Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng obtained Demon Emperor Iron through apprentice-teaching rewards and arranged for Xiao Yan to repair the Demon Emperor Cauldron. After three months, he collected the repaired cauldron, subdued it with the Demon-Suppressing Sword, and considered earning Merit to strengthen the Heaven-Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

• Lu Changsheng awarded Ji Xuan Artifact Refining materials and received Demon Emperor Iron as a ten-thousandfold return reward.
• Lu Changsheng gave Xiao Yan the Demon Emperor Iron and Golden Crow Divine Furnace so Xiao Yan could repair the Demon Emperor Cauldron, promising to return in three months.
• Xiao Yan repaired the Demon Emperor Cauldron, and Lu Changsheng used the Demon-Suppressing Sword to suppress it and erase the Demon Lord’s imprint.
• Lu Changsheng returned to Azure Cloud Peak with two Top-Grade Immortal Artifacts and considered going down the mountain to earn Merit for the Heaven-Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

Lu Changsheng set aside the challenge of gathering enough Merit to strengthen his pagoda and continued cultivating while Mo Huazhi prepared to face her tribulation. Mo Huazhi entered the Void Refinement Realm, and Lu Changsheng rewarded her with new techniques and treasures as he gained cultivation and Immortal Artifacts.

• Lu Changsheng decided that Xia Province’s peaceful conditions made accumulating Merit too difficult and resumed practicing the Taiqing Wuji Art.
• Mo Huazhi told Lu Changsheng she was ready to face her tribulation, and he prepared pills, treasures, and a barrier to guard her.
• Mo Huazhi used poetic conceptions of Hua Mulan, Zhuge Liang, and a golden swordsman to overcome the three heavenly tribulations and enter the Void Refinement Realm.
• Lu Changsheng transmitted cultivation to Mo Huazhi and received 50,000 days of cultivation in return.
• Lu Changsheng bestowed cultivation methods, a brush, and a skirt on Mo Huazhi, receiving upgraded techniques and two Immortal Artifacts in return.

Two elders of the Penglai Sword Sect arrived at Mount Shu to meet Lin Qingzhi and asked to see the Sect Master about changes in Luzhou. Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng gave Mo Huazhi two Immortal Artifacts, received upgraded treasures and a Supreme Treasure fragment, and the visitors followed Lin Qingzhi to Azure Cloud Peak.

• Two Penglai Sword Sect elders arrived at Mount Shu and asked to meet Lin Qingzhi, while the gate elders recalled the sects' old friendship.
• Lin Qingzhi recognized the visitors, who had once saved him in Luzhou, and escorted them to Azure Cloud Peak so they could meet his master, the Mount Shu Sect Master.
• Lu Changsheng gave Mo Huazhi the Saint King Brush and the Holy Light Moonlight Skirt after she reached the Void Refinement Realm.
• Lu Changsheng received the Heaven-Earth-Mystic-Yellow Spirit Brush and the Circum-celestial Stars Moonlight Skirt as return rewards, along with a third Human Race Supreme Treasure Fragment that fused with the other fragments.

Two Grand Supreme Elders of the Penglai Sword Sect asked Lu Changsheng to help their sect fight the Wind-Thunder Pavilion and the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace. Lu Changsheng agreed to help for his own reasons, rejecting both the offered Ninth-Rank Immortal Pill and the promise that the Penglai Sword Sect Master would pledge herself to him.

• Lin Qingzhi brought two Penglai Sword Sect Grand Supreme Elders to meet Lu Changsheng, explaining that their sect had once sheltered him from the Wind-Thunder Pavilion.
• The elders described how the Wind-Thunder Pavilion allied with the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace to attack Penglai territory, while the other five great sects waited to exploit the conflict.
• Lu Changsheng suspected that an Immortal Realm expert was helping the Wind-Thunder Pavilion Master advance and decided that stopping the two allied sects would earn Merit.
• A Penglai elder offered a Ninth-Rank Immortal Pill, but Lu Changsheng said he already had plenty and was unmoved.
• The elder then offered the Penglai Sword Sect Master's hand in marriage, but Lu Changsheng agreed to help for reasons unrelated to her.

