Chapter Summaries

Lu Yang gave Jiang Shiqing and Qin Nanyue powerful communication and protection treasures, then presented Qin Nanyue with a Heaven Grade Supreme Quality sword cultivation method. Qin Nanyue was overwhelmed by his generosity and decided she would do whatever it took to make him happy.

• Lu Yang agreed to meet Liu Yaoyao outside the forbidden grounds after breakfast, while Jiang Shiqing sent her a voice transmission.
• Lu Yang gave Jiang Shiqing a Sound Transmission Jade Token and a Spiritual Connection Ring, then accompanied her to visit Qin Nanyue and Lin Ying.
• Lu Yang gave Qin Nanyue a Sound Transmission Jade Token and a Spiritual Connection Ring that could protect her and allow him to teleport to her.
• Lu Yang presented Qin Nanyue with the Heaven Grade Supreme Quality Heavenly Trace Sword Canon and promised to teach her from it.
• Qin Nanyue was stunned by the gift and resolved to make Lu Yang happy, even considering involving Lin Ying when she came out of seclusion.

Lu Yang accepted Liu Yaoyao as his new personal maidservant after she chose to leave her inner-disciple post, and her affection for him rose to 81. He brought her into the forbidden area to begin her new life alongside Jiang Shiqing.

• Qin Nanyue accepted Lu Yang’s Heaven Grade Supreme Quality sword cultivation method and hurried back to her cave abode to cultivate.
• Lu Yang and Jiang Shiqing jogged down the mountain, where they met Liu Yaoyao waiting outside the forbidden area.
• Liu Yaoyao was startled by Lu Yang’s extraordinary appearance but composed herself and expressed her wish to become his personal maidservant.
• Lu Yang asked whether Liu Yaoyao had considered leaving her life as an inner disciple, and she firmly confirmed her choice.
• Lu Yang saw Liu Yaoyao’s affection had risen from 68 to 81, accepted her, and led her into the forbidden area.
• Jiang Shiqing welcomed Liu Yaoyao and told her through voice transmission that they would be good sisters under one quilt for life.

Liu Yaoyao entered the forbidden area with Lu Yang and learned that its mist-covered inner region was the true forbidden area. There, they met Su Jinxuan, Baili Qiushui, and Baili Qiushui’s shy disciple Baili Mingyue, whose unexpected fascination with Lu Yang left her master mortified.

• Liu Yaoyao entered the sect’s forbidden area with Lu Yang and Jiang Shiqing, and Jiang Shiqing explained that the distant mist marked the real forbidden area.
• Su Jinxuan and Baili Qiushui arrived with Baili Mingyue, and Jiang Shiqing told Liu Yaoyao that the two elders were Nascent Soul Realm True Lords.
• Baili Qiushui urged Baili Mingyue to show Lu Yang respect, so Baili Mingyue reluctantly raised her head and saw him for the first time.
• Lu Yang’s system identified Baili Mingyue as an 11-point beauty as she stared at him, blushed, and forgot to speak.
• Baili Qiushui realized Baili Mingyue was captivated by Lu Yang and panicked when her disciple audibly swallowed.

Lu Yang agreed to let Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue study the formation patterns on his Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot, and offered to show them more formations later. As they exchanged sound transmission imprints, Su Jinxuan warned Lu Yang not to bully the two women, while he anticipated the rewards for adding them as friends.

• Baili Mingyue recovered from staring at Lu Yang and became mortified, but Lu Yang reassured her that he did not mind.
• Su Jinxuan explained that Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue were inspecting the terrain for the Golden Rainbow Sword Sect's forbidden-grounds formation.
• Baili Qiushui asked Lu Yang to let her and Baili Mingyue study the formation patterns on his Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot, and he readily agreed.
• Lu Yang offered to show Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue other formations after they studied the chariot, and proposed exchanging sound transmission imprints.
• Su Jinxuan privately warned Lu Yang not to bully Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue, while Lu Yang invited her to live on his mountain peak.
• Lu Yang took out his Sound Transmission Jade Token to exchange imprints with Baili Qiushui and Baili Mingyue.

