Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong countered Long Dong’s Blood Crystal Maha Sword by forcing it to devour the Sea of Blood Bead, then endured Long Dong’s desperate spirit treasure explosions. As the disrupted trial tokens failed to end the contest, Luo Hong moved to attack Long Dong after Long Ruiyun warned him of a hidden hand.

• Luo Hong took the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner and told Long Dong he was supporting Long Ruiyun in the trial.
• Long Dong secretly fed his True Dragon Blood into the Blood Crystal Maha Sword while A Zi killed Long Guang and turned toward the Long Family branch members.
• Luo Hong used the Sea of Blood Bead to make the Blood Crystal Maha Sword devour conflicting essence blood, weakening its power.
• Long Dong self-destructed three spirit treasures, while Luo Hong’s Universe Five Elements Shield absorbed their power and released a Spiritual Tide that prevented Long Dong from activating his Dragon Blood Tokens.
• Long Ruiyun warned Luo Hong to beware a hidden hand, and Luo Hong launched the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand at Long Dong.

Luo Hong used Death Spiritual Energy and the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner to contaminate Long Dong’s True Spirit Soul after Long Dong activated it to survive the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand. As Long Dong’s golden dragon darkened, Luo Hong retreated, anticipating that Long Dong would have to disperse his gathered power to avoid death.

• Long Dong received help from his Fourth Uncle-Ancestor and activated his True Spirit Soul, transforming into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon that gathered Heaven and Earth Vital Energy.
• Luo Hong realized he could use Yin Soul ghosts and the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner to spread Death Spiritual Energy and disrupt the True Spirit Soul.
• Luo Hong exploded the Yin Soul ghosts and gathered the resulting energy around the dragon, contaminating Long Dong as the dragon continued to grow.
• Spectators in the Trial Great Hall watched in silence, while Long Changheng worried that Luo Hong’s method could threaten the True Spirit Families; the Long Family Ancestor judged that Luo Hong’s technique could not be replicated.
• As the golden dragon dimmed under the Law of Death, Luo Hong retreated, knowing Long Dong would have to disperse his immense spiritual power to survive.

Luo Hong escaped the Black Sandstorm with A Zi and the captured Long Family members, while Xu Xuechuan survived and confronted the defeated Long Dong. After Long Dong surrendered his Dragon Blood Tokens and fled, Xu gave them to Luo Hong, who prepared to extract dragon blood for Long Ruiyun.

• A Zi gave Luo Hong the brocade pouch containing the captured Long Family members, and they fled as the True Dragon Soul became black and unleashed a deadly Black Sandstorm.
• Xu Xuechuan escaped the storm but later found Long Dong gravely injured and secretly preparing to activate twenty-six Dragon Blood Tokens.
• Xu Xuechuan threatened Long Dong and demanded the tokens; after his Fourth Uncle-Ancestor urged him to give up, Long Dong dropped them and fled toward the oasis.
• Luo Hong arrived with over a thousand Blood Seals, met Xu Xuechuan, and received the twenty-six Dragon Blood Tokens.
• Luo Hong chose not to pursue Long Dong and asked Xu Xuechuan to stand guard while he extracted dragon blood to help Long Ruiyun recover.

After the Dragon Blood Trial, Luo Hong returned to Dragon Gazing City with Long Ruiyun and Xu Xuechuan, where the Long Family inspected the survivors and questioned him about the method that broke the True Dragon Soul. Luo Hong explained that the method relied on Spirit Severing Qi from Rahu in his home realm, then was escorted to the Hidden Dragon Pavilion to exchange his Blood Seals.

• Luo Hong extracted True Dragon Blood from twenty Long Family members, healed Long Ruiyun, and returned to the Trial Great Hall with her and Xu Xuechuan.
• The surviving trial participants gathered in the hall, where fewer than fifty people remained from the nearly two hundred who had departed.
• The Long Family Ancestor inspected everyone with the Universe Reflecting Dragon Mirror, but it detected no True Dragon Blood hidden on Luo Hong.
• Long Lie pressed Luo Hong to explain how he broke the True Dragon Soul, and Luo Hong claimed the method used Spirit Severing Qi found inside Rahu in his home realm.
• Long Changheng sent Luo Hong and the other guests to the Hidden Dragon Pavilion, where they were invited to exchange their Blood Seals for resources.

Luo Hong exchanged for treasures, aided poisoned allies, declined Long Changheng’s offer to become a guest elder, and recovered his Sea of Blood Bead. As Long Ruiyun faced fear and rumors after becoming the Long Family young master, Luo Hong studied the Spirit-Reversing Pill and considered how it could raise primordial spirit cultivation.

