Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing absorbed the spirit liquid and began refining it to advance his cultivation. Meanwhile, Innate experts fought over treasures in the Ten Thousand Mountains Secret Realm, and a young man confronted a beautiful woman over the Zhao Family’s destruction as news of the Secret Realm spread to Central Province.

• Lu Qing refined the spirit liquid with the Five Elements Gourd and rapidly increased his cultivation.
• Wang Yuanshan took a Spirit Herb from Qiu Fei, and the two began an Innate-level battle.
• A Middle-Aged Beautiful Woman avoided a poison needle ambush and was confronted by a young Zhao Family survivor seeking revenge.
• The Middle-Aged Beautiful Woman attacked the young man, and they began fighting in the woods.
• The Secret Realm drew experts from surrounding provinces, sparking battles and deaths, while news of it spread to Central Province.

The White Robe Youth and Gray Robe Man discussed their progress cultivating with essence from the Small World’s Secret Realms, and the Gray Robe Man said he was close to breaking through to the Golden Core Fourth Revolution. When they learned a new Secret Realm had appeared in Cang Province, the White Robe Youth set out to investigate it while the Gray Robe Man stayed behind to cultivate.

• The White Robe Youth said Water Attribute essence had improved his cultivation, while the Gray Robe Man described reaching Third Revolution Completion and glimpsing a path to the Fourth Revolution.
• The Gray Robe Man and White Robe Youth discussed the Small World’s rare Five Element essence and its history of producing Nascent Soul Great Powers.
• An Innate Realm Completion man reported that a new Secret Realm had appeared in Cang Province.
• The White Robe Youth offered to investigate while the Gray Robe Man continued cultivating toward his breakthrough.
• The White Robe Youth seized the kneeling man and flew off with him to be shown the way to Cang Province.

Lu Qing reached Foundation Establishment Completion and discovered that his physical body could manifest red Treasure Light Divine Weapons despite his not yet entering the Golden Core Realm. As he secluded himself to prepare for tribulation, a White Robe Youth entered a vast secret realm containing all five elements.

• Lu Qing examined his powerful cultivation and manifested red Physical Body Treasure Light as a War Blade, astonishing Yan with his Golden Core-level ability.
• Lu Qing explained that his strong foundations let him use Treasure Light Manifesting Divine Weapons before the Golden Core Realm and said he was nearing tribulation.
• Lu Qing stopped refining the Five Elements Spirit Liquid and began polishing his body, divine soul, and essence, qi, and spirit toward perfection.
• The White Robe Youth arrived at the secret realm gate, killed several spies, and entered the secret realm.
• The White Robe Youth sensed that the secret realm contained all five elements and rejoiced at finding a large secret realm.

A White Robe Youth entered the Secret Realm seeking its concentrated spiritual aura, only to find its treasure ground stripped bare. After killing the people he seized, he learned that a Ghost Face Mask man had taken the treasure and deduced that the thief might have been living in seclusion near the Secret Realm.

• The White Robe Youth sensed the Secret Realm’s five elements and flew toward the area with the strongest spiritual aura, alarming powerful figures throughout the realm.
• The White Robe Youth found the treasure ground ravaged and used his Divine Soul Power to locate and seize several people hiding nearby.
• The White Robe Youth questioned the captives, killed one for hesitating, and learned that a Ghost Face Mask man controlling a Golden Flying Boat had taken the treasure and left the Secret Realm.
• The White Robe Youth crushed the remaining captives after they admitted they did not know the thief’s identity, then grew angrier when he realized the man had already escaped.
• The White Robe Youth reasoned that the thief had entered before the earliest explorers and might have been living in seclusion near the Secret Realm.

The White Robe Youth searched for the thief and slaughtered most of the martial artists still inside the Secret Realm. A group fleeing the Ten Thousand Mountains encountered a mysterious force near Nine Li Village, and Lu Qing jolted awake after sensing danger.

