Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan emerged from the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land after breaking through to the Four Extremities Realm, and Lu Zhou protected him from a surprise assassination before he recovered. As the Ji Family celebrated Ye Fan’s potential, Qin Yao watched from afar and felt inferior beside Ji Ziyue.

• After the Innate Dao Diagram vanished and black mist concealed the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, Lu Zhou told the worried onlookers to wait because he believed Ye Fan had survived and succeeded.
• Ye Fan rushed out of the forbidden land gravely injured and aged, and Lu Zhou caught him before he collapsed.
• Hidden attackers struck Lu Zhou and Ye Fan, but the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal blocked their attacks while Jiang Taixu and Yang Yi stopped them from escaping; the attackers blew themselves up.
• Lu Zhou laid Ye Fan down to recover, and the medicinal power of three drops of Immortal True Dragon Divine Medicine restored him and revealed his breakthrough to the Four Extremities Realm.
• Ji Ziyue and Qin Yao watched Ye Fan after his recovery, but Qin Yao felt far beneath him and stayed back; Ji Family elders discussed hiding him until he grew stronger.

After reaching the Four Extremities, Ye Fan accepted the gathered prodigies’ challenges and defeated them, though the Golden-Winged Little Peng King pushed him to the brink. The battle ended in mutual respect, and the Little Peng King declared that he wanted to challenge Lu Zhou again.

• Ye Fan accepted the prodigies’ open challenges and fought them to test his strength and stabilize his cultivation.
• Ye Fan defeated the challengers, including Gu Mingdao and schemers who wielded forbidden weapons.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King fought Ye Fan with his Kunpeng techniques and Heavenly Demon Slaughtering Saint Art, nearly killing him several times.
• Ye Fan used the Jiezi Secret, Fighting Character Secret, Sacred Body phenomena, and a Taiji Divine Diagram to defeat the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, but suffered severe injuries himself.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King accepted his loss calmly, vowed to pass his clan’s nine trials, and promised to challenge Ye Fan again.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King told Lu Zhou that he most wanted to fight him again.

After the Golden-Winged Little Peng King vowed to challenge Lu Zhou again, Ye Fan returned to the Holy City and was celebrated as a rising powerhouse. The festivities ended abruptly when Ye Fan collapsed, and reports claimed he had a Dao Injury that left him only half a year to live.

• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King asked Lu Zhou for another fight, and Lu Zhou promised him a chance if he passed his race’s nine trials.
• The Golden-Winged Little Peng King left with the Old Peng King, and Ji Haoyue was urged to follow his own path.
• Ye Fan returned to the Holy City, where guests showered him with praise and banquet invitations after his Sacred Body reached minor completion.
• At a banquet, guests raised rumors that the Ji Family was preparing an engagement between Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue, and Ye Fan suddenly spat blood and collapsed.
• The next day, reports said Ye Fan’s Dao Injury would leave him at most half a year to live, provoking an uproar and ridicule of the Ji Family.

After obtaining the Hengyu Scripture at the Jiang Family Ancestral Land, Lu Zhou returned to the Holy City when he heard Ye Fan had suffered a Dao Injury. Ye Fan prepared to leave the Ji Family Stone Workshop after its members turned against him, while Ji Ziyue still hoped Lu Zhou could save him.

• Lu Zhou checked in at the Jiang Family Ancestral Land and obtained the Hengyu Scripture before hearing that Ye Fan had collapsed.
• Lu Zhou hurried back to the Holy City with Jiang Tingting and found Ye Fan awake at the Ji Family Stone Workshop.
• Ye Fan decided to return the Ji Family's five million jin of source and leave after sensing the family's changing attitude.
• Divine Physician Wang said Ye Fan could survive by crippling his cultivation and remaining in the Dao Palace Secret Realm, but Ye Fan rejected that option.
• Divine Physician Wang offered another possible cure: Ye Fan needed an Immortal Divine Medicine from a place where ancient aura flowed.
• The Ji Family members doubted Ye Fan could survive another trip to a forbidden zone and stopped visiting him, while Ji Ziyue remained by his side.

