Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou discovered that Sacred Body essence blood could repeatedly ripen the Azure Lotus into increasingly potent seeds, then used the seeds to transform and strengthen himself. After refining all the seeds over two and a half months, he had undergone seven rebirth-like transformations in total.

• Lu Zhou used Sacred Body essence blood to regrow the Azure Lotus and found that each successive batch of seeds was more powerful and required more essence blood to produce.
• Lu Zhou speculated that the lotus seeds could help him develop a physique rivaling powerful Divine, Tyrant, or Sacred Bodies, and considered testing essence blood from other bloodlines.
• Over two days, Lu Zhou spent seventy more drops of essence blood to produce six seeds, leaving four drops that could no longer make the Lotus Seed sprout.
• Lu Zhou sealed the remaining essence blood and began refining the lotus seeds beneath the World Tree, whose Chaos Mist nourished and expanded his Qiankun Heaven and Earth.
• Over the next two and a half months, Lu Zhou refined every seed he possessed and underwent five rebirth-like transformations, bringing his total to seven after counting his earlier transformations and Imperial Blood cleansing.

After transforming through cultivation, Lu Zhou traveled to Pingyan City, checked in for a cubic meter of source, and set out to find Chen the Bearded. He tracked Chen to Stone Village, where he arrived just as Chen was extorting Old Man Zhang.

• Lu Zhou finished cultivating in the Qiankun Pearl, reaching the second level of the Dao Palace realm after his physique and Bitter Sea transformed.
• Lu Zhou left the Qiankun Pearl, traveled to Pingyan City, and checked in to obtain one cubic meter of source.
• Lu Zhou learned the location of the Qingxia Sect but stopped to defeat brigands robbing a village; he searched their memories for information about Chen the Bearded and killed them.
• Lu Zhou found another band of brigands, searched their memories, and learned that Chen the Bearded’s group had recently passed nearby.
• Lu Zhou followed the trail to Stone Village and interrupted Chen the Bearded as he threatened Old Man Zhang for more source.

Lu Zhou rescued Stone Village from Chen the Bearded’s bandits, then learned that Fifth Master Zhang descended from the Origin Master. After signing in at Stone Village, Lu Zhou obtained the Ultimate Emperor Weapon, the Gouchen Seal, and began reconsidering his plans.

• Lu Zhou killed Chen the Bearded’s men, searched Chen’s memories, and found a piece of Wushi Emperor Jade on him.
• Fifth Master Zhang thanked Lu Zhou, returned to Stone Village with him, and explained that the Origin Scripture had been lost at Emperor Mountain with their ancestor Jiye.
• Lu Zhou asked to stay overnight and silently signed in at Stone Village.
• The system awarded Lu Zhou the Ultimate Emperor Weapon, the Gouchen Seal, which he found stored in his Qiankun Pearl.
• Lu Zhou examined the Gouchen Seal’s dragon-pattern black gold form and grew more confident, while Fifth Master Zhang sensed a change in him.

After leaving Stone Village with Little Nannan, Lu Zhou traveled to the Qingxia Sect and began slaughtering its cultivators. He tested his formidable physical strength against the sect’s elders as the battle with its leaders continued.

• Lu Zhou told Fifth Master Zhang he planned to prepare before going to Purple Mountain, then left Stone Village with Little Nannan the next morning.
• Lu Zhou sent Little Nannan back into the Qiankun Pearl and traveled to the Qingxia Sect, killing bandits along the way and collecting source.
• At the Qingxia Sect gate, Lu Zhou killed the guards and other disciples who tried to stop him, then signed in and received one thousand jin of source.
• Lu Zhou shattered seven weapons with a slap and killed a Dao Palace First Layer elder with a punch as Qingxia cultivators fled or fell to his attacks.
• The Qingxia Sect leader and more than ten Dao Palace elders surrounded Lu Zhou, but he fought them barehanded, destroying their weapons and blasting one elder apart.

Lu Zhou destroyed Qingxia Sect, Lihuo Cult, Luoxia Sect, and Seven Stars Pavilion, taking their treasures and grounds into Qiankun Heaven and Earth. After checking in at the latter three sects and collecting their source rewards, he arrived at the oasis where Xuan Yue Cave was located.

