Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong arranged to preserve Little Gold in ice while pursuing the materials needed to save her, then agreed to help True Lord Skyfire refine a magic treasure in exchange for rare materials. He studied artifact refining and produced practice weapons for Lan Yun Pavilion to sell, leaving its courtesans promoting his wares to customers.

• Luo Hong sealed the weakened Little Gold in ice until he could carry out his plan to save her.
• Luo Hong investigated True Lord Skyfire's reputation and decided to assist him with treasure refining.
• Luo Hong traded Spirit Stones and part of his Sea Suppressing Crystal for True Lord Skyfire's Seven-Colored Earth, then learned he would study and help refine the Purple Extreme Sword.
• Luo Hong spent two months studying artifact refining, then asked Hua Ling'er to buy materials for him in exchange for selling his practice Magic Artifacts through Lan Yun Pavilion.
• Hua Ling'er complained about the volume of Luo Hong's practice artifacts, and Xi'er tried to sell Young Master Long one of Luo Hong's Blazing Fire Shears before inviting him downstairs for another drink.

Over three years, Luo Hong advanced his treasure-refining skills under True Lord Skyfire and helped complete the Purple Extreme Sword. He stayed at Lan Yun Pavilion to prepare for the Tianxing Auction, where he hoped to obtain materials for an Ancient Treasure, and began making talismans to raise the Spirit Stones he needed.

• Luo Hong met Wang Tie and Liu Xinjing, then surpassed both of them in treasure refinement and became close with True Lord Skyfire.
• Luo Hong, Wang Tie, and Liu Xinjing supplied spiritual power for two months as True Lord Skyfire refined the Purple Extreme Sword, which emerged at 19 Spiritual Grade.
• True Lord Skyfire invited Luo Hong to attend the Tianxing Auction in his private room in exchange for helping refine Luo Hong's Ancient Treasure.
• Luo Hong calculated that he needed at least twenty thousand Spirit Stones for auction materials and was still about eight thousand short after setting aside funds for his arrays.
• Luo Hong began mass-producing Intermediate Talismans to raise money, bringing another wave of prosperity to Lan Yun Pavilion.

Luo Hong exchanged talismans for a rare spiritual material, joined the Miaoyin Sect as a Guest Elder, and attended the Tianxing Auction with True Lord Skyfire. As the auction began, Luo Hong noticed an interesting bidder for an earth-element material.

• Pavilion Master Hua brought Luo Hong to meet Miaoyin Sect Leader Si Yuqing, who invited him to become an Elder and offered him two maidservants.
• Luo Hong agreed to serve as the Miaoyin Sect's Guest Elder in exchange for Golden Silk Cloud, trading Si Yuqing twenty Intermediate Talismans for it.
• Three days later, Luo Hong and True Lord Skyfire entered the Tianxing Auction House, where a Star Palace cultivator praised Skyfire's Purple Extreme Sword and hinted that he should refine another treasure for Star Palace.
• After the auction began, Elder Gong offered a Yellow Ginger Crystal, and Luo Hong watched the bidders for a potential Earth Element Banner collaborator.
• Luo Hong spotted an interesting bidder for the Yellow Ginger Crystal.

Luo Hong attended the Tianxing Auction to acquire spiritual materials for refining the Five Elements Banner, while a mysterious cultivator’s purchase of the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart drew his attention. After the auction ended, Luo Hong and True Lord Skyfire stopped the mysterious cultivator to discuss a transaction involving the Purple Extreme Sword.

• Luo Hong watched the auction until the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart appeared, then bid against Fairy Wan Hua after she mistook True Lord Skyfire for his backer.
• A mysterious cultivator outbid Luo Hong for the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart, and Luo Hong recognized something unusual about him and chose not to challenge him further.
• Luo Hong acquired a Molten Soft Iron and used Star Palace’s second Blazing Sun Stone offering to outbid Night Dragon Island for the first one.
• The Heavenly Net Sect and Extreme Yin Island competed for the Purple Extreme Sword, which an unseen Star Palace Nascent Soul cultivator bought for one hundred and eighty thousand Spirit Stones; Fairy Wan Hua later purchased the final Ancient Treasure flute.
• After the auction, Luo Hong and True Lord Skyfire stopped the mysterious cultivator who had bought the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart, and Luo Hong requested a private discussion about a transaction.

