Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong rescued Gu Wuhen from the Heavy Water Sect, escaping after Luo Chaofeng used the Soul Severing Wheel’s Golden Immortal power to kill Qiu Chen and Qiu Ke. He sent Gu Wuhen to meet Mu Yan Hong at Cold Gen Tower, then chose to gather valuable materials before pursuing the Secret Realm’s exit.

• Luo Hong struck Wu Ji with a Five-Colored Giant Palm and teleported away with Gu Wuhen while Luo Chaofeng’s black threads failed to stop them.
• Luo Chaofeng used the Soul Severing Wheel’s Golden Immortal power to cut through the Qiu brothers’ black wind divine sword and kill them, while Elder Mi and the law enforcement elder fled.
• Wu Ji revealed that he had marked one of the escapees, and Luo Chaofeng ordered him to track Luo Hong and intercept him before the Central Area.
• Luo Hong obtained a Secret Realm map from Mu Yan Hong and learned that she and Luan Ni were heading to Cold Gen Tower; Gu Wuhen then parted from Luo Hong to meet them.
• Luo Hong flew southwest toward the Illusory River Snow Forest to collect Heavenly Fox Dust and Five Elements materials, then thrust his Sky Breaking Spear into its restriction.

Luo Hong broke into a restricted storehouse, collected its accumulated Heavenly Fox Dust, and left after failing to locate the mineral vein’s source. Meanwhile, Gu Wuhen reached Mu Yan Hong and Luan Ni without Elder Mo, prompting Mu Yan Hong to worry that her plan would be harder to carry out.

• Luo Hong pierced the outer barrier and entered the storehouse, where he found puppets gathering spiritual materials.
• Luo Hong discovered that the inner restriction could not be broken without alerting its owner, so Silver Fairy used the pink gourd to collect the Heavenly Fox Dust.
• Luo Hong examined the nearby spring, concluded that the mineral vein lay elsewhere underground, and left to inspect the Five Elements mines instead.
• Gu Wuhen arrived at the Cold Gen Tower and told Luan Ni that Elder Mo was unharmed but had other matters to attend to.
• Mu Yan Hong objected to Elder Mo’s absence and asked why he had not come, while Gu Wuhen asked her to explain her plan under Dao Master Yue’s orders.

Mu Yan Hong revealed that she had come to open the Inheritance Treasure Vault at the Water-Fire Secret Realm’s core, hoping to influence the Two Desolations War. Wu Ji ambushed the group and turned Gu Wuhen into a Poison Puppet, but an unseen arrival seized Wu Ji with a Yellow Springs Ghost Hand.

• Mu Yan Hong told Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen that she planned to open the Inheritance Treasure Vault and had a way to break the core’s restrictions.
• Wu Ji overheard Mu Yan Hong’s plan and demanded to know what treasure the vault contained.
• Wu Ji revealed himself and used Black Hair Poison to turn Gu Wuhen into a Poison Puppet, forcing Luan Ni to bind him.
• Mu Yan Hong summoned twelve Crimson Luo Crystal Swords and prepared to fight Wu Ji.
• An unseen figure appeared behind Wu Ji, and a Yellow Springs Ghost Hand trapped him before he could escape.

Wu Ji revealed himself as a Blood Leech Tribe True Immortal, but Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong trapped him with Yellow Springs Earth Fire and the Ten Directions Rakshasa Sword Formation. Wu Ji’s physical body self-destructed to let his nascent soul escape, trapping the others inside a meat ganoderma, where Luan Ni proposed a formation to help them break out.

