Recaps

Lu Changsheng defended the Xiao Household, settled there to study the Immortal Realm and guide Xiao Fan, and received enough Human Race Supreme Treasure Fragments to combine into a treasure. Meanwhile, Tang Wansan began his tribulation to ascend, leaving Lu Changsheng wondering whether he would reunite with Xia Ningxue in the vast Immortal Realm.

• The Chen and Zhao Household heads tried to drive the Xiao Household out of Chongwu City, but Lu Changsheng revealed his Earth Immortal Realm cultivation and forced them to withdraw after granting the Xiao Household a share of the city's business.
• Xiao Tianyun learned that Xiao Fan had reached the Dao Palace Realm Fifth Layer and that Lu Changsheng considered him a genius; Lu Changsheng then stayed with the Xiao Household and studied its records about the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng taught Xiao Fan the Advanced Alchemy Art and received the Immortal Stage Alchemy Art in return; over thirty years, Xiao Fan advanced to the Void Refinement Realm and passed the Threefold Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xiao Fan's breakthrough gave Lu Changsheng a twelfth Human Race Supreme Treasure Fragment, allowing him to combine his fragments into a Human Race Supreme Treasure.
• Tang Wansan began his Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation to ascend, while Chen Xiaoyao and Tang Ling'er saw him off and planned to ascend in the future.

Lu Changsheng synthesized the Middle-Grade Supreme Treasure Immortal-Slaying Sword, then traveled with Xiao Fan and advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm Second Layer. After the system identified Ning Qianqian, a Dragon Clan genius with Dragon Emperor Bloodline, Lu Changsheng tried to recruit her with rare treasures.

• Lu Changsheng synthesized the Immortal-Slaying Sword, tested its power, and decided to leave the Xiao Household with Xiao Fan.
• Lu Changsheng and Xiao Fan traveled for eighty years as Lu Changsheng gave him treasures and performed Transmission Empowerment, raising Xiao Fan to the Eighth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• Lu Changsheng secluded himself in a remote mountain range and broke through to the Earth Immortal Realm Second Layer.
• Ning Qianqian attacked Lu Changsheng to steal his Demon Dragon Golden Pill, and the system identified her as a Dragon Clan member with Dragon Emperor Bloodline.
• Lu Changsheng offered Ning Qianqian a Demon Dragon Golden Pill and then hundred-thousand-year ginseng to recruit her, but she resisted becoming his disciple.

Lu Changsheng drove off a Divine Sky Sect team seeking Ning Qianqian, then took her and Xiao Fan toward the chaotic Azure Domain. As he strengthened his disciples through Transmission Empowerment and gifts, he gathered resources for rebuilding Mount Shu and entered a city to shop in its black market, unaware that the Divine Sky Sect suspected he belonged to the Ling Tian Sect.

• The Divine Sky Sect elder demanded that Lu Changsheng surrender Ning Qianqian, but Lu Changsheng revealed the Immortal-Slaying Sword and forced the group to withdraw.
• Lu Changsheng erased their trail and led Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian toward the Azure Domain, where the Divine Sky Sect had less reach.
• Ning Qianqian accepted Lu Changsheng as her master, and his Transmission Empowerment of her returned 150,000 days of cultivation, advancing him to the second layer of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng rewarded Ning Qianqian with heavenly materials and treasures, receiving improved versions in return, including a Peach of Immortality and a Demon Phoenix Immortal Pill.
• Several Divine Sky Sect elders joined forces and mistakenly suspected Lu Changsheng belonged to the Ling Tian Sect, while he entered the Azure Domain with his disciples.
• Lu Changsheng concealed his cultivation and brought Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian to a city controlled by the Profound Fiend Sect to shop for supplies in its black market.

Lu Changsheng sold treasures in a black market, then killed the Profound Fiend Sect’s master and took over its headquarters to establish Immortal Realm Mount Shu. He recruited the sect’s remaining members under strict rules and began rebuilding Mount Shu with Ning Qianqian and Xiao Fan as his personal disciples.

