Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong freed four demon beasts from their Sky Peng Clan slave marks in exchange for a Blood Apricot, then broke into Han’s cave abode and took Azure Luo Pills to recover. Three years later, at a Five-Light Clan auction, Kong Daorong tried to secure Molten Fire Divine Gold until an unidentified bidder challenged his price.

• Luo Hong removed the slave marks from four demon beasts in exchange for their Blood Apricot, and they fled into the deep sea.
• Luo Hong and Little Gold broke through the restrictions of Han’s cave abode, where Luo Hong took the Azure Luo Pills and harvested mature spiritual herbs.
• Luo Hong swallowed the Blood Apricot with three Azure Luo Pills and remained in Han’s cave abode to recover; three years passed.
• At the Five-Light Clan’s grand auction, Zhongli Huaxiu pleaded for Pulse Replenishing Pills for her injured elder sister, Zhongli Shuxiu, but Kong Daorong demanded information about Holy Son Xie in return.
• Kong Daorong bid twenty-five million Spirit Stones for Molten Fire Divine Gold, then an unidentified bidder raised the price to thirty million.

At the Holy City auction, the Black Clad Youth repeatedly outbid Kong Daorong and bought several rare items, while Kong tried to avoid being baited into paying too much. The bidding left Kong realizing he had provoked the other bidders, and he understood that he had fallen for the trap.

• The Black Clad Youth proved he could afford thirty million Spirit Stones and won the Molten Fire Divine Gold, while Zhongli Huaxiu envied his wealth.
• Kong Daorong stopped bidding on a later Five Elements Spiritual Item after Saint Lord Cao reminded him of their agreement.
• The Black Clad Youth outbid Kong Daorong for the Emerald God Water, then won a rare Spiritual Herb after Kong refused to raise the price.
• The Black Clad Youth continued winning auction items as Kong Daorong grew uneasy about his seemingly endless supply of Spirit Stones.
• Saint Lord surnamed Yan told Kong Daorong to stop bidding, and Kong noticed the dissatisfied looks of more than ten other cultivators and realized he had fallen for it.

Luo Hong, disguised as Zhuo Bufan, confronted Kong Daorong at the auction, then visited the Zhongli sisters and learned why the Five-Light Clan elders were targeting them. After helping the sisters and directing them to Ao Qing, he returned to his tower and used the Little Black Ball to turn High-grade Spirit Stones into Top-grade Spirit Stones before preparing to process the auction treasures he had wanted.

• Zhuo Bufan provoked Kong Daorong with another Storage Bag of Spirit Stones, and Kong Daorong left the auction in anger to investigate him.
• After the auction, Zhongli Huaxiu brought her injured sister Zhongli Shuxiu back to their room, where they found Zhuo Bufan waiting.
• Zhuo Bufan discovered that Zhongli Shuxiu had been secretly attacked and heard how the Five-Light Clan elders coveted the inheritance left by Xie Yuan.
• Luo Hong gave the sisters medicine and supplies, told them to seek Ao Qing in the Nine Yue Clan, and vanished before Zhongli Shuxiu could ask him to stay.
• Back at his tower, Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball to transform his High-grade Spirit Stones into more than two thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, then prepared to process the remaining auction items.

Luo Hong tested how the Little Black Ball’s Primordial Qi repaired spiritual treasures and found that gold-element materials made it more effective on the Glazed Golden Light Hammer. Silver Fairy urged him to gather space materials to restore her, while Luo Hong considered how he might control the Little Black Ball.

• After the Little Black Ball devoured gold-element spirit materials, Luo Hong observed that it produced pale golden Primordial Qi.
• Luo Hong used the Primordial Qi to restore the Glazed Golden Light Hammer and found that it repaired the treasure three times more efficiently than white Primordial Qi.
• Silver Fairy urged Luo Hong to gather high-grade space spirit materials, then said her former clan might still have some left to help restore her.
• Luo Hong judged that the resources already devoured by the Little Black Ball were insufficient to restore Silver Fairy, but agreed to seek the materials.
• Silver Fairy suggested that Luo Hong could surpass her if he fully controlled the Little Black Ball, and Luo Hong confidently said he knew how to proceed.

