Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong hosted a vast banquet before beginning a seven-day exposition of the Five Elements Great Dao, drawing the gathered cultivators into profound visions. As the exposition began, Senior Hui of the Sky Fox Clan secretly attacked the audience, but Luo Hong pulled her avatar into his primordial spirit for a Body Seizure battle.

• Luo Hong welcomed the gathered cultivators, and forty-nine rivers of spirit fruits appeared for them to take from their tables.
• Luo Hong provided spirit wine, exotic beasts, and Enlightenment Tea, then began expounding the Five Elements Great Dao.
• Mo Jianli recognized the unusual power of Luo Hong's teaching and urged the Integration Stage cultivators to open their primordial spirits and accept the opportunity.
• Yang Mu told Luzhu that the Spirit-Seeking Array had detected unusual activity, and Luzhu inferred that an outsider had infiltrated the area before flying back to watch.
• Senior Hui secretly spread gray spiritual threads through the auspicious clouds, afflicting more than ten thousand cultivators with nightmares.
• Luo Hong pulled Senior Hui's avatar into his primordial spirit, where she transformed into a vast gray curtain but could not cover the five-colored space.

Luo Hong captured and refined the Shadow Race Mahayana Cultivator’s incarnation, using its spirit essence to strengthen his seven-day Law Intent lecture. After the lecture ended, Mo Jianli ordered the gathered cultivators to stay while they searched for anyone who had fainted during the event.

• The Shadow Race incarnation revealed that it had come to measure Luo Hong’s primordial spirit for a plan with Old Monster Sang, and Luo Hong declared his intention to exterminate both races.
• Luo Hong used the Candle Dragon Golden Flame to overcome the incarnation’s Spirit-Control Threads, then sealed and refined it to reinforce his Law Intent.
• Mo Jianli recognized Thousand-Faced Ancestor’s incarnation within the flame and realized Luo Hong was using it to strengthen the lecture’s Law Intent.
• After seven days, Luo Hong ended the lecture and left, while Luan Qingqing discovered that her fox tail and bloodline had improved.
• Mo Jianli ordered the gathered cultivators not to leave, and Xin Liuniang explained that they were checking for people who had fainted during the lecture.

Miao Hu and Xin Liuniang uncovered that a Shadow Race Mahayana incarnation had infiltrated the celebration by parasitizing Hui Shiqin, but Luo Hong exposed and refined it, then rallied the assembled cultivators to fight the Shadow Race. Meanwhile, Thousand-Faced Old Ghost and Luo Kong debated how to survive the growing war, and the Shadow Race began preparing to hide if defeat became likely.

• Miao Hu recognized signs of Shadow Race parasitization in Hui Shiqin and alerted Xin Liuniang, who examined Hui Shiqin and Hui Yu.
• Mo Jianli announced that a Shadow Race Mahayana incarnation had used Hui Shiqin's identity to infiltrate the celebration, and that Luo Hong had exposed and refined it.
• Luo Hong vowed to destroy the Shadow Race within a hundred years, and the gathered cultivators pledged to follow him.
• Thousand-Faced Old Ghost and Luo Kong rejected seeking aid from the Spirit, Mayfly, or Flying Spirit Races, so Luo Kong proposed approaching the Jia Tun Clan.
• After Luo Kong left, another Shadow Race Mahayana Cultivator urged Thousand-Faced Old Ghost to pursue the Shadow Concealment Plan if the war turned against them.

Luo Hong prepared to leave for the Spirit Race after the birth of his first child, but first summoned Yang Mu to discuss his cultivation forces and investigate why he had used the Returning Sun Secret Technique. He assigned Yang Mu the Sky Patrol Plan, then learned that Yang Mu had found traces of a Senior Disciple Sister.

• Ten days after recovering, Luo Hong welcomed his first child with his Senior Sister and prepared to settle the Wood Race matter before traveling to the Spirit Race with Baohua.
• Luo Hong summoned Yang Mu, rewarded him for his work, and heard that the Supreme Yang Spell Cultivators had grown by 320,000, with 3,000 reaching Deity Transformation and Yang Mu advancing to Void Refinement.
• Luo Hong explained that he planned to build more Supreme Yang Star Fortresses and use them to reach Human Races in nearby realms through the Sky Patrol Plan.
• Luo Hong instructed Yang Mu to help imperiled Human Races, offer Spirit World migration to those who met aptitude requirements, and spread the fortresses' reputation; he promised to accept Yang Mu as a formal disciple if he succeeded.
• Luo Hong asked why Yang Mu had used the Returning Sun Secret Technique, and Yang Mu said he had found traces of a Senior Disciple Sister.