Ye Fan left the Ji Family Stone Workshop to seek a way to save himself, despite Ji Ziyue’s wish to accompany him. When he asked Lu Zhou for the True Dragon Divine Medicine, Lu Zhou refused, saying Ye Fan might need the chance to live another life later.

• Ye Fan comforted Ji Ziyue but stopped her from leaving with him, promising to send news of himself regularly.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord offered Ye Fan a Medicine King, and Ye Fan thanked him before setting out toward the restricted zone.
• As Ye Fan crossed Holy City, he saw how people who had once welcomed him now treated him coldly, and Lu Zhou reminded him not to care about their opinions.
• Lu Zhou returned to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop as its owner and discussed Ye Fan’s plan to take the True Dragon Immortal Medicine to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Lu Zhou refused to give Ye Fan the True Dragon Divine Medicine, explaining that Ye Fan might need an Immortal Medicine to extend his life in the future.

Lu Zhou advised Ye Fan to seek Saint Fruits in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land to heal his Dao Injury, and Ye Fan set out with his companions. Watching him leave, Lu Zhou speculated that the Ruthless Emperor had arranged events to guide Ye Fan toward the fruits and deepen his bond with Little Nannan.

• Lu Zhou explained that the Saint Fruits could heal Ye Fan’s Dao Injury without preventing him from taking Immortal Medicine later, and urged him to visit the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land first.
• Ye Fan agreed to Lu Zhou’s plan and left Holy City with Pang Bo, Big Black Dog, Tu Fei, and Li Heishui to enter the forbidden land.
• Unlike before, Ye Fan did not give Pang Bo the Phoenix Blood Red Gold or leave the Cauldron of Myriad Mother Qi with Jiang Tingting, suggesting he had more confidence in surviving.
• Jiang Tingting asked whether Ye Fan would succeed, and Lu Zhou assured her that he would not die.
• Lu Zhou wondered whether the Ruthless Emperor had deliberately allowed Ye Fan to suffer the Dao Injury so he would consume the Saint Fruits and grow closer to Little Nannan.

Lu Zhou traveled with Little Nannan toward the Eastern Wasteland’s Central Region, visiting factions and signing in at places along his route. When he arrived, he learned that Ye Fan had killed the Yin Yang Sect’s Holy Maiden and several of its cultivators, setting the sect against him.

• Tingting returned to the Jiang Family to prepare for a breakthrough to the Four Extremities realm, while Lu Zhou and Little Nannan set out on their journey.
• Lu Zhou planned to visit Wangkong City and several Central Region factions, hoping to sign in at valuable locations along the way.
• Lu Zhou used the Xingzi Secret to enter some sects unnoticed and sign in as he followed his route into the Central Region.
• Lu Zhou heard that Ye Fan had exposed the Yin Yang Sect’s abduction of gifted children and rescued several abused children.
• The Yin Yang Sect’s Holy Maiden tried to kill Ye Fan and take his Cauldron of Myriad Mother Qi, but Ye Fan, Big Black Dog, Pang Bo, and the others killed her and the outpost cultivators.
• The Yin Yang Sect’s leaders set out for the Eastern Wasteland to kill Ye Fan, while people questioned how someone supposedly near death could defeat Transforming Dragon cultivators.

Ye Fan reunited with Lu Zhou and Little Nannan in Wangkong City after healing his Dao Injury, while rumors that he was dying made others wary. During Skywatching Day, a flying saucer from the Eternity Star Domain appeared, and Lu Zhou’s group followed it as factions across the region gave chase, eventually reaching the vicinity of Undying Mountain.

• Ye Fan told Lu Zhou and Little Nannan how he healed his Dao Injury with Saint Fruits and branches from the Saint Tree, then gave Little Nannan the Saint Fruits he had saved for her.
• Lu Zhou warned Ye Fan that Little Nannan needed her seven-colored stone nearby, and Ye Fan learned that she would regain it after forgetting her past again.
• A flying saucer descended toward Wangkong Platform, killing cultivators who approached it, while Pang Bo and Ye Fan recognized it as an Earth-style flying saucer.
• Lu Zhou stopped Pang Bo and Yang Yi from trying to seize the craft, choosing to follow it and preserve the companions’ opportunities.
• The flying saucer’s passengers escaped through a black hole, and Lu Zhou’s group joined the pursuit as factions including Purple Mansion, Dao One, and Demon Race lineages mobilized.
• The pursuers followed the flying saucer through the void and accidentally reached the vicinity of Undying Mountain.

