Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong led Han Li, Mu Yan Hong, Lu Yuqing, and Old Ancestor Cold Flame into the Great Thousand Worlds illusion array, where a seemingly harmless mortal marketplace began turning hostile. As the group faced the threat of being trapped in the world, Luo Hong opened a passage through the illusion toward three grand halls.

• Xiong Shan left Luo Hong and the others, so Old Ancestor Cold Flame chose to continue with them through the purple gatehouse.
• The group entered a mortal marketplace illusion, and Old Ancestor Cold Flame explained that they would gradually merge with the world and could be attacked by its inhabitants.
• The market’s mortals began staring at the group, twisting their faces and bodies as their cries became a demonic sound.
• Han Li questioned Old Ancestor Cold Flame about escaping the illusion, while Luo Hong recognized the world as dangerous and opened his Illusory World Star Pupil.
• Luo Hong sent golden light through the illusion, revealing a gray mist passage leading to three grand halls, then told the others to follow him.

Xiong Shan searched the Great Thousand Illusion Array while Luo Hong and the others escaped and reached the Nether Cold Palace. After splitting into two groups, Luo Hong took Lu Yuqing to follow a mysterious summons and found a World-Crossing Stele that she activated with her Black Jade Discus.

• Xiong Shan found a formation foot, narrowly evaded a golden pillar of light, and continued toward the next formation foot as Luo Hong and the others watched him through the gray mist.
• Luo Hong's group escaped the illusion array and learned from Old Ancestor Cold Flame that the central hall held deadly puppets and the right hall contained the Great Zhou Heavenly Star Origin Art.
• Luo Hong arranged for Han Li, Old Ancestor Cold Flame, and Mu Yan Hong to search the right hall while he took Lu Yuqing to investigate an aura she sensed.
• Luo Hong and Lu Yuqing crossed a spatial archway and followed Lu Yuqing's summons to a ruined garden in a mountain range.
• Lu Yuqing recognized a World-Crossing Stele and used her Black Jade Discus to send a beam of black light into it.

Luo Hong and Lu Yuqing entered the Wusheng Sword Sect ruins, where Lu Yuqing's mysterious connection helped them pass the mountain's defenses and reach the Ancestor Hall. After the silver-white sword chose her, Lu Yuqing entered a Reincarnation Restriction and began experiencing the life and memories of Wusheng Daoist.

• Luo Hong stabilized the World-Crossing Stele's Black Vortex with Primordial Immortal Power, and he and Lu Yuqing entered the new mountain range.
• Luo Hong carried Lu Yuqing past the sword-qi Anti-flight Restriction and collected Purple Gold Bamboo before dispersing the mist near the summit with the Mitian Bell.
• Lu Yuqing used an unfamiliar magic art to free the spirit swords from the wooden puppets, allowing her and Luo Hong to reach the summit's Daoist temple.
• Lu Yuqing opened the Ancestor Hall's restriction, and the silver-white sword on the top offering table flew to her and accepted her grasp.
• Luo Hong warned Lu Yuqing to guard her Dao Heart, but she entered the Reincarnation Restriction and began believing she was both Lu Yuqing and Wusheng Daoist.
• Lu Yuqing saw seven Golden Immortal cultivators obey her order to seize swords for the Sacrificial Sword Sea, then found herself in a dark stone room facing a handsome man surrounded by black baleful qi.

Lu Yuqing passed the second Reincarnation Restriction, accepted Luo Hong’s offer to help him, and began refining her immortal sword at the Lifeless Sword Sea. Xiong Shan arrived at the altar and tried to stop her, but Luo Hong confronted him before he could strike.