Lu Changsheng summoned Xia Province’s major sects to prepare for an enemy from the Immortal Realm while he cultivated to strengthen himself. The sect leaders suspected the mysterious expert was the calamity foretold by the Mount Shu Dao Ancestor, and they began making their way to Mount Shu.

• Lu Changsheng hosted the Penglai Sword Sect elders at Azure Cloud Peak and asked Lin Qingzhi to notify the major sects and Mount Shu’s grandmasters about the Immortal Realm expert at the Wind-Thunder Pavilion.
• Lu Changsheng entered seclusion to comprehend the Eleventh Layer of the Taiqing Wuji Art as purple qi spread across ten thousand li above Mount Shu.
• Taiyuan True Person and Situ Kong discussed whether the Immortal Realm expert, rather than the Demon Lord, was the calamity foretold by the Mount Shu Dao Ancestor.
• Grandmaster Chen, Yu Xuanji, and High Person Wuxiang learned of the threat and prepared to respond to Lu Changsheng’s summons.
• Xia Ningxue told Su Qian’er that she would go to Mount Shu and asked her master to oversee the Ask Immortal Pavilion.

Lu Changsheng led the Xia Province sect masters and elite elders to aid the Penglai Sword Sect against the Wind-Thunder Pavilion and the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace. The group arrived at the Penglai Sword Sect’s Immortal Island and was escorted to meet its sect master.

• Lu Changsheng broke through to the Second Layer of Dao Integration Realm and told the Xia Province sect masters about the threat facing the Penglai Sword Sect.
• Lu Changsheng and the four other sect masters agreed to help the Penglai Sword Sect and set out with elite teams, leaving Taiyuan True Person to guard Mount Shu.
• The group learned that the Wind-Thunder Pavilion master had likely reached the Fourth Layer of Dao Integration Realm.
• Lu Changsheng and the others arrived at the Penglai Sword Sect’s Immortal Island, where Lu Changsheng detected three Dao Integration Realm experts.
• Elder Fang and Elder Liu led the group into the Nine Heavens True Lord Palace to meet the Penglai Sword Sect master.

Lu Changsheng and the Xia Province cultivators arrived at Penglai Immortal Island to help the Penglai Sword Sect fight the Wind-Thunder Pavilion, but the Penglai Fairy doubted their chances after learning Lu Changsheng was only at the Second Layer of the Dao Integration Realm. As Lu Changsheng cultivated and received powerful treasures, the Wind-Thunder Pavilion arrived and demanded Penglai's surrender.

• The Penglai Fairy tested Lu Changsheng with her enchanting cultivation method, but he remained unaffected, while Fairy Chunhua's pinch jolted Zhao Wuyan and the other bewitched cultivators back to their senses.
• Lu Changsheng told the Penglai Fairy he was at the Second Layer of the Dao Integration Realm, disappointing her and the Penglai elders, who feared Xia Province's cultivators could not defeat the stronger Wind-Thunder Pavilion Master.
• The Penglai Fairy arranged lodging for the Xia Province cultivators while she considered a plan, and Lu Changsheng continued training and rewarding his disciples.
• Lu Changsheng received the Middle-Grade Immortal Artifact Yu Heng Sword from a reward for Chen Yao and the Tenth-Rank Immortal Pill Nine Dragons Essence-Enhancing Pill from a reward for Lu Qinglian.
• The Penglai Sword Sect's leaders worried that their forces could not match the Wind-Thunder Pavilion, but the Wind-Thunder Pavilion Master suddenly demanded that the Penglai Fairy surrender Penglai Immortal Island and become his dao companion.

Lu Changsheng and the Xia Province cultivators arrived as the Wind-Thunder Pavilion and Demon-Summoning Devil Palace attacked the Penglai Sword Sect. After Lei Tiannan injured Penglai Fairy, Lu Changsheng struck back and wounded him, leaving both sides stunned as the battle continued.

