Chapter Summaries

Shen Luo searched for Earthcore Fire Lotuses and found Turtle Thousand Years, Dragon Fang, and Qingqing battling three powerful Scarlet Flame Beasts. He helped kill one with the Pure Yang Sword, then moved to aid Turtle Thousand Years as the remaining beasts began to falter.

• Shen Luo fled the Fire Crows and refined the Pure Yang Sword while flying toward the Earthcore Fire Lotus sites.
• Shen Luo searched several locations before finding five Earthcore Fire Lotuses guarded by three Scarlet Flame Beasts and fought over by Turtle Thousand Years, Dragon Fang, and Qingqing.
• Turtle Thousand Years asked Shen Luo to help defeat the beasts, and Shen Luo attacked the one fighting Qingqing with the Pure Yang Sword.
• Qingqing used her water-mirror Magic Treasure to cripple the Scarlet Flame Beast, and Shen Luo cut it apart with sword beams infused with Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Qingqing went to support Dragon Fang, while Shen Luo sent the Pure Yang Sword to aid Turtle Thousand Years.
• The remaining Scarlet Flame Beasts launched desperate counterattacks, but one began to retreat after Qingqing helped Dragon Fang withstand its assault.

Shen Luo and the East Sea demons defeated the Scarlet Flame Beasts, but Turtle Thousand Years broke their agreement to share the Earthcore Fire Lotuses. Shen Luo attacked him, and Dragon Fang intervened, launching a deadly assault on Shen Luo.

• Dragon Fang killed a Scarlet Flame Beast by disrupting its Divine Soul and devouring it with a black dragon head.
• Turtle Thousand Years froze the last Scarlet Flame Beast with the Ice Frost Spell, destroying its body and Divine Soul.
• Dragon Fang gave the five Earthcore Fire Lotuses to Turtle Thousand Years, who refused to share them equally with Shen Luo.
• Turtle Thousand Years insulted Shen Luo and revealed his sensitivity to being called a common rogue, a reminder of his past as the Turtle Ruffian.
• Shen Luo attacked Turtle Thousand Years with the Pure Yang Sword, but Dragon Fang blocked the strike and attacked Shen Luo with his Fang Flying Swords and black dragon head.

Shen Luo killed Dragon Fang and drove off Turtle Thousand Years, then discovered a boulder that might be Dark Netherworld Divine Iron. He left with Turtle Thousand Years’ stolen Earthcore Fire Lotuses and the possibility of finding a rare forging material.

• Shen Luo used the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to destroy Dragon Fang’s Ink-Shadow Dragon Head and killed him with the Pure Yang Sword.
• Turtle Thousand Years fought Shen Luo but was overwhelmed; Shen Luo severed his arm and took his Dragon-Scale Thumb Ring.
• Turtle Thousand Years escaped, while Qingqing fled with Dragon Fang’s corpse, and Shen Luo chose not to pursue them.
• Shen Luo found more than a dozen Earthcore Fire Lotuses and other valuables in Turtle Thousand Years’ ring.
• As Shen Luo prepared to leave, he examined an exposed black boulder and suspected it was Dark Netherworld Divine Iron.

Shen Luo found a huge deposit of Dark Netherworld Divine Iron, then joined the Black Bear Spirit in searching the Zhurong Basin’s core for Lord Fu and the Earthcore Fire Lotuses. Lord Fu led them into a tunnel he and his companions had dug through the ring-shaped mountain range, where they were closing in on the lotuses.

• Shen Luo stored the massive Dark Netherworld Divine Iron boulder in his Free-and-Easy Mirror and flew toward the basin’s central region.
• Shen Luo met the unharmed Black Bear Spirit, and they headed deeper into the basin together.
• The two encountered a towering, flame-covered mountain and retreated when its Earth-Lung Fire Poison harmed them; Shen Luo secretly used the Myriad Poisons Primordial Pearl to recover.
• Shen Luo and the Black Bear Spirit flew along the mountain until Lord Fu contacted them and revealed a cave entrance.
• Lord Fu explained that the Earthcore Fire Lotuses lay inside the ring-shaped mountain range and led them through the tunnel he, Fellow Daoist Hua, and Xiao San had excavated.
• At the tunnel’s deepest point, Xiao San used Lord Fu’s white banner to absorb the flames blocking their way.

