Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Changsheng returned to Jinglong Mountain with Shangguan Zhao'er after escaping the Nine Serenities Forbidden Land, where Qingyue Immortal Maiden expelled Protector Han for trying to murder them. As Lu Changsheng resumed cultivating, he worried about finding Xia Ningxue, and Shangguan Zhao'er caught him holding her clothes.

• Qingxia Immortal Maiden told Lu Changsheng that Blood Demon Ancestor had joined an ancient Demon Sect and warned him to hide his role in destroying the Reincarnation Hall.
• Lu Changsheng and Shangguan Zhao'er returned to Jinglong Mountain, and Protector Han learned that they had escaped the Nine Serenities Forbidden Land.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden summoned a sect assembly, accused Protector Han of trying to kill her disciples, expelled him, and gave his position and Cultivation Resources to Shangguan Zhao'er.
• Protector Han left Jinglong Mountain in disgrace and vowed to take revenge after becoming a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Lu Changsheng resumed cultivating and thought about Qingxia Immortal Maiden, Tai Xu True Person, and Xia Ningxue before Shangguan Zhao'er found him holding Xia Ningxue's clothes.

Lu Changsheng gave Qingyue Immortal Maiden several rare materials she needed to forge a Sacred Artifact, earning her protection while beginning to study the Space Principle. A thousand years later, he had gathered her remaining materials and nearly mastered the Cosmos Scripture.

• Shangguan Zhao'er brought Lu Changsheng to Qingyue Immortal Maiden, who began teaching him and Shangguan Zhao'er the Space Principle.
• Lu Changsheng gave Qingyue Immortal Maiden Primordial Crystal and Black Cold Pool Water, and she promised to protect him and teach him.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden gave Lu Changsheng and Shangguan Zhao'er the Cosmos Scripture and began instructing them in its cultivation.
• Over the next thousand years, Lu Changsheng continued studying the Cosmos Scripture and gathered the materials Qingyue Immortal Maiden needed to forge her Sacred Artifact.
• Lu Changsheng presented Qingyue Immortal Maiden with Azure Heaven Stone, completing her collection of required materials.
• When Qingyue Immortal Maiden asked about his progress, Lu Changsheng said he was nearly done mastering the Cosmos Scripture.

After two thousand years of cultivation, Lu Changsheng joined Shangguan Zhao'er’s retaliation against the Yellow Springs Sect’s Grave Mound Mountain branch. During the battle, the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator identified Dugu Aotian as a potential disciple, leaving Lu Changsheng wondering about the strange young man’s background.

• Lu Changsheng reached Great Perfection Earth Immortal and mastered several Saint-tier techniques after cultivating for two thousand years.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden sent Shangguan Zhao'er, Lu Changsheng, and other Jinglong Immortal Temple experts to avenge a sect the Yellow Springs Sect had slaughtered.
• At Grave Mound Mountain, Young Master Dugu said he did not want to kill innocent people, while his guard insisted he had to destroy a sect before returning home.
• Shangguan Zhao'er led the assault with the Thousand Dragon Killing Formation as Xiao Fan, Ning Qianqian, and the other Jinglong Immortal Temple fighters attacked the branch hall.
• Lu Changsheng confronted Li Mountain Old Demon and used the Immortal-Tr slaying Sword to destroy half of his body.
• The Apprentice-Teaching Simulator recognized Dugu Aotian as a potential disciple, and Lu Changsheng noticed that a Great Accomplishment Heavenly Immortal guarded him.

Lu Changsheng and Jinglong Immortal Temple destroyed the Yellow Springs Sect’s Grave Mound Mountain stronghold, and Lu recruited Dugu Aotian, a Demon Sect disciple with the Devil Ancestor Dao Body, as his ninth disciple. The Yellow Springs Sect Master discovered that Yan Xiu had been killed and mistakenly feared Dugu Aotian had also died, while Dugu followed Lu to Jinglong Mountain to begin training.

• Lu Changsheng killed Li Mountain Old Demon and Yan Xiu, while Shangguan Zhao'er’s formation and sword technique destroyed Grave Mound Mountain and killed its hall master.
• Shangguan Zhao'er and Chu Bukang killed Dugu Aotian’s elderly guard, and Lu offered Dugu a chance to leave the Demon Sects and become his disciple.
• Dugu agreed, and Lu’s system revealed his Devil Ancestor Dao Body, Five Elements Spirit Root, and Artifact Refining Grandmaster aptitude.
• Dugu explained that his righteous-path mother had raised him to reject the demonic path, and Shangguan Zhao'er backed Lu’s decision to trust him despite the elders’ doubts.
• The Jinglong Immortal Temple party left Grave Mound Mountain, while the Yellow Springs Sect Master saw Yan Xiu’s death and could not locate Dugu in the disrupted time fragments.
• Dugu followed Lu to Jinglong Mountain, where Lu considered how to train his new ninth disciple.