• Luo Hong exchanged for spiritual treasures and materials, gave the Heavenly Brocade Ball to Xu Xuechuan, and gave Su Jianhe a bottle of Bilo Pills to cure the poison afflicting him and his companions.
• Long Changheng’s incarnation offered Luo Hong the position of guest elder in Dragon Gazing City, but Luo Hong declined and said he planned to return to Sky Abyss City.
• Long Changheng returned Luo Hong’s Sea of Blood Bead, and Luo Hong accepted it with delight.
• Long Ruiyun arrived at the banquet as the Long Family young master and overheard relatives spreading rumors that she had ruthlessly ordered the slaughter of Clanmates during the trial.
• Luo Hong studied the Spirit-Reversing Pill and reasoned that it might reveal a way to improve his primordial spirit by refining Outer Realm Gray Mist.

Luo Hong developed a three-spirit framework to explain how the Spirit-Reversing Pill consumed a cultivator’s essence, then realized the Spirit Ascension Method might help him obtain more Essence Spirit Particles. He accepted Long Ruiyun’s gifts and departed for Sky Abyss City, leaving her with a new target to strengthen her authority.

• Luo Hong rejected the idea of taking a Spirit-Reversing Pill directly and proposed that Nascent Souls contained Mana, Blood, and Essence Spirit Particles, with breakthroughs as the only known way to gain Essence Spirit Particles.
• Luo Hong concluded that an Orthodox Xuan Sect External Incarnation might provide more Essence Spirit Particles, but only if he could greatly reduce the cost of cultivating one.
• Long Ruiyun visited Luo Hong as the new young mistress of the Long Family and offered him access to the Ancestral Dragon Pool and a gourd of Dust-Extinguishing Pills.
• Luo Hong accepted the pills but told Long Ruiyun he had to return to Sky Abyss City, warning her to leave within two hundred years and avoid cultivators surnamed Han.
• Long Ruiyun arranged a warship to take Luo Hong toward Sky Abyss City, and he returned briefly to ask her to target Senior Kong of the True Dragon Temple.
• Long Ruiyun accepted Luo Hong’s request and resolved to use Senior Kong as the first target in a move to establish her authority.

After returning to Sky Abyss City, Luo Hong planned how to combine the laws of life and death for Spirit Ascension and began preparing for secluded cultivation. Sixty years later, Long Ruiyun arrived at his cave abode and encountered an unfamiliar woman there.

• Luo Hong returned to his cave abode, found Little Gold awake, and checked on the recovering Glazed Golden Light Hammer.
• Luo Hong weighed two ways to refine Rahu Mist into the Shoreline Blood Bone Banner and chose to pursue the more controllable plan using the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and blood, yin, and corpse spiritual materials.
• Luo Hong decided to build an Indestructible Great Formation from Indestructible Runes to develop the Life Law and concluded that he would need to visit the Flying Spirit Race for more death-attributed materials.
• After sixty years, Long Ruiyun arrived at Luo Hong's cave abode with two Spirit Transformation Late-stage attendants, hoping to persuade him to move near her.
• Long Ruiyun noticed a bewitching woman in a black gauze dress near the cave abode, and her attendant offered to investigate.

Long Ruiyun met Xiao Hong while visiting Luo Hong and used her family’s resources to secure Longevity Crystal for him. When Luo Hong began cultivating a powerful divine ability, nearby cultivators fled and revealed their fear of his reputation and the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.

• Long Ruiyun intimidated her attendant, then approached Xiao Hong, who explained that Luo Hong was cultivating in seclusion and had requested Longevity Crystal.
• Xiao Hong said she had found twelve pairs of Longevity Crystal, and Long Ruiyun ordered Long Qiuwen to send eighteen pairs, prompting Xiao Hong to challenge her.
• Xiao Hong recognized Long Ruiyun as the Blood Dragon Girl and fled when the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy began to tremble.
• Long Ruiyun retreated in her treasure carriage as Luo Hong’s cultivation gathered a vast mass of black mist into a giant Ghost Hand.
• Nearby Deity Transformation cultivators complained about Luo Hong’s disruptive cultivation and feared his reputation from the Dragon Blood Trial.
• Daoist Wang identified the Ghost Hand as the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, ranked four thousand six hundred and twelfth on the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking.

Luo Hong used the Indestructible White Lotus Great Formation to raise a blue sandstone to Spiritual Grade 26, while the resulting spiritual tides battered nearby cultivators’ formations. After Xiao Hong and Long Ruiyun arrived to visit him, Luo Hong began preparing to refine the stone, the Grand Unity Profound Magnet, to aid his cultivation.

