Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong and Han Li reached Nanli Island while fleeing Feng Xi and met Ling Yuling, who sheltered them and learned they wanted to return to the Inner Sea. The teleportation array remained unrepaired, and Ling Yuling warned that Nascent Soul cultivators were still investigating the Void Sky Cauldron.

• Luo Hong and Han Li worried that Feng Xi would recover from the poison and pursue them, then traveled to Nanli Island using disguises.
• A Star Palace protector questioned the two, and Luo Hong asked him to tell Ling Yuling that Formation Master Luo Hong had come to visit.
• Ling Yuling arrived, recognized them as her friends, and brought them into Nanli Pavilion for a private discussion.
• Ling Yuling asked Han Li about the Void Sky Cauldron, but Luo Hong declined to let her inspect it and revealed his identity.
• Luo Hong asked about the teleportation array to the Inner Sea, and Ling Yuling said it lacked essential materials and warned that Nascent Soul cultivators still investigated the Void Sky Cauldron.

Luo Hong, Han Li, and Ling Yuling discussed the stalled effort to repair the long-distance Teleportation Array, which needed Empty Bright Stone held by the Inverse Star Alliance. Han Li supplied a lead to the Miaoyin Sect, while Luo Hong revealed a backup plan using a Sky-Mending Stone; the chapter ended as Lu Zhengyi caught up with the two men.

• Ling Yuling explained that the demon race had seized the stored Empty Bright Stones and that the Inverse Star Alliance had taken its remaining supply after retreating from her attack.
• Luo Hong inferred that Ling Yuling had targeted the Inverse Star Alliance for its Empty Bright Stone, and she confirmed that its forces had gone underground with the materials.
• Han Li said he had heard at an Underground Auction that the Miaoyin Sect was gathering formation materials to build a Teleportation Array.
• Ling Yuling promised to use Han Li's sea chart and trackers to find the Miaoyin Sect within three days, then attack its array and repair her own.
• After leaving Ling Yuling, Luo Hong showed Han Li a Sky-Mending Stone as a backup substitute for Empty Bright Stone and reassured him about using it.
• Luo Hong hinted that he knew about the Void Sky Hall's Dark Hall, and Lu Zhengyi caught up with Luo Hong and Han Li carrying a jade slip and a token.

Luo Hong learned that his missing disciple, Fan Mengyi, was on Nanli Island and set out with Han Li to find her. On the way, they arrived as Gongsun Xing of the Azure Spirit Sect prepared to duel the Flower Between Sect, and Han Li recognized someone from his past among the crowd.

• Lu Zhengyi gave Luo Hong a jade slip with news about Fan Mengyi and a token that could command Star Palace's low-ranking disciples.
• Luo Hong learned that Fan Mengyi had denied being his disciple when Star Palace cultivators approached her, and he invited Han Li to meet her.
• Gongsun Yu and Fang Yin argued over the Flower Between Sect's demand for Spirit Mountain, and Gongsun Xing challenged their disciples to a duel.
• Luo Hong and Han Li arrived above the duel with a Star Palace Disciple, who explained that Ling Yuling had established duels to settle disputes between sects.
• Han Li recognized Gongsun Xing as someone fated to meet him again, and Luo Hong teased him about a romantic debt.

Gongsun Xing used powerful Magic Artifacts and clever tactics to win her contest bouts, while Fan Mengyi stepped forward as the Azure Spirit Sect’s Guest Elder. Fan Mengyi overwhelmed a Flower Between Sect challenger with her refined sword control, leaving the contest’s outcome in doubt as she faced the remaining opponents.

• Luo Hong teased Han Li about Gongsun Xing, and Han Li explained that he had given her spare Pills and Magic Artifacts.
• Gongsun Xing defeated two Flower Between Sect cultivators with her top-grade Magic Artifacts, then conceded when a stronger opponent began to gain the advantage.
• The Azure Spirit Sect defeated the depleted Flower Between Sect cultivator and sent Fan Mengyi to fight as its Guest Elder.
• Fang Yin challenged Fan Mengyi’s right to participate, but Gongsun Yu confirmed that she had been invited as a Guest Elder.
• Fan Mengyi unleashed twelve Flying Swords and forced a Flower Between Sect disciple to abandon his attack and defend himself.

