Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong sustained the Aperture Decay tribulation for more than two hundred years, using the final lightning bolts to comprehend its mysteries before completing his Golden Immortal breakthrough. He emerged with a thunder-cleansed Nascent Soul wreathed in Black Lightning, while Silver Fairy demanded the Primordial Qi he had stopped giving her.

• Luo Hong discovered that Golden Immortal Essence continued forming his Soul-Bound Golden Robe because his breakthrough had stalled before the Nascent Soul cleansing thunder pool appeared.
• Luo Hong used the Lightning Talisman Golden Orb to replenish Black Lightning Silk and maintain the Infinite Cycle of Aperture Decay for more than two hundred years.
• Luo Hong studied the final five Black Lightning bolts as they dissipated, then allowed his Nascent Soul to enter the golden thunder pool and undergo cleansing for over a month.
• Mother of Parasitic Insects watched Luo Hong's prolonged refinement, then dodged the Black Lightning Ball that erupted from the thunder pool and fled after lightning sealed several of her immortal apertures.
• Luo Hong's golden Nascent Soul returned to his body amid Black Lightning, and Silver Fairy asked where her Primordial Qi was.

Luo Hong stabilized his breakthrough to the Early Golden Immortal realm, forged the Great Black Sky Thunder Heart, and considered how to advance his cultivation and obtain the later portions of the Life Source Technique. He checked on A Zi, who was nearing her emergence, then visited the Mother of Parasitic Insects, who had still not dispelled the danger left by the Great Black Sky Thunder.

• Luo Hong promised Silver Fairy he would gather Spatial Materials for the Sky Breaking Spear and asked her to guard him while he stabilized his cultivation.
• Luo Hong reviewed his breakthrough, refined the Golden Lightning Pool’s lightning into the Great Black Sky Thunder Heart, and used it to recultivate the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill.
• After two thousand years, Luo Hong decided to seek the Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill and the later portions of the Life Source Technique before choosing how to accelerate his cultivation.
• Luo Hong found that A Zi had awakened inside her purple Immortal Embryo and expected to emerge in about a thousand years, and he told her to remain inside while he strengthened her foundation.
• Luo Hong visited the Mother of Parasitic Insects, who noticed him only when he spoke and addressed him as a senior.

Luo Hong restored the sealed apertures of the Mother of Parasitic Insects and promised her a treasure to help her break through, in exchange for a debt. After deducing the paired Time Arrays, he opened the hidden passage beneath the city and discovered a remnant soul in the underground hall.

• Luo Hong activated the Great Black Sky Thunder in the Mother of Parasitic Insects’ apertures, then withdrew the strands and confirmed she was at the peak of True Immortal cultivation.
• Luo Hong offered the Mother of Parasitic Insects a treasure to help her survive Aperture Decay, and she accepted it as a debt.
• Luo Hong spent three days restoring the incomplete Time Array and deduced how the Heaven Array and Earth Array worked together.
• Luo Hong solved the Dream Concealment Restriction, opened the stone platform, and entered the underground palace.
• Luo Hong found eight statues in a stone hall and noticed that one woman resembled his disciple.
• Luo Hong caught a jade-white skeleton in his Great Harmony Wind, forcing Ash Immortal Mo Yu’s remnant soul to reveal itself.

Luo Hong interrogated Mo Yu’s remnant soul and let him guide the way to the secret realm’s Yin formation array eye. After sealing Mo Yu in a Soul Nurturing Bottle, Luo Hong entered the underground palace and found it filled with Sun Yang Stones.

• Luo Hong pressured Mo Yu with the Great Harmony Wind while testing what he knew about the Nether Cold Immortal Domain.
• Mo Yu offered to help Luo Hong escape by destroying the Yin formation’s array eye, and claimed to be the Wusheng Daoist, founder of the Wusheng Sword Sect.
• Luo Hong agreed to cooperate and followed Mo Yu through a hidden door and a maze of Restrictions to an underground palace.
• Mo Yu revealed the palace’s hidden Restrictions with two Magic Arts, and Luo Hong sealed him in a Soul Nurturing Bottle before entering.
• Luo Hong discovered that Sun Yang Stones covered the underground palace.

