Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen met the powerful cultivators at Soaring Sky Pass, rejected their accusations, and learned that the Five Elements Divine Sect’s Old Ancestor still coveted his physique. He left with his companions, resolved to prepare for the threat, and reunited tenderly with a woman aboard the Cloud Carriage.

• The Soaring Sky City Lord introduced Luo Chen to Fu Old, Wind Flower Immortal, Lin Qingxuan, Divine Fire Zhenren, and the Skyscraper Old Ghost.
• Lin Qingxuan asked Luo Chen about the battle at Great Snow Mountain, but Luo Chen said he could not explain what had happened.
• The Skyscraper Old Ghost accused Luo Chen of breaking the Ten-Decisive Duel’s rules, and Luo Chen countered that the old man’s side had broken the rules first.
• Divine Fire Zhenren said the Five Elements Divine Sect’s Old Ancestor would seek an explanation from Luo Chen, who accepted the challenge and left the gathering.
• Luo Chen reflected that the Five Elements Divine Sect’s Old Ancestor still wanted to use his Five Spirit Roots Physique to advance to the Spirit Transformation Stage, and resolved to prepare for him.
• Luo Chen left Min Longyu to explore the Cloud Carriage’s formations and stood with a woman who asked whether he had been well during the past century.

Divine Fire Zhenren decided to report Luo Chen to the Five Elements Divine Sect’s Supreme Elder, while the Soaring Sky City Lord studied Luo Chen’s history and pondered a message from a Spirit Transformation Great Power. Luo Chen returned to Hundred Mile Green River, reunited with the Luo Tian Sect, and immediately asked where Hui Niang was.

• Divine Fire Zhenren told Ran Feng that confronting Luo Chen would accomplish little and decided to report Luo Chen’s strength and connections to the Supreme Elder.
• Ye Lingtian reviewed Bamboo Slips tracing Luo Chen’s rise and received a Jade Slip ordering him to treat Luo Chen courteously and investigate his connection to Cangwu Mountain.
• Luo Chen questioned Qu Lingjun about leaving the Luo Tian Sect, but Gu Cai Yi explained that Qu Lingjun had secretly supported the sect and secured Hundred Mile Green River for it.
• Luo Chen’s Cloud Carriage arrived at Hundred Mile Green River, and Zeng Yilong and Li Yingzhang welcomed his return as the sect’s Supreme Elder.
• Yao Mingyue led the disciples in welcoming Luo Chen, while his veiled Dao companion stayed behind; Luo Chen then asked where Hui Niang was.

Luo Chen reunited with Sima Hui Niang, learned that the mana transferred to her through the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu had ravaged her body, and began treating her. As Hui Niang recovered, Luo Chen discovered that her Golden Core remained sealed beneath more than a hundred restrictions.

• Gu Cai Yi told Luo Chen that Sima Hui Niang had advanced to the Golden Core Stage during the crisis at Three Paths River, saved the sect, and later hid herself because her body and appearance had been ravaged by the mana.
• Luo Chen persuaded Sima Hui Niang to open her cave by assuring her that he had returned and would protect the Luo Tian Sect, and the two reunited.
• Luo Chen examined Hui Niang and realized that his overbearing mana, transferred through the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu, had damaged her Qi Sea, meridians, and body.
• Luo Chen began drawing out Hui Niang's mana and used Medical Arts, an Azure Sea Pill, and Flourishing Decay True Fire to repair her body, planning to use Hundred Headed Winter Heavenly to extend her lifespan.
• After Hui Niang fell asleep, Luo Chen noticed that she still possessed Middle Stage Golden Core cultivation and that her Golden Core was bound by more than a hundred restrictions.

Luo Chen discovered that his blood had caused the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu within Sima Hui Niang to grow into a Golden Core that was consuming her heart and spirit, and he stabilized her by feeding it his blood. After reading the Luo Tian Records and learning how the sect and its old acquaintances had fared, he gave Xu Xiaoliu a task and reflected on the Withering-Flourishing Dao.