Shen Luo and his companions opened a passage into the Ring Mountain Range, where Earthcore Fire Lotuses grew amid a sea of flames and powerful Scarlet Flame Beasts. The Earth-Lung Fire was erupting, and Lord Fu arrived with Turtle Thousand Years, Qingqing, and the resurrected Dragon Fang, stunning Shen Luo.

• Lord Fu explained that more than a hundred Scarlet Flame Beasts guarded the Earthcore Fire Lotuses, including a leader as powerful as a Taiyi expert, and proposed trapping the beasts with a formation while another group gathered the lotuses.
• Shen Luo and the Black Bear Spirit recovered their Magic Power while Hua Shao's Gray Rats excavated a passage through the mountain wall.
• The passage opened onto a blazing fire domain, where Hua Shao warned that an Earth-Lung Fire eruption had strengthened the Scarlet Flame Beasts and might ruin their chances.
• Lord Fu returned with Turtle Thousand Years, Qingqing, and Dragon Fang, whose body had been restored despite Shen Luo having killed him.

Shen Luo and the others agreed to continue into the Ring Mountain Range despite the Earth-Lung Fire eruption, and Lord Fu organized the group’s preparations to seek the Earthcore Fire Lotus. After the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation was completed, Lord Fu led Shen Luo, the Black Bear Spirit, Turtle Thousand Years, and Dragon Fang inside the mountain range to search for the Scarlet Flame Beasts while concealing their auras.

• Shen Luo confirmed that the Dragon Fang before him was genuine, while Dragon Fang and Turtle Thousand Years remained wary of him.
• Lord Fu, Shen Luo, and Turtle Thousand Years agreed to proceed despite the Earth-Lung Fire eruption.
• Hua Shao and Xiao San set up the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation while Shen Luo refined the fire spiritual energy in his Pure Yang Sword.
• Lord Fu assigned Hua Shao, Xiao San, and Qingqing to remain and operate the formation, then led Shen Luo, the Black Bear Spirit, Turtle Thousand Years, and Dragon Fang into the mountain range.
• Lord Fu used his Fire-Avoidance Shield to protect the group from the heat and conceal them as they prepared to approach the Scarlet Flame Beasts’ nest.

Shen Luo and the others discovered a vast field of Earthcore Fire Lotuses guarded by Scarlet Flame Beasts, with a Nine-Petal Fire Lotus hidden inside a mass of golden flames. As they debated how to divide their forces while the Super Crimson Flame Beast remained hidden, Black Bear Spirit volunteered to lure the beasts away alone.

• Lord Fu led Shen Luo and the others to a magma lake where more than a hundred Scarlet Flame Beasts absorbed golden flames beside a sea of Earthcore Fire Lotuses.
• Lord Fu revealed that a Nine-Petal Fire Lotus lay within the enormous pulsating fireball, and Black Bear Spirit explained its rarity and extraordinary medicinal potency.
• Lord Fu introduced his Divine Rat, a spatially gifted creature that had reached the late Out-of-Body stage, then proposed splitting the group between luring beasts away and harvesting lotuses.
• Shen Luo suggested that Black Bear Spirit and Dragon Fang lure away the Scarlet Flame Beasts while he stayed behind, hoping to protect his friend and remove Dragon Fang from the harvesting group.
• After Shen Luo secretly spoke to him, Black Bear Spirit chose to lure the beasts away alone, leaving Shen Luo and the others to remain by the lotuses.

Black Bear Spirit lured away most of the Scarlet Flame Beasts while Shen Luo and the others tried to seize the Earthcore Fire Lotus. A hidden Golden Palace trapped all four of them, and Lord Fu identified it as a spatial Magic Treasure but had not yet found a way out.

