Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong accompanied Yuan Yao to Night Dragon Island after Six Paths Extreme Saint invited him to explore its Secret Realm. As Wu Sheng opened the altar, Luo Hong learned that the realm held deadly Time Rain and recognized that he possessed a Blood Seal Token like the one needed to activate it.

• Luo Hong let Yuan Yao destroy Old Demon Sanyang's Nascent Soul, then confronted Six Paths Extreme Saint about luring him to Mad Star Island.
• Six Paths Extreme Saint explained that he wanted Luo Hong's help exploring the Night Dragon Secret Realm, and a disturbance announced that the realm was opening.
• Luo Hong, Yuan Yao, Six Paths Extreme Saint, and Wan Sangu flew to Night Dragon Island, where Wu Sheng described the Secret Realm's fierce beasts and deadly Time Rain.
• Six Paths Extreme Saint produced a Blood Seal Token to activate Wu Sheng's altar, and Luo Hong realized he possessed another token marked with a Chiwen and the number nine.

Luo Hong entered the Night Dragon Secret Realm with Yuan Yao and discovered that it was a golden, life-filled realm rather than the Dark Domain. After Yuan Yao fought a level-nine Monkey-headed Dove, Luo Hong learned from its memories how to find shelter from the approaching Time Rain and investigated a mysterious white stone at its nest.

• Luo Hong entered the Secret Realm, while Six Paths Extreme Saint had Wu Sheng alter the entrance's destination before he, Wu Sheng, and Wan Sangu followed.
• Luo Hong reunited with Yuan Yao in the golden Secret Realm, where a level-nine Monkey-headed Dove attacked them.
• Yuan Yao fought the Monkey-headed Dove with her soundwave abilities, Sky-Covering Bracelet, and Mysterious Yin Eye, but Luo Hong stopped it when it tried to flee.
• Luo Hong searched the Monkey-headed Dove's soul, learned that Time Rain was approaching and that its nest offered shelter, then took Yuan Yao there.
• Luo Hong cleared the bones from the nest and discovered that its white boulder resisted the Time Rain but could not be refined.

Luo Hong investigated the Time Rain and discovered that the white rocks sheltering cultivators were bones infused with blood essence, then confronted the Jade Flood Dragon and the Level Eight Turtle Demon about the plot against him. The turtle’s revelations linked the Night Dragon Secret Realm to a ruined interface and a fallen colossal beast, leaving Luo Hong alarmed and ready to flee.

• Six Paths Extreme Saint realized Wu Sheng had used random teleportation and was stranded amid a swarm of insects, while Wu Sheng traveled safely toward the Secret Realm’s center.
• The Time Rain fell, and Luo Hong found that it accelerated the growth of plants while the massive white rock protected the area beneath it.
• Luo Hong used the Blood Roar Demon Eye to identify the white rock as a creature’s bone, then called out A Zi and demanded the Jade Flood Dragon explain who had manipulated it.
• The Jade Flood Dragon blamed the Level Eight Turtle Demon, and Luo Hong brought the turtle out of the Portable Jade Mansion and asked about its origin.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon admitted it had ascended from a lower realm, and Luo Hong recognized its language from Hei San’s memories and suspected the Secret Realm was tied to a Dao ancestor’s conflict.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon suddenly said, "Six are Baxia!"

Luo Hong learned that the Level Eight Turtle Demon had been one of the Night Dragon Nine Ancestors and heard how their discovery of the Golden Spirit Fire brought them to the Mortal World and caused the Time Rain. By connecting the tale to clues he already knew, Luo Hong concluded that the Dao ancestor intervened before the Five-Colored Peacock was killed.

• Luo Hong presented the Nine-Character Chiwen Token, and the Level Eight Turtle Demon recognized him as Old Ninth’s descendant and revealed they had once been brothers in the Night Dragon Nine Ancestors.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon explained that the nine cultivators discovered a Golden Spirit Fire, gained cultivation methods from its visions, and tried to use its power to cross a Spatial Node and ascend.
• The Golden Spirit Fire combined the powers of space and time, carrying the valley into the Mortal World, where the resulting Time Rain reduced the Turtle Demon’s lifespan and left the fire behind in the Secret Realm.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon admitted he had hoped to guide Luo Hong to the Golden Spirit Fire, but said the Secret Realm’s dangers could strand an unwary visitor in the lower realm.
• Luo Hong told Yuan Yao he believed much of the story and pieced together that the Dao ancestor acted before the Five-Colored Peacock was killed.