• Lu Zhou killed Qingxia Sect's leader, elders, and Grand Elder, then spared disciples whose memories showed they had never committed evil.
• Lu Zhou freed three imprisoned Qingxia elders, took nearly two thousand jin of source from the treasury, and moved Qingxia Sect's grounds into Qiankun Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Zhou searched Lihuo Cult's members, spared a little over thirty, burned the rest with the Lihuo Divine Furnace, and checked in to receive ten cubic zhang of source.
• Lu Zhou moved Lihuo Cult's grounds into Qiankun Heaven and Earth, then took Luoxia Sect and Seven Stars Pavilion and received one cubic zhang of source at each check-in.
• Lu Zhou arrived at the oasis where Xuan Yue Cave was located.

Lu Zhou uncovered Wushi Emperor Jade in Xuan Yue Cave and experienced Wushi’s Dao Rhyme, which transformed him and strengthened his resolve to become invincible. After signing in and gaining Great Emperor-level comprehension, he returned to Stone Village, studied the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art, and advanced to Dao Palace Triple Layer.

• Lu Zhou entered Xuan Yue Cave, killed or drove off its cultivators, and used the Lihuo Divine Furnace to uncover a second piece of Wushi Emperor Jade.
• Guided by the jade, Lu Zhou found Wushi’s ancient cave and saw Wushi’s words, which inspired him to cultivate an invincible heart.
• Wushi’s Dao Rhyme transformed Lu Zhou, and he signed in at Xuan Yue Cave to receive three instances of Great Emperor-level comprehension.
• Lu Zhou returned to Stone Village and used one instance of Great Emperor-level comprehension to study the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and its forbidden techniques.
• After more than two months of study and cultivation, Lu Zhou broke through to Dao Palace Triple Layer, cultivated his Lung Divinity, and discovered his mortal body was undergoing transformation.

Lu Zhou entered Purple Mountain with Stone Village’s ancestral artifacts and resisted its demonic summons until he found Divine King Jiang Taixu trapped inside a stone wall. Jiang Taixu recognized the Lihuo Furnace and offered to teach Lu Zhou a move.

• Fifth Master Zhang gave Lu Zhou Stone Garments, Stone Artifacts, and family secrets for his journey into Purple Mountain.
• Lu Zhou warned Fifth Master Zhang that Primordial races slept within Purple Mountain and urged him to consider moving Stone Village to safety.
• Lu Zhou entered the ancient mine through the eastern dragon vein, defeated Demon Bats, and gathered a Jade Pool Jade Pendant while passing the Yin Yang Eye.
• Lu Zhou reached the depths of Purple Mountain, where the Lihuo Divine Furnace and Stone Garment protected him from a demonic force calling him onward.
• Lu Zhou heard Divine King Jiang Taixu's voice from within a stone wall and explained that he had obtained the Lihuo Furnace after destroying an evil sect.
• Jiang Taixu told Lu Zhou to come closer so he could teach him a move and test his comprehension.

Lu Zhou used the Lihuo Furnace to free Jiang Taixu from Purple Mountain and nursed the weakened God King with sacred spring and Minor Medicine Kings. After Jiang Taixu recovered enough to continue recuperating on his own, he gave Lu Zhou the God King Token and passed on the Fighting Character Secret.

• Lu Zhou used the Lihuo Furnace and the source he had prepared to open a human-shaped passage in the rock wall and catch Jiang Taixu as he fell free.
• Lu Zhou fed Jiang Taixu about two jin of Empress Sacred Spring, then refined ten Minor Medicine Kings and used his Divine Power to help Jiang Taixu absorb their medicinal liquid.
• Jiang Taixu told Lu Zhou he had recovered enough to refine the remaining medicinal liquid himself, while Lu Zhou replenished his own strength and waited.
• After about half a day, Jiang Taixu regained his vitality, opened his eyes, thanked Lu Zhou, and gave him the God King Token.
• Jiang Taixu refused more Minor Medicine Kings and passed the Fighting Character Secret directly into Lu Zhou's mind.

Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu traveled deeper into Purple Mountain, where Lu Zhou found the Origin Scripture and Zhang Jiye’s remains. They reached the Wushi Scripture, and Lu Zhou tried to check in, hoping to obtain its teachings.

