Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou disguised himself as Ye Fan and lured the forces hunting the Sacred Body into a trap as they traveled toward the Northern Region. At a remote oasis, their enemies sealed the surrounding space and gathered to attack, while Lu Zhou prepared to confront them.

• Lu Zhou and Ye Fan used the Heaven-Changing and Earth-Transposing Great Method to disguise themselves and Xia Jiuyou, then traveled with Big Black Dog and Li Heishui as Ye Fan's group.
• Lu Zhou recognized Jin Chixiao, Zhao Yanran, and other pursuers despite their disguises, and the group pretended to flee by Mysterious Jade Platform to draw them out.
• After nearly half a month of pursuit, Lu Zhou hid Little Nannan in Wuyou Heaven and continued with the others to an isolated oasis in the Northern Region.
• A Hell assassin attacked Ye Fan's disguise, then fled, prompting the other pursuers to reveal themselves and seal the surrounding space.
• Jin Chixiao, Xiang Yifei, Li Donglai, the Wanchu Holy Son and Holy Maiden, killers from Human World and Hell, and powerful elders surrounded the group and demanded the Cauldron of Myriad Mother Qi and Divine Mark Purple Gold.

Ye Fan and his allies were surrounded by a vast alliance of enemies, including members of the Ji and Jiang Families and several Holy Sons. As Lu Zhou prepared to strike, the former Yaoguang Saint Son realized Ye Fan already knew who they were.

• Xiang Yifei confronted Ye Fan, while Ji Hui and members of the Ji Family revealed themselves from hiding.
• Jiang Yichen and members of the Jiang Family appeared, and Lu Zhou spotted more than a hundred hostile figures surrounding the oasis.
• Hell's Divine Son and Wang Yan joined the attackers, followed by other familiar figures, including the former Yaoguang Saint Son.
• Ye Fan questioned whether the attackers had another purpose beyond taking his cauldron and immortal gold, and the Yin Yang Holy Son confirmed they did.
• Lu Zhou prepared to make the first move, but the former Yaoguang Saint Son declared that Ye Fan already knew their identities, startling several people.

Lu Zhou and Ye Fan revealed that they had disguised themselves to lure the Saint Slaying Alliance into a killing formation, and their enemies discovered the trap. The attackers chose to fight rather than surrender, and Lu Zhou opened the battle by killing a half-step great power with one punch.

• Kong Yuanfei exposed Lu Zhou's disguise, prompting Lu Zhou and Ye Fan to reveal their true appearances as the attackers tried to flee.
• Lu Zhou and his companions activated the Wushi Killing Array, trapping the would-be assassins as Jiang Family members and other factions claimed they had come to help Ye Fan.
• Wang Yan revealed the alliance's plan to kill Ye Fan, seize his treasures, and use his corpse to lure Lu Zhou into a death trap.
• Kong Yuanfei urged the trapped attackers to fight together, and more than three hundred cultivators charged Lu Zhou and his companions.
• Lu Zhou killed a half-step great power with one punch, terrifying some attackers while many others continued their assault.

Lu Zhou and his companions fought off the forces of Hell, Human World, and the gathered holy lands at the oasis. Lu Zhou killed all eighty-eight assassins, while the Black Emperor, Ye Fan, and Li Heishui turned back those who tried to capture them.

• Lu Zhou used the Heavenly Court’s Life-Slaying Grand Art to kill Hell’s Divine Son and then counter-killed all eighty-eight assassins from Hell and Human World.
• When the remaining enemies tried to seize Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Li Heishui as hostages, the Black Emperor activated the Wushi Killing Array and slaughtered attackers, including a Wanchu Guardian of the Dao.
• Ye Fan fought back with his Sacred Body and secret techniques, crushing enemies with his powerful attacks.
• Li Heishui used Lu Zhou’s Immortal Slaying Gourd to kill Li Muqing and a Dayan half-step great power, then frightened Jin Chixiao and the others into turning toward Ye Fan.
• Li Heishui fired chaotic light from the gourd’s stopper at Jin Chixiao and the other Saint Son-level figures.

Lu Zhou and Ye Fan’s group overwhelmed the forces that had attacked them, killing many and crippling the survivors. The chapter ended with the remaining Holy Sons, Holy Daughters, and faction elders reduced to mortals, while Lu Zhou left them alive to suffer.

• Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, Big Black Dog, and Li Heishui fought the assembled cultivators, and Lu Zhou defeated Kong Yuanfei’s Dao Body and killed the Yin Yang Holy Son.
• The surviving attackers begged Lu Zhou and Ye Fan for mercy, citing apologies, favors, and the threat of war between their factions.
• Lu Zhou used the Soldier Character Secret to pull Zhao Yanran to him, then shattered her Sea of Bitterness and crippled her cultivation.
• Ye Fan shattered Jin Chixiao’s Sea of Bitterness as Lu Zhou used the Qiankun Pearl and Soldier Character Secret to immobilize and seize the remaining attackers.
• Lu Zhou and his allies crippled the cultivation of Xiang Yifei, Jiang Huaian, Ji Hui, Wang Yan, and the other survivors, leaving them alive as mortals.

Lu Zhou crippled the Wanchu Holy Son and the other alliance leaders, then revealed that a Deity's Thought of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body had been following Ye Fan. After exposing the leaders’ schemes to the onlookers, Lu Zhou and his companions left through a domain gate for the Jade Pool Holy Land.

• Ye Fan searched Wang Yan’s soul, learned that a sinister ghostly shadow had rescued her and the others, then killed her when a restriction destroyed her memories.
• Lu Zhou told Ye Fan that a Deity's Thought of the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body had traveled with them from Mars and warned that it was targeting his body.
• The Black Emperor and Li Heishui looted the battlefield and discovered that restrictions in the captives’ souls would destroy them if their inheritances were searched.
• Lu Zhou’s group withdrew the formation, and hidden onlookers saw the Wanchu Holy Son and the others chained together after being crippled.
• Lu Zhou displayed memories exposing the captives’ plots against him and Ye Fan, then declared, “I demand an explanation.”
• Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and their companions passed through a domain gate and teleported to the Jade Pool Holy Land.

News of Tyrant Immortal and the Sacred Body defeating a coalition of major factions spread across the Eastern Wasteland, along with revelations that ruined several prominent figures’ reputations. The factions faced mounting pressure to answer for their losses, and attention turned to Jade Pool’s Peach Banquet as the likely place for the dispute to be resolved.

• Word spread that the Wanchu Holy Son and Saintess, Xiang Yifei, Li Donglai, Jin Chixiao, and others had joined forces with assassins to attack Tyrant Immortal and the Sacred Body, but were killed, captured, or crippled.
• Cultivators shared more details of the battle, including the deaths of many Dragon Transformation experts and the appearances of Kong Yuanfei and Hua Yunfei, who were accused of carrying the Ruthless Emperor’s inheritance.
• Rumors and exposed memory fragments tarnished the reputations of Zhao Yanran, the Wanchu Holy Son, Li Donglai, Jin Chixiao, and the other attackers.
• Cultivators debated whether the Yin Yang Sect, Dao One Holy Land, and other factions would retaliate or accept blame after their leaders and experts suffered heavy losses.
• People looked to Jade Pool’s Peach Banquet as the gathering where the major factions would decide how to respond to Tyrant Immortal.

At Jade Pool’s Peach Banquet, twenty-one great sects and Holy Lands gathered to confront Lu Zhou, but Divine King Jiang Taixu arrived and revealed that members of his own family had joined the alliances targeting Lu Zhou and Ye Fan. The chapter ended with the Jiang Family expelling those members for violating its ancestral precepts.

• The Wanchu Holy Lord and leaders of twenty-one forces entered the Jade Pool Immortal Palace together, heightening tensions with Lu Zhou and Ye Fan.
• Jiang Taixu arrived with Fairy Caiyun and said he had come to deal with a matter, while the Wanchu Holy Lord challenged him about supporting Lu Zhou.
• Jiang Taixu brought Jiang Huaian, Jiang Yichen, and other battered Jiang Family members before the gathering, revealing their involvement in the Saint Slaying Alliance and Immortal Slaying Alliance.
• Jiang Taixu told Lu Zhou that he was grateful Lu Zhou had concealed the Jiang Family members’ crimes and handed them over privately.
• Invoking ancestor Hengyu’s precepts, the Jiang Family Holy Lord expelled Jiang Huaian, Jiang Yichen, Jiang, and the others and struck them from the family register.

