Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the body of Shushan elder Lu Changsheng, Lu Changsheng discovered an Apprentice-Teaching Simulator and attended Shushan’s apprentice recruitment ceremony to seek disciples. He arrived at the Main Hall, met Senior Brother Li Changye, and the scene ended as the sect leader appeared.

• A Shushan disciple summoned Lu Changsheng to attend the once-every-ten-years apprentice recruitment ceremony, and Lu Changsheng learned that his predecessor had died from Qi Deviation while attempting a breakthrough.
• The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator activated and showed that Lu Changsheng had no apprentices; he learned that taking talented disciples could earn him cultivation rewards.
• Lu Changsheng left his cave abode for the first time in a hundred years and flew to Shushan’s Main Hall, where thousands of candidates had gathered.
• Lu Changsheng met Eldest Senior Brother Li Changye, who recognized his progress toward the Dao Palace Realm.
• Lu Changsheng told Li Changye that he hoped to find one or two disciples, and Li Changye announced that the sect leader had arrived.

Taiyuan True Person ended his seclusion and began Shushan’s Apprentice-Selection Ceremony, where Lu Changsheng used his simulator to inspect candidates’ hidden gifts. As Xiao Xiangdao’s Spirit Sword Body drew the elders’ attention, Lu Changsheng noticed an unassuming youth with the rare innate gift Childlike Heart.

• Taiyuan True Person returned to Shushan, heard Li Changye’s report, and ordered the Apprentice-Selection Ceremony to begin.
• The Guts-Illuminating Mirror tested candidates, while Lu Changsheng used his simulator to inspect their talents and spotted Li Gang’s Heavenly Sha Lone Star fate.
• Xiao Xiangdao revealed a Spirit Sword Body, and Taiyuan True Person assigned Li Changye to take him as an apprentice before entering seclusion.
• Lu Changsheng’s simulator identified a plain, unassuming youth in the crowd with the innate gift Childlike Heart.

Lu Changsheng took Lin Qingzhi, Xiao Xiangdao’s ordinary-looking attendant, as his disciple after the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator revealed his rare Childlike Heart. The disciple-taking ceremony continued, and Lu Changsheng discovered Lin Qingzhi also possessed an Innate Spirit Vein and Wood Spirit Root.

• Li Changye offered to take Xiao Xiangdao as his disciple, and Xiao Xiangdao eagerly accepted.
• Lu Changsheng stopped the Liang Kingdom party and offered to take Lin Qingzhi as his disciple, persuading the bewildered youth to agree.
• Taiyuan True Person used the Guts-Illuminating Mirror, which showed Lin Qingzhi had low aptitude and no special physique, leaving the Shushan elders stunned.
• Lu Changsheng defended his choice by saying character mattered more than aptitude, and the disciple-taking ceremony resumed.
• The Liang Kingdom officer entrusted Lin Qingzhi to Lu Changsheng, while Xiao Xiangdao privately resolved not to let his attendant surpass him.
• Lu Changsheng checked Lin Qingzhi’s panel and saw that he had a Childlike Heart, an Innate Spirit Vein, a Wood Spirit Root, and Foundation Establishment cultivation.

Lu Changsheng brought Lin Qingzhi to Azure Cloud Peak and used Transmission Empowerment to boost his disciple’s cultivation, earning a large system reward in return. He then gave Lin Qingzhi a high-grade profound-rank cultivation method and told him to cultivate diligently.

• Lu Changsheng showed Lin Qingzhi around Azure Cloud Peak and explained where he and his future disciples would live and cultivate.
• Lu Changsheng transmitted fifty days of cultivation to Lin Qingzhi, advancing him to the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm and leaving him with Spiritual Qi to refine.
• The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator rewarded Lu Changsheng with a thousand days of cultivation, while warning that Lin Qingzhi could not receive another Transmission Empowerment until he refined the Spiritual Qi.
• Lin Qingzhi thanked Lu Changsheng and begged him not to sacrifice his cultivation again, but Lu Changsheng said he would transmit cultivation to him again after he had refined it.
• Lu Changsheng bestowed the Grand Mystery Cultivation Method, a high-grade profound-rank cultivation method, on Lin Qingzhi.

