Chapter Summaries

Gong Peiwu challenged Luo Hong to a duel, but Luo Hong effortlessly blocked his attacks with transformed spiritual water. Luo Hong explained qualitative changes in spiritual power before returning to contemplate his Demonic Arts.

• Gong Peiwu ignored Gong Yanwen’s warning and challenged Luo Hong to a sparring match.
• Luo Hong emerged from the building while absorbed in his cultivation research, then assessed Gong Peiwu’s Water Snake Technique and flying sword by their power.
• Gong Peiwu unleashed his Li Shui You Jiao sword art, but Luo Hong’s spiritual water stopped it without him moving.
• Luo Hong explained that his spiritual water had undergone a qualitative change and described how repeated changes increased power.
• Gong Yanwen asked about qualitative changes, and Luo Hong explained the stages of Heavenly Thunder Bamboo before heading back inside.

Luo Hong’s avatar lectured several Gong Family cultivators on the limits of cultivation before the family’s Clan Leader arrived to welcome Luo Hong into the family. The Clan Leader proposed that Luo Hong marry Luzhu, and the chapter left the avatar puzzling over Gong Xuehua’s motives.

• Luo Hong discovered his avatar lecturing Gong PeiWu, Gong Yanwen, and other Gong Family cultivators about spell power and cultivation limits.
• The avatar described the theoretical attack-power ranges of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators before Luo Hong interrupted him and corrected his remarks about Core Formation.
• Gong Yanwen thanked the avatar for his explanation and asked about his teacher, and the avatar repeated that he was a Rogue Cultivator.
• The Gong Family Clan Leader arrived and welcomed Luo Hong into the family after confirming that he wished to join.
• The Clan Leader proposed that Luo Hong marry Luzhu, while Gong Xuehua privately expected him to refuse and Luzhu worried he might accept.
• The avatar realized that Gong Xuehua was trying to use the proposal to avoid being forced into marriage herself.

Luo Hong’s incarnation accepted Luzhu as a disciple after discovering that her Water Element spell was unusually powerful, suggesting she possessed a hidden Dharma Body. Luo Hong prepared to meet Luzhu and investigate whether she could help him condense Primordial Heavy Water.

• Luo Hong’s incarnation initially tried to refuse the Gong Family’s proposal, but agreed after seeing Luzhu cast the Minor Water Origin Technique.
• Luo Hong’s original body was surprised by the agreement, then learned from his incarnation that Luzhu’s spell had an unexplained increase in power.
• Luo Hong and his incarnation concluded that Luzhu likely possessed a high-grade Water Element Dharma Body that could help with Primordial Heavy Water.
• Luo Hong’s incarnation returned to the Spirit Beast Bag, and Luzhu cautiously came upstairs after Luo Hong assured her he would not touch her.
• Luo Hong began appraising Luzhu as his new disciple.

Luo Hong discovered Luzhu had a hidden water-attuned Dharma Body and offered to take her as his disciple, but she refused to leave Gong Xuehua. He warned that the Gong Family faced ruin and gave Luzhu time to decide; three days later, she was still avoiding Gong Xuehua, leaving Luo Hong to watch their tearful misunderstanding unfold.

• Luo Hong examined Luzhu’s meridians, discovered her hidden Dharma Body, and asked about her family before offering to raise her cultivation if she left the Gong Family.
• Luzhu refused Luo Hong’s offer because she would not leave Gong Xuehua, even after he showed her Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Luo Hong revealed his strength and warned Luzhu that the Gong Family would face ruin after the Five Elements Mountain Range battle, then gave her until morning to answer.
• Over the next three days, Luo Hong guided the Gong Family members in cultivation while Gong Xuehua grew worried because Luzhu avoided her.
• Gong Xuehua questioned Luzhu, but Luzhu stayed silent and cried after her young mistress left; Luo Hong watched through his divine sense and wondered why Luzhu was acting so dramatically.

After joining the Gong Family, Luo Hong traveled with them to the Five Elements Mountain Range, where he prepared to bypass its powerful protective array. While examining the assembled family teams, he discovered an unexpected figure among the Ning Family.