At the Peach Banquet, the Jiang Family publicly punished its members for plotting against Lu Zhou and gave him an explanation, while the Divine King urged the other factions to avoid escalating the conflict. The Ji Family Holy Lord stepped forward as Lu Zhou prepared to address the Wanchu Holy Lord and the others.

• The Jiang Family Holy Lord expelled Jiang Huaian, Jiang Yichen, and their accomplices from the clan, then killed them for their crimes.
• The Divine King and Jiang Family Holy Lord received praise from leaders of the major factions for handling the matter openly and impartially.
• The Divine King told Lu Zhou that the Jiang Clan had crippled and imprisoned Thirteenth Ancestor Jiang, presenting this as a further explanation.
• Lu Zhou said he had not blamed the Jiang Family, while recognizing that the Divine King was publicly supporting him and warning the other factions.
• As Lu Zhou turned toward the Wanchu Holy Lord and the others, the Ji Family Holy Lord stepped forward.

The Ji Family Holy Lord exposed and punished Ji Hui and the others for plotting against Ye Fan and Lu Zhou, then publicly confirmed the Ji Family’s marriage alliance with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue. Ye Fan accepted responsibility for delaying his formal visit and explained that he had been preparing a worthy betrothal gift.

• The Ji Family Holy Lord brought Ji Hui, Ji Yunfeng, Ji Yuncheng, and their companions before the gathered leaders and revealed their involvement in the plot against Ye Fan and Lu Zhou.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord killed Ji Hui and the others for violating clan orders and stripped the Ji Family Eighth Ancestor of his authority before imprisoning him for a thousand years.
• Lu Zhou praised the Ji Family Holy Lord’s impartiality, and the Holy Lord laughed as Lu Zhou affirmed his desire for lasting friendship with the Ji Family.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord publicly pressed Ye Fan about formally visiting Ji Ziyue, effectively announcing the Ji Family’s marriage alliance with the Sacred Body.
• Ye Fan bowed to the Ji Family Holy Lord and said he had delayed because he wanted to prepare a worthy betrothal gift for Ji Ziyue.

Ye Fan accepted the Ji Family’s marriage alliance, while the major factions moved to end their conflict with Lu Zhou by punishing those responsible. Dao Yi Holy Land’s actions and the Dao Yi Holy Maiden’s reflections left her newly aware of the power Lu Zhou brought to his allies.

• Ye Fan agreed to visit the Ji Family after the Peach Banquet, and the Ji Family Holy Lord publicly welcomed him as the family’s future son-in-law.
• Fairy Caiyun stripped the Wanchu Holy Lord of his duties and explained that Lu Zhou had been justified in retaliating against Wanchu’s plots.
• Lu Zhou released the captured Holy Sons and Holy Maidens, and Fairy Caiyun executed the Wanchu Holy Son and Zhao Yanran.
• The Dao Yi Holy Lord and Holy Maiden executed Li Donglai and the surviving Dao Yi participants, then invited Lu Zhou to visit Dao Yi Holy Land.
• The Dao Yi Holy Maiden recognized that Yao Xi had surpassed her and understood that Lu Zhou’s influence had strengthened the factions around him.

Lu Zhou forced the major factions to account for their actions, then warned the world against using power or family ties to undermine fair competition on the Emperor Road. The powerful figures present publicly supported his rules, and the chapter left them both wary of Lu Zhou and impressed by his resolve to face peers fairly.

• The Holy Maidens recognized that Lu Zhou’s power had forced their factions to accept defeat and provide explanations.
• Wang Yangzhan gave Lu Zhou the Yin Yang Sect’s explanation, and Lu Zhou praised the factions’ apparent fairness as they agreed with him.
• Lu Zhou warned that he would accept fair battles between peers but retaliate if anyone used elders, threats against loved ones, or higher cultivation to attack him.
• Yang Yi, the Divine King, and others supported Lu Zhou, arguing that the older generation must not clear the Emperor Road for younger competitors.
• Those present admired Lu Zhou’s willingness to follow the rules while recognizing the strength of his backing, and someone praised the growing bearing of an ancient Great Emperor around Tyrant Immortal.