Lu Yang gave Su Jinxuan a supreme-grade Sound Transmission Jade Token and insisted she accept a Spiritual Connection Ring that could protect her and teleport him to her side. Su Jinxuan fled in embarrassment, while Lu Yang saw that her affection had risen to 79.

• Baili Qiushui exchanged sound transmission imprints with Lu Yang for herself and Baili Mingyue.
• Lu Yang gave Su Jinxuan a Sound Transmission Jade Token made from supreme-grade Divine Soul Jade and explained its long range.
• Su Jinxuan resisted taking the Spiritual Connection Ring, worried that its ability to summon Lu Yang would put him in danger.
• Lu Yang took Su Jinxuan's hand and slipped the ring onto her finger, insisting that it would protect her.
• Su Jinxuan flew away in embarrassment, and Baili Qiushui followed with Baili Mingyue.
• Lu Yang checked his panel and saw that Su Jinxuan's affection had risen to 79.

Lu Yang brought Jiang Shiqing and Liu Yaoyao to his peak in the core forbidden area, where Liu Yaoyao learned that he had raised the Spiritual Qi concentration. In his cultivation chamber, Lu Yang checked the system and found Baili Qiushui's favorability was 56 and Baili Mingyue's was 89, leaving him baffled by Mingyue's unusually high score.

• Lu Yang led Jiang Shiqing and Liu Yaoyao through the spiritual mist to his mountain peak, and Jiang Shiqing told Liu Yaoyao that Lu Yang had increased the area's Spiritual Qi concentration.
• Liu Yaoyao became excited about serving Lu Yang, while Jiang Shiqing explained his preferences and habits, including the possibility of serving him in bed.
• Lu Yang returned to his cultivation chamber and checked the system panel, finding Baili Qiushui's favorability at 56 and Baili Mingyue's at 89.
• Lu Yang suspected that Baili Qiushui's favorability had risen because he let her study the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot's formation patterns, but he could not explain Baili Mingyue's score despite barely interacting with her.

Lu Yang claimed rewards for Baili Mingyue, Baili Qiushui, and Liu Yaoyao, gaining two sword-formation Fortune Traits and several treasures. After spending more than ten days cultivating the Golden Radiance Sword Canon, he was visited by Qi Yunshu, who was shocked to find Liu Yaoyao at Lu Yang’s cave abode.

• Lu Yang claimed Baili Mingyue’s rewards, including the Sword Patterns Connected to the Heart Fortune Trait and two formation treasures intended for her.
• Lu Yang received the spirit-grade Myriad Forms Transform into Swords Fortune Trait after adding Baili Qiushui’s contact information.
• Lu Yang claimed Liu Yaoyao’s favorability reward, including a defensive treasure to pair with the Heart-Bewitching Bell, and decided to give both to her.
• Lu Yang began studying the Golden Radiance Sword Canon with Dao Comprehension Tea and Cultivation Method Experience.
• More than ten days later, Qi Yunshu arrived at Lu Yang’s cave abode and was astonished to find Liu Yaoyao there.

Qi Yunshu reported that the sects across the Eastern Domain were ready to launch a coordinated attack on the Blood Devil Hall, and Lu Yang prepared to join the operation against its leader. After warning Qi Yunshu about the Hall’s hidden strength and revealing that its origins involved other planes, Lu Yang set out to gather Jiang Shiqing and contact Senior Sister Mu and Nanyue.

• Qi Yunshu learned that Liu Yaoyao had become Lu Yang’s personal maid and grew more cordial toward her, then noticed the profound sword patterns in Lu Yang’s Golden Radiance Sword Canon.
• Qi Yunshu told Lu Yang that the major sects were ready to attack the Blood Devil Hall’s Nascent Soul experts, and Lu Yang arranged to coordinate through Su Jinxuan.
• Lu Yang warned Qi Yunshu that the four vice hall masters might have hidden trump cards and urged the sects to send several Nascent Soul cultivators against each one.
• Liu Yaoyao asked Lu Yang about the Blood Devil Hall, and he explained that its backing involved other planes whose inhabitants probably could not enter the Canglan Realm directly.
• Lu Yang told Liu Yaoyao to fetch Jiang Shiqing, then took out his Sound Transmission Jade Token to contact Senior Sister Mu and Nanyue.

