Chapter Summaries

At the Cold Palace auction, Nascent Soul True Persons battled over the God Slaying Sword while Luo Chen learned it was a False Spirit Treasure. After collecting his purchases and leaving the auction, Luo Chen returned to his valley, where pursuers arrived as he prepared to fight them.

• Leng Ruolan revealed that the God Slaying Sword held the resentment and Essence Blood of a slain Spirit Transformation Great Power, and Han Zhan explained why it was a False Spirit Treasure.
• Emerald Cold True Person said she had obtained the sword in the Sunken Sea, prompting Blood Nightmare Fiend and other Nascent Soul True Persons to compete for it.
• Han Zhan urged Luo Chen to leave the auction before trouble arose, and Luo Chen discovered Wu Yan was deliberately delaying the settlement of his purchases.
• Luo Chen forced Wu Yan to hand over his auction winnings, then left the Cold Palace and returned to his valley with Tian Xuan and Han Zhan.
• Luo Chen dismantled the valley's concealment array and found pursuers waiting nearby, so he summoned his fiery wings and Crimson Chains to meet them.

Luo Chen fought off the Qian Family after they tried to seize him for his valuable resources, killing two Golden Core cultivators and many Foundation Establishment cultivators. He and Tian Xuan escaped Qian Ting, leaving the Qian Family enraged and the witnesses of Emerald Cold City stunned by his strength.

• Qian Ting ordered rogue cultivators to attack Luo Hai and secretly sought help from other factions, hoping to claim his resources and obtain Soul Nourishing Wood.
• Luo Chen killed the Qian Family's Eighth Elder, scattered the rogue cultivators with a rain of fireballs, and defeated the Second Elder by taking his Treasure Dropping Coin and crushing him with the Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Qian Ting arrived with a black saber, but Luo Chen blocked his attack with the Primal Chaos Cauldron while Tian Xuan joined him.
• Luo Chen and Tian Xuan used Nine Myriad Miles to escape, and Qian Ting ordered Jin Zhan to pursue them.
• Onlookers from Emerald Cold City identified Luo Hai and speculated that the Qian Family had attacked him out of greed for his exposed wealth.

Fu Chaosheng secretly ordered Dan Shubao to destroy a Teleportation Array while Luo Chen fled Emerald Cold City with Tian Xuan and was intercepted by Wu Family cultivators at the northern docks. Luo Chen killed all three pursuers with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and other techniques, then continued north as Qian Ting urged the arriving cultivators to chase him.

• Dan Shubao told Fu Chaosheng that several factions were hunting Luo Hai, and Fu Chaosheng ordered him to destroy a Teleportation Array discreetly.
• Bai Xiang recognized Luo Chen and Tian Xuan approaching the northern docks as three Wu Family Golden Core Cultivators moved to block their escape.
• Luo Chen sent Tian Xuan ahead and fought the three Wu Family cultivators, using Baleful Qi to disrupt their formation and kill two of them with Crimson Chains and the Mountain Splitting Boulder Breaking Palm.
• Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to suppress Wu Di's Mana, then killed him with Sword Qi and Crimson Chains before dodging the Golden Core's self-destruction.
• Luo Chen recovered the cauldron and a blue talisman, fled north, and Qian Ting urged the other pursuers to chase him, believing his Mana was nearly depleted.

Luo Chen lured his pursuers to the Mo Family fishery and trapped them in Han Zhan’s Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array. He overwhelmed the attackers with his Heavenly Peng True Body and his allies, but Qian Ting survived behind a Copper Basin that revealed a pair of Yin-Yang flying knives.

• Luo Chen reached the Mo Family fishery while the Qian Family, Refining Peak Company, and Hundred Refinements Mountain pursued him.
• Luo Chen summoned Black King to guard the depths and sent Tian Xuan to intercept anyone who escaped.
• Han Zhan activated the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array, trapping Luo Chen and six Golden Core Cultivators inside the fishery.
• Luo Chen transformed into his Heavenly Peng True Body and smashed the hammer-wielding cultivator’s Magic Treasure, while Black King devoured the injured man.
• Luo Chen and the array’s Ghost Kings killed the white-haired old woman and Jin Zhan, while the Xiang Brothers resisted his attacks.
• Qian Ting endured Luo Chen’s assault with a Copper Basin that held a pair of black-and-white Yin-Yang flying knives.

