Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong secured the Purple-striped Scorpions and began a long-term experiment with silver beetles that fed on spatial power. He then prepared an underground fire pool to transplant the Earth Fire Green Lotus, releasing the small green fox from its confinement.

• Luo Hong released the twelve Purple-striped Scorpions, placed restrictions inside their bodies, and left them low-grade poisons to eat.
• Luo Hong used a formation platform and his essence blood to mark the silver beetles, then asked Silver Fairy about insects that consumed spatial power.
• Silver Fairy said she knew no such Spirit Insects and reminded Luo Hong of their transaction involving the Earth Fire Green Lotus.
• Luo Hong reached his underground Fire Pool, built a new restriction array, and swallowed the Black Crow True Flame to reveal the sleeping small green fox.

Luo Hong persuaded the Earth Fire Green Lotus to serve him by offering rare fire-element spirit materials, then placed Silver Fairy and his Black Crow True Flame on its lotus pod for tempering. He studied the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and found its method for forging a Primordial Spirit Talisman unreliable and limited.

• Luo Hong trapped the azure little fox and offered it spirit materials in exchange for a thousand years of service.
• The azure little fox eagerly accepted five high-grade fire-element spirit materials and took root in the Fire Pool.
• Luo Hong placed Silver Fairy and his Black Crow True Flame atop the Earth Fire Green Lotus for tempering, then returned to his cave abode.
• Luo Hong studied the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and learned that it used a Primordial Spirit Talisman to speed a Split Spirit's cultivation.
• Luo Hong judged the art's method for condensing the talisman abstruse, unreliable, and unlikely to preserve insights into more than two divine abilities.

Luo Hong studied the One Thought Dao Transformation Art and uncovered how Primordial Spirit Talismans were formed from Silver Runes within the primordial spirit. His experiments revealed that his primordial spirit also contained hidden runes from his physical body, inspiring him to pursue a technique he named One Thought Manifestation.

• Luo Hong attempted to cultivate the One Thought Dao Transformation Art, but the effort rapidly depleted his spiritual sense and left him dizzy.
• Luo Hong used the Physical Examination Table to track spiritual sense losses and discovered that drifting Silver Runes in his Nascent Soul corresponded to his divine abilities.
• Luo Hong concluded that Primordial Spirit Talismans were amalgamations of Silver Runes and quickly learned to form talismans containing at least two divine abilities.
• Luo Hong experimented with engraving physical-body Silver Runes into his primordial spirit and found that sections without those runes suffered greater spiritual sense depletion.
• Luo Hong realized that his primordial spirit contained hidden Silver Runes from his entire body and named his plan to condense them into a talisman One Thought Manifestation.

Luo Hong used the Heavenly Heart Fruit to enter a communion with Heaven and witness a Silver Tadpole Script break down into the Silver Runes he had been studying. While he recovered from the experience, Long Han asked Ancestor Linghu to recruit him against the demon soul, but Linghu claimed Luo was injured and unavailable.

• Luo Hong decided to consume the Heavenly Heart Fruit and sent a message to Ancestor Linghu warning him not to disturb his seclusion over the demon soul.
• Luo Hong's soul rose beyond his cave's restrictions and entered a river of Silver Tadpole Scripts, where a script separated and decomposed into Silver Runes.
• Luo Hong focused on memorizing the script's original form and the structure of the runes it produced before he was pulled back into his body.
• The many-eyed Sea Demon that had disrupted the process drew the Heavenly Dao's wrath and was struck by escalating tribulation lightning.
• Long Han asked Ancestor Linghu to have Luo Hong join the demon-slaying force, but Linghu said Luo was recovering from injuries and had ordered Yellow Maple Valley to stay behind its grand formation.
• Long Han challenged Linghu's explanation, saying Alliance Leader Wei had reported that Luo's true essence was unharmed after he killed the Ancient Demon.

After consuming the Heavenly Heart Fruit, Luo Hong discovered a method to analyze Silver Tadpole Script and planned to use it to refine his Primordial Spirit Talisman. Years passed as Southern Sky’s powers responded first to the departing devil soul and then to seven newly risen islands, while Wei Wuya flew toward Yellow Maple Valley.

