Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong, disguised as Xie Yuan, settled into Xie Yuan’s White Tower on Yinghua Island and prepared for the other Five-Light Holy Sons to target him. Zhongli Yue arrived with Yan Ling and Protector Jiang to accuse him of harming maidservants and challenge him, while Luo Hong faced them without backing down.

• Luo Hong used Xie Yuan’s Restriction Token and memories to enter the White Tower, replace its restrictions, and order the missing investigators to return.
• Luo Hong accepted the Zhongli Sisters as maidservants but assigned them household duties instead of treating them as Xie Yuan had intended.
• Suspecting that the other Holy Sons were arranging charges against him, Luo Hong stopped cultivating and worked on a technique while waiting for them to act.
• Zhongli Yue, Yan Ling, and Protector Jiang arrived at Yinghua Island, and Zhongli Yue accused Xie Yuan of harming the Zhongli Sisters and demanded an investigation.
• Luo Hong came out to meet them, recognized their plan to combine charges against him, and asked what they wanted after listing the previous accusations and demands.

Luo Hong used his strength and the clan’s rules to defeat Zhongli Yue’s attempt to disqualify Xie Yuan from the Heaven Spirit Grand Gathering. After Zhongli Yue and Yan Ling withdrew, Zhongli Yue resolved to seek Senior Brother Kong’s help.

• Luo Hong accused Zhongli Yue of fearing that Xie Yuan would take his place at Jiu Yue Palace, while Yan Ling criticized Xie Yuan’s cultivation and threatened him.
• Luo Hong summoned the Zhongli Sisters, whose vigorous condition and account of doing tower chores undermined Zhongli Yue’s accusation that Xie Yuan had harvested and supplemented from them.
• Luo Hong used Universe Power to force Zhongli Yue to kneel and halted Yan Ling when she tried to intervene; Elder Jiang then ordered him to release Zhongli Yue.
• Zhongli Yue abandoned his urge to attack Luo Hong and left with Yan Ling and Elder Jiang, while Luo Hong gave the Zhongli Sisters jade slips on cultivating herbs and managing spirit beasts.
• After returning to the Twin Dragon Mountain Range, Zhongli Yue told Yan Ling he would seek justice from Senior Brother Kong and asked her to accompany him.

Zhongli Yue and Yan Ling sought Kong Daorong’s help after Xie Yuan defeated Yan Ling, while Luo Hong secretly followed them to Five-Color Valley. There, Luo Hong exposed Kong Daorong’s role in the scheme and prepared to confront him.

• Zhongli Yue persuaded Yan Ling to visit Kong Daorong and explain that she could no longer compete with Xie Yuan for a place at Jiu Yue Palace.
• Cao Shu brought Ao Lü and Ao Qing into Five-Color Valley to collect Five Yin Stone, but the formation locked down after someone disturbed the valley’s outer defenses.
• Zhongli Yue and Yan Ling arrived to tell Kong Daorong that Zhongli Yue had failed him, while Ao Lü explained the Flying Spirit Grand Gathering and its limited places in the Nine Yue Inner Palace.
• Luo Hong emerged from concealment and accused Kong Daorong of arranging Zhongli Yue’s framing of Xie Yuan, demanding that Kong apologize.
• Yan Ling revealed that Luo Hong expected Kong to kneel, and Luo Hong warned Kong that he would make him comply.

Luo Hong, disguised as Xie Yuan, fought Kong Daorong in the Five-Light Clan’s Crystal Great Hall, revealing his mastery of the clan’s techniques and overwhelming swordsmanship. As the battle continued, he transformed into a Five-Colored Peacock and prepared to unleash a sword formation, while the onlookers realized his flying swords could cut through space.

• Luo Hong used the Universe Pearl’s power against Kong Daorong, who resisted with Five Elements Divine Thunder.
• Kong Daorong attacked with lightning threads, and Luo Hong countered with blue Fire Crows before copying the technique as Fire-to-Thread Transformation.
• Kong Daorong transformed into a Five-Colored Peacock and used Five-Colored Divine Light and thunderbolts, but Luo Hong combined fire threads into a talisman and shattered his attack.
• Cao Shu warned them to stop, but Kong Daorong continued with the Winged Sword Technique, and Luo Hong’s sharper swords overwhelmed his sword tide.
• Ao Lü recognized that Luo Hong’s swords left traces through space, while the hidden Divine Edge Shadowless Sword and Luo Hong’s sword art enabled their power.
• Luo Hong transformed into a Five-Colored Peacock and prepared to end the fight with the sword formation he had long sought to use.

