Chapter Summaries

Luo and his two companions arrived at the Demon Abyss and destroyed its sealing formation, then burned away the released Devilish Qi and restored the region with pure Spiritual Qi. The watching cultivators celebrated the change, while Zhu secretly revealed his allegiance to the Holy Ancestor, unaware of the Spirit Talisman on his back.

• Zhu drank with Yue at the Demon Abyss outpost as the protective formations suddenly shattered, then fled toward the vortex.
• Zhu and the other cultivators found Luo, a Green Clad Girl, and another woman hovering above the vortex, and Luo immobilized the defenders.
• Luo split the Demon Sealing Great Formation with a blade strike, releasing Devilish Qi that tore open a vast seabed fissure.
• Luo sent a Crimson Gold Spirit Flame into the Devilish Qi and burned it away, then used a five-colored Spirit Orb to spread pure Spiritual Qi across Southern Sky and the Boundless Sea.
• After the three visitors disappeared, Zhu returned to his island, revealed his allegiance to the Holy Ancestor, and failed to notice a Spirit Talisman attached to his back.

Luo Hong returned to the Chaotic Star Sea to meet Ling Yuling, arrange a path for its cultivators to ascend, and use the Star Palace’s formation to lure out the Roaming Kunpeng. After beginning the plan on Tianxing Holy Mountain, he covered the sky above the Inner Star Sea with a vast black curtain, leaving Ling Yuling stunned by the scale of his supposedly modest preparations.

• Luo Hong captured Yuan Cha’s demonic blood, sent Luzhu to the Netherworld Grotto-heaven to cultivate, and told Yin Qiao to guard Tai’a Divine Mountain and guide her.
• Luo Hong arrived at Tianxing Island, reunited with Ling Yuling, and agreed to take her to the Spirit World.
• Luo Hong gave Ling Yuling a Boundary-Setting Pearl and explained how it could eventually support an ascension formation for cultivators of the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Luo Hong asked Ling Yuling to lend him the Star Palace’s Thirty-six Star Dou Great Formation so he could amplify Rahu’s aura and lure the Roaming Kunpeng.
• Luo Hong’s golden-robed avatar bought every robe in Lan Yun Pavilion with a top-grade Spirit Stone, inadvertently spurring a clothing trend across the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Luo Hong activated the formation on Tianxing Holy Mountain, covering the Inner Star Sea with a black curtain and drawing thirty-six urgent message talismans to Ling Yuling.

Luo Hong persuaded the Roaming Kunpeng to cooperate with him in obtaining the Five Thunder True Armor, then prepared to leave the Mortal World with Ling Yuling. After Ling Yuling entered the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, Yin Qiao proposed that they join forces to keep Luo Hong from distancing himself from them in the Spirit World.

• Luo Hong revealed to the Roaming Kunpeng that Rahu was gone and offered him a chance to obtain the Five Thunder True Armor in exchange for serving as the Silver Clan's consecrated true spirit.
• Luo Hong displayed his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body, convincing the Roaming Kunpeng to enlist him as an informant and promise him the Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body Technique.
• The Roaming Kunpeng gave Luo Hong a blue feather for contacting him, and Luo Hong returned to Tianxing Holy Mountain and told Ling Yuling to prepare to leave within a month.
• Luo Hong used the month to test promising candidates across the Chaotic Star Sea, then stored Ling Yuling in the Netherworld Grotto-heaven and departed the Mortal World.
• Yin Qiao took the Storage Bag Luo Hong had given Ling Yuling, saw the hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones inside, and proposed that they join forces so Luo Hong would not distance himself from them in the Spirit World.

Luo Hong tricked the Roaming Kunpeng into returning to the Spirit World by trading for its inter-realm information, while the Silver Clan prepared a contract and bait for the True Spirit. At the Seven Domains Holy Mountain, the Roaming Kunpeng began inspecting their supposed offering, unaware that the Silver Clan’s scheme was underway.

• Luo Hong persuaded the Roaming Kunpeng to hand over an azure feather containing inter-realm information, then celebrated the first step of their plan with Silver Fairy and Jian Yunhua.
• Profound Silver Ancestor had Di Ming prepare a harsh Heavenly Dao Magic Contract using True Spirit Origin as a catalyst.
• After reaching the Spirit World, the Roaming Kunpeng rampaged through Rong Clan territory to test the Silver Clan’s strength before heading to the Seven Domains Holy Mountain.
• Profound Silver Ancestor welcomed the Roaming Kunpeng and presented the Myriad Yang Cauldron, claiming its contents came from a sun-devouring formation in the Guanghan Realm.
• The Roaming Kunpeng demanded proof of the story, so Luo Hong produced a Rising Sun Immortal Crystal.

