Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou defeated and killed the Taiyin Divine Son, then collected the skull of a slain Taiyin Saint while chanting the Duren Sutra with Ye Fan and the others. He caught up with Yi Qingwu and demanded she become his maid or die; after she failed to win a same-realm duel, she lowered her head in reluctant surrender.

• Lu Zhou condemned the Taiyin Divine Cult for stealing the Human Emperor's lineage and exterminating its descendants, then sent the Saint's skull into an urn as Ye Fan, Jiang Tingting, and nearby cultivators chanted the Duren Sutra.
• Lu Zhou used a Dao Body to catch and kill the fleeing Taiyin Divine Son, whose threats to invoke the Taiyin Divine Cult, the Golden Crow Clan, Longevity View, Lu Ya, and Yin Tiande failed to save him.
• Lu Zhou and his group pursued Yi Qingwu, while spectators followed and a Living Fossil identified Lu Zhou's technique as One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Lu Zhou told Yi Qingwu she could die or become his maid, explaining that she had helped the Taiyin Divine Son's group target them and that taking her as his maid was her punishment.
• Yi Qingwu demanded a fight at the same realm, and Lu Zhou said he had used only middle-stage Immortal II cultivation and did not need the Divine Restriction to defeat her.
• After three breaths, Yi Qingwu lowered her head before Lu Zhou in reluctant surrender.

News of Lu Zhou killing Taiyin Divine Son and taking Yi Qingwu as his maidservant spread across Ziwei, shocking cultivators and prompting speculation about his strength and motives. In Luzhou, Yuan Hua identified Lu Zhou and his companions as the mysterious group seen in Tianyuan Ancient City, while reports connected the Falling Star River massacre to Yin Tiande’s affairs.

• Cultivators across Ziwei learned that Lu Zhou had killed Taiyin Divine Son and dozens of powerful figures, and that Yi Qingwu had become his maidservant.
• Witnesses shared memory images of Lu Zhou carrying Taiyin Divine Son’s head and Yi Qingwu lowering her head before him, convincing doubters that the reports were true.
• In a Luzhou teahouse, Yuan Hua recognized Lu Zhou and his companions as the mysterious young people who had appeared in Tianyuan Ancient City.
• Yuan Hua and other cultivators discussed the disappearance of the Human race Saints and the ancient Destroyers after their battle beyond Ziwei.
• A witness claimed Yi Qingwu had confronted Ye Fan because he killed Yin Tiande’s younger brother, and that her actions had led Lu Zhou to punish her.

Ziwei cultivators wondered why Yin Tiande had not responded to Lu Zhou and his group, even as the Taiyin Divine Cult, Guanghan Palace, and Lu Ya called for their deaths. When they searched for Yin Tiande, they discovered that the Taiqing Sacred Realm had vanished, and many suspected Lu Zhou and his group had taken it and defeated him.

• The Taiyin Divine Cult, Guanghan Palace, and Lu Ya declared that they would kill Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and their group, while Yin Tiande remained silent.
• Ziwei cultivators speculated about Yin Tiande’s silence and called on him to respond to his brother’s death and Yi Qingwu becoming Lu Zhou’s maid.
• Curious about the Taiqing Sacred Realm’s lack of response, cultivators and leaders including Lu Ya traveled to its location.
• They found enormous pits where the Taiqing Sacred Realm had stood and suspected someone had forcibly uprooted it.
• Ziwei cultivators connected the vanished realm and Yin Tiande’s disappearance to Lu Zhou and his group.

The snake spirit attendant exposed Yin Tiande’s disappearance and the destruction of the Taiqing Sacred Realm, turning cultivators across Ziwei against him. Lu Ya, Three-Deficit Daoist, Yi Qingwu, and Guanghan Palace all blamed Yin Que De for deceiving them, while Yin Tiande remained in hiding.

