Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong learns that Xu Feng targeted him because the Spirit Race sensed the Five-Colored True Blood within him, and he questions Xu Feng about his infiltration mission. He decides Xu Feng may be useful alive and offers to spare him in exchange for a favor.

• Luo Hong asks why Xu Feng developed killing intent toward him, and Xu Feng says his Spirit Race senses the Five-Colored True Blood as a threat.
• Xu Feng explains that he was ordered to enter Human and Monster Race territory, cause disturbances, and provoke conflict with the Yaksha Race, but refuses to reveal the specific target.
• Luo Hong reasons that killing Xu Feng or using him to expose other spies would draw dangerous attention to his Five-Colored True Blood.
• Luo Hong decides to keep Xu Feng alive, have him send false information, and lower Luo Hong’s profile before they part ways.
• Luo Hong offers to spare Xu Feng if he will do him a favor.

Luo Hong secured Xu Feng’s cooperation by revealing his identity as a Black Phoenix Envoy, then moved to Cui Long Mountain and established a protected cave abode. There, he began incubating Little Gold and resolved to find a way to conceal his Five-Colored True Blood from the Spirit Race.

• Luo Hong revealed the Black Phoenix Token and persuaded Xu Feng to pass him information about the Spirit Race while reporting a false account of their battle.
• Xu Feng agreed to the arrangement, and Luo Hong placed Qing Feng in his body as a watcher while retaining the Great Five Elements World-Purifying Bottle until Xu Feng sent the message.
• After Xu Feng left, Luo Hong decided to kill him if he ever left Sky Abyss City, then departed for Cui Long Mountain to claim his spiritual land.
• Luo Hong built a cave abode at Hua Ling Peak and completed a grand array that could repel powerful cultivators.
• Luo Hong connected the array to an incubation chamber, where Little Gold’s egg began absorbing metal-aspected Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and reestablished its spiritual connection with him.
• Luo Hong returned to his cultivation room and resolved to find a way to block the Spirit Race from sensing his Five-Colored True Blood.

Luo Hong devised a way to suppress the Five-Colored Peacock aura that provoked the Spirit Race, then used the Six-Directional Treasure Bottle’s Gray Radiance to refine Five Elements Essence and strengthen his Great Five Elements Magnetic Light. After emerging from seclusion, he reported to his new patrol station and met the members of Team C-66.

• Luo Hong concluded that blocking the spirit particles carrying his Five Elements Law was the practical way to hide his natural-enemy aura from the Spirit Race, and planned to use the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light to achieve it.
• Luo Hong used an array to draw Gray Radiance from the Six-Directional Treasure Bottle and refined its Five Elements Essence, bringing his Great Five Elements Magnetic Light to full major accomplishment.
• More than ten days later, Luo Hong met Xiang Zhili, and they learned that Xiang was assigned to Team C-64, Luo to Team C-66, and Bai to Team C-65.
• Luo Hong arrived at the C-66 station and met four Nascent Soul Mid-stage cultivators from the Taiyi Sect, who said Grand Ancestor Meng had briefed them about him.
• The Taiyi Sect cultivators went to summon two teammates meditating in quiet rooms, and five men and one woman soon joined Luo Hong; they were all Nascent Soul late-stage cultivators.

Luo Hong led six cultivators on a patrol mission to Floating Light Forest, where chaotic Five-colored Spiritual Light hindered Five Elements abilities but also nurtured valuable ginseng fruits. After arriving at the forest’s edge, he led the team toward their first patrol point.

• Luo Hong learned that his six subordinates came from powerful local factions, and Wang Jinghuai and Tang Xin explained the dangers and rewards of Floating Light Forest.
• Luo Hong agreed to let the group search for spirit materials while warning them not to pursue them too far.
• Luo Hong joined nine other patrol teams at the assembly area and teleported with his group to a stone room near Floating Light Forest.
• Luo Hong and the others emerged beside the forest, where the chaotic Spiritual Qi forced several team members to use treasures or spirit beasts for protection.
• Luo Hong told the group to conceal their auras and avoid disturbing fierce beasts, then led them toward the first patrol point.

Luo Hong led his patrol team through Floating Light Forest, where he saved a teammate from a swarm of Sky-flying Lice. Meanwhile, a group of Purple Rank Wood Race members decided to pursue the Universe Treasure they believed Luo Hong possessed, and Luo Hong reached the second patrol point and agreed to coordinate with nearby teams to capture Purple Ginseng Fruits.

