Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen attended negotiations between the Human and Demon Races, where the leaders agreed on territorial concessions and began drafting a new covenant. Black Marsh Old Ancestor then revealed his treachery and attacked Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven, turning the negotiations into a battle that trapped everyone on Biyou Mountain.

• Luo Chen recognized Brocade Immortal, Huang Man, Arrogant Deceit, Bi Zheng, and Centipede among the Demon Race’s Great Demon Emperors.
• Black Marsh Old Ancestor and Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven negotiated a truce, with Nine Spirits Domain and other territories assigned and a Founding War permitted once every five hundred years.
• Luo Chen released Di Tu from his control, while Thunder Dao Child freed the Tiger Spirit, and the Spirit Transformation leaders marked and exchanged the covenant scrolls.
• Black Marsh Old Ancestor refused to surrender the Human Race’s claimed domains and secretly warned Heavenly Capital Child to run.
• Black Marsh Old Ancestor attacked Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven as Qing He Xian and two hidden allies joined the battle, while the others fled and Biyou Mountain was crushed by surging World Vitality.

As Spirit Transformation powers fought over the Azure Sky Domain, Luo Chen escaped to Tai Lake Domain, where the pursuing Commander Centipede attacked him. Luo Chen fought back without access to Triple Hell, while a second dark presence moved beneath the lake.

• Black Marsh Old Ancestor, Yu Ming, and Tian Yuan trapped Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven in the Netherworld Yellow Springs Diagram while Qing He Xian faced the Zhou Tian Star Array and Thunder Dao Child’s lightning.
• Luo Chen escaped the World Vitality storm to the Nine Spirits Domain, witnessed its destruction, and continued to Tai Lake Domain to restore his Mana at Tai Lake Palace.
• Commander Centipede fled the battle, spotted Luo Chen at the palace, and attacked him, but Luo Chen’s Sword Qi wounded his arm.
• Luo Chen found that turbulent Primordial Qi prevented him from using Triple Hell and cut apart Commander Centipede’s giant hand with the Yuan Tu Blood Sword.
• Commander Centipede transformed into a colossal centipede wielding more than a hundred Magic Treasures, as Luo Chen prepared to face him and noticed another dark shape moving beneath Tai Lake.

Luo Chen fought the Centipede Great Demon Emperor through a prolonged battle at Tai Lake, revealing his five-hundred-zhang true body and overcoming Centipede’s Mana-suppressing traps. After Centipede’s body was cut apart, Luo Chen survived his Soul Weaving Needle and killed his Nascent Soul with the Wither Bloom Dao Finger, with a phantom python assisting him.

• Centipede attacked Luo Chen with an arsenal of stolen Magic Treasures, and Luo Chen transformed into a nine-zhang giant to fight back.
• Centipede trapped Luo Chen with the Law Suppressing Five Elements Cones, suppressing his Mana and gaining the upper hand.
• Luo Chen released his five-hundred-zhang true body and drove Centipede into Tai Lake, where they battled with their bodies, swords, a cauldron, and a mountain.
• Luo Chen broke Centipede’s Great Mountain True Artifact and Mingyuan Sect True Artifact Flying Sword, then split Centipede’s body with the Blood Sword.
• Centipede struck Luo Chen with a Soul Weaving Needle and fled, but Luo Chen unsealed his Mana and a phantom python distracted Centipede.
• Luo Chen struck Centipede’s Nascent Soul with the Wither Bloom Dao Finger, killing him, and the phantom python addressed Luo Chen as Master.

After defeating Centipede, Luo Chen reunited with Bai Mei Ling and learned how the Nine Nether Enchanting Python’s soul fragments had changed her. He preserved Yuan Xiaoyue’s body and fled Tai Lake, then waited on Skyscraper Cliff for signs that the Spirit Transformation Wars had ended.

