Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong inspected the Netherworld’s growing reincarnation system and expanded its production, then planned to delegate the hunt for Nether Beasts so he could pursue the Golden Immortal Realm. He met Mu Yan Hong after she recovered her Golden Immortal cultivation and updated her on the Black Wind Sea Region and the Flowing Fire Sect, leaving her to consider what to do next.

• Luo Hong confirmed that mortal primordial spirits protected by Power of Faith could enter the Netherworld and receive illusory dreams of rebirth.
• Luo Hong ordered the Ghost King to expand the altars from twenty-four to seventy-two, arrange them as a formation, and use his refined Sacrificial Blood Whips to improve production.
• Luo Hong concluded that he needed to reach the Golden Immortal Realm and enlist Jiao Three’s people to capture Nether Beasts, then decided he no longer needed to personally hold Green Feather Island’s front line.
• Luo Hong sensed a powerful Golden Immortal aura and went to meet Mu Yan Hong, who had emerged from seclusion after recovering her cultivation.
• Luo Hong spared the captured Black Wind Island cultivators and had them join Green Feather Island, then told Mu Yan Hong about the war and the Flowing Fire Sect’s situation.

Luo Hong brought Mu Yan Hong through the Desolate Shocking Wind to meet Jiao Three, securing the Wu Chang Alliance’s help in capturing yin beasts and learning that the Five Extremes Secret Realm would open within a hundred years. As Luo Hong prepared to escort Mu Yan Hong back to Huanglan Continent, she hinted that she might be able to help him enter the secret realm.

• Mu Yan Hong asked Luo Hong about news of her father, and he said there were no leads in the Outer Sea but there might be news in the Wilds.
• Luo Hong explained that Black Wind Island was sealed and offered to take Mu Yan Hong through the Desolate Shocking Wind to meet Jiao Three.
• Jiao Three refused Luo Hong’s request to capture yin beasts until he explained that they were needed to make ghost soldiers and sustain their cooperation; she then agreed to try to capture twelve each year.
• Jiao Three told Luo Hong that the Five Extremes Secret Realm would open within a hundred years, though the Azure Stream Palace controlled access.
• As Luo Hong prepared to take Mu Yan Hong through the Desolate Shocking Wind, she said she might have a way to help him enter the Five Extremes Secret Realm.

Luo Hong accompanied Mu Yan Hong toward the Flowing Fire Sect after she offered to help him seek a place in the Five Extremes Secret Realm through her Mu Family connections. On their way back, he collected Yin beasts and blood poison, while Mu Yan Hong moved to rescue Flowing Fire Sect cultivators fleeing a battle.

• Mu Yan Hong told Luo Hong that her mother had belonged to the Mu Family of Azure Stream Palace and offered to pose as his Dao companion so the family might help him enter the Five Extremes Secret Realm.
• Luo Hong agreed to accompany Mu Yan Hong to the Flowing Fire Sect, then spent five years capturing more than a hundred Yin beasts in the Desolate Shocking Wind before leaving with her.
• A fleeing mixed squad from the Eastern Wasteland was intercepted by two Heavy Water Sect True Immortals, and Meng Tianxing took a Fenyuan Pill to hold them off while the others escaped.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong reached Blood River Valley, where Luo Hong broke its formation and collected the blood poison, but found that the blood demon he wanted for A Zi had disappeared.
• Mu Yan Hong sensed cultivators from both wastelands approaching and sent a voice transmission telling the fleeing youngsters to come to her for safety.

Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong rescued the fleeing Eastern Wasteland cultivators, then defeated the Western Wasteland pursuers and saved Meng Tianxing. Meng Tianxing was dying after taking a Fenyuan Pill, but he rejoiced when he learned Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong had become Dao companions.

• The fleeing Eastern Wasteland cultivators followed a voice transmission to Blood River Valley, where they found Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong.
• The Western Wasteland pursuers ambushed the group, but Mu Yan Hong bewildered them with her Rakshasa Law and subdued the survivors.
• Luo Hong learned that Meng Tianxing had stayed behind to hold off the enemy and ordered the group to lead him to Meng Tianxing.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong arrived above the blood forest, where Mu Yan Hong killed the three Western Wasteland cultivators surrounding Meng Tianxing.
• Luo Hong examined Meng Tianxing and found that the Fenyuan Pill had left him beyond saving, while Mu Yan Hong confirmed his condition.
• Meng Tianxing learned that Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong had become Dao companions and rejoiced.

