Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen spared Taisui after learning that the intelligent Five Elements Lotus Platform wandered through Five Elements Heaven, binding Taisui with an oath and his Flourishing Decay True Fire in exchange for help finding it. When Crimson Corpse Forefather and three allies arrived to seize the Nine Yang Geng Metal, Luo Chen killed all four and then asked Taisui to explain Five Elements Heaven.

• You Ya took the finest Azure Evolution Lead from Crimson Corpse Forefather and ended their cooperation, then told him that the Nine Yang Golden Eagle was fighting nearby.
• Luo Chen exposed Taisui to Cloud Touching Cave Master and nearly killed Taisui, but paused when Taisui claimed he alone could locate the wandering Five Elements Lotus Platform.
• Taisui agreed to help Luo Chen find the Lotus Platform and asked him to free his trapped true body; Luo Chen accepted after Taisui swore an oath and received a ball of Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Crimson Corpse Forefather and three Golden Core cultivators arrived to claim the Nine Yang Geng Metal, and Luo Chen killed all four with his domain, swords, and Red-Robed Daoist form.
• Luo Chen sent Tian Xuan to collect the spoils and asked Taisui to tell him about Five Elements Heaven.

Luo Chen learned from Taisui about the Fallen Devil Land’s three heavens and the terrifying Heaven Refining Devil Monarch who created the Five Elements Heaven. After five days of travel, Luo Chen and his companions reached the edge of the Quicksand Sea, on their way to retrieve the Five Elements Lotus Platform from Blazing Purgatory.

• You Ya escaped after witnessing the Red-Robed Daoist kill Crimson Corpse Forefather and decided to use Azure Evolution Lead to strengthen her Shadow Escape Technique.
• Blood Nightmare Fiend, Emerald Cold Fairy, and Ji Yuan entered the Teleportation Array through the Spiritual Qi Tornado to reach the Inheritance Land and seek a chance at Spirit Transformation.
• A mysterious flesh lump watched them enter and said that events were about to begin.
• Taisui explained Li Wang Heaven and Five Elements Heaven to Luo Chen, then identified the realm’s creator as the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch, an existence who was neither human, demon, nor devil.
• After five days, Luo Chen and his companions left the Thousand Ren Mountains and prepared to cross the Quicksand Sea toward Blazing Purgatory, where the Five Elements Lotus Platform was located.

Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master learned that the Quicksand Sea held a hidden attempt to refine Breath Soil, while a Little Mud Man prepared an army to hunt a fugitive. Luo Chen discovered three Golden Core cultivators performing a ritual, and the chapter ended as a colossal dragon head emerged from the clouds amid their cries of “Soul, Return!!”

• Cloud Touching Cave Master found an unusual Earth Attribute crystal in a Stone Monster’s remains, and Luo Chen claimed it while sending Black King and Tian Xuan to scout.
• Luo Chen questioned Taisui about the spirits and learned that Heaven Refining Devil Monarch had tried to recreate Breath Soil from gathered Earth Attribute materials, but the process had stopped one step short and left behind something called Heavenly Soil.
• A Little Mud Man summoned incomplete mud creatures and ordered them to capture a fugitive that had arrived three hundred years earlier.
• Black King killed Stone Monsters and collected their yellow crystals as Ti Yang secretly watched, while Cloud Touching Cave Master concealed the bird’s report from Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen showed Cloud Touching Cave Master and Taisui an image of three Late Stage Golden Core cultivators performing a ritual, then headed toward them with a trembling yellow crystal.
• The three cultivators chanted “Soul, Return!!” as black clouds descended and a colossal dragon head emerged from within them.

Luo Chen and his companions witnessed Devilbreak Sect cultivators use a Soul Summoning Spell to draw out an ancient Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, which Taisui identified as a Spirit Transformation soul. As the Quicksand Sea erupted into battle against the Stone Monsters and the ritual weakened the dragon, Luo Chen left his companions’ protective golden sphere and charged into the danger.

