Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong used a dangerous Curse Art to end the threat around Hua Shen Peak and brought Yu Ruoxi back to Yellow Maple Valley. There, Lin Yinping and a Tuwu Immortal Master arrived seeking to meet him, and Luo Hong returned just as Ancestor Linghu struggled to host them.

• Luo Hong used the Heavenly Demon Shrouding the Sky Great Law to disperse the baleful wind, then resolved not to use the Demon Son Curse Techniques except in a life-or-death situation because they worsened the Seed of the Heavenly Demon's erosion.
• Hua Shen Peak sank through a Domain Gate, and Yu Ruoxi said she could still faintly sense a connection to it despite the Spatial Barrier.
• Luo Hong urged Yu Ruoxi to return with her husband to Yellow Maple Valley, and she agreed.
• Lin Yinping and a Tuwu Immortal Master visited Ancestor Linghu at Yellow Maple Valley, where Lin Yinping showed her Gold Devouring Insects and asked to stay until Luo Hong returned.
• Lin Yinping revealed that Luo Hong had advanced to the Nascent Soul Mid-stage, shocking Ancestor Linghu.
• Xiao Cui'er announced Luo Hong's return, and he appeared with Yu Ruoxi as the sect's Core Formation Elders gathered to greet them.

Luo Hong reunited with Ancestor Linghu and moved Hua Shen Peak to Mist Mountain, while Lin Yinping used the Heavenly Mystery Jade to dispel the tribulation clouds. The jade captivated Luo Hong, and he invited Lin Yinping to discuss her clan’s World Crystal transaction.

• Ancestor Linghu asked Luo Hong whether he had reached the Nascent Soul Mid-stage, and Luo Hong asked him to keep the breakthrough confidential.
• Lin Yinping and Jiang Cun arrived, and Lin Yinping apologized on behalf of her clan and proposed a transaction involving World Crystals.
• Luo Hong asked Ancestor Linghu to clear the area and prepared to move Hua Shen Peak to Mist Mountain.
• Lin Yinping activated the Heavenly Mystery Jade, concealing the Heavenly Mystery and dispersing the tribulation clouds.
• Luo Hong opened the Domain Gate and brought Hua Shen Peak down among Mist Mountain’s peaks.
• Luo Hong invited Lin Yinping to the Sect Main Hall to discuss the transaction, intent on obtaining the Heavenly Mystery Jade.

Luo Hong visited Falling Cloud Sect to ask Han Li to cultivate several precious spiritual medicine seedlings, but learned that Han Li was away in the Far West Lands. He agreed to wait for Han Li’s return before Demon Fall Valley opened, while Lu Luo suggested that Song might be able to help sooner.

• Luo Hong completed his trade with Lin Yinping, receiving the Heavenly Mystery Jade in exchange for World Crystals and agreeing that the Tuwu people could borrow it once in the future.
• Luo Hong traveled to Falling Cloud Sect and was warmly welcomed by Lu Luo and two Core Formation Elders, including the Woman surnamed Song.
• Luo Hong asked Lu Luo to send Han Li a Sound Transmission Talisman about cultivating his precious spiritual medicine seedlings, but Lu Luo revealed that Han Li was traveling in the Far West Lands.
• The Woman surnamed Song said Han Li would return before Demon Fall Valley opened because they had agreed to explore it together.
• Lu Luo suggested that Song’s knowledge of spiritual herb cultivation might spare Luo Hong from waiting, and Song modestly acknowledged her experience.

Luo Hong traded a spatial-rift-resistant treasure to Song Mengyun for three ancient jade slips, then revealed to Yuan Yao that the cultivator’s life record held the secret he valued most. He began examining the record, leaving the nature of its secret undisclosed.

• Luo Hong showed Song Mengyun a Nine-Headed Golden Sun Flower seedling, and she declined to transplant it but offered ancient jade slips for a treasure that could block Spatial Rift slashes.
• Luo Hong refined a World Crystal into Mysterious Ice Gauze, enabling it to withstand three Spatial Rift cuts, and traded it for Song Mengyun’s three jade slips.
• Luo Hong discussed cultivation with Lu Luo, then went to his temporary residence and set up formation restrictions before examining the jade slips with Yuan Yao.
• Yuan Yao guessed that Luo Hong valued the ancient cultivator’s cultivation technique, but Luo Hong revealed that he prized the cultivator’s life record instead.
• Luo Hong explained that the life record’s secret concerned an opportunity from his Foundation Establishment period, then pressed the green jade slip to his forehead.