After discovering a path to cultivate the Primordial Law, Luo Hong left Five-Light Holy City and was confronted by Kong Daorong and the Saint Lord surnamed Yan. More than ten years later, the story shifted to Chong, a young Mayfly who took a mining job in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range to feed his spirit insects.

• Luo Hong connected the Three Supreme Laws with the treasures of Essence, Energy, and Spirit, formed a cultivation chant, and asked Silver Fairy to help him cultivate.
• Luo Hong decided to go to Thunderclap Continent, left Five-Light Holy City, and was intercepted by Kong Daorong and the Saint Lord surnamed Yan.
• Luo Hong exposed the two men's identities, and Kong Daorong prepared to attack; Luo Hong produced the repaired Glazed Golden Light Hammer and said an incense stick would be enough.
• More than ten years later, Steward Yi announced that only three hundred miners would be hired for the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, where the ore veins were nearly exhausted.
• Chong offered to work without wages so he could feed his spirit insects, and Steward Yi selected him for the mining crew.
• At the miners' lodging, Chong released four Screaming Insects and fed two purple crystals to his Purple Spotted Insects as a sinister grin appeared.

Chong secretly used his Purple Spotted Insects to devour Purple Source Essence Crystals deep beneath the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, until an Earth Dragon Turning Over buried him and ruined his escape route. He emerged in an enormous underground chamber filled with Purple Source Essence Crystals and spotted an insect-cocoon-like object.

• Chong left the other miners behind and traveled through an abandoned mine shaft, where his Spirit Insects killed a demon beast that attacked him.
• He used his Purple-spotted Worm Armor to pass through the deadly Purple Spiritual Qi Streams and began devouring the Purple Source Essence Crystals in the crystal wall.
• Chong expanded a cavity in the wall and connected rods from his armor to it, greatly increasing the rate at which his insects consumed the crystals.
• Steward Yi returned to the mining complex, where Xi reported abnormal fluctuations in the underground crystals, but a massive tremor and collapse interrupted them.
• Buried underground, Chong survived in his Insect Armor and chose to flee through the earth rather than carve a route back through the scattered crystals.
• Chong broke into a vast underground chamber filled with Purple Source Essence Crystals and saw an object resembling an insect cocoon.

Chong encountered Luo Hong trapped inside a Dragon-Catching Spider’s cocoon in the Purple Crystal Mountain Range, where Luo Hong forced him to fetch venom and revealed a flaw in Chong’s cultivation. After Chong left, Luo Hong and Silver Fairy discussed escaping, while a Mayfly patrol began exploring nearby.

• Chong approached the cocoon, and Luo Hong seized him, examined his memories, and released him after Chong’s jade pendant failed to break the silk.
• Luo Hong told Chong that his Spirit Insects were being assimilated by Purple Crystal, which would eventually block his cultivation, and promised a solution if Chong brought Dragon-Catching Spider’s Venom.
• Luo Hong placed a Blood Restriction on Chong that would activate in seven days, then sent him away to gather the venom.
• Silver Fairy asked Luo Hong why he had guided and restricted Chong, and Luo Hong explained that he needed the Mayfly’s help while they worked to cut through the cocoon.
• Luo Hong considered how Chong’s cultivation technique might complement A Zi’s corrosion, then noticed a squad of Mayfly Race cultivators cautiously exploring the area.

Chong led a Mayfly patrol to the Dragon-Catching Spider’s corpse, then secretly returned underground to the Milky White Cocoon. Shan Yang and Fairy Die tracked the missing spiderweb to Chong and arrived behind him just as the person inside the cocoon noticed them.

• The Mayfly Race’s spirit insects were explained to have become members of the race, whose names reflected their cultivation tiers.
• Chong told Feng Kun that a dead Demon Beast had fallen nearby, then tempted the patrol into following him toward the corpse in search of valuable materials.
• Shan Yang and Fairy Die examined the Dragon-Catching Spider and discovered its natal web was missing; Shan Yang killed Feng Kun after finding Chong’s suspicious actions in his memories.
• Fairy Die tracked Chong with a beetle, and she and Shan Yang followed it underground toward him.
• Chong reached the Milky White Cocoon with a Purple Crystal Bottle, but the person inside warned him that he had brought two tails.