Fan Mengyi defeated Hong Lian after breaking her Crimson Iron Ring, but Hong Lian tainted her swords with black mist before Fang Yin entered the arena. Fan Mengyi continued fighting Fang Yin with a second set of swords, leaving her fate uncertain as his Silver Round Blades shattered them.

• Fan Mengyi used precise strikes to break Hong Lian's Crimson Iron Ring, then overcame Hong Lian's spiderweb trap and black mist with her flying swords.
• Hong Lian's Venomous Spider Art tainted one of Fan Mengyi's swords, and Fan Mengyi attacked her furiously until Hong Lian was carried from the arena.
• Fang Yin challenged Fan Mengyi, and she struggled to control her damaged swords against his Silver Round Blades and defensive shield.
• Fan Mengyi sent out another twelve flying swords, but Fang Yin's Silver Round Blades quickly shattered half of them.
• Gongsun Xing asked Gongsun Yu to concede for Fan Mengyi, but Gongsun Yu said she had to decide for herself.

Fan Mengyi defeated Fang Yin with a hidden sword formation, but Liu Tianfang intervened and redirected her attack. Luo Hong protected Fan Mengyi, confronted Liu Tianfang, and left the old Daoist afraid to challenge him after easily overpowering Liu Tianfang’s defenses.

• Fan Mengyi used her many flying swords to wear Fang Yin down, then trapped him in a formation and formed a Crimson Flame Greatsword with the Giant Sword Technique.
• Fang Yin surrendered, but Liu Tianfang redirected the Crimson Flame Greatsword with his Bronze Bowl; Luo Hong arrived and blocked it before it could harm Fan Mengyi.
• Liu Tianfang invoked Star Palace and claimed he had only disciplined Fan Mengyi after the duel ended, while Monk Huang said he would report what happened.
• Luo Hong mocked Liu Tianfang, then attacked him with the Sea Suppressing Bead after the old Daoist appeared to support him.
• Luo Hong shattered the old Daoist’s Eight Trigrams Phantom and drove Liu Tianfang into a mountain with his own Hundred Flower Bowl, leaving the old Daoist unwilling to fight.

Luo Hong reunited with Fan Mengyi, took her away from the Azure Spirit Sect, and reprimanded her before Han Li generously supplied her with pills. After three days of preparing a concealment restriction, Luo Hong and Han Li learned that the Inverse Star Alliance’s teleportation array was beneath Shuangfeng Island, setting up a dangerous mission there.

• Luo Hong defeated the Flower Between Sect’s master, and Monk Huang announced the Azure Spirit Sect’s victory and its compensation.
• Luo Hong took Fan Mengyi away, and Gongsun Yu opened the Azure Spirit Sect to new disciples while resolving to honor Martial Uncle Wei’s trust.
• Fan Mengyi explained how she had been injured and lost her way back to Luo Hong; Luo Hong forgave her, and Han Li gave her cultivation pills and a Youth-Preserving Pill.
• Luo Hong and Han Li worked for three days to conceal the Sky-Mending Stone’s spatial fluctuations.
• Ling Yuling told Luo Hong and Han Li that the Inverse Star Alliance’s teleportation array was beneath Shuangfeng Island and described the nearby islands and enemy deployment.

Ling Yuling proposed a coordinated assault on the Three Islands and a surprise raid on Shuangfeng Island to seize the Empty Bright Stone, but the raid risked trapping its team among Inverse Star Alliance Nascent Soul cultivators. Luo Hong devised a riskier plan using his teleportation talisman and the Alliance’s array, and Han Li agreed it was worth considering.

• Ling Yuling explained that the surprise team would have only two shichen to seize the Empty Bright Stone and escape before the Inverse Star Alliance’s Nascent Soul cultivators could return to Shuangfeng Island.
• Han Li worried that he and Luo Hong could be overwhelmed by several Nascent Soul cultivators, while Ling Yuling said the Star Palace could not spare its own cultivators to pursue them.
• Luo Hong reassured Han Li that his Four Symbols Teleportation Talisman could let them escape if the raid ran over time.
• Luo Hong proposed using the Inverse Star Alliance’s Teleportation Array instead of Ling Yuling’s array to avoid being trapped in Tianxing City.
• Luo Hong explained a plan that would require Ling Yuling’s cooperation, and Han Li hesitated at its risks before Luo Hong argued that they had a way out at every step.

