Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong confronted Sima Xiao at the Sima Family’s ancestral home and revealed his plan to found a sect there. After destroying the family’s Blood Refining Great Array, he brought the weakened family heads to the surface, where Sima Xiao summoned the mountain’s Formation Spirit and Luo Hong moved to strike it down.

• Luo Hong proposed founding a sect on the Sima Family’s mountain, then killed Sima Qian with invisible sword gleams when Sima Xiao hesitated.
• Sima Xiao restarted the Blood Refining Great Array, causing Qi Buxiu and the Core Formation family heads to suffer, then fled underground.
• Luo Hong destroyed the array with his Divine Edge Shadowless Swords and carried the family heads out of the underground chamber.
• Sima Xiao summoned a Yellow Dragon Formation Spirit by drawing on the mountain’s power, and Luo Hong attacked it with a Crystal Blue Hand.

Luo Hong overwhelmed the Sima Family, destroying its mountain formation and capturing Sima Xiao, while allied cultivators surrounded Twin Qin Mountain. As Luzhu spoke with the purple-robed cultivator, Luo Hong appeared and recognized her as Zi Ling.

• Luo Hong shattered the Yellow Dragon Phantom, causing the Sima Family’s mountain to collapse, and captured Sima Xiao with the Five Heavens Pouch.
• Cultivators gathered at the King Ginseng Assembly saw Twin Qin Mountain surrounded by an approaching alliance of cultivators.
• Several Core Formation cultivators discussed joining forces, while Luzhu refused their invitation and stayed near the purple-robed female cultivator.
• Luzhu told the purple-robed female cultivator that her master had caused the collapse, but her jade pendant broke the cultivator’s Charm Technique.
• Luo Hong appeared behind Luzhu, lowered her talisman arm, and addressed the purple-robed female cultivator as Fellow Daoist Zi Ling.

Luo Hong announced that he would establish the Myriad Sword Sect at Twin Qin Mountain, using it to cultivate sword cultivators and conceal the entrance to the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion. He offered Zi Ling help with Nascent Soul Formation in exchange for overseeing the new sect, and she agreed only to serve as acting sect master.

• Luo Hong announced the founding of the Myriad Sword Sect and invited Guangnan Prefecture's Cultivation Families to bring their younger members to Twin Qin Mountain within a month.
• Luo Hong met Zi Ling at the Stone Pavilion and explained that the sect was an idle move, while privately planning to conceal the cave mansion and draw attention away from the Pure Land Sect's investigation.
• Luo Hong warned Zi Ling that consuming the Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng could harm her primordial spirit and told her to keep the matter secret.
• Zi Ling asked after Han Li, and Luo Hong said he was in seclusion and would soon approach the Nascent Soul Late-stage.
• Luo Hong offered Zi Ling the Feather Ascension Pill and other spiritual items if she would oversee the Myriad Sword Sect, and she agreed to serve temporarily as acting sect master.

Luo Hong established the Myriad Sword Sect at Twin Qin Mountain, then entered the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion with Luzhu. Meanwhile, the Pure Land Sect learned of the Sima Family’s destruction and began investigating Luo Hong.

• Luo Hong accepted more than five hundred children and dozens of Rogue Cultivators into the Myriad Sword Sect, appointing Zi Ling as acting head and giving her startup funds.
• Luo Hong lectured the gathered cultivators, demonstrated his Flying Sword abilities, and assigned the new disciples to the sect’s eighty-one sword arts.
• Luo Hong led Luzhu through a hidden cavern and used his Restriction Token to open the entrance to the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion.
• The Basin-Holding Stone Statue recognized Luo Hong as an old friend, and the two Stone Statue Puppets opened the Black Stone Gate for him and Luzhu.
• The Pure Land Sect received word of the Sima Family’s destruction and the Myriad Sword Sect’s founding, and its Great Elder asked the elders to investigate Luo Hong.

Luo Hong met the sentient Maid Puppet again in the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion and offered a way for her to leave safely. The Maid Puppet showed interest in his Lock Qi Secret Patterns, and Luo Hong began negotiating with her.

