Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong was ambushed by the Big-Eared Woman and the Mo Brothers while traveling toward Heaven-Filled City, but he turned the trap into a fierce battle. He killed Mo Chi and captured his Nascent Soul, then appeared beside Mo Liang to continue the fight.

• Luo Hong delayed his transfer to Heaven-Filled City by planning to attack a Mulan tribe, then set out after warning Yu Ruoxi to guard Yellow Maple Valley.
• The Big-Eared Woman and the Mo Brothers ambushed Luo Hong beneath a Heavenly Net Black Curtain and demanded that he return the Eight-Angle Demon Sealing Pagoda.
• Luo Hong fought back with Little Gold, the Sea Suppressing Bead, Black Crow True Flame, and his Crescent Flying Dagger, while the Big-Eared Woman and Mo Liang were both put at a disadvantage.
• The Mo Brothers combined their treasures to attack Luo Hong, but he used the Leopard Eye to petrify the Demon Breaking Cone and foil their strike.
• Luo Hong froze Mo Chi long enough for Black Crow True Flame to burn his body and capture his Nascent Soul, then appeared beside Mo Liang.

Luo Hong defeated Mo Chi and exposed Yue Yun as the Mulan Saintess, while Yuan Yao ambushed and captured her. With Mo Liang trapped in the Soul Burning Net, Luo Hong confronted Yue Yun about the clan’s sacred lamp.

• After Mo Chi died, Luo Hong attacked Mo Liang, but Yue Yun blocked his punch with a white lotus and saved Mo Liang.
• Luo Hong recognized Yue Yun’s interest in the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art and deduced that the Mulan people possessed its complete inheritance.
• Yue Yun revealed an ancient bronze oil lamp and prepared to use it, prompting Luo Hong to identify her as the Mulan Saintess.
• Yuan Yao appeared behind Yue Yun, restrained her with Profound Yin Energy, and seized control of the Soul Burning Net.
• Mo Liang attacked Yuan Yao, but she used the Soul Burning Net to trap him and inflict pain on his primordial spirit.
• Luo Hong pointed out that Yue Yun’s lamp served as a medium for contacting the upper-realm Sacred Beast and warned that losing it could make her a sinner to the Mulan Clan.

Luo Hong defeated Yue Yun and her allies, then accepted Divine Master Zhong’s offer to exchange the complete Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art for his nonparticipation in the war. The Mulan party departed with Mo Liang and Mo Chi, while Luo Hong recovered Han Li’s treasures and realized that future cultivation would keep him dependent on Mulan spirit materials.

• Luo Hong searched Mo Chi’s Nascent Soul despite Yue Yun’s warning, broke through its protective restriction, and learned secrets about the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art.
• Yuan Yao bound Mo Liang, and Luo Hong chose to spare Yue Yun and take the Bronze Oil Lamp; Divine Master Zhong’s External Incarnation emerged from the relic, prompting Luo Hong and Yue Yun to call off their attacks.
• Divine Master Zhong offered Luo Hong the complete cultivation-art inheritance in exchange for staying out of the great war, and Luo Hong agreed to consider the Mulan Clan’s promise fulfilled.
• Divine Master Zhong gave Luo Hong a jade slip and asked him to release Mo Liang and Mo Chi; Luo Hong did so and demanded Han Li’s Flower Basket Ancient Treasure and Purple City Pouch from Yue Yun.
• Divine Master Zhong left with Yue Yun and the others, while Luo Hong explained to Yuan Yao that the Mulan Clan controlled the spirit materials needed for his future cultivation.

Luo Hong rejected the Mulan people’s attempt to control his resources and decided to join the Allied Forces after taking Yuan Yao sightseeing. Meanwhile, Divine Master Zhong told the other three Divine Masters about Luo Hong’s power and the failed attempt to capture him, leaving them to assess the threat.

• Yuan Yao worried that Luo Hong would be controlled through his cultivation resources, but Luo Hong said he could obtain the rare materials himself.
• Luo Hong distrusted Divine Master Zhong’s assurances and decided to join the Allied Forces, though he planned to delay his departure and show Yuan Yao the Southern Sky.
• Divine Master Zhong’s External Incarnation returned to the camp outside Heaven-Filled City and shared its memories with his true body.
• Divine Master Zhong told the other three Divine Masters that Luo Hong had cultivated the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art and defeated the Mulan ambush.
• After viewing a jade slip showing the ambush, the Scrawny Old Man asked Brother Bi to assess Luo Hong’s divine sense.

