Chapter Summaries

Luo Hong entered Ji Lin Kong Jing with Zhu Yan and Zi Ling, where he tested the realm’s crushing spatial pressure and restricted powers while learning how the Spirit World had changed. After hearing that the Sea Race might be uniting, he resolved to return sooner, and told Zi Ling that Han Li was searching for her.

• Luo Hong and Zhu Yan used their First Prince credentials to enter Ji Lin Kong Jing with Zi Ling, then emerged on an island as a Three-Eyed Giant Toad and a Black Armored Centipede attacked them.
• Luo Hong killed the Black Armored Centipede with the Sky Breaking Spear while Zhu Yan fought the Three-Eyed Giant Toad.
• Luo Hong found that spatial pressure and divine-sense suppression were severe, but his Immortal Yuan Power and Little Black Ball still functioned; he helped Zi Ling adapt and gave her Greater Dragon Scale Pills.
• Zi Ling told Luo Hong that the Xia Ling Tribe had grown powerful on Windcloud Continent and that Yu, Yuan, Ling, and the others had advanced in cultivation, though ascending remained difficult.
• Zi Ling reported that two major Sea Race clans had merged, and Luo Hong feared the change could destabilize the Spirit World and threaten the coastal Xia Ling Tribe.
• Luo Hong asked Zi Ling about her plans and told her Han Li had come to the Demon Domain seeking her, prompting her delight.

Luo Hong discovered that beast cores could advance his profound cultivation, then led Zi Ling and Zhu Yan toward Xuan City after capturing flying demonic beasts. Meanwhile, Han Li and Shi Chuankong reached Night Sun City, where Shi Pokong revealed that the destruction of Myriad Poisons Cave had brought the Emperor’s anger down on the First Prince, leading them to suspect Luo Hong had escaped the Demon Lord.

• Luo Hong refined the Black Armored Centipede’s beast core and opened a profound aperture, then consumed Zhu Yan’s Three-Eyed Giant Toad core and realized beast cores let him refine the Power of Stars.
• Luo Hong asked Zhu Yan to protect Zi Ling and learned that Xuan City and Puppet City were the two powers in Ji Lin Kong Jing, then chose to head north to Xuan City.
• Luo Hong, Zhu Yan, and Zi Ling captured three strange giant birds on the mountain and set off for Xuan City on them.
• Han Li and Shi Chuankong arrived at Night Sun City, where Shi Chuankong recognized the Eighth Prince but passed through the gate without being challenged.
• Shi Pokong told Shi Chuankong that the Emperor had punished the First Prince after an incident at Myriad Poisons Cave, and Shi Chuankong and Han Li suspected Luo Hong had destroyed it and escaped the Demon Lord.

Months after leaving the Gray Scale Archipelago, Luo Hong, Zhu Yan, and Zi Ling reached the Brown Valley Continent and encountered a battle between Xuan City and Puppet City cultivators. After saving two Xuan City fighters and helping kill a Scaled Earth Dragon, Luo Hong learned about joining Xuan City and heard an offer of personal-guard positions.

• Luo Hong, Zhu Yan, and Zi Ling reached the Brown Valley Continent, and Luo Hong released the three strange birds that had carried them there.
• The group found two gray-scaled Xuan City cultivators battling a Scaled Earth Dragon and two Puppet City puppets; Luo Hong and Zhu Yan saved the Xuan City fighters from a surprise attack.
• Zhu Yan fought the Scaled Earth Dragon while Luo Hong used black lightning to drag it back from underground, and they killed it before Zhu Yan recovered its beast core for Luo Hong.
• Luo Hong learned that the rescued fighters were Xu Yinglong and Xu Yinghu, personal guards of Baiyan City, and said that he and Zhu Yan wished to join Xuan City.
• Xu Yinglong offered Luo Hong and Zhu Yan personal-guard positions in Baiyan City and explained that Xuan City required its members never to betray it.