Luo Hong and the Profound Silver Ancestor forced the Roaming Kunpeng to sign a Heavenly Dao Magic Contract that bound him to protect the Silver Clan. After the enshrinement ceremony, Luo Hong revealed his true identity to Jian Yunhua and prepared to return to the Feng Yuan Continent, where he still had matters to settle.

• The Roaming Kunpeng swallowed most of the Extreme Yang essence while the Silver Clan cultivators refined smaller amounts, and he overlooked Luo Hong’s refusal to partake.
• The Roaming Kunpeng discovered the contract’s unfair terms and erupted, prompting Jian Yunhua and the Profound Silver Ancestor to trap him with the Seven Sage Crown and a Silver Light Array.
• Luo Hong threatened the immobilized Roaming Kunpeng with the Sky Breaking Spear and Silver Fairy’s proof that he could kill True Spirits, forcing him to sign the contract.
• The Profound Silver Ancestor ordered the Silver Clan cultivators to pay respects to the newly enshrined Roaming Kunpeng, who left in anger before returning for the ceremony a month later.
• Luo Hong met Jian Yunhua at the Inheritance Hall, revealed his human identity and true appearance, and said he was returning to the Feng Yuan Continent with a matter to explain.

Luo Hong warned Jian Yunhua that a man-made calamity would strike Thunderclap Continent in about a thousand years and gave her a plan to protect the Silver Clan. He then returned to his realmship, where he explained his plan to build a colossal war fortress before the coming war.

• Luo Hong told Jian Yunhua that the Silver Clan should hide in the six regions to avoid a future calamity, and gave her a jade slip with a plan to harm neighboring races.
• Jian Yunhua asked whether the calamity was aimed at Luo Hong, and he assured her it was not before warning her to let a female friend use the Continental Teleportation Array.
• Luo Hong departed Jian Yunhua and used the Sky Breaking Spear to reach his realmship outside the Spirit World.
• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy that he would enlist the Human Race to finish modifying the realmship and restore his cultivation to the Integration Stage Peak.
• Luo Hong defended his plan to turn the realmship into a hundred-thousand-zhang war fortress, saying it would help him face the coming racial war.

Luo Hong and Ying Ming rescued Xu Xuechuan and two Xu Clan men from Void-Splitting Beasts in the Wilds, then encountered the Black Phoenix Clan reinforcements. The chapter ended with Xiao Hong ordering her companions to capture Luo Hong and Ying Ming.

• Xu Xuechuan and the two Xu Clan men fought two Void-Splitting Beasts while awaiting help from the Black Phoenix Clan.
• A Crimson Gold Giant Ship burst through distorted space, killed both beasts, and revealed Luo Hong and Ying Ming.
• Xu Xuechuan recognized Luo Hong, thanked him, and agreed to return with him to Sky Abyss City after abandoning her mission.
• Luo Hong sensed the arriving Black Phoenix Clan cultivators and greeted Xiao Hong, an old acquaintance.
• Xiao Hong ordered the five Black Phoenix Clan cultivators with her to surround and capture Luo Hong and Ying Ming.

Luo Hong agreed to accompany Xiao Hong to meet the Black Phoenix Demon King, while Xu Xuechuan returned to Sky Abyss City and prepared to seek help from her friends. After learning about the races’ recent conflicts and the coming Holy Emperor Selection, Luo Hong entered the city with Xiao Hong and Ying Ming, leaving Xu Xuechuan to visit two allies.

• Xiao Hong demanded that Luo Hong come with her to meet the Black Phoenix Demon King, but Luo Hong accepted her invitation and asked Xu Xuechuan to investigate Ascended Cultivators from recent centuries.
• Aboard Xiao Hong’s Spirit Boat, Luo Hong learned about the foreign races’ attack on Sky Abyss City and the planned Holy Emperor Selection.
• Xiao Hong brought Luo Hong and Ying Ming to a teleportation array, where Azure Nether Guards identified the newcomers and sent them to the Alien Spirit Hall for inspection.
• After passing the inspection, Xu Xuechuan sent Xu Youmu and the injured Xu Youjin home and flew off to visit two friends.

After learning that Luo Hong had been taken to meet the Black Phoenix Demon King, Xu Xuechuan recruited allies to help him. Yu Ruoxi and members of the Long Family set out for Sunset Tomb, while Ye Ying also decided to investigate.