Luo Hong pieced together the origins of the Golden Spirit Fire and hurried toward its mist-shrouded field with Yuan Yao and the Level Eight Turtle Demon. Wu Sheng used an ancestral treasure to kill a powerful beast and entered the mist, while Luo Hong prepared to test a Blood Seal Token before going in himself.

• Luo Hong concluded that the Five-Colored Peacock’s arrival had awakened the Golden Spirit Fire and that Wu Sheng’s lineage likely held a treasure connected to it.
• Wu Sheng merged a crimson flame with the Dragon Subduing Blade, entered the five-colored mist, and killed a Level Ten ferocious beast with a few strikes.
• After the Time Rain stopped, Luo Hong set out to reach the Golden Spirit Fire before the other intruders and learned that a Blood Seal Token could keep people aligned at the same time point inside its field.
• Luo Hong recognized a Blazing Fire Mad Bull from the Dark Domain and marked it as a possible clue to a passage between realms.
• Luo Hong’s group reached the five-colored mist, where the Level Eight Turtle Demon explained the dangers of its chaotic time field and the Blood Seal Tokens’ protective effect.
• Luo Hong summoned the Bright Spirit Rat and ordered it to carry a Blood Seal Token into the mist for a test.

Luo Hong and his companions crossed the Five-Colored Cloud Mist, discovering that its time turbulence could accelerate cultivation at the cost of lifespan. Near the field’s core, they found Wu Sheng had already obtained the Golden Spirit Fire, and Luo Hong provoked him into appearing close by.

• Luo Hong led Yuan Yao, A Zi, and the Level Eight Turtle Demon into the Five-Colored Cloud Mist and learned that a time turbulence had sent them twenty-eight days into the past.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon explained that cultivation gained by traveling into the future could be brought back, and Luo Hong deduced that the method consumed lifespan.
• A Zi killed and swallowed a Three-Tailed White Fox, and Luo Hong used its age to support his deduction about the cost of time-accelerated cultivation.
• The group traveled through time turbulences toward the field’s core, where A Zi devoured a Six-armed Rock Ape.
• Luo Hong and the Level Eight Turtle Demon heard Wu Sheng laughing ahead and realized he had reached the Golden Spirit Fire first.
• Wu Sheng revealed that he had obtained the Golden Spirit Fire and demanded Luo Hong’s Blood Seal Token; Luo Hong taunted him, prompting Wu Sheng to use the Time Field to appear within three hundred meters of them.

Luo Hong discovered that Wu Sheng’s scarlet-gold blade attacked people through their past selves, then used the Blood Seal Token to travel from seven days in the future back to the normal time point. He found Wu Sheng trying to collect the Golden Spirit Fire and confronted him before he could escape.

• Wu Sheng’s scarlet-gold blade bypassed Luo Hong’s defenses and attacked his past self, while Luo Hong shattered a later slash with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.
• Yuan Yao, the Level Eight Turtle Demon, and A Zi gained memories of Wu Sheng repeatedly attacking them at past time points, but their unusual bodies kept them alive.
• Luo Hong deduced the blade’s limits and realized Wu Sheng was stalling from the future because he could not leave the Five-Colored Cloud Mist yet.
• Luo Hong used the Blood Seal Token to return with his companions from a point seven days in the future to the normal time point, where Wu Sheng was trying to collect the Golden Spirit Fire.
• Luo Hong confronted Wu Sheng and summoned his pale-gold Dragon Subduing Blade, prompting Wu Sheng to flee into a time current.

Luo Hong killed Wu Sheng by striking his past self, but the Level Eight Turtle Demon activated the Blood Seal Token and summoned a late-stage Deity Transformation ferocious beast. Luo Hong destroyed the beast with a newly made magic treasure, then considered weakening it for safer future use.

• Luo Hong used the Dragon Subduing Blade infused with the Power of Time to kill Wu Sheng in the past, erasing the injuries Wu Sheng had inflicted on Yuan Yao.
• The Level Eight Turtle Demon feigned a grab for the Golden Spirit Fire, struck Luo Hong's Blood Seal Token, and fled in his primordial spirit.
• The activated token drew a dragon-headed, fish-bodied ferocious beast back from the future, and Luo Hong recognized it as a late-stage Deity Transformation beast with Chiwen's inheritance.
• Luo Hong deflected the beast's water attack and fed it a Precious Pearl containing a powerful explosive, then protected himself and Yuan Yao behind a barrier.
• The Precious Pearl detonated inside the beast, killing it; Luo Hong resolved to reduce the explosive's power before making a standard version.

Luo Hong defeated the returning Sixth Ancestor and learned from the awakened Silver Fairy how he could safely claim the Golden Spirit Fire. Silver Fairy asked him to visit her clan after ascending to the Spirit World, and Luo Hong agreed in principle despite the journey’s great difficulty.