Luo Hong and Yuan Yao began refining Sinful Cloud together with the Ghost Face Silkworm Cocoon while waiting for Han Li. When Han Li returned to the Falling Cloud Sect, he learned that Luo Hong had been waiting for him and that Luo’s divine abilities were threatening the Three Sects of Yunmeng’s Spirit Eye Tree.

• Luo Hong told Yuan Yao that two jade slips came from True Lord Wentian and that one pointed to a cave mansion in Guangnan Prefecture.
• Luo Hong asked Yuan Yao to help refine Sinful Cloud and planned to combine it with the Ghost Face Silkworm Cocoon.
• Yuan Yao began refining Sinful Cloud while Luo Hong used Heavenly Fiend Wind on the cocoon, which unraveled and clung to his hand.
• Three months later, Han Li returned to the Falling Cloud Sect and visited Nangong Wan, promising to find a way to break her curse.
• Lu Luo told Han Li that Luo Hong had waited for him at the sect, then urged him to rein in his divine abilities before the Spirit Eye Tree withered.

Han Li met Luo Hong at the Falling Cloud Sect after Luo Hong’s treasure refinement had filled the area with harmful yin qi. The two returned to Han Li’s cave abode, where Luo Hong entrusted him with more than thirty boxes of ancient spiritual medicine seedlings and offered Geng Gold as payment for cultivating them.

• Han Li and Lu Luo found Luo Hong’s residence surrounded by dense yin qi that was damaging the sect’s Spirit Eye Tree.
• Luo Hong emerged and absorbed the black cloud and its yin souls into his palm, completing his magic treasure refinement and ending the disturbance.
• Han Li told Luo Hong that he had found a lead to the Great Evolution Art but had not obtained its complete version, and Luo Hong said he no longer needed it.
• Han Li invited Luo Hong to his cave abode to discuss important matters before entering Demon Fall Valley.
• Luo Hong asked Han Li to cultivate more than thirty ancient spiritual medicine seedlings, prioritizing three herbs, and offered him a piece of Geng Gold as a reward.

Han Li told Luo Hong that he needed an Ancient Fire Toad’s Inner Core from Demon Fall Valley to save Nangong Wan, while Luo Hong revealed he also planned to enter the valley for rare materials to refine Flying Swords. Han Li hesitated to bring him because of his arrangement with Marquis Nanlong, but Luo Hong insisted and revealed that he had reached the Nascent Soul Mid-stage.

• Han Li accepted Luo Hong’s Ancient Spiritual Medicines and asked whether he planned to enter Demon Fall Valley.
• Han Li explained that he needed an Ancient Fire Toad’s Inner Core to break Nangong Wan’s curse, and Luo Hong said he also intended to enter the valley for rare refining materials.
• Han Li initially declined Luo Hong’s offer to travel together because Marquis Nanlong had invited him alone.
• Luo Hong pressed to join Han Li’s group and warned that he could use a Soul Searching Curse Technique if Marquis Nanlong objected.
• Luo Hong revealed his Nascent Soul Mid-stage cultivation and said he would help save Nangong Wan.

Luo Hong visited Han Li, examined the Heavenly Lan Sacred Cauldron, and obtained the Void Sky Cauldron's Treasure-Passing Art. As the group gathered to prepare for Demon Fall Valley, Han Li and Luo Hong arrived at the cottage, where Zi Ling hoped to obtain protection from Spatial Rifts.

• Luo Hong showed Han Li the Heavenly Lan Sacred Cauldron, an imitation he had seized from the Tuwu people, and Han Li gave him the Void Sky Cauldron's Treasure-Passing Art.
• After Luo Hong left, Han Li confronted the Great Evolution Divine Monarch's remnant soul for probing Luo Hong with its divine sense, and the soul admitted Luo Hong had likely noticed it.
• A month later, Zi Ling, Mei Ning, and Song Mengyun waited in a thatched cottage near Demon Fall Valley; Mei Ning refused to enter, while Song Mengyun explained she had traded a jade slip to Luo Hong for a treasure that resisted Spatial Rifts.
• Luo Hong and Han Li appeared at the cottage, and Zi Ling asked for a similar protective treasure before Han Li revealed that Luo Hong had already finished refining it.

