Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong learned that the Moonlight Grand Competition’s prize was Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew and declined to participate, claiming he was preparing to break through to Qi Refining Level Twelve. He continued his preparations for Nascent Soul Formation by protecting Wang Qingqing, refining his External Incarnation, and completing the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array.

• Wang Qingqing told Luo Hong that the top ten competitors would receive Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew, condensed by the Heaven Questioning Mirror, and that the competition would take place in three months.
• Luo Hong realized the Mulan people were likely targeting the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew and decided he would flee with Senior Sister and Wang Qingqing after achieving Nascent Soul Formation.
• Luo Hong refused to enter the competition, saying he planned to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough, which angered Wang Qingqing.
• After Wang Qingqing left, Luo Hong secretly placed a protective Spirit Talisman on her and went to his hidden cave abode to tend to his External Incarnation.
• Luo Hong placed the Heavenly Wind Crystal above his formation plate and caught the level-seven Wind Flood Dragon’s Essence Soul, preparing to refine it into the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array.

Fairy Nishang used the Heaven Questioning Mirror to remove Moonlight Essence from Luo Hong’s Flood Dragon Scales, while Luo Hong completed his preparations and began Nascent Soul Formation. He successfully shattered his Golden Core and entered the Spiritual God Fusion stage.

• Fairy Nishang asked Shi Zhongqin to use the Heaven Questioning Mirror to purify the Seventh-grade Flood Dragon Scales, and Shi Zhongqin removed their Moonlight Essence.
• Shi Zhongqin returned the purified scales to Fairy Nishang and warned her not to refine treasures before the grand competition.
• Nearly a month later, Luo Hong finished preparing the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array and his External Incarnation, then began his Nascent Soul Formation.
• Luo Hong drew the External Incarnation’s primordial spirit into his Niwan Palace and devoured it with his own primordial spirit.
• Luo Hong used the Hundred Apertures Returning Flow method and the Demon Breaking Pill to shatter his Golden Core, forming a Spirit Cloud in his dantian.
• Luo Hong sent his primordial spirit into the Spirit Cloud, beginning Spiritual God Fusion.

As Luo Hong endured the spirit-soul fusion required for Nascent Soul Formation, the Moon Concealing Sect's competition ended in an attack by four Mulan Grand Masters seeking the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew. The battle escalated when Nangong Wan and Wei Wuya arrived to confront the invaders.

• Luo Hong continued enduring the wear of heaven and earth during spirit-soul fusion as the Moonlight Grand Competition entered its final stage.
• Wang Qingqing defeated her opponent and won first place, and Fairy Nishang presented the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew to the ranked disciples.
• Four disciples, including the Yellow-faced Cultivator, exploded into blood-colored vortices and emerged as Mulan Grand Masters.
• Divine Master Zhong attacked Fairy Nishang and tried to seize the treasure pearl, while she threw it away and was badly struck.
• Nangong Wan appeared to stop the Gaunt Old Man from reaching the pearl, and Wei Wuya arrived with Shi Zhongqin, prompting the Mulan leaders to react gravely.

Wei Wuya and Divine Master Zhong separated from the battle at Hidden Moon Peak, leaving the Moon Concealing Sect to face the Mulan Grand Masters. The Mulan attackers trapped the sect’s elders and killed a loyal Core Formation Elder, while Shi Zhongqin entered the pagoda and froze the Red-Robed High Master’s Flame Wheel before the Big-Eared Woman revealed her concealed Great High Master cultivation.

• Wei Wuya and Shi Zhongqin agreed that Wei Wuya would hold off Divine Master Zhong while the Moon Concealing Sect fought the other Mulan Grand Masters.
• The Big-Eared Woman used her Golden Light Pagoda to trap most of the Moon Concealing Sect’s Core Formation Elders, and Divine Master Zhong and Wei Wuya left to battle elsewhere.
• The gaunt old man attacked Nangong Wan as the Red-Robed High Master targeted the elder carrying the Moon Brilliance Pearl.
• The Moon Serving Peak master passed the pearl to another disciple and sacrificed her Red Jade Bracelet, but the Red-Robed High Master killed her with his Flame Wheel.
• Shi Zhongqin entered the Golden Light Pagoda and used the Mirror of Condensed Light to freeze the Flame Wheel.
• The Big-Eared Woman revealed that she had concealed her cultivation and had reached the Great High Master realm.

