Chapter Summaries

Shen Xiaoyao recruited the mysterious Nameless Swordsman to travel with him and Wu Wan'er toward Mount Shu. Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng exchanged medicinal pills for Fire Attribute formation diagrams and returned to Azure Cloud Peak, eager to give them to Ji Xuan.

• The Nameless Swordsman appeared before Shen Xiaoyao, praised his progress, and agreed to travel with him to Mount Shu.
• Wu Wan'er thanked Shen Xiaoyao and the Nameless Swordsman, then warned Shen Xiaoyao that the swordsman had used the powerful Primordial Spirit Departure Divine Ability.
• Lu Changsheng exchanged pills and Sect Contribution points for twenty-four Fire Attribute formation diagrams, hoping to obtain the Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation Diagram through the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator.
• Mount Shu's Treasure Pavilion guards watched in surprise as Lu Changsheng bought every available Fire Attribute formation diagram.
• Lu Changsheng returned to Azure Cloud Peak and summoned Ji Xuan so he could begin giving her the formation diagrams.

Lu Changsheng taught Ji Xuan formations and used the system’s rewards to obtain increasingly powerful formation treasures, including a prized formation associated with Myriad Poison Valley. After the system barred him from rewarding her with more formation diagrams for a month, Chen Xiaoyao’s group returned to Mount Shu with the Nameless Swordsman, whose arrival prompted the Sect Master and many Grand Supreme Elders to appear.

• Lu Changsheng rewarded Ji Xuan with fire formation diagrams and taught her their use, receiving Houtian and Innate Spirit Treasure formation diagrams in return.
• Over several days, Lu Changsheng gave Ji Xuan more formation diagrams, including the Heavenly Refining Fire-Poison Formation Diagram, before the system stopped him from giving her more for a month.
• Chen Xiaoyao’s group returned to Mount Shu with Wu Wan'er and the Nameless Swordsman after fighting demons in Yue Kingdom.
• At Mount Shu’s Finance Pavilion, Elder Zhang learned that the Nameless Swordsman had killed a Void Refinement Realm demon and asked his name.
• The Nameless Swordsman told Elder Zhang to summon Taiyuan, and the Mount Shu Sect Master arrived with more than ten Grand Supreme Elders.

The Nameless Swordsman returned to Mount Shu and was welcomed by Taiyuan True Person and the Grand Supreme Elders as their long-lost Uncle-Master. After discussing the Demon Lord and the prophecy of the one destined to face the tribulation, Taiyuan True Person revealed that he believed the prophesied person was his youngest disciple, Shen Xiaoyao’s master.

• Taiyuan True Person and the Mount Shu Grand Supreme Elders recognized the Nameless Swordsman and welcomed him back as their Uncle-Master.
• The Nameless Swordsman spoke with Taiyuan True Person and the Peak Masters about the elders who had died or disappeared during his two-thousand-year absence.
• Shen Xiaoyao agreed to take Wu Wan'er to Azure Cloud Peak after the Nameless Swordsman left with the Mount Shu leaders for Myriad Sword Peak.
• At the Myriad Sword Wall, the Nameless Swordsman and the Grand Supreme Elders remembered the twenty-sixth Mount Shu Sect Master, who had died attempting to ascend.
• The Nameless Swordsman said he had pursued the Demon Lord after wounding him five years earlier, but the Demon Lord had escaped and possessed a Nirvana Phoenix Physique.
• Taiyuan True Person told the Nameless Swordsman that the person destined to face the tribulation was not Shen Xiaoyao, but his own youngest disciple.

Shen Xiaoyao returned to Azure Cloud Peak for Transmission Empowerment and told Lu Changsheng that he had brought Uncle-Master Sect Leader back to Mount Shu. After Uncle-Master Sect Leader summoned Lu Changsheng to Myriad Sword Peak and tested his swordsmanship, he invited Lu to train under him and Taiyuan True Person.

• Shen Xiaoyao returned to Azure Cloud Peak and received Transmission Empowerment from Lu Changsheng, recounting his encounters with Uncle-Master Sect Leader.
• Taiyuan True Person summoned Lu Changsheng to Myriad Sword Peak at Uncle-Master Sect Leader's request.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader asked Lu Changsheng to demonstrate his swordsmanship, and Lu sparred with him using branches and the Hunyuan Sword Scripture.
• Lu Changsheng conceded that Uncle-Master Sect Leader's Sword Dao surpassed his own.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader praised Lu Changsheng and invited him to receive special training from him and Taiyuan True Person.

