Chapter Summaries

Lu Zhou discovered that Origin Stones could nourish Qiankun Heaven and Earth, then signed in at Holy City and obtained a one-time round-trip teleportation disk. At Jiang Family Stone Workshop, he reunited with Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun, whose return and suspected breakthrough to Sainthood sent shockwaves through Holy City.

• Lu Zhou placed a damaged Humanoid Divine Medicine in the Purple Mountain Divine Spring and kept a Primordial Strange Flower as a wedding gift for Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun.
• Lu Zhou signed in at Holy City and received a one-time round-trip teleportation disk modeled after a Five-Colored Altar.
• The next day, Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and Big Black Dog arrived at Jiang Family Stone Workshop, where Jiang Taixu and the Jiang Family's important figures welcomed them.
• Onlookers recognized Jiang Taixu, learned that Lu Zhou had saved him, and spread news that the vanished God King had returned and might have become a Saint.
• Fairy Caiyun refused Lu Zhou's gift of a Primordial Strange Flower and suggested he give the immortal blossom to the Demon Princess instead.

Lu Zhou and Ye Fan welcomed Jiang Taixu, Fairy Caiyun, and Little Tingting, learning how they had traveled together and grown stronger. The Jiang Family Holy Lord then reported that leaders from major factions had arrived to pay homage to the God King.

• Lu Zhou gave Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun an immortal blossom as a wedding gift, and they shared Enlightenment Tea with Lu Zhou, Ye Fan, and Yang Yi.
• Jiang Taixu recounted how he had reunited with Fairy Caiyun, taken Little Tingting on their travels, resolved her Taiyin Divine Body, and advanced alongside Caiyun.
• Jiang Taixu and Fairy Caiyun learned of Ye Fan's troubles and Lu Zhou's exploits, then traveled to meet them after Tingting asked them to help Ye Fan.
• Tingting told Lu Zhou and Ye Fan that Old Man Jiang was doing well under the Jiang Family Holy Lord's care.
• The Jiang Family Holy Lord informed Jiang Taixu that leaders from major factions had arrived with their followers to seek an audience with him.

Jiang Taixu publicly demonstrated overwhelming power, confirming that he had reached Sainthood, while Lu Zhou planned future adventures with him. Before Lu Zhou could face Saint Son Yaoguang, Yaoguang and his entourage were apparently annihilated by Extreme Emperor Might, leaving Lu Zhou convinced they had staged the death to escape.

• Jiang Taixu received the gathered factions at the Jiang Family Stone Workshop and killed Night King and the other challengers with one gesture.
• Lu Zhou arranged to take Little Nannan and Jiang Taixu to explore other places after settling his affairs, and then went to inspect the workshop with Yan Ruyu.
• News spread that Saint Son Yaoguang and his entourage had been reduced to ash by an ambush near Holy City.
• Lu Zhou suspected that Saint Son Yaoguang had faked his death to escape, and he and Yan Ruyu, Jiang Taixu, and others investigated the scene.
• Jiang Taixu used a divine art to search for evidence, but the Extreme Emperor Might had erased every trace.

After Saint Son Yaoguang was presumed dead, rumors blamed Lu Zhou and sparked violent disputes, while Lu Zhou suspected Yaoguang had staged the death. Before he could pursue Hua Yunfei, assassination attempts against many renowned young heirs enraged the major forces across the Big Dipper.

• People argued over whether an Ultimate Dao Force or Yaoguang had caused Saint Son Yaoguang’s apparent death, and some fought over the competing claims.
• Yaoguang spread rumors that Lu Zhou had smeared their Holy Land and sought to force a marriage with the Yaoguang Holy Maiden, angering Lu Zhou.
• Lu Zhou became convinced Saint Son Yaoguang had faked his death and decided to target Hua Yunfei.
• Hua Yunfei, Ji Haoyue, Yao Yuekong, the Great Xia Prince, and many other young elites faced assassination attempts led by Immortal First Realm cultivators or Great Powers.
• The major forces condemned the attacks and vowed to uncover those hunting their Saint Sons, Holy Maidens, and other heirs.