• Luo Chen recognized Wu Qi, Eagle Demon, and Hundred Transformations Old Monster as Devilbreak Sect cultivators performing a Soul Summoning Spell, and realized Blood Nightmare Fiend might also be nearby.
• Taisui identified the summoned dragon soul as the remnant of a Spirit Transformation powerhouse, while Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that the area was about to change.
• The Gobi Desert was surrounded by quicksand, and Stone Monsters emerged to battle the Yellow Sand Giants as the disturbance spread.
• Taisui recognized the Little Mud Men as Heavenly Soil and carried Luo Chen and Cloud Touching Cave Master away inside a golden-sand sphere.
• Wu Qi urged his companions to intensify the ritual, using their essence blood to weaken the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul before the Quicksand Sea overwhelmed them.
• Luo Chen suddenly burned an opening through the golden-sand sphere and flew alone into the rolling Quicksand Sea.

Luo Chen ambushed the Devilbreak Sect cultivators, seized the Soul Summoning Banner and Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, then fought his way out of the Quicksand Sea. He escaped into Blazing Purgatory with Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master while Heavenly Soil failed to reclaim the soul.

• Luo Chen told Han Zhan that he intended to take revenge on the Blood Nightmare Fiend and gave Han Zhan the two Late Stage Golden Core Refined Corpses to control.
• Luo Chen concealed himself above the battlefield and began gathering power for the Azure Sun Great Handprint as Wu Qi and the other Devilbreak Sect cultivators prepared to flee with the captured Dragon Soul.
• After Wu Qi drew the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul into the Soul Summoning Banner, Heavenly Soil shattered the altar, and Luo Chen struck the fleeing cultivators with the Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Luo Chen severed Wu Qi's arm, took the Soul Summoning Banner, and killed him before Heavenly Soil demanded the Stone Dragon from the Sea of Sand.
• Luo Chen fought through Heavenly Soil's pursuing sand hands and barriers, then reached Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master and escaped with them into Blazing Purgatory.
• Heavenly Soil tried to restore Wu Qi's body but failed, then raged over losing the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul.

Luo Chen entered Blazing Purgatory with Taisui and Cloud Touching Cave Master, learned why Heavenly Soil sought the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul, and rested to replenish his Mana. Elsewhere in Fallen Devil Abyss, Blood Nightmare Fiend and his companions pursued paths toward Bright Decree Heaven as Moon Rogue arrived and drove Old Daoist Ji Yuan to flee.

• Taisui explained that Heavenly Soil wanted the Stone Dragon Remnant Soul to complete his incomplete Earth Element laws, and revealed that Blood Sea Old Ancestor had died in the Inheritance Land.
• Luo Chen and his companions concluded that Blood Sea Old Ancestor’s death and removal of the remnant soul had weakened the Primal Devil Sect, helping bring about its destruction.
• Luo Chen flew to a hill in Blazing Purgatory, set up a cave and formation, and replenished his Second Nascent Pill’s Mana while Tian Xuan stood guard.
• Cloud Touching Cave Master sensed that Blazing Purgatory’s spiritual energy could greatly advance his cultivation and help him establish an artifact-refining sect.
• Blood Nightmare Fiend learned that Wu Qi and the other two Golden Core cultivators had been killed, then entered the path marked by the dimmest starlight in search of Blood Sea Old Ancestor’s legacy.
• Moon Rogue appeared on the ancient stone platform, prompting Old Daoist Ji Yuan to flee into a starlight path.

Luo Chen discovered a Tier 3 Red Lotus Earth Fire beneath a dead volcano and used the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to make his Flourishing Decay True Fire devour it faster. After quelling the volcano’s eruption, he joined the others and learned that the Five Elements Lotus Platform had gone to Vermillion Bird Mountain to seek Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire.