• A Green-eyed Big Man approached a pond for a White Ginseng Fruit, but Luo Hong spotted Sky-flying Lice beneath the water and warned him away.
• The Sky-flying Lice attacked the Green-eyed Big Man, and Luo Hong immobilized the swarm with Universe Power before burning it away with Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire.
• Five Purple Rank Wood Race members emerged near the pond, examined an image of Luo Hong, and decided to test him and seize his Universe Treasure.
• Luo Hong led his team to the second patrol point, activated its Black Crystal with the Azure Nether Token, and ordered a five-day rest.
• Luo Hong spoke with Xiang Zhili and Bai Yunzhou through the Black Crystal, and the three agreed to cooperate in surrounding Purple Ginseng Fruits and divide their captures equally.

Luo Hong captured a Purple Ginseng Fruit after Bai Yunzhou and Xiang Zhili drove it toward him, then hurried back when he sensed a large beast attack approaching. Tang Xin and the others regrouped under siege by Black Light Beasts, and the chapter ended with the beasts damaging the Round-faced Female Cultivator’s life-bound treasure.

• Luo Hong caught the Red Ginseng Fruit that had run into him and gave it to Tang Xin before leading the patrol team onward.
• Bai Yunzhou and Xiang Zhili sent messages warning that a Purple Ginseng Fruit was heading Luo Hong’s way, so Luo Hong changed course and used the Black Wind Banner to close the distance.
• Luo Hong found the Purple Ginseng Fruit resting on a branch, sealed its evasion technique, captured it, and notified Xiang Zhili and Bai Yunzhou.
• A large group of ancient beasts approached, so Luo Hong warned the others and flew back while Tang Xin and the rest continued gathering ginseng fruits.
• Black Light Beasts attacked the scattered patrol members, who regrouped under Daoist Wang’s command as more than thirty beasts surrounded them.
• The cultivators fought back, but a Black Light Beast bit the Round-faced Female Cultivator’s Precious Pearl, damaging her life-bound treasure and making her vomit blood.

Luo Hong rescued two Taiyi Sect cultivators from Black Light Beasts, then discovered that five Purple Rank Wood Race cultivators had laid an ambush for him. As the Wood Race cultivators trapped and attacked him, Luo Hong prepared to counter their Spirit World Heavenly Tribulation Thunder.

• Luo Hong saved the Round-faced Female Cultivator and her companion, then searched a Black Light Beast’s memories and discovered a scheme involving a green figure.
• Luo Hong summoned more than a hundred Fierce Ghosts to overwhelm the Black Light Beasts, but five Purple Rank Wood Race cultivators revealed themselves and encircled him.
• Luo Hong told Tang Xin and the others to flee for reinforcements while he drew the Wood Race cultivators away, then withdrew his ghosts when Hua Xun dissolved them with fragrant wind.
• Luo Hong countered three Wood Race cultivators’ attacks with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, and Universe Power, but the purple-robed leader attacked with two azure thunder pythons.
• Luo Hong teleported clear of the thunder pythons, but a wooden spear killed the Green-eyed Big Man and devoured his blood essence and Nascent Soul.
• The purple-robed cultivator activated the Jianmu Tongtian Formation, restricting Luo Hong’s movement as the Wood Race cultivators pressed their attack; Luo Hong recognized the pythons as Spirit World Heavenly Tribulation Thunder and feigned a mistake.

Luo Hong killed Mu Zheng and escaped the Wood Race cultivators’ formation, though they pursued him after sensing he was injured. As the surviving disciples headed for help, Hua Rui learned that Mu Zheng’s group had followed a lead about a Universe Treasure and suspected the human race had set a trap.

• Luo Hong seized Mu Zheng’s Blood Spear, killed him, and escaped through a Spatial Rift opened by his Small Banner.
• The purple-robed Wood Race cultivator and his companions collected Mu Zheng’s remains and chased Luo Hong after detecting his weakened aura.
• Tang Xin and the Wood Crown Youth led the seven surviving disciples toward the patrol point to call for help.
• A Wood Race woman tended the peach tree in Hua Rui’s cave abode, and Hua Rui asked why Mu Zheng’s seed spirit had gone extinct.
• The woman explained that Mu Zheng’s group had acted on a Spirit Race trade offer and believed Luo Hong possessed a Universe Treasure.
• Hua Rui suspected the human race had lured Mu Zheng’s group into a trap and demanded the full story behind the information.