• Luo Chen recovered the Law Suppressing Five Elements Cones as Bai Mei Ling told him how she became a Fourth-Order Ghost Emperor after the demon tide separated her from the Luo Tian Sect.
• Bai Mei Ling led Luo Chen to Yuan Xiaoyue’s body and explained that she had devoured a wandering spirit inhabiting it, which was a fragment of the Nine Nether Enchanting Python’s soul.
• Luo Chen placed Yuan Xiaoyue’s body in an ice coffin, promised to help Bai Mei Ling with the lingering soul fragments, and left Tai Lake with her and Black King.
• Luo Chen saw the Spirit Transformation Wars still disturbing Tai Lake and settled on Skyscraper Cliff to monitor the flow of World Vitality.
• After three days of fighting, Luo Chen sensed the disturbance vanish and wondered whether the Spirit Transformation Wars had ended.

After the battle at Biyou Mountain, Luo Chen returned through domains devastated by Spirit Transformation combat and discovered that the Azure Sky Domain had become a lethal realm of Metal Element Law True Intent. He reunited with Ling Fengzi and learned of the Mingyuan Sect’s heavy losses, then received an invitation to enter Soaring Sky Pass.

• Luo Chen crossed the drought-stricken Tai Lake Domain and found the Nine Spirits Domain transformed into a vast sea, which Nine Spirits Yuan Jun later named Level Mountain Sea.
• At the edge of the Azure Sky Domain, Luo Chen recognized its chaotic Metal Element Law True Intent and suspected Ancient Demon Emperor Heaven had fallen; sensing Di Tu inside, he chose not to enter, while a wounded golden tiger wept in the depths.
• After the battle ended, the Azure Sky Domain became forbidden, Fire Ridge erupted into a realm of flames, and the Tai Lake and Nine Spirits domains were left devastated.
• Ling Fengzi searched for Luo Chen, found him in an empty valley, and reported that the Luo Tian Sect was safe and the Mingyuan Sect had lost twelve Nascent Soul True Persons.
• Luo Chen and Ling Fengzi returned to Soaring Sky Pass, where a weak voice invited Luo Chen inside for a talk.

Luo Chen met with the Soaring Sky City Lord, learned that the Mingyuan Sect had placed its Heaven One Gives Birth to Water Divine Ability on him, and agreed to join the sect after arranging his people. He reunited with Bai Mei Ling, prepared the Luo Tian Sect for its founding war, and left the chapter as the sect recruited vassals to reclaim territory.

• Luo Chen entered Soaring Sky Pass and met with Senior Brother Ye, who explained that the droplet mark on Luo Chen’s brow was the Mingyuan Sect’s Heaven One Gives Birth to Water Divine Ability and warned him not to harbor divided loyalties.
• Senior Brother Ye told Luo Chen that Qing He Xian had been defeated and taken to the Ming Abyss Holy Land, where the sect intended to use her as a resource.
• Luo Chen returned to Wind Flower Palace and revealed that Bai Mei Ling had survived inside the Soul Nourishing Banner and now possessed strength comparable to a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Wind Flower Immortal promised to support the Luo Tian Sect’s founding war, and Luo Chen agreed to arrange his sect members before accompanying Senior Brother Ye to the Ming Abyss Holy Land.
• Senior Brother Ye announced the Mingyuan Sect’s counteroffensive and issued permission for Nascent Soul Upper Sects to wage Founding Wars, while the Luo Tian Sect recruited vassals for its campaign.

Divine Fire Zhenren prepared the Five Elements Divine Sect to reclaim its old domain, while Luo Chen gathered allies and resources for the Luo Tian Sect’s Founding War. Luo Chen revealed that the Pioneering Decree let him choose any domain as the sect’s new home, including the Five Elements Domain.