At the Jade Pool Peach Banquet, Lu Zhou calmed the guests when a Primordial Being arrived and answered him fluently in Primordial Divine Language. Ye Fan’s startled reaction drew attention away from Lu Zhou, leaving the banquet’s guests focused on him.

• The Peach Banquet resumed peacefully, and Lu Zhou reflected on how his interference had changed Wanchu Holy Lord’s and Ye Fan’s fates.
• A Jade Pool attendant announced that a Primordial Being had come to visit, alarming the guests.
• Lu Zhou told the Jade Pool Queen Mother to admit the visitor and reassured the guests that this was not the sky of the Primordial Age.
• Gu Dao Cliff entered the immortal palace and greeted the assembly in Primordial Divine Language, which no one understood.
• Lu Zhou returned Gu Dao Cliff’s greeting in fluent Primordial Divine Language, astonishing the guests.
• Ye Fan sprayed his drink, drawing everyone’s attention away from Lu Zhou and toward himself.

Lu Zhou challenged Gu Dao Cliff to communicate in the current era’s language, asserting that the human race would not bend to the Primordial Race. After Gu Dao Cliff protested being dismissed as an envoy, Lu Zhou asked whether he wished to be humanity’s friend or enemy.

• Ye Fan laughed at Lu Zhou’s Primordial Divine Language greeting, then awkwardly claimed he had thought of something funny.
• Lu Zhou told Gu Dao Cliff that the Primordial Age had passed and that he should use the current era’s common language to communicate.
• Gu Dao Cliff responded in the Primordial Language, demanding to know Lu Zhou’s identity and questioning whether humanity intended to wage war on the Primordial Race.
• Lu Zhou ordered the guards to see Gu Dao Cliff out because they could not communicate, and the Jade Pool girls moved to escort him away.
• Gu Dao Cliff switched to the current era’s language and accused humanity of treating an envoy uncivilly.
• Lu Zhou replied that humanity reserved courtesy for friends and asked Gu Dao Cliff whether he wanted to be a friend or an enemy.

At the Jade Pool Peach Banquet, Lu Zhou outmaneuvered the envoy Gu Dao Cliff and exposed Wang Yangzhan’s inability to read the Primordial script. Gu Dao Cliff recognized Monkey as the Holy Prince and left after Monkey endorsed Lu Zhou and his companions; the banquet then continued with a worrying letter and remarkable treasures uncovered during stone appreciation.

• Gu Dao Cliff presented a letter from the kings of the Primal Forbidden Zone, while Lu Zhou let Wang Yangzhan take it and try to read the unreadable Primordial script.
• Little Nannan, Monkey, and others drew attention to Wang Yangzhan’s embarrassment, and Gu Dao Cliff recognized Monkey as the War Saint Ape and bowed to him as the Holy Prince.
• Monkey warned Gu Dao Cliff against Wang Yangzhan and the Yin Yang Sect, then urged him to be kind to Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and their companions.
• Gu Dao Cliff accepted Monkey’s words and departed to report his mission, and Lu Zhou translated the letter, whose contents worried the banquet guests.
• During stone appreciation, Lu Zhou and Ye Fan uncovered a nearly advanced Human Origin Fruit, a Primordial Immortal Flower, divine source, and other treasures, drawing the female cultivators’ attention to Lu Zhou’s Conjoined Immortal Blossom.

At the Jade Pool Holy Land, female cultivators envied the women close to Lu Zhou when he revealed a Conjoined Immortal Blossom. Lu Zhou gave half to Ye Fan, while Yao Xi explained that his women had already received Primordial Immortal Flowers, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned and envious.

• Female cultivators at the stone appraisal gathering envied Yan Ruyu, Shi Yao, An Miaoyi, and the other women because they were close to Lu Zhou and could receive the Conjoined Immortal Blossom.
• Lu Zhou recalled that a princess of the Nine Li Dynasty had publicly said she would accept her consort taking many concubines, and Zixia had teased him about the princess's interest in him.
• Lu Zhou split the Conjoined Immortal Blossom and tossed one half to Ye Fan, who tried to refuse it in favor of Ji Ziyue.
• Lu Zhou told Ye Fan to keep the flower and said Yan Ruyu and the others had already used similar flowers he had given them.
• Yao Xi confirmed that the Primordial Immortal Flower was no longer useful to them, astonishing the gathered cultivators and intensifying their envy.

