Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo reached the Nascent Soul Peak Realm while navigating the immortal palace and encountered Immortal Ge’s Wood Clone, whose attempt to probe Chen Luo’s hidden marks ended in a terrifying backlash. Immortal Ge destroyed his clone to pass on a mark and its power, and Chen Luo later found Demon Madam Spider and another person searching for the Sword Heart Stone, though they could not see him.

• Chen Luo avoided the immortal palace’s traps and restrictions with help from his External Brain, and his Nascent Soul advanced to the Nascent Soul Peak Realm.
• Chen Luo confronted Immortal Ge’s Wood Clone, who used his Dharma Eye to inspect Chen Luo and was struck by a frightening backlash from one of the presences within him.
• Immortal Ge declared Chen Luo a heaven-sent opportunity, destroyed his Wood Clone, and left Chen Luo with a new mark and a surge of Wood Spiritual Power.
• Chen Luo collected Immortal Ge’s Storage Bag and continued searching the palace for the Ascended Ones, while the Flower-Backed Turtle hid from passing Puppets.
• Chen Luo found Demon Madam Spider and another person searching for the Sword Heart Stone, but neither noticed him as he stood outside their courtyard.

Chen Luo found Flower-Backed Turtle in a safe courtyard, claimed a Spirit Artifact chessboard, and learned the Ascended One was to the southwest. As danger mounted in the Floating World Immortal Palace, Chen Luo carried Flower-Backed Turtle toward that lead while avoiding deadly formations.

• Chen Luo entered a courtyard, found Flower-Backed Turtle, and exchanged sworn-brotherly assurances with him.
• Flower-Backed Turtle confirmed the courtyard was safe and reported that the Ascended One was southwest; Chen Luo used Talisman Figures to retrieve the Spirit Artifact chessboard.
• Chen Luo reflected that his cultivation had diverged from the modern Immortal Path and that he intended to return to the Southern Sky Region to undergo Tribulation Transcendence.
• The Azure Ox Demon Saint and Savage Elephant Demon Saint clashed with the Sword Riding Sect's Old Sword Saint, but a golden restriction swallowed their auras and sounds.
• Chen Luo grabbed Flower-Backed Turtle and rushed southwest through the palace, carefully avoiding hidden dangers as his body temperature rose despite the Ice Cold Art.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle entered a dangerous courtyard in the Arctic Ice Palace and encountered a Nascent Soul cultivator on a fishing boat. The Flower-Backed Turtle killed and captured him, and Chen Luo recognized him as Old Demon Skin Painter, an enemy connected to Xuan Tianchong.

• Chen Luo sent the Flower-Backed Turtle to test the courtyard gate, then rescued him from the lightning restriction and absorbed the subsequent lightning strikes with his Thunder Pattern.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle entered the summer-like courtyard and spotted an old man poling a boat across the lake.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle identified the old man as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator and attacked him, smashing the boat and capturing his Nascent Soul.
• Chen Luo recognized the old man as Old Demon Skin Painter, who had once impersonated Xuan Tianchong and left behind human skin.

Chen Luo questioned Old Demon Skin Painter and learned that a passage to the Lower Realm lay beneath the lake at the Immortal Palace. After the White Elephant Demon Saint died to the palace’s restrictions, Chen Luo activated the passage and teleported away with the Flower-Backed Turtle.

• The Flower-Backed Turtle captured Old Demon Skin Painter’s Nascent Soul, and Chen Luo questioned him about his signal, his friend, and the ascension passage.
• Old Demon Skin Painter revealed that circling the lake’s center nine times would reveal the passage, then retreated across the lake in a boat.
• The White Elephant Demon attacked an Immortal Palace, but its restrictions overwhelmed and killed him while the Old Sword Saint and Green Ox Demon disappeared.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle circled the lake nine times and found a stone containing a Teleportation Formation.
• Chen Luo activated the formation using Inner Demon Stones and teleported himself and the Flower-Backed Turtle away.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle returned from the Upper Realm to Fox Mountain, where Chen Luo discovered the Fox Clan had recovered and met a Three-tailed Demonic Fox who recognized him as Su Linlin’s ally. The fox explained Su Linlin’s rise to become the clan’s Saintess, while Chen Luo sought to learn why she was shackled.

