Chapter Summaries

After returning to Tianling City, Luo Hong arranged to resume the Blood Sea sacrifice and use Zhou Mei’s Helian Merchant Alliance connection to track rare auction items. He reunited Nangong Wan and Yu Ruoxi with the prospect of entering the Guanghan Realm, then settled into seclusion to recover and pursue an extensive cultivation plan.

• Luo Hong stored Baohua, who had transformed into a crystal flower tree and sealed her primordial spirit for three years, then ordered Zhou Mei to resume the Blood Sea sacrifice and seek rare treasures through the Helian Merchant Alliance.
• Zhou Mei revealed she was a member of the Helian Merchant Alliance and offered to obtain advance auction records for Luo Hong.
• Yu Ruoxi told Nangong Wan that Han Li had entered seclusion to pursue a Grand Ascension breakthrough, and Luo Hong promised to have Yu Ruoxi take Nangong Wan to the Guanghan Realm.
• Luo Hong scolded Luzhu for her slow cultivation, learned that Yang Mu was overseeing a Golden Flame Sand Mine, and ordered Luzhu into seclusion.
• Luo Hong assessed his plans for the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, the Sky Patrol Plan, and his cultivation, deciding to integrate the Beast Dao and Human Path methods into his technique before entering seclusion.

After two sixty-year cycles of seclusion, Luo Hong emerged to pursue the Overturning Sky Banner at a Helian Merchant Alliance auction, while his Life Source Technique revealed an unexpected benefit: Primordial Power refined his Essence, Energy, and Spirit. He and Zhou Mei reached the Chirong Mountain Range, bound for the auction’s location at Black Scorching Peak.

• Baohua recovered the Origin Power of the Profound Heaven Flower Tree, gained a Golden Sun Wood from Luo Hong, and led the Sacred Sacrifice army back into the Demon Realm.
• Mo Jianli and Ao Xiao named the three-race alliance the Ling Xia Clan and promoted a shared identity among its cultivators.
• Yang Mu began the Sky Patrol plan aboard nine Lesser Supreme Yang Star Fortresses, collecting Heavenly Sha and rare materials while establishing Ascension Platforms in lesser realms.
• Luo Hong cultivated the Five Organs Tempering Yuan Technique and discovered that the Life Source Technique used Primordial Power to cleanse his body and primordial spirit.
• After Zhou Mei reported an auction listing the yin aspect of the Overturning Sky Banner, Luo Hong ended his seclusion and traveled with her toward Black Scorching Peak.
• Zhou Mei asked a Four-eared Alien for directions, learned that Red Mist had made Black Scorching Peak a Forbidden Land, and rewarded him with two High-grade Spirit Stones.

Luo Hong arrived at the Helian Merchant Alliance’s auction site and met Venerable Ming, who offered him generous hospitality in hopes of gaining his help expanding the Alliance’s trade across realms. Luo Hong accepted the Alliance’s Fragrant Maidens and proposed cooperation that would benefit the Ling Xia Clan.

• Venerable Ming recognized Luo Hong and Little Gold, welcomed them, and offered to cover twenty percent of Luo Hong’s auction purchases while asking about Mo Bufan.
• Venerable Ming confirmed that the auction would take place in three months inside a Cave Heaven and ordered Steward Zhou to provide Luo Hong with the highest standard of hospitality.
• Luo Hong entered the Cave Heaven with Zhou Mei, where Little Gold’s presence caused the giant eagles to fall until Luo Hong told her not to make trouble.
• Steward Zhou brought Luo Hong and Zhou Mei to the Immortal Welcoming Tower, where a Purple-robed Woman presented twelve Fragrant Maidens as a gift.
• Luo Hong accepted the Fragrant Maidens and told the Alliance that cooperation would require more than small favors, suggesting that it begin cross-realm expansion with smaller realms and include the Ling Xia Clan.

After three months of waiting, Luo Hong and Zhou Mei entered the Helian Merchant Alliance’s auction venue, where Luo Hong’s Netherworld Grotto-heaven briefly threatened the alliance’s Cave Heaven. The auction began under Venerable Ming’s authority, and Hu Shuangyu introduced the first items as Luo Hong waited for the Overturning Sky Banner.