The Four Great Divine Masters discussed Luo Hong’s power and decided to avoid provoking him, while changing their plans for his Junior Brother Han. Months later, Luo Hong reached the Allied Forces’ stronghold and joined a gathering of powerful Southern Sky cultivators, where he continued to conceal his abilities.

• The Four Great Divine Masters judged Luo Hong to be a formidable cultivator, agreed to avoid making him an enemy, and resolved to kill him with the Holy Beast if he broke his promise.
• The Scrawny Old Man assigned Cultivator Han’s matter to the Shadow-Net Sect because Han could wield Exorcism Divine Thunder and was close to Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong arrived at the Allied Forces’ stone city near Southern Sky, and Ancestor Linghu questioned him about the sudden deployment order.
• Luo Hong explained that he had delayed his journey after suspecting the Allied Forces’ Communication Talisman was suspicious, and Ancestor Linghu brought him to meet other powerful cultivators.
• Xu Changjing and a Nine Nations Alliance cultivator remarked on Luo Hong’s reputation and abilities, while Luo Hong and Ancestor Linghu downplayed his combat strength.
• Dongmen Tu thanked Luo Hong for helping Han Shiquan, and Luo Hong credited their escape to a Buddhist cultivator.

At a gathering in First Heaven City, Luo Hong confirmed his close friendship with Han Li and reassured Lu Luo that Han Li intended to remain in the Falling Cloud Sect. After the gathering, Luo Hong examined the Demon Breaking Cone and began refining its power with materials from two Silver Short Spears.

• Fire Dragon Boy and Dongmen Tu praised Han Li’s fame and abilities, while Lu Luo said Han Li was still healing and had received no recent news.
• Luo Hong told the gathering that he and Han Li had been close friends since their Qi Refining days and praised Han Li’s strength against the Mulan cultivators.
• Ancestor Linghu asked whether Han Li planned to return to Yellow Maple Valley, and Luo Hong said Han Li intended to stay in the Falling Cloud Sect.
• Luo Hong exchanged Seventh-grade Flood Dragon scales for two Spirit Ascension materials at Ancestor Linghu’s Trade Fair, then returned to his room and activated its restrictions.
• Luo Hong used the Golden Moon Flying Dagger to break open the pale stone and recover the weakened Demon Breaking Cone, which he had not fully destroyed.
• Luo Hong extracted two Thunder Pearls from the Silver Short Spears and told Yuan Yao that he planned to refine them with the Demon Breaking Cone.

Luo Hong spent half a year fortifying First Heaven City while Han Li emerged from seclusion and was recruited for the Mulan people’s proposed bet battles. Han Li agreed only if Luo Hong joined too, prompting Wei Wuya to summon Luo Hong as the war drew near.

• Luo Hong refined the Demon Breaking Cone and spent half a year setting formations in First Heaven City, earning Wei Wuya’s praise and avoiding the battlefield.
• Han Li emerged from seclusion and learned from Lu Luo that the Mulan people were attacking the city’s outer formations and that the Three Great Cultivators had called a prewar meeting.
• At the meeting, the Three Great Cultivators announced that the Mulan people demanded ten bet battles in exchange for their captives, and Han Li agreed to participate only if Luo Hong did as well.
• Luo Hong completed the Universe Inversion Formation outside First Heaven City and explained to Yuan Yao that his formations were genuine despite his personal research goals.
• Wei Wuya’s Sound Transmission Talisman summoned Luo Hong to the meeting, and Luo Hong realized Han Li’s condition had drawn him into the bet battles.

Luo Hong accepted Wei Wuya’s request to inspect the Mulan people’s arena restrictions for the Bet Battle, while explaining to Han Li why he had made a deal with Divine Master Zhong and would avoid fighting the Mulan people. As the war began, Luo Hong inspected the arenas, and the Mulan Divine Masters watched him closely before realizing he was not one of the Bet Battle participants.

• Wei Wuya asked Luo Hong to inspect the Mulan people’s arena restrictions, and Luo Hong accepted in exchange for cultivation materials.
• Han Li asked why Luo Hong was avoiding the war, and Luo Hong explained that he had defeated the Mulan people’s Four Great High Masters before reaching a deal with Divine Master Zhong that included returning Han Li’s treasures.
• Luo Hong reasoned that the Tuwu people would eventually join the conflict, and Han Li concluded that the war would determine how much territory the Mulan people could secure in Southern Sky.
• The Dharma Warrior and Southern Sky armies advanced toward the border, then stopped as their leaders met and the Bet Battle preparations began.
• Luo Hong inspected the ten arenas and found no reason to intervene, while Divine Master Zhong and the other Mulan leaders watched him and confirmed he was not entering the Bet Battle.