• Ancestor Linghu told Long Han that Luo Hong had been infected by origin devil qi and could not join the demon-slaying squad, and Long Han offered assistance instead.
• Luo Hong realized that Silver Runes underlay Silver Tadpole Script and that he could analyze its characters with data from his Physical Examination Table.
• Luo Hong decided to analyze several Silver Tadpole Script characters before using an improved method to condense his first Primordial Spirit Talisman.
• The Mulan people reported that the devil soul was heading toward the Depths of the Grassland, and the demon-slaying squad dissolved after the news spread.
• A whirlpool appeared near Xi Kingdom, released Spiritual Qi, and raised seven islands that the Three Great Cultivators assigned to seven sects, including Yellow Maple Valley.
• Yellow Maple Valley sent only two Core Formation stage cultivators to guard its island, while Wei Wuya flew toward the sect.

Luo Hong agreed to help Wei Wuya repair the Demon Sealing Great Formation and negotiated compensation for his work. After Wei Wuya departed, Luo Hong caught Fan Mengyi and Xiao Cui'er sneaking away with Spirit Wine.

• Luo Hong welcomed Wei Wuya and explained that the seven islands’ strange spiritual qi indicated a crisis involving the ancient Demon Sealing Great Formation.
• Wei Wuya asked Luo Hong to help repair the formation, and Luo Hong agreed to assist the Southern Sky Cultivation World.
• Luo Hong gave Wei Wuya a list of desired resources and offered spirit materials and Flying Purple-striped Scorpion venom in exchange for them.
• Wei Wuya agreed to gather the resources, set a date for their trip to the islands, and left Yellow Maple Valley.
• Luo Hong saw Fan Mengyi sneaking out with a Wine Jar while Xiao Cui'er anxiously questioned whether they should take it.

Luo Hong caught Fan Mengyi trying to share stolen spirit wine with Xiao Cui'er and ordered them to share it properly, then sent them to train at Demon Fall Valley after Fan Mengyi broke through. He later met his External Incarnation in a hidden chamber and planned to strengthen it with demonic qi from the Demon Abyss.

• Fan Mengyi tried to persuade Xiao Cui'er to drink spirit wine she had taken, but Luo Hong caught them and told Fan Mengyi to share another jar with her.
• Luo Hong instructed Fan Mengyi to cultivate until she reached the Late Core Formation Stage, then go with Xiao Cui'er to the outskirts of Demon Fall Valley for experience.
• Fan Mengyi gave Xiao Cui'er the wine jar and went to fetch another jar from the residence.
• Luo Hong entered a hidden Teleportation Array and arrived in a mountain chamber, where he met his External Incarnation.
• Luo Hong and his External Incarnation discussed the incarnation's limits and planned to absorb the demonic qi beneath the Demon Abyss to restore it and improve its strength.

Luo Hong sent his incarnation to the Demon Abyss while his true body secluded himself in the Main Spirit Chamber to cultivate toward the Nascent Soul Late-stage. Twenty-five years later, Fan Mengyi fought a Two-headed Fierce Ape near Demon Fall Valley and unleashed a massive Heavenly Sun Sword attack.

• Luo Hong judged that his incarnation and treasures would prepare him for Great Jin, but decided to reach the Nascent Soul Late-stage before setting out and let Old Demon Han go first.
• Luo Hong's incarnation traveled to Xi Kingdom, joined Wei Wuya and two others, and used its authority to enter the Demon Abyss and cultivate with demon qi while Luo Hong refreshed its temperament through the half Dao Talisman.
• After three years, Luo Hong's incarnation submitted a plan to repair the Demon Sealing Great Formation and returned to Yellow Maple Valley, leaving Old Demon Hehuan with suspicions about its concealed demon qi.
• Luo Hong cultivated in the Main Spirit Chamber as twenty-five years passed in the peaceful Southern Sky Cultivation World.
• Fan Mengyi, Xiao Cui'er, and another Yellow Maple Valley cultivator fought a Two-headed Fierce Ape near Demon Fall Valley, and Fan Mengyi combined twenty-four Heavenly Sun Swords into a great sword.
• The Two-headed Fierce Ape countered Fan Mengyi's descending sword with two merging pillars of black flame streaked with blood-red.

