Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong discovered that the great array had been secretly altered to enable a blood sacrifice of Golden Immortal ferocious beasts, while Luo Yun sensed a deadly calamity hanging over the Secret Realm. Luo Hong chose a middle path to investigate and interfere without openly confronting whoever was behind the scheme.

• Luo Hong persuaded Fang Le and the others to add the missing array inscriptions to the diagram as they repaired the great array, then the group split into pairs to search for the Five Extremes Fruit while Luo Hong stayed behind.
• Luo Yun used his fortune-observation technique on two endangered True Immortal cultivators and found that their death fortune remained unchanged after he saved them, leading him to conclude that a calamity threatened everyone in the Secret Realm except possibly Mu Yan Hong.
• A silver-robed woman left a Golden Light Cluster under guard in an underground cave, and the cluster damaged its enclosing array before Silver Thunder restored it.
• Luo Hong examined the altered inscriptions with the Illusory World Star Pupil and discovered that the final group could activate a Blood Refining Great Array intended to blood-sacrifice several Golden Immortal ferocious beasts.
• Luo Hong weighed secretly disrupting the scheme against avoiding its hidden mastermind and chose a middle path, moving above the problematic inscriptions to begin his plan.

Luo Hong sent blood mosquitoes to alter the Blood Path Formation Patterns at the sealed beasts’ sites while the groups gathered the Five Extremes Fruit. After warning his allies about hidden surveillance, he took Mu Yan Hong underground in the Earth Store Dharma Wheel to track the Mother of Parasitic Insects, while Luo Yun discovered a sudden change in Luo Qing’s fortune.

• Luo Hong sent swarms of blood mosquitoes toward the Golden Immortal fierce beasts’ sealing sites to merge into their Blood Path Formation Patterns.
• Mu Jinshan and the other groups returned with the Five Extremes Fruit, and Luo Hong warned Fang Le’s group away from the north and east before he and Mu Yan Hong left under the pretense of seclusion.
• Luo Hong told Mu Yan Hong that hidden Spirit Insects were spying on them and that he suspected two parties were conspiring; he planned to track the insect controller and negotiate before fighting.
• Luo Hong took Mu Yan Hong into the Ninth-grade Earth Store Dharma Wheel and used small white insects to track the Mother of Parasitic Insects, his former collaborator.
• Luo Yun saw black mist of deathly fortune appear in Luo Qing’s golden fortune cloud and found that his secret technique could no longer locate Mu Yan Hong.

Luo Yun lured Ji Kong and Lu Yu into trusting him by claiming they faced a shared calamity, then sacrificed Luo Qing to power a fortune-path divine ability. He left Ji Kong and Lu Yu burdened with his death fortune while he sought to save himself.

• Luo Yun realized that changes to Luo Qing's fortune had made it impossible to locate Mu Yan Hong, so he took Luo Qing to find Ji Kong and Lu Yu.
• Luo Yun showed Ji Kong and Lu Yu fabricated visions of their fortunes and warned them of a deadly calamity, persuading them to help him trace its source.
• After swearing he would only take a trace of their death fortune, Luo Yun extracted one from Ji Kong and Lu Yu and brought Luo Qing onto an altar to cast his spell.
• Luo Yun revealed that he had raised Luo Qing as a source of cultivation, then forcibly extracted and destroyed the cultivation in Luo Qing's immortal apertures.
• Luo Yun used Luo Qing's cultivation to activate Share the Same Hardship, sending his death fortune into Ji Kong and Lu Yu and leaving black coffins above their heads.

Fang Le and his companions changed course to seek the Ice Soul Giant Ape while Luo Yun stopped his fortune-sharing spell and prepared to restrain Luo Qing. A Silver-robed woman found Luo Yun, defeated Ji Kong with her strange laws, and revealed Late Golden Immortal cultivation as her fused fire lotus threatened Lu Yu’s Glazed Tile Treasure Lamp.