Lu Changsheng received the upper-grade heaven-rank Taiqing Wuji Art after rewarding Lin Qingzhi with the Grand Profound Art, then began cultivating it and discovered its power. He used the simulator to examine Lin Qingzhi’s future, which showed the disciple reaching the Golden Core Realm by age sixteen.

• Lu Changsheng gave Lin Qingzhi the Grand Profound Art and sent him back to cultivate.
• Lu Changsheng practiced the Taiqing Wuji Art, experienced a vision of chaos, and gained a deeper glimpse of the Dao.
• Lu Changsheng found that the Taiqing Wuji Art let him absorb Spiritual Qi ten times faster, then continued studying its difficult layers.
• Lu Changsheng realized three days had passed during his practice and decided to use the simulator’s disciple-life function.
• Lu Changsheng simulated Lin Qingzhi’s life and saw that he reached the Qi Condensation Realm at age fifteen and the Golden Core Realm at age sixteen.

Lu Changsheng used the disciple-teaching simulator to learn that Lin Qingzhi would die in four years during a demonic sect ambush, and decided to protect him himself. He strengthened Lin Qingzhi with cultivation and a sword, then received an even greater treasure as a reward.

• The simulation showed Lin Qingzhi's Shushan training team being ambushed, with Lin Qingzhi dying at nineteen at the hands of a demonic sect elder.
• Lu Changsheng considered ways to change Lin Qingzhi's fate and decided to intervene personally when the danger came.
• Lin Qingzhi reported reaching the fifth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm and the second layer of the Grand Profound Art.
• Lu Changsheng infused Lin Qingzhi with cultivation, raising him to the sixth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm, and gained ten years of cultivation in return.
• Lu Changsheng gave Lin Qingzhi the Azure Nether Sword and warned him that a calamity awaited in four years.
• The simulator rewarded Lu Changsheng for bestowing the sword with the low-grade Innate Spirit Treasure Nine Heavens Thunder-Controlling Sword.

Lu Changsheng tested the Nine Heavens Thunder-Controlling Sword, then spent a month cultivating and using the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator to obtain powerful treasures and pills. When Lin Qingzhi broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm, Lu Changsheng received an Innate Dao Body, and the painful transformation left his condition uncertain.

• Lu Changsheng tested the Nine Heavens Thunder-Controlling Sword and recognized the danger of revealing that he possessed an Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Lu Changsheng gave Lin Qingzhi a Foundation Establishment Pill and received a Soul-Nourishing Pill that could help him safely open his Dao Palace.
• Over the next month, Lu Changsheng repeatedly bestowed cultivation, pills, treasures, and techniques on Lin Qingzhi, receiving valuable rewards from the simulator.
• Lin Qingzhi advanced to the third layer of the Grand Profound Art and, following Lu Changsheng's instructions, broke through to the first layer of the Qi Condensation Realm.
• The simulator rewarded Lu Changsheng with an Innate Dao Body and began painfully cleansing and reshaping his body, alarming Lin Qingzhi.

Lu Changsheng transformed his body with the Innate Dao Body, then used a sixth-grade Soul-Nourishing Pill to break through from the Nascent Soul Realm into the Dao Palace Realm. After ten days of guarding Azure Cloud Peak, Li Changye congratulated him, unable to see through his cultivation.

• Lu Changsheng comprehended the second through fourth levels of the Taiqing Wuji Art and prepared to break through to the Dao Palace Realm.
• Lu Changsheng told Lin Qingzhi he would enter seclusion, and Lin Qingzhi withdrew after explaining he had waited outside for seven days and nights.
• Lu Changsheng swallowed a sixth-grade Soul-Nourishing Pill, strengthened his Nascent Soul, and began opening a Dao Palace as Spiritual Qi surged toward Azure Cloud Peak.
• Li Changye sensed the disturbance, recognized Lu Changsheng's breakthrough, and ordered the area sealed while he stood guard.
• After ten days, Lu Changsheng formed his Dao Palace, reached the first level of the Dao Palace Realm, and discovered Li Changye had guarded him.
• Li Changye congratulated Lu Changsheng and remarked that he could no longer see through his cultivation.

