Chapter Summaries

Long Guang distributed Yellow Springs Pills to Long Family members seeking control over their Deity Transformation reinforcements before the Dragon Blood Trial, while Long Ruiyun defied her grandfather’s plan to keep her safe. As the trial began with Luo Hong among the forty-nine teams, he realized the Long Family Ancestor posed the greatest danger to his plan to steal True Dragon Blood and decided he needed a perfect shield.

• Long Guang offered Yellow Springs Pills to the gathered Long Family members, and Long Zhenliang refused while Long Ruiyun and more than ten others accepted them.
• Long Ruiyun learned that Long Lie had arranged three Spirit Transformation cultivators to hide and protect her, but she rejected his plan and vowed to keep her True Dragon Bloodline.
• Long Lie told Xu Xuechuan and Li Jun to keep Long Ruiyun hidden during the trial, while she secretly resolved not to surrender her bloodline.
• Three days later, Luo Hong, Long Ruiyun, and the other teams gathered as the Long Family Ancestor arrived and opened the Dragon Blood Trial.
• Luo Hong felt the Ancestor’s overwhelming aura, recognized the danger of being discovered, and focused on Long Ruiyun as a potential shield before the teams were transported to the trial grounds.

Luo Hong and his companions learned that Long Ruiyun had poisoned their wine with Yellow Springs Pills to force them to help her win the Dragon Blood Trial. After hearing her reason for risking everything, Luo agreed to help, but proposed a safer way to preserve her True Dragon bloodline without winning the trial.

• Long Ruiyun explained the dangers of the Vast Sea Desert and said she had abandoned hope of winning after Long Guang easily defeated her.
• Long Ruiyun served poisoned wine, but A Zi alerted Luo Hong; Xu Xuechuan and Luo exposed her, and Li Jun discovered he had swallowed a Yellow Springs Pill.
• Long Ruiyun admitted she had poisoned them to make them help her win the trial, believing Long Guang would provide a Bilo Pill and an antidote later.
• Long Ruiyun revealed that she wanted to win to keep her True Dragon bloodline and avenge her murdered parents, and Luo Hong agreed to help her.
• Luo Hong proposed defeating only a few trial teams and taking enough True Dragon Blood to preserve Long Ruiyun's bloodline even if she lost the trial.

Luo Hong and Long Ruiyun persuaded Li Jun and Xu Xuechuan to join forces for the Dragon Blood Trial, then the four were teleported into the Vast Sea Desert. After choosing a route and encountering Geng Kui near a Sealed Land, Luo Hong proposed a surprise attack and claimed he could counter Geng Kui’s ability.

• Long Ruiyun agreed to fight back against trial teams, and Luo Hong convinced Li Jun that Long Guang might not have enough antidotes; Li Jun and Xu Xuechuan joined the group’s plan.
• The four were teleported into the Vast Sea Desert, where Luo Hong steadied himself against the Mysterious Magnetic Force and studied how it affected physical bodies.
• Xu Xuechuan chose to travel east after Luo Hong first favored the west, and the group crossed the desert while fending off ancient beasts.
• Near the Sealed Land, Luo Hong sensed Geng Kui and his companions trying to lure away a Void Refinement Ancient Beast; Li Jun explained Geng Kui’s Yin-Yang Body Refining Gang.
• Luo Hong claimed his supposed Returning Yin Dispelling Yang Technique countered Geng Kui and urged a surprise attack, while Xu Xuechuan concealed the group with an ice-gauze veil.
• Geng Kui and his two companions faced a cold-faced youth’s demand that one of them lure away the Void Refinement Ancient Beast, but none dared object.

Long Minghua used the Bilo Pill to control Geng Kui, Song Huaifeng, and another cultivator while they attempted to seize a Sealed Treasure, but Fairy Xu’s group ambushed them. Luo Hong killed Geng Kui, and Xu Xuechuan arrived after defeating Song Huaifeng.

