Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong agreed to accompany the Rakshasa Queen to Pine Crane Tower for protection after securing her promise to keep his Space Law and Jiao Eight secret. At Nether Snake Peak, Luo Chaofeng witnessed his master condense a thirty-seventh Law Dao Pattern with the sect’s formation and was summoned inside.

• The Rakshasa Queen explained that Song Ming’s revenge made Pine Crane Tower’s protection necessary, and Luo Hong agreed to go after she swore not to reveal his Space Law or Jiao Eight.
• Luo Hong and the Rakshasa Queen decided to travel to Yellowwind Kingdom’s capital and submit a calling card before approaching Pine Crane Tower.
• Luo Chaofeng waited fearfully outside Nether Snake Peak while Immortal Spiritual Qi and black clouds gathered over the mountain.
• A giant serpent shadow devoured the clouds, but struggled to form its thirty-seventh Dao Pattern of Law.
• The Heavy Water Sect activated the Ten Thousand Yuan True Water Formation, enabling the serpent shadow to complete the pattern.
• Luo Chaofeng’s master summoned him into the grand halls, and he hurried up the stone steps.

Song Ming ordered Luo Chaofeng to capture Jiao Eight and uncover Qing'er's whereabouts, while Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong prepared to join Pine Crane Tower. The chapter ended as they arrived at the sect to meet its Tower Master, just before Mu Yan Hong could explain the Conflict of Water and Fire.

• Chang Ping congratulated Song Ming on reaching the Golden Immortal realm and agreed that Shen would wait for another chance to use the Myriad Water True Formation.
• Luo Chaofeng reported that Jiao Eight had defeated his group and was connected to the Void Escaping Pavilion Master, so Song Ming ordered him to capture Jiao Eight and gave him the Soul Severing Wheel.
• Luo Hong met Mu Yan Hong in Yellowwind Kingdom, where they discussed her plans to settle in Pine Crane Tower and the Wind-Aperture Technique practiced by local mortals.
• Luo Hong asked Mu Yan Hong whether people should adapt to drastic changes in the Great Dao or perish, then learned her true name after she had left Rakshasa Kingdom.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong reached Pine Crane Tower's mountain gate, where two white-robed cultivators summoned them to Cloud Gazing Hall before Mu Yan Hong could explain the Conflict of Water and Fire.

As Luo Hong traveled to Cloud Gazing Hall, he sought a cultivation technique suited to his unusual way of improving his power. Wenren Ji proposed the Reverse Life Source Technique, and Luo Hong began weighing its benefits and risks while continuing toward a meeting with the Tower Master.

• Luo Hong reflected on his need for a True Immortal cultivation technique that would produce exceptional immortal apertures and Immortal Yuan Power.
• Wenren Ji revealed that he had recovered enough to use divination and suggested Luo Hong try cultivating the Orthodox Life Source Technique in reverse.
• Luo Hong considered how the Reverse Life Source Technique could create Primordial Immortal Apertures, but identified the need for Primordial Qi as its greatest obstacle.
• Luo Hong mused aloud about using Immortal Yuan Stones as a source of Primordial Qi, prompting Fellow Daoist Liu to offer him a profitable opportunity after their meeting with the Tower Master.
• Luo Hong decided to consider the technique further and relied on the ten false immortal apertures he had already opened to sustain his cultivation in the meantime.

Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong met with Tower Master Huang at Cloud Gazing Hall and were accepted as Guest Elders of Pine Crane Tower. As they began choosing their cave abodes, Luo Hong asked for a secluded location in the mountains.

• Mu Yan Hong told Tower Master Huang that she and Luo Hong wished to meet Dao Master Yue Hua, and Yue Hua summoned her after receiving her token.
• Mu Yan Hong returned with Yue Hua's instructions to admit her and Luo Hong as Guest Elders, and Tower Master Huang agreed to take them to the Department of Construction.
• Tower Master Huang gave Luo Hong a box of Yellow Pine Tea and personally escorted both newcomers to register and select cave abodes.
• Elder Lu brought out the Pine Crane Mountain and River Map, and Luo Hong asked whether it showed any particularly secluded places.

Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong received spirit peaks at Pine Crane Tower after the Elegant Man ordered the sect to restore cultivation resources in the mountain range. They went to Crimson Cloud Peak together to fulfill their agreement, where Mu Yan Hong’s moans later exasperated Luo Hong.