Lu Changsheng received an assessment task to investigate the slaughter of an Ask Immortal Pavilion branch hall near the Desolate Province. He prepared to travel to the Liang Kingdom, hoping to uncover the truth and find potential disciples.

• Li Changye assigned Lu Changsheng to join Ask Immortal Pavilion elders at the borderlands of the Desolate Province and report back to complete his assessment.
• Lu Changsheng empowered Lin Qingzhi, received a seventh-grade Nine Nether Soul-Gathering Pill through the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator, and bestowed it on Lin Qingzhi.
• Lu Changsheng gathered Law Treasures and pills, then set out from Shushan toward the Liang Kingdom.
• Lu Changsheng reflected on his limited knowledge of the world beyond Shushan and hoped to find promising disciples during his journey.

Lu Changsheng reached Southguard Pass to assist the Ask Immortal Pavilion and met its elders, including the beautiful Xia Ningxue. The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator identified Xia Ningxue, already the pavilion master's disciple, as a suitable apprentice candidate, leaving Lu Changsheng unsure how he could take her as his own disciple.

• Lu Changsheng arrived at Southguard Pass and presented his Shushan token to the Liang Kingdom soldiers.
• General Yun Tiannan escorted Lu Changsheng to meet Elder Kumu and the Ask Immortal Pavilion party.
• Lu Changsheng met Xia Ningxue and Luo Feng, who belittled his supposed Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Lu Changsheng concealed his Dao Palace Realm strength by claiming he was only at the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator identified Xia Ningxue as a suitable apprentice candidate with exceptional aptitude.

Lu Changsheng discovered that Xia Ningxue was an extraordinary young cultivator and asked her to become his disciple, but she declined because she already had a master. He and the Ask Immortal Pavilion group investigated a massacre in Desolate Province, only to be ambushed by demonic sect forces and the Demon Race.

• Lu Changsheng saw Xia Ningxue's astonishing talents and cultivation in the simulator and asked her to become his disciple, but she politely refused.
• Elder Kumu led Lu Changsheng, Xia Ningxue, and the others from Southguard Pass to investigate the Ask Immortal Pavilion's branch hall in Desolate Province.
• The group found a Wilderness Tribe settlement destroyed by the Demon Race, with evidence that demonic sects had also been involved.
• As the Ask Immortal Pavilion disciples searched for survivors, a giant beast claw killed one of them, and Evil Sword appeared with hundreds of demonic sect disciples.
• Elder Kumu told Lu Changsheng, Luo Feng, and Xia Ningxue to escape while he held off Evil Sword, who revealed that Black Tiger Dao Lord and two other Dao Palace Realm experts were also waiting to attack.

Black Tiger Dao Lord and the Reincarnation Hall attacked the Ask Immortal Pavilion party, forcing them into a desperate fight to escape. Lu Changsheng revealed his Dao Palace Realm strength and saved Xia Ningxue from Black Tiger Dao Lord’s soul attack, but their pursuers remained a threat.

• Black Tiger Dao Lord joined Evil Sword and ordered him to handle Elder Kumu while he attacked the others.
• Xia Ningxue and Luo Feng led the Ask Immortal Pavilion party against the Demon Sect and Reincarnation Hall, and Xia Ningxue killed one Reincarnation Hall elder before Black Tiger Dao Lord badly wounded her.
• Lu Changsheng revealed that he had reached the Dao Palace Realm and struck Black Tiger Dao Lord with Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Sect, giving the party a chance to retreat.
• Black Tiger Dao Lord unleashed Black Tiger Heart-Devouring at the fleeing group, and Xia Ningxue took the soul attack to protect the others.
• Lu Changsheng fed Xia Ningxue a seventh-grade Nine Nether Soul-Gathering Pill, restoring her soul and leaving Black Tiger Dao Lord astonished.

Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue recovered from Black Tiger Dao Lord’s attack, then followed a surviving Ask Immortal Pavilion disciple to an abandoned village. There, they discovered that the attack on the branch hall was connected to a little girl whom Lu Changsheng’s system identified as a suitable disciple candidate.

• Black Tiger Dao Lord searched the valley twice, and Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue stayed hidden in a cave until he left.
• Lu Changsheng gave Xia Ningxue a fifth-grade pill to heal her injuries, and they recovered in the cave for three days.
• Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue left the cave and followed secret markings north, hoping to find a surviving Ask Immortal Pavilion disciple.
• At an abandoned village, Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue met a female Golden Core Realm disciple who reported that Black Tiger Dao Lord and Evil Sword had attacked the branch hall.
• The surviving disciple revealed that the attackers had come for someone and called a dirt-covered little girl out of a stone house.
• Lu Changsheng’s system identified the little girl as a suitable disciple candidate.

Lu Changsheng took the talented Wilderness Tribe girl Lian as his second disciple and brought her to Shushan, where Li Changye promised the sect would protect her. Back at Azure Cloud Peak, Lu Changsheng introduced Lian to Lin Qingzhi and prepared to transfer cultivation to both disciples.

• The Ask Immortal Pavilion disciple explained how the Wilderness Tribe warriors and her branch hall had protected Lian from Black Tiger Dao Lord and the Reincarnation Hall; Xia Ningxue allowed Lu Changsheng to take Lian to Shushan.
• Lu Changsheng named the girl Lian and flew with her toward Shushan while Black Tiger Dao Lord continued searching for them.
• Elder Kumu escaped from the dead tree outside Southguard Pass and worried about Xia Ningxue and the coming Six Paths Assembly.
• Li Changye told Lu Changsheng that a great calamity would soon befall Xiazhou and ordered Shushan to double its monthly Cultivation Resources; he also pledged to protect Lian.
• Lu Changsheng brought Lian to Azure Cloud Peak, introduced her to Lin Qingzhi as his junior sister, and discovered that having two disciples doubled his daily system opportunities.
• Lu Changsheng announced that he would transfer cultivation to both disciples, leaving Lin Qingzhi stunned by his apparent lack of concern about losing power.

Lu Changsheng empowered Lin Qingzhi and Lian, discovered Lian’s potential in martial cultivation, and prepared to find her suitable training methods and weapons. After rewarding both disciples with pills, he headed to Shushan’s Scripture Repository to seek a cultivation art for Lian.

• Lu Changsheng transmitted cultivation to Lin Qingzhi, who reached the Qi Condensation Realm First Layer and began refining the Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Changsheng empowered Lian and discovered that her Martial King Divine Physique was exceptionally suited to martial cultivation; she reached the Qi Condensation Realm Fifth Layer.
• Lu Changsheng told Lian he would seek a suitable cultivation art and body-tempering method, then let her choose a weapon, and she picked a red-tasseled spear.
• Lu Changsheng rewarded Lin Qingzhi and Lian with pills, receiving higher-grade pills from the system in return.
• After his disciples left to cultivate, Lu Changsheng headed to Shushan’s Scripture Repository to find training methods for Lian.

Lu Changsheng visited Shushan's Scripture Pavilion to study special physiques and select cultivation methods for his young disciple, Lian. After discovering the sparse record of the Martial King Divine Physique, he returned to Azure Cloud Peak with training manuals and a spear and began teaching her body refinement.

• Lu Changsheng entered the Scripture Pavilion's second floor and spent 2,000 contribution points to read Records of Special Physiques Through the Ages.
• Lu Changsheng read that Li Changye's Myriad Desolations Indestructible Body had appeared once, the Spirit Sword Body ten times, and the Martial King Divine Physique had once belonged to an unnamed Huang Clan expert.
• Lu Changsheng exchanged 6,000 contribution points for three cultivation methods suited to Lian, then spent his remaining 2,000 on the high-grade Spirit Artifact Redfire Spear.
• Lu Changsheng returned to his cave abode, where Lian playfully explored and tugged at his hair.
• Lu Changsheng took out the Myriad Forms Body Refining Method and began teaching Lian how to temper her body.

