Chapter Summaries

Han Li agreed to refine Jade Clarity Pills for Luo Hong once Luo Hong secured the ingredients and a safe place to work. After learning that a Taiyi Demon Race cultivator had entered the Four Alliance Immortal Domain, Luo Hong suspected Shi Chuankong was connected and asked Han Li for his appearance.

• Han Li asked Luo Hong to help obtain Mysterious Orchid Stone Crystals so he could endure Fiend Decay until they could explore the True Word Sect ruins in three hundred years.
• Luo Hong promised to gather herbs for Han Li to refine Sixth-grade Dao Pills in a hidden cave protected by a formation, then went to Ju Kun City and instructed Zhong Huihui to purchase the supplementary herbs.
• Luo Hong borrowed fifteen thousand merit points from Song Yaoguang to obtain a main ingredient for Jade Clarity Pills and learned that the Pursuit Division was searching for a Taiyi Demon Race cultivator.
• Luo Hong returned to Han Li with the Jade Clarity Pill ingredients and told him about the Demon Race cultivator; Han Li recognized the possible connection to Shi Chuankong and gave Luo Hong a jade slip showing his appearance.

Luo Hong arranged for Han Li to cultivate in a hidden Five Elements cultivation ground, then set his subordinates to track Shi Chuankong while he prepared to refine a Myriad Wheel Dharma Bead. Three years later, two Mid Taiyi Realm cultivators persuaded Ju Kun City's City Lord Su Liu to help lure the Silver Fox into a trap.

• Luo Hong gave Han Li the Formation Plate for the Five Elements grand array and promised to find a Mysterious Orchid Stone Crystal within five years.
• Luo Hong ordered Sheng Tianya and three others to track Shi Chuankong without alerting him, then told Zhong Huihui to buy refining materials.
• Luo Hong explained to Silver Fairy that he planned to refine a ninth-grade Myriad Wheel Dharma Bead to trade for Stone Crystals.
• Three years later, two Mid Taiyi Realm cultivators asked Su Liu to help lure the Silver Fox into Ju Kun City.
• Su Liu agreed to have his subordinates cooperate, provided the trap did not disrupt the city's rules.

Luo Hong obtained the Mysterious Orchid Stone Crystal from the Inspector Immortal Envoys and found Shi Chuankong in Black Sand City. After Shi Chuankong tried to escape and then fought back, Luo Hong broke through his spatial techniques and sent his black lightning chains toward the demon phantom.

• The red-haired big man and the Bamboo Pole Man planned to use Su Liu to help capture the Silver Fox, then sought to acquire Zhong Huihui’s newly refined Myriad Wheel Dharma Bead.
• Zhong Huihui refused to let the envoys meet Luo Hong, and they intimidated a Golden Immortal into giving up the Mysterious Orchid Stone Crystal; Luo Hong accepted the materials and left to find Shi Chuankong.
• Luo Hong met Shi Chuankong in a Black Sand City tavern, revealed his Heavenly Court identity, and added Taiyi Lightning Beast essence blood to their wine to test him.
• Shi Chuankong used spatial teleportation to flee, but Luo Hong repeatedly caught up with him across the Black Desert.
• Shi Chuankong summoned a three-headed, six-armed demon phantom and attacked with spatial techniques, but Luo Hong shattered his Silver Vortex and sent black lightning chains at the phantom.

Luo Hong subdued Shi Chuankong and Silver Fox, revealed that he was a Reincarnation Hall undercover agent, and recruited them to investigate the assassin Yuan Feng. After learning that the Demon Domain had entered a succession struggle, Luo Hong recognized that the Demon Emperor’s final battle was approaching, with only a little over three thousand years remaining before Gu Huo Jin’s plan.

• Shi Chuankong and Silver Fox attacked Luo Hong, but he used the Eight Divisions Dragon Binding Ropes and illusions to isolate their apertures and defeat them.
• Luo Hong released Shi Chuankong and Silver Fox, showed them his Reincarnation Mask, and asked about their preparations to enter the True Word Sect Ruins.
• Luo Hong gave Shi Chuankong information about a Taiyi Demon Race member, and Shi Chuankong identified her as Yuan Feng, an assassin serving his eldest brother.
• Luo Hong and Silver Fox persuaded Shi Chuankong to help locate Yuan Feng, then concealed themselves while Shi Chuankong waited as bait.
• Luo Hong told Silver Fairy that the Demon Emperor would truly perish and calculated that only a little over three thousand years remained before Gu Huo Jin activated the Three Thousand Dao God Great Formation.