• Cultivators caught Yin Tiande’s snake spirit attendant, who revealed that Yin Tiande had left seclusion over a month earlier and was secretly missing.
• The attendant repeated Lu Zhou and his companions’ suspicion that Yin Tiande was hiding to seize the Divine Ancient Scripture, and confirmed that Lu Zhou’s group had destroyed the Taiqing Sacred Realm.
• Word of the revelations spread across Ziwei, with cultivators questioning Yin Tiande’s character and his failure to avenge his brother or rescue his fiancée.
• Lu Ya denounced Yin Que De, cut off a section of his robe to end their sworn brotherhood, and flew toward the North Sea.
• Three-Deficit Daoist suspected Yin Tiande of plotting to seize the Divine Ancient Scripture, while Yi Qingwu and Guanghan Palace blamed him for their losses and wanted him dead.

Yin Tiande learned that Lu Zhou’s group had exposed his past actions and swore revenge while they searched the North Sea for Tanggu Valley. When Guanghan Palace confronted them over Yi Qingwu, Lu Zhou defeated its forces, spared them at Yi Qingwu’s request, and gave her the sealed palace.

• Yin Tiande realized that the Snake Spirit Boy’s survival had exposed him, then vowed to kill Lu Zhou and his companions.
• Lu Zhou’s group found a Fusang Divine Tree branch and a Tanggu Valley map fragment, then gathered more fragments over the following two months.
• The Taiyin Divine Cult attacked Lu Zhou’s group and was slaughtered, leaving its leader dead and its Sacred Weapons and map fragment in Lu Zhou’s hands.
• The Guanghan Palace Master demanded Yi Qingwu’s release, but Yi Qingwu warned her to leave and Lu Zhou stopped her from seizing Yi Qingwu.
• Lu Zhou trapped Guanghan Palace’s forces with seven sacred swords, spared them at Yi Qingwu’s plea, sealed Guanghan Palace, and gave it to Yi Qingwu.

Yi Qingwu rejected the Guanghan Palace Master’s plea to return, choosing to remain Lu Zhou’s maid and warning Guanghan Palace not to provoke him again. As Lu Zhou’s group continued across the North Sea, she began adjusting to her role and massaged his shoulders while he fished.

• Yi Qingwu told the Guanghan Palace Master and the others that Lu Zhou would give Guanghan Palace only one chance and that she had no room to choose but to remain with him.
• The Guanghan Palace Master tried to take Yi Qingwu back to Guanghan Palace, but Yi Qingwu refused and said she believed her Dao lay with Lu Zhou.
• Yi Qingwu warned the Guanghan Palace members not to clash with Lu Zhou again and said she would return to Guanghan with him after the matter of Tanggu Valley was settled.
• The Guanghan Palace Master and the others left the deserted island and returned to Guanghan Palace, while Yi Qingwu caught up with Lu Zhou’s ship.
• Yan Xiaoyu and Audrey encouraged Yi Qingwu to appreciate her place beside Lu Zhou as they prepared fruit, tea, and a seafood barbecue.
• Yi Qingwu recalled how Lu Zhou had trained her as a maid, then naturally began massaging his shoulders while he fished.

Lu Zhou and the others followed the united map fragments to Tanggu Valley, where the Fusang Divine Tree killed the first cultivators who tried to land. As factions attacked and fought over the Human Emperor’s inheritance, Lu Zhou spotted a hidden assailant opening a jar and unleashing an earth-shaking bull’s roar.

• Ye Fan and the others reported that the Tanggu Valley map fragments had appeared, and Yan Yixi said the factions had agreed to assemble them.
• Lu Zhou deciphered the merged map first and led his group toward Tanggu Valley, allowing the other cultivators to follow.
• The group reached Tanggu Valley and saw the Fusang Divine Tree and the ancient palaces above it, but the tree destroyed more than a hundred cultivators who tried to land.
• Several factions attacked Lu Zhou’s group, while the Divine Knight intercepted Han Li and Bai Mo; Lu Ya also fought Ye Fan and the others over the deaths of his brothers.
• Lu Zhou detected a concealed figure in the distance, who opened a jar and released a powerful bull’s roar.