Lu Zhou and his companions remained near Undying Mountain after the Flying Saucer plunged deeper into the forbidden zone, where they met Feng Huang. As Feng Huang urged them to leave, a beast tide sealed the region and forced the cultivators into battle.

• The Holy Lords and other cultivators abandoned the pursuit after the Flying Saucer was imprisoned by a mysterious force and drawn into Undying Mountain.
• Feng Huang arrived with several young cultivators, greeted Lu Zhou and Ye Fan, and invited them to leave with her for her family’s upcoming celebration.
• Barbaric beast kings, including a Dragon Horse, unleashed a beast tide, while a sealed space prevented the cultivators from escaping through the void.
• Lu Zhou and his companions fought the beasts, and Yang Yi asked whether she should intervene.
• Lu Zhou told Yang Yi to wait and keep watch on the barbaric beast kings.

Lu Zhou fought through the savage beasts, rescued Feng Huang from a Beast King's attack, and escaped with her after Ye Fan and the others fled into Undying Mountain. After they rested in a distant riverside region, Lu Zhou joked that Feng Huang could repay his life-saving favor by offering herself to him, leaving her stunned.

• Lu Zhou killed hundreds of savage beasts with his physical strength while Feng Huang and the other cultivators watched.
• Several Beast Kings charged at Lu Zhou and the cultivators, and Lu Zhou pulled Feng Huang out of danger as Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Heishui, and the survivors retreated into Undying Mountain.
• Lu Zhou escaped the pursuing Beast Kings with Feng Huang, then used a Mysterious Jade Platform to cross the void once they reached a safe distance.
• Lu Zhou and Feng Huang rested near a river, where Feng Huang recovered from her minor injuries and thanked him for rescuing her.
• Lu Zhou told Feng Huang she could repay him by serving him in her next life or offering herself to him in this one, and she responded with a startled “Ah?”

Lu Zhou and Feng Huang reminisced about their first meeting and his teasing question about political marriage. The chapter ended with Feng Huang recalling that she had promised to answer, while Lu Zhou waited to hear her view.

• Lu Zhou joked with Feng Huang about women hiding their faces and how appearances shaped their responses to men.
• Feng Huang recalled how Lu Zhou's strength and achievements had gradually drawn her interest.
• Lu Zhou reminded Feng Huang that she still owed him an answer from their first meeting at Yaoguang.
• Feng Huang remembered Lu Zhou asking how she would react if she faced a political marriage.

Feng Huang explained that she opposed marriage alliances because she refused to be treated as a bargaining chip and would marry only for mutual affection. Lu Zhou warned that public ridicule might make her regret refusing an alliance with a future Great Emperor, but she dismissed the hypothetical and affirmed her good impression of him.

• Feng Huang recalled telling Lu Zhou that she had never considered marriage alliances and believed she would never face one.
• Feng Huang told Lu Zhou that she would resist any forced marriage alliance and wanted to marry only someone she liked who liked her in return.
• Lu Zhou asked whether Feng Huang would regret rejecting an alliance if the man became a Great Emperor and the world mocked her, causing her to fall silent and worry.
• Lu Zhou urged Feng Huang to stop overthinking and said she would never have to face a marriage alliance.
• Feng Huang smiled and said she would not encounter one, recalling that she had told her grandfather Lu Zhou felt pretty good.

Lu Zhou visited the Feng Clan Ancestral Land with Feng Huang, whose family hoped to strengthen their ties with him through a possible marriage alliance. After receiving a lavish welcome and presenting the Feng Family Holy Lord with cultivation notes, Lu Zhou toured the Divine Islands with Feng Huang.

