Chapter Summaries

Fan Mengyi fought three Late Core Formation attackers while Zhao Qingling and the local cultivators tried to support her. After surviving their coordinated attacks with swords, a protective jade pendant, and hidden talismans, she activated a formation that trapped all four combatants.

• Three Late Core Formation cultivators in Black Leather Armor ambushed Fan Mengyi, and she countered with her Heavenly Sun Swords.
• Fan Mengyi’s swords began melting the attackers’ spirit shields, so they detonated their Black Flame Short Cones and released poisonous mist; she escaped unharmed.
• Zhao Qingling urged the Sun Family and other cultivators to use their formation to help Fan Mengyi, but their spells failed to penetrate the attackers’ armor barriers.
• The Eyebrow-Raising Man and the Black-Faced Man bound Fan Mengyi’s ice barrier with black chains and weakened her magic power, while the Fierce Female Cultivator attacked with Body Transformation Sword.
• Fan Mengyi’s jade pendant and hidden High-level Water Element talismans stopped the attackers’ techniques and exhausted the Fierce Female Cultivator’s strike.
• Fan Mengyi activated her Heavenly Sun Sword formation, and twelve swords formed a hexagonal barrier around the four combatants.

Fan Mengyi killed three unknown Core Formation cultivators who attacked her outside the Myriad Monster Realm, and Luo Hong returned to find her victorious. Suspecting the attackers had tracked his movements with a surveillance method, he searched the area and discovered a black Paper Bird hidden in an old tree.

• Fan Mengyi trapped the three attackers behind a barrier and killed two with Heavenly Sun Sword Qi before using Luo Hong’s Soul Annihilation Curse Talisman to erase the Fierce Female Cultivator’s primordial spirit.
• Fan Mengyi collected the attackers’ Storage Bags, sealed the Blood Sword, and claimed the Black-Faced Man’s Blue Ring.
• Luo Hong emerged from the Myriad Monster Realm with Qian Mulan, told her to prepare for the restrictions on her family to be lifted in three days, and closed the entrance.
• Fan Mengyi told Luo Hong about the attack, and he rewarded her with three Soul Annihilation Curse Talismans while warning her not to spread the matter.
• Luo Hong searched for the surveillance method with his spiritual sense and Blood Roar Eye, then used the Mysterious Yin Eye to find unusual Yin Qi in an old tree.
• Luo Hong reached the source of the anomaly and picked up a black Paper Bird with his spiritual sense.

Luo Hong traced a black paper bird to a pair of Nascent Soul cultivators who had been monitoring him and trapped them inside a formation. When the Iron Tower Giant’s lie exposed their hostility, Luo Hong attacked, and the couple launched a fierce counterattack.

• Luo Hong deciphered the warning restriction in a tree, destroyed one black paper bird, and followed another to locate its recipients.
• The Petite Female Cultivator and the Iron Tower Giant arrived at the slaughtered village and waited for the Nether Cicada Bird’s recorded images of Fan Mengyi’s battle.
• After viewing the images, the Petite Female Cultivator saw Luo Hong appear before her, and the couple tried to escape with a Great Teleportation Talisman.
• Luo Hong revealed that his Five Elements Banner had sealed the village, trapped the couple, and demanded to know who had sent them.
• The Iron Tower Giant denied that anyone had ordered them to monitor Luo Hong, but Luo Hong detected his lie and attacked with the Golden Moon Flying Dagger.
• The Iron Tower Giant threw the Petite Female Cultivator upward, enlarged his body, and struck with a silver gauntlet.

Luo Hong defeated a husband and wife sent to kill him, but the husband self-destructed rather than reveal their master. After the wife’s Nascent Soul was destroyed by a mysterious ghost head, Luo Hong suspected Supreme Yang Venerable or Old Demon Hehuan was behind the Nascent Soul-level death warriors and flew toward Mist Mountain.

• The Iron Tower Giant and the Petite Female Cultivator attacked Luo Hong together, but he stopped both of their strikes with ease.
• Luo Hong crippled the Iron Tower Giant and restrained the Petite Female Cultivator, then demanded to know who had sent them.
• The Iron Tower Giant self-destructed his Nascent Soul, leaving Luo Hong with the captive Petite Female Cultivator.
• The Petite Female Cultivator refused to reveal their master, and a Green Flame Ghost Head devoured her Nascent Soul when Luo Hong attempted to search it.
• Luo Hong burned the Petite Female Cultivator’s body, retrieved his Five Elements Banners, and concluded that Supreme Yang Venerable or Old Demon Hehuan was likely behind the attacks.