Lu Zhou confronted Yin Tiande at Tanggu Valley and used the battle to test his Dao Sutra against Yin Tiande’s Dao De Jing. When Lu Zhou’s black gourd resonated with Yin Tiande’s Golden Steel Ring, the ring’s deity entered the gourd, which unleashed Emperor’s might and halted the battlefield.

• Lu Zhou exposed Yin Tiande, who appeared with an earthen jar and summoned the Bull God King to kill him.
• Lu Zhou created three Dao Bodies: one fought Han Li and Bai Mo, another guarded the ancient island, and the third battled Yin Tiande’s Dao Body.
• Lu Zhou and Yin Tiande exchanged Dao Sutra and Dao De Jing techniques, and Yin Tiande brought out the Golden Steel Ring while Lu Zhou used his black gourd.
• The Golden Steel Ring’s deity awakened, recognized the gourd’s similar Dao, and entered it with the ring.
• The gourd released Emperor’s might, forcing the fighters to stop and flee as witnesses recognized Emperor weapons among Lu Zhou’s allies.

Lu Zhou’s group defeated the forces outside Tanggu Valley while Lu Zhou explored the Human Emperor’s palaces, finding a medicinal garden and signing in to obtain a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill. He returned to Ye Fan and the others with Jade Slips to share, while the Golden Crow feather he found had crumbled to ash.

• Ziwei’s factions fled when the Golden Steel Ring and other weapons released Emperor might, while Lu Zhou and his allies killed Bai Mo and routed the Taiyin Cult and Golden Crow Clan.
• Lu Zhou’s Dao Body defeated Yin Tiande, and the Bull God King explained that the black gourd and Golden Steel Ring shared an origin and that their weapons were Quasi-Emperor Weapons.
• Lu Zhou searched the Human Emperor’s palaces, moved more than twenty Medicine Kings from the medicinal garden into his Wuji Dojo, and signed in at the alchemy chamber to obtain a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill.
• Lu Zhou found a Golden Crow feather in the Crow Nest, but it crumbled to ash as he learned that its Quasi-Emperor owner had guarded the Human Emperor’s palaces before dying there.
• Lu Zhou returned to Ye Fan and the others after the Bull God King’s time expired, then shared the collected Jade Slips with the group.

Lu Zhou and his companions watched Ye Fan awaken the Sun Human Emperor’s Deity’s Thought and receive the Nine Emperor Characters and a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree. After the Human Emperor’s Deity’s Thought underwent Dao Transformation and Tanggu Valley sank into the North Sea, Ye Fan left with Lu Zhou to pursue their enemies, while Ziwei’s factions were left guessing what had happened to them.

• Lu Zhou prepared Ye Fan for his departure by sharing information about the Big Dipper and replacing his black gourd with Chi Songzi’s seven swords.
• Ye Fan approached the ancient island, where the Sun Human Emperor’s Deity’s Thought awakened beneath the Fusang Divine Tree and revealed that only the Emperor’s skin remained in the coffin.
• The Deity’s Thought gave Ye Fan a branch of the Fusang Divine Tree and inscribed the Nine Emperor Characters of the Sun Mother Scripture on his brow.
• Ye Fan declined to remain in seclusion, and the Deity’s Thought sent him back to Lu Zhou and the others before Tanggu Valley sank into the North Sea’s sea eye.
• The Sun Human Emperor’s Deity’s Thought underwent Dao Transformation with the coffin beneath the Fusang Tree, and Lu Zhou’s group departed through the void to kill their enemies.
• Ziwei’s cultivators later found no trace of Lu Zhou and the others and speculated that they had left, vanished with Tanggu Valley, or perished there.