Luo Hong trapped and killed Yuan Feng after she attacked Shi Chuankong, then used Fox Nine to claim the merit for the kill. He gave Song Yaoguang a Jade Clarity Pill, and she asked him to manage the Pursuit Division while she attempted to reach the Taiyi Realm.

• Yuan Feng ambushed Shi Chuankong with the Law of Darkness, but Silver Fox cut down her apparent body and revealed it was a decoy.
• Luo Hong trapped Yuan Feng in a Black Lightning Formation, defeated her escape attempts, and removed her Nascent Soul after she surrendered.
• Luo Hong returned to Shi Chuankong and Silver Fox, explained why he had killed Yuan Feng, and learned that Fairy Ming Jing was Fox Nine of the Reincarnation Hall.
• Half a year later, Luo Hong met Song Yaoguang at the Black Mountain Immortal Palace and gave her a sixth-grade Jade Clarity Pill.
• Song Yaoguang said the pill would let her attempt a breakthrough to the Taiyi Realm and asked Luo Hong to manage the Pursuit Division in her absence.

After cultivating in seclusion for three hundred years, Luo Hong advanced to the Mid Taiyi Realm and traveled with Han Li to the Yu Kun Auction, where they arranged to sell treasures and pills. At Jade Kun Tower, Luo Hong shared his Black Demon Wine with Han Li and Song Yaoguang, while revealing that his primordial spirit had reached the Early Da Luo Realm.

• Luo Hong cultivated for nearly one hundred thousand years inside his time-accelerating formation and broke through to the Mid Taiyi Realm, though his supply of pills could not keep pace with his cultivation.
• Luo Hong used Song Yaoguang’s invitations to bring Han Li to the Yu Kun Auction, hoping to sell two Myriad Wheel Dharma Beads and reconnect Han Li with Silver Fox and Shi Chuankong.
• Venerable Jingyang arranged appraisals for Luo Hong’s Dharma Beads and Han Li’s twenty Yi Yuan Pills, which were scheduled for auction on the sixth day.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and Song Yaoguang met in a private room and drank Luo Hong’s Black Demon Wine, which strengthened their primordial spirits.
• Han Li realized the wine affected even his powerful primordial spirit, while Luo Hong revealed that his own primordial spirit had reached the Early Da Luo Realm.

Luo Hong monitored the auction for signs of Reincarnation Hall cultivators while Han Li resisted bidding on the tempting Myriad Soul Grass. As the auction continued, Luo Hong used his reputation to win an unusual emerald beast bone, which he recognized as a Cave Heaven treasure sealed by a spatial restriction.

• Song Yaoguang outbid Luo Hong for the mundane Phoenix Cry Qin, which had belonged to the legendary Pei Qingling.
• Luo Hong located Silver Fox and Shi Chuankong in the auction and warned Han Li not to bid on the Myriad Soul Grass, lest the Heavenly Court identify him as a Divine Refinement Technique cultivator.
• Han Li later bid on the Time-Severing Pot, while Luo Hong and Song Yaoguang mostly watched; Luo Hong also bought several items near the auction's end.
• A blue-robed cultivator offered an emerald beast bone to raise funds for the Azure Sea Heavenly Wave Technique, and Luo Hong recognized it as a Cave Heaven treasure protected by a profound Spatial Restriction.
• Venerable Jingyang and Shi Chuankong withdrew from bidding after Luo Hong offered fifty thousand Immortal Yuan Stones, allowing him to win the bone.
• The blue-robed cultivator used the proceeds from the bone to increase his bid for the Azure Sea Heavenly Wave Technique.

After the Yu Kun Auction, Luo Hong and Han Li entered the Fish Branch Grotto-heaven hidden within the Emerald Green Beast Bone and found treasures left by its former owner. Gongshu Tian also gave Luo Hong a Crimson Cloud Flame Crystal as part of a scheme to test whether he was a Reincarnation Hall member.

• The Emerald Green Beast Bone sold for far less than its value, and Luo Hong thanked the bidders before leaving Jade Kun Tower with Han Li and Song Yaoguang.
• Gongshu Tian and the Bamboo Pole Man trapped the crowd and selected suspected Reincarnation Hall members for interrogation; Gongshu Tian gave Luo Hong a Crimson Cloud Flame Crystal, which he had secretly tampered with as bait.
• Luo Hong and Han Li left Ju Kun City, returned to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, and used the Emerald Green Beast Bone to enter the Fish Branch Grotto-heaven.
• Luo Hong identified the grotto-heaven as one of the lost treasures made by Xie Jinyuan, while Han Li collected rare Immortal herbs from its spirit field.
• Luo Hong explored the courtyard, found a Crimson Feather Fire Fan and a Time Law artifact, and named the Inch Gold Ruler before taking Han Li out to open another treasure.