Lu Yang and Qin Nanyue, Jiang Shiqing, and Liu Yaoyao left the sect aboard the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot, with Lu Qingtong joining them after protecting disciples in the Golden Sun Mountain Range. They headed for Yellow Province to kill Zhou Mu, who secretly led the Blood Devil Hall while posing as the trusted Profound Earth Mountain elder Qingxuan.

• Mu Yunxue stayed in the sect to cultivate, while Lin Ying remained in seclusion at a critical stage of her breakthrough and sword-canon comprehension.
• Lu Qingtong agreed to join Lu Yang's group after ruling the Golden Sun Mountain Range and secretly protecting sect disciples from a Demon Beast.
• Lu Yang, Qin Nanyue, Jiang Shiqing, and Liu Yaoyao boarded the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot and explored its spacious inner world, including its spirit fields and pool.
• Qin Nanyue and Jiang Shiqing agreed to bathe with Lu Yang later, and Lu Yang dismissed the bodyguard puppets before the chariot departed.
• Lu Yang's group flew toward Yellow Province, where Zhou Mu used the identity of Qingxuan, a trusted Golden Core elder of Profound Earth Mountain, while secretly leading the Blood Devil Hall.

Inside the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot's small world, Lu Yang accepted Liu Yaoyao's confession and promised to spend time alone with her the next day. After giving her the Phoenix Dao cultivation method, he went to meet Jiang Shiqing and Qin Nanyue at the spirit spring.

• Liu Yaoyao told Lu Yang she wanted to be his, and he kissed her before promising to spend time alone with her tomorrow.
• Lu Yang teased Liu Yaoyao about their upcoming first night together, then gave her the Hidden Return Dragon and Phoenix Secret Canon to cultivate.
• Liu Yaoyao left to cultivate, delighted that Lu Yang had acknowledged her as someone akin to a dao companion.
• Lu Yang contacted Jiang Shiqing and Qin Nanyue, confirmed they were ready, and headed to the spirit spring.

Lu Yang’s cultivation advanced rapidly after he practiced the Hidden Return Dragon and Phoenix Secret Canon with Jiang Shiqing and Qin Nanyue. After waking, Qin Nanyue struggled with her memories of the night and decided to focus on sword cultivation.

• Lu Yang found Jiang Shiqing and Qin Nanyue together by the spirit spring, and the three later practiced the Hidden Return Dragon and Phoenix Secret Canon.
• Lu Yang woke the next morning and realized that one night of dual cultivation had greatly boosted his cultivation and Jiang Shiqing’s.
• Lu Yang spoke with Liu Yaoyao over breakfast and offered to explain what she did not understand about the cultivation method.
• Qin Nanyue woke at noon, remembered the previous night, and blamed Jiang Shiqing for encouraging Lu Yang’s requests.
• Qin Nanyue left the bed to cultivate the Heavenly Trace Sword Canon and reaffirmed that she was a sword cultivator, not a cultivator of the Dao of Joyous Union.

Lu Yang and his companions arrived at Profound Earth Mountain after preparing to confront Zhou Mu of the Blood Devil Hall. The sect’s Nascent Soul True Lords came out to meet their imposing chariot, and Yang Qiu respectfully asked who had come and why.

• Liu Yaoyao learned the basics of the Hidden Return Dragon and Phoenix Secret Canon, then dual cultivated with Lu Yang and experienced its powerful effects.
• Lu Yang, Liu Yaoyao, Jiang Shiqing, and Qin Nanyue traveled through Yellow Province aboard the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot, while local cultivators wondered why nine Nascent Soul True Lords were heading toward Profound Earth Mountain.
• Lu Yang contacted Su Jinxuan, who said her group needed two shichen to finish their preparations to deal with Zhou Mu; after she later confirmed they were ready, Lu Yang told them to begin.
• The Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot stopped outside Profound Earth Mountain, whose sect activated its defensive formation and sent out more than ten Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Yang Qiu, a Nascent Soul Perfection elder of Profound Earth Mountain, bowed to the chariot and asked the visitor’s name and purpose.