The four remaining Golden Crow Princes learned that Tongtong, a child of the Sun Divine Religion, might possess a Sun Divine Body and that the lost Sun Ancient Scripture might still be preserved there. They secretly led Golden Crow experts to attack the Sun Divine Religion.

• The Golden Crow Princes discussed how Lu Zhou's group had vanished and reaffirmed their alliance with the Taiyin Divine Cult against them.
• The Great First Prince explained that other factions had refused to join an offensive alliance, preferring to avoid provoking Lu Zhou's group and preserve the chance of making peace.
• The Great First Prince revealed that a spy in the Sun Divine Religion had linked a sun phenomenon from a year earlier to Tongtong's birth and suspected Tongtong possessed a Sun Divine Body.
• Lu Ya and the Fourth Prince urged the Golden Crow Clan to move quickly, seeking the Sun Ancient Scripture and deciding Tongtong should die if the scripture could not be obtained.
• The four remaining Golden Crow Princes secretly led Golden Crow experts to attack the Sun Divine Religion.

The Golden Crow Clan invaded the Sun Divine Religion, demanding the Sun Ancient Scripture and Tongtong, the one-year-old descendant of the Sun Human Emperor. As battle erupted and the religion’s defenders were overwhelmed, Yang Chen prepared to stay behind while Jiang Tong fled with their son.

• Lu Ya led Golden Crow Clan forces through the damaged protective formation and killed the Sun Divine Religion’s gatekeepers.
• The Golden Crow Clan sealed the religion, demanded Tongtong and the Sun Ancient Scripture, and attacked after the leaders refused.
• The Sun Divine Religion’s leader and elders fought back with a Saint King Weapon, but Lu Ya and his allies suppressed it with the Black-winged Flowing Gold Halberd.
• Yang Chen told Jiang Tong to take Tongtong through a hidden path and flee while he stayed to fight; Jiang Tong struggled with the choice as their family and servants wept.

Yang Chen sent Jiang Tong and Tongtong to escape as the Golden Crow Clan overwhelmed the Sun Divine Religion, but Lu Zhou and his allies arrived and turned the battle around. They annihilated the invading Golden Crow Clan, including Lu Ya and the remaining princes, leaving the Sun Divine Religion’s survivors reunited with Tongtong’s family.

• Yang Chen tearfully sent Jiang Tong, Tongtong, and the Jiang family toward the secret passage while he stayed behind to protect them.
• Jin Yang betrayed the Sun Divine Religion, destabilizing its holy-weapon formation and allowing the Golden Crow Clan to overwhelm its defenses.
• Yang Chen fought the invaders and urged the Sun Divine Religion’s people to flee, but Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and their allies appeared with Jiang Tong and Tongtong.
• Lu Zhou and Ye Fan’s group attacked the Golden Crow Clan, while Jiang Tingting and the Divine Knight blocked their escape and destroyed the Black-winged Flowing Gold Halberd.
• The Great First Prince of Golden Crow blood-sacrificed the clan’s killing formation in a desperate attempt to defeat Lu Zhou and his allies, but they destroyed the formation and killed every invading Golden Crow Clan cultivator.

After Lu Zhou and his allies rescued the Sun Divine Religion from the Golden Crow Clan, Ye Fan accepted Tongtong as his eldest disciple, and Tongtong awakened the complete Sun Ancient Scripture. The group planned to destroy the Golden Crow Clan, but delayed their attack after the Sun Divine Religion shared intelligence about its hidden reserves.

