Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou confirmed that he had returned to Earth seven years after the Nine Dragons fell on Mount Tai, then explored the mountain and traveled to his hometown of City R. The chapter ended when he recognized an elderly security guard and called him Grandpa Yu.

• Lu Zhou learned that it was October 4, 2017, and confirmed that seven years had passed since the Nine Dragons fell on Mount Tai.
• Lu Zhou blessed the tourists on Mount Tai with a rain of divine light that eased their illnesses and extended their lifespans, then vanished from their sight.
• Lu Zhou wandered around Mount Tai, declined offers to become a celebrity, and looked for Emperor Ye's Mercedes in the parking lot.
• Lu Zhou left Mount Tai and traveled to his former hometown of City R in Sichuan, where he wondered whether Earth was a parallel world.
• Lu Zhou arrived at a building in central City R, recognized the elderly security guard, and called out, "Grandpa Yu?"

Lu Zhou investigated whether he had transmigrated after discovering that security guard Grandpa Yu knew another Lu Zhou, who had vanished seven years earlier. His checks revealed that his old workplace and home were gone and that Covering the Heavens did not exist online, leaving him to suspect he had always belonged to that world and that a powerful being had altered his memories.

• Lu Zhou asked Grandpa Yu about the other Lu Zhou and learned that he had disappeared from work about seven years earlier, shortly after Grandpa Yu's grandson was born.
• Lu Zhou used his abilities to enter his former office building and found that his old company was no longer there.
• Lu Zhou flew to where his apartment had been and learned that the old residential complex had been demolished for redevelopment three years earlier.
• Lu Zhou searched online for Covering the Heavens and found neither the novel nor its fanfics.
• Lu Zhou considered that he might never have transmigrated and suspected a powerful being had given him false memories.

Lu Zhou confirmed that he was a native of the Covering the Heavens world, repaid the four people who had supported him by helping them begin cultivation, and failed to uncover his own origins. He then found Ye Fan’s parents and showed them memories of their son on the Other Shore of the Starry Sky, leaving them hopeful that Ye Fan would return.

• Lu Zhou revisited the four people who had supported him, confirmed his memories with them, and gave them and their close relatives cultivation techniques and resources.
• Lu Zhou investigated his origins but found no trace of his parents or any blood relatives on Earth.
• Lu Zhou went to City B to find Ye Fan’s parents and located Ye Fan’s father through one of his fishing companions.
• Lu Zhou met Ye Fan’s parents and showed them images of Ye Fan, Ji Ziyue, and Qin Yao on Emperor Burial Star.
• Lu Zhou told Ye Fan’s parents that their son missed them, was doing well, and hoped to return to Earth, and he introduced the two women as their future daughters-in-law.

Lu Zhou visited Ye Fan’s parents, restored their health and began their cultivation, then searched City B for Xu Qiong without finding her. Xu Qiong arrived at the city’s airport as Lu Zhou planned to look for her later.

• Lu Zhou shared a meal with Ye Fan’s parents and stayed overnight, listening as Ye’s Mother recalled Ye Fan’s childhood and learned that Lu Zhou was an orphan.
• Lu Zhou cleansed Ye Fan’s parents’ bodies, healed their ailments, opened their Bitter Seas, taught them cultivation, and left divine consciousness to protect them.
• Lu Zhou left the old home and overheard a man bragging to his lover about marrying a wealthy woman the next day for her money and virginity.
• Lu Zhou searched all of City B for Xu Qiong but could not find her, so he planned to visit Pang Bo’s home and seek her out later.
• Xu Qiong arrived at City B International Airport on a plane.

Lu Zhou unexpectedly saw Xu Qiong in a wedding procession and realized she was marrying the man he had encountered the night before. He concluded that the timing of their marriage could explain Xu Ye’s age when she later met Ye Fan.

• Lu Zhou left a restaurant in City B and saw a wedding convoy stopped at a red light.
• Lu Zhou recognized the groom as Xu Liang, the man he had encountered the previous night, and recognized the bride as Xu Qiong.
• Xu Liang insulted Lu Zhou’s traditional clothes, while Xu Qiong briefly thought of Ye Fan before the convoy drove away.
• Lu Zhou wondered why Xu Qiong was marrying so late compared with his understanding of her story.
• Lu Zhou realized that Xu Qiong’s two-year wait for Ye Fan did not mean she married immediately afterward, and he connected her wedding date to Xu Ye’s age when she met Ye Fan.
• Lu Zhou concluded that his chance encounters had led him to witness Xu Qiong’s wedding and thought that fate was unfathomable.

At Xu Qiong’s wedding, footage exposed Xu Liang’s deceitful motives, prompting her to cancel the wedding and leave. Later, as she cried alone on a mountain outside City B, someone offered her a tissue and comforted her.

