Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong challenged the Purple Firmament Boy to test his abilities, then fought him using divine abilities alone and revealed Golden Immortal-level Law Cultivation. The Purple Firmament Boy unleashed his body techniques and transformed into a Purple Thunder Dragon, which charged Luo Hong’s enormous Five Elements palm as the onlookers watched.

• Luo Hong stopped the Purple Firmament Boy from conceding and proposed a contest of divine abilities without Immortal Artifacts.
• Luo Hong’s Five-Colored Absolute Domain began absorbing the Purple Thunder Clouds, while the Purple Firmament Boy answered with a Heavenly Punishment Thunder Arrow.
• Luo Hong’s Formless Finger prevailed after revealing thirty-eight clusters of Five Elements Dao Patterns, showing that his Law Cultivation had reached the Golden Immortal level.
• The Purple Firmament Boy teleported into the thunderclouds, then absorbed them and used the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill and other techniques to transform into a Purple Thunder Dragon.
• Luo Hong brought down a massive Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand, and the Purple Thunder Dragon overcame its urge to retreat and charged toward it.

Luo Hong defeated Purple Firmament Boy and used his strength and Seal Restriction to secure the Lei Yun Secret Realm for Mo Lingqiu, honoring his deal with Dan Shu Tower. The tournament officials allowed the tactic, and Qi Fang reluctantly accepted that Dan Shu Tower’s rise might benefit Qi Yun Academy.

• Luo Hong captured Purple Firmament Boy with the Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand, and Purple Firmament Boy admitted defeat and left the Lei Yun Secret Realm.
• After Mo Lingqiu conceded the Yellow Sand Secret Realm, Luo Hong drove out its new master and returned to the Lei Yun Secret Realm to recover.
• When Mo Lingqiu lost the Lei Yun Secret Realm to a challenger, Luo Hong defeated that challenger and imposed a Seal Restriction, prompting uproar among the tournament spectators.
• Ouyang Kuishan accepted Lu’s argument that the tournament rules should not change, and the officials allowed Luo Hong’s actions to stand.
• Luo Hong told Qi Fang that Dan Shu Tower’s rise could help Qi Yun Academy, and Qi Fang reluctantly agreed to accept the outcome.

The first half of the Ancient Cloud Tournament ended with Luo Hong among the thirty-six Secret Realm masters, and the contestants were invited to challenge Candle Dragon Dao’s Vice Dao Masters. Fang Han challenged Vice Dao Master Xue, whose Crimson Fire True Wheel turned the battle in her favor after he nearly overwhelmed her with an icy formation.

• The tournament’s first half ended, and Luo Hong, Mo Lingqiu, Fang Han, Purple Firmament Boy, and the other finalists gathered beneath the Coiled Dragon Stage.
• Huan Long offered the Secret Realm masters Sesame Immortal Liquid and six shichen to choose a Vice Dao Master to challenge; Luo Hong saved his bottle while Fang Han drank his.
• Mo Lingqiu and several others gave up their chance to challenge, while Fang Han chose to fight Vice Dao Master Xue.
• Fang Han sacrificed his Mid-grade Immortal Artifact Ice Needles to form an icy trap and send six Mystic Ice snakes at the Woman in the Red Skirt.
• Vice Dao Master Xue revealed her Crimson Fire True Wheel, used its power of time to slow Fang Han’s snakes, and strengthened her fire attacks until his advantage began to collapse.

Luo Hong watched Candle Dragon Dao’s tournament and was forced by Huan Long to face three Vice Dao Masters at once. He easily stopped Xue Huan and Sun Yu’s combined attack, then evaded Xiong Shan’s powerful sword strikes.

• Luo Hong analyzed the Vice Dao Masters’ time and law techniques while watching the tournament’s challengers lose to Candle Dragon Dao.
• Huan Long punished Luo Hong by assigning Xiong Shan as his opponent instead of letting him choose.
• Luo Hong demanded two more opponents, so Huan Long sent Xue Huan and Sun Yu to fight alongside Xiong Shan.
• Xue Huan and Sun Yu combined their fire and willow-leaf techniques, but Luo Hong pinned their crimson dragon with his Great Five Elements Zhenyuan Hand.
• Xiong Shan launched a massive sword light at Luo Hong, but Luo Hong evaded it with his Five-Colored Escape Light.

Luo Hong used the Power of Time to evade Xiong Shan’s killing sword and instantly seal Xue Huan, though the burst of speed strained his body. As Xiong Shan prepared his trump card and Sun Yu tried to counter Luo Hong’s palm strike, the contest’s next clash began.