Luo Hong and his companions arrived in Baiyan City, where City Lord Sun Tu offered them a secret Beast Core refining art in exchange for joining the city. Luo Hong demonstrated that he could shape Beast Cores with Space Law, secured a year’s supply for experiments, and prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• Xu Yinglong and Xu Yinghu explained how Baiyan City’s hunting grounds and personal guards worked, then led Luo Hong, Zhu Yan, and Zi Ling to the city.
• The group entered Baiyan City and learned its defenses, social hierarchy, and the privileges of Taiyi Mystic Scholars.
• City Lord Sun Tu welcomed the newcomers, offered them the Beast Core refining secret art, and rewarded the Xu brothers with Blood Jade Pills.
• Luo Hong shaped a Mystic-grade Beast Core into a flying dagger and promised to produce a finished artifact within a year in exchange for Beast Cores.
• Sun Tu provided Luo Hong with three hundred Mystic-grade Beast Cores, and Zi Ling discovered that the city’s refining art consumed blood essence.
• Luo Hong told Zi Ling he would enter seclusion and instructed her to bring Zhu Yan if she went out.

Luo Hong equipped Baiyan City's Hunting Teams with Mystic Weapons while secretly using the city’s Beast Cores to advance his cultivation. After five years, he reached the Late Taiyi Realm and prepared to pursue resources beyond Baiyan City, while Sun Tu plotted to control him once Zhu Yan departed.

• Luo Hong refined a Silver Patterned Javelin, and Sun Tu ordered a test that showed it could let a hunter defeat a stronger scaled beast.
• Luo Hong agreed to produce weapons for Baiyan City's Hunting Teams in exchange for Beast Cores, while Sun Tu secretly planned to seize control of him after Zhu Yan left.
• Xu Yinghu told Sun Tu that Zhu Yan planned to go to Xuan City and had only a shallow friendship with Luo Hong.
• Zhu Yan delivered Earth-grade Beast Cores to Luo Hong and confirmed that he had leaked his plans to Xu Yinghu; Luo Hong explained that Sun Tu would try to control him to pursue a breakthrough.
• Zi Ling asked Luo Hong to obtain Puppet City texts, and he agreed to seek them through Sun Tu.
• Over five years, Luo Hong's weapons strengthened Baiyan City's Hunting Teams and helped him reach the Late Taiyi Realm; Zhu Yan then prepared to leave for Xuan City with five Earth-grade Beast Cores.

Sun Tu lured Luo Hong out of Baiyan City under the pretense of scouting Mad Dragon Ridge, then tried to poison him with Dragon Tooth Sand. When Luo Hong exposed the scheme and fought back, Fang Chan unleashed a secret technique and charged with axes, prompting Sun Tu to intervene.

• Sun Tu ordered Xu Yinghu to summon Luo Hong and concealed his plan to attack him outside Baiyan City.
• Luo Hong reassured Zi Ling, then agreed to accompany Sun Tu, Xu Yinghu, and Fang Chan on a supposed scouting trip to Mad Dragon Ridge.
• After traveling for more than twenty days, Sun Tu offered Luo Hong blood wine laced with Dragon Tooth Sand, but Luo Hong identified the poison and discarded it.
• Sun Tu and Xu Yinghu dropped their pretenses, and Sun Tu sent Fang Chan to test Luo Hong's strength.
• Luo Hong's punch sent Fang Chan staggering back, but Fang Chan expanded his body, activated a bloody secret technique, and charged with his axes.
• Luo Hong vanished as Fang Chan attacked, and Sun Tu shouted for Fang Chan to stop while throwing a punch.

Luo Hong and Zhu Yan defeated Sun Tu and his allies on Wild Mountain, securing Sun Tu’s city lord token and clearing the way for Zhu Yan to take over Baiyan City. The chapter ended with Luo Hong reviving the badly injured Fang Chan to see whether he would submit, since Luo Hong wanted to make use of his Innate Divine Ability.