The Mulan cultivators trapped Shi Zhongqin and nearly seized the Precious Pearl, but Wang Qingqing and Qi Yunxiao were teleported to Luo Hong’s Spirit Herb Garden, where the array attacked Qi Yunxiao. Meanwhile, Luo Hong confronted a heart demon during his Nascent Soul formation and recovered his memories, leaving him to recognize how formidable it was.

• The Big-Eared Woman used the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda to bind Shi Zhongqin and drain her magic power while the Red-Robed High Master attacked Qi Yunxiao for the Precious Pearl.
• Qi Yunxiao dodged the attack, and Wang Qingqing caught the Precious Pearl before the Flame Wheel’s flaming humanoid threatened her.
• A Four-Colored Light Sphere teleported Wang Qingqing and Qi Yunxiao a hundred miles away, while Nangong Wan wounded the Gaunt Old Man with the Evil Slaying Thorn and rallied the Moon Concealing Sect elders.
• Wang Qingqing recognized Luo Hong’s Spirit Herb Garden, where the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array attacked Qi Yunxiao with a Wind Flood Dragon Soul and Wind Blades.
• Luo Hong saw a vision of Yuan Yao, Zi Ling, and Yu Ruoxi, then noticed another Luo Hong watching them and regained his memories, realizing he was facing a heart demon.

Luo Hong resisted the Heart Demon’s illusions, captured its weakened true body for study, and formed his Nascent Soul. He sensed that the Nascent Soul Formation Omen had reached its final stage and that spiritual energy was about to flow back into him.

• Luo Hong saw through an illusion of his childhood and shattered the poisoned medicine bowl, injuring the Heart Demon.
• Luo Hong endured repeated illusions that tempted or frightened him, gradually recovering enough memories to recognize the Heart Demon’s tricks.
• Luo Hong completed a game in a modern living room illusion, then revealed the Heart Demon’s true body as a weakened red ball of light.
• Luo Hong explained that he had deliberately allowed the Heart Demon to exhaust itself so he could capture it and study it.
• Luo Hong returned to the world of the mind, where blue spiritual light enveloped him and he recognized his infant form as his Nascent Soul.
• Luo Hong sensed the Nascent Soul Formation Omen nearing its end and knew that a vast amount of spiritual energy was about to pour back into his body.

Luo Hong’s Nascent Soul Formation reached its final stage as the Moon Concealing Sect and Mulan Grand Masters fought around him. The Red Robe Grand Master entered Luo Hong’s Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array to seize the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew and headed toward Wang Qingqing.

• Qi Yunxiao died inside the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array, and Wang Qingqing watched as the Flood Dragon Soul killed him.
• A Nascent Soul Formation omen appeared above Spirit Jade Peak, and Nangong Wan and the Mulan Grand Masters realized Luo Hong was undergoing the tribulation.
• Five-colored spiritual light flowed into Luo Hong’s cave abode, confirming his Nascent Soul Formation, while the fighting sides adjusted their plans.
• The Big-Eared Woman injured Shi Zhongqin with the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda and fled toward Spirit Jade Peak as Nangong Wan fought the gaunt old man.
• The Red Robe Grand Master attacked the array, then entered it after the Flood Dragon Soul repelled his Flame Wheel.
• The Red Robe Grand Master endured the array’s attacks while following the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew’s aura toward Wang Qingqing, who believed he was coming to kill her.

Luo Hong emerged from seclusion to save Wang Qingqing and prevent the Mulan people from taking the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew. He began fighting the Red-Robed High Master, who tried to break the great array with a City-Breaking Savage Beast.

• Wang Qingqing fled the Red-Robed High Master through the great array, refusing to abandon the Precious Pearl despite the danger.
• Luo Hong appeared, seized the Flood Dragon Soul, and shaped the array’s Wind Spirit Qi into an azure moon blade that damaged the Red-Robed High Master’s Fire Wheel.
• Luo Hong declared that the Red-Robed High Master would die for invading his array while he was undergoing Nascent Soul Formation.
• The Red-Robed High Master released a City-Breaking Savage Beast to break the array, and Luo Hong summoned five Seventh-grade Flood Dragons to confront it.

Luo Hong killed the Red-Robed High Master and captured his Nascent Soul before retreating into the great formation. As the Big-Eared Woman attacked with the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda, Luo Hong fled after Senior Sister warned him that he could not withstand it.

