Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong used the Five-Colored Small Mountain to test Blood Asura, but Asura Sacred Fire countered it, forcing Luo Hong to rely on his physical strength and newly comprehended Law of Strength. The two fought evenly, leaving Ice Phoenix convinced escape was impossible.

• The altar phantom passed through Blood Asura and bound him with Silver Chains that drained his cultivation until he used Asura Sacred Fire to stabilize himself.
• Luo Hong brought down the Five-Colored Small Mountain, but Blood Asura shattered its black mountain and melted its golden mountain with Asura Sacred Fire.
• Luo Hong abandoned the damaged treasure, strengthened himself with several techniques, and struck Blood Asura in the forehead, sending him flying.
• Luo Hong judged that he could not easily defeat Blood Asura without the Universe Pearl, but decided to use the fight to gain insight into the Law of Strength.
• Luo Hong and Blood Asura traded blows as equals, while Ice Phoenix and Yan Jing watched in shock and Ice Phoenix despaired of escaping.

Luo Hong fought Blood Asura to draw out the demonic soul hidden inside its body, then teamed up with Ying Ming to prepare to kill it. After the demon took control, it revealed the devastating Great Strength True Demon Fist and put Luo Hong under grave pressure.

• Luo Hong struggled against Blood Asura as his strength waned, while Yan Jing sent an alert to the Jade Heavens Sect and Ice Phoenix looked for a chance to escape.
• A demonic soul emerged inside Blood Asura and began devouring Bi Xiu's Primordial Spirit; Luo Hong revealed that he had anticipated this and asked Ying Ming to attack from hiding.
• Luo Hong charged Blood Asura to keep the demonic soul from suspecting his plan, then provoked it after it took control of the Asura body.
• Blood Asura used the Great Strength True Demon Fist against Luo Hong, whose compressed-space defense blunted the blow but still left him struggling against its force.

Luo Hong and Ying Ming trapped Blood Asura in the Black Wind Banner’s Endless Black Domain and fought to wear him down. As Luo Hong prepared a stronger attack, the demonic markings on Blood Asura sparked a sudden insight.

• Luo Hong activated the Black Wind Banner’s Endless Black Domain, trapping himself and Blood Asura in a spatial bubble.
• Blood Asura broke through Luo Hong’s spatial defense with the Battle Technique, but struck an illusion while the real Luo Hong summoned a black wind flood dragon and signaled Ying Ming to attack.
• Ying Ming joined the assault with Golden Flame Butterflies, but Blood Asura used the Asura Sacred Fire to destroy the flood dragon and drive the butterflies back.
• Luo Hong asked Ying Ming to hold Blood Asura back while he charged the Black Wind Banner for a stronger attack.
• As Ying Ming kept Blood Asura occupied, Luo Hong grew distracted by the familiar demonic markings until a punch from Blood Asura triggered a flash of inspiration.

While fighting Blood Asura, Luo Hong discovered that the demonic patterns of the Great Strength True Demon Fist contained insights into the Law of Strength, which helped him forge his own path and combine it with the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique. As Luo Hong began activating his new divine ability, Blood Asura abandoned his fight with Ying Ming and attacked him while he remained still.

• Luo Hong recognized the black demonic patterns on Blood Asura as silver runes containing hidden insights into the Law of Strength.
• Luo Hong combined those insights with his research on silver runes and his own comprehension of the Law of Strength, manifesting a silver tadpole script unique to his Dao.
• Luo Hong realized that the Law of Strength, the silver runes in his body, and the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique formed a complete path, then began circulating Five Elements Divine Thunder through his flesh.
• Blood Asura launched a fierce assault on Ying Ming, empowered his Asura Sacred Fire, and used a Skeleton Head of flames to distract her.
• Blood Asura vanished, targeted Luo Hong as he prepared his divine ability, and struck at him while Ying Ming shouted a warning.

Luo Hong used the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique to kill Blood Asura with a punch so powerful that it split the land around Pure Land Sacred Mountain and sent the landmass sinking into the sea. After fainting from the technique’s cost, he was caught by Ying Ming, whose master explained the punch’s power.