Lu Changsheng guided Dugu Aotian through a breakthrough, then prepared to face his own Heavenly Immortal tribulation as another disciple ascended. The chapter ended with Shi Yu waking in an unfamiliar body and discovering memories of a life as a trainee Pet Beast Breeder in Icefield City.

• Lu Changsheng replaced Dugu Aotian's harmful Mad Devil Cultivation Method with safer Demon Sect methods and empowered him with 360,000 days of cultivation.
• Three hundred years later, Qingyue Immortal Maiden refused the Divine Sky Sect's demand to surrender Ning Qianqian and warned Jinglong Immortal Temple to prepare for retaliation.
• Dugu Aotian survived the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation, but Lu Changsheng had to use Taiqing True Qi to suppress his unstable Devil Ancestor Dao Body.
• Lu Changsheng prepared to enter the Heavenly Immortal Realm with a Human Immortal Pill, while the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator returned a Mid-Grade Supreme Treasure Immortal Sword after Mo Huazhi ascended.
• Shi Yu woke in a young stranger's body, found books about pet beasts, and recovered memories identifying him as a trainee Pet Beast Breeder in Icefield City.

Lu Changsheng survived his Twelvefold Heavenly Tribulation, reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and received Qingyue Immortal Maiden’s Quasi-Emperor-tier cultivation method. As Chen Xiaoyao and Tang Ling'er prepared to ascend, the chapter ended with a new scene in a ruined city, where a boy waited to ambush a feeding vulture.

• Lu Changsheng endured the Twelvefold Heavenly Tribulation with his treasures and sword, then broke through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden taught Lu Changsheng the Limitless Profound Pure Dao before leaving to forge a Sacred Artifact, and Lu Changsheng taught Dugu Aotian the Myriad Poisons Primordial Unity Art and gave him the Ghost Evil blade.
• Lu Changsheng examined the Slaying Immortal Sword and wondered about the mysteries of the mortal realm, then tried and failed to obtain a Formation Diagram for his four Immortal Swords.
• Chen Xiaoyao and Tang Ling'er underwent their Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation together at Dragon Field as the Stars Pavilion Elders saw them off.
• A Crouching Dragon Temple disciple told Yu Xuanji that Chen Xiaoyao had ascended and Chen Yao had become Mount Shu Sect Master, leaving Wu Wan'er wistful about meeting Chen Xiaoyao again.
• In a blood-rained ruined city, a motionless boy watched a vulture feed on a wild dog and waited for his chance.

Lu Changsheng received the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and returned to Heavenly Mystery Mountain, where he reunited with Tai Xu True Person. After learning Qingxia Immortal Maiden was alive, Tai Xu True Person agreed to go to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion with Lu Changsheng and seek her out.

• Lu Changsheng received the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and cultivated the Limitless Profound Pure Dao before setting out for Mount Shu’s Apprentice-Selection Ceremony.
• Elder Luo confronted a powerful intruder at Heavenly Mystery Mountain, but Lu Changsheng returned and recognized him as Tai Xu True Person, Mount Shu’s former sect master.
• Lu Changsheng told Tai Xu True Person that Qingxia Immortal Maiden was alive and staying at the Flowing Cloud Pavilion, prompting Tai Xu True Person to overcome his doubts and decide to visit her.
• Lu Changsheng asked Tai Xu True Person about Xia Ningxue, but Tai Xu True Person had not encountered her during his travels through the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Changsheng left Elder Luo in charge of the ceremony and sent Xiao Fan, Ning Qianqian, and Dugu Aotian back to Jinglong Mountain while he and Tai Xu True Person went to meet Shangguan Zhao'er and travel to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion.

Lu Changsheng, Shangguan Zhao'er, and Tai Xu True Person reached the Flowing Cloud Pavilion, where Tai Xu reunited with Qingxia Immortal Maiden and learned she was being forced to marry the World-Overturning King. Lu Changsheng proposed delaying the marriage while he built up his strength and invited Tai Xu to join Mount Shu.