Luo Hong and Han Li prepared to enter Demon Fall Valley, where they hoped to find Spirit Candle Fruit for refining Creation Pills. Han Li brought Luo Hong to meet Marquis Nanlong and Fellow Daoist Lu, and Luo Hong threatened them when they objected to his presence.

• Luo Hong gave Zi Ling Purple Shimmering Gauze, and the group planned to gather Spirit Candle Fruit and refine Creation Pills in Demon Fall Valley.
• Luo Hong explained the Creation Pill's effects to Yuan Yao, and Han Li told the women to hide until he and Luo Hong returned.
• Han Li and Luo Hong found Marquis Nanlong's disciple in the market and used Luo Hong's Incantation Curse to compel him to lead them to the hiding place.
• Junior Sister Lu guided Han Li and Luo Hong through the formation to the cave abode where Marquis Nanlong and Fellow Daoist Lu awaited them.
• Marquis Nanlong and Fellow Daoist Lu protested Han Li bringing Luo Hong, and Luo Hong threatened them if they refused to cooperate.

Luo Hong forced Marquis Nanlong and Elder Lu to accept his participation in the Demon Fall Valley expedition after overpowering Marquis Nanlong’s Spiritual Sense. Once the valley’s miasma dispersed, the cultivators gathered to enter through the Ghost Spirit Sect’s one-way Teleportation Array, where Luo Hong noticed Shi Zhongqin’s group.

• Luo Hong insisted that Han Li’s hunt for the Ancient Fire Toad’s Inner Core could not go wrong and refused to let Marquis Nanlong and Elder Lu exclude him from the expedition.
• Marquis Nanlong challenged Luo Hong with a Spiritual Sense attack, but Luo Hong shattered it, and Elder Lu persuaded Marquis Nanlong to accept Luo Hong’s terms.
• Marquis Nanlong agreed to travel with Luo Hong and Han Li, and the four stayed at his hiding place for three days until the valley’s toxic miasma dispersed.
• Luo Hong and the others split into pairs to avoid attracting attention as they headed for the Ghost Spirit Sect’s one-way Teleportation Array.
• Cultivators gathered at the array to enter Demon Fall Valley, and Luo Hong noticed the group led by Shi Zhongqin among those present.

Luo Hong and Han Li arrived at Demon Fall Valley and drew attention from the gathered cultivators. When Dongmen Tu threatened Han Yunzhi, the two confronted him with their baleful aura and powerful lightning techniques, prompting Wei Wuya and Wang Tiansheng to intervene.

• Luo Hong recognized Shi Zhongqin and inferred that the two cultivators beside her were the elders of Giant Sword Sect and Blade Transformation Dock.
• Wei Wuya invited Luo Hong and Han Li to explore a Secret Realm with him, but Luo Hong declined, and Wei Wuya then left.
• The cultivators noticed Luo Hong and Han Li, while Han Yunzhi greeted them happily and Dongmen Tu glared at Han Li.
• Dongmen Tu threatened Han Yunzhi for associating with Luo Hong and Han Li, and the two released their baleful aura and prepared their lightning techniques against him.
• Wang Tiansheng and Wei Wuya stepped in to calm the confrontation and urged Luo Hong and Dongmen Tu to focus on more important matters.

Luo Hong and Han Li entered Demon Fall Valley through the Ghost Spirit Sect’s teleportation array and made their way to the agreed meeting place. After Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying arrived, Luo Hong warned them not to test his divine sense or doubt his intentions again.

• Wei Wuya and Wang Tiansheng persuaded Dongmen Tu to end the confrontation, and the Ghost Spirit Sect began teleporting cultivators into the valley.
• Luo Hong and Han Li entered the valley, where Luo Hong checked for spatial rifts and detoured around ancient restrictions.
• Luo Hong reached the brown stone hill where he had arranged to meet Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying.
• Marquis Nanlong told Lu Weiying that they needed the Two Elements Ring and their combined abilities to cross the dangers ahead and reach the true treasure vault.
• Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying arrived at the hill and tried to estimate the range of Luo Hong’s divine sense by tracking Han Li’s approach.
• Luo Hong warned Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying that he had no interest in the true treasure vault and expected them not to test him again.

