Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen returned to Soaring Sky Pass and learned that the Demon Race had breached the defenses, leaving the Luo Tian Sect and the Eastern Wasteland powers with devastating losses. As he treated survivors and prepared to hear the Mingyuan Sect’s plans, an old man in black robes entered and confronted him over Jin Ling’s death.

• Luo Chen returned to Hundred Mile Green River and learned that Soaring Sky Pass had fallen after the Black Tortoise Four Directions Array was shattered, with a hundred Luo Tian Sect members killed.
• Luo Chen reached the ruined pass, reunited with the surviving Luo Tian Sect cultivators at Danluo Mountain, treated Wang Yuan, and gave him Hundred Refinements Mountain as a replacement weapon.
• Luo Chen accepted an invitation from the City Lord’s Mansion and heard that many Eastern Wasteland leaders and sects had suffered deaths or destruction in the battles.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun asked Luo Chen about Jin Ling, and an old man in black robes entered the hall and called out to Luo Chen.

Luo Chen navigated the political fallout after Soaring Sky Pass fell, while the Mingyuan Sect rallied the Eastern Wasteland’s forces for a counterattack. Wind Flower Immortal revealed Gao Chang’s extraordinary power, and Luo Chen suspected the Mingyuan Sect was using him to lure out Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven.

• Divine Origin True Person demanded Jin Ling’s remains from Luo Chen, but Heavenly Capital Child defended Luo Chen, and the two formed an alliance.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord apologized for the losses, promised Mingyuan Sect resources to rebuild Soaring Sky Pass, and called on the Eastern Wasteland’s forces to join the war.
• Luo Chen withdrew from visitors while recruitment and rebuilding gathered momentum across the Soaring Sky Five Regions.
• Wind Flower Immortal told Luo Chen that Gao Chang’s Spirit Transformation-level killing move had slain five Mingyuan Sect Nascent Soul True Persons, yet Thunder Dao Child continued pursuing him.
• Luo Chen concluded that Thunder Dao Child was using Gao Chang to draw out Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven, then recalled that Spirit Transformation experts were said to be unable to fight personally.

Luo Chen explained his view of the Human-Demon War to Wind Flower Immortal, arguing that the demons’ unity was uncertain and that the Spirit Transformation Great Powers were restrained from intervening directly. After returning to the Luo Tian Sect, he aided Qu Lingjun and Meng Qin'er, checked on Yao Mingyue, and summoned Black King to reveal what he had swallowed.

• Luo Chen told Wind Flower Immortal that the Mingyuan Sect might force Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven to intervene and argued that Qixia Yuanjun was not fully supporting the demon war.
• Wind Flower Immortal called Luo Chen Brother Luo and explained that Wind Flower Palace had lost its other Nascent Soul True Person; she also praised Meng Qin'er’s potential.
• Luo Chen left Soaring Sky Pass and returned to the Luo Tian Sect, where he gave Meng Qin'er cultivation resources for Qu Lingjun and additional resources for herself.
• Luo Chen checked Yao Mingyue’s progress toward Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and left her cultivation affairs to the sect.
• Luo Chen summoned Black King, who spat out rows of thousand-year-old wine jars and a long-dead corpse.

Luo Chen tested Dieyun Sect’s spirit wines, used the millennium-aged Five Temples Immortal Brew to discover and begin correcting a weakness in his internal body tempering, and refined Jin Ling’s corpse into a puppet. He sent the puppet with Black King to absorb spiritual energy at a newly formed Fourth-Order Spirit Cave beneath Great Green Mountain.

