Recaps

Luo Hong advanced his cultivation and talisman craft before joining Liu Jing’s search for Li Xiaowan, where he survived a battle with Evil Cultivators and began researching their Spirit Patterns. The arc left him attending a Foundation Establishment trade fair, where he bought a Jade Dragon Gourd for his research.

• Liu Jing brought Luo Hong to Li Huayuan, who gave him cultivation pills after accepting a five-hundred-year Purple Sun Flower and supplied the items he requested.
• Luo Hong settled into his Spirit Rain Master duty, used an array and pills to advance his cultivation, and developed a successful method for crafting and selling talismans.
• Luo Hong joined Liu Jing’s search for Li Xiaowan and helped defeat Evil Cultivators around Xiang Mountain, while Liu Jing confronted Old Ghost Blood at Demon Spider Peak.
• Luo Hong killed Li Mingjing during the Earth Fiend Turbid Qi eruption, and Liu Jing later found Luo Hong and rescued the unconscious Yu Ying.
• Luo Hong studied the Sha Devouring Technique and Blood Burning Totem, then examined Dan Zhu and inferred that their ancestors had been altered to use Spiritual Qi instead of blood Qi.
• Liu Jing brought Luo Hong to a private trade fair, where Luo Hong bought low-grade spiritual items and bid against cultivators from other sects for the Jade Dragon Gourd.
• Fairy Crimson Cloud stopped her nephew disciple from escalating the bidding, and Luo Hong bought the Jade Dragon Gourd for four hundred and one Spirit Stones to study its spirit-water production.

Luo Hong strengthened his cultivation and combat skills, built ties with Han Li, and won the Minor Competition. He secured a trade for Pure Lotus Pills with Yu Ruoxi and left with her for Mist Mountain, while the Clan Leaders prepared to aid the Zhou Family.

• Luo Hong bought pills at the auction, tested his cultivation limits, and used the Unity of Heaven and Man to break through to Level 9 Qi Refining, though he injured his meridians.
• Luo Hong developed Spirit Flood Dragon Secret Markings that gathered Spiritual Qi into a growing object in his dantian, then met Han Li at the Southern Small Gathering and traded with him.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li and Han Yunzhi Spirit Water Body Protection Talismans in exchange for help finding a lotus-type Spiritual Herb, then fought off Yan Kuang at the gathering.
• Han Yunzhi killed Yan Kuang in the Ascension Competition, and Luo Hong bargained with Yan Xiuming for the Azure Water Pearl by offering Castrated Jade Dragon Wine.
• Han Li joined Yellow Maple Valley and gave Luo Hong a six-hundred-year Righteous Qi Lotus for the Qi Harmonizing Pill formula, while Luo Hong warned him about the Bloody Forbidden Zone.
• Luo Hong imprinted Silver Runes on his soul, suffered an injury from a Flood Dragon Bone Silver Rune, then won the Minor Competition with layered defenses and Water Element spells.
• Luo Hong became Li Huayuan’s Registered Disciple and offered Yu Ruoxi the Righteous Qi Lotus for Pure Lotus Pills, finally accepting her offer of four pills and traveling with her toward Mist Mountain.
• Zhao Yushu received a high-grade Spirit Shaking Hoe, while Clan Leader Zhao met Qian Tianbao, Granny Sun, and Clan Leader Li to discuss helping the Zhou Family before deciding to meet Yu Ruoxi.

Luo Hong left the Zhao Family after gaining the Ice Skin Jade Bone Method and refining Pure Lotus Pills, then survived the Mountain Shaking Python and Qian Tianbao’s attack. After returning to Yellow Maple Valley, he entered the Bloody Forbidden Zone and became entangled in a hunt for Golden Light Eagles.

• Luo Hong traded two bottles of White Lotus Pills to Zhou Xiao'an for the Ice Skin Jade Bone Method, then refined Pure Lotus Pills and broke through to the Twelfth Level of Qi Refining.
• Zhao Qingling and the other clan leaders opened the Five Elements Prison Sealing Formation, but Qian Tianbao’s attempt to absorb demonic beast souls led to a battle with the Mountain Shaking Python.
• The Mountain Shaking Python swallowed Luo Hong and Yu Ruoxi, but Luo Hong escaped after the serpent died and defeated the demonized Qian Tianbao, who entrusted him with a jade slip and his daughter’s care.
• Luo Hong returned to Yellow Maple Valley, studied martial arts and the Great Evolution Technique, and spent half a year strengthening his body and primordial spirit.
• Yu Ruoxi sought Nangong Wan’s advice about her feelings for Luo Hong, while Luo Hong prepared for the Blood Seal Trial and entered the Forbidden Land disguised behind an iron mask.
• Luo Hong killed Yan Xiao, defeated a Giant Head Gu, collected a thousand-year Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, and followed Spirit Beast Mountain disciples toward the Golden Light Eagles.
• Luo Hong copied the Ancient Script and hidden Silver Runes on the Bronze Gate, then watched Zhu Sanzhong’s group attack the Golden Light Eagles while Han Yunzhi’s party sought a Blazing Sun Flower.
• Hou Jin used his Poison Fire Bees to defeat the Father Eagle, but Zhu Sanzhong secretly killed him with poisoned needles, and Junior Brother Yu dodged the attack and exposed his suspicions.

Luo Hong claimed herbs from those leaving the Bloody Forbidden Zone, survived a clash with the Five Virtuous Sons, and returned to Yellow Maple Valley with its winning harvest. He reached Foundation Establishment, created his own cultivation method, and began investigating the rogue cultivators threatening Crimson Sun Mountain after rescuing his niece from a plot.

• Luo Hong took control of the Forbidden Land’s exit, demanded spiritual herbs from departing disciples, and defeated the Five Virtuous Sons of Pure Void and their allies.
• Luo Hong fought Nangong Wan and the Moon Concealing Sect, then returned to Wild Mountain as the Bloody Trial ended and Yellow Maple Valley won the wager.
• Luo Hong cultivated through Ablution of Marrow and advanced to Foundation Establishment, then became Li Huayuan’s official disciple and took charge of Fanghua Garden.
• Luo Hong devised the Boundless Sea Suppressing Art by combining the Great Water Origin Technique with the Mahā Divine Art, and Li Huayuan assigned him to investigate attacks on Crimson Sun Mountain.
• Luo Hong found his family had moved and discovered that rogue cultivators planned to use a Charm of Affection and a Curse Art to incite conflict between the Li and Luo families.
• Luo Hong removed the Charm of Affection from Luo Ying, warned his grandfather about the rogue cultivators, gave him life-prolonging pills, and visited his parents.