Luo Hong used a trap to draw Mu Zi’s group into a fight with Xiang Zhili and Bai Yunzhou, then revealed his strength and crushed the Wood Race fighters. As he chased the purple-robed survivor, a powerful aura appeared, and Luo Hong launched Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire at the approaching threat.

• A peach blossom phantom decided to personally investigate Mu Zheng’s death and left the Wood Race woman a talisman before departing as a sphere of light.
• Mu Zi and the other Wood Race members used the Wood Spirit Resonance Art to locate Luo Hong, who emerged from an ancient tree and faced them.
• Luo Hong activated two formation plates to summon Xiang Zhili, Bai Yunzhou, and their patrol, and the three cultivators attacked the Wood Race group.
• Luo Hong tore apart the three Wood Ape Beasts, overwhelmed the purple-robed Wood Race member with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and Universe Power, and drove him into the ground.
• The purple-robed Wood Race member escaped in a childlike form, but Luo Hong pursued him with the Black Wind Banner until a powerful aura appeared and the fugitive called for help.

Luo Hong fled a pursuing Void Refinement Late-stage Wood Race cultivator after killing Mu Zi, but delayed reinforcements and her pursuit forced him to abandon escape and prepare to fight. He faced her at the starting point of their chase, wearing armor formed from the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light and readying a hidden trap.

• Luo Hong killed Mu Zi with the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire and fled from an enraged Void Refinement Late-stage Wood Race woman.
• Luo Hong returned to Xiang Zhili and Bai Yunzhou, then used their portable teleportation arrays to escape ten thousand miles while the others withdrew separately.
• The Wood Race woman bypassed Luo Hong's teleportation array, trapped it with petals, and resumed her pursuit; Luo Hong later used two items he had left behind as markers and precautions.
• After five days of pursuit, Luo Hong suspected Spirit Race spies had delayed the message to Sky Abyss City and used Four Symbols Teleportation Talismans to widen the gap.
• The Wood Race woman used a powerful technique to follow Luo Hong across the distance, and he resolved to fight her after realizing her aura suggested she was injured.
• Luo Hong prepared a hidden item beneath him and formed Five Spirits Battle Armor from the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light.

Luo Hong fought the Pink-Faced Girl, whose powerful wood-based abilities challenged his defenses and strength. As her Peach Branch Spirit Sword struck toward his neck, Luo Hong unexpectedly sensed Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and began drawing it into his body.

• The Pink-Faced Girl emerged from a leafy gateway and attacked Luo Hong with peach blossom petals, which his Universe Power deflected despite their immense weight.
• Luo Hong charged the Pink-Faced Girl and struck her Woodman Armor, cracking it slightly, but its flying needles knocked him back while his Five Spirits Battle Armor protected him.
• Luo Hong realized his usual strength would not break through the armor and began using the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique as the Pink-Faced Girl formed her Tree Spirit Sword Transformation.
• The Pink-Faced Girl sent her Peach Branch Spirit Sword toward Luo Hong's neck, and Luo Hong sensed Heaven and Earth Vital Energy and drew it into his body.

Luo Hong defeated the Pink-Faced Girl by luring her into a Fusion Pearl explosion, but a mysterious gray hand seized him during the explosion’s aftermath. Integration Stage cultivators from Sky Abyss City arrived at the devastated Floating Light Forest and began investigating the blast and the Wood Race’s involvement.

• Luo Hong broke the Pink-Faced Girl’s Peach Branch Spirit Sword with a punch, forcing her to use Man-Tree Unity.
• Luo Hong drove the peachwood giant onto the Fusion Pearl’s ambush point, teleported away, and detonated the pearl, devastating the Floating Light Forest.
• Luo Hong survived the blast but found himself unable to escape a gray hand that severed his connection to the Black Hydrogen Spirit Pearl and carried him away.
• More than ten Void Refinement and Integration Stage cultivators arrived at the ruined battlefield, where Lei Luo said he could not identify the destructive aura.
• The white-bearded old monk and Lei Luo questioned Nephew Ji about evidence linking the changes in the Floating Light Forest to the Wood Race.

Luo Hong and Hua Rui were trapped in a hidden Cave Heaven and discovered that its Yin Yang Divine Wood had drawn them inside. After Hua Rui revealed how to explore the place and why she had come, the two began a wary cooperation.