Xia Ningxue entered Qingxia Immortal Maiden’s cave abode to seek her inheritance, while Lu Changsheng rapidly advanced in the Hunyuan Sword Scripture under Uncle-Master Sect Leader’s guidance. The chapter left Uncle-Master Sect Leader astonished as Lu Changsheng began comprehending the Fifth Layer far earlier than expected.

• The Pavilion Master of Ask Immortal Pavilion brought Xia Ningxue to Qingxia Immortal Maiden’s cave abode, and Xia Ningxue entered to seek its inheritance.
• Lu Changsheng trained with Uncle-Master Sect Leader on Myriad Sword Peak and mastered the Fourth Layer of the Hunyuan Sword Scripture within a month.
• Taiyuan True Person and the Mount Shu Sword Dao experts marveled at Lu Changsheng’s progress, while Li Changye urged Xiao Xiangdao to cultivate diligently.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader advised Li Changye and Xiao Xiangdao, while Xiao Xiangdao worried that he could not catch up to Lin Qingzhi.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader recognized the Hunyuan Sword Scripture as a lost High Antiquity sword art and estimated Lu Changsheng’s future progress.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader noticed Lu Changsheng had already begun comprehending the Fifth Layer of the Hunyuan Sword Scripture.

Lu Changsheng cultivated the Fifth through Seventh Layers of the Hunyuan Sword Scripture in a short burst after the Dual Cultivation System returned Sword Dao insights from Xia Ningxue’s inheritance. He concealed the true source of his progress with an epiphany as an excuse, then returned to Azure Cloud Peak to cultivate his realm.

• Uncle-Master Sect Leader and the Mount Shu elders watched Lu Changsheng advance through the Fifth Layer and speculated that he might become Mount Shu’s second Dao Ancestor.
• Lu Changsheng mastered the Fifth Layer in three days, then continued to the Sixth Layer as the elders watched in astonishment.
• Lu Changsheng fully comprehended the Sixth Layer in seven days and the Seventh Layer fifteen days later, stopping because his cultivation realm could not support the Eighth Layer.
• The Dual Cultivation System returned Sword Dao insights from Qingxia Immortal Maiden’s inheritance, which Xia Ningxue had received in an ancient cave in the Ask Immortal Pavilion.
• Lu Changsheng told Taiyuan True Person that he had experienced an epiphany, and Uncle-Master Sect Leader advised him to raise his cultivation realm before studying the swordsmanship further.
• Lu Changsheng returned to Azure Cloud Peak, while Uncle-Master Sect Leader decided to enter seclusion after gaining insights of his own.

Lu Changsheng taught Chen Xiaoyao five fire formations and received the Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation Diagram as an eighty-thousandfold return. He kept the artifact secret, then summoned his disciples back to Azure Cloud Peak for Transmission Empowerment to improve his cultivation.

• Wu Wan'er discovered Ji Xuan cultivating on Azure Cloud Peak and was surprised to see a disciple from the Demon Race.
• Lu Changsheng taught Chen Xiaoyao five formation diagrams, receiving several stronger formation treasures in return.
• Bestowing the Scarlet Flame Devil Beast Formation Diagram gave Lu Changsheng the Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation Diagram.
• Lu Changsheng sent Chen Xiaoyao back to cultivate and used Soul-Seeking Technique to summon Lin Qingzhi, Lu Qinglian, and Mo Huazhi to Azure Cloud Peak.
• Lu Qinglian, standing on a Great Demon's corpse, received Lu Changsheng's message to return and replenish her Spiritual Qi.

After Lu Qinglian’s Transmission Empowerment brought Lu Changsheng an immense cultivation reward, he broke through to the Fifth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm and advanced his body-refining method. He then mastered the Taiqing Wuji Art’s Ninth Layer, astonishing Mount Shu’s elders.

