Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen and his allies weakened the Hook Soul, Nail Spirit Array so Taisui could escape his true body, but Taisui then tried to seize Luo Chen’s Desolate Beast Physique. Luo Chen counterattacked, stole Taisui’s true body, and fled into the Spiritual Qi Tornado while Taisui gathered his scattered power and followed.

• Cloud Touching Cave Master activated the Thirty-Six Golden Altar Reincarnation Array, weakening Taisui’s true body and the Hook Soul, Nail Spirit Array.
• Luo Chen studied the array and prepared his Spirit-Blocking Grand Array to help Taisui’s soul escape its shackles.
• After the final golden nail was destroyed, Taisui’s soul entered Ding Yi’s body, and Cloud Touching Cave Master fled after learning how to reach the Inheritance Land.
• Taisui tried to take Luo Chen’s Desolate Beast Physique, but Luo Chen struck him, shattered Ding Yi’s Golden Core, and used the Soul-Breaking Nail to suppress him.
• Luo Chen took Taisui’s true body and escaped, while Taisui forced out the nail and sent his scattered powers after him.
• Surrounded by Taisui’s incarnations, Luo Chen entered the Heaven-Piercing Tornado, and Taisui gathered hundreds of green lights before following him inside.

Luo Chen and Han Zhan reached Bright Decree Heaven’s array of inheritance paths as Taisui arrived behind them. Luo Chen chose an entrance, while events elsewhere in the Dark Realm showed the Blood Nightmare Fiend seeking the Blood Sea Old Ancestor’s power; Luo Chen emerged in a new realm marked Pill World.

• Luo Chen used Han Zhan’s Nascent Soul Domain to descend through the Spiritual Qi Tornado and arrive at Bright Decree Heaven’s stone platform.
• Han Zhan explained the inheritance paths and identified the dimmed entrance as one whose inheritance Li Canghai had likely claimed.
• As Taisui appeared, Han Zhan entered a path and Luo Chen chose the entrance that attracted him most; Taisui stopped himself from following and searched for a path suited to him.
• The Blood Nightmare Fiend reached a sea of blood, drove off the Soul Severing Blood Sword, and sent his Blood God Children in before absorbing the sea’s power himself.
• Elsewhere, a Blood Sea cultivator sent three Blood God Children in different directions to search for where the Blood Sea Old Ancestor had died.
• Luo Chen emerged in a verdant world and recognized the stone stele marked Pill World.

Luo Chen explored the Pill World, removed the lingering power of Taisui with his Flourishing Decay True Fire, and discovered that someone had already used the pill room. In the study, he found a vast collection of detailed herb records and a Jade Slip questioning whether a Spirit Root Pill could overcome the Separation Between Immortals and Mortals.

• Luo Chen discovered that his Spirit Beast Bag could not be opened and refined the remaining power of Taisui inside his body with his Flourishing Decay True Fire.
• Luo Chen explored the Pill World, gathered a roughly five-hundred-year-old Heaven and Earth Root, and wondered why its spiritual medicines seemed no older than five hundred years.
• Luo Chen entered a stone hall with a Study, Medicine Room, and Pill Room, but found no pills or ingredients in the latter two rooms.
• Luo Chen noticed fresh scorch marks at the Pill Room's Earthfire outlet and realized someone had entered the Pill World before him and received its Pill Dao inheritance.
• Luo Chen read detailed Bamboo Slip records of medicinal ingredients in the study, then found a Jade Slip proposing that Pill Refiners create a Spirit Root Pill to break the Separation Between Immortals and Mortals.

Luo Chen studied Heaven Refining Devil Monarch’s challenge to create a pill that could grant mortals without Spirit Roots the ability to absorb spiritual energy, then developed a preliminary recipe using Heaven and Earth Root. Elsewhere in the Pill World, an old woman learned that someone had discovered and destroyed her misleading Bamboo Slip and decided she needed to accelerate her research.

• Luo Chen realized he had to invent and refine a pill to pass the first trial, and his Divine Sense revealed that an invisible boundary enclosed the Pill World.
• Luo Chen spent more than half a year studying medicinal materials and concluded that the Spirit Root Pill should remain inside a mortal’s body and act as a Pill Spirit Root.
• Luo Chen discovered that a Bamboo Slip about Demon Cores had been planted to mislead him, destroyed it, and chose Heaven and Earth Root as the pill’s main ingredient.
• Luo Chen wrote a preliminary Spirit Root Pill recipe and left the study to gather herbs and begin refining experiments.
• An old woman with star-shaped pupils realized Luo Chen had destroyed her deceptive Bamboo Slip and resolved to speed up her research.