• Ji told Elders Lei Luo and Jin Yue that a delayed patrol report had allowed five Purple Rank Wood Race members to go unchallenged, and Jin Yue suspected the herb seller was a foreign spy.
• Luo Hong tested the restriction with spells and treasures, then used the Universe Pearl’s power to dispel its illusions and reveal the badly injured Hua Rui.
• Luo Hong proposed that they set aside their feud and explore together, while Hua Rui held back from attacking after sensing his threatening aura.
• Hua Rui used three Spirit Orbs to lift the restriction, revealing a small Cave Heaven centered on the Yin Yang Divine Wood.
• Hua Rui explained that the divine tree had drawn them in because it sensed their Universe Treasures, and she revealed that she sought the Fu Ling Demon Flower to advance to Silver Rank.

Luo Hong and Hua Rui crossed the maze array and entered the Green Vine Great Hall to find the Cave Heaven’s exit, while Hua Rui sought the Fu Ling Demon Flower. Their attempt to activate the Teleportation Array triggered a powerful restriction that wounded Luo Hong, leaving him suspicious of Hua Rui’s intentions.

• Luo Hong and Hua Rui swore Heart Demon Oaths not to attack or scheme against each other, then traveled together to the Yin Yang Divine Wood.
• Luo Hong used Universe Power to guide them through the maze array, and Hua Rui identified the Green Vine Great Hall as the location of the Teleportation Array.
• Hua Rui opened the hall’s restrictions and absorbed the Emerald Heart Flies, healing her injuries and strengthening her aura.
• Luo Hong found the Teleportation Array, but Hua Rui’s Mana Light Pillar triggered an Azure Light Shield that sent a Green Blade Light after her.
• Luo Hong blocked the Green Blade Light with his Five-colored Giant Hand and Great Five Elements Magnetic Light, but suffered a wound before destroying it.
• Luo Hong accused Hua Rui of plotting against him, and Hua Rui insisted the restriction’s attack had been an accident.

Luo Hong recovered enough to explore the Wood Race cave abode, where he discovered a nest of poisonous spirit insects and a Mayfly Race secret art for cultivating them. The art gave him a new avenue for studying Law Power, while he remained trapped in the cave abode and still needed to recover before challenging the sealed teleportation array.

• Hua Rui told Luo Hong she could not lift the teleportation array’s Restriction, then left the Green Vine Great Hall to pursue her own business.
• Luo Hong healed for a month, explored the cave abode, collected spiritual materials, and fed Solar True Fire to the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire.
• Luo Hong burned open a cluster of black thorns, and A Zi devoured the poisonous Six-legged Beetles within.
• Luo Hong found a Spider White Jade containing a Nameless Secret Art for cultivating poisonous insects into a Supreme Poisonous Insect.
• Luo Hong recognized that the secret art could guide experiments into Law Power and provide a cultivation path for A Zi.

Luo Hong found the Yin Yang Divine Wood’s hidden Central Palace and uncovered a formation tied to the Wood Race master’s cultivation art. After identifying a protected Leaf Slip on a jade tree as a likely key to the formation, he transported it out with Universe Power.

• Luo Hong collected the Spider White Jade, returned the sleeping A Zi to his spirit beast bag, and searched the remaining buildings without finding valuable items or any trace of the Pink-Faced Girl.
• Luo Hong provoked the Yin Yang Divine Wood’s gray giant hands and used the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light Explosion to destroy them, sensing a concealed power high in the tree.
• Luo Hong entered the Yin Yang Divine Wood and discovered the Central Palace, where he found Wood Race Leaf Slips and a formation on the second floor that drew in Universe Power.
• Luo Hong returned to the first floor and saw golden threads connecting the jade trees to a single unusual tree, which he identified as an array eye.
• Luo Hong tested the Leaf Slip restrictions, pierced one with the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light, and transported the Leaf Slip out with Universe Power.

Luo Hong broke the jade-tree restriction with the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light, Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, and Silver Fairy’s Sky-Breaking Spearhead, exposing a gray sapling guarded by a powerful True Spirit dharma image. He recognized the small dragon-headed, horse-bodied beast as Zhongshan’s image and prepared to summon his own True Spirit Soul to confront it.