• Xia Ningxue emerged from Qingxia Immortal Maiden’s cave abode with her inheritance and a major increase in Sword Dao comprehension, and the Pavilion Master urged her to cultivate for the coming calamity.
• Lu Qinglian returned to Azure Cloud Peak, where Lu Changsheng transmitted 500 days of cultivation to her and received an 80,000-day reward.
• Lu Changsheng entered seclusion, used the reward to reach the Fifth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm, and completed the fifth turn of the Nine Turns Gods and Devils Body-Refining Method.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader and Mount Shu’s elders witnessed repeated cultivation phenomena above Azure Cloud Peak as Lu Changsheng advanced.
• Lu Changsheng cultivated the Taiqing Wuji Art until purple qi stretched three thousand miles, signaling that he had perfected its Ninth Layer and startling Taiyuan True Person and the others.

The Four Great Demonic Sects attacked the Artifact Refinement Sect to seize its Immortal Artifacts, forcing it to activate its Mountain-Guarding Formation and call for help. Taiyuan True Person summoned Mount Shu’s experts, and Lu Changsheng set out with his disciples to join the rescue.

• A Demonic Claw killed an Artifact Refinement Sect Elder at the mountain gate as the Four Great Demonic Sects launched their attack.
• The four sect masters confronted Sect Master Xu and demanded the Artifact Refinement Sect’s Immortal Artifacts, while the sect activated its Mountain-Guarding Formation.
• Sect Master Xu sent a distress transmission to the other Five Great Sects, and Taiyuan True Person called Mount Shu’s experts to Myriad Sword Peak.
• Lu Changsheng prepared Immortal Artifacts and Medicinal Pills, gathered his five disciples and the big yellow dog, and rode to Myriad Sword Peak.

Mount Shu and other sects rushed to aid the Artifact Refinement Sect, which was under attack by the Four Great Demonic Sects. At Meteoric Iron Mountain, Uncle-Master Sect Leader prepared to face the Demon Lord while Lu Changsheng volunteered to fight a Demon General three minor realms above him.

• Mount Shu and Ask Immortal Pavilion sent their leaders and disciples to support the Artifact Refinement Sect at Meteoric Iron Mountain.
• The arriving Mount Shu party sensed the Demon Lord and four Demon Generals amid the overwhelming Demon Qi.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader took the Demon Lord as his opponent, while Taiyuan True Person and the Peak Master of Chaoyuan Peak assessed which Demon Generals they could fight.
• Lu Changsheng challenged a Demon General at the eighth layer of the Void Refinement Realm, despite being at the fifth layer, and Taiyuan True Person warned him of the danger.
• Lu Changsheng promised he would not be defeated, and the Demon General recognized him as the enemy who had cost him five hundred years of his lifespan.

Lu Changsheng fought the Demon General while his disciples confronted the Demon Race Prince and protected Ji Xuan. Unable to overcome the Demon General’s superior cultivation with ordinary methods, Lu Changsheng revealed a Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact and activated the Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation.

• Lu Changsheng ordered his disciples to kill the Demon Race Prince and faced the Demon General himself.
• Lu Changsheng used the Drunken Immortal Gazing at the Moon Steps and the Hunyuan Sword Scripture to fight the stronger Demon General, with the Xuanhuang Pagoda protecting him from fatal blows.
• Lu Qinglian fought the Demon Race Prince, while Daoist Tuquan protected Ji Xuan and hoped to earn the great fortune Lu Changsheng had promised.
• Lu Changsheng realized he could not kill the Demon General without a Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact, and swallowed an Eighth-Grade Red Emperor Dragonforce Pill.
• The Demon General sacrificed three hundred years of lifespan to increase his strength and nearly overwhelmed Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng summoned the Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation Diagram and used the Mystic Fire Mirror to activate the formation, shocking the Demon General with its power.

Lu Changsheng used the Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation to summon the Eight Desolate Fire Dragon and kill an eighth-layer Void Refinement Realm demon general. Lu Qinglian then killed the Demon Race Prince with the Sacred Fire Immortal Ring, prompting the Demon Lord to sense his son's death.

• Lu Changsheng summoned the Eight Desolate Fire Dragon with the Mystic Fire Mirror and the Eight-Fierce Mysterious Fire Formation, then overwhelmed the demon general with mysterious fire.
• The Eight Desolate Fire Dragon killed the demon general and incinerated two more Great Demons before vanishing as Lu Changsheng put away the Immortal Artifacts.
• Lu Qinglian wounded the Demon Race Prince and fought him despite his higher cultivation, while the Bamboo Peak Master kept his Void Refinement Realm guard occupied.
• The Demon Race Prince swallowed demon cores to raise his cultivation, but Lu Qinglian struck him with the Sacred Fire Immortal Ring and destroyed him and his treasure.
• The Demon Lord sensed his son's death, while Lu Changsheng collected the demon general's demonic saber.