• Xu Xuechuan told Xiang Zhili that Luo Hong had been taken by the master of Black Flame Tower to meet the Black Phoenix Demon King, and Xiang Zhili went to inform Yu Ruoxi.
• Yu Ruoxi learned that the Black Phoenix Demon King was headed to Sunset Tomb and prepared to ask Madam Heartbreaker to intervene.
• Xu Xuechuan met Bai Yunzhou at a Taiyi Sect outpost, and he promised to help Luo Hong.
• After Xu Xuechuan left, Bai Yunzhou spoke with Young Master Long and his Fifth Uncle, who agreed to go to Sunset Tomb and capture Luo Hong as a son-in-law.
• Ye Ying arrived and told Bai Yunzhou she wanted to go see the excitement surrounding Luo Hong.

Huang Bing, Huang Ji, and Xin Liuniang secretly planned to build three Sunset Fortresses in the Sunset Tomb while disguising their activity as a search for Huang Ji. Luo Hong arrived in Sunset City with Xiao Hong, while Yu Ruoxi and Madam Heartbreaker encountered a skirt-armored woman seeking the Black Phoenix Demon King, whose soul lamp drew Yu Ruoxi’s lamp into view.

• Huang Bing told Huang Ji and Xiao Guan to prepare the spiritual materials and watch for spatial disturbances as their clans worked toward building three Sunset Fortresses.
• Xiao Guan received a message and left after Xin Liuniang’s illusion revealed Xiao Hong arriving with Luo Hong, who wondered whether the concealed plan offered him an opportunity.
• Xiao Hong escorted Luo Hong to Spring Cicada Pavilion, and Luo Hong entered with Ying Ming to meet the clan leader.
• Madam Heartbreaker urged Yu Ruoxi to leave Luo Hong if the Black Phoenix Demon King blocked his path, but Yu Ruoxi refused to abandon her husband.
• Huang Qijie met Madam Heartbreaker and Yu Ruoxi as a skirt-armored woman arrived and demanded to see the Black Phoenix Demon King.
• The skirt-armored woman recognized Yu Ruoxi’s soul lamp and asked for it, prompting Fifth Uncle to reach for the lamp before a crystal-blue needle struck his scaled hand and was knocked away.

Luo Hong rejected Xiao Guan’s demand that he help open a Secret Realm and revealed his Integration Late-stage cultivation. After he exposed Xin Liuniang and the others, Xiao Guan attacked, and a golden roc claw met her strike as Luo Hong yielded the fight to his newly refined Mysterious Gold Flame Armor.

• Madam Heartbreaker stopped Long Wu from taking Yu Ruoxi’s soul lamp, while Yu Ruoxi recognized Long Ruiyun as another woman connected to Luo Hong.
• Demon King-level battles erupted across Sunset City, driving Madam Heartbreaker, Long Wu, and their companions to flee as Ye Ying arrived and went to investigate.
• Xiao Guan asked Luo Hong to demonstrate the Great Zhou Heavenly Annihilation Divine Needle and offered him a cultivation opportunity in exchange for helping open a Secret Realm.
• Luo Hong refused, revealed his Integration Late-stage cultivation, and offered to discuss the Sunset Tomb instead.
• Luo Hong exposed Xin Liuniang and the others, prompting Xiao Guan to attack him with a black-flame phoenix claw.
• A golden roc claw blocked Xiao Guan’s attack, and Luo Hong realized his Mysterious Gold Flame Armor had been refined and let it take over the fight.

Luo Hong fought the three Demon Kings in Sunset City and captured Xin Liuniang, the Heavenly Fox Demon King, using his strength and lightning. Just as he began sealing her, she transformed into a Six-tailed White Fox and escaped his grasp.

• Little Gold donned the Mysterious Gold Flame Armor and fought the Black Phoenix Demon King.
• Ying Ming transformed into the Purple Blood Puppet and drove back the Southern Li Flood Dragon King with his Blood Axe.
• Luo Hong resisted Xin Liuniang’s Nine Desires Fragrant Wind, found her with his divine eye, and trapped her with his sword formation.
• Xin Liuniang escaped the sword formation with a fox-tail decoy and attacked Luo Hong from behind, but his purple lightning blasted her away.
• Luo Hong seized Xin Liuniang through her protective barriers and began sealing her with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Xin Liuniang exploited Luo Hong’s momentary distraction, transformed into a Six-tailed White Fox, and escaped his grasp.