• Luo Hong used his Silver Spirit Eye and teleportation to defeat the Red-Robed High Master, then captured his fleeing Nascent Soul in the Dazzling Light Demonic Mirror.
• Luo Hong returned to the formation, recalled the five flood dragons after they feasted on the savage beast, and promised them some of its flesh.
• The Big-Eared Woman demanded He High Master's Nascent Soul and attacked Luo Hong's formation with the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda.
• Luo Hong used the Heavenly Wind Dragon Locking Array to strike the pagoda with azure wind blades, but its golden light tower resisted the assault.
• Senior Sister warned Luo Hong that he could not hold his ground against the pagoda, so he fled toward her voice.

Luo Hong battled the Big-Eared Woman after escaping her Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda and protecting Yu Ruoxi. The fight left him caught by the pagoda’s chains, but the Nuclear Black Flame in his dantian erupted and began burning through them toward the pagoda.

• The Big-Eared Woman attacked Luo Hong and Yu Ruoxi with her Golden Sword and Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda, but Luo Hong escaped the pagoda’s range while Yu Ruoxi froze the sword at the cost of her vitality.
• Luo Hong reached Yu Ruoxi, fed her a pill, and faced the Big-Eared Woman, who recognized his Five Elements Evasion Technique and summoned eight Golden Swords.
• Luo Hong used a turtle shell and Lightless Shield to withstand the Golden Lotus formed by the swords, then summoned the Ancient Demonic Manifestation and gave it the Demon Head Hammer.
• The Big-Eared Woman manifested a Seated Buddha Phantom and attacked with Buddha Light, but Luo Hong used the Ancient Demonic Manifestation’s black beams and Blood-colored Shield to keep fighting her.
• As their battle wore on, the Big-Eared Woman sent the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda toward Luo Hong, whose brief exposure to its illusion left him pierced by its Golden Light Chains.
• The pagoda’s chains began draining Luo Hong’s magic power, but the Nuclear Black Flame in his dantian surged out, burned the chains to ash, and raced toward the pagoda.

Luo Hong survived a battle with Divine Master Zhong and the Big-Eared Woman after Wei Wuya arrived to drive them off. He reunited with Yu Ruoxi and declared that he would take her away, rejecting Shi Zhongqin’s demand that he join the Moon Concealing Sect.

• Luo Hong’s Nuclear Black Flame destroyed the Big-Eared Woman’s split spirit and damaged her Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda, which he took before Divine Master Zhong intervened.
• Divine Master Zhong tried to capture Luo Hong after the Big-Eared Woman accused him of using the Mulan clan’s sacred art, but Wei Wuya arrived and forced the two Mulan cultivators to flee.
• Wei Wuya offered Luo Hong a place to cultivate in the Flowing Mind Sect’s Ruyi Cave Heaven, but Luo Hong politely declined.
• Nangong Wan and Shi Zhongqin arrived, and Shi Zhongqin challenged Luo Hong for secretly forming his Nascent Soul in the Moon Concealing Sect.
• Luo Hong revealed that he had come to find Yu Ruoxi, took her hand, and refused Shi Zhongqin’s offer to make him a Supreme Elder, declaring that he would take Yu Ruoxi away that day.

Luo Hong invoked the Six Sects Pact to claim Yu Ruoxi could leave the Moon Concealing Sect with him, while Ancestor Linghu confirmed Luo Hong’s Yellow Maple Valley origins. Shi Zhongqin challenged Luo Hong over Qi Yunxiao’s death and doubted his claim that he had killed a Mulan Grand Master, but Luo Hong produced the enemy’s Nascent Soul as proof.

• Luo Hong cited the Six Sects Pact and Ancestor Linghu vouched that he had once been a disciple of Yellow Maple Valley.
• Yu Ruoxi declared that she would leave the Moon Concealing Sect and go wherever Luo Hong went.
• Wang Qingqing revealed that Qi Yunxiao had been killed by the array’s green Flood Dragon Soul, and Luo Hong admitted the array had killed him accidentally.
• Shi Zhongqin accused Luo Hong of violating the pact and threatened to keep him from leaving, while Luo Hong appealed to Wei Wuya for judgment.
• Shi Zhongqin demanded proof that Luo Hong had killed the Red-Robed High Master, and Luo Hong revealed the High Master’s Nascent Soul in a jade box.