• Luo Hong unleashed a lightning-charged punch that pierced Blood Asura and shattered his body and demonic soul.
• The impact split the land from Pure Land Sacred Mountain to both coastlines, and the landmass began sinking into the sea.
• Little Monk ordered Yan Jing to redirect the Thunder Division Arhats to evacuate the mortals and flew toward a nearby city.
• Luo Hong ran out of strength and fainted, and Ying Ming caught him.
• Ying Ming’s master said Luo Hong had reached the hall in the Law of Strength and that his Thunder Art could amplify his Law Power nearly threefold.

After recovering from the battle that sank the Pure Land Sacred Mountain, Luo Hong reflected on his new Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique and established five realms of physical cultivation. He secured the Ice Phoenix’s cooperation for his plans and returned with Ying Ming to search the Pure Land Sect’s submerged treasure vault.

• Ying Ming and the Heaven-Asking Split Soul decided to travel with Luo Hong after reaching the Spirit World, and Ying Ming cared for him while he was unconscious.
• Luo Hong woke in an estate, treated his injuries with Ancient Pills, and spent seven days recovering most of his strength.
• Luo Hong considered how the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique multiplied his Law of Strength and outlined five physical cultivation realms, from Crouching Tiger to Hearing the Dao.
• Luo Hong freed the Ice Phoenix from her restraints but persuaded her to help refine a magic treasure and assist him at the Lesser Extreme Palace in exchange for future freedom.
• Luo Hong left life-extending pills for local mortals, then traveled with Ying Ming and the Ice Phoenix to the Pure Land Sacred Mountain’s ruins.
• Luo Hong found the entrance to the Pure Land Sect’s treasure vault Secret Realm and agreed to take only the Pure World Divine Mud while Ying Ming chose any materials she wanted.

Luo Hong plundered the Pure Land Sect’s treasury, obtained Pure World Divine Mud and sarira, then met the Jade Heavens Sect’s Living Buddha, Ling Xian. Ling Xian brought Luo Hong into his Cave Heaven, where they began discussing a matter connected to Ten Thousand Buddhas Mountain.

• Luo Hong took the Pure World Divine Mud, sarira, spirit stones, and other treasures from the Pure Land Sect’s treasury before escaping its collapsing secret realm.
• Luo Hong encountered Yan Jing and Ling Xian, who said Ling Xian wished to discuss a matter with him.
• Luo Hong accepted Ling Xian’s invitation to talk, while Ling Xian left Ice Phoenix and Ying Ming outside the Cave Heaven with Yan Jing.
• Ling Xian brought Luo Hong to Ten Thousand Buddhas Mountain, a Spirit Mountain made from Spiritual White Stone.
• Luo Hong remarked that the mountain’s unusual aura was likely connected to Ling Xian’s purpose for meeting him.

Ling Xian asked Luo Hong for three Deity Transformation Sariras to complete Ten Thousand Buddhas Mountain, which could open a passage to the Spirit World with help from the Great Leiyin Sect. He offered Luo Hong one of three ascension slots, with Luo Hong able to ascend after waiting five hundred years for the Wish Power to be replenished.

• Ling Xian apologized for keeping Ying Ming and Ice Phoenix outside and asked Luo Hong for three Deity Transformation Sariras.
• Luo Hong agreed to consider trading the sariras if Ling Xian offered suitable terms.
• Ling Xian offered Luo Hong one of three slots to ascend to the Spirit World through Ten Thousand Buddhas Mountain.
• Luo Hong inferred that the mountain's Spiritual White Stone connected it to the Great Leiyin Sect's Spirit World pagoda.
• Ling Xian explained that the Great Leiyin Sect had prepared a realm-gate technique, but the plan needed more sariras to store Wish Power.
• Ling Xian said three sariras would let him finish refining the mountain within sixty years and allow Luo Hong to ascend after another five hundred years.

Luo Hong questioned Ling Xian about why he had secretly watched him, then learned the truth about the dangers of wish power and Ling Xian’s ascension plan. He agreed to support the plan but resolved to find his own route to the Spirit World, and gave Ling Xian three Deity Transformation Sariras and items to sell.

• Luo Hong asked Ling Xian why he had secretly watched him after he left the Jade Heavens Sect.
• Ling Xian explained that Yan Jing’s report about the Rakshasa Ghost Mansion had led him to suspect Luo Hong was a Buddhist cultivator gathering wish power for selfish ends.
• Luo Hong explained that his wish power had accumulated through his low-grade talismans, and Ling Xian warned that excessive wish power could bring cultivation setbacks and Karmic Debt.
• Ling Xian admitted that his ascension method used wish power and would burden ascenders with Karmic Debt, which made Luo Hong decide he needed a path of his own.
• Luo Hong agreed to trust Ling Xian with three Deity Transformation Sariras for three ascension slots and asked him to exchange his miscellaneous items for Spirit Stones.

