Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong used the Parasitic Insect attack on Tanggu Great Camp to prepare a Blood Path scheme against the Mother of Parasitic Insects, then rescued a Human Race girl from a fleeing Demon Race group. He left with the girl aboard his boat, where she cautiously confirmed that he was Human Race.

• Luo Hong learned from Chizu that the Parasitic Insects were gathering blood food for the Mother of Parasitic Insects, and he planned to exploit her partial control of the ancient seal with Blood Pattern Fruits.
• Luo Hong infused a Parasitic Insect with a Blood Pattern Fruit and sent it into a fleeing swarm, then followed Baohua's hairpin toward her.
• Parasitic Insects overran Illusion Night City, and Zhong Qiuyue's group abandoned their slaves while escaping, but she ordered them to keep the Yellow-shirted Girl.
• Luo Hong appeared and destroyed the pursuing Insect Cloud with his Sky-Supporting Ghost Hand, then took the Yellow-shirted Girl and rewarded Zhong Qiuyue.
• Luo Hong revealed himself as Human Race to the frightened girl, who said the demons had kept her confined and forbidden her from speaking to anyone.

Luo Hong reached Heavenward Peak with Bai Guo'er, where he defeated Qian Feng and reunited with Baohua. As Baohua explained the forces gathering to confront the Mother of Parasitic Insects, Luo Hong considered how to unite the other-realm cultivators, and Qian Feng volunteered to help.

• Luo Hong arrived at Heavenward Peak with Bai Guo'er and called for Baohua, but Qian Feng confronted him and demanded a test of strength.
• Luo Hong overwhelmed Qian Feng with a single exchange, then prepared to attack his spirit beast before Baohua intervened and invited Luo Hong to her cave abode.
• Baohua explained that more than a hundred Mahayana cultivators had gathered near the Place of Initial Seal and would begin their operation in three to five years.
• Luo Hong and Baohua discussed the divided factions among the gathered cultivators and the need for a pure spirit cultivator to rally the other-realm allies.
• Qian Feng declared that he was famous among the realms and offered to gather those allies for Baohua.

Luo Hong persuaded Baohua to prepare a thousand Blood Pattern Fruits as a safeguard against the Mother of Parasitic Insects, warning that the danger might be greater than expected. Meanwhile, Chi Ya arrived at an ancient city in the Dry Soil Desert and confronted its defenders.

• Luo Hong assured Baohua that he would act when the opportunity arose, then asked whether her former subordinates could help distribute Blood Pattern Fruits across the Demon Realm.
• Baohua questioned the plan, but Luo Hong insisted that he and his companions would not join the operation unless she prepared for an unlikely danger.
• Baohua realized that the Mother of Parasitic Insects might use the seal to send parasitic insects inside and wear down the group, so she agreed to gather the Blood Pattern Fruits.
• An ancient city rose from beneath the Dry Soil Desert, and Chi Ya arrived in a white, dragon-drawn carriage.
• Chi Ya scolded the city’s defenders for letting Demon Race members run rampant as two Mahayana Cultivators appeared before him.

Chi Ya arrived among the foreign Mahayana cultivators, while Baohua returned to the ancient city with Qian Feng and Luo Hong, who concealed his identity as Mo Bufan. Baohua accepted the cultivators who trusted her into her faction, and the chapter ended with a messenger telling Lord Liu Ji that Baohua had arrived.

• Xia Yi Fairy and the Catfish-bearded Man welcomed Chi Ya and explained that the foreign cultivators would hold a competition to choose three leaders.
• Baohua arrived at the ancient city with Qian Feng and Luo Hong, and the Big-eared Old Man and others gathered with them in the Golden Palace.
• Luo Hong used his spiritual sense to assert his strength, introduced himself as Mo Bufan from the Spirit World, and learned that seventeen cultivators were expected to compete for leadership.
• After reviewing the contestants, Baohua accepted the foreign Mahayana cultivators in the hall into her faction.
• A rhinoceros-horned man told Lord Liu Ji that Baohua had arrived, and six pairs of blood-red eyes appeared beyond the stone door.

