Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen used Mirror Flower Water Moon to question Shi Chuanting about the Heaven Origin Dao Sect’s losses, surviving Great Houses, and rebuilding plans. After evading the Dongyang Sect Grand Elder’s search, Luo Chen chose the Southern Heaven Continent as the destination for his avatar, where he had seen an old friend in Shi Chuanting’s memories.

• Luo Chen subdued Shi Chuanting with Mirror Flower Water Moon and learned how the Central Province War and later calamity devastated the Twelve Great Houses.
• Shi Chuanting explained that the surviving Lian, Ke, Shi, and Li Families were on the Eastern Origin Continent, while the weakened Mo and Zhan Families were on the Southern Heaven Continent.
• A powerful Divine Sense interrupted Luo Chen’s questioning, and Shi Chuanting awakened without remembering what had happened.
• The Dongyang Sect Grand Elder searched for the intruder with a golden Bronze Mirror, but Luo Chen left the sect unharmed.
• Luo Chen weighed the risks of the three continents and chose the Southern Heaven Continent as the best place to send an avatar to reclaim his Life Soul.
• Luo Chen ordered Bai Mei Ling to turn the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle southeast.

Luo Chen traveled across the East Sea toward the Southern Heaven Continent while investigating the Yuan Tu Sword and improving his Thousand Skies Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture. After finding Zhou Yunshen at White Egret Marsh, he appeared before the aging Zhou Family ancestor, who greeted him by asking whether to call him the Desolate Rogue or the Pill Sect.

• Bai Mei Ling reported that large numbers of Sea Demons had appeared in the East Sea, and Luo Chen suspected someone had arranged their emergence.
• Luo Chen considered the Yuan Tu Sword's stalled advancement and realized he needed more confidence before taking the risk of making it a true Spirit Treasure.
• Luo Chen reached Mastery level in the Thousand Skies Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture and planned to use two hundred wisps of Nine Heavens Qi to advance it further.
• After a year crossing the East Sea aboard the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle, Luo Chen arrived in the Southern Heaven Continent and used his Divine Sense to locate Zhou Yunshen.
• Zhou Yunshen worried that the Zhou Family would lose White Egret Marsh after his death, then sent his descendants away when he sensed Luo Chen's arrival.
• Luo Chen appeared before Zhou Yunshen, who asked whether he should address him as the Desolate Rogue or the Pill Sect.

Luo Chen revealed that the Heaven Origin Dao Sect had intercepted his Life Soul and proposed using an avatar under the Zhou Family’s name to recover it. He persuaded Zhou Yunshen to cooperate by offering the declining family a chance to regain its former strength, and Zhou Yunshen agreed.

• Luo Chen revealed an aura close to Spirit Transformation, and Zhou Yunshen realized how powerful he had become.
• Zhou Yunshen told Luo Chen that the Heaven Origin Dao Sect had nearly conquered the Northern Sea with Li Canghai’s cooperation.
• Luo Chen explained that the Dao Sect had intercepted his Life Soul when he entered the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, preventing him from reclaiming it through official channels.
• Luo Chen proposed using an avatar registered under the Zhou Family to join the Dao Sect and retrieve the intercepted portion of his Life Soul.
• Luo Chen warned that the Zhou Family faced decline after Zhou Yunshen’s death and offered to help it rise or retreat to the Eastern Wasteland.
• Zhou Yunshen reluctantly agreed to cooperate with Luo Chen’s plan.

Zhou Yunshen helped Luo Chen find a pregnant Zhou Family woman carrying fraternal twins, and Luo Chen used a forbidden technique and the Ming Water Spring Eye to cultivate one child into an Innate Water Spirit Physique. The twins were born as Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu, and Luo Chen left provisions for the family before departing White Egret Marsh with Little White.

• After the Zhou Family allied with the Qingtong Lin Family and the Hanjiang Valley Yin Family, Zhou Yunshen reported that nine fetuses had Water Spirit Roots, but Luo Chen discovered that Lin Jingshu was carrying fraternal twins.
• Luo Chen explained that the Life Offering Technique could transfer one twin's Innate Qi to the other, leaving the sacrificed child unable to cultivate, and promised Zhou Yunshen that she would still have another path.
• Luo Chen used his Essence Blood, a formation, and the shattered Ming Water Spring Eye to give the male fetus an Innate Water Spirit Physique, causing rain to fall across White Egret Marsh.
• Six months later, Lin Jingshu gave birth to a strong boy and a frail girl, whom Zhou Yunshen named Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu.
• Luo Chen left pills, ores, cultivation insights, and other items for the Zhou Family, then departed White Egret Devil Mire with Little White to travel across the Southern Heaven Continent.