• Lu Changsheng sold an Upper-Grade Immortal Sword and eleventh-grade Medicinal Pills, then spent his Immortal Stones on low-grade treasures and materials.
• The Profound Fiend Sect’s master and elders ambushed Lu Changsheng, but he revealed his Earth Immortal Realm cultivation and used the Immortal-Slaying Sword and Demon God Bell to destroy them.
• Lu Changsheng went to the Profound Fiend Sect’s headquarters on Heavenly Mystery Mountain and forced its members to disband, then renamed the sect Mount Shu.
• The Profound Fiend Sect’s Grand Supreme Elder and several hundred disciples asked to join Mount Shu, while most of the former sect members left rather than accept Lu Changsheng’s rules.
• Lu Changsheng established Mount Shu’s ranks, made the Grand Supreme Elder an ordinary elder, and named Ning Qianqian and Xiao Fan as personal disciples.

Lu Changsheng founded Mount Shu in the Immortal Realm, recruited thousands of disciples, and began building the sect while cultivating in seclusion. Meanwhile, forces in the Azure Domain took notice of Mount Shu, the Divine Sky Sect sent elders to search for Lu Changsheng and Ning Qianqian, and Xia Ningxue began her ascension tribulation in the mortal realm.

• Lu Changsheng ordered Luo Cheng to recruit disciples and held Mount Shu’s first Apprentice-Selection Ceremony, where more than four thousand candidates joined after the Heart-Revealing Mirror assessed them.
• Lu Changsheng assigned peaks and cultivation resources to Mount Shu’s new disciples, gave Luo Cheng the Taiqing Wuji Art, and secluded himself to cultivate.
• A disciple told a Grand Supreme Elder of Jinglong Immortal Temple about Mount Shu, and the woman ordered a discreet investigation after recognizing the name from her distant past.
• The Divine Sky Sect Sect Master divined that Lu Changsheng and Ning Qianqian were in the Azure Domain, then sent Elder Xu and other elders to find them and bring back the Dragon Emperor descendant.
• After three hundred years of cultivation, Xia Ningxue reached the Peak of the Dao Integration Realm, said farewell to Su Qian’er and the others, and began facing the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation with the Slaying Immortal Sword.

After sensing Xia Ningxue’s ascension, Lu Changsheng continued raising his disciples and strengthening Mount Shu. When the Yellow Springs Sect demanded tribute and threatened his sect, he paid the envoys, then pursued and killed them in secret, leaving Mount Shu unaware of the danger that might follow.

• Lu Changsheng sensed that Xia Ningxue had ascended to the Immortal Realm and continued cultivating and teaching Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian.
• Lu Changsheng gave Xiao Fan the Mysterious Fire True Dragon Technique, and Elder Luo warned him that the Yellow Springs Sect demanded 500,000 Immortal Stones from Mount Shu.
• Lu Changsheng rescued a Mount Shu disciple from the Yellow Springs Sect envoys, confronted them, and handed over the demanded tribute after they threatened his sect.
• Lu Changsheng secretly followed the envoys after they left Mount Shu, sealed the surrounding space with the Demon God Bell, and killed them with the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Lu Changsheng took the envoys’ treasures, erased all traces of their deaths, and returned to Mount Shu, telling Elder Luo that the matter was settled.

Lu Changsheng and Mount Shu faced an overwhelming assault from the Divine Sky Sect, which had come to seize Ning Qianqian for her Dragon Emperor bloodline. Shangguan Zhao'er of Jinglong Immortal Temple intervened, and Lu Changsheng recognized her name as that of a figure from 40,000 or 50,000 years earlier.

• Yellow Springs Sect experts investigated the deaths of two Elders but found no clues, while Lu Changsheng gave Ning Qianqian Immortal Stones to buy cultivation treasures.
• A Divine Sky Sect scout spotted Ning Qianqian at Mount Shu's Black Market and alerted the sect that the Dragon Emperor descendant was there.
• Five Divine Sky Sect Earth Immortal Elders attacked Heavenly Mystery Mountain, demanded Ning Qianqian, and imprisoned the surrounding space as Elder Luo and the Mount Shu Disciples tried to defend their sect.
• Lu Changsheng fought the Ninth Layer Earth Immortal Elder with his Immortal-Slaying Sword but struggled against the realm gap, while Ning Qianqian injured another Elder with her Dragon Emperor strength.
• Shangguan Zhao'er appeared, stopped the battle, and identified herself as the Grand Supreme Elder of Jinglong Immortal Temple.
• Lu Changsheng recognized Shangguan Zhao'er's name as the name of the Master of Crouching Dragon Temple from 40,000 or 50,000 years earlier.

