• When Yuan Yin approached the island, Luo Chen revealed that he had detected him and trapped him in the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array.
• Yuan Yin revealed his Third Order Completion power and attacked with Myriad Pearl Barrage, but Luo Chen and his companions resisted his assault.
• Han Zhan identified Yuan Yin as a member of the Hidden Dust Sand Clan, and Luo Chen explained that they had set the ambush after Han Zhan located him.
• After conch horns sounded nearby, Luo Chen recalled the injured Black King and Tian Xuan and flew away.

Luo Chen returned to the Flying Swallow Islands after scouting for an ambush and found the cultivators struggling with a Demon King-level Heavenly Pivot Gull. He revealed himself as the Azure Sun Devil Monarch and returned to Ten Li Calm Lake, where Cheng Haixin told him that Blood Nightmare had come looking for him.

• Luo Chen waited in the Albatross Sea Area and sent Tian Xuan to scout the Flying Swallow Islands for signs of an ambush.
• The island families argued over how to handle the Heavenly Pivot Gull circling outside their defensive formation and fretted over their weakening position without Luo Chen.
• The Heavenly Pivot Gull left, then returned three days later carrying Luo Chen, and Cheng Haixin flew out to welcome him.
• Luo Chen ordered the gathered cultivators to disperse, released the Black Flood Dragon into Ten Li Calm Lake, and settled back onto Moon Invitation Island.
• Cheng Haixin told Luo Chen that a powerful visitor calling himself Blood Nightmare had come to see him.