Luo Chen defeated Qian Ting and survived the collapse of the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array, but the Hundred Refinements Mountain Master and his pursuers forced him to expend nearly all his strength. As Luo Chen prepared to leave, He Yuan appeared and revealed that he knew Luo Hai was the Azure Sun Devil Monarch.

• Qian Ting trapped Luo Chen with the Xiang Brothers, but Han Zhan restored the array and Luo Chen feigned susceptibility to Qian Ting’s soul attack before refining him in the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• The Xiang Brothers broke through the array’s barrier with their flails; Xiang Er was dragged away by Black King, while Xiang Da escaped after sacrificing his damaged flail to blast Tian Xuan.
• A gaunt old man calling himself the Hundred Refinements Mountain Master smashed the Sea Sealing Eight Trigrams Array with his mountain Magic Treasure, and Luo Chen flipped the mountain over with his bare hands.
• Luo Chen used Mirror Flower Water Moon to confuse the Hundred Refinements Mountain Master, allowing Black King and Fighting Gull to send him flying before Luo Chen collapsed from his injuries and the illusion’s backlash.
• Black King retrieved the spoils, and Luo Chen prepared to leave with Tian Xuan, but He Yuan arrived by boat and asked whether he should call Luo Chen Luo Hai or the Azure Sun Devil Monarch.

Luo Chen uncovered the Blood Nightmare Fiend’s control over He Yuan and escaped, while the Fiend took over He Yuan’s body and began consolidating power. He ordered Liang Baizao to capture the wounded Luo Chen and bring back his corpse.

• The Mo Family Old Patriarch refused to help the Wu Family, judging that the Mo Family could not risk losing its only Golden Core Cultivator.
• He Yuan tried to recruit Luo Chen into the Devilbreak Sect, offering him authority and resources in exchange for fighting and promoting the sect.
• Luo Chen exposed the contradiction in He Yuan’s behavior, attacked the presence inside his Consciousness Sea, and escaped while the Blood Nightmare Fiend subdued the black figure within He Yuan.
• The Blood Nightmare Fiend realized that Luo Chen carried a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s Nascent Soul, then defeated and compelled the Hundred Refinements Mountain Master, Liang Baizao, to submit.
• The Blood Nightmare Fiend gave Liang Baizao a Substitute Soul to counter Luo Chen’s illusions and ordered him to capture the wounded Luo Chen and return his corpse.

Luo Chen escaped north with Tian Xuan after the schemes on Cold Light Island triggered a Nascent Soul battle and a wider Righteous-Demonic War. At Red Tide Port, he learned the conflict was spreading, treated Tian Xuan’s injuries, and decided to head for the Ten Thousand Immortals Society.

• Han Zhan urged Luo Chen to use the Myriad Souls Devouring Art to drive Tian Xuan’s Nine Myriad Miles, and she carried him north at the cost of severe damage to her foundation.
• Blood Nightmare, Emerald Cold Fairy, and Old Daoist Ji Yuan trapped Mu Lan Gaoxiong after his Blood Sword wounded his Nascent Soul and his escape route was cut off; their battle destroyed Emerald Cold City, and Mu Lan Gaoxiong fell.
• The Devilbreak Sect and Penglai Immortal Sect seized territory while the Azure Sea Alliance struggled to respond, and news of the spreading Righteous-Demonic War reached Red Tide Port.
• Luo Chen gathered medicinal herbs from Langya Pharmacy and returned to the coastal cave dwelling, where Tian Xuan was recovering after traveling ninety thousand miles in a day and night to escape pursuit.
• Luo Chen told Tian Xuan that the Hundred Refinements Mountain Master had already chased ahead, then decided they would leave Red Tide Port and head north to the Ten Thousand Immortals Society.