• Lei Tiannan and the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace Palace Master confronted Penglai Fairy, while Luo Feng revealed that the Black Tortoise Grand Formation had been sabotaged and demanded the sect's submission.
• Lu Changsheng, Xia Ningxue, and the other Xia Province cultivators arrived, and Penglai Fairy warned them that their enemies had six Dao Integration Realm experts and Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng identified Lu Changsheng and Xia Ningxue as his targets, and Lei Tiannan attacked Lu Changsheng with the Wind-Thunder Palm.
• Penglai Fairy blocked Lei Tiannan's first strike but was injured, and Lei Tiannan prepared a second attack against the Penglai Sword Sect.
• Lu Changsheng used Hundredfold Primordial Force and Heaven-Breaking Divine Fist to break Lei Tiannan's palm strike and blast him back, drawing stunned reactions from both sects.

Lu Changsheng and the Xia Province cultivators helped the Penglai Sword Sect fight the Wind-Thunder Pavilion and the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace, while Luo Feng revealed a terrifying ability to consume souls. The chapter ended with Lu Changsheng’s Demon Emperor Cauldron imprisoning Luo Feng and saving the Penglai Immortal Maiden from his attack.

• Lei Tiannan attacked Lu Changsheng with the Heavenly Gang Wind-Thunder Staff, but Lu Changsheng’s Demon-Suppressing Sword overwhelmed it and forced Lei Tiannan onto the defensive.
• Grandmaster Chen and High Person Wuxiang led Xia Province cultivators against the Demon-Summoning Devil Palace, while Azure Cloud Peak’s disciples and other allies fought the Wind-Thunder Pavilion.
• Luo Feng killed Elder Qin by ripping out his heart and devouring his Three Souls and Seven Spirits, then turned his attention to the Penglai Immortal Maiden.
• Luo Feng dazed the Penglai Immortal Maiden with the Soul-Shaking Technique and reached for her with the Soul-Devouring Demonic Claw.
• Lu Changsheng used the Demon Emperor Cauldron’s Spatial Imprisonment to trap Luo Feng and save the Penglai Immortal Maiden.

Lu Changsheng helped the Penglai Sword Sect defeat the Wind-Thunder Pavilion and forced Luo Feng to flee, though Luo Feng remained a threat as he tried to recover his cultivation. After collecting secret arts as repayment, Lu Changsheng headed back to Mount Shu to cultivate for the Central Continent Conference and prepare for the danger ahead.

• Penglai Fairy wounded Luo Feng, but he escaped the Demon Emperor Cauldron through the Space Principle, while Lu Changsheng killed Lei Tiannan with the Seven-Star Sword Formation and the Penglai Sword Sect and Xia Province cultivators wiped out the Wind-Thunder Pavilion's survivors.
• Luo Feng fled through Spatial Turbulence, and Yu Xuanji and Lu Changsheng realized he was collecting souls to restore his cultivation but could not determine his goal or track him.
• At the banquet, Penglai Fairy offered to become Lu Changsheng's dao companion, but he asked for dozens of Penglai cultivation methods instead, and she told the gathered sect masters that the Central Province Dao Discussion Conference was approaching.
• Penglai Fairy sent Lu Changsheng dozens of secret arts, including the Penglai Sword Song, and he departed for Mount Shu to cultivate in seclusion for a hundred years.
• Xia Ningxue questioned Lu Changsheng about turning down Penglai Fairy, and he teased her; Chen Xiaoyao then told him he planned to undergo tribulation upon returning to Azure Cloud Peak.

Over thirty years, Lu Changsheng helped Chen Xiaoyao, Ji Xuan, and Chen Yao advance to the Void Refinement Realm, while Daoist Tuquan also broke through and became a Mount Shu Grand Supreme Elder. Lu Changsheng assembled the Seven-Star Sword Formation and prepared to strengthen himself for the Central Continent Conference, where the Stars Pavilion planned to choose a husband for Tang Ling’er.