Luo Hong led Han Li, Marquis Nanlong, and Lu Weiying to the inner valley of Demon Fall Valley, where he encountered a Three-Headed Black Snake and tried to recruit it for Yellow Maple Valley. After the snake attacked him and was effortlessly repelled, Luo Hong revealed an aura that sent its body flying upward.

• Marquis Nanlong gave the group Sensing Bells, but Luo Hong refused one before they set out for the inner valley.
• After flying for most of the day, the group reached the bloody-light Restriction and Marquis Nanlong broke the Illusion Array concealing their route.
• Luo Hong identified a demon beast in the Gray Mist and summoned it with a Demon Core.
• Three snake heads emerged, and Lu Weiying recognized the beast as a Three-Headed Black Snake.
• Luo Hong offered the Demon Core in exchange for the snake serving Yellow Maple Valley eternally, but the enraged snake struck him with its tail.
• Luo Hong blocked the attack without moving, and the snake’s middle head and body were suddenly knocked upward by his revealed aura.

Luo Hong subdued the Three-headed Demon Python, discovered and began mining a Silver Gang Sand vein, then led the group into a cave filled with Extreme North Yuan Light. As they prepared to cross with Han Li’s Two Elements Ring, Han Li questioned why Venerable Cang Kun had made things so convenient for them.

• Luo Hong defeated the Three-headed Demon Python with his physical strength, planted a slave Restriction in its Primordial Spirit, and stored it in a Spirit Beast Bag as a gift for Ancestor Linghu.
• Marquis Nanlong led Luo Hong, Han Li, and Lu Weiying to a stone wall concealing a Silver Gang Sand vein, and Luo Hong tore open the wall with his Rakshasa Hand.
• Luo Hong had Han Li use his Gold Devouring Insects to mine the ore and taught him an insect-control secret art to direct them more effectively.
• Luo Hong and Han Li entered the cave with Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying, using the Two Elements Ring to protect the group from the Extreme North Yuan Light.
• Han Li warned Luo Hong that Venerable Cang Kun’s preparations for later arrivals seemed suspicious.

Luo Hong and Han Li entered the inner valley of Demon Fall Valley, where chaotic Spiritual Qi and drifting Spatial Rifts made the terrain dangerous. Luo Hong used the Rakshasa Hand to seize an invisible Spatial Rift and captured it in the Heavenly Billow Sacred Cauldron, leaving his companions stunned by his plan to use Spatial Rifts to refine Flying Swords.

• Luo Hong warned Han Li that Venerable Cang Kun might have ill intent, and they agreed to leave the inner valley after destroying the Ancient Fire Toad.
• Han Li tested the Extreme North Yuan Light with a protective blue bead, which the light broke down and destroyed.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and their companions entered the inner valley and saw its colorful Rosy Clouds and drifting Spatial Rifts.
• Luo Hong used the Rakshasa Hand to seize an invisible Spatial Rift, startling Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying.
• Luo Hong summoned the Heavenly Billow Sacred Cauldron and swept the captured Spatial Rift into it.

Luo Hong collected Spatial Rifts while guiding Han Li, Marquis Nanlong, and Lu Weiying through Demon Fall Valley toward the Ancient Fire Toad. Han Li lured the beast from its cave to fight it, while Luo Hong hid nearby and watched.

• Luo Hong explained that the Ghost-faced Silkworm silk in the Rakshasa Hand let it withstand Spatial Rifts, then collected more rifts for a future sword formation.
• Marquis Nanlong warned the group that the left mountain held mature Flying Purple-striped Scorpions, so they chose the right mountain, which was covered in Spatial Rifts.
• Luo Hong led the group across the right ridge and collected more than fifty Spatial Rifts, bringing the Heavenly Lan Holy Cauldron’s total to over eighty.
• Marquis Nanlong showed the group the cave leading to the Lava Lake, and Han Li proposed using a puppet to lure out the Ancient Fire Toad.
• Han Li sent a white wolf puppet into the cave while Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying prepared a formation and Luo Hong hid above the entrance.
• The Ancient Fire Toad charged into the formation, and Han Li attacked it with Purple Luo Extreme Fire as Luo Hong watched from hiding.

