Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou signed in at the Bronze Immortal Palace and obtained the Empress’s complete Indestructible Heavenly Art while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue heard a fragment of scripture. After the group hid from the Ji Family’s search, Lu Zhou brought Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue to the Taixuan Sect as it began accepting disciples.

• Lu Zhou signed in inside the Bronze Immortal Palace and received the complete Indestructible Heavenly Art.
• Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue were ensnared by the giant Immortal character’s illusion, then regained their senses and escaped with Lu Zhou.
• Ye Fan recited the fragmentary scripture to Yang Yi and Big Black Dog, who judged it to be part of an Emperor Scripture.
• Lu Zhou and the others secluded themselves in a valley, while Yang Yi learned that the Ji Family was suppressing news and secretly searching for them.
• The Ji Family failed to find Lu Zhou and his companions before Lu Zhou arrived at the Taixuan Sect with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue.

Ji Ziyue stayed with Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog after leaving the Bronze Immortal Palace, drawn by their opportunities and secrets. When Lu Zhou revealed that he planned to obtain the Taixuan Sect’s Jiezi Secret, the group headed to the sect together.

• Ji Ziyue insisted on traveling with Lu Zhou and the others, despite Big Black Dog reminding her that the Ji Family was their enemy.
• Ji Ziyue explained rumors about the Taixuan Sect’s lost ancient scripture inheritances, which caught Ye Fan and Big Black Dog’s interest.
• Lu Zhou revealed that he planned to obtain the Jiezi Secret, one of the Nine Secrets, from the Taixuan Sect’s Zhuo Peak.
• Ye Fan recalled Lu Zhou’s earlier claim that he would soon obtain a fourth of the Nine Secrets and resolved to pursue the Nine Secrets himself.
• Lu Zhou teased Big Black Dog that it had no chance of obtaining the Jiezi Secret, then slapped it away when it tried to bite him.
• Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and Ji Ziyue set out together for the Taixuan Sect.

Lu Zhou, Ji Ziyue, and Ye Fan entered Taixuan Sect and went to Zhuo Peak to seek its inheritance. After they climbed the nine-tiered heavenly staircase, Lu Zhou signed in and obtained the Jiezi Secret, while Big Black Dog planned to infiltrate the sect separately.

• Lu Zhou used source arts to disguise himself, Ji Ziyue, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog before they approached Taixuan Sect, and Big Black Dog set off to sneak in alone.
• Ye Fan encountered Li Xiaoman among the prospective disciples, and Ji Ziyue teased him about his reaction.
• After passing Taixuan Sect's initial test, Lu Zhou, Ji Ziyue, and Ye Fan followed Ji Ziyue to the desolate Zhuo Peak, where Li Ruoyu warned them that its inheritance had not appeared for five hundred years.
• Li Ruoyu led the three up Zhuo Peak to the nine-tiered heavenly staircase, and Lu Zhou waited until Ji Ziyue and Ye Fan had climbed it before stepping on and signing in.
• The system awarded Lu Zhou the Jiezi Secret of the Nine Secrets and stored it in his Qiankun Pearl.

Lu Zhou left Taixuan Sect after obtaining the Jiezi Secret, entrusting Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue to Li Ruoyu and giving him a Medicine King to settle his karmic ties with Zhuo Peak. He then headed toward Yan Kingdom to repay Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, and the chapter ended with Yang Yi asking how he planned to thank her.

• Lu Zhou refused Li Ruoyu’s offer to join Star Peak and said he would leave Taixuan Sect, while Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue remained on Zhuo Peak.
• Lu Zhou gave Li Ruoyu a jade box containing a Medicine King and asked him to look after Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue.
• Lu Zhou left Taixuan Sect and told Ye Fan to visit the Fire Domain in Jin Kingdom if he later sought to refine artifacts.
• Yang Yi asked whether Lu Zhou had obtained the Jiezi Secret, and he confirmed that he had.
• Lu Zhou told Yang Yi he intended to repay Lingxu Grotto-Heaven and acknowledged that she had helped him along the way.
• Yang Yi smiled and asked Lu Zhou how he planned to thank her.