• Jiang Taixu led Lu Zhou to Yang Yi’s sealed body, and Lu Zhou told him Fairy Caiyun was still alive and waiting for him.
• Lu Zhou encouraged Jiang Taixu to reunite with Fairy Caiyun, and the God King silently reacted with tears.
• Lu Zhou hung the Jade Pool token around his neck, and Jiang Taixu cleared away Yin persons, Yin horses, and Primordial creatures as they continued through Purple Mountain.
• Lu Zhou found the Origin Scripture beside Zhang Jiye’s skeleton, then stored both in the Qiankun Pearl to return Zhang Jiye’s remains to his family.
• Lu Zhou reached the Wushi Scripture, saw it glow with his Wushi Emperor Jade, and stepped onto it to try checking in.

Lu Zhou found the Source Eye of Creation in Purple Mountain and absorbed its essence while the God King protected him from the Primordial Race. After they drained the Source Eye and advanced deeper into the mountain, they discovered a Five-Colored Jade Pool containing an Empress Sacred Spring.

• Lu Zhou received the Wushi Scripture by checking in at Purple Mountain and continued onward with the God King past the Wushi Bell.
• Lu Zhou found the Source Eye of Creation, and the God King urged him to absorb its essence.
• Primordial Race beings attacked Lu Zhou while he cultivated, but the God King killed them with the Lihuo Furnace, and the Wushi Bell deterred the sealed Ancient Kings.
• Lu Zhou and the God King absorbed the Source Eye's essence until it was drained dry; Lu Zhou broke through to the fourth level of the Dao Palace realm, and the God King recovered and grew stronger.
• Lu Zhou and the God King continued deeper into Purple Mountain and found a Five-Colored Jade Pool with an Empress Sacred Spring.

Lu Zhou and the Divine King explored Purple Mountain, where the Divine King gained insight at the Wushi Dao Platform and Lu Zhou mastered the basics of the Fighting Character Secret. After they gathered several medicines, Lu Zhou asked whether an Emperor Weapon could help them reach the remaining Medicine Kings atop the platform.

• Lu Zhou and the Divine King passed a sealed divine source and empty crystal coffins before reaching the Wushi Dao Platform.
• The Divine King comprehended the Dao while Lu Zhou used Bodhi Leaves to learn the Fighting Character Secret, mastering its basics in ten days.
• The Divine King finished his enlightenment and said he was close to breaking through, though he had not yet advanced.
• The Divine King used the Lihuo Furnace to gather three Medicine Kings and several ancient herbs, but could not reach the Medicine Kings growing atop the Wushi Dao Platform.
• Lu Zhou asked Jiang Taixu whether an Emperor Weapon would let him ascend the platform, surprising the Divine King.

Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu gathered Medicine Kings and Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine liquid in Purple Mountain, but Zhang Lin trapped them with Ancient Corpses and eighty-one banners. The Wushi Bell broke through the formation and awakened Zhang Lin, who appeared before them in sorrow.

• Lu Zhou revealed the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal, which helped Jiang Taixu obtain three more Medicine Kings from the Wushi Dao Platform.
• Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu found the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine, collected twenty drops of its liquid, and divided the medicines between them.
• As Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu prepared to leave, Zhang Lin sent Ancient Corpses to attack them and used eighty-one banners to trap them.
• Lu Zhou called on Zhang Lin to appear, but the Jade Pool Jade Pendant and Origin Scripture failed to awaken him.
• Lu Zhou gave the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal to Jiang Taixu, and the Wushi Bell's waves cracked the banners and prompted Zhang Lin to cry out his name.
• After the bell fell silent, Zhang Lin emerged from among the Ancient Corpses, covered in red hair and filled with sorrow.

Lu Zhou and Zhang Lin found Yang Yi sealed in divine source, but Zhang Lin entrusted her rescue to Lu Zhou before losing his clarity and fleeing. Lu Zhou left Purple Mountain with Yang Yi, resolved to break the Origin Master lineage’s curse, and parted from Jiang Taixu, who urged him to seek help from the Jiang Family if needed.