After assassinations targeting the younger generation plunged Big Dipper into chaos, rumors tied Lu Zhou to the attacks and revealed he possessed an unknown Ultimate Emperor Weapon. Public opinion turned against him, and Holy Master Yaoguang headed for Holy City to confront him as representatives of other factions followed.

• The factions searched for the culprit behind the assassination attempts, while Yaoguang demanded an explanation from Lu Zhou.
• Rumors spread that Lu Zhou possessed an Ultimate Emperor Weapon, after a Ji Family witness drunkenly revealed that he had used it against the Ji Family's Void Mirror.
• People speculated that Lu Zhou had secretly orchestrated the attacks to force a marriage with the Yaoguang Holy Maiden, and condemnation of him swept across Big Dipper.
• Holy Master Yaoguang traveled alone to Holy City to question Lu Zhou, while representatives of other major forces followed him toward the Jiang Family Stone Workshop.

Lu Zhou faced mounting rumors in the Holy City while supporters stood by him, and he suspected Yaoguang was behind the campaign. When Yao Xi came to see him as the Yaoguang Holy Master approached, their teasing turned into an intimate struggle, leaving her caught in Lu Zhou’s embrace.

• Ye Fan reassured Lu Zhou that he and others believed in him despite the accusations spreading outside the Jiang Family Stone Workshop.
• Lu Zhou blamed the Yaoguang faction for the rumors and remained angry that a Ji Family Eighth Ancestor had exposed his Imperial weapon; Ji Haoyue and Ji Ziyue said they had no proof against the man.
• Yao Xi visited Lu Zhou despite the rumors portraying them as lovers who had conspired to kill Saint Son Yaoguang.
• Lu Zhou teased Yao Xi about wanting to bite him, then pulled her into his embrace when she grabbed at him.
• Yao Xi struggled and kicked at Lu Zhou, but he caught her leg while holding her.

Lu Zhou and Yao Xi fought fiercely in the pavilion, but Yao Xi escaped after nearly overwhelming him with her forbidden sound-based attack. Lu Zhou kept her personal treasure as compensation, and when she began to cry, he embraced her and carried her back into the pavilion.

• Lu Zhou restrained Yao Xi and fought her as she struggled to break free.
• Yao Xi bit Lu Zhou's shoulder, and he retaliated by biting her earlobe and using his techniques against her.
• Yao Xi struck Lu Zhou with her Enchanting Demon Melody, but Lu Zhou sealed her mouth and weakened her attack.
• Yao Xi used a lunar-palace technique to escape Lu Zhou's restraint and demanded that he return her personal treasure.
• Lu Zhou claimed the treasure as compensation, then embraced Yao Xi and carried her back into the pavilion when she cried.

Lu Zhou met An Miaoyi privately at Wonderful Desire Lake, where she revealed her connection to the Ruthless Emperor lineage and considered choosing him as her protector. She trusted his promise to give her a chance at the Dual Complete Method, and the night ended with their intimacy.

• Yao Xi left the Jiang Family Stone Workshop without revealing her visit, while Holy Master Yaoguang waited outside the Holy City.
• Li Heishui told Lu Zhou that An Miaoyi had invited him to Wonderful Desire Lake, and Lu Zhou disguised himself as Li Heishui to go there.
• An Miaoyi asked how Lu Zhou knew she belonged to the Ruthless Emperor lineage and why he treated her differently despite his hostility toward it.
• An Miaoyi asked whether Lu Zhou's earlier offer still stood and suggested she wanted to choose him before events had settled.
• Lu Zhou told An Miaoyi he would not force her or make their relationship a transaction, and promised her a chance to obtain the Dual Complete Method regardless of whom she chose.
• An Miaoyi said she believed Lu Zhou, and the two became intimate in the Palace.

An Miaoyi told Lu Zhou how she joined the Ruthless Emperor lineage and was ordered to lure powerful cultivators into a trap at the Ruthless Emperor's Dojo. Lu Zhou brought her into the Wuji Dojo, his small world inside the Qiankun Pearl, and led her toward enormous stone books.