Luo Hong defeated Kong Daorong, warned the others not to disturb his cultivation, and unexpectedly attracted Ao Qing’s proposal and interest in his Nine Li Fierce Wind. While negotiating a trade, he discovered the Five Yin Stone Ao Qing offered was an early-stage Yin Jellyworm egg that could help the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand grow into a top-grade spiritual treasure.

• Luo Hong used a sword formation to break Kong Daorong’s shield and injure him, then told Cao Shu he had spared Kong’s life and warned Zhongli Yue not to provoke him again.
• Ao Qing proposed having a child with Luo Hong, then asked to trade for his Nine Li Fierce Wind; Luo Hong agreed to discuss a bargain with Ao Lü and Ao Qing.
• Ao Lü offered Five Yin Stone in exchange, and Ao Qing retrieved a piece from beneath Five-Color Valley while Cao Shu accompanied her.
• Luo Hong examined the Five Yin Stone and learned from Silver Fairy that it was an early-stage Yin Jellyworm egg.
• Silver Fairy explained that cultivated Yin Jellyworms could regulate yin, yang, and the Five Elements in a grotto-heaven treasure, giving Luo Hong a way to strengthen the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.

Luo Hong traded a bottle of Nine Li Fierce Wind for thirty-six Five Yin Stones and secured the chance to make further trades with the Nine Yue Clan. After handling a visit from a Five-Light Clan elder, he began researching the Green Luo Fruit with the help of his spatial-power-eating silver beetles.

• Luo Hong confirmed with Silver Fairy that Yin Jellyworms could safely modify the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, then exchanged his Nine Li Fierce Wind for Ao Lü's thirty-six Five Yin Stones and the right to seek future trades.
• Ao Lü and Cao Shu discussed Xie Yuan's hidden strength after Luo Hong left, while Ao Qing teased her brother about her Dao companion.
• Seven days later, Luo Hong saw off Li Zhuolin, a Five-Light Clan Integration Stage elder who had questioned him about Xie Yuan's sudden rise.
• Luo Hong recalled that his silver beetles had adapted to consume different kinds of Spiritual Power and realized their ability could help him study the Green Luo Fruit.
• Luo Hong summoned the silver beetles and prepared to test them against the Green Luo Fruit.

After twenty years in seclusion, Luo Hong traveled to Kou Ling Peak as Xie Yuan to attend the Flying Spirit Grand Gathering and saw the Holy Sons of several clans reveal their powers. He reunited with the Five-Light Clan’s Holy Sons and learned that Bai Hao had secretly contacted someone on the Sky Peng Clan Sacred Lord’s behalf.

• Zhongli Shuxiu told Zhongli Huaxiu that Luo Hong was leaving for the Flying Spirit Grand Gathering, and the sisters went to replace Lord A Zi’s body-tempering spiritual liquid.
• Luo Hong arrived at Kou Ling Peak as Xie Yuan and watched Pan defeat the Yellow Wind Clan Holy Son with Heavenly Bell Subduing Demons.
• Pan challenged Xie Yuan, but Bai Hao intervened and then introduced himself as the Sky Peng Clan’s Holy Son.
• Yan Ling asked Xie Yuan to spare Kong Daorong, and Xie Yuan said he had already forgiven him.
• Luo Hong met the other Five-Light Holy Sons, including Cao Shu, Cao Yi, Kong Daorong, and Yan Ling, at their shared pavilion.
• Bai Hao reported to the Sky Peng Clan Sacred Lord that he had made contact with the person they sought and asked what to do next.

Bai Hao planned for the Sky Peng Holy Sons to enter the Nine Yue Sacred Domain early, while Luo Hong chose to endure the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor’s lecture. As the lecture emptied the hall, Luo Hong remained immersed in it, and Cao Shu was teleported away after seeing his profound comprehension.

• Bai Hao told Lei Jiao and Yan Mingde to use the Chaos Spirit Arts to enter the Nine Yue Sacred Domain as soon as the lecture began.
• The Nine Yue Spirit Emperor arrived at Jiu Yue Palace, summoned the branch Sacred Lords to Black Bone Peak, and began his lecture.
• Many Holy Sons triggered the hall’s restriction and were sent to the Nine Yue Sacred Domain, but Luo Hong stayed to comprehend the lecture.
• Luo Hong recognized that the scripture resonated with his baleful qi and continued listening after consuming Enlightenment Tea.
• Cao Shu saw the ink-like baleful qi surging around Luo Hong, lost control of her Magic Power, and sank into the restriction.