• Divine Origin True Person agreed to help Divine Fire Zhenren reclaim the Five Elements Domain, and Divine Fire organized preparations and sought allies.
• Several sects joined the Five Elements Divine Sect, but Divine Fire learned that only five Golden Core factions would follow it, as many smaller factions favored Luo Chen’s call instead.
• Li Yingzhang and Yao Mingyue recruited Golden Core factions for the Luo Tian Sect, and Li agreed to receive Tao Wan of Azure Pill Valley because of her history with Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen restored part of a damaged Bronze Mirror and reviewed the Magic Treasures and True Artifacts he planned to leave as the Luo Tian Sect’s legacy.
• Ling Fengzi told Luo Chen that six Nascent Soul Upper Sects had agreed to join the Luo Tian Sect’s campaign, while Jade Cauldron Sword Sect planned to merge with Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion.
• Luo Chen showed Ling Fengzi the Pioneering Decree and marked it with a location, explaining that the Luo Tian Sect could establish its mountain gate in any domain.

Tao Wan secured Azure Pill Valley’s participation in the Founding War and gave Luo Chen the promised Nascent Soul Pill Formula and a formation record. After preparing the Luo Tian Sect and setting out aboard Heavenly Capital Sect’s Heavenly River Soaring Void Ship, Luo Chen learned that Skyscraper Cliff and the Five Elements Divine Sect could contest the Skyscraper Domain.

• Li Yingzhang told Tao Wan that Azure Pill Valley could join the Founding War and choose a Third-Order Spirit Land afterward, and Tao Wan gave him Azure Pill Valley’s promised treasures for Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen accepted the Nascent Soul Pill Formula and Five Peaks Cover Valley formation record, then gave Ling Fengzi the Binding Golden Rope and Wang Yuan the Thunderbolt Gauntlets while reclaiming Hundred Refinements Mountain to reforge it.
• Luo Chen used the Heavenly River Soaring Void Ship to lead the Luo Tian Sect and Wind Flower Palace cultivators toward Skyscraper Domain.
• Wind Flower Immortal revealed that Skyscraper Cliff was returning to its homeland and that the Five Elements Divine Sect planned to use the domain as a rear base, making them the Luo Tian Sect’s likely opponents.

Peacock Island chose to support Luo Tian Sect’s Founding War as Luo Chen assembled a vast coalition and led it toward Skyscraper Cliff. Skyscraper Old Ghost confronted the arriving army at the border, accusing the Pill Sect of going too far.

• The Peacock Island Sect Master and his elder decided to rebuild their sect and join Luo Tian Sect’s Founding War after seeing its forces pass overhead.
• The Heavenly River Soaring Void Ship gathered the Sword Sect, Mount Tai Sect, Divine Talisman Sect, Nine Spirits Sect, and Idle Crane True Person’s cultivators as Luo Chen met with their leaders.
• Luo Chen told the gathered True Persons that they would avoid a full-scale battle but would fight Skyscraper Cliff’s Great Cultivator under his command.
• The coalition traveled through the damaged regions left by the Spirit Transformation Wars and arrived at Skyscraper Cliff with more than one hundred thousand cultivators.
• Skyscraper Old Ghost gathered his cultivators at the boundary stele and shouted, “Pill Sect, you have gone too far!”

Luo Chen and Divine Origin True Person agreed to settle the dispute over Skyscraper Domain through three battles between Nascent Soul cultivators. Wang Yuan defeated Skyscraper Old Ghost in the first bout, leaving Luo Chen’s side with the lead as Divine Origin True Person rescued Old Ghost’s Nascent Soul.

• Luo Chen proposed that each side choose three fighters to decide who would claim Skyscraper Domain, and Divine Origin True Person accepted.
• Luo Chen assigned Wang Yuan to fight Skyscraper Old Ghost, Nine Spirits Yuan Jun to face Peng Xiang True Person, and himself to challenge Divine Origin True Person in the third bout.
• At the Tai Lake Domain border, Wang Yuan used his Thunderbolt Gauntlets and Exploding Void Step to overwhelm Skyscraper Old Ghost despite Old Ghost’s spells and Magic Treasures.
• Wang Yuan summoned Skyscraper Hundred Refinements Mountain and crushed Old Ghost’s body beneath it, then nearly destroyed his Nascent Soul after Old Ghost conceded.
• Divine Origin True Person rescued Skyscraper Old Ghost’s Nascent Soul, and Luo Chen declared that Luo Tian Sect had won the first bout.