• Lu Yuqing recalled her past life, learned that seeing Mo Yu’s corpse would trigger her third Reincarnation Restriction, and accepted the third Bewildering Heaven Bell from Luo Hong in exchange for assisting him.
• Luo Hong accompanied Lu Yuqing to the Lifeless Sword Sea, where she used an Iron Token and a chant to activate the altar and begin refining her silver-white Flying Sword.
• Xiong Shan arrived at the Sword Sea, destroyed the wooden puppets blocking his way with Fire Thunder Seeds and six-armed refined corpses, and rushed toward the summit.
• Xiong Shan found Lu Yuqing refining her sword on the altar and raised his Life-bound Flying Sword to attack her.
• Luo Hong warned Xiong Shan that he was about to offer up his own Life-bound Flying Sword.

Lu Yuqing completed the forging of the Wusheng Immortal Sword while Luo Hong protected her, and Xiong Shan’s attempt to challenge her ended in defeat. After examining Primordial Sword Qi, Luo Hong began considering a new experiment and warned Lu Yuqing to conceal her strength as they prepared for an unavoidable confrontation with the Heavenly Court.

• Xiong Shan lost his Life-bound Flying Sword to the formation and, after realizing Lu Yuqing controlled it, challenged her to a contest of Sword Intent.
• Lu Yuqing’s sword phantom overwhelmed Xiong Shan’s Sword Intent, knocking him unconscious before he could reach her.
• Luo Hong analyzed ordinary sword qi and Primordial Sword Qi, then considered using Primordial Creation to make sword qi without immortal spirit particles.
• The Thousand Peaks Spirit Gathering Array poured Primordial Sword Qi into the Wusheng Immortal Sword, which Lu Yuqing claimed after its forging was complete.
• Luo Hong warned Lu Yuqing that a hidden Heavenly Court reinforcement threatened them and instructed her to conceal her strength; she agreed to act when he gave the order.
• Luo Hong told Lu Yuqing he had another matter to trouble her with after noticing Xiong Shan unconscious nearby.

Lu Yuqing killed Xiong Shan after discovering that his soul had been prepared for a transfer, while Luo Hong used the collapsing Secret Realm to refine a wisp of Primordial Undying Spirit Light. He returned to Nether Cold Palace and found Han Li, Old Ancestor Cold Flame, and Mu Yan Hong battling Xue Han’s group at a Medicine Garden, where Xue Han turned his attack toward a Spirit Field.

• Xiong Shan recognized Lu Yuqing as the Wusheng Sword Sect’s reincarnated Great Elder and agreed to serve her, but she killed him after revealing that his primordial spirit held a Soul Transfer Secret Technique arranged by his Fourth Uncle-Ancestor.
• Lu Yuqing fled into Luo Hong’s Netherworld Grotto-heaven as the Secret Realm began collapsing, and Luo Hong summoned the Little Black Ball to devour its Space Fragments and refine Primordial Undying Spirit Light.
• Luo Hong returned to Nether Cold Palace with the refined spirit light, moved Lu Yuqing out of the grotto-heaven, and flew toward the fighting at the rear mountain.
• Luo Hong found Han Li and Old Ancestor Cold Flame overpowering the Shifang Tower cultivators while Mu Yan Hong fought Xue Han at the Medicine Garden.
• Xue Han saw Luo Hong arrive and redirected his Blood-Flame Skeleton Head toward a Spirit Field.

Han Li and Luo Hong’s group defeated Xue Han, stripped the medicine garden of its immortal herbs, and prepared to travel to the Endless Sand Sea. The chapter ended with Xiong Shan awakening after his soul transfer in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, eager to report something important to his clan.

• Golden Spirit ambushed Xue Han, but he escaped her attack with a life-substituting puppet and took Old Ancestor Cold Flame hostage.
• Han Li and Crab Daoist struck Xue Han from behind, allowing Golden Spirit to seize his Nascent Soul, while Mu Yan Hong killed the remaining Shifang Tower cultivators.
• Luo Hong broke the medicine garden’s restrictions, and Han Li and Mu Yan Hong harvested its immortal herbs over three days; Lu Yuqing joined them before they left.
• Luo Hong teleported the group toward the Endless Sand Sea and told Han Li that Xiong Shan had gone home.
• Xiong Shan awakened after the Soul Transfer Secret Technique in a secret chamber in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain and urgently told his clan leader and Fourth Uncle that he had something important to report.

