Chapter Summaries

City-Toppling Dance praised Lu Changsheng’s understanding of the Dao, while Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian left Taihua Mountain to train in the southern Immortal Realm. At a Heaven-Clear Sect recruitment ceremony, Taiyuan True Person urged the sect to investigate the Returning Unity Sect’s surprise attack before retaliating, suspecting a hidden scheme.

• City-Toppling Dance discussed the Dao with Lu Changsheng, failed to calculate his Fortune, and took her leave after they exchanged praise.
• Lu Qinglian took Ning Qianqian to explore the southern Immortal Realm, while Lu Changsheng and Su Xiaoqi entered the Void to rescue the Su Clan Ancestors.
• At the Heaven-Clear Sect’s Apprentice-Selection Ceremony, Taiyuan True Person recalled his former Disciple Lu Changsheng and claimed his Disciples surpassed the geniuses of the Holy Lands and Aristocratic Clans.
• A Heaven-Clear Sect Elder reported that the Returning Unity Sect had massacred a branch hall, and the sect master began preparing to retaliate.
• Taiyuan True Person warned the Heaven-Clear Sect Elders that the Returning Unity Sect’s attack was suspicious and might conceal a trap.
• Taiyuan True Person proposed joining forces with other sects to besiege the Returning Unity Sect and test its hidden trump card.

Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian headed toward the siege of the Returning Unity Sect after Ning Qianqian slapped a Long River Sect Elder away. At Origin-Returning Mountain, Tian Guizhang revealed that the Returning Unity Sect had powerful allies, and the Heaven-Clear Sect Master recognized one as the Elder of Eternal Joy.

• Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian heard that seventy-two sects planned to besiege the Returning Unity Sect and decided to join the conflict.
• When a Long River Sect Elder tried to claim the two women, Ning Qianqian struck him with a palm and sent him flying; Lu Qinglian compensated the innkeeper with Primordial Purple Ginseng.
• The Long River Sect Master led his forces to Origin-Returning Mountain, where the allied sects surrounded the Returning Unity Sect as Taiyuan True Person worried that its silence concealed a plan.
• Tian Guizhang appeared with the Returning Unity Sect's Elders and disciples, challenged the Heaven-Clear Sect Master, and called on the Evil Extremity Sect for help.
• The Elder of Eternal Joy identified himself as a figure from the Eternal Joy Daoist Temple, and the Heaven-Clear Sect Master recognized him while Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian remained hidden among the allied disciples.

The Elder of Eternal Joy and Tu Sanqian attacked the seventy-two sects besieging the Guiyi Sect, overwhelming their formations and killing many cultivators. Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian intervened against the two God Kings, while Lu Qinglian reunited with her grandmaster Taiyuan True Person.

• The sects learned that the Elder of Eternal Joy and Tu Sanqian were notorious Demons affiliated with the Evil Extremity Sect, and Mu Shenqing secretly organized a counterattack.
• The Elder of Eternal Joy destroyed the Long River Sect's formation, while Tu Sanqian split the Illusory Sea Sect's formation and killed its Sect Master.
• Tian Guizhang fought Mu Shenqing as the Elder of Eternal Joy broke more formations, absorbed the cultivators' Blood Qi, and attacked Taiyuan True Person.
• Lu Qinglian blocked the Elder of Eternal Joy's attack with a single punch and greeted Taiyuan True Person as her grandmaster.
• Ning Qianqian stopped Tu Sanqian's greatsword, leaving both God Kings facing formidable opponents.

Lu Qinglian and Ning Qianqian defeated the Evil Extremity Sect’s two experts, and the allied sects destroyed the Returning Unity Sect. To guard against retaliation, Lu Qinglian led the sect leaders toward Cloud Mountain Holy Land to seek an audience with True Lord Youran.

• Lu Qinglian battered Elder of Eternal Joy until he self-destructed, then emerged with only light injuries, while Ning Qianqian joined the eight sects’ power and killed Tu Sanqian.
• The allied sects wiped out the Returning Unity Sect after its Master, Tian Guizhang, chose to self-destruct, but they feared the Evil Extremity Sect would retaliate.
• Mu Shenqing proposed seeking help from Cloud Mountain Holy Land, and Lu Qinglian said she had met True Lord Youran at the Heavenly Court Assembly and offered to lead the sect leaders to him.
• Lu Qinglian told Taiyuan True Person that Lu Changsheng had entered the depths of the Void, then spoke with him about their former Mount Shu companions and Su Qian’er.
• Lu Qinglian led Taiyuan True Person and the sect leaders to Cloud Mountain Holy Land and asked the gate guards for an audience with True Lord Youran.