After Meng Tianxing died, Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong visited Pine Crane Tower, where they learned the war was nearing a possible ceasefire. Luo Hong insisted on returning to their former cave abodes and found the Yin Yang Harmony Pool, confirming that Meng Tianxing’s final message concerned something more important than the pool itself.

• Meng Tianxing transmitted a final message to Luo Hong, then died from the side effects of the Fenyuan Pill, and Luo Hong placed his body in a Mystic Ice coffin.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong took Meng Tianxing’s remains to Pine Crane Tower, where Sect Master Mi Tong mourned him and reported that secret ceasefire negotiations were underway.
• Luo Hong chose to stay at the former cave abodes to attend Meng Tianxing’s funeral, and Mu Yan Hong agreed to follow his wishes.
• Luo Hong brought Mu Yan Hong through the earth veins beneath Bixia Peak’s Medicine Garden and found the Yin Yang Harmony Pool.
• Mu Yan Hong realized the pool explained why Meng Tianxing had arranged for them to live at the Crimson-Azure Twin Peaks, while Luo Hong said his final message had revealed more than the pool’s existence.

Luo Hong explained how Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong discovered the Method of Returning to the Void, which could open a path into the Nethercold Immortal Mansion. Their attempt to use it in the Five Extremes Secret Realm failed to take them to the mansion, and the Azure Stream Palace cultivators turned on them after they escaped the resulting danger.

• Luo Hong recounted how Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong met beneath Bixia Peak, broke an ancient array, and found a Wusheng Sword Sect Golden Immortal’s remains and Storage Bag.
• Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong studied the Array Diagrams in the Storage Bag and deciphered a method that used the merged Immortal Yuan of a male and female cultivator to enter the Nethercold Immortal Mansion.
• Luo Hong told Mu Yan Hong that Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong became Dao companions, discovered the Yin-Yang Harmony Pool’s uses, and later reached the True Immortal realm.
• Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong went to the Five Extremes Secret Realm with Azure Stream Palace elders to try the method of Returning to the Void.
• Their combined Immortal Yuan triggered the method but could not bring them into the Nethercold Immortal Mansion, instead sweeping the group into a dangerous place in the secret realm.
• After Elder Meng and Gu Yuehong escaped, the Azure Stream Palace True Immortals attacked them to seize their treasures.

Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong prepared to pursue the Nethercold Immortal Mansion, leaving the Flowing Fire Sect after Luo Hong helped Mu Yan Hong break away from its demands. Three years later, the Mu Family faced pressure from the Luo Family over Secret Realm quotas and whether Luo Qing would assist them.

• Luo Hong recalled Elder Meng’s final wish and devised a formation plate to let him and Mu Yan Hong blend their Immortal Yuan without being true Dao companions.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong stayed for Elder Meng’s funeral, then visited the Flowing Fire Sect, where Mu Yan Hong chose to leave despite Lin Yao and the elders begging her to stay.
• Luo Hong called Mu Yan Hong his husband and took her away from the Flowing Fire Sect aboard a spirit boat bound for Thunderclap City.
• Luo Hong reassured Mu Yan Hong that the Nethercold Immortal Mansion’s Taiyi legacy could outweigh the Flowing Fire Sect’s current losses, and they discussed cultivation during their journey.
• Three years later, a Mu Family Elder reported that the Luo Family offered only fifty Immortal Yuan Stones per Secret Realm quota and would not promise to send Luo Qing.
• The Old Man in Green Robes questioned the Luo Family’s terms as the Mu Family elders protested the low offer.

The Mu Family discovered that a mysterious Golden Immortal had wiped out the Star-Mane Crabs, then learned that the returning clan member was a Golden Immortal named Luo Hong. As the Mu Family celebrated and offered him Secret Realm quotas, Luo Qing’s scheme to pressure them through the crabs was exposed as a failure.

• The Mu Family Patriarch rejected an immediate appeal to Azure Stream Palace and planned to contain the Star-Mane Crabs, while the elders discussed selling Five Extremes Secret Realm quotas.
• A messenger reported that every Star-Mane Crab had vanished, leaving a deep palm print in the mine; the elders suspected a Golden Immortal had intervened.
• The Internal Affairs Deaconess revealed that the returning clan member was a Golden Immortal, prompting the Patriarch to hurry to meet them.
• Luo Qing learned that the Mu Family had captured the Star-Mane Crabs alive and erupted in anger after discovering Luo Yun’s scheme had failed.
• The Mu Family welcomed Luo Hong with a celebration, and the Patriarch promised to reserve Secret Realm quotas for him and Mo.