• Luo Hong waited in the Immortal Welcoming Tower while Zhou Mei traded in the underground market, then received Flying Cloud Fairy’s invitation to the auction.
• At the tower entrance, Luo Hong recognized the alliance’s venue as a third-tier Spirit Evolution Cave Heaven and concealed his fourth-tier Netherworld Grotto-heaven before entering.
• Flying Cloud Fairy escorted Luo Hong and Zhou Mei to a private room overlooking the auction plaza, where Luo Hong offered to lend Zhou Mei Spirit Stones.
• Venerable Ming opened the auction and warned the assembled cultivators that everyone, including Mahayana cultivators, had to obey the rules.
• Hu Shuangyu began hosting, but Luo Hong’s spirit pet frightened her, and he told her to begin the auction without delay.

At the Helian Merchant Alliance auction, Luo Hong used his Human Path Secret Technique to overpower the Four Elders after they provoked him. He left the elders badly injured and established his strength before the auction’s finale items were presented.

• Zhou Mei bought a pill and a highly ranked spirit sword with Luo Hong’s support, then watched as Mahayana Cultivators competed for tribulation-avoiding treasures.
• Hu Shuangyu summoned the Four Elders to present the finale items, and they mocked her while indirectly challenging Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong drew the Four Elders’ Nascent Souls into the First Primordial Secret Realm, where time passed differently and outside help could not reach them.
• The Four Elders formed a thirty-six-layer defense, but Luo Hong shattered it with a whip made from gathered spiritual sense.
• Luo Hong ended the technique, leaving the Four Elders screaming on the platform as the auction crowd and Mahayana Cultivators wondered what had happened.

Luo Hong subdued the Helian Merchant Alliance’s Four Elders, then won the auction for the Overturning Sky Banner’s Yin Banner and the Immortal Patrol Token. The auction continued with Venerable Ming revealing a final item whose powerful medicinal fragrance surprised even Luo Hong.

• Venerable Ming calmed the injured Four Elders and resumed the auction after Luo Hong defended his conduct and urged the alliance to consider their cooperation.
• Venerable Ming presented the Overturning Sky Banner’s Yin Banner, and Luo Hong won it with a bid of one billion Spirit Stones.
• Venerable Ming auctioned the Immortal Patrol Token, and Luo Hong explained that it belonged to an Immortal Patrol Envoy and could earn him merit if returned to the Heavenly Court.
• Xu Yinzi invited Luo Hong to share Spirit Tea, and Luo Hong accepted while saying he wanted to ask about his friends in the Mayfly Race.
• Venerable Ming unveiled the final auction item, a Silver Alms Bowl whose intense medicinal fragrance astonished Luo Hong and captivated the gathered cultivators.

At the auction’s finale, Luo Hong discovered that the supposed Ancestral Dragon Blood contained both Nightmare Dragon Blood and Candle Dragon Blood, explaining why his flame reacted to it. He began extracting its Power of Time despite suspecting the True Dragon Clan was concealing its interest in the blood.

• Venerable Ming revealed a golden dragon swimming in a bowl and explained that it was transformed from a drop of essence blood the alliance believed to be Ancestral Dragon Blood.
• Luo Hong and a black-robed cultivator both interrupted the auction to inspect the blood, and Luo Hong’s Candle Flame caused it to react.
• Luo Hong entered the First Primordial Secret Realm and found that the blood’s Power of Time was intertwined with the Nightmare Dragon’s power.
• Luo Hong realized the blood combined Nightmare Dragon Blood and Candle Dragon Blood, and concluded that the True Dragon Clan could not openly collect it.
• Luo Hong decided to strip out the Power of Time and began extracting it from the essence blood.

Luo Hong witnessed the theft of the Nightmare Dragon Blood, realized Venerable Ming had deliberately allowed it to happen, and secured two favors from him. After buying a teleportation slot to Blood Sky Continent and arranging Zhou Mei’s return, Luo Hong received a visit from the thief, Tian Fei'er.

• Luo Hong broke the seal on the blood essence, and Venerable Ming promised him one-tenth of its auction proceeds as thanks.
• The Black Robe Man stole the Nightmare Dragon Blood with help from the Gray Shadow, and the two escaped using an ink-green formation tree and Elder Tokens.
• Venerable Ming accused Luo Hong of involvement, but Luo Hong privately exposed Ming’s plan and negotiated two favors in exchange for keeping it secret.
• Luo Hong bought the first teleportation slot to Blood Sky Continent and arranged for Zhou Mei to return with Xu Yinzi instead of accompanying him.
• Tian Fei'er revealed her identity to Luo Hong at the Immortal Welcoming Tower, and he calmly told her he could capture her.