Luo Hong investigated the sigils that Yang Mu found and confirmed that Fan Mengyi had left them while traveling with an unknown sword-carrying elder. He learned that she had crossed the ancient immortal formation and planned to follow her trail after completing his plans in the Wood Race.

• Yang Mu showed Luo Hong four lineage sigils and a map, prompting Luo Hong to investigate their origin himself.
• At the first sigil in the Secret Cloud Mountains, Luo Hong failed to reverse time because a mysterious force interrupted his Star Pupil Illusion World Art.
• Luo Hong questioned Youlin, who revealed that he had seen a man and woman arguing on the Sinan Ancient Altar about two hundred years earlier, then extracted Youlin's memories and rewarded him for his silence.
• Luo Hong confirmed that the woman was Fan Mengyi and identified the other figure as an unfamiliar sword-carrying elder in green robes.
• At the ancient immortal formation, Luo Hong extracted and sealed a strand of Immortal Spiritual Qi, then decided to pursue the fourth sigil into the Wood Race after finishing his plans there.

Luo Hong and Hua Rui infiltrated the Wood Race’s Holy Land defenses, using Hua Rui’s credentials to pass the identity checks. Mu Jiao assigned Hua Rui to command the Holy Spirit disciples and demanded she take a poisonous pill, leaving Luo Hong and the group facing a new route into the Holy Land.

• After arriving at the Wood Race Teleportation Hall, Hua Rui and her companions passed through the Mystic Wood Formation, while Luo Hong’s concealed presence escaped detection.
• The Seventh Elder tried to seize Hua Rui under the pretext of inspecting her, but Mu Jiao summoned him away on Wu Tong’s orders to support the front lines.
• Mu Jiao inspected Hua Rui’s primordial spirit, accepted her account of their delayed return, and offered her a choice between entering the Holy Land to heal or serving under her command.
• Mu Jiao told Hua Rui that her Orange Rank subordinates could not enter the Holy Land without merit and asked her to lead the Holy Spirit disciples in the former Palace Master’s absence.
• Mu Jiao required Hua Rui to swallow a poison curable only by the Black Spirit Flower, while Luo Hong urged her to accept the assignment.

Luo Hong entered the Wood Race Holy Land with Hua Rui and learned that it had three layers centered on the Black Spirit Sacred Tree. As he considered how to steal the Small Sacred Tree and recruit Holy Spirit disciples, he found a seal marked “Black Spirit Origin.”

• Hua Rui swallowed the pill and followed Mu Jiao toward the Wood Race Holy Land with Luo Hong and the others.
• Mu Jiao opened a passage through the Holy Land’s illusion formation, and Luo Hong saw the Black Spirit Sacred Tree replenishing the healing light as wounded Wood Race cultivators recovered.
• Mu Jiao brought the group to the Branch Domain, gave Hua Rui a roster and a Restriction Token, then went underground to the Root Domain.
• Luo Hong learned that the Holy Land had Wood Spirit, Branch, and Root Domains, and concluded that the Wood Race was preparing to evacuate its Holy Spirit disciples.
• Luo Hong approached the wooden houses to recruit disciples but stopped when he found a talisman seal inscribed with “Black Spirit Origin.”

Luo Hong discovered that Fan Mengyi’s talisman mark led to a Holy Spirit Formation that pulled his Time Illusion Body into the Black Spirit Sacred Tree. He entered the tree’s inner space and encountered Wu Tong, who accused him of stealing the Black Spirit Wood Heart.

• Luo Hong realized the talisman mark had stopped pointing the way and suspected Fan Mengyi and the Sword-carrying Elder were in the Wood Race Holy Land.
• Luo Hong sent a Holy Spirit disciple to meet Hua Rui, then used a Time Illusion Body to test the Holy Spirit Formation.
• The formation turned red and dragged the Time Illusion Body through the branch into the Black Spirit Sacred Tree.
• Luo Hong linked his consciousness to the illusion body and searched the tree’s inner space, but found neither Fan Mengyi nor the Black Spirit Wood Heart.
• Wu Tong entered the Black Spirit Space, accused Luo Hong of taking the Sacred Tree Heart, and was overwhelmed by the illusion body’s spiritual sense.

Luo Hong confronted the Sword-carrying Elder over Fan Mengyi, whom the elder had forcibly taken as his disciple, and survived the elder’s Sword of Karma through a mysterious karmic bond. The elder took the Black Spirit Wood Heart’s hidden small sword and left with Fan Mengyi, while Luo Hong and Wu Tong remained behind.