• Old Demon Skin Painter and Zhu Chungang watched Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle vanish, then turned their attention to the White Elephant Demon’s corpse and their plans to condense Dharma Seeds.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle emerged from the Reverse Passage on Fox Mountain and sensed the Fox Clan cultivators living there.
• Xiao Huan and the other young demons confronted the pair, but the Three-tailed Demonic Fox invited them to the rear mountain after Chen Luo asked about Su Linlin.
• The Three-tailed Demonic Fox recognized Chen Luo as a Fortune-less One and identified the Flower-Backed Turtle as a Fate Turtle.
• The Three-tailed Demonic Fox told Chen Luo that internal Fox Clan disputes had led to her shackles and described how Su Linlin had risen to become the Saintess.

Chen Luo left Su Chan after learning Su Linlin had not returned, then traveled with the Flower-Backed Turtle to Gu Demon Mountain. There, they encountered a boy and an old man under attack, while the chapter revealed how the Spirit Pool Fairy’s rise had reshaped the Southern Sky Region and driven Immortal Crane Chengfeng to seek refuge at Gu Demon Mountain.

• Chen Luo learned that Su Linlin was threatened with becoming Black Ox Demon Venerable’s concubine, but left Su Chan and continued south with the Flower-Backed Turtle.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle’s divination drew a lightning strike and showed him a vision of an Emperor Tomb, so Chen Luo warned him not to calculate blindly.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle reached Gu Demon Mountain and its prosperous marketplace, where an attacker sent a boy flying.
• The old man protecting the boy caught him and revealed Foundation Establishment cultivation, prompting the attacker and the crowd to react.
• Immortal Crane Chengfeng arrived and suppressed both men with his Wind Manipulation Technique.
• The chapter recounted the Spirit Pool Fairy’s rise to Soul Transformation and how Immortal Crane Chengfeng brought Du Qiuxian to Gu Demon Mountain after the Divine Lake Immortal Sect was purged.

Chen Luo returned to Gu Demon Mountain and found Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye facing pressure from Spirit Pool disciples seeking to exploit them. After Immortal Crane Chengfeng brought in two troublemaking Foundation Building Cultivators, Mu Xiao Yu discovered they came from an Evil Cultivator Territory.

• Immortal Crane Chengfeng subdued two Foundation Building Cultivators causing trouble in the market and ordered Du Qiuxian to take a young boy up Gu Demon Mountain.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle flew unseen over the market toward Gu Demon Mountain, where Chen Luo sensed Ding Zhao and Mu Xiao Yu.
• Chen Luo recalled how Ding Zhao had preserved the mountain’s layout and how Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye had taken refuge there while facing pressure from Spirit Pool associates.
• Immortal Crane Chengfeng brought the two subdued cultivators to Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye, who wondered whether they served Xue Er Lengzi.
• Immortal Crane Chengfeng sensed traces of Evil Qi on the two men, and Mu Xiao Yu used her Core Formation pressure to silence them and demanded to know who had sent them.

Chen Luo returned to Gu Demon Mountain and rescued Mu Xiao Yu, Ao Ye, and two refugees from a Spirit Pool cultivator threatening them over the Ji Family’s Soul Shifting Technique. He learned that Ding Zhao and Wife had died and ended the chapter at their graves, confronting how much had changed during his absence.

• Old man Ji revealed that his family possessed the Soul Shifting Technique and begged Immortal Crane Chengfeng to protect him and his nephew.
• A Spirit Pool cultivator warned Mu Xiao Yu to honor her marriage agreement to Young Master Xue and threatened anyone who stood in the way.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle entered, and Chen Luo killed the threatening cultivator with a single blow.
• Chen Luo reunited with Mu Xiao Yu, Ao Ye, Immortal Crane Chengfeng, and Du Qiuxian, then learned that Ding Zhao had died after a failed breakthrough.
• Chen Luo visited Gu Demon Mountain’s cemetery and found Ding Zhao, Wife, and other old acquaintances buried there.