Shangguan Zhao'er saved Lu Changsheng from the Divine Sky Sect, recognized him as a fellow ascendant from Mount Shu, and made Mount Shu a vassal of Jinglong Immortal Temple. After giving Lu Changsheng a rare treasure, she warned him that a powerful enemy had arranged an ancient plot against him; meanwhile, the Yellow Springs Sect master decided to exploit Lu Changsheng’s connection to Shangguan Zhao'er to target her.

• Shangguan Zhao'er drove off the Divine Sky Sect elders and confirmed that Lu Changsheng was Mount Shu’s twenty-eighth sect master, while he learned she had ascended from Crouching Dragon Temple.
• Shangguan Zhao'er offered to protect Mount Shu as a vassal of Jinglong Immortal Temple, then discussed the Demon-Summoning Formation and the possible mastermind behind the attempt on Lu Changsheng’s life.
• Shangguan Zhao'er gave Lu Changsheng thirteenth-grade Ice Lotus Immortal Dew and told her disciple that his future was impossible to divine, though he might become a Great Luo Golden Immortal or enter the Heavenly Court.
• After Shangguan Zhao'er left, Elder Luo explained her reputation and power to Lu Changsheng, who decided to keep cultivating while searching for Xia Ningxue and the Demon-Summoning Ancestor.
• The Yellow Springs Sect elders blamed Mount Shu for the deaths of two elders and connected Lu Changsheng to Shangguan Zhao'er, prompting the Yellow Springs Sect master to scheme against her.

Lu Changsheng used the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator to discover that a demon attack on Tianyang City was a trap aimed at Shangguan Zhao'er, likely arranged by the Yellow Springs Sect. He warned Shangguan Zhao'er at Jinglong Immortal Temple, and they planned to ask her master and protectors to counter the scheme; Protector Han grew furious when he learned Lu Changsheng had been allowed to stay at Plum Blossom Temple.

• Lu Changsheng sent Ning Qianqian to deal with a demon near Tianyang City, but simulations showed that she and Lu Changsheng would be captured or killed, even with Shangguan Zhao'er’s help.
• Lu Changsheng concluded the trap targeted Shangguan Zhao'er and suspected the Yellow Springs Sect, so he traveled to Jinglong Immortal Temple to warn her.
• At the mountain gate, Lu Changsheng noticed an elder secretly sent a disciple to report his arrival to Protector Han as well as to Shangguan Zhao'er.
• Shangguan Zhao'er agreed that the Yellow Springs Sect meant to lure her into danger and proposed asking her master and several protectors to help turn the scheme against them.
• Shangguan Zhao'er explained that Protector Han had been monitoring her, then let Lu Changsheng stay at Plum Blossom Temple while she spoke with her master.
• Protector Han learned Lu Changsheng had been allowed into Plum Blossom Temple and ordered a disciple to investigate him.

Lu Changsheng rewarded Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian with treasures and cultivation, then traveled with them to Tianyang City to deal with a demon. After Yan Zhiqiu burned the apparent Tree Demon to ashes, Lu Changsheng revealed that it was only an Avatar and that its Earth Immortal Realm True Body remained underground, where it attacked the gathered cultivators.

• Shangguan Zhao'er told Lu Changsheng that the Jinglong Immortal Temple would help expose the Yellow Springs Sect, and Lu Changsheng escaped an Elder sent to track him.
• Lu Changsheng rewarded Xiao Fan with the Soul-Suppressing Precious Light Mirror and gained the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror, new cultivation methods, and a large amount of cultivation in return.
• Lu Changsheng rewarded Ning Qianqian with treasures and arranged for her and Xiao Fan to accompany him to Tianyang City to eliminate a demon.
• Yan Zhiqiu claimed to be a disciple of Kunlun Immortal Mountain and used a Twelfth-Rank Talisman to burn the Tree Demon outside Tianyang City.
• Lu Changsheng warned that the Tree Demon was not dead, and its underground True Body emerged, crushing a Rogue Cultivator and extracting his soul.

The Li Mountain Old Demon’s attack on Tianyang City was revealed as a trap to lure Shangguan Zhao'er, and the Yellow Springs Sect launched an assault on her. Jinglong Immortal Temple’s master arrived and began a battle against the Yellow Springs Sect, while Lu Changsheng helped protect Shangguan Zhao'er with the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror.