Fan Mengyi and Chen Rong killed a Two-headed Fierce Ape outside Demon Fall Valley, but Luo Hong appeared and stopped its Demon Core from detonating. He agreed to take Fan Mengyi, Xiao Cui'er, and Chen Rong into the dangerous Inner Valley, where their journey continued.

• Fan Mengyi split the Two-headed Fierce Ape in two, and Chen Rong tried to restrain its soul with her magic treasure before the Demon Core detonated.
• Luo Hong appeared, calmed the Demonic Qi, and took the Two-headed Fierce Ape's Demon Core.
• Luo Hong scolded Fan Mengyi for failing to learn the Silver Spirit Eye, then gave her the seventh-grade Demon Core.
• Luo Hong asked Chen Rong whether she belonged to the Chen clan, then turned toward the Inner Valley.
• Fan Mengyi asked to accompany Luo Hong, who agreed to bring her, Xiao Cui'er, and Chen Rong into the Inner Valley.

Luo Hong tested his newly refined Divine Edge Shadowless Sword in Demon Fall Valley, while Fan Mengyi, Xiao Cui'er, and Chen Rong continued their treasure hunt. After the sword effortlessly killed a Level Eight Wood-scaled Giant Lizard, Luo Hong recalled that he had refined only half the swords he intended and had returned to the valley to gather more invisible Spatial Rifts.

• Luo Hong used the Universe Pearl to break Ancient Restrictions as the group traveled through Demon Fall Valley, and Fan Mengyi gave Chen Rong a brass Ancient Treasure suited to her cultivation art.
• A Level Eight Wood-scaled Giant Lizard charged into the clearing, but Luo Hong's Divine Edge Shadowless Sword killed it instantly and Chen Rong collected its Demon Core.
• Xiao Cui'er accused Fan Mengyi of staying calm because she knew Luo Hong could protect them, and Fan Mengyi explained that she trusted her master's judgment.
• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy that her guidance had helped him refine thirty-six Divine Edge Shadowless Swords after he struggled to make them himself.
• Luo Hong recalled that thirty-six swords were only half his planned number, so he had returned to Demon Fall Valley to collect more invisible Spatial Rifts.

Luo Hong failed to find more Gang Silver Sand in Demon Fall Valley, returned to Yellow Maple Valley, and secretly left for Great Jin. In Liaozhou, Feng Ziyan delivered snacks from Miss Gong to a strange scholar named Luo, who was traveling with a merchant caravan.

• Luo Hong searched Demon Fall Valley for Gang Silver Sand with Fan Mengyi and the others, but his Flying Purple-striped Scorpions found none.
• Luo Hong ended the expedition, returned to Yellow Maple Valley, and secretly set out for Great Jin while the Southern Sky Cultivation World believed he had entered seclusion.
• The chapter described Liaozhou as a vast but impoverished province bordering the Tianlan Grassland, where a caravan of the Gong Family traveled toward Xiangcheng.
• Feng Ziyan accepted a box of snacks from Miss Gong and rode to the rear of the caravan to deliver it to Luo, a plain-looking scholar resting on a wagon.

Luo Hong used the Gong Family caravan to enter the Great Jin Cultivation World, while Gong Xuehua tried to recruit him to help with her troubles. The caravan reached Xiangcheng, where Luzhu approached Luo Hong to arrange a meeting.

• Luo Hong explained to Silver Fairy that he joined the caravan to use the Gong Family's influence to conceal his origins in Great Jin.
• Gong Xuehua questioned Feng Ziyan about Luo Hong's response, then privately concluded that he was waiting for her to offer him benefits.
• Gong Xuehua refused Luzhu's suggestion to seek help from County Princess Luxiu and decided to invite Luo Hong to a banquet in Xiangcheng.
• Luo Hong overheard their conversation and suspected that a Nascent Soul cultivator was behind Gong Xuehua's predicament.
• The caravan entered Xiangcheng, and Luzhu approached Luo Hong at the post station.