• Luo Hong’s formation produced repeated black-and-white spiritual tides as he advanced the blue sandstone, forcing nearby Deity Transformation Cultivators to reinforce their formations and driving Long Ruiyun and her companions farther away.
• The fourth spiritual tide shattered Old Monster Hong’s Mountain Protecting Great Formation and destroyed his medicine garden, while Daoist Wang thanked the aristocratic cultivator for helping protect his own cave abode.
• Xiao Hong arrived to see Luo Hong, and Long Ruiyun followed, entering the formation alone after instructing Long Qiuwen and her companion to wait for the Longevity Crystal.
• A Zi escorted Xiao Hong and Long Ruiyun toward the reception hall, while Xiao Hong sensed that the golden condor perched on A Zi’s head suppressed her bloodline.
• Luo Hong remained in his quiet room with the newly advanced Grand Unity Profound Magnet and told Little Gold that he would refine the stone to help him cultivate a new technique.

During his seclusion, Luo Hong created the Great Five Elements Dao Seeking Art and refined a piece of Grand Unity Profound Magnet to advance his cultivation. He met with Xiao Hong and Long Ruiyun to exchange spirit materials, then decided to enter seclusion again despite Long Ruiyun’s invitation to seek opportunities.

• Luo Hong developed the Great Five Elements Dao Seeking Art, which linked his mana and physical cultivation with the Universe Pearl while avoiding the dangers of an imbalanced Yin-Yang Divine Body.
• Luo Hong refined the Grand Unity Profound Magnet, finding its powerful Mysterious Magnetic Force useful for his physical cultivation and study of the Law of Strength.
• Luo Hong arrived at the reception hall and found A Zi taking food from Long Ruiyun, then promised to arrange cultivation for A Zi.
• Xiao Hong delivered twelve pairs of Longevity Crystals, and Luo Hong exchanged an extra piece of Golden Crow Divine Iron for them.
• Long Ruiyun offered to trade more Longevity Crystals with Luo Hong, while Xiao Hong worried that the Long Family might interfere with her assignment to keep him in Sky Abyss City.
• Luo Hong declined Long Ruiyun’s invitation to seek opportunities and said he planned to enter seclusion, while Xiao Hong reminded him to stay nearby until her Black Flame Pill was ready.

Luo Hong completed his cultivation-art transition and spent thirty years developing his power and preparing ghostly incarnations. When Xuan Kongzi and Miao Hu arrived to invite him on a treasure hunt in the Wilds, he saw their offer as a convenient reason to leave Sky Abyss City.

• Luo Hong suspected Xiao Hong was helping keep him in Sky Abyss City because the Black Wind Demon Race was watching him, so he asked Ying Ming to refine his grand formation into a portable Formation Plate.
• Luo Hong cultivated the Great Five Elements Dao Seeking Art in just over a month, then spent thirty years simultaneously cultivating his magic power, body, and Natal Treasure.
• Xuan Kongzi and Miao Hu arrived at Cui Long Mountain and discussed recruiting Luo Hong for a journey into the Wilds.
• Luo Hong sent twelve ghostly External Incarnations beyond the Outer Realm with Qing Feng to hunt Outer Realm Sky Demons and grow stronger.
• Luo Hong received Xuan Kongzi's message inviting him to search the Wilds for treasure and decided the invitation gave him a convenient reason to leave.

Luo Hong agreed to join Xuan Kongzi and Miao Hu’s expedition into the Wilds to seek treasures marked on an Ancient Map, including a Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass guarded by a Void Refinement-level Sky-Piercing Python. At the Great Wilderness Hall, the group’s missing member failed to appear, and Ye Ying arrived in his place, prompting Luo Hong to recognize her and wonder why she had involved herself.

• Luo Hong learned that Xuan Kongzi and Miao Hu wanted his help retrieving treasures from an Ancient Map, and he accepted their offer to split the spoils fifty-fifty.
• Xuan Kongzi said the expedition would depart in seven days and promised to introduce Luo Hong to their other companions, including Fellow Daoist Rong.
• At the Great Wilderness Hall, Yin Kuang questioned whether Luo Hong deserved half the benefits, while Chi Yangzi advised him to wait and judge Luo Hong’s strength for himself.
• Luo Hong arrived and met Chi Yangzi and Yin Kuang, but Xuan Kongzi could not find the expected Fellow Daoist Rong despite sensing that he was inside the hall.
• Ye Ying appeared with Rong’s message explaining that he could not attend, and Luo Hong recognized her as the Ye Family Young Master and wondered whether she had come for him or the Ancient Map’s secret.

