Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen used the Elk Thunder Beast, Wither Bloom Dao Finger, Crimson Sky Sword Qi, and Flourishing Decay Divine Fire to drive off Bi Zheng and kill Huang Man, but Divine Origin True Person’s attempt to seize his body ended in a sudden retreat. The chapter left Luo Chen face-to-face with Cangwu Qing Shuang, whose arrival made him instinctively step back.

• Luo Chen released the Elk Thunder Beast from the Primal Chaos Cauldron, and it gathered power in the thunderclouds until Bi Zheng and Huang Man destroyed it with their attacks.
• Luo Chen struck Bi Zheng with Wither and Flourishing and Crimson Sky Sword Qi, forcing him to flee, while Huang Man’s blow was stopped by Black Marsh Old Ancestor’s Heaven One Gives Birth to Water.
• Luo Chen resumed fighting Huang Man, and their battle devastated the Medicine King Domain as Black King helped Luo Chen gain a narrow advantage.
• Luo Chen unleashed the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, which extinguished Huang Man’s attack, burned his body, and incinerated his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Divine Origin True Person moved to attack the exhausted Luo Chen, but abruptly stopped and fled as Cangwu Qing Shuang appeared beside the wounded Nine Spirits Yuan Jun and took the Accumulation Void Flower.
• Cangwu Qing Shuang met Luo Chen’s eyes, and the giant Luo Chen instinctively stepped backward.

Luo Chen fled Qing Shuang across the Far Eastern Six Domains, but she drove him to Great Snow Mountain and overwhelmed him in a fight. After Luo Chen wounded her with the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, he was left exhausted as Qing Shuang confronted him again.

• Qing Shuang pursued Luo Chen from the Medicine King Domain toward Cangwu Mountain, while Nine Spirits Yuan Jun survived and Ling Fengzi arrived to ask where Luo Chen had gone.
• Luo Chen fled through the Joyful Union Domain and into the Jade Cauldron Domain, using Fire Escape and Golden Wind Jade Dew Wine to keep ahead of Qing Shuang.
• At the Mingyuan Sect, Black Marsh Old Ancestor discovered that his protective Divine Ability on Luo Chen had been activated, and Tian Yuan Old Ancestor sent an incarnation to find him.
• Qing Shuang cornered Luo Chen at Great Snow Mountain and battered him despite the protective Water Screen, while Luo Chen's attacks and Black King's charge failed to stop her.
• Luo Chen unleashed the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire and burned Qing Shuang's left hand, but the effort drained his mana and Source Power; Qing Shuang appeared again and asked whether he had anything left.

Luo Chen survived his battle with Qing Shuang by merging his Nascent Soul with the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, then agreed to travel with her to Cangwu Mountain because Qixia Yuanjun wanted something from him. Meanwhile, Tian Yuan Old Ancestor learned of trouble involving the Pill Sect and set out with Ye Lingtian to investigate, leaving the story headed toward the Luo Tian Domain.

• Luo Chen used Black King to hide underground, then unleashed a Phoenix formed from his Nascent Soul and the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire against Qing Shuang, who withdrew into the void.
• Qing Shuang told Luo Chen that Qixia Yuanjun wanted to see him and wanted something from him, then brought him aboard a flying vessel bound for the White Bone Dao Palace.
• Luo Chen and Qing Shuang used the Teleportation Array to leave the White Bone Dao Palace, while the White Bone Mysterious Snake remained behind.
• Tian Yuan Old Ancestor visited the injured Soaring Sky City Lord and revealed that he had come for Luo Chen, the Pill Saint’s successor.
• After receiving an urgent message that something had happened to the Pill Sect, Tian Yuan Old Ancestor took Ye Lingtian toward the Luo Tian Domain to meet Lin Yonghua and Gu Hong.

Luo Chen returned to Cangwu Mountain with Qing Shuang, where He Qingzi arranged a cave abode for him and he began recovering from his injuries while examining his treasures. His cultivation was interrupted when Nether Spring arrived outside his cave, and he invited her in for a talk.

• Qing Shuang brought Luo Chen to Cangwu Mountain and left him at Truth Crossing Hall, where He Qingzi welcomed him and showed him to a luxurious cave abode.
• Luo Chen examined the bluish-white flame, the Jade Box, and the Primal Chaos Cauldron, discovering that the cauldron's severe cracks had begun to heal on their own.
• Black King emerged from Luo Chen's body, took healing pills, and admitted that Cangwu Mountain's powerful Feather Race made him feel uneasy.
• Luo Chen began cultivating to recover, while Lei Yu came to his cave and demanded that he come out; He Qingzi told Lei Yu that Luo Chen had defeated Seven Horns and killed Huang Man Centipede.
• Nether Spring arrived at Luo Chen's cave, ordered Lei Yu and He Qingzi away, and accepted Luo Chen's invitation to speak.