• Luo Hong arrived at the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion with Luzhu and waited for its current owner.
• The Maid Puppet appeared, and Luo Hong revealed that he knew she was sentient.
• Luo Hong learned that the Maid Puppet would die if she left the cave mansion because her body could not contain its vital essence in the Mortal World's thin spiritual qi.
• Luo Hong used a High-grade Spirit Stone and a Talisman Brush to create Lock Qi Secret Patterns that could let the Maid Puppet seal in her vital essence under her own control.
• The Maid Puppet asked what Luo Hong wanted, while her flickering Golden Flame showed her interest in learning the method.

Luo Hong negotiated with the Maid Puppet for the Enlightenment Tea Tree, learning how to transplant it safely and how her restrictions limited her. He obtained the tree and taught her secret patterns to lock away her Spiritual Qi, while she revealed she planned to follow him to drink its tea.

• Luo Hong asked for the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and the Maid Puppet agreed because her master no longer needed it and tea helped her intelligence.
• The Maid Puppet explained that the tree could be transplanted with the Pure Nether Divine Mud around its roots and revealed that she could not attack Luo Hong or control the cave’s grand formation against him.
• Luo Hong proposed that she remove the tree’s Restriction so he could transplant it, then learn his secret patterns before allowing him to take the tree away.
• The Maid Puppet removed the Restriction, and Luo Hong transplanted the thriving Enlightenment Tea Tree with its protective mud.
• Luo Hong taught the Maid Puppet the secret patterns and locked away her Spiritual Qi; she then said she intended to follow him until she had consumed forty-nine tea leaves.

After three years, Luo Hong finished healing and began assessing the treasures he had obtained from Kunwu Mountain. Seeing Little Gold’s Form-Destroying Golden Light would become less effective against stronger cultivators, he considered having her refine the Extreme North Yuan Light to change her path.

• Luo Hong expelled the last foreign Spiritual Qi from his wounds and healed completely.
• Luo Hong reviewed his Kunwu Mountain gains, set aside the Sky-Covering Bracelet, and decided to cultivate the Black Wind Banner’s Treasure-Passing Art.
• Luo Hong recognized that the Extreme North Yuan Light overloaded the Yin-Yang Two Elements Gourd and could not readily be used to refine a magic treasure.
• Luo Hong brought Little Gold to examine the Extreme North Yuan Light and concluded she was suited to refine it.
• Luo Hong realized Little Gold’s Form-Destroying Golden Light would be countered by many cultivators above Deity Transformation, putting her at a turning point.

Luo Hong researched how the Extreme North Yuan Light might help Little Gold develop a safer path to nirvana, while Black Robe Luo Hong took a Shadow Serpent to study its stealth ability. Luo Hong then began investigating the three Kunpeng Feathers fused into his body and deciphered part of the Silver Tadpole Script on the first feather.

• Luo Hong reasoned that the Extreme North Yuan Light and Form-Destroying Golden Light might be fused to strengthen Little Gold's divine ability system and planned to observe her contact with a wisp of it.
• Black Robe Luo Hong asked for the Shadow Serpent so he could incorporate its stealth ability into his Demonic Arts, and Luo Hong let him take it.
• Luo Hong examined the three Kunpeng Feathers fused into his chest and found that his blood and qi activated their Silver Tadpole Script.
• Luo Hong used the Blood Roar Eye to reveal the feathers' spiritual power and deciphered nearly half of the first feather's script, identifying it as related to Mystic Transformation.
• Luo Hong set aside the first feather and began studying the script on the second.

After drinking Enlightenment Tea, Luo Hong rapidly comprehended the third Kunpeng feather’s technique and remained in seclusion as eight years passed. Zi Ling struggled to manage the growing Myriad Sword Sect until a powerful Buddhist monk infiltrated her residence and demanded Luo Hong’s whereabouts.