Baohua proposed a sixteen-person melee to settle doubts about her strength and choose the cultivators who would enter the seal. As the battle began at the Sea of Death, Luo Hong was intercepted by Mawa of the Autumn Water Realm, whose water-based spiritual body resisted his punch.

• Baohua explained her history and proposed a direct melee after Six Extremes questioned whether her abilities had recovered.
• Sixteen cultivators, including Baohua, Luo Hong, Chi Ya, and the Big-eared Old Man, traveled to the Sea of Death for the contest.
• At sunset, the participants began fighting above the sea as their attacks devastated the Night Terrors Beast swarm.
• Mawa blocked Luo Hong from reaching the others and attacked him with her claws after trying to charm him.
• Luo Hong struck Mawa, but her Autumn Water Spiritual Body restored her head and left her unharmed, so she unleashed her Sea-Splitting Divine Wind.

Luo Hong fought Mawa, the Empress of Rending Winds, while concealing his identity and relying on his powerful treasures to withstand her wind-and-water attacks. After he crushed her strongest strike, his Yellow Springs Ghost Hand pierced her, and its golden stems began draining her blood essence as Mawa cried out for him to stop.

• Mawa attacked Luo Hong with Azure Wind Disks, and their first exchange ended in a draw against his Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.
• Yuan Yan sensed that Luo Hong seemed familiar, but the Illusion Form golden light kept her from recognizing him.
• Luo Hong enlarged the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and used it with the Black Spirit Life Creation Disk to counter Mawa's intensified assault.
• Mawa unleashed her Sea-Splitting Divine Wind, but Luo Hong trapped and crushed the giant wind disk between the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand and a Five-colored Giant Hand.
• As Mawa tried to escape inside an Azure Wind Ball, golden stems from the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand pierced her and began absorbing her blood essence, prompting her to admit defeat.

Luo Hong defeated Mawa and then joined the battle around Baohua, where she faced a growing alliance of powerful contestants. Baohua damaged several opponents’ treasures with the Falling Star Banner, but the fight remained precarious until Luo Hong struck Chi Ya.

• Luo Hong withdrew after making Mawa retract her attack, and Mawa fled the contest.
• Baohua was besieged by Chi Ya and several contestants from the Wu Hua and Tian Bao Realms as Qian Feng engaged Chi Ya in close combat.
• Baohua used the Falling Star Banner to trap and damage the attackers’ treasures, but the banner’s power left her weakened.
• Baohua diverted the Flower Tree’s power to save Qian Feng, allowing the Peach-faced Girl to strengthen Chi Ya and the others.
• Chi Ya attacked Qian Feng and then tried to seal the space around Luo Hong, but Luo Hong escaped the restraint and struck him.

Luo Hong used his Heavenly Maze Spirit Domain to turn Chi Ya’s Fire Crow attack aside and send it toward the Peach-faced Girl. The redirected strike threatened to injure her as she fought Baohua, while Luo Hong continued trying to ease the pressure on Baohua without revealing his strongest abilities.

• Luo Hong drove Chi Ya back, then learned that the Catfish-bearded Man had used a True Water Law ability to repel his punch.
• Chi Ya transformed into a giant Fire Crow and unleashed his Law Divine Ability against Luo Hong.
• The Catfish-bearded Man blocked Luo Hong’s path with a net of water bubbles that threatened to disrupt spatial teleportation.
• Luo Hong used his Heavenly Maze Spirit Domain to alter the Fire Crow’s course and strip Chi Ya of control over it.
• The Fire Crow swept past Luo Hong and rushed toward the Peach-faced Girl, who was occupied fighting Baohua.

Luo Hong and Baohua survived Chi Ya's explosive clash with Peach Fairy's Profound Heaven Peach Branch, which destroyed the Sea of Death and ended the ongoing battles. Luo Hong proposed settling the remaining rankings with a duel against Peach Fairy, and they faced each other as the others watched.