Luo Hong accepted Tian Fei'er's invitation to compete for a Guang Ling Dao Fruit quota, while suspecting she was trying to lure him to Dragon Island over the Nightmare Dragon Blood. He traveled to the Blood Sky Continent and secretly marked Tian Fei'er before she departed.

• Tian Fei'er offered Luo Hong a silver dragon-scale token and promised covert help securing a Guang Ling Dao Fruit quota in exchange for his assistance.
• Luo Hong stored the scale in the Little Black Ball and told Silver Fairy he suspected Tian Fei'er wanted to draw him to Dragon Island; Tian Fei'er and Gray Shadow discussed their suspicions about him in an underground chamber.
• After three days, Luo Hong departed through the cross-continent Teleportation Array with the other travelers, while Venerable Ming confirmed the teleportation had consumed the power of fifty-seven people.
• At the Blood Sky Continent, Luo Hong took a map and flew off on Little Gold, and Tian Fei'er revealed herself from a jade pendant before leaving on her own.
• Luo Hong revealed that he had placed a concealed spiritual-sense tracking mark on Tian Fei'er that would vanish if another person detected it.

Luo Hong traveled to Qiyun Mountain Range to locate the Ancient Altar where Ma Liang was expected to descend into the lower realm. After asking local cultivators for its location, he was told the altar had been abandoned, and a young disciple who might know its whereabouts was revived with Luo Hong’s pill.

• Luo Hong chose to visit Qiyun Mountain Range before pursuing his plans for Netherworld Grotto-heaven in the Yellow Springs Realm.
• Silver Fairy opened a Spatial Rift, and Little Gold carried Luo Hong through it to Blood Sky Continent.
• Luo Hong and Little Gold arrived amid a fight between Blood Wave Sect elders and their disciples, and Little Gold’s scorching wind knocked the cultivators from the sky.
• Luo Hong asked the Blood Fiend Elder and Blood Scale Elder where the Ancient Altar was, but neither knew its exact location.
• The Blood Scale Elder suggested that his unconscious descendant might know the altar’s location, so Luo Hong gave him a pill to revive the young man.

Luo Hong took Jiang Dong to the Ancient Altar beneath Black Water Peak and destroyed the blood mosquito swarm with a single Ghost Hand strike. He then recruited the Demon Bone Sect’s sect master, Blood Consort, to help gather and refine materials for him.

• Luo Hong learned that the Ancient Altar lay beneath Black Water Peak, took Jiang Dong aboard the Luotian Boat, and flew there.
• Luo Hong found the blood mosquito swarm away from its nest and burned the eggs around the altar with the Golden Flame Little Sculpture.
• The blood mosquito swarm abandoned its attack on the Demon Bone Sect and rushed back to Black Water Peak, where Luo Hong’s enormous Ghost Hand crushed it against the mountain.
• Luo Hong brought the Demon Bone Sect’s sect master, Blood Consort, and Elders Fan and Wu aboard his Spirit Boat after they witnessed his attack.
• Luo Hong gave Blood Consort a list of required materials and asked her sect to gather them, then learned that she was named Blood Consort.

Luo Hong lent Blood Consort the Divine Edge Shadowless Sword and sent her and Jiang Dong back to the Demon Bone Sect to rally the Qiyun Nineteen Sects. Blood Consort turned the assignment into a plan to intimidate the sects into cooperating, then prepared to use the sword’s power to make her threats convincing.

• Xue'er refined the blood mosquitoes Luo Hong sent into the Blood Sea, eventually turning some into explosive creatures and dragging the rest underwater.
• Luo Hong lent Blood Consort the Divine Edge Shadowless Sword and gave Jiang Dong a Five-Colored Crystal Shield before sending them back to the valley.
• Blood Consort ordered the Demon Bone Sect elders to invite the other eighteen sects to an assembly at Bone Melting Peak, threatening to dominate the Qiyun Mountain Range.
• Blood Consort explained to Jiang Dong that she planned to use the borrowed sword to secure cooperation, and proposed targeting Old Ghost Yan of the Corpse Fiend Sect to demonstrate its power.
• After learning Luo Hong was a Mahayana Ancestor, the Demon Bone Sect elders eagerly backed Blood Consort’s plan, and she refined sword qi into the Immortal Gathering Posts.