Luo Hong returned to Yellow Maple Valley after capturing the Red-Robed High Master's Nascent Soul and resolving the dispute with the Moon Concealing Sect. In seclusion, he revealed that the Heart Demon’s theft of the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew had been part of his plan, then began an experiment with the recovered treasure.

• Wei Wuya and Shi Zhongqin accepted Luo Hong’s explanation for Elder Qi’s death after he revealed the captured Nascent Soul, and Luo Hong agreed to compensate the Moon Concealing Sect for the missing Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew.
• Luo Hong sealed the Heart Demon in the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda, then left for Yellow Maple Valley with Ancestor Linghu, Yu Ruoxi, and Wang Qingqing.
• Ancestor Linghu gave Luo Hong a spiritual residence for seclusion while Yu Ruoxi prepared to build his cave residence.
• Luo Hong reconsidered his plans and suspected that the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art originated among the Mulan people, giving him another reason to enter their war with the Southern Sky.
• Luo Hong released the Heart Demon and transformed it into his likeness, revealing that he had secretly arranged for it to take and conceal the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew.
• Luo Hong retrieved the Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew and summoned a scorched, feather-covered flesh ball to begin an experiment.

Luo Hong tested Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew on Little Gold, then reflected on the transformation of his Sea Suppressing Bead before meeting Yellow Maple Valley’s Core Formation elders. He reunited with Xiao Cui'er and Yu Ying, gifted Xiao Cui'er a demon beast eye and Yu Ying’s children magic tools, and learned that some old friends had died.

• Luo Hong fed Moon Brilliance Treasure Dew to Little Gold’s flesh ball, strengthening its life force and producing faint heartbeats.
• Luo Hong examined how his Sea Suppressing Bead had transformed into Dual Origin Heavy Water and increased its potential mass limit.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Luo Hong went to the discussion hall and met Ancestor Linghu and Yellow Maple Valley’s Core Formation elders.
• Luo Hong reunited with Xiao Cui'er, praised her Mysterious Jade Ruler, and gave her the main eye of a Hundred-Eyed Monster to improve its illusion ability.
• Yu Ying arrived after a pill furnace exploded, and Luo Hong gave him top-grade magic tools for his children.

Luo Hong returned to Yellow Maple Valley, became its new Supreme Elder, and reunited with Yu Ruoxi after catching up on the fate of old acquaintances. He promised to help Yu Ruoxi reach Nascent Soul Formation, and the chapter ended with the two of them alone together in her cave abode.

• Ancestor Linghu announced Luo Hong as Yellow Maple Valley's new Supreme Elder, and Luo Hong declined a grand induction ceremony.
• Luo Hong learned that Liu Jing's descendants were cultivating in Yellow Maple Valley and that Li Xiaoqing had died during a failed breakthrough.
• Luo Hong spoke with Ancestor Linghu about cultivation for three days and three nights, then visited the cave abode Yu Ruoxi had built for them.
• Luo Hong told Yu Ruoxi he wanted to wait until she formed a Nascent Soul before holding their Dual Cultivation Ceremony and gave her Spirit Wine, a pill, and lotus petals to aid her cultivation.
• Luo Hong promised Yu Ruoxi he could help her form a Nascent Soul within twenty years, then carried her to bed and kissed her.

Luo Hong completed a new Five Elements Banner and began refining more treasures while Nie Ying asked Xiao Cui'er to help her search the dangerous Bell Spirit Mountain Range for her husband's nephew. Nie Ying remained determined to enter the Gray Mist before it receded, despite Xiao Cui'er's warnings.

• Luo Hong finished refining the Five Elements Banner, stored it in his dantian, and recovered before resuming work on a spirit shield and flying swords.
• Nie Ying waited near Hua Shen Peak and called Xiao Cui'er there as Luo Hong's refining caused a powerful wave of water spiritual power.
• Nie Ying showed Xiao Cui'er an Image Pearl depicting her husband's nephew among strange, unchanged humans in the Bell Spirit Mountain Range.
• Nie Ying explained that the nephew's image had appeared after ghost-hunting disciples encountered strange cultivators in the mountain range's mind-bewildering Gray Mist.
• Xiao Cui'er warned Nie Ying that the Gray Mist had become deadly even to Nascent Soul cultivators, but Nie Ying insisted she had to search while it remained dense.

Nie Ying sent Xiao Cui'er to seek Luo Hong's help, but Xiao Cui'er returned without success. After three years of seclusion, Luo Hong emerged, gave Fan Mengyi a sword case containing the Heavenly Sun Divine Sword, and learned that an evil entity had invaded Nie Ying's body.