• Black Bear Spirit used black lightning to attack the Scarlet Flame Beasts, stole more than a dozen Earthcore Fire Lotus plants, and fled with most of the beasts in pursuit.
• Lord Fu led Shen Luo, Turtle Thousand Years, and Dragon Fang toward the Earthcore Fire Lotus from different directions.
• Turtle Thousand Years' attempt to seize the golden flames triggered a thunderous vibration that exposed the four and disrupted their Magic Power.
• Shen Luo tried to collect the lotuses with the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram, but the flames revealed a Golden Palace that trapped the four in golden light.
• Shen Luo and the others awoke inside a white jade hall, where Lord Fu identified their surroundings as the spatial Magic Treasure Golden Palace.

Shen Luo, Lord Fu, Dragon Fang, and Turtle Thousand Years discovered Nine-Petal Fire Lotuses inside a hidden space and broke through the wall to reach them. Turtle Thousand Years was killed by golden flames, leaving the others wary of entering the cavern.

• Dragon Fang found a wall that concealed a cavern, and Shen Luo used his Netherworld Ghost Eye to reveal more than a dozen Nine-Petal Fire Lotuses growing in magma.
• Shen Luo urged the group to search the hall before attacking the wall, but their search found no exit.
• The four combined their magic treasures to break through the wall’s restriction and open the way into the cavern.
• Turtle Thousand Years rushed in and tried to collect the lotuses, which transformed into golden fire serpents and engulfed him.
• Lord Fu tried to draw away the flames, and Shen Luo used Indigo Sea to chill them, but Turtle Thousand Years burned to ash.
• Shen Luo, Dragon Fang, and Lord Fu stayed outside the cavern, shaken by Turtle Thousand Years’s death.

Shen Luo collected the True Solar Fire from a spatial formation and hurried through the cave passage. He reached a golden hall, where a man in golden robes on a throne greeted him.

• After the golden flames killed Turtle Thousand Years, Shen Luo recognized them as True Solar Fire and followed Dragon Fang into the cave.
• Shen Luo tried to seize the True Solar Fire, but a Spatial Magic Formation fused with the flames resisted him.
• Shen Luo used the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram to break the formation, then collected the True Solar Fire in the Stone Casket.
• Shen Luo searched the solidifying magma for anything unusual and hurried after Lord Fu and Dragon Fang.
• Shen Luo entered a vast golden hall and met a man in golden robes seated on a throne, who remarked that Guangcheng Immortal Estate was lively.

Shen Luo confronted the Super Crimson Flame Beast, who had trapped Lord Fu and Dragon Fang and sealed the hall. As the Beast immobilized Shen Luo’s attacks with the Soul-Seizing Mirror, Shen Luo appeared above it with a golden cannon-like object aimed at the mirror.

• Shen Luo spotted Lord Fu and Dragon Fang imprisoned in fiery cocoons and evaded transparent red threads after Lord Fu warned him.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast sealed the passage, and Shen Luo identified him from the red light on his hands and the clues surrounding their entrapment.
• Shen Luo attacked the cocoons with the Pure Yang Sword and Demon-Slaying Remnant Sword, then used vermilion bird true fire and Nine Serenities Demon Flame to burn through their bindings.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast used the Soul-Seizing Mirror to seal both flames and immobilize Shen Luo’s wind blades and lightning.
• Shen Luo appeared above the Soul-Seizing Mirror holding a golden cannon-like object aimed at it.

Shen Luo used the Divine Artisan Cannon and a Water Soul Art clone to break the Super Crimson Flame Beast’s hold on the Crimson Ancient Mirror and free the Pure Yang Sword and Demon-Slaying Remnant Sword. As the battle continued, Shen Luo wounded the beast with plague poison, but the Super Crimson Flame Beast burned it away and brought the Dark Red Seal down on him again.

• Shen Luo fired the Divine Artisan Cannon, damaging the Crimson Ancient Mirror, while his concealed clone freed the two swords from their red-thread bindings.
• Shen Luo cut open Lord Fu’s cocoon, and Lord Fu’s Eight-Trigram Banner emerged to hold one of the Super Crimson Flame Beast’s bodies at bay.
• Shen Luo fought the other body with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff, but the Super Crimson Flame Beast transformed and struck him with the Dark Red Seal, hurling him into a wall.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast discovered that the Plague Box’s poison had taken effect, then used his crimson flames to burn it away.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast activated the Dark Red Seal again and sent it rumbling down toward Shen Luo.