• Wu Ji escaped Luo Hong’s Yellow Springs Earth Fire attack, but Mu Yan Hong trapped him in the Ten Directions Rakshasa Sword Formation while Luo Hong poured Yellow Springs Earth Fire into it.
• Wu Ji sent more than ten thousand Alien Blood Bats toward Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen, but Little Gold destroyed them with its Extreme Destruction Divine Light and golden flames.
• After failing to break free, Wu Ji self-destructed his physical body and escaped as a nascent soul, leaving Luo Hong, Mu Yan Hong, Luan Ni, and Gu Wuhen trapped inside a massive meat ganoderma.
• Luo Hong found that burning through the meat ganoderma alone would take too long, and Luan Ni offered a formation that could combine their immortal yuan power to help them escape.

Luo Hong, Mu Yan Hong, and Luan Ni nearly burned their way out of the Giant Fleshy Ganoderma before Luo Chaofeng arrived and attacked Little Gold with the Soul Severing Wheel. Luo Hong rescued her and revealed his Space Law, while Luo Chaofeng recognized him as the Void Escaping Pavilion Master and unleashed the Golden Immortal power within his weapon.

• Luo Hong, Mu Yan Hong, and Luan Ni used Luan Ni’s formation and Yellow Springs Earth Fire to carve a passage through the Giant Fleshy Ganoderma’s flesh wall.
• Luo Hong sensed Luo Chaofeng approaching and learned from Little Gold that she was in danger outside.
• Luo Chaofeng attacked Little Gold with the Soul Severing Wheel, and Luo Hong rushed out as Mu Yan Hong and Luan Ni weakened the remaining flesh wall.
• Luo Hong teleported in front of Little Gold, deflected the black bladed wheel, returned her to the Spirit Beast Bag, and concealed his identity with a Soundproof Restriction.
• Luo Chaofeng recognized Luo Hong as the Void Escaping Pavilion Master and activated the Golden Immortal power of Dao Lord Song Ming within the Soul Severing Wheel.

Luo Hong defeated Luo Chaofeng by draining the Soul Severing Wheel’s Golden Immortal power with his Time Domain, then pretended to be Mo Bufan and questioned Mu Yan Hong about her plans. Mu Yan Hong’s hesitation and hostility toward Luan Ni left her motives in doubt.

• Luo Hong’s Netherworld Finger was split by the Soul Severing Wheel, so he used his Spatial Domain to provoke Luo Chaofeng into exhausting the artifact’s power.
• Luo Hong switched to his Time Domain, accelerated time around the Soul Severing Wheel, and depleted its remaining Golden Immortal power.
• Luo Hong slowed Luo Chaofeng long enough to destroy his Nascent Soul with Golden Flame, then sealed the Soul Severing Wheel.
• Luo Hong removed his Jiao Eight disguise, posed as Mo Bufan, and told Mu Yan Hong he would rescue her and Luan Ni after hearing her purpose.
• Luo Hong challenged Mu Yan Hong’s claim about a treasure in the Secret Realm, and she fell silent before turning a hostile gaze toward Luan Ni.
• Luan Ni accused Mu Yan Hong of having ulterior motives.

Mu Yan Hong revealed that she intended to use the Secret Realm’s restrictions to kill the Western Wasteland Golden Immortals and start a war, while Luo Hong agreed to help despite doubting her plan. The group reached the Cold Gen Tower and activated its formation, but damage to the tower disrupted the process, leaving Luo Hong to infer how Mu Yan Hong’s method worked.

• Mu Yan Hong confessed that she wanted to control the Secret Realm’s restrictions and use them to kill the Western Wasteland Golden Immortals, triggering a war to unify the Huanglan Continent.
• Luo Hong opened a brief Spatial Rift to bring Luan Ni and the poisoned Gu Wuhen out of the flesh fungus, then sent Gu Wuhen into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, where A Zi removed the poison.
• Luo Hong showed Mu Yan Hong the Three-eyed Big Man’s head, revealing that the threat to her plan had been eliminated, and followed her, Luan Ni, and Gu Wuhen into the Cold Gen Tower.
• Mu Yan Hong used the Crimson Luo Crystal Sword to activate the tower’s formation, but the restriction failed to circulate because the tower had been damaged during Jiao Eight’s fight with Luo Chaofeng.
• Mu Yan Hong said she could infiltrate the tower’s restrictions only during the battle area’s reward period, and Luo Hong realized the Secret Realm’s resources had been prepared for her method.