Luo Hong inspected the Moonlight Secret Realm’s Taiyin Sundial and learned that damaged formations caused unpredictable Speed Tides, while the sundial was protected by a powerful restriction. After resisting the Old Daoist’s Remnant Soul’s attempts to rush him into leaving, Luo Hong drew out a clue to a hidden treasure vault and suspected the remnant soul was the Wusheng Daoist.

• Luo Hong found the Taiyin Sundial, which the Old Daoist’s Remnant Soul identified as the Moonlight Secret Realm’s sole array eye and the key to leaving.
• The Old Daoist’s Remnant Soul explained that damage to the formation caused irregular Speed Tides that made the passage of time unpredictable.
• When Luo Hong reached for the sundial, its black lightning struck him, but his Candle Dragon Golden Flame destroyed the attack while he pretended to be injured.
• Luo Hong questioned the sundial’s grade and refused the Old Daoist’s Remnant Soul’s offer of a secret cultivation technique, claiming he would stay for a million years.
• After Luo Hong left the underground palace, the Old Daoist’s Remnant Soul offered to take him to a hidden treasure vault, and Luo Hong suspected he was the Wusheng Daoist.

Luo Hong questioned the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul about Qu Ling's origins and learned that a powerful figure bound him with a Heart Demon Oath. After reaching the hidden treasury and accepting its treasures, Luo Hong realized the Old Daoist still intended to harm him and prepared to turn against him.

• Luo Hong tricked the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul into revealing that Qu Ling was a nightmare beast who carried a fragmentary map and had planted a secret art on him.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul warned Luo Hong never to go beyond the domain, and Luo Hong lied that his disciple Lu Yuqing was still confined to her cave abode.
• Luo Hong learned that Lu Yuqing would awaken memories from her previous life as Wusheng Daoist upon entering the Nethercold Immortal Mansion.
• Luo Hong followed the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul to a hidden treasury, where the Remnant Soul opened a cave full of Pills and Law Spirit Materials.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul urged Luo Hong to cultivate to Mid Golden Immortal, while Luo Hong asked to learn the secret art and secretly recognized the Remnant Soul still meant him harm.

Luo Hong used the Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill to open his thirty-eighth Immortal aperture, then spent sixteen hundred years cultivating until he reached Mid Golden Immortal. He left seclusion with the Mother of Parasitic Insects and the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul to return to the Time Flowing Sundial and attempt to break the array.

• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul taught Luo Hong the Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill but concealed its dangers and its status as a Heavenly Court forbidden art.
• Luo Hong sealed the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul, then used the secret art to open his thirty-eighth Immortal aperture and discovered the Little Black Ball could remove most, but not all, of its fiendish qi.
• Luo Hong reverse-cultivated the aperture's Immortal Yuan with the Life Source Technique and eliminated the remaining fiendish qi.
• Luo Hong cultivated for sixteen hundred years, opened his final Immortal aperture, and broke through to Mid Golden Immortal while the Mother of Parasitic Insects reached Golden Immortal.
• Luo Hong freed the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul, brought the Mother of Parasitic Insects to the Array Eye Hall, and sensed the Time Law of the Time Flowing Sundial as he prepared to break the array.

Luo Hong used his Illusory World Star Pupil to refine the Time Flowing Sundial and entered the River of Time, where he searched for a black fish instead of gathering Time Crystal Threads. The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul suspected Luo Hong had ties to the True Word Sect, attacked him, and then turned the Hall of Time's restrictions against the Black Gauze Beauty.

• Luo Hong's golden light struck the Time Flowing Sundial, allowing his Power of Time to carry his divine sense into the River of Time.
• Luo Hong ignored the Time Crystal Threads and found a small black fish marked with six golden lines on each side.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul noticed the Sundial's pointer slow and concluded Luo Hong might be a True Word Sect successor.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul burst out of the Soul Nurturing Bottle and attacked Luo Hong, but a Black Vortex blocked his claw.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul sent scorching golden chains from the Hall of Time's restrictions toward the Black Gauze Beauty.

Luo Hong and Little White thwarted the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul's attack, revealing Little White as a Heavenly Fiend True Dragon and devouring the remnant. Luo Hong stopped the remnant from self-destructing, while the Black Gauze Beauty remained trapped by the golden chains' Time Leap.