Chen Luo returned to On the Mountain, learned how the Qionghua Sect and his old acquaintances had fared, and prepared to deal with the new Black Stone City Lord, Xue Yidao. He recognized Ji Xiaobao as Zhu Jie, who had used the Ji family's Soul Shifting Technique, and discovered that the technique could help soul-shifters overcome a flaw that threatened them during Heavenly Tribulation.

• Chen Luo learned that Xiong Linshan now led the Qionghua Sect, Lady Hong and Blood Knife had died, and Xue Yidao had proposed marriage to Mu Xiao Yu while suppressing Gu Demon Mountain.
• Chen Luo gave Immortal Crane Chengfeng cultivation advice and pills, promised to resolve Du Qiuxian's Foundation Establishment Pill shortage, and agreed to visit Du De's grave with him.
• Chen Luo sent Old Man Ji away and recognized the boy Ji Xiaobao as Zhu Jie, his former friend from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Ji Xiaobao offered Chen Luo the Ji family's Soul Shifting Technique, and the Fate Turtle observed that its energy resembled the Demon Saint's Reincarnation Technique.
• Chen Luo examined the technique and found that it could improve compatibility between a shifted soul and its body, potentially helping its user survive Heavenly Tribulation.

Chen Luo returned to Gu Demon Mountain, resumed refining pills, and learned that the Flower-Backed Turtle had begun reconsidering leaving after hearing of Chen Luo’s rise to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm in sixty years. When Xue Yidao came to Gu Demon Mountain to force Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye to apologize to the Spirit Pool Fairy, Chen Luo killed him with a single palm strike.

• Chen Luo understood that Ji Xiaobao carried fragments of Zhu Jie's memories, then told him to stay on the mountain and have Ao Ye handle any problems.
• Chen Luo returned to his old alchemy room, appointed a young Sun Family descendant to manage its spirit materials, and gave her a gourd of Qi Nourishing Pills.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle investigated Gu Demon Mountain and learned that Chen Luo had advanced from Foundation Establishment to the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm in sixty years, weakening his resolve to leave.
• Xue Yidao arrived at Gu Demon Mountain to seize Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye and present them to the Spirit Pool Fairy as a way to win her favor.
• Chen Luo immobilized Xue Yidao in midair and killed him with one palm strike, leaving the market crowd stunned.

Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle traveled from Gu Demon Mountain to Medicine King City, where Chen Luo confronted former Qionghua Sect ally Yan Qiuming. He asked where Spirit Pool Fairy was, but Yan Qiuming said he did not know.

• Chen Luo left Mu Xiao Yu and Ao Ye to continue their paths on their own, then set out with the Flower-Backed Turtle toward Qionghua Sect.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle sensed a Demon Saint's aura in Myriad Demon Mountain but suppressed his urge to divine its secrets.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle arrived at Medicine King City, now a prosperous vassal of Spirit Pool, and Chen Luo sought out its City Master, Yan Qiuming.
• Chen Luo startled Yan Qiuming during pill refinement, ruining a furnace of pills, then took finished pills as payment for Medicine King City's past agreement with Grand Void Peak.
• Chen Luo asked Yan Qiuming where Spirit Pool Fairy was, but Yan Qiuming said he was only an alchemist and did not know her whereabouts.

Chen Luo learned how Spirit Pool Fairy had taken control of Qionghua Sect and traveled there to confront Reverend Dongchi, the Nascent Soul Cultivator guarding it. He broke the sect’s trapping formation, killed Reverend Dongchi, and collected his possessions and remnant soul.

• The Medicine King City Master told Chen Luo that Spirit Pool Fairy had seized control of Qionghua Sect and stationed Reverend Dongchi there.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle arrived at Qionghua Sect, where Reverend Dongchi guarded the formation that trapped its disciples and diverted the sect’s spiritual energy.
• Reverend Dongchi’s attack on Chen Luo failed, and Chen Luo used a palm strike that broke the formation’s foundation and shattered its pavilion.
• Chen Luo killed Reverend Dongchi, took his Storage Bag, and collected his remnant soul with his Soul Banner.

Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect, broke Spirit Pool Fairy’s sealing formation, and found the sect’s disciples and elders near collapse. After reuniting with Yu Jun Yao and Xiong Linshan, he set out to dismantle the remaining formation and deal with Spirit Pool, where news arrived that Elder Dongchi’s Life Tablet had shattered and the Young Master’s had turned gray.

• Chen Luo broke the Mountain-Sealing Grand Formation and found five disciples waiting at Grand Void Peak.
• The green-dressed disciple told Chen Luo that the elders were asleep and Yu Jun Yao was on Great Profound Peak with Xiong Linshan.
• Chen Luo arrived at Great Profound Peak, where Yu Jun Yao and Xiong Linshan were trying to contact the Upper Realm through an Incense Signal.
• Chen Luo extinguished the Incense Signal and told the group he would dismantle the formation outside before addressing the rest.
• At Spirit Pool, the old man felt an ominous premonition when a flower branch snapped.
• A messenger told the old man that Elder Dongchi’s Life Tablet had shattered and the Young Master’s Life Tablet had turned gray.

Xue Changxu learned that Chen Luo had killed Elder Dongchi and cautiously went to Qionghua Sect, believing Chen Luo was a Child of Fortune he could exploit. He tried to suppress Chen Luo’s fortune with a curse, but Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle watched him from the sect, and the chapter ended as they recognized the curse’s mistaken target.

• Xue Changxu heard that True Lord Changsheng Chen Luo had returned and slain Elder Dongchi, then decided to avoid confronting him directly.
• Xue Changxu ordered a report on Chen Luo and set out for Qionghua Sect after notifying Spirit Pool Fairy.
• Xue Changxu detected two Nascent Soul auras at Qionghua Sect and mistook the demon aura for Chen Luo’s powerful demon pet.
• Xue Changxu gathered his disciples’ blood and cast a curse intended to break Chen Luo’s fortune.
• Chen Luo and the Flower-Backed Turtle watched Xue Changxu through a bowl of water, and the turtle recognized that Chen Luo had no fortune to break.

Chen Luo turned Xue Changxu’s curse back on his followers, then confronted Xue Changxu and the arriving Spirit Pool Fairy. The Spirit Pool Fairy entered the courtyard as Chen Luo stood ready to face her, while the Qionghua Sect disciples believed he could stop her.

• Chen Luo caught the Blood Drop Monster and sent it back through the curse passage, causing the curse to rebound on Xue Changxu and turn his blood-shedding disciples to ash.
• Xue Changxu fled to Grand Void Peak after Chen Luo’s Divine Sense locked onto him, and the Flower-Backed Turtle recognized him as having a dead fate.
• The Spirit Pool Fairy killed Xue Changxu with a Jade Pendant and crushed his escaping Nascent Soul with her palm.
• The Spirit Pool Fairy arrived at Grand Void Peak and displayed the power of a Fifth-tier Demon, while Chen Luo repelled her aura with a barrier of blackish-gray power.
• The Spirit Pool Fairy entered the courtyard, and Xiong Linshan and Yu Jun Yao remained confident that Chen Luo could stop her.

Chen Luo confronted Spirit Pool Fairy after she reached the Soul Transformation Realm, and their fight revealed that she wielded a Soul Transformation Dharma Seed. He used the Corpse Demon to withstand her power and studied the clash to understand the realm’s mysteries, as Spirit Pool Fairy prepared to show him the difference between them.

• Spirit Pool Fairy arrived at Chen Luo’s courtyard, displayed her newfound aggression, and asked the Flower-Backed Turtle to form a contract with her.
• Spirit Pool Fairy questioned Chen Luo about dismantling her formation, then demonstrated Spirit Transformation with a living flame and attacked him.
• Chen Luo summoned the Corpse Demon and revealed that he could wield Spirit Transformation power too, sending Spirit Pool Fairy crashing into a mountain wall.
• Xiong Linshan, Yu Jun Yao, and the Flower-Backed Turtle watched the battle from Great Profound Peak as Spirit Pool Fairy recovered and her aura intensified.
• The Spirit Pool demon beast brain identified Spirit Pool Fairy’s power as a Soul Transformation Dharma Seed, and Chen Luo continued fighting to learn about the realm for his future Tribulation Transcendence.