• Fang Le, Zhuang Yuan'ao, and Huang agreed to head north and investigate the Ice Soul Giant Ape, unaware that black qi was gathering between their brows.
• Luo Yun ended his spell on Luo Qing, believing he had shifted enough deathly fortune, and prepared to place a restriction on his unconscious disciple.
• The Silver-robed woman appeared at the altar and identified Luo Yun as the person she had been searching for.
• Ji Kong attacked the Silver-robed woman, but her gray flames slowed his golden swords and her white lotus disrupted his primordial spirit, causing his sword formation to collapse.
• Lu Yu used her Glazed Tile Treasure Lamp to restore Ji Kong’s clarity, and Ji Kong called on Luo Yun to help fight the woman.
• The Silver-robed woman revealed her Late Golden Immortal aura and fused two Law True Flames into a gray-white lotus that cracked Lu Yu’s treasure lamp.

Qu Ling revealed herself as a Late Golden Immortal and killed Ji Kong and Lu Yu before confronting Luo Yun, who identified her and disclosed Mu Yan Hong’s whereabouts. After sensing that Luo Hong and others had destroyed her formation markings, Qu Ling bound Luo Yun and headed east toward the Fierce Beast Forbidden Area.

• Ji Kong used the Empty Cry Cicada to resist Qu Ling, but she suppressed it with three laws and killed Ji Kong and Lu Yu, then took the cicada.
• Qu Ling confronted Luo Yun, who recognized her as Fairy Qu Ling and agreed to reveal what he knew in exchange for a chance to live.
• Luo Yun told Qu Ling that Mu Yan Hong possessed exceptional luck, but he could no longer track her because her Dao companion had a treasure that restrained luck.
• Qu Ling considered turning Luo Yun into a human puppet, but a disturbance alerted her that someone had destroyed her formation markings near the Fierce Beast Forbidden Area.
• Qu Ling bound Luo Yun with a white rope, put him in a Spirit Beast Bag, and flew east toward the disturbance.

Luo Hong infiltrated the underground cave and discovered that the Mother of Parasitic Insects was being forced to produce Gold Devouring Insects to nourish Jin Tong. He resolved to save both, then learned the Mother of Parasitic Insects had been taken from Bixia Peak by a terrifying silver-robed woman.

• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong combined their Immortal Yuan Power so the Silver Fairy could move the Earth Store Dharma Wheel through the cave’s restrictions without alerting anyone.
• Luo Hong recognized the Mother of Parasitic Insects and realized the familiar Late Golden Immortal aura belonged to Jin Tong, who was being refined with essence from the Gold Devouring Insects.
• Luo Hong decided to rescue both the Mother of Parasitic Insects and Jin Tong, then moved beneath the pit to contact the bound insect mother.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects told Luo Hong that she had lost control of her body and awakened underground beside a terrifying silver-robed woman.

Luo Hong learned how Qu Ling had captured the Mother of Parasitic Insects and began a plan to free her and Jin Tong without alerting Qu Ling. He used his spiritual restriction to force the Mother of Parasitic Insects to produce more Gold Devouring Insects, then secretly refined their Origin Qi as high-grade energy accumulated inside Jin Tong’s Sealing Array.

• The Mother of Parasitic Insects revealed that Qu Ling’s Ta Fei had detected her Time Divine Ability fluctuations near Pine Crane Tower and led Qu Ling to capture her.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects explained that Qu Ling had left for an unknown reason and that she knew how to break her own formation, but Luo Hong refused to free her without also rescuing Jin Tong.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects told Luo Hong that Qu Ling had used the Prisoner God Technique on Jin Tong and described Jin Tong’s extraordinary rise to the Mid Golden Immortal stage after devouring a giant insect’s corpse.
• After studying both formations, Luo Hong found that Jin Tong’s was difficult to break directly and ordered the Mother of Parasitic Insects to drive Gold Devouring Insects into the Blood Refining Great Array.
• Luo Hong activated his Primordial Spirit Restriction to control the Mother of Parasitic Insects and forced her to increase her spirit-splitting, while he refined Gold Devouring Origin Qi into Primordial Qi.
• Luo Hong secretly transformed the Gold Devouring Origin Qi inside Jin Tong’s Sealing Array, and high-grade Origin Qi began accumulating without the Golden Immortal Green Silkworm noticing.