Lu Qinglian secured True Lord Youran’s help to watch over the Southern Foothills of Fulong Mountain and protect the sects from the Evil Extremity Sect. During her stay at Cloud Mountain Holy Land, she challenged its disciples and then Elder Lei for a wager, leaving the elders and sect masters watching as his attack began.

• Lu Qinglian used a token to gain an audience with True Lord Youran at Cloud Mountain Holy Land.
• She asked True Lord Youran to guard Fulong Mountain against the Evil Extremity Sect, and he agreed to send disciples to monitor the area.
• True Lord Youran invited Lu Qinglian and the sect masters to stay, offering the sect masters a chance to hear his Dao lecture in three years.
• Lu Qinglian defeated Cloud Mountain Holy Land disciples in succession, prompting its elders to arrange a wager and bar ancestor-level and quasi-ancestor-level figures from competing.
• Elder Lei wagered an Exquisite Fruit against Lu Qinglian’s Second-Grade Enlightenment Tea Leaf and attacked her with eighty-one streaks of wind-and-thunder Sword Qi.

Lu Qinglian defeated Cloud Mountain Holy Land Elders in wagered duels, while Tang Ling'er’s group continued searching for the missing Stars Pavilion members and Ji Xuan broke through to the God King Realm. The chapter left Lu Changsheng learning of Ji Xuan’s advancement and wondering whether the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan would become an ally or enemy.

• Lu Qinglian defeated Elder Lei, claimed his Exquisite Fruit, then challenged more Cloud Mountain Elders and raised the stakes against Elder Zhou.
• Elder Zhou and the other Elders lost more than a hundred Exquisite Fruits to Lu Qinglian, and Qiyun True Lord banned gambling in the Holy Land for a hundred thousand years.
• Lu Qinglian praised Qiyun True Lord and Lu Changsheng, and Qiyun True Lord promised to guide her in cultivation.
• Shen Xiaoyao, Tang Ling'er, and Wu Wan'er wiped out an Evil Extremity Sect branch but found no clues to Tang Wansan and the other missing Stars Pavilion members.
• Ji Xuan drew on the red moon, endured the Heavenly Tribulation, and advanced to the God King Realm under the protection of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan.
• Lu Changsheng received the Ten Thousand Demons Banner as a reward for Ji Xuan’s breakthrough and wondered whether her clan would become an ally or an enemy.

Lu Changsheng entered the Yao Realm to test Su Wudi’s Invincible Divine Art and the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, but found the banner’s power unclear. After witnessing a Kui-Phoenix Clan envoy abuse the Cloud Sparrow Clan, Lu Changsheng attacked him, leaving the Cloud Sparrow women stunned.

• Lu Changsheng traveled to the Yao Realm despite City-Toppling Dance’s warning that the Myriad Races Conference was approaching, then landed in Kui-Phoenix Clan territory and concealed his presence.
• Lu Changsheng tested the Ten Thousand Demons Banner on a Thousand-Legged Centipede, but it only frightened the demon and failed to harm it.
• A Kui-Phoenix Clan envoy demanded tribute and fifty young women from the impoverished Cloud Sparrow Clan, including the Clan Chief’s Daughter, threatening to destroy the tribe if it refused.
• Lu Changsheng followed the envoy out of Cloud Sparrow Clan territory and confronted him, saying he had come for his Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Changsheng used the Invincible Divine Art to punch the God King Realm envoy into the ground as the Cloud Sparrow women watched in shock.

Lu Changsheng killed a Kui-Phoenix Clan powerhouse, used the Ten Thousand Demons Banner to capture his Primordial Spirit, and took Yun Qingmu and the Cloud Sparrow Clan girls with him. After collecting a second demon spirit, he recovered from the battle while Yun Qingmu approached him with an offer she had resolved to make for her clan’s sake.

• Lu Changsheng defeated the Kui-Phoenix Clan powerhouse, destroyed his Demon Core, and absorbed his Primordial Spirit into the Ten Thousand Demons Banner.
• Yun Qingmu asked Lu Changsheng to take the Cloud Sparrow Clan girls as maids so their clan would not be blamed for the emissary’s death, and he agreed to let them choose later whether to stay.
• The Kui-Phoenix Clan discovered the emissary’s death, and Young Master Qi set out with seven Elders to investigate and pursue Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng killed the Chitie Clan’s Demon Bull and absorbed its Primordial Spirit into the Ten Thousand Demons Banner.
• Yun Qingmu decided to offer herself to Lu Changsheng for the sake of her clan, approached him while he recovered, and he seized her hand.