• Feng Huang reflected on how her family’s interest in her relationship with Lu Zhou had grown as his reputation and resources became known, and she admitted she had become interested in him.
• Lu Zhou and Feng Huang arrived at the Feng Clan’s Eight Hundred Divine Islands, where the Feng Family elders and Holy Lord welcomed them warmly.
• The Feng Family Holy Lord and elders teased Feng Huang and showed Lu Zhou special favor, hinting at their hopes for a closer bond between them.
• Lu Zhou presented the Holy Lord with Slaying the Dao King's Cultivation Notes suited to breaking through into Immortal Three.
• The Holy Lord praised Lu Zhou’s thoughtful gift and asked Feng Huang to entertain him and show him around the clan’s ancestral land.
• Feng Huang guided Lu Zhou through the Feng Clan Divine Islands as they began their tour.

Lu Zhou toured the Feng Clan ancestral ground with Feng Huang and checked in at its central Divine City, obtaining the Fuxi Emperor Scripture. He then accompanied Feng Huang to her private Phoenix Island, where he openly drew her close, leaving her flustered as they walked through the peach grove.

• Lu Zhou arrived at the Feng Family and was greeted by young people, while some admirers resented seeing him with Feng Huang.
• Feng Huang guided Lu Zhou through the Divine Islands and the Divine City, where he checked in and obtained the Fuxi Emperor Scripture.
• Feng Huang offered to let Lu Zhou stay in the Divine City and study its ancient relics, but they continued touring the ancestral ground.
• Feng Huang hesitated before inviting Lu Zhou to visit a flower-covered Divine Island, and he recognized it as her private territory.
• Lu Zhou renamed the island Phoenix Island, embraced Feng Huang, and walked with her through its peach grove as she blushed and grew flustered.

Lu Zhou reunited with Ye Fan and his companions at the Feng Clan’s Divine Island, where he openly appeared with Feng Huang and learned what they had found in Undying Mountain. He traded the Four Extremes Scroll of the Hengyu Scripture for access to the upper portion of Heavenly Court’s inheritance, leaving him with its complete assassination arts inheritance.

• Feng Huang told her maid to address Lu Zhou as her son-in-law, then joined him in going to meet Ye Fan and the others.
• Lu Zhou interrupted Zhao Fa’s attempt to trade a Nine Revolutions Divine Pill for Ye Fan’s Cauldron of Myriad Mother Qi, and Little Nannan ran to greet him.
• Ye Fan and the others were astonished to see Feng Huang unmasked beside Lu Zhou, and news of their relationship spread through the Feng Clan.
• Ye Fan told Lu Zhou that the group had obtained Enlightenment Tea, old medicines, the upper portion of Heavenly Court’s inheritance, and encountered the Xuanwu Divine Medicine in Undying Mountain.
• Lu Zhou traded the Four Extremes Scroll of the Hengyu Scripture for a chance to read the upper portion of Heavenly Court’s inheritance.

Ye Fan gave Lu Zhou Sacred Body essence blood, and Lu Zhou repaid him with healing resources and accepted his Divine Mark Purple Gold. After Ye Fan’s group visited Zitiandu and returned to the Feng Clan, Ye Fan told Lu Zhou that Human World assassins had followed them.

• Ye Fan gave Lu Zhou a sealed bottle of Sacred Body essence blood and offered to refine more later if needed.
• Lu Zhou gave Ye Fan several Minor Medicine Kings and a silk scroll containing the Nirvana Scripture to help heal his injuries.
• Ye Fan gave Lu Zhou a small piece of Divine Mark Purple Gold that he had found in the Nine Heavens Stone Workshop.
• Ye Fan, Li Heishui, Big Black Dog, and Little Nannan went to Zitiandu while Lu Zhou stayed at the Feng Clan to study the Heavenly Court inheritance.
• Two days later, Ye Fan returned to the Feng Clan with a birthday gift for the Feng Clan Holy Lord and told Lu Zhou that Human World assassins had watched and followed his group in Zitiandu.

Lu Zhou asked to marry Feng Huang and presented the Feng Clan with the complete Fuxi Emperor Scripture as a betrothal gift, overwhelming the Feng Family Holy Lord and Feng Huang. At the birthday celebration, Ye Fan’s valuable gift was accepted, and the Purple Mansion Holy Son challenged Lu Zhou to reveal what he had brought.