Lu Yang and his powerful companions arrived at Profound Earth Mountain, alarming its elders before explaining that they wanted to see Li Fangfang. When Li Fangfang—living under that alias as Zhou Mu—was summoned, he grew uneasy and wondered whether his hidden identity had been discovered.

• Lu Yang's group emerged from the Nine Splendors Cloud Chariot, and Profound Earth Mountain's elders counted their many Nascent Soul Realm guards and feared their strength.
• Yang Qiu cautiously asked who led the visitors, and Lu Yang said he had come to see True Person Qingxuan, Li Fangfang.
• Profound Earth Mountain's elders relaxed when they recognized Li Fangfang's name and arranged for him to come meet the visitors.
• At his stone hall, Zhou Mu reassured his two disciples that the visitors were unlikely to be enemies, while privately examining their extraordinary flying Law Treasure.
• Yang Qiu sent a message summoning Li Fangfang, and Zhou Mu's smile faltered as he wondered whether the visitors had come for him and sensed something was wrong.

Zhou Mu went to meet Lu Yang and the Profound Earth Mountain elders while concealing his identity as Li Fangfang, but Lu Yang identified him as the Blood Devil Hall’s master. Zhou Mu denied the accusation, and the elders defended him, suspecting Lu Yang of seeking an excuse to cause trouble.

• Zhou Mu left his two disciples and flew out of Profound Earth Mountain’s formation to meet the visiting elders and Lu Yang.
• Seeing Lu Yang, Zhou Mu felt an intense desire to consume him but restrained himself after sensing the danger posed by Lu Yang’s companions.
• Yang Qiu asked whether Zhou Mu knew Lu Yang, and Zhou Mu claimed they had never met.
• Lu Yang named him Hall Master Zhou Mu of the Blood Devil Hall and asked him to reveal his true appearance.
• Zhou Mu denied knowing the Blood Devil Hall, while Yang Qiu and the other elders insisted Li Fangfang was an honorable Profound Earth Mountain elder and offered to help find Zhou Mu.

Lu Yang ordered Wang Da to attack Zhou Mu at Profound Earth Mountain, and Wang Da’s overwhelming Fire Dao technique forced the sect’s elders to defend themselves. As the Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Seal battered their defenses, Zhou Mu suspected Lu Yang’s group came from the Spirit Realm and resolved to seek help from the Blood Devil Race.

• Lu Yang said Zhou Mu’s identity could be tested by seeing what he was capable of and ordered Wang Da to kill him.
• Wang Da summoned the Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Seal, whose immense pressure alarmed Profound Earth Mountain’s cultivators.
• Yang Qiu ordered Wang Xi to activate the sect-protecting formation while the other grand elders joined him in blocking the attack.
• The seal shattered the elders’ layers of Earth Dao barriers, and Zhou Mu feared that Profound Earth Mountain could not withstand Lu Yang’s faction.
• Zhou Mu wondered if Lu Yang’s group came from the Spirit Realm, then decided to contact the Blood Devil Race for rescue.

Zhou Mu recalled how he obtained the blood-colored crystal, cultivated the Blood Devil Great Art, and secretly built the Blood Devil Hall while planning to consume the Canglan Realm. After his identity was exposed during the battle at Profound Earth Mountain, the Blood Devil on the other side of the crystal promised to intervene if Zhou Mu faced danger, leaving Zhou Mu confident as he watched the fight.

• Zhou Mu remembered finding the blood-colored crystal in Blood Devil Hall ruins and learning the Blood Devil Great Art from the Blood Devil Race.
• Zhou Mu secretly cultivated the Blood Devil Great Art, founded the Blood Devil Hall, and planned to devour the Canglan Realm once his forces grew strong enough.
• Zhou Mu contacted the Blood Devil through the crystal and reported that powerful Nascent Soul True Lords had discovered his identity.
• The Blood Devil questioned whether the attackers came from the Spirit Realm and promised to help Zhou Mu if he could not withstand the danger.
• Zhou Mu withdrew his Divine Sense and watched as Profound Earth Mountain's Nascent Soul True Lords held back the Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Seal.