Lu Changsheng and the Mount Shu party fought off the Demon Lord and hurried to reinforce the Artifact Refinement Sect, only to find it destroyed by the Four Great Demonic Sects. Li Changye revealed that the Reincarnation Hall Master had once been a Mount Shu disciple and had stolen the first eight sections of the Taiqing Wuji Art.

• Lu Changsheng saved Lu Qinglian from the Demon Lord's palm strike, and she told him she had killed the Demon Race Prince.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader gravely wounded the Demon Lord, but the Demon Lord escaped with the Demon Generals and Great Demons inside his Ancient Cauldron.
• Taiyuan True Person urged the Mount Shu party to hurry to the Artifact Refinement Sect, suspecting the Demon Lord had delayed them while the Four Great Demonic Sects attacked.
• The Mount Shu party found Meteoric Iron Mountain ruined and the Artifact Refinement Sect's people dead, with Li Changye identifying signs of the Reincarnation Hall's Blood Formation.
• Li Changye told Lu Changsheng that the Reincarnation Hall Master had been Master's senior brother, left Mount Shu, and taken the first eight sections of the Taiqing Wuji Art.

The five great sects gathered at Meteoric Iron Mountain after the Four Great Demonic Sects destroyed the Artifact Refinement Sect, then agreed to prepare and coordinate their defenses before striking back. Lu Changsheng began teaching Lin Qingzhi the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation and received the immortal-stage Great Thousand Sword Array in return.

• The Mount Shu party found no survivors at Meteoric Iron Mountain and learned that the Four Great Demonic Sects had taken the Artifact Refinement Sect’s treasures and killed its Sect Master Xu.
• The Pavilion Master of Ask Immortal Pavilion, High Person Wuxiang, Grandmaster Chen, and Yu Xuanji arrived and joined Taiyuan True Person in assessing the destruction.
• Yu Xuanji, the Pavilion Master of Ask Immortal Pavilion, and High Person Wuxiang argued that the sects needed time to prepare, and the leaders agreed to coordinate their defenses.
• Lu Changsheng summoned Lin Qingzhi and began teaching him the six-layer Heavenly Gang Sword Formation.
• The system rewarded Lu Changsheng with the immortal-stage Great Thousand Sword Array for teaching Lin Qingzhi.

Lu Changsheng obtained the Great Thousand Sword Array, upgraded Lin Qingzhi’s sword treasures, and completed the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation. While sparring with Xia Ningxue, he was confronted by the Hehuan Sect Master, who had come to avenge his son.

• Lu Changsheng obtained the Great Thousand Sword Array and bestowed new swords on Lin Qingzhi, receiving a Low-Grade Immortal Artifact and other sword treasures in return.
• Lin Qingzhi mastered the first layer of the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation and began cultivating its second layer.
• Lu Changsheng comprehended the final layer of the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation, bringing the formation to grand completion.
• Xia Ningxue challenged Lu Changsheng to a swordsmanship spar, and their sword arts proved evenly matched.
• The Hehuan Sect Master appeared during the spar and declared that he had stayed on Meteoric Iron Mountain to kill Lu Changsheng and avenge his son.

The Hehuan Sect Master ambushed Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue with a Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact, but they escaped, wounded him, and survived until reinforcements arrived. The Hehuan Sect Master fled, and Lu Changsheng received the Holy Spirit Swordsmanship as a cultivation reward.

• The Hehuan Sect Master attacked Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue with the Myriad Thoughts Emptiness, intent on avenging his son.
• Lu Changsheng used a Ninth-Grade Spatial Talisman to save himself and Xia Ningxue from the attack.
• Xia Ningxue and Lu Changsheng struck the Hehuan Sect Master with their sword arts and wounded him.
• The Hehuan Sect Master sensed Taiyuan True Person and the others approaching, then escaped underground.
• Taiyuan True Person and the others arrived, and Lu Changsheng explained the ambush.
• The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator announced that Lu Changsheng had received Holy Spirit Swordsmanship.

Lu Changsheng obtained the unranked Holy Spirit Swordsmanship and invited Xia Ningxue to Azure Cloud Peak to cultivate it with him. As the righteous sects prepared for war, Taiyuan True Person resolved to risk the Sixfold Heavenly Tribulation, while Daoist Tuquan was summoned to Lu Changsheng’s cave abode for a promised fortune.