• Luo Hong realized Xiong Shan’s sword carried genuine killing intent and decided to deal with Xue Huan and Sun Yu first.
• Xue Huan activated the Blazing Fire Treasure Wheel while Sun Yu sent out his Dark Green Vines to slow and bind Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong used the Power of Time to accelerate his escape, reappeared at the arena’s edge, and sealed Xue Huan’s Nascent Soul.
• Azure Stream Palace and Fuling Sect’s representatives praised Luo Hong and expressed interest in recruiting him, while Sun Yu asked Xiong Shan how to counter Luo Hong’s escape technique.
• Xiong Shan prepared the trump card Ouyang Kuishan had given him, and Luo Hong answered by forming a Five-colored Giant Hand above Xiong Shan and Sun Yu.
• Sun Yu used his Pseudo Spirit Domain and layered Laws to make the willow leaves in the giant hand drain Immortal Spiritual Qi into his Dark Green Staff, but Luo Hong declared him overconfident.

Luo Hong defeated Xiong Shan and Sun Yu in the Ancient Cloud Tournament, revealing the full power of his Five Elements Law and imprisoning them without serious injury. He reclaimed the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords from Xiong Shan, and after the tournament concluded, he returned to Qi Yun Pavilion to arrange the completion of his transaction with Qi Fang.

• Sun Yu’s spirit-draining ability failed to stop Luo Hong’s Five-colored Giant Hand, and Xiong Shan summoned his Blood Sword to fight back.
• Xiong Shan fused thousands of immortal swords into his Blood Sword, but Luo Hong increased his Five Elements Dao Patterns to sixty and crushed the sword, trapping Xiong Shan and Sun Yu beneath a Five-Colored Small Mountain.
• Huan Long declared Luo Hong the winner, and Luo Hong released Xue Huan and freed Xiong Shan and Sun Yu unharmed.
• Luo Hong took the seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords from Xiong Shan, arguing that Xiong Shan’s borrowed power violated the tournament rules; Huan Long punished Xiong Shan by docking ten thousand years of his salary.
• The Ancient Cloud Tournament ended, and Luo Hong returned to Qi Yun Pavilion, where Qi Fang told him that Junior Brother Zhou was meeting the disciple who had accepted the mission.

Luo Hong collected his first two rewards from the Candle Dragon Dao and used his third to arrange a private challenge with Ouyang Kuishan. Inside the Coiled Dragon Space, Luo Hong revealed that the Nethercold Immortal Mansion would next emerge in the Black Wind Sea Region, leaving Ouyang Kuishan shaken and wary.

• Luo Hong reassured Silver Fairy that Han Li was alive and explained why he had reclaimed Han Li’s Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword.
• After cultivating for half a month, Luo Hong met Huan Long and requested a Candle Dragon Token and the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill fragment from the Nine Heavens Palace.
• Luo Hong used his third reward to request the qualification to challenge Ouyang Kuishan, and the two entered the Coiled Dragon Space alone.
• Luo Hong told Ouyang Kuishan that he was an Ascended Cultivator whose foundation lay in the Black Wind Sea Region.
• Luo Hong revealed that the Nethercold Immortal Mansion would next emerge in the Black Wind Sea Region and said Northern Cold Immortal Palace cultivators had begun contacting Black Wind Island.

Luo Hong persuaded Ouyang Kuishan to cooperate with Green Feather Island against the Northern Cold Immortal Palace, then proved his value in a duel. Ouyang agreed to investigate the threat and discuss the alliance’s demands with the other sects.

• Luo Hong offered the Three Great Sects an alliance with Green Feather Island and promised to help find the Nethercold Immortal Mansion’s entrance, asking for two entry spots and True Earth Law Materials.
• To prove his sincerity, Luo Hong offered Meng Qingyuan as evidence of a Northern Cold Immortal Palace scheme within the Candle Dragon Dao.
• Ouyang Kuishan negotiated over Luo Hong’s requested materials, then fought him in the Coiled Dragon Space; Luo Hong conceded, though Ouyang accepted his conditions.
• Ouyang Kuishan summoned representatives of the other sects to discuss the Northern Cold Immortal Palace’s plans and proposed a joint investigation of the Black Wind Sea Region.
• Luo Hong returned to Qi Yun Pavilion, treated his injuries, and resolved to strengthen himself before confronting stronger Golden Immortals.