• Chen Xiaoyao survived his tribulation, reached the Void Refinement Realm, and received new cultivation methods, a sword, and a Daoist robe from Lu Changsheng.
• Ji Xuan survived her difficult tribulation with Lu Changsheng’s Demon Emperor Cauldron and advanced to the Void Refinement Realm; Lu Changsheng gave her cultivation methods and Law Treasures.
• Daoist Tuquan survived his tribulation and became a Void Refinement Realm Grand Supreme Elder, then vowed to keep guarding Lu Changsheng’s mountain gate if he ascended.
• Chen Yao survived her tribulation and entered the Void Refinement Realm, and Lu Changsheng later completed his collection of seven Middle-Grade Immortal Swords for the Seven-Star Sword Formation.
• Lu Changsheng reached the third layer of the Dao Integration Realm and planned to master the twelfth layer of the Taiqing Wuji Art and two upper-grade Immortal sword arts before the Central Continent Conference.
• Tang Ling’er thought of Chen Xiaoyao, while a Stars Pavilion elder told his wife he intended to find Tang Ling’er a suitable husband at the conference and make the pavilion prevail.

Lu Changsheng advanced his sword cultivation and prepared Mount Shu for the Central Continent Conference while learning of Stars Pavilion’s overwhelming strength. In his fiftieth year of seclusion, he synthesized a Human Race Supreme Treasure, and the chapter ended with Shi Yu awakening in another world with a trainee beast-breeder’s memories.

• Lu Changsheng taught Lu Qinglian the Nine Heavens Profound Fire True Art and received the Divine Sword Fire-Riding True Formula; he later taught Lin Qingzhi the Water-Riding Profound Sword and gained the Divine Sword Water-Riding True Formula.
• Xia Ningxue uncovered another sword art hidden beneath the Qingxia Sword Art’s inscription, and her Sword Dao insights helped Lu Changsheng make rapid progress with the Divine Sword Wind-Riding True Formula.
• Situ Kong and Taiyuan True Person discussed Lu Changsheng’s talent and the Central Continent Conference, while the old servant warned that Stars Pavilion possessed peerless geniuses and cultivation methods beyond this world.
• Lu Changsheng returned to Azure Cloud Peak to cultivate and teach disciples, and he wondered about the ageless old servant on Myriad Sword Peak.
• In his fiftieth year of secluded cultivation, Lu Changsheng triggered a millionfold return while teaching Chen Yao and collected the six fragments needed to synthesize a Human Race Supreme Treasure.
• Shi Yu awoke in a young man’s body in a single-occupancy dormitory, then received memories identifying him as a trainee pet beast breeder in Icefield City.

During his 140 years of seclusion, Lu Changsheng tested the Twelfth-Rank Karma-Fire Red Lotus against a simulated True Person Tai Ling, advanced to the Fifth Layer of the Dao Integration Realm, and began creating a sword art from four Immortal Stage formulas. When the Central Continent Conference approached, he left seclusion to lead Mount Shu’s delegation, and the groups from four allied sects arrived as the journey was about to begin.

• Lu Changsheng found that the Twelfth-Rank Karma-Fire Red Lotus could overwhelm True Person Tai Ling but consumed too much True Qi for him to use its full power.
• Lu Changsheng taught Lu Qinglian Hundredfold Primordial Force and received Thousandfold Primordial Power as a reward.
• During his seclusion, Lu Changsheng reached the Fifth Layer of the Dao Integration Realm, mastered four Divine Sword True Formulas, and began combining them into a new sword art.
• Lin Qingzhi interrupted Lu Changsheng’s seclusion to tell him that the Central Continent Conference was about to begin.
• At Myriad Sword Peak, Lu Changsheng told Situ Kong, Taiyuan True Person, Li Changye, and the other elders that he had reached the Fifth Layer of the Dao Integration Realm.
• Situ Kong appointed Lu Changsheng to lead Mount Shu’s delegation, and Lu Changsheng spotted the groups from the four great sects arriving.