• Luo Hong drank the Enlightenment Tea and greatly accelerated his comprehension of the Myriad Realms Devouring Origin Technique.
• During Luo Hong’s eight years of seclusion, the Myriad Sword Sect expanded across the territory around Twin Qin Mountain, while Zi Ling struggled to balance its growth against the interests of local Cultivation Families.
• Zi Ling dismissed Wang Hu, reflected on her plans to leave the sect, and went to cultivate in her private residence.
• A middle-aged Buddhist monk appeared in Zi Ling’s chamber and briefly subdued her with his voice.
• Zi Ling questioned the monk and claimed Luo Hong was in seclusion, but he said he had searched Twin Qin Mountain for three years and found no trace of Luo Hong.
• The monk declared that his sect’s affairs left no room for compassion and prepared to offend Zi Ling.

Zi Ling was abducted by Chan Master Bi Xin after revealing her true appearance, and Luo Hong sensed her emergency token shatter and raced to rescue her. Bi Xin fled to a hidden base, unaware that Luo Hong had already detected Zi Ling’s aura and was closing in.

• Bi Xin’s killing intent disrupted Zi Ling’s magic power, so she revealed her true face and triggered his desire to take her for dual cultivation.
• Bi Xin seized Zi Ling and escaped from the Myriad Sword Sect, leaving behind the shattered Soul Guiding Token.
• Luo Hong sensed the token’s destruction, left the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion, and instructed Ying Ming to leave Luzhu in seclusion.
• Luo Hong detected Zi Ling’s aura a thousand li away and sped toward her, while Ying Ming vanished into cherry blossoms.
• Bi Xin teleported Zi Ling to his concealed base and believed his actions were driven by love, while Zi Ling realized he was a demon.

Luo Hong attacked Bi Xin after discovering him assaulting Zi Ling, and the two fought with powerful magical treasures and curses. Bi Xin sacrificed his body and Nascent Soul to help a Sarira escape, but Ying Ming captured it, leaving Luo Hong surprised by her ability.

• Luo Hong attacked Bi Xin and destroyed the Demon Subduing Staff with his Divine Edge Shadowless Swords.
• Bi Xin used his Purple-Gold Kasaya to trap Luo Hong's swords, while Luo Hong identified its Spatial Divine Ability and damaged it with Universe Power.
• Bi Xin cast a Soul Bewitching Curse, but Luo Hong reversed it and added an Extreme Emotion Curse that forced Bi Xin to kneel and confess he was wrong.
• Bi Xin escaped the destruction of his body by teleporting his Nascent Soul, then self-detonated it to distract Luo Hong while a golden streamer fled.
• Ying Ming appeared and captured the golden streamer, revealing the Sarira in her hand.

Luo Hong discovered that Bi Xin had hidden a message in the sarira and suspected the Pure Land Sect's Mituo Bowls concealed a larger plot. He kept Zi Ling tied to the Myriad Sword Sect while planning to strengthen it, and Ying Ming revealed that Zi Ling might possess the Pure Yin Body of the Maiden.

• Luo Hong accepted Bi Xin's sarira from Ying Ming and found a Split Soul message indicating the Pure Land Sect had targeted a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to protect the Blood Ginseng secret.
• Zi Ling escaped after Bi Xin's restriction broke and asked Luo Hong to release her from her remaining obligation and return the Myriad Sword Sect.
• Luo Hong refused to let Zi Ling quit, promised to reinforce the sect's protective formation, and planned to use Ying Ming's authority to give the sect access to the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion.
• Ying Ming asked to inspect Zi Ling because her aura resembled a Dharma Body, then identified her as a possible bearer of the Pure Yin Body of the Maiden.
• Ying Ming offered demonic qi to test Zi Ling's body, and Luo Hong agreed that she should try it.

Luo Hong summoned the Myriad Sword Sect’s seven Core Formation cultivators and rewarded Wang Hu and Protector Song with powerful treasures that advanced their cultivation. The other protectors watched as Luo Hong began distributing benefits and strengthening the sect’s leadership.