• Elder Lu explained that elders and true disciples had crowded the mountain range’s outskirts, leaving the fertile middle region unused.
• The Elegant Man ordered the true disciples to move their cave abodes to the middle region and threatened to reclaim them if each peak failed to meet its annual production standard.
• Luo Hong received Crimson Cloud Peak, and Mu Yan Hong requested the spirit peak closest to his.
• Mu Yan Hong pulled Luo Hong away from the Department of Construction and activated a Teleportation Array to Crimson Cloud Peak so they could fulfill their agreement.
• Half a month later, Mu Yan Hong moaned from inside Luo Hong’s newly opened cave abode, and Luo Hong told her to stop.

Luo Hong refined Mu Yan Hong’s Crimson Luo Crystal Sword into a High-grade Immortal Artifact, then cultivated until he had six immortal apertures and strengthened his Black Origin Shield. A mission from Pine Crane Tower drew him out of seclusion, where he learned he was expected to help hunt a Late True Immortal Blood Eye Sable for a Blood Peony.

• Luo Hong used Primordial Qi to advance Mu Yan Hong’s Crimson Luo Crystal Sword, but Rakshasa Law distorted his perceptions and Mu Yan Hong threw him out of her cave abode.
• Luo Hong cultivated with the Time Flowing Array for fifteen years inside it, opening five additional immortal apertures and reaching six in total.
• Luo Hong destroyed Du Yuangang’s White Bone Heavy Water Saber, extracted its Three Yuan Heavy Water, and refined it into the Black Origin Shield.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects asked Luo Hong for a Wu Chang Alliance mask so she could earn Immortal Yuan Stones, and he gave her Jiao Twenty-three’s mask.
• Luo Hong met Liu Changlin and two other Pine Crane Tower elders, who invited him to join three Flowing Fire Sect cultivators in confronting the Late True Immortal Blood Eye Sable.
• Luo Hong asked Liu Changlin why the group needed the Blood Peony, whose purpose Liu Changlin had yet to explain.

Luo Hong learned about the Blood Peony mission and revealed that he cultivated the Five Elements Law, changing the other elders’ view of his strength. He left to consider whether to join Liu Changlin’s group and promised to answer before sunset.

• Luan Ni explained that Blood Peonies grew near Blood Law demon beasts and could refine Bone-Mending Pills, while Liu Changlin introduced her as a mid-grade Earth Pill Master.
• Gu Wuhen bluntly questioned Luo Hong’s cultivated Law to assess whether he could survive the mission, and Luo Hong clarified that he had not yet agreed to join.
• Luo Hong displayed the Five-Colored Divine Light and revealed his Five Elements Law, prompting Liu Changlin, Gu Wuhen, and Luan Ni to regard him with greater respect.
• Liu Changlin proposed an equal split of mission-related gains and said each person would keep any other gains they found.
• Luo Hong left to consider the offer and promised to return with an answer before sunset, while Liu Changlin rebuked Gu Wuhen for his earlier presumption.

Luo Hong explored Jingyun Hall’s tasks, rejected Cong Yunzi’s exploitative offer, and went to the Merit Hall to study Pine Crane Tower’s inheritance. Elder Meng Tianxing showed him a divine ability suited to his unusually deep Immortal Yuan Power, but the tower did not have its complete method.

• Luo Hong examined Jingyun Hall’s task listings and learned that Guest Elders had to complete three yellow-jade tasks every hundred years.
• Cong Yunzi warned Luo Hong that the Flowing Fire Sect would monopolize most Blood Peonies, then offered him a meager reward to help in Scorching Wind Abyss; Luo Hong refused and left.
• Luo Hong went to the Merit Hall’s Inner Law Pavilion, where he found Meng Tianxing guarding the inheritance.
• Meng Tianxing learned that Luo Hong had opened immortal apertures using the first layer of the Five Organs Tempering Yuan Technique and recommended a divine ability that relied on abundant Immortal Yuan Power.
• Luo Hong recognized the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand in an introductory jade slip, but Meng Tianxing told him Pine Crane Tower lacked its complete cultivation method.

Luo Hong examined cultivation techniques at Pine Crane Tower’s Inner Law Pavilion and settled on the first layer of the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand after learning about its costs and the Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique. He received the copied technique, then froze as he was about to leave after suddenly remembering something.