Luo Hong visited Nine Heavens Palace to seek guidance on cultivating the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill and learned that his Purple Heaven Divine Thunder was too weak to advance beyond Late True Immortal. The Lightning Robe Old Man offered three remedies and warned that a great upheaval would soon engulf the Ancient Cloud Continent, leaving Luo Hong to weigh his options.

• After spending twenty years cultivating in the Time Flowing Array, Luo Hong reforged thirty-two profound apertures and decided to visit Nine Heavens Palace for guidance.
• Luo Hong reached Nine Heavens Palace, where the mutated Heavenly Dao Lightning Talisman began trembling and emitting golden lightning arcs.
• Purple Firmament Boy escorted Luo Hong to Purple Extreme Hall, where the Lightning Robe Old Man received him alone.
• The Lightning Robe Old Man explained that Luo Hong's Purple Heaven Divine Thunder was too weak for further cultivation and proposed strengthening it through a Destined Immortal Artifact, pills, or a change of cultivation technique.
• Luo Hong favored the pill method and asked why the Lightning Robe Old Man wanted him to remain at Nine Heavens Palace.
• The Lightning Robe Old Man warned Luo Hong not to investigate and revealed that a great upheaval would soon strike the Ancient Cloud Continent, forcing Nine Heavens Palace to prepare.

Luo Hong negotiated with the Lightning Robe Old Man for Purple Extreme Pills, agreeing to protect Zhen'er and the Nine Heavens Palace’s disciples from one pursuit in exchange for the pills and a treasure. He chose the mysterious Gold Thunder Fur, while the Lightning Robe Old Man privately revealed that Ouyang Kuishan’s plans threatened the sect.

• The Lightning Robe Old Man offered Luo Hong three Purple Extreme Pills if he would escort Zhen'er and elite disciples away from Ancient Cloud should chaos threaten the Nine Heavens Palace.
• Luo Hong rejected the original escort arrangement, explaining that he could not face the likely danger, but reconsidered when the Lightning Robe Old Man reduced his duty to blocking one pursuit and offered a treasury treasure.
• The Lightning Robe Old Man displayed the sect’s treasures, and Luo Hong chose a tuft of Gold Thunder Fur that caused cultivators of the True Lightning Law to feel unease.
• Luo Hong swore a Heavenly Demon Oath that took effect only after the Purple Extreme Pills worked, then received the Gold Thunder Fur and pills.
• After Luo Hong left, the Green Robe Man questioned the concessions, and the Lightning Robe Old Man explained that preserving the Nine Heavens Palace’s inheritance mattered more than keeping his master's keepsake.
• The Lightning Robe Old Man told the Green Robe Man that Ouyang Kuishan’s upheaval threatened their sect and urged him to stay safe for Zhen'er and the others.

Luo Hong merged the True Lightning Dao Ancestor’s Golden Hair with his incomplete Lightning Talisman Golden Orb after deducing how Dao Ancestors’ laws were preserved through combining with Dao. The orb became whole and began showing signs of transformation, so Luo Hong sealed it off to prevent it from becoming a spirit and escaping.

• Luo Hong tested the Golden Hair beside the incomplete Lightning Talisman Golden Orb and found that Primordial Power stopped it from reaching the orb.
• Luo Hong reasoned that laws were carried by the primordial spirit and that the giant eye’s apparent intelligence could be explained by bodily instinct, not a surviving consciousness.
• Luo Hong let the Golden Hair merge with the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb, restoring its missing portion as golden liquid.
• Silver Fairy recognized the orb’s new aura as the sign of a Demon Beast approaching transformation, and a black pupil appeared on its surface.
• Luo Hong covered the orb in Five-Colored Seals and cut it off from external Immortal Spiritual Qi to stop it from transforming and escaping.

Luo Hong cultivated with a Purple Extreme Pill while You Wangxing and Fan Mengyi descended to the Linghuan Realm to hunt spatial nodes and demons. Six years later, Luo Hong returned to Green Feather Island, killed a Sea-splitting Crab demon, and prepared to enter a century of seclusion, entrusting the island’s affairs to Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen.

• Luo Hong swallowed a Purple Extreme Pill in the Time Flowing Array and began refining its medicinal power to strengthen his Purple Lightning.
• You Wangxing and Fan Mengyi descended to the Linghuan Realm with Jiang, who departed alone; You Wangxing planned to enlist local powers and had Fan Mengyi accompany him to challenge the realm’s prodigies.
• Six years later, Luo Hong emerged from a sea trench with the corpse of a Late True Immortal Sea-splitting Crab demon after killing it in only a few breaths.
• Luo Hong told Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen he would cultivate in seclusion for about a hundred years and asked them to manage Green Feather Island.
• Luo Hong promised to refine the crab’s remains into Peak Mid-grade Immortal Artifacts for Luan Ni and Gu Wuhen, who agreed to help oversee the island.