Luo Chen agreed to refine Transformation Pills for Nether Spring and learned that Hua Mei had become a talented alchemist under his influence. As news arrived that Yuan Jun had awakened, Luo Chen was summoned to Profound Understanding Hall in three days.

• Luo Chen explained that Nether Spring’s incomplete transformation came from the Transformation Pill Recipe’s limitations and promised to refine a corrected batch in three days.
• Tian Yuan Old Ancestor found Luo Chen near Cangwu Mountain, then detonated his incarnation to escape a mysterious force and warned Soaring Sky City Lord that Qixia had returned.
• Hua Mei visited Luo Chen, explained how his public pill demonstrations had inspired her, and revealed that Nether Spring had helped her cultivate Tier 3 demon cultivators into Nascent Soul blood sources.
• Luo Chen asked Hua Mei which Golden Core captives had survived, but a voice transmission announced that Yuan Jun had awakened and ordered Luo Chen to report to Profound Understanding Hall in three days.

Luo Chen met Qixia Yuanjun at Cangwu Mountain and gave her the Pill Recipe for the Dao Unification Pill. She granted him an opportunity by sending a streak of fire into him, then told him he had taken the wrong path.

• Nether Spring completed her transformation, examined Luo Chen's recovery, and deduced that he had completed the second nirvana of the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture.
• The doors of Profound Understanding Hall opened, and Nether Spring led Luo Chen inside to meet Qixia Yuanjun.
• Luo Chen recognized Moon Rogue as the maid who had opened the hall doors and learned that Qixia Yuanjun had taken her in.
• Qixia Yuanjun asked Luo Chen for the Dao Unification Pill and its Pill Recipe, and he handed her a Jade Box containing the recipe.
• Qixia Yuanjun said she could not open the Jade Box yet, then sent a streak of fire into Luo Chen and told him he had taken the wrong path.

Qixia Yuanjun revealed that Luo Chen’s reliance on the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire had led him onto a conflicting cultivation path and slowed his progress. After she gave him the means to correct it, Luo Chen returned to his cave abode and discovered the complete later stages of the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, leaving him ready to study how to regain control of his fire.

• Qixia Yuanjun explained that the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire had influenced Luo Chen’s cultivation and caused his Wood Element True Intent to conflict with his Fire Spirit Body.
• Luo Chen realized that his shortcut through the Wither and Bloom Dao Scripture could obstruct his future breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Stage, and Qixia Yuanjun told him the answer lay in the spark she had given him.
• Qixia Yuanjun dismissed Luo Chen after receiving the Dao Unification Pill Recipe, while Nether Spring and Moon Rogue discussed his departure and the vacant Truth Crossing Hall Master position.
• Luo Chen returned to his cave abode on Cangwu Mountain and examined the golden spark within his Purple Mansion, which subdued the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire.
• Luo Chen learned the later Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, and Body Integration stages of the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture and saw a way to control the fires under heaven.

Fiend Dragon Child learned from Black King that Luo Chen was alive, and Wang Yuan quietly took charge of the sect until his return. At Cangwu Mountain, Luo Chen attempted Divine Soul Nirvana to overcome the barrier to the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, and a golden flame appeared after nine days.

• Fiend Dragon Child met Black King, who revealed that Luo Chen was alive and ordered him to tell only Wang Yuan.
• Wang Yuan told Fiend Dragon Child to postpone the Ascension Immortal Assembly and halt recruitment until Luo Chen returned.
• Luo Chen struggled to enter the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture and suspected that Divine Soul Nirvana was the remaining barrier.
• Luo Chen separated his Main Soul from his body and began the final nirvana using his first Split Soul.
• Qixia Yuanjun sensed Luo Chen's attempt and expected it to fail, but on the ninth day a phantom golden flame rose from Truth Crossing Hall.

Luo Chen completed the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, awakened the Nirvana Sacred Fire, advanced to the Nascent Soul Fifth Layer, and mastered the Prison Suppression soul art. After repairing his Profound Dust Armor and leaving a new Transformation Pill recipe with Hua Mei, he departed Cangwu Mountain with Black King.

