Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen developed a Pseudo-Domain to strengthen his chances of surviving a journey to the Sunken Sea, where he hoped to obtain the Five Elements Lotus Platform. He refined the technique into Abyssal Inferno and left Peng Lake to test it on a target he had chosen.

• Luo Chen accepted Han Zhan's offer of help on the Sunken Sea expedition and began preparing by studying how to create a Pseudo-Domain.
• Luo Chen asked Han Zhan to manifest his Nascent Soul Domain, then used the experience to realize he should repel Heaven and Earth spiritual qi rather than try to control it.
• Luo Chen tested his early Pseudo-Domain against Han Zhan's domain and managed to stand against about thirty percent of its power.
• Ding Yi told Luo Chen that Blood Rogue and the Ten Thousand Immortals Society were mobilizing around the Sunken Sea, while the date of the next celestial phenomenon drew closer.
• Luo Chen used the Netherflame Control Array, the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and his Destiny Golden Core to create his own Pseudo-Domain, which he named Abyssal Inferno.
• Luo Chen told Tian Xuan to handle several matters, left Peng Lake, and headed to the Demon Hunter Division to test Abyssal Inferno.

After two years researching the Abyssal Inferno, Luo Chen went to the Demon Hunter Division and accepted a mission to escort three Golden Core cultivators to the Sunken Sea front lines. Their behavior and conversation suggested they came from Central Province seeking Nascent Soul Formation, and Luo Chen suspected their clan uncle was Dragon Abyss True Person.

• Luo Chen learned that Dao Lan had slain a Golden Horned Silver Rhinoceros and become the Ten Thousand Immortals Society's fourth Eight-Star Demon Hunter.
• Zi Hou explained the Sunken Sea's growing demon-beast threat and asked Luo Chen to escort three newly arrived Golden Core cultivators to the front lines.
• Luo Chen accepted the mission after learning that Dragon Abyss True Person had entrusted the three to the Demon Hunter Division.
• Luo Chen took Chang Feng Zi, Wu Tao, and Guan Xiaoping aboard his extravagant Six Royal Flying Cloud Carriage and introduced himself as Azure Sun Zi.
• Chang Feng Zi warned Wu Tao and Guan Xiaoping not to underestimate Luo Chen, while revealing that they had come from Central Province seeking Nascent Soul Formation.
• Luo Chen overheard the three discuss their clan uncle, Liu Zhenren, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Society, then wondered whether the uncle was Dragon Abyss True Person.

Luo Chen arrived at Peace Fortress, learned why the war in the Sunken Sea continued, and headed toward the battlefield to test his sword against a Demon King. He left after identifying the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon as his chosen opponent.

• Luo Chen reached Peace Fortress with Chang Feng Zi, Wu Tao, and Guan Xiaoping, and Zeng Xiong escorted them inside after checking their Demon Hunter badges.
• Luo Chen met Shen Tu, offered him refined pills, and asked about the Sunken Sea war and the demon beasts’ distribution and tactics.
• Shen Tu explained that the formation sealing Arctic Night Yama Heaven had partly broken, allowing low-order demon beasts to escape and gather in the Sunken Sea.
• Luo Chen studied Shen Tu’s map of the battlefield and spotted the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon, a Late Stage Third Order Great Demon King, as a worthy opponent.

Luo Chen entered the Sunken Sea to test his new Abyssal Inferno on the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon, defeating it at great cost and taking its corpse. Dao Lan later found the dragon’s lair empty, suspected Luo Chen had killed it, and then discovered that another Great Demon King he sought was missing too.

• Luo Chen crossed the Sunken Sea’s corrosive waters, avoided the Void Burning Wind by staying underwater, and found the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon in a deep-sea basin.
• Luo Chen fought the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon with his Abyssal Inferno, defeated it after a perilous battle, and stored its corpse.
• Luo Chen recovered in a secluded cave, assessed the battle, and decided to choose safer Demon Kings as targets for testing his new killer move.
• Dao Lan arrived at the flood dragon’s lair, found the battlefield empty, and suspected the Azure Sun Devil Monarch had killed the dragon.
• Dao Lan went to hunt a Scorched Flame Sawtooth Shark, but found that it too had disappeared.

Luo Chen defeated a Merman in the Sunken Sea, revealed his newly developed second form of Abyssal Inferno, and met Dao Lan again. Back in Peace Fortress, he reviewed his battles, found valuable spoils, and prepared to trade four demon beast corpses before heading to the front lines.