• Luo Chen replenished his mana in Blazing Purgatory, then followed the restless Flourishing Decay True Fire through the rock to a hidden magma pool.
• Luo Chen found a Tier 3 Red Lotus Earth Fire and let the Flourishing Decay True Fire begin devouring it.
• Luo Chen used the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to accelerate the devouring, realizing the scripture could control his true fire to consume other flames.
• Two days later, Taisui complained that Luo Chen had kept them waiting while Tian Xuan and the Cloud Touching Cave Master defended his seclusion.
• Luo Chen emerged amid the volcano’s eruption, subdued the flames and earth qi, and rejoined the others.
• Taisui pointed toward Vermillion Bird Mountain, explaining that the Five Elements Lotus Platform needed its Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire to advance.

Luo Chen searched Blazing Purgatory for Source-less Fires and devoured several of them to strengthen his Flourishing Decay True Fire. He left Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master near Vermillion Bird Mountain and entered the dangerous clouds to refine the powerful Sky Burning Fire.

• Taisui told Luo Chen that a Tier 5 Vermillion Bird Sacred Fire dwelled within Vermillion Bird Mountain, while Luo Chen focused on finding Source-less Fires.
• Luo Chen recognized a Lapis Fire Fir, shattered the lapis mountain beneath it, and captured its Tier 2 Lapis Fire with his Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen spent nearly half a day devouring the Lapis Fire, strengthening his Source True Fire and revealing a verdant flame tree.
• Over the next two months, Luo Chen searched Blazing Purgatory and collected numerous Source-less Fires, including Red Lotus Earth Fire, Amber Flame, and several unknown demonic fires.
• Luo Chen sensed a powerful Sky Burning Fire within a vast bank of crimson clouds and chose to pursue it before continuing to Vermillion Bird Mountain.
• Luo Chen reinforced himself with Qi Armor, Breaking Moon Wings, Abyssal Inferno, and True Fire State, then entered the clouds as the Sky Burning Fire began to awaken.

Luo Chen subdued the Fourth Order Sky Burning Fire and discovered that his Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture had reached Grandmaster Level, greatly accelerating his ability to devour Source-less Fire. As he considered pushing his Source True Fire toward Tier 5, Han Zhan warned that he might become a Wither Bloom Fire Spirit.

• Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master spotted Dao Lan and two Great Demon Kings activating a formation on Vermillion Bird Mountain, then decided to wait for Luo Chen.
• Shark Emperor Liu Jun found the Five Elements Lotus Platform beneath a volcano and tried to seize it as it began to sink into the Magma Lake.
• Luo Chen defeated the Sky Burning Fire Spirit with the Primal Chaos Cauldron’s spirit-binding chains and began absorbing the Fourth Order Source-less Fire.
• Luo Chen discovered that the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture had reached Grandmaster Level, making his Source True Fire devour Source-less Fire more than ten times faster.
• Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that continuing to absorb fire might transform him into a Wither Bloom Fire Spirit, leaving Luo Chen stunned.

Luo Chen learned that the intelligent Wither Bloom Fire Spirit threatened to overwhelm him and was affecting his state of mind, so he abandoned gathering more Source-less Fire. At Vermillion Bird Mountain, Han Zhan discovered that Dao Lan and two demon kings were helping someone refine the Five Elements Lotus Platform, and Luo Chen confronted the hidden figure: Shark Emperor Liu Jun.

• Han Zhan warned Luo Chen that the Wither Bloom Fire Spirit had begun altering his Qi Sea and could eventually overpower him, so Luo Chen decided to stop devouring Source-less Fire.
• Han Zhan cautioned Luo Chen that the fire spirit was also making him impatient and reckless, and Luo Chen steadied his mind before reaching Vermillion Bird Mountain with Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master.
• Han Zhan used his Divine Sense to discover a figure inside the mountain attempting to refine the Five Elements Lotus Platform, and Luo Chen ordered Taisui and the Cloud Touching Cave Master to engage the Great King Squid and Dao Lan.
• Luo Chen charged toward the Naha Sea Golden Toad while Tian Xuan and the Black-Scale Flood Dragon Python blocked it; the Cloud Touching Cave Master faced Dao Lan, and Taisui confronted the Great King Squid.
• Luo Chen reached the Magma Lake, struck its azure barrier with the Cloud Searching Divine Claw, and recognized the person within as Shark Emperor Liu Jun.