Luo Hong traded the Spirit Fusion Array and twenty thousand Spirit Stones for the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart, unaware that the Wind-Splitting Beast secretly marked him and planned to ambush him outside Tianxing Island. A year later, Han Li arrived in Tianxing City and followed a talisman clue to Lan Yun Pavilion, where he learned that Elder Zhuo had gone out to sea to hunt demons.

• Luo Hong identified the Wind-Splitting Beast’s interest in combining lightning-attribute materials and offered the Spirit Fusion Array and twenty thousand Spirit Stones for the Ten Thousand Year Tree Heart.
• The Wind-Splitting Beast accepted the trade, secretly marked Luo Hong, and planned to capture him if he left Tianxing Island.
• Luo Hong told True Lord Skyfire he would form his Core Formation before refining the treasure and named his Junior Brother as the wood-element candidate.
• About a year after the auction, Han Li and Qu Hun arrived in Tianxing City and rented a cave abode on the thirty-ninth level of Holy Mountain.
• A young cultivator directed Han Li to Lan Yun Pavilion with a Spirit Tortoise Evasion Talisman, and Hua Ling'er told him Elder Zhuo had gone out to sea to hunt demons a year earlier.

Luo Hong established a secluded cultivation base in the Outer Sea, formed his Golden Core, and began returning toward Beast Island. On the way, he spotted a Level Five Bone Crab hunting a group of cultivators and decided to observe it before acting.

• Luo Hong reached a remote island, concealed it with formations, and imprisoned Ye Zhao and four other Qingyang Sect demon cultivators to cultivate toward their realm peaks.
• Luo Hong activated Ye Qing's restriction, but the Blood Marrow Crystal emerged as a Blood Infant; Luo Hong subdued it with spiritual sense and sealed it in the Demon Luring Cave.
• Luo Hong spent more than thirty years cultivating, formed his Golden Core, refined the Skeleton Head's Life-Taking Claw into a magic treasure, and set out for Beast Island.
• Luo Hong sensed a Level Five Demon Beast and approached cautiously to assess it before deciding whether to fight.
• The Bone Crab pursued and killed cultivators beneath its Demonic Cloud, while the surviving cultivators argued over whether to split up and flee.

Luo Hong returned to Tianxing City after rescuing Liu Xinjing and her aunt from a Bone Crab, learning that the Purple Extreme Sword’s Star Palace owner had mysteriously vanished. He reconnected with Si Qingyu and True Lord Skyfire, and the chapter ended with Old Demon Han arriving to meet him.

• Luo Hong used his Life-Taking Claws and eight Primordial Energy Water Thunders to kill the Bone Crab and save Liu Xinjing, her aunt, and the other fleeing cultivators.
• Liu Xinjing told Luo Hong that a Star Palace Elder who had received the Purple Extreme Sword had vanished, prompting Star Palace to search Tianxing City and summon True Lord Skyfire to help locate the sword.
• Luo Hong left Liu Xinjing and her aunt, traveled from Beast Island to Tianxing City, and rented a thirty-six-story cave residence.
• Si Qingyu congratulated Luo Hong, accepted his Storage Bags and Intermediate Talismans for sale, and agreed to help him refine treasures.
• Luo Hong learned Old Demon Han had visited Lan Yun Pavilion, then spoke with True Lord Skyfire about Core Formation and Core Fire before Old Demon Han arrived.

Luo Hong met Han Li and True Lord Skyfire to discuss refining the Five Elements Banner, an Ancient Treasure that could unleash powerful Five Elements Spells. After examining the method, they began planning the refinement, and Luo Hong grew wary when Skyfire mentioned calling in a favor from Star Palace.

• Han Li congratulated Luo Hong on forming his core, and Luo Hong praised Han Li’s pure magic power and prospects for Core Formation.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li and True Lord Skyfire jade slips containing the Five Elements Banner’s refinement method.
• True Lord Skyfire studied the method and praised its Spirit Augmentation Art, while Han Li recognized that the treasure resembled Formation Flags.
• Luo Hong explained the Five Elements Banner’s function, and True Lord Skyfire noted that it could summon Five Elements Divine Thunder.
• True Lord Skyfire said Wang Tie would join the refinement and proposed arranging a Five Elements Circulation Formation with help from Star Palace.
• Luo Hong worried that Star Palace’s favor might be connected to the Purple Extreme Sword.

Luo Hong and Han Li accompanied True Lord Skyfire to Star Palace’s Spirit Nurturing Hall, where they met Ling Yuling struggling to refine an unusual rope artifact. True Lord Skyfire attempted the refinement but failed, and Luo Hong asked whether the Dragon Soul Bell was important to their own Ancient Treasure refinement.