• Luo Hong discovered that the leaf books contained the cave’s master’s records and suspected the true treasure had remained hidden because even the Silver Rank Wood Race member could not claim it.
• Luo Hong had Ying Ming wait outside the hall with the Black Wind Banner and set his Spirit Transforming Talisman as an escape measure.
• Luo Hong countered the restriction bubbles with the Great Five Elements Magnetic Light and Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, but the jade trees produced golden nets that resisted his attacks and absorbed his Universe Power.
• Luo Hong summoned Silver Fairy and used the Sky-Breaking Spearhead to destroy the golden nets, shattering the jade trees and revealing a gray sapling with one leaf book still attached.
• A small beast resembling Zhongshan emerged from underground, and Luo Hong realized it was a formidable True Spirit dharma image guarding the treasure.
• Silver Fairy warned that they might not defeat the beast, so Luo Hong considered forcibly activating his true blood to summon his True Spirit Soul.

Luo Hong and Ying Ming removed a restriction in the Yin Yang Divine Wood and discovered a Golden Court Jade Book inner page, which Luo Hong borrowed to study. After the divine wood expelled its central hall, Luo Hong gathered its released wood spiritual power and spared the Pink-Faced Girl before leaving with peach blossoms; three years later, Floating Light Forest had been designated a first-class danger zone.

• Ying Ming recognized the restriction as one created by her master, True Lord Wentian, and used his characteristic rune pattern to deduce how to undo it.
• Ying Ming dispelled the restriction, and Luo Hong uncovered a Golden Court Jade Book inner page inscribed with Golden Seal Scripts.
• Ying Ming let Luo Hong borrow the Jade Token, and Silver Fairy advised him to pursue a high-grade cultivation technique while developing his own.
• The liberated Yin Yang Divine Wood expelled its central hall, and Luo Hong collected the released wood spiritual power and the fallen leaf books.
• Luo Hong sensed that the Pink-Faced Girl remained conscious, spared her in keeping with their oath, and took more than a hundred peach blossoms before departing.
• Three years later, Floating Light Forest had been classified as a first-class danger zone after the Elder Council attributed the earlier explosion to an underground Spirit Vein eruption.

Luo Hong returned to Floating Light Forest after surviving the explosion and rescued Tang Xin’s patrol team from a Savage Beastman. After learning that the foreign races had turned the forest into a danger zone and that Sky Abyss City believed him dead, he reported his return and was escorted to Spirit Inquiry Hall by three Golden Court Guards.

• A giant Savage Beastman attacked a patrol team, killed Fellow Daoist Zhou, and swallowed the injured Senior Bai.
• Tang Xin and the remaining guards fought the Savage Beastman, but Luo Hong arrived and killed it with a single five-colored spear strike.
• Luo Hong recognized the rescued Senior Bai as an old acquaintance, gave the guards a pill for him, and asked Tang Xin about events during his three-year absence.
• Tang Xin said the foreign races had flooded Floating Light Forest with spies and that Senior Kong of True Dragon Temple was angered by the deaths of Daoist Wang and the others.
• Luo Hong gave Tang Xin a bottle of pills and flew to a patrol point, where he sent Sky Abyss City word that he had returned.
• Three Golden Court Guards arrived in a golden flying boat and took Luo Hong toward Spirit Inquiry Hall.

Luo Hong passed the Spirit Inquiry Hall’s examination and fabricated an account of his years in the Floating Light Forest, concealing that he had entered the Cave Heaven. He left the Golden Court Guards focused on Hua Rui, while they secretly deployed guards to hunt for her.

• Luo Hong endured the Spirit Inquiry formation, proved he was human, and received medicine and double compensation for the delayed reinforcements.
• The Brocade Robe Man questioned Luo Hong, who claimed a pink-faced Wood Race woman had captured him to use his Universe Pearl and that he escaped during the Falling Sun anomaly.
• Luo Hong used the Seed of the Heavenly Demon to conceal his lies about the Cave Heaven, and the Brocade Robe Man dismissed him after promising compensation.
• After Luo Hong left, Ruan Xing revealed that his account about the Cave Heaven was false, and the Brocade Robe Man concluded that Luo Hong had entered it with Hua Rui.
• The Brocade Robe Man ordered three teams of Golden Court Guards to secretly patrol the Floating Light Forest for an Orange Rank Wood Race member.
• Luo Hong collected his compensation and reflected that he had made Hua Rui a more tempting target so the Golden Court Guards would overlook his own gains.