Lu Changsheng taught Lian body refinement and the Purple Flame Primordial Chaos Art, then simulated her future and discovered she would become a powerful cultivator. The simulation showed Lin Qingzhi still dying and a great war beginning in eighteen years, leaving Lu Changsheng aware of how much time he had to prepare.

• Lu Changsheng taught Lian the Myriad Forms Body Refining Method, while the system returned the Nine Dragons Body Refining Method to him.
• After three days of training, Lian reached the first level of body refinement, and Lu Changsheng also advanced his own body-refining cultivation.
• Lu Changsheng taught Lian the Purple Flame Primordial Chaos Art and sent her to Lin Qingzhi to supervise her training.
• Lu Changsheng simulated Lian's life and saw her avenge Lin Qingzhi, grow into a formidable cultivator, and reach the Void Refinement Realm at seventy-five.
• Lu Changsheng realized Lin Qingzhi's death remained in Lian's future and that the great war would begin in eighteen years.

Lu Changsheng simulated Lin Qingzhi’s future again and saw that, even if he secretly saved him from an early ambush, Lin Qingzhi would later die in battle. He continued cultivating and training his disciples, then urged Lin Qingzhi to keep a low profile at Shushan’s upcoming gathering.

• Lu Changsheng simulated Lin Qingzhi’s life with the condition that he would secretly save him from a Demon Sect elder, but Lin Qingzhi still died at forty-two in a later battle.
• Lu Changsheng spent the next month rewarding and training Lin Qingzhi and Lian, and Lian mastered the second layer of the Purple Flame Primordial Chaos Art.
• Lu Changsheng taught Lian the Swift Dragon Break spear skill, and she learned its moves after watching his demonstration.
• Lu Changsheng refined returned cultivation, broke through to the second layer of the Dao Palace Realm, and resumed infusing his disciples with power.
• Lu Changsheng told Lin Qingzhi to hold back at the Shushan Disciples’ Gathering and keep a low profile, warning that conspicuous talent could attract the Demon Sects.

Three years after taking in Lian, Lu Changsheng brought her and Lin Qingzhi to Shushan’s Disciple Conference and warned them to conceal their extraordinary cultivation. The conference began with the disciples gathering on the main peak, where an elder asked Lu Changsheng how strong his disciples had become.

• Lian chased spirit beasts across Azure Cloud Peak until Lin Qingzhi summoned her to Lu Changsheng’s cave abode.
• Lu Changsheng told his disciples to hide their Golden Core Realm cultivation at the Disciple Conference and display only seventh- or eighth-layer Qi Condensation Realm strength.
• The next day, Lu Changsheng brought Lin Qingzhi and Lian to the conference on Shushan’s main peak, warning Lian not to kill anyone with her powerful punches.
• Other Shushan elders asked Lu Changsheng about Lian, and he concealed her origins and claimed he had taken her in out of boredom.
• A Shushan elder asked Lu Changsheng what cultivation his two disciples had reached.

Lu Changsheng’s disciples drew praise from Shushan’s elders before Li Changye opened the disciple assembly and welcomed representatives of the other five great righteous sects. Lu Changsheng recognized the gathering as a pretext for the sect leaders to discuss matters, and the assembly began with Xia Ningxue among the visiting elders.

• Lu Changsheng told the elders that Lin Qingzhi had reached the Qi Condensation Realm, while privately reflecting that Lin Qingzhi and Lian had actually reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Li Changye arrived with Xiao Xiangdao and explained the sparring rules, including that elders would intervene to prevent serious injuries.
• Li Changye announced that elders from the other five great righteous sects had been invited, prompting concern from Shushan’s elders until he said it was the sect master and grand elders’ decision.
• Lu Changsheng privately asked Li Changye why the other sects had been summoned, and Li Changye confirmed that the disciple assembly was a pretext for discussions.
• Elders from the other five righteous sects arrived, including Xia Ningxue, who acknowledged Lu Changsheng.
• Li Changye officially began the Shushan disciple assembly, while Lu Changsheng suspected that the leaders planned to discuss matters behind the gathering.