• True Lord Skyfire negotiated with Elder Gong to use the Spirit Nurturing Hall, agreeing to help Star Palace once in exchange for borrowing the Dragon Soul Bell.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, True Lord Skyfire, and Elder Gong waited outside the hall until Ling Yuling emerged after a failed treasure-refining attempt.
• Ling Yuling invited them inside and explained that she wanted to braid Phantom Spider silk treated with Worry-Dispelling Flower pollen into a rope artifact, but the work overwhelmed her spiritual sense.
• True Lord Skyfire began refining the rope artifact, controlling more than a thousand strands at once, while Luo Hong and Han Li recognized that he lacked enough Split Spirits to succeed.
• True Lord Skyfire stopped halfway, and the unfinished artifact exploded; Luo Hong then asked him by voice transmission whether the Dragon Soul Bell was important to their Ancient Treasure refinement.

Luo Hong successfully refined Ling Yuling’s Heavenly Fragrance Rope, then led True Lord Skyfire, Han Li, Si Qingyu, and Wang Tie in beginning the Five Elements Banners’ refinement. The five materials were aligned and inscribed with restrictions, and the group moved on to shaping them into banners.

• Luo Hong used his powerful spiritual sense and precise control to refine Ling Yuling’s Heavenly Fragrance Rope after True Lord Skyfire’s attempt had failed.
• Ling Yuling tested the rope against Han Li’s magic artifact and Elder Gong’s Primal Chaos Bowl, confirming that it could withstand a powerful attack before she lost control from the strain.
• Ling Yuling named Luo Hong the rope’s maker and departed, while Elder Gong delivered the Dragon Soul Bell to True Lord Skyfire.
• Luo Hong, True Lord Skyfire, and Han Li prepared the Spirit Nurturing Hall’s array, then Si Qingyu and Wang Tie arrived to take their assigned positions for refining the Five Elements Banners.
• Luo Hong adjusted the spiritual power of the five core materials until a five-colored halo formed, then the five refiners used the Dragon Soul Bell’s flood dragon souls as they laid restrictions for a month and a half.
• At Luo Hong’s command, the five began feeding supplementary spiritual materials into the five masses to form the banners.

Luo Hong and the others nearly died when Wang Tie revealed Night Dragon Island’s plot during the final stage of refining the Five Elements Banners, but Luo Hong’s Blood-colored Flying Ants stopped him. After crushing Wang Tie’s Primordial Spirit, Luo Hong confirmed the banners were safe and explained that he had acquired the unusual ants by chance, while secretly planning to develop their potential.

• The Five Elements Banners began absorbing spiritual energy, and Wang Tie revealed a Yin Fire Thunder pellet intended to destroy the Spirit Nurturing Hall.
• Luo Hong attacked Wang Tie with his spiritual sense, but Wang Tie’s Soul Locking Coffin protected him and True Lord Skyfire exposed his plan to seize a body after the explosion.
• Luo Hong released Blood-colored Flying Ants, which multiplied whenever the barrier’s yellow sword radiance cut them and eventually overwhelmed Wang Tie’s defensive talisman.
• Wang Tie detonated himself and tried to escape as a black crystal, but Luo Hong’s ants caught the Soul Locking Coffin, allowing him to crush it and destroy Wang Tie’s Primordial Spirit.
• Luo Hong confirmed that the Five Elements Banners remained unharmed, reassured True Lord Skyfire, and agreed to refine a treasure for Si Qingyu.
• Luo Hong told Si Qingyu and Han Li that he had found the ants on a Desolate Island, while recalling how he had created the twelve Immortal and Indestructible Blood Puppet Flying Ants from Blood Marrow Crystal and Crimson Fire Ant souls.

Luo Hong refined the Five Elements Banner, studied the Dragon Soul Bell’s Flood Dragon Essence Souls, and hunted down the Night Dragon Island cultivators who had damaged his formation. After repairing the Five Fiends Spirit Gathering Array, he unsealed the weakened Little Gold and began cutting into its forehead.

• Luo Hong refined the Five Elements Banner, studied the Dragon Soul Bell, and later left Star Palace for the Outer Star Sea.
• Luo Hong tracked down five Night Dragon Island cultivators who had destroyed his formation materials and sent his Blood Puppet Flying Ants after them.
• Luo Hong killed the five cultivators and recovered their Storage Bags, though the formation on his Desolate Island remained damaged.
• Luo Hong spent half a month repairing the Five Fiends Spirit Gathering Array and replaced its Spirit Exchange Arrays with the Five Elements Banner.
• Luo Hong unsealed the weakened Little Gold, gave it a nourishing pill, and began carving its forehead with the White-bearded Old Man’s claw-shaped Magic Tool.