The Xiong Family learned that Lu Yuqing might be the reincarnated Wusheng Ancestor and secretly considered cooperating with her, while a traitor reported their plans to a pale young man with sinister intentions. Meanwhile, Luo Hong’s group entered the Moonlight Secret Realm to cultivate, and Han Li successfully advanced to the Golden Immortal stage.

• Xiong Shan told the Xiong Family elders that Lu Yuqing was likely the reincarnation of the Wusheng Ancestor, and the clan leader warned that her ties to the Reincarnation Hall required secrecy.
• The Green-faced Man secretly informed a pale young man about the Xiong Family’s plans, and the young man decided to wait before carrying out his plan to harvest Xiong Family Fort.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, Mu Yan Hong, and Lu Yuqing opened the Moonlight Hall and entered its secret realm, where a thousand years passed in an instant outside.
• Luo Hong resumed cultivating in the Seven-story Black Tower, while the others chose their own locations and began secluded cultivation.
• Han Li overcame Aperture Decay and completed his Nascent Soul cleansing, advancing to the Golden Immortal stage.
• Luo Hong asked Han Li to contact him once his realm had stabilized so they could discuss something.

After Han Li advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm, Luo Hong explained the Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill, which could greatly accelerate cultivation but made future fiend decay more dangerous. He offered Han Li three ways to address that danger and left him to decide whether to cultivate the skill.

• Luo Hong visited Han Li ten years after his breakthrough and proposed celebrating with Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Wine.
• Luo Hong explained that the Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill could increase Han Li's Golden Immortal cultivation speed by more than a hundredfold but would bring on severe fiend decay early.
• Luo Hong described three ways to handle the danger: enter the Grey Immortal Realm's Fiend Washing Pool, separate fiend qi from aperture essence, or suppress fiend qi with a sha spirit and the Seventy-two Xuandu Great Formation.
• Han Li asked for a few days to consider whether to cultivate the skill, and Luo Hong agreed before beginning the celebration.
• Luo Hong and Han Li drank for three days and nights, after which Luo Hong told Silver Fairy that Han Li would have no choice but to cultivate the skill once he thought it through.

Luo Hong used Primordial World Destruction Spirit Light to break through to the Late Golden Immortal Realm, but his cultivation then slowed because his technique and Little White could no longer keep pace. After explaining that the Moonlight Secret Realm could support only another ten thousand years of cultivation, he privately summoned Han Li and revealed a Five-Colored Sword Qi.

• Luo Hong used a strand of Primordial World Destruction Spirit Light to open his eighty-fifth Immortal Aperture and reach the Late Golden Immortal Realm.
• Luo Hong resisted the temptation to rely on the easy breakthroughs and concluded that he would need to address his cultivation technique through Tianyan Temple and raise Little White's cultivation.
• After twenty thousand years in the Moonlight Secret Realm, Luo Hong gathered Han Li, Mu Yan Hong, and Lu Yuqing and explained that increasingly frequent Time Tides would limit their cultivation to another ten thousand years.
• Luo Hong privately told Han Li that his Mysterious Fiend Nether Spirit Skill had reached a bottleneck and asked him to help with a task during the remaining time.
• Luo Hong showed Han Li a Five-Colored Sword Qi, and Han Li recognized it as the legendary Primordial Sword Qi.

Luo Hong spent nearly ten thousand years studying sword qi with Han Li’s help, then created Perfect Sword Qi that could overpower Han Li’s Primordial Sword Qi before the Heavenly Dao erased it. Having completed his experiment, Luo Hong prepared to leave the Black Tower with Han Li and the others.