Luo Hong tested the Five Feathers and discovered that their Five-colored Spiritual Light drained the Five Elements Qi from his body, though he learned how it related to his cultivation art and the Mist Mountain families’ bloodline restriction. He later established Mist Mountain as Yellow Maple Valley territory with a powerful fog formation, driving away intruders.

• Luo Hong activated the Five Feathers’ Five-colored Spiritual Light, which began draining his Five Elements Qi and spreading from his finger up his arm.
• Luo Hong severed his finger with the Golden Moon Curved Saber, then restored it using the Blood Roar Eye.
• Luo Hong concluded that he needed to reach the second layer of the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art to safely touch the Five-colored Spiritual Light and considered using his refined Five Elements Qi to lift the Mist Mountain families’ bloodline restriction.
• Three months later, cultivators entering the fog around Mist Mountain emerged drained after Luo Hong’s formation released them, and they spread news that Yellow Maple Valley had claimed the area under Supreme Lord Hong.
• Luo Hong told Qian Mulan that his Cloud Dragon Mist Lock Great Formation had trapped two Core Formation Stage Rogue Cultivators until he showed them the way out.

Luo Hong broke the Five Elements Prison Sealing Formation at Mist Mountain and began preparing a new array, while Wei Wuya punished Wei Lichen for using the Yin Yang Ruyi Jade to build the Universe Inversion Formation. The chapter left Luo Hong’s construction underway and Wei Lichen thrown into the formation.

• Luo Hong adjusted Mist Mountain’s formations, evacuated the five families, and used the five spirit peaks to break the Five Elements Prison Sealing Formation.
• Luo Hong discovered the formation had also shackled five spirit veins, then ordered the Five Elements Flood Dragon to maintain the main formation while he built a Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Luo Hong gave Qian Mulan an array diagram and high-grade puppets, and she promised the five families would finish his large-scale construction project within half a year.
• Wei Wuya scolded Wei Lichen for taking the Yin Yang Ruyi Jade from the treasury and using it to establish the Universe Inversion Formation at the rear of First Heaven City.
• Wei Wuya seized Wei Lichen with a magic-power hand and threw him into the Universe Inversion Formation.

Wei Wuya struggled to retrieve the Yin Yang Ruyi Jade from Luo Hong’s unstable Universe Inversion Formation while learning that the Mulan people were urgently trying to meet Luo Hong. After Divine Master Zhong offered Wei Wuya a rare poison, Wei Wuya agreed to convey the invitation, suspecting the Mulan people would approach Luo Hong regardless of the peace treaty.

• Wei Wuya failed to reach the Yin Yang Ruyi Jade in the Universe Inversion Formation without risking its destruction.
• Wei Wuya learned that Luo Hong had been fortifying Mist Mountain and that the Mulan people had sent him another invitation.
• Divine Master Zhong met Wei Wuya in First Heaven City and asked him to convey the Mulan clan’s invitation to Luo Hong.
• Divine Master Zhong gave Wei Wuya a vial of Sangku Poison, and Wei Wuya accepted it.
• Wei Wuya told the Handsome Scholar that the Mulan people would approach Luo Hong even if he refused to help.

Wei Wuya learned that the Mulan Tribe wanted Luo Hong’s help for its thousand-year grand sacrifice and sent him the invitation. Luo Hong refused, leaving the Mulan leaders stunned when they received his reply.

• Wei Wuya suspected the Mulan Tribe faced a grave threat at the coming grand sacrifice and ordered Du to deliver its letter to Luo Hong while sending more people toward the grasslands.
• Luo Hong gave Du a Formation Plate to dismantle the Universe Inversion Formation and then read the Mulan Tribe’s invitation.
• Luo Hong learned that the Mulan Tribe wanted him to pose as its Holy Son and undergo a baptism at its Holy Temple, but he decided the risks and effort were not worthwhile.
• Luo Hong sent the Mulan Tribe a jade slip saying, “Very busy. Thanks for the invitation!”
• The Mulan leaders received Luo Hong’s reply, and silence fell over their secret chamber.

Luo Hong completed the Five Fiends Spirit Gathering Array at Mist Mountain and prepared to use its Spirit Ascension to draw attention while protecting Yu Ruoxi from danger. As True Person Soul Shatterer and Bao Yangzi met near the mountain, the chapter left the reason for their investigation unresolved.