• Nie Ying gave Xiao Cui'er a precious treasure and asked her to invite Luo Hong out of seclusion, but Xiao Cui'er returned with a grim expression.
• Luo Hong studied the Pure Yang Burning Heaven Art and decided to gather materials to cultivate Pure Yang Flame and speed up refining the Nuclear Black Flame.
• Luo Hong emerged from seclusion, praised Fan Mengyi's progress, and gave her the Heavenly Sun Divine Sword in a specially made sword case.
• Fan Mengyi told Luo Hong that Xiao Cui'er had left a message, and Luo Hong summoned her to the reception hall.
• Xiao Cui'er arrived injured and depleted, then asked Luo Hong to save Nie Ying from an evil entity invading her body.

Luo Hong investigated Nie Ying’s possession by a Gray Shadow Evil and discovered it was drawn to his Heart Demon. After trapping the creature, he agreed to investigate the dangerous Bell Spirit Mountain Range.

• Xiao Cui'er brought Luo Hong to Nie Ying’s cave abode, where Ancestor Linghu struggled to separate an evil entity fused with Nie Ying’s primordial spirit.
• Xiao Cui'er explained that a Gray Shadow Evil had attacked Nie Ying and Floating Cloud Child among Yin Ghosts in the Bell Spirit Mountain Range.
• Luo Hong released his Heart Demon, drawing the Gray Shadow Evil out of Nie Ying, then trapped it inside the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda.
• Luo Hong told the others that the evil entity fed on intelligence and was instinctively drawn to the Heart Demon.
• Ancestor Linghu ordered Lei Wanhe to warn the sect and asked Luo Hong to investigate the Bell Spirit Mountain Range; Luo Hong agreed.

Luo Hong learned that the Gray Mist in the Bell Spirit Mountain Range concealed cultivators possessed by Outer Realm Sky Demons, traded a Seventh-grade Flood Dragon claw for Nie Ying’s Mysterious Yin Eye, and agreed to explore the range with Xiao Cui'er. The chapter leaves Liu Xingye and Luo Bin’s group of Yellow Maple Valley disciples surrounded by Yin Ghosts and debating whether to retreat.

• Xiao Cui'er told Luo Hong how Nie Ying’s husband, Wang Yuanzhi, had died saving her, and why she had ventured into the Bell Spirit Mountain Range.
• Nie Ying showed Luo Hong an Image Pearl depicting strange cultivators, and Luo Hong recognized them as victims of Outer Realm Sky Demons.
• Nie Ying offered Luo Hong Wang Yuanzhi’s Mysterious Yin Eye, and Luo Hong traded her a Seventh-grade Flood Dragon claw for it.
• Xiao Cui'er persuaded Luo Hong to let her guide him through the Bell Spirit Mountain Range, and they set out together.
• Liu Xingye’s group of Yellow Maple Valley disciples was besieged by Yin Ghosts in the Gray Mist, and Luo Bin urged him to retreat.

Luo Hong and Xiao Cui'er rescued Yellow Maple Valley disciples from a horde of Yin Ghosts, and Luo Hong rewarded Liu Xingye and Luo Bin with Foundation Establishment Pills after learning of Luo Bin’s family connection. They then met Wuyouzi and Nangong Wan near the site of Nie Ying’s trouble and agreed to explore deeper into the Bell Spirit Mountain Range together.

• Liu Xingye used Luo Bin as bait to draw the Yin Ghosts together, but his Golden Bell cracked and failed to contain them.
• Luo Hong and Xiao Cui'er appeared, and Luo Hong annihilated the Yin Ghosts before they could attack the disciples.
• Luo Hong recognized Luo Bin as a descendant of Luo Ying and bestowed Foundation Establishment Pills on him and Liu Xingye, then warned the group to leave the mountains.
• Liu Xingye and the other disciples collected the Yin Soul Beads and fled the mountain range while Luo Hong and Xiao Cui'er continued toward Nie Ying’s location.
• Luo Hong met Wuyouzi and Nangong Wan, learned that Wuyouzi was seeking a cure for the possessed Floating Cloud Child, and agreed to explore deeper with them.
• Before entering the depths, Luo Hong took strange objects from his Myriad Treasures Pouch to conduct experiments on the Gray Mist.