Luo Chen traveled toward Langya Mountain with Tian Xuan and questioned Han Zhan about the Jade Cauldron Civil War, higher realms, and powerful figures. Han Zhan warned him not to assume that conflicts among higher-level cultivators followed the same logic as those he had witnessed, and the ship reached Langya Mountain as Luo Chen continued his journey.

• Luo Chen boarded a Langya Mountain merchant ship with Tian Xuan and warned Shopkeeper Wang that Red Tide Port could be drawn into the war.
• Han Zhan revealed that Sky Sail City had arranged his Nascent Soul breakthrough in exchange for starting the Jade Cauldron Civil War.
• Han Zhan explained that he had nearly become Cang Long Immortal's Dao companion, repaid her help with the Soul Splitting Art, and saved her after her failed tribulation, though she would sleep for a century or more.
• Han Zhan explained how Nascent Soul cultivation involved comprehending Law Power and why Nascent Soul cultivators avoided the remains of Spirit Transformation Great Powers.
• Han Zhan said Demon Emperor Qing Shuang was invincible beneath the heavens unless a Spirit Transformation cultivator appeared, then cautioned Luo Chen against judging higher-level conflicts by his own experience.
• The ship arrived at Langya Mountain, where Luo Chen hoped the rest of his journey would go smoothly.

Luo Chen boarded the Langya merchant fleet bound for Giant Whale Port, where he hoped to find safety and recover his depleted mana. Aboard the ship, he advised Tian Xuan on cultivation and pressed Han Zhan to honor his promise by handing over the Essence Core Technique and Nascent Soul Pill Recipe.

• Wang An confirmed Luo Chen’s Foundation Establishment cultivation and agreed to take him aboard in exchange for helping defend the fleet from Robber Cultivators.
• Luo Chen and Tian Xuan boarded the Langya, the fleet’s largest ship, and Luo Chen realized it carried a transplanted Spirit Vein.
• Luo Chen inspected his recovering body and recognized that, despite his rapid physical healing, his mana remained dangerously depleted without suitable Third-Order Spirit Land.
• Luo Chen encouraged Tian Xuan to use her recovery period to adapt to human cultivation and master the Cosmic Feather Mystic Scripture.
• Luo Chen reminded Han Zhan of his promise, and Han Zhan gave him the Essence Core Technique and Nascent Soul Pill Recipe in exchange for the Soul Nourishing Wood.

Luo Chen began refining Yuan Yin’s Hidden Dust Sand to recover his depleted mana and prepare for the Essence Core Technique while traveling aboard the Langya Ship. Half a year later, the ship skirted a fierce battle in the Righteous-Demonic War, and Luo Chen returned to his room to examine the spoils he had collected.

• Han Zhan explained that Luo Chen could not yet cultivate the Essence Core Technique because his mana was depleted and he lacked a suitable Spirit Land, so Luo Chen decided to refine the energy inside Yuan Yin’s Hidden Dust Sand instead.
• Luo Chen bound the Hidden Dust Sand with five drops of Essence Blood and swallowed it, then began converting its energy into his own mana and cleansing the pearl.
• The Langya Mountain Second Elder warned young Foundation Establishment disciples aboard the Langya Ship that they were traveling to Giant Whale Port for refuge from the Righteous-Demonic War and ordered them to keep cultivating.
• Luo Chen refined his first wisp of Hidden Dust Sand energy and continued the process during the voyage, while Wang An admired his diligence.
• Half a year later, the Langya Ship changed course to avoid fighting near Fire Leaving Island, where more than ten Golden Core Cultivators battled and the Sky-Rending Stream Master’s Divine Sense swept over the ship.
• Luo Chen returned to his room and summoned several captured weapons, Storage Bags, and a plain brass washbasin to inspect his previous gains.