• Luo Chen used the True Fire State of Abyssal Inferno to overcome the Merman’s Ocean Tear and refined most of the demon beast with Source True Fire.
• Dao Lan emerged after watching the battle, and Luo Chen learned that he had been the informant for Ding Yi; the two agreed not to fight.
• Luo Chen reviewed his five battles in Peace Fortress and identified a Water-Element Top-Grade Spirit Stone and other spoils among the Merman’s possessions.
• Dao Lan asked Luo Chen for the Scorched Flame Sawtooth Shark’s teeth, and Luo Chen agreed on condition that Dao Lan keep his methods from Ding Yi.
• Luo Chen displayed the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon, Heavenly Star Bull, Blood Lantern, and Scorched Flame Sawtooth Shark corpses in the Demon Hunter Division’s square, then said he still needed to visit the front lines.

Luo Chen rejected the Demon Hunter Division’s low offer for his demon beast kills, then began hunting vast hordes himself to refine their vitality. At Three Pillar Gorge, he met Dao Lan and set out to slaughter the horde while leaving the Great King Squid to him.

• Luo Chen sold most of four Late Stage Third Order Great Demon King corpses to the Demon Hunter Division, kept the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon, and advanced to six-star Demon Hunter.
• Luo Chen used the Abyssal Inferno and Source True Fire to suppress and refine demon beasts, then departed after learning new horde locations from Guo Fengdao and the other Pseudo-Core Cultivators.
• Over the following months, Luo Chen repeatedly erased large demon beast hordes, earning the name Azure Sun Devil Monarch while dismissing Shen Tu’s inquiries about the missing corpses.
• Luo Chen arrived at Three Pillar Gorge, where he planned to attack a horde of at least thirty thousand Low-Rank Demon Beasts.
• Dao Lan came to hunt the Great King Squid, and Luo Chen told him to handle it while he took on the rest of the horde.

Luo Chen used the Myriad Souls Banner to fuse a powerful Ghost King and slaughter demon beasts across Three Pillar Gorge, rescuing Chang Feng Zi, Guan Xiaoping, and Wu Tao along the way. When Dao Lan called for help against the Great King Squid, Luo Chen fled after sensing a Demon Emperor, who arrived and sank the three peaks of Three Pillar Gorge.

• Luo Chen drove independent cultivators from Three Pillar Gorge, fused the banner’s ghosts into a Ghost King, and used Mirror Flower Water Moon to bring it under his control.
• Luo Chen sent the Ghost King against the demon beasts and refined their remains with the Flourishing Decay True Fire, strengthening the fire and himself.
• Luo Chen rescued Chang Feng Zi, Guan Xiaoping, and Wu Tao from the Naha Sea Golden Toad, but the beast escaped into the deep sea.
• Luo Chen continued hunting and noticed the demon beasts around Three Pillar Gorge were unusually powerful, then heard Dao Lan call for help against the Great King Squid.
• Luo Chen sensed a Demon Emperor approaching and fled, while the Demon Emperor arrived at Three Pillar Gorge, struck down nearby cultivators, and drove its three mountains into the sea.

After escaping the destruction of Three Pillar Gorge, Luo Chen warned the Ten Thousand Immortals Society that a Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator had attacked and that Arctic Night Yama Heaven might be threatened. Blood Rogue, Moon Rogue, and Dragon Abyss True Person gathered to discuss the danger, and Blood Rogue declared war and prepared to lead the response.

• Luo Chen fled Three Pillar Gorge after witnessing a Nascent Soul Demon Cultivator destroy the gorge and strike down Dao Lan, then hurried to Peace Fortress.
• Luo Chen told Shen Tu that Three Pillar Gorge had fallen, prompting the Ten Thousand Immortals Society to enter a state of war and Peace Fortress to prepare its defenses.
• Luo Chen teleported to Dragon Abyss Immortal City and reported the attack to Blood Rogue, Fishing Old Man, Zi Hou, and Ghost Child.
• Dragon Abyss True Person and Moon Rogue arrived, and the group identified the attacker as Flow Monarch, the Merman Clan's emperor.
• Blood Rogue announced that he would go to the Sunken Sea to kill Flow Monarch and ordered Fishing Old Man, Zi Hou, and Ghost Child to gather forces, while Moon Rogue offered to mobilize the three families of Without End Valley.