Mu Yan Hong recruited Luo Hong to help secretly influence the Conflict of Water and Fire matches so she could reach the Inheritance Treasure Vault and break a seal. As the next round began, Liu Changlin faced a powerful Western Wasteland opponent and was trapped among ice mirrors while trying to escape.

• Mu Yan Hong restored the damaged restrictions and explained that she needed Luo Hong to aid selected Eastern Wasteland cultivators during the matches.
• Luo Hong entered the restriction viewing area and learned that Mu Yan Hong planned to use the final-four cultivators’ connection to the Inheritance Treasure Vault to reach the formation core.
• The thirty-two contestants were paired for the next round, and Liu Changlin was matched against a formidable Mid-stage True Immortal from the Western Wasteland.
• Liu Changlin tried to flee rather than fight, but his opponent used frost, ice mirrors, and ice spikes to block his escape.
• Liu Changlin used his Feather Wind Scripture to break an ice mirror, then searched for his opponent’s true body as more mirrors surrounded him.

Liu Changlin survived his first round-of-sixteen match and unexpectedly won his next match when Silver Spirit Light transported his opponent outside the restriction sphere. The Eastern Wasteland secured four quarterfinal spots, prompting the Western Wasteland to send stronger fighters into the arena, while Yue Duxing secretly instructed Liu Changlin to face his next opponent.

• Liu Changlin defeated the pallid man, who fled the restriction sphere, then treated the severe injuries caused by his Cicada Wing divine ability.
• Huang Wanheng told Yue Duxing that Heavy Water Sect cultivators had ambushed Pine Crane Tower’s elders and that Qiu Ke and Qiu Chen had lost their physical bodies.
• Liu Changlin entered the round of sixteen against a rock-bodied fat man, but Silver Spirit Light transported the fat man outside the restriction sphere and gave Liu an unexpected win.
• Western Wasteland cultivators protested the match, and Shen Yulong responded by replacing elders with Late True Immortal fighters; the Eastern Wasteland secured four quarterfinal spots as its remaining cultivators conceded.
• Yue Duxing told Liu Changlin to follow his instructions in the next match, while Luo Hong withdrew his divine sense after helping Mu Yan Hong’s plan succeed.

Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong used the battle restrictions to send their group into the Inheritance Treasure Vault, while the Eastern Wasteland secured the quarterfinals through a series of mysterious forfeits. The group reunited with Liu Changlin inside the vault, where Luo Hong noticed an unexpected white-haired old woman among the arrivals.

• Luo Hong reassured Gu Wuhen and Luan Ni that Liu Changlin was safe, while the Western Wasteland prepared for the quarterfinals.
• The Flowing Fire Sect cultivator fled his match against Ji Fang and was declared the winner, and two more Eastern Wasteland cultivators won by escaping their opponents.
• Wu Ji's Nascent Soul arrived and prompted Lan Yi and Liu Changlin to flee; Lan Yi lost, leaving the Western Wasteland without a semifinalist.
• Zhu Hao revealed that the Eastern Wasteland had cracked the restrictions to reach the Inheritance Treasure Vault, but a jade talisman swapped one entrant with a white-haired old woman before the four figures teleported away.
• Mu Yan Hong used the Crimson Luo Crystal Sword to manipulate the restrictions, and Luo Hong explained that the vault's rewards could be claimed by meeting its tournament conditions and deceiving its dead restrictions with Rakshasa Law.
• Luo Hong, Mu Yan Hong, Gu Wuhen, and Luan Ni arrived in the vault and reunited with Liu Changlin, where Luo Hong spotted a white-haired old woman who had not entered the competition.