• Luo Hong used a Spirit Particle Nuclear Bomb to defeat a Spirit Transformation Late-stage fierce beast, then explained that the Sixth Ancestor had likely returned without his Blood Seal Token.
• The Sixth Ancestor returned in Nascent Soul form and attacked Luo Hong, who killed him with the Soul Annihilation Curse.
• Silver Fairy awoke, explained that the Golden Spirit Fire held only a trace of True Dragon aura, and described how it could eventually give rise to a new True Dragon will.
• Silver Fairy said Luo Hong could use the Cilieh bloodline in his Destruction Dharma Eye to remove the fire’s True Dragon aura and refine it into Profound Heaven Immortal Fire.
• Silver Fairy asked Luo Hong to visit her clan on the Thunderclap Continent after he ascended, and Luo Hong agreed to go when circumstances allowed.

After leaving the Night Dragon Secret Realm through a passage to the Dark Domain, Luo Hong returned toward Great Jin while Taiyi Sect’s Old Daoist Bai emerged from seclusion and set out to kill him over Yin Qiao. A vast surge of Universe Power then appeared near a Dark Domain formation in Taiyi Sect, and Old Daoist Bai activated the sect’s protective formation to meet it.

• Luo Hong had Qing Feng find the Dark Domain passage through the Blazing Fire Mad Bull, then dismissed Yuan Yao’s concerns about leaving the Chaotic Star Sea by relying on Han and choosing the safest route back to Great Jin.
• At Zhenhuan Mountain, Yin Qiao and Taiyi Sect’s elders welcomed Old Daoist Bai after he emerged from seclusion, and he discovered that her cultivation had been disrupted by feelings for Luo Hong.
• After learning Luo Hong had destroyed Pure Land Sect and had remained in seclusion at Myriad Sword Sect for a hundred years, Old Daoist Bai decided to kill him and take Yin Qiao to a Deity Transformation Assembly.
• A powerful surge of Universe Power shook the Zhenhuan Mountain Range, and Old Daoist Bai ordered the elders to evacuate Taiyi Sect’s disciples before taking Yin Qiao to investigate.
• Yin Qiao recognized a formation leading to the Dark Domain beneath nearby palace rooms, and Old Daoist Bai activated Taiyi Sect’s Two Extremes Dustless Great Formation to await the source of the disturbance.

Luo Hong emerged from the Dark Domain into the Taiyi Sect’s territory, where Yin Qiao and Bai Yunzhou recognized him. Bai Yunzhou blamed Luo for disrupting Yin Qiao’s Supreme Heartless Art and demanded that he take responsibility, leaving Luo to ask how he should compensate her.

• Luo Hong tore open space from the Dark Domain and emerged near the Taiyi Sect, where Yin Qiao and Bai Yunzhou were waiting.
• Yin Qiao recognized Luo Hong from the forty-nine lifetimes they had shared in an illusion, and Bai Yunzhou was shocked to learn Luo had reached Deity Transformation.
• Bai Yunzhou attacked Luo Hong with a black-and-white spear, but Luo repelled it with his Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, prompting Bai Yunzhou to withdraw the formation’s attack.
• Bai Yunzhou explained that Yin Qiao’s feelings for Luo had damaged her cultivation of the Supreme Heartless Art and demanded that Luo take responsibility.
• Yuan Yao grew jealous, while Luo Hong clarified that he already had a dual-cultivation partner and asked Bai Yunzhou how he was expected to compensate Yin Qiao.

Luo Hong refused to remain at the Taiyi Sect for three hundred years but left Yin Qiao protected from Outer Realm Sky Demons with a mark on her primordial spirit. He then traveled with Bai Yunzhou to the Deity Transformation Assembly, where Xiang Zhili revealed that Old Demon Che planned to enter a dangerous Spatial Node.

• Bai Yunzhou asked Luo Hong to stay at the Taiyi Sect until Yin Qiao reached Deity Transformation, but Luo Hong declined and marked Yin Qiao with the Seed of the Heavenly Demon to keep Outer Realm Sky Demons away.
• Yin Qiao told Luo Hong she would wait for him, while Yuan Yao vowed to return to the Netherworld and cultivate harder.
• Bai Yunzhou invited Luo Hong to the Deity Transformation Assembly at the Sky Dome Mountain Range, and Luo Hong agreed to go with him.
• At the assembly, Xiang Zhili, Old Monster Feng, and Old Demon Hu discussed Old Demon Che's plan to force his way through a Spatial Node's Space Storm.
• Xiang Zhili lamented that few cultivators had attended and said Old Monster Bai was unavailable while the monk from the Jade Heavens Sect had also failed to arrive.