Luo Hong comprehended the Fiend Energy Law during the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor’s lecture, provoking the Spirit Emperor when he challenged his warning to focus on one path. The Spirit Emperor expelled Luo Hong and Ao Lv’s group into the Sacred Domain, where Ao Lv stopped two companions from taking Black Soul Lotuses and asked them to consider why they had been sent there.

• Luo Hong used his understanding of the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor’s path to comprehend the Fiend Energy Law, and a sacred-bird phenomenon formed around him during the lecture.
• Ao Lv awakened and saw the extraordinary phenomenon around “Xie Yuan,” then stayed to watch as it changed and grew more powerful.
• The Nine Yue Spirit Emperor ended the lecture and asked what fiend energy was; Luo Hong answered with his views on the Great Dao and reincarnation, then challenged the Spirit Emperor’s approach to tribulations.
• The Nine Yue Spirit Emperor angrily sent Luo Hong and Ao Lv’s group to the Sacred Domain, then ordered the Sacred Lords to resume listening.
• At Bilin Pond, Ao Lv stopped two companions from taking the Black Soul Lotuses and asked why they had come to the Sacred Domain.

After the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor’s attack injured Luo Hong’s primordial spirit, Fei Yu and Zhu Junyan helped Ao Lü treat him, and Luo Hong explained why the Emperor had abandoned his path to greater power for the Flying Spirit Race’s sake. Recovered and strengthened, Luo Hong followed Silver Fairy to find Luosheng Wood, then faced the barrier protecting it and prepared to test his Primordial Sword Formation.

• Fei Yu and Zhu Junyan gathered three ten-thousand-year Black Soul Lotuses and helped Ao Lü give the medicinal liquid to Luo Hong, healing his Nascent Soul.
• Luo Hong explained that the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor had risked his future cultivation by balancing yin and yang fiend energy instead of undergoing the Extreme Yin Fiend Tribulation, because he bore responsibility for the Flying Spirit Race.
• Moved by Luo Hong’s explanation, Fei Yu and Zhu Junyan left to gather herbs, and Luo Hong and Ao Lü also separated to explore the sacred domain.
• Luo Hong discovered that his primordial spirit had advanced and could scan a radius of sixty thousand kilometers, then asked Silver Fairy to identify the spiritual herbs.
• Silver Fairy directed Luo Hong to Luosheng Wood, which could store enough spiritual qi for his planned spirit treasure, but a protective barrier blocked his approach.
• Luo Hong’s Five Elements Divine Thunder failed to damage the barrier, so he transformed into a Five-Colored Peacock and sent hundreds of Five-Colored Light Swords toward it.

Luo Hong used the Primordial Sword Formation to break the restrictions protecting the Luosheng Wood and took a section before fleeing the Sacred Domain. After returning to Kou Ling Peak, he received invitations from the Chi Rong, Nine Yue, and Nanlong clans, leaving Kong Daorong alarmed by his growing connections.

• Luo Hong unleashed the Primordial Sword Formation, broke through the green barrier and emerald crystal roots, and cut off a section of Luosheng Wood.
• Nine Yue Spirit Emperor sensed Luo Hong's actions and complained that he had taken too much, though he accepted the loss because of Luo Hong's talent.
• Five days later, Jiu Yue Palace expelled the Sacred Lords and vanished, and Luo Hong spent two days alone before deciding to go out.
• Kong Daorong mocked Luo Hong for lacking connections, while Cao Shu avoided befriending him after Five-Light Holy Lord's warning.
• Zheng Yuan invited Luo Hong to Zhu's small trade fair on behalf of the Chi Rong Clan, then Holy Sons of the Nine Yue and Nanlong clans arrived with similar invitations.
• Kong Daorong realized Luo Hong had the attention of the three leading Flying Spirit branches and feared provoking him.

Luo Hong attended a combined gathering hosted by the upper three clans’ Holy Sons, who publicly honored him and helped establish his standing among the Flying Spirit Race’s elite. He traded for spirit materials and learned that Zhu Junyan knew of a Spirit Island tied to the Sky Peng Clan and the remains of the Nine-Headed Fierce Bird.

• Zheng Yuan intercepted a Sky Peng Clan jade invitation intended for Xie Yuan, while the three Holy Sons combined their gatherings and moved them to the Elegant Bamboo Hall.
• Luo Hong arrived at the hall, where Fei Yu explained the timing of the gathering and offered him Cold Essence Clan servants, which Luo Hong declined.
• Ao Lü and Zhu Junyan greeted Luo Hong with unusual respect, prompting the other Flying Spirit Holy Sons to reconsider his importance.
• Ao Lü, Zhu Junyan, and Fei Yu presented ten-thousand-year Spiritual Herbs to highlight Luo Hong’s connection to their harvest, and Luo Hong added herbs of his own before trading with the attendees.
• Luo Hong asked for Golden Marrow Crystal Worms and Golden Mother Coral Sand for Old Demon Han, and Zhu Junyan offered to obtain them from a Spirit Island where the Nine-Headed Fierce Bird’s remains lay.