• Meng Tianxing explained that the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand had three layers available, with steep Jade Point costs and an extra fee for Guest Elders.
• Meng Tianxing recommended the Pine Crane Ten Thousand Year Technique, but Luo Hong recognized it as a dual cultivation art and rejected it.
• Meng Tianxing showed Luo Hong the Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique, describing its six layers, costs, benefits, and heavy resource demands.
• Luo Hong explored the first floor of the Inner Law Pavilion and concluded that the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand and Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique suited him best.
• Meng Tianxing copied the first layer of the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand onto a yellow disc and gave it to Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong prepared to leave, then abruptly froze as though he had remembered something.

Luo Hong joined Liu Changlin’s mission to harvest Blood Peonies, securing access to Luan Ni’s Pure Bright Pills for restoring his primordial spirit. The group reached Mingqiu City and met the Flowing Fire Sect cultivators who would accompany them to Blood River Valley, where Zhu Gao’s attempt to inspect Luo Hong’s immortal apertures raised suspicion.

• Luo Hong gave Meng Tianxing a jar of Five-Colored Immortal Wine, which Meng Tianxing praised after tasting.
• Luo Hong agreed to join Liu Changlin’s mission and let Luan Ni use his share of Blood Peonies for pill refining in exchange for a future batch and Pure Bright Pills.
• Six months later, Luo Hong and Liu Changlin’s group arrived at Mingqiu City and learned that Blood River Valley was a shared resource site where the Blood Eye Sable was contained.
• The group met Zhu He and the Flowing Fire Sect cultivators at the white Giant Tower, including the silent, masked Chi Xi.
• After Liu Changlin’s group entered the tower, Zhu Gao revealed that he had used his Aperture-Opening Spiritual Eye on Luo Hong, and Zhu He warned him against using the ability recklessly.

Zhu He and the others discussed Mo Bufan’s abilities and whether to test him, while guarding their secret plan to obtain the Blood Pill Flower King. After overhearing them, Luo Hong checked whether Xue’er sensed anything unusual near Blood River Valley and decided the flower was not worth the risk.

• Zhu Gao told Zhu He that Mo Bufan had six immortal apertures, five of them above his five viscera, and Zhu He speculated about his cultivation technique.
• Zhu Feng questioned whether Mo Bufan could pick Blood Peonies as well as Gu Wuhen, and Zhu He considered why Liu had chosen him.
• Zhu Feng nearly revealed the plan involving the Blood Pill Flower King, so Zhu He cast Soundproof Restrictions and warned the others to be cautious.
• Zhu He decided not to test Mo Bufan, and Chi Xi promised to help obtain the flower to remove the Netherworld Poison from his body.
• Luo Hong overheard the group, asked Xue’er to sense toward Blood River Valley, and concluded that the flower’s incompatible attributes made it not worth the risk.

Luo Hong explained the Flowing Fire Sect’s scheme for cultivating the Blood Pill Flower King, then joined the journey toward Blood River Valley. As blood-tainted Demon Beasts attacked the flying boats, he agreed to guard his group’s vessel and face them.

• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy that the Flowing Fire Sect used sects’ flower-picking missions to supply Five Elements Immortal Spiritual Energy for cultivating the Blood Pill Flower King.
• Three days later, two Spirit Boats departed Mingqiu City, carrying Luo Hong and the others toward Blood River Valley.
• Liu Changlin warned Luo Hong that the Blood Eye Sables’ leaked immortal demonic power had made nearby Demon Beasts unintelligent and infused their abilities with Dark Blood Law.
• Luo Hong agreed to handle the Demon Beasts that attacked their Spirit Boat, while Liu Changlin arranged for the others to take later shifts.
• A flock of Blood-Infused Crested Eagles appeared, and Zhu He ordered that he protect the Fire Cloud Boat while the others watched Luo Hong’s methods.

Luo Hong used his Five-Colored Divine Light to destroy Blood-Infused Crested Eagles and developed a plan to disguise Reincarnation Dao Patterns as Five Elements Dao Patterns. After reaching the outskirts of Blood River Valley, he learned that its year-round celestial phenomenon accelerated Blood Peony growth, while the sects maintained the restrictions to keep the Blood Eye Sable contained.