The Mulan people’s Blood Corpses trapped Han Li and the other fighters in the arenas as the battle between the cultivator and Dharma Warrior armies began. Luo Hong tried to break the Blood Luo Cover without revealing his true ability, while Old Demon Hehuan was gravely wounded when two opponents struck him together.

• Luo Hong’s Myriad Forms Divine Eye stirred a Blood Corpse, alerting Sect Master Fang to the Blood Roar aura he carried.
• The ten black-robed Blood Corpses exploded and formed Blood Luo Covers around Han Li and the other arena fighters, while the Dharma Warrior Army advanced.
• Long Han ordered the cultivator formations to bombard the Dharma Warriors, and the Scrawny Old Man sent Primordial Beasts charging at their lines.
• Luo Hong examined the Blood Luo Cover and attacked it with high-grade talismans, concealing that he could destroy it with his eye.
• The black robe man summoned True Devilish Qi to strengthen himself, and Old Demon Hehuan countered with a Red-Robed Corpse.
• A Five-Colored Wheel joined the black robe man’s attack, breaking through Old Demon Hehuan’s defenses and leaving him badly injured.

Tian Zhong and Sect Master Fang ambushed Old Demon Hehuan, putting the Southern Sky Allied Forces at risk, while Han Li broke free and killed Madam Lu. As Fang turned toward Han Li, Luo Hong intervened and ordered Han Li to rescue the others.

• Tian Zhong and Sect Master Fang attacked the injured Old Demon Hehuan together, leaving him in grave danger as Wei Wuya and Supreme Yang Venerable were kept occupied.
• Han Li broke Luo Hong’s Blood Luo Cover with Azure Fire Thunder and flew to free people from the other arenas.
• Han Li killed Madam Lu with Exorcism Divine Thunder after her Bronze Armored Corpse Group suffered losses to his Soul-Devouring Beast.
• Furious over his wife’s death, Sect Master Fang abandoned the fight against Old Demon Hehuan and rushed toward Han Li, leaving Tian Zhong to face Hehuan alone.
• Sect Master Fang’s attack drove Han Li to block with Thousand Peaks, but Luo Hong stopped the magic treasure and told Han Li to rescue the others while he faced Fang.

Luo Hong intervened to let Han Li escape, then defeated and killed the Shadow-Net Sect Leader with his divine sense and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder. After sealing the thunder’s aura and flying to First Heaven City, Luo Hong left both armies stunned just as news arrived that the situation on the grasslands had changed.

• Luo Hong held off the Shadow-Net Sect Leader long enough for Han Li to escape, then countered the man’s divine-sense attack with his own silver shield and hammer.
• Luo Hong unleashed Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, gravely injured the Shadow-Net Sect Leader, and destroyed him with the Golden Moon Flying Dagger.
• Luo Hong endured the Myriad Forms Divine Eye’s destruction, took Blood Pills, and warned the Mulan Holy Beast that heavenly tribulation could strike it.
• The Mulan Holy Beast returned to battle, and Luo Hong regenerated his eye enough to seal the thunder’s aura before flying to First Heaven City.
• Long Han told the White-browed Old Man not to stop Luo Hong, while the Scrawny Old Man resolved that the Mulan Clan must not make an enemy of him.
• An anxious messenger announced to the Divine Masters that something had happened on the grasslands and the situation had changed.

The Mulan and Southern Sky forces called a truce after learning the Tuwu were advancing, and Long Han revealed that Luo Hong had killed a Nascent Soul Late-stage Great Jin demon cultivator. Back in First Heaven City, Luo Hong struggled against Heavenly Sha consuming his Nascent Soul and prepared to use force to save himself.

• The Scrawny Old Man and Long Han agreed to halt the fighting after the Tuwu wiped out the Mulan First Tribe and advanced toward their rear.
• Long Han told Wei Wuya that Luo Hong had killed the Great Jin demon cultivator, and Wei Wuya hurried to First Heaven City to find him.
• Supreme Yang Venerable questioned Long Han about his concern for Luo Hong, while Old Demon Hehuan departed to treat his injuries.
• Luo Hong told Yuan Yao that Heavenly Sha was wearing away his Nascent Soul, then sent her out of his dantian.
• Luo Hong began using force to counter the Heavenly Sha as Yuan Yao watched over him.