Luo Hong impressed the Holy Sons with his control of Yang Fiend, then learned that the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor had arranged his marriage to Ao Qing. After the gathering, Bai Hao stopped him and asked for help, but Luo Hong remained wary and refused.

• Zhu Junyan secretly gave Luo Hong the location of a spirit island forbidden by the Nine Yue Clan, after Luo Hong promised not to violate its restrictions.
• At Ao Lü's prompting, Luo Hong demonstrated his powerful fiend energy and showed that he could disrupt the Yin Fiend within other cultivators.
• The Nine Yue Holy Lord confronted Luo Hong over his actions at the sermon, then revealed that the Nine Yue Spirit Emperor had decreed Luo Hong's marriage to Ao Qing and gave the Holy Sons Jade Slips for the Earth Abyss trial.
• Ao Lü tried to take Luo Hong to see Ao Qing, but Luo Hong used his appointment with Bai Hao as an excuse to leave.
• Bai Hao explained that his invitation to Luo Hong had vanished and admitted that he wanted Luo Hong's help; Luo Hong refused, and Bai Hao urged him to reconsider.

Luo Hong agreed to meet the Sky Peng Clan’s Great Elder Jin on Yinghua Island after Bai Hao revealed that Sky Peng True Blood was involved. Back at the White Tower, Luo Hong learned that his Yin Jellyworms had grown wings, and Silver Fairy began explaining the ranks of Cave Heavens as he prepared to place them in the Netherworld Grotto-heaven.

• Luo Hong refused Bai Hao’s invitation to explore an Outer Sea ruin until Bai Hao mentioned Sky Peng True Blood, then used his fiend energy to force Bai Hao to reveal that someone wanted to meet him.
• Luo Hong set the meeting for noon seven days later on Yinghua Island, suspecting a Sky Peng Clan elder was behind the summons.
• Great Elder Jin reprimanded Yu Dianzhu for involving Luo Hong in the plan, while Yu Dianzhu resolved to adjust the plan so Luo Hong would not remain in the Flying Spirit Race.
• Luo Hong returned to the White Tower and learned from the Zhongli Shuxiu Sisters that his Spirit Insects had grown wings.
• Luo Hong found seventy-eight winged Yin Jellyworms in the insect chamber, and Silver Fairy explained the ranks of Cave Heavens before he placed them in the Netherworld Grotto-heaven.

Luo Hong used the Yin Jellyworms to begin balancing the yin and yang of his Netherworld Grotto-heaven, while the Five-Light Clan's elders discussed the coming destruction of the Sky Peng Clan and resolved to support Xie Yuan's marriage to secure an alliance with the Nine Yue Clan. Luo Hong remained unaware that his marriage had become central to the clan's plans.

• Luo Hong released the Yin Jellyworms into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, where they began forming its Extreme Eye and triggered upheavals across the grotto-heaven.
• Silver Fairy explained that the grotto-heaven could advance in rank in about sixty years and told Luo Hong to supply Metal Element Spirit Stones because the place lacked metal.
• Luo Hong returned to the insect chamber, sent away the White Tower's servants, and headed toward A Zi's cultivation chamber while keeping escape plans ready.
• The Five-Light Clan's Great Elder told the elders that the Chi Rong Clan planned to eliminate the Sky Peng Clan as one of the twelve main branches and that the Five-Light Clan would help by providing information.
• The Great Elder said the Chi Rong Clan would give the Five-Light Clan the Wuling Clan and other small branches, then proposed supporting Xie Yuan's marriage to Ao Qing to secure help from the Nine Yue Clan.
• The Five-Light elders agreed to make Xie Yuan's marriage a priority, without Luo Hong knowing their plans.

Luo Hong met Jin Yue and proposed helping the Sky Peng Clan secure a pseudo-Sacred Lord instead of attacking the Five-Light Clan’s Holy Soul. They agreed to cooperate in killing Yu Dianzhu for his Golden Que Jade Book and Thunder Beast, with Luo Hong planning to lure him to the Outer Sea during his tribulation.