Lu Yang’s Nascent Soul followers overwhelmed Profound Earth Mountain’s elders, trapping them outside the sect-protecting formation as their attacks fell on Zhou Mu. Zhou Mu summoned the Blood Devil in his crystal, but the Blood Devil consumed his soul and took over his body, revealing Spirit Transformation Realm power.

• Lu Yang ordered Wang Da, Wang Er, Wang Shiyi, Wang Shiqi, Wang Shiliu, and Wang Shiba to attack Profound Earth Mountain.
• Yang Qiu and the other grand elders tried to retreat behind the fully powered sect-protecting formation as the six Nascent Soul cultivators unleashed more Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Seals.
• Wang Shiba used an Earth Dao Law Technique to hold the elders back, and the three seals shattered their defenses while bearing down on Zhou Mu.
• Zhou Mu activated the blood-colored crystal in his Sea of Consciousness and called on its Blood Devil master to save him.
• The Blood Devil revealed that the Blood Devil Great Art had been designed to make vessels for descent, then consumed Zhou Mu’s soul and took control of his body.
• Yang Qiu and the other elders felt the transformed Zhou Mu’s terrifying pressure and recognized that he had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Zhou Mu revealed the Blood Devil expert’s Spirit Transformation strength, but Lu Yang used Power of Money to reach Spirit Transformation Perfection. His breakthrough brought spiritual rain across the desert, leaving his cultivation at the Canglan Realm’s limit.

• Zhou Mu swallowed Yang Qiu and the elders’ three Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Seals with a blood-red vortex, and Yang Qiu prepared a jade talisman to hold him off.
• Yang Qiu urged Lu Yang and his companions to retreat into Profound Earth Mountain’s formation, but Lu Yang calmly refused.
• The Blood Devil expert recognized something unusual about Lu Yang’s life and fortune and declared that eating him would increase his strength.
• Lu Yang burned his Mid-Grade Spirit Stones with Power of Money, advancing through Golden Core and Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation Perfection.
• Lu Yang stopped advancing when he sensed the Canglan Realm could not contain greater power, and five-colored clouds formed as spiritual rain fell over the desert.

Lu Yang revealed Spirit Transformation Perfection and killed the Blood Devil Race expert with a single attack, stunning Profound Earth Mountain’s elders. As Yang Qiu thanked him, the Spiritual Connection Ring’s teleportation effect activated and began pulling him away.

• Lu Yang’s manifested Principles of the Great Dao and Spirit Transformation Perfection cultivation shocked Qin Nanyue, Liu Yaoyao, Jiang Shiqing, Yang Qiu, and the other grand elders.
• The Blood Devil Race expert tried to flee in blood mist, but Lu Yang’s sword marks trapped him and his Sword Qi destroyed him.
• Yang Qiu and the grand elders thanked Lu Yang for saving Profound Earth Mountain, and Lu Yang said he had already planned to deal with Zhou Mu.
• Lu Yang sensed a distant summoning force and realized the Spiritual Connection Ring’s teleportation effect had activated.

Lu Yang left the Profound Earth Mountain group to handle urgent business, while Jiang Shiqing, Qin Nanyue, and Liu Yaoyao accepted the sect elders’ invitation to receive repayment on his behalf. At White Ridge Lake Market, nine Nascent Soul cultivators cornered Hua Yin, but her blood mist suddenly turned against her and rushed into her body.

• Lu Yang told Jiang Shiqing and the other two women to return to the sect, then vanished through the Spiritual Connection Ring’s teleportation.
• Yang Qiu invited the three women to Profound Earth Mountain to accept gifts in repayment for Lu Yang’s help, and they agreed to seek Cultivation Methods for him.
• The nine Nascent Soul True Lords attacked Hua Yin at White Ridge Lake Market, where she had hidden for over twenty years.
• Hua Yin struggled against the prepared attackers, including a formation cultivator who had sealed off her escape.
• Hua Yin’s blood mist abruptly slipped out of her control and poured into her body.