Chapter Summaries

Red Cloud learned more about Sunfire Lake and visited Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to seek Golden Immortal resources. He found a Golden Immortal-level Sunflame Mystic Stone, but judged it to be low quality and difficult to refine.

• Qing Xuanzi advised Red Cloud to buy a Heavenly Treasure City annual pass and left after they talked.
• Red Cloud suspected Qing Xuanzi had recognized his cultivation and resolved to improve his Sun Concealment technique.
• Red Cloud entered Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, paid ten Flame Yang Stones to access its second floor, and asked about Golden Immortal cultivation techniques and pills.
• Zhang Yuan told Red Cloud that the pavilion’s Golden Immortal techniques were incomplete and that its rarest pill was a costly Six-Turn Golden Core.
• Zhang Yuan showed Red Cloud a consigned Golden Immortal-level Sunflame Mystic Stone, and Red Cloud found it impure and laborious to refine.

Red Cloud sold a Seven-Turn Golden Pill to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion in exchange for a Sunflame Mystic Stone, a detailed map of Sunfire Lake, and information about a hidden Sunlight Divine Water site. After refining the mystic stone with the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune, he planned to visit three safer production sites and avoid the Sunfire Beast's territory.

• Red Cloud offered a Seven-Turn Golden Pill to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, and Daoist Ziyuan appraised its exceptional quality.
• Red Cloud requested a Sunflame Mystic Stone, a detailed Sunfire Lake map, and information about the Great Luo Golden Immortal-level Water Beast.
• Daoist Ziyuan explained that the Sunfire Beast guarded the lake's central sites and traded Red Cloud information about a hidden site instead of fifty thousand Flame Yang Stones.
• Red Cloud rented a cultivation chamber and used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to refine the Sunflame Mystic Stone in ten years.
• Red Cloud studied the map, marked three Sunlight Divine Water production sites to visit, and decided to stay away from the central depths guarded by the Sunfire Beast.

Red Cloud prepared to seek Sunlight Divine Water in Sunfire Lake, which he needed to refine the Great Sun Divine Pill and strengthen his body. After exploring the lake, he fought the Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile and trapped it in a golden hand before setting it ablaze.

• Red Cloud stayed in Heavenly Treasure City for a month, gathering rare materials and Golden Crow Grass before setting out to search for Sunlight Divine Water.
• Red Cloud entered Sunfire Lake and bypassed a group of Golden-Finned Terror Sharks as he recorded information about the lake’s Water Beasts.
• Red Cloud encountered the Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile slaughtering Sunfire Moths, and the beast attacked him with a golden column of water.
• Red Cloud crushed the crocodile’s attack with Mountain-Bearing and evaporated its golden water arrows with the Firecloud Banner.
• Red Cloud used Literary Qi Manifestation to seize the crocodile in a giant golden hand, then engulfed it in fire from the Firecloud Banner.

Red Cloud found a hidden Sunlight Divine Water spring, collected its water and Golden Crow Grass, and failed to establish an artificial production site without the true sun. As he prepared to leave, the Golden Flood Dragon confronted him for taking the water, and Red Cloud challenged its claim to the spring.

• Red Cloud killed a Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile and obtained a high-quality Sunflame Mystic Stone.
• Red Cloud followed Daoist Ziyuan’s coordinates to a hidden gorge in Sunfire Lake and found Sunlight Divine Water growing alongside Golden Crow Grass.
• Red Cloud collected about a hundred portions of Sunlight Divine Water and more than a dozen stalks of Golden Crow Grass, leaving some behind for the small spring to recover.
• Red Cloud transplanted the water and grass into the Hundred Herbs Diagram, but discovered they could not produce more without the true sun.
• Red Cloud sensed a peak Golden Immortal approaching and readied his Firecloud Banner as the Golden Flood Dragon, overlord of Sunfire Lake, accused him of stealing its Sunlight Divine Water.
• Red Cloud rejected the Golden Flood Dragon’s claim that the spring belonged to it.