Jiao Three entered the secret realm to collect immortal herbs and warned Mu Yan Hong not to use her full strength when breaking the Golden Cauldron Great Restriction. As Mu Yan Hong began her attempt with Luo Hong's help, the restriction formed a giant cauldron that suppressed the White Tiger phantom, leaving the Four Symbols formation to protect her.

• Jiao Three revealed herself in the Inheritance Treasure Vault, said she sought only the immortal herbs, and warned Mu Yan Hong not to exert her full strength when breaking the restriction.
• Luo Hong persuaded Mu Yan Hong to let Liu Changlin stay behind to collect cultivation arts and secret techniques while the others searched for the secret realm's formation core.
• Mu Yan Hong led Luo Hong and the others to the Golden Summit Great Hall, where Luan Ni and three cultivators set up the Four Symbols Great Formation.
• Mu Yan Hong explained that she would use the Rakshasa Law to deceive the Golden Cauldron Great Restriction, and Luo Hong agreed to help slow the collapse of her Earth Immortal body with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Luo Hong used the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand to suppress Mu Yan Hong's body as she repeatedly tried to turn the Crimson Luo Crystal Sword in the Golden Light Screen.
• The restriction manifested as a giant golden cauldron and suppressed the White Tiger phantom, while Mu Yan Hong instructed the others to use the remaining Sacred Beasts to protect her.

Mu Yan Hong deceived the Golden Cauldron Great Restriction and took control of the Water-Fire Secret Realm’s formation core, revealing the Eastern Wasteland’s plan to trap the Western Wasteland cultivators. As Zhu Hao’s forces attacked, Luo Hong grew suspicious of the restrictions’ unusual effects and searched for the hidden force behind them.

• Mu Yan Hong completed the Crimson Luo Crystal Sword’s rotation through the Golden Light Screen, overcoming the restriction with Luo Hong’s help and entering the hall with him and the four cultivators.
• Mu Yan Hong activated the altar at the Secret Realm’s formation core, creating a two-way projection above the battle plaza and trapping cultivators from both wastelands in Water-Fire Tai Chi restrictions.
• Shen Yulong learned that Mu Yan Hong’s account of their purpose might have been false, while Zhu Hao declared war and had seven Golden Immortals attack the Ice Profound Sect’s Golden Immortal.
• Eastern Wasteland cultivators attacked the Western Wasteland, while Shen Yulong and four other Golden Immortals struggled to escape and discovered that their Immortal Yuan Power was being drained.
• Gu Wuhen discussed the backup formations with his companions, and Luo Hong reacted with widened eyes to his remark about the restrictions resembling Yue Duxing’s spirit pet’s innate divine ability.

Luo Hong realized that Mu Yan Hong’s full activation of the altar would trigger a dangerous restriction, but he failed to stop it. Yue Duxing fused with his crane and flew toward the Water-Fire Tai Chi, while the altar’s runes vanished and the battlefield reset as the restriction began.

• Luo Hong warned Mu Yan Hong not to activate the formation core fully, but she powered up the altar, and two Four Strong cultivators blocked his strike against it.
• Shen Yulong and the other trapped Golden Immortals attacked their barriers as Western Wasteland True Immortals sacrificed themselves to help break the seals.
• Yue Duxing used a Great Fusion Spirit Talisman to fuse with his Azure White Crane, then flew toward the Water-Fire Tai Chi despite Zhu Hao’s warning.
• Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen defended Luo Hong from the Eastern Wasteland cultivators, and the altar’s runes vanished while Mu Yan Hong resisted an unseen force.
• Jiao Three received an order to save Luo Hong and entered the Golden Summit Great Hall, where the Water-Fire Tai Chi appeared beneath her and the others as the battlefield returned to its earlier state.

Yue Duxing activated the Star Dou Refining Yuan Great Formation, draining the cultivators’ Immortal Yuan Power to empower himself and reinforce the restriction. As the trapped cultivators struggled, Luo Hong recognized the formation and revealed a golden disc that might help them escape.