Luo Hong settled Zi Ling’s departure from Myriad Sword Sect and prepared to travel with Ice Phoenix to Ice Abyss Island for the coming Beast Tide. The island was crowded with uneasy demon cultivators as the conflict with Lesser Extreme Palace approached.

• Luo Hong silenced the Core Formation enforcers who opposed Zi Ling’s resignation, assigned the sect’s affairs to three enforcers, and set a sword-fighting tournament for a new sect master in a hundred years.
• Zi Ling teased Luo Hong and Ice Phoenix, then bid farewell and left Myriad Sword Sect.
• Luo Hong asked Ice Phoenix to lead him to Ice Abyss Island, where demon cultivators were gathering to fight Lesser Extreme Palace over a Spatial Node.
• Luo Hong’s earlier warning about Spatial Nodes led Old Demon Che to skip the battle and send Green-backed Grey Wolf with reinforcements instead.
• Green-backed Grey Wolf kept the local icy-sea demon cultivators and the larger contingent from Myriad Demon Valley divided on Ice Abyss Island.
• A bull-headed demon cultivator complained about the lack of food while eating Ice Spirit Fruits in a temporary cave dwelling.

Luo Hong joined Ice Phoenix and Myriad Demon Valley in their campaign against Lesser Extreme Palace, revealing that the Myriad Demon Token let him control the valley’s demon cultivators. As Lesser Extreme Palace prepared to defend itself, the Sea Suppressing Bell sounded to begin the battle, and Bai Yaoyi and Ren Bi saw something astonishing in the sky.

• Luo Hong used the Myriad Demon Token to make the Ox-Head Demonic Cultivator bark and told Ice Phoenix and the Green-backed Grey Wolf he would help break Lesser Extreme Palace’s formation and deal with Venerable Hanli, but would leave the rest to them.
• Ice Phoenix agreed to fight alongside the Myriad Demon Valley, seeking revenge for the Ice Sea Demonic Race’s past defeat and the loss of the Sea Suppressing Bell.
• Luo Hong told Luzhu that Lesser Extreme Palace’s conflict with the demons stemmed from its long exploitation of the Ice Sea Demonic Race, and advised her to gain more experience.
• At Lesser Extreme Palace, Bai Yaoyi and Ren Bi learned that the Great Elder and Brother Han could not leave seclusion soon, leaving the palace without key fighters as the demon invasion approached.
• The Palace Master rang the Sea Suppressing Bell, starting the battle and prompting Bai Yaoyi and Ren Bi to hurry toward Void Spirit Hall.
• Ren Bi caught up with Bai Yaoyi outside White Condensation Pavilion and found her frozen as she stared at something in the sky.

The demon army advanced across the Lesser Extreme Palace’s frozen defenses, where the Sea Suppressing Bell devastated the Ice Sea Demonic Race. Luo Hong remained unharmed as the attack exposed the palace’s hidden weapon and left the invasion force badly weakened.

• The Ice Phoenix led the demon army into the hundred-thousand-li frozen land, while Luo Hong suspected the Mirage Stone might be worth investigating.
• The demons clashed with scattered Core Formation protectors, and the Ice Phoenix ordered the advance to continue despite the unusual ambushes.
• The Sea Suppressing Bell rang from the ice city, incapacitating weaker Demon Beasts and allowing hidden Lesser Extreme Palace disciples to slaughter them.
• The Ice Phoenix recognized the Sea Suppressing Bell and cursed the Lesser Extreme Palace, while the Green-backed Grey Wolf noted that Myriad Demon Valley’s forces suffered fewer losses.
• Luo Hong assessed how the bell disrupted cold-attributed Demonic Power, and his spirit beast pouch moved.

Luo Hong’s cocooned Flying Purple-striped Scorpion evolved into a Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion after devouring the battlefield’s blood qi, but the excess left it berserk and beyond his control. It fled toward Ice City, where the Lesser Extreme Palace’s defenses struck it with a white flame pillar.