• Zhu Yan intercepted Sun Tu’s attack on Luo Hong, while Luo Hong punched Fang Chan and evaded his frenzied counterattacks.
• Sun Tu revealed his True Spirit Bloodline transformation and gained the upper hand against Zhu Yan, while Fang Chan trapped Luo Hong with a soundwave but had his wrist crushed and was blasted into a mountain.
• Luo Hong joined Zhu Yan against Sun Tu, then unleashed the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill and Thousand Strike Fist to break Sun Tu’s arm and seal his mysterious apertures.
• Luo Hong killed Sun Tu by drawing the Great Black Sky Thunder from his body, and Zhu Yan killed Xu Yinghu as he fled.
• Luo Hong took Sun Tu’s city lord token and retrieved the unconscious Fang Chan from the mountain, then used a Curse Art to wake him and consider recruiting him.

After killing Sun Tu, Luo Hong took control of Baiyan City's leadership by installing Zhu Yan as City Lord and promising the Taiyi Mystic Scholars a share of profits from artifact trade. He and Zi Ling explored Sun Tu's private treasury, then Luo Hong began expanding trade and refining artifacts to gather Beast Cores for his cultivation.

• Luo Hong spared Fang Chan in exchange for his obedience, then returned to Baiyan City with Fang Chan and Zhu Yan.
• Luo Hong blamed Sun Tu and Xu Yinghu's deaths on a Daluo-scaled beast and proposed Zhu Yan as the new City Lord.
• Luo Hong persuaded Xu Yinglong and the other Taiyi Mystic Scholars to support Zhu Yan by offering them half the profits from trading Profound Artifacts.
• Zhu Yan became City Lord, and Luo Hong, Zi Ling, and Zhu Yan opened Sun Tu's private treasury, where Luo Hong found a Heaven-grade Beast Core and Zi Ling found Puppet Dao Classics.
• Zhu Yan revealed that he needed Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud to heal his aperture injuries, and Luo Hong advised him to obtain it through trade.
• Luo Hong refined artifacts with Fang Chan's help as three trading teams set out, bringing large numbers of Mystic-grade Beast Cores into Baiyan City.

Han Li, Shi Chuankong, and Crab Daoist entered Ji Lin Kong Jing to search for Zi Ling and met Chen Yang, a hunter from Xuan City. After Chen Yang brought them to Qingyang City, he betrayed them by handing them over to City Lord Du Qingyang for a reward from Master Luo.

• Han Li and Shi Chuankong learned that Zi Ling had been abducted before being exiled into Ji Lin Kong Jing, then set out with Crab Daoist to find her.
• The three watched Chen Yang and his hunters kill a Sword Scaled Tiger, and Chen Yang discovered them and invited them to join Xuan City.
• Han Li and Shi Chuankong revealed their Profound Dao cultivation, and Chen Yang persuaded them to travel with him to Qingyang City.
• After arriving in Qingyang City, Han Li saw that Chen Yang's account of the city seemed true, but Chen Yang returned with Du Qingyang and a force of profound cultivators to surround them.
• Chen Yang admitted that he had brought the newcomers to Baiyan City for a reward offered by Master Luo, who wanted people from the outside world.

Du Qingyang captured Han Li and Shi Chuankong and sent them into Qingyang City's Profound Fighting Arena, where Han Li endured brutal battles while awaiting a chance to buy a profound artifact. After learning what had happened, Luo Hong prepared to travel to Qingyang City, and Han Li recognized that Master Luo was his Senior Brother Luo Hong.

• Han Li and Shi Chuankong resisted Du Qingyang, but Du defeated them, implanted each with a Black Tribulation Worm, and ordered Chen Yang to take them to the Profound Fighting Arena.
• Three Taiyi Mystic Scholars decided to alert Baiyan City about Du Qingyang's plans, while Yao Li left to purchase profound artifacts for Lord Gu.
• Zi Ling told Luo Hong that Han Li had been captured, and Luo realized the misunderstanding happened because no one had given Han Li his full name.
• Luo Hong declined to ask Zhu Yan for help and planned to travel with Zi Ling to Qingyang City, confident that Du Qingyang needed Han Li alive.
• After months of brutal battles, Han Li learned that the Seven Mysteries Tower supplied Qingyang City's profound artifacts and realized Master Luo was Luo Hong.
• Han Li stopped saving for a profound artifact and chose to cultivate in the Star Pool, confident that he would soon have access to Luo Hong's artifacts.