Shen Luo used the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram to contain the Super Crimson Flame Beast’s giant seal while Lord Fu brought the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation into the hall. The formation trapped the beast, and Shen Luo immobilized it and the seal inside a ring of the diagram, though he had already spent most of his magic power.

• Shen Luo summoned the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram, which resisted the Super Crimson Flame Beast’s descending giant seal and began drawing it into a vortex.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast strengthened the seal, while Lord Fu used the Eight-Trigram Banner to open a spatial passage and bring the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation into the hall with Hua Shao, Qingqing, and Little Third.
• Lord Fu and the others activated the formation, and Hua Shao sent two Soulless Puppets to occupy its empty nodes and stabilize it around the Super Crimson Flame Beast.
• The Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation engulfed the beast in an illusory ocean, while Shen Luo expanded the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram into a ring that trapped the beast and its giant seal in immovable space.
• Shen Luo’s face paled after using the diagram, having expended about sixty percent of his magic power.

Shen Luo learned that Lord Fu and Hua Shao planned to seize the Guangcheng Immortal Estate and eliminate him, so he allied with the Super Crimson Flame Beast to escape their formation. After receiving the beast’s Fire Lotuses and releasing it, Shen Luo was caught in the beast’s attempt to send him away.

• Lord Fu left the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation’s phantom gate and merged into a golden pillar, while Hua Shao replaced him with a puppet.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast warned Shen Luo that Lord Fu intended to control the Guangcheng Immortal Estate’s Restrictions and kill him afterward.
• Shen Luo’s Netherworld Ghost Eye confirmed much of the beast’s account, and the Six Harmonies Heavenly Gate Formation’s Illusion Power then swept over him.
• Shen Luo used the Buzhou Suppression Divine Art and entered the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram, escaping the formation’s effects and confirming Lord Fu’s betrayal.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast gave Shen Luo a ring of Earthcore Fire Lotuses, and Shen Luo released it from the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast struck a golden pillar and enveloped Shen Luo in red light, saying it would send him out.

Shen Luo was trapped in the hall containing the Estate-Quelling Stele, where Lord Fu attacked him with the All-Heaven Mysterious Fire Grand Formation. After Shen Luo vanished beneath its flames, the Super Crimson Flame Beast struck at Lord Fu with the Heaven-Turning Seal.

• Shen Luo appeared in the dark-red hall and asked Lord Fu to send him away, but Lord Fu refused and activated the All-Heaven Mysterious Fire Grand Formation.
• Lord Fu intensified the formation and sent a white fire net crashing down on Shen Luo as Shen Luo attacked with the Pure Yang Sword.
• The fire net opened to reveal no trace of Shen Luo, and Lord Fu resumed refining the Estate-Quelling Stele.
• The Super Crimson Flame Beast, hidden nearby, dropped the Heaven-Turning Seal onto Lord Fu to stop him from claiming the Immortal Estate.
• Lord Fu used his yellow great seal and a barrier of white flames to repel the Heaven-Turning Seal, though both of his defenses were shattered.

Shen Luo hid in the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram and watched Lord Fu battle the Super Crimson Flame Beast over the Guangcheng Immortal Estate. Lord Fu captured the beast and seized the Heaven-Turning Seal, but a hidden attacker struck at his neck with a golden sword.

• Shen Luo replenished his Magic Power with Ten-Thousand-Year Jade Marrow while Lord Fu and the Super Crimson Flame Beast fought to a stalemate.
• Shen Luo used the Heavenly Demon Eye to find a fourth person hiding in a stone pillar, but he kept the discovery to himself.
• Lord Fu gained the upper hand as the Super Crimson Flame Beast's Magic Power waned and the Heaven-Turning Seal shrank.
• Lord Fu trapped the Super Crimson Flame Beast with a Flame Python and a white lotus, then took the Heaven-Turning Seal.
• A golden sword shadow emerged beside Lord Fu and slashed toward his neck.

