Chapter Summaries

After Little Gold flew into the golden light at the nuclear explosion’s center, Luo Hong hid underground for three days to avoid Heavenly punishment, then returned to find her transformed into a sleeping ball of flesh and feathers. He collected her and searched the changed seabed for treasures, recovering a black-red spirit flame before heading back toward the observation point.

• Little Gold ignored Luo Hong’s warning and flew into the golden light cluster, while Luo Hong fled underground and told Fan Mengyi to record what happened.
• Miao He and Jin Xia escaped the devastated area, while the Giant Turtle survived the blast, rescued the badly injured Poison Flood Dragon, and was pursued by Demon-Slaying Thunderballs.
• Fan Mengyi told Luo Hong that Little Gold had entered the golden light and that tribulation lightning had struck the demons; Luo Hong then flew toward the nuclear explosion’s center.
• Luo Hong reasoned that nuclear fusion had converted some lost mass into Spirit Particles and found Little Gold transformed into a sleeping, scorched ball of flesh and feathers.
• Luo Hong collected Little Gold, searched the seabed, and blood-refined a black-red spirit flame he suspected was the Solar True Fire.
• Luo Hong found more unfamiliar High Spiritual Grade objects and left the seabed to return to the observation point.

Fan Mengyi returned to Star Luo Island, where she learned about the war in the Inner Star Sea, the Insect Demon, and the new Falling Sun calamity before spotting her former junior sister Xi'er. Meanwhile, Luo Hong concluded that Spirit Particles inside atomic nuclei determined a material’s properties and named the spirit flame from his nuclear explosion Nuclear Black Flame.

• Fan Mengyi visited a marketplace inn on Star Luo Island, learned that the Azure Spirit Sect remained stable, and listened for news while enjoying its food.
• Fan Mengyi heard that the Inverse Star Alliance and Star Palace were searching for two Miaoyin Sect Guest Elders and Yuan Yao, and that the Insect Demon had defeated cultivators who tried to eliminate it.
• Fan Mengyi recognized her former junior sister Xi'er at the inn and overheard Xi'er’s companion describe the Falling Sun as a fourth calamity in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Luo Hong recorded his conclusion that Inner-Nucleus Spirit Particles determined spirit materials’ properties and limits, while Outer-Nucleus Spirit Particles determined how fully those properties were expressed.
• Luo Hong identified the Black-Red Spirit Flame as a Spirit Particle Aggregate and named it Nuclear Black Flame.

Luo Hong discovered that purple lightning from the stone slab had entered his Niwan Palace, then left Star Luo Island with Fan Mengyi to seek a secluded place to cultivate. In the Inner Star Sea, Ling Yuling found a record identifying the lightning as Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.

• Luo Hong examined the nuclear-explosion materials, named the spatial stone the Sky-Mending Stone, identified the fire ores as likely Golden Crow Divine Iron, and recognized the surviving slab as part of his Thunder Pool.
• When Luo Hong sent magic power into the slab, purple lightning struck him, entered his Niwan Palace, and settled there as a Purple Lightning Ball after the Nuclear Black Flame blocked it from reaching his dantian.
• Luo Hong searched ancient records without learning the lightning's origin, then waited for Fan Mengyi, who returned with news and the materials he had requested.
• Fan Mengyi told Luo Hong that she had quietly visited the Azure Spirit Sect and found her former companions changed; Luo Hong encouraged her cultivation and took her toward an uninhabited Spiritual Qi Island.
• Ling Yuling searched Star Palace's ancient records while Zuo Changqing scolded her over the loss of the Void Sky Cauldron and her past release of Han Li and Luo Hong.
• Ling Yuling read the First Generation Star Palace Master's jade slip and identified the purple lightning as Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.

Ling Yuling investigated the demon activity near Qiyuan Island and concluded her theory about Luo Hong targeting the Three-Eyed Thunder Whale might be wrong. Meanwhile, the demon clans prepared to retaliate after a Shapeshifted Demonic Beast was killed, and the chapter ended with the Suanni announcing his son’s death to the Golden Flood Dragon King.