• The Divine Masters worried that the Tuwu people would gain enough World Crystals to summon a Sacred Beast Avatar, but refused to use their sacred relic and hoped Tian Zhong would succeed in cultivating the Undying Evergreen Technique.
• Luo Hong completed the Five Fiends Spirit Gathering Array, incorporated the Five Families of Mist Mountain into Yellow Maple Valley, and created the Five Elements Hall to maintain the formations.
• Ancestor Linghu told Luo Hong that Yu Ruoxi planned to remain at Hua Shen Peak for decades, where its cold aura aided her cultivation and she intended to refine the mountain into a Strange Treasure.
• Luo Hong decided to attract attention away from Yu Ruoxi by displaying his methods, adjusted the Cloud Dragon Mist Lock Array, and activated Spirit Ascension mode in the Mist Mountain formation.
• True Person Soul Shatterer met Bao Yangzi near the sea of mist, and Bao Yangzi said he knew Soul Shatterer had come to investigate.

Luo Hong’s treasure refining caused repeated Spiritual Tides at Mist Mountain, then stopped after five years as Yellow Maple Valley completed its relocation. Mulan Saintess Yue Yun arrived to seek Luo Hong and offered help cultivating the Innate Five Elements Body, leaving Ancestor Linghu startled by her proposal.

• Luo Hong’s escalating treasure-refining disturbances sent Spiritual Tides across Mist Mountain, forcing Bao Yangzi and nearby cultivators to flee while True Person Soul Shatterer realized Luo Hong was using the Spirit Vein to refine treasures.
• Luo Hong’s Spirit Ascension aura spread through Southern Sky, ending rumors that he was dead or gravely injured and drawing attention to Mist Mountain.
• After five years of Spiritual Tides, the disturbances ceased, and Yellow Maple Valley completed its relocation to Mist Mountain, where its disciples flourished in the rich Spiritual Qi.
• Xiao Cui’er brought a black-robed visitor to Ancestor Linghu, who identified her as Mulan Saintess Yue Yun after she entered the hall.
• Yue Yun asked Ancestor Linghu to summon Luo Hong and offered to help him cultivate the Innate Five Elements Body, startling him.

Luo Hong learned that the Mulan Clan could offer him a chance to cultivate an Innate Five Elements Body in exchange for entering a restricted Secret Realm to retrieve spirit materials. He accepted the dangerous mission and set out with Yue Yun for the Mulan Holy Temple, with less than five years remaining until the Secret Realm opened.

• Luo Hong brought his Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art close to completion and reached the threshold of the Nascent Soul Mid-stage, but found he could not break through by cultivation alone.
• Luo Hong received Ancestor Linghu's message and learned from Yue Yun that the Mulan Clan's Five-Colored Stone contained Innate Five Elements Qi.
• Luo Hong questioned the risks and purpose of the Mulan Clan's offer, then privately confirmed Yue Yun was telling the truth and decided to accept.
• Ancestor Linghu agreed to look after Junior Sister Yu while Luo Hong was away.
• Yue Yun urged them to leave promptly, and Luo Hong summoned his Demon Dragon Boat to travel with her.

Luo Hong traveled with Yue Yun to meet the Mulan Divine Masters and learn about the Secret Realm beneath the Heavenly River. After his Purple Heaven Divine Thunder destroyed their secrecy contract, he swore a Heart Demon Oath, and the Mulan leaders began explaining the Secret Realm.

• Luo Hong and Yue Yun crossed from the Yue Kingdom to Yu Country aboard the Demon Dragon Boat in less than ten days.
• At a Spirit Awakening Hall, Luo Hong met Divine Master Zhong, Zhu Ya, and a white-haired Mulan elder, then explained what he knew about their Holy Beast.
• The Mulan leaders said their conflict with the Tuwu Clan centered on resources needed to bring a Spirit World demon beast's avatar into the world.
• Divine Master Zhong asked Luo Hong to sign a Netherworld Ghost Contract, but Purple Heaven Divine Thunder destroyed it when the contract's ghost attacked him.
• The white-haired elder accepted Luo Hong's Heart Demon Oath in place of the contract and revealed that the Secret Realm entrance lay beneath the Heavenly River.

