Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong visited Su Yuan Zhai and traded an ancient text for records of demonic Great Divine Abilities and a book on spiritual roots. When Su Yuan’s Young Master arrived, Luo Hong recognized him as Fellow Daoist Yu.

• Luo Hong introduced himself to Su Yuan as Zhuo Bufan, a Guest Elder of the Miaoyin Sect, and agreed to exchange an ancient text for three texts from her establishment.
• Luo Hong copied an ancient text onto paper, and Su Yuan accepted it after becoming engrossed in its descriptions of heavenly treasures and medicines.
• Luo Hong chose an ancient text from the Ancient True Demon Strategy and requested Su Yuan’s copy of On Spiritual Roots.
• Su Yuan asked Xiao Ju to bring the Ancient True Demon Strategy and copy On Spiritual Roots, but Xiao Ju announced that the Young Master had arrived.
• Luo Hong started to leave so Su Yuan could meet her guest, then recognized the arriving Young Master as Fellow Daoist Yu.

Luo Hong met Star Palace Young Master Ling Yuling at Su Yuan's residence and discussed her research into how spiritual roots affected cultivation speed. Ling Yuling revealed that her findings had led her to question the advantages of Heavenly Spiritual Roots, and the conversation continued as she introduced a difference between ancient and modern cultivation.

• Ling Yuling greeted Luo Hong and explained that she had come to discuss cultivation with him at Su Yuan's residence.
• Ling Yuling introduced Su Yuan as an exceptionally knowledgeable woman with a rare orchid heart and an eidetic memory.
• Ling Yuling presented Five Elements Sensing Beads and demonstrated that she possessed a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• Ling Yuling explained her research showing that Heavenly Spiritual Roots cultivated three times as fast as Dual Spiritual Roots and seven times as fast as Triple Spiritual Roots without pills.
• Luo Hong confirmed that Quad Spiritual Roots needed thirteen days and Quintuple Spiritual Roots twenty-one days to match one day of Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivation.
• Ling Yuling said her discussions with Su Yuan had revealed that Heavenly Spiritual Roots had been different in ancient times.

Ling Yuling explained her theory that ancient cultivators had cultivated Acquired Spiritual Roots, and Luo Hong confirmed that several methods existed while outlining their costs and risks. Ling Yuling left realizing that none of the methods could save her parents in time, but she resolved to investigate further.

• Ling Yuling argued that ancient cultivators with multiple Spiritual Roots might have cultivated additional roots to use powerful multi-attribute methods, and Luo Hong praised her reasoning.
• Luo Hong explained that Acquired Spiritual Roots could be cultivated through rare methods, then described Artifact Spiritual Roots, Pill Spiritual Roots, and cultivation-method Spiritual Roots.
• Ling Yuling asked Su Yuan whether Star Palace records mentioned cultivation methods that completed Spiritual Roots, and Su Yuan said they did not.
• Luo Hong said Artifact Spiritual Roots could be cultivated fastest but created a dangerous weakness, Pill Spiritual Roots took at least a century, and cultivation methods took centuries but produced the best results.
• Ling Yuling realized her parents could not live long enough to complete their Five Elements Spiritual Roots and decided to investigate Luo Hong's claims after returning to the palace.

Luo Hong discussed Acquired Spiritual Roots with Ling Yuling, then left Su Yuan Zhai with the Ancient True Demon Strategy while Ling Yuling considered a secret art connected to Law-Breaking Sound Thunder. As Luo Hong and Han Li prepared to leave Nanming Island for the Outer Sea, the Inverse Star Alliance attacked the harbor, and the two waited for permission to depart.

• Luo Hong explained that spiritual roots existed in the physical body and encouraged Ling Yuling to find a new path to cultivate Acquired Spiritual Roots.
• Luo Hong gave Ling Yuling Enlightenment Tea Wine, copied On Spiritual Roots, and left with Xiao Ju to retrieve the Ancient True Demon Strategy.
• Ling Yuling connected Luo Hong's interest in Law-Breaking Sound Thunder to a secret art in the Star Palace Secret Scroll and resolved to share the information with him.
• Luo Hong and Han Li headed toward the harbor, but they found over a thousand Inverse Star Alliance cultivators attacking Nanming Island's protective formation.
• The Inverse Star Alliance broke the formation, defeated the Star Palace forces, and allowed unrelated cultivators to leave after two hours.
• Luo Hong and Han Li presented their identity tokens to the Inverse Star Alliance Guardian Elder to seek permission to leave the island.