• Luo Chen’s cultivation awakened the Nirvana Sacred Fire, which saved his second Split Soul and brought the Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture to Entry Level.
• Luo Chen repaired the Profound Dust Armor, cultivated for seven years, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Fifth Layer.
• Luo Chen divided his Main Soul to create a third Split Soul and completed the Prison Suppression soul art.
• Luo Chen visited Profound Understanding Hall but found Qixia Yuanjun absent, then gave Hua Mei a new Transformation Pill recipe that could be used on Fourth Order demon beasts.
• Luo Chen left Cangwu Mountain, and Black King emerged from the ground and vanished into his arm.

Luo Chen passed up the chance to confront Divine Origin True Person, while Divine Fire secured resources and a secret art for ten Golden Core disciples. At Skyscraper Cliff, Sima Hui Niang kept her son Luo Lingxi from cultivating, just as Luo Chen returned beneath the moonlight.

• Luo Chen surveyed Five Elements Mountain and told Black King that he would settle accounts with Divine Origin True Person when the time was right.
• Divine Origin True Person gave Divine Fire forty portions of Five Elements Spirit Marrow and an unfamiliar secret art after intimidating him and the ten disciples.
• Divine Fire shared the resources among the disciples, including Qi Emei and Yao Hong, but decided to study the secret art before making copies.
• Luo Chen declined to visit Nine Spirits Yuan Jun in the Joyful Union Domain because she needed time to recover from their battle.
• Qin Yuanjiang let Luo Lingxi ride a modified Black Tiger puppet, while Sima Hui Niang resisted her son's wish to cultivate and feared what might happen before his father returned.
• Sima Hui Niang saw Luo Chen walking toward her beneath the moonlight.

Luo Chen reunited with Sima Hui Niang and their son, Luo Lingxi, but revealed that the Demon Heart Gu made cultivation impossible for the boy. As Luo Chen focused on strengthening Luo Tian Sect and refining a stealthy flying shuttle, Hui Niang claimed she had found a way to resolve the Gu; before she could explain, three Nascent Soul visitors arrived.

• Luo Chen returned to Skyscraper Cliff, met Luo Lingxi, and welcomed Yao Mingyue to join the family for dinner.
• Luo Chen identified the white jade horn around Luo Lingxi's neck as part of Seven Horns and explained that the Demon Heart Gu would consume the boy if he cultivated.
• Luo Chen refused Li Yingzhang's proposal to recruit disciples widely, choosing to wait until the wider threats from Ming Abyss and the Demon Race became clearer.
• Luo Chen began incorporating Wu Guang Demon Emperor's Beast Skin into the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle to improve its stealth and concealment.
• Sima Hui Niang returned with Luo Lingxi and told Luo Chen she had found a way to resolve the Demon Heart Gu.
• Thunder Dao Child, Soaring Sky City Lord, and Chong Ming of Ming Abyss arrived, and Luo Chen invited them into the hall.

Luo Chen prepared to enter Ming Abyss Holy Land while keeping his connection to Cangwu Mountain and Black Marsh Old Ancestor’s surveillance concealed. After removing the Divine Ability mark and making preparations for the journey, he left Skyscraper Cliff with his son Luo Lingxi aboard a vessel bound for Mingyuan Sect.

• Luo Chen agreed to join Mingyuan Sect but suspected its leaders had learned about his trip to Cangwu Mountain and might be using rumors about a cure for Luo Lingxi’s Demon Heart Gu to draw him in.
• Luo Chen told Sima Hui Niang that Luo Lingxi would accompany him to Mingyuan Sect, while she would remain behind and cultivate until he had settled in.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord, Thunder Dao Child, and Chong Ming discussed Luo Chen’s Fifth-Rank Divine Fire, his connection to Cangwu Mountain, and the possibility that he had concealed the truth from them.
• Luo Chen used the Moulting Technique and Jin San, his Nascent Soul Puppet, to remove Black Marsh Old Ancestor’s surveillance mark, then summoned Black King to accompany him.
• Two months later, Luo Chen boarded Mingyuan Sect’s ornate flying vessel with Luo Lingxi and departed Skyscraper Cliff as Luo Tian Sect’s cultivators bid them farewell.

The Soaring Sky City Lord explained Mingyuan Sect’s five Alchemy Grandmasters and the sealed Pill Saint Hall, whose legacy could determine Luo Chen’s standing and resources within the sect. After returning to his residence, Luo Chen cared for Luo Lingxi and practiced using Jade Emperor Clear Eye Liquid, hoping to see through the woman who had defeated him.