• The Li Mountain Old Demon trapped the Rogue Cultivators of Tianyang City, but Lu Changsheng and Yan Zhiqiu damaged it with their Law Treasures.
• Shangguan Zhao'er arrived and severely injured the Li Mountain Old Demon, then the Yellow Springs Sect Master and his experts appeared and revealed their trap.
• The master of Jinglong Immortal Temple arrived and used the Thousand Dragon Killing Formation, while Shangguan Zhao'er sent Lu Changsheng, Ning Qianqian, Xiao Fan, Yan Zhiqiu, and the other Rogue Cultivators out of the formation.
• The battle between Jinglong Immortal Temple and the Yellow Springs Sect erupted, and Lu Changsheng used the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror to injure an elder attempting to possess Shangguan Zhao'er.
• Lu Changsheng stayed behind Jinglong Immortal Temple’s fighters and used the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror to ambush the Yellow Springs Sect’s Grand Supreme Elders.

Lu Changsheng became the Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master's personal disciple and moved to Jinglong Mountain, where he cultivated under the protection of powerful allies. Three hundred years later, he had reached the fifth layer of the Earth Immortal Realm, while Ning Qianqian was poised to attempt her breakthrough.

• Lu Changsheng attacked the Yellow Springs Sect during its battle with the Jinglong Immortal Temple, and the Temple Master struck down a Heavenly Immortal Realm elder as the Yellow Springs Sect fled.
• The Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master accepted Lu Changsheng as her personal disciple despite Protector Han's objections, and Lu Changsheng brought Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian to Jinglong Mountain.
• Protector Han plotted to kill Lu Changsheng because he coveted Shangguan Zhao'er, but he found no chance to act while Lu Changsheng cultivated cautiously on Jinglong Mountain.
• Over three hundred years, Lu Changsheng advanced from the fourth to the fifth layer of the Earth Immortal Realm and refined his Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow Sword Art with Shangguan Zhao'er's guidance.
• Xiao Fan noticed Ning Qianqian's Qi growing chaotic as she approached a breakthrough from the ninth layer of the Dao Integration Realm into the Earth Immortal Realm.

Ning Qianqian survived the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation and reached the Earth Immortal Realm, earning Lu Changsheng a Dragon Clan Supreme Treasure through the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator. The Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master began teaching Lu Changsheng Heaven and Earth Manifestation, while Protector Han plotted to have him crippled during the upcoming internal competition.

• Ning Qianqian endured the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation in her Dragon Emperor True Form and advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm, prompting the simulator to reward Lu Changsheng with the Ten Thousand Dragons Armor.
• Lu Changsheng gave Ning Qianqian a Nine-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality and received a Thirty-Thousand-Year Peach of Immortality in return, then shared another peach with Shangguan Zhao'er.
• A Jinglong Immortal Temple disciple summoned Lu Changsheng to the Dragon-Suppressing Temple, while another reported his summons to Protector Han.
• Protector Han agreed to give his disciple a Supreme Treasure and stronger Cultivation Method so the disciple could cripple or kill Lu Changsheng during the internal competition.
• The Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master explained Heaven and Earth Manifestation to Lu Changsheng and taught him the first stage's Mnemonic, then offered to find a Grand Supreme Elder to demonstrate it.

Lu Changsheng mastered the first two stages of Heaven and Earth Manifestation far faster than Elder Chu expected, then broke through to the Earth Immortal Realm Sixth Layer and prepared to learn the Third Stage. When he told Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master that he had already mastered the Second Stage, she was stunned.

• Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master assigned Elder Chu to teach Lu Changsheng Heaven and Earth Manifestation, and Elder Chu demonstrated its First Stage.
• Lu Changsheng sensed Sword Dao Comprehension returned through the Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Art and wondered whether Xia Ningxue was practicing swordsmanship.
• After fifty years of cultivation, Lu Changsheng mastered the First Stage, shocking Elder Chu, who then taught him the Second Stage.
• Lu Changsheng mastered the Second Stage after another three hundred years, and Elder Chu sent him to the Temple Master because he could not teach the Third Stage.
• Lu Changsheng broke through to the Earth Immortal Realm Sixth Layer, empowered Xiao Fan with cultivation, and gave him an Ascension Pill before going to the Dragon-Suppressing Temple.
• Lu Changsheng told Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master that he had mastered the Second Stage, leaving her stunned.

Lu Changsheng mastered Ten Thousand Streams Returning to the Sea while preparing for Jinglong Immortal Temple’s competition, then bestowed the Demon God Bell on Ning Qianqian and received a Demon Race Sacred Artifact Fragment in return. At the competition, Shangguan Zhao'er warned him that Han Jie might have Sun Peng attack him, just as the Earth Immortal Group’s contest was about to begin.