Red Cloud killed the Golden Flood Dragon, refined three seventh-turn Great Sun Divine Pills, and used the dragon’s and crocodile’s Sunflame Mystic Stones to temper his body. Still at the Late-Stage Golden Immortal bottleneck, he began taking the pills, and the first one loosened it slightly.

• Red Cloud used the Firecloud Banner to kill the Golden Flood Dragon and collected its Sunflame Mystic Stone.
• Red Cloud secluded himself in an underwater cave and began refining the Great Sun Divine Pill with Sunlight Divine Water, Golden Crow Grass, and other spiritual herbs.
• Red Cloud suppressed the furnace’s raging yang fire until it reversed, then refined three seventh-turn Great Sun Divine Pills.
• Red Cloud refined the Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile’s and Golden Flood Dragon’s Sunflame Mystic Stones, but remained a Late-Stage Golden Immortal.
• Red Cloud swallowed a Great Sun Divine Pill, slightly loosening his bottleneck, and continued taking pills.

Red Cloud’s clone broke through to the Early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage, then explored Sunfire Lake’s central region and took a Golden Coral and its fruits. The Golden Coral’s owner, a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Golden Flood Dragon, caught him, and their battle began.

• Red Cloud stabilized his breakthrough to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and headed for the edge of the lake’s central region.
• Red Cloud found a Golden Coral, harvested its twelve fruits, and transplanted the spiritual root into the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
• A Golden Flood Dragon returned to find its Golden Coral stolen and attacked Red Cloud after he revealed himself while dodging its strike.
• Red Cloud used Heavenly Words to bind and strike the Golden Flood Dragon with lightning, but the dragon broke the shackles and endured the attacks.
• Red Cloud summoned the Firecloud Banner and sent a fire dragon at the Golden Flood Dragon, which avoided the attack as it exploded in the lake.

Red Cloud killed the Golden Flood Dragon with the Firecloud Banner, gathered resources at a Sunlight Divine Water production site, and set out for Heavenly Treasure City. Unaware that the Sunfire Beast had ordered a lake-wide beast tide in response to the deaths of two powerful Water Beasts, he headed home as the threat spread toward nearby cities.

• The Golden Flood Dragon attacked Red Cloud for his Innate Spiritual Treasure, but Red Cloud defended himself and used the Four Symbols Seal to clash with the dragon after it raised its cultivation to the Mid Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage.
• Red Cloud killed the Golden Flood Dragon with a sandstorm from the Firecloud Banner, collected its Sunflame Mystic Stone, and left before other experts arrived to investigate.
• Red Cloud found a safe place to assess his pill-refining progress and planned to improve his Seven-Turn Golden Pill success rate before attempting Eighth-Turn pills.
• Red Cloud defeated the guardians at a medium-sized production site and collected Sunlight Divine Water and Golden Crow Grass for future Great Sun Divine Pills.
• Red Cloud headed back toward Heavenly Treasure City, while the enraged Sunfire Beast ordered a beast tide against every city within its reach.

Red Cloud joined Heavenly Treasure City’s battle against a massive beast tide and used the Ice Soul Essence to freeze many Water Beasts. The arrival of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Flameburst Thorn Dragon left the city facing destruction, with Red Cloud standing against it.

• Water Beasts surged from Sunfire Lake and attacked Heavenly Treasure City under a Golden-Scaled Demon Crocodile’s command.
• Heavenly Treasure Old Man activated the Heroes' Assembly Order and offered rewards for slain Water Beasts, prompting Red Cloud and thousands of cultivators to join the fight.
• Red Cloud went to the eastern front and transformed the Ice Soul Essence into a divine bow, freezing the lake and many Water Beasts with an ice arrow.
• The Flameburst Thorn Dragon broke through the ice and emerged from Sunfire Lake as a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Heavenly Treasure City’s cultivators feared the city would fall as Red Cloud faced the Flameburst Thorn Dragon.

Red Cloud drew the Flameburst Thorn Dragon away from Heavenly Treasure City and withstood its Blazing Sun Beam and other attacks using his Literary Dao divine abilities. He bound the beast and began cracking its supposedly ten-thousand-arts-resistant scales.