• Long Minghua showed Geng Kui and his companions the Bilo Pill, then ordered Song Huaifeng to lure away the Void Refinement Ancient Beast.
• An Ice Crystal Barrier trapped the group as Luo Hong, Xu Xuechuan, and their allies launched an ambush; Long Minghua recognized Long Ruiyun’s Myriad Water Divine Art as she attacked him.
• Geng Kui attacked Luo Hong with his Yin-Yang Body Refining Gang and Turbid Fire Pearls, but Luo Hong studied the technique and disrupted Geng Kui’s spiritual sense.
• Luo Hong pierced Geng Kui’s gang qi armor with his Five-Colored Arm, crushed his heart, and captured his Nascent Soul before collecting his items and gaining ten blood marks.
• Xu Xuechuan arrived after killing Song Huaifeng, and Luo Hong told her that he had already destroyed Geng Kui.

Luo Hong’s group defeated Long Minghua’s team, and Long Ruiyun chose to spare her cousin until his attempt to exploit Luo Hong and Li Jun exposed his treachery. Luo Hong killed Long Minghua and extracted his True Dragon Blood for Long Ruiyun, then the group prepared to enter the Sealed Land, unaware that others were watching them.

• Xu Xuechuan and Luo Hong joined Li Jun, and together they killed the hawk-faced man after Xu Xuechuan froze him with Heart Chill Enters Body.
• Long Minghua offered his Dragon Blood Token and pleaded with Long Ruiyun, who relented and agreed to let him leave after he surrendered it.
• Long Minghua tried to win Luo Hong and Li Jun over with a supposed Bilo Pill, then demanded they kill Long Ruiyun and Xu Xuechuan.
• Luo Hong exposed the Bilo Pill as an Illusionary Form Talisman and restrained Long Minghua with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.
• Luo Hong extracted Long Minghua’s True Dragon Blood and gave the blood pearl to Long Ruiyun.
• Xu Xuechuan volunteered to draw away the Void Refinement Ancient Beast while the others prepared to break the Sealed Land’s restriction, unaware that their actions were being watched.

Luo Hong, Long Ruiyun, Xu Xuechuan, and Li Jun gained a Three-Colored Phoenix Talisman and debated how to navigate the Dragon Blood Trial. They discovered Long Guang’s people were searching with the Yellow Springs Mother-Child Bowl, leaving Li Jun to consider leaving the group to seek an antidote.

• Luo Hong’s group defeated Geng Kui’s team, and Luo Hong extracted Long Minghua’s True Dragon Blood for Long Ruiyun while the Long Family watched through the Image-Transmission Restriction.
• Long Lie claimed responsibility for Long Ruiyun’s actions, while the Long Family Ancestor showed interest only in Long Minghua’s True Dragon Bloodline.
• Xu Xuechuan escaped the Overlord Sand Crab after Luo Hong’s group disturbed its nest, and Long Ruiyun revealed that the sealed treasure was a Three-Colored Phoenix Talisman.
• Xu Xuechuan persuaded the group to remain in the desert outskirts and seek opportunities before entering the heart of the desert, despite Li Jun’s objections.
• Luo Hong detected two unfamiliar Spirit Transformation Mid-stage cultivators carrying a black-edged golden bowl, and Long Ruiyun identified it as the Child Bowl of the Yellow Springs Mother-Child Bowl used by Long Guang’s people to locate those poisoned by Yellow Springs Pills.
• Li Jun asked to part ways because he wanted to find Long Guang and obtain the antidote, while Long Ruiyun blamed herself.

Luo Hong’s group infiltrated Long Guang’s operation by posing as Yellow Springs Pill victims, hoping to secure a way to survive the trial. Meanwhile, Long Dong’s allies prepared to eliminate any teams entering the desert’s depths, while Long Guang’s recruiters drew Luo Hong’s group toward him.