• Han Li recognized the Primordial Sword Qi and learned that Luo Hong could refine more for his Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords in exchange for Han Li providing sword qi samples.
• Luo Hong and Han Li began a ten-thousand-year study in which Luo Hong analyzed and recreated over a hundred kinds of sword qi, while Han Li tested the results.
• More than nine thousand years later, Luo Hong created a white sword thread that drove back Han Li’s combined Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords before stopping in front of Han Li’s Sky Controlling Bottle.
• Luo Hong revealed that the white thread was Perfect Sword Qi, which the Heavenly Dao erased because it could not tolerate its existence.
• Luo Hong explained that he had proven Perfect Sword Qi was possible, then told Han Li he would summon Fairy Mu and the others so they could leave.

After leaving the collapsed Moonlight Hall, Luo Hong and his companions headed for Taiyi Hall while forces across the Nethercold Immortal Mansion maneuvered around its coming opening. Candle Dragon Dao chose to avoid joining the other sects inside, but Ouyang Kuishan revealed Taiyi Hall’s location to Xiao Jinhan, who went to investigate.

• Luo Hong explained Wusheng Daoist’s failed arrangements, then led Han Li, Lu Yuqing, and Mu Yan Hong toward the final opportunity in the Nethercold Immortal Mansion.
• An Azure Stream Palace team failed to break a palace restriction, and Elder Hu warned that they might need the Palace Master to rescue them.
• Feng Tiandu learned that the sects’ teams were scattered and that Mo Bufan’s group remained missing, then ordered Candle Dragon Dao to finish searching a mountain range within seven days.
• Ouyang Kuishan persuaded Candle Dragon Dao’s Golden Immortals to give up on Taiyi Hall and search the surrounding area after the other factions entered.
• Xiao Jinhan learned that Lord Gongshu had delayed pursuing the Divine Refinement Technique, then received Ouyang Kuishan’s message that Taiyi Hall was with Candle Dragon Dao and went to investigate with Xue Ying.

Xiao Jinhan, Feng Tiandu, and Luo Qinghai opened the seal to Taiyi Hall and entered with one companion each, leaving their factions to guard the entrance. Luo Hong then revealed his plan to eliminate the guards before the pill tribulation and called Jiao Three out of hiding.

• Xiao Jinhan, Xue Ying, and the Northern Cold Immortal Palace cultivators reached a gorge after sensing a powerful celestial phenomenon, and Xiao Jinhan exposed the hidden stone wall by preparing to freeze the gorge.
• Luo Qinghai proposed that thirteen Golden Immortals use the Nine Palaces Formation Breaking Diagram to break the seal, while Feng Tiandu and Xiao Jinhan negotiated who would enter Taiyi Hall.
• Luo Qinghai, Feng Tiandu, and Xiao Jinhan entered Taiyi Hall with Nan Kemeng, Qi Tianxiao, and Dong Jie, leaving their remaining cultivators to guard the Light Gate.
• Han Li suggested entering Taiyi Hall, but Luo Hong said they should first deal with the guards outside while they waited for the pill tribulation.
• Luo Hong detected Jiao Three's hidden group and called her out, revealing a white-haired Nanli Tribe woman and two foreign beings wielding golden staffs.

Luo Hong and Han Li learned that the Heavenly Furnace could refine nine Taiyi Pills, then joined Jiao Three in a plan to enter the Taiyi Hall while keeping the other cultivators from interfering. Luo Hong reappeared as Jiao Eight and helped trap the cultivators outside in Jiao Three’s blood formation, where the blood qi began to overwhelm them.

• Jiao Three revealed that the Heavenly Furnace could produce nine Taiyi Pills, and Luo Hong rejected the plan to wait outside for others to fight over them.
• Luo Hong arranged for Mu Yan Hong to stay hidden and watch over Lu Yuqing while he, Han Li, and Jiao Three prepared to suppress the cultivators outside without killing them.
• Jiao Three gave Han Li a Yellow Springs Blood Seal Formation Flag, and Luo Hong, Han Li, and Jiao Three concealed their auras and split up.
• Luo Hong appeared above the cultivators as Jiao Eight, used Universe Power to force a scar-faced Fuling Sect cultivator to his knees, and distracted the crowd while Jiao Three’s formation rose around them.
• Xue Ying and the others failed to escape the blood formation after a piercing shriek disrupted their Immortal Yuan Power, and they began fighting the attacking Blood Sables.
• The cultivators discovered that the formation’s blood qi contaminated their immortal treasures and grew denser as they destroyed the Blood Sables.