• Wu Tong discovered Luo Hong, Fan Mengyi, and the Sword-carrying Elder inside the Black Spirit Space, where Fan Mengyi protested that the elder had broken his promise to release her.
• Luo Hong challenged the Sword-carrying Elder to protect Fan Mengyi, and the elder agreed to test him with three swords.
• Luo Hong evaded the first sword and resisted the Sword of Karma, but the elder’s blade struck an unknown karmic connection and rebounded, injuring the elder and restoring the severed ties.
• The Sword-carrying Elder cut into the Black Spirit Wood Heart, took a hidden Milky White Small Sword, and vanished with Fan Mengyi.
• Luo Hong let the elder leave, and the Golden Light Figure disappeared before Wu Tong.

After the Black Spirit Sacred Tree was damaged, Wu Tong began evacuating the Wood Race from the Holy Land while preparing to move the tree. Luo Hong exploited the evacuation to seize hidden treasures and Sacred Spirit disciples, while the Sword-carrying Elder brought Fan Mengyi to a Dragon Island.

• Wu Tong recognized that the Sacred Tree's damaged vital energy made evacuation urgent and ordered the Wood Race to withdraw to its ancestral land.
• Luo Hong learned that Fan Mengyi was with the Sword-carrying Elder and decided to master the Spirit Control Heaven Reaching Technique while preparing to ambush the Skeleton True Immortal.
• Wu Tong and Mu Jiao teleported the Wood Race teams away from the Holy Land, then Wu Tong began moving the Sacred Tree as the armies clashed at the front.
• Luo Hong crushed an Earth Vein Stone, took its hidden treasures, and learned from Hua Rui that the Earth Fiend Ancestral Restriction could be undone at the Wood Race's ancestral land.
• Luo Hong sent the Sacred Spirit disciples into his Netherworld Grotto-heaven and ordered Hua Rui to help gather the other groups.
• The Sword-carrying Elder arrived with Fan Mengyi on an island where a Golden Horned Man was cultivating and declared that he would replenish his lost vital blood with the man's.

After completing his task in the Wood Race ancestral land, Luo Hong was captured by Liu Cheng and taken to a meeting with Yaksha and Jia Tun cultivators. He discovered they planned to use Liu Cheng’s breakthrough as bait to ambush him, and he activated his Devouring Demonic Armor as the group prepared to leave.

• Luo Hong captured the Sacred Spirit disciples, extracted the Earth Fiend Ancestral Qi from the Wood Race ancestral land, and set out for the Spirit Race.
• Liu Cheng recognized Luo Hong in disguise, captured him, and brought him to meet two Yaksha cultivators and Chi Guang, a member of the Jia Tun Clan.
• Chi Guang revealed that his master and the Yaksha Race planned to help Liu Cheng break through so they could lure Luo Hong into an ambush.
• Luo Hong learned that the Jia Tun Clan’s master and the Shadow Race’s Thousand-Faced Ancestor would join the attack, and decided the scheme would fail now that he knew about it.
• As Liu Cheng prepared to leave with Luo Hong, Luo Hong activated his Devouring Demonic Armor, prompting the Jia Tun giant man to call them back.

Luo Hong learned that the Jia Tun Clan was backing the Yaksha Race to counter the Mayfly Race, threatening to destabilize the continent, and decided to intervene without killing either leader. He sealed Liao Kui, took his identity, and prepared to deal with the Thousand-Faced Old Ghost.

• Liao Kui ordered Liu Cheng to leave Luo Hong behind, then questioned Luo Kong about the Heaven Swallowing Art and confirmed Luo Kong intended to use it to reach the Mid Mahayana Stage.
• Luo Kong agreed to make the Yaksha Race a Jia Tun Clan vassal and sweep away nearby clans, while Liao Kui explained the Jia Tun Clan's plan to counter the Mayfly Race.
• Luo Hong realized that the Jia Tun Clan and Mayfly Race could escalate their rivalry into war, and decided that neither Luo Kong nor Liao Kui could be killed without causing greater trouble.
• Liao Kui tried to seize Luo Hong's Myriad Treasures Pouch, but Luo Hong broke free and used the Power of Time and Power of Space to seal him after resisting his spear attack.
• Luo Hong stored Liao Kui in the Portable Jade Mansion, told Cheqi Gong and Feng Xie to guard him, and transformed himself into Liao Kui to pursue the Thousand-Faced Old Ghost.

After learning that Luo Hong was near the Black Yin Mountain Range, Luo Hong, disguised as Liao Kui, arranged a trap at Black Shadow Mountain around Liu Cheng’s Mahayana breakthrough while the Shadow Race prepared a diversionary offensive. The chapter left Ao Xiao withdrawing the Human and Monster Races’ armies as the Shadow Race charged into a prepared ambush.