• Lu Zhou explained why he had entered Purple Mountain and showed Zhang Lin the remains of Zhang Jiye.
• When Lu Zhou mentioned the sealed Holy Maiden, Zhang Lin recognized his desire to save Yang Yi and led Lu Zhou and the God King to her.
• Zhang Lin gave Lu Zhou his insights into the Origin Scripture, asked him to tell Yang Yi that Zhang Lin had died, and vanished into Purple Mountain as his clarity faded.
• Lu Zhou stored Yang Yi, still sealed in source, in the Qiankun Pearl and resolved to destroy the Origin God and Origin Ghost and end the Origin Master lineage’s curse.
• Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu escaped Purple Mountain through the Wushi Emperor Scripture, and Jiang Taixu offered the Jiang Family’s support before departing to find Caiyun.
• After Jiang Taixu left Lu Zhou with the Lihuo Furnace and warned him to conceal the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal, Lu Zhou took out the source sealing Yang Yi.

Lu Zhou revived Yang Yi with Undying Divine Phoenix Liquid and told her that Zhang Lin might still be saved by confronting the Underworld, the Origin God, and the Origin Ghost. Though she recognized that Zhang Lin had left her a final message to live well, Yang Yi found new resolve, gave Lu Zhou a Jade Pool Token, and asked what help he needed.

• Lu Zhou freed Yang Yi from the divine source and revived her with five drops of Undying Divine Phoenix Liquid.
• Yang Yi tried to rush toward Purple Mountain, but Lu Zhou stopped her by saying Zhang Lin might still be saved.
• Lu Zhou explained that the curse on the Origin Master lineage was connected to the Underworld, the Origin God, and the Origin Ghost, and Yang Yi despaired at their power.
• Lu Zhou admitted that Zhang Lin had asked him to tell Yang Yi he had died ten thousand years earlier and wished for her to live well.
• Yang Yi wept before Purple Mountain, then thanked Lu Zhou and gave him a Jade Pool Token before he asked for her help.

Lu Zhou obtained Yang Yi’s mark for the Ancient Sacred Pool Land and studied the Origin Scripture, discovering a prelude to the Xi Huang Scripture. After half a year of cultivation in Stone Village, he reached the fifth level of the Dao Palace realm and prepared to work with the Zhang Clan’s stone materials.

• Lu Zhou asked Yang Yi for the Ancient Sacred Pool Land’s location, and she gave him a mark containing her remembered location and a strand of divine consciousness.
• Lu Zhou returned to Stone Village and studied the Origin Scripture using Zhang Lin’s transmitted insights, finding the Xi Huang Scripture’s Dao Palace prelude within it.
• Fifth Master Zhang refused to keep the Origin Scripture and asked Lu Zhou to pass it to a gifted Zhang Clan descendant; Lu Zhou agreed, and Fifth Master Zhang gathered Zhang Jiye’s remains for burial.
• Lu Zhou spent half a year cultivating in Stone Village, advancing in origin arts and breaking through to the fifth level of the Dao Palace realm.
• Lu Zhou studied the Wushi Scripture with Great Emperor-level comprehension, learned he could not cultivate it, but used the Fighting Saint Method to reproduce its forbidden arts.
• Lu Zhou stood before a pile of stone materials left by the Zhang Clan’s ancestor.

Lu Zhou perfected his Origin Sky Eye by refining a golden Stone Gall, then left Stone Village and entered the sealed Ancient Sacred Pool Land near the Primordial Ancient Mine. He arrived at a location where he could check in.

• Lu Zhou cut open the stone artifacts, protected himself from the red hair's eerie power with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal, and placed the damaged Human Origin Fruit and fragrant juice in jade bottles.
• Lu Zhou nourished the violet Stone Gall with divine source essence until it turned golden, then used its liquid to cultivate his Origin Sky Eye.
• After about an hour of refining his eyes, Lu Zhou gained the ability to see through walls and other hidden things.
• Lu Zhou told Fifth Master Zhang that he was leaving and promised to return, so the people of Stone Village could prepare to move.
• Lu Zhou traveled to the Ancient Sacred Pool Land, found a hidden well with his Origin Sky Eye, and followed it into the sealed area.
• Lu Zhou checked his system panel and confirmed that the Ancient Sacred Pool Land met the conditions for check-in.