• Luo Chen examined Jin Ling’s corpse and briefly tried to revive it with spell seals, then asked Black King about the spirit wines he had tested.
• Luo Chen sampled Zhen Ling Su, endured its corrosive effect, and stored it separately before sorting the other wines by their uses.
• Luo Chen drank too much millennium-aged Five Temples Immortal Brew, spent three days refining it, and realized that his internal organs were weaker than his outer body.
• Luo Chen began pacing his use of Five Temples Immortal Brew to nourish his five viscera, then decided to refine Jin Ling’s remains into a Flesh-and-Blood Puppet.
• Luo Chen and his Third Soul spent seven days preparing Jin Ling’s corpse, and Luo Chen added a piece of his own flesh, molten metal, and golden threads before tempering the body for a month.
• Luo Chen placed his Third Soul and a Top Grade Metal Attribute Spirit Stone inside the finished puppet, equipped it with Jin Ling’s golden tail feathers, and sent Black King to take it to the Fourth-Order Spirit Cave beneath Great Green Mountain.

Luo Chen discovered a Spirit Cave beneath Great Green Mountain, studied Jin Ling’s inheritance, and learned that Thunder Dao Child had returned to Soaring Sky Pass. He revived the Shouyang Dao Discussion to draw out the Mingyuan Sect’s intentions, while Thunder Dao Child declared he would attend in his place.

• Luo Chen found a Fourth-Order Spirit Cave beneath Great Green Mountain and ordered Jin San to nurture himself there and study the Puppet Dao.
• Luo Chen opened Jin Ling’s Storage Ring, examined the incomplete Five Elements Divine Pill recipe and the Life-Stealing Three Golden Feathers method, and considered using Nine Yang Geng Metal and Brocade Immortal’s feathers to refine a Golden Feather.
• Luo Chen learned from Lin Qingxuan that Thunder Dao Child had returned and renegotiated their Jade Emperor Clear Eye Liquid deal for an eighty-twenty split in his own favor.
• Luo Chen sent invitations to more than a dozen cultivators, reviving the Shouyang Dao Discussion to force the Mingyuan Sect to reveal its attitude toward him.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord received Luo Chen’s invitation, and Thunder Dao Child took it and announced that he would attend in Luo Chen’s place.

At the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly, Luo Chen warned the gathered Nascent Soul True Persons that the Mingyuan Sect’s capture and imprisonment of Gao Chang could provoke Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven and endanger them all. Thunder Dao Child arrived and attacked Luo Chen, who stopped the lightning with his Azure Sun Great Handprint wreathed in strange flames and demanded an explanation.

• Elder Jiao dismissed the Pill Sect’s Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly as a spectacle, while cultivators and their disciples gathered at Shouyang Mountain.
• Wind Flower Immortal joined Luo Chen and Heavenly Capital Child, who questioned her about Gao Chang and identified the demon as a possible Tiger Spirit connected to Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven.
• Luo Chen opened the assembly by criticizing the Mingyuan Sect’s lack of transparency and warning that its actions could leave the other sects as cannon fodder.
• Luo Chen told the assembly that the Mingyuan Sect had captured Gao Chang and was holding him in Soaring Sky Pass, prompting fears that it sought to draw out Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven.
• Thunder Dao Child entered and refused to explain the Mingyuan Sect’s actions, then attacked Luo Chen with lightning.
• Luo Chen countered with his Azure Sun Great Handprint, combining it with strange azure-and-white flames, and demanded that the Mingyuan Sect explain itself.

Luo Chen confronted Thunder Dao Child over Mingyuan Sect’s plan for a decisive battle against the Demon Race and won the gathered cultivators’ trust by demanding answers and urging them to prepare. After Thunder Dao Child suspected Luo Chen had comprehended Law True Intent and worried that his influence had grown too great, Luo Chen realized Mingyuan Sect’s favor had made returning to Heaven Earth Peak unlikely.