Ye Ying joined Miao Hu’s group as they entered the Wilds, where she secretly plotted with Sister Su to investigate Luo Hong and his Yin Yang Transformation Ultimate Art. Meanwhile, Luo Hong began refining the True Dragon Blood in his Heavenly Fiend Evil Dragon Armor and discovered that it granted him Heavenly Manifestation.

• Xuan Kongzi presented Rong’s jade slip explaining that Rong had returned to his clan, and Miao Hu’s group accepted Ye Ying in his place after Luo Hong raised no objection.
• Miao Hu had the group sign a Spirit Contract, and the six cultivators departed Sky Abyss City aboard Xuan Kongzi’s concealed Cloud Concealment Boat for the Wilds.
• Ye Ying secretly contacted Sister Su through an Azure Round Mirror and discussed testing Luo Hong’s abilities while gathering information about his Yin Yang Transformation Ultimate Art.
• After leaving Sky Abyss City, Luo Hong summoned Silver Fairy, who taught him the secret art to refine the True Dragon Blood in his Heavenly Fiend Evil Dragon Armor.
• Luo Hong activated the armor’s Heavenly Manifestation, tested its increased magic power output, and found that he could quickly grasp how to transform between sizes.

Luo Hong used the Heavenly Fiend Evil Dragon Armor and Golden Profound Dragon Body Fluid to begin refining Profound Dragon Golden Saliva, while a thousand-point bounty for the armor stirred a deadly struggle in Heavenly Book City. Three months later, Golden Drum Toads discovered Luo Hong’s group in the Wilds, and he revealed that he had already acted by summoning a heaven-covering Ghost Hand.

• Silver Fairy taught Luo Hong how to combine the armor’s dragon qi with Golden Profound Dragon Body Fluid to refine Profound Dragon Golden Saliva.
• Mo Li showed Ya Hu the Guangyuan Heavenly Book’s thousand-point bounty to investigate the Heavenly Fiend Evil Dragon Armor, and Spirit Transformation cultivators learned they could accept the mission.
• Ya Hu, Barbarian Ghost, and other Void Refinement cultivators slaughtered Spirit Transformation cultivators competing for the bounty.
• Three months later, Golden Drum Toads discovered Luo Hong’s Cloud Concealment Boat, forcing his group to prepare for battle.
• Luo Hong’s companions debated fighting or fleeing, but Luo Hong revealed a vast Ghost Hand pressing down over the approaching beasts.

Luo Hong revealed the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand’s Netherworld in the Palm and destroyed a Golden Drum Toad group, while Ye Ying’s attempt to test his cultivation went nowhere. As the expedition continued, Ye Ying learned more about the Ancient Map’s danger, and Luo Hong planned to strengthen his treasure and eventually reach Thunderclap Continent.

• Luo Hong used the Netherworld in the Palm to drain the Golden Drum Toads of their blood qi, corpse qi, and primordial spirits, killing the group.
• Miao Hu praised Luo Hong’s treasure, and the group resumed traveling aboard Xuan Kongzi’s Cloud Concealment Boat.
• Ye Ying told Beauty surnamed Su that she had failed to make Luo Hong reveal his cultivation method, and Su warned her against following the Ancient Map too far after recounting how it had led her friends to disappear.
• Luo Hong used soul searching to learn that someone had deliberately lured the Golden Drum Toads, then suspected Ye Ying and inferred that she had Heavenly Phoenix True Blood.
• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy he planned to gather Yin Souls from Styx Land to cultivate the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and hoped to use the Mayfly Race’s Continental Teleportation Array to reach Thunderclap Continent.
• Silver Fairy warned Luo Hong about the Mayfly Race, and he set aside the problem to continue cultivating.

Ya Hu and the other foreign-race Void Refinement cultivators learned that the Heavenly Book mission led to Mizong Forest and set out to claim its thousand bounties. Unaware of the threat gathering behind them, Luo Hong and his companions fought through a flock of ancient birds and learned they were about seven days from the Sky-Piercing Python.

• The Guangyuan Heavenly Book revealed that the mission target was heading for Mizong Forest, so Ya Hu, Meng Chen, Purple Cloud, and the other cultivators prepared to pursue it.
• A wounded silver-winged man named Yu refused Ya Hu’s offer to cooperate and flew off, then watched from a protected building as the others departed and said he would claim the thousand bounties while recovering.
• Luo Hong and his companions were surrounded by hundreds of ancient birds whose Blood Lightning and gray winds overwhelmed the Cloud Concealment Boat’s concealment.
• Xuan Kongzi, Chi Yangzi, Yin Kuang, Miao Hu, and Ye Ying used their abilities to kill the birds while Luo Hong destroyed any that approached him.
• Afterward, Miao Hu estimated they would reach the Sky-Piercing Python within seven days, and Luo Hong said he needed time to prepare for the fight.