Lu Changsheng and the leaders of Xia Province’s great sects traveled toward the Central Continent Conference and were received by the Great Wu Empress in her Imperial City. The Empress revealed that she intended to compete for first place before attempting to ascend, while her officials underestimated the visitors from Xia Province.

• Lu Changsheng joined leaders from Mount Shu, Ask Immortal Pavilion, Crouching Dragon Temple, Boundless Temple, and the Martial Dao Alliance on the journey to Central Province, while Taiyuan True Person stayed behind to guard Mount Shu.
• After three months of travel, the party crossed the Martial Domain and entered the Great Wu Imperial City, where the guards escorted them to a residence reserved for visiting sect experts.
• The Great Wu Empress invited the six Dao Integration Realm experts from Xia Province to the palace and assessed their cultivation, finding that she could not discern Lu Changsheng’s realm.
• The Great Wu Empress said she planned to contend for first place at the Central Continent Conference and would attempt the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation afterward, while her officials secretly dismissed the strength of Xia Province’s visitors.
• After the visitors departed, the Great General claimed that he could defeat everyone from Xia Province and that they posed no threat.

Lu Changsheng and the Xia Province sect leaders arrived at Stars Pavilion for the Central Continent Conference, where other sects underestimated Mount Shu and its allies. After Lu Changsheng stopped the Blazing Fire Valley master from harassing Xia Ningxue, a Stars Pavilion elder intervened, and Chen Xiaoyao reunited with the Green-Robed Woman.

• Lu Changsheng and his companions reached Stars Pavilion and were taken to the guest quarters, where sect experts mocked Xia Province's decline and Mount Shu's weak showing at past conferences.
• Penglai Fairy greeted Lu Changsheng warmly and was surprised by the progress he and Xia Ningxue's disciples had made since their last meeting.
• The Blazing Fire Valley master pressed Xia Ningxue to discuss the Dao, but Lu Changsheng seized his wrist and made him stumble before a Stars Pavilion elder stopped the confrontation.
• The Blazing Fire Valley master retreated after threatening Lu Changsheng, while the Green-Robed Woman noticed Lu Changsheng's improved cultivation.
• Chen Xiaoyao greeted the Green-Robed Woman, who was surprised that he had reached the fifth layer of the Void Refinement Realm.

Sun Jian of Ten Thousand Swords Manor tried to recruit Xia Ningxue, then threatened Lu Changsheng after she refused and Lu dismissed his sect’s swordsmanship. The Great Wu Empress arrived and protected Lu, forcing Sun Jian to back down.

• The Green-Robed Woman offered help to Lu Changsheng and his disciples, while Sun Jian approached Xia Ningxue with an offer to share Ten Thousand Swords Manor’s swordsmanship.
• Xia Ningxue rejected Sun Jian’s offer, and Lu Changsheng said Ten Thousand Swords Manor’s swordsmanship might not be remarkable.
• Sun Jian and his elders mocked Lu Changsheng and challenged him, while the Green-Robed Woman and the Penglai Fairy warned him not to provoke Ten Thousand Swords Manor.
• Sun Jian prepared to attack Lu Changsheng, who readied himself to fight, and Xia Ningxue offered to join him.
• The Great Wu Empress, Wu Yue, arrived with her forces and declared Lu Changsheng under her protection, making Sun Jian withdraw his presence.

Lu Changsheng prepared for the Central Continent Conference by obtaining an eleventh-grade Immortal Pill, while Chen Xiaoyao reunited with Tang Ling'er and began touring the Stars Pavilion. Tang Ling'er’s father welcomed the Dragon-Tiger Sect as a potential marriage alliance, setting up a contest for her hand.

• Sun Jian withdrew after the Great Wu Empress intervened, and Situ Kong warned Lu Changsheng not to fight Sun Jian at the conference.
• Lu Changsheng bestowed a pill on Chen Xiaoyao and received an eleventh-grade Ancestral Dragon Double-Origin Pill as a reward.
• Tang Ling'er learned that Chen Xiaoyao had reached the Void Refinement Realm, then visited him at the Mount Shu lodgings.
• Lu Changsheng’s simulator identified Tang Ling'er as a suitable disciple, and he told Chen Xiaoyao to befriend her; Tang Ling'er agreed to show him around the Stars Pavilion.
• Aunt Zhu warned Tang Ling'er that the Dragon-Tiger Sect was coming to seek her hand, while the Dragon-Tiger Sect Young Master declared he would win her in marriage.