• Luo Hong summoned the stirring purple cocoon and used Universe Power to draw battlefield blood qi into it for the Scorpion King to devour.
• The cocoon split open, and the Flying Purple-striped Scorpion emerged as a Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion, whose Blood Restriction no longer compelled it to obey Luo Hong.
• The newborn scorpion’s chaotic primordial spirit drove it to charge toward the Demon Beast army, but its roar suppressed the magic power of the nearby demons before it sped away toward Ice City.
• Luo Hong left Ice Phoenix and the other demons and pursued the scorpion, while the Lesser Extreme Palace cultivators reinforced Ice City’s formation.
• The Lesser Extreme Palace’s Divine Ice Spikes shattered against the scorpion’s armor, so Elder Lü raised the Mysterious Nether Mirror and fired a white flame pillar that swallowed its head.

Luo Hong stopped the Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion from destroying the ice city and subdued it with the Rakshasa Ghost Hand and the Law of Strength. As he began purging the baleful souls controlling it, the Lesser Extreme Palace elders prepared to evacuate the city and Lü arranged to receive him.

• The Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion broke free of the mystic ice and struck the ice city's barrier, draining much of its spiritual power.
• Bai Yaoyi decided to help Senior Brother Lü, but Ren Bi tried to stop her; Luo Hong then knocked the scorpion away from the barrier.
• Luo Hong pinned the scorpion down with the Rakshasa Ghost Hand, then used the Law of Strength after its pincers damaged the treasure.
• Luo Hong used the Soul Annihilation Curse to attack the baleful souls in the scorpion's primordial spirit, causing it to cry out in pain.
• Lü ordered Junior Brother Zhou and Junior Sister Wang to evacuate the sect members along two routes, then asked Bai Yaoyi to remain and welcome Luo Hong.

Luo Hong entered Ice City after restoring the Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion and negotiated with the Lesser Extreme Palace for Mysterious Jade in exchange for possible aid. As the demon forces broke through the abandoned city defenses and prepared to attack the Void Spirit Hall, Luo Hong waited there for an audience and a chance to see Han Li.

• Luo Hong stored the weakened Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion and discovered that his Rakshasa Ghost Hand had two new weak points.
• The Lesser Extreme Palace opened its formation to Luo Hong, and Bai Yaoyi brought him to Senior Brother Lü at the Extreme Ice Pavilion.
• Luo Hong declined to promise aid unless the Lesser Extreme Palace provided Mysterious Jade, and Senior Brother Lü arranged for the palace to evacuate toward the Void Spirit Hall.
• Ice Phoenix and the Green-backed Grey Wolf discovered that Ice City’s defenders and formation were illusions, then ordered the demon forces to sweep the city and attack the Void Spirit Hall.
• Ice Phoenix recruited the Green-backed Grey Wolf to lead an assault through the restrictions as Luo Hong waited in the Void Spirit Hall for Palace Master Liu.
• A beautiful married woman entered the room where Luo Hong had been waiting.

Luo Hong tried to trade his help defending Lesser Extreme Palace for Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Jade, but Palace Master Liu rejected him and confined him. When demon beasts broke into Void Spirit Hall, Bai Yaoyi accepted that the palace might fall and asked how she could survive, while Luo Hong began gathering resources and preparing to leave.

• Luo Hong showed Palace Master Liu his unbalanced Universe Pearl and asked for enough Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Jade, but she refused to believe the palace was doomed and left Bai Yaoyi to watch him.
• Luo Hong warned Bai Yaoyi to consider the worst outcome, and a transmission talisman soon reported that high-level demon beasts had broken into Void Spirit Hall.
• Luo Hong advised Bai Yaoyi to flee to Great Jin, then prepared to depart as she began weighing whether the palace and its Great Elder could still be saved.
• Luo Hong used the aura of his Twin-tailed Purple Crystal Scorpion to frighten a demon beast, then sent the Bright Spirit Rat to collect cultivation and formation records using the Myriad Demon Token.
• Luo Hong disappeared from the corridor as the demon beasts began inexplicably trembling before Lesser Extreme Palace cultivators, while Han Li searched for a chance to escape Mysterious Jade Cave.

After killing Venerable Hanli and the other Cold Flame Cultivators, Han Li tried to escape Void Spirit Hall with Bai Yaoyi as the Demon Beast invasion worsened. Luo Hong secretly pushed events toward a confrontation that could activate the ancient teleportation array, and the chapter ended as a mysterious woman emerged beside Liu Xipei.