Luo Hong used the Five Fiends Spirit Gathering Array to raise Little Gold’s golden crystal to Grade 21, then restored it to her forehead and triggered her transformation. As Little Gold began to recover, Luo Hong treated his own injuries, while cultivators from Night Dragon Island and across the sea region converged on the Spiritual Tide he had caused.

• Luo Hong removed Little Gold’s golden crystal and used the Five Elements Banners to draw Spiritual Qi from the island’s Spirit Vein, raising the crystal’s grade through repeated Spirit Ascensions.
• Luo Hong drained the Spirit Vein and raised the golden crystal to Grade 21, then returned it to Little Gold’s forehead.
• Luo Hong brought Little Gold to the remaining Spiritual Qi, where her golden crystal shone and enveloped her in a sphere of light as her transformation began.
• Luo Hong coughed up blood from injuries sustained during the final Spirit Ascension and took healing pills.
• The Purple Dragon Envoy and Elders Jiang and Xia searched for clues about Huang’s missing group, then headed toward the Spiritual Tide after sensing it.
• Cultivators across the surrounding sea region sensed the Spiritual Tide and flew toward its source or to seek reinforcements, while Luo Hong remained unaware.

Luo Hong completed his cultivation as Little Gold was reborn, and Night Dragon Island’s Core Formation cultivators attacked them inside the mist-covered island. Little Gold killed two Core Formation cultivators and pursued the fleeing disciples, while Elder Xia still guarded the mist wall outside.

• Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Miaoyin Sect and Haoshu Sect gathered outside the mist and agreed to wait rather than enter it.
• The Purple Dragon Envoy used the Gale Fan to disperse much of the mist, revealing intense five-colored treasure light and a concealed formation.
• The Purple Dragon Envoy and Elder Jiang entered the formation, found Luo Hong inside the Five-Colored Giant Ring, and attacked him with their Life-bound Magic Treasures.
• Little Gold emerged from the golden sphere and killed the Purple Dragon Envoy and Elder Jiang with her golden light.
• Luo Hong ordered Little Gold to kill the witnesses, and she caught up with two fleeing disciples and killed them before pursuing the last one into the mist wall.

Luo Hong used Little Gold to eliminate the witnesses outside the fog wall, then destroyed the Desolate Island with the Super Five Elements Divine Thunder and escaped. Three months later, Night Dragon Ancestor and Extreme Yin Ancestor found no trace of him, while Luo Hong appeared at an auction on Black Sail Island in disguise.

• Yin Sha confronted Elder Xia outside the fog wall, but a fleeing disciple revealed that the Purple Dragon Envoy and others had been killed inside.
• Little Gold killed Elder Xia and many cultivators with her golden-light divine ability, while Yin Sha escaped and Zhuo Ruting’s group survived when Luo Hong called Little Gold back.
• Luo Hong packed his belongings, intensified the Five Elements formation, and teleported away with Little Gold before the Desolate Island erupted in a massive explosion.
• Night Dragon Ancestor searched the ruined waters, and Extreme Yin Ancestor falsely blamed Wan Tianming’s Heavenly Net True Thunder to deepen Night Dragon Ancestor’s suspicion of the Righteous Path.
• Three months later, Luo Hong attended a small auction on Black Sail Island while concealing his cultivation at Foundation Establishment Mid-stage.

At a Black Sail Island trade fair, Luo Hong learned about the Golden Eagle Demon’s fearsome reputation and traded for the location of rare Wind Spirit Sand. A record in his Myriad Treasures Jade Slip suggested that a Heavenly Wind Crystal lay beneath the nearby island, and he set out to investigate.

• Luo Hong bought a Golden Pearl for Little Gold and reflected on her new transformation and Form-Destroying Golden Light abilities.
• At the trade fair, Luo Hong recognized the blood-red tree root traded for Wind Spirit Sand and followed Protector Fan to his lodging, where he also found Zhuo Ruting.
• Luo Hong exchanged the Golden Pearl and other valuables for the location of the Wind Spirit Sand, promising not to reveal it.
• Protector Fan and Zhuo Ruting prepared to leave for the Inner Star Sea while Luo Hong used the jade slip and his Sea Chart to locate Black Stone Wasteland Island.
• Luo Hong read that a Heavenly Wind Crystal lay in the island’s Rift Valley and wondered whether it was nearby.