Luo Hong attended a Deity Transformation Assembly, where Xiang Zhili organized a search for a suitable Spatial Node for ascension and explained the cultivators’ restrictions. After learning of Old Demon Che’s past and the group’s plan to deceive him, Luo Hong decided not to include him in his ascension plans.

• Bai Yunzhou introduced Luo Hong as a newly advanced Deity Transformation Cultivator, and the assembly members congratulated him.
• Xiang Zhili explained the prohibition against Deity Transformation Cultivators fighting one another or interfering in Cultivation World affairs, and Luo Hong agreed to follow it.
• Xiang Zhili proposed dividing the search for suitable Spatial Nodes, and Luo Hong volunteered to investigate Southern Sky while the others claimed or delegated other regions.
• The cultivators held a Trade Fair, where Old Monster Feng offered Blood Qi Pills and Luo Hong exchanged beast materials for rare spiritual items.
• Old Demon Che departed, and Xiang Zhili and the others agreed to give him useless information rather than share their findings.
• Xiang Zhili told Luo Hong that Old Demon Che had once devoured humans, and Luo Hong removed him from consideration for the limited places on the ascension journey.

Luo Hong finalized plans for a limited ascension party and explained the dangers awaiting cultivators in Sky Abyss City to Xiang Zhili. After arranging their alliance and hiding his role from Old Demon Hu, Luo Hong returned to begin his plan, while the story shifted to the Myriad Sword Sect’s centennial sword-fighting ceremony.

• Luo Hong decided to leave Old Demon Che behind and reserve the three usable ascension slots for himself, Xiang Zhili, and Bai Yunzhou.
• Luo Hong told Xiang Zhili that ascended cultivators faced deadly service in Sky Abyss City and proposed that they cooperate there.
• Luo Hong revealed his plan to reconstruct the ancient ascension passage and guaranteed a safe journey if they avoided an exceptionally violent Space Storm.
• Xiang Zhili agreed to support the plan and conceal Luo Hong’s involvement, while Luo Hong suggested that Old Monster Feng visit the Jade Heavens Sect for another ascension path.
• Luo Hong left for the Southern Sky and asked Xiang Zhili to contact him every ten years with a Ten Thousand Mile Talisman.
• The story shifted to the Myriad Sword Sect’s first centennial sword-fighting ceremony, where the victor would become sect leader.

Luo Hong emerged from seclusion as a Deity Transformation cultivator to defend the Myriad Sword Sect after rival sect elders challenged its new sect master. With the outsiders defeated, he gathered the sect’s Core Formation protectors to address the Myriad Sword Diagram.

• Qi Shanshan won the Centennial Sword Duel and became the Myriad Sword Sect’s new sect master.
• Tong Qilin and other Nascent Soul elders blocked Qi Shanshan’s ceremony, and Qin Li used a talisman to kill Gu Changfeng.
• The sinister old man incapacitated Qi Shanshan, Hou Jin, and Qin Li, but Luo Hong appeared and crushed a Nascent Soul cultivator’s bones.
• Luo Hong revealed his Deity Transformation cultivation and ordered Qing Feng to attack the hostile elders.
• Wang Hu and the others welcomed Luo Hong, who praised their training of Core Formation sword cultivators and ordered them to gather the sect’s remaining protectors.

Luo Hong unsealed the Myriad Sword Diagram, entrusted the Myriad Sword Sect to Qi Shanshan, and departed to deal with the Demonic Wood Sect. More than a year later, a Tuwu assault threatened the Mulan Clan’s Sacred Beast Avatar, and the Purple-haired beautiful woman broke through the defenders to approach its tribulation cloud.

• Luo Hong had the eighty-one sword-chief protectors feed their sword arts into the Myriad Sword Diagram, which shattered and revealed a silver sheet inscribed with a profound sword art.
• Luo Hong praised Qi Shanshan, gave the sect leaders spirit materials and pills, entrusted her with the Myriad Sword Sect, and left to pursue ascension and deal with the Demonic Wood Sect.
• Yuan Yao asked to return to the Netherworld to cultivate, and Luo Hong agreed to send her there after settling the Demonic Wood Sect matter.
• More than a year later, the Tuwu people attacked the Mulan Clan’s Sacred Beast Avatar as it prepared to undergo a Shapeshifting Lightning Tribulation, while Wei Wuya fought the Purple-haired beautiful woman.
• The Purple-haired beautiful woman used a Heart-piercing Poisonous Gu to hinder Wei Wuya and advanced toward the tribulation cloud, where a graceful figure holding a White Lotus blocked her path.