Luo Hong accepted Gong Xuehua’s banquet invitation and explored Xiangcheng, where he discovered that the city had many Qi Refining Cultivators but no Foundation Establishment Cultivators. At dinner, he explained that he hoped to join the Gong Family for a Foundation Establishment Pill and access to its cultivation records, while two Demon Cultivators prepared to ambush him outside.

• Luzhu invited Luo Hong to a banquet, and he accepted before setting out to explore Xiangcheng.
• Luo Hong observed that the city’s mortals were accustomed to Cultivators and sensed numerous Qi Refining Cultivators but no Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Two Demon Cultivators recognized Luo Hong as Gong Xuehua’s helper and planned to assassinate him after the banquet.
• Gong Xuehua invited Luo Hong to dine at a Cultivator restaurant, where he asked to join the Gong Family and study its inherited records.
• Gong Xuehua offered Luo Hong a Foundation Establishment Pill and agreed to teach him one inherited secret art if he helped the Gong Family through its crisis.

Gong Xuehua explained how the Fang Family’s new Core Formation patriarch had disrupted Liaozhou’s balance and threatened the other four great families. Luo Hong learned that the families would be allowed to bring Qi Refining helpers into their ancestral mountain range, and he suspected the Song Family had a hidden motive.

• Luo Hong demanded that Gong Xuehua explain her family’s predicament and warned that he would withdraw if she concealed information.
• Gong Xuehua described how the Fang Family Head’s return as an Early Core Formation cultivator led the Fang Family to encroach on the other four families.
• The Fang Family attacked its rivals during the previous herb-gathering expedition and seized nearly all the Spiritual Herbs from the mountain range shared by the five families.
• The four families pressured the Fang Family to let each family bring one Qi Refining helper into the mountain range during the next expedition.
• Luzhu said Song Junlin had inspired the proposal, and Luo Hong suspected the Song Family wanted outsiders to enter the Forbidden Land for a hidden purpose.

Luo Hong agreed to accompany Gong Xuehua into the Five Elements Mountain Range after learning why her family needed outside help, but he demanded recognition and core-member treatment from the Gong Family. As they left the tavern, two men ambushed him, and he swiftly defeated them.

• Gong Xuehua explained that her search for help on Tianlan Grassland had failed because the Tuwu Tribe had moved, and that Liaozhou’s restrictions left her family short of qualified fighters.
• Luo Hong accepted Gong Xuehua’s invitation but demanded that the Gong Family declare him a lost clan member and grant him core-member treatment after the crisis.
• Luzhu objected to Luo Hong’s demands, but Gong Xuehua followed him when he left the tavern.
• A short, thin assailant attacked Luo Hong at the entrance, but Luo Hong blocked the dagger with a water curtain and sent a tall attacker flying with an Azure Shadow.
• Luo Hong bound the fleeing short attacker with water, then froze the tall attacker with an Ice Crystal Flying Sword after he rose and launched a Ghost Claw.

Luo Hong killed two Blood Cry Sect assassins and learned that the sect was supporting the Fang family. After searching one assassin’s soul, he uncovered suspicious clues, while a Blood-robed old man at the Fang estate learned that something had gone wrong.

• Luo Hong froze the tall ambusher to death and questioned the short, thin one, who identified himself as a Blood Cry Sect disciple before Luo Hong killed him.
• Gong Xuehua realized the Fang family’s ties to the Blood Cry Sect remained strong, and she asked Luo Hong to help protect her during the journey to Xin'an.
• Luo Hong secretly kept the short, thin man’s primordial spirit and used the Soul Searching Technique to learn about the Blood Cry Sect and memorize several suspicious faces.
• At the Fang family estate, the Blood-robed old man drained a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s blood essence while the Fang Family Head and a Core Formation Elder stood by.
• The Core Formation Elder showed the Blood-robed old man two shattered Soul Tablets, and the old man demanded to know what had gone wrong.