Luo Chen used his Attribute Panel to complete a Spirit Root Pill recipe, but its potency proved too strong for mortals, so he devised two supporting pills that helped him pass the assessment. As the Pill World faded, he left with a new idea for pursuing a Demon Spirit Root.

• Luo Chen tested his revised Spirit Root Pill recipes with the system, then changed his approach from choosing herb combinations to adjusting their proportions until he completed a Tier 2 recipe.
• Luo Chen refined the Spirit Root Pill, but the assessment judged it a failure because mortals could not withstand its medicinal power.
• Luo Chen realized the pill's potency could not be lowered without losing its effect, so he devised the Five Viscera Nurturing Pill and Snow Spirit Meridians Opening Powder to strengthen mortals.
• Luo Chen refined both supporting pills, and the assessment confirmed that all three pills together could help mortals absorb spiritual energy for thirty years, earning him a pass.
• Luo Chen began considering a path toward a Demon Spirit Root, but the Pill World turned illusory and he was transported to an unfamiliar land.

Luo Chen solved the second trial by creating pills to purify demon cultivators’ mana and divine souls, earning the highest distinction. He emerged on a mountaintop and met Sea Corner Heavenly Mother, introducing himself as Azure Sun Devil Monarch.

• Luo Chen arrived at the second trial, found medicinal plants and an empty stone room, and worried that another candidate was ahead of him.
• Luo Chen studied the question about the gap between humans and demons and concluded that demons’ divine souls were murky and their mana impure.
• Luo Chen read the trial’s Bamboo Slips, discovered advanced pill-refining techniques, and devised the Impurity Cleansing Pill and Soul Shaking Pill.
• After a year of work, Luo Chen refined both pills to Tier 3 Low-grade and passed the trial with the highest distinction.
• Luo Chen appeared on a mountaintop, greeted an old woman as Azure Sun Devil Monarch, and learned that she was Sea Corner Heavenly Mother.

Luo Chen reached the third Pill Dao trial, discovered it required Body Tempering pills for the Devil Race, and began studying the Bamboo Slips to derive recipes. Elsewhere, Han Zhan advanced through the Puppet Art inheritance and Gu Feiyun faced a difficult weapon-forging trial, while Sea Corner Heavenly Mother prepared to complete the alchemy trial ahead of Luo Chen.

• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother attacked Luo Chen, but the Pill World’s rules erased her Nether Light and warned her against further violence.
• Luo Chen taunted Sea Corner Heavenly Mother, then continued toward the third trial, hoping his remarks had unsettled her.
• Han Zhan completed nine Puppet Art trials, gained a Nascent Soul Early Stage puppet, and flew toward a city guarded by a White Tiger Puppet.
• Gu Feiyun forged a sword beneath Iron Mountain and worried that later Weapon-Ascension trials might require a True Artifact or Spirit Treasure.
• Luo Chen recognized that the third trial called for Devil Race Body Tempering pills and began studying Bamboo Slips to devise recipes.
• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother returned with ingredients for her own recipe and resolved to pass the trial before Luo Chen and punish him after they left the inheritance land.

Luo Chen studied the Demon World's many races and developed three Body Tempering pills, passing the third trial before Sea Corner Heavenly Mother could finish her own attempt. As he entered the fourth trial, he learned that he had to refine pills to become a demon, a beast, and a human.

• Luo Chen studied the bamboo slips and realized the third trial required a universally effective Body Tempering pill for the Devil Races.
• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother repeatedly failed to refine her pill, while Luo Chen spent a year and a half developing recipes and narrowed them down to three.
• Luo Chen refined the Stone Skin Pill, Thunder Bone Pill, and Mercury Blood Pill, earning a superior assessment and passing the third trial.
• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother saw Luo Chen depart and became distraught that he had succeeded ahead of her.
• Luo Chen entered the fourth trial and received instructions to refine three pills: one to become a demon, one to become a beast, and one to become human.

Luo Chen passed the Pill World's fourth trial by refining three Transformation Pills, leaving the Sea Corner Heavenly Mother far behind. The fifth and final trial required him to refine a Tier 5 Law Derivation Pill, and his system confirmed that its extraordinary Pill Recipe was complete and genuine.