Lu Zhou turned down the cultivators seeking to trade for his Primordial Immortal Flower and gave it to the Jade Pool Queen Mother, honoring a promise he had made to himself. His gift left her flustered as the crowd wondered whether he had designs on her.

• Female and male cultivators sent Lu Zhou offers for the Primordial Immortal Flower, including a Carefree Sect disciple and his Dao Companion, who each secretly hoped to obtain it for her.
• Lu Zhou recalled a friend whose girlfriend accepted a phone from an older man, and the betrayal later led two boys to frequent massage parlors.
• Xia Yiming asked Lu Zhou to trade the flower so he could give it to his younger sister, Xia Yilin, while Yao Yuekong begged for it on behalf of his cousin, Qi Huoshui.
• Lu Zhou refused all offers and gave the flower to the Jade Pool Queen Mother, remembering that she had once yielded an immortal blossom to Shi Yao.
• The Jade Pool Queen Mother was startled and blushed as onlookers speculated that Lu Zhou had romantic intentions toward her.

After the Peach Banquet, Lu Zhou prepared to unite selected Eastern Wasteland forces against the approaching Primordial Races. Reflecting on humanity’s costly, improvised resistance in the original work, he realized he might already have opened a different path to confronting the threat.

• The master of Qi Shi Mansion invited Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, Yao Xi, Dao Yi Holy Maiden, and other prodigies to cultivate there, and they agreed to meet at Hengyu Peak in a little over a month.
• Ye Fan planned to visit the Ji Family ancestral grounds, while Lu Zhou intended to visit major forces with an imperial weapon and secretly discuss cooperation.
• Lu Zhou pursued an alliance among reputable, friendly Eastern Wasteland forces to deter Primordial Races hostile to humanity.
• Lu Zhou recalled how the Divine King, Zhang Lin, Black Tortoise Ancestor, Wei Yi, Old Gai, and others had relied on costly sacrifices and deception to deter the Primordial Races in the original work.
• Considering the preparations he had already made and the changes he had caused, Lu Zhou realized he might have opened another path to face the Primordial Races.

Jiang Taixu explained that Lu Zhou’s relationships and many identities had connected major human powers, and encouraged him to use those bonds to prepare for the Primordial Races and future crises. Lu Zhou embraced the suggestion as a duty to humanity, then entered the Ji Family ancestral grounds with Ye Fan and the Ji Family Holy Lord.

• Jiang Taixu told Lu Zhou that his ties to the Jiang Family, Jade Pool, Yaoguang, the Demon Race, the Feng Clan, Purple Mansion, and other powers could unite them in support of humanity.
• Lu Zhou declared that he had already intended to fight hostile Primordial Races, and Jiang Taixu praised his resolve.
• Jiang Taixu said Lu Zhou’s Dao Companion relationships had helped bind powers together and urged him to cultivate more such alliances; Old Gai agreed.
• Lu Zhou proclaimed that pursuing marriage alliances for humanity was a duty he could not refuse, making Jiang Taixu, Yang Yi, and Old Gai roll their eyes.
• Lu Zhou entered the Ji Family ancestral grounds with Ye Fan and the Ji Family Holy Lord, considering how Ye Fan becoming the Ji Family’s Son-in-law would strengthen the Ji Family’s ties to him.

Lu Zhou signed in at the Ji Family, obtained the complete Void Scripture, and fled after realizing they wanted to arrange a marriage with Ji Biyue. Ye Fan advised the Ji Family to seek a beautiful woman with good character instead, while Lu Zhou reached Dao Yi Holy Land and received a grand welcome.

• Lu Zhou signed in at the Ji Family ancestral grounds, obtained the complete Void Scripture, and hurried away to avoid a proposed marriage with Ji Biyue.
• The Ji Family Holy Lord explained marriage alliances and asked Ye Fan how they could tie Lu Zhou more closely to the Ji Family.
• Ye Fan said Lu Zhou cared about beauty and good character rather than status or talent, and warned that Ji Biyue would not interest him.
• The Ji Family began searching across its clan for a beautiful woman with good character to offer as a marriage prospect.
• Lu Zhou arrived at Dao Yi Holy Land and was welcomed by its Holy Lord, Holy Maiden, and cultivators despite having killed Li Donglai.