Qu Ling discovered that Luo Hong had misled her with false Blood Path Formation Patterns and realized he was using the distraction to free Jin Tong. As Qu Ling’s image appeared in the cave and she began acting through the Green Giant Silkworm, Luo Hong’s plan was nearing completion but the danger escalated.

• Qu Ling sent three spirit beasts to ambush human cultivators, then reached a Fierce Beast Forbidden Area and attacked Fang Le, Zhuang Yuan'ao, and the gaunt old Daoist.
• Qu Ling captured Zhuang Yuan'ao, extracted his Nascent Soul, and searched the group’s memories, learning Luo Hong and his companion had not destroyed the Blood Path Formation Pattern there.
• Qu Ling used the Snow White Giant Python’s vision to find Blood Mosquitoes hidden in another formation pattern and realized Luo Hong had tricked her; she killed Fang Le and the gaunt old Daoist in anger.
• Luo Hong continued reversing his Life Source Technique, intending to use Gold Devouring Origin Qi to open a gap in the formation sealing Jin Tong, while the Mother of Parasitic Insects struggled to endure.
• Qu Ling’s face appeared on the Green Giant Silkworm and noticed the unusual activity in the cave; after briefly hesitating, she used a secret technique and began appearing atop the silkworm.

Mu Yan Hong fought Qu Ling’s Green Giant Silkworm with Luo Hong’s Blood Lightning Seeds and a series of amplified fire attacks, pushing the beast to the brink. Qu Ling enlisted Luo Yun to disrupt Mu Yan Hong, and the chapter ended as a crystal moon blade arrived to intercept the silkworm’s counterattack.

• Luo Hong gave Mu Yan Hong Blood Lightning Seeds to hinder Qu Ling’s teleportation and urged her to attack the Green Giant Silkworm.
• Mu Yan Hong used her sword formation and Heavenly Falling Fire to break through the silkworm’s defenses, then repeatedly amplified her attacks.
• Qu Ling realized Mu Yan Hong’s attacks could destroy the Green Giant Silkworm and bargained with Luo Yun to interrupt her spellcasting.
• Luo Yun accepted Qu Ling’s Storage Bag as security and used Misfortune Descends to distract Mu Yan Hong during her fourth amplification.
• Mu Yan Hong’s spell failed, and the Green Giant Silkworm fired a rain of green arrows at her.
• A moon-blade-shaped crystal light shot in from the side as the arrows threatened Mu Yan Hong.

Luo Hong destroyed the array suppressing the Mother of Parasitic Insects and fled with Mu Yan Hong, but Qu Ling pursued them with Luo Yun. At the Immortal Gate, Luo Yun used a law ability to switch places with Mu Yan Hong and entered alongside Luo Hong, leaving Mu Yan Hong captive to Qu Ling.

• Luo Hong freed the weakened Mother of Parasitic Insects and escaped with Mu Yan Hong as Qu Ling arrived and forced Jin Tong back into the array.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong activated a teleportation array, but Qu Ling and Luo Yun pursued them through a spatial rift.
• Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball to disrupt detection while he and Mu Yan Hong merged their immortal yuan, triggering the appearance of an Immortal Gate.
• Luo Hong and Mu Yan Hong reached the Immortal Gate, but Luo Yun used Feng Tian Cheng Yun to exchange places with Mu Yan Hong and entered with Luo Hong.
• Qu Ling failed to enter the vanishing Immortal Gate and captured Mu Yan Hong, who trusted that Luo Hong could defeat Luo Yun.