• The Jinglong Immortal Temple's Temple Master taught Lu Changsheng the third layer of Heaven and Earth Manifestation and Ten Thousand Streams Returning to the Sea, and told him the top four in each competition group could cultivate with Jade Dragon Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Changsheng reached great perfection in Ten Thousand Streams Returning to the Sea after two hundred and fifty years of practice and prepared to compete in the Earth Immortal Group.
• Lu Changsheng bestowed the Demon God Bell on Ning Qianqian, who claimed it as her Law Treasure, and received a Demon Race Sacred Artifact Fragment from the system.
• Lu Changsheng brought Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian to the competition gathering, where Han Jie openly watched Shangguan Zhao'er and the Four Great Protectors sat above the temple's other members.
• Shangguan Zhao'er warned Lu Changsheng that Han Jie might have his disciple Sun Peng, an Earth Immortal Realm expert, attack him, and advised him to forfeit if they faced each other.

Lu Changsheng entered Jinglong Immortal Temple’s Earth Immortal contest and faced Sun Peng, Protector Han’s powerful eldest disciple, in the first round. Sun Peng revealed the Fire Qilin Sword, but Lu Changsheng remained eager to fight as the duel began.

• Protector Han gave Sun Peng the Fire Qilin Sword and ordered him to cripple Lu Changsheng.
• Xiao Fan won the Dao Integration group contest and earned three hundred years of Jade Dragon Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Changsheng chose to enter the Earth Immortal contest despite Shangguan Zhao'er urging him to withdraw, then drew Sun Peng in the first match.
• Lu Changsheng and Sun Peng brought out their Middle-Grade Supreme Treasures, the Immortal-Slaying Sword and the Fire Qilin Sword.
• Shangguan Zhao'er warned Lu Changsheng that Sun Peng's sword could match his, but Lu Changsheng said the fight had become interesting.

Lu Changsheng defeated Sun Peng despite their three-realm gap, revealing formidable treasures and a combination of Saint-tier methods before Protector Han intervened. Lu Changsheng went on to win the Earth Immortal Group and earn a thousand years of Jade Dragon Spiritual Qi, while Shangguan Zhao'er resolved to fight hard in the upcoming Heavenly Immortal Group contests.

• Sun Peng attacked Lu Changsheng with the Fire Qilin Sword, but Lu Changsheng used Ten Thousand Streams Returning to the Sea and his treasures to withstand its flames.
• Lu Changsheng combined Heaven and Earth Manifestation with the Three Thousand Gods and Devils Visualization Method, overwhelmed Sun Peng, and drove him underground with a sea of sword energy.
• Protector Han stopped Lu Changsheng with his taiji diagram, but Chu Bukang ruled that Sun Peng had lost after his interference; Protector Han retrieved his unconscious disciple and threatened Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng ignored Protector Han's threat, and the other Great Protectors mocked Han Jie while praising Lu Changsheng's talent.
• Lu Changsheng defeated his remaining opponents and took first place in the Earth Immortal Group, earning a thousand years of Jade Dragon Spiritual Qi; Xiao Fan earned three hundred years.
• Shangguan Zhao'er, encouraged by Lu Changsheng's success, resolved to do her best in the upcoming Heavenly Immortal Group contests.

After more than a thousand years leading Mount Shu, Lin Qingzhi prepared to ascend, named Lu Qinglian the next Sect Master, and left to face his tribulation. In the Immortal Realm, Lu Changsheng helped Xiao Fan break through to the Earth Immortal Realm, then realized Lin Qingzhi had ascended.

• Lin Qingzhi reunited with Mount Shu’s elders and disciples, who gathered to see him off as he prepared to ascend.
• Lu Qinglian returned from the Eastern Sea with the horn of a great-completion Dao Integration Realm Jiaolong and asked Lin Qingzhi to pass her greetings to Lu Changsheng.
• Lin Qingzhi appointed Lu Qinglian the thirtieth Sect Master of Mount Shu, and Taiyuan True Person confirmed the decision.
• Lin Qingzhi said goodbye to Chen Yao, summoned the Azure Emperor Divine Radiance Sword, and went to a deserted wasteland to undergo his tribulation.
• Lu Changsheng shared Jade Dragon Spiritual Qi with his disciples, and Xiao Fan prepared to undergo the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation with an Ascension Pill.
• As Xiao Fan’s tribulation began, Lu Changsheng realized that Lin Qingzhi had ascended.