• At the wedding reception, the screen unexpectedly showed footage of Xu Liang with another woman, including his confession that he pursued Xu Qiong for her money and body.
• Xu Qiong entered the banquet hall, slapped Xu Liang, and announced that the wedding was canceled.
• Xu Liang tried to chase after Xu Qiong but slipped on a banana peel, fell, and knocked out his front teeth.
• Two hours later, Xu Qiong drove alone to a mountain overlooking City B and cried as she sat on her car.
• An unseen person offered Xu Qiong a tissue and told her that Xu Liang was not worth her tears.

Lu Zhou told Xu Qiong how Ye Fan had been taken to the Other Shore of the Starry Sky and promised to return to Earth someday. Xu Qiong considered becoming a cultivator, learned that Ye Fan had a girlfriend, and accepted that he had never mentioned her.

• Xu Qiong recognized Lu Zhou, thanked him for exposing Xu Liang, and asked about Ye Fan.
• Lu Zhou showed Xu Qiong visions and explained that Ye Fan had become a powerful cultivator and would return to Earth in the future.
• Xu Qiong offered to buy Lu Zhou a meal, and he warned her that people were looking for him.
• Lu Zhou offered to teach Xu Qiong cultivation, and she asked whether Ye Fan had a girlfriend; Lu Zhou confirmed that he did.
• Xu Qiong realized Ye Fan had never mentioned her to Lu Zhou, decided it was all in the past, and drove on to dinner.

Lu Zhou visited Xu Qiong’s new apartment and cooked with her, bringing her a brief taste of the ordinary married life she had hoped for. After she drank and grieved over her broken future, he carried her to the bedroom she had prepared for herself.

• Xu Qiong tore down and discarded the wedding photos in the apartment she had planned as her new home.
• Lu Zhou changed into casual clothes and helped Xu Qiong cook, eventually taking over as the main cook.
• Xu Qiong watched Lu Zhou cook and became tearful as she remembered the family life she had dreamed of.
• Lu Zhou and Xu Qiong ate dinner, and she drank baijiu while sharing her grief about her shattered future.
• Xu Qiong drunkenly collapsed against Lu Zhou, who carried her into the bedroom with the bright red wedding quilt.

Xu Qiong woke after getting drunk, learned about cultivators from Lu Zhou, and decided to pursue cultivation. After Lu Zhou dealt with Xu Liang and left Xu Qiong with a cultivation method, he searched ancient texts to deepen his understanding of the Dao.

• Xu Qiong woke in her wedding room, thanked Lu Zhou for caring for her, and asked him to explain the world of cultivators.
• After listening to Lu Zhou, Xu Qiong decided she wanted to become a cultivator.
• Xu Liang arrived with flowers, cursed Xu Qiong and Lu Zhou, and Lu Zhou struck him down; two hours later, Xu Liang was identified as the man killed by crocodiles at a zoo.
• Lu Zhou opened Xu Qiong's bitter sea, passed on a cultivation method, and left after she asked whether they would meet again.
• Lu Zhou remained in City B and searched libraries and scholars' studies for ancient texts, studying them to enrich his understanding and cultivation.

Lu Zhou found Little Pine in the snowy region, learned its family had already died, and took the young squirrel with him after giving it cultivation treasures and a bell. He traveled across the Divine Dynasty land to visit sign-in locations and arrived at Mount Longhu, where he offered the Taoist priests a gift of spiritual fruits.

• Lu Zhou found Little Pine alive in the snowy region, but its mother and siblings had already been killed.
• Lu Zhou refined Little Pine's body, taught it a Quasi-Emperor Scripture, made it a spatial bell, and agreed to let it come with him.
• Lu Zhou failed to enter sealed Spirit Mountain or find Sakyamuni's underground palace, so he continued visiting sign-in locations across the Divine Dynasty land.
• Lu Zhou buried a saint at Mount Lu Palace, obtained a Great Sage Scripture, and left the stone map untouched.
• Lu Zhou climbed Mount Longhu, introduced himself to its Taoist priests, and presented them with a jade box containing dozens of spiritual fruits.

Lu Zhou signed in at Mount Longhu and gained a Dragon Tiger Golden Elixir, then told its leaders about the Other Shore of the Starry Sky and the powerful people who had traveled there with him. He warned them of the dangers awaiting anyone who crossed over and left them eager to befriend the returning travelers.