• Luo Chen blocked Thunder Dao Child’s strike and pressed him to explain Mingyuan Sect’s plans for the war.
• Thunder Dao Child revealed that Mingyuan Sect intended to use the Tiger Spirit to draw out the Demon Race for a final battle, and said Ming Abyss’s great powers would handle Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven if he intervened.
• Luo Chen questioned how Mingyuan Sect would stop Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven, then urged the gathered cultivators to prepare and trade resources before the battle.
• Thunder Dao Child told the Soaring Sky City Lord that Luo Chen might have comprehended Law True Intent and warned that his growing influence could make it difficult to bring him back to Mingyuan Sect.
• After the Shouyang Dao Discussion ended, Luo Chen returned to Danluo Mountain and concluded that Mingyuan Sect’s favor meant he could never return to Heaven Earth Peak.

As the final battle approached, Luo Chen prepared to defend Soaring Sky Pass, but Chong Xuan True Person ordered him to surrender Danluo Mountain and retreat with the Luo Tian Sect to Hundred Mile Green River. Luo Chen accepted the order, leaving his chance to earn battle merits uncertain, and resolved to grow stronger alongside his sect.

• Idle Crane True Person and the Crane Emperor visited Luo Chen, gave him a white feather and an incomplete Step on Emptiness, and said they were being sent to the White Crane Region.
• Luo Chen learned that Luo Tian Sect cultivators had been removed from their duties and met Chong Xuan True Person, who ordered him to yield Danluo Mountain and withdraw to the rear.
• Luo Chen agreed to surrender Danluo Mountain, then boarded a Cloud Carriage with the Luo Tian Sect cultivators and arranged to collect his two Martial Aunts.
• Wang Yuan told Luo Chen that the weak Luo Tian Sect had become a burden to him, but Luo Chen insisted he was not yet strong enough and proposed that they complete the Wind Leg together.

Luo Chen and Wang Yuan completed Wind Leg as the Demon Race’s final assault drew near. Luo Chen recalled his Split Souls and joined with Black King, reaching the peak of his combat strength as he prepared for the coming battle.

• Luo Chen and Wang Yuan combined Wind God Three Styles with Step on Emptiness, testing their deductions until Wind Leg was complete and Luo Chen mastered it.
• Luo Chen learned that the Demon Race had gathered its commanders and enormous forces around Soaring Sky Pass, making the final battle imminent.
• Luo Chen’s second soul helped Canglong stabilize her dream realm, then returned to him after Ming Zun left her cave dwelling.
• Luo Chen recalled his third soul from Jin San and assessed how the reunited souls strengthened his ability to resist soul attacks and cast multiple techniques.
• Luo Chen absorbed Black King into his arm and returned to the Luo Tian Grand Hall, confident he could face any enemy below the Great Cultivator level.

Lin Qingxuan spotted the Demon Beast assault on Soaring Sky Pass, while Wind Flower Region and Luo Tian Sect came under coordinated attacks by Demon Emperors and a hundred thousand beasts. As Luo Tian Sect’s defenders struggled to hold their formation, Lu Changsheng and Di Tu waited for Luo Chen, then saw sword energy sweep across the battlefield.

• Night Lan asked Lin Qingxuan why Luo Chen had left Soaring Sky Pass, and Lin Qingxuan defended Luo Chen’s retreat while thinking about preserving their relationship.
• Night Lan’s life-saving talisman burned, and Lin Qingxuan used the Jade Emperor Clear Eye Liquid’s enhanced sight to spot the Demon Beast tide and warn Soaring Sky Pass of the attack.
• Can Lou confronted Wind Flower Immortal as Demon Emperors under Lord of Pacifying Mountains ordered the Beast Tide to spread across Wind Flower Region and surround Soaring Sky Pass.
• Tian Xuan used the Myriad Souls Banner to destroy an advancing Beast Tide, while Min Longyu directed Hundred Mile Green River’s formation against more than a hundred thousand Demon Beasts.
• Li Yingzhang assigned Luo Tian Sect’s Golden Core Elders to fight Demon Kings across the formation, while Lu Changsheng and Di Tu waited for Luo Chen to appear.
• Sword threads and Sword Qi swept across Hundred Mile Green River, striking Third Order Demon Kings and prompting Lu Changsheng to order the group to move.