Luo Chen traveled to God Burial Valley to capture the remnant soul of the Mingyuan Ghost God for his Million Fiend Soul Banner. Meanwhile, Zhan Bingtao and the Southern Heaven Dao Palace’s hall masters set out to investigate reports that the Ghost God was reviving.

• Little White told Luo Chen about the Southern Heaven Dao Palace’s leaders, including Fu Qinglan, whose past connection to him left him conflicted; Luo Chen decided not to visit the Dao Palace and asked Little White about forbidden lands.
• Little White led Luo Chen to God Burial Valley, where a stele named the Mingyuan Ghost God among those buried there.
• Little White warned Luo Chen that the Ghost God might not truly be dead, but Luo Chen entered the valley, intending to make its remnant soul the Main Soul of his Million Fiend Soul Banner.
• Zhan Bingtao convened the Southern Heaven Dao Palace’s leaders to distribute resources and organize the cultivation of new disciples.
• A Zhan Family member reported that month-long ghostly wailing in God Burial Valley might signal the Ghost God’s revival; Zhan Bingtao chose to investigate with the four hall masters rather than summon Old Ancestor Liancheng.

Luo Chen used a supreme-grade Soul Stone to lure the scattered spirit of the Fifth Order Ghost God into reviving, then captured the resurrected Kui Ox Desolate Beast in the Primal Chaos Cauldron. He left the Southern Heaven Continent with Little White as cultivators arrived to find God Burial Valley devastated.

• Luo Chen entered God Burial Valley with Little White, destroyed high-order ghosts, and realized they were gathering toward the center because the sealed Ghost God had split its Divine Soul among them.
• Luo Chen scattered formation flags and offered a nearly supreme-grade Soul Stone to draw ghosts together and accelerate the Ghost God's revival, leaving Little White with the Soul Refining Banner.
• After a month, Little White used the banner to drive the revived Ghost God toward the East Sea, where nine seals broke and a colossal one-legged azure beast emerged.
• Luo Chen descended with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and captured the beast, which he recognized as a Desolate Beast with Kui Ox bloodline.
• Luo Chen took Little White away from the Southern Heaven Continent, and several cultivators arrived to find God Burial Valley in ruins.

Zhan Bingtao's group discovered that someone had freed the Kui Ox Ghost God and searched God Burial Valley for clues, while Luo Chen escaped with the captive Ghost God. After visiting the mist-shrouded Heaven Earth Peak, Luo Chen went to the Azure Nether to refine the Kui Ox, nurture the Yuan Tu Sword, and cultivate Nine Heavens Qi.

• Zhan Bingtao and the other Southern Heaven Dao Palace experts found God Burial Valley devastated and realized that an unknown Ghost Cultivator had helped the Kui Ox Ghost God escape.
• Hui Yuanhong found traces of yin-natured Mana, and Zhan Bingtao assigned Long Ting to search and Zhang Bairen to report to Old Ancestor Liancheng while Fu Qinglan secretly kept a broken formation flag.
• Luo Chen explained how his layered preparations had let him capture the Kui Ox Ghost God and steered the Frost Eagle Flying Shuttle toward Heaven Earth Peak.
• Luo Chen spotted Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven's mist around the broken Heaven Earth Peak, then left as a cloaked young man emerged and vowed to restore the peak.
• Luo Chen took Little White to the Azure Nether, where he began refining the Kui Ox Ghost God with Nirvana Sacred Fire and placed the Yuan Tu Sword in his Purple Mansion.
• Luo Chen suppressed the Yuan Tu Sword and began cultivating with Nine Heavens Qi in the Azure Nether.

Five-year-old Zhou Fuyou cared for his frail twin sister, Zhou Qingyu, after their mother left on a mission, but a tonic sent by the seventh master's household nearly poisoned her. Zhou Yunshen ordered Zhou Junxiao to secretly protect Fuyou, who realized the tonic had been poison and was left fearful of danger within the clan.

• Lin Jingshu left with a flying vessel to help the Zhou, Lin, and Yin families deal with demon beast traces along the coast, entrusting Zhou Fuyou with caring for Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou drank the tonic sent by the seventh master's household and felt invigorated, while Granny Lin continued brewing it for him.
• Zhou Qingyu drank some of the tonic and collapsed, so Granny Lin rushed her to Elder Haibo, who treated her and warned that the medicine was too fiery for children.
• Zhou Haibo reported that the tonic secretly damaged the spirit to Zhou Yunshen, who ordered Zhou Junxiao to watch over Zhou Fuyou in secret.
• After taking Elder Haibo's Fire Dispelling Pill, Zhou Fuyou vomited Black Blood and realized the tonic had been poison, leaving him to fear that Seventh Uncle's family meant him harm.