Lu Changsheng welcomed Lin Qingzhi and Xiao Fan’s ascensions, synthesized and refined the Top-Grade Supreme Treasure Immortal-Tr slaying Sword, and continued strengthening himself and Xiao Fan. When a Sacred Artifact began emerging from the Nine Nether Lands, Jinglong Immortal Temple’s Temple Master summoned her people to seek it, while Protector Han planned to use the expedition to kill Lu Changsheng.

• Lin Qingzhi and Xiao Fan advanced from the Dao Integration Realm to the Earth Immortal Realm, earning Lu Changsheng Supreme Treasure Fragments from the system.
• Lu Changsheng bestowed the Heavenfire Divine Spear on Xiao Fan, collected two hundred Human Race Supreme Treasure Fragments, and synthesized the Top-Grade Supreme Treasure Immortal-Tr slaying Sword, which he refined over a month.
• Lu Changsheng broke through to the Earth Immortal Realm Seventh Layer and taught Xiao Fan cultivation methods that returned several Saint-tier methods.
• Protector Han learned that a Sacred Artifact was emerging from the Nine Nether Lands and plotted with Sun Peng to kill Lu Changsheng during the expedition or after the Temple Master and Shangguan Zhao'er left Jinglong Mountain.
• Jinglong Immortal Temple’s Temple Master summoned the protectors and elders to compete for the Sacred Artifact, and Lu Changsheng agreed to accompany her despite the danger.

Lu Changsheng used the simulator to learn that Protector Han would ambush him in the Nine Nether Lands, then traveled there with Jinglong Immortal Temple’s party. At the entrance, rival sects gathered to seek the Sacred Artifact, and Xiao Fan unexpectedly reunited with Murong Lan.

• Lu Changsheng simulated Xiao Fan’s life and discovered that Protector Han would ambush them, so he resolved to stay cautious and eventually take revenge.
• Lu Changsheng traveled with Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian to the Nine Nether Lands, where Jinglong Immortal Temple’s group encountered the Nine-Spirit King and his demons.
• The Nine-Spirit King tried to take Ning Qianqian, but Qingyue Immortal Maiden stopped him and warned him to leave her disciple’s disciple alone.
• The Divine Sky Sect arrived, and its Sect Master attacked Lu Changsheng with Divine Sense before Qingyue Immortal Maiden intercepted him.
• Xiao Fan recognized Murong Lan among the Divine Sky Sect’s cultivators and realized he no longer felt inferior to her.

The Sacred Artifact emerged in the Nine Nether Lands, prompting the major sects to compete while the Yellow Springs Sect and Divine Sky Sect attacked Jinglong Immortal Temple and targeted its members. Lu Changsheng escaped with Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian, spent three years cultivating in the forbidden land, and then encountered Shangguan Zhao'er fleeing three Yellow Springs Sect elders.

• The major sects entered the Nine Nether Lands, where Qingyue Immortal Maiden led Jinglong Immortal Temple through its dangerous outer region as a violet flame announced the Sacred Artifact's emergence.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden and the Divine Sky Sect Master entered the flame to claim the Sacred Artifact, while the Divine Sky Sect elders prepared to seize Ning Qianqian and the Yellow Springs Sect attacked Jinglong Immortal Temple.
• Lu Changsheng used a Ninth-Rank Near at Hand, Far Away Talisman to escape with Xiao Fan and Ning Qianqian, then fled through the Nine Nether Lands and entered spatial turbulence with a Twelfth-Rank Turbulent Flow Talisman.
• Lu Changsheng and his disciples stayed in the Nine Nether Lands and cultivated for three years; he soothed Ning Qianqian with a Peach of Immortality and transmitted cultivation to her.
• Shangguan Zhao'er arrived while fleeing three Yellow Springs Sect Grand Supreme Elders, and Lu Changsheng drew the Immortal-Tr slaying Sword after using simulations to anticipate what would happen.

Lu Changsheng rescued the poisoned Shangguan Zhao'er by killing one of the Yellow Springs Sect's Grand Supreme Elders with the Immortal-Tr slaying Sword. The remaining two enemies still faced them, and the arrival of Protector Han and Sun Peng made their situation even more dangerous.