• Luo Hong discovered that the Blood-Infused Crested Eagles' Dark Blood demonic fire stained and disrupted his flying swords, then used Five-Colored Divine Light to absorb their demonic flames and seal their power, killing them.
• Zhu He and Zhu Feng decided to yield some Ten Thousand Year Blood Peonies after witnessing Luo Hong's True Spirit Bloodline, while Chi Xi secretly transmitted a message.
• Luo Hong spent more than ten months in the Time Flowing Array and condensed five clusters of Five Elements Dao Patterns while considering how to conceal Reincarnation Dao Patterns within the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand.
• Liu Changlin's group reached the outskirts of Blood River Valley, where Luo Hong asked about the scarlet lightning and thick clouds above the valley.
• Gu Wuhen explained that the phenomenon accelerated Blood Peony growth, and Liu Changlin said the Flowing Fire Sect inspected the restrictions every hundred years to prevent the Blood Eye Sable from escaping.

Liu Changlin and Zhu He opened the entrance to Blood River Valley, summoning a Black Stone Giant Ape that they and their companions attacked together. As Luo Hong watched their coordinated assault, he sensed Chi Xi sending him a voice transmission and feared trouble was coming.

• Zhu Feng offered Nourishing Origin Pills, but Liu Changlin said the group had not depleted their Immortal Yuan Power and assigned everyone their roles for opening the entrance.
• Liu Changlin and Zhu He activated the altar, causing a crimson beam to turn the rubble into a Black Stone Giant Ape guarding Blood River Valley.
• Zhu He and Liu Changlin combined their Flames of Tong and wind abilities to strike the ape with an attack powerful enough to rival a Late True Immortal.
• Gu Wuhen and Zhu Gao followed with six wind-empowered fire arrows, knocking the ape down so the group could repeatedly suppress it.
• Luo Hong sensed a voice transmission from Chi Xi while the others fought and worried that Chi Xi was about to cause trouble.

Luo Hong entered Blood River Valley with the group and watched Liu Changlin and Zhu He engage the Blood Eye Sable while he searched for Ten Thousand Year Blood Peonies. He discovered Dark Blood Poison creatures guarding the flowers, but his Five-Colored Divine Light let him safely harvest one as the others continued their mission.

• Luo Hong used the Human Path Secret Technique to discover that Chi Xi was secretly communicating with three True Immortal cultivators, but he concealed what he had learned from the group.
• Luo Hong and the others entered Blood River Valley, where he sensed the Dark Blood Law and secretly left a blood sphere near the entrance.
• Liu Changlin and Zhu He’s fusion divine ability struck the Blood Eye Sable, while Luo Hong and Chi Xi split up to search for Blood Peonies.
• Luo Hong used the Illusory World Star Pupil to locate Ten Thousand Year Blood Peonies and found that Dark Blood Poison creatures guarded them.
• Luo Hong protected himself with a Five-Colored light shield, resisted the poison creatures’ attacks, and harvested a Ten Thousand Year Blood Peony.

Luo Hong discovered that A Zi had awakened and was feeding on Dark Blood Poison, so he set out to gather more while Chi Xi used the Glazed Tile Lamp to reach the Blood Eye Sable’s lair. The chapter ended with Chi Xi preparing to dive to the bottom of the Blood Pool, where the Blood Pill Flower King lay amid the most dangerous Dark Blood Demonic Snakes.

• Luo Hong sensed A Zi awaken inside the immortal embryo and discovered it eagerly consumed Dark Blood Poison.
• Luo Hong decided to gather more poison for A Zi and used Space Law to move through Blood River Valley.
• Chi Xi tested whether Luo Hong was following him, then harvested a Ten Thousand Year Blood Peony with the Glazed Tile Lamp protecting him.
• Chi Xi flew to the Blood Eye Sable’s Blood Pool and strengthened the Glazed Tile Lamp’s shield with white spirit fire.
• Chi Xi prepared to descend to the pool’s bottom to retrieve the Blood Pill Flower King, where the strongest Dark Blood Demonic Snakes gathered.

Chi Xi found the Blood Pill Flower King at the bottom of the Blood Pool, where Luo Hong rescued him from a regenerating Dark Blood giant snake and went to investigate another aura. After Chi Xi escaped with the flower, he learned that the men he was working with planned to target Zhu He and Liu Changlin, and agreed to wait while they prepared to frame Mo Bufan.