• Ling Yuling asked Uncle Ji about recent events near Qiyuan Island and learned that a Falling Sun Phenomenon had left two Nascent Soul cultivators and two Shapeshifted Demonic Beasts badly harmed.
• Uncle Ji predicted that the demon clans would retaliate against islands near Qiyuan Island, but said the Level Nine Three-Eyed Thunder Whale was unlikely to take part in an ordinary raid.
• Ling Yuling reasoned that Luo Hong might seek the Thunder Whale’s third eye to cultivate a Heavenly Eye, then questioned whether he could reach the beast in the Myriad Zhang Sea Abyss.
• Ling Yuling left for the Teleportation Hall to continue investigating, unwilling to abandon her search for Luo Hong.
• The Golden Flood Dragon King visited the Crystal Palace, where Suanni told him that his son was dead.

The Suanni King and Golden Flood Dragon King planned a joint attack on the human forces, while secretly conspiring against each other over the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder. Unaware that the demon kings had targeted him, Luo Hong refined Nuclear Black Flame at an underwater volcano and sent Fan Mengyi to fight Flame Swallowing Birds for training.

• The Suanni King told the Golden Flood Dragon King that humans had taken the Brahma Saint True Shard and persuaded him to send troops against Qiyuan Island.
• The Suanni King showed the Golden Flood Dragon King a slab containing Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and proposed using the battle to lure out and kill the human who wielded it.
• After the Golden Flood Dragon King left, the Suanni King revealed his hidden Early-stage Transformation son and planned to use the Sky Patrol Mirror and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to assassinate the Flood Dragon King.
• Luo Hong set up at a Spiritual Qi Island near an underwater volcano to refine Nuclear Black Flame more quickly.
• Luo Hong assigned Fan Mengyi to fight the local Flame Swallowing Birds, reassuring her that his warning array and the magic artifacts he gave her would keep her safe.

After ten years of cultivation and artifact-refining practice, Fan Mengyi encountered Gongsun Yu and other Azure Spirit Sect and Flower Between Sect cultivators fleeing toward her island. When Cloaked Swallows trapped the group and proved unusually difficult to fight, Fan Mengyi watched from hiding as one disciple lost his arm.

• Fan Mengyi advanced her cultivation, learned basic artifact refinement, and noticed that more cultivators had begun passing near her island.
• Gongsun Yu led a group fleeing powerful Demon Beasts toward the island, while Song Xiaoying went into premature labor during their flight.
• Fan Mengyi recognized Gongsun Yu and Xi'er but chose not to reveal herself, hoping the group would rest and leave without disturbing Luo Hong.
• Cloaked Swallows caught up with the cultivators and surrounded them, forcing Gongsun Yu to lead an attack through the flock.
• The Cloaked Swallows evaded the group’s attacks, and one Flower Between Sect disciple was struck by a Swallow and lost his right arm.

Fan Mengyi rescued Xi'er, Gongsun Yu, and the others from a flock of Cloaked Swallows, then learned that a Beast Tide had devastated Qiyuan Island and destroyed the Azure Spirit Sect. As she prepared to remain behind rather than travel with the group, a strange eye emerged from the slain Level 4 Cloaked Swallow’s beak.

• Gongsun Yu began activating a Talisman Treasure while Fang Yin and the others defended the group from the Cloaked Swallows.
• Fan Mengyi killed the attacking Level 2 Cloaked Swallows with her twelve crimson Flying Swords, then helped Gongsun Yu slay their Level 4 leader.
• Xi'er recognized Fan Mengyi and thanked her for the Foundation Establishment Pills, while Fan Mengyi asked about the Azure Spirit Sect and her missing juniors.
• Gongsun Yu told Fan Mengyi that a Beast Tide had destroyed Black Stone City and Star Luo Island, killed Martial Uncle Wei, and forced the surviving cultivators to flee.
• Fang Yin objected to Fan Mengyi joining them, so she agreed to stay behind; then the dead Level 4 Cloaked Swallow’s beak opened and an enormous eye crawled out.

Fan Mengyi was carried away after an Eye-Parasite Beast’s dying attack wounded her primordial spirit, while Luo Hong remained unaware during years of secluded cultivation. After completing his cultivation and discovering she was missing, Luo Hong set out to find her and encountered a Blue Giant Flood Dragon claiming it had eaten her.