• The White Robe Youth flew toward the Secret Realm entrance, killing martial artists he encountered along the way and searching for the thief after he emerged.
• A middle-aged man learned from a shattered jade tablet that his Third Brother had died and urged his companions to flee the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• The four escaped the mountains, but the middle-aged man's sense of danger grew as they approached a village surrounded by gathering spiritual energy.
• The middle-aged man shouted for everyone to run, but a powerful suppressive force immobilized them and crushed him as a cold voice called them ants.
• Lu Qing sensed an extremely dangerous aura while tempering his soul and body in seclusion and jolted awake.

Lu Qing confronted a Golden Core cultivator who attacked Nine Li Village over the treasures taken from the Secret Realm. He blocked the cultivator’s first strike but was overwhelmed by the second and crashed into a nearby mountain.

• Lu Qing recognized the White Robe Youth as one of the mysterious powerhouses from Central Province, while the Old Doctor and the others sensed his terrifying aura.
• The White Robe Youth saw through Nine Li Village’s protective array, accused Lu Qing of taking the Secret Realm’s treasures, and sent a giant spiritual-power hand toward the village.
• Lu Qing flew up and split the giant hand with his blade, while the village array barely shielded the villagers from the resulting explosion.
• The White Robe Youth offered to spare Lu Qing if he surrendered the treasures and became his servant, but Lu Qing insulted him.
• Enraged, the White Robe Youth struck Lu Qing with a condensed spiritual-power hand, shattering his blade radiance and sending him crashing into a mountain.

Lu Qing lured the powerful White Robe Youth away from Nine Li Village by pretending to be badly injured, then fled through the mountains while Yan prepared their counterattack. The chapter ended with Yan reporting that the plan was ready.

• The White Robe Youth struck Lu Qing into a mountainside, but Lu Qing survived and fled into the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Old Doctor, Lin Zhi Rui, and Wei Shanhai stayed behind to protect and aid the villagers, while Xiao Li guarded Xiao Yan as Lu Qing had instructed.
• Lu Qing used the Earth Spirit Pearl to evade the White Robe Youth's attacks and explained to Yan that he had lured their enemy away from the village to find a chance to kill him.
• Lu Qing concealed his strength and pretended to weaken as the White Robe Youth pursued him deeper into the mountains.
• Yan told Lu Qing that the preparations were finally complete.

Lu Qing used the Giant Cauldron and an Illusion Technique to seize an opening against the White Robe Youth, a Golden Core Realm cultivator, and struck him down despite his Treasure Armor. Lu Qing’s Vibration Tactic ultimately crushed the youth’s head, leaving him dead in the forest.

• Lu Qing stopped fleeing, summoned the Giant Cauldron to seal the space around the White Robe Youth, and disrupted him with an Illusion Technique.
• Lu Qing struck the White Robe Youth with his War Blade, sending him crashing into the Dense Forest, but the youth’s Treasure Armor saved him from being cut in half.
• The White Robe Youth tried to heal and defend himself, but Lu Qing broke through his spells and struck his head; the armor’s scales blocked the blade again.
• Lu Qing used the Vibration Tactic to transmit the force of his blow through the Treasure Armor, crushing the White Robe Youth’s head.

Lu Qing killed the White Robe Youth and returned to Nine Li Village, where he learned that several elderly villagers had died from the shock of the attack. Meanwhile, the Gray Robe Man discovered his junior brother’s death, failed to divine its cause, and vowed to avenge him by killing everyone in the world if necessary.

• The White Robe Youth’s divine soul tried to possess Lu Qing, but the Merit Dharma Garment and Li Fire Cauldron destroyed it.
• Lu Qing confirmed the White Robe Youth was dead, placed his corpse in the Li Fire Cauldron, and flew back toward Nine Li Village.
• The Gray Robe Man found his junior brother’s Soul Tablet shattered and failed to divine who had killed him or where he had fallen.
• The Gray Robe Man suspected an Exotic Treasure or the realm’s Will of the Heavens had obscured the truth, then vowed to avenge his junior brother.
• Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village and told the Old Doctor, Lin Zhi Rui, and the others that he had killed the White Robe Man.
• The Old Doctor told Lu Qing that several elderly villagers had died from shock, but Grandpa Zhang was safe, deepening Lu Qing’s grief and killing intent.