Luo Chen broke the Deer Brothers’ formation and turned the battle against them and Di Tu by combining his domain, sword formation, and Primal Chaos Cauldron. As Lu Changqing and Lu Changsheng charged to avenge Lu Changan, Luo Chen continued mauling Di Tu and vowed to kill them all.

• The Deer Brothers and Di Tu surrounded Luo Chen, but Luo Chen spotted the Nine Chapters Bone Erosion Formation’s flaw and shattered it with the Yuan Tu Sword.
• Luo Chen released Abyssal Inferno, suppressing the Deer Brothers’ domains, then combined it with the Great Five Elements Sword Formation and Primal Chaos Cauldron to trap the four enemies.
• Luo Chen’s attacks wounded all three Deer Brothers, while Di Tu charged in to exploit what he thought was a weakness in the battlefield’s effect on physical strength.
• Luo Chen caught Di Tu’s fist and overpowered him; Di Tu cut off his own arm to escape, but Luo Chen pursued him.
• Lu Changan tried to flee and was pierced by the sword formation; Crimson Chains bound his Nascent Soul and dragged it into the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Lu Changqing and Lu Changsheng charged to avenge Lu Changan as Luo Chen tore off Di Tu’s arm and challenged them to fight.

Luo Chen defeated the four Great Demon Emperors with Triple Hell, killing Lu Changsheng and Lu Changqing while forcing Di Tu to surrender. As Wind Flower Immortal fought Can Lou nearby, a Seven Horns Commander arrived after Can Lou called for help.

• Luo Chen overwhelmed Di Tu and the two Nine Camphor Deer, and Di Tu surrendered to avoid being killed.
• Lu Changsheng pretended to submit, broke Triple Hell by exploding himself, and opened a path for Lu Changqing to escape.
• Luo Chen destroyed Lu Changsheng's compass, captured Lu Changqing's Nascent Soul, and killed the fleeing demon with Flame Dragon Descends and the Yuan Tu Sword.
• Luo Chen kept Di Tu under his control, while Wind Flower Immortal escaped Can Lou's Divine Tower and learned that Luo Chen had prevailed.
• Can Lou realized three of the four Demon Emperors had fallen and called on the arriving Seven Horns Commander to save Di Tu.

After defeating the Beast Tide, Luo Chen faced Seven Horns Commander, who pursued the wounded Ling Fengzi and demanded Di Tu. Luo Chen drove the Great Demon Emperor into retreat with his Wither Bloom Dao Finger, then watched another figure emerge and pursue him.

• Di Tu ordered the nearby Demon Beasts to surrender, but the remaining beasts fled, and Luo Chen turned toward the ongoing battle at Wind Flower Palace.
• Ling Fengzi arrived badly wounded and begged Luo Chen to save him from Seven Horns Commander, who had pursued him from Soaring Sky Pass.
• Seven Horns Commander demanded that Luo Chen hand over Di Tu, but Luo Chen refused and prepared to fight.
• Luo Chen used his Wither Bloom Dao Finger to push back Seven Horns Commander's blue pearl and aggravate the injury atop his head.
• Seven Horns Commander fled when Luo Chen raised his fingers to use the Divine Ability again, and Wind Flower Immortal arrived to see him go.
• A wary figure emerged near Luo Chen and chased after Seven Horns Commander.

After driving back the demon beast assault, Luo Chen recruited Ling Fengzi into the Luo Tian Sect as its Second Elder and gave him leave to preserve the PiaoMiao Sect’s legacy through PiaoMiao Hall. Three days later, as the sect assessed the damage to its Spirit Land, Luo Chen and Black King sensed World Vitality in turmoil and suspected a Spirit Transformation cultivator had acted.