Luo Qing reported the failed plan against the Mu Family and learned that Mu Yan Hong had survived a deadly destiny calamity, prompting his superior to order him to investigate her and Luo Hong. After securing the Mu Family quota, Luo Hong checked his soul-reception array and weighed its rising Immortal Yuan Stone costs.

• The Mu Family Patriarch refused Luo Qing entry to the celebration, and Luo Qing left after using his Destiny Law ability to investigate Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong.
• Luo Qing reported the failed plan to Luo Yun, who explained that Mu Yan Hong’s destiny showed she had escaped a deeply rooted Calamity of Death and ordered Luo Qing to gather information about her and Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong discussed the quota and her growing sense of belonging to the Mu Family before returning to their pavilion.
• Luo Hong entered the Netherworld Grotto-heaven and confirmed with the Ghost King that the soul-reception array remained functional, though its Immortal Yuan Stone consumption had increased.
• Luo Hong ordered the Ghost King to suspend soul reception if the array’s costs exceeded twice the usual amount and considered holding a yearly festival to reduce expenses.

Luo Hong assessed his need for steady income and began developing the Netherworld Grotto-heaven’s spiritual lands into a source of profit. After inspecting the Corpse Transformation Pool and assigning Little White to refine corpses for sale, he visited Xue’er to investigate a newly formed Blood Mist Spiritual Land.

• Luo Hong visited Corpse Land, where Little White reported that the Corpse Transformation Pool could produce enough Xuandu Corpses to complete the formation within roughly a thousand years.
• Luo Hong ordered Little White to use some of the pool’s capacity to refine Crimson Refined Corpses, Azure Refined Corpses, and Six-armed Corpses for future sale.
• Luo Hong considered other ways to profit from the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, including raising Blood Dragon Fish in the Blood Sea.
• Xue’er showed Luo Hong the Blood Mist Spiritual Land, where a swarm of blood mosquitoes entered the mist and one emerged as a giant, obedient mosquito.

Luo Hong examined Xue’er’s Blood Mist Spiritual Land, assessed his cultivation bottlenecks, and resumed training while preparing for the Five Extremes Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Mu Jinshan tried to recruit Mu Yanhong into the Azure Stream Palace and offered to help her obtain Blood Dragon Fish for Luo Hong.

• Xue’er showed Luo Hong how the Blood Mist Spiritual Land fused Blood Beasts and refined Yin Beast Essence into powerful Blood Lightning Seed pills.
• Luo Hong decided to upgrade the Netherworld Grotto-heaven and focus on cultivating his immortal apertures, then began training inside the Time Flowing Array.
• Mu Yanhong declined Mu Jinshan’s request to join the Azure Stream Palace, citing her missing father, the sect’s turmoil, and her husband’s affairs in the Black Wind Sea Region.
• Mu Jinshan asked to meet Luo Hong, and Mu Yanhong sent him a Sound Transmission Talisman while explaining that Luo Hong was in seclusion.
• Mu Yanhong asked Mu Jinshan to help purchase Blood Dragon Fish, and he offered to take her to the Luo Family and buy a batch as a meeting gift.

Luo Hong negotiated with Mu Jinshan to acquire juvenile Blood Dragon Fish for a future business, while refusing an apparent gift from Luo Yun until it was replaced with a jade slip of farming techniques. After studying the slip and finding nothing suspicious, Luo Hong pressed it to his dantian, leaving its purpose unclear.

• Luo Hong told Mu Jinshan he planned to establish an enduring Blood Dragon Fish business near Green Feather Island, and Mu Jinshan took him and Mu Yanhong to the Luo Family.
• The Luo Family Clan Leader resisted selling two hundred thousand juvenile Blood Dragon Fish, but Luo Yun reprimanded him and ordered him to hand them over.
• Luo Yun offered the fish for free, but Luo Hong refused; Luo Yun instead gave Mu Yanhong a jade slip containing Blood Dragon Fish farming techniques.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yanhong returned to their residence with the fish, and Mu Jinshan left to report to Mu Xianfeng.
• Luo Hong inspected the jade slip, found useful husbandry techniques and no obvious trap, then pressed it against his dantian.