Wang Yuan defeated Skyscraper Old Ghost, and Nine Spirits Yuan Jun beat Daoist Peng Xiang, securing the Skyscraper Domain for Luo Tian Sect. After the other cultivators prepared to withdraw, Luo Chen challenged Divine Origin True Person to a one-move contest, and Divine Origin accepted.

• Wang Yuan used his body-refinement strength and two True Artifacts to defeat Skyscraper Old Ghost, clearing away his lingering humiliation and boosting his prospects of advancing to the Fourth Realm of Body Refining.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun fought Daoist Peng Xiang through spells, treasures, and the Great Nine Heavens Xiao River, then won after Peng Xiang conceded.
• Luo Tian Sect claimed the Skyscraper Domain after winning both battles, and the cultivators of Skyscraper Cliff were told to withdraw and seek another domain for their Founding War.
• Luo Chen stopped the withdrawal and challenged Divine Origin True Person to exchange one move, prompting alarm among his allies and curiosity among the other sects.
• After Skyscraper Old Ghost urged him to fight and Peng Xiang and Divine Fire Zhenren advised restraint, Divine Origin True Person accepted Luo Chen's challenge.

Luo Chen clashed with Divine Origin True Person over their old grievances, then agreed to let the matter go after their ultimate moves canceled each other out. He established the Luo Tian Sect in the Skyscraper Domain, while Fu Old’s remark about Divine Origin’s changed appearance left Luo Chen wondering who the old cultivator resembled.

• Divine Origin True Person asked Luo Chen to set aside the past, but Luo Chen challenged him to fight first.
• Luo Chen gathered World Vitality and unleashed his Wither Bloom Dao Finger, while Divine Origin True Person countered with a blue-green circle of vitality.
• Their moves shattered against each other, and the two cultivators exchanged compliments before agreeing to wipe the slate clean.
• Divine Origin True Person departed with the Five Elements Divine Sect, while Luo Chen’s allies began clearing Demon Beasts from the Skyscraper Domain.
• Luo Chen chose to keep the name Skyscraper Cliff, promised to help Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and Fu Old establish their mountain gates, and listened as Fu Old said Divine Origin resembled someone else.

Luo Chen investigated the suspected fate of Lingmu True Person and planned how the Luo Tian Sect would consolidate its new domain. He then helped relocate a spirit mountain, while Tao Wan warned Tao Yisheng against offending Luo Chen as a mountain-bearing Nascent Soul True Person approached.

• Luo Chen concluded that Divine Origin True Person had likely harmed Lingmu True Person, then burned his portrait and turned to plans for the Luo Tian Sect’s new domain.
• Sima Hui Niang described the sect’s expansion and the fighting among smaller forces, and Luo Chen sent Wang Yuan and Min Longyu to mediate by assigning spirit veins for factions to share.
• Luo Chen, Nine Spirits Yuan Jun, Fu Old, and Deng Taiyue moved a Tier 3 Spirit Mountain from Level Mountain Sea toward the Luo Tian Domain, with Fu Old suppressing the sea and Deng Taiyue lifting the mountain.
• Tao Yisheng complained that Azure Pill Valley had received too little territory, but Tao Wan told him to respect Luo Chen and accept their new home.
• Tao Wan saw a towering mountain approaching beneath the moon and asked whether Tao Yisheng meant to argue with a Nascent Soul True Person.

Luo Chen established Luo Tian Sect’s mountain gate in the Skyscraper Domain and hosted a celebratory feast as Mingyuan Sect expanded its influence around him. After the guests departed, Gu Zuokai delivered a reply from Heavenly Mountain True Person and warned that the Star Gate would treat Luo Chen’s departure as betrayal; Luo Chen resolved to let Mingyuan Sect bear the resulting pressure.