• Fan Mengyi collapsed after the Eye-Parasite Beast released a spiritual-sense shockwave, but Gongsun Yu found her alive and treated her wounded primordial spirit.
• Xi'er carried Fan Mengyi away with the Azure Spirit Sect group after Gongsun Yu insisted they take her, while Fang Yin reluctantly agreed.
• Luo Hong refined Nuclear Black Flame, completed the first layer of the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art, advanced to the peak of the Late Core Formation Stage, and finished refining his Sea Suppressing Bead.
• Luo Hong discovered that Fan Mengyi was missing and flew toward a Blue Giant Flood Dragon pursuing Lu Zhengyi and Elder Gao, asking whether they knew where his disciple was.
• Lu Zhengyi offered Luo Hong a token for Nanli Island, while the Blue Giant Flood Dragon claimed it had eaten Fan Mengyi and then was suddenly forced downward by an unseen pressure.

Luo Hong killed the Blue Flood Dragon after it refused to tell him what happened to his disciple, then captured two Core Formation cultivators who recognized him. Their interrogation revealed they served Star Palace, while Luo Hong concluded Fan Mengyi had been taken away after being injured and losing consciousness.

• Luo Hong crushed the Blue Flood Dragon and collected its soul and corpse after it refused to answer questions about his disciple.
• Elder Gao and Lu Zhengyi recognized Luo Hong from a portrait and planned to befriend him so they could rescue their Young Master.
• Luo Hong overheard their voice transmissions, captured both cultivators as they fled, and brought them to the island.
• Luo Hong searched Fan Mengyi's abandoned stone houses and deduced that she had been ambushed, rendered unconscious, and taken away by cultivators she had helped.
• Luo Hong questioned Lu Zhengyi and Elder Gao about the people seeking him, and Lu Zhengyi revealed that they were cultivators of Star Palace.

Luo Hong questioned Elder Gao and Lu Zhengyi about Ling Yuling’s danger and learned that she had gone to Star Luo Island to pursue Creation Thunder Liquid before the Demon Beasts trapped her. The two men confirmed Ling Yuling was still alive, leaving Luo Hong to consider what had happened to her.

• Luo Hong persuaded Elder Gao and Lu Zhengyi to explain Ling Yuling’s situation, but refused to take them to Nanli Island and instead asked where she was.
• Lu Zhengyi told Luo Hong that Ling Yuling had gone to Star Luo Island after a Beast Tide drove them from Qiyuan Island and forced them to seek a new base.
• Lu Zhengyi explained that Ling Yuling pursued an ancient Three-Eyed Thunder Whale whose tribulation could produce Creation Thunder Liquid, but the Demon Beasts had laid a trap for cultivators seeking it.
• Elder Gao and Lu Zhengyi said Ling Yuling was still alive because restrictions placed on them by the Twin Saints would have killed them if she had died.
• Luo Hong found Ling Yuling’s continued survival increasingly strange and fell into thought.

Luo Hong headed for Star Luo Island after learning that Ling Yuling was alive and discovering that the Flood Dragon Clan had set a trap around the Thunder Whale’s tribulation. He relied on his newly mastered Five Elements Evasion Technique to travel safely, while the Golden Flood Dragon King guarded an ancient gate on the island; the chapter ended as Luo Hong watched demon cultivators ambushed by several Seventh-grade Flood Dragons.

• Luo Hong verified the Jade Token’s hidden command, released Lu Zhengyi and his companion, and set out to investigate Star Luo Island and decide whether to rescue Ling Yuling.
• Luo Hong used the Five Elements Evasion Technique, which he had derived from the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art, to explain how he had killed the Blue Flood Dragon and to protect himself on the journey.
• The Golden Flood Dragon King ordered the Flood Dragon Clan to retreat from the Thunder Whale’s tribulation cloud while keeping Star Luo Island’s ancient gate and its secret hidden from human cultivators.
• The Golden Flood Dragon King recalled that the gate had drawn the island’s cultivators and flood dragons inside, and suspected that the mysterious figure behind the Falling Sun phenomenon was among them.
• Luo Hong followed a group of demon cultivators toward Star Luo Island and watched several Seventh-grade Flood Dragons ambush them a thousand miles from the island.
• The Flood Dragons began slaughtering the demon cultivators, and their Nascent Soul Stage leader started fighting for his life as Luo Hong considered whether to intervene.

Luo Hong followed the Core Formation Demon Cultivators toward Star Luo Island, where he discovered a mysterious gate and watched Bi Xiao intercept them. As Bi Xiao cornered the last two fleeing demons beneath the Tribulation Cloud, Luo Hong seized his chance to act.