Luo Hong and Han Li launched a surprise attack on Shuangfeng Island while Ling Yuling led Star Palace forces against the Inverse Star Alliance’s abandoned patrols. Luo Hong and Han Li reached the island’s underground cavern, where the remaining defenders recognized them just as the battle was about to begin.

• Luo Hong persuaded Ling Yuling to accept his risky plan, and Han Li pledged to follow his senior brother.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and Fan Mengyi waited in ambush near Shuangfeng Island before releasing their Spirit Insects to attack.
• Ling Yuling received the signal that the paired Concentric Insect had died and ordered the Star Palace forces to attack the island’s patrols.
• Luo Hong and Han Li’s Spirit Insects overwhelmed Shuangfeng Island’s defenses, while Fan Mengyi collected the fallen cultivators’ storage bags.
• Luo Hong and Han Li entered the underground cavern after Han Li’s Three-Colored Gold Devouring Insects cleared its restrictions and traps.
• The two Late Core Formation Twin Cultivators remaining in the cavern recognized Luo Hong as Zhuo Bufan and Han Li.

Luo Hong and Han Li fought True Man Miaoche, True Man Jinxia, and their companions over the Empty Bright Stone in the damaged teleportation cavern. Luo Hong countered both True Men’s techniques, but they brought out their Nascent Souls and prepared a desperate attack.

• True Man Miaoche revealed the Empty Bright Stone and demanded a Sky-Mending Pill, while Luo Hong and Han Li attacked the group.
• Luo Hong’s Sea Suppressing Bead damaged Miaoche’s life-bound flying sword despite being knocked back, revealing that the bead could counter its hardness.
• Jinxia used his Myriad White Threads to trap and draw in the Sea Suppressing Bead, but Luo Hong unleashed hidden Nuclear Black Flame and forced him to retreat.
• Miaoche and Jinxia recognized the Nuclear Black Flame as the power that had destroyed Jinxia’s former body, then released their Nascent Souls and formed a Yin-Yang Dual Fish Phantom.

Luo Hong was caught in Miao He and Jin Xia’s Yin-Yang Dual Fish Phantom, a gravity maze that bent spells and dragged everything toward its center. After studying its forces with the Sea Suppressing Bead, he unraveled the divine ability and flew toward their Nascent Souls.

• Luo Hong’s Sea Suppressing Bead and Five Elements Spells were pulled off course inside the Yin-Yang Dual Fish Phantom, leading him to suspect it controlled gravity.
• An Early Core Formation cultivator and three other Inverse Star Alliance cultivators were dragged into the phantom and torn apart, while Han Li and Luo Hong’s Spirit Insects survived its forces.
• Luo Hong’s Law-Breaking Sound Thunder turned back and struck the purple mark on his forehead, leaving him briefly paralyzed and allowing Miao He and Jin Xia to envelop him.
• Luo Hong endured the phantom’s immense pressure and used the One Hundred and Eight Primordial Heavy Water Beads to study its changing gravity.
• Luo Hong stopped himself from being pulled toward the center, saw through the Dual Fish Diagram’s secrets, and flew toward Miao He and Jin Xia’s Nascent Souls.

Luo Hong defeated Miao He and Jin Xia, while Han Li fed their Nascent Souls to his Soul-Devouring Beast. After Luo Hong quickly repaired the Teleportation Array, Feng Xi arrived as Han Li’s warning formation signaled the pursuers’ approach.

• Luo Hong used the Double Fish Shadow’s gravitational changes to break Miao He and Jin Xia’s divine ability, then destroyed their bodies and took their cultivation arts.
• Han Li summoned his Soul-Devouring Beast, which trapped and devoured Miao He and Jin Xia’s Nascent Souls.
• Luo Hong began repairing the Teleportation Array while Han Li waited anxiously for Feng Xi to pursue them.
• Fan Mengyi brought Han Li the Formation Plate for Shuangfeng Island’s warning formation, and Han Li replaced its Spiritual Sense Imprint with his own.
• Luo Hong quickly completed the Teleportation Array, and Han Li sensed the warning formation activate as the pursuers arrived.