• Luo Chen sent Black King and Di Tu to aid Wind Flower Immortal, then gave Lu Changan’s Nascent Soul to Tian Xuan to refine into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Luo Chen offered Ling Fengzi a place in the Luo Tian Sect, and Ling Fengzi accepted after struggling with the fate of the PiaoMiao Sect.
• Luo Chen made Ling Fengzi the Second Elder and allowed him to establish PiaoMiao Hall and carry on the sect’s legacy.
• Three days later, Li Yingzhang reported that the battle had damaged Hundred Mile Green River’s Spirit Vein, while Black King offered to restore its spiritual energy.
• After Di Tu reported that Wind Flower Palace was safe for now, Luo Chen and Black King sensed World Vitality in turmoil and suspected a Spirit Transformation Great Power had made a move.

After sensing a clash of Spirit Transformation powers near Soaring Sky Pass, Luo Chen learned that Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven had intervened to protect Gao Chang and uncovered Di Tu’s family history and doubts about his father rescuing him. Luo Chen moved the Luo Tian Sect’s surviving disciples to Wind Flower Palace for shelter, then departed alone while Wind Flower Immortal agreed to pass along news from the front.

• Luo Chen sensed the turmoil in Primordial Qi, and Black King confirmed that Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven had acted near Soaring Sky Pass before the disturbance stopped.
• Luo Chen ordered the Luo Tian Sect to stay on Great Green Mountain, then questioned Di Tu and learned that Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven wanted to raise Gao Chang to Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen caught Di Tu lying about whether his father would rescue him, and Di Tu explained his father’s bloodthirsty past, his favored eldest son Huang Man, and his hidden youngest daughter.
• Luo Chen told Di Tu to guard Great Green Mountain while he led the Luo Tian Sect’s cultivators to Wind Flower Palace, where Wind Flower Immortal welcomed them and accepted a Demon Emperor corpse as a gift.
• Wind Flower Immortal provided Green Duckweed Mountain as a refuge for the Luo Tian Sect, and Luo Chen gave her a communication jade talisman before departing alone.

Qu Lingjun received Longevity Spring from Sima Hui Niang and resolved to break through to the Golden Core Stage, while Luo Chen secretly watched Di Tu and traveled to the Dieyun Region to recover. In Flowing Cloud True Person’s cave mansion, Luo Chen discovered that using the Wither Bloom Dao Finger with depleted mana let him control World Vitality.

• Sima Hui Niang gave Qu Lingjun the Longevity Spring Luo Chen had left for him, and Qu Lingjun vowed to form his core so he could face his master without disappointing him.
• Di Tu considered escaping from Great Green Mountain, but Luo Chen’s hidden puppet, Jin San, watched him and kept him from daring to flee.
• Luo Chen entered the weakened Dieyun Sect unnoticed and settled in Flowing Cloud True Person’s former cave mansion on Flowing Cloud Mountain.
• Luo Chen concealed new formations in the cave mansion and began recovering after the battle at Hundred Mile Green River had nearly exhausted his mana.
• Luo Chen tested the Wither Bloom Dao Finger with depleted mana and found that he could control World Vitality.

Luo Chen narrowly avoided being assimilated by heaven and earth while testing how Divine Abilities drew on Primordial Qi, then spent three years cultivating in the Dieyun Sect and developing a Fire Escape Technique. On his three-hundredth birthday, he received a message ordering him to visit Black Marsh Old Ancestor at Soaring Sky Pass.

• Luo Chen used the Wither Bloom Dao Finger to draw on Primordial Qi, but his Split Soul awakened him before his Nascent Soul could be assimilated, and he concluded that Nascent Soul Cultivators could not safely explore Divine Abilities too deeply.
• Luo Chen explained why he had left the Luo Tian Sect, describing how he kept Di Tu at Great Green Mountain under the protection of a Puppet Dao clone to shield his sect from Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven.
• Kang Le Dao failed once again to break the formation protecting Flowing Cloud True Person's cave dwelling, while Luo Chen studied its books and used the Cloud-Pattern Restriction to develop a Fire Escape Technique.
• Three peaceful years passed at the Dieyun Sect, where Luo Chen's cultivation advanced and he celebrated his three-hundredth birthday with Black King over Bitter Gan Li Wine.
• Luo Chen received a message reporting that Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven and Ming Abyss Black Marsh Old Ancestor had agreed to a three-year truce, and that the Soaring Sky City Lord had summoned him to visit Black Marsh Old Ancestor.