• Yue Duxing activated the Water-Fire Tai Chi restriction and began draining the Eastern and Western Wasteland cultivators’ Immortal Yuan Power.
• The stolen power formed stars in the sky, revealing Yue Duxing’s Star Dou Refining Yuan Great Formation and his plan to use the cultivators as fuel for empowerment.
• Luo Hong explained that Yue Duxing’s method would contaminate his essence and destroy his future cultivation, while Jiao Three said the formation had become too strong for the Golden Immortals to break.
• Mu Yan Hong admitted she could not reclaim the formation core, and Luo Hong produced a golden disc engraved with the Star Dou Refining Yuan Formation.

Luo Hong worked to weaken Yue Duxing’s formation while Zhu Hao and the others tried to break free, but Yue Duxing forced Pine Crane Tower cultivators to attack Luo Hong. Liu Changlin killed three attackers to protect Luo Hong, then died under Yue Duxing’s restriction, leaving Luo Hong angry and holding Liu Changlin’s jade slip.

• Luo Hong used the Star-Dou Formation Plate to weaken the restriction as Zhu Hao rallied the trapped cultivators to attack the formation core.
• Yue Duxing teleported Pine Crane Tower cultivators into the hall, freed them, and threatened to kill them unless they killed Luo Hong.
• Huang Wanheng, Elder Mi, the Law Enforcement Elder, and other Pine Crane Tower cultivators attacked Luo Hong, but his Black Origin Shield deflected their strikes.
• Yue Duxing killed several cultivators to pressure the attackers, then threatened Luan Ni until Liu Changlin and Gu Wuhen joined the assault.
• Liu Changlin used his cicada-wing technique to kill Huang Wanheng, Elder Mi, and the Law Enforcement Elder, then gave Luo Hong a jade slip containing eighteen cultivation arts and secret techniques before Yue Duxing killed him.

Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball to disrupt the Star Dou Refining Yuan Great Formation, freeing the Golden Immortals and leaving Yue Duxing unable to control his Fiend Decay. As Yue Duxing faced death, he destroyed himself and hinted that he had prepared a final trap for everyone.

• Yue Duxing unsealed the Seal Fiend Ghost Armor, revealed his Fiend Decay, and used the formation to drain Immortal Yuan Power from the True Immortals to suppress it.
• Luo Hong provoked Yue Duxing into targeting him, then had Mu Yan Hong sacrifice her remaining Power of Faith to shift the Water-Fire Tai Chi's refinement onto the Little Black Ball.
• The Little Black Ball entered the center of the formation and weakened it, allowing Zhu Hao and the other Golden Immortals to break free of their restrictions.
• As the formation faltered, Yue Duxing's Fiend Decay overwhelmed him, and he accused Luo Hong of concealing his cultivation before declaring that no one would leave alive.
• Yue Duxing poured the remaining Tai Chi Power into himself and let Zhu Hao's Fire Lion Head strike him, turning his withered body to ash as he promised Luo Hong a final gift.

After the Water-Fire Secret Realm began collapsing, Luo Hong helped the survivors escape through an unstable Space Passage, then used his Spatial Domain to guide them to a nearby sea. The Little Black Ball returned and flooded Luo Hong with Immortal Yuan Power, which he used to open his thirteenth Immortal Aperture and reach the Mid-stage True Immortal realm.

• Yue Duxing's death caused the great formation to reverse and threaten the cultivators, so Mu Yan Hong teleported the survivors to the tournament plaza.
• As the secret realm began to disintegrate, Luo Hong had Jiao Three and twelve Golden Immortals combine their power to break her Shattered Void Talisman and open a Space Passage.
• Luo Hong used the Sky Breaking Spear and his Spatial Domain to steady the passage, bringing Jiao Three, Mu Yan Hong, and the other nearby cultivators with him to an icy island in a sea.
• The Little Black Ball returned to Luo Hong's dantian and released a tremendous flow of Immortal Yuan Power.
• Luo Hong circulated the excess power through the Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique, opened his thirteenth Immortal Aperture, and advanced to Mid-stage True Immortal.