Luo Hong reunited Han Li with Zi Ling and arranged to use Du Qingyang’s scheme to help Han Li resolve the danger of his True Spirit Bloodline. A month later, Du Qingyang began the Jialuo Blood Array with Han Li as its captive, while Luo Hong watched from hiding.

• Du Qingyang agreed to let Luo Hong meet Han Li, and Luo Hong and Zi Ling entered Han Li’s room alone.
• Han Li joyfully reunited with Zi Ling, and Luo Hong persuaded him to stay in Qingyang City as part of a plan to turn Du Qingyang’s scheme against him.
• Luo Hong removed the Black Tribulation Worm from Han Li and explained that he would use Du Qingyang’s allies to conceal Du Qingyang’s death.
• A month later, Chen Yang and Du Qingyang’s captains captured Han Li and took him underground to the Jialuo Blood Array.
• Du Qingyang placed Han Li in the array and ordered Chen Yang and four captains to activate it, while Luo Hong secretly watched.

Du Qingyang’s attempt to absorb Han Li’s True Spirit Bloodlines was disrupted by Chen Yang’s betrayal and Gu Qianxun’s attack, but Du overcame her with his transformation. Luo Hong then revealed his power, seized the Jialuo Blood Array, and turned it against Du and his allies, allowing Han Li to absorb their blood vitality and advance his Mystic Dao cultivation.

• Du Qingyang used the Jialuo Blood Array to draw Han Li’s blood and absorb his True Spirit Bloodlines, while Chen Yang and the other four activated the Earth-grade Beast Cores.
• Chen Yang tried to sabotage the array, but Du Qingyang revealed he had anticipated the betrayal and used the array to drain Chen Yang’s power.
• Gu Qianxun burst into the cavern and attacked Du Qingyang, declaring that he had killed her mother, Yan Hongyu, but Du transformed and defeated her.
• Luo Hong appeared and punched Du Qingyang, then used Space Law and Primordial Immortal Yuan to reverse the array and redirect its suction toward Du and the four Golden Immortal captains.
• Han Li absorbed the returning True Spirit Bloodlines and the captains’ blood vitality as new Mystic Apertures opened, while Luo Hong stopped Du from destroying the platform.
• Du Qingyang pleaded for his life, and Luo Hong let Chen Yang claim responsibility for Du’s death before asking Gu Qianxun to witness the account.

Luo Hong killed Du Qingyang, helped Han Li advance his Profound Dao cultivation, and took control of Qingyang City through Chen Yang and Gu Qianxun. In Du Qingyang’s treasury, they discovered Heavenly Fiend Divine Statues containing the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppressing Art, and Luo Hong asked Crab Daoist to teach him its Mysterious Script.

• Luo Hong incapacitated Du Qingyang, and the reversed formation drained Du Qingyang and four Golden Immortal captains of their blood essence, while Han Li emerged with 108 profound apertures.
• Luo Hong told Han Li that Shi Pokong would not repair the array to retrieve them, then made Chen Yang and Gu Qianxun swallow poison pills and gave Chen Yang Du Qingyang’s City Lord token.
• Luo Hong and Han Li searched Du Qingyang’s private treasury, where Han Li found the Black Tribulation Stone and collected pills while Luo Hong took an Earth-grade Beast Core and a Black Relief Sculpture.
• Luo Hong showed Han Li a second Black Relief Sculpture, and Crab Daoist identified the pair as Heavenly Fiend Divine Statues containing the first six layers of the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppressing Art.
• Crab Daoist explained that each of the art’s twelve layers required a True Spirit Bloodline and could open 150 profound apertures, and Luo Hong asked him to teach the Mysterious Script.