• Luo Hong learned that Blood Cry Sect assassinations had left the Gong Family short of cultivators, weakening the team it sent to the Five Elements Mountain Range.
• Gong PeiWu told Luo Hong that the five families used inherited Tokens to open the Black Wind Suffocation Array.
• Luo Hong prepared his Void Spirit Transformation Talisman in case he needed to ignore the array’s Restrictions.
• Luo Hong found ten Blood Cry Sect cultivators among the Fang Family’s forces and suspected the Song Family was colluding with them.
• Luo Hong spotted Old Ghost Xiang among the Ning Family’s cultivators and was so startled that his aura faltered.

Luo Hong entered the Five Elements Mountain Range with Gong Xuehua and discovered that a strange Blood Cloud hung over the five central peaks while the land below it withered. He set out to find the other Gong Family cultivators, while Xiang Zhili also observed the ominous cloud and joined the Ning Family group.

• Luo Hong recognized the youthful Xiang Zhili as a powerful Deity Transformation Cultivator, and the two exchanged greetings without speaking further.
• Luo Hong warned Gong Xuehua to stay within a hundred zhang of him once they entered the mountain range.
• The five families used their tokens to open passages through the Black Tornado, and Luo Hong protected himself with a Void Spirit Transformation Talisman as he entered.
• Luo Hong pulled Gong Xuehua close and used Universe Power to land safely on a grassy peak after the entry gale pushed them downward.
• Luo Hong and Gong Xuehua saw the Blood Cloud revolving above the five central peaks and noticed the surrounding vegetation had withered; Luo Hong headed toward a nearby Gong Family cultivator.
• Xiang Zhili watched the Blood Cloud from a distant forest before answering a Ning Family cultivator who called him to join their group.

The Fang Clan empowered the black-robed Blood Cry Sect cultivators with blood essence, then set out to attack the Ma Clan. Meanwhile, Luo Hong persuaded the Gong Clan to investigate what had killed Gong Qiming before joining the Song Family.

• The Fang Clan cultivators channeled magic power into the black-robed cultivators, raising their auras to the peak of the Thirteenth Layer of Qi Refining.
• The black-robed cultivators drank human blood essence and reached Foundation Establishment Early-stage, while one of them killed a Fang Clan cultivator; Fang Beichen agreed to lead the remaining clansmen against the other clans.
• Fang Beichen rejected meeting the Song Family first and chose to attack the Ma Clan.
• At the foot of Great Green Mountain, the Gong Clan found that Gong Qiming had not responded to their wrist marks and decided to head northwest to join the Song Family.
• Luo Hong warned that the Blood Cloud's mutation might have caused Gong Qiming's death and urged the Gong Clan to investigate the nearby threat before moving on.

Luo Hong led the Gong Family group to Gong Qiming’s remains, where blood-red Mutated Wind Fox Dogs surrounded them. After saving Gong Peiwu from one creature’s corrosive blood mist and powerful bite, Luo Hong remained focused on the corpse as the fight continued.

• Luo Hong used the Bright Spirit Rat as a pretext to lead the group toward Gong Qiming’s whereabouts, and they found blood in the river and his scattered remains.
• Luo Hong warned that threats were nearby, then burned Gong Qiming’s remains and drew out a Mutated Wind Fox Dog hiding in the blood.
• More Mutated Wind Fox Dogs appeared and surrounded the group, while Gong Peiwu began attacking them.
• A Mutated Wind Fox Dog endured Gong Peiwu’s sword strike and corroded his defenses with blood mist, but Luo Hong killed it with a sudden attack.
• Gong Peiwu thanked Luo Hong and directed the group to fight, while Gong Xuehua asked why Luo Hong was staring at the dead beast instead of joining in.

Luo Hong discovered that the blood mist released by the mutated Wind Fox Dogs was made of parasitic organisms that could erode spiritual qi, and he speculated that they transferred what they consumed elsewhere. After the group escaped the beasts, Gong PeiWu planned to summon the other families, while Luo Hong grew more curious about the Blood Cloud and the Five Elements Mountain Range.