Luo Chen fought Shark Emperor Liu Jun in the Blazing Purgatory, using the fiery environment and his powerful physical techniques to overcome Liu Jun’s Nascent Soul Domain and drive him from the Magma Lake. Liu Jun unleashed a dangerous blue lamp flame, but Luo Chen sacrificed his left hand and summoned two Fourth Order Fire Spirits, then flew toward another erupting volcano determined to kill him.

• Luo Chen recognized Flow Monarch as Shark Emperor Liu Jun and attacked him while Liu Jun healed on the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but Liu Jun’s singing nearly bewitched Luo Chen before Han Zhan awakened him.
• Liu Jun’s Nascent Soul Domain and Truefire failed to suppress Luo Chen, who used the Blazing Purgatory’s fire energy to counterattack with Azure Sun Great Handprints and the Seven Fiends Sword Array.
• Luo Chen and Liu Jun exchanged powerful blows, and the Five Elements Lotus Platform sank into the Magma Lake as Liu Jun’s attempt to retrieve it failed.
• Luo Chen pursued Liu Jun into the sky, where Liu Jun used a deep-blue oil lamp to release a flame that consumed Luo Chen’s vitality, forcing Luo Chen to sever his left hand.
• Luo Chen shattered a mountain and released a Silver Great Python Fire Spirit, then sent his own Fire Tree Spirit against Liu Jun and flew toward another erupting volcano to continue the fight.

Luo Chen used Blazing Purgatory’s Fire Spirits to drive Shark Emperor Liu Jun away, then reunited with his companions and restored his severed hand. He returned to Vermillion Bird Mountain to seek the Five Elements Lotus Platform, learning that it was hiding dangerously close to the legendary Vermillion Bird Fire Spirit.

• Luo Chen summoned a black tiger Fire Spirit to join the battle against Shark Emperor Liu Jun, who fled after striking the Four Great Fire Spirits with divided blue flames.
• Luo Chen and Flourishing Decay True Fire helped the Silver Fire Python shake off the blue flame, and the Fire Spirit showed Luo Chen goodwill before retreating underground.
• Black King, Tian Xuan, and Taisui reunited with Luo Chen; Taisui reported that the Great King Squid was dead, Cloud Touching Cave Master was unconscious, and Dao Lan had died in the volcanic crater.
• Luo Chen used the Dragon Slaying Art to extinguish the blue flame and regenerated his severed left hand, prompting Taisui to recognize his Desolate Beast body and covet it for his main body.
• Luo Chen returned to Vermillion Bird Mountain and learned that the Five Elements Lotus Platform was hiding near the legendary Vermillion Bird Fire Spirit.

Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and Han Zhan’s help to drag the fiercely resisting Five Elements Lotus Platform out of Vermillion Bird Mountain. After reaching the magma bank, he sat on the platform and began cultivating, puzzling Taisui because Luo Chen lacked a Nascent Soul to withstand the spiritual energy it gathered.

• Luo Chen questioned Han Zhan about soul refinement and learned that Han Zhan lacked a treasure needed to advance the Soul Splitting Art, while a Nascent Soul tribulation transformed a cultivator’s Divine Soul.
• Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and nine Five Elements Mana chains to seize the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but its near-Tier 5 strength resisted him.
• Luo Chen exhausted his Mana and began drawing on his Destiny Golden Core before Han Zhan lent his strength, helping them drag the lotus platform out of the sacred fire’s reach.
• Taisui told the awakened Cloud Touching Cave Master that the Five Elements Lotus Platform helped Nascent Soul cultivators absorb spiritual energy, and promised to guide him toward Heaven Refining Devil Monarch’s inheritance.
• Luo Chen brought the Five Elements Lotus Platform to the magma bank, restrained it with the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and sat atop it to cultivate; Taisui wondered how he could endure its spiritual energy without a Nascent Soul.