• Luo Chen studied the fourth trial's Demon Transformation Pill, Demonization Pill, and Human Transformation Pill recipes, then prepared their ingredients while the Sea Corner Heavenly Mother caught up.
• Luo Chen refined the Human Transformation Pill, then completed the Demonization Pills and Demon Transformation Pill over the following months, widening his lead over the Sea Corner Heavenly Mother.
• The Sea Corner Heavenly Mother fell into despair as Luo Chen passed the fourth trial and vanished before her, while she had not yet refined a single Demonization Pill.
• Luo Chen learned that the fifth and final trial required him to refine a Tier 5 Law Derivation Pill, which could help Spirit Transformation Cultivators comprehend Laws and give Nascent Soul Cultivators a chance to grasp Law Power.
• Luo Chen checked the Attribute Panel, which confirmed that the complete Law Derivation Pill recipe was genuine and prompted him to begin reaching Entry Level.

Luo Chen studied the Tier 5 Law Derivation Pill recipe and mastered the Air Manipulation Technique, which strengthened his Pseudo-Domain and gave him a glimpse of a true Heaven and Earth Domain. With 150 Achievement Points remaining after learning the recipe, he began refining the pill, leaving its success unresolved.

• Luo Chen chose to study the Law Derivation Pill recipe before spending Achievement Points to learn it, and spent more than half a year mastering the basics of the Air Manipulation Technique.
• Luo Chen practiced with the Yao Chen Vermillion Fruits and the prepared ingredients in the Medicine Room, then spent a year advancing the Air Manipulation Technique to Grandmaster Level.
• Luo Chen drew in vast amounts of Fire Attribute spiritual energy and briefly formed a genuine Nascent Soul Domain, advancing his Pseudo-Domain while still at the Golden Core Stage.
• Luo Chen used 100 Achievement Points to reach Entry Level in the complete Law Derivation Pill recipe, leaving 150 points.
• Luo Chen prepared medicinal ingredients on a Fourth Order mountaintop, summoned the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and began refining the Law Derivation Pill with Flourishing Decay True Fire.

After eight failed attempts, Luo Chen discovered that his Source Power could sustain the Air Manipulation Technique and began refining the Law Derivation Pill for a ninth time. He exhausted his mana, Source Power, and life force to draw spiritual energy into the pill, then collapsed as it emerged from the Primal Chaos Cauldron and he seemed to fall into water.

• Luo Chen failed seven times to refine the Law Derivation Pill but gained greater control of his Flourishing Decay True Fire, improved harmony between his Golden Cores, and strengthened the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Luo Chen formed the pill on his eighth attempt, but his Golden Core-level mana could not draw enough spiritual energy to finish it.
• Luo Chen realized his Source Power could cast the Air Manipulation Technique with power comparable to a Nascent Soul True Person's mana.
• Luo Chen began his ninth attempt and used Source Power to draw spiritual energy into the Law Derivation Pill for two and a half years.
• Luo Chen replenished his dwindling strength with pills and Taisui, then unleashed all his power to draw in the Pill World's spiritual energy.
• Luo Chen collapsed after three years of refinement as a golden pill streaked with blood emerged from the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and he seemed to fall into a cold spring.

Sea Corner Heavenly Mother left the Pill World after Luo Chen cleared its trial, then joined the other failed inheritors in Bright Decree Heaven. After spending over a year absorbing the Pill Hall’s Spirit Spring, Luo Chen awoke with a transformed Five Elements Dao Physique and a complete five-element Heavenly Spirit Root.

• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother completed the Human Transformation Pill, but the Pill World began closing after Luo Chen passed its trial, and she was teleported out with her Pill Recipes erased.
• Sea Corner Heavenly Mother arrived at Cloud Sea Plaza and met a black-robed cultivator who had failed to refine a Spirit Transformation Puppet.
• Flying Cloud Child appeared with Cloud Touching Cave Master, attacked him over an old grudge, and stopped when the black-robed cultivator intervened.
• Emerald Cold Fairy told Old Daoist Ji Yuan that her elder sister was likely inside the Slave Hall, alarming him as he feared their next encounter.
• The Light Hall lit up, and Luo Chen awoke in the Pill Hall’s Spirit Spring after more than a year of recovery and cultivation.
• Luo Chen discovered that the Spirit Spring had raised his realm to Golden Core Eighth Layer and transformed his aptitude into a five-element Heavenly Spirit Root associated with the Five Elements Dao Physique.

Luo Chen discovered that the Spirit Spring had helped form his Five Elements Dao Physique, then explored the palace and collected the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch's alchemical inheritance. He reached the main hall, where a powerful black cauldron spoke to him.