• A Nascent Soul demon cultivator used poisonous mist to fight five Seventh-grade Flood Dragons while the Core Formation Demon Cultivators fled toward Star Luo Island.
• Luo Hong followed the demons, realized the lightning tribulation still raged over the island, and spotted an open Black Iron Gate filled with a Demonic Energy Vortex.
• Bi Xiao appeared and killed the four Mid Core Formation Demon Cultivators as the two Late Core Formation cultivators raced toward the gate.
• The last two demons used a secret technique to get past Bi Xiao, who pursued them with Lightning Escape as they fled beneath the Tribulation Cloud.
• Bi Xiao appeared beside the two demons at the cloud's edge, and Luo Hong teleported in to attack.

Luo Hong pursued Jade Sky beneath the Tribulation Cloud, whose lightning repeatedly struck at them but was absorbed by the Purple Lightning in Luo Hong’s glabella. He escaped through the Black Iron Gate, then killed and searched a demon cultivator, learning that the gate led to the Demon Race Holy Land and that Wen Tianren had caused it to appear for an unknown purpose.

• Luo Hong ambushed Jade Sky and pursued him, but their fight beneath the Tribulation Cloud drew increasingly powerful bolts of Crimson Thunder.
• The Tribulation Cloud focused its lightning on Luo Hong, while Jade Sky was blasted apart and Luo Hong’s glabella absorbed the strikes.
• Luo Hong fled into the Black Iron Gate and was teleported beyond the Tribulation Cloud into a massive formation, where he began healing beside another demon cultivator.
• The demon cultivator tried to attack Luo Hong, but Luo Hong intimidated him and questioned him about the gate and a supposed alliance.
• Luo Hong shattered the demon cultivator’s Golden Core, performed a Soul Search, and learned that Wen Tianren had caused the Black Iron Gate to appear for an undisclosed purpose.

Luo Hong entered the Demon Race Holy Land disguised as an Inverse Star Alliance cultivator and found Wen Tianren and Ling Yuling’s groups trapped behind a crystal wall. He claimed a Rank 8 Lightning Flood Dragon had stopped the reinforcements, leaving the rival groups still dependent on each other.

• Luo Hong disguised himself in demon cultivator robes, masked his face, and burned the corpse before leaving the teleportation array.
• Wen Tianren and Ling Yuling’s groups waited together behind a crystal wall, unable to proceed and wary of each other.
• Wen Tianren explained that he had summoned reinforcements because breaking the wall required more cultivators, while Ling Yuling’s group had disrupted his original plan to attack them.
• Luo Hong arrived alone in Inverse Star Alliance attire, and Wen Tianren asked why he had come without the others.
• Luo Hong told Wen Tianren that a Rank 8 Lightning Flood Dragon blocked the way and that the rest of the reinforcements had failed to get through.

Luo Hong advised Wen Tianren and the others to strike a weak blue section of the formation, but breaking it triggered a burst of deadly sword qi. He survived behind his Lightless Shield, while Wen Tianren demanded that he explain the deaths of two subordinates.

• Wen Tianren questioned Luo Hong’s identity, and Luo Hong claimed to oversee the Underground Market on Songya Island.
• Wen Tianren explained that the Desolate Demon Spirit Swallowing Formation had to be struck by everyone at once, while Luo Hong noticed the crystal wall’s uneven colors.
• Luo Hong suggested targeting a blue section, and the cultivators shattered it with their combined attacks.
• White Sword Qi burst through the opening, killing two of Wen Tianren’s subordinates before the crystal wall repaired itself.
• Wen Tianren confronted Luo Hong, demanding an explanation for the deaths.

Luo Hong explained that the crystal wall concealed a crude Fusion Formation and began setting up a method to break it. As the formation started responding, the others recognized his setup as a Gather Sand to Form a Pagoda Formation and grew suspicious of him.

• Luo Hong told Wen Tianren that the crystal wall fused the Desolate Demon Spirit Swallowing Formation with the Vast Righteous Sword Qi Formation, amplifying attacks and reflecting them at intruders.
• Luo Hong offered to search for flaws in the formation, and Wen Tianren promised to transfer him back to Six Extremes Island if he succeeded.
• Luo Hong probed the crystal wall for five or six shichen, then placed Formation Flags in a pattern across its surface.
• Luo Hong inserted eight higher-grade Formation Flags into the pattern and began sinking the flags into the crystal wall, prompting Wen Tianren to hope his method was working.
• A Red-Haired Demonic Cultivator recognized Luo Hong's setup as the Gather Sand to Form a Pagoda Formation, and the others questioned whether it could break the Fusion Formation.