Lu Changsheng broke through to the Sixth Layer of the Dao Integration Realm as the Central Continent Conference began, while Chen Xiaoyao drew the jealous attention of Zhang Sheng after Tang Ling'er showed him around the Stars Pavilion. The Xia Province group entered the Dragon Field, where the conference was set to begin.

• Zhang Sheng confronted Tang Ling'er, Chen Xiaoyao, and the Green-Robed Woman, mocked Mount Shu and Lu Changsheng, and vowed to cripple Chen Xiaoyao at the conference.
• The Stars Pavilion Master and his wife learned Chen Xiaoyao had inherited the Pure Yang Body and considered him a possible match for Tang Ling'er, while the Pavilion Master planned to judge him at the conference.
• Lu Changsheng advanced to the Sixth Layer of the Dao Integration Realm, and Xia Ningxue advanced to the Fifth Layer; Lu Changsheng gave her powerful Immortal Pills for the coming battles.
• Xiao Zhu led the Xia Province cultivators into the Dragon Field and explained its Martial Platform and protective formation as experts from across the provinces gathered.
• Lu Changsheng arrived at the viewing stand, where the Blazing Fire Valley Master glared at him and hoped to face him in the conference.

Powerful sect leaders gathered for the Central Continent Conference, where Lu Changsheng drew the first match against Yun Tianba. Lu Changsheng overwhelmed the Blazing Fire Valley Master with the Seven-Star Sword Formation, and Yun Tianba surrendered.

• Lu Changsheng sensed that the Sect Master of Mysterious Heaven Sect possessed consummate Dao Integration Realm strength, while Sun Jian glared at him with hostility.
• Zhang Sheng glared at Chen Xiaoyao, and Lu Changsheng told his disciple to stand up to the Dragon-Tiger Sect Young Master if he could win.
• The Stars Pavilion Master opened the conference, and the sect representatives drew lots; Lu Changsheng drew number one, while Xia Ningxue and Yu Xuanji landed in the lower half of the bracket.
• Lu Changsheng faced Yun Tianba, whose sixth-layer Dao Integration Realm cultivation and ruthless reputation made the crowd expect him to win.
• Lu Changsheng summoned seven Middle-Grade Immortal Swords and trapped Yun Tianba in the Seven-Star Sword Formation.
• The sword formation wounded Yun Tianba, who admitted defeat and begged Lu Changsheng to spare his life.

Lu Changsheng defeated Yun Tianba, then watched Sun Jian reveal Ten Thousand Swords Manor’s sword art beyond the Immortal Stage and considered how to contend with peak Dao Integration Realm experts. As the first round continued, the Nameless Old Monk, Xia Ningxue, and Yu Xuanji also won, leaving Xia Province with four fighters advancing.

• Lu Changsheng defeated Yun Tianba with the Seven-Star Sword Formation, prompting other provinces’ experts to recognize his potential while Sun Jian dismissed him as no threat.
• Sun Jian defeated Murong Buyi with a tree branch and the Supreme Sword Art No Self, No Sword, revealing swordsmanship beyond the Immortal Stage and provoking Lu Changsheng to consider developing a superior art.
• Wu Yue defeated a sixth-layer Dao Integration Realm cultivator with one palm, and the Nameless Old Monk crushed a fifth-layer sword cultivator with a golden Buddha hand, revealing himself as Divine Monk Wule, a major-completion expert.
• Xia Ningxue defeated the Profound Saber Sect Master despite being a realm lower, and Yu Xuanji won her match with her Literary Sage Physique.
• Four of Xia Province’s five fighters advanced to the second round, and Sun Jian turned a provocative gaze toward Lu Changsheng after defeating Murong Buyi.