• Luo Hong examined blood-mist-tainted dirt and used the Blood Roar Eye, causing the mutated Wind Fox Dogs to flee in panic.
• Gong PeiWu led the group away and proposed summoning the Ning Family and Ma Clan rather than continuing to the dangerous meeting place.
• Luo Hong agreed that the Blood Beasts posed a greater threat than the Fang Family, and Gong Xuehua thanked him for saving them.
• Luo Hong recognized countless living traces in the blood mist and concluded it consisted of parasitic blood-colored organisms.
• Luo Hong speculated that the Parasitic Blood Worms transferred the spiritual qi they consumed through a spatial ability and wondered about the secrets of the Five Elements Mountain Range.

Luo Hong sent a Flying Purple-striped Scorpion to watch the Blood Cloud and waited to see what Xiang Zhili would do. Meanwhile, the Fang Family attacked the Ma Clan, and Fang Hu unleashed blood-red avian Demon Beasts against the arriving Ning Family cultivators.

• Luo Hong suspected Xiang Zhili was waiting to seize treasures or clues related to ascension, sent his Flying Purple-striped Scorpion to watch the Blood Cloud, and left with the Gong Family to meet the Song Family.
• Xiang Zhili traveled unnoticed among the Ning Family cultivators as they searched for Spiritual Herbs in the Five Elements Mountain Range.
• The Ning Family heard the Ma Clan's Sky-shattering Thunder and rushed to aid them, finding Fang Beichen and eight other Fang Family cultivators overwhelming the Ma Clan.
• Fang Hu threw a Blood Spear at the approaching Ning Family, and Xiang Zhili sensed something unusual about it before the other cultivators blasted it apart.
• More than twenty blood-red avian Demon Beasts emerged from the forest and attacked the Ning Family, which descended to the ground and formed a formation as the beasts spewed blood mist.

Xiang Zhili concealed his strength while the Blood-colored Strange Birds devastated the Ning Family, and Fang Beichen’s forces annihilated the Ma Clan. Meanwhile, ten Blood Children crossed through the Blood Cloud’s boundary into a hidden valley containing an Ancient Grand Formation.

• The Blood mist and Blood-colored Strange Birds killed or gravely injured many Ning Family cultivators, while Xiang Zhili secretly examined a blood spot and pretended his Magic Power was failing.
• The Ning Family defeated the attacking birds but, reduced to a handful of fighters, fled toward the Gong and Song Families without collecting their Storage Bags.
• Fang Beichen’s forces wiped out the Ma Clan after the Ning Family abandoned them, then decided to leave pursuit of the Ning survivors to the Song Family.
• Fang Beichen sat down to recover while his Blood Path cultivators remained eager to fight despite their depletion.
• The ten black-robed Blood Children descended into an abyss, passed through a transparent ripple, and arrived in a lush valley before an Ancient Grand Formation.

The Blood Cry Ancestor’s incarnation negotiated with the Bloodworm Mother to break the seal, proposing to use ten Blood Children and her blood qi to bring his true body inside the Black Wind Suffocation Array. As they began gathering blood, the Flying Purple-striped Scorpion discovered their plan and secretly carried word back toward Luo Hong.

• The old Blood Child revealed that the Blood Cry Ancestor had awakened the Bloodworm Mother three years earlier and offered to help free her in exchange for Origin Essence Blood.
• The Bloodworm Mother challenged the incarnation to prove he could break the seal, and he explained that her blood qi would let him use the Blood Escape Reincarnation Great Method to move his true body inside the array.
• The Bloodworm Mother agreed to assist, and parasitized Demon Beasts began leaping from the cliffs to feed their blood qi to the Blood Children.
• The Flying Purple-striped Scorpion spotted the Blood Children and sensed the danger beneath the cliff, so it poisoned a blood ape and followed it toward the formation.
• The Flying Purple-striped Scorpion fled toward the mountain range’s outskirts to report what it had seen to Luo Hong.

The Gong Family reunited with the Song Family, but Luo Hong suspected the Song members had ulterior motives and warned everyone to keep their distance. Gong Xuehua tried to approach Song Junlin, but Luo stopped her as both groups moved toward each other.