Luo Hong joined Han Li and the others at the underground Lava Lake, where he discovered an Earth Fire Green Lotus deep beneath its surface. Silver Fairy revealed that the lotus could restore Profound Heaven Treasures and might awaken her memories, leaving Luo Hong poised to claim it.

• Han Li defeated the Ancient Fire Toad, and Luo Hong joined him, Marquis Nanlong, and Lu Weiying at the Lava Lake, where they found an ancient cultivator's remains and a Storage Bag.
• Luo Hong declined a share of the Storage Bag and searched the lake, sensing an unusual Spiritual Qi fluctuation far below its surface.
• Luo Hong used the Great Five Elements Evasion to descend through the lava, then followed the Azure Spiritual Light while protected by the Black Crow True Flame.
• Luo Hong found a green lotus within an enormous mass of azure fire and prepared to collect it.
• Silver Fairy warned Luo Hong that the lotus was the Earth Fire Green Lotus, formed from Abyssal Mother Qi and useful for restoring Profound Heaven Treasures and potentially awakening her memories.

Luo Hong captured the Earth Fire Green Lotus in the lava lake and gathered molten crystals before returning to the shore. There, Han Li grew suspicious when Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying waited for Luo Hong instead of leaving.

• Silver Fairy explained how to lure and capture the Earth Fire Green Lotus, and Luo Hong used Golden Crow Divine Iron as bait.
• Luo Hong disguised the aura of his Black Crow True Flame, trapped the lotus after it transformed into a little green fox, and stored it in his dantian.
• Yuan Yao wanted to touch the fox, but Luo Hong warned her it was dangerous, then collected molten crystals from the lakebed.
• Luo Hong headed back to the surface, while Han Li had already received the Seven Flame Fan refining method, spiritual materials, and Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Han Li questioned why Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying were still waiting by the lake, and suspected they had their eyes on the undistributed ancient cultivator's corpse.

Luo Hong and Han Li left the Lava Lake nest after Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying revealed their plan to open the Blood Curse Gate. On the way back, Han Li shared the Seven Flame Fan refinement method, and Luo Hong gave him another Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure method before preparing to cultivate in seclusion.

• Luo Hong emerged from the Lava Lake and left the nest with Han Li, while Marquis Nanlong and Lu Weiying stayed behind to open the Blood Curse Gate.
• Marquis Nanlong used a Thought-Blocking Bead as he and Lu Weiying discussed their treasure hunt, unaware that Luo Hong had heard them and learned their plan.
• Luo Hong recognized that Blood Flame's primordial spirit was sealed behind the Blood Curse Gate and realized Venerable Cang Kun was guiding others toward the demon's imprisoned body.
• Han Li showed Luo Hong the Seven Flame Fan refinement method, and Luo Hong explained that an imitation could be made but would require careful study and time.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li a jade slip containing another Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure refinement method, prompting Great Evolution Divine Monarch to marvel at their fortune.

Luo Hong and Han Li encountered a swarm of Flying Purple-striped Scorpions, and Luo Hong tested their abilities while trying out a new method to subdue them. He withstood their attacks and knocked their leader to the ground with the Rakshasa Hand, while the remaining scorpions continued attacking.

• Luo Hong told Han Li he wanted to test a new method of subduing the Flying Purple-striped Scorpions, and Han Li agreed to accompany him.
• Luo Hong approached the mountain ridge, where twelve Flying Purple-striped Scorpions emerged and attacked him with their spiritual-power-disrupting cries.
• The Purple-striped Scorpion Leader struck Luo Hong with its tail, but Luo Hong revealed that it had hit an illusory body.
• Luo Hong resisted the scorpions' combined cries and poisonous clouds, then smashed the Purple-striped Scorpion Leader to the ground with the Rakshasa Hand.
• The other eleven Flying Purple-striped Scorpions continued charging at Luo Hong despite their leader's defeat.