• Luo Chen recognized that his Five Elements Spirit Root, Ancient Wilderness Fourth Order body, and the Spirit Spring's energy had combined to create his Five Elements Dao Physique.
• Luo Chen sent Black King and Tian Xuan into the Spirit Spring so they could absorb its transformative energy.
• Luo Chen found that the pill-storage hall was empty, then entered a library where the barriers withdrew and allowed him to collect alchemical texts and Pill Recipes.
• Luo Chen took the Heaven Refining Pill Canon, the Law Derivation Pill Recipe, two Tier 6 Pill Recipes, and a mysterious Eighth Order Dao Integration recipe.
• Luo Chen reached the main hall and approached a massive black cauldron whose pressure surpassed that of any cultivator he had encountered.
• A feeble voice came from the cauldron and told Luo Chen, "You've come."

Luo Chen accepted the Heaven Refining Devil Monarch's inheritance and began refining the damaged Heaven Refining Cauldron, learning that it contained two rival Source True Fires and a mysterious Gray Radiance. The Nirvana Sacred Fire entered Luo Chen, then the Nine Refinements Beacon Fire followed, and their battle spread through his body.

• Luo Chen agreed to protect the Heaven Refining Clan and fulfill the Devil Monarch's promise to the Jade Pool Merchant Woman in exchange for the true inheritance.
• The cauldron's Artifact Spirit taught Luo Chen the Treasure Unlocking Art and revealed that Qixia Yuanjun had destroyed five of the Devil Monarch's Spirit Treasures.
• Luo Chen discovered the cauldron held the Nine Refinements Beacon Fire, the Nirvana Sacred Fire, and a dangerous Gray Radiance that the Artifact Spirit was sealing.
• The Artifact Spirit sacrificed itself to strengthen the Gray Radiance's seal, while Luo Chen spent over a month trying to claim the cauldron.
• The Nirvana Sacred Fire entered Luo Chen while he circulated the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, and the Nine Refinements Beacon Fire followed it into his body.
• The two fires fought through Luo Chen's flesh, organs, meridians, Acupoints, and Qi Sea, engulfing him in flames.

Blood Rogue and Blood Nightmare Fiend resumed their long-running fight in Cloud Sea Plaza, while Luo Chen faced a crisis inside the Pill Hall as two origin flames battled within his body. The Soul Severing Blood Sword struck back at Blood Rogue, but Luo Chen’s Second Nascent Pill exploded, leaving his Qi Sea shattered and his body breaking apart.

• Blood Rogue rejected Blood Nightmare Fiend’s call for a truce and attacked him, while Emerald Cold Fairy and Old Daoist Ji Yuan confronted Blood Rogue’s last Blood God Child.
• Old Daoist Ji Yuan left Emerald Cold Fairy to aid Blood Nightmare Fiend, who used his Soul Blood to command the Soul Severing Blood Sword against Blood Rogue.
• Blood Rogue’s Divine Gang Blood Blade was damaged by the Soul Severing Blood Sword, and he used the Blood Kiss Whip to strike at Blood Nightmare Fiend and Old Daoist Ji Yuan.
• Inside the Pill Hall, Luo Chen used Source Power to keep his body intact as the Nirvana Sacred Fire and Nine Refinements Beacon Fire fought within him.
• The Nine Refinements Beacon Fire attacked Luo Chen’s Second Nascent Pill, which exploded and shattered his Qi Sea, causing his flesh to come apart.

Luo Chen survived the Second Nascent Pill’s detonation by consuming Taisui, but his body and Qi Sea were devastated. He reversed the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture in a desperate attempt at bodily rebirth, and after his body exploded, Tian Xuan and the One-Horned Dragon believed he had died.

• Luo Chen endured the Second Nascent Pill’s internal detonation by using Source Power to suppress its mana, then swallowed Taisui’s main body to replenish his vitality.
• Luo Chen discovered that his Qi Sea, meridians, Acupoints, and internal organs were severely damaged, while the fat cultivator in Bright Decree Heaven lost his connection to his main body and rushed to find Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen recognized Nirvana Sacred Fire and chose to reverse the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, using his Destiny Golden Core to begin bodily nirvana.
• Luo Chen’s body exploded, leaving only his Thunder Bone intact, as Tian Xuan and the One-Horned Dragon arrived and cried out for him.
• Luo Chen’s Thunder Bone broke apart, lifting the demons’ enslavement restriction, and the woman holding his black armor mourned that her master had fallen.

Ran Feng delivered the Five Elements Divine Sect’s order for the Luo Tian Sect to lead a dangerous campaign at the Three Paths River, prompting Sima Hui Niang and Gu Cai Yi to argue over the sect’s survival and Luo Chen’s legacy. The chapter ended when Sima Hui Niang suddenly sensed something that left her devastated, and Gu Cai Yi asked what had happened to him.