• Luo Chen unveiled Luo Tian Hall and declared that Luo Tian Upper Sect would establish its mountain gate in the Skyscraper Domain, prompting jubilant cheers from its cultivators.
• Luo Chen hosted the attending Nascent Soul True Persons and learned that the Nine Spirits Sect was still scouting the Medicine King Sect’s former territory.
• Lin Yonghua and Gu Hong arrived on behalf of Mingyuan Sect and their families, revealing that they had settled in PiaoMiao and Misty Ancient Islet and urging Luo Chen to join Mingyuan Sect soon.
• After the banquet, Luo Chen walked through the newly planned sect grounds and reflected that it might be time for him to leave.
• Gu Zuokai confronted Luo Chen about betraying the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, then gave him Heavenly Mountain True Person’s reply and warned that the Star Gate Council of Elders would not ignore his actions.
• Luo Chen accepted the jade box and decided that since Mingyuan Sect had forcibly recruited him, it should bear the pressure from the Heaven Origin Dao Sect.

Luo Chen learned that Sima Hui Niang’s Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu would become a Demon Heart Gu and studied a bloodline method to remove it. As he built up Luo Tian Sect and helped launch two other sects’ campaigns across the Far Eastern Six Domains, Hui Niang told him she was pregnant, leaving Yao Mingyue unsettled by his reaction.

• Luo Chen read Heavenly Mountain True Person’s letter and learned that Hui Niang’s Spiritual Rhinoceros Gu would transform into a Demon Heart Gu, for which a bloodline method offered the most feasible cure.
• Luo Chen met Fu Old and Nine Spirits Yuan Jun, agreed to send Ling Fengzi and Wang Yuan to support their campaigns, and promised pills and further assistance.
• Luo Chen saw off the two factions’ forces as they set out to open the Medicine King Domain and the Divine Talisman Domain together.
• Luo Chen managed Luo Tian Sect’s development, released Black King and the Dragon Earthworms into its spiritual lands, designated a peak for Bai Mei Ling, and organized cultivation methods as sect inheritance.
• Sima Hui Niang told Luo Chen she was pregnant, and he responded with tenderness and offered to help nourish the fetus.
• Yao Mingyue noticed Luo Chen’s complicated, apparently cold look at Hui Niang’s belly, then fell silent when he gave her a chilling glance.

Luo Chen dealt with Yao Mingyue after she revealed Sima Hui Niang’s pregnancy, then arranged for the Demon Heart Gu to transfer from Hui Niang to their unborn child. He waited at Skyscraper Cliff as Hui Niang’s pregnancy progressed, and ten months later, a formation’s light rose there.

• Luo Tian Sect celebrated Sima Hui Niang’s pregnancy, believing Luo Chen’s heir would secure the sect’s future after he left for Mingyuan Sect.
• Luo Chen confronted Yao Mingyue for spreading the news and ordered her to enter ten years of seclusion to stabilize her Golden Core.
• Luo Chen told Gu Cai Yi that Hui Niang was two months pregnant and explained that he had arranged for her to rest and recover.
• Luo Chen activated the Nurturing Spirit Flower Array to guide the Demon Heart Gu away from Hui Niang and into the embryo.
• Luo Chen remained at Skyscraper Cliff, studied Collection of Profound Paths, and spoke with Hui Niang as her pregnancy advanced.
• Ten months later, a formation’s light rose from the ground on Skyscraper Cliff.

Sima Hui Niang gave birth to a son, and Luo Chen nearly killed the child because he believed it carried the Demon Heart Gu. The infant’s cry broke through Luo Chen’s demonic delusion; he accepted the child as his own, named him Luo Lingxi, and went to tell the sect, where an urgent message reached him.