• Lu Changsheng, Shangguan Zhao'er, and Tai Xu True Person traveled to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion to find Qingxia Immortal Maiden.
• Qingxia Immortal Maiden told her master she would not marry the World-Overturning King after learning Tai Xu was alive, but her master warned that the demon king could destroy the sect.
• Qingxia Immortal Maiden joyfully reunited with Tai Xu, while Lu Changsheng and Shangguan Zhao'er left them alone to talk.
• Lu Changsheng blocked a probing Divine Sense from the Flowing Cloud Pavilion's master, then learned that Qingxia's forced marriage threatened both her freedom and the sect's safety.
• Flowing Cloud Pavilion Grand Supreme Elders mocked Tai Xu and urged Qingxia to marry the World-Overturning King, but Qingxia rejected them and declared she would rather die than submit.
• Lu Changsheng urged Qingxia to delay the marriage for twenty or thirty thousand years and invited Tai Xu to join Mount Shu, promising him resources to cultivate.

Qingxia Immortal Maiden agreed to a Blood Oath giving her thirty thousand years to defeat the World-Overturning King, while Lu Changsheng promised to help her and Tai Xu True Person. After cultivating and teaching his disciples, Lu Changsheng received an incomplete Quasi-Emperor-tier sword scripture and brought it to Qingyue Immortal Maiden for guidance.

• Qingxia Immortal Maiden agreed to swear a Blood Oath, and her master promised not to harm Tai Xu True Person during the thirty-thousand-year period.
• The Flowing Cloud Pavilion sect master attacked Lu Changsheng with Divine Sense, but his Heaven-Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda protected him and made her fear his background.
• Tai Xu True Person joined Lu Changsheng's Immortal Realm Mount Shu and cultivated on Heaven's Mystery Mountain, while Lu Changsheng returned to Jinglong Mountain to cultivate and teach his disciples.
• Lu Changsheng granted Dugu Aotian techniques and treasures, receiving a Demon Sects Sacred Artifact Fragment among his rewards.
• Eighty years later, Lu Changsheng taught Xiao Fan the Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow Swordsmanship and received the incomplete Quasi-Emperor-tier Scattered Manuscript of the Divine King Sword Scripture.
• Lu Changsheng took the sword scripture manuscript to Qingyue Immortal Maiden and asked her to study it with him.

Lu Changsheng studied swordsmanship under Qingyue Immortal Maiden while she forged a Sacred Artifact, then helped defend Jinglong Mountain from the Divine Sky Sect. After the enemy withdrew, he learned through the Apprentice-Teaching Simulator that a future attack could destroy the temple, so he decided to leave with several disciples.

• Qingyue Immortal Maiden taught Lu Changsheng the Quasi-Emperor-rank swordsmanship Heaven and Earth, I Alone while she forged a Sacred Artifact.
• The Divine Sky Sect Master Yun Changkong attacked Jinglong Mountain and demanded that Lu Changsheng hand over Ning Qianqian.
• Qingyue Immortal Maiden completed her Sacred Artifact, Fireflow, and forced Yun Changkong and the Divine Sky Sect to retreat.
• Lu Changsheng simulated Dugu Aotian’s future and discovered that a formidable enemy would destroy the Jinglong Immortal Temple in eight hundred years.
• Lu Changsheng told Qingyue Immortal Maiden he would leave Jinglong Mountain with several disciples to avoid bringing danger upon the temple.

After three thousand years of hunting demons with his disciples, Lu Changsheng uncovered a Great Demon impersonating Yuehe Kingdom’s princess and let his disciples fight it. He killed the demon, rescued the princess’s soul, and agreed to help give her a new body.

• Lu Changsheng accepted the king of Yuehe Kingdom’s request to find and eliminate the Great Demon that had killed the kingdom’s cultivators.
• At midnight, the princess revealed herself as a Great Demon that had possessed her body and devoured her soul.
• Lu Changsheng exposed the demon with the Kasyapa Golden Light Mirror, and Xiao Fan, Ning Qianqian, and Dugu Aotian attacked it while preserving its head.
• When the demon used the princess’s soul as a shield, Lu Changsheng stunned it with the Soul-Seizing Ring, killed it with the Slaying Immortal Sword, and retrieved her soul.
• Ning Qianqian swallowed the demon’s Golden Core, and Lu Changsheng told the king he could fashion the princess a new body from a lotus flower.