Luo Hong examined the complete Ancient Map, which pointed toward a dangerous forest filled with rare treasures, and continued with Miao Hu’s group. Near the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass, he drew off the Sky-Piercing Python and revealed that he could control a powerful Void Refinement demon creature.

• Miao Hu unfolded the complete Ancient Map, and Luo Hong saw that its many treasure markers lay within a miasma-filled forest where he suspected True Lord Wentian had disappeared.
• Luo Hong and the others endured insect swarms, freezing rain, and repeated ancient-beast attacks before reaching the Sky-Piercing Python’s territory.
• Luo Hong arranged to lure away the Sky-Piercing Python while Miao Hu and the others harvested the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass, with Ye Ying accompanying him.
• The Sky-Piercing Python injured Luo Hong only slightly, then healed quickly and used a spatial ability to hinder him.
• Luo Hong summoned the Jade Bone Human Demon as a Blood Bone Skeleton and ordered it to fight the Sky-Piercing Python, shocking Ye Ying and the others with his control over a Void Refinement creature.

Luo Hong ambushed and defeated the Sky-Piercing Python, then let A Zi poison it while he kept the Jade Bone Human Demon from devouring it. He joined Miao Hu and the others at the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass and learned that they were carefully harvesting it to preserve a rare stable Spirit Aperture.

• Miao Hu and Chi Yangzi led the others toward the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass while Luo Hong watched the Jade Bone Human Demon fight the Sky-Piercing Python.
• The Sky-Piercing Python wounded the Jade Bone Human Demon, but Luo Hong pierced one of its eyes with the Great Zhou Heavenly Annihilation Divine Needle and evaded its pursuit.
• Luo Hong used the Soul Annihilation Curse to break free of the Python’s spatial restraint, then detonated the needle and blasted apart half its head.
• Luo Hong sent A Zi to poison the fleeing Python and summoned the Jade Bone Human Demon back into the Gate of Grotto-heaven.
• A Zi began devouring the dying Python while Luo Hong allowed her to keep its teeth.
• Luo Hong questioned why Miao Hu was harvesting the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass so carefully, and Yin Kuang explained that it grew at the center of a rare stable Spirit Aperture.

Luo Hong and his companions discovered a stable Spiritual Aperture, where Miao Hu harvested a Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass, and Ye Ying privately revealed why she had sought him out. After accepting the Yin Yang Transformation Ultimate Art from Luo Hong, Ye Ying warned him against entering the forest, but their return to the group ended with Luo Hong suddenly putting an arm around her waist.

• Miao Hu harvested the Ten Thousand Year Yin Void Grass and confirmed that the stable Spiritual Aperture remained intact.
• Miao Hu asked the group to sign a confidentiality Spirit Contract, and she credited Luo Hong with helping her discover the Spiritual Aperture.
• Ye Ying took Luo Hong aside and explained that her family had sent her to obtain the Yin Yang Transformation Ultimate Art.
• Luo Hong gave Ye Ying the cultivation art, and she warned him that her keen Spiritual Sense had sensed danger near the forest.
• When Ye Ying began to tell Miao Hu she might leave, Luo Hong reached over and wrapped an arm around her slender waist.

Luo Hong took Ye Ying hostage and forced her to accompany his group into the dangerous strange forest, while Su Wanrong discovered the abduction and tried to seek help. She was intercepted by Ya Hu, who questioned her about the Deity Transformation cultivators ahead as the alien races closed in on Luo Hong's group.

• Luo Hong pressed Great Zhou Heavenly Annihilation Divine Needles against Ye Ying's waist, revealed that he knew her identity, and forced her to continue with the group into the strange forest.
• Luo Hong explained that he wanted Ye Ying nearby so the Ye Family could send rescuers if the group became trapped, and Miao Hu then led the six travelers deeper into the forest.
• Su Wanrong used the Phoenix Pattern Treasure Mirror to reconstruct the group's movements and realized that Luo Hong had taken Ye Ying hostage.
• Su Wanrong sensed Void Refinement cultivators from the Yaksha, Shadow, and Flying Spirit Races heading toward the forest, then hid when Ya Hu arrived.
• Ya Hu found Su Wanrong and asked whether she had Deity Transformation companions; she told him that several cultivators had entered the strange forest ahead.