Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen seized the high-grade Spirit Essence and fought to escape the rift as four Organ-Nourishing Realm experts cornered him. He detonated the Crimson Flame Earth Dragon’s corpse to cover his escape, leaving the clash amid a blast of fire and debris.

• Lu Chen grabbed the golden-red Spirit Essence and dodged Ning Duanjiang’s saber strike as he tried to leave the rift.
• Ning Canghe blocked Lu Chen’s path while Meng Qianyue attacked from below, forcing Lu Chen to use Three Saints Unite and punch against Meng Qianyue’s fist to propel himself away.
• Meng Zhenshan intercepted Lu Chen with the Mountain-Breaking Hammer, but Lu Chen struck the hammer and crashed onto the Crimson Flame Earth Dragon’s corpse.
• Ning Duanjiang, Ning Canghe, Meng Qianyue, and Meng Zhenshan surrounded Lu Chen beside the cliff.
• Lu Chen drove Vermilion Bird Baleful-Burning Force into the Crimson Flame Earth Dragon’s wound, detonating its remaining demonic fire and sending himself toward the cliff on the blast’s force.

Lu Chen escaped the Ning and Meng families with the high-grade Spirit Essence, but their four Organ-Nourishing Realm experts pursued him into Burning Wind Ridge. His resistance to the fire poison let him disappear into the deadly winds, while Ning Duanjiang ordered the ridge sealed off.

• Lu Chen fled the rift with the Spirit Essence, and Ning Duanjiang learned that he had killed Ning descendants while Meng Qianyue recognized him as Meng Changgeng’s killer.
• Ning Duanjiang and Meng Qianyue joined forces to pursue Lu Chen through a stone forest, where their attacks steadily closed the distance.
• Lu Chen entered Burning Wind Ridge, using his golden crow blood and Vermilion Bird Baleful-Burning Force to withstand its scorching, poisonous winds.
• The fire poison forced the Bone-Forging Realm pursuers to retreat and slowed the four Organ-Nourishing Realm experts, allowing Lu Chen to vanish into the storm.
• Ning Duanjiang ordered Burning Wind Ridge sealed off and demanded that Lu Chen be captured or killed.

Lu Chen escaped the Ning and Meng families’ pursuit and hid in a cave on Burning Wind Ridge, where he absorbed the Spirit Essence to heal and complete the transformation of his blood energy into Golden Crow Blood. He emerged with his blood energy fully unified and the power to absorb the ridge’s fire poison.

• Lu Chen entered a cave deep in Burning Wind Ridge after confirming that no mutant beast was inside.
• He used the Spirit Essence and the Golden Crow Breathing Technique to replenish his depleted blood energy and heal his injuries.
• A phantom Golden Crow circulated through his meridians, transforming the remaining ordinary blood energy into Golden Crow Blood.
• Lu Chen completed the transformation, and a Three-Legged Golden Crow formed above him and absorbed the surrounding fire poison.
• Lu Chen opened his eyes with golden light shining deep in his pupils.

Lu Chen mastered Golden Crow Blood Ignition, a dangerous secret technique that greatly increased his strength by burning his blood reserves. After recovering in Burning Wind Ridge, he emerged and began hunting the Ning and Meng forces guarding its exits.

• Lu Chen activated Golden Crow Blood Ignition and tested its immense power, learning that its strongest output could last no more than thirty breaths without damaging his body.
• Lu Chen stopped the technique and replenished his blood by absorbing the fire-aspect energy in Burning Wind Ridge.
• Lu Chen left the cave unharmed by the fire poison and resolved to turn the hunt against the Ning and Meng families.
• Lu Chen used the burning winds as cover to reach a northwestern pass guarded by a Ning warrior and a Meng warrior.
• Lu Chen killed the Ning warrior by snapping his neck, then killed the Meng warrior with a single punch.

After surviving Burning Wind Ridge, Lu Chen emerged to face Ning Duanjiang, who had been guarding the pass. Lu Chen overwhelmed the Organ-Nourishing Realm elder in two punches, leaving him grievously wounded as the two Ning martial artists watched in alarm.