Lu Zhou offered Yang Yi one of the Nine Secrets to thank her, but her response made him suspect she had been replaced. After confirming she was herself, he realized his Origin Heaven Divine Eye had seen her naked, and Yang Yi vowed to kill him.

• Lu Zhou offered Yang Yi one of the four Nine Secrets he possessed, but she refused and said protecting him was her own way of repaying him for saving her.
• Yang Yi said her patriarch's cultivation insights were a separate matter, making Lu Zhou suspect that an impostor or ancient presence had taken over her body.
• Lu Zhou examined Yang Yi with the Origin Heaven Divine Eye and found no sign that she had been replaced or possessed.
• Yang Yi recognized Lu Zhou's Origin Heaven Divine Eye and accused him of having used it to peep at Shi Yao and Jade Pool disciples.
• Yang Yi realized Lu Zhou had seen her naked, screamed, and shouted that she was going to kill him.

Lu Zhou fled from Yang Yi for five days, using the chase to give her time to calm down and rethink what she had said. He realized he had misread her distinction between herself and Zhang Lin, then reached the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and began searching for a way to explain himself.

• Lu Zhou ran from Yang Yi for days, repeatedly escaping her seals and crossing between Wei Kingdom and Yan Kingdom as his mastery of the Xingzi Secret deepened.
• Yang Yi stopped attacking in anger and tried to coax Lu Zhou into stopping, but he kept running and eventually headed for the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Lu Zhou reached the forbidden land and waited near its stone cliff, where Yang Yi caught up with him and told him not to call her Sister Yi.
• Lu Zhou reconsidered Yang Yi's words about Zhang Lin and concluded that she had been asserting her independence and their lack of a marital bond, not rejecting responsibility out of hostility.
• Lu Zhou struggled to find a way to explain the misunderstanding to Yang Yi, who watched him from the sky without understanding his muttering.

Lu Zhou left the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land after Yang Yi disappeared, then returned to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven to repay those who had helped him. He restored Wu Qingfeng’s youth and gave Sect Leader Li a hundred jin of source.

• Lu Zhou explained to Yang Yi that his earlier actions had been a misunderstanding and that he respected her, but she vanished without answering.
• Lu Zhou waited through the night, then left the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land and went to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Zhou reunited with Wu Qingfeng, apologized for disappearing, and reassured him that Ye Fan and Pang Bo were safe and had found great opportunities.
• Lu Zhou refined a medicinal king into sacred liquid and used it to restore Wu Qingfeng to his youth, then passed him the Wheel of Life and Dao Palace sections of the complete Dao Sutra.
• Lu Zhou found Sect Leader Li and left him one hundred jin of source to repay Lingxu Grotto-Heaven’s past assistance.

Lu Zhou returned to the Fire Domain to refine the Qiankun Pearl and found Crow Daoist forging a divine bell in the eighth level. He entered the eighth level without alerting Crow Daoist.

• Ye Fan gave Lu Zhou three-fifths of the Source Root of Myriad Mother Qi, and Lu Zhou lent him the Origin Scripture after making him promise not to use its perception techniques to look at women.
• Lu Zhou placed the Source Root of Myriad Mother Qi in Qiankun Heaven and Earth, expanding it and slightly improving the Qiankun Pearl's growth.
• Lu Zhou traveled through the Fire Domain's first seven levels, reaching the eighth with Sakyamuni's forbidden artifact protecting him.
• Lu Zhou used his Origin Heaven Divine Eye to spot Crow Daoist refining a divine bell in a cave beneath a Boulder mountain.
• Lu Zhou circled around and entered the eighth level without alerting Crow Daoist.

Lu Zhou experimented with imprinting Emperor Characters from several scriptures onto the Qiankun Pearl, discovering that the characters clashed or resonated according to their Daos. After successfully inscribing characters from five scriptures, he heard the old crow call from the Fire Domain.