• Shangguan Zhao'er wounded the three Yellow Springs Sect Grand Supreme Elders with her poetry, but their combined attacks overwhelmed her, and a poisoned Mysterious Corpse Divine Needle struck her.
• Lu Changsheng told his companions to protect themselves, then swallowed a Thirteenth-Rank Immortal Pill and used the Immortal-Tr slaying Sword to kill the needle's wielder.
• Lu Changsheng destroyed the Grand Supreme Elder's escaping soul with the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror, shocking the two surviving elders and Shangguan Zhao'er.
• Lu Changsheng realized Shangguan Zhao'er was poisoned and the two remaining elders knew about his Top-Grade Supreme Treasure, leaving him unsure whether they could win together.
• Protector Han and Sun Peng arrived; Lu Changsheng recognized Protector Han as a Peak Heavenly Immortal whose strength surpassed Shangguan Zhao'er's.

Lu Changsheng used a Fourteenth-Grade Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Toad to cure Shangguan Zhao'er of High Antiquity corpse poison while they hid in the Nine Nether Lands. Protector Han tracked them down and trapped them near the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Abyss, leaving them facing a powerful enemy with nowhere to flee.

• Lu Changsheng led Shangguan Zhao'er, Xiao Fan, and Ning Qianqian into the depths of the Nine Nether Lands with a Turbulent Flow Talisman, while Ning Qianqian briefly delayed Protector Han with the Demon God Bell.
• Lu Changsheng tried several returned pills to cure Shangguan Zhao'er, but none could overcome the High Antiquity corpse poison.
• Lu Changsheng used his final teaching opportunity to obtain a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ice Toad, which absorbed the poison and restored Shangguan Zhao'er's vitality.
• Lu Changsheng sensed Protector Han approaching and learned from Shangguan Zhao'er that the pursuer's aristocratic clan background gave him many powerful Law Treasures.
• Protector Han appeared near the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Abyss and used Spatial Imprisonment to trap Lu Changsheng's group.

Lu Changsheng and his companions were rescued from Protector Han by Qingxia Immortal Maiden, a Half-Step Great Luo Golden Immortal from Ask Immortal Pavilion who revealed her connection to Tai Xu True Person. As they used Lu Changsheng’s simulations to plan their escape from the Nine Nether Lands, a second Sacred Artifact emerged from the abyss.

• Protector Han sealed the area and attacked Lu Changsheng’s group with the Fire Qilin Sword, but a distant icy sword strike forced him to flee with Sun Peng.
• Lu Changsheng tracked down the sword wielder and recognized that she practiced the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art; after he mentioned Mount Shu and Ask Immortal Pavilion, she recalled her painful past and identified herself as Qingxia Immortal Maiden.
• Lu Changsheng told Qingxia Immortal Maiden that Tai Xu True Person had survived and ascended to the Immortal Realm, bringing her joy, and she explained that the Divine Sky Sect had likely obtained the first Sacred Artifact.
• Lu Changsheng used the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator to identify a safe route through the Nine Nether Lands, and the group prepared to travel two thousand li in that direction.
• A brilliant golden light surged from the abyss, and Qingxia Immortal Maiden suspected that a second Sacred Artifact had appeared.

Lu Changsheng and his companions escaped the depths of Nine Serenities after a damaged bronze cauldron containing the Spacetime Principle chose him as its master, though he could neither refine nor control it. After their return, Qingxia Immortal Maiden and Shangguan Zhao'er were astonished to learn Lu Changsheng had ascended from the mortal world only a little over a thousand years earlier.

• A damaged ancient bronze cauldron carrying the Spacetime Principle emerged from the abyss, resisted Qingxia Immortal Maiden's attempt to claim it, and flew into Lu Changsheng's body.
• Lu Changsheng found the cauldron inert in his Inner World and could neither refine it nor make it leave, so he continued searching for an exit with Shangguan Zhao'er and Qingxia Immortal Maiden.
• Protector Han returned to Jinglong Immortal Temple and falsely told Qingyue Immortal Maiden that Lu Changsheng and Shangguan Zhao'er had fled into the depths of Nine Serenities after being separated in a battle.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden could not locate her disciples and resolved to enter Nine Serenities to search for them if they had not escaped within eight hundred years.
• Ninety-nine years after entering the depths, Lu Changsheng, Shangguan Zhao'er, Qingxia Immortal Maiden, and his two disciples emerged safely from Nine Serenities.
• Qingxia Immortal Maiden and Shangguan Zhao'er were stunned when Lu Changsheng said he had ascended from the mortal world a little over a thousand years earlier.