• Ning Duanjiang rejected his subordinates' suggestion to search Burning Wind Ridge and ordered them to guard the pass while they waited for Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen emerged from the crimson wind unharmed, and Ning Duanjiang realized he was still in the Bone-Forging Realm.
• Ning Duanjiang attacked Lu Chen with the Ning family's Overlapping Waves and Seas Saber, but Lu Chen's Golden Crow Blood Ignition-powered punch shattered the saber waves and forced him back.
• Lu Chen used the Flying Dragon Art to close in and struck Ning Duanjiang with Three Saints Unite, snapping his saber and breaking both arms.
• Lu Chen's second punch caved in Ning Duanjiang's chest and hurled him into the cliff, leaving the two Ning martial artists horrified.

Lu Chen killed Ning Duanjiang and two Ning Bone-Forging Realm warriors at Burning Wind Ridge, then replenished his Golden Crow Blood as Ning Canghe rushed to the signal. Ning Canghe found the corpses and confronted Lu Chen, but he wrongly assumed an unseen ally had helped him.

• Lu Chen killed Ning Duanjiang with a third punch, then beheaded the two Ning warriors who fired a signal arrow.
• Lu Chen ended Golden Crow Blood Ignition and used the Golden Crow Breathing Technique to replenish his blood energy.
• Ning Canghe hurried toward the signal, believing Lu Chen was wounded and fearing Ning Duanjiang would claim the high-grade Spirit Essence first.
• Ning Canghe found the three corpses and recognized Ning Duanjiang, then prepared for an unseen expert who might be nearby.
• Lu Chen revealed himself and said he had killed Ning Duanjiang, but Ning Canghe refused to believe him and called out to a nonexistent hidden ally.

Lu Chen killed Ning Canghe with one punch after activating Golden Crow Blood Ignition, then fought Meng Qianyue and Meng Zhenshan together. With his golden crow blood running low, he intensified his power as the two elders prepared for his next attack.

• Lu Chen evaded Ning Canghe's saber strikes, activated Golden Crow Blood Ignition, and killed him with a punch that shattered his saber and crushed his chest.
• Meng Qianyue and Meng Zhenshan arrived, found Ning Canghe and Ning Duanjiang dead, and faced Lu Chen.
• Meng Zhenshan attacked Lu Chen with the Mountain-Breaking Hammer while Meng Qianyue struck from behind, and they worked together to keep Lu Chen under pressure.
• Lu Chen blocked Meng Zhenshan's hammer with his fist and nearly followed up with another punch, but Meng Qianyue's intervention forced him to evade and let the pair retreat.
• Lu Chen realized he had used half his golden crow blood and could not prolong the fight, so he built up his power as Meng Qianyue warned Meng Zhenshan that he was staking his life.

Lu Chen fought the Meng elders Meng Qianyue and Meng Zhenshan while Golden Crow Blood Ignition burned through his remaining energy. He killed both men, leaving all four Organ-Nourishing Realm hunters dead in the mountain pass.

• Lu Chen used his speed and successive punches to overwhelm Meng Qianyue, while Meng Zhenshan tried to strike him with the Mountain-Breaking Hammer.
• Meng Qianyue urged Meng Zhenshan to stall Lu Chen until his secret art ran out, but Lu Chen focused his attacks on Meng Qianyue.
• Lu Chen shattered Meng Qianyue's defenses and killed him with a punch to the heart.
• Meng Zhenshan burned his blood and brought down the Mountain-Breaking Hammer, but Lu Chen stopped it with one hand and knocked it from his grasp.
• Lu Chen struck Meng Zhenshan in the abdomen, caught him as he flew, and killed him with a punch to the face.

Lu Chen killed four Organ-Nourishing Realm experts, escaped the Scarlet Tide’s dangers, and glimpsed a Five-Colored Divine Deer in Scarlet Cloud Mountain. After returning to camp, he refined two pieces of crimson tide essence and reached bone-forging perfection, leaving him one step from the Organ-Nourishing Realm.

• Lu Chen’s display of strength drove the remaining Ning and Meng warriors to flee, while his nearly exhausted blood energy forced him to pause and recover.
• Lu Chen collected pills, banknotes, and two pieces of crimson tide essence from Ning Duanjiang and Meng Qianyue before heading back toward the Martial Temple’s encampment.
• Lu Chen encountered a Five-Colored Divine Deer that raced toward the depths of Scarlet Cloud Mountain and calmed the Scarlet Tide wherever it passed.
• Lu Chen returned to camp, rested overnight, and recovered most of his blood energy.
• Lu Chen used the two pieces of crimson tide essence to complete the Nine-Burial Jade Bone Art and reach bone-forging perfection.