• An Miaoyi told Lu Zhou that a mysterious gray-robed man had given her the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and recruited her into the Ruthless Emperor lineage.
• She explained that the man had ordered her to lure the Heavenly Demon Body, the divine body, the sacred body, and Lu Zhou to a trap at the Ruthless Emperor's Dojo.
• After An Miaoyi urged Lu Zhou to leave before dawn, he said he would take her somewhere and brought her into the Qiankun Pearl's small world.
• Lu Zhou showed An Miaoyi the peaceful Wuji Dojo, where she admired the scenery and danced among seven-colored flowers.
• Lu Zhou led An Miaoyi to a mountain summit, where she saw enormous stone books.

Lu Zhou brought An Miaoyi to his Wuji Dojo and revealed its collection of Emperor Scriptures and Nine Secrets, offering her access to them and promising to give her everything. An Miaoyi was deeply moved but chose to remain with the Wonderful Desire Nunnery, hoping to become a source of support on Lu Zhou’s Emperor Road.

• Lu Zhou led An Miaoyi through the Wuji Dojo and opened its stone books, revealing five Emperor Scriptures and several of the Nine Secrets.
• An Miaoyi questioned Lu Zhou about the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and the Indestructible Heavenly Art, and he explained that the Ruthless Emperor lineage had once tried to kill him.
• Lu Zhou invited An Miaoyi to study the scriptures, advised her to focus on the Dao Sutra, and told her the inheritances were hers to cultivate.
• An Miaoyi recalled her master's betrayal, embraced Lu Zhou, and kissed him after he told her she was worth his devotion.
• Lu Zhou suggested An Miaoyi leave the Wonderful Desire Nunnery and give it part of the Dao Sutra to settle her ties, but she refused to become dependent on him or live as a caged canary.
• An Miaoyi said she wanted to remain with the Wonderful Desire Nunnery and use its influence to support Lu Zhou on his Emperor Road, and Lu Zhou recognized that he had overlooked her independence.

Lu Zhou offered An Miaoyi the chance to rebuild Wonderful Desire Nunnery as Misty Palace, then returned to the Jiang Family Stone Workshop and challenged Holy Master Yaoguang over Yaoguang’s attacks and slander. The confrontation was left unresolved as Lu Zhou demanded that Yaoguang explain itself.

• Lu Zhou proposed renaming Wonderful Desire Nunnery Misty Palace, making An Miaoyi its first Palace Master and giving it the complete Dao Sutra and access to the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal.
• An Miaoyi accepted Lu Zhou’s offer and showed her gratitude before he left Wonderful Desire Lake.
• Lu Zhou returned to the Jiang Family Stone Workshop, where Holy Master Yaoguang confronted him after waiting for two hours.
• Lu Zhou dismissed Holy Master Yaoguang’s demand for an explanation and said the innocent remained innocent and the guilty remained guilty.
• As Holy Master Yaoguang prepared to leave, Lu Zhou stopped him and demanded that he answer for the Ruthless Emperor lineage’s attack on Lu Zhou and Yaoguang’s efforts to smear his reputation.

Lu Zhou and Holy Master Yaoguang clashed publicly before Jiang Taixu brought them together to discuss the Ruthless Emperor lineage within Yaoguang. Lu Zhou offered two ways to resolve the conflict, and Yao Xi welcomed the plan to join forces with her master to purge the lineage.

• Lu Zhou demanded an explanation from Holy Master Yaoguang, who challenged him to produce evidence, and the two traded accusations before Jiang Taixu intervened.
• Jiang Taixu warned that both sides could awaken Imperial Weapons and invited Lu Zhou and Holy Master Yaoguang to discuss matters privately; they agreed and appeared in his courtyard with Yao Xi.
• Jiang Taixu asked Holy Master Yaoguang to share what he knew about the Ruthless Emperor lineage, and Lu Zhou explained that Yao Xi had helped him find common ground with her master.
• Lu Zhou told Yao Xi that he could join another holy land and give it Imperial Weapons and a complete Dao Sutra to oppose Yaoguang if the conflict worsened.
• Lu Zhou proposed instead joining Holy Master Yaoguang to purge the Ruthless Emperor lineage, offering a complete Dao Sutra and a Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal as Yaoguang's new Saint Son.
• Yao Xi liked Lu Zhou's second plan and eagerly anticipated telling her master, though she rejected his teasing suggestion that she marry him.