• Luo Hong met Jin Yue on Yinghua Island and questioned why the Sky Peng Clan was conspiring against the Five-Light Clan’s Holy Soul.
• Jin Yue explained that her clan faced annexation and had plotted to weaken the Five-Light Clan so it could survive.
• Luo Hong proposed helping the Sky Peng Clan’s Holy Son become a pseudo-Sacred Lord, and Jin Yue agreed to abandon the attack on the Holy Soul.
• Luo Hong asked Jin Yue to help kill Yu Dianzhu so he could obtain Yu Dianzhu’s Golden Que Jade Book and Thunder Beast, and Jin Yue demanded a copy of the book.
• Luo Hong proposed luring Yu Dianzhu to the Outer Sea for Luo Hong’s Minor Heavenly Tribulation in about sixty years, and Jin Yue agreed to watch him closely.

Luo Hong used spirit materials provided by the Five-Light Clan to cultivate the Fiend Lord Dharma Body, refining its first layer over sixty years. As his first Minor Heavenly Tribulation approached, he went to Five-Light Holy City, where Holy Lord Cao summoned him and hinted at a matter he wanted Luo Hong to handle.

• Jin Yue chose Lei Jiao as the Sky Peng Clan Holy Son Luo Hong should help through the trial, then left after accepting his Spirit Talisman.
• Li Zhuolin offered Luo Hong improved treatment and promised to provide the spirit materials he requested, while encouraging him to visit the Nine Yue Clan.
• Luo Hong chose the Fiend Lord Dharma Body and began cultivating its Sha Spirit layer with the True Dragon fiend energy from the Dragon Blood Trial.
• Over the next sixty years, Luo Hong strengthened the White Dragon Fiend Spirit and sensed that his first Minor Heavenly Tribulation would arrive within two months.
• Luo Hong traveled to Five-Light Holy City, where two Flying Spirit Commanders escorted him to Holy Lord Cao, who praised his rapid cultivation progress.

Luo Hong secured permission to leave Yinghua Island and learned the Earth Abyss trial might be moved up, while Cao Menglong arranged for him to be tested at Evil Valley. After preparing a remote reef island and revising his plan with Yu Dianzhu, Luo Hong began his Minor Heavenly Tribulation as a storm of azure lightning descended.

• Luo Hong told Holy Lord Cao he was leaving for the Nine Yue Clan, and agreed to deal with trouble near Evil Valley on the way.
• Holy Lord Cao received word that unrest in the Earth Abyss might move the trial forward, while Cao Menglong revealed he had arranged for Luo Hong to be observed and tested at Evil Valley.
• Luo Hong flew far out to sea, restored his original appearance, contacted Yu Dianzhu and another ally, and prepared arrays on a reef island for his tribulation.
• Yu Dianzhu arrived and proposed redirecting their plan to lead the Five-Light Holy Soul to the Horned Vulture Clan, whose failing Holy Soul gave it a motive to steal it; Luo Hong agreed.
• After seven days of preparation, Luo Hong's Minor Heavenly Tribulation began as black clouds gathered and azure lightning poured down toward him.

Luo Hong endured his first Spirit World heavenly tribulation to study how tribulation lightning affected the body, then used the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique to draw the lightning into Law of Strength runes. As Yu Dianzhu fled Jin Yue and attacked Luo Hong beneath the tribulation clouds, Luo Hong faced him with a lightning-filled palm.

• Luo Hong chose to withstand the early rounds of tribulation lightning with his body and realized that lightning could leave traces of laws within a cultivator.
• Jin Yue ambushed Yu Dianzhu, trapped him in a formation, and fought him while Luo Hong continued crossing tribulation.
• Luo Hong absorbed the falling lightning balls and used the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique to turn the lightning into Law of Strength runes.
• Yu Dianzhu pretended to accept defeat, then transformed into a blood peacock and rushed toward Luo Hong to seize him.
• Luo Hong met Yu Dianzhu's descending blood claw with his palm and told him not to block the tribulation lightning.

Luo Hong survived the heavenly tribulation after killing Yu Dianzhu and using his hammer to smash the final wave of lightning. He told Jin Yue that he had only damaged his vital essence and needed a few years to recover.

• Luo Hong's clash with Yu Dianzhu shattered Luo Hong's arm and crushed Yu Dianzhu's body, forcing Yu Dianzhu's nascent soul to flee.
• Yu Dianzhu's nascent soul rushed toward Luo Hong, hoping to seize his body, but Luo Hong expanded into a giant and restrained the lightning within himself.
• Luo Hong formed an azure lightning claw that immobilized and destroyed Yu Dianzhu's nascent soul, leaving his Storage Bracelet behind.
• Luo Hong wielded the Glazed Golden Light Hammer to smash the final wave of tribulation lightning and punch a hole through the Tribulation Cloud.
• After the tribulation ended, Luo Hong collapsed, then told Jin Yue he would recover after a few years of recuperation.