• Lu Changsheng discovered that the Holy Spirit Swordsmanship required two people in harmony and invited Xia Ningxue to stay at Azure Cloud Peak to learn it.
• Xia Ningxue received Fairy Su’s permission to visit Mount Shu, while Taiyuan True Person warned the sect leaders about the Four Great Demonic Sects’ Immortal Artifact and revealed his plan to face the Sixfold Heavenly Tribulation.
• Fairy Su and Uncle-Master Sect Leader worried that Taiyuan True Person’s unresolved past could create a heart demon, but he said he would risk the tribulation to protect the righteous path.
• Lu Changsheng returned to Azure Cloud Peak with Xia Ningxue, arranged for her to stay in his cave abode, and began cultivating the Holy Spirit Swordsmanship with her.
• Daoist Tuquan suspected Mount Shu was a giant Spirit Gathering Formation before Lu Changsheng summoned him to his cave abode and promised him a fortune.

Lu Changsheng transformed Daoist Tuquan into a Three-Eyed Divine Hound with a Ninth-Rank Immortal Pill and gave him cultivation methods and a treasure. Meanwhile, Taiyuan True Person began his tribulation outside Mount Shu as its elders gathered to protect him.

• Lu Changsheng used the Heavenly Dog Marrow-Washing Pill to remake Daoist Tuquan's constitution, awakening his third eye and turning him into a Three-Eyed Divine Hound.
• Lu Changsheng gave Daoist Tuquan Demon Race Heaven Stage cultivation methods and a Middle-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, then sent him away to cultivate.
• Xia Ningxue witnessed Lu Changsheng's generosity and continued cultivating the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Art and practicing the Holy Spirit Swordsmanship with him.
• Murong Shi learned that Lu Changsheng had stayed behind to cultivate with Xia Ningxue and told the old woman from Jade Moon Peak she would carry on her master's legacy and protect Mount Shu.
• Uncle-Master Sect Leader and the Mount Shu elders prepared formations around Taiyuan True Person, who released his suppressed cultivation and summoned an Immortal Sword as the heavenly tribulation began.

Taiyuan True Person survived the Sixfold Heavenly Tribulation and entered the Dao Integration Realm while Lu Changsheng continued cultivating and amassed six Immortal Swords. After preparing Ji Xuan for her coming breakthrough, Lu Changsheng received a Ninth-Grade Dao Integration Pill as a reward.

• Taiyuan True Person underwent the Sixfold Heavenly Tribulation outside Mount Shu and successfully broke through to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Lu Changsheng cultivated with Xia Ningxue and rewarded Lin Qingzhi with Flying Swords, receiving enough Immortal Swords to bring his total to six.
• Lu Changsheng used the six Immortal Swords in a simulated Heavenly Gang Sword Formation and defeated a Sixth Layer Void Refinement Realm sword cultivator, though the technique exhausted his True Qi.
• Lu Changsheng gave Ji Xuan a Soul-Nourishing Pill and a Hui Serpent Golden Core to prepare her for breaking through from the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Changsheng received a Red Flood Dragon Golden Core and a Ninth-Grade Dao Integration Pill through the apprentice-teaching return system.

Ji Xuan broke through to the Dao Palace Realm, drawing the attention of Mount Shu’s leaders and earning Lu Changsheng a sealed Tenth-Grade Demon Dragon Origin Core. As Taiyuan True Person prepared to attack the Reincarnation Hall, Lu Changsheng examined the dangerous new reward.

• Lu Changsheng put away the Dao Integration Pill and continued comprehending the Taiqing Wuji Art Tenth Layer.
• Ji Xuan refined the Hui Serpent Golden Core, opened a Dao Palace, and manifested a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox vision above Azure Cloud Peak.
• Taiyuan True Person and Uncle-Master Sect Leader discussed Azure Cloud Peak’s disciples’ potential and Mount Shu’s strength, then approved Taiyuan’s plan to attack the Reincarnation Hall.
• After seven days, Ji Xuan completed her breakthrough from the Nascent Soul Realm to the Dao Palace Realm, and Lu Changsheng received a sealed Tenth-Grade Demon Dragon Origin Core.
• Lu Changsheng examined the Purple-Gold Eight Trigrams Gourd containing the Demon Core but did not open it.