• The Black Gauze Beauty recognized the golden chains' Time Leap and struggled to resist being sent to another time point.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul attacked Luo Hong with gray threads that targeted his twenty-four immortal apertures, but the threads stopped partway through their pull.
• Little White revealed its white dragon form, bit the threads, and dragged the Old Daoist's Remnant Soul toward itself.
• The Old Daoist's Remnant Soul fled and begged Luo Hong to spare him, claiming he bore Reincarnation Hall's tracking mark.
• Luo Hong rejected the remnant's offer of another secret treasury, then used a golden Time Law ability to halt its self-destruction while Little White devoured it.

Luo Hong subdued the Time Flowing Sundial in the Moonlight Secret Realm, then rushed to the Netherfrost Realm as A Zi was about to be born. There, Luo Yun tested an Innate Immortal Artifact and headed toward Luo Hong’s purple light pillar, while Luo Hong sensed his arrival.

• Little White devoured Mo Yu and obtained his memories, including Ash Immortal cultivation methods and clues to the Nethercold Immortal Mansion’s treasures.
• Luo Hong used the Time Flowing Sundial to free the Black Gauze Beauty from the golden chains and refined a golden chain ring from the restriction.
• Luo Hong and the Black Gauze Beauty left the Moonlight Secret Realm after discovering that more than a year had passed, and Luo Hong hurried through a spatial node when A Zi announced her imminent birth.
• Luo Yun used an Innate Spirit Gourd to capture a horde of Snow Beasts, then saw a purple light pillar and decided to confront Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong protected the Black Gauze Beauty from the purple light and sensed Luo Yun approaching.

Luo Hong confronted Luo Yun, revealed his overwhelming strength, and defeated him despite Luo Yun’s fortune-based attacks. After obtaining several treasures, Luo Hong discovered that one of Luo Yun’s Storage Bags carried Qu Ling’s spiritual sense aura.

• Luo Hong left the Black Gauze Beauty and A Zi behind and met Luo Yun, who revealed that he had pursued them because he believed the Nethercold Immortal Mansion opportunity belonged to him.
• Luo Hong recognized Luo Yun as the Azure Stream Palace True Immortal from Elder Meng’s memories and used the Rongyang Golden Chain to launch a surprise attack, destroying Luo Yun’s body.
• Luo Yun’s Nascent Soul used a fortune technique to afflict Luo Hong with Black Coffin Bad Luck, but Luo Hong shattered the Lucky Golden Bucket and seized the Innate Immortal Gourd.
• Luo Hong captured Luo Yun’s Nascent Soul and sent it into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, then collected the Emerald Green Gourd and considered how his treasures and abilities had improved.
• Luo Hong inspected Luo Yun’s Storage Bags and sensed that one of them carried Qu Ling’s spiritual sense aura.

Luo Hong erased Qu Ling’s imprint from her Storage Bag and found a clue to the Life Source Technique in the Black Armor Tower of the Black Mountain Immortal Domain. After A Zi’s rebirth, he escaped the Nethercold Immortal Mansion with her and Gu Ming, then reached the besieged Shang'a cultivators and learned Mu Yanhong was alive but weakening.

• Luo Hong searched Qu Ling’s Storage Bag, found a reference to the Black Armor Tower’s Life Source Technique, and learned the sect was in the Black Mountain Immortal Domain.
• A Zi completed her rebirth at the Mid Golden Immortal stage, and Luo Hong fed her Luo Yun’s nascent soul before leaving the Nethercold Immortal Mansion with Gu Ming.
• Luo Hong found evidence that Qu Ling had slaughtered beast nests and chose to seek information rather than attack while Mu Yanhong and Golden Spirit might be hostages.
• Gu Ming located a large defensive formation, and Luo Hong flew with her and A Zi to a valley where Shang'a cultivators were hiding from Qu Ling.
• Mu Jinshan told Yun Ni that Mu Yanhong was alive but weakening, and Luo Hong arrived with Gu Ming and A Zi to offer hope and cooperation against Qu Ling.

Luo Hong convinced Yun Ni and Mu Jinshan to join a plan to interrupt Qu Ling’s Gold Devouring Immortal Armor refinement and rescue the captive Gold Devouring Immortal. As they headed for Qu Ling’s lair, she threatened the weakening Mu Yanhong and waited for Luo Hong to appear.