Yue Yun struggled to protect the Mulan Sacred Beast Avatar from the Tuwu people while it endured a lightning tribulation, until Luo Hong intervened and forced the Tuwu forces to withdraw. The Sacred Beast still faced the tribulation as Azure Arcs appeared in the cloud.

• Yue Yun absorbed the purple-haired Tuwu woman's spirit fire and tried to locate her within the Purple Wind Divine Sand, but her injuries and the woman's concealment thwarted her plan.
• Yue Yun sacrificed more of her lifespan to find the purple-haired woman, then sensed Luo Hong and asked him to help the Mulan Clan.
• Luo Hong emerged from the divine sand, stopped the woman's rock spikes, and refused her offer to switch sides.
• The purple-haired woman attacked Luo Hong, but he seized her magic treasure and subdued her with his divine sense, revealing that he had advanced to Deity Transformation.
• The purple-haired woman ordered the Wutu Immortal Masters to retreat, and Luo Hong returned her treasure while declining Yue Yun's offer of a reward.
• Luo Hong warned Yue Yun that the Sacred Beast Avatar might still fail its tribulation, as the yellow lightning vanished and Azure Arcs appeared in the cloud.

Luo Hong helped the Black Phoenix Demon King survive her Shapeshifting Lightning Tribulation in exchange for a Spirit World contact, then learned Yellow Maple Valley had lost a Spirit Island while he was away. He hurried back to the sect, where three cultivators fleeing with a Spiritual Herb appeared in Mist Mountain.

• Yue Yun explained that her lingering aura let her detect Luo Hong, while the Black Phoenix Demon King endured increasingly powerful Azure Sky Divine Thunder with the formation's help.
• When the formation was expected to withstand only three more waves, the Black Phoenix Demon King asked Luo Hong for aid, and he traded Frost Marrow for access to her clan's contact in Sky Abyss City.
• The Black Phoenix Demon King swallowed the Frost Marrow and survived the final tribulation bolt, then entered a Demonic Qi cocoon as Luo Hong departed.
• Wei Wuya told Luo Hong that Linghu had died and the Righteous and Demonic Paths had seized one of Yellow Maple Valley's Spirit Islands, prompting Luo Hong to race back toward the sect.
• Seven days later, Senior Sister Wang and two fellow cultivators fled across a lake in Mist Mountain with a Spiritual Herb, and one of them said he could no longer continue.

Luo Hong returned to find Fan Mengyi dying from a demonic fetus implanted by the Blood Kill Sect, and he destroyed it with a five-colored-cloud technique. After learning that the Blood Kill Sect had also lured Wang Qingqing into a trap and attacked her, Luo Hong left to take revenge, while Yu Ruoxi worried that he would face Old Demon Hehuan.

• Wang Qingqing and two fellow cultivators were pursued by the Blood Robe Ancestor until Luo Hong killed him and captured his Nascent Soul.
• Luo Hong learned that Fan Mengyi was near death from a demonic fetus and used the Blood Robe Ancestor’s soul to discover how to remove it.
• Luo Hong destroyed the demonic fetus with five-colored clouds, leaving Fan Mengyi to recover with a pill.
• Wang Qingqing returned with the spiritual herb and reported that the Blood Kill Sect had used it as bait to try to kill her.
• Luo Hong left to attack the Blood Kill Sect, while Yu Ruoxi worried that he would face Old Demon Hehuan.

Yan Ruyan endured the Ghost Spirit Sect’s losses while waiting for Luo Hong’s return and the chance to enter the Netherworld, as the Blood Kill Sect expanded under Lang Yi. The Tuwu army’s sudden withdrawal hinted at a major change, while Lang Yi and his brothers remained confident that they could challenge Luo Hong.

• Ghost Spirit Sect disciples retreated from a spirit stone mine after Yan Ruyan ordered the sect to yield territory to the Blood Kill Sect.
• Yan Ruyan defended her strategy to the Yan Family elders, insisting they preserve their spirit stone allowances while she waited for news of Luo Hong.
• Yan Li told Yan Ruyan she believed Yuan Yao would eventually send Luo Hong to find her, and reaffirmed that the Netherworld was real.
• A sound transmission reported that the Tuwu army had suddenly withdrawn, leaving Yan Ruyan worried about what the change meant for the weakened Ghost Spirit Sect.
• A Blood Kill Sect protector reported that Lang Yi’s sect had seized seven spirit stone mines, and Old Demon Hehuan urged Lang Yi to keep suppressing Yellow Maple Valley.
• Lang Yi and his brothers dismissed the danger of Luo Hong’s return, while Old Demon Hehuan privately regarded their confidence as foolish.