Luo Hong learned that the Dark Domain contained Ancient Spiritual Medicines and that crossing its River of Samsara required cultivators to have at least five hundred years of lifespan remaining. To enter the realm in time for the Thousand-Year Grand Sacrifice, the Mulan elders proposed that Yue Yun transfer her Essence to him, but Luo Hong left to seek another solution.

• The white-haired old woman told Luo Hong that Great Jin cultivators also entered the Dark Domain to seek Ancient Spiritual Medicines, while the Mulan and Tuwu tribes competed for World Crystals.
• Divine Master Zhong explained that the River of Samsara rapidly aged travelers in its first half and restored them in its latter half, and Luo Hong asked to examine water from it.
• The white-haired old woman said the Holy Son Baptism could no longer be arranged in time and proposed that Yue Yun transfer her Essence to Luo Hong through Dual Cultivation.
• Yue Yun said she would accept the arrangement for her tribe, but Luo Hong refused and asked for a few days to consider it and for a bloodline-testing Magic Artifact.
• Luo Hong left for his residence, intending to find another way to enter the Dark Domain.

Luo Hong tested whether the Blood Roar Eye could disguise his bloodline and concluded he needed a Nascent Soul Dharma Warrior’s essence to enter the Dark Domain. He sent Yuan Yao to extract Yue Yun’s essence, but it unexpectedly stabilized Yuan Yao’s Half-Ghost Body, leaving her tangible in Luo Hong’s arms.

• Luo Hong used the Blood Roar Eye to imitate Mulan blood, but the disguise proved temporary and insufficient to fool the Tuwu restriction without a Nascent Soul Dharma Warrior’s essence.
• Luo Hong persuaded Yuan Yao to obtain Yue Yun’s essence, and Yuan Yao agreed to spare Luo Hong from having to do it himself.
• Yuan Yao visited Yue Yun and extracted her essence after explaining that the arrangement would serve Yue Yun’s clan and keep Yuan Yao near Luo Hong.
• Yue Yun’s essence flowed into Yuan Yao instead of the jade bottle, temporarily giving Yuan Yao the sensation of having a physical body as her yin qi began to erode it.
• Yuan Yao hurried to Luo Hong for help, but he pulled her onto his lap and gently touched her cheek.

After three years of seclusion, Luo Hong entered the Mulan Holy Temple to learn the secret arts needed for the Thousand-Year Grand Sacrifice. He discovered the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and negotiated with the white-haired old woman for the right to learn it, leaving the exchange conditional on his bringing back five Ancient Spiritual Medicines.

• Luo Hong emerged from three years of seclusion able to disguise his Bloodline Aura as that of the Mulan people and went to the Holy Temple for the necessary inheritances.
• Yue Yun led Luo Hong to the inheritance stone hall, where the white-haired old woman and two Mulan High Masters awaited him.
• Luo Hong activated every inheritance stele and selected the secret arts needed to open the Dark Domain Secret Realm.
• Luo Hong asked to learn the One Thought Dao Transformation Art, which the white-haired old woman identified as a Spirit World Secret Scripture tied to External Incarnation.
• Luo Hong offered three Ancient Spiritual Medicines for the art, but the white-haired old woman demanded five.

Luo Hong agreed to trade five Ancient Spiritual Medicines for the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and entered the Mulan Grotto-heaven to cultivate before the grand sacrifice. The Mulan leaders then revealed that the Innate Five Elements Body required a Five Elements Spiritual Root and agreed to conceal that secret from him.

• Luo Hong agreed to exchange five Ancient Spiritual Medicines for the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and followed the white-haired woman into the Mulan Grotto-heaven.
• The white-haired woman introduced Zhong Meng and Zhong Ling as siblings trained to fight together in the Dark Domain, and Luo Hong went off to cultivate the secret art.
• Divine Master Zhong and the Scrawny Old Man arrived, and Zhong Ling revealed that the white-haired woman planned to trade the forbidden art to Luo Hong.
• The white-haired woman explained that the Innate Five Elements Body could not be sustained without a Five Elements Spiritual Root, and that two past Sacred Lords had failed to cultivate it.
• The white-haired woman argued that Luo Hong's extraordinary potential made it dangerous to offend him, and she believed his Mystic Transformation could conceal the trade from the Holy Beast.
• The Scrawny Old Man asked the white-haired woman to prevent the secret from leaking, and she used the Holy Temple's power to place restrictions on their primordial spirits.