• Luo Hong explained how he discovered and sabotaged the blood-sacrifice arrays, escaped Qu Ling, and found Gu Ming in Qu Ling’s Storage Bag.
• Yun Ni proposed negotiating for Mu Yanhong, but Luo Hong revealed that Qu Ling was refining Gold Devouring Immortal Armor and would use them as nourishment.
• Gu Ming revealed that she carried a Gold Devouring Insect, and Yun Ni and Mu Jinshan accepted that they had to fight Qu Ling.
• Luo Hong proposed attacking during the refinement to rescue the Gold Devouring Immortal, with A Zi using her poison to restrain it, and led the group toward Qu Ling’s lair.
• Qu Ling sensed that Luo Yun’s Storage Bag imprint had been erased, blamed Luo Hong, and threatened the weakening Mu Yanhong while waiting for her husband.

Luo Hong and his allies launched their assault on Qu Ling’s Blood Light Screen while he secretly infiltrated the underground cave to rescue the captives. The attack opened a breach, but the battle turned chaotic as A Zi was swallowed and escaped, Gu Ming revealed her Time Law, and Qu Ling arrived and crushed the injured Snow White Giant Python.

• Mu Yan Hong doubted that Luo Hong could match Qu Ling, while Qu Ling prepared the Golden Great Formation and ordered her two beasts to guard the area.
• Five days later, Luo Hong sent A Zi, Mu Jinshan, Yun Ni, and Gu Ming to attack the Blood Light Screen while he entered the underground cave with the Earth Store Dharma Wheel.
• Mu Jinshan’s Golden Flame Mountain failed to break the formation, but A Zi melted a hole in it with her purple power; a Black Strange Fish swallowed her and dragged her inside.
• Gu Ming entered the formation and used a Time Law hairpin to badly wound the Snow White Giant Python, while A Zi burst out of the Black Strange Fish and seized its Nascent Soul.
• Qu Ling emerged from underground with Gray Dragon Claws, seized the Snow White Giant Python, and crushed its head despite its gratitude for her rescue.

Qu Ling restored the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation and fought Mu Jinshan, Yun Ni, Gu Ming, and A Zi while searching for Luo Hong. Luo Hong escaped her trap and reached the Underground Cave, but Qu Ling’s hidden pangolin spirit beast rose to stop him beside the Golden Light Cluster.

• Qu Ling crushed the Snow White Giant Python into four blood candles, which stabilized the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation and freed her to use her full strength.
• Qu Ling offered to spare anyone who revealed Mo Bufan’s whereabouts, but Gu Ming and Mu Jinshan refused to cooperate.
• A Zi’s sound waves disrupted Qu Ling’s Immortal Yuan Power, giving Gu Ming an opening to attack with her black spear.
• Qu Ling unleashed her spiritual domain, but A Zi’s Purple Crystal Scorpion laws invaded and entangled it, forcing Qu Ling to devote power to suppressing them.
• The underground cave was exposed, and Qu Ling seized what appeared to be Luo Hong, only for the golden figure to explode into a bubble that slowed her while the real Luo Hong escaped into the cave.
• Eight golden spikes trapped Luo Hong above the ground, and Qu Ling’s hidden pangolin spirit beast emerged beside the Golden Light Cluster as Mu Jinshan and Yun Ni lost hope.

Luo Hong revealed his true strength, rescued Mu Yan Hong by drawing Qu Ling away from the underground cave, and faced Qu Ling in a battle above a lake. He overwhelmed her attacks and left her transformed dragon body falling with every immortal aperture sealed.

• Qu Ling escaped Gu Ming's fading time bubble and confronted Luo Hong, but Luo Hong broke free of the pangolin spirit beast's claws and teleported away with her.
• Luo Hong explained that he had lured Qu Ling away so Mu Jinshan, Yun Ni, and Gu Ming could rescue Mu Yan Hong and let the blood sacrifice formation collapse.
• Qu Ling discovered that the pangolin spirit beast was dead and unleashed her Three-Colored Fire Lotus against Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong nullified Qu Ling's Laws and shattered the fire lotus with his Great Five Elements Reincarnation Fist, sealing twelve of her immortal apertures.
• Qu Ling transformed into a gray five-clawed dragon and charged Luo Hong, who struck her repeatedly with black lightning and sealed every immortal aperture in her body.

Luo Hong defeated Qu Ling, destroyed her primordial spirit, and discovered that the mark she left behind was connected to the Heavenly Demon Ancestor. After finding a rare Empty Cry Cicada and returning to his companions, he concealed his true strength and claimed he had sent Qu Ling into the void.