Luo Hong completed the Blood Spirit Bone Formation on the Black River Plain, turning it into a Dao Formation by borrowing the surrounding spiritual tide and the Power of Heavenly Dao. He rewarded the sect leaders who had gathered materials, then left them instructions to maintain the formation while he traveled to the Yellow Springs Realm.

• Blood Consort delivered Blood Spirit Bones to Luo Hong, subdued the other Eighteen Sects, and finished gathering materials ahead of schedule, earning cultivation pills as a reward.
• Luo Hong refined the Blood Spirit Bones into a formation and redirected the Black Water River to draw in a vast tide of Spiritual Qi.
• Blood Consort brought Qiyun's sect leaders to the Black River Plain, where they witnessed the formation transform into a Dao Formation.
• Luo Hong gave the assembled cultivators wooden boxes of rewards and jade slips explaining how their sects must maintain the formation.
• Luo Hong warned the sect leaders that the formation's success was tied to their survival, then prepared to leave for the Yellow Springs Realm to refine treasures.

Luo Hong left the Qiyun Cultivation World and arrived at Sky Horse City, where he used Little Gold and a fleeing beast tide to compel the city’s cultivators to help him. The chapter ended with He Quan leading Luo Hong to the hidden cross-realm Teleportation Array connected to the Lesser Cloud Realm.

• Luo Hong warned Blood Consort that a danger related to them might arise, then said he would return within ten years and departed.
• A massive flying beast tide approached Sky Horse City, and City Lord He Quan ordered the city’s defenses activated while they awaited reinforcements.
• The beasts began self-destructing against the city barrier, so He Quan and the other cultivators unleashed the grand array’s strongest ability to burn away most of the tide.
• A Golden Feather Great Peng pursued the remaining beasts and broke through Sky Horse City’s barrier, revealing Luo Hong and Little Gold as the cause of the danger.
• Luo Hong asked He Quan to activate the city’s array to the Lesser Cloud Realm, and He Quan led him to a hidden hall containing the cross-realm Teleportation Array.

Luo Hong traveled to the Lesser Cloud Realm with Sikong Ying, a cultivator from the Yellow Springs Realm, and learned how the upcoming Ghost Market could let them enter that dangerous realm. He decided to infiltrate through the Ghost Market when it opened in a little over a month and went with Sikong Ying to prepare.

• Luo Hong told He Quan that he was heading through the Lesser Cloud Realm to the Yellow Springs Realm, and He Quan assigned Sikong Ying to guide him.
• Luo Hong and Sikong Ying teleported to the newly formed Lesser Cloud Realm, then avoided cultivators from the Illusion Heart Sect near the arrival formation.
• Luo Hong revealed that he was a Human Race Heavenly Venerate, and Sikong Ying dispelled her illusion and asked him to bring her family and friends to the Spirit World when he returned.
• Sikong Ying explained that the Ghost Market opened every sixty years and that its gates would offer a way into the Yellow Springs Realm; the next opening was a little over a month away.
• Luo Hong agreed to enter through the Ghost Market in disguise and took Sikong Ying into the forest to prepare Yin Qi talismans.

Luo Hong and Sikong Ying entered the Yellow Springs Realm through the Gates of Hell and headed toward a secluded temple so Luo Hong could adapt to the realm’s laws. Along the way, Sikong Ying explained how ghosts ruled the realm and exploited humans, while a mortal Young Master mistook her for Luo Hong’s ghost servant.

• Purple Heart King and Fierce Division King entered the Gates of Hell to travel to the Ghost Market, leaving Buddha Bone King to guard their post.
• Luo Hong and Sikong Ying appeared in the valley, intimidated the gathered ghosts, and led them through the Gates of Hell toward Five Viscera Peak.
• Luo Hong chose to stay at a secluded temple while he adapted to the Yellow Springs Realm’s laws, and Sikong Ying explained that its ghost rulers kept humans as livestock and sold cultivators as blood food.
• On the path to the temple, a Young Master asked Luo Hong whether Sikong Ying was his ghost servant.