Lu Changsheng fought Qi, the Kui-Phoenix Clan Young Master, and defeated him, but seven Kui-Phoenix Clan elders intervened before he could kill him. As they overwhelmed Lu Changsheng, he summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner and prepared to unleash the Human Emperor Cauldron and Taiyin Goddess Talisman.

• Lu Changsheng detected Qi and seven Kui-Phoenix Clan elders approaching, discovered a tracking mark in the corpse of a slain clansman, and erased it.
• Qi attacked with Pan-Nirvana Phoenix Fire, but Lu Changsheng used the Mountains and Rivers Diagram to absorb most of the flames before accepting Qi's challenge to fight without it.
• Lu Changsheng withstood Qi's renewed Phoenix fire using his defenses and beat him so severely that his body shattered and his Demon Core cracked.
• The seven Kui-Phoenix Clan elders attacked Lu Changsheng together, and he used a Qilin Blood Origin Pill to face them, but one pierced him with a Phoenix Feather.
• Lu Changsheng summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, which manifested a Kui-Phoenix and a Chitie Demon Ox from Demon Race Primordial Spirits, then activated the Human Emperor Cauldron and prepared the Taiyin Goddess Talisman.

Lu Changsheng used the Taiyin Goddess Puppet to defeat the Kui-Phoenix Clan Elders, killing two and trapping their strongest Elder while the rest fled with Qi. After the puppet ran low on spiritual energy, the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief arrived with hundreds of experts and ordered them to seize the Taiyin Goddess's shell and kill Lu Changsheng.

• The Kui-Phoenix Clan Elders tried to overwhelm Lu Changsheng, but he summoned the Taiyin Goddess Puppet, which wielded Slay Yama and killed two Elders while the Mountains and Rivers Diagram trapped a Third-Grade God King Elder.
• Qi and four surviving Elders fled as the puppet's attacks exhausted its accumulated Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and Lu Changsheng confirmed that it remained a soulless shell before returning it to the Taiyin Goddess Talisman.
• Lu Changsheng absorbed the Primordial Spirits of the two slain Elders into the Ten Thousand Demons Banner and learned that its sealed spirits weakened with each use.
• Qi regrouped with four Elders and told the arriving Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief that Lu Changsheng had defeated them with the Taiyin Goddess Puppet.
• The Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief ordered his hundreds of Demon Race experts to obtain the Taiyin Goddess's shell and kill Lu Changsheng.

After Lu Changsheng rescued Yun Qingmu and the Cloud Sparrow Clan from the Kui-Phoenix Clan, he tried to lead them to safety, but the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief arrived with a large force. With the clan trapped and the Chief ready to kill him, Lu Changsheng stalled by claiming he knew the location of the White Emperor’s tomb.

• Lu Changsheng learned that the Cloud Sparrow Clan planned to attend the Myriad Races Conference and warned Yun Qingmu that the Kui-Phoenix Clan Young Master might retaliate against her people.
• Lu Changsheng accompanied Yun Qingmu back to the Cloud Sparrow Clan and urged its chief and Elders to flee before the Kui-Phoenix Clan attacked.
• The Cloud Sparrow Clan gathered to leave, but the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief arrived with hundreds of Elders and demanded Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng put the Cloud Sparrow Clan into his Space Ring and tried to bargain with the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief using a captured Elder as a hostage, but the Chief refused to yield.
• As the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief prepared to attack, Lu Changsheng claimed he had found the Taiyin Goddess puppet in the White Emperor’s tomb, making the Chief and Elders demand its location.
• The Kui-Phoenix Clan Young Master accused Lu Changsheng of lying and insisted that he be killed.

Lu Changsheng escaped the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief after Ji Xuan and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan intervened, and he agreed to travel with them to the Myriad Races Conference. To disguise him as a Demon, Ji Su gave him a pill that transformed his appearance and aura.

• Lu Changsheng tried to flee the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief, but the Chief blocked him and demanded the White Emperor's treasures.
• Ji Su and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan arrived to protect Lu Changsheng, forcing the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief to leave after Lu Changsheng released a captured Kui-Phoenix Clan Elder.
• The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan explained that they had encountered Lu Changsheng while traveling to the Myriad Races Conference, and Ji Xuan asked him to accompany them for safety.
• Ji Xuan insisted that her clan help Lu Changsheng despite concerns about bringing a human to the conference, and Ji Su gave him a pill that temporarily made him appear to be a Demon.