After a decade of preparation, Luo Hong and the city forces arrived in Xuan City for the Five Cities Martial Arts Tournament, where Luo Hong met City Lord E Kuai and learned of growing tensions with Puppet City. The chapter left the tournament and Luo Hong’s promised reward pending.

• Luo Hong comprehended the first three layers of the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppressing Art and realized they could let him perfect the Nine Revolutions Azure Dragon Skill, while Han Li cultivated the art over the following years.
• Before departing for the tournament, Luo Hong told Han Li to conceal his strength and True Spirit Bloodline and warned him to watch Chen Yang, whom Luo Hong suspected had ties to Puppet City.
• Two years later, the combined Baiyan City and Qingyang City convoy reached Xuan City, where Tong Song escorted the group to the City Lord’s Manor.
• Chen Yang and Zhu Yan met City Lords Fu Jian and Qin Yuan, and Qin Yuan asked Luo Hong to refine another batch of Earth-grade Profound Artifacts.
• City Lord E Kuai arrived, praised Xuan City’s strength against Puppet City, and promised Luo Hong three Heaven-grade Beast Cores as a reward.

Luo Hong met Madam Liu Hua and exchanged artifact-refining insights with her, while she revealed her connection to Gu Qianxun and warned her to stay close to Luo Hong. Nine days later, the Five Cities Martial Arts Tournament began in Xuan City, where the champion’s prize was announced as a Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud.

• E Kuai announced the tournament rules and rewards, and Luo Hong asked to meet Madam Liu Hua to discuss artifact refinement.
• Luo Hong, Han Li, and Gu Qianxun visited Madam Liu Hua at the Blazing Sun Tower, where Luo Hong and Liu Hua exchanged insights for three days and nights.
• Madam Liu Hua agreed to remove Gu Qianxun’s Black Tribulation Worm but demanded a Sky Scale Meteorite Crystal from Han Li to remove his.
• Madam Liu Hua revealed that she was Gu Qianxun’s father and warned her about the danger after the tournament, advising her to stay close to Luo Hong because he had comprehended Space Law.
• Nine days later, the Five Cities Martial Arts Tournament opened at Xuan City’s Asura Field, and E Kuai’s representative announced prizes including a Heavenly Star Mystic Pill, Scale Bone Mystic Star Armor, and Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud for the champion.

Luo Hong learned that Xuan City and Puppet City were racing to enter the Great Ruins, then broke through to the Mid Da Luo Realm while preparing his mystic trump card. E Kuai eventually agreed to cooperate with Puppet City, leaving Luo Hong to ready himself for the expedition.

• Puppet City's forces marched toward Xuan City under the command of City Lord Sha Xin, who planned to obtain the Sacred Bone and warned that her thirteenth brother posed a danger.
• E Kuai halted the tournament after receiving news of Puppet City's arrival, and Luo Hong told Han Li, Zi Ling, and Zhu Yan that both cities sought the Great Ruins.
• Luo Hong explained that the Great Ruins opened only once every million years and that E Kuai had planned to take the tournament's strongest mystic scholars there.
• Luo Hong swallowed three Heaven-grade Beast Cores and, after seven days and nights, opened a new mystic aperture and reached the Mid Da Luo Realm.
• Luo Hong set aside cultivation to develop a mystic trump card, and E Kuai later accepted Sha Xin's proposal to cooperate.

Luo Hong and the Xuan City convoy reached the Black Mist Rift and followed Puppet City toward the Great Ruins, where the two rival groups joined forces to cross the dangerous Ice Fire Extreme Vein. As they entered the mountains, Luo Hong sensed that the Little Black Ball’s Primordial Law was reacting to a hidden secret.