• Luo Chen realized that his vigorous blood had fueled the Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu until it revived inside Sima Hui Niang and began devouring her heart and spirit.
• Luo Chen fed Sima Hui Niang's Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu a drop of his blood, easing her suffering.
• Luo Chen read the Luo Tian Records and grieved for the friends and sect members who had died or disappeared.
• Xu Xiaoliu told Luo Chen about the Luo Tian Sect's nine Golden Core cultivators, its younger generation, and its recent struggles.
• Luo Chen asked Xu Xiaoliu to carry out a task, then reflected on the cycles of decline and flourishing as the Withering-Flourishing Dao.

Luo Chen rewarded Luo Tian Sect’s meritorious members, named Li Yingzhang the Third Generation Sect Leader, and prepared the sect for his Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony. He chose to remain with the sect for now, helping its cultivators stabilize while it rebuilt its strength.

• Luo Chen rewarded Zeng Yilong with the Breaking Moon Wings and Ten Thousand Jun Halberd, gave Qin Yuanjiang puppet manuals that included a soul-splitting cultivation method, and presented other meritorious cultivators with treasures and techniques.
• Luo Chen bestowed Nascent Soul Methods on Fu Jiusheng and Chu Kui, then ordered Qu Lingjun to leave Wind Flower Palace and return to Luo Heaven Gate, severing his ties there himself.
• Luo Chen appointed Li Yingzhang as Luo Tian Sect’s Third Generation Sect Leader and placed a powerful protective mark on his forehead; Li then tasked sect members with inviting Nascent Soul True Persons to Luo Chen’s formation ceremony.
• Luo Chen accepted Yao Mingyue’s resignation as Sect Leader and promised to guide her cultivation toward Core Formation, while Wang Yuan studied Luo Chen’s collected body-tempering manuals.
• Luo Chen decided to stay and strengthen Luo Tian Sect rather than move it to Central Province, where the impending campaign into the Outer Domain could make the sect expendable.

Xu Xiaoliu delivered invitations to the Wind Flower Region’s Golden Core sects for Luo Chen’s belated Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, stirring concern at Wind Flower Palace about his ambitions. Back at the Luo Tian Sect, Luo Chen used talisman making to stabilize his cultivation and strengthen his disciples, and the chapter ended as guests arrived for the ceremony at Great Green Mountain.

• Xu Xiaoliu announced Luo Chen’s return at the True Nascent Soul Realm to Blazing Wind Valley and invited its lord to the ceremony.
• Wind Flower Immortal received Luo Chen’s invitation and discussed with the Second Palace Master the possibility that he would seek a Fourth-Tier Spirit Vein or extend his influence into their territory.
• Luo Chen made a Tier 2 Blazing Sun Talisman and explained to Sima Hui Niang and Yao Mingyue that he planned to make talismans for the sect while tempering his Mana.
• Luo Chen prepared Sima Hui Niang to attend the ceremony with him and Cai Yi.
• On the third day of the ninth month, guests arrived at Great Green Mountain for Luo Chen’s Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony.

Sima Wenjie heard that Luo Chen’s Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony had drawn powerful guests from across the five domains, while Luo Chen welcomed them and promoted his pill-refining skills. The chapter ended with Mingyuan Sect granting Luo Tian Sect the method of crafting Spirit Stones, formally recognizing it as a Nascent Soul Upper Sect, and Luo Chen beginning the banquet.

• Lou Ying told imprisoned Sima Wenjie that Nascent Soul True Persons from across the five domains had gathered for Luo Chen’s ceremony, making Sima question his past judgment.
• Luo Chen welcomed Mu True Person, Qin Baiming, and other Nascent Soul experts, many of whom had come to learn whether he could refine a hundred kinds of pills.
• Jin Ling and Divine Fire realized that Luo Chen’s alchemy reputation could win him powerful allies, and Jin Ling decided they must cut off his momentum.
• Mingyuan Sect bestowed the method of crafting Spirit Stones on Luo Tian Sect, recognizing its formal standing as a Nascent Soul Upper Sect.
• Ye Lingtian arrived with Luo Chen, congratulated him, and joined the guests as Luo Chen took the seat of honor and announced that the banquet would begin.