Luo Hong crushed the Blood Curtain with a Five-Colored Giant Hand and sealed the trapped cultivators in a mountain before the group entered Taiyi Hall. Inside, Han Li followed Jiao Three toward a tribulation-struck hall while Luo Hong searched the mist for the others.

• Xue Ying formed the Unity Origin Battle Formation and led the Golden Immortals in an attack on the Blood Curtain, but Luo Hong’s Five-Colored Giant Hand descended and sealed the cultivators in a mountain.
• Jiao Three admitted that she had left nearby mortal towns to be destroyed by a demon beast tide, prompting Han Li to withdraw his goodwill toward Reincarnation Hall.
• Luo Hong gave Lu Yuqing the third Bewildering Heaven Bell and part of the Nethercold Mountain River Diagram before the group entered the White Light Gate.
• Luo Hong entered the misty space alone and sensed Old Demon Han and the others, but could not find Lu Yuqing.
• Han Li followed Jiao Three and two Nan Li Golden Immortals through a spatial barrier to a lush landmass, where they headed toward a domed hall under golden tribulation lightning.
• Han Li hesitated over whether to seek Luo Hong, then sensed a spatial fluctuation nearby.

Luo Hong and the others entered Taiyi Hall as the pill tribulation ended, where they found the Nine Dragon Pearl Holding Furnace and the living corpse of Ash Immortal Mo Yu. When Xiao Jinhan lunged for the Taiyi Pill, Feng Tiandu trapped him and Luo Hong agreed to help kill him; the chapter ends as Xiao Jinhan unleashes his Ice Snow Spiritual Domain and the attackers close in.

• Luo Hong arrived with Han Li and Mu Yan Hong as the pill tribulation struck Taiyi Hall, and they entered the hall with Luo Qinghai and the others.
• The cultivators saw the Nine Dragon Pearl Holding Furnace, its protective formation and puppets, and the living corpse of Ash Immortal Mo Yu seated behind it.
• A Taiyi Pill emerged from the furnace, and Xiao Jinhan rushed to seize it before Feng Tiandu trapped him with his Separating Yuan Spiritual Domain.
• Feng Tiandu called on the cultivators to kill Xiao Jinhan, and Luo Hong agreed, revealing that he was a Late Golden Immortal.
• A golden puppet carried the Taiyi Pill toward Mo Yu as the cultivators split into groups to attack Xiao Jinhan and Dong Jie.
• Xiao Jinhan unleashed his Ice Snow Spiritual Domain, while Luo Qinghai prepared an attack and Luo Hong advanced through the storm toward him.

Xiao Jinhan turned the battle around with the Five Extremes Cold Crystal Pillars and a Domain Spirit, but Luo Hong defeated him with three plain moves: a bell strike, a silver blade, and the Illusory World Star Pupil. With the Ice Snow Spiritual Domain dispersed and Xiao Jinhan under control, Luo Hong confronted the other cultivators about their hidden strength and intentions.

• Luo Qinghai attacked Xiao Jinhan with a water tornado while Feng Tiandu used Black Chains to suppress him, but Xiao Jinhan unleashed the Five Extremes Cold Crystal Pillars and strengthened his spiritual domain.
• Xiao Jinhan summoned a Domain Spirit and attacked Luo Hong, but Luo Hong shattered its blades and cleaved the spirit in two with a silver blade.
• Luo Hong used the Illusory World Star Pupil to put Xiao Jinhan to sleep, causing him to dispel his spiritual domain and allowing Han Li and the others to kill Dong Jie.
• Feng Tiandu proposed giving Luo Hong the first Taiyi Pill, but Luo Hong questioned the other cultivators about their hidden powers and motives.