After killing the White Robe Youth, Lu Qing learned that an even stronger Gray-robed Man might come, so he entered seclusion to temper himself. He reached the perfect peak of Foundation Establishment and flew into the Ten Thousand Mountains to undergo tribulation and break through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Lu Qing warned everyone that the White Robe Youth had a powerful Gray-robed Man companion, then asked the Old Doctor to maintain the village formation while he cultivated.
• Lu Qing gave the Old Doctor the White Robe Youth’s self-repairing Treasure Armor to refine.
• Lu Qing reflected on the battle, then spent two days in seclusion tempering his body, divine soul, and essence, qi, and spirit to perfection.
• Lu Qing realized he had reached the limit of Foundation Establishment and decided to break through by undergoing tribulation.
• Lu Qing told the Old Doctor he was leaving the village in his care, then searched the Ten Thousand Mountains for a place to undergo tribulation and chose a massive peak.

Lu Qing began his Golden Core Tribulation atop a mountain, drawing a massive vortex that terrified creatures and martial arts experts across the Ten Thousand Mountains. He and Yan expected a Golden Tribulation Cloud, but the cloud that formed was five-colored, a phenomenon absent from the records Yan knew.

• Lu Qing reached a mountain peak and unleashed his aura to begin the Golden Core Tribulation.
• The tribulation cloud vortex alarmed creatures and experts throughout the surrounding mountains, though none dared approach.
• Yan sensed Lu Qing’s impending tribulation and marveled that he had advanced from the Innate Realm in less than a year.
• Lu Qing and Yan both predicted that Lu Qing would summon a Golden Tribulation Cloud.
• Lu Qing and Yan saw the formed cloud’s five colors and were stunned by the unprecedented Five-Colored Tribulation Cloud.

Lu Qing discovered that the five-colored heavenly tribulation tested cultivators seeking a Perfect Golden Core, then endured its first two Five Elements Tribulation Lightning bolts by absorbing their law powers. After the Metal and Wood trials strengthened his body, he called for the remaining lightning, believing its laws would complete his spiritual power’s transformation.

• Lu Qing identified the five-colored cloud as a tribulation required to form a Perfect Golden Core and learned that he had to overcome the Five Elements Tribulation Lightning and Divine Soul Tribulation.
• The first white bolt struck Lu Qing, who endured its Metal Law power, absorbed it, and used it to strengthen his body while Yan worried inside the Li Fire Cauldron.
• Lu Qing provoked the tribulation cloud, which sent down an azure Wood Tribulation Lightning bolt that drained his vitality through flowers and grasses.
• Lu Qing used his Magic Art and Five Elements Gourd to absorb the Wood Law power, recover, and grow stronger.
• Lu Qing realized the two absorbed laws had not completed his spiritual power’s transformation, then urged the tribulation cloud to send more lightning.

Lu Qing endured the sixth Five-Colored Tribulation Lightning after absorbing the Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth law powers from the first five bolts. The Five Elements Gourd helped him transform his spiritual power into mana and form a Golden Core, bringing him into the Golden Core Realm.

• Lu Qing absorbed the earth law power from the fifth tribulation lightning bolt, but his spiritual power still did not transform into mana.
• Lu Qing realized that the gathered Five Elements lightning was the final bolt of his Golden Core Tribulation.
• The Five-Colored Tribulation Lightning struck Lu Qing, assaulting his body and Divine Soul Rune with all five law powers and illusions.
• Lu Qing's Divine Soul Rune shattered the invading ripple, while the Five Elements Gourd refined the lightning and law power into his spiritual power.
• Lu Qing's spiritual power transformed into mana and formed a Golden Core, advancing him into the Golden Core Realm.

Lu Qing survived the unprecedented Five-Colored Heavenly Tribulation and formed a Perfect Golden Core, gaining the ability to freely gather, disperse, and disguise it. After learning the Golden Core’s secrets from a Great Dao Chapter, he flew back to Nine Li Village to reassure his worried Master and companions.