• Lu Zhou and his allies defeated the Golden Crow invaders and captured the traitor Jin Yang, whom the Sun Divine Religion took away for punishment.
• The Sun Divine Religion's leader thanked Lu Zhou and his allies, while the narration revealed how the sect had secretly preserved a faint trace of the Taiyin Human Emperor's bloodline through the Xiao Family.
• After Tongtong eagerly reached for Ye Fan, Lu Zhou suggested that Ye Fan take the child as his disciple, and Ye Fan accepted him as his eldest disciple.
• Ye Fan gave Tongtong a longevity lock, spiritual medicines, and the nine Emperor Characters, which awakened the complete Sun Ancient Scripture within the child.
• Lu Zhou revealed that Ye Fan had returned the Sun Human Emperor's remains to Ziwei, and Tongtong's family thanked him before accepting gifts from Lu Zhou and the others.
• Ye Fan announced that the group would attack the Golden Crow Clan, but they held back after the Sun Divine Religion warned them about the clan's strength and hidden reserves.

Jiang Tingting awakened Jiang Yanran’s dormant Taiyin Divine Body and accepted her as a disciple after the Sun Divine Religion’s leader revealed her descent from the Taiyin Human Emperor. The group then discussed the Jiang family bloodline in Jiang Tong and Jiang Yanran, and Jiang Tingting planned to investigate its connection to the Big Dipper’s Jiang Family.

• Jiang Tingting sensed Jiang Family blood in Jiang Tong and Jiang Yanran, examined the girl, and triggered her dormant Taiyin Divine Body.
• Jiang Tingting confirmed that Jiang Yanran possessed a Taiyin Divine Body, and the Sun Divine Religion’s leader revealed that she descended from the Taiyin Human Emperor through Xiyue.
• At the leader’s request and with Lu Zhou’s encouragement, Jiang Tingting accepted Jiang Yanran as her disciple, and the girl performed the formal ceremony.
• Lu Zhou and the others discussed the possible origin of Jiang Tong and Jiang Yanran’s connection to the Big Dipper’s Jiang Family.
• Jiang Tingting decided to visit the Jiang Family Ancestral Land after handling several important matters to investigate the bloodline connection.

Lu Zhou and his allies attacked the Golden Crow Clan Ancestral Land, destroyed its defenses, and killed its leaders and ancestors. After razing the clan and claiming its treasures, they saw the Taiyin Divine Cult arrive to reinforce it.

• Lu Zhou and his allies opened a spatial passage to the Golden Crow Clan Ancestral Land and attacked its protective formation with Quasi-Emperor Artifacts.
• Old Master Ren Mo shattered the formation with his bone club, killed three awakened Golden Crow Saints, and captured the clan's Great Saint ancestor.
• Lu Zhou defeated the Golden Crow King, while his allies hunted the remaining Golden Crow cultivators and razed the ancestral land.
• Lu Zhou and his allies spared the Golden Crows who had done no evil, and Audrey purified the survivors, turning them into Lu Zhou's believers.
• Lu Zhou signed in at the ancestral land and obtained the Black-winged Flowing Gold Halberd as the group collected the clan's treasures.
• The Taiyin Divine Cult arrived through a spatial passage to answer the Golden Crow Clan's plea for aid, but found the ancestral land already destroyed.

Lu Zhou and his allies destroyed the Taiyin Divine Cult after crushing the Golden Crow Clan, then signed in at both lineages and obtained pills that could grant Taiyin and Taiyang Divine Bodies. After the other major Ziwei factions learned what had happened, they resolved to befriend Lu Zhou’s group and the Sun Divine Religion.

• Lu Zhou and his allies killed the Taiyin Divine Cult’s reinforcements, including its Saint-level reserve, and took another Saint Artifact.
• Lu Zhou’s group invaded and defeated the Taiyin Divine Cult, sparing some kind-hearted people and leaving its grounds largely intact for the Ziwei Jiang Family to manage.
• Lu Zhou signed in at the Taiyin Divine Cult and the Sun Divine Religion, receiving a Taiyin Divine Pill and a Taiyang Divine Pill, and wondered whether the two could help create a Chaos Body.
• Lu Zhou shared his speculation about Chaos Body descendants with Xia Jiuyou while watching Jiang Yanran and Tongtong.
• Elder Chongxu told Ziwei’s major factions that Lu Zhou’s group had destroyed the Golden Crow Clan and the Taiyin Divine Cult, and invited them to the Sun Divine Religion’s recruitment ceremony.
• The major factions agreed to attend the ceremony and returned home to discuss how to make peace with Lu Zhou’s group.