Lu Changsheng attended the Myriad Races Conference on Qilin Sacred Mountain with the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan, where powerful Demon Race leaders settled disputes and redistributed territories. As the conference moved to selecting new divine heirs, Wu proposed cooperating with the Demon Realm to reclaim former Demon Race territory.

• Lu Changsheng observed the gathering of powerful Demon Kings, including the World-Destroying Black Dragon and the returning Eight Desolate Fire Dragon, while hiding his identity as a Human Race Xiuzhenzhe.
• The Demon God arrived, and Wu accused the Cloud Sparrow Clan of colluding with the Human Race before the Demon God approved the Kui-Phoenix Clan’s claim to its lands.
• The Demon God declined to mediate the Dragon Clan’s internal conflict and ruled on other tribes’ disputes as they traded territory, Spirit Veins, and treasures.
• After dozens of days of rulings, the Demon God asked whether any clans had further proposals, and Wu proposed that the Demon Race cooperate with the Demon Realm to reclaim its former territory.

At the Myriad Races Conference, Lu Changsheng challenged the Kui-Phoenix Clan’s proposal to join the Demon Realm in invading the Immortal Realm. His arguments rallied the pro-peace and neutral Demon Kings, leaving the proposal defeated for now.

• The Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief proposed an alliance with the Demon Realm to invade the Immortal Realm, citing the injured Heavenly Emperor and the promise of expanding Yao Realm territory.
• The World-Destroying Black Dragon, Great King Heavenly Sage, and other pro-war Demon Kings supported the plan, while Lu Changsheng realized he had to stop it.
• Lu Changsheng spoke against the alliance, and the Demon God shielded him from the pro-war Demon Kings’ pressure and invited him to explain.
• Lu Changsheng questioned the Kui-Phoenix Clan’s motives and suggested Illusory Netherworld Demon Venerable might have offered it special benefits, turning the gathering’s scrutiny toward the clan.
• Lu Changsheng argued that maintaining the Three Realms’ balance was safer than risking a devastating war, and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan’s matriarch openly backed him.
• Pro-peace and neutral Demon Kings joined the opposition, defeating the Kui-Phoenix Clan Chief’s proposal for the time being as he regarded Lu Changsheng with killing intent.

Lu Changsheng watched the Yao Realm choose its Divine Son candidates, where Jiejue Daoist defeated Mad Saber and Qi challenged Young Master Wang. Meanwhile, Xiao Fan went to Divine Flame Mountain to gather medicinal herbs for Pill Saint Suxin and seek a rare Spirit Fire, and he waited for the local auction to begin.

• The Demon God ruled that the Yao Realm would maintain the status quo, then began the selection of Divine Son and Divine Maiden candidates.
• Jiejue Daoist defeated Mad Saber and took his place as a Divine Son Candidate.
• Qi challenged the Qilin Clan’s Divine Son, Young Master Wang, and both prepared to fight.
• Pill Saint Suxin sent Xiao Fan to Divine Flame Mountain to gather herbs and search for the Star-Dream Separation Flame.
• Xiao Fan reached the city at the mountain’s foot, examined its marketplace, and waited a month for the auction to begin.

At the Yanxia City auction, Xiao Fan concealed his identity while bidding against Young Master Wan, whose household had helped ruin the Xiao Household. Xiao Fan won the ten-million-year flame grass and kept raising the price of a flame dragon sacred fruit, leaving Young Master Wan on the verge of bidding beyond the Wan Household’s funds.

• Xiao Fan recognized the Wan Household as an enemy of his fallen clan and hid his identity at the auction.
• Xiao Fan outbid Young Master Wan for the ten-million-year flame grass, winning it for fifty-five billion one hundred million Immortal Stones.
• The Quicksand Sect Elder presented a flame dragon sacred fruit, and Young Master Wan opened bidding at three hundred thirty billion Immortal Stones.
• Xiao Fan and Young Master Wan repeatedly outbid each other as the fruit’s price climbed past one trillion Immortal Stones.
• Xiao Fan bid one trillion and one billion Immortal Stones, while Wan Household servants begged Young Master Wan to stop because they had brought less than a trillion.