Luo Hong fled Luo Yun through the Netherfrost Realm, using Yu Ruoxi’s Ice Feather Robe and the realm’s Snow Beasts to slow his pursuer. Luo Yun recognized the realm as part of the Nethercold Immortal Mansion and believed he had found a chance to claim its opportunities.

• Luo Hong failed to activate the Earth Store Dharma Wheel after exhausting his strength and fled, while Luo Yun’s Cloud Plucking Hand failed to stop him.
• Luo Hong headed into the Netherfrost Realm, where biting winds and heavy snow restricted vision and divine sense as Luo Yun pursued him.
• Luo Hong used Yu Ruoxi’s Ice Feather Robe to evade a Snow Beast, causing it to attack Luo Yun instead.
• Luo Hong drew a sleeping eagle-shaped Snow Beast into the fight, exploiting the beasts’ ability to regenerate unless their cold souls were destroyed.
• Luo Hong reflected on Yu Ruoxi’s Innate Immortal Physique and the robe she had crafted for him.
• Luo Yun recognized the Snow Beasts’ cold souls and realized he had entered the Netherfrost Realm of the Nethercold Immortal Mansion.

Luo Hong recovered in seclusion, helped the Mother of Parasitic Insects restore some of her cultivation, and studied her Time Law before using his power to harvest cold marrow crystals. Meanwhile, Luo Yun found what he believed was the Nether Cold Mist Sea and set out to locate the Nether Cold Palace; Luo Hong then asked the Mother of Parasitic Insects to obtain Fire-year Firefly Insects.

• Luo Hong hid on a snowy peak, recovered from activating the Life Source Technique, and offered the Mother of Parasitic Insects part of a Green Giant Silkworm corpse to restore her cultivation within three days.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects refined the corpse inside Luo Hong's Time Flowing Array while Luo Hong studied how her Time Law differed from his own.
• Luo Yun gave up pursuing Luo Hong, explored the Netherfrost Realm methodically, and discovered a white Fog Sea that he suspected was the Nether Cold Mist Sea.
• Luo Hong emerged after more than three months inside the array and killed the snow beasts on the peak, collecting their cold marrow crystals.
• Luo Hong told the Mother of Parasitic Insects that he wanted her to obtain some Fire-year Firefly Insects.

Luo Hong enlisted the Mother of Parasitic Insects and her Fire-year Firefly Insects to search the Netherfrost Realm’s spatial nodes for a route to a higher level of the Nethercold Immortal Mansion. They found a hidden passage leading to a desolate realm and the ruined Moon River City, where a Fire-year Firefly Insect flew toward the city.

• The black-clothed girl explained that the Fire-year Firefly Insects could be harmed without weakening her grasp of the Time Law, and Luo Hong swore not to harm them.
• The black-clothed girl released over a hundred Fire-year Firefly Insects, and Luo Hong used the Earth Store Dharma Wheel and Sky Breaking Spear to send them probing through spatial nodes.
• After half a month of searching, the black-clothed girl detected a faint Time Law aura at one of the nodes, and Luo Hong rested before opening a passage through it.
• Luo Hong and the black-clothed girl traveled through the node and emerged beneath the sea in a realm with different Heaven and Earth Laws.
• Luo Hong and the black-clothed girl reached a barren red land and spotted the ruined Moon River City, where one Fire-year Firefly Insect flew toward the city.

Luo Hong found the Moonlight Hall, whose secret realm could greatly accelerate cultivation, and decided to risk losing time to rescue Mu Yan Hong. After the black-clothed girl’s attempt to open the hall’s restrictions failed, Luo Hong used Candle Dragon Golden Flame to activate them and began studying the key they required.