After the Cold Light Island Battle, Luo Chen examined his spoils, discovered that the copper basin could nurture treasures, and bound it as the Dragon Nurturing Basin. He amassed a fortune from nine storage artifacts and, aboard the Langya Ship, prepared to enter seclusion before reaching Giant Whale Port and heading toward the Ten Thousand Immortals Society.

• Luo Chen inspected the surviving Magic Treasures, learned that the Treasure Dropping Copper Coin might contain Weak Water, and identified the copper basin as a Five Elements treasure that could gradually raise an item's grade.
• Luo Chen named the copper basin the Dragon Nurturing Basin, bound it with his blood, and placed the Primal Chaos Cauldron inside to nurture it.
• Han Zhan removed the lingering marks from nine storage artifacts, and Luo Chen spent half a month sorting their contents, including eighteen million spirit stones, a divine iris, Pill Recipes, artifact-forging texts, and materials for refining the Demon Emperor Remains.
• Luo Chen learned from Tian Xuan that the Langya Ship would reach Giant Whale Port in about half a year and planned to travel onward to the Ten Thousand Immortals Society rather than remain there.
• Luo Chen dismissed Tian Xuan and began preparing to weave the Primal Pill Mana Circulation Diagram, hoping to nurture a Second Golden Core sooner while promising to repay Han Zhan's debt.

Luo Chen repeatedly used the Dragon Slaying Art to remove the baleful aura from Han Zhan’s Soul Nourishing Wood, eventually finding a way to loosen it and earning a promise that Han Zhan would teach him a soul-nourishing technique. After the Langya Ship reached Giant Whale Port, Luo Chen vanished from his room, leaving the second elder uneasy about the terrifying aura he had sensed.

• Luo Chen activated the defenses around himself and tried to remove the baleful aura from the Soul Nourishing Wood, but its overwhelming force shattered his protections and dragged his consciousness into a horrifying illusion until Han Zhan woke him.
• Luo Chen tried again over several days, and his repeated efforts eventually found an angle that could shake the deeply rooted aura loose, though removing it completely would take much longer.
• During the six-month voyage toward Giant Whale Port, Luo Chen continued working on the Soul Nourishing Wood and persuaded Han Zhan to teach him a technique for using it once the foul aura was removed.
• The Langya Ship arrived at Giant Whale Port, and the second elder sensed a vicious aura burst from Luo Chen’s room before it vanished; when he investigated, the room was empty and Wang An identified its former occupant as Murong Yuan.

Luo Chen traveled from Giant Whale Port toward the Ten Thousand Immortals Society and learned about its brutal defense against demon beast tides and the rewards given to Star-Ranked Demon Hunters. After spotting two Foundation Establishment cultivators whose battle-worn auras suggested they held such titles, he pressured them to explain what they knew.

• Luo Chen hired Liu Fu to explain the Ten Thousand Immortals Society and arrange passage there instead of entering Divine Origin City.
• Aboard a merchant ship, Luo Chen learned that the Ten Thousand Immortals Society defended the Three Oceans Defense Line against demon beasts escaping Arctic Night Yama Heaven.
• Luo Chen heard from the Gao Family grandfather and grandson that Star-Ranked Demon Hunters could earn major rewards, including a Nascent Soul Formation resource.
• Luo Chen approached Zhang Jiadi and Wen Xiu, suspected they were Star-Ranked Demon Hunters, and demanded an introduction to the Society.
• Zhang Jiadi agreed to answer Luo Chen, while the Gao Family grandfather warned Xiao Yuan to mind his own business.

Luo Chen learned about the benefits and obligations of becoming a star-ranked demon hunter in the Ten Thousand Immortals Society, while Zhang Jiadi and Wen Xiu offered to guide him. He arrived at Dragon Abyss City expecting a major faction’s thriving main city, but its ruinous state and scattered spiritual energy left him doubting whether he had come to the right place.