• E Kuai led Xuan City’s convoy out to meet Puppet City, and the two groups traveled separately toward the Great Ruins.
• Luo Hong saw the Black Mist Rift’s violent Spatial Rifts and vortices, which reminded him of the Bottomless Vortex.
• E Kuai ordered the convoy to follow the rift valley eastward, and the groups traveled for half a year to the Ice Fire Mountain Range.
• Zhu Yan told Luo Hong that refining the Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud had advanced him to the Early Da Luo Realm.
• Sha Xin and E Kuai agreed to merge the convoys and set aside their cities’ enmity while crossing the Ice Fire Extreme Vein.
• As the merged convoy entered the mountains, Luo Hong realized the palpitations he felt came from the Little Black Ball’s Primordial Law.

Luo Hong ordered the convoy to hunt Taiyi white apes and used their rare fur to refine cold-resistant coats, then sold the coats to the other cities for beast cores. He ended the chapter with more than thirty Heaven-grade Beast Cores and turned his attention to the Sky Breaking Spear.

• As the convoy endured worsening cold and repeated scaled-beast attacks, Luo Hong ordered Zhu Yan to have their people hunt Taiyi white apes during an ambush.
• Zhu Yan, Chen Yang, Fu Jian, and Qin Yuan’s groups joined the fight, and the convoy killed eight Taiyi white apes before the rest fled.
• Luo Hong collected the apes’ chest fur and refined thirty-two Earth-grade coats, which protected Xuan City and Baiyan City’s people from the cold.
• Luo Hong agreed to sell coats to Tongyu City and Xuanzhi City for Earth-grade Beast Cores and set a price of one Heaven-grade Beast Core per coat for Puppet City.
• Sha Xin decided to buy the full number of coats for Puppet City despite the City Lords’ objections, and Ruo Mi went to collect the Heaven-grade Beast Cores.
• Luo Hong examined the more than thirty Heaven-grade Beast Cores and drew the Sky Breaking Spear toward him.

Luo Hong investigated the Little Black Ball’s reaction to the Ice Fire Extreme Vein while helping prepare a Star Falcon Flying Boat to cross the Black Mist Great Rift. He found a frozen lake filled with strange giant crabs, and Zhu Yan fought the awakened horde as Luo Hong faced an unknown danger.

• Luo Hong refined thirty Heaven-grade Beast Cores into star-glimmering Primordial Qi and fed it into the Sky Breaking Spear to raise its grade.
• After the convoy reached the Ice Fire Extreme Vein’s gorge, E Kuai, Sha Xin, and Madam Liu Hua planned to build a Star Falcon Flying Boat to cross the Black Abyss, and Luo Hong offered to make armor plates for it.
• Luo Hong sent Fang Chan and five others to search the ice-fire boundary for the source of the Little Black Ball’s reaction, and Fang Chan returned with a shattered Jade Token and reports of strange crab-shaped beasts.
• Luo Hong, Zhu Yan, and Fang Chan traveled to a frozen lake where the Little Black Ball warned Luo Hong of danger.
• Zhu Yan’s punch awakened countless ghostly blue giant crabs hidden in the ice, and he struggled to kill them as they surrounded him.
• Zhu Yan unleashed Furious Flame Annihilation, forming a mountain-sized crimson flame fist to strike the crab horde.

Luo Hong discovered that the monster crabs at the Ice Lake were connected to a strange power beneath it, and destroyed a giant claw with Primordial Divine Light. After returning to camp, he joined the others aboard the Star Falcon Flying Boat as it began drawing down starlight for its departure.

• Zhu Yan failed to clear the monster crabs, so Luo Hong fought through their horde and killed a five-hundred-zhang Da Luo crab with a single strike.
• Luo Hong learned the crabs had no beast cores and found a giant, eyeball-covered claw beneath the Ice Lake that reacted to the Little Black Ball.
• Luo Hong destroyed the claw with Primordial Divine Light, then ordered Zhu Yan and Fang Chan to gather the shells of the Taiyi crabs and above.
• Luo Hong returned to Xuan City's camp and stayed in his room for half a month.
• E Kuai and Sha Xin led the cultivators of Xuan City and Puppet City aboard the Star Falcon Flying Boat, which Madam Liu Hua powered by drawing down pillars of starlight.