• Luo Hong persuaded Li Jun, Xu Xuechuan, and Long Ruiyun to approach Long Guang’s side, and A Zi used her poison-path abilities to imitate the Yellow Springs Pill’s effects on Luo Hong and Xu Xuechuan.
• Ke Huiguang and Madam Tang detected a nearby trial team and lured its four members toward them with a promise of clues about Bilo Pills.
• Xu Xuechuan restrained Long Ruiyun to make their group appear to have captured a Long Family clanswoman, while Luo Hong questioned Ke Huiguang and Madam Tang about Long Guang’s pills.
• Madam Tang showed the group an Image Pearl of Long Guang and confirmed that he possessed many Bilo Pills, so Xu Xuechuan agreed to meet him with Ke Huiguang and Madam Tang.
• Long Dong hosted a banquet for his direct-lineage allies, who pledged their support and True Dragon bloodline to him.
• Jiao San reported that all seventeen trial teams had been arranged to detect and eliminate teams entering the desert’s depths, and Long Dong rebuked him for calling him Young Master before he had won the trial.

Long Dong and Long Guang prepared opposing forces for the Dragon Blood Trial, while Luo Hong brought Long Ruiyun to Long Guang’s gathering and agreed to follow his attack plan. Long Guang then revealed that Qin Zhen’s Shoreline Blood Bone Banner would be central to their assault on the direct lineage.

• Long Dong ordered his men to keep the direct-lineage teams’ killing plan secret and ensure no trial participants escaped.
• Luo Hong arrived at Long Guang’s stronghold with Long Ruiyun and reunited with Bai Shou, who was organizing resistance with Su Jianhe.
• Long Ruiyun confronted Long Guang over his deception, while Xu Xuechuan and Li Jun insisted she remain with their group and agreed to follow Long Guang’s plan.
• Long Guang explained that he would unite the scattered branch-lineage forces and attack the direct lineage when the second Sealed Land appeared.
• Qin Zhen showed Long Guang the damaged Shoreline Blood Bone Banner and claimed it could defeat even the Destined Dragon Son’s treasure.

Luo Hong and his companions planned how to secure Bilo Pills and recruit allies before the coming battle. At Bai Shou’s stone tower, Luo Hong faced a strength test from Su Jianhe, whose sword strike was about to meet Luo Hong’s Five Spirits Spear.

• Long Ruiyun explained that Long Guang was calculating and likely had a powerful hidden ally, while Luo Hong agreed he had sensed someone nearby.
• Xu Xuechuan proposed killing two Long Family members and taking a Bilo Pill, and Luo Hong offered to enlist Bai Shou and other cultivators for their plan.
• Luo Hong arrived at Bai Shou’s stone tower, seized and crushed its massive sword trap, and confronted Su Jianhe, who admitted he had arranged the test.
• Bai Shou wagered that Su Jianhe could not break Luo Hong’s divine ability with one sword strike, but the other cultivators bet against him.
• Luo Hong formed a Five Spirits Spear as Su Jianhe readied his Purple River Sword, and Bai Shou watched anxiously as their clash began.

Luo Hong defeated Su Jianhe with the Great Zhou Heavenly Annihilation Divine Needle, then joined Bai Shou and the others in plotting to seize the Bilo Pill from Long Guang. As Luo Hong’s group agreed on a plan to draw out Long Guang’s hidden protector, Long Zhenliang tried to withdraw from the trial but was attacked anyway.

• Luo Hong overwhelmed Su Jianhe, absorbed the Purple River Sword’s sword qi, and redirected his five-colored needles to spare Bai Shou and the other cultivators while demonstrating the Great Zhou Heavenly Annihilation Divine Needle.
• Su Jianhe admitted defeat, and the brocade-robed man Yang and the others handed Bai Shou their wagers before welcoming Luo Hong into the stone building.
• Luo Hong agreed to help seize the Bilo Pill and warned the group that a dangerous cultivator was secretly protecting Long Guang.
• Luo Hong proposed luring the hidden protector out so several cultivators could restrain him while the rest captured Long Guang, and the group accepted the plan.
• Long Zhenliang, cornered by two direct-lineage clansmen as another squad approached, offered to withdraw and tossed them his Dragon Blood Token, but they kept attacking him.