Luo Chen met Moon Rogue, who promoted him to seven-star Demon Hunter and offered the prospect of future Nascent Soul support. After declining a return to the Sunken Sea Battlefield, he returned to Peng Island and resolved to use the time before the Ancient Cultivator Ruins opened to advance his body tempering.

• Moon Rogue reprimanded Fishing Old Man for getting close to Blood Rogue, revealing her control over the Ten Thousand Immortals Society’s affairs.
• After hearing of Luo Chen’s exploits and the intelligence he brought back, Moon Rogue ordered Zi Hou to promote him directly from five-star to seven-star Demon Hunter.
• Luo Chen praised Moon Rogue, then asked Zi Hou to excuse him from returning to the Sunken Sea Battlefield so he could recover.
• Moon Rogue learned that Luo Chen did not want to return to the battlefield, but decided not to force him after granting him the promotion.
• Back at Peng Island, Luo Chen revealed that his excitement had mostly been an act and planned to focus on reaching Ancient Wilderness Fourth Order before the ruins opened.

Luo Chen prepared for the journey to the Sunken Sea by collecting body-tempering arts, supplies, and True Flame Pill ingredients, while monitoring the campaign against the demon beasts. With his preparations complete, he entered Starry Hall to push his physique to the next realm.

• Luo Chen learned that Blood Rogue drove Shark Emperor Liu Jun from the Sunken Sea and that the Ten Thousand Immortals Society and Without End Valley forces cleared demon beasts from the region and attacked Raging Sea Ruined City.
• Luo Chen selected twelve body-tempering manuals, including the incomplete Six Forms of Extreme Mountain, and used his Seven Star Demon Hunter token to reduce their price.
• Luo Chen bought three Magic Treasure-grade Spirit Beast Bags and artifact-forging materials, then received copies of the selected manuals.
• Tian Xuan reported that she had bought enough herbs for five thousand True Flame Pill refinements at a cost below ten million Spirit Stones, and Luo Chen planned to make Top-Grade pills for cultivation and travel reserves.
• Tian Xuan told Luo Chen that Black King was certain to reach the Late Stage Third Order, and Luo Chen gave her pills and Emperor Flow Paste to help her reach the Golden Core Fourth Layer.
• Luo Chen entered Starry Hall to use his gathered methods and abundant vitality to advance his Body Tempering.

As Golden Sky Black Sea appeared above the Sunken Sea, Ding Yi worried that the ruins might open before Luo Chen was ready. At Peng Lake, Luo Chen trained against Han Zhan’s Nascent Soul Domain and neared a breakthrough in body tempering before learning of the celestial phenomenon.

• Ding Yi learned that the Spiritual Qi Inversion vortex had not yet appeared, but feared the ruins might already have opened, so he decided to investigate the Sunken Sea.
• Ding Yi found Peng Lake sealed by powerful formations and sent Luo Chen a Sound Transmission Talisman before leaving.
• Luo Chen used the Abyssal Inferno and Mountain Suppression Form to resist Han Zhan’s Nascent Soul Domain, then attacked with Exploding Void Step and Thunder Kick.
• Luo Chen shattered Apricot Blossom Peak with a palm, and Han Zhan warned that Luo Chen still needed to advance his physical strength to threaten Nascent Soul True Persons.
• Luo Chen saw that his body-tempering progress had reached Desolate Antiquity Third Order 98/100, then received Ding Yi’s message that Golden Sky Black Sea had appeared.

Ding Yi urged Luo Chen to enter the Sunken Sea Secret Realm, but Luo Chen delayed while tempering his body and completing the Soul Heaven Sword Box. After Ding Yi stormed Peng Lake and retreated from its killing formation, he witnessed a surge of spiritual energy and sensed an Ancient Desolate Beast awakening beneath the lake.

• Ding Yi found the Sunken Sea Secret Realm opening early and warned Luo Chen that its entrances might not remain open, but Luo Chen asked for more time.
• Luo Chen completed Han Zhan’s Soul Heaven Sword Box and continued refining his Myriad Paths Convergence body-tempering method instead of joining Ding Yi.
• As cultivators rushed into the Sunken Sea, many died in its corrosive waters, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master realized their deaths were feeding Death Qi into the vortices.
• Over the following year, powerful figures entered the Sunken Sea, the Ten Thousand Immortals Society fell into disorder, and the Righteous-Demonic War halted, while Luo Chen remained focused on cultivation.
• Ding Yi attacked Peng Lake’s defenses with his Yellow Leather Gourd, but a deadly sword formation forced him to withdraw and threaten to leave without Luo Chen.
• Ding Yi witnessed clouds and spiritual energy rush toward the center of Peng Lake, then sensed a terrifying presence awakening in its depths.