• Zhang Jiadi explained the status, protections, resources, and cultivation support available to star-ranked demon hunters, along with their duties to fight Primal Devil Sect remnants, answer beast-tide conscriptions, and sell hunting proceeds through the Society.
• Luo Chen realized Zhang Jiadi had secretly sold his hunting proceeds through outside connections, and Wen Xiu intervened by offering to guide Luo Chen around the Society.
• Luo Chen accepted Wen Xiu and Zhang Jiadi’s offer and traveled with them toward Dragon Abyss City rather than disembarking at Thousand Star Island.
• Luo Chen reached Dragon Abyss City and found its walls dilapidated, its traffic disorderly, and most of its spiritual energy too weak for a Golden Core cultivator.

Luo Chen settled into Dragon Abyss City, learned how Demon Hunter ranks governed access to cultivation resources, and registered as a Star-Ranked Demon Hunter. When his assessment mission was finally ready, Fishing Old Man introduced two other cultivators who would undertake it with him, leaving Luo Chen wondering why the task required three Golden Core cultivators.

• Luo Chen learned that the Fulóng Mountains held powerful spirit veins and that Demon Hunter star ranks brought discounts and access to better cave estates.
• Zhang Jiadi explained his plans to establish a Cultivation Family for his unborn child and asked Luo Chen to keep his secret dealings with demon-hunting proceeds private; Luo Chen agreed.
• Luo Chen registered with the Ten Thousand Immortals Society as a rogue cultivator and Star-Ranked Demon Hunter, then learned that his assessment mission would be issued later.
• Luo Chen continued practicing the Essence Core Technique while Tian Xuan familiarized herself with Dragon Abyss City, and he gave her one million Spirit Stones.
• After receiving notice that his assessment mission was ready, Luo Chen dressed in red robes and went to the Demon Hunter Division, where Fishing Old Man introduced two other cultivators assigned to the mission.

Luo Chen introduced himself as Azure Sun Zi and accepted a Demon Hunter examination mission to hunt an unknown Golden Core remnant of the Primal Devil Sect. He departed Dragon Abyss City with Hao Ye, Duan Li, and Fishing Old Man through a Teleportation Array, while Tian Xuan prepared to spread news of Luo Chen’s role in the Cold Light Island Battle.

• Luo Chen gave Hao Ye and Duan Li the Daoist title Azure Sun Zi and learned that the examination mission targeted a Primal Devil Sect remnant hiding behind a Ten Directions Shadowless Array.
• Fishing Old Man explained that completing the dangerous mission would grant the three Golden Core cultivators Four-Star Demon Hunter rank, and Hao Ye, Luo Chen, and Duan Li all accepted.
• Hao Ye invited Luo Chen and Duan Li to discuss the mission, and the three spent the afternoon exchanging information about the Ten Thousand Immortals Society.
• Luo Chen told Tian Xuan to find Liu Fu and spread details of the Cold Light Island Battle through Giant Whale Port toward the Ten Thousand Immortals Society.
• Fishing Old Man led Luo Chen, Hao Ye, and Duan Li to the Teleportation Array, which transported them away from Dragon Abyss City.

Luo Chen and the other Demon Hunter candidates traveled with Fishing Old Man to investigate a suspected Primal Devil remnant hiding between the Qu Yang and Liu Yang Defense Lines. After Fishing Old Man drew a concealed island from the sea, Luo Chen shattered its protective formation with one strike, leaving Hao Ye and Duan Li to intercept the fleeing enemies.

• Fishing Old Man welcomed Luo Chen, Hao Ye, and Duan Li at the Qu Yang Defense Line, where Hao Ye’s Pseudo-Core body suffered badly from teleportation while Luo Chen remained steady.
• Fishing Old Man introduced the three candidates to Xiao BuHuan, then led them from Dragon Abyss City toward the boundary between the Qu Yang and Liu Yang Defense Lines.
• Fishing Old Man used his black-gold fishing rod to haul a hidden ruined island from the sea and warned the candidates to act before its Ten Directions Shadowless Array fully activated.
• Luo Chen found the formation’s weak point and smashed the array with his Azure Sun Great Handprint, then claimed he needed a few breaths to recover.
• Hao Ye and Duan Li rushed to intercept the black lights fleeing the island while Luo Chen recovered.