• Ran Feng rode into the Luo Tian Sect with two companions, but Zeng Yilong stopped them and demanded proper courtesy before escorting them to Yao Mingyue.
• Ran Feng told Yao Mingyue that he came from Divine Fire Peak, and she later informed Sima Hui Niang that the Five Elements Divine Sect wanted the Luo Tian Sect to help retake the Three Paths River.
• Sima Hui Niang and Gu Cai Yi discussed the danger of the campaign, the possibility of merging with Skyscraper Cliff, and their fears that the sect would be worn down by battle.
• Sima Hui Niang insisted that Luo Chen was alive because the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu linking them remained alive, while Gu Cai Yi questioned her certainty after sixty years without word from him.
• As Gu Cai Yi prepared to leave, Sima Hui Niang suddenly clutched her chest in shock, and Gu Cai Yi asked what had happened to Luo Chen.

Blood Rogue overwhelmed his opponents and began draining Blood Nightmare Fiend, while Moon Rogue sensed a terrifying power awakening in the Pill Hall. Luo Chen completed Bodily Nirvana just as the Heaven Refining Cauldron exploded, survived the resulting storm with help from Tian Xuan and Black King, and reached Gray Radiance before a rival could seize it.

• Blood Rogue fused with a Blood God Child, defeated Blood Nightmare Fiend, Old Daoist Ji Yuan, and Emerald Cold Fairy, then began absorbing Blood Nightmare Fiend's power.
• Moon Rogue emerged from a palace and sensed a dangerous power spreading from the Pill Hall as Luo Chen's scattered body began to reform.
• Luo Chen completed Bodily Nirvana, causing the Heaven Refining Cauldron to burst through the Pill Hall and explode above the palaces.
• Tian Xuan tried to shield Luo Chen from the storm, and Black King swallowed Luo Chen and protected him as the Pill Hall was destroyed.
• Luo Chen emerged from the ruins, placed the gravely wounded Tian Xuan and Black King into the Spirit Beast Bag, and raced toward Gray Radiance.
• Luo Chen struck down a rival who approached Gray Radiance and declared that it belonged to him.

After the Heaven Refining Cauldron’s self-destruction, Luo Chen confronted Flying Cloud Child over the dim Gray Radiance and overcame the Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator despite his weakened mana. The chapter left Flying Cloud Child’s Nascent Soul exposed and Luo Chen raising a five-colored cauldron to finish him.

• Moon Rogue moved to kill Old Daoist Ji Yuan, but Emerald Cold Fairy protected him and refused to abandon him.
• Flying Cloud Child and Sea Corner Heavenly Mother attacked Luo Chen, while Han Zhan blocked Sea Corner Heavenly Mother.
• Luo Chen transformed into a nine-zhang giant and endured Flying Cloud Child’s sword attacks, but Flying Cloud Child trapped him in a sword formation reinforced by White Gold Xin Fire.
• Luo Chen caught Flying Cloud Child’s sword, counterattacked with his Cloud Searching Divine Claw, and drove him into the clouds with Thunder Kick.
• Luo Chen shattered Flying Cloud Child’s golden bell defense with Overlord Disarming Armor, forcing Flying Cloud Child to abandon his physical vessel and flee as a Nascent Soul.
• Luo Chen summoned a five-colored cauldron above his head as Flying Cloud Child’s Nascent Soul hovered before him.

Luo Chen captured Flying Cloud Child’s Nascent Soul, but Flying Cloud Child destroyed his Golden Bell and unleashed a devastating blast before Luo Chen killed him. As Bright Decree Heaven’s inheritance trial ended and the teleportation array activated, Moon Rogue pursued the Gray Radiance, forcing Luo Chen and Han Zhan to flee.

• Moon Rogue killed Old Daoist Ji Yuan, captured Emerald Cold Fairy, and tried to seize the Gray Radiance, but it resisted her attempts to collect it.
• Luo Chen suppressed Flying Cloud Child’s Nascent Soul while Han Zhan trapped Sea Corner Heavenly Mother in the Seven Fiends Sword Array.
• Flying Cloud Child detonated the Golden Bell, blasting Luo Chen and the nearby cultivators, but Luo Chen then crushed Flying Cloud Child’s Nascent Soul with the Cloud Searching Divine Claw.
• The Light and Dark Hall heirs emerged as Bright Decree Heaven’s inheritance trial ended, and the teleportation array activated while the floating palaces fell into darkness.
• Moon Rogue pursued the Gray Radiance as Luo Chen retreated with it inside the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and Han Zhan sent a giant tiger to attack her.