Xiao Fan outbid Young Master Wan for the Flame Dragon Sacred Fruit, escaped the Wan Household’s pursuit, and lent the treasure to a woman afflicted with Profound Nether Poison and the Misfortune Physique. As Xiao Fan searched Divine Flame Mountain for more medicinal ingredients, Young Master Wan gathered hundreds of Wan Household members to hunt him down.

• Xiao Fan paid over a trillion Immortal Stones for the Flame Dragon Sacred Fruit and Ten-Million-Year Flame Grass, then slipped away from the auction.
• Young Master Wan tracked Xiao Fan toward Divine Flame Mountain, but Xiao Fan used Talismans and erased his traces to escape.
• A Black-Robed Person asked to borrow the Flame Dragon Sacred Fruit, and Xiao Fan discovered she was a woman suffering from Profound Nether Poison.
• Xiao Fan gave the woman the fruit and learned she had the Misfortune Physique; she left without revealing her name or origins.
• Young Master Wan returned to Yanxia City and summoned hundreds of High Antiquity Wan Household members, offering fifty million Immortal Stones for Xiao Fan’s capture alive.
• Young Master Wan’s older cousin joined the search, and the Wan Household party headed into Divine Flame Mountain.

Xiao Fan discovered a hidden underground realm beneath Divine Flame Mountain, gathered rare medicinal ingredients, and found the Twentieth-Grade Star-Dream Separation Flame. As he cautiously approached the Spirit Fire to subdue it, Young Master Wan and his household pursued him through the underground passages.

• Xiao Fan entered an ancient Daoist Temple and recognized carvings of the Primordial Human Race Emperors, the Primordial Demon God, and the Red Emperor teaching his three disciples.
• Xiao Fan touched the magnolia tree and was pulled into the underground depths of Divine Flame Mountain, where he collected Golden Crow Immortal Grass and other treasures.
• Young Master Wan arrived at the temple with the Tracking Divine Hound, discovered the magnolia tree’s entrance, and led his household underground after Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan searched deeper into the underground realm and found the Star-Dream Separation Flame absorbing magma.
• Xiao Fan decided to risk approaching the Twentieth-Grade Spirit Fire, while Young Master Wan and his followers hurried after him.

Xiao Fan used the Creation Immortal Cauldron to absorb the Star-Dream Separation Flame and escaped the Wan Household after defeating Young Master Wan. Young Master Wan set out to ask the Old Ancestor for revenge, while Xiao Fan began refining the flame in a secluded spot.

• The Star-Dream Separation Flame attacked Xiao Fan and tried to devour him, but the Creation Immortal Cauldron emerged and absorbed the fire.
• Young Master Wan and the Wan Household found Xiao Fan and attacked him, but Xiao Fan used the cauldron to break Young Master Wan’s sword and capture him.
• Xiao Fan forced the Wan Household members to leave, beat Young Master Wan, then escaped and left him barely alive.
• Young Master Wan recovered and vowed revenge, then agreed with his cousin to ask the Old Ancestor to capture Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan summoned the Creation Immortal Cauldron in a quiet part of the Divine Flame Mountain Range and began refining the Star-Dream Separation Flame.

Xiao Fan refined the Star-Dream Separation Flame and searched Divine Flame Mountain for the remaining ingredients while misleading the Wan Household’s Tracking Divine Hound. Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng left the Myriad Races Conference under the protection of Ji Ning, and the Demon God ordered Young Master Wang to seek a marriage alliance with Ji Xuan; Xiao Fan’s pursuers still failed to find him.

• Xiao Fan fused his Spirit Fires around the Star-Dream Separation Flame and used puppet Talismans to scatter false traces before searching Divine Flame Mountain for Suxin Pill Saint’s remaining ingredients.
• A Wan Household ancestor set out with Young Master Wan and the Tracking Divine Hound, but the hound found multiple traces of Xiao Fan.
• Young Master Wang defeated Qi of the Kui-Phoenix Clan at the Myriad Races Conference, while Lu Changsheng suspected Qi had challenged him for another reason.
• The Demon God warned the demon tribes to stay out of the conflict between the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm, and Ji Ning explained that she opposed war because of the Heavenly Court’s strength.
• Ji Ning led Lu Changsheng and the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Clan away as pro-war Demon Kings arranged to follow them, and the Demon God told Young Master Wang to seek Ji Xuan’s hand in marriage.
• Xiao Fan found the Fire Python Vine and reduced his search to two ingredients, while the Wan Household ancestor destroyed more decoy puppets and sent out seventeen of his own to track Xiao Fan.