Luo Hong and Han Li finished exploring the Flower Branch Grotto-heaven, and Luo Hong secretly removed Gongshu Tian’s tracking trick from the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire. As Han Li investigated growing Heavenly Court activity in Ju Kun City, Luo Hong urged Song Yaoguang to join the Immortal Prison as his future partner.

• Han Li gave Luo Hong the Thunder Department Orthodox Law jade slip, and Luo Hong bought the damaged immortal artifacts while Han Li took the Mysterious Sky Gourd and half the Mid-grade Immortal Yuan Stones.
• Luo Hong refined the Crimson Cloud Flame Crystal with the Heavenly Wolf Divine Fire, then used a Mini Fire Wolf to divert Gongshu Tian’s tracking mark.
• Immortal Venerable Rehuo warned Han Li against using his Guest Elder Token because the Heavenly Court had tightened security in Ju Kun City, and invited him to discuss the situation.
• Luo Hong returned to the Black Mountain Immortal Palace and learned that Gongshu Tian’s attempt to capture Silver Fox had failed.
• Luo Hong encouraged Song Yaoguang to become an Inspector Immortal Envoy and join him as a future mission partner, while she voiced concern about the Immortal Prison’s growing authority.

Luo Hong used the Inch Gold Ruler to ambush two Heavenly Court cultivators pursuing Han Li and Immortal Venerable Rehuo, forcing them to retreat. In Qinglin Town, Silver Fox and Shi Chuankong persuaded Rehuo to lead them to the True Word Sect ruins to keep the Heavenly Court from obtaining the Great Five Elements Illusionary World Art.

• Luo Hong gave Song Yaoguang the Crimson Feather Fire Fan and returned to cultivation; years later, Han Li called for help because Heavenly Court cultivators were besieging Immortal Venerable Rehuo.
• Luo Hong trapped Su Liu and a scholar-robed cultivator in the Inch Gold Ruler’s time-based ability, draining their Immortal Yuan Power and forcing them to retreat.
• Luo Hong joined Han Li and Rehuo, then led them to Qinglin Town to discuss why the Heavenly Court sought Rehuo as Huo Chizi.
• Silver Fox and Shi Chuankong arrived, and Silver Fox proved his identity by returning Rehuo’s stolen Storage Ring.
• Shi Chuankong explained that the Heavenly Court wanted the Great Five Elements Illusionary World Art, and Rehuo agreed to lead the group to the ruins if Han Li and Luo Hong came too.

Luo Hong and his companions reached Cloud City and prepared to cross the Turbulent Sea by passing the Heavenly Mirror inspection, while Han Li received a pill to conceal his fiendish aura. Luo Hong also arranged for Little White to travel with Han Li to the Grey Realm, then turned to refining the Fish Branch Grotto-heaven into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven.

• Luo Hong, Han Li, Shi Chuankong, Silver Fox, and Immortal Venerable Rehuo traveled to Cloud City to use its Cross-sea Teleportation Array toward the True Word Sect Ruins.
• Silver Fox gave Han Li a Sha Yuan Pill to conceal his fiendish aura during the Heavenly Mirror inspection, and Luo Hong confirmed the pill was genuine.
• Luo Hong created a second Sha Yuan Pill for Han Li and explained how Silver Fox had avoided Jade Kun Tower by arranging for another cultivator to buy Myriad Soul Grass at the auction.
• Luo Hong gave Little White three Sha Yuan Pills and asked him to escort Han Li toward the Grey Realm, where Little White could travel and seek opportunities.
• Luo Hong checked on Xue'er, who had reached the Late Golden Immortal stage, then left to refine the Fish Branch Grotto-heaven into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven.

Luo Hong and his companions disguised themselves to cross into the Black Soil Immortal Domain, but the Heaven Mirror Array malfunctioned during his inspection and drew the gaze of a Dao ancestor. The gaze vanished without harming him, and the group departed through the Cross-sea Teleportation Array.

• Luo Hong explained that he would dismantle the Fish Branch Grotto-heaven and use its Spatial Materials to improve the Netherworld Grotto-heaven.
• Silver Fox led Luo Hong, Han Li, Shi Chuankong, and Immortal Venerable Rehuo to Feixian Hall, where they used forged identities and bribed the Heavenly Court officials to access the inspection array.
• Silver Fox, Shi Chuankong, Immortal Venerable Rehuo, and Han Li passed the Heaven Mirror inspection without trouble.
• The Reincarnation Mask briefly leaked Luo Hong’s aura, causing the Heaven Mirror Array to form a giant eye and unleash the terrifying pressure of a Dao ancestor.
• Luo Hong stayed calm as the eye watched him for three breaths and vanished, after which the square-faced man let the group use the Cross-sea Teleportation Array.
• The Heavenly Court officials sent Luo Hong and his four companions away and wondered whether they should report the array’s abnormal behavior.