Luo Chen cultivated with the Five Elements Lotus Platform, defeated a Golden Core cultivator who tried to steal it, and realized he needed to rely more on his body when facing powerful enemies. After recovering, he and his companions crossed the Hundred Crow Ghost Forest under Taisui’s guidance and reached the Wood Heaven Plains.

• Luo Chen used his Second Nascent Pill in place of a lotus seed and cultivated with the Five Elements Lotus Platform, which filtered spiritual energy and rapidly replenished the pill.
• Luo Chen reflected on his loss of momentum against Shark Emperor Liu Jun while cultivating in Blazing Purgatory, and Han Zhan told him he had made no major mistakes in the battle.
• A black-clad Golden Core cultivator attacked Luo Chen to seize the Five Elements Lotus Platform, but Luo Chen caught his sword and struck him down before Tian Xuan finished him with her Banana Leaf Fan.
• Luo Chen concluded that relying on spells and Magic Treasures had limited him against Nascent Soul-level enemies, and resolved to make better use of his powerful body.
• After the Cloud Touching Cave Master recovered, Taisui led him and Luo Chen through the Hundred Crow Ghost Forest, where the Wood Spirits recognized Taisui and made way for them.
• Taisui revealed that he had once been one of the forest’s three great powers, and Luo Chen saw the Wood Heaven Plains, the former Spirit Medicine Garden of the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch.

Luo Chen and Han Zhan were trapped in a powerful Twilight Curtain illusion, where Han Zhan offered to teach Luo Chen an escape technique in exchange for help possessing a Nascent Soul cultivator in Fallen Devil Land. After Taisui reunited with the ancient spirits of Wood Heaven Plains, he led Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master onward, while Old Ghost and the Wood Man King learned of his plan to free his main body.

• Luo Chen and Han Zhan discovered that a powerful, apparently non-hostile illusion had isolated them, and Han Zhan taught Luo Chen the Open Thatch Art in return for Luo Chen's promise to help him seize a Nascent Soul body.
• Han Zhan explained that he wanted a new body because his remnant self planned to take advantage of the coming battle among Nascent Soul True Persons in Fallen Devil Land.
• Taisui told Old Ghost that he had a thirty percent chance of freeing his trapped main body and asked him not to stop his escape plan; Old Ghost requested two copies of Taisui's method.
• Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master broke free of the Twilight Curtain, and Taisui warned them not to disturb the sentient trees before tempting them with the resources of Wood Heaven Plains.
• Old Ghost and the Wood Man King learned that Taisui had returned to take his main body and leave, and they wished him success as the black crow flew around Hundred Crow Ghost Forest.

Luo Chen, Taisui, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master searched Wood Heaven Plains for spirit medicines, while Luo Chen hoped to find resources to advance his Body Tempering. After Taisui opened the formation around a unique Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree, Luo Chen entered and was struck by a psychic assault as Taisui watched to test his identity.

• Luo Chen identified the looted Azure Immortal Plain Pouch Soil where Dragon Saliva Grass had grown, and Taisui grew furious that outsiders had taken the soil along with the plants.
• Taisui led Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master toward other protected spirit medicines while Yu Gao and six Penglai Immortal Sect cultivators planned to seize a field of Divine Iris and its Spirit Land.
• Taisui revealed that a hidden cave held a unique Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree, which might aid Luo Chen's Body Tempering and could eventually mature into a Tier 5 spirit tree.
• After a month of trying, Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master failed to break the Azure Radiance Great Array, so Taisui used his own flesh to open it.
• Luo Chen entered the array and was overwhelmed by demonic and devilish phantoms in his Consciousness Sea, while Taisui blocked the Cloud Touching Cave Master and challenged Luo Chen to reveal his flaw.

Luo Chen recovered from Taisui’s Demon Echo, took the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree, and followed Taisui toward his destination. On the Wood Heaven Plains, he intervened in a battle over the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion, seized the treasure, and killed Ghost Child as the chapter ended with him confronting Zi Hou and Fishing Old Man.