After settling matters on Green Feather Island, Luo Hong entered seclusion to cultivate the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill. A hundred years later in the Nine Yang Realm, Li Sisi and the Heavenly Maiden Sect entered Shattered Immortal Valley, where their Sect Master ordered them to reveal nearby Spatial Nodes.

• Luo Hong received the Feather-robed Old Man's report, assigned him to work under Deputy Island Master Gu, and killed three people on Green Feather Island that night.
• Luo Hong began his seclusion with the Time Flowing Array while Silver Fairy guarded the room, leaving the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb with him.
• During the Myriad Spirits Mountain Range's sixty-year mist tide, Li Sisi and the Heavenly Maiden Sect followed their Sect Master into Shattered Immortal Valley using a Jade Token to bypass a deadly formation zone.
• The Woman in Brocade Clothes led the group against puppets and nearby ferocious beasts, then ordered Li Sisi and the other Heavenly Maidens to use Heavenly Maiden Profound Light to reveal the surrounding Spatial Nodes.

The Woman in Brocade Clothes forced Li Sisi and the Heavenly Maiden Sect cultivators to reveal and stabilize Spatial Nodes, using the resulting fluctuations to trigger Hua the Old Demon’s Silver Thunder Restriction and sacrifice the women. After the formation collapsed, a purple lightning storm erupted from one Spatial Node, leaving the surviving cultivators facing a new and more terrifying danger.

• Li Sisi led eighty-one women in forming the Heavenly Maiden Great Formation to reveal Spatial Nodes, and the Woman in Brocade Clothes stabilized them with white spirit light.
• The Restriction struck down five women with Silver Thunder, and Li Sisi realized the Woman in Brocade Clothes was deliberately using them as sacrifices.
• The Woman in Brocade Clothes used Red Prayer Beads to control the women and forced them to keep revealing Spatial Nodes as the Restriction killed more of them.
• The remaining women fell when the Woman in Brocade Clothes’s control ended, and Elder Su prepared to kill Li Sisi and the survivors.
• A thunderclap interrupted Elder Su as purple lightning began shooting from a Spatial Node.

Luo Hong descended into the Nine Yang Realm through a Spatial Node and stopped the Space Storm that threatened to kill the Heavenly Maiden Sect cultivators. After discovering their attempt to suppress the node, he began searching the Mahayana Cultivator surnamed Su's soul, while Gu Yuan ordered the others to flee.

• The Spirit Suppressing Pearl shattered, the Spatial Node expanded, and a violent Space Storm overwhelmed the Heavenly Maiden Sect's defenses.
• Gu Yuan and the Mahayana Cultivator surnamed Su used the Two Forms Profound Light Cauldron to shield the group, while Li Sisi and the surviving Fusion cultivators planned to flee when they could.
• Gu Yuan summoned the Heavenly Maiden Sect's founding ancestor through a golden hairpin, but the Purple-patterned man destroyed the sword-wielding apparition with bolts of purple lightning.
• Luo Hong emerged from the Spatial Node, froze and dispelled the Space Storm, then asked the survivors about the realm and their purpose there.
• Luo Hong dragged the Mahayana Cultivator surnamed Su to him and began a soul search after blocking his dagger, prompting Gu Yuan to order everyone to flee.
• A fleeing Heavenly Maiden Sect cultivator crashed into an unseen force and was torn apart along with her Nascent Soul.

Luo Hong learned that the Tianyan Temple Golden Immortal was waiting outside the valley and tested whether he could destroy the Spatial Node, but found the passage too powerful to break. He then manipulated the Heavenly Maiden Sect cultivators’ memories and arranged to use them to draw the Golden Immortal’s attention for an ambush.

• Luo Hong searched the memories of the Mahayana Cultivator surnamed Su and learned how the lower realm sects were being used to investigate Spatial Nodes.
• Luo Hong struck the Spatial Node with the Sky Breaking Spear, but the passage began to recover, so he concluded that he needed to obtain a Heaven Severing Token.
• Luo Hong trapped the Woman in Brocade Clothes and her group in an illusion, removed Junior Sister Lu’s Primordial Spirit restriction, and recruited Li Sisi to help lure the square-faced man.
• Luo Hong altered the sect master’s memories, disguised himself as the Mahayana Cultivator surnamed Su, and led the Heavenly Maiden Sect group out of the valley.
• Old Daoist Wu Weizi teleported the group to the Spirit Boat, where the square-faced man asked whether the investigation had been completed.