• Luo Hong, disguised as Liao Kui, met Luo Kong and Thousand-Faced, who reported Luo Hong’s attacks and located him near the Black Yin Mountain Range.
• Luo Hong and his allies chose Black Shadow Mountain as the trap site and arranged a Shadow Race counteroffensive to draw attention away from Liu Cheng’s breakthrough.
• Five days later, Liu Cheng began advancing to Mahayana at Black Shadow Mountain as unusual spiritual phenomena gathered.
• Master Tianchan detected the breakthrough and reported it to Ao Xiao, who ordered the Human and Monster Races’ armies to activate their self-destruct restrictions and withdraw.
• The Shadow Race army launched its full-scale assault, unaware that Luo Hong and Ao Xiao had anticipated their plan.

Luo Hong watched Luo Kong and Thousand-Faced’s alliance collapse as the Shadow Race suffered a devastating defeat, then joined Luo Kong to attack Thousand-Faced. Thousand-Faced unleashed the Shadow-Severing Bell, and Luo Hong and Luo Kong countered it as the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Luo Kong searched for Luo Hong while Thousand-Faced shielded Black Shadow Mountain, and Luo Kong secretly set up blood arrays with Thousand-Faced’s help.
• Liu Cheng endured the Five Elements Tribulation and struggled through the later stages of the True Lightning Tribulation as news arrived that the Shadow Race had lost more than half its army.
• Thousand-Faced tried to leave for the front lines, but Luo Kong and Liao Kui blocked him, while Yaksha cultivators emerged from the blood arrays to intercept Shadow Race reinforcements.
• Luo Kong revealed his plan to devour Thousand-Faced, and Luo Hong joined the fight by striking with the Black Dragon Great Spear.
• Thousand-Faced reflected his Curse Art off Luo Hong’s Primordial Spirit, but Luo Kong struck him with a Blood-colored Trident.
• Thousand-Faced transformed into the Shadow-Severing Bell and unleashed devastating chimes, so Luo Hong used the Black Dragon to suppress the bell while Luo Kong prepared a powerful counterattack.

Luo Kong devoured Thousand-Faced and secured a path to the Mid Mahayana Stage, while Liu Cheng’s breakthrough ended when Luo Hong stole his wood heart. Luo Hong then deceived Luo Kong about supporting the Yaksha Race and fled with him as Shadow Race cultivators closed in.

• Thousand-Faced split into countless streaks to escape, but Luo Kong used the Heaven Swallowing Art to devour them all and gained the chance to advance to the Mid Mahayana Stage.
• Liu Cheng successfully advanced to Mahayana despite the Shadow-Severing Bell’s interference, and Luo Hong sensed the opportunity to take his wood heart.
• Luo Hong ripped the emerald-green wood heart from Liu Cheng’s phantom, causing Liu Cheng to perish before he could recover from his breakthrough.
• Luo Kong objected to Luo Hong’s attack, but Luo Hong warned him not to question his actions and falsely promised the Jia Tun Clan would help the Yaksha Race against the Demon Race.
• Luo Hong burned Liu Cheng’s physical body and flew away, while the injured Luo Kong followed as Shadow Race cultivators approached.

Six months after the Sea of Storms was cleared by the Supreme Yang Star Fortress, Luo Hong and Baohua entered Spirit Race territory to meet the Spirit King. The Spirit King welcomed them at Fu Ling Mountain and asked whether their visit concerned more than Luo Hong’s earlier agreement.

• Luo Hong’s Supreme Yang Star Fortress destroyed the Sea of Storms, and he ordered Liu Wei and Zhou Ming to build Spirit Communication City there within ten years.
• Luo Hong and Baohua arrived at Spirit Heaven Fortress, where Ling Ling recognized Luo Hong and let them enter after Baohua presented Holy Spirit Jade.
• Luo Hong and Baohua traveled through a series of Spirit Race cities to Cuiyan City, then followed Ling Yin and Ling Zhi to Fu Ling Mountain.
• The Spirit King welcomed Luo Hong and Baohua in Purple Qi Hall and asked whether they had come for more than Luo Hong’s agreement.

Luo Hong secured the Spirit King’s agreement to merge the Spirit Race with the Human and Monster Races and enlisted his help against the Skeleton True Immortal. While Baohua and the Spirit King prepared at Fu Ling Mountain, the Shadow Race began fleeing, and Luo Hong and Mo Jianli persuaded Ao Xiao not to stop them.