• Golden Core Cultivators gathered outside Skyscraper Cliff as Su E helped Sima Hui Niang through a difficult labor.
• Luo Chen stopped Su E from cutting Sima Hui Niang open and used his power to help the child be born naturally.
• Su E delivered a boy with an ominous red glow, and Luo Chen healed her before ordering her to keep the birth secret.
• Luo Chen prepared to kill the infant, but the child’s cry and Sima Hui Niang’s pleas made him reconsider and embrace his son.
• Luo Chen and Sima Hui Niang named the child Luo Lingxi, and Luo Chen announced that mother and child were safe to the waiting cultivators.
• Luo Chen received a Jade Slip whose flashing spirit light signaled an urgent matter.

After receiving Ling Fengzi’s warning that Nine Spirits Yuan Jun was in danger, Luo Chen left Skyscraper Cliff and traveled to the Medicine King Domain. There he learned that Ox Demon and four Demon Emperors had trapped Nine Spirits Yuan Jun in a formation over the Accumulation Void Flower, and prepared to break through it.

• Luo Chen crushed Ling Fengzi’s message pendant, summoned Black King, and entrusted Bai Mei Ling and Li Yingzhang with protecting Skyscraper Cliff, Sima Hui Niang, and their child before departing.
• During the journey, Luo Chen traced his sudden urge to kill his son to the Wither Bloom Dao Finger’s connection to World Vitality and suspected that Divine Origin True Person had also been affected by it.
• Luo Chen spotted someone collecting souls with a method he had secretly introduced at Soaring Sky Pass and considered eventually splitting off a third Split Soul.
• At the Medicine King Domain, Ling Fengzi told Luo Chen that Nine Spirits Yuan Jun had seized the near-Tier 5 Accumulation Void Flower before Ox Demon and four Demon Emperors trapped him in a refining formation.
• Luo Chen learned that the Accumulation Void Flower could support a Small World or allow a cultivator to form a Second Purple Mansion and Nascent Soul, then strode forward to break the formation by force.

Luo Chen broke the Five-Demon Formation and joined Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and the other Nascent Soul experts in battle against Ox Demon and the remaining Demon Emperors. As Luo Chen fought Ox Demon to a standstill, Ox Demon revealed his true form and trapped him inside a Bone Mountain while two immense attacks struck from outside.

• Luo Chen's Azure Sun Great Handprint shattered the formation, killed one Demon Emperor, and freed Nine Spirits Yuan Jun.
• Luo Chen and the allied Nascent Soul experts confronted Ox Demon and the other three Demon Emperors, with each group taking on an opponent.
• Divine Origin True Person revealed that he planned to seize Luo Chen's body, and said Bi Zheng was also moving against him.
• Luo Chen fought Ox Demon with Triple Hell, the Primal Chaos Cauldron, the Yuan Tu Sword, and the Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Ox Demon transformed and raised a Bone Mountain that broke through Luo Chen's sword formation, trapping him as two immense attacks came crashing in.

Luo Chen fought three Great Demon Emperors who had joined forces to kill him, while Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and the others tried to keep the battle from overwhelming him. After awakening the Yuan Tu Sword Spirit and surviving another brutal assault, Luo Chen summoned a Heavenly Tribulation, leaving the demons facing a new danger.

• Ox Demon, Bi Zheng, and Huang Man attacked Luo Chen together, leaving him badly wounded and damaging the Primal Chaos Cauldron and Profound Dust Armor.
• Nine Spirits Yuan Jun refused to abandon Luo Chen and engaged Ox Demon, while Ling Fengzi, Idle Crane True Person, and Crane Emperor intercepted the other Demon Emperors.
• Luo Chen fought Bi Zheng and Huang Man with the Yuan Tu Sword, and Black King protected him from Huang Man's stone staff.
• Luo Chen fed Essence Blood to the Yuan Tu Sword, awakening its Spirit and allowing it to damage Bi Zheng's curved blade.
• Huang Man's attack sent Luo Chen crashing into a surging Great River, but Luo Chen then called lightning from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Dark clouds gathered over the battlefield, and Bi Zheng and Huang Man recognized that a Heavenly Tribulation had begun.