Li Sisi exposed the Heavenly Maiden Sect’s abuse and revealed that a demon posing as Elder Su had used her to create an opening to attack Xing Wanhai. After Cao Fuhu arrived and questioned her, Li Sisi realized the First Ancestor’s hairpin had already been destroyed, just as another sudden Five Elements attack struck Cao Fuhu.

• The Heavenly Maiden Sect’s sect master received a Pill for Breaking Yuan for marking sixty-three spatial nodes, and Li Sisi accused the sect of killing sixty-three of its eighty-one sisters.
• As the sect master reached for Li Sisi, Li Sisi warned Xing Wanhai of an ambush, but the attacker escaped after striking him with a Five Elements Aura.
• Cao Fuhu emerged from the cabin, subdued Wu Weizi, and ordered the sect master to release Li Sisi.
• Li Sisi told Cao Fuhu that the real Elder Su was dead and that a demon had emerged from a spatial node, altered memories, and ordered her to help set up Xing Wanhai’s attack.
• Li Sisi explained that she warned the immortals to protect her sisters’ families, but Cao Fuhu ordered a Soul Search before their restrictions could be removed.
• When the sect master produced the First Ancestor’s hairpin, Li Sisi remembered that the demon had destroyed it, and a Five-Colored Fist Shadow broke through Cao Fuhu’s defense and struck his dantian.

Luo Hong defeated Cao Fuhu after the Golden Immortal’s demonic transformation and captured his Nascent Soul, while Xing Wanhai fled. He returned to the tower ship with the Heaven Severing Token, where Li Sisi resigned herself to what came next.

• Luo Hong struck Cao Fuhu with the Great Five Elements Reincarnation Fist, exploiting the Five Elements Law to break through his defenses and seal away more of his immortal power.
• Cao Fuhu underwent demonic transformation and tried to escape, but Luo Hong saw through his feint and fought him with the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill.
• As Xing Wanhai approached to assist Cao Fuhu, Luo Hong unleashed the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique and turned Cao Fuhu’s body to ash, preserving his Nascent Soul in a Five-Colored Small Mountain.
• Xing Wanhai saw Cao Fuhu’s defeat and fled, while Luo Hong retrieved the Heaven Severing Token from Cao Fuhu’s Storage Bag.
• Luo Hong returned to the tower ship and told Li Sisi that one High Immortal was dead and the other had fled; Li Sisi answered that it no longer mattered and told him to proceed.

Luo Hong freed Li Sisi and the others, then reconsidered how to deal with the Spatial Nodes and Tianyan Temple without provoking a greater crisis. After testing whether Primordial Qi could replicate Heaven Severing Tokens, he threw one into a Spatial Node and sensed something familiar in the released Heaven-Cutting Law.

• Luo Hong removed the restrictions on Li Sisi and the other cultivators, then returned to Shattered Immortal Valley to handle the Spatial Node.
• Li Sisi led eighteen cultivators away from the Myriad Spirits Mountain Range, while Wu Weizi and the other sect leaders chose to retreat and seal their mountains.
• Luo Hong concluded that killing too many Tianyan Temple Golden Immortals could draw the temple’s attention and suspected Wenren Ji’s plan was meant to make him dependent on Wenren Ji.
• Luo Hong used Primordial Qi to turn one Heaven Severing Token into three, but decided that replicating them was too costly and risky to solve the Spatial Node problem.
• Luo Hong tossed a Heaven Severing Token into the Spatial Node, and the released Heaven-Cutting Law gave him an inexplicably familiar feeling.

Luo Hong discovered that the Heavenly Heart Divine Tree’s innate Great Dao was the Heaven-Cutting Law and gave Tianxin a Heaven Severing Token to refine. After she began breaking through, he set out to find Xing Wanhai and use Tianyan Temple’s teleportation system to reach the Linghuan Realm.

• Luo Hong entered the jade talisman space and recognized that the Heavenly Heart Divine Tree’s aura matched the Heaven-Cutting Law.
• Luo Hong showed Tianxin the Heaven Severing Token, and she sensed it could help her break through her bottleneck.
• Luo Hong gave Tianxin the token, and she began refining it as Immortal Spiritual Qi surged around her.
• Luo Hong left Shattered Immortal Valley and decided to find Xing Wanhai at the Ancient Altar where he had descended to the lower realm.