Holy Master Yaoguang accepted Lu Zhou’s proposal to purge the Ruthless Emperor lineage and publicly reconciled with him under Jiang Taixu’s mediation. The chapter ended with Yaoguang announcing that Lu Zhou would become its new Saint Son, bringing a complete Dao Sutra inheritance and an Emperor weapon.

• Lu Zhou planned with Yao Xi and informed Jiang Taixu that they would stage a public reconciliation if Holy Master Yaoguang chose the second proposal.
• Holy Master Yaoguang revealed Yaoguang’s Holy Master lineage had secretly aided the Ruthless Emperor lineage’s plots, including the staged death of Yaoguang’s Saint Son and attacks on other heirs.
• Lu Zhou assured Holy Master Yaoguang that Yaoguang would receive Emperor scriptures and weapons, as well as the complete Dao Sutra inheritance, without becoming an enemy of the world.
• Jiang Taixu and Holy Master Yaoguang emerged before the waiting crowd with Lu Zhou and Yao Xi, presenting a united front.
• Holy Master Yaoguang publicly dismissed the rumors against Lu Zhou, praised him, and announced that he would join Yaoguang with a complete Dao Sutra inheritance and an Emperor weapon as its new Saint Son.

Holy Master Yaoguang announced Lu Zhou as Yaoguang’s Saint Son, and he, Lu Zhou, Yao Xi, and Jiang Taixu hurried to Yaoguang Holy Land to deal with the hidden Ruthless Emperor lineage. There, Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu used the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal to confront Yaoguang’s cauldron, sealing off the Holy Land as Holy Master Yaoguang tried to wrest control of it from hidden forces.

• Holy Master Yaoguang announced that Lu Zhou would become Yaoguang’s Saint Son, and Lu Zhou confirmed the news to the gathered forces.
• Holy Master Yaoguang invited the major forces to Lu Zhou’s Saint Son Ceremony, then departed with Lu Zhou while Jiang Taixu took Lu Zhou and Yao Xi toward Yaoguang Holy Land.
• Lu Zhou used the Origin Heaven Divine Art to see that Yaoguang Holy Land was built atop a Great Tomb of the Ruthless Emperor.
• Lu Zhou handed the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal to Jiang Taixu, and it confronted Yaoguang’s Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, sealing the Holy Land off from outside contact.
• Holy Master Yaoguang urged Yaoguang’s startled elders to remain calm and led Lu Zhou and Jiang Taixu toward the Holy Land’s depths while competing with hidden presences for control of the cauldron.

Holy Master Yaoguang brought Lu Zhou and Jiang Taoxu into Yaoguang’s forbidden grounds to meet a Saint sealed in divine source, revealing how deeply the Ruthless Emperor lineage had infiltrated the Holy Land. The sealed Saint fixed his wary attention on Jiang Taoxu, who pointed him toward Lu Zhou.

• Three Great Powers from the Ruthless Emperor lineage confronted Holy Master Yaoguang, but a voice transmission prompted them to stand aside.
• Holy Master Yaoguang received a message that shocked him, then led Lu Zhou and Jiang Taoxu to the forbidden grounds while Yao Xi and the others waited.
• A gray-robed leader of the Ruthless Emperor lineage opened the palace, revealing a Saint sealed inside divine source.
• Holy Master Yaoguang realized the sealed Saint belonged to the Ruthless Emperor lineage and that the faction’s influence in Yaoguang was greater than he had thought.
• The sealed Saint addressed Jiang Taoxu with wary divine sense, and Jiang Taoxu pointed at Lu Zhou and told him to ask Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou forced the Ruthless Emperor lineage to accept his terms for surviving their confrontation. The lineage agreed to leave Yaoguang, conceal its ties to the Holy Land, and surrender the person who had ordered his assassination.

• Lu Zhou demanded that the Ruthless Emperor lineage withdraw from Yaoguang, swear not to reveal its connection to the Holy Land or share its teachings, and execute the mastermind behind the attempt on his life.
• The gray-robed figure and the saint resisted, but Jiang Taixu reminded them that the lineage also owed a debt to the Jiang Family for targeting Jiang Yifei.
• Lu Zhou revealed that he knew about Hua Yunfei, the lineage's connection to the Ruthless Emperor, and the origins of the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, leaving its representatives shocked and wary.
• Lu Zhou warned that he could prevent them from using the cauldron and wipe out the lineage, while offering them a chance to leave with it out of consideration for someone else.
• Unable to see what else Lu Zhou knew and facing the threat of greater losses, the gray-robed figure and the saint agreed to his demands.