Dragon Abyss True Person warned Chang Feng Zi, Guan Xiaoping, and Wu Tao about the dangers posed by Northern Sea demons and cultivators, while Luo Chen underwent a transformation that made him a Fourth-Order humanoid Desolate Beast. The chapter ended with Luo Chen testing his new Source Power and marveling at his strength.

• Dragon Abyss True Person explained the differences between Demon Cultivators and Desolate Beasts and cautioned the three Central Province cultivators against Northern Sea experts.
• Dragon Abyss True Person refused to explore the Sunken Sea, saying the Heaven Origin Dao Sect would send its most suitable candidate when the time came.
• Han Zhan ordered Tian Xuan to restrain the Zhang Family cultivators and Black King to guard Peng Island while Luo Chen advanced inside Starry Hall.
• Heaven-and-earth spiritual energy flooded Starry Hall, and Luo Chen’s body grew to nine zhang as he tempered it and transformed into a humanoid form.
• Luo Chen severed his left wrist, watched new flesh grow, then restored the hand and identified his new power as Source Power.
• Luo Chen realized he had become a Fourth-Order humanoid Desolate Beast with limb regeneration and clenched his fist, feeling his immense strength.

After nearly thirty years at the Ten Thousand Immortals Society, Luo Chen reviewed the gains from his body tempering, including an eight-hundred-year lifespan and powerful new techniques. He left Peng Lake with Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, setting out north as the lake’s protective mist disappeared.

• Luo Chen checked his Attribute Panel and saw that reaching Ancient Wilderness Fourth Order had increased his lifespan to eight hundred years, though his Qi Refining cultivation remained at Golden Core Sixth Layer.
• Luo Chen reflected on the seven moves he had assembled as Devil Monarch's Seven Scattered Hands and considered using his accumulated Achievement Points to complete the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture.
• Luo Chen decided it was time to leave Peng Lake and meet Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, who had been waiting for him.
• Half a month later, Luo Chen arrived at the lakeshore with Black King, apologized to Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master, and set out north with them.
• Two hours after the three departed, the Rippling Cloud Mist vanished from Eight-Hundred-Li Peng Lake, and Azure Sun Zi was gone.

Luo Chen, Ding Yi, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master crossed the Sunken Sea toward an entrance to the Ancient Cultivator Ruins, but a colossal Desolate Beast attacked them. They escaped through a whirlpool and learned the monster was the legendary Ghost Immortal Tower.

• Ding Yi revealed that the Cloud Touching Cave Master had fused a Zhu Yuan Beast with a Black Green Treasure Basin Fish to create a vessel capable of crossing the Sunken Sea.
• Luo Chen crossed the sea on Black King, using the Profound Dust Armor to withstand the Void Burning Wind as the group approached a whirlpool entrance.
• Luo Chen spotted a colossal creature with Fourth Order Blood Lanterns for eyes and Great King Squid tentacles covering its body, then warned the others to flee.
• The creature seized Ding Yi's Treasure Basin Fish, while Ding Yi and the Cloud Touching Cave Master used their treasures and techniques to escape after Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen led the others into a whirlpool, where they escaped the pursuing tentacles and emerged in the ruins.
• Ding Yi identified their attacker as the legendary Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower.

Luo Chen learned that the Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower was an immensely powerful creature guarding the route to the ruins’ Spirit Medicine Garden. After pressing Ding Yi for information, he discovered the ruins were the Fallen Devil Land, once the residence of a legendary Void Refinement True Lord.

• Ding Yi explained Ghost Immortal Tower’s origins, its Blood Lantern parasites, and how its foul aura created illusions that had kept the beast out of most records.
• Ding Yi said Ghost Immortal Tower was at least as powerful as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and possibly close to Tier 5 Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen refused to protect Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master through the Void Burning Wind unless Ding Yi shared the ruins’ location and information.
• Ding Yi revealed that his Taisui-tainted flesh guided him toward its main body, and that his strongest perception came from the vortex occupied by Ghost Immortal Tower.
• Ding Yi disclosed that Primal Devil Sect records identified the ruins as the residence of a legendary Refining Void True Lord, giving the site its name, Fallen Devil Land.