• The Soaring Sky City Lord outlined the route to Mingyuan Sect and described its five Alchemy Grandmasters, including the aging Mister Xuan Yan and Xin Yisheng, who had joined to study under the Pill Saint.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord told Luo Chen that the Pill Saint Hall’s complete inheritance remained unclaimed and that gaining it could affect his status and share of resources in Mingyuan Sect.
• Luo Chen accepted that competing for the Pill Saint Legacy would depend on his own Pill Refinement Art, though he believed his Devil Monarch Legacy already surpassed it.
• Luo Chen found Luo Lingxi watching the Level Mountain Sea, described the distant oceans to him, and gave him eye drops before sending him to rest.
• Luo Chen used Jade Emperor Clear Eye Liquid to practice piercing the void, hoping to see through the green-robed woman he had fought and face her again in a fair battle.

Luo Chen arrived at Mingyuan Sect with Luo Lingxi and was brought to the Nether Abyss, where the sect’s natural barrier and formidable formation guarded its entrance. Meanwhile, Chu Yu and Lu Chun learned that Luo Chen would seek the Pill Saint Legacy, and Lu Chun resolved to challenge his arrival; the chapter ended as a monster stirred beneath the abyss.

• Luo Chen and Luo Lingxi arrived in Shangyou City, where the Soaring Sky City Lord introduced Luo Chen to Mingyuan Sect cultivators as the Pill Sect.
• Mingyuan cultivators secretly examined Luo Chen and reported his arrival to their family head.
• Lu Chun visited Chu Yu on Sulfur Jade Island and told her that Luo Chen was coming to take charge of the Pill Saint Hall by obtaining the Pill Saint Legacy.
• Chu Yu insisted that the Pill Saint Legacy belonged to her, while Lu Chun vowed to obstruct Luo Chen and brought her to the banks of the Nether Abyss.
• The Soaring Sky City Lord explained the Nether Abyss’s protective formation to Luo Chen, and Luo Lingxi pointed into the heaving abyss and cried that a monster was there.

Luo Chen and Luo Lingxi arrived at the Mingyuan Sect, where a staged ambush in the Ming Abyss ended with Luo Chen gaining control of the Black Tortoise. After explaining his technique to his son and teaching him a breathing method, Luo Chen chose to meet the sect member who had visited the Southern Border before attempting the Pill Saint Hall inheritance trial.

• Lu Xianfeng ferried Luo Chen and Luo Lingxi across the Ming Abyss on the sect’s Black Tortoise, while Ye Lingtian explained the beast’s origins and the Mingyuan Sect’s families.
• The Black Tortoise plunged into the abyss amid attacking ghosts, but Luo Chen used his breathing, Source Power, and protective armor to calm it and command it back to shore.
• Ye Lingtian confronted Lu Xianfeng over the failed welcome, and Luo Chen recognized that hidden cultivators had tried to fish him out of the abyss.
• Lu Chun and Chu Yu appeared afterward and wondered why the Black Tortoise had obeyed Luo Chen, while Luo Chen later explained his technique to Luo Lingxi and promised to teach him a Breath-Guiding Technique.
• Ye Lingtian visited Luo Chen the next morning and told him the Pill Saint Hall trial was open and that the Southern Border traveler had emerged from seclusion; Luo Chen asked to meet the traveler first.

Chen Mozi dismissed Xin Yisheng’s attempt to enlist him in preparing for the Pill Saint Hall Trial, while Mingyuan Sect’s Old Ancestors discussed Luo Chen and their plans for the inheritance. At Sealed Immortal Valley, Feng Jiang told Luo Chen that removing Luo Lingxi’s Demon Heart Gu would be simple.

• Chen Mozi explained why Luo Chen’s broad talents and limited years of cultivation made him unlikely to pass the foundation-focused Pill Saint Hall Trial, then refused Xin Yisheng’s proposal to share trial insights.
• Xin Yisheng learned that Luo Chen had gone to Sealed Immortal Valley and hurried to the Lu Family to seek support for his plan.
• Ye Lingtian reported Luo Chen’s arrival and his trip to Sealed Immortal Valley to the three Old Ancestors, who instructed him to urge Luo Chen toward the Pill Saint Hall inheritance.
• Tian Yuan Old Ancestor and Yu Ming discussed easing Black Marsh’s restraint on Luo Chen if he passed the trial, while the three Old Ancestors agreed they should avoid provoking Cangwu Mountain.
• Luo Chen brought Luo Lingxi to Sealed Immortal Valley, where Feng Jiang’s overwhelming mana forced him to protect his sleeping son from the turbulent surroundings.
• Feng Jiang told Luo Chen that resolving the Demon Heart Gu in Luo Lingxi would be simple.