After the Ruthless Emperor lineage left Yaoguang with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, Lu Zhou explained why he had spared them and helped Holy Master Yaoguang stabilize the holy land. When Yaoguang announced Lu Zhou as its new Saint Son, challengers invoked the selection rules, and Lu Zhou invited them to face him together.

• The Ruthless Emperor lineage swore oaths, left Yaoguang with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and watched its apparent leader take his own life before Lu Zhou.
• Yao Xi, Jiang Taixu, and Holy Master Yaoguang questioned Lu Zhou's decision to let the lineage go, and Lu Zhou explained that taking the cauldron or destroying the lineage could bring great calamity.
• Holy Master Yaoguang summoned Yaoguang's members and announced that Lu Zhou had joined with the complete Dao Sutra and the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Seal and would become the new Saint Son.
• Some Yaoguang members challenged Lu Zhou's appointment by citing the rules for selecting a Saint Son, and Lu Zhou told them to come at him together.

Lu Zhou suppressed Yaoguang’s candidates and became its Holy Son, while An Miaoyi and Bai Yaqing reorganized Wonderful Desire Nunnery as Misty Pavilion. The chapter ended with Misty Pavilion revealing its Emperor scripture inheritance and Emperor-weapon foundation, sending shockwaves through the factions.

• Lu Zhou crushed the attacks of nine Yaoguang candidate Holy Sons with one hand and was recognized as Yaoguang’s Holy Son.
• Bai Yaqing questioned An Miaoyi about her choice of Lu Zhou, and An Miaoyi told her about his care and the flawless Dao Sutra he had shared.
• An Miaoyi and Bai Yaqing gathered Wonderful Desire Nunnery’s senior members to transform the nunnery into Misty Pavilion.
• Wonderful Desire Nunnery closed its doors, then announced that it would sever its ties with romance and let its members choose whether to stay or leave.
• An Miaoyi told the members who remained that Misty Pavilion had an Emperor scripture inheritance and the foundation of an Emperor weapon, prompting an uproar across the factions.

Lu Zhou’s gift of an Emperor Scripture to Wonderful Desire Nunnery sparked envy among the pleasure sanctuaries and helped factions turn public opinion in his favor. At Yaoguang Holy Land, he signed in for the complete Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Art and reunited with Weiwei.

• Wonderful Desire Nunnery announced it would become Misty Pavilion after obtaining an intact Emperor Scripture, rumored to be the Dao Sutra, prompting other pleasure sanctuaries to seek Lu Zhou’s favor.
• Yaoguang, the Jiang Family, the Demon Race, Jade Pool, Misty Pavilion, the Ji Family, and other factions helped reverse the rumors about Lu Zhou and restore his reputation.
• After three days at Yaoguang Holy Land, Lu Zhou signed in near its Scripture Repository and obtained the complete Tribulation Transcending Heavenly Art.
• Lu Zhou wondered whether the Immoral Taoist had truly lived beneath Yaoguang’s Great Tomb, since the system had granted him the Heavenly Art there.
• Weiwei met Lu Zhou, and they descended to a mountain pavilion, where she thanked him for helping her and others after the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

Lu Zhou asked Weiwei whether the Ruthless Emperor lineage had approached her, then shared his Dao Sutra insights to help her cultivate. He confessed that he had once hoped to marry her, leaving Weiwei flustered by his praise.

• Lu Zhou asked Weiwei whether the Ruthless Emperor lineage had approached her, and she said she had never heard of it before recent events.
• Weiwei told Lu Zhou she had been summoned to receive the Wheel of Sea and Dao Palace volumes of the Dao Sutra.
• Lu Zhou passed his insights into the first four Dao Sutra volumes to Weiwei.
• Lu Zhou told Weiwei he had thought of her as a fairy when he first saw her and hoped he could marry her one day.
• Weiwei panicked and struggled to respond, while Lu Zhou noticed her adorable side.