Luo Chen explored the Fallen Devil Land, defeated an incarnation of Blood Nightmare Fiend, and forced Yan Nantian to serve him, before the narrative shifted into a series of disturbing visions. He finally found himself facing a plump old man from the Mountain Shattering Gang, who invited him to lead its Pill Hall.

• Luo Chen discussed Void Refinement and the origins of the Fallen Devil Land with Han Zhan while traveling with Ding Yi and the Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Luo Chen defeated and burned Blood Nightmare Fiend’s incarnation after it demanded his submission.
• Luo Chen spared Yan Nantian in exchange for a hundred years of service, then saw visions of sparing Flame Thunder Master and being hunted by his father.
• Luo Chen awoke from a nightmare in the Luo Tian Grand Hall, rejected Sima Hui Niang’s advances, and then saw a vision in which he killed Mi Li.
• A plump old man addressed Luo Chen on the azure stone pavement and asked him to join the Mountain Shattering Gang’s Pill Hall.

Luo Chen overcame the Li Wang Heaven illusion by accepting his past, then emerged into a stone hall and recovered while waiting for his companions. After Ding Yi arrived with an injured divine soul, Luo Chen opened the hall’s gate and found a vast landscape of sword-shaped peaks in the Sunken Sea.

• Luo Chen resisted the illusion’s attempt to make him regret his past, and the Rotten Ke Black Chess Piece crumbled after giving him its final warning.
• Luo Chen crossed the starry road through Li Wang Heaven and reached a stone hall where the Vortex Passage drew in violent spiritual energy.
• Luo Chen confirmed that Han Zhan, Black King, and Tian Xuan were safe, then used an array to absorb spiritual energy and restore his Second Nascent Pill.
• The Cloud Touching Cave Master emerged from Li Wang Heaven and entered a shell-shaped Magic Treasure to recover while Luo Chen kept watch.
• Luo Chen examined unfamiliar beast carvings in the hall, and Ding Yi emerged with an injured divine soul and eyes that briefly seemed unlike his own.
• Luo Chen opened the great gate and saw endless mountain peaks shaped like longswords rising from the Sunken Sea.

Luo Chen and his companions traveled through the Thousand Blade Mountains toward the Spirit Medicine Garden, where strange beasts yielded valuable mineral materials. After the group provoked a swarm of Black Gold Vipers, Luo Chen was swallowed, while Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master faced a Fourth Order Nine Yang Golden Eagle.

• Luo Chen sent Black King and Tian Xuan to scout the area and learned that the realm had distorted spiritual energy and might no longer be within the Sunken Sea.
• Ding Yi led Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master toward the Spirit Medicine Garden, and the group gathered materials from beasts inhabiting the mineral-rich mountains.
• Cloud Touching Cave Master provoked a swarm of Black Gold Vipers while seeking Kui Steel, forcing the three to flee from the shortest route.
• A black viper swallowed Luo Chen, and an azure bird and a Nine Yang Golden Eagle pursued Ding Yi and Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Ding Yi identified the golden eagle as a Fourth Order beast and urged Cloud Touching Cave Master to fight alongside him, while a huge black python watched from the retreating viper swarm.

Luo Chen and his companions fought the Nine Yang Golden Eagle, which Han Zhan identified as a Spirit of Heaven and Earth formed from Nine Yang Geng Metal. After Ding Yi defeated the Golden Eagle, Luo Chen exposed him as Taisui and attacked, leaving the two locked in a confrontation.

• Black King revealed that he had infiltrated the viper pack in disguise and helped lure the group into the Golden Eagle's territory, while Tian Xuan confirmed he could still fight.
• Luo Chen and Han Zhan recognized the strange beasts of Thousand Blade Mountain as Spirit Monster Souls formed from minerals and other natural substances.
• The Nine Yang Golden Eagle overcame the Cloud Touching Cave Master's weapons and white flames, then struck him down.
• Ding Yi revealed an umbrella-shaped phantom that forced the Golden Eagle into its true form as a huge piece of Nine Yang Geng Metal.
• Luo Chen revealed that Ding Yi was Taisui, then attacked him with his domain, Seven Fiends Sword, and Ghost Kings as Ding Yi tried to trap him with the giant umbrella.