After Zhou Qingyu was poisoned, Zhou Fuyou suspected Yin Si Niang and kept his sister close while studying cultivation methods without daring to practice them. When the Zhou Family’s sea patrol returned, Elder Shuzhen told Fuyou and Qingyu that their parents had died during the mission.

• Zhou Fuyou questioned Zhou Yuqi about Yin Si Niang’s visit and concealed his suspicions about the tonic that had poisoned Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou read the Returning Sea Scripture in his father’s study, but heeded Granny Lin’s warning not to cultivate before reaching the proper age.
• Zhou Fuyou studied several cultivation methods, rejected the risky Dew Cicada Technique, and waited for his parents to return from the sea patrol.
• Zhou Fuyou learned from Zhou Yuqi that Yin Si Niang had died after contracting White Egret Marsh miasma.
• Elder Shuzhen told Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu that their parents had fallen during the mission.

After his parents died, six-year-old Zhou Fuyou began cultivating the Dew Cicada Technique and reached the First Layer of Qi Refining Stage in one night. Luo Chen learned of his avatar’s unusually early breakthrough and sent Little White to watch over him, while Zhou Fuyou later stood up for his younger sister during Body Tempering lessons.

• Zhou Junxiao reprimanded Zhou Shuzhen for bluntly telling Zhou Fuyou about his parents’ deaths, then visited him at the mourning hall.
• At the burial, Zhou Fuyou promised Zhou Qingyu that he would protect her and never leave her.
• Grieving alone in his father’s study, Zhou Fuyou chose the Dew Cicada Technique and cultivated through the night, reaching the First Layer of Qi Refining Stage.
• Luo Chen noticed that his six-year-old avatar had started cultivating, so he sent Little White to the Zhou Family to observe him without interfering unless necessary.
• Six months later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu practiced the Body-Strengthening Fist Technique, and Zhou Fuyou demanded that a boy apologize after he mocked his sister.

Zhou Fuyou defended his sister Zhou Qingyu from Zhou Yuhao’s insults, then learned that the Zhou Family’s elders were watching over him. After Bai Mei Ling reported on his circumstances and Zhou Yunshen’s unexpected advancement, Luo Chen considered whether Zhou Fuyou’s extreme temperament might complicate reclaiming his Life Soul but chose not to interfere.

• Zhou Fuyou slapped and choked Zhou Yuhao until he apologized for insulting Zhou Qingyu, then promised his sister that no one would bully her while he was alive.
• Zhou Yuqi proposed that his mother adopt Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu, and she agreed to ask the Clan Leader for permission.
• Bai Mei Ling observed Zhou Fuyou and met Zhou Yunshen, who recognized her as Luo Chen’s Ghost Cultivator and directed her to stay at White Egret Marsh.
• Adults led by Zhou Yuhao’s family came to attack Zhou Fuyou, but Zhou Junxiao stopped them and invited Zhou Fuyou to the clan’s council hall the next day.
• Bai Mei Ling told Luo Chen that Zhou Fuyou had an extreme temperament and no detectable spiritual energy, while Zhou Yunshen had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage after comprehending Law True Intent.
• Luo Chen attributed the strange spiritual concealment and Zhou Yunshen’s insight to the Ming Water Spring Eye, then decided against secretly influencing Zhou Fuyou.

Zhou Fuyou rejected Seventh Uncle Zhou Haiye’s attempt to adopt him and his sister, while Second Grandfather Zhou Junxiao promised to protect and care for them. Six years later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu headed to the family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where the children’s cultivation aptitude would be revealed.

• Outside the council hall, Zhou Fuyou heard the family dismiss Zhou Yuhao’s beating as a quarrel and decide to assign Qi Refinement Cultivators to watch the training ground.
• Zhou Haiye proposed adopting Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu, but Zhou Junxiao refused and announced that he would adopt the siblings himself.
• Zhou Fuyou told Zhou Junxiao that he and his sister wanted to remain in their parents’ home, and he accepted a protective token and his grandfather’s offer of support.
• At the Green Drink Waterside Pavilion, Zhou Fuyou secretly demonstrated his powerful Water Arrow Technique and resolved to wait for the family to test his Spirit Root before revealing his talent.
• Six years later, Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu set out for the Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where the Zhou Family’s children would be tested before family members and visiting observers.

Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu attended the Zhou Family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, where visitors from the Dao Palace’s Yuheng Academy watched for talent. The ceremony continued after Mo Wanting revealed that Five Spirit Roots could qualify for the Dao Palace because of the legendary cultivator Luo Chen, whose name left Zhou Fuyou strangely unsettled.

• Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu arrived at the ceremony, where Zhou Yuhao greeted them and revealed his Water and Wood Dual Spirit Roots.
• Zhou Junxiao welcomed Mo Wanting and other guests, then ordered Zhou Fuyou and Zhou Qingyu placed at the end of the testing line.
• Zhou Li tested as having Three Spirit Roots, and Zhou Yusheng later tested as having Gold and Fire Dual Spirit Roots.
• Zhou Haiye told Zhou Ping'an that his Five Spirit Roots were worthless and that he could not cultivate, but Mo Wanting said Yuheng Academy would take him.
• Mo Wanting explained that Luo Chen had cultivated with Five Spirit Roots and that the Dao Palace was seeking such disciples; Zhou Fuyou heard the name and felt it was familiar.

During the Zhou Family’s Spirit Root Testing Ceremony, Zhou Fuyou revealed a Water Heavenly Spirit Root and a powerful innate physique, prompting Mo Wanting to urge him to join the Southern Heaven Dao Palace. He refused to leave his family for now, and the Zhou Family’s Old Ancestor arrived to support his choice.

• Zhou Yuhao and Zhou Yuwei qualified to enter the Dao Palace, while Zhou Yuhong did not, and Zhou Junxiao pressed Mo Wanting for fixed entry slots for the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Qingyu was found to have no Spirit Root, and Zhou Fuyou comforted her before stepping onto the testing platform.
• Zhou Fuyou instantly displayed a Water Heavenly Spirit Root, and Mo Wanting recognized signs of an innate physique that could give him the potential to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Zhou Fuyou refused to leave his family for the Dao Palace, even after Mo Wanting offered to take Zhou Qingyu too.
• The Zhou Family’s Old Ancestor intervened and told Mo Wanting to respect Zhou Fuyou’s wishes, assuring her that he would protect him.

After Zhou Fuyou’s extraordinary aptitude made him the focus of the Zhou Family and Yuheng Academy, Zhou Yunshen summoned him and granted him authority, resources, and pills that could let mortals cultivate. Zhou Fuyou left the Coral Palace ready to help his younger sister and prepare for Foundation Establishment.

• Mo Wanting departed for the Dao Palace without Zhou Fuyou, while Zhou Junxiao told the newly tested youths to study cultivation fundamentals at the Skill Transmission Hall.
• Zhou Fuyou asked whether people without Spirit Roots could remain with the clan, and Zhou Junxiao explained why they would be sent to Coral Town.
• Zhou Yunshen ordered Zhou Chongxiao to stop trying to reproduce Desolate Rogue’s pill recipes and took the three pills from him.
• Zhou Yunshen told Zhou Fuyou he was nearing Foundation Establishment and gave him Mo Wanting’s gifts, a Red Coral White Robe, and a token granting him status equal to the Old Ancestor.
• Zhou Yunshen revealed that Desolate Rogue’s three pills could break the Mortal-Immortal Boundary, and Zhou Fuyou realized his younger sister could cultivate.

While Luo Chen refined his Perfect Level Crimson Sky Sword Qi in the Azure Nether, his avatar Zhou Fuyou effortlessly reached Foundation Establishment and discovered extraordinary spiritual power and spell talent. Luo Chen began his final refinement of the resisting Kui Ox Ghost God as Zhou Fuyou turned his attention to a Tier 3 spell that seemed suited to him.

• Luo Chen completed his refinement of the Thousand Skies Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture to Perfect Level, doubling the power of each wisp of Crimson Sky Sword Qi and stabilizing his mana.
• Luo Chen sensed that his avatar had reached Foundation Establishment at age twelve, then confronted the Kui Ox Ghost God as it tried to escape the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Zhou Fuyou completed Foundation Establishment without using his prepared resources and discovered that his Spiritual Sense reached ten li.
• Zhou Fuyou found that his new Qi Sea could hold an immense quantity of Spiritual Liquid and put away his Foundation Establishment supplies for Zhou Qingyu.
• Zhou Fuyou reviewed Mo Wanting's spell manuals and became interested in the Tier 3 Water Element spell Mirror Flower Water Moon.

Zhou Fuyou helped Zhou Qingyu sense spiritual qi, then found the Old Ancestor’s scalable Sky Floating Qi Sea technique in the Scripture Pavilion. Eight years later, as the Zhou Family began developing White Egret Marsh, Zhou Fuyou confronted Seventh Aunt in the marsh and demanded to know what had happened in the past.