Lu Chen began practicing the Five Saints Life-Exchange Scripture as a second ghost tide descended on the Martial Temple encampment. With numerous Organ-Nourishing Demon Wraiths and six Blood-Armored Ghosts attacking, Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng fought to defend the outpost as the battle spread along its walls.

• Lu Chen discovered that bone-forging perfection had lowered the progress needed to begin the Five Saints Life-Exchange Scripture, then advanced the Vermilion Bird Heart-Exchange Chapter to 7/80.
• Lu Chen sensed the mountain fall unnaturally silent as the red mist withdrew into Scarlet Cloud Mountain, and the war drums warned that Demon Wraiths were approaching from the northeast.
• Luo Yun ordered the outer defenses abandoned after four ghost signals appeared, and a wounded Martial Guard reported a second ghost tide with at least a dozen Organ-Nourishing Demon Wraiths.
• Gu Chenfeng issued the Golden Scale Emergency Order as six Blood-Armored Ghosts emerged with the attacking horde, and Luo Yun sent riders to seek aid from the Martial Temple.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered the defenders to fire crossbows and set the ghost tide ablaze, but the six Blood-Armored Ghosts charged the wall and engaged Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng while Demon Wraiths attacked from both sides.

Lu Chen used the combined powers of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird to cut through the ghost tide and rescue Luo Yun from the Blood-Armored Ghosts. After destroying all three, he named his final attack the Golden Crow Demon-Subduing Slash.

• Lu Chen killed a Bone-Forging Demon Wraith and an Organ-Nourishing Heart-Eater Ghost on the western wall, raising the Martial Guards’ morale.
• Lu Chen leaped into the ghost tide and fought his way toward Luo Yun, who was pinned down by three Blood-Armored Ghosts.
• Lu Chen killed one Blood-Armored Ghost with a Three Saints Unite strike and teamed up with Luo Yun against the other two.
• Luo Yun held one Blood-Armored Ghost in place while Lu Chen burned it from within using the Threefold Demon-Subduing Force.
• Lu Chen unleashed a Golden Crow attack to destroy the last Blood-Armored Ghost, then told Luo Yun the move was called the Golden Crow Demon-Subduing Slash.

Lu Chen, Luo Yun, and Gu Chenfeng defeated the Red-Robed Ghost General during the second wave of the ghost tide, but its death revealed that the Scarlet Abyss had opened and a Ghost King was awakening. The surviving Demon Wraiths retreated, leaving the Martial Temple soldiers to face the ominous apparition forming over Scarlet Cloud Mountain.

• Lu Chen and Luo Yun reached Gu Chenfeng and helped him kill the five Organ-Nourishing Realm Demon Wraiths attacking him.
• A Red-Robed Ghost General emerged from the crimson mist, and Lu Chen, Luo Yun, and Gu Chenfeng fought it together.
• Lu Chen destroyed the Ghost General’s five hearts, then ignited his remaining Golden Crow Blood to kill it after it threw Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng aside.
• The dying Ghost General revealed that the Scarlet Abyss had opened and warned that all living beings would become blood fodder when the blood moon rose.
• The Demon Wraiths retreated, while a vast ghostly face formed above Scarlet Cloud Mountain and Gu Chenfeng identified the threat as the Ghost King.

Luo Yun gathered the surviving leaders to plan for a Dragon-Manifestation Realm Ghost King that might awaken in the Scarlet Abyss, and secured their support while they waited for reinforcements. Lu Chen requested Five Saints bloodline beast materials to advance his cultivation, and the Martial Temple began searching its stores and the families’ inventories as another wraith tide loomed.

