Chapter Summaries

Luo Tian used a system trial card to reach the peak Tribulation Transcendence realm and defeated the Blood Lord with Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm. The Blood Lord was left poisoned and helpless as the battle against the Shadow Pavilion continued.

• The Blood Lord targeted Luo Tian while Bai Tianyu fought Qi Tianlong and the other Shadow Pavilion fighters battled the Ghost King Sect and Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.
• Luo Tian used a Peak Tribulation Transcendence Realm Trial Card and asked Yan Nantian to let him face the Blood Lord.
• The Blood Lord attacked with Blood Fury Strike, but Luo Tian countered with Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm and sent him flying.
• Luo Tian revealed that the palm strike had sent a spreading black line through the Blood Lord's meridians and warned that resisting it would hasten his death.

The Ghost King Sect’s Ancestor Guixuan used Netherworld Transformation to raise his cultivation to the mid Reincarnation realm and injure Tianshan Tonglao. Yan Nantian stepped in, revealed his genuine early Reincarnation realm cultivation, and killed Guixuan with Divine Sword Art.

• Ancestor Guixuan activated Netherworld Transformation, raising his cultivation from the peak Tribulation Transcendence realm to the mid Reincarnation realm.
• Ancestor Guixuan struck Tianshan Tonglao with Netherworld Kill, injuring her and forcing her to retreat.
• Yan Nantian blocked Ancestor Guixuan’s attack on Tianshan Tonglao and ordered her to tend to her injuries.
• Yan Nantian countered Ancestor Guixuan’s Shield of Forest Ghosts with Divine Sword Art and warned that the shield would not withstand another strike.
• Ancestor Guixuan admitted defeat and begged to negotiate, but Yan Nantian struck him down with Divine Sword Strike.

Luo Tian's Shadow Pavilion defeated the Ghost King Sect, the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect, and Blood Slaughter, killing their leaders despite the Blood Lord's surrender. News of the Shadow Pavilion's Reincarnation Realm master reached the eldest prince, who recognized the danger to the imperial family and resolved to inform his father.

• Qi Tianlong fled after Ancestor Guixuan's death, but Yan Nantian caught and killed him with his sword.
• Liu Ran killed himself after lamenting that he had led the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect to ruin.
• Luo Tian ordered the remaining forces killed and rejected the Blood Lord's plea to surrender.
• The Shadow Pavilion's fighters began clearing the battlefield as Fengluo City's witnesses and spies spread news of its power.
• The black market's leader sent a jade talisman reporting the battle to the eldest prince, who decided to inform his father.

After completing an SS-rank mission, Luo Tian collected powerful rewards and used several cards to strengthen himself and the Shadow Pavilion’s summoned experts. He arranged to send three thousand personnel to the capital, then prepared to learn Thunderstorm Fist.

• Luo Tian received mission rewards, combined three Silver Summoning Cards into a Gold Summoning Card, and scheduled the deployment of three thousand personnel to the capital in an hour.
• Luo Tian notified Ding Chunqiu to prepare the capital base for the personnel and the Shadow Pavilion’s official opening, and Ding Chunqiu agreed to make arrangements.
• Luo Tian used a Two-Year Cultivation Advancement Card on himself and advanced from the late yin-yang realm to the early tribulation transcendence realm.
• Luo Tian used Yin-Yang Realm Advancement Cards on the Six Sword Slaves, bringing all of them into the yin-yang realm.
• Luo Tian used Tribulation Crossing Realm Minor Realm Advancement Cards on Tianshan Tonglao and Jing Wuming, raising them to the early reincarnation realm and mid tribulation crossing realm respectively.
• Luo Tian reviewed the Thunderstorm Fist’s effects, recognized that his lightning attribute met its requirements, and decided to handle Shadow Pavilion business before cultivating it.

Luo Tian accepted a quest to wipe out the Ghost King Sect and ordered Yan Nantian to seize its base for the Shadow Pavilion. After learning that the sect alliance’s leaders had been defeated by the Shadow Pavilion, Grand Elder Lin Ye rushed to alert the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect’s ancestor.

• Luo Tian accepted the system’s A-rank quest to eliminate the Ghost King Sect and chose its base as the Shadow Pavilion’s new headquarters.
• Luo Tian ordered Yan Nantian to attack the Ghost King Sect, secure its resources, and have capital intelligence agents and Ding Chunqiu intercept anyone fleeing.
• A Ghost King Sect deacon discovered that the soul jades of the sect’s ancestor, sect master, and elders had shattered, then warned the remaining members and decided to escape.
• Grand Elder Lin Ye learned that the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect’s sect master and several elders had died, then received reports that Luo Tian had defeated the Ghost King Sect’s ancestor and that the Shadow Pavilion’s young master had incapacitated the Blood Lord.
• Lin Ye hurried to the forbidden area, knelt before the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect’s ancestor, and asked him to leave seclusion to protect the sect.