Luo Hong destroyed the jade slip Luo Yun had turned into an object of destiny, injuring Luo Yun and making him suspect that Mo Bufan possessed a powerful strange treasure. Meanwhile, Mu Jinshan met Fairy Yun Ni at Crimson Extreme Palace, where she sought help entering the Five Extremes Secret Realm for Five Extremes Fruit.

• Luo Hong absorbed the jade slip into the Little Black Ball, transforming it into Primordial Qi, while Luo Yun gave Luo Qing the second-layer method of the Qi Tian Gong and ordered him to keep escorting Azure Sea Stone to the Mu Family.
• Luo Yun explained how his destiny techniques could help him steal Mu Yan Hong's opportunity and guessed that it concerned the Five Extremes Secret Realm.
• Luo Yun suffered a sudden injury when the jade slip's destiny was destroyed and concluded that Mo Bufan's concealed treasure was likely responsible.
• Mu Jinshan arrived at Crimson Extreme Palace and met Fairy Yun Ni, who asked for help entering the Five Extremes Secret Realm to obtain Five Extremes Fruit.
• Mu Jinshan said the secret realm was not the Mu Family's decision alone and asked what price Yun Ni would pay.

Yun Ni offered Azure Stream Palace Baili Yan’s experience overcoming Infant Decay in exchange for entry into the Five Extremes Secret Realm, while Mu Xianfeng and Mu Jinshan discussed their plans and concerns. Luo Hong and Mu Yanhong joined the expedition, and after entering the realm Luo Hong sensed the Mother of Parasitic Insects nearby as the group set out for the Central Area.

• Yun Ni gave Mu Xianfeng Baili Yan’s Infant Decay experience, and Mu Xianfeng agreed to help her enter the Five Extremes Secret Realm.
• Mu Jinshan agreed to watch over the Secret Realm and later discussed plans to win over Luo Hong and Mu Yanhong with Mu Xianfeng.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yanhong arrived at Five Extremes Mountain Range, met Yun Ni and the other Golden Immortal cultivators, and agreed to travel with Mu Jinshan.
• As the Secret Realm opened, Luo Hong sensed the Mother of Parasitic Insects inside and entered the realm with Mu Yanhong.
• Mu Jinshan identified their landing place as the eastern region near a river of Blue Shadow Demons and led the group toward the Central Area.

Luo Hong captured a Sesame Oil Bug swarm after demonstrating the power of his Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to Mu Jinshan and Yun Ni. As the group resumed its journey through the Five Extremes Secret Realm, Mu Yanhong privately asked Luo Hong whether something was wrong with the insects.

• Mu Jinshan explained that Golden Immortal cultivators entered the secret realm for rare medicines and materials from its ferocious beasts, prompting Luo Hong to suspect that Luo Yun had another objective.
• A Sesame Oil Bug swarm appeared, and Luo Hong asked Mu Jinshan to let him capture it for his young Blood Dragon Fish.
• Luo Hong used Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to overwhelm the swarm, then sent ghost soldiers to collect the insects.
• Mu Jinshan praised Luo Hong's strength, while Yun Ni and Mu Yanhong reacted to the display before the group continued onward.
• Mu Yanhong sent Luo Hong a private voice transmission asking whether something was wrong with the Sesame Oil Bugs.

Luo Hong explained his hidden plans for the Sesame Oil Bugs while tracking the Mother of Parasitic Insects, and Luo Yun pursued Mu Yan Hong after learning her destiny had become a Golden Hall phenomenon. In the Central Area, Luo Hong’s group gathered several Five Extremes Fruits before discovering that three Golden Immortals had released a dangerous Mid Golden Immortal ferocious beast.

• Luo Hong told Mu Yan Hong he had sensed the aura of his lost spirit beast when the Five Extremes Secret Realm opened, while secretly planning ways to raise Sesame Oil Bugs and track their mother.
• Luo Yun rescued Luo Qing from a Sesame Oil Bug swarm, praised his progress in the Qi Tian Gong, and learned that Mu Yan Hong’s destiny had formed a Golden Hall phenomenon.
• Luo Yun accelerated toward the Central Area while failing to notice a blood ray flash in a big-eared bat’s eyes.
• Luo Hong’s group killed a ferocious serpent and collected three Water Extremes Fruits, which Luo Hong sealed with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• After seven days, the group had collected Water, Fire, and Earth Extremes Fruits but still lacked Golden and Wood Extremes Fruits.
• Mu Jinshan learned through a voice transmission that three Golden Immortals had released the Azure Blue Electric Wolf, a Mid Golden Immortal ferocious beast.