Luo Hong, Han Li, and Fan Mengyi escaped Feng Xi through a long-distance Teleportation Array, leaving Feng Xi trapped in a cavern with the Inverse Star Alliance. Star Palace reinforcements defeated the Alliance forces, while Luo Hong and his companions arrived at another Alliance stronghold and prepared to carry out their mission.

• Luo Hong activated the long-distance Teleportation Array as Feng Xi burst into the cavern, forcing Feng Xi to halt his attack rather than risk Spatial Turbulence.
• Feng Xi fought four Inverse Star Alliance Nascent Soul Cultivators after they tried to seize the Empty Bright Stone, then accepted their Teleportation Talisman when the Alliance's array connection failed.
• Ling Yuling arrived with twenty-one Star Palace cultivators, drove Feng Xi away, and led the attack that killed three Inverse Star Alliance Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and Fan Mengyi arrived at another Inverse Star Alliance stronghold, where Luo Hong convinced the Skeleton Cultivator to let Fan Mengyi accompany their mission.

Luo Hong and Han Li infiltrated a Qingyang Sect mission to kill Yuan Yao, then turned on the other cultivators when they reached her island. After defeating the pursuers and reuniting with Yuan Yao, Fan Mengyi called her Master’s wife and paid her respects.

• Luo Hong damaged the Teleportation Array while he and Han Li waited for the mission participants to arrive.
• Grey Robed Old Man revealed that the mission was to kill Yuan Yao, whom the Qingyang Sect blamed for its young master's death and stolen treasures.
• Luo Hong and the others followed Grey Robed Old Man to Yuan Yao's island, where he broke her Spirit Restraining Array.
• Luo Hong trapped Grey Robed Old Man while Han Li killed the Skeleton Cultivator and the fierce-looking big man, and Fan Mengyi beheaded the remaining cultivators.
• Yuan Yao recognized Luo Hong and Han Li, and Fan Mengyi introduced herself as Yuan Yao's disciple's master's wife and paid her respects.

Luo Hong, Han Li, and Fan Mengyi visited Yuan Yao, who recounted the persecution that had stalled her cultivation and asked for help reviving Yan. Luo Hong gave Fan Mengyi Sky-Mending Pills and offered Yuan Yao a Heavenly Demon Pill for Yan’s primordial spirit, leaving open whether it could save her.

• Yuan Yao welcomed Luo Hong, Han Li, and Fan Mengyi to her cave abode and explained that years of hiding after the Void Sky Hall incident had delayed her cultivation.
• Yuan Yao asked about Han Li’s rapid advancement and the Sky-Mending Pill; Luo Hong revealed that he had several, gave Fan Mengyi two, and then teased her by explaining they had been extracted from a corpse.
• Luo Hong requested Yuan Yao’s Spirit Restraining Array diagram, while Han Li also sought the array and Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Liquid; Yuan Yao gave Luo Hong the diagram in thanks for saving her.
• Yuan Yao revealed that she intended to use the Soul-Returning Technique to save Yan, despite the risk of shattering her core and ending her cultivation path.
• Luo Hong asked to examine Yan’s primordial spirit, then offered Yuan Yao a Heavenly Demon Pill made from captured Outer Realm Sky Demons as a possible aid.

Luo Hong tried to restore Yan Li’s failing Nascent Soul with a Heavenly Demon Pill, but discovered that her lost intelligence could not be recovered. As Yuan Yao prepared to use the Soul-Returning Technique despite its cost to her future, Luo Hong hit on an idea involving space and the Sky-Mending Stone, then began preparing defenses as her spell stirred the island’s Yin Qi.

• Luo Hong instructed Yuan Yao to sprinkle a crushed Heavenly Demon Pill over Yan Li’s Nascent Soul, but the soul weakened again when the treatment stopped.
• Yuan Yao accepted that Yan Li could not be saved by the pill and prepared to cast the Soul-Returning Technique, while Luo Hong and Han Li promised to protect her.
• Luo Hong considered how to spare Yuan Yao the Netherworld’s thousand years of solitude and conceived a possible solution involving space and the Sky-Mending Stone.
• Yuan Yao told Luo Hong and Han Li that she would begin the spell when Yin Qi peaked and asked them to drive away any investigating Cultivators.
• Luo Hong flew to the island’s perimeter to set up formations as Yuan Yao began her spell, and he ordered Fan Mengyi to place Formation Flags.