Luo Hong let Xiao Jinhan die in the palace’s overlapping formations, then crossed them himself and took the Taiyi Pill without being attacked by the gray-white puppets. Feng Tiandu, Luo Qinghai, and Jiao Three were left shocked by Luo Hong’s discovery.

• Xiao Jinhan attacked the golden puppet but was caught in the White Immortal Fire and the gray-white puppets’ yellow chessboard formation.
• Xiao Jinhan broke free of Luo Hong’s illusion, discovered his Storage Bag was missing, and died under the formations’ attacks.
• Feng Tiandu and Luo Qinghai agreed that they would need to cooperate to retrieve the pills, while Luo Hong ignored them and entered the killing formations alone.
• Luo Hong used the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire to pass through the White Immortal Fire, then froze the gray-white puppets with a rune and took the Taiyi Pill.
• The puppets lowered their weapons and returned to stillness, leaving Feng Tiandu and Luo Qinghai stunned and Jiao Three alarmed that Luo Hong had uncovered their secret.

Luo Hong proposed collecting the Taiyi Pills on everyone’s behalf, arguing that entering the restrictions could ruin the furnace, while concealing his true plan to claim the pills. After Qi Tianxiao was injured trying to enter, Feng Tiandu and Jiao Three accepted Luo Hong’s proposal, and the group negotiated a distribution before Luo Hong swore a Heart Demon Oath.

• Qi Tianxiao asked Feng Tiandu for permission to try entering the restrictions as two more Taiyi Pills emerged, and Feng Tiandu opened a passage with his Separating Yuan Magic Chains.
• Luo Hong took the two pills and said he intended to collect all nine, warning that forcing entry could destroy the Nine Dragon Pearl Holding Furnace.
• Luo Qinghai proposed that everyone learn the puppets’ recognition rune, and Nan Kemeng discovered the hidden runes on their chests.
• Qi Tianxiao condensed a rune without the required Law Power, became trapped in the restrictions, and was rescued by Luo Hong and Feng Tiandu’s chains.
• Luo Hong secretly offered Jiao Three help in exchange for her support, and she agreed to cooperate for three Taiyi Pills.
• Feng Tiandu and Jiao Three accepted Luo Hong’s proposal and backed distribution by headcount, and Luo Hong swore to provide each Golden Immortal with a pill and leave Taiyi Hall last.

Gongshu Jiu, an Inspector Immortal Envoy, arrived at the Taiyi Hall and demanded to know what had happened to Xue Ying and the others. When Luo Hong refused to surrender, Gongshu Jiu attacked the assembled cultivators, leaving Qi Tianxiao and Nan Kemeng in immediate danger.

• The Nine Dragon Pearl Holding Furnace produced three more Taiyi Pills, but Luo Qinghai failed to persuade the others to distribute them early.
• Gongshu Jiu entered the Taiyi Hall, revealed he knew Han Li practiced the Divine Refinement Technique, and demanded information about Xue Ying and the others.
• Luo Qinghai tried to flee with Nan Kemeng, but Gongshu Jiu stopped them and declared that none of the cultivators would leave.
• Luo Qinghai, Feng Tiandu, Qi Tianxiao, Jiao Three, Han Li, and others attacked Gongshu Jiu, while Luo Hong told Han Li to conceal the True Word Treasure Wheel.
• Gongshu Jiu scattered the group’s attacks and crushed Feng Tiandu’s Black Scroll Painting; Luo Qinghai used a pearl containing a Taiyi Wa Snake’s origin to fend off another strike.
• Gongshu Jiu’s invisible currents turned toward Qi Tianxiao and Nan Kemeng, prompting cries for help from Feng Tiandu and Luo Qinghai.