Luo Chen learned how his son Luo Lingxi might turn his Innate Demon Heart Gu into a source of power, though the method would make him prey on others. After hearing how Feng Jiang’s sealed Immortal Gu had cost him the chance to reach Spirit Transformation, Luo Chen arrived at the Pill Saint Hall and discovered Spiritual Opportunity surrounding it.

• Feng Jiang told Luo Chen that Luo Lingxi might divide, transform, and use his Innate Demon Heart Gu, and Luo Chen studied the method but hesitated to let his son follow its demonic path.
• Ye Lingtian told Luo Chen that Feng Jiang had escaped the Life and Death Gate after unsealing a Fifth Order Immortal Gu, whose backlash forced him to suppress it in Sealed Immortal Valley and blocked his path to Spirit Transformation.
• Luo Chen reached the Pill Saint Hall, sensed its dense Pill Qi, and used his Crimson-Eyed Golden Pupils to detect Spiritual Opportunity within the clouds around it.
• Luo Chen set aside his earlier lack of interest in the Pill Saint Legacy and resolved to pursue it more seriously.

Luo Chen studied the Pill Saint Hall’s pill books for five months before joining four other Grandmasters as the inheritance trial opened. The five entered together and faced a first stage requiring them to identify one hundred pills by scent.

• Luo Chen discovered that the side hall’s apparent books were illusion-concealed pills and studied their detailed records for five months, updating his Alchemy Dao knowledge.
• Luo Chen returned to Welcoming Immortal Peak, reunited with Luo Lingxi, and rested before the trial opened three days later.
• Luo Chen arrived at the Pill Saint Hall with Chen Mozi, Xin Yisheng, Lu Chun, and Chu Yu, and Old Ancestor Yu Ming announced they had ten years to obtain the inheritance.
• Old Ancestor Yu Ming discussed the Grandmasters’ chances with Tian Yuan Old Ancestor and Black Marsh Old Ancestor, who speculated that Mister Xuan Yan might enter the trial.
• The five entered the main hall together and found the first stage required them to identify one hundred pills by scent, prompting Luo Chen to seize a streak of white light.

Luo Chen passed the first Pill Saint Hall trial by identifying a hundred pills at once through his extensive knowledge of pill fragrances. He entered the second stage, where the test was revealed as reverse refinement, and wondered what it would demand.

• Luo Chen realized he could only claim the glowing pills by correctly identifying them, then studied their fragrances alongside memories of the pill manuals.
• Lu Chun rushed ahead but misidentified a pill whose scent matched two different formulas, failed the trial, and was expelled from the hall.
• Chen Mozi carefully identified pills and eventually gambled correctly on the distinction between the Yin Yang Pills, accelerating his progress.
• Luo Chen waited nearly a year, then named a hundred pills in rapid succession and cleared the first trial.
• Xin Yisheng panicked after seeing Luo Chen succeed, made a mistake, and was expelled, while Chu Yu resumed her careful work.
• Luo Chen entered the second stage, where his hundred pills circled him and revealed the test: Trace Back to the Source, Reverse Refinement Clearance.

Luo Chen passed the Pill Saint Hall’s first trial and began reverse-refining pills, then decided to create a new Pill Refinement Art to make the process faster. Outside the hall, the elderly Alchemy Grandmaster Mister Xuan Yan arrived and entered to see what Pill Saint Chu Yan had left behind.

• Luo Chen deduced that the second trial tested pill knowledge and practical skill by judging the raw materials recovered from reverse-refined pills.
• Luo Chen recovered all thirteen ingredients from a Qi Nourishing Pill, then failed to fully separate the ingredients in a Jade Dew Pill and spent several days studying the cause.
• Luo Chen realized reverse-refining required different techniques from ordinary pill-making and resolved to create a Reverse Refinement Art despite the risk of losing the Pill Saint Legacy.
• Ye Lingtian found Lu Chun waiting outside the hall, where Lu Chun said he had worked out how to pass the first trial if it appeared again.
• Mister Xuan Yan arrived at the hall and entered to see Pill Saint Chu Yan’s legacy, and Yanfu Mountain’s Old Ancestors allowed him to go.