• Chi Xi reached the bottom of the Blood Pool, found the Blood Pill Flower King, and was attacked by a Dark Blood giant snake that regenerated after he dissolved its head.
• Luo Hong drained the giant snake of its poison and flesh, then agreed to leave Chi Xi to harvest the flower while he investigated the other aura.
• Chi Xi harvested the Blood Pill Flower King, escaped the pool, and contacted the three hidden men who planned to collect it later.
• The hidden men revealed they intended to trap Liu Changlin's group and the Blood Eye Sable, force Chi Xi to surrender the flower, and blame Mo Bufan for the ensuing deaths.
• Chi Xi questioned how they would counter Mo Bufan's Five-Colored Divine Light, and the cold-voiced man explained that they would lure him into the Seven-Layered Blood Pagoda Formation.
• Chi Xi accepted their plan to frame Mo Bufan and ended the communication, while a bristly big man in a distant cave expressed his reluctance to the Black-robed Old Man.

Luo Hong discovered that a dark red bloodstone at the bottom of the Blood Pool was one eye of a naturally formed array, with the other at the Blood Pill Flower King. Realizing the array’s purpose could be dangerous, he hurried to return the flower king.

• The Black-robed Old Man warned his companions to protect a pawn of Lord Xue Han and explained that Mo Bufan would be drawn to the Five-Colored Immortal Stone.
• Luo Hong continued through the Blood Pool, sending attacking Dark Blood Demonic Snakes into his Netherworld Grotto-heaven and following a powerful aura.
• Luo Hong found a dark red bloodstone that repelled the demonic snakes, but his Five-Colored Divine Light and Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand could not move it safely.
• Luo Hong used the Sky Breaking Spear to map the Blood Pool’s spatial structure and found that the bloodstone and the Blood Pill Flower King were the two eyes of a naturally formed array.
• Luo Hong realized he had to put the Blood Pill Flower King back and rushed to Chi Xi’s location.

Luo Hong seized the Blood Pill Flower King from Chi Xi, who secretly possessed a duplicate and blamed Luo Hong to the Shifang Tower assassins. Meanwhile, Shifang Tower trapped Liu Changlin and Zhu He’s group with the Blood Eye Sable inside a Seven-Layered Blood Pagoda Formation, leaving them to choose a desperate way to deny their enemies victory.

• Luo Hong used the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand to subdue Chi Xi and take a wooden box containing the Blood Pill Flower King.
• After Luo Hong left, Chi Xi revealed he had another identical box and told the black-robed old man that Luo Hong had taken the flower, then headed toward the battlefield.
• Zhu Gao told Zhu He that Chi Xi had reported Luo Hong’s theft, while Liu Changlin failed to contact Luo Hong and denied knowing about the Blood Pill Flower King.
• The black-robed old man and his two companions trapped Liu Changlin and the others inside the Seven-Layered Blood Pagoda Formation, then compressed its space to make the Blood Eye Sable attack them more fiercely.
• Liu Changlin and Zhu He realized their group faced death, and Zhu He proposed a desperate plan that would let Zhu Gao and the others escape while denying Shifang Tower its prize.

Luo Hong restored the Blood Pill Flower King to keep the formation suppressing the Dark-red Bloodstone and prevent the Blood Eye Sable from escaping. The Blood Eye Sable burned its essence blood and charged at the Bearded Big Man’s group as Zhu He and Liu Changlin prepared a desperate strike.

• Luo Hong explained that the Blood Pill Flower King and the Dark-red Bloodstone were array eyes in a formation that drew blood qi from the Blood Eye Sable, then used Five-colored auspicious clouds and his essence blood to restore the flower.
• Silver Fairy realized the Blood Eye Sable had used the formation against itself, and Luo Hong warned that the demon had waited for the Blood Pill Flower King to be taken so it could escape its suppression.
• The Blood Eye Sable sensed the flower’s recovery, burned its essence blood, and raised its aura in a desperate attempt to seize its long-awaited opportunity.
• Zhu He and Liu Changlin prepared a life-risking attack and told their companions to escape when it created an opening, while the Black-robed Old Man’s group planned to let the formation open a gap.
• The Blood Eye Sable charged toward the Bearded Big Man’s group instead of its expected targets, and Zhu He and Liu Changlin seized the opportunity.