Luo Hong escaped the Dragon-Catching Spider’s cocoon with Chong’s help, then defeated Fellow Daoist Shan Yang and the Rainbow Winged Woman when they tried to seize Chong and the cocoon. After returning Shan Yang’s Spirit Insects and offering proof of his connection to Elder Zi You, Luo Hong left negotiations with the Mayfly Cultivators to continue.

• Luo Hong urged Chong to pour Dragon-Catching Spider venom over the cocoon while Fellow Daoist Shan Yang and the Rainbow Winged Woman arrived and demanded the cocoon and Chong as compensation.
• When Shan Yang attacked Chong, Luo Hong used Universe Power to crush Shan Yang’s Withered Winged Butterflies and strike both Shan Yang and the Rainbow Winged Woman into the ground.
• The cocoon’s silk membrane loosened, and Luo Hong emerged, freed Chong from his restriction, and called on the two Mayfly Cultivators to resume their discussion.
• Luo Hong opened a spatial rift and returned Shan Yang’s Spirit Insects, prompting Shan Yang to apologize, waive the mine compensation, and offer Luo Hong the demon corpse.
• Luo Hong tossed Shan Yang a token as proof that he knew Elder Zi You.

Luo Hong refused the Middle-aged Beautiful Woman’s attempt to take his Dragon-Catching Spider Silk, paid Shanyang for the damaged mines, and claimed he could reforge a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. The woman agreed to let him prove it and left him to begin the work under her watch.

• The Rainbow Winged Woman summoned her mother, the Middle-aged Beautiful Woman, who demanded Luo Hong’s spider silk in exchange for letting him contract with one of her daughters.
• Luo Hong refused to surrender the silk, and the Middle-aged Beautiful Woman used Shanyang’s damaged mines to demand sixty Top-grade Spirit Stones, which Luo Hong paid.
• The Middle-aged Beautiful Woman challenged Luo Hong’s claim that Elder Zi You had invited him, and Luo Hong offered to prove his artifact-refining skill by raising the Glazed Golden Light Hammer’s ranking into the top thousand.
• The Middle-aged Beautiful Woman accepted Luo Hong’s proposal, and Luo Hong claimed the resources from the three mines and ordered Shanyang and the two women to leave while he worked.

Luo Hong began reforging the Glazed Golden Light Hammer with purple crystals and Purple Source Essence Crystals, while Madam Li gathered Golden Mayfly Elders to discuss how to deal with him. Six years into the refinement, Madam Li proposed making Luo Hong pay for his conduct unless he proved his artifact-refining skill.

• Chong told Luo Hong that he had found the jade pendant at Red Armor Peak after a streak of light fell from the sky, and Luo Hong dismissed him.
• Luo Hong sealed off the underground space, gathered purple crystals from the mines, and spent three months setting up artifact-refinement arrays.
• Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball to turn the purple crystals into cloud qi, empowered three Thunderclap Stones, and activated the arrays to begin reforging the Glazed Golden Light Hammer.
• Six years later, Shanyang and the Rainbow Winged Woman visited Madam Li, who was meeting with Cang Yunzi and Zi Youzi.
• Madam Li said Luo Hong must refine a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure ranked in the top thousand or compensate her daughter with a spiritual item, while Zi Youzi argued that an apology should settle the matter.

Luo Hong completed the Sky-Piercing Purple Gold Hammer, and its power stunned the gathered Golden Mayfly Stage beings. Madam Li refused to concede the dispute, so Zi Youzi agreed to take Luo Hong to the Mayfly Race’s Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking to verify the treasure.

• Purple lightning erupted from the earthen mound, and one bolt nearly split Cang Yunzi’s shield before vanishing.
• The mound exploded as Five-Colored Orbs converged on the purple-gold light, and Zi Youzi recognized the phenomenon as the birth of a supreme treasure.
• Cang Yunzi sent a giant cyan insect claw to seize the treasure, but Luo Hong appeared and caused the claw to plunge into the earth, unleashing destructive golden light.
• Luo Hong revealed the Sky-Piercing Purple Gold Hammer and told Madam Li he could not give up the Top-grade Spider Silk, proposing they verify the hammer against the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking.
• Zi Youzi vouched for Luo Hong and offered to take him to the ranking, while Shan Yang declined compensation for the damaged mines.