• Red Cloud seized the Flameburst Thorn Dragon and carried it tens of thousands of li away from Heavenly Treasure City, restoring the city's fighting spirit.
• The Flameburst Thorn Dragon broke free, attacked Red Cloud with its Blazing Sun Beam, and recognized him as the one who had killed the Golden Flood Dragon.
• Red Cloud used Heavenly Flowers Cascading to block the Flameburst Thorn Dragon's beam, which failed to break through his defense.
• The Flameburst Thorn Dragon charged Red Cloud and attacked with seven beams and its claw, but Red Cloud deflected the beams and restrained the claw with Stroke of Divine Inspiration.
• The Flameburst Thorn Dragon unleashed its claws, tail, and beams against Red Cloud, but his heavenly flowers endured its assault.
• Red Cloud identified himself and tightened his heavenly-flower ribbon around the Flameburst Thorn Dragon, twisting its arm and cracking its scales.

Red Cloud helped end the beast tide threatening Heavenly Treasure City, then learned more about Sunfire Lake and the devastation across the region. After gathering supplies and declining offers to become a city elder, he prepared to leave Sunfire Lake for Buzhou Mountain.

• Red Cloud killed the Flameburst Thorn Dragon and collected its Sunflame Mystic Stone before joining the battle near Heavenly Treasure City.
• Red Cloud slaughtered Water Beasts as the battle continued, and the beast tide ended after three and a half months with the beasts retreating.
• Heavenly Treasure Old Man thanked Red Cloud with ten million Flame Yang Stones and one hundred Sunflame Mystic Stones, then told him about Sunfire Lake's balance of power.
• Red Cloud learned that hundreds of cities had fallen and more than ten million cultivators had been killed or injured during the beast tide.
• Red Cloud gathered refining materials and spirit herbs, declined offers from city lords to become a city elder, and decided to leave Sunfire Lake for Buzhou Mountain.
• Qing Xuanzi visited Red Cloud on the night before his departure and brought him news.

Qing Xuanzi warned Red Cloud that his journey southeast would bring a tribulation, then Red Cloud left Sunfire Lake. After hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation, Red Cloud became a Daluo Golden Immortal and sensed that the Three Clans were nearing their final battle.

• Qing Xuanzi revealed that he belonged to the Wood Mystic Tortoise Clan and had foreseen a tribulation on Red Cloud's journey southeast.
• Red Cloud and Qing Xuanzi drank and talked through the night before Red Cloud departed Sunfire Lake, leaving him a Seven-Turn Rejuvenation Pill.
• Several hundred thousand years later, Red Cloud gathered his Literary Dao insights and transformed his True Spirit into Innate Imperishable Spiritual Light.
• Red Cloud broke through to Daluo Golden Immortal, with his Literary Dao comprehension surpassing sixty percent.
• Red Cloud sensed killing intent beyond his formation and wondered whether the Three Clans were about to fight their final battle.

After breaking through to Daluo Golden Immortal, Red Cloud formed three incarnations to pursue the Daos of formations, alchemy, and artifacts while he continued building his foundations. An incarnation discovered and comprehended an innate fire formation, then entered it and found a crimson, dragon-scaled spiritual root.

• Red Cloud sensed the powerful Daluo Golden Immortals watching the Primordial World and chose to avoid the Dragon-Han Calamity, saving his efforts for the next calamity.
• Red Cloud named his three Primordial Unity Golden Immortal incarnations Water Cloud Daoist, Fire Cloud Daoist, and Wind Cloud Daoist, assigning them the Daos of formations, alchemy, and artifacts.
• Red Cloud reflected that the Daos of alchemy, artifacts, and formations could lead to becoming their respective Ancestors, and saw an opportunity for his incarnations to surpass the Three Pure Ones.
• An incarnation called on Red Cloud for help after discovering signs of an innate formation near a volcano, and Red Cloud used the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune to assist its investigation.
• The incarnation found and comprehended the Innate Bing-Fire Formation in a valley halfway up the volcano, then entered it and discovered a crimson spiritual root with dragon-scale-like bark.