• Lu Zhou discovered that the Dao Sutra’s nine Emperor Characters rejected characters from other scriptures on the Qiankun Pearl.
• Lu Zhou found an arrangement that let him permanently imprint all nine Xi Huang Scripture characters, bringing the total to eighteen.
• Lu Zhou imprinted all nine Wushi Scripture characters, bringing the total to twenty-seven and expanding Qiankun Heaven and Earth again.
• Lu Zhou struggled to imprint the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art characters because they tried to devour the others, while Wushi’s characters rejected them.
• Lu Zhou imprinted the Indestructible Heavenly Art characters, then used their support to inscribe the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art characters as well.
• Lu Zhou heard the distinctive caw of the old crow in the Fire Domain.

Lu Zhou broke through while observing the Qiankun Pearl, escaped the Fire Domain before Crow Daoist could confront him, and then encountered Ye Fan being hunted. The pursuers recognized Lu Zhou, leaving him to face a group that seemed to know his name.

• Lu Zhou gained insight from the Qiankun Pearl and broke through to the second level of the Four Extremities Realm without attracting a heavenly tribulation.
• Lu Zhou left the Fire Domain, while Crow Daoist arrived too late to find him and returned to refining his divine bell.
• Lu Zhou headed toward the Qixia Mountain Range and spotted Ye Fan being pursued by more than twenty people, including Hua Yunfei and Yao Xi.
• Lu Zhou appeared in front of Ye Fan, who recognized him and hurried to his side.
• The pursuers caught up, and several of them recognized Lu Zhou, prompting the rest to ask who he was.

After refining the Qiankun Pearl, Lu Zhou broke through to the second level of the Four Extremities realm and discovered that the Ji Family and other factions had gathered to hunt Ye Fan. He recognized the pursuers and traded flirtatious taunts with Yao Xi, while Ye Fan asked whether Yaoguang’s Holy Maiden could marry outside her sect.

• Lu Zhou emerged from his cultivation and asked the gathered pursuers whether they would leave or make him send them away.
• Ji Hui revealed the Ji Family’s hostility, and Ye Fan identified her, Ji Biyue, Hua Yunfei, Yao Xi, Li Youyou, and the others.
• Lu Zhou focused on Hua Yunfei and Yao Xi, greeting Hua Yunfei and silently connecting Yao Xi to the idea of an Extreme Dao Bellyband.
• Yao Xi teased Lu Zhou about Yan Ruyu and invited him and Ye Fan to Yaoguang, prompting Lu Zhou to tease her about personally entertaining him and marrying outside the sect.
• Lu Zhou claimed Yan Ruyu wanted more sisters, and after trading more taunts with Yao Xi, Ye Fan joked that Lu Zhou wanted to become Yaoguang’s son-in-law.

Lu Zhou flirted with Yao Xi before killing Ji Family attackers with the Qiankun Pearl and revealing its combined powers. Ji Haoyue arrived with a newly cultivated Moon Rising from the Sea phenomenon, leaving Lu Zhou to wonder whether he could truly follow the path of the Chaos Ancient Era.

• Yao Xi challenged Lu Zhou to defeat Yaoguang's Holy Son and Holy Lord before discussing marriage, and Lu Zhou traded flirtatious proposals with her.
• A Ji Family elder attacked Lu Zhou with the Great Void Technique, but the Qiankun Pearl found and killed him.
• The Ji Family members attacked together, but Lu Zhou used the Qiankun Pearl to seal and destroy their techniques and treasures, killing several attackers.
• Ji Haoyue arrived walking upon his Moon Rising from the Sea phenomenon, which he had rebuilt after Lu Zhou destroyed its moon.
• Lu Zhou sensed that Ji Haoyue had grown stronger and wondered whether he had the talent to walk the path of the Chaos Ancient Era.

Lu Zhou learned that Ye Fan had been exposed at Taixuan Sect and had grown close to Ji Ziyue, while Ji Haoyue came seeking Ye Fan. When Ji Haoyue attacked Lu Zhou, Lu Zhou revealed that his Sea of Suffering Phenomenon had evolved to include blood lotuses.