Luo Hong entered Canghu City with Zi Youzi and met Xu Lingzi at Tongtian Workshop, where they discovered damage to the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking. Xu Lingzi put Luo Hong in charge of the workshop and a mysterious task, leaving Zi Youzi to explain the details.

• Luo Hong paid a spirit stone for a Passage Ring and followed Zi Youzi through Canghu City to Tongtian Workshop.
• Luo Hong met Xu Lingzi, who learned of his connection to Old Man Jiang and allowed him to travel freely through Mayfly Race territory.
• Cang Yunzi and Madam Li congratulated Luo Hong after his Sky-Piercing Purple Gold Hammer ranked 893rd on the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking.
• Xu Lingzi revealed that the ranking had cracked where the first-ranked Candle Dragon Golden Flame had been listed, and said he had emerged from seclusion to investigate.
• Xu Lingzi gave Luo Hong the Tongtian Workshop Restriction Token and left him in charge; Madam Li and Cang Yunzi departed after promising a maidservant and an apology gift.

Luo Hong sought access to the Mayfly Race’s Continental Teleportation Array and earned a possible route to it by offering to repair a prized treasure. At Tongtian Workshop he put Mayfly artifact refiners to work gathering materials for his Purple Blood Puppet, then visited Guangyuan Zhai to investigate True Lord Wentian’s whereabouts.

• Luo Hong told Zi Youzi and Bixu Zi that he needed to reach the Thunderclap Continent, and Zi Youzi said he could qualify to use the array by refining several treasures or making a damaged one usable.
• Luo Hong explored Tongtian Workshop, found the Mayfly Race’s Insect Refining Method, and persuaded its artifact refiners to help produce materials for his Purple Blood Puppet modifications.
• Half a month later, Luo Hong went to Guangyuan Zhai, whose entrance led into a Cave Heaven, and broke through its barrier.
• A Yellow-dressed Girl recognized Luo Hong, accepted his compensation for damaging the entrance platform, and led him inside alongside the Blue Clad Man.

Luo Hong visited Guangyuan Zhai to learn True Lord Wentian’s whereabouts and discovered that Wentian had become the master of another branch in Jia Tun Clan territory. To contact him, Luo Hong agreed to earn walker authority through missions or buy nearly completed missions, while Li Xin arranged for him to meet the walkers.

• Luo Hong entered Guangyuan Zhai through a grove of Ancient Vajra Bamboo and learned that Lei Yunzi, a young master of the Ming Race, was visiting the zhai.
• Li Xin, the younger sister of Li Jiao and mistress of Guangyuan Zhai, received Luo Hong and explained that her duties were governed by the Heavenly Book.
• Li Xin used the Heavenly Book to find that True Lord Wentian had become the zhai master of a branch in Jia Tun Clan territory more than ten thousand years earlier.
• Li Xin explained that Luo Hong needed Spirit Profound Rank authority to contact Wentian, requiring one thousand bounty points and another hundred to make contact.
• Li Xin offered to find walkers willing to exchange nearly completed missions for Spirit Stones, and Luo Hong agreed to pay; he also sent Li Xin compensation for her help.
• Lei Yunzi chatted with walkers in the Heavenly Book Pavilion, where Brother Ling Feng said Master Song had recently fallen and the new zhai master had taken office.

At a gathering of Canghu walkers, Lei Yunzi learned that Luo Hong was a renowned Artifact Refining Master and met him again in the Heavenly Book Pavilion. Luo Hong joined Guangyuan Zhai as a walker to contact True Lord Wentian and hoped to discuss thunder cultivation with Lei Yunzi.

• Ling Feng told the walkers that Master Song had died after meeting Ancestor Xuling and that both Jin Fu Seniors had declined the succession.
• Lei Yunzi mentioned meeting Luo Hong, prompting the Mayfly Cultivators to explain that Luo Hong had refined a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure ranked eight hundred and ninety-third on the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking.
• Lei Yunzi worried that Luo Hong’s influence could bring trouble to him and the Ming Race because he had previously offended Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong entered the pavilion with Su'er, and she clarified that he had joined Guangyuan Zhai as a walker while they waited for the new Zhai Master.
• Luo Hong greeted Lei Yunzi and hoped to exchange knowledge about the Law of Thunder and high-grade thunder secret arts.