Luo Hong and his companions escaped the Heavenly Mirror Array’s scrutiny and traveled across the Black Soil Immortal Domain toward the True Word Sect Ruins. Silver Fox redirected them toward Youfu Island, where they waited for the Misty Illusion Smoke that revealed the ruins.

• Guan Tiansheng investigated a strange palpitation and found that someone had shifted their aura onto Heavenly Mirror Magic Arrays across more than a thousand immortal domains, while Xuanyuan Jie mentioned that one of his clay figures had lost contact.
• Luo Hong told his companions that his Dao Ancestor Relic had triggered the incident, then showed them an illusion of the Eye of the Thunder Ancestor and warned Han Li not to reveal what he recognized.
• Silver Fox explained that they would travel by ferry vessel and Teleportation Arrays to avoid attracting the Immortal Palace’s attention, and Luo Hong and Han Li secluded themselves during the journey.
• After more than thirty years of travel, Silver Fox persuaded the group to disembark near Yanbo City because Misty Illusion Smoke appeared most often there, suggesting that Youfu Island was near its source.
• Immortal Venerable Rehuo explained that Misty Illusion Smoke revealed fragments of the True Word Sect Ruins once every few thousand years, and the five settled in a nearby small city to wait for it.

After waiting more than a hundred years for the Misty Illusion Smoke, Luo Hong and the others searched Huanyan Marsh for a working Teleportation Array into the True Word Sect Ruins. They found a damaged array and Luo Hong activated it, sending the five into the ruins.

• Luo Hong, Han Li, Silver Fox, Shi Chuankong, and Immortal Venerable Rehuo entered Huanyan Marsh when the Misty Illusion Smoke appeared and traveled toward Youfu Island.
• Luo Hong released A Zi, who devoured the marsh water and defeated attacking beasts with her purple whip while Luo Hong guarded the group.
• Immortal Venerable Rehuo revealed his True Word Bead, and Luo Hong created three hundred copies so Shi Chuankong could form a search array that detected Teleportation Arrays across thirty thousand miles.
• After finding only ruined arrays, the group discovered a damaged but repairable Teleportation Array outside the sect gate.
• Luo Hong accepted twenty Mid-grade Immortal Yuan Stones, inserted a Silver Spear into a broken pillar, and activated the array, teleporting all five away.

Chi Rong and the Four Alliance Immortal Domain envoys entered the Misty Illusion Smoke to reach the True Word Sect Ruins, while Luo Hong and his companions arrived at the mountain gate ahead of them. Luo Hong devoured the gate and its restrictions with the Little Black Ball, leaving Immortal Venerable Rehuo to accept the destruction of the ruins.

• Chi Rong scolded Gongshu Tian for failing to capture Silver Fox, then led him and the others into the Misty Illusion Smoke.
• Su Liu and three other envoys agreed to work together to enter the True Word Sect Ruins, and Su Liu led them into the marsh.
• Fairy Bi She punished the consumptive Old Man for staring at her and teased the burly man as they climbed the stone steps.
• Luo Hong and his companions reached the mountain gate, where Shi Chuankong and Silver Fox failed to break its restriction.
• Luo Hong used the Little Black Ball to devour the gate’s barriers, pillars, and mountain gate, then stopped the suction before it pulled in Silver Fox.
• Luo Hong produced golden and silver command flags, and Immortal Venerable Rehuo accepted that the mountain gate had been destroyed.

Luo Hong, Han Li, and the others entered the True Word Sect ruins, where spatial turbulence scattered them before Luo Hong reunited with Han Li. After exploring a plundered palace complex, Luo Hong prepared to gather Primordial Qi while Han Li sought opportunities of his own.

• Luo Hong, Han Li, Silver Fox, and Immortal Venerable Rehuo entered the vortex passage, while Shi Chuankong stayed behind to summon three Purple-robed Demons through a spatial rift.
• Luo Hong used his Space Law to join Han Li in the turbulent passage, and the two were swept into the ruins and landed in a pit.
• Luo Hong gave Han Li the Golden Command Flag, which Han Li refined, then Han Li released his contracted Heavenly Demon, Mo Guang.
• Mo Guang agreed to hide in Han Li's sleeve and try to attract Ash Immortals by releasing his aura, while Luo Hong used spatial ripples to locate a large ruin.
• Luo Hong and Han Li reached a mostly intact palace complex, split up to explore, and found that the Heavenly Court had already plundered it.
• Luo Hong turned to his planned demolition work so he could gather Primordial Qi in the ruins.