• Luo Hong assessed the seven Core Formation cultivators and found that their unstable foundations and mixed techniques left them with little chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Luo Hong gave Wang Hu spirit wine, allowing him to rapidly advance his Tiangang Sword Art from the fifth level to the seventh.
• Luo Hong gave Wang Hu a jade slip and put him in charge of Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Luo Hong awarded Protector Song an Earth Origin Pill and helped him withstand its potent medicinal power.
• Protector Song broke through from Early Core Formation to Mid Core Formation while Wang Hu and the other protectors watched enviously.

Luo Hong strengthened the Myriad Sword Sect by assigning its Core Formation cultivators new duties and establishing a cultivation program for its disciples. He then set out for the Western Spirit Continent under a concealed identity to target the Pure Land Sect and answer a mortal’s request to slay a demon.

• Luo Hong gave Song five Earth Origin Pills to oversee and placed him in charge of Pill King Pavilion, then disciplined Liu and Gu and assigned them to manage the Transmission Hall.
• Luo Hong established sect positions and a contribution system, and Liu and Gu organized a competition that selected eighty-one Sword Chiefs for seclusion in the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion.
• Over the following month, Luo Hong redesigned the sect’s grand formation and completed a Teleportation Array linked to the Heavenly Question Cave Mansion.
• Luo Hong decided to secretly hunt Pure Land Sect Nascent Soul cultivators outside their mountain gate rather than attack the sect directly.
• Luo Hong went to the External Affairs Hall with Ying Ming, where Jiang Tieshan asked the sect to rid his hometown of a demon in the Western Spirit Continent.
• Luo Hong departed for the Western Spirit Continent with the three top disciples from the grand competition.

Luo Hong traveled with his group to the Western Spirit Continent and continued testing the Myriad Realms Devouring Origin Technique, discovering that the Sarira only helped Little Gold refine the Extreme North Yuan Light. The group reached a small town near Jiang Tieshan’s hometown, where its desolate farmland caught their attention.

• Jiang Tiezhu paid for the group’s passage through a Great Jin Teleportation Array, and they arrived in the Western Spirit Continent after the remaining places filled.
• Luo Hong traveled westward aboard a Spirit Boat while Ying Ming piloted it and entertained the three disciples.
• Luo Hong found the Myriad Realms Devouring Origin Technique too slow without Kun Peng true blood, though it had improved the purity of his magic power.
• Luo Hong discovered that Sarira helped Little Gold refine the Extreme North Yuan Light but did not improve his own use of the technique, and he decided to collect more Sarira.
• Qi Shanshan summoned Luo Hong to discuss their next steps, and he joined Ying Ming and Jiang Tieshan on deck as they approached a town with strangely barren farmland.

Luo Hong and the Myriad Sword Sect disciples reached Jiang Tieshan’s hometown to investigate reports of a demon. They learned that Government Officials had handed over Jiang Tieshan’s granddaughter and other children after a supposed demon demanded fifty pairs, raising suspicion that an evil cultivator was behind the events.

• Jiang Tieshan explained that a letter from home had reported demons near his hometown and monks eaten at a nearby temple.
• Qi Shanshan warned Hou Jin and Qin Li to take the demon seriously, while Ying Ming cautioned that he might not be able to help them.
• Luo Hong brought Jiang Tieshan to his family home, where his father begged the immortals to save the town.
• Jiang Tieshan’s father revealed that Government Officials had chosen children by lot to satisfy the demon’s demand, and that Jiang Tieshan’s eldest brother and sister-in-law had joined townspeople to confront it.
• Qin Li feared the demon had formed a Demon Core, but Luo Hong and Qi Shanshan suggested that an evil cultivator might be controlling the events.

Luo Hong investigated why the residents of a Western Spirit Continent town remained calm despite a demon threat and discovered that Buddhist worship had made many of them spiritually numb. As he left to deal with the real danger, Government Officials escorted fifty pairs of children toward Maple Leaf Temple while their parents followed helplessly.