Luo Hong joined the Heavenly Book Pavilion as an envoy and learned that the Ancient Battlefield would soon open at Red Armor Peak, where Myriad Transformation Stones could earn bounty rewards. He secured a place in Ling Feng’s expedition and arranged for Lei Yunzi to join him, while Ling Feng began asking about the Evil Dragon Pill.

• Luo Hong introduced himself to the envoys, advertised his artifact-refining services, and said he wanted bounty rewards in payment.
• Lei Yunzi told Luo Hong that Guangyuan Zhai’s previous master had died after meeting Ancestor Xuling, and Li Xin revealed the Ancient Battlefield entrance at Red Armor Peak.
• Li Xin distributed Heavenly Book Compasses to six Spirit Profound Rank envoys, and Lei Yunzi struggled to join Ling Feng’s team as the envoys demanded most of his Myriad Transformation Stones.
• Luo Hong displayed the Sky-Piercing Purple Gold Hammer, persuaded Ling Feng to give him a place in the expedition, and asked Ling Feng to let Lei Yunzi join them.
• Ling Feng agreed and quietly asked Luo Hong whether he had heard of the Evil Dragon Pill.

Luo Hong joined Ling Feng, Lei Yunzi, Qing Kong, and Ming Xia on an expedition to the Ancient Battlefield, hoping to find the powerful Evil Dragon Pills said to remain in the Evil Dragon Camp. After the group teleported into the battlefield, Primordial Transformation Beasts emerged nearby as they prepared to determine their location.

• Ling Feng told Luo Hong that Evil Dragon Pills might still be hidden in the Ancient Battlefield’s Evil Dragon Camp and warned him about its dangers, but Luo Hong agreed to go.
• Luo Hong respectfully gave Lei Yunzi the choice to withdraw, and Lei Yunzi agreed to join the expedition for a chance to find the pills.
• At Canghu City’s north gate, Ling Feng introduced Qing Kong and Ming Xia, and the five discussed their abilities and agreed that Luo Hong would choose first among the Evil Dragon Camp’s spoils.
• The five traveled to Red Armor Peak, used their Walker Tokens and the Heavenly Book Compass to enter the Ancient Battlefield, and arrived in a devastated region.
• Ling Feng identified a distant landmark that might be Red Sword River, but more than a dozen Primordial Transformation Beasts crawled from the ground, prompting Ling Feng and Qing Kong to send out their spirit insects.

Ling Feng led Luo Hong and the others toward the Dark Forest, explaining its dangers and revealing a plan to disguise themselves as Night Bat Demons. At the forest’s edge, a One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast and its kind clashed with a group of Night Bat Demons.

• Ling Feng and Qing Kong’s Natal Spirit Insects killed the Primordial Transformation Beasts, and the group recovered a Myriad Transformation Stone.
• Ling Feng described three dangerous routes to the Evil Dragon Camp and chose the Dark Forest, where he planned to use a Soul Summoning Bell and Bat-skin Cloaks to evade Night Bat Demons.
• Luo Hong and the others accepted Ling Feng’s plan, disguised themselves as Night Bat Demons, and headed toward the forest.
• More than ten days later, a One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast awakened beside several Myriad Transformation Stones and roared at the Night Bat Demons.
• The Night Bat Demons attacked the One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast and nearby Primordial Transformation Beasts, but the beast resisted the Great Night Bat Demon’s attack and knocked it into a tree.

The Great Night Bat Demon fought the One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast, whose Yuan Transformation Evil Light could turn its opponent’s abilities against them, while Luo Hong’s group watched and planned to intervene. When the demon tried to retreat, Ling Feng and his allies attacked, leaving him disarmed and his Clanmates scattered.

• The One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast resisted the Great Night Bat Demon’s demonic light by transforming into viscous fluid, then killed a Night Bat Demon with its Yuan Transformation Evil Light.
• Ling Feng explained the beast’s ability to Lei Yunzi and the others, then assigned them roles in a plan to end the battle quickly.
• The Great Night Bat Demon blasted the One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast away and tried to flee, ordering the other Night Bat Demons to retreat.
• A blood-red Giant Mantis severed both of the Great Night Bat Demon’s arms, while Ming Xia attacked his Clanmates with short arrows.
• Ling Feng and Qing Kong appeared on either side of the recovering One-Eyed Yuan Transformation Beast, ready to attack.