• Luo Yun warned the leaders that a Ghost King might awaken and said a Heavenly Dragon Guard would arrive in at least three days to suppress it.
• Tie Zhengxiong and He Wenshan proposed retreating, but Luo Yun directed the families to contribute supplies and help defend the mountain passes until reinforcements arrived.
• Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng praised Lu Chen for killing Organ-Nourishing Realm Demon Wraiths and offered to provide resources to strengthen him.
• Lu Chen asked for flesh, blood, and blood essence from Mutant Beasts carrying Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Qilin bloodlines.
• Luo Yun arranged to obtain Red-Feather Fire Crow meat, Black-Shelled Water Turtle blood, and possible Azure-Scaled Flood Dragon blood essence, then ordered the Tie, He, and Tang Families to inventory their matching materials before dawn.

Luo Yun explained that Scarlet Cloud Mountain suppressed a passage to another world and that the growing Ghost Tide was likely gathering martial artists’ blood essence to help a Ghost King attack the seal. After recovering, Lu Chen received rare mutant-beast materials and began cultivating the Vermilion Bird Heart-Exchange Chapter, leaving his heart surging with power as he pressed against the boundary between realms.

• Luo Yun told Lu Chen and Gu Chenfeng that ancient battles had opened the Scarlet Abyss beneath Scarlet Cloud Mountain, where a seal kept back otherworldly ghosts and their energy.
• Luo Yun said the Ghost King was likely driving the Ghost Tides to harvest martial artists’ blood essence and weaken the seal, and he and Gu Chenfeng resolved to force it back into the Scarlet Abyss.
• After resting, Lu Chen received Red-Feather Fire Crow meat and Black-Shelled Water Turtle blood essence from the Martial Temple steward for his Five Saints Life-Exchange Scripture.
• Lu Chen ate the fire crow meat and used Golden Crow Meridian Patrol to refine its essence and guide it into his heart.
• Lu Chen continued feeding on the fire crow meat as crimson markings spread across his heart and his surging blood and qi battered the boundary between the bone-forging and organ-nourishing realms.

Lu Chen broke through to the Organ-Nourishing Realm after cultivating the Five Saints Life-Exchange Scripture, then went with Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng to choose a weapon. He claimed the Ember Sun Blade, whose fire baleful intent responded to his Golden Crow Blood, and left with a warning to cleanse it after major battles.

• Lu Chen completed the Vermilion Bird totem in his heart, entered the Organ-Nourishing Realm, and felt his blood and vitality renew with each heartbeat.
• The next morning, Luo Yun and Gu Chenfeng realized Lu Chen had broken through and took him to the Martial Temple Treasury to find a weapon suited to his fire-aspected blood.
• At the treasury, Lu Chen rejected a Cold Iron Goose-Feather Saber and a Black-Gold Horse-Cleaving Saber before finding the Ember Sun Blade.
• Lu Chen infused the Ember Sun Blade with Golden Crow Blood, subdued its fire baleful intent, and cleanly split a block of darksteel stone with it.
• Lu Chen chose the Ember Sun Blade, and the one-eyed old man warned him to cleanse it with his blood vitality after major battles so its accumulated killing intent would not turn on him.

Zhang Zhen arrived at Scarlet Cloud Mountain with young martial artists from Yun Prefecture after confirming that a force in the Scarlet Abyss was battering the seal. When Xiao Jinghong challenged Lu Chen and was driven back, Zhang Zhen intervened before their fight could escalate.

• Zhang Zhen rode a Dragonblood Steed into the encampment, assessed the Scarlet Tide, and said there was still time to prepare despite a force battering the seal.
• Xiao Jinghong and Bai Xiuwu looked down on the Qu River martial artists, prompting Lu Chen to reveal his powerful Organ-Nourishing Realm blood energy.
• Xiao Jinghong recognized Lu Chen as the fighter who had defeated Xiao Changhe and attacked him with Long River Layered Waves Palm.
• Lu Chen burned away Xiao Jinghong's sevenfold palm force and struck him back more than a hundred feet, leaving the Yun Prefecture group stunned.
• Xiao Jinghong drew his sword and Lu Chen reached for the Ember Sun Blade, but Zhang Zhen appeared and stopped them both.

Zhang Zhen recognized that the Demon Wraiths were carrying out a Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice across Scarlet Cloud Mountain and led the martial artists into the mountains to stop it. Lu Chen saved fleeing martial artists by killing an Organ-Nourishing Realm Ghost General, and the group continued toward the source of the sacrifice.