Luo Hong and Han Li left the island after an Inverse Star Alliance elder detected Heavenly Sha on Luo Hong and coveted his secret art. When two alliance cultivators stopped them on the way to Tianxing Island, Luo Hong and Han Li attacked, trapping them with bronze rings and leaving them unable to resist.

• The Green-Robed Elder identified Han Li's immense Sha aura and concluded that Luo Hong carried Heavenly Sha, then planned to use Fairy Zi Ling's connection to force them to reveal their secret arts.
• Luo Hong and Han Li passed an inspection and evaded a Nascent Soul cultivator's divine sense before flying toward Tianxing Island.
• Two Inverse Star Alliance cultivators blocked their way and accused them of disguising themselves as Star Palace Remnants.
• Luo Hong agreed to accompany the cultivators, then attacked without warning as Han Li joined him.
• Luo Hong and Han Li's bronze rings appeared around the two cultivators' necks and limbs, scattering their magic power and leaving them defenseless.

Luo Hong and Han Li secured Ling Yuling’s help to travel to the Outer Sea, where they arrived at Qiyuan Island, a thriving center for high-level demon beasts and illicit trade. Luo Hong realized the island lay near the lair of Feng Xi, whose lingering mark he still carried, and he and Han Li set out through Black Stone City to buy sea charts and handle one more matter before separating.

• Luo Hong and Han Li killed the two cultivators they had restrained, then met Ling Yuling, who had been hiding beneath the sea.
• Ling Yuling agreed to arrange their passage to the Outer Sea, but she could not persuade them to join Star Palace.
• On the way to Tianxing City, Luo Hong teased Ling Yuling about her gender, and she later suggested they teleport to Qiyuan Island because demon beasts were plentiful there.
• Ling Yuling overrode the Teleportation Hall elders’ objections and arranged the teleportation, while Zuo Changqing later punished the elders for violating the order to seal the array.
• Luo Hong and Han Li arrived on Qiyuan Island and learned that Black Stone City prospered because of nearby high-level demon beasts and its open gray-market trade.
• Han Li was pleased to hear that Level Eight Demonic Beasts lived nearby, while Luo Hong remembered Feng Xi’s mark and began exploring Black Stone City with Han Li.

Luo Hong traded Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk with Han Li for a Golden Lightning Bamboo rhizome and obtained the Eternal Wood Technique, preparing to refine the five elements of his Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art. After finding a small island and beginning a Spirit Ascension, he drew the attention of a nearby group of cultivators pursuing demon birds.

• Luo Hong offered Han Li Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk for a Golden Lightning Bamboo rhizome, and Han Li agreed after learning Luo Hong needed it to recover with the Eternal Wood Technique.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li a jade slip containing the Eternal Wood Technique, then planned how to refine the wood, metal, water, earth, and fire elements of his Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art.
• Luo Hong found a gourd-shaped island with a small Spirit Vein, set up formations, and began using the Spirit Ascension Great Method to upgrade Five Elements spirit pearls for new Five Elements Banners.
• Wei Lin and Gongsun Yu pursued a flock of Demon Blade Doves while Song Xiaoying stayed behind with their exhausted junior disciples at a coral reef.
• The Young Woman of the Fan Clan gave the disciples Qi Recovery Pills, then secretly gave Junior Brother Sun two pills before returning to meditate.

Song Xiaoying and the Azure Spirit Sect disciples were ambushed by four black-clothed cultivators, and Song was captured despite the disciples’ resistance. Gongsun Yu arrived to fight them, but a Core Formation stage cultivator’s intervention forced the attackers to flee and left Song falling toward the sea.

• Song Xiaoying sensed four Foundation Establishment cultivators approaching, warned the disciples, and sent a Sound Transmission Talisman for help.
• Song used Gongsun Yu’s High-grade Talisman to injure one attacker, while the Young Woman of the Fan Clan led the disciples in holding another off.
• Two black-clothed cultivators overpowered Song and bound her, prompting the Young Woman of the Fan Clan to urge the others to flee while she and Junior Brother Sun stayed behind.
• Gongsun Yu arrived and wounded an attacker, but the man holding Song used her as a shield and then struck her when she urged her husband to attack.
• A Core Formation stage cultivator announced that the attackers had offended the Azure Spirit Sect, so they fled after throwing Song toward the sea.