• Luo Hong and the black-clothed girl entered Moon River City and traced the aura of Time Law to the damaged Golden Palace called Moonlight Hall.
• Luo Hong explained that the hall contained a secret realm where time flowed rapidly, but decided to leave soon to try to save Mu Yan Hong from Qu Ling.
• The black-clothed girl tried to activate the Golden Light Screen with her Time Law, but its restrictions counterattacked and turned both her hands to sand before she regenerated them.
• Luo Hong explained that the girl’s Time Law was impure because she had partly acquired it from Fire-year Firefly Insects, then tried the restrictions with Candle Dragon Golden Flame.
• The Golden Light Screen responded to Luo Hong’s flame and began forming a circular pattern, while the black-clothed girl estimated that at least twelve hundred strands of Time Law were needed for a complete key.

Luo Hong entered the Moonlight Secret Realm, where he uncovered links between its Time Arrays and located the Ash Immortal’s sealed primordial spirit. He chose to postpone investigating further until he reached Golden Immortal, then settled into seclusion to cultivate and refine Five-Colored Immortal Stones.

• Luo Hong activated all twelve hundred Restriction Runes, deduced their array diagram, and was drawn with the black-clothed girl through the palace doors into the secret realm.
• Luo Yun confirmed that he had seized Mu Yan Hong’s fortune and confidently set out toward the Nether Cold Mist Sea.
• Luo Hong and the black-clothed girl collected time-frozen roof tiles, and she stayed behind to comprehend the Time Law while Luo Hong surveyed the ruined city.
• Luo Hong recognized that the city’s Time Array was connected to the palace restriction and found the concealed site where the Ash Immortal’s primordial spirit was sealed.
• Luo Hong placed warning restrictions around the sealed site, chose a nearby Seven-story Black Tower for seclusion, and found that the Time Flowing Array could not operate alongside the secret realm’s array.
• Luo Hong refined Five-Colored Immortal Stones with the Little Black Ball and began cultivating with the Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique.

Luo Hong spent twelve thousand years cultivating in the Moonlight Secret Realm, advancing his apertures and strengthening his Five-Colored Bloodline. He arranged a resource-for-spirit-insects pact with the Mother of Parasitic Insects, fed venom to A Zi’s egg, and prepared the Five Extremes Fruit spirit liquid as he planned his next steps.

• Luo Hong steadily cultivated the Five Qi Swallowing Yuan Technique, opening his twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth immortal apertures before raising his Five-Colored Bloodline to the Late Golden Immortal stage and accelerating his progress.
• The black-clothed girl asked to leave the Moonlight Secret Realm, but Luo Hong told her she had to reach the Golden Immortal Realm; after searching unsuccessfully for an exit, she returned to cultivation in a valley.
• After twelve thousand years, Luo Hong asked the Mother of Parasitic Insects how soon she could attempt a Golden Immortal breakthrough and offered her Mid Golden Immortal Azure Blue Electric Wolf blood in exchange for Spirit Insects and future cooperation.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects accepted Luo Hong’s terms and provided ten thousand venomous Spirit Insects, while Luo Hong abandoned his plan to observe her Aperture Decay breakthrough.
• Luo Hong used Yama Bee venom to feed A Zi’s egg, then returned to his quiet room and opened five jade bottles of Five Extremes Fruit spirit liquid.

Luo Hong tested how several Five Extremes spirit liquids affected the roots of the decay tribulations, then deliberately triggered Immortal Decay to study its workings. He discovered that its time-based vortices could be harvested for Primordial Qi and regenerated, and he continued cultivating through the tribulation for another two hundred years.

• Luo Hong drank the Fire Extremes, Earth Extremes, and Wood Extremes spirit liquids and confirmed that they nourished his primordial spirit, strengthened his body, and reinforced his immortal apertures, respectively.
• Luo Hong asked Silver Fairy to guard him, split his primordial spirit, and used the Little Black Ball to make the Heavenly Dao perceive an impossible imbalance in his cultivation and send down Immortal Decay.
• Luo Hong reunited his primordial spirit, sensed the pale-golden vortices devouring his Immortal Yuan Power, and realized they were made from the Power of Time and could be absorbed by the Little Black Ball.
• Luo Hong discovered that the vortices regenerated in his immortal apertures, allowing him to harvest them repeatedly while retaining enough to keep his cultivation stable.
• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy he would cross the tribulation for two hundred years and cultivated through that period; when his aura weakened at the end, he laughed and extended the attempt for another two hundred years.