After opening his thirteenth immortal aperture, Luo Hong discovered that the Little Black Ball was releasing Primordial Undying Spirit Light that threatened to overwhelm him, so he used Wenren Ji’s method to share it with Jiao Three and the others. As Luo Hong continued opening apertures and his companions’ cultivations rose, two outsiders attacked, and Little Gold intercepted them.

• Luo Hong asked Wenren Ji for help, and Wenren Ji explained the risks of the incomplete Primordial Undying Spirit Light before teaching him a method to share it.
• Luo Hong drew Jiao Three, Mu Yan Hong, Luan Ni, and Gu Wuhen into the spirit light, easing the pressure on himself while their cultivations advanced.
• Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen broke through to the Mid-stage True Immortal realm, and Luo Hong pushed them away so their breakthroughs would not absorb more of the spirit light.
• Two azure-feathered cultivators arrived and decided to seize Luo Hong’s opportunity, but Little Gold killed the Black-faced Middle-aged Man and drove the Feather-robed Old Man into flight.
• Mu Yan Hong recognized that the spirit light had nearly healed her Dao Injury and restored much of her damaged cultivation.

Luo Hong subdued the Feather-robed Old Man and learned about Green Feather Island and the Black Wind Sea Region, then set out toward Soul Locking Island with Mu Yan Hong, Luan Ni, and Gu Wuhen. After Jiao Three reported to the Lord of Reincarnation Hall, she suspected he had arranged her encounter with the white light for his own purposes, while a gathering of cultivators surrounded a ritual apparatus in the Central Earth Immortal Domain.

• Little Gold returned with the defeated Feather-robed Old Man, and Luo Hong sealed him and learned about the Great Tide Gathering and Soul Locking Island.
• Mu Yan Hong revealed her connection to the Flowing Fire Sect, and Luo Hong advised her to restore her cultivation before returning there.
• Jiao Three questioned Luo Hong about the white light, then departed and reported the events in the Water-Fire Secret Realm to the Lord of Reincarnation Hall.
• Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen asked to travel with Luo Hong, and Mu Yan Hong joined them as they set off toward Soul Locking Island.
• The Lord of Reincarnation Hall stopped Jiao Three from discussing the white light, and she suspected he had arranged for her to benefit from it.
• Cultivators gathered around a massive ritual apparatus in a Daoist temple deep in the Central Earth Immortal Domain.

The Tianyan Temple sent Yellow Rank disciples to investigate world-destroying demonic energy, while the Sword-carrying Elder took Fan Mengyi along and gave her the Tongtian Sword Canon. In the Black Wind Sea Region, two brothers were trapped in a forced slaughter until Five-Colored Spirit Light pierced the mist above them.

• The Tianyan Instrument detected demonic energy from dozens of lower realms, and the sword-browed Daoist ordered more than a hundred Yellow Rank Golden Immortals to investigate cautiously.
• Fan Mengyi argued with the Sword-carrying Elder, recovered her wine gourd, and received an incomplete Tongtian Sword Canon before he brought her along to prepare for the mission.
• The Sword-carrying Elder explained that the scattered demonic energy indicated a dangerous world-destroying entity, so their assignment was to gather information rather than fight it.
• On an island in the Black Wind Sea Region, two brothers realized the soul battles had continued too long and narrowly escaped attackers who destroyed their hiding place.
• A Tattooed Man and a Purple-robed Woman used a formation to sink the island and force its cultivators into an increasingly brutal slaughter, hoping to feed a ghostly thing and secure a new backer.
• As the two brothers collapsed amid the slaughter, the mature brother heard his little brother wish to see the blue sky, and Five-Colored Spirit Light suddenly tore through the clouds and mist.