Luo Hong used the Gather Sand to Form a Pagoda Formation to break the crystal wall and guide the group safely through the Vast Sword Qi. Ling Yuling revealed that Wen Tianren sought an object that could decide the war between the Star Palace and the Inverse Star Alliance, and she chose to keep following him.

• Luo Hong directed the cultivators to channel magic power into his formation, causing the crystal wall to crack and collapse under the Vast Sword Qi.
• Luo Hong split the sword qi around the group and led them through the White Light Membrane.
• Wen Tianren rewarded Luo Hong with Obstacle-Breaking Pills for breaking the formation and then led the group deeper into the Demon Race Holy Land.
• Ling Yuling told the White-Clad Gentleman that Wen Tianren must not obtain the object he sought because it could decide the war between the Star Palace and the Inverse Star Alliance.
• Ling Yuling ordered Protector Fu to bring Protector Wan and follow Wen Tianren's group, while the White-Clad Gentleman warned her to beware Luo Hong.

Luo Hong followed Wen Tianren and the Demonic Cultivators toward the treasure in the Demon Race Holy Land while reasoning that Wen Tianren was key to reaching it. At the Black Stone Steps, Ling Yuling’s group discovered a hidden rune, and Ling Yuling realized someone had arrived.

• Wen Tianren told Luo Hong that the flood dragons had entered the Holy Land and rushed toward its depths, then led his group onward as Star Palace caught up.
• Luo Hong concluded that the treasure likely stirred the instincts of all Demonic Beasts and that Wen Tianren knew how to overcome its defenses.
• Wen Tianren and his followers began climbing the pressure-laden Black Stone Steps, and Ling Yuling’s group followed behind them.
• Wan Chongguang severed his heart meridian and sent his Nascent Soul into Ling Yuling’s Soul Nurturing Box so the others would not be slowed by his injured body.
• The White-Clad Gentleman noticed a crack forming in the stone wall, which revealed an engraved rune, and Ling Yuling touched her Heavenly Fragrance Rope and said, “He's here!”

Ling Yuling realized the carvings warned of a trap on the Black Stone Steps, but she and her group could neither retreat nor safely wait. As Wen Tianren's party rested on the tenth layer and prepared to use the path's restrictions against them, Ling Yuling decided her group would have to press on and fight.

• Ling Yuling recognized the carvings as a warning from Luo Hong that the Black Stone Steps were a trap, and she inferred that he had eliminated Wen Tianren's reinforcements.
• Protector Bai tested the steps and discovered that those who advanced could not turn back; Ling Yuling concluded that Wen Tianren had prepared to exploit the restrictions against them.
• Wen Tianren explained that those who lingered on the first layer would be crushed by the pressure of the hundredth layer, then led his group onto the tenth layer.
• Luo Hong followed Wen Tianren onto the tenth layer, where the pressure rose to a hundred thousand jin, and realized the step was a grave prepared for Ling Yuling's group.
• Wen Tianren's group rested while Luo Hong stood guard, and Ling Yuling decided that delaying would only hurt her group and that they had to fight.

Luo Hong’s disguise was exposed when Wen Tianren’s group tried to kill him on the Black Stone Steps, and he revealed himself as Zhuo Bufan while protecting Ling Yuling’s party. After killing Wen Tianren’s three demon cultivators, Luo Hong faced Wen Tianren as six Ancient Demon Projections appeared behind him.

• Ling Yuling rejected the White-Clad Gentleman’s plan to rush ahead and chose to prioritize defense as her group climbed to the Ninth Layer.
• The Red-Haired Demonic Cultivator recognized that Luo Hong’s appearance differed from the man he had seen before, and Wen Tianren ordered his subordinates to kill him.
• Luo Hong evaded the three attackers with the Five Elements Evasion Technique and struck at Wen Tianren, but a life-saving treasure teleported Wen Tianren away and exposed Luo Hong as Zhuo Bufan.
• Ling Yuling’s group reached the Tenth Layer and collapsed under its extreme pressure, while Luo Hong warned them to protect themselves from the enemy’s unrestricted magic treasures.
• Luo Hong killed the Red-Haired Demonic Cultivator and the other two demon cultivators as Wen Tianren gathered demonic qi into a dense gray mist.
• The gray mist dispersed to reveal six Ancient Demon Projections behind Wen Tianren, and Luo Hong recognized them as old acquaintances.