• Peach Fairy's Profound Heaven Peach Branch amplified Chi Ya's Crimson Flame Fire Crow until it lost control and exploded, drying up the Sea of Death.
• Luo Hong, Baohua, and Peach Fairy escaped unharmed, while Chi Ya and several others suffered minor injuries and the Phoenix-robed Beauty and Scale-robed Man were badly hurt.
• The Phoenix-robed Beauty accused Chi Ya of betrayal, but the Scale-robed Man conceded defeat and withdrew with her.
• Chi Ya revealed a Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure, and Luo Hong recognized that his Heavenly Maze Spirit Domain could not control it with the Mitian Bell incomplete.
• Luo Hong called for a ceasefire and proposed that Baohua had secured first place, while he and Chi Ya should take second and third.
• Peach Fairy challenged Luo Hong's claim, so they agreed to duel and flew to the center of the battlefield.

Luo Hong defeated Peach Fairy by luring her into attacking his true body, then immobilizing her with a Curse Art and capturing her with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand. The battle ended with Luo Hong regaining the advantage and avoiding a prolonged contest.

• Luo Hong revealed his mastery of the Law of Death and attacked Peach Fairy with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, but she escaped using peach blossoms.
• Peach Fairy sent Life Law-infused blossoms past the Ghost Hand to attack Luo Hong, while the spectators debated their strategies and Baohua explained the blossoms’ danger.
• Luo Hong used a Curse Art to freeze Peach Fairy and captured her with the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.
• The Profound Heaven Peach Branch withdrew its power to protect itself, and Peach Fairy’s peach blossoms scattered as Luo Hong’s trap succeeded.

Luo Hong defeated Peach Fairy, and the gathered Mahayana cultivators split into three groups before holding a trade fair in Yellow Sand Ancient City. The fair ended with Luo Hong exchanging Breath Soil with Chi Ya for a bottle of Mahayana Beast Marrow.

• Peach Fairy broke free of Luo Hong's Yellow Springs Ghost Hand, but Luo Hong summoned a White Bone Dragon Head and forced her to concede defeat.
• The cultivators boarded the Golden Giant Boat and returned to Yellow Sand Ancient City, where they divided into groups led by Baohua, Chi Ya, and Luo Hong.
• Baohua proposed a trade fair and offered a Divine Glue Pill in exchange for Immortal Grade Spirit Wood, ultimately trading it for a Qing Mu box.
• Chi Ya offered Mahayana Beast Marrow for Breath Soil, and Luo Hong inspected the sealed bottle before agreeing to the exchange.
• Luo Hong and Chi Ya exchanged the Mahayana Beast Marrow and Breath Soil, while Rosy Cloud Fairy watched with reservations.

Luo Hong learned that the Golden Thunder Lion King's Blood Marrow could greatly benefit his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body, then saw Peach Fairy offer an incomplete Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure for trade. He suspected her Yang Banner was the Yang side of the Overturning Sky Banner.

• Rosy Cloud Fairy told the Catfish-bearded Man that her lightning-attribute treasure could help refine a tribulation-warding spiritual treasure, and he advised her to focus on cultivation instead.
• Luo Hong told Baohua that the Blood Marrow came from a Gold Thunder Lion King and that its Thunder Marrow Pills could help Mahayana Cultivators withstand heavenly tribulations.
• Luo Hong promised to save Baohua a pill if he refined enough, while Silver Fairy demanded to know why he wanted the Blood Marrow.
• Luo Hong explained that the Blood Marrow's fragrance had revealed its great benefit to his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body.
• Peach Fairy offered a banner for trade and explained that it was the Yang Banner, one half of an incomplete Profound Heaven Spiritual Treasure.
• Luo Hong recognized the banner's aura and suspected it was the Yang side of the Overturning Sky Banner.

Luo Hong traded a bottle of diluted Green Liquid for Peach Fairy’s incomplete Yang Banner, helping her obtain what she needed to heal Ancestor Long Mei. The deal left Luo Hong pleased with his gain, while he wondered whether Mo Bufan knew where the missing Yin Banner was.