• Luo Chen resisted Taisui’s lingering Demon Echo with the aid of the Open Thatch Art and suspected Taisui had been testing for Han Zhan’s presence.
• Taisui dug up the Demon-Devil Symbiotic Tree and explained its fruit’s benefits, while Luo Chen refused to pursue the spirit herbs Taisui offered.
• Two days later, Luo Chen and his companions found Fishing Old Man, Zi Hou, and Ghost Child fighting Yu Gao and other Penglai Immortal Sect cultivators over Divine Iris.
• Yu Gao summoned the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion and tried to escape with it, but Fishing Old Man bound the treasure while Zi Hou and Ghost Child defeated the remaining Penglai cultivators.
• Luo Chen seized the Octagonal Pavilion with a giant claw, knocked Ghost Child out of the sky, and killed him before asking Zi Hou and Fishing Old Man whether they objected to his taking the treasure.

Luo Chen defeated the Ghost Child and drove off the Fishing Old Man and Zi Hou, but learned the Moon Rogue had claimed the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion. After choosing not to risk a deadly fight, he used the Primal Chaos Cauldron to suppress the pavilion and began breaking its connection to the outside spiritual energy.

• Luo Chen revealed his strength by killing the Ghost Child in a single attack, then caught the Fishing Old Man’s Heavenly Remnant Thread and struck him down.
• The Fishing Old Man and Zi Hou warned Luo Chen that the Moon Rogue had ordered them to seize the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion, and Zi Hou confirmed that the Rogue was nearby in Bright Decree Heaven.
• Luo Chen let the Fishing Old Man and Zi Hou leave rather than risk the Moon Rogue’s protective method, despite the Cloud Touching Cave Master urging him to finish them off.
• Luo Chen summoned Black King and Tian Xuan to guard him, then covered the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion with the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• The pavilion resisted with its eight attributes, but Luo Chen awakened the cauldron’s own eight elemental powers and began wearing down the pavilion’s connection to Heaven and Earth.

Luo Chen and his companions entered Over Blue Waves and discovered that Dragon Earthworms were turning the region into a demon-infested swamp. They learned that Fallen Abyss Dragon Sect was occupying the area and sensing its Water Element Law, so they detoured rather than provoke it.

• Luo Chen subdued the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion, then told Han Zhan that he had planned to leave the Ten Thousand Immortals Society since encountering Shark Emperor Liu Jun.
• Luo Chen recovered his mana while Cloud Touching Cave Master returned with spirit herbs, and the group left Wood Heaven Plains for Over Blue Waves.
• Luo Chen and Taisui found Demon Qi throughout Over Blue Waves and discovered that countless mutant Dragon Earthworms were transforming the marshland.
• Luo Chen realized that a powerful demon was assimilating into Over Blue Waves to sense its Water Element Law, and a Dragon Earthworm warned the group not to disturb Lord Dragon Sect.
• Luo Chen recognized Fallen Abyss Dragon Sect and warned Taisui not to stir up trouble before leading the group away from the depths of Over Blue Waves.

Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master followed Taisui into Fallen Devil Abyss, where they discovered Taisui’s imprisoned true form and learned how the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch had trapped it. After half a year of preparations, they began a formation operation to transfer Taisui’s soul and free his body.

• Luo Chen and his companions crossed Over Blue Waves without fighting and reached the barren plain surrounding the Heaven-Piercing Tornado.
• Taisui led Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master down a mossy path into Fallen Devil Abyss, where he revealed his true form pinned by the Hook Soul, Nail Spirit formation.
• Taisui explained that he planned to move his soul into another body so the formation would collapse, then reclaim his true form.
• Luo Chen and the Cloud Touching Cave Master agreed to help Taisui and spent about half a year preparing linked formations to counter the prison and protect Taisui’s incarnation.
• Luo Chen, Taisui, and the Cloud Touching Cave Master activated the formations around Taisui’s true body, making the cavern shake as the operation began.