Kang Le Dao recovered the Dieyun Sect’s Wine God Art and discovered three Nascent Soul Pills left by Luo Chen, giving the sect hope of revival. After returning to Ji Hua Mountain, Luo Chen learned about the devastating Soaring Sky Pass battle and impending ceasefire, then rode Golden Tiger into Soaring Sky Pass to meet the Ming Abyss Old Ancestor.

• Kang Le Dao found the Wine God Art and three Nascent Soul Pills in Flowing Cloud True Person’s cave abode, and realized Dieyun Sect could produce another Nascent Soul True Person.
• Luo Chen crossed into the Wind Flower Region and reunited with Wind Flower Immortal, who praised the Luo Tian Sect’s growth and reported the heavy losses at Soaring Sky Pass.
• Wind Flower Immortal told Luo Chen that Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven and Black Marsh Old Ancestor had clashed, and that the Human and Demon Races were preparing a ceasefire treaty that might address Di Tu.
• Luo Chen ordered Di Tu to carry him openly toward Soaring Sky Pass, using the journey to display his captured Demon Emperor and strengthen his reputation.
• Luo Chen and Golden Tiger entered the ruined Soaring Sky Pass as returning cultivators watched and paid their respects.

Luo Chen accepted Black Marsh Old Ancestor’s offer to join the Mingyuan Sect after securing a place for the Luo Tian Sect, but Black Marsh secretly placed a divine mark between his brows. Back at Danluo Mountain, Luo Chen suspected the offer concealed a warning and realized Black Marsh’s mention of thirty-six domains could signal a change to the coming negotiations at Biyou Mountain.

• Black Marsh Old Ancestor summoned Luo Chen to Heaven Water Hall, questioned him about Chu Yan, and offered him generous terms to join the Mingyuan Sect.
• Luo Chen agreed to join Mingyuan after Black Marsh promised land for the Luo Tian Sect, and Black Marsh placed a droplet of divine power between Luo Chen’s brows and kept Di Tu behind.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord welcomed Luo Chen as a fellow disciple and hosted a banquet where Mingyuan Sect cultivators honored him.
• Luo Chen returned to Danluo Mountain and concluded that the mark was a restraint rather than protection, while resolving to settle the Luo Tian Sect away from Mingyuan.
• Luo Chen questioned Black Marsh’s reference to the Eastern Wilderness Thirty-Six Domains, since only twenty-one were under Human Race control, and wondered whether the Biyou Mountain negotiations would change.

Luo Chen sent Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and Fu Old an eight-word message urging them to wait before pursuing Spirit Lands, then joined the human delegation heading to Biyou Mountain for ceasefire negotiations. The chapter left the delegates facing Lord of Pacifying Mountains and five commander-rank Great Demon Emperors.

• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and Fu Old worried that Luo Chen would not help them secure Spirit Lands, but Black King delivered his message: “Hold our position and await heaven's designs.”
• Five years after the final Soaring Sky Pass Battle, Luo Chen received a summons and joined Black Marsh Old Ancestor's delegation to Biyou Mountain.
• Black Marsh Old Ancestor returned Golden Tiger Di Tu to Luo Chen and instructed him to remove Di Tu's Servant Seal and hand over his Soul Blood during the negotiations.
• Luo Chen traveled with Thunder Dao Child, Soaring Sky City Lord, Heavenly Capital Child, and Divine Origin True Person to meet the Demon Race delegation.
• Lord of Pacifying Mountains confronted the human delegation at Biyou Mountain, and Luo Chen realized the five figures behind him were commander-rank Great Demon Emperors.