Shen Luo killed Lord Fu and the Super Crimson Flame Beast, then discovered that the Mirage Monster had been serving as a Heart Demon Puppet. After escaping its illusion, he saw the enemy rapidly refining the Estate-Quelling Stele.

• Shen Luo decapitated Lord Fu, took his treasures, and used the Pure Yang Sword to destroy the Super Crimson Flame Beast and claim its Fire Core.
• Shen Luo exposed and killed the figure hiding inside a dark red pillar, only to discover that it was the Mirage Monster rather than Dragon Fang.
• The Fire Child warned Shen Luo that the Mirage Monster was a Heart Demon Puppet and that its death would not mean the enemy was gone.
• The Mirage Monster's corpse released powerful white mist that trapped Shen Luo in illusions, but he absorbed the mist with the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram and broke free with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff.
• Shen Luo saw a black figure refining the Estate-Quelling Stele and learned that it had already refined one-third of its Restrictions.

Shen Luo defeated the black figure with the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King and learned that the enemy used the Heart Demon Great Art. Fire Spirit Child then warned Shen Luo that Qingqing was a heart demon puppet and urged him to leave immediately.

• Shen Luo trapped the black figure with the Mysterious Yellow Unity Staff while the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King attacked from behind and burned him to ashes.
• Shen Luo learned that Fire Spirit Child was the Netherfire Refining Furnace's remnant-soul artifact spirit and sealed the furnace in the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram.
• Shen Luo collected the Blood-Stained Flying Dagger and asked Fire Spirit Child about the Bewitching-Heart Heavenly Demon and the black figure's Heart Demon Great Art.
• Fire Spirit Child explained that heart demon cultivators could transfer between puppets, and Shen Luo realized Qingqing might be one.
• Fire Spirit Child sensed Qingqing had left with demonic qi surging around her and urgently told Shen Luo to leave.

Shen Luo escaped the collapsing Guangcheng Immortal Estate as Ao Guang appeared and collected the Earthcore Fire Lotuses. A volcanic eruption sent Shen Luo and Ao Guang fleeing, and Ao Guang collapsed after reaching safety.

• Fire Spirit Child warned Shen Luo that the Estate-Quelling Stele was about to destroy the Guangcheng Immortal Estate and sent him a route out.
• Shen Luo fled the collapsing estate, and the escaping Shen Luo, Hua Zhao, and Little Third watched it vanish in a blast of black energy.
• Ao Guang trapped the black energy in seawater, searched the Earthcore Fire Lotuses, and collected them when he failed to find what he sought.
• Hua Zhao escaped with Little Third aboard the Azure Sea Cloud Boat, while Shen Luo stayed behind to approach Ao Guang.
• A volcano erupted beneath the Ring Mountain Range, and Shen Luo and Ao Guang escaped the fire pillar with Shen Luo protected by Indigo Sea.
• Ao Guang coughed violently and fell toward the ground after the eruption left him burned and weakened.

Shen Luo helped Ao Guang recover after the destruction of the Guangcheng Immortal Estate, then earned his favor by giving him a Nine-Petal Fire Lotus. After Ao Guang departed, Shen Luo reunited with Black Bear Spirit and told him what had happened inside the estate.

• Shen Luo used his Indigo Sea cold energy to help Ao Guang recover, and they discovered each other's connection to Ao Hong.
• Shen Luo told Ao Guang a partial account of the Guangcheng Immortal Estate, omitting several sensitive details and his involvement in Lord Fu's death.
• Shen Luo gave Ao Guang a Nine-Petal Fire Lotus, while declining the Dragon Bone Coral Ao Guang offered in return.
• Ao Guang introduced Shen Luo to Jadewater Yaksha and the Dragon Palace soldiers before leaving to handle an urgent matter.
• Black Bear Spirit arrived, and Shen Luo recounted the estate's events to him while keeping the Heaven-Turning Seal, Netherfire Refining Furnace, and Fire Spirit Child secret.