Blood Cry Ancestor confirmed that his scheme against the other families was ready, while Luo Hong arrived at the Gong Family residence in Xin'an with Gong Xuehua and discovered that its Spirit Vein had once been top-grade. As Luo Hong considered investigating the weakened Spirit Vein, Gong Yanwen approached him.

• Blood Cry Ancestor questioned the Fang Family Head about the Blood Burning Pills and Blood Cry Children, and the Fang Family Head assured him their plan was ready with the Song Family’s help.
• Gong Xuehua brought Luo Hong and Luzhu to Xin'an, where her family token opened the Gong Family gate and guided them to Heavenly Palace Peak.
• Luo Hong advised Gong Xuehua during their journey, and Gong Xuehua and Luzhu each made progress in their Qi Refining cultivation.
• Silver Fairy told Luo Hong that Heavenly Palace Peak’s weak Spiritual Qi had the distinctive flavor of a top-grade Spirit Vein, so Luo Hong considered sneaking in to investigate.
• After Gong Xuehua took Luzhu to meet her father and left Luo Hong at a guest residence, Gong Yanwen approached Luo Hong and introduced himself.

Luo Hong searched True Lord Wentian’s records and concluded that Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk might be buried beneath Heavenly Palace Peak. Meanwhile, the Gong Family leaders discussed recruiting Luo Hong and considered marrying Gong Xuehua to him, while avatar Luo Hong emerged to scout their surroundings.

• Luo Hong dismissed a Gong Family woman who complained to Gong Yanwen about his rudeness.
• Gong Xuehua told the Gong Family leaders that Luo Hong had killed two Blood Cry Sect disciples and helped her break through a bottleneck.
• The Gong Family Clan Leader proposed redirecting resources toward promising juniors, and the elders speculated that Luo Hong possessed a rare Water-affinity Dharma Body.
• The Gong Family eldest uncle proposed marrying Gong Xuehua to Luo Hong, and Gong Xuehua objected that Luo Hong liked Luzhu.
• Luo Hong found a record suggesting Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk lay beneath Heavenly Palace Peak and summoned his avatar after nightfall.

Luo Hong searched the damaged Spirit Vein beneath Heavenly Palace Peak and found several clumps of transformed Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk. He took them far from the city and began using his Portable Spirit Ascension tool to transform them further.

• Luo Hong swallowed the ten-thousand-year Earth Dragon Ganoderma to cultivate the third layer of the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art.
• Luo Hong sent his memories to his incarnation, which stayed behind to study the Brahma Saint True Shard while he used Earth Evasion to enter the Spirit Vein.
• Luo Hong passed through the Gong Family's Mountain Protecting Great Formation and saw signs that the Spirit Vein had been damaged and drained.
• Luo Hong found and collected four clumps of Hollow Metal Cluster, which he recognized as transformed Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk.
• Luo Hong teleported far from Xin'an, refined the Hollow Metal Clusters into his Exquisite Jade Ball, and started the Spirit Ascension process.

Luo Hong raised Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk to its ultimate spiritual state and realized it could help him refine Primordial Heavy Water to restore the Yin-Yang Balance in his Universe Pearl. After he returned to Heavenly Palace Peak to gather materials, Gong PeiWu arrived with Gong Yan Hua to confront him, despite Gong Yanwen’s warning.

• Luo Hong used an improved spirit-sealing Restriction and Exquisite Jade spheres to raise three metal thread balls into Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk.
• Luo Hong determined that the Mystic Turtle Spirit Silk could speed his refinement of Primordial Heavy Water, which he needed to strengthen the yin side of the Universe Pearl.
• Luo Hong returned to Heavenly Palace Peak and began collecting materials with Great Five Elements Evasion.
• Gong Yan Hua led Gong PeiWu and several Gong Family cultivators to Luo Hong’s residence and asked Gong PeiWu to avenge her quarrel with him.
• Gong Yanwen came out and urged Gong PeiWu to remember that Luo Hong had come to help the Gong Family and avoid escalating the dispute.