As the Tuwu and Mulan clans prepared for the Thousand-Year Grand Sacrifice, Luo Hong accompanied Yue Yun to the Dark Domain entrance, posing as the Mulan Holy Son. The clans began opening the entrance and removing its restriction, while Lin Yinping ordered her people to target Yue Yun and the others once they entered the Dark Domain.

• Lin Yinping rejected a proposal to force the Mulan people to surrender control of the Dark Domain entrance and arranged five official entry slots and four reserves for the Tuwu side.
• Yue Yun, Luo Hong, and the Zhong siblings arrived at the Grand Sacrifice as the only Mulan representatives, and Yue Yun explained that Luo Hong was their Holy Son, Zhuo Bufan.
• Lin Yinping and Yue Yun opened the river above the Ghost Head Gate, revealing the entrance to the Dark Domain Secret Realm.
• The Tuwu and Mulan Cultivators worked to separate their sides of the restriction, while Luo Hong quietly corrected Zhong Ling's mistakes rather than displaying his full ability.
• Lin Yinping warned Jiang Cun not to underestimate the Mulan group and ordered her people to kill Yue Yun and the Zhong siblings in the Dark Domain while one of them held off Luo Hong.

Mo Han volunteered to annihilate Luo Hong, while Luo Hong’s group entered the Dark Domain and crossed the River of Samsara. A solitary woman approached Luo Hong over the river, sought a Moon-Concealing Glazed Lotus petal, and became intrigued when her Divine Crystal Shield failed to harm him.

• Mo Han volunteered to annihilate Luo Hong, and Lin Yinping accepted despite her suspicions about his mysterious rise and abilities.
• Luo Hong overheard the Tuwu people’s plot, then entered the Ghost Head Gate with Yue Yun and the Zhong siblings after the Mulan restriction was lifted.
• The group crossed the River of Samsara, where Yue Yun and the Zhong siblings rapidly aged while Luo Hong remained unchanged.
• A solitary woman approached and identified the Moon-Concealing Glazed Lotus as the likely source of Luo Hong’s youthful appearance, then asked to buy a petal.
• The woman’s Divine Crystal Shield repelled Luo Hong’s divine-sense probe, but its backlash did not affect him, so she laughed and flew away, leaving Luo Hong wary.

Luo Hong and his companions crossed the Black Wind Wall into the Dark Domain and began traveling toward its core, where the World Crystals lay. Elsewhere, Qiu Wuji and Yin Qiao arrived during a battle between Nanhai Sect cultivators and a Yellow Sand Earth Dragon.

• Luo Hong confirmed that Universe Power could block the River of Samsara’s Power of Time, though he could not explore the river’s source.
• Luo Hong bound Yue Yun and the other two with a Gold Binding Rope and led them through the Black Wind Wall into the Dark Domain.
• Luo Hong’s group descended and flew toward the Void Shattering Deep Pit, encountering several vicious beasts along the way.
• Five Nanhai Sect cultivators struggled to defeat a Yellow Sand Earth Dragon, and their leader prepared to use a magic treasure to finish it.
• Qiu Wuji and three Heavenly Demon Sect cultivators appeared and offered to take over the fight.
• Yin Qiao of the Taiyi Sect arrived, and Qiu Wuji recognized her as the Nanhai Sect cultivators reacted with alarm.

Yin Qiao provoked Qiu Wuji by claiming a Mulan Cultivator had overcome her Divine Crystal Shield without suffering backlash, then aided Qi Tianci’s group and accepted the Yellow Sand Earth Dragon’s Wutu Liufeng Fruit. Qiu Wuji decided he would test the Mulan Cultivator if they met, while Luo Hong and his companions encountered their first problem in the Dark Domain’s middle layer.

• Yin Qiao taunted Qiu Wuji with her story about a Mulan Cultivator overcoming the Divine Crystal Shield, and Qiu Wuji led his companions away.
• Yin Qiao used two golden flood dragons to kill the Yellow Sand Earth Dragon and accepted its Wutu Liufeng Fruit from Qi Tianci.
• Qi Tianci ordered the Nanhai Sect cultivators to retrieve the Earth Dragon’s heart while Yin Qiao went to gather the medicine.
• Qiu Wuji dismissed his companions’ doubts, said he would test the Mulan Cultivator if they encountered him, and recognized Yin Qiao’s provocation as a deliberate scheme.
• Luo Hong and his companions flew into the Dark Domain’s middle layer and encountered their first problem.