• Ji Haoyue challenged Lu Zhou, but Lu Zhou noticed Ji Haoyue's anger was aimed at Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan explained that Ji Haoyue and Ji Hui had exposed and pursued him at Taixuan Sect, while Ji Ziyue had protected him.
• Lu Zhou teased Ye Fan about his growing intimacy with Ji Ziyue and called Ji Haoyue Ye Fan's brother-in-law.
• Ji Haoyue attacked Lu Zhou with the clear light of his moon, and the onlookers withdrew from the battlefield.
• Lu Zhou summoned a sea of blood and a blood moon, then revealed blood lotuses that blocked Ji Haoyue's moonlight.

Lu Zhou unveiled a transformed Sea of Suffering phenomenon and fought Ji Haoyue, defeating him in their clash of nine-revolution moons. Ji Haoyue then began breaking through during the battle, triggering a heavenly tribulation that left Lu Zhou facing a new danger.

• Spectators debated Lu Zhou’s blood-lotus and crimson-moon phenomenon, while Lu Zhou recalled that it had changed after Yan Ruyu revealed her Sea of Suffering Planting Golden Lotuses.
• Lu Zhou attacked Ji Haoyue with the Xingzi Secret and Mountain Embracing Seal, while Ji Haoyue evaded and shattered the manifested Mount Tai with the Void Great Hand Seal.
• Ji Haoyue and Lu Zhou each unleashed a nine-revolution moon beam, and their collision devastated the surrounding battlefield.
• After the dust settled, Ji Haoyue was bleeding and his robes were torn, while Lu Zhou remained spotless.
• Ji Haoyue stopped suppressing his strength and began breaking through, and his breakthrough gathered black clouds and triggered a heavenly tribulation.
• Ji Hui laughed and taunted Lu Zhou as the heavenly tribulation formed.

Ji Haoyue triggered a heavenly tribulation while breaking through, and Lu Zhou insisted on joining him despite the danger. When Ji Haoyue fled toward an uninhabited region to keep Lu Zhou out of the tribulation, Lu Zhou chased after him.

• Onlookers praised Ji Haoyue after his breakthrough summoned a heavenly tribulation, while the Ji Family celebrated his supposed future greatness.
• The Black Emperor arrived, attacked the Ji Family members who insulted dogs, and bit Ji Hui so badly that he tore off her lower body before escaping.
• Ji Haoyue told Lu Zhou to stay outside the tribulation and promised to fight him afterward, but Lu Zhou moved closer and claimed he would help him cross it for Ye Fan's sake.
• Lu Zhou's declaration moved the crowd and Ye Fan, though the Big Black Dog suspected he had an ulterior motive.
• Ji Haoyue refused Lu Zhou's help and flew toward an uninhabited region with the tribulation clouds, so Lu Zhou pursued him using the Xingzi Secret.

Lu Zhou chased Ji Haoyue into his breakthrough tribulation, intent on testing whether he could draw down a tribulation of his own. After Lu Zhou took the first lightning strike meant for Ji Haoyue, the clouds transformed into a vast sea of purple lightning that swallowed them both.

• Ji Haoyue stopped beneath the tribulation clouds while Lu Zhou continued pursuing him, and the Ji Family's Holy Lord and Great Powers sealed off the area as Ji Haoyue prepared to break through.
• Ji Haoyue completed his breakthrough, and a bolt of purple lightning descended toward him.
• Lu Zhou appeared above Ji Haoyue and took the lightning strike with his body, astonishing the gathered spectators.
• Big Black Dog realized that Lu Zhou had been tainted by the tribulation and would draw one of his own, while Ye Fan watched in silence.
• After Lu Zhou endured the first strike, the tribulation clouds expanded into a sea of purple lightning that swallowed Lu Zhou and Ji Haoyue.