Red Cloud discovered the Parasol Tree and Essence of Bing Fire inside the Innate Bing-Fire Formation, then began transplanting the tree. Its aura leaked as the formation destabilized, drawing avian experts and stirring the Three Clans toward the Dragon-Han Calamity.

• Red Cloud identified the Parasol Tree as a prized Innate Spiritual Root whose seeds could strengthen cultivation and raise avian fertility, and feared it could trigger conflict among the Three Clans.
• Red Cloud found the Essence of Bing Fire at the tree’s roots and placed it in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, enabling the Golden Crow Grass to produce Sunlight Divine Water.
• Red Cloud collected the Parasol Tree’s three thousand seeds and spent over a thousand years studying how to transplant it with minimal damage, gaining the tree’s cooperation.
• Red Cloud began transplanting the Parasol Tree, but the formation destabilized and the tree’s aura and treasure light escaped.
• Countless avian creatures and experts sensed the Parasol Tree, prompting movement among the Dragon Clan and Qilin Clan as Luohou, Hong Jun, Yang Mei, and Patriarch Yin-Yang watched the calamity unfold.

After transplanting the Candlefire Parasol Tree into the Hundred Herbs Diagram, Red Cloud fled underground as the tree’s exposed aura drew Phoenix Clan pursuers. The Golden-Winged Great Peng attacked from above, and a fire phoenix appeared ahead, trapping Red Cloud between them.

• The Innate Bing-Fire Formation collapsed as Red Cloud finished transplanting the Candlefire Parasol Tree into the Hundred Herbs Diagram, which began advancing toward a high-grade acquired spirit treasure.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng sensed the parasol tree’s aura and dove toward the volcanic crater while Red Cloud escaped southeast using Earth Escape Technique.
• Red Cloud checked that the parasol tree had taken root in the diagram, then continued fleeing as the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s attack tore open the ground beside him.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng demanded that Red Cloud hand over the parasol tree, but Red Cloud ignored it and kept moving.
• A fire phoenix appeared ahead of Red Cloud, its aura responding to the parasol tree.

Red Cloud fought Fire Phoenix and the Golden-Winged Great Peng after they demanded the Parasol Tree, but Fire Phoenix's pressure suppressed his escape. Red Cloud chose to attack the weaker Golden-Winged Great Peng, who answered with Instant Feather Kill.

• Fire Phoenix appeared and attacked Red Cloud with Phoenix Truefire, forcing him to surface and face him alongside the Golden-Winged Great Peng.
• Red Cloud invoked the Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune and drew the Ice Soul Sword, then used Heaven and Earth Righteous Energy to withstand Fire Phoenix's flames.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng attacked from behind, but Red Cloud escaped with Firecloud Escape.
• Fire Phoenix spread his wings and used his pressure to suppress Red Cloud's movement and escape technique.
• Red Cloud decided to target the less powerful Golden-Winged Great Peng and charged at him.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng met Red Cloud's charge and unleashed Instant Feather Kill, sending countless golden feathers toward him.

Red Cloud used the Ice Soul Divine Thunder to slow the Golden-Winged Great Peng and nearly killed him, but Fire Phoenix intervened, forcing Red Cloud to flee. Red Cloud escaped into the dangerous Azure Parasol Mountain Range, where Fire Phoenix organized a search while Red Cloud hid in a sealed cave to recover.

• Red Cloud hurled the Ice Soul Divine Thunder at the Golden-Winged Great Peng, freezing the area and slowing him, then nearly pierced his chest with the Ice Soul Sword before Fire Phoenix blocked the strike with Phoenix Truefire.
• Red Cloud abandoned the fight and fled southeast as Fire Phoenix and the Golden-Winged Great Peng pursued him.
• Red Cloud sensed powerful experts approaching, changed course for the Azure Parasol Mountain Range, and entered its fog-shrouded terrain before the Golden-Winged Great Peng could catch him.
• Fire Phoenix summoned three avian reinforcements and ordered them to seal off three sides of the mountain range while he and the Golden-Winged Great Peng searched from the west.
• Red Cloud traveled deep into the mountain range, hid in a cave, concealed his aura, sealed the entrance with formations, and swallowed pills to restore his mana.