• Lu Zhou and Feng Huang asked the Feng Family Holy Lord for permission to marry, and Lu Zhou offered the complete Fuxi Emperor Scripture as his betrothal gift.
• Feng Huang embraced Lu Zhou, and the Feng Family Holy Lord wept with gratitude after recognizing the scripture.
• Lu Zhou gave Zixia two pieces of Divine Mark Purple Gold, while the Purple Mansion Holy Son watched jealously and recalled Zixia rejecting his claim that she should marry him.
• Lu Zhou returned to Phoenix Island to comprehend the Heavenly Court inheritance as guests gathered for the Feng Family Holy Lord’s birthday celebration.
• Ye Fan presented an Origin Stone containing divine source and a dragon horn; after Lu Zhou intervened, the Feng Family Holy Lord accepted it and gave Ye Fan life-extending pills.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son asked Lu Zhou to show everyone whether his birthday gift was more valuable than Ye Fan’s.

At the Feng Clan Holy Lord’s birthday banquet, the Purple Mansion Holy Son tried to stir up resentment between Lu Zhou, Feng Huang, and the other women and powers connected to him. Li Heishui confronted him, and the dispute was on the verge of becoming a fight when Lu Zhou stepped forward.

• At the birthday banquet, the Purple Mansion Holy Son praised Lu Zhou’s closeness to Feng Huang and asked what gift Lu Zhou would present, drawing attention to rumors about their relationship.
• Li Heishui accused the Purple Mansion Holy Son of sowing discord, while the Holy Son denied it and gathered support from young talents who echoed his claims.
• Li Heishui argued that the remarks were meant to undermine Lu Zhou’s relationships with Shi Yao, An Miaoyi, Yao Xi, Zixia, and the powers behind them.
• The Purple Mansion Holy Son demanded an explanation from Li Heishui and challenged him, prompting Li Heishui to offer a one-on-one fight.
• Ye Hei watched with killing intent as the Purple Mansion Holy Son agreed to fight, and Lu Zhou stepped forward.

Feng Huang and the women turned the Purple Mansion Holy Son’s questions about Lu Zhou’s birthday gift into an accusation that he was trying to start a harmful culture of comparing gifts. As Zixia unexpectedly joined in, the Holy Son was left facing a growing public attack.

• Lu Zhou stepped forward to confront the Purple Mansion Holy Son, but Feng Huang intervened and warned the guests against making a scene at her grandfather’s birthday celebration.
• Feng Huang forced the Purple Mansion Holy Son and the other hecklers to apologize, then accused him of targeting Lu Zhou out of envy.
• Feng Huang argued that comparing gifts would pressure Lu Zhou to match every future congratulatory gift and damage his relationships with other forces.
• Yao Xi, An Miaoyi, and Shi Yao supported Feng Huang, warning that gift comparisons could spread and provoke disputes between Daoist lineages.
• Zixia declared that a culture of comparison must not be started, surprising the crowd by joining the attack on the Purple Mansion Holy Son.

The Feng Clan Holy Lord announced that Lu Zhou had recovered the complete Fuxi Emperor Scripture, then led the entire Feng Clan in bowing to him in gratitude. The gesture bound the Feng Clan to Lu Zhou, while the humiliated Purple Mansion Holy Son watched from the sidelines.

• Zixia spoke against the Purple Mansion Holy Son, deepening his humiliation as the crowd and the Purple Mansion Holy Lord turned against him.
• The Feng Clan Holy Lord restored order at the birthday banquet, then announced that his clan had recovered the Fuxi Emperor Scripture.
• The Feng Clan Holy Lord revealed that Lu Zhou had recovered the scripture for the Feng Clan, shocking the guests and many clan members.
• The Feng Clan's young and old answered their Holy Lord and gathered behind him.
• The Feng Clan Holy Lord and every Feng Clan member bowed deeply to Lu Zhou, leaving him stunned as a guest called the Purple Mansion Holy Son a clown.