Luo Hong and Sikong Ying followed Sun Jianming's group into Huaimu Temple, where female ghosts tried to lure the travelers into a hot spring. Luo Hong exposed and defeated the ghosts, crushing their Ancestor's primordial spirit and taking control of the temple.

• Luo Hong warned Sun Jianming against going to Huaimu Temple, but Sun Jianming and his guards followed him and Sikong Ying there.
• The temple's illusion led Sun Jianming's group inside, while Luo Hong and Sikong Ying used them to find their way through it.
• Sun Jianming and his guards encountered female ghosts bathing in a hot spring, who tried to lure them into the water as blood food for their injured Ancestor.
• Luo Hong stopped the ghosts, crushed one with Universe Power, and trapped the others at the hot spring.
• Luo Hong seized the Ghost Tree Ancestor's primordial spirit and crushed it, leaving Huaimu Temple under his control.

After destroying the Ghost Tree’s primordial spirit, Luo Hong dealt with the surviving female ghosts and tested how much power the Yellow Springs Realm would allow him to use. He decided to raise the Ghost King Incarnation’s cultivation with Yellow Springs Ghost Qi so it could help him evade the realm’s Heavenly Dao restrictions.

• Luo Hong sent Sun Jianming and the other mortals out of the temple with their memories erased, then judged the female ghosts by their fiend energy.
• Luo Hong destroyed the female ghosts who had consumed living people and gave cultivation-boosting pills to the six who had preserved their original hearts.
• Luo Hong assigned the six female ghosts to the Ghost King Incarnation, which placed restrictions on them and ordered them to reach Nascent Soul within thirty years.
• Luo Hong tested his abilities and found that the Yellow Springs Realm limited him to power comparable to an Early Mahayana cultivator.
• Luo Hong explained that he would disguise himself through the Ghost King Incarnation and raise its cultivation, and Silver Fairy realized he planned to gather Yellow Springs Ghost Qi.

Luo Hong prepared the Ghost King Incarnation to fight a Yellow Springs Ghost King by using the Earth Vein Seal Spirit Technique. After fourteen days, he and Sikong Ying entered the bustling Ghost Market at Five Viscera Peak, where powerful ghosts and merchant alliances ruled amid constant danger.

• Luo Hong explained that he planned to strengthen the Ghost King Incarnation with ghost pearls and revealed that he had sensed a likely Yellow Springs Ghost King at Five Viscera Peak.
• Luo Hong gathered earth vein power and sealed the Ghost King Incarnation's strength with the Earth Vein Seal Spirit Technique while Sikong Ying watched over the others.
• Sikong Ying swallowed the White-robed Female Ghost and the other five ghosts so they could learn ghost cultivation from within her.
• After fourteen days, Luo Hong ended his seclusion and left with Sikong Ying for Five Viscera Peak as the Ghost Market reached its peak.
• Luo Hong flew openly into the Ghost Market, where low-ranking ghosts were devoured, trade disputes erupted, and order remained only inside shops backed by ghost kingdoms.

Luo Hong brought Sikong Ying to Five-Viscera Mountain, where he learned how the Yellow Springs ghosts traded and consumed human cultivators. After the ghosts’ blood-food feast provoked his anger, Luo Hong attacked the mountain and transformed it with Zhiyang power, drawing the Yellow Springs Ghost King into battle.

• Fierce Division King learned from the Big-headed Ghost that Nine Yin Cold Iron might be on Lung-Slice Peak, while Purple Heart King spotted Luo Hong and Sikong Ying and suspected Luo Hong possessed unusual strength.
• Luo Hong and Sikong Ying toured the Ghost Market, where Sikong Ying explained that ghosts bought human blood food and that human cultivators were both scarce and prized.
• Luo Hong rebuked Sikong Ying for trying to provoke his resentment toward the Yellow Springs Ghosts, then lost patience when a Green-faced Old Ghost invited him to eat Spleen-Liver Blood Soup.
• Luo Hong emerged from the Ghost King Incarnation and used the Yellow Springs Ghost Hand to crush down over Five-Viscera Mountain, trapping its ghosts.
• Luo Hong released a Golden Sun that flooded Five-Viscera Mountain with Zhiyang power, and the enraged owner of the voice from Spleen-Liver Peak charged at him.