Lu Zhou endured a devastating heavenly tribulation after it intensified beyond Ji Haoyue’s, while Ji Haoyue fought to face it himself. After the lightning vanished and Lu Zhou appeared dead, he shed his charred body and emerged renewed and stronger.

• The spectators watched in disbelief as Lu Zhou and Ji Haoyue fought to be struck by the lightning, and Lu Zhou repeatedly forced Ji Haoyue back.
• Lu Zhou suppressed Ji Haoyue beneath a mountain and faced successive waves of Thunder Tides with the Qiankun Pearl.
• Big Black Dog identified the tribulation as having five layers, and Lu Zhou provoked it as four more waves surged toward him.
• The nine waves passed, leaving Lu Zhou charred and seemingly lifeless while Ji Haoyue remained trapped beneath the mountain.
• Ye Fan insisted Lu Zhou could not be dead, and Lu Zhou’s charred shell cracked open to reveal his renewed body and awakened strength.

Lu Zhou helped Ji Haoyue survive one stage of his heavenly tribulation, but a second stage descended with nine powerful lightning phantoms. As Ji Haoyue fell unconscious, Lu Zhou fought the remaining phantoms with his Dao Body and Divine Sense Avatar, facing an especially formidable Immortal King figure.

• A hidden speaker mocked the Ji Family for its past persecution of the Demon Race and praised Lu Zhou for helping Ji Haoyue withstand the tribulation.
• Azure Flood Dragon King challenged the Ji Family Eighth Ancestor, but a new heavenly tribulation interrupted their confrontation.
• Nine lightning phantoms attacked Lu Zhou and Ji Haoyue, and a Dao Body created by Lu Zhou’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones saved Ji Haoyue from a divine phoenix phantom.
• Lu Zhou and his Dao Body destroyed five lightning phantoms, while their Divine Sense Avatars froze and dispersed three more.
• Lu Zhou told the badly injured Ji Haoyue to rest, and Ji Haoyue fainted after coughing blood; Lu Zhou then faced the four remaining phantoms, including a powerful figure resembling an Immortal King.

Lu Zhou endured Ji Haoyue’s heavenly tribulation, refining the Chaos Lightning into strength and destroying the final bolt with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist. After the tribulation dispersed, an unknown attacker sent Extreme Emperor Might toward Lu Zhou and the unconscious Ji Haoyue.

• Lu Zhou and his Qiankun Pearl shattered the lightning phantoms, then faced the final nine bolts of Chaos Lightning.
• Lu Zhou endured the first eight bolts head-on, absorbing their Chaos Qi to strengthen his body, Divine Sense Avatars, and Qiankun Pearl.
• Lu Zhou triggered a tenfold critical hit with the Jiezi Secret and used the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist to destroy the last bolt.
• Lu Zhou healed completely, and the tribulation clouds dispersed as the spectators realized he had helped Ji Haoyue survive the tribulation.
• Lu Zhou changed into fresh white robes, but an unknown attacker sent Extreme Emperor Might at him and the unconscious Ji Haoyue.

After Lu Zhou and Ji Haoyue survived the tribulation, an ambush nearly killed them until Yang Yi intervened, while the mastermind escaped. Lu Zhou then confronted Saint Son Yaoguang about the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron and its absence.

• An enemy used a wisp of Extreme Emperor Might to distract the Void Mirror and Demon Emperor Weapon while hidden attackers sent giant hands toward Lu Zhou and Ji Haoyue.
• Yang Yi appeared in a Dao diagram, destroyed the attacks, and dragged gray-robed puppets from hiding, but they exploded before their master could be identified.
• The true mastermind escaped, and the Emperor Weapon responsible for the Extreme Emperor Might concealed its identity; Yang Yi vanished without answering Lu Zhou.
• Lu Zhou spotted Saint Son Yaoguang among the onlookers and asked whether the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron had been refined by the Ruthless Emperor.
• Lu Zhou asked Saint Son Yaoguang why Yaoguang's Emperor Weapon was absent from the gathering.