Luo Hong learned that Long Dong was capturing branch-lineage clansmen and suspected Long Guang planned to make his allies die so he could claim victory under their Spirit Contracts. On the tenth day, Luo Hong’s group reached a second-round Sealed Land, found no direct-lineage teams there, and advanced to take its treasure while Long Guang mistook their move for betrayal.

• Wu Liang struck down Long Zhenliang and had him taken to an oasis formation that healed his injuries, while Long Dong discussed the unexpectedly low number of captives and ordered his teams to tighten the net.
• Luo Hong told Li Jun that six other allies would join their plan, and Xu Xuechuan explained that Long Guang needed Long Family clansmen to wield the sealed treasures.
• Luo Hong realized Long Guang might benefit if all their outside allies died, and Li Jun accepted that Xu Xuechuan and Luo Hong might abandon him if the worst happened.
• On the tenth day, Luo Hong’s group headed toward a second-round Sealed Land and found only its Void Refinement savage beast, with no other auras nearby.
• Luo Hong offered to draw away the beast while Xu Xuechuan, Li Jun, and the others broke the seal and took the treasure; Long Guang sensed their advance and chose not to send pursuers.

Luo Hong lured out a Bone Sand Worm and discovered that its Mysterious Magnetic Force could subtly affect his silver runes and the power of his Law of Strength. After poisoning the beast and driving it underground, he regrouped with Xu Xuechuan, Long Ruiyun, and Li Jun, who had obtained a Five Thunder Seed from the sealed treasure.

• Luo Hong used A Zi's venomous Blood Corpse puppet to lure out the Bone Sand Worm and tested his strength against its Mysterious Magnetic Force.
• Luo Hong detected that the force subtly changed his silver runes and temporarily enhanced his Law of Strength, then grew excited about studying the effect.
• A Zi's venom forced the Bone Sand Worm to sever its poisoned flesh and retreat underground, while lightning from the Spirit World's Heavenly Dao purged the spreading venom.
• Xu Xuechuan, Long Ruiyun, and Li Jun joined Luo Hong after using a Three-Colored Phoenix Talisman to break the Seal Restriction and retrieve a Five Thunder Seed.
• Luo Hong concealed how easily he had countered the Bone Sand Worm, and the four cultivators rested to recover their magic power before the coming battle.

Long Guang ordered Luo Hong's group to scout an adjacent Sealed Land, and Luo Hong set out with Li Jun and Long Ruiyun while Xu Xuechuan stayed behind to guard their escape route. As they approached, Li Jun revealed how to evade the Plague Mad Mouse Swarm, and Luo Hong questioned him about his repeated trips to Dragon Gazing City.

• Long Guang reasoned that the direct lineage likely occupied nearby Sealed Lands and sent Madam Tang to order Luo Hong's group to investigate one.
• Luo Hong agreed to scout, then arranged for Xu Xuechuan to guard a retreat formation while he, Li Jun, and Long Ruiyun continued onward.
• In the Trial Great Hall, Long Zhen observed that Long Ruiyun's team was heading toward a Sealed Land occupied by a direct lineage team, and Long Lie worried for her safety.
• Luo Hong detected a Plague Mad Mouse Swarm near the Sealed Land, and Long Ruiyun hoped its presence meant the direct lineage had not taken the treasure.
• Li Jun explained that Mysterious Yellow Stone could conceal them from the Plague Rats and said he had visited Dragon Gazing City several times to attend its auctions.
• Long Ruiyun offered to arrange a VIP invitation for Luo Hong to attend the next Dragon Gazing City auction after the trial.