Luo Hong forcefully refined the Heavenly Fiend Wind, survived with help from the vital essence of his Blood Roar Eye, and received a visit from Wei Wuya, who tested his strength and offered him a deputy alliance leader position. After Wei Wuya left, Luo Hong revealed that his body remained in danger of collapse despite surviving the ordeal.

• Luo Hong refined the Heavenly Fiend Wind with the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art, and the Blood Roar Eye released vital essence that healed his cracking body.
• Wei Wuya came to see Luo Hong, but Yuan Yao opened the door and invited him inside rather than letting him force his way in.
• Wei Wuya offered Luo Hong the deputy alliance leader position, but Luo Hong declined and asked for Five Elements spirit materials instead of healing resources.
• Luo Hong showed Wei Wuya that his Blood Roar Eye had recovered and explained that it could regenerate when supplied with enough Blood and Essence.
• Wei Wuya left after confirming Luo Hong remained powerful, and Luo Hong thanked Yuan Yao for making him wary of acting rashly.
• Luo Hong revealed that refining the Heavenly Fiend Wind had saved his Nascent Soul but left his physical body at risk of collapse.

Luo Hong used his growing reputation to help secure a territorial settlement with the Mulan people and chose to relocate Yellow Maple Valley. He left Ancestor Linghu anxious but hopeful by revealing that Mist Mountain was the intended site for the sect's new gate.

• Luo Hong decided to strengthen his body by cultivating the second layer of the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art and to move ahead with taking Mist Mountain.
• Supreme Yang Venerable confirmed that the Tuwu people and Great Jin sects had destroyed the Mulan First Tribe, and the Nascent Soul cultivators agreed to negotiate peace.
• Wei Wuya announced that the Nine Nations Alliance would cede Yu Country and parts of Beiliang and Yujiang to the Mulan people, while compensating affected sects and allowing them to relocate.
• Supreme Yang Venerable rewarded Han Li with a withered Mysterious Sky Immortal Vine, which Han Li accepted, hoping to revive it with his Small Green Bottle.
• Ancestor Linghu privately questioned Luo Hong about the territorial decision, and Luo Hong revealed that Yellow Maple Valley would move its sect gate to Mist Mountain in Yue Kingdom.

Luo Hong demanded Mist Mountain for Yellow Maple Valley, but learned that the Five Families were bound by a blood restriction to guard a Secret Realm. He agreed to enter the Myriad Monster Realm to retrieve the Exquisite Treasure Pearl and brought out five Spirit Beasts to open the way immediately.

• Luo Hong persuaded Ancestor Linghu to relocate Yellow Maple Valley to Mist Mountain, promising to raise its Spiritual Qi with a Super Spirit Gathering Array.
• Qian Mulan and the other family heads refused to join Yellow Maple Valley or surrender Mist Mountain, so Luo Hong threatened to drive them out.
• Qian Mulan revealed that a blood restriction bound the five families to guard the Five Elements Prison Suppressing Great Formation and its passage to the Myriad Monster Realm.
• Luo Hong agreed to retrieve the Exquisite Treasure Pearl and offered to help the five families, while Qian Mulan insisted on accompanying him.
• Luo Hong rejected waiting three years to open the Secret Realm and summoned five Five Elements Flood Dragons to teach them the opening method.

Luo Hong and Qian Mulan opened the Myriad Monster Realm and entered its desolate Space Fragment, where they discovered that its Demon Beasts had all perished. Meanwhile, a group led by Senior Sister Chang learned of the opening and set out to sabotage the formation.

• The Five Elements Flood Dragons activated the formation, opening the Myriad Monster Realm, but no Demon Beasts emerged.
• Luo Hong took Qian Mulan through the entrance and told Fan Mengyi to guard it, while a paper bird carried news of the opening to Senior Sister Chang and her companions.
• Senior Sister Chang ordered her companions to move quickly toward Mist Mountain, dismissing their concerns about confronting Luo Hong.
• Inside the Space Fragment, Luo Hong and Qian Mulan saw vast Demonic Qi, Resentment Clouds, and enormous skeletons where the ground should have been.
• The Blood-colored Mouse revealed that the skeletons belonged to the realm's dead Demon Beasts and asked Luo Hong whether he had heard of Sinful Demons.