• Luo Hong gave the Spirit King an Immortal Yuan Stone and proposed that the Spirit Race merge with the Human and Monster Races under an Elder Council.
• The Spirit King agreed in principle to the merger after Luo Hong promised equal status for the three races.
• Luo Hong revealed the Skeleton True Immortal’s threat and convinced the Spirit King to help lure him to Fu Ling Mountain and fight him with Baohua.
• The Spirit King offered a Seal Immortal Bead to suppress the True Immortal and claimed his primordial spirit as his share of the spoils, while Luo Hong reserved the body and Baohua secured sixty years to study it.
• Baohua recovered at Fu Ling Mountain as the Spirit King persuaded his Holy Spirits to accept the merger and Luo Hong cultivated while awaiting the Skeleton True Immortal.
• After Mo Jianli discovered the Shadow Race’s escape plan, Luo Hong and Mo Jianli convinced Ao Xiao to let the Shadow Race flee.

After decades of war reshaped the five races, Luo Hong completed his cultivation experiment with the Black Spirit Life Creation Disk and discovered that his failed attempt to condense cloud qi stemmed from insufficient laws rather than magic power. He left confident that another Profound Heaven Spirit Domain could provide a solution, though Silver Fairy’s transformation nearly exhausted him.

• Luo Hong and Mo Jianli planned to keep the Shadow Race alive as a pretext for future wars and expansion, while Ao Xiao reluctantly accepted the scheme.
• Over sixty years, the Human and Monster Races seized two-thirds of Shadow Race territory, the Wood Race faced defeat, and the Demon Race prepared to attack the Yaksha Race.
• Luo Hong, disguised as Liao Kui, persuaded the Jia Tun Clan to cancel military aid for the Yaksha Race and send material aid to the Human and Monster Races instead.
• Luo Hong used the Black Spirit Life Creation Disk to form a dark domain and attempted to condense cloud qi, but the domain collapsed and the resulting black sphere crumbled.
• Luo Hong concluded that laws, not magic power, had caused the failed condensation and said he could cultivate another Profound Heaven Spirit Domain.
• Silver Fairy enlarged herself inside Luo Hong’s Sky Breaking Spirit Domain, nearly overwhelming his instantaneous magic power output, then returned to her normal size.

Luo Hong recovered his vitality with Silver Fairy’s help before the Spirit King summoned him to discuss the Skeleton True Immortal’s arrival. After learning that the enemy had attacked Zu Yun Fortress and escaped three Spirit Race Holy Spirits, Luo Hong went to meet Baohua at the Demon Trapping Great Formation.

• Luo Hong used the Sky Breaking Spirit Domain and Silver Fairy’s Essence Gathering ability to heal his injuries, then answered the Spirit King’s summons.
• At Zu Yun Fortress, the Golden Robe Youth attacked three Spirit Race Holy Spirits, who fled using spatial teleportation talismans despite his Spirit Capturing Heavenly Net.
• The Golden Robe Youth traced the Holy Spirits’ escape and began deducing the location of their spatial formation.
• The Spirit King treated the injured Holy Spirits and told Luo Hong that the anticipated third contact situation had occurred; Luo Hong concluded the enemy would target his Roaming Heaven Great Formation.
• The Spirit King saw Luo Hong’s memory of the True Immortal’s Bone Hand and argued that the enemy’s reforged body should count as additional loot; Luo Hong agreed and went to find Baohua.

The Golden Robe Youth suspected the three Holy Spirits had anticipated his arrival, then attacked Feng Jing City to gather blood for a sacrifice and restore his strength. Zhou Ming escaped toward Spirit Heaven Fortress while the Golden Robe Youth completed a Blood Pill, but the fiendish demon sent after Zhou Ming returned badly injured.

• The Golden Robe Youth detected that the precious medicine’s aura was at the location he had deduced, suspected a trap, and went to Spirit Heaven Fortress to prepare.
• Liu Wei and Zhou Ming discussed Feng Jing City’s development before their Spirit Contract burned and the city’s protective formation shattered.
• The Golden Robe Youth attacked Feng Jing City, overcame Liu Wei and Zhou Ming, and used the city’s Human Race cultivators in a blood sacrifice while slaughtering its Monster Race cultivators.
• Liu Wei gave Zhou Ming a Spirit Talisman and held off the Golden Robe Youth’s stamen filaments so Zhou Ming could escape toward Spirit Heaven Fortress.
• The Golden Robe Youth made a Blood Pill from the Human Race blood and sent a fiendish demon after Zhou Ming, but the demon returned severely injured.