At his Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, Luo Chen explained how he escaped Cangwu Mountain and faced doubts from the Five Elements Divine Sect. He defeated Jin Ling in a clash of Nascent Soul Domains, then resumed the banquet as Jin Ling left in anger.

• Luo Chen introduced Sima Hui Niang and Gu Cai Yi as his Dao companions and entertained the gathered Nascent Soul True Persons with stories of the Northern Sea.
• Lin Qingxuan and Divine Fire Zhenren challenged Luo Chen's account of escaping Cangwu Mountain, so Luo Chen presented a movement array disc and explained that it had sent him to the Northern Sea.
• Jin Ling accused Luo Chen of boasting and challenged him to a contest of Nascent Soul Domains, while the Soaring Sky City Lord allowed the clash to proceed.
• Luo Chen used his domineering domain and Source True Fire to overcome Jin Ling, who fell and accused him of borrowing external power.
• Luo Chen defended his victory, Jin Ling threatened to settle matters another time and departed, and Luo Chen invited the guests to continue the banquet.

At his Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, Luo Chen revealed his ability to refine high-grade Fourth-Order pills and drew interest from powerful sects seeking his services. He then proposed an alliance with the White Crane Sect by offering a Transformation Pill that could let its hidden Crane True Person move freely among humans.

• Luo Chen presented High-grade Grand Origin Pills and declared that he could refine Fourth-Order pills, including Breakthrough Pills, for payment in Crimson Sky Qi, body-tempering methods, or Pill Recipes.
• Luo Chen confronted Divine Fire about the Five Elements Divine Sect's lost alchemist Qing Chi and offered to refine Grand Five Elements Divine Pills, prompting Divine Fire to leave angrily.
• After the ceremony, Idle Crane True Person asked Luo Chen for bulk Emperor Flow Paste, but refused to trade away the White Crane Sect's Spirit Cranes.
• Luo Chen explained that the coming Human-Demon War made immediate increases in strength essential, then inferred from Idle Crane True Person's reaction that the White Crane Sect had a hidden transformed Spirit Crane.
• Luo Chen offered Idle Crane True Person a Transformation Pill as a gift to forge an alliance between their sects.

Luo Chen negotiated with the Soaring Sky City Lord, Wind Flower Immortal, and Fu Old, securing shelter for Luo Tian Sect, Qu Lingjun’s return, and a deal to refine Nascent Soul Pills. He ended the night with abundant pill materials and a plan to build his reputation through alchemy.

• Idle Crane True Person took the Transformation Pill and agreed to ally White Crane Sect with Luo Tian Sect and deliver fifty Spirit Cranes within a year.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord invited Luo Chen to join Mingyuan Sect, warned him about moving Luo Tian Sect’s people to Central Province, and explained the sect’s Spirit Stone mining method.
• Luo Chen assured Wind Flower Immortal that he would not take Wind Flower Palace’s land or its produce, and asked her to release Qu Lingjun from his service.
• Luo Chen offered to help Wind Flower Palace against Skyscraper Cliff and the Five Elements Divine Sect if they threatened it.
• Fu Old revealed that the Divine Talisman Sect had obtained its Nascent Soul Pill recipe from Medicine King Sect, and Luo Chen agreed to refine the pills for Crimson Sky Qi, Medicine King Sect recipes, and Talisman Skin.
• Luo Chen received materials for twenty batches of Nascent Soul Pills, including two Five Elements Lotus Platforms, then went to rest with Hui Niang.