The Blood Moon Sect ambushed the Azure Spirit Sect party and captured Wei Changqing and the disciples, but a Spiritual Tide let Wei Changqing escape toward Luo Hong’s sea mist. When the sect’s cultivators pursued and threatened the area, Luo Hong attacked, destroying their ship and killing the Fat Old Woman while binding the Black Robe Elder.

• After Wei Changqing chased the fleeing attackers, the Black Robe Elder revealed the ambush and captured him and the Azure Spirit Sect disciples.
• The Black Robe Elder took the captives to a Blood Moon Sect ship, where the Fat Old Woman claimed Wei Changqing for her cultivation and the disciples were sent below deck.
• A Spiritual Tide disrupted Wei Changqing’s restraints, allowing him to escape, while the Fat Old Woman pursued him in the Black Wind Boat.
• A second Spiritual Tide struck near Luo Hong’s sea mist, and the Black Robe Elder persuaded the Fat Old Woman to send cultivators inside to investigate.
• Luo Hong killed the two investigators and attacked the Black Ship after discovering the captives and prisoners aboard it.
• Luo Hong smashed the Black Wind Boat with the Sea Suppressing Bead, killed the Fat Old Woman, and restrained the Black Robe Elder with the Five Elements Ring.

Luo Hong destroyed the Blood Moon Sect kidnappers, rescued the Azure Spirit Sect disciples, and discovered that Fan Mengyi possessed the rare Carefree Sword Heart Dharma Body. After leaving her fellow disciples behind and completing his Spirit Ascension work, he explained her talent and asked to take her as a Registered Disciple.

• Luo Hong killed the black-clothed cultivators, captured the Black Robe Elder, and learned through soul searching that the Blood Moon Sect kidnapped female cultivators to sell as Cauldrons.
• Luo Hong gave Wei Changqing a healing pill and agreed to take Fan Mengyi with him after sensing her newly awakened Dharma Body.
• Luo Hong erased the memories of Fan Mengyi's fellow disciples, left them with Wei Changqing aboard the concealed ship, and placed a Blood Puppet Flying Ant on Fan Mengyi to keep her from fleeing.
• Luo Hong completed the Spirit Ascension of the remaining three Spirit Pearls on Gourd Island and returned to collect Fan Mengyi.
• Luo Hong told Fan Mengyi that she possessed the rare Carefree Sword Heart Dharma Body and asked whether she would become his Registered Disciple.

Luo Hong made Fan Mengyi his Registered Disciple under a Divine Restraint Technique and brought her to Blood Moon Island, where he seized control of the sect’s island-protection formation. As Blood Moon Sect cultivators confronted them, Luo Hong prepared to make the island’s Spirit Vein his base.

• Fan Mengyi accepted Luo Hong’s Divine Restraint Technique and became his Registered Disciple, and he gave her pills and a set of Red Jade Small Swords.
• Luo Hong told Fan Mengyi they were going to Blood Moon Island, while the Blood Moon Sect’s disciples discussed leaving the island to obtain more Cauldrons and the Red-eyed Elder demonstrated Blood Moon Slash.
• Luo Hong found the island concealed by a low-grade formation, sent Fan Mengyi to place Formation Flags, and led her through the Island Protection Great Formation.
• Luo Hong synchronized two Formation Plates, seized control of the island’s protection formation, and erased its owner’s Spiritual Sense Imprint.
• Blood Moon Sect cultivators shouted at Luo Hong and Fan Mengyi, but Luo Hong ignored them and declared that the Spirit Vein chamber would serve as his Main Spirit Chamber.

Luo Hong used the Blood Puppet Flying Ants and the island’s formation to annihilate the Blood Moon Sect, including Blood Moon Ancestor. He then assigned Fan Mengyi several months of sorting the sect’s spoils while he prepared to strengthen the island’s defenses.

• The Red-eyed Elder and the robed cultivator tried to resist as Luo Hong’s Blood Puppet Flying Ants descended on Blood Moon Island, but the swarm devoured their Flame Giant Wheel.
• The Blood Moon Sect disciples fled toward the island’s edge, only to find that Luo Hong had made the Island Protection Great Formation block their escape.
• The Red-eyed Elder and the robed cultivator combined their attacks against the Earth-Yellow Spirit Shield, but Luo Hong’s reinforcement of the formation with earth veins kept it intact.
• Blood Moon Ancestor appeared and tried to bargain with Luo Hong, but the Blood Puppet Flying Ants devoured him and destroyed the Blood Moon Sect.
• Luo Hong told Fan Mengyi to sort the Storage Bags for several months and offered her three items if she satisfied him, then went to replace the island’s Shadow Concealment Formation.