Luo Hong learned that the Sinful Demon threatened the Myriad Monster Realm and agreed to help the Blood-colored Mouse find his descendant, whose clan could restrain it. As Luo Hong and Qian Mulan searched the realm’s boundary, a little girl abandoned her battle with a Five-Colored Peacock after sensing a tempting scent, revealing that the peacock had been guarding a Precious Pearl.

• The Blood-colored Mouse explained that the Sinful Demon had devastated the Myriad Monster Realm and that his Bright Spirit Rat descendant could help defeat it.
• Luo Hong agreed to help the Blood-colored Mouse and learned that Qian Mulan had a Soul Chime Token to summon the descendant.
• Luo Hong took the token and flew with Qian Mulan along the realm’s boundary, using it while searching with his divine sense.
• A little girl battling a Five-Colored Peacock sensed a tempting scent and flew toward its source.
• After the girl left, the Five-Colored Peacock dissolved into motes that gathered into a Precious Pearl flashing with Five-Colored Spirit Light.

Luo Hong and Qian Mulan encountered the Sinful Demon in the Myriad Monster Realm, where Little Gold and Luo Hong battled the monster without being able to destroy its elusive true body. The Blood-colored Mouse’s descendant trapped the demon with Clear Spirit Wind, giving Luo Hong an opening, but he prepared a formation of twelve Black Pearls instead of immediately attacking.

• Luo Hong and Qian Mulan searched the realm’s outskirts, then encountered the Sinful Demon, who appeared as a little girl and launched a surprise attack.
• Little Gold fought the demon’s resentment-cloud beasts and bone spurs, while Luo Hong recalled her when the demon’s giant face unleashed a deadly black gale.
• Luo Hong countered the gale with the Mysterious Yin Eye and burned the giant face with Black Crow True Flame, but the demon escaped into the resentment clouds and formed another body.
• The Sinful Demon summoned a Giant Ghost Hand, but the Blood-colored Mouse’s descendant arrived and used Clear Spirit Wind to trap the demon’s true body.
• Luo Hong withdrew his sword finger and summoned twelve Black Pearls into a mysterious formation, prompting a grave reaction from the Blood-colored Mouse.

Luo Hong pursued Five Elements Spiritual Qi to the Exquisite Treasure Pearl, but its explosion unleashed a tide of Five-colored Spiritual Light that swept through the Myriad Monster Realm. He protected himself and Qian Mulan, and the blast ultimately refined five feathers that recognized Luo Hong as their master.

• Luo Hong used the Soul Annihilation Curse to subdue the Sinful Demon, then chased five streams of Five Elements Spiritual Qi that emerged from it.
• Luo Hong reached a formation centered on the Exquisite Treasure Pearl, but his body pain delayed him until the five streams entered the pearl.
• The Exquisite Treasure Pearl cracked and exploded, disabling Luo Hong's treasures and magic while Qian Mulan lost her strength.
• Luo Hong used the Sea Suppressing Bead to form Black-Red Twin Fish, which let him and Qian Mulan remain untouched as the Five-colored Spiritual Light swept over them.
• The spiritual light consumed the Myriad Monster Realm's Five Elements demonic qi, returned to the formation, and refined five feathers.
• The five feathers flew into Luo Hong's hand, and Qian Mulan said his cultivation made him a core member of the five families.

Luo Hong learned that the Five-colored Spiritual Light had removed the Bloodline Restriction on Qian Mulan and promised to free the Five Families in exchange for their joining Yellow Maple Valley. He left the Myriad Monster Realm with Qian Mulan after obtaining the Sinful Cloud refining method and taking the Blood-colored Mouse’s descendant as a Spirit Beast, while Fan Mengyi sensed an unseen presence at Mist Mountain’s Main Peak.

• Luo Hong told Qian Mulan that he would lift the Five Families’ Restriction after she confirmed the Five-colored Spiritual Light had removed hers, and she agreed that the Five Families would join Yellow Maple Valley.
• Qian Mulan rescued the Blood-colored Mouse, who learned that Luo Hong held the Exquisite Treasure Pearl and offered to teach him to refine Sinful Cloud in exchange for Luo Hong taking his descendant as a Spirit Beast.
• Luo Hong accepted the deal, learned the refining method, and placed a Restriction on the Level Five Bright Spirit Rat before putting it in his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Luo Hong used the secret technique to draw the Myriad Monster Realm’s Resentment Clouds into the Sinful Demon’s body and then collected it.
• Luo Hong and Qian Mulan headed for the exit, while Fan Mengyi sensed someone nearby at Mist Mountain’s Main Peak and hurled Fireballs toward them.