Luo Chen ordered Luo Tian Sect to recover from its recent upheavals and prepared to refine Nascent Soul Pills to strengthen his standing against Mingyuan Sect. Meanwhile, Sima Hui Niang chose to have her younger brother Sima Wenjie’s cultivation ruined rather than release him, and Qu Lingjun returned with his Dao companion.

• Luo Chen instructed Li Yingzhang to let Luo Tian Sect recuperate, tend to its cultivators, strengthen its alliances, and postpone patrol duty at Soaring Sky Pass.
• After learning the sect lacked the Spirit Stones to pay for White Crane Sect’s Spirit Cranes, Luo Chen told Li Yingzhang to accept them on credit and ordered disciples to learn basic beast taming.
• Luo Chen gave Gu Cai Yi a reorganized Micro Dust Origin Art and promised to refine a suitable Natal Magic Treasure for her, while asking Sima Hui Niang to assist Li Yingzhang.
• Luo Chen began preparing to refine Nascent Soul Pills for Divine Talisman Sect, hoping to establish his reputation as an Alchemy Dao Grandmaster and deter Mingyuan Sect.
• Sima Hui Niang agreed to have Min Longyu use the Core Dissolving Array on Sima Wenjie, and Li Yingzhang offered the crippled man a quiet post cleaning the Scripture Pavilion.
• Qu Lingjun returned to Luo Tian Sect with his Dao companion, Meng Qin'er.

Qu Lingjun returned to the Luo Tian Sect with Meng Qin'er but found his son Qu Jiu unwilling to see him and learned that the sect had no place for him in its Pill Hall. Meanwhile, Luo Chen began preparing to refine a Nascent Soul Pill and used his Split Souls to put two puppets to work, leaving one to study talismans and the other to help refine pills.

• Qu Jiu refused Yuan Yijun's suggestion that he visit his father, then passed Qu Lingjun without warmth as Zeng Yilong led him and the juniors away on a sect mission.
• Qu Lingjun asked Sect Leader Li Yingzhang to let Meng Qin'er remain with him at the Luo Tian Sect, and Li agreed.
• Qu Lingjun offered to help with the Nascent Soul Pill or manage the Pill Hall, but Li told him to focus on cultivation instead.
• Luo Chen had Qi Yi prepare ingredients for the Nascent Soul Pill and privately decided not to involve Qu Lingjun so he could concentrate on reaching Golden Core.
• Luo Chen summoned Qin Yuanjiang, took a Red Dog Puppet and a Black Ape Puppet, and placed his Split Souls inside them.
• Luo Chen sent Black Ape to study talismans and ordered Red Dog to help him refine pills.

Luo Chen guided Qi Yi through another attempt to refine Nascent Soul Pills, then continued cultivating his sword arts and developing the Luo Tian Sect’s talisman craft. After the batch appeared likely to succeed, Black Ape Luo Chen took Qu Jiu as a talisman-making student and anticipated Fu Old’s visit.

• Luo Chen taught Qi Yi about high-grade pill refinement and led him through adding the main ingredients to the cauldron for a new batch of Nascent Soul Pills.
• Luo Chen left the Red Dog Puppet to tend the pill fire, gave Qi Yi Soul Calming Powder, and considered how his pill recipes and cultivation methods could strengthen the Luo Tian Sect.
• Luo Chen resumed cultivating the Sword Dao by refining Crimson Sky Qi with the Yuan Tu Sword.
• Black Ape Luo Chen inspected a new delivery of talisman skins, recognized Qu Jiu’s interest in talismans, and took him on as a student.
• Black Ape Luo Chen sensed that the Nascent Soul Pills had succeeded and expected Fu Old and other pill-seeking experts to arrive soon.

Luo Chen refined more Crimson Sky Sword Qi, drove off Skyscraper Old Ghost, and began improving his talisman-making skills while news spread that he had made a Tier 4 pill for the Divine Talisman Sect. As cultivators learned of his alchemy, Nine Spirits Yuan Jun arrived at Hundred Mile Green River and requested an audience.