Luo Hong reunited with Yu Ruoxi in Sunset City while battling three Demon Kings, then rejected Long Ruiyun’s offer and captured Xin Liuniang again. He prepared to question the Six-tailed White Fox about the scheme that had brought the Demon Kings together.

• Luo Hong explained his capture of Xin Liuniang to Yu Ruoxi, then sent his Time Illusion Body to continue the fight while he approached her.
• Madam Heartbreaker tried to stop Luo Hong, but he blocked her attacks with the Mitian Bell and kissed Yu Ruoxi until she reconciled with him.
• Luo Hong told Long Ruiyun he would never leave Yu Ruoxi and urged her to seek another match, then warned Long Wu that he had uncovered part of the Demon Kings’ scheme.
• Ye Ying emerged from hiding, and Long Wu explained that he and Long Ruiyun had come at Fellow Daoist Xu’s request to help Luo Hong escape the Black Phoenix Demon King.
• Luo Hong’s Time Illusion Body returned with the captured Xin Liuniang, whom Luo Hong said he intended to question about the scheme.

Luo Hong captured Xin Liuniang and proposed a trade for illusion materials, then offered an alliance with the three demon clans over the Sunset Tomb in exchange for help building a dojo. Xin Liuniang accepted the idea of negotiating, but Huang Bing ended the arguing by asking Luo Hong how confident he was of reaching the Mahayana stage.

• Xin Liuniang accused Luo Hong of provoking a war, but he reminded her that her people had attacked first and explained that he wanted to trade for high-grade illusion materials.
• Luo Hong told Yu Ruoxi that he needed the materials to refine a protective treasure for Yuan Yao, who was alone in Styx Land.
• Xin Liuniang revealed that Huang Bing had gathered the demon kings to seize a larger share of the Sunset Tomb after learning how to suppress its Dusk Storm.
• Luo Hong offered the three demon clans an alliance and a guarantee of their interests if they helped build his dojo, and Xin Liuniang agreed to discuss the arrangement.
• Luo Hong called back Little Gold and Ying Ming as Xiao Guan accused Xin Liuniang of betraying them, and Huang Bing asked Luo Hong about his chances of advancing to the Mahayana stage.

Luo Hong negotiated with the three monster clans over establishing a dojo in the Sunset Tomb and revealed an ambitious plan to control its Dusk Storms. After assigning the clans work and lending them Giant Spirit Decrees, he arranged further talks about the Spirit Emperor Assembly and sent the others on their way.

• Luo Hong confirmed that he intended to claim the vacant Spirit Emperor position while establishing his dojo in the Sunset Tomb, and Huang Bing agreed the monster clans would cooperate if Luo Hong secured the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor’s acceptance.
• Huang Bing explained that Moonlight Stone could restrain Dusk Storms, but Luo Hong criticized the clans’ plan to build safe zones and proposed reorganizing the Sunset Tomb’s earth veins and creating a Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace.
• Luo Hong assigned the three clans to organize the earth veins within fifty years and gave Huang Bing, Xiao Guan, and Xin Liuniang Giant Spirit Decrees to help them complete the work.
• Huang Bing and Xiao Guan left to mobilize their clans, while Xin Liuniang accepted Luo Hong’s deposit and sent a message back to the Sky Fox Demon Land.
• Luo Hong asked Ye Ying to arrange a meeting with her Great Elder about the Spirit Emperor Assembly, and Long Ruiyun left with Long Wu after insisting she would keep pursuing him.

Luo Hong moved Tai'a Divine Mountain to a plain near the Sunset Tomb and agreed to let Yin Qiao’s Taiyi Sect follow him. After Ling Yuling asked to speak privately with Yu Ruoxi, Luo Hong left with Ying Ming and confined the gloating Xin Liuniang.

• Luo Hong told Yu Ruoxi that Qingqing had died while attempting to reach Deity Transformation and that Meng Yi was trapped in the Demon Realm.
• Luo Hong ordered the demon cultivators on a plain near Sunset City to evacuate, then used Universe Power to set Tai'a Divine Mountain there.
• Luo Hong welcomed Luzhu, Yin Qiao, and Ling Yuling, and Yin Qiao declared that Taiyi Sect would serve under his command.
• Yu Ruoxi confronted Luzhu about Luo Hong's companions, and Ling Yuling asked to speak privately with Yu Ruoxi alongside Yin Qiao.
• Luo Hong tossed Xin Liuniang into a silver ring of light, then left with Ying Ming to deal with the Heavenly Origin Realm cultivators.