• Gong Xuehua spotted Song Junlin and the Song Family approaching, and the relieved Gong Family members prepared to reunite with them.
• Luo Hong pointed out the Song Family's anxious behavior and warned that unprompted attentiveness could signal danger.
• Gong Yanwen and Gong Peiwu took Luo Hong's warning seriously, while Gong Xuehua angrily defended Song Junlin and headed toward him.
• Song Junlin worried that the Gong Family had discovered the Song Family's plans, then led his clansmen forward when he saw them.
• Luo Hong held Gong Xuehua back and reminded her that she had to stay within a hundred zhang of him, as he had promised Miss Luzhu to protect her.

Luo Hong helped Gong PeiWu make a cautious plan to test the Song Family while the two groups joined forces in the Five Elements Mountain Range. After agreeing to travel together, they were led away by Qi Fan, who claimed Gong Qi Ming was trapped by unusually powerful Demon Beasts.

• Luo Hong gave Gong PeiWu a Formation Plate and advised him to make secret arrangements and test the Song Family.
• Gong PeiWu warned Gong Xuehua to cooperate, then met Song Junlin and exchanged explanations for their groups’ delayed arrival.
• Song Junlin questioned Luo Hong and proposed gathering Spiritual Herbs on the way, while Gong PeiWu insisted the groups stay close together.
• After the groups traveled for a time, Qi Fan arrived and claimed Gong Qi Ming was trapped in a cave by powerful Demon Beasts.
• Qi Fan urged Gong PeiWu to hurry and flew toward a mountain hollow on a Flying Magic Tool.

Song Junlin lured the Gong Family toward a cave, planning to trap them with the Blood Demon, but Luo Hong and Gong PeiWu turned the scheme against him. The Song Family fell into Luo Hong’s array, though Song Junlin revealed a hidden talisman that flooded the tower with white light.

• Gong Yanwen and the Gong Family rushed toward the cave to rescue Qi Ming, while Song Junlin secretly ordered his cultivators to attack them once the Blood Demon appeared.
• Gong PeiWu led the Gong Family into the cave and left Song Junlin’s men outside, where Song Junlin revealed he had marked Gong Xuehua with Scented Cloud Incense so they could track her.
• A blood-red fox appeared and attacked Song Junlin’s group, but Song Junlin killed it with his Coin Sword and realized the Blood Demon was fake when its blood mist proved ordinary.
• Four pillars of spiritual qi formed Luo Hong’s array and trapped the Song Family as Gong PeiWu and the Gong Family emerged from the cave.
• Gong PeiWu offered Song Junlin and his men Chaos Qi Pills in exchange for surrender, but Song Junlin activated a hidden talisman that filled the multicolored tower with brilliant white light.

Luo Hong’s space-sealing array trapped Song Junlin and let the Gong Family defeat the Song Family, though the victory left the Gong Family worried about the approaching Fang Family. The Ning Family headed toward the Gong Family’s signal flare as Fang Beichen launched an attack on its location.

• Song Junlin tried to escape with a Flying Star Talisman, but Luo Hong’s Four Symbols Chaotic Space Array sealed space and kept the Song Family trapped.
• The Gong Family attacked and killed the Song Family cultivators, captured the severely wounded Song Junlin, and decided to abandon their plan against the Fang Family.
• Gong PeiWu and Gong Yanwen arranged a temporary base and sent a signal to draw the Ning and Ma Families to them.
• The battered Ning Family saw the Gong Family’s signal flare and set out for its location, while Xiang Zhili silently considered whether the young man had guessed his true strength.
• Fang Beichen saw the signal, blamed the Song Family for its defeat, and ordered Fang Hu and the others to attack the Gong Family before it could establish itself.

The Gong Family regrouped with the surviving Ning Family cultivators while fleeing the Fang Family, then learned the Ma Clan had been destroyed and the Black Robe Cultivators remained unseen. As Luo Hong reinforced the formations, he spoke secretly with Xiang Zhili about the Blood Cry Ancestor’s scheme and discovered the Fang Family cultivators bore powerful Blood Restrictions on their primordial spirits.