• Luo Chen refined a third strand of Crimson Sky Sword Qi and discovered that his Attribute Panel had advanced the Sword Scripture’s proficiency to Entry Level 30.
• Fu Old led fifteen Golden Core Cultivators of the Divine Talisman Sect to Luo Tian Sect, collected the pills Luo Chen had refined, and departed with them.
• Luo Chen used the Yuan Tu Sword to frighten Skyscraper Old Ghost away, then demonstrated his Grandmaster-level Blazing Sun Talisman to Qu Jiu.
• Luo Chen resolved to use the attention brought by his alchemy to cultivate Talisman Making and began drawing talismans with Qu Jiu’s help.
• News of Luo Chen’s Tier 4 pill spread through the region, and Nine Spirits Yuan Jun came to Hundred Mile Green River seeking an audience with him.

Luo Chen agreed to refine the Nine Separation Pill for Nine Spirits Yuan Jun after studying its unusual recipe and ingredients. The chapter ended with Nine Spirits Yuan Jun revealing the monstrous form of her Nascent Soul and explaining that the pill would help her separate nine essences and form nine spirit infants.

• Luo Chen advised Qu Jiu to improve his state of mind, gave him the Calming the Waves secret art, and passed him a Tier 3 Azure Sun Talisman.
• Luo Chen welcomed Nine Spirits Yuan Jun to the Luo Tian Sect and agreed to refine pills for her in exchange for several kinds of Sky Qi.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun showed Luo Chen the uncopyable Nine Separation Pill recipe, and Luo Chen recognized its medicinal names as conventions of the Devil Race.
• Luo Chen examined Nine Spirits Yuan Jun's substitute ingredients and agreed that he could refine the pill, but explained that its recipe required essence blood from nine specific parts of her Nascent Soul.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun revealed her tumor-covered Nascent Soul and explained that she had cultivated the Nine Spirits Entering Sainthood method to gain immense mana and needed the pill to form nine great spirit infants.

Luo Chen extracted Nascent Soul Essence Blood from Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and spent half a year studying the Nine Separation Pill Formula before beginning to refine it. Meanwhile, Zeng Yilong subdued a powerful Spirit Crane, and Tian Xuan arrived at the Luo Tian Sect asking to see Luo Chen.

• Luo Chen examined Nine Spirits Yuan Jun's tumor-covered Nascent Soul, understood the source of his immense mana, and extracted the required Essence Blood with a crystal knife.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun warned that Soaring Sky Pass could not withstand the Demon Race's advance without Mingyuan Sect, then rested at Luo Tian Sect and exchanged contact tokens with Luo Chen before leaving.
• Luo Chen studied the Nine Separation Pill Formula for half a year, reached Entry Level with the system, and began refining the pill with Qi Yi's help.
• Zeng Yilong fought the Golden-Crested Spirit Crane in the Black Water River and won its acceptance through his strength.
• Tian Xuan arrived on a flying vessel, stopped when Zeng Yilong challenged her, and asked him to inform Luo Chen that she had returned.

Luo Chen refined the Nine Separation Pills, which led him to speculate about the origins of the Five Great Holy Lands, then reunited with Tian Xuan and her companions at Luo Tian Sect and began planning for the sect’s growth. He ended by considering whether the pills could help him create additional Nascent Souls.

• Luo Chen recognized the strange resonance of the Nine Separation Pills as resembling the Nine-Headed Howler and theorized that the Five Great Holy Lands had come from another world connected to the Demon World.
• Tian Xuan, Black King, Sang Jinghe, and Zhang Jingqing arrived at Luo Tian Sect and greeted Sima Hui Niang as Luo Chen’s mistress before Luo Chen returned from pill refining.
• Luo Chen assigned Tian Xuan to help Li Yingzhang manage the sect, placed Sang Jinghe in the sect’s spirit-plant work, and accepted Zhang Jingqing into Luo Heaven Gate.
• Li Yingzhang briefed Luo Chen on the sect’s preparations and the Demon Race threat, including Mingyuan Sect’s refusal to send troops to Soaring Sky Pass.
• Luo Chen had Black King assess the local Spirit Vein, but concluded that Hundred Mile Green River was too small to support his plans for a Fourth-Tier cultivation ground.
• Luo Chen considered using the Nine Separation Pill and his Soul Splitting Art to create an alternative Second Nascent Soul and perhaps even more.