• Luo Hong sent Qi and two Junior Brothers to ambush the demon near the children, assigned Ying Ming to watch over them, and asked Jiang Tieshan to show him around town.
• Luo Hong learned that the townspeople relied on Buddhist prayers and that a temple’s cultivators had once cured Jiang Tieshan’s brother.
• A crowd’s talk about Shopkeeper Zhou’s daughter reminded Jiang Tieshan that he had fled the continent to escape its culture of dependence on prayer.
• Luo Hong called the system a Wish Power factory, released a streak of blue light that brought cries of delight from a house, and took Jiang Tieshan toward the outskirts.
• Luo Hong concluded that Buddhist sects collected Wish Power from mortals and that Sarira could absorb ownerless Wish Power, then recognized where the Pure Land Sect’s Sarira might be found.
• Government Officials escorted fifty pairs of boys and girls toward Maple Leaf Temple as nearly two hundred parents followed without trying to reclaim them.

Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li fought a level three Sea Demon Lion Flood Dragon Beast inside the abandoned temple while Luo Hong watched from a Spirit Boat and Ying Ming confronted the beast’s controller outside. After the controller used a Bloodthirsty Talisman to empower the beast, Qi Shanshan prepared a trump card as Ying Ming’s opponent questioned why she was not helping her juniors.

• Ying Ming used Wood Evasion Technique to disappear into a tree, and Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li entered the abandoned temple to lie in wait.
• Luo Hong stayed aboard the Spirit Boat with Jiang Tieshan as night fell and the Sea Demon Lion Flood Dragon Beast charged into the temple, frightening the children and townsfolk.
• Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li trapped the beast in their Three Talents Sword Formation and gradually gained the upper hand.
• A cultivator’s Bloodthirsty Talisman landed on the beast, threatening to increase its strength, and Qi Shanshan told Hou Jin and Qin Li to hold it off for ten breaths while she used her trump card.
• Outside the temple, Ying Ming confronted a Big-eared Male Cultivator, who urged her to aid her Nephew Disciples before the empowered beast overwhelmed them.

Ying Ming killed the Big-eared Male Cultivator after Qi Shanshan and her companions defeated the Lion Flood Dragon Beast, but two Buddhist cultivators mistook them for criminals who had staged the attack. The mortals defended the cultivators, yet Ying Ming revealed she had killed the only witness, leaving Qi Shanshan worried they could not prove their innocence.

• The Big-eared Male Cultivator attacked Ying Ming, who brushed aside his Cold Fish Swords and burned him away with a Golden Flame.
• Qi Shanshan severed the Lion Flood Dragon Beast's head, and Ying Ming joined the three cultivators as the townspeople entered the hall to thank them.
• Two Core Formation Stage Buddhist cultivators arrived, accused Ying Ming and the three cultivators of ravaging towns, and silenced the mortals who defended them.
• Qi Shanshan realized the Big-eared Male Cultivator had arranged the attack to deceive the townspeople, but Ying Ming said she had killed him and left no evidence.
• The tall, thin Buddhist cultivator demanded that the four surrender so he could question them.

Ying Ming and Qi Shanshan escaped the ruined temple after the Buddhist cultivators received word that Luo Hong’s disciples had defeated the Evil Cultivators. Luo Hong met Yan Jing and learned that the attacks had devastated Buddhist territories, leaving him convinced that the Pure Land Sect was behind them.

• Ying Ming decided to knock out the two Buddhist cultivators, but they received a Spiritual Sense Telepathic Communication and fled before she acted.
• Ying Ming learned the matter was resolved, then returned to town with Qi Shanshan and the others after they divided the Lion Flood Dragon Beast.
• The two Buddhist cultivators reported to Yan Jing, who told them Luo Hong’s disciples had wiped out the Evil Cultivators troubling the area.
• Luo Hong met Yan Jing, asked about the attacks, and learned that Evil Cultivators had devastated towns in the Jade Heavens Sect’s and Qian Guang Temple’s territories.
• Yan Jing explained the Evil Cultivators’ scheme and their suspected overseas origin, while Luo Hong privately concluded that the Pure Land Sect was responsible.