Lu Zhou collected Empress Xi’s Dao Rhymes for all five Divine Treasuries and signed in at the Ancient Sacred Pool Land, receiving the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist. After safely leaving, he studied the Xi Huang Scripture’s creation process and decided to use his last chance at Great Emperor-level comprehension to create scriptures suited to himself.

• Lu Zhou studied the carvings in the Ancient Sacred Pool Land and experienced Empress Xi’s creation of the Heart, Lung, Liver, Spleen, and Kidney Divine Treasury chapters.
• Lu Zhou signed in and obtained the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, which he suspected was connected to the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body sleeping in the Yaochi Immortal Pool.
• Lu Zhou hurried out of the Ancient Sacred Pool Land safely and secluded himself in a stone cave in a desolate mountain range.
• Lu Zhou studied Empress Xi’s Dao Rhymes and decided against cultivating the Dao Palace chapter, believing he should forge his own path using the scriptures he possessed.
• Lu Zhou used his final chance at Great Emperor-level comprehension to attempt to create scriptures suited to his cultivation.

During Great Emperor-level comprehension, Lu Zhou combined insights from three Emperor Scriptures and other sources to create an embryonic Wheel Sea scripture suited to himself. He established the beginning of his own Dao, though the path still needed refinement and exploration.

• Lu Zhou used Great Emperor-level comprehension to study the Wheel Sea Chapters of the Dao Sutra, the Wushi Scripture, and the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art.
• Lu Zhou derived a Tai Chi Wheel Sea inspired by Ye Fan's path, then erased it because it was not the path best suited to him.
• Lu Zhou combined the scriptures, Empress Xi's insights, and Ye Fan's example as fuel while seeking the foundation of his own method.
• Lu Zhou extracted suitable mysteries from the three Emperor Scriptures, forming a black hole within a vision of his sea of blood as their powers collided and balanced.
• Lu Zhou's scripture chants merged into Dao Chants as he began forging his own Dao and established an embryonic Wheel Sea scripture.

Lu Zhou created nascent scriptures for his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace, then used them to rebuild and cultivate both secret realms. After entering the Four Extremities without a Heavenly Tribulation, he was left determined to discover why heaven and earth had not responded.

• Lu Zhou used his Great Emperor-level comprehension and Bodhi Leaves to create frameworks for his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace scriptures, producing evolving phenomena within his body.
• After the Bodhi Leaves crumbled, Lu Zhou awakened and wondered why heaven and earth had shown no miraculous response to his scripture creation.
• Lu Zhou circulated his Wheel Sea scripture, dissolving his old secret realm and forming a black hole that absorbed cosmic essence to refine his Sea of Bitterness and nourish his Wheel of Life.
• Over the following months, Lu Zhou's black hole expanded and his Five Elements Dao Gods and Dao Palace were rebuilt according to his new scripture.
• Eight months later, Lu Zhou cultivated with the Four Extremities Chapter from the Dao Sutra and entered the Four Extremities, but no Heavenly Tribulation appeared.
• Lu Zhou rejected the idea that he was too weak to attract a tribulation and resolved to find out why neither his scripture creation nor his breakthrough had drawn heaven and earth's response.

Lu Zhou wondered why he could not draw heavenly tribulations and returned to Stone Village, where he clashed with the newly arrived Black Emperor. As Stone Village prepared to move, Black Emperor grew attached to Little Nannan but kept trying unsuccessfully to bite Lu Zhou.

• Lu Zhou concluded that his crude scriptures or his outsider status might explain why heaven and earth did not acknowledge him, and he worried that missing tribulations would hinder his cultivation.
• Lu Zhou recalled the events soon to unfold around Ye Fan and hurried back to Stone Village.
• Black Emperor lunged at Lu Zhou, who slapped it away; Wang Shu and Lei Bo explained that Fifth Master Zhang had brought the dog back from near Purple Mountain.
• Black Emperor kept trying to bite Lu Zhou and was repeatedly slapped away, while Little Nannan gently scolded it and became its only favored rider.
• Stone Village residents continued preparing to move as Black Emperor remained attached to Little Nannan and kept seeking a chance to bite Lu Zhou.