Recaps

Lu Changsheng took Lin Qingzhi and Lian as disciples, trained them, and brought them to Shushan’s disciple assembly while concealing their true strength. The gathering ended with Lin Qingzhi assigned to a mission team with Chen Yao, while Lian remained behind.

• Lu Changsheng recruited Lin Qingzhi at Shushan’s ceremony, discovered his unusual gifts, and began training him with cultivation, techniques, and treasures.
• After learning that Lin Qingzhi would die in a future ambush, Lu Changsheng gave him the Azure Nether Sword and later broke through to the Dao Palace Realm.
• Lu Changsheng joined the Ask Immortal Pavilion expedition, revealed his Dao Palace Realm strength to save Xia Ningxue, and gave her a Nine Nether Soul-Gathering Pill.
• Lu Changsheng found Lian among the survivors of the destroyed branch hall, brought her to Azure Cloud Peak, and began training her in body refinement, martial cultivation, and spear techniques.
• Lu Changsheng’s simulations showed that Lin Qingzhi still faced death in the future, so he trained both disciples and warned Lin Qingzhi to conceal his strength at the gathering.
• At the Shushan disciple assembly, Lin Qingzhi defeated Wu Hao and Lian overwhelmed Yang Ren, drawing attention from the elders and Xia Ningxue.
• Lin Qingzhi fought Chen Yao, nearly revealing his greater strength before Lu Changsheng intervened, and then comforted her after she lost to Xiao Xiangdao.
• Shushan assigned new disciples to teams for missions beyond the sect’s protection, and Chen Yao discovered that Lin Qingzhi was on her team while Lian had to stay behind.

Lu Changsheng rescued Lin Qingzhi’s squad, helped Shushan prevail at the Six Paths Assembly, and brought Mo Huazhi into his sect as a disciple. The arc ended as he began teaching Mo Huazhi and Xia Ningxue arrived outside his room.

• Lu Changye warned Lu Changsheng that he would need to defeat Xia Ningxue at the Six Paths Assembly, while Lin Qingzhi departed on a training journey after receiving his master’s guidance and resources.
• Lin Qingzhi exposed spies among Chu Yu’s Rogue Cultivators, devised an ambush for Sima Kuang, and killed the Golden Core bandit leader with one sword.
• Lian caused havoc across Shushan’s peaks, and Lu Changsheng appeased the elders with tier-five pills before descending the mountain to rescue her fellow disciples from Elder Huanxi.
• Lu Changsheng killed Elder Huanxi, then returned to Shushan with the disciples, where Lin Qingzhi’s victories and cultivation astonished the sect.
• At the Six Paths Assembly, Shushan defeated Crouching Dragon Temple and the Martial Dao Alliance, then Lu Changsheng defeated Xia Ningxue after revealing his Fifth Layer Dao Palace Realm cultivation and stopping her dangerous technique.
• Lu Changsheng met Mo Huazhi in a bamboo grove and persuaded her to become his disciple, then secured her release from Xia Ningxue’s servant contract.
• Lu Changsheng returned to the Shushan contingent with Mo Huazhi and began teaching her to refine Spiritual Qi as Xia Ningxue arrived outside his room.

Lu Changsheng protected his disciples from the Reincarnation Hall and joined Shushan and Great Xia in attacks on its forces. After visiting the Imperial City, he began breaking through to the Dao Palace Realm Eighth Layer.

• Lu Changsheng killed Evil Sword during an ambush, and the Six Great Sect Masters drove away the Reincarnation Hall and Demon Race.
• Lu Changsheng trained Mo Huazhi after returning to Shushan, while simulations showed dangers awaiting her.
• Lian reached the Nascent Soul Realm and became a Shushan elder with Fire Lotus Peak as her cultivation abode.
• Lu Changsheng led a Shushan team to Heyang City, where he killed Xuelian Old Man and ended the Blood Formation.
• Lin Qingzhi and Zhao Wuyan's forces trapped Void Young Master and Hehun Elder, and Lin Qingzhi killed Void Young Master.
• Lu Changsheng joined the assault on the Tianyu Mountain stronghold, revealed his Dao Palace Realm Seventh Layer cultivation, and killed Juejian and White Bone Old Devil.
• Lin Qingzhi reached the Nascent Soul Realm during a Hehuan Sect raid, while Lian advanced to its Second Layer in the Imperial City.
• Lu Changsheng contained the Red Flood Dragon Golden Core after it alarmed the Imperial City, then began breaking through to the Dao Palace Realm Eighth Layer.

Lu Changsheng advanced through the Dao Palace Realm while gathering treasures and preparing for the Divine Wood Immortal Ruins. After the Four Great Demonic Sects ambushed the expedition, he reached the Ninth Layer as Xia Ningxue fell to Liu Yuner’s Yellow Springs Bell.

• Lu Changsheng advanced to the Eighth Layer of the Dao Palace Realm, auctioned medicinal pills in Tianyu City, and bought swords, robes, and Profound Dragon Radiant Ink.
• Lu Changsheng rewarded Lian and Lin Qingzhi with treasures, trained his disciples, and learned from Mo Huazhi’s simulated future that her fate could change.
• Lu Changsheng and the Shushan expedition entered the Divine Wood Immortal Ruins, where Lu Changsheng helped kill a Void Refinement Realm Jiaolong and received its Golden Core.
• Wan Daoyi revealed the Four Great Demonic Sects’ ambush at the ancient tree, and Li Changye triggered his breakthrough tribulation so the others could escape.
• Lu Changsheng reunited with Xia Ningxue’s group, then led them away from Liu Yuner and the Myriad Calamity Giant Serpent so he could refine the Jiaolong Golden Core.
• As the Demon Sects attacked the Shushan and Ask Immortal Pavilion cultivators, Lu Changsheng continued his breakthrough while Xia Ningxue and Murong Shi fought to protect him.
• Lu Changsheng reached the Ninth Layer of the Dao Palace Realm and emerged from his cave to find Xia Ningxue motionless, while Liu Yuner claimed the Yellow Springs Bell had scattered her soul.