• Han Li killed Venerable Hanli and four other Nascent Soul cultivators in Mysterious Jade Cave, then fled toward the Void Spirit Main Hall.
• Han Li met Bai Yaoyi, learned that Demon Beasts had breached Void Spirit Hall, and discovered that Luo Hong was inside the palace.
• When Bai Yaoyi's token revealed that a teleportation array had been destroyed, Han Li took her toward the main hall to try to escape through another array.
• Luo Hong used the Myriad Demon Token to protect two Foundation Establishment disciples, then explained to Ice Phoenix that he had dealt with Venerable Hanli and prompted her to destroy an array.
• Luo Hong watched Han Li and Bai Yaoyi battle Ice Phoenix in the main hall while Liu Xipei faced a gigantic grey wolf.
• A woman's figure appeared in greenish Yin Qi beside Liu Xipei and announced that she was finally free.

Luo Hong watched Han Li and Bai Yaoyi attempt to escape while the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and Ice Phoenix fought over the Teleportation Array. After Ice Phoenix’s spatial ability trapped the pair and Liu Xipei interrupted her, Luo Hong revealed himself, stopped the Ghost Mother’s attack, and prepared to fight her.

• Liu Xipei ordered the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother to help capture Han Li, while the Ghost Mother mocked Ice Phoenix and the Green-backed Grey Wolf.
• Han Li used his Human-shaped Puppet and Bai Yaoyi’s help to activate the Teleportation Array, but Ice Phoenix’s spatial claw trapped him and Bai Yaoyi in a temporary space.
• Liu Xipei struck Ice Phoenix with silver nails, interrupting her spell and causing Han Li and Bai Yaoyi to reappear inside the Array.
• The Yellow Springs Ghost Mother tried to kill the injured Ice Phoenix with Ghost-faced Silkworm Silk, but Luo Hong stopped the strands with Universe Power.
• Luo Hong identified the Ghost Mother’s silkworm silk, then challenged her as she fled to Liu Xipei’s side.

Luo Hong battled Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and seized her Fiend Soul Longspear before she unleashed the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost Gate. He overcame the gate’s ghostly attack with his fiendish qi and captured the spirit treasure, leaving an aged Liu Xipei staring resentfully at him.

• Yellow Springs Ghost Mother attacked Luo Hong with her Fiend Soul Longspear, but Luo Hong immobilized her, pulled the spear into his hand, and destroyed its spiritual sense imprint.
• Yellow Springs Ghost Mother summoned the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost Gate and opened it despite Luo Hong’s attempt to shut it with Universe Power.
• Luo Hong realized Liu Xipei was the gate’s true owner and that using it drained her lifespan, while Yellow Springs Ghost Mother was bound to the treasure.
• Yellow Springs Ghost Mother merged with the gate and sent its Profound Fiend Ghost Hand after Luo Hong, whose swords, talismans, and magic treasures could not stop it.
• Luo Hong let the Ghost Hand catch him, then erupted with fiendish qi and seized it, corroding the hand and reaching Yellow Springs Ghost Mother inside the gate.
• Luo Hong pulled the Yellow Springs Heavenly Ghost Gate into his hand, while Liu Xipei, now an old woman, watched him resentfully.

Luo Hong, Han Li, Ice Phoenix, and Bai Yaoyi were transported from the Void Spirit Hall into the Void Sky Hall, where they set aside their immediate conflict and searched for a way out. Luo Hong identified the location through the Golden Que Jade Book and opened their path onward, while remaining eager to investigate the Ancient Demon seals.

• Liu Xipei recognized Han Li's Void Sky Cauldron and tried to stop his escape, but its spirit silks activated the Ancient Teleportation Array and transported Luo Hong, Han Li, Ice Phoenix, and Bai Yaoyi away.
• Liu Xipei was left behind and fought the Green-backed Grey Wolf in the Void Spirit Hall.
• Ice Phoenix accused Han Li of being Ice Soul Fairy's descendant, but Luo Hong explained that Han Li had obtained his Dry Blue Ice Flame from the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Luo Hong used the changed Golden Que Jade Book to identify their location as the Void Sky Hall, and Ice Phoenix accepted that Han Li was not Ice Soul Fairy's descendant.
• The group searched the sealed stone room for an exit, and Luo Hong punched a hole through one wall.
• After the group entered an empty hall, the Golden Que Jade Book blasted open a rune-covered door with a beam of light.