• Peach Fairy demonstrated the Yang Banner’s powerful metal-element Law Power, and Chi Ya and the other cultivators assessed its potential.
• Peach Fairy demanded a bottle of Void Azure Crystal Liquid and at least three drops of True Dragon Blood for the banner, and the cultivators gave up trying to meet her terms.
• Baohua told Luo Hong that Peach Fairy sought the materials to heal Ancestor Long Mei, whose injuries Baohua had personally inflicted.
• Luo Hong offered Peach Fairy a bottle containing diluted Green Liquid, and she confirmed the contents before agreeing to trade the Yang Banner for it.
• Luo Hong kept the bottle’s true identity secret, while Peach Fairy celebrated the chance to heal Ancestor Long Mei and wondered whether Mo Bufan knew the Yin Banner’s location.

Luo Hong refined the Gold Thunder Lion King's Blood Marrow, advancing his Astonishing Thunder Immortal Body and discovering that one of his spirit apertures could store Immortal Spiritual Qi. As the Mahayana cultivators prepared to enter the Place of Initial Seal, a being inside the seal sensed Luo Hong's Immortal Spiritual Qi and resolved to seize his body.

• Luo Hong used Xue'er and the Blood Path Secret Technique to prepare his body, then refined the Lion King's Blood Marrow with Immortal Spiritual Qi.
• Inside the Place of Initial Seal, a being in an alms bowl awakened the altar, saw Luo Hong in an illusion, and decided his Thunder Spirit Immortal Body could help it return to the Immortal World.
• After three more months, Luo Hong joined Baohua, Chi Ya, and the other Mahayana cultivators above the ancient city, where Chi Ya reacted with alarm to Luo Hong's aura.
• Baohua told Luo Hong that the Parasitic Insects near the entrance had multiplied, so the groups would use warships to force their way through the swarm.
• Luo Hong produced the Luotian Boat and assured the others that its hidden mysteries would carry them through the insects without wasting their magic power.
• Yuan Yan dismissed the possibility that Luo Hong was an unusually powerful early-stage Mahayana cultivator, while Six Extremes remained uneasy about Baohua.

Luo Hong used Chizu’s Mother of Parasitic Insects aura to help the six groups cross the insect sea and reach the Place of Initial Seal. At the gorge above the seal’s underground core, the groups argued over who would descend first, and Baohua pressed Six Extremes to reveal her incarnations.

• The five warships fought through the parasitic insect sea while Luo Hong’s Luotian Boat held back, and Luo Hong used the Mother of Parasitic Insects’ aura to immobilize the high-grade insects.
• Luo Hong learned from Chizu that the insect sea contained over thirty thousand blood insects, including five thousand that Luo Hong had tampered with.
• The six groups reached the Place of Initial Seal, where White-bearded Son and a gray-haired old woman flew off to repair the outer restrictions.
• Baohua explained that the seal’s core lay in an underground palace beneath a gorge filled with poisonous purple mist and warned that the first group to descend might awaken the Mother of Parasitic Insects.
• Chi Ya and Luo Hong urged Baohua, Six Extremes, and Yuan Yan to choose who would descend first, while Baohua asked Six Extremes where her incarnations were; Six Extremes turned away without answering.

Luo Hong led the cultivators into the underground palace and helped rescue Copper Mountain’s group from the Mother of Parasitic Insects’ human-faced offspring. After a fierce battle, the cultivators wiped out the entire swarm and suffered no casualties.

• Yuan Yan forced Copper Mountain’s group to enter the gorge first, and their life disk soon signaled that they were under attack.
• Luo Hong led the other cultivators into the underground palace, where he found human-faced insects surrounding Copper Mountain’s group.
• Luo Hong and the Scale-robed Man tested the insects’ formidable defenses, while Peach Fairy agreed to strengthen the cultivators’ attacks with her Law Divine Ability.
• Luo Hong’s group broke through the encirclement, joined Copper Mountain’s group, and fought their way out under Luo Hong’s Purple Thunder Technique.
• Baohua’s forces joined the battle, and after one shichen the cultivators killed all the human-faced insects without suffering any casualties.