Luo Hong and Han Li explored a ruined True Word Sect valley and split up inside the Water Evolution Palace, where Luo Hong captured Earth Soul Demons and defeated their Taiyi Realm king. Han Li later reunited with three other cultivators, and Luo Hong’s destruction of the palace revealed his presence as Han Li’s senior brother.

• Luo Hong and Han Li discovered a vast valley filled with ruins and entered the Water Evolution Palace, where they split up at two passages.
• Luo Hong captured the Earth Soul Demons in the yin-cold passage and defeated their Early Taiyi Realm king, taking its Fiend Core and Blood Treasure Pearl.
• Luo Hong subdued the Earth Soul Demon King’s escaping primordial spirit, sent it to the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, and refined the surrounding palaces for their Law Spirit Materials.
• Han Li killed another Earth Soul Demon King and met Feng Qingyuan, the burly man, and the Purple Robe Woman, who invited him to travel with them.
• Luo Hong’s work caused the Water Evolution Palace to collapse, and Han Li told the others that his senior brother was there.

Han Li and Luo Hong used the Golden Command Flag to discover that Feng Qingyuan and the Purple Robe Woman had both doubled back to Three Water Tower, then followed them there. They entered the ruined tower and reached a staircase leading upward, where Mo Guang warned them of powerful yin-fiend creatures.

• Luo Hong returned to Han Li and said he had found a damaged blood-path immortal artifact, while Han Li told him about the three Golden Immortals he had encountered.
• Han Li and Luo Hong reached a plaza with five paths and used the Golden Command Flag to replay the others’ choices, revealing that Feng Qingyuan and the Purple Robe Woman had both secretly chosen Three Water Tower.
• Han Li concealed his aura and tracks while Luo Hong hid in the void, and the two followed the path to Three Water Tower.
• Han Li and Luo Hong investigated the tower’s devastated first floor, noting the corpses and a corroded greatsword embedded in the staircase.
• Mo Guang warned Han Li and Luo Hong that powerful yin-fiend creatures might be upstairs.

Luo Hong subdued a Taiyi Corpse Fiend on the second floor while Han Li continued to the third floor, where he found Feng Qingyuan approaching two Time Law immortal artifacts beside Big Head Child’s corpse. Han Li also discovered Ren Hao and the Purple Robe Woman hiding nearby, and Feng Qingyuan tried to draw Ren Hao out.

• Luo Hong identified the shadow on the second floor as a Taiyi Corpse Fiend and decided to capture it while Han Li went ahead.
• Han Li lured the Corpse Fiend out, and Luo Hong used his Primordial Spiritual Domain and the Eight Divisions Dragon Binding Rope to subdue it and store it in his Netherworld Grotto-heaven.
• Han Li reached the third floor and found Feng Qingyuan in the rear hall, where a pool of blue liquid surrounded Big Head Child’s corpse and two Supreme Immortal Artifacts.
• Feng Qingyuan cautiously approached the artifacts while Han Li used his Nine Netherworld Demonic Eyes to locate Ren Hao inside a pillar and the Purple Robe Woman on a beam.
• Feng Qingyuan called out to Ren Hao and offered to split the two artifacts, but Han Li recognized that his bluff was unlikely to work.

Luo Hong suppressed the fishman monster guarding the blue flute and Blue Shield, then faced Ren Hao and Feng Lin after they turned against him for the treasures. Feng Lin’s summoned Demon King fled in fear of Luo Hong’s connection to an Ancestor, while Han Li prepared to contain Ren Hao’s Nine Annihilation Flowing Flame Bead.

• Feng Qingyuan tried to seize the blue flute and Blue Shield, but a fishman monster with Time Law powers destroyed his puppet and drove him toward the stairs.
• Luo Hong rescued Feng Qingyuan, repelled the fishman monster with the Snow White Bell, and exposed Ren Hao and Feng Lin hiding nearby.
• The fishman monster broke Ren Hao’s concealment and injured Feng Lin before Luo Hong trapped and suppressed it beneath the Mitian Bell.
• Ren Hao destroyed Luo Hong’s Giant Ape Puppet and persuaded Feng Lin to help him attack Luo Hong for the treasures.
• Feng Lin summoned King Subi from the Black Giant Gate, but the demon recognized Luo Hong’s Ancestor’s aura and fled back through the gate.
• Ren Hao produced a Nine Annihilation Flowing Flame Bead, and Luo Hong told Han Li to use the True Word Treasure Wheel to confine it for collection.