• Lu Zhou entered Mount Longhu’s hidden Dragon Tiger Dao Mountain, signed in at the Celestial Master Hall, and received a Dragon Tiger Golden Elixir that could grant a Dragon Tiger Dao Body.
• Lu Zhou revealed that he had been an ordinary mortal in Sichuan seven years earlier and had reached the Other Shore of the Starry Sky aboard Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin, shocking Mount Longhu’s leaders.
• Lu Zhou described the Other Shore’s powerful sects and cultivation methods, while warning that its brutal conflicts made it dangerous for Earth’s cultivators to travel there.
• Lu Zhou told Mount Longhu’s leaders that his companions had grown powerful, and that Pang Bo served a demon saint while Ye Fan had become a son-in-law of the Ancient Desolate Ji Family.
• Lu Zhou said some of his companions would return to Earth within a few years or a decade, and Mount Longhu’s leaders thanked him and resolved to befriend them.

Lu Zhou explored Earth’s ancient sites, restored lost inheritances, and gathered powerful treasures while seeking the remaining Nine Secrets. After destroying the Primordial Dragon Cave and finding the Ancestor Ginseng, he invited it to tend the medicines in his dojo.

• Lu Zhou traded a Saint inheritance and cultivation resources with Mount Longhu, then restored three lost inheritances by capturing Dao Rhyme from ancient sites.
• Lu Zhou led Mount Longhu’s Daoist masters into Rong Chengzi’s Immortal Burial Mound, collected Ginseng Fruit Tree branches, defeated its dangers, and signed in for the Heaven and Earth Scripture.
• Lu Zhou declined to take Zhang Qingyang as his disciple, suggested that Ye Fan would be his future master, and left Mount Longhu with Little Pine.
• Lu Zhou visited Earth’s other ancient sites, gathered scriptures, weapons, and treasures, restored Lingbao’s Duren Sutra, and obtained the Formation Character Secret, leaving only the Shuzi Secret among the Nine Secrets.
• Bo Yi and the Primordial Dragon Cave tried to trap and kill Lu Zhou, so he destroyed the faction and signed in for a fragment of the Fuxi Dragon Stele.
• Lu Zhou found the Ancestor Ginseng at Changbai Mountain and invited it to his dojo to tend his spiritual medicines.

Lu Zhou convinced the Ancestor Ginseng of Changbai Mountain to join his Wuji Dojo, then attended Mount Longhu’s cultivators’ gathering as Daoist lineages and foreign factions assembled. The gathering was about to begin when a Vatican cultivator accused Lu Zhou of stealing Little Pine and demanded its return.

• Lu Zhou showed the Ancestor Ginseng of Changbai Mountain his Wuji Dojo, where the Immortal True Dragon Divine Medicine greeted it, and persuaded it to come along.
• Lu Zhou traveled with Little Pine to Mount Longhu and declined the Shushan Sword Sect’s request to take Zhan Yifan as his disciple, repeating that they should wait for Ye Fan.
• Lu Zhou learned that foreign lineages from Vatican, Jerusalem, and Mount Olympus had come to the gathering, while Kunlun, the Zhu Huang Lineage, and the Dragon Sparrow Main Lineage arrived with their young prodigies.
• The head of Mount Longhu prepared to begin the gathering, but a Vatican cultivator claimed Little Pine had escaped from Vatican and demanded that Lu Zhou return it.
• Little Pine became confused and frightened, dropped its pine nuts, and hid behind Lu Zhou while clutching his hair.

Lu Zhou rejected the Vatican’s claim that Little Pine belonged to them and killed the Vatican leader when he threatened him. He then suppressed the Vatican, Jerusalem, and Mount Olympus cultivators and dragged them west, declaring that he would reclaim what belonged to him.

• Lu Zhou questioned the Vatican’s claim to Little Pine, while cultivators from Jerusalem and Mount Olympus backed the Vatican.
• The Vatican leader demanded Little Pine’s return and threatened Lu Zhou and the Middle Land’s cultivation world.
• Lu Zhou slapped the Vatican leader into a mist of blood.
• Lu Zhou argued that the foreign lineages and their possessions belonged to the Middle Land, then attacked their cultivators.
• Lu Zhou subdued the cultivators from the Vatican, Jerusalem, and Mount Olympus with his Nine-Colored Blood Qi chains and flew west, dragging them behind him.

Lu Zhou led cultivators from the Middle Land into the Western Lands to reclaim what had been plundered, overwhelming every force that tried to stop him. He entered Jerusalem’s hidden ancient city and began killing the beings its inhabitants worshiped as gods.

• Lu Zhou headed west with captured Western cultivators as the elders and younger cultivators of the Middle Land followed him.
• The Western cultivation world gathered an army to ambush Lu Zhou, but he destroyed the attackers with a single slap and continued toward Jerusalem.
• Lu Zhou entered Jerusalem’s hidden ancient city despite its activated formations, then killed the four-winged Divine Envoy with one slap.
• Three Dao-Slaying kings attacked Lu Zhou, but he used the Soldier Character Secret to control them and repeatedly smashed them into the ground until they died.