Luo Hong began refining the Sky-Mending Stone while Han Li guarded the island, drawing attacks from several cultivators. Wen Tianren arrived and fought Han Li, then ordered Zi Ling to capture Fan Mengyi as Han Li held his ground against his Golden Light Divine Flame.

• Luo Hong asked Han Li to protect Yuan Yao while he secluded himself aboard the spirit boat to refine the Sky-Mending Stone.
• Han Li activated the island's formation and used his puppets and Gold Devouring Insects to repel intruders, including a White Shadow and two Core Formation cultivators.
• Wen Tianren arrived with Zi Ling, violently threatened her, and headed toward the island after sensing the secret art's vast Yin Qi.
• Han Li fought Wen Tianren, destroyed one incarnation of his Six Extreme True Demon with Exorcism Divine Thunder, and endured the Golden Light Divine Flame using Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Liquid.
• Wen Tianren ordered Zi Ling to capture Fan Mengyi and threatened her when she hesitated.

Luo Hong and Han Li faced Wen Tianren as the Ghost Mist swept over the island, forcing cultivators to flee and sealing their powers. Luo Hong reached Yuan Yao and gave her the Sky-Mending Stone before the mist swallowed him and transported him to an unknown place.

• Zi Ling recognized Han Li but moved toward Wen Tianren’s spirit boat, while Fan Mengyi prepared to fight his companion.
• Zhuo Bufan emerged from the cabin, and Han Li appeared beside Wen Tianren and attacked him with giant swords; Luo Hong watched the approaching Ghost Mist.
• Han Li killed Wen Tianren, and Zi Ling’s warning sent the nearby cultivators fleeing as Luo Hong took Fan Mengyi toward Yuan Yao’s valley.
• Luo Hong gave Fan Mengyi a Synchronized Qi Talisman, then rushed to the altar and caught the spell-interrupted Yuan Yao.
• Luo Hong gave Yuan Yao the Sky-Mending Stone and urged her to keep it; the Ghost Mist swallowed him and carried him away.
• Luo Hong fell into an unknown place without Magic Power and landed on a slick surface.

Luo Hong rescued Fan Mengyi and a male cultivator in the Netherworld, then joined Lin Ping’s group as they returned to their village. There, Luo Hong recognized that the rescued cultivator might be Mei Ning’s elder brother and planned to gather Soul Stones before leaving.

• Luo Hong followed the faint connection to Fan Mengyi, rescued her from a fish and shrimp pile, and brought along a male cultivator he had saved from a Netherworld Beast.
• Lin Ping and his companions found Luo Hong and invited him to their village after learning he had killed a Netherworld Beast.
• Luo Hong killed three Howling Beasts with thrown stones, and Lin Ping knelt to ask him to become his master, but Fan Mengyi refused on his behalf.
• The group collected Soul Stones and led Luo Hong and the others through a blue-lit cave entrance into the Netherworld.
• The rescued male cultivator worried that his younger sister Ning'er might be in the village, leading Luo Hong to suspect he was Mei Ning’s elder brother.

Luo Hong reached a village in the Netherworld and revealed that he was a Body Refiner, then demanded to know how to leave. The elder tried to keep him there by warning that the deadly Yin Wind could endanger his companions, but Luo Hong produced a Crimson Scale.

• Lin Ping brought Luo Hong and his companions to meet the village elder, who recognized Luo as a cultivator after hearing how he had killed a Howling Beast.
• Luo Hong said he had mastered body refinement and offered to repair and improve the village's failing Soul Stone Array.
• The elder said a Great Jin Body Refiner had once visited the village and offered to show Luo a stone stele, but Luo first asked where the Netherworld's exit was.
• Lin Ping's Father and another villager attacked Luo Hong to test him, but he stood firm and sent them flying with a slight exertion of force.
• The elder warned that Yin Wind could freeze Luo Hong's companions to death outside the Soul Stone Array, and Luo Hong answered by taking out a Crimson Scale.