• Zhou Fuyou used the Guiding Technique to help Zhou Qingyu sense spiritual qi, and she discovered that her Pill Spirit Root contained all five elements.
• Zhou Fuyou chose the Dew Cicada Technique as a suitable cultivation method for Zhou Qingyu and discovered the Old Ancestor’s Sky Floating Qi Sea technique in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Eight years later, Zhou Qingyu had reached the Mid Qi Refining Stage and joined the Zhou Family’s effort to develop White Egret Marsh.
• Zhou Junxiao ordered Zhou Haiye and fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators into the marsh to deal with its demon beasts, while Qi Refinement cultivators formed teams to patrol outside.
• Seventh Aunt secretly searched the marsh for a mineral vein and found Zhou Fuyou cultivating in the miasma; he confronted her and asked about what had happened in the past.

Zhou Fuyou used Mirror Flower Water Moon to uncover that the Yin Family had arranged his parents’ deaths and poisoned him to help Zhou Haiye gain power and seize White Egret Marsh. He killed Yin Xixue and then Zhou Haiye with his miasma-infused Sky Floating Qi Sea, leaving Zhou Junxiao to conceal the truth as the clan accepted a false story about a hidden Demon King.

• Zhou Fuyou questioned Seventh Aunt under Mirror Flower Water Moon and learned that the Yin Family had poisoned him, arranged for Zhou Haiye to kill his parents, and sought to take White Egret Marsh after Zhou Yunshen’s death.
• Seventh Aunt said Zhou Yuqi knew nothing of the plot, and Zhou Fuyou killed her after the illusion broke; he then destroyed the message she sent to Zhou Haiye and waited for him.
• Zhou Haiye arrived, admitted he planned to kill Zhou Fuyou and blame the White Egret Demon King, and attacked him with Golden Core Spiritual Pressure.
• Zhou Fuyou used Sky Floating Qi Sea to unleash White Egret Marsh’s miasma, overwhelmed Zhou Haiye with spells, and killed him with the Luyin Ruler after Zhou Haiye tried to escape.
• Zhou Junxiao reached the battlefield and found Zhou Haiye’s corpse; Zhou Fuyou said he would explain the truth at Coral Palace before disappearing into the mire.
• Zhou Junxiao told the arriving Zhou Family members that the hidden Demon King of White Egret Marsh had killed Zhou Haiye.

The White Egret Demon King agreed to lead her people to the Luo Tian Upper Sect, while Zhou Junxiao confirmed that Zhou Haiye had betrayed the family. Zhou Yunshen revealed that he had at most ten years left and urged Zhou Fuyou to join the Southern Heaven Dao Palace; in Azure Nether, Luo Chen subdued the Kui Ox Ghost God and reforged the damaged Soul Refining Banner.

• The Nine Nether Enchanting Python told the White Egret Demon King to leave White Egret Marsh with her people and join the Luo Tian Upper Sect, promising her master's help with Transformation.
• After Zhou Haiye died, Zhou Junxiao searched his residence and found Yin Family letters and resources that confirmed Zhou Fuyou's account of his treason.
• Zhou Yunshen told Zhou Fuyou that he had at most ten years to live and that the First Elder would not reach the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Zhou Yunshen urged Zhou Fuyou to leave for the Southern Heaven Dao Palace, promising to protect and support Zhou Fuyou's sister while he was away.
• In Azure Nether, Luo Chen forced the Kui Ox Ghost God into the Soul Refining Banner, but the banner began to crack under its power.
• Luo Chen combined the Soul Refining Banner, the Soul Nourishing Banner, and rare materials in the Primal Chaos Cauldron, finishing a reforged banner that could support condensing the Kui Ox Divine Body once.

Luo Chen used the Nine Heavens Urn to search for Sky Qi while preparing to cultivate his sword art. Meanwhile, Zhou Yunshen escorted Zhou Fuyou to the Southern Heaven Dao Palace, destroying the Yin Family along the way and teaching his grandson how to advance toward Core Formation.

• Luo Chen subdued the Kui Ox Ghost God, then activated the Nine Heavens Urn and detected a wisp of Sky Qi eight hundred li away.
• Zhou Fuyou said goodbye to Zhou Qingyu, arranged resources and cultivation guidance for her, and promised to reunite with her after settling in at the Dao Palace.
• Zhou Yunshen took Zhou Fuyou to Cold River Valley and used the river and its demonic beasts to destroy the Yin Family as punishment for coveting the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Yunshen assessed Zhou Fuyou's Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer cultivation and began teaching him the Zhou Family's Core Formation Secret Technique during their journey.
• After more than half a year of travel and training, Zhou Yunshen and Zhou Fuyou arrived at the Southern Heaven Dao Palace and announced the Zhou Family's visit.