Major forces from across Ziwei visited the Sun Divine Religion with lavish gifts to make peace with Lu Zhou and his companions, who accepted the gifts and shared stories of the Big Dipper at a banquet. The gathering ended with Lu Zhou asking the guests to help him find Yin Tiande, whom he intended to kill.

• The Ziwei Divine Dynasty, the Human King Hall, and other major forces sent important figures and lavish gifts to the Sun Divine Religion, which welcomed them and agreed to ask Lu Zhou about receiving a visit.
• Lu Zhou and his companions received the visitors at the Human Emperor Lecture Platform, accepted their gifts except for the offered maidservants, and joined a lively banquet.
• Princess Yue Shi and other guests asked about life beyond Ziwei, and Lu Zhou and his companions described the Big Dipper and the dangers of traveling across the stars.
• Yan Yixi said that he, Li Tian, Yi Qingwu, Little Tongtong, and others planned to travel with Lu Zhou to the Big Dipper and return to Ziwei later.
• Lu Zhou asked the assembled figures to help him find Yin Tiande because he intended to eliminate him.

Lu Zhou visited Ziwei’s major factions, gained powerful techniques and insights, and arranged protection for the Sun Divine Religion and Jiang Family before leaving. At Longevity View, Phoenix Heavenly Maiden revealed that its half-page of the Divine Ancient Scripture was the Healer Secret among the Nine Secrets.

• The major factions pledged to help Lu Zhou find Yin Tiande, while Ye Fan reflected on how Yin Tiande’s former allies had turned against him.
• Lu Zhou signed in at Human King Hall and obtained a Human King Pill, then exchanged insights on cultivation with its elder Human King and gave him two volumes of the Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Art.
• The Human King promised to protect the Sun Divine Religion and Jiang Family while Lu Zhou was away, and Lu Zhou later signed in at Guanghan Palace to obtain the Sky Mending Technique.
• Lu Zhou signed in at Underworld Ridge Longevity Temple and obtained the Longevity Heavenly Scripture, then asked Three-Deficit Daoist and the Master of Longevity View about the Divine Ancient Scripture.
• Phoenix Heavenly Maiden told Longevity View’s cultivators that the Divine Ancient Scripture’s supposed method of longevity was the Healer Secret, which Lu Zhou had already obtained and passed on to his followers and maid.

Lu Zhou learned that the Longevity View's treasured scripture contained part of the Healer Secret, then declined to press Three-Deficit Daoist after he refused an invitation to leave Ziwei. At the Ziwei Divine Dynasty, the Imperial Advisor spoke of Little Nannan's mysterious karmic connection to the dynasty, but died the next day, prompting the emperor and nobles to beg Lu Zhou to save their realm.

• Phoenix Heavenly Maiden explained the Nine Secrets and revealed that the Longevity View's half-page of the Divine Ancient Scripture was part of the Healer Secret, astonishing Three-Deficit Daoist and the others.
• Lu Zhou invited Three-Deficit Daoist to travel beyond Ziwei, but Three-Deficit Daoist refused, and Lu Zhou departed for the Ziwei Divine Dynasty with his companions.
• At a banquet, Lu Zhou asked the old Imperial Advisor why he thought Little Nannan had a karmic affinity with the dynasty, and the advisor admitted he could not explain or investigate the feeling.
• The day after the banquet, the old Imperial Advisor died, and Lu Zhou went with Princess Yue Shi to investigate the unsettling circumstances at his residence.
• The emperor of the Ziwei Divine Dynasty and the assembled nobles knelt before Lu Zhou and pleaded with him to save their dynasty and its people.