Luo Chen and three other cultivators cornered a white-robed fugitive whose phantoms and Blood Sea techniques concealed his true strength. After the fugitive killed Hao Ye and Fishing Old Man seized Hao Ye’s Spirit Beast Bag, Luo Chen emerged unharmed from the Azure Sun Demonic Fire and faced the fugitive again.

• Luo Chen watched the fugitive’s phantoms scatter and helped Hao Ye by warning him when the fugitive’s true body attacked.
• Fishing Old Man recognized the fugitive as Qin Tianming, a supposed Blood Sea Lineage genius whose cultivation had allegedly fallen after the Primal Devil Cataclysm.
• Qin Tianming trapped Luo Chen inside an Azure Sun Demonic Fire pearl, then fought Duan Li and Hao Ye while Luo Chen defended himself within the flames.
• Qin Tianming used a Mind-Confounding Art to attack Hao Ye, overcame his talismans, and unleashed a ghost banner that overwhelmed him.
• Fishing Old Man refused to save Hao Ye but hooked away his Spirit Beast Bag, then accused the white-robed cultivator of using a false name and hiding his true identity.
• Luo Chen emerged from the dissipated flames with Azure Flame around him, and Fishing Old Man’s challenge left the white-robed cultivator facing both of them.

Luo Chen fought the White-Robed Cultivator, a Golden Core disciple of the Primal Devil Sect’s Soul Refinement Lineage, after the man trapped him and Duan Li in a Ghost Domain. Luo Chen destroyed the enemy and was officially recognized as a Ten Thousand Immortals Society Four-Star Demon Hunter.

• Luo Chen identified the White-Robed Cultivator as a Soul Refinement Lineage disciple and blocked his concealed Flying Sword ambush.
• The White-Robed Cultivator unleashed a Ghost Domain and merged its ghosts into a powerful Ghost King, while Luo Chen countered with his own Soul Refining Banner and fire spells.
• Duan Li used his flower basket to break open part of the Ghost Domain and trap the enemy’s wooden Flying Sword, but the White-Robed Cultivator struck him down with a surprise palm.
• Luo Chen used Crimson Chains to bind the Ghost King and disrupted the White-Robed Cultivator with an illusion before striking with the Azure Sun Great Handprint infused with Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen blasted the Ghost King apart, captured the charred White-Robed Cultivator, and received confirmation from Fishing Old Man that he had become a Four-Star Demon Hunter.

Luo Chen returned from the assessment mission as the sole uninjured survivor, while Duan Li recovered on Qu Yang Island and Hao Ye and the white-robed cultivator were dead. After learning about the defenses, the Three Great Rogue Cultivators, and the Fulóng Mountains’ Spirit Veins, Luo Chen returned to Dragon Abyss Immortal City to claim his Four-Star Demon Hunter status and consider a cave mansion.

• Luo Chen, Duan Li, and the Fishing Old Man returned to Qu Yang Island with Hao Ye and the white-robed cultivator dead, while the Fishing Old Man collected the spoils and explained the assessment’s rewards.
• Xiao BuHuan showed Luo Chen the Qu Yang Defense Line and warned that the demon beast army trapped in Arctic Night Yama Heaven could overwhelm the Three Oceans Defense Line.
• Luo Chen learned from Xiao BuHuan about Blood Rogue’s grudge against the Primal Devil Sect and the history and uncertain Spirit Veins of the Fulóng Mountains.
• After half a month, the Fishing Old Man brought Luo Chen and the still-injured Duan Li through the Teleportation Array to Dragon Abyss Immortal City and told them to return in three days to collect their items and consider leasing cave mansions.
• Luo Chen left the palace convinced that he could rely only on himself, while he waited to receive his Four-Star Demon Hunter identity.