Red Cloud hid in the Azure Parasol Mountain Range and prepared to survive until the Parasol Tree finished merging with the Hundred Herbs Diagram. Fire Phoenix and the other avian experts found his cave and began breaking through its defenses as Red Cloud prepared to fight back.

• Red Cloud realized the Hundred Herbs Diagram would conceal the Parasol Tree's aura once their fusion was complete, but he needed to hold out for three days, so he layered defenses around his cave and refined Ice Soul Divine Thunder.
• After two days of searching, Fire Phoenix decided to burn the Azure Parasol Mountain Range to flush Red Cloud out, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng and three other avian experts joined him.
• Red Cloud stayed hidden and continued refining Ice Soul Divine Thunder as the flames reached his cave, bringing his total supply to eight hundred.
• Fire Phoenix detected Red Cloud's formations and attacked them, breaking through the outer defenses before becoming trapped briefly in an ice sword formation.
• Red Cloud swallowed an Explosive Origin Pill to raise his mana cultivation to the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and prepared to face the attackers.

Hong Yun swallowed the Explosive Origin Pill and fought through the Phoenix Clan’s pursuit to escape deeper into the Azure Parasol Mountain Range. He reached a nameless mountain, only to be confronted by a Great Luo Golden Immortal Immortal Crane, which questioned him about the Parasol Tree.

• Hong Yun used the Explosive Origin Pill to raise his cultivation to Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and broke out of his cave.
• Hong Yun repelled the Golden-Winged Great Peng and used an Ice Soul Divine Thunder to break through the Phoenix Clan’s fiery blockade.
• Hong Yun dodged Fire Phoenix’s attacks with another Ice Soul Divine Thunder and fled into the depths of the Azure Parasol Mountain Range.
• Fire Phoenix ordered the avian creatures to pursue Hong Yun, and they triggered dangerous formations as they followed him.
• Hong Yun sensed a pull toward a nameless mountain, followed it through the formation traps, and encountered a snow-white Immortal Crane who revealed itself as a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• The Immortal Crane asked whether Hong Yun had stolen the Parasol Tree, and Hong Yun denied taking it from the Phoenix Clan.

Red Cloud escaped the Immortal Crane by entering Cangwu Ancestor's Ruins, where the Immortal Crane sealed off the mountain and waited outside. Injured and cut off from the Heavenly Dao, Red Cloud healed inside the ruins as the Parasol Tree fused with the Hundred Herbs Diagram, and he considered searching the mountaintop for a way out.

• The Immortal Crane's Annihilation Divine Light overwhelmed Red Cloud's Ice Soul Divine Thunders and blocked his escape, so the Parasol Tree lent him power through the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
• Red Cloud used the opening to flee into Cangwu Ancestor's Ruins, and the Immortal Crane sealed the barren mountain while waiting for him to emerge.
• Red Cloud discovered that the ruins cut off the Heavenly Dao and began healing his severe injuries near the stairs.
• The Parasol Tree fused with the Hundred Herbs Diagram, raising its grade and concealing the Parasol Tree's aura.
• Red Cloud realized the Immortal Crane still guarded the exit and looked toward the mountaintop for a possible solution.

Red Cloud climbed the trial stairs, recovering from his injuries and advancing his cultivation as he explored the palaces along the way. At the summit of Azure Parasol Mountain, he discovered a formation that showed him the Azure Parasol Mountain Range and brought him face to face with a mysterious figure across time and space.

• Red Cloud climbed the stairs, where green steps healed his injuries and golden steps led to palaces.
• Red Cloud cultivated on a meditation cushion, healed completely, and advanced his Primordial Spirit to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Red Cloud found Eighth-Turn Body Tempering Pills in another palace and raised his physical cultivation to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Red Cloud continued climbing and reached the mountaintop with his body, Primordial Spirit, and dharma power at the late stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Red Cloud entered Azure Parasol Palace and discovered that its stellar pearls formed a mysterious formation.
• Red Cloud saw the Azure Parasol Mountain Range through the formation, where a figure looked at him and asked what year and month it was on his side.