Luo Hong and his companions agreed to help Fang Le and the others hunt the Azure Blue Electric Wolf and repair the damaged sealing array. While the group fought the beast, Luo Hong discovered that the Ghost King's tracking ability had led him to parasitic insects hidden inside a weak green snake.

• Mu Jinshan explained that Fang Le, Zhuang Yuan'ao, and the thin old Daoist had damaged the sealing array while fighting the Azure Blue Electric Wolf, and they asked for help defeating it and repairing the array.
• Luo Hong, Mu Jinshan, Yun Ni, and Mu Yan Hong agreed to help in exchange for the wolf's materials, three sets of Five Extremes Fruits, and eight thousand Immortal Yuan Stones.
• The seven cultivators returned through a Spatial Rift and pursued the Azure Blue Electric Wolf for three days until they found it feeding on Chestnut Bull corpses beside a giant lake.
• Fang Le gave formation flags to Yun Ni and Mu Yan Hong to block the wolf's escape while Mu Jinshan and the three Golden Immortals attacked it.
• Luo Hong stayed back, then used a tracking ability from the Ghost King to find translucent worms inside a green snake, identifying them as insects connected to the Mother of Parasitic Insects.

Luo Hong discovered that the Mother of Parasitic Insects had planted self-erasing white insects throughout the secret realm and turned several into Time Incarnations to track her. He joined the battle against the Azure Blue Electric Wolf just as it suddenly charged at Mu Jinshan.

• Luo Hong found white insects inside demon beasts, confirmed they bore the Mother of Parasitic Insects' aura, and refined several into Time Incarnations.
• Mu Jinshan summoned Luo Hong to the Two Forms Array battlefield, where Fang Le and the others struggled against the Azure Blue Electric Wolf's Phantom Divine Thunder.
• The Azure Blue Electric Wolf broke through Fang Le's defenses and nearly bit him, but the Two Forms Heavenly Sound disrupted its aim and let him escape.
• The fighters argued over retreating or bringing in more help, while Mu Jinshan insisted they could still gain the advantage.
• The Azure Blue Electric Wolf suddenly used Phantom Divine Thunder to accelerate toward Mu Jinshan and reached him before he could react.

Luo Hong rescued Mu Jinshan from the Azure Blue Electric Wolf and took charge of countering its Thunder Art. He overwhelmed the wolf’s Phantom Shadow Thunder Ball, then used a golden eye pupil to swallow its surprise attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Azure Blue Electric Wolf trapped Mu Jinshan with Thunder Art incarnations, but Luo Hong arrived and used Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to crush them and save him.
• Luo Hong told Mu Jinshan, Fang Le, and the others to focus on attacking while he resisted the wolf’s Thunder Art, then intercepted its Thunder Spears with lightning from the prepared thunderclouds.
• The Azure Blue Electric Wolf concentrated its Phantom Divine Thunder into a massive thunderball, and Luo Hong met it with a Purple Heaven dragon formed through the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill.
• The wolf feigned weakness and sent four Phantom Shadow Thunder Spears at Luo Hong, who concentrated his Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to shatter the thunderball.
• A golden sphere appeared before Luo Hong and swallowed the four spears; he caught it and revealed it was an eye pupil.

Luo Hong and his companions subdued the Azure Blue Electric Wolf, while Luo Yun discovered that Ji Kong's fortune carried an alarming amount of death fortune. As the group began rebuilding the Thunder Restraining Great Formation, Luo Hong noticed unexplained discrepancies in its patterns.

• Luo Hong used the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb to absorb and refine the Azure Blue Electric Wolf's Phantom Divine Thunder, and Mu Jinshan and the others subdued the beast beneath Golden Flame Mountain.
• Luo Hong chose to collect the wolf's blood, and Fang Le, Zhuang Yuan'ao, and the other cultivator gave him 3,500 Immortal Yuan Stones in apology.
• Luo Yun explained to Luo Qing that they were avoiding Mu Yan Hong until her fortune began to decline, then he examined Ji Kong's fortune and saw death fortune eroding most of its golden clouds.
• Luo Yun found no death fortune in Luo Qing's fortune and took him toward the nearest Wood Extremes Domain to inspect a True Immortal cultivator.
• Luo Hong, Mu Jinshan, and the others returned with Fang Le's group and began restoring the Thunder Restraining Great Formation, but Luo Hong noticed that many existing formation patterns did not match the array diagram.