Luo Hong found a deteriorating Heavenly Wind Crystal in an ancient underwater rift and planned to use it to strengthen his island defenses. After spending a year hunting cultivators who killed for treasure around Emerald Isle, he found they had stopped taking the bait and left to begin secluded cultivation.

• Luo Hong traced Wind Spirit Sand to an underwater rift, searched the former lair of the Howling Wind Clam demon king, and recovered a Heavenly Wind Crystal that had nearly lost its spirituality.
• Luo Hong sealed the crystal for safekeeping and planned to restore it before using it as the core of a powerful Ancient Grand Formation.
• Luo Hong flew to Emerald Isle and spent a year killing cultivators who preyed on Monster Hunting Cultivators, earning the name Senior Iron Mask.
• A clerk surnamed Fan heard three Foundation Establishment cultivators praise Senior Iron Mask for making the seas safer for hunting Demon Beasts.
• Luo Hong posed as a wealthy young cultivator carrying valuable Demon Beast corpses, but no villains attacked him.
• Luo Hong concluded that his campaign had frightened the villains away or driven them elsewhere, then left for a newly discovered spirit vein island.

Luo Hong returned to his island and discovered that the intruders from Night Dragon Island had carried a Void Sky Fragment Map, which gave him fifty years to prepare for the opening of the Void Sky Hall. He refined his cultivation plans around the Sea Suppressing Bead and the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art, leaving the choice of spiritual fire for a later opportunity.

• Luo Hong passed through his Heavenly Wind Demon Locking Array and checked the prisoners in his secondary spirit chamber before entering the main spirit chamber.
• Luo Hong found a brocade handkerchief among the intruders’ belongings and recognized its blurry map as a Void Sky Fragment Map that would reveal the Void Sky Hall in fifty years.
• Luo Hong decided to advance his primordial spirit and focus his mana cultivation on the Boundless Sea Suppressing Art rather than simply raising his realm.
• Luo Hong improved the Sea Suppressing Bead technique, condensed a tiny bead weighing over ten thousand jin, and planned to form a First Revolution Sea Suppressing Bead over thirty-five years.
• Luo Hong assessed his body-tempering arts and chose to delay the Blazing Fire Body Tempering Technique because he wanted a higher-grade spiritual fire for the Great Five Elements Universal Saintly Art.

Luo Hong prepared to enter the Void Sky Hall by refining a Five Elements Lightning Pearl, defeating a Level Seven Green-Shelled Lobster, and assessing his strength. He reached the hall, secretly recognized Han Li, and learned that Star Palace would permit fighting once cultivators entered the Inner Hall.

• A Level Seven Green-Shelled Lobster attacked Mist Island, but Luo Hong defeated it, captured its Essence Soul, and took its Demon Core.
• Luo Hong retrieved his formations and materials, stored the newly refined Five Elements Lightning Pearl, and checked his cultivation before deciding to visit the Void Sky Hall.
• Luo Hong used the Void Sky Fragment Map to pass through the golden barrier and discovered Silver Runes hidden in the hall's inscription.
• Luo Hong entered the hall and recognized Han Li, who was relieved to see his senior brother but understood why Luo Hong did not acknowledge him openly.
• The Star Palace Supreme Elders announced that killing and robbery were forbidden in the Outer Hall but allowed in the Inner Hall, prompting Luo Hong to distrust them.

Luo Hong entered the Void Sky Hall’s Land of Ghostly Grievances, where he trapped the immortal Demon Head with Blood Puppet Flying Ants and advanced through the ghost-filled mist. He heard a strange sound ahead as he continued deeper into the trial.

• Luo Hong arrived on the same barren hill as Yuan Yao, while Han Li and Zi Ling later teleported there with Ge Li.
• Ge Li proposed that the cultivators travel together, but Yuan Yao and Luo Hong refused before Han Li, Zi Ling, and Ge Li entered the Gray Mist.
• Luo Hong summoned the Demon Head, resisted its Blood Infant Descends attack, and used twelve Blood Puppet Flying Ants to bind it in blood slurry.
• Luo Hong entered the Land of Ghostly Grievances with the Demon Head in tow and used his Lightless Shield to destroy attacking Yin Souls.
• Luo Hong continued through the mist as the Blood Puppet Flying Ants fed the Demon Head incoming ghosts, then heard a peculiar sound ahead.