• Zhang Zhen stopped Xiao Jinghong and Lu Chen’s confrontation and warned the assembled martial artists against fighting among themselves.
• Demon Wraiths emerged throughout Scarlet Cloud Mountain and slaughtered beasts and martial artists, draining their blood essence into underground formation markings.
• Zhang Zhen identified the Myriad Souls Blood Sacrifice and warned that it could revive multiple Ghost Kings, then ordered all able martial artists to attack the Demon Wraiths.
• Zhang Zhen led Luo Yun, Gu Chenfeng, Lu Chen, Xiao Jinghong, Bai Xiuwu, and the other martial artists into Scarlet Cloud Mountain.
• Lu Chen rescued two wounded martial artists and cut down an Organ-Nourishing Realm Ghost General with the Ember Sun Blade.
• A surviving martial artist reported that more Ghost Generals were hunting in the valley and that red light was flowing underground as Zhang Zhen rode farther into the mountain.

Lu Chen and the others fought through Scarlet Cloud Mountain, where killing Demon Wraiths strengthened his Fourfold Demon-Subduing True Force and helped form his Black Tortoise Demon-Sealing Force. In a blood-soaked valley, they confronted a Ghost General empowered by the Blood Sacrifice Formation, but its wounds kept healing as the fight left Lu Chen injured and the group struggling to find a way to stop it.

• Lu Chen slew waves of Demon Wraiths, refined their yin baleful energy, and began forming his Black Tortoise Demon-Sealing Force.
• Lu Chen killed an Organ-Nourishing Realm Blood-Armored Ghost, gaining a large surge of progress in his technique.
• Lu Chen, Bai Xiuwu, Xiao Jinghong, and the others reached a valley where a Ghost General drew blood essence from the Blood Sacrifice Formation.
• The Ghost General struck Lu Chen with a ghostly howl and a powerful blow, but Bai Xiuwu and Xiao Jinghong joined the battle and Xiao Jinghong severed several of its blood vessels.
• Lu Chen used Golden Crow Blood Ignition to tear through the Ghost General's arm and abdomen, but the formation restored its wounds and the Ghost General kicked him away.
• Bai Xiuwu warned that the Ghost General could keep recovering through the formation while their blood and strength would eventually run dry.

Lu Chen asked Bai Xiuwu and Xiao Jinghong to hold off the regenerating Faceless Ghost General while he prepared a decisive slash. After killing the general, Lu Chen refined its yin baleful energy and completed the Fourfold Demon-Subduing Golden Body, leaving Bai Xiuwu stunned by his transformation.

• Lu Chen told Bai Xiuwu and Xiao Jinghong that he could destroy the Faceless Ghost General's yin baleful energy source with one slash if they bought him time.
• Bai Xiuwu and Xiao Jinghong held back the fully healed general, suffering severe injuries as its armor and bone spurs overwhelmed them.
• Lu Chen unleashed Golden Crow Demon-Subduing and cleaved through the general's armor, destroying its yin baleful energy source and burning its body.
• Lu Chen refined the source's remaining essence with the Golden Crow Breathing Technique and completed the Fourfold Demon-Subduing True Force.
• Lu Chen awakened the Fourfold Demon-Subduing Golden Body, and Bai Xiuwu recognized that he had mastered a horizontal-training golden body.

Lu Chen awakened a Fourfold Demon-Subduing Golden Body while fighting ghosts, then led the assault on a Blood Sacrifice Formation altar as the Ghost King began breaking its seal. The group destroyed the altar and sealed the Ghost King beneath the Scarlet Abyss again.

• Bai Xiuwu explained the nine turns of the golden body and recognized that Lu Chen's four powers made it especially effective against ghosts.
• Lu Chen and his companions fought through Scarlet Cloud Mountain and found a Blood Sacrifice Formation altar feeding blood into the Scarlet Abyss, where Zhang Zhen was holding off Demon Wraiths.
• Zhang Zhen warned that the Ghost King was attacking the seal and told Lu Chen's group to destroy the altar while he suppressed it.
• Lu Chen and his companions fought past the Ghost Generals as the Ghost King broke chains and forced its arm through the fissure.
• Lu Chen struck the altar with the Ember Sun Blade, destroying the Blood Sacrifice Formation and allowing the revived seal to drag the Ghost King back into the abyss.