Chen Luo awakened the Corpse Demon's Soul Transformation power, “Undying,” and used it to turn Spirit Pool Fairy’s attacks against her. He struck her hard, but Spirit Pool Fairy recognized the threat and expected his borrowed power to carry a price.

• Spirit Pool Fairy turned stones and weeds into weapons of slaughter and sent them against Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo discovered the Corpse Demon’s “Undying” power in the black blood at its heart, and his External Brains awakened to Soul Transformation.
• The External Brains directed the Corpse Demon to poison the stone soldiers and Stone Man, preventing them from regenerating.
• Spirit Pool Fairy unleashed a Sword Rain that grievously damaged the Corpse Demon, but it rapidly regenerated and struck her in the chest.
• Chen Luo revealed that the Corpse Demon’s “god” was Undying, while Spirit Pool Fairy recognized his threat and suspected the power would exact a price.

Chen Luo used the Corpse Demon's memories and stored Tribulation Qi to turn his fight with Spirit Pool Fairy into a Heavenly Tribulation, forcing her to flee while he led the danger away from Qionghua Sect. The tribulation also struck the Flower-Backed Turtle, whom the onlookers mistook for a powerhouse welcoming the opportunity.

• Spirit Pool Fairy badly injured Chen Luo and the Corpse Demon with her beast phantom, but Chen Luo stored the recovering Corpse Demon in his Grotto-heaven Gourd.
• Chen Luo crushed three Tribulation Qi Beads, used the Beast Brain to evade Spirit Pool Fairy's attacks, and formed a Tribulation Qi Magnetic Field.
• Chen Luo triggered a Heavenly Tribulation that struck both him and Spirit Pool Fairy, severely injuring her as their tribulations merged.
• Spirit Pool Fairy fled from Qionghua Sect, pursued by part of the Thunder Tribulation, while Chen Luo flew away to keep the danger from destroying the sect.
• The Flower-Backed Turtle's shell stirred up a separate Tribulation Cloud, and lightning struck him as Xiong Linshan and the others watched and praised him.

Chen Luo used a Nascent Soul tribulation to approach Spirit Transformation, then entered the Dragon Tomb’s Star Great Tomb to face the Soul Transformation Tribulation. There, he seized Immortal Ge’s aura and hurled it into the heavenly thunder.

• Chen Luo endured the Two-Nine Minor Thunder Tribulation, strengthening his body and receiving heavenly feedback that brought him closer to Spirit Transformation.
• Spirit Pool Fairy fled, but the heavenly tribulation followed her, and she vowed to kill Chen Luo and the Dragon Tomb’s seven lunatics if she survived.
• Chen Luo realized that passing the Soul Transformation Tribulation could restore the severed path to Spirit Transformation, and he flew toward the Dragon Tomb as the tribulation gathered.
• The tribulation bound five auras to Chen Luo, and he dragged Immortal Ge’s resisting aura into the Star Great Tomb.
• The Emperor Tomb’s formations joined the Soul Transformation Tribulation, and Chen Luo threw Immortal Ge’s aura into the descending thunder, where it burned black and exploded.

Chen Luo faced the enhanced Soul Transformation Tribulation inside the Great Tomb, using formations, artifacts, and his cultivation arts to survive its bolts. He also redirected a bolt into the aura of the man from Yue Kingdom, leaving that man exposed and furious while Chen Luo prepared for the remaining tribulations.

• A black lightning bolt split the Forbidden Mountain Range and blasted Chen Luo from the Great Tomb’s first tribulation, destroying Senior Immortal Ge’s protective aura.
• Chen Luo used Second Brother’s Grudge’s Wu-Earth Formation, water-attribute artifacts, and the Heavy Water Art to survive the second bolt.
• The tribulation weakened Chen Luo’s Corpse Demon and left seven bolts remaining.
• Chen Luo seized the fleeing aura of the middle-aged man from Yue Kingdom and used him to take the third bolt, then absorbed the scattered tribulation power.
• The bolt wrecked the man’s study and clothes; he drove away the woman who entered and raged at the place imprisoning him as Wang Chengguan appeared in a book’s reflection.