After the battle with the Human-faced Insects, Luo Hong’s group agreed to repair the underground palace’s Array Eyes while Baohua awakened the ancient seal’s spirit. As they reached the Array Eye Hall, Luo Hong sensed hidden, unusually greedy auras nearby and warned that a more powerful enemy might be waiting.

• Luo Hong recovered from the battle, accepted the insect cores his allies had collected, and gave Peach Fairy a share in thanks for her help.
• Baohua explained that the ancient seal had developed a spirit and proposed awakening it while the teams repaired the Array Eyes; she gave the leaders Phoenix Spirit Treasure Disks so they could teleport to her if needed.
• Six Extremes distributed the Array Eye diagrams, and Luo Hong led his group away from the plaza toward their assigned Array Eye Hall.
• Luo Hong noticed that the scattered Human-faced Insects did not seem to be guarding the Array Eyes and warned his group that stronger monsters might be nearby.
• After crossing the tower forest and a garden of silver-flowered shrubs, Luo Hong’s group reached the Array Eye Hall, where he sensed hidden auras drawing close.

Luo Hong rescued the Scale-robed Man from the Gray-eyed Girl, an incarnation of the Mother of Parasitic Insects wielding the Power of Time. After realizing she had separated the others into different past time periods, Luo Hong trapped her inside a Spatial Barrier, leaving her unable to escape.

• The Gray-eyed Girl hurled Luo Hong into the array eye hall, then reflected the group’s attacks and trapped Peach Fairy and the others in separate time periods.
• The Gray-eyed Girl killed the Scale-robed Man’s defenses, seized his Nascent Soul, and began to eat it.
• Luo Hong cut off the Gray-eyed Girl’s right arm and rescued the injured Scale-robed Man, who retreated into a Spirit Beast Bag.
• Luo Hong identified the Gray-eyed Girl’s time-based ability and secretly completed a Spatial Barrier while keeping her distracted.
• The Gray-eyed Girl tried to flee, but Luo Hong moved the completed barrier around her and trapped her inside.

Luo Hong helped Chizu take over the Gray-eyed Girl’s body and staged an attack so Peach Fairy and the others would retreat into the array eye hall. With the group gathered, he revealed how they could resist the Gray-eyed Girl’s time-warping ability.

• Chizu fused her primordial spirit with the Gray-eyed Girl, taking over her body and regaining her strength.
• Luo Hong and Chizu agreed to use Chizu’s access to the main body’s primordial spirit to attack it when it gathered its power.
• Chizu pierced Luo Hong with her carapace spikes, and Luo Hong faked a serious injury to persuade Peach Fairy and the others to flee into the array eye hall.
• Chizu tried to follow them but was slowed by the hall’s sealing power, then retreated.
• Luo Hong returned the Scale-robed Man’s Nascent Soul to the Phoenix-robed Beauty and explained that gathering Law Power together could force the Gray-eyed Girl to end her time-warping ability.

Luo Hong’s warning proved right as the Mother of Parasitic Insects trapped the cultivators and unleashed several Time Law-wielding monsters. After escaping his own seal with the Little Black Ball, Luo Hong waited as the abyss rose, while Baohua’s group faced an ambush on the underground palace’s second level.

• Luo Hong warned the cultivators that Six Extremes and Yuan Yan had likely set a trap, then the Ancient Talismans teleported everyone into sealed water bubbles.
• Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball’s Primordial Power to escape his bubble and saw the abyss rising toward him.
• The sealing spirit’s power was stripped away, and Baohua realized the Mother of Parasitic Insects had exploited the array-eye halls.
• A massive azure claw killed Fellow Daoist Song, and the Gray-eyed Girl devoured his Nascent Soul before repelling Fellow Daoist Xiang’s attack.
• Ming Er and another strange insect appeared alongside the Gray-eyed Girl, and the cultivators discovered that all three wielded the Time Law.
• Baohua opened a passage through the Gray Mist and ordered the group to run as three more monsters closed in behind them.