Luo Chen delivered the Nine Separation Pills to Nine Spirits Yuan Jun while considering whether he could create a Second Nascent Soul of his own. Their meeting was interrupted by Divine Origin True Person, whose arrival raised the threat of a confrontation at Great Green Mountain.

• Luo Chen considered combining a Spirit Infant with a Split Soul to create something like a Second Nascent Soul, and planned to seek basic guidance from Nine Spirits Yuan Jun.
• Meng Qin'er learned that Qu Lingjun had been studying Talisman Making with Luo Chen, and Qu Lingjun realized that his secluded home and cultivation resources were meant to help him focus on advancing.
• Luo Chen secretly enriched the spiritual energy around Hundred Mile Green River, prompting Li Yingzhang to redistribute Cave Mansions and establish Spirit Gathering Arrays.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun met Luo Chen to collect the nine Nine Separation Pills, and Luo Chen warned her about their dangers before asking how she formed her Spirit Fetuses.
• Luo Chen detected a hidden visitor and recognized the black-robed figure as Five Elements Divine Origin, also known as Divine Origin True Person.
• Divine Origin True Person challenged Luo Chen at Great Green Mountain, and Luo Chen unfurled his Nascent Soul Domain as powerful auras stirred beneath the mountain and across Luo Heaven.

Luo Chen faced Divine Origin True Person, learned that his injuries might leave him vulnerable to Primordial Qi, and delivered the Nine Separation Pills to Nine Spirits Yuan Jun. When the Luo Tian Sect was ordered to provide patrol forces for Soaring Sky Pass, Luo Chen decided to go there himself.

• Divine Origin True Person withdrew after confronting Luo Chen, Nine Spirits Yuan Jun, and the hidden Black King, while Luo Chen chose not to attack him.
• Luo Chen gave Nine Spirits Yuan Jun nine bottles of Nine Separation Pills, and she warned him against pursuing an extreme cultivation path before departing.
• Black King explained that he sensed Divine Origin because Primordial Qi was drawn toward him, leading Luo Chen to suspect that the Cangwu Mountain battle had badly injured Divine Origin.
• Ye Hong told Li Yingzhang that the Luo Tian Sect had to send patrol forces to Soaring Sky Pass, and Luo Chen agreed to fulfill the duty.
• Luo Chen ordered the sect to send fifty Qi Refining cultivators and declared that he would personally visit Soaring Sky Pass.

Luo Chen prepared to lead a Luo Tian Sect patrol to Soaring Sky Pass, while Wang Yuan gave him a newly derived Moon Step technique. As Luo Chen arrived at the pass, he learned that the three frontline regions had been surrounded by the Demon Race for nearly ten years and feared the enemy might attack.

• Li Yingzhang organized the patrol force, and Luo Chen chose Chu Kui, Yang Pingdu, and Xiao Long to accompany him while Wang Yuan and Black King stayed to guard the sect.
• Luo Chen gave Wang Yuan Black Emperor Ointment, and Wang Yuan presented him with a scroll containing his completed Moon Step technique.
• Luo Chen departed aboard the transformed Cloud Carriage as word of his arrival spread among cultivators in the region.
• Luo Chen read that Tyrant Blade, Azure Sky, and Fire Ridge had been surrounded by the Demon Race, with the fall of the three regions threatening Soaring Sky Pass.
• Luo Chen arrived at Soaring Sky Pass and hoped the Demon Race would not attack during his mission.