Luo Hong comprehended the Great Harmony Wind from the Immortal Decay Tribulation Wind, restored his cultivation, and began the Body Decay Tribulation, which he found he could exploit to gain Reincarnation Law insights without suffering harm. Meanwhile, Luo Yun found the Nether Cold Palace and discovered its Black Rosy Light was unusually vulnerable, leaving him confident he could break through.

• Luo Hong used Primordial Qi to raise his Time Law comprehension to one hundred and eight Great Dao Golden Script characters and created the Great Harmony Wind, a divine ability modeled on the Immortal Decay Tribulation Wind.
• Luo Hong restored his Great Perfection of True Immortal cultivation, began the Body Decay Tribulation, and found that his Golden Immortal Physical Body and Primordial Immortal Yuan made its effects negligible.
• Luo Hong traced the Body Decay’s yellow spiritual liquid to the Reincarnation Law and used the Little Black Ball to devour it while keeping the tribulation active.
• Luo Yun found a black island in the Nether Cold Mist Sea and recognized the palace beneath its Black Rosy Light as the Nether Cold Palace.
• Luo Yun discovered that Thunderfire Pearls could make the Black Rosy Light tremble and threw the Lucky Treasure Yuanbao at it, believing the immortal mansion’s Restrictions and formations were weakened.

After surviving the Body Decay Tribulation, Luo Hong broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm and discovered that his Primordial Immortal Yuan could contain Aperture Decay. He resolved to exploit the tribulation’s rules to draw repeated lightning strikes so he could study its fused thunder and spatial powers.

• Luo Hong completed the Body Decay Tribulation after more than four hundred years, and Silver Fairy urged him to attempt his Golden Immortal breakthrough.
• Luo Hong swallowed three high-grade earthly Pills, opened his thirty-seventh Immortal Aperture, and triggered the Aperture Decay Tribulation.
• The Mother of Parasitic Insects saw Luo Hong’s breakthrough and planned to use his expected failure to make him owe her a favor.
• Luo Hong let the first black lightning strike fill his new aperture, then watched his Primordial Immortal Yuan slow the decay as the Little Black Ball refined some lightning into Primordial Qi for the Sky Breaking Spear.
• Luo Hong realized the tribulation lightning contained Space Law and traced its endless spread to the golden vortex in his new aperture.
• Luo Hong learned that interfering with the thirty-seventh aperture would restart a wave, and chose to exploit that taboo to summon all five waves of lightning.

Luo Hong remained trapped in the fifth wave of Aperture Decay because he lacked the Primordial Spirit cultivation needed to study the tribulation lightning. He reforged the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb to replace the golden vortex, then used a breakthrough opportunity and a Mid-grade Immortal Yuan Stone to begin condensing a Golden Immortal Soul.

• The Mother of Parasitic Insects watched the endless rounds of tribulation lightning and wondered why Luo Hong was stuck in the fifth wave.
• Luo Hong realized that his weak Primordial Spirit prevented him from entering the Tribulation Cloud, so he planned to condense a Golden Immortal Soul while keeping the Aperture Decay going.
• Luo Hong decided to replace the golden vortex with the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb and spent eighty years using Black Primordial Qi to strengthen its True Lightning Law and Space Law.
• Luo Hong made the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb devour Black Lightning Silk, storing tribulation lightning power without ending the Aperture Decay.
• After more than a hundred years, Luo Hong used the half Mid-grade Immortal Yuan Stone when a breakthrough opportunity arrived, gaining Golden Immortal Essence and forming a golden robe around his Nascent Soul.