Luo Hong broke through to the Late Core Formation Stage after fifteen years on Blood Moon Island, while Fan Mengyi advanced to Foundation Establishment and mastered refining Primordial Heavy Water with lightning. After formally accepting her as his official disciple, Luo Hong prepared to begin the crucial stage of his plan, which he said would cause a very big explosion.

• Luo Hong gave Fan Mengyi a Foundation Establishment Pill and a Restriction Token, then sent her to cultivate in the Secondary Spirit Chamber instead of the Fire Ring.
• Over the next fifteen years, Fan Mengyi reached Foundation Establishment and learned the Heavenly Sun Divine Sword Art, while Luo Hong refined Heavenly Sha and Golden Lightning Bamboo and recovered from his injuries.
• Fan Mengyi successfully split Primordial Heavy Water into black and white clouds with Green Lightning and then recombined them.
• Luo Hong emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the Late Core Formation Stage, and Fan Mengyi reported that she could refine Primordial Heavy Water with a perfect success rate.
• Luo Hong formally accepted Fan Mengyi as his official disciple and took her to the Thunder Pool to demonstrate her technique as part of his plan for a very big explosion.

Luo Hong prepared to create Solar True Fire by building a dangerous formation that would generate Super Five Elements Divine Thunder, with Fan Mengyi assisting him. As they began the final stage, the chapter also showed two demon beasts leaving Gourd Island and an Old Man pursuing them.

• Luo Hong gave Fan Mengyi a copy of the Great Evolution Art and told her to pack because Blood Moon Island would soon cease to exist.
• A Humanoid Flood Dragon and a Giant Turtle found traces of a human cultivator on Gourd Island, then left to avoid the nearby Human Race and prepare for the turtle’s Shapeshifting Lightning Tribulation.
• An Old Man used a Black Beetle to track the two demon beasts and pursued them after sending a Sound Transmission Talisman to Qiyuan Island.
• Luo Hong activated the underground Earth Fiend Formation and brought the Five-Colored Giant Ring to full power for his attempt to create Super Five Elements Divine Thunder.
• Fan Mengyi began the final stage while Luo Hong timed the short-lived Black Hydrogen Gas Cluster and prepared to trigger an explosion at the right moment.

Luo Hong and Fan Mengyi completed the preparations for their plan on Blood Moon Island and vanished through a Teleportation Array as the Five-Colored Giant Ring began to shrink. Meanwhile, True Man Miaoche confronted the Level Eight Poison Flood Dragon while a Level Seven turtle demon began its Tribulation of Transformation, and their battle began.

• Luo Hong opened a gap in the Five-Colored Giant Ring, and Fan Mengyi returned with the white ball of qi.
• Luo Hong told Fan Mengyi that their success would make the world feel pain, and they teleported away from Blood Moon Island.
• The Level Seven turtle demon began its Tribulation of Transformation while the Humanoid Flood Dragon stood guard.
• True Man Miaoche arrived to kill the turtle demon after tracking its tribulation aura and discovered that a Level Eight Poison Flood Dragon was guarding it.
• The Poison Flood Dragon attacked True Man Miaoche, but Miaoche escaped the sneak attack with his Shape-Shifting Shadow-Movement divine ability.

The Poison Flood Dragon overwhelmed True Man Miaoche until True Man Jinxia arrived and intervened. The two cultivators joined forces against the dragon as the first tribulation lightning descended.

• The Poison Flood Dragon’s speed forced True Man Miaoche to dodge until his strength faltered, and the dragon’s venom dissolved the Spirit Cranes he summoned.
• True Man Miaoche used a flower scroll to create an illusion, but the Poison Flood Dragon transformed into his true form and tore through it.
• The Poison Flood Dragon attacked True Man Miaoche with a returning stream of blood light, but dense white threads swept the dragon aside and let Miaoche escape.
• True Man Jinxia arrived, and True Man Miaoche joined him to face the Poison Flood Dragon.
• True Man Jinxia sent his dust whisk’s white threads toward the dragon, which charged and struck at them with its claws.