Ling Yuling and Yin Qiao schemed to enlist Yu Ruoxi’s sympathy over Luo Hong’s flirtations. In Saint Emperor City, Luo Hong challenged the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor to establish his strength as a neighbor, leaving them poised to fight physically.

• Ling Yuling accepted Yin Qiao’s plan to work together and gave her a bag of unusual clothes.
• Ling Yuling tearfully told Yu Ruoxi that she and Yin Qiao had suffered from Luo Hong’s flirtations and escapes.
• At a banquet, Mo Jianli discussed a possible alliance against the coming devilish tribulation with the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor and his guest elders.
• Luo Hong arrived in Saint Emperor City, broke its protective formation, challenged the Saint Emperor, and captured the Withered Yellow Old Man’s eight White Rhinoceros Peacocks.
• Luo Hong’s spiritual pressure knocked the Fat White Monk and the Imperial City soldiers from the air, then he proposed fighting the Saint Emperor with their physical bodies alone.

Luo Hong and the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor battled using only their physical strength, and the Saint Emperor unleashed his Profound Yellow Thousand-Armed Buddha. After Luo Hong endured its full barrage unharmed, he revealed his Purple Lightning and declared that the warm-up was over.

• The Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor activated his Profound Yellow Sacred Body and traded giant punches with Luo Hong, then charged in to fight him hand to hand.
• Luo Hong used unusual devil-race techniques to outmatch the Saint Emperor in martial technique, prompting the Saint Emperor to retreat and summon his Profound Yellow Thousand-Armed Buddha.
• Luo Hong recognized that Profound Yellow Qi was likely the opposite extreme of Universe Power, but chose to honor their agreement to compete only in physical strength.
• The Saint Emperor hammered Luo Hong with waves of Buddha Hands until the final barrage buried him in a Giant Pit, and the Fat White Monk assumed the Saint Emperor had won.
• Purple Lightning blasted away the dust to reveal Luo Hong unharmed, and he said that the warm-up was over.

Luo Hong defeated the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor and announced that he would establish a dojo at the Sunset Tomb. He met Mo Jianli in Saint Emperor City, discussed Qing Yuanzi and the Sunset Tomb, and ended the chapter sharing fine wines with the Human Race’s leaders.

• Luo Hong used the Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body to send the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor crashing through a mountain and into a gorge, then declared that unauthorized visitors to his Sunset Tomb dojo would be killed.
• Mo Jianli contacted Luo Hong, invited him to the Saint Emperor Hall, and confirmed that he was the Ascended Cultivator who had disappeared several hundred years earlier.
• The Withered Yellow Old Man and the Fat White Monk found the injured Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor, who recovered enough to return to the hall and join Luo Hong and Mo Jianli.
• Luo Hong explained how Qing Yuanzi had seized a Changyuan Race body and lost half his memories, then said that persuading him to return would require a way to help him survive the Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor agreed to cooperate over Luo Hong’s plans for the Sunset Tomb, and Mo Jianli offered to notify ancestor Ao Xiao about the monster race.
• Luo Hong brought out three kinds of spirit wine, and the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor welcomed a celebratory drink with Mo Jianli and the others.

Luo Hong revealed his plans for the Sunset Tomb and openly pursued the Spirit Emperor position, prompting Mo Jianli to appoint him in advance and arrange for a Vice Emperor election. After Luo Hong left, the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor pledged support for the Sunset Tomb and ordered an investigation into rumors about the captured Heavenly Fox Demon King.

• Luo Hong told the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor and Mo Jianli that he planned to recruit Human Race Cultivators, especially Artifact Refiners and Formation Masters, to develop the Sunset Tomb.
• Luo Hong admitted that he intended to secure the Spirit Emperor position, and Mo Jianli appointed him in advance while requiring an assembly to elect a Vice Emperor.
• Luo Hong discussed laws with Mo Jianli for more than ten days and explained that his study of many laws served his pursuit of the Primordial Law.
• Luo Hong departed for Sunset City, and the Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor told the Fat White Monk that he would support the Sunset Tomb as a source of strength against the devilish tribulation.
• The Withered Yellow Old Man reported that Luo Hong had prevailed over Huang Bing and the other Three Great Demon Kings through his Spirit Beast, puppets, and incarnations, and that a rumor claimed he had taken Xin Liuniang's Yin Essence.
• The Heavenly Origin Saint Emperor dismissed the rumor, ordered the Withered Yellow Old Man to investigate the Sky Fox Demon Race, and left to recover from his injuries.