After the Shadow Pavilion wiped out the forces that attacked it, Li Xing and Murong Fu learned that its master was an early Reincarnation Realm expert and considered how to protect their respective powers. They suspected the mysterious pavilion came from beyond the Heavenly Star Dynasty and left the story facing a potential crisis.

• The Grand Elder told Li Xing that the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect master, Liu Ran, had died alongside leaders from the Ghost King Sect and the Blood Kill Organization while attacking the Shadow Pavilion.
• The Grand Elder explained that Sun Qi's murder with Falling Rosy Clouds Sect sword techniques had triggered the Ghost King Sect's investigation and that the Shadow Pavilion had ambushed its Grand Elder.
• Li Xing concluded that someone had tried to provoke a war between the two sects and ordered the Grand Elder to activate the sect-protecting formation while he sought help from the imperial family and Vajra Temple.
• Murong Yi told Murong Fu that the imperial family had commissioned the black market mission against the Ghost King Sect's Grand Elder and suspected the Shadow Pavilion's young master was the vanished disciple Tian Luo.
• Murong Fu connected Tian Luo and the Shadow Pavilion to Fengluo City, then decided to ask his returning second son about the pavilion and consult the imperial ancestor.

After Yan Nantian shattered the Ghost King Sect’s protective formation, the Shadow Pavilion slaughtered its remaining members and claimed the grounds as a temporary headquarters. In Fengluo City, Luo Tian received the mission rewards, tested his Thunderstorm Fist, and heard that the system was upgrading.

• Ding Chunqiu’s assassins killed Ghost King Sect members who tried to flee and sealed the sect’s grounds.
• Yan Nantian arrived with Tianshan Tonglao, Han Tang, Lü Baichuan, and other experts, then shattered the protective formation with a sword strike.
• Yan Nantian ordered the Shadow Pavilion to attack, and its members slaughtered everyone remaining in the Ghost King Sect.
• Yan Nantian ordered his subordinates to bury the bodies, collect the resources, and repair the grounds for use as the Shadow Pavilion’s temporary headquarters.
• Luo Tian received a Bronze Summoning Card and 1,000,000 low-grade spirit stones, then used his Thunderstorm Fist to leave deep imprints in a wall.
• The system announced that it was beginning a version upgrade, and Luo Tian welcomed the news.

After the Shadow Pavilion destroyed the Ghost King Sect, the remaining hall masters of the Blood Kill Organization pledged allegiance and joined its ranks. The Vajra Sect’s abbot, Yuanzhen, learned of the Shadow Pavilion’s rise and chose to wait and see whether it would approach his sect.

• The Blood Kill Organization’s hall masters agreed to seek the Shadow Pavilion’s protection and sent representatives to its capital base.
• Ding Chunqiu consulted Luo Tian, who accepted the Blood Kill Organization and assigned its leaders as Earth-grade assassins while directing its other members and assets into the Shadow Pavilion.
• The Blood Kill Organization’s remaining members handed over their resources and intelligence files and joined the Shadow Pavilion.
• A monk told Yuanzhen that the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Ghost King Sect and absorbed the Blood Kill Organization.
• Yuanzhen told the monk not to interfere for now and to notify him if anyone from the Shadow Pavilion came to the Vajra Sect.

Months after Luo Tian founded the Shadow Pavilion, he learned that the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect and the imperial family might be joining forces and ordered them monitored. The system upgrade gave him new ways to earn and spend fortune points, and he gained the Eye of Detection.

• Luo Tian met with the Shadow Pavilion's senior members and ordered them to monitor the imperial family and the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect after hearing their leaders had met.
• Ding Chunqiu reported that the Treasure Gathering Pavilion was a powerful neutral organization, and Luo Tian ordered intelligence gathering across the Southern Region.
• The system upgrade added fortune-point rewards, an exchange shop, item transfers for summoned characters, and rewards for their breakthroughs.
• Luo Tian examined the exchange shop and learned that the Eye of Detection could reveal a person's origins, disguises, loyalty, and other hidden details.
• Luo Tian used the Eye of Detection on himself and felt a strange current of Qi and electrical sensations in his eyes.

Luo Tian summoned Yuan Tiangang, Fu Hongxue, and Bi Yiren, assigning Yuan to establish a second faction beyond the dynasty while the other two joined the Shadow Pavilion. While dining in disguise at Heavenly Star Restaurant, Luo Tian overheard that second prince Murong Chong had returned after two years with the Blood God Sect.

• Luo Tian used a Character Summoning Card to summon Yuan Tiangang, whose peak Reincarnation Realm cultivation and varied skills impressed him.
• Luo Tian gave Yuan Tiangang ten million high-grade spirit stones and communication talismans, then sent him beyond the dynasty alone to investigate and establish a second faction.
• Luo Tian used his remaining Character Summoning Cards to summon Fu Hongxue and Bi Yiren, then told them to familiarize themselves with the Shadow Pavilion and prepare to help take over the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• Luo Tian went in disguise to the Heavenly Star Restaurant and listened to nearby martial artists while he ate.
• A martial artist revealed that second prince Murong Chong had returned and had once been taken as a disciple by the powerful Blood God Sect.