Miao He and Jin Xia nearly suppressed the Poison Flood Dragon with their combined Yin-Yang Dual Fish Diagram, but a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Pillar disrupted their divine ability and let him escape. As the pillar rapidly shrank, the Poison Flood Dragon expected the Giant Turtle to finish its tribulation and turn the tide, unaware of the danger he sensed.

• The Poison Flood Dragon attacked True Man Jinxia, but her dust whisk deflected his tempered dragon claw.
• Miao He and Jin Xia combined their Yin Yang One Qi Art to trap the Poison Flood Dragon beneath a Yin-Yang Dual Fish Phantom.
• A Heaven-Connecting Spirit Pillar appeared near Blood Moon Island and disrupted their divine ability, allowing the wounded Poison Flood Dragon to break free.
• Miao He and Jin Xia took defensive positions while the Poison Flood Dragon held back, wary of their power.
• True Man Miaoche and True Man Jinxia noticed the pillar was rapidly shrinking, while the Poison Flood Dragon sensed an approaching terror.
• The Poison Flood Dragon trusted that the Giant Turtle would soon pass its tribulation and help him claim the secret beneath the pillar.

Luo Hong observed the final stages of his experiment from a distant reef island, hoping to record how the compressed black hydrogen gas reacted inside the Five-Colored Giant Ring. The Main Spirit Chamber’s image vanished under the pressure, leaving him unable to see the result as a catastrophic explosion engulfed the area.

• Luo Hong and Fan Mengyi teleported away from Blood Moon Island, and Luo Hong activated an array of mist mirrors to observe the experiment.
• Luo Hong watched the Five-Colored Giant Ring contract around the black hydrogen gas cluster at the center of the Main Spirit Chamber.
• The pressure compressed the hydrogen gas until its surface reddened, but the Mirage Pearl recording the chamber collapsed and its image went black.
• A white sphere erupted where the Heaven-Connecting Spirit Pillar had stood, and True Man Jinxia, Miaohe, and the Poison Flood Dragon prepared to resist the shockwave.
• A black-red point swallowed the white sphere and became a mushroom cloud, whose shockwave scattered the giant turtle’s tribulation clouds.

Luo Hong used a Black Hydrogen Nuclear Explosion to study how Spirit Particles interacted with matter, and the experiment produced a devastating Black-Red Spirit Wave. Miao He and Jin Xia were left facing the blast with their bodies and defenses failing.

• Luo Hong watched the Super Five Elements Divine Thunder ignite the Black Hydrogen Gas Cluster and celebrated when a Black-Red Mushroom Cloud appeared.
• Fan Mengyi saw the explosion from nearly a thousand li away and froze in shock at the strange sight.
• The initial physical shockwave reached the Poison Flood Dragon, Miao He, Jin Xia, and the Giant Turtle, but their spiritual defenses withstood it.
• A Black-Red Spirit Wave erupted, swept away the Tribulation Cloud, evaporated the sea, and turned Luo Hong’s Water Monkeys to ash.
• The Spirit Wave destroyed Miao He and Jin Xia’s protective shield and magic treasures, so the two released their Nascent Souls and formed a Dual Fish Diagram.

Luo Hong and Fan Mengyi safely observed the Black-Red Spirit Wave from a distant islet while Luo Hong investigated the unexpectedly powerful nuclear explosion. A Black Helium Sphere formed at the explosion’s center, distorted gravity, and triggered a vast Spatial Rift before Luo Hong’s connection to it vanished.

• Miao He and Jin Xia’s bodies disintegrated in the Black-Red Spirit Wave, while the Poison Flood Dragon suffered severe burns and the Giant Turtle lay near death inside his shell.
• Luo Hong reassured Fan Mengyi that the weakened wave would not harm them, and they watched it pass over their distant islet.
• Luo Hong deduced that Spirit Particles carried the nuclear explosion’s extreme heat, but he was puzzled by their unexpectedly high number.
• The mushroom cloud collapsed into Spatial Rifts that devoured matter and spiritual qi as Luo Hong sensed a familiar connection to the Black Hydrogen Gas Cluster.
• Black Helium Atoms formed a Black Helium Sphere that altered gravity and caused the Spatial Rifts to merge into a giant rift before Luo Hong’s connection disappeared.