• Luo Hong used the Great Harmony Wind to stop Qu Ling's escape and burned her primordial spirit with the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire.
• Luo Hong stored Qu Ling's silver-gray rune in the Little Black Ball and recognized its aura as similar to the Seed of the Heavenly Demon.
• Luo Hong collected Qu Ling's corpse, damaged mirrors, and Spirit Beast Bag, then discovered an Empty Cry Cicada that could provide Spatial Materials for his cultivation.
• Luo Hong used a Spatial Rift to return to Mu Jinshan and Yun Ni, claiming he had cast Qu Ling into the endless void with an Exotic Treasure.
• Luo Hong told Yun Ni and Mu Jinshan that he had concealed his Golden Immortal cultivation because he had been injured and needed to keep his plan secret.

Luo Hong freed Golden Spirit from Qu Ling’s Blood Sacrifice Great Formation and let her leave, then arranged for Gu Ming to devour the Empty Cry Cicada in exchange for a Spirit Contract and a Taiyi Pill. As Luo Hong began studying a secret art from Qu Ling’s jade slip, two familiar streaks of light entered the range of his divine sense.

• Mu Jinshan tried to refine the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation’s array-eye token but realized the formation would collapse before he could take control of it.
• The blood candles went out, the formation and altar collapsed, and Golden Spirit broke free but fell from Late Golden Immortal to Mid Golden Immortal cultivation after suffering a backlash.
• Golden Spirit learned through a secret voice transmission that Qu Ling was dead and Han was cultivating on the Ancient Cloud Continent, then left after Luo Hong ordered her to find him secretly later.
• Luo Hong offered Gu Ming a Taiyi Pill in exchange for agreeing to devour the Empty Cry Cicada and fulfill his demands, and they signed a Spirit Contract.
• Luo Hong took out a jade slip containing a secret art from Qu Ling’s Storage Bag, but two familiar streaks of spiritual light entered his divine sense.

Luo Hong studied Qu Ling’s Triple Heaven Secret Technique and began cultivating a Time Domain before leaving the Five Extremes Secret Realm. Back in the Azure Stream Palace, he learned Mu Yan Hong would recover there while he prepared to return to the Black Wind Sea Region, and Silver Fairy reported that their corpse-refinement business was thriving.

• Luo Hong settled Golden Spirit and A Zi’s dispute over two Golden Immortal Nascent Souls, giving one to Golden Spirit and promising A Zi Song Ming’s Nascent Soul later.
• Luo Hong studied the Triple Heaven Secret Technique and began cultivating a Time Domain, spending more than two months in seclusion.
• Luo Hong and the others left the secret realm; Mu Yan Hong said her vitality was badly damaged, and Luo Hong promised her Blood Dragon Fish to aid her recovery.
• Mu Xianfeng told Mu Jinshan that divination had cleared him of responsibility for Luo Yun’s death, then revealed that the Nethercold Immortal Mansion would emerge in the Black Wind Sea Region.
• Luo Hong reassured Mu Yan Hong that he could counter divination and discussed his plans to seek time-array records in the Black Mountain Immortal Domain.
• Silver Fairy told Luo Hong that demand for their True Immortal corpse refinements exceeded supply and urged him to list more zombies.

Luo Hong planned his cultivation and next trip to the Ancient Cloud Continent, then arrived at White Jade Peak to observe Baili Yan’s Dao lecture. As powerful guests gathered, Ouyang Kuishan prepared to confront Baili Yan and his allies, and Luo Hong announced himself as an observer.

• Luo Hong decided to cultivate for the coming centuries, then use Jiao Three’s identity to secure Lu Yuqing’s cooperation and pursue the treasure in the Nethercold Immortal Mansion.
• Five hundred years later, Han Li joined Qi Liang at White Jade Peak, where Candle Dragon Dao disciples and visiting sects gathered for Baili Yan’s lecture.
• Ouyang Kuishan and the other Candle Dragon Dao leaders discussed confronting Baili Yan and taking down Yun Ni and Daoist Hu Yan if they refused to return to the right path.
• The Lightning Robe Old Man worried that an impending upheaval might force him to abandon the Nine Heavens Palace’s foundation.
• Yu Yangzi, Mo Fuzi, and Vice Palace Master Xue Ying arrived to observe the ceremony, and Luo Hong boldly asked whether he could attend as a rogue cultivator.