Lu Changsheng traveled to the Heavenly Court Ruins after a disturbance there shook Yuehe Kingdom, where he reunited with his second disciple, Lu Qinglian, at the Southern Heavenly Gate. He found her and her stockade facing the Blood Sea Hall, whose demons still threatened them.

• Lu Changsheng revived Yuehe Kingdom's princess, then received a map of the Heavenly Court Ruins after an underground disturbance drew his attention north.
• At the Southern Heavenly Gate, Lu Qinglian killed an Earth Immortal Evil Cultivator with one punch, but the Blood Sea Hall group confronted her stockade.
• Elder Hanchan wounded Lu Qinglian and drained her golden blood while another Blood Sea Hall elder crushed a fleeing bandit lackey.
• Lu Changsheng arrived with Xiao Fan, Ning Qianqian, and Dugu Aotian, and his sword strike cut through Elder Hanchan's sea of blood.
• Lu Qinglian recognized Lu Changsheng as her master and embraced him, while the Blood Sea Hall demons angrily demanded their attention.

Lu Changsheng rescued Lu Qinglian and led his four disciples into battle against a Blood Sea Hall squad in the Heavenly Court Ruins. He and his disciples killed the entire squad, clearing the way to claim the treasure without competition.

• Lu Changsheng healed Lu Qinglian with a Three-Life Profound Gate Pill and attacked Elder Hanchan after learning that the Blood Sea Hall demons had injured her.
• Lu Changsheng gave Lu Qinglian the Twelve-Petal Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and she used it to fight the squad’s Earth Immortals alongside Xiao Fan, Ning Qianqian, and Dugu Aotian.
• Lu Changsheng trapped the two Heavenly Immortal elders with the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, then killed them and shattered Elder Hanchan’s Blood Demon Pearl.
• Lu Qinglian burned an Earth Immortal elder alive, while Dugu Aotian killed another with his Blood Sea Sword and absorbed his Blood Qi.
• Lu Changsheng and his four disciples wiped out the Blood Sea Hall squad, leaving no survivors and removing any rivals for the treasure.

Lu Changsheng and his disciples entered the Heavenly Court Ruins and found a buried Daoist Temple containing a Ginseng Fruit Tree and the Earth Book. After they left, Blood Sea Hall experts and a group of Immortal Maidens arrived to search the emptied temple, while Lu Changsheng continued training toward his promise to defeat the World-Overturning King.

• Lu Qinglian reunited with Lu Changsheng after serving as a mountain king, and he led her and his other disciples into the Heavenly Court Ruins.
• Lu Changsheng found fresh earth around an ancient Daoist Temple, sent a puppet inside, and discovered a Ginseng Fruit Tree and an ancient book called the Earth Book.
• Lu Changsheng transplanted the tree into his inner world, gave his disciples three Ginseng Fruits each, and took the Earth Book before erasing the party’s traces and leaving.
• Blood Sea Hall experts traced the deaths of Elder Hanchan’s group but could not identify Lu Changsheng’s party, while their leader sensed an unsettling connection to Lu Qinglian.
• A group of Immortal Maidens arrived at the emptied temple, and one sensed a familiar presence before leaving with the others.
• Lu Changsheng resumed training with his disciples and gave Lu Qinglian Transmission Empowerment, after which the lotus seed in her bosom grew scorching hot.

Lu Qinglian’s Fire Lotus Seed transformed her Karmic Fire Red Lotus into an Eighteenth-Rank Top-Grade Supreme Treasure, while Lu Changsheng discovered that two damaged treasures in his Inner World were consuming Spiritual Qi to repair themselves. Nearly ten thousand years later, Daoist Tuquan ascended from Mount Shu and, after wandering through the frozen Immortal Realm, recognized Xia Ningxue and chased after her.

• Lu Qinglian’s Fire Lotus Seed merged with her Karmic Fire Red Lotus, raising it from twelve ranks to eighteen and making it a Top-Grade Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Changsheng empowered Lu Qinglian with cultivation and discovered the Nameless Ancient Cauldron and the Earth Book were absorbing his Spiritual Qi to repair themselves.
• Over the next three thousand years, Lu Changsheng taught Lu Qinglian several Saint-tier arts and continued traveling with his four disciples.
• Nearly ten thousand years later, Daoist Tuquan passed the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation at Mount Shu and ascended to the Immortal Realm as a big yellow dog.
• Daoist Tuquan spent ten years crossing an icy wilderness before finding Human Race cultivators and recognizing Xia Ningxue, whom he called his mistress.