• The Ning Family arrived at the stone mountain with Fang Beichen and seven other Fang Family cultivators in pursuit, so Gong Peiwu led the Gong Family out to support them.
• Fang Beichen abandoned the pursuit when the Gong Family attacked, and both sides returned to the stone mountain without fighting.
• The Ning Family survivors told the Gong Family that the Ma Clan had been destroyed and that only six Ning Family members remained, while the Black Robe Cultivators had never appeared.
• Luo Hong declined Gong Peiwu’s invitation to discuss countermeasures and secretly asked the youthful Xiang Zhili why his appearance had changed.
• Luo Hong told Xiang Zhili he had come to protect someone important and asked about the secret of the Five Elements Mountain Range; Xiang Zhili said an Ancient Great Demon was sealed there.
• Xiang Zhili revealed that the Fang Family cultivators’ primordial spirits bore powerful Blood Restrictions, which protected them from his Soul-Locking Technique, and Luo Hong confirmed their abnormality with his spiritual sense.

Luo Hong detected the Blood Restriction on the Fang Family cultivators and offered Xiang Zhili a trade: he would search their souls for information in exchange for Xiang Zhili’s intelligence. As the Fang Family appeared ready to attack, a purple shadow flew into Luo Hong’s sleeve.

• Xiang Zhili detected Luo Hong’s powerful spiritual sense and wondered what treasure concealed his true cultivation.
• Luo Hong learned from Qing Feng that Xiang Zhili carried an aura associated with a True Spirit that was a natural enemy of the Outer Demonic Heart Race.
• Luo Hong recalled fusing the Five-Colored Peacock’s blood essence with the five colored feathers to preserve its weakened True Spirit Soul, then returned his attention to the present.
• Luo Hong offered Xiang Zhili information from the Fang Family cultivators’ primordial souls in exchange for intelligence, and Xiang Zhili accepted if Luo Hong could search them.
• Gong PeiWu called out that the Fang Family was about to attack, and a purple shadow flew through the formation into Luo Hong’s sleeve.

Luo Hong learned that an Ancient Great Demon was sealed beneath a cliff and that the Blood Cry Ancestor might be working with it. As the Fang Family turned a blood demon attack against the Gong and Ning Families, Luo Hong rushed out to confront them and sent Gray Domain Demons into eight Fang Family cultivators.

• The Flying Purple-striped Scorpion confirmed Xiang Zhili's suspicion that an Ancient Great Demon lay beneath a cliff, and Luo Hong realized the Blood Cry Ancestor might have reached an agreement with it.
• Fang Hu exploded a Blood Spear above the rocky hill, driving the blood demons to attack the Gong and Ning Families' formations.
• Luo Hong collected a fragment of the Blood Spear and sealed it after sensing the blood gas could enrage Parasitic Blood Worms.
• As the formations began to fail, Luo Hong refused to retreat and charged past the blood demons toward Fang Beichen and the other Fang Family cultivators.
• Luo Hong released eight Gray Domain Demons, which invaded the glabellas of the Fang Family cultivators and left them struggling against the demons in their Niwan Palaces.

Luo Hong defeated the blood demons, protected the Gong and Ning Families with his spirit pet, and left to investigate the disturbance in the Five Elements Mountain Range. Xiang Zhili joined him, and their discussion turned to the sealed Bloodworm Mother.

• Luo Hong killed Fang Beichen and the others with ghostly shadows, then wiped out the blood demons on the stone mountain.
• Luo Hong gave Gong Xuehua his spirit pet to protect her and departed to investigate the danger in the Five Elements Mountain Range.
• After Luo Hong left, Xiang Zhili revealed that he had been traveling with him in disguise and explained that he had infiltrated the Ning Family to enter the Black Wind Suffocation Array.
• Xiang Zhili questioned Luo Hong about controlling Outer Realm Sky Demons, and Luo Hong admitted that he had killed a Heavenly Demon Sect demon cultivator in the Dark Domain.
• Luo Hong asked Xiang Zhili about the Ancient Great Demon sealed in the mountain range, and Xiang Zhili identified it as the Bloodworm Mother.