Luo Hong and Long Ruiyun entered the Sealed Land with Li Jun, only for Luo Hong to expose Li Jun’s betrayal and face an ambush by the Long Family direct lineage. Luo Hong helped Long Ruiyun escape the encirclement and prepared to fight the remaining cultivators alone.

• Luo Hong, Li Jun, and Long Ruiyun reached the Sealed Land and used the Yellow Dragon Pearl and Eight Gates Spirit Locking Formation to approach its treasure talisman.
• Luo Hong accused Li Jun of laying a trap and revealed that he had joined the Long Family direct lineage before the trial; Li Jun signaled the hidden cultivators.
• Jiao San arrived with the Long Family direct lineage cultivators, ordered them to attack Luo Hong, and left with Li Jun.
• Luo Hong secretly showed Long Ruiyun how to escape, then released Yin Souls that self-destructed and spread Spirit Severing Qi through the chamber.
• Long Ruiyun broke through the weakened cultivators and fled while Luo Hong used Universe Power to prevent them from pursuing her.
• Luo Hong faced the remaining cultivators and laughed as he counted the opponents he could finally attack without endangering Long Ruiyun.

Luo Hong tested the Universe Five Elements Shield against sixteen Deity Transformation Cultivators, whose attacks only strengthened its devastating counterattacks. After Long Ruiyun was gravely wounded by Wu Liang, Luo Hong unleashed the Heavenly Origin Life-Returning Art, leaving the remaining cultivators facing his growing blue-flame pearl.

• Wu Liang and three other Spirit Transformation Late-stage cultivators attacked Luo Hong, but his Universe Five Elements Shield devoured their Five Elements Spiritual Energy and repelled them.
• The sixteen Deity Transformation Cultivators attacked together, but Luo Hong absorbed their spells and released increasingly powerful spiritual waves that badly injured them.
• Luo Hong pretended his shield had failed, prompting the cultivators to prepare a Five Thunder Seed attack, but Long Ruiyun suddenly fired another Five Thunder Seed and the two lightning spheres collided.
• Wu Liang seized the chance to stab Long Ruiyun with the Blood King Halberd and kick her aside, enraging Luo Hong and driving several cultivators to flee.
• Luo Hong enlarged the Universe Pearl, invoked the Heavenly Origin Life-Returning Art, and began expanding into a vast sphere of blue flame that swallowed a Long Family cultivator.

Luo Hong annihilated four trial teams with the Blue Flame Sun and saved Long Ruiyun by helping her refine True Dragon Blood. Long Ruiyun remained in danger unless she obtained more blood, so Luo Hong set out to replace the Long Family's young master.

• Wu Liang tried to escape the collapsing tunnel but was dragged back and killed by the force behind him and a Plague Rat.
• The Trial Great Hall watched the Blue Flame Sun engulf a vast underground area, killing four teams of Long Family descendants and Spirit Transformation reinforcements.
• Luo Hong emerged from the Blue Flame Sun, brought out Long Ruiyun's body, and used True Dragon Blood to revive her.
• Long Ruiyun awoke and confessed her feelings to Luo Hong, who explained that her injuries would be fatal unless she quickly refined more True Dragon Blood.
• Luo Hong sent Long Ruiyun into his Portable Jade Mansion and headed off, deciding to replace the Long Family's young master.

Luo Hong gathered hundreds of blood seals, recruited Xu Xuechuan, and headed toward the battle between Long Guang and Long Dong. Long Dong’s force fell into Long Guang’s ambush, and as both sides fought fiercely, Xu Xuechuan asked Luo Hong which side would win.