Lu Zhou converted Jerusalem’s people, gathered treasures, and defeated the Vatican’s defenders. He spared the Divine Knight and recruited him as his first follower by offering a King of Medicine to heal his injuries and extend his life.

• Lu Zhou converted Jerusalem’s people and let the cultivators from the Middle Land divide the treasures he did not want.
• Lu Zhou defeated two Four-winged Ancient Clan envoys on his way to the Vatican.
• Lu Zhou crushed the Vatican’s knights, turned a Half-Saint Artifact against its wielders, and destroyed four forbidden scrolls with his seven-sword array.
• The Divine Knight attacked Lu Zhou with his dragon spear, but Lu Zhou knocked him down with one punch.
• Lu Zhou offered the Divine Knight a King of Medicine and the chance to follow him beyond the domain, and the Divine Knight accepted.

After the Divine Knight became Lu Zhou's follower, the Pope attacked them with the Western Lands' power of faith. Lu Zhou used the faith, heavenly tribulations, and a Great Dao Divine Furnace to temper himself through repeated breakthroughs, then killed the Pope with a single slap.

• The Pope condemned the Divine Knight as a traitor and unleashed the Western Lands' power of faith against him and Lu Zhou.
• Lu Zhou sent the Divine Knight behind him and charged into the sea of faith, then summoned his heavenly tribulation and formed a Great Dao Divine Furnace from the wills of heaven, earth, and humanity.
• Lu Zhou endured hours of lightning and karmic fire, gradually releasing his suppression and advancing from the fourth to the ninth level of Immortal Platform One.
• Lu Zhou felt he could force a breakthrough into Immortal Platform Two, but chose to wait until he had fully explored every path within his secret realms.
• Lu Zhou emerged from the sea of faith transformed, confronted the Pope, and killed him with a single slap.

After Lu Zhou killed the Pope, he spared the Vatican and recruited Audrey as his first maid. He converted many Western Lands cultivators and explored the Vatican’s treasures, where he found the Nuwa Stone.

• Lu Zhou killed the Pope with a single slap and killed fanatics who charged at him, while sparing the rest of the Vatican.
• Lu Zhou offered Audrey the chance to become his maid and eventually earn a place among his followers; Audrey accepted and knelt before him.
• Lu Zhou chanted the Duren Sutra and converted the Golden Lion and many other Western Lands cultivators.
• Audrey guided Lu Zhou through the Vatican’s sacred halls and treasure vaults, where he found the Imperial Seal of China, a Mount Tai Altar Foundation Stone, a map to the Kunlun Immortal Ascension Land, and other relics.
• Lu Zhou found a Yellow Mud Platform engraved with a Dao Body of a human head and serpent body, identified as the Nuwa Stone.

Lu Zhou obtained the complete Nuwa Empress Scripture at the Vatican, then visited Mount Olympus and recovered more treasures from the Middle Land. He headed toward Spirit Mountain with Indian Buddhist masters, but stopped after noticing something in a country along the way.

• Lu Zhou signed in atop the Nuwa Stone at the Vatican and obtained the complete Nuwa Empress Scripture.
• Lu Zhou collected Middle Land treasures from the Vatican, gave some to the old Daoist master of Mount Longhu, and left with Kane and Audrey behind to settle their affairs.
• Mount Olympus's cultivators welcomed Lu Zhou, returned stolen treasures, and offered compensation; Lu Zhou converted them with the Duren Sutra.
• Lu Zhou recovered an Ancient Heavenly Court building fragment and two Fuxi Dragon Stele fragments at Mount Olympus, then signed in and obtained a Saint King Artifact war chariot.
• Lu Zhou invited Indian Buddhist masters to accompany him to Spirit Mountain, and they set out with Little Pine.
• Lu Zhou spotted something in a country along the way and stopped.

Lu Zhou rescued a mistreated panda cub from a research institute conducting illegal experiments and healed its injuries. He adopted the cub and named it Yuan Gungun.

• Lu Zhou stopped a pickup carrying a panda cub and searched the memories of its armed guards, learning that a life sciences institute had abducted pandas and conducted cruel experiments on animals and humans.
• Lu Zhou burned the two guards to ashes and found the terrified, malnourished cub inside the truck's iron cage.
• Lu Zhou showed the cub's painful past to his companions, then gently offered it an Immortal Tear Jade Bamboo shoot.
• The cub cautiously ate the bamboo shoots while Lu Zhou used divine light to heal its injuries and remove the viruses in its body.
• The restored cub happily cuddled Lu Zhou and played with Little Pine, and Lu Zhou decided to adopt it as Yuan Gungun.