• Li Jun reported Long Guang’s situation to Long Dong, who ordered his forces to gather for a decisive battle.
• Luo Hong revealed his overwhelming blood seal aura to Xu Xuechuan, explained that Li Jun had betrayed them and Long Ruiyun was recovering, then persuaded Xu to accompany him.
• Long Dong concluded that Long Guang would return to the original Sealed Land and led his army there, while Long Guang’s group waited in concealment beneath the dunes.
• Long Guang’s formation detected Long Dong’s approaching force, and the ambushers attacked with the Mysterious Magnetic Force and a barrage of spirit treasures and divine abilities.
• Long Dong used a Black Tortoise Seal to shield his force, but the defense began to fade; his cultivators formed a battle formation and suffered more than ten casualties.
• Xu Xuechuan watched the battle from Luo Hong’s concealed position and asked him which side had the greater chance of victory.

Luo Hong watched Long Dong and Long Guang’s forces clash, then protected Xu Xuechuan from the spatial distortions caused by their powerful attacks. After Long Dong gained the upper hand, Long Guang revealed Qin Zhen and the Other Shore White Bone Banner, but a strange growth began draining the cultivators on Long Guang’s side.

• Luo Hong deduced that Long Guang was hiding a trump card connected to the Yellow Springs Pills and chose not to intervene.
• Long Dong summoned five powerful spiritual treasures and used them to gather Heaven and Earth Vital Energy for a devastating attack.
• Long Guang and his allies countered with powerful sealed treasures, and their collision created spatial abnormalities that killed or injured cultivators across the battlefield.
• Luo Hong protected Xu Xuechuan with the Black Wind Banner while Long Dong’s better-organized forces suffered fewer losses than Long Guang’s side.
• Long Dong offered to let Long Guang undergo Self-Destruction for Rebirth, but Long Guang revealed Qin Zhen and ordered him to use the Other Shore White Bone Banner.
• Madam Tang’s corpse sprouted strange black stalks that trapped and drained her Nascent Soul, and the same growth began afflicting the surviving cultivators under Long Guang.

Luo Hong discovered that the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner’s death law could suppress Primordial Spirit Particle motion without weakening the particles, revealing a new Spirit Ascension Method. He rushed toward the battle to obtain the banner, while the cultivators watching the trial grew concerned that Long Dong had not noticed him.

• Black shoots erupted from the wounded Deity Transformation Cultivators, and Su Jianhe urged those who could not resist to send out their Nascent Souls.
• Qin Zhen activated the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner, whose red shield nullified Long Dong’s cultivators’ attacks and whose power gathered into a Blood Bone Skeleton.
• Luo Hong recognized the banner as a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure containing unusual death law, while Long Dong and Long Guang prepared to fight with their treasures.
• As Qin Zhen gathered Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, Luo Hong realized the banner’s law suppressed Primordial Spirit Particle motion and could enable a new Spirit Ascension Method.
• Luo Hong left the Illusion Array and rushed toward the crimson clouds, leaving Xu Xuechuan unsure whether to follow him.
• In the Trial Great Hall, the Beautiful Woman in Brocade warned that Long Dong had not noticed Luo Hong and urged her husband to protect their son.

Long Changheng and Long Lie secretly acted as Long Dong battled Long Guang and Qin Zhen, but Luo Hong suddenly appeared, rescued the two enemies, and attacked Qin Zhen. Long Dong recognized Luo Hong’s Blood Seal aura and demanded to know who he really was.

• Long Changheng sent the Beautiful Woman in Brocade to seek Fourth Uncle-Ancestor’s secret help for Long Dong, while Long Lie discreetly sent a warning to his granddaughter.
• Long Dong’s Blood Sword pierced the Blood Bone Skeleton, draining its power as it replenished itself by consuming Long Dong’s Deity Transformation cultivators.
• Long Guang and Qin Zhen tried to retreat with the direct lineage clansmen, but Long Dong struck before they could escape.
• Luo Hong appeared with a Spatial Spiritual Treasure and moved Long Guang and Qin Zhen out of the Blood Sword’s path.
• Luo Hong ignored Long Guang’s plea, teleported behind Qin Zhen, and struck him with a White Thunder-wrapped fist, revealing his Blood Seal aura to Long Dong.