• Lu Qing completed his transformation into the Golden Core Realm and discovered that he could disperse and reform his Golden Core without losing his strength.
• A streak of light from the fading tribulation vortex entered Lu Qing’s glabella and gave him a Great Dao Chapter about Golden Core Mysteries.
• Lu Qing learned that his Perfect Golden Core was unique in the world and could flawlessly disguise itself as a Golden Core of any grade.
• Yan appeared, alarmed by Lu Qing’s shifting aura, and Lu Qing said he had only been conducting an experiment.
• Lu Qing decided to return to Nine Li Village before evening to reassure his Master and the others, then flew away.

After successfully entering the Golden Core Realm, Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village and planned to conceal his breakthrough while he adjusted to his new power. Yan summoned him to the Li Fire Cauldron to ask when he would subdue the imprisoned Five-Colored Winged Snake.

• Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village after his breakthrough, told the Old Doctor he had entered the Golden Core Realm, and asked him to keep the news secret.
• Lu Qing told the Old Doctor he would enter seclusion to familiarize himself with his new strength.
• Inside the Li Fire Cauldron, the Demonic Cultivator sensed Lu Qing's powerful divine soul, and Yan locked him in a Spatial Prison so he could not hear their conversation.
• Lu Qing told Yan to keep the Demonic Cultivator alive for now because he might be useful.
• Yan showed Lu Qing the White Robe Youth's corpse and the restless Five-Colored Winged Snake, then asked when Lu Qing would subdue the snake.

After reaching the Golden Core Realm, Lu Qing freed the Five-Colored Winged Snake from the Spatial Prison and forced it to submit to Divine Soul Enslavement. He named the newly enslaved spirit beast Five Elements.

• Yan reminded Lu Qing that the Five-Colored Winged Snake remained trapped in the Spatial Prison.
• Lu Qing released the Five-Colored Winged Snake, which immediately charged at him in anger.
• Lu Qing stopped the winged snake with Space Power and threatened to kill it or enslave it.
• The Five-Colored Winged Snake chose to live, opened its mind, and accepted Lu Qing's Divine Soul Imprint.
• The enslaved winged snake began fawning over Lu Qing, who named it Five Elements.

Lu Qing claimed the White Robe Youth’s treasures, including a space ring, and discovered the cultivator had amassed a wealth of valuable items. Meanwhile, a powerful figure in Central Province set out to avenge the White Robe Youth.

• Lu Qing promised to find Five Elements suitable demon clan cultivation techniques and said it might earn lotus seeds by performing well.
• Lu Qing burned the White Robe Youth’s corpse and collected his treasure artifacts, including the Myriad Laws Pearl, which he decided to keep for Master or Xiao Yan.
• Lu Qing identified the green jade thumb ring as a space ring, bound it to himself, and emptied its contents into the Li Fire Cauldron’s Spirit Artifact Space.
• Yan recognized the pile of valuable goods and exclaimed at the White Robe Youth’s large store of Spirit Stones.
• A powerful figure on a famous mountain in Central Province vowed to avenge the White Robe Youth.

Lu Qing examined the spirit stones and Inheritance Jade Slips recovered from the White Robe Youth’s Space Ring, then used his ability to download and learn a cultivation art. Meanwhile, a Gray Robe Man reached Azure Dragon Pass and flew east toward Cang Province after identifying One Line Sky and Azure Dragon City.

• Lu Qing found that the White Robe Youth’s Space Ring held mostly low- and mid-grade spirit stones, along with several Inheritance Jade Slips.
• Lu Qing used his ability to download, simulate, and learn the cultivation art recorded on a jade slip, avoiding the risk of reading it directly.
• At Azure Dragon Pass, the Gray Robe Man examined the ancient fissure called One Line Sky and asked his captive to identify the location.
• The captive confirmed that the city was Azure Dragon City and told the Gray Robe Man that traveling east would take him to Cang Province.
• The Gray Robe Man flew east, while the captive wondered whether Azure Dragon City resembled a creature’s footprint and One Line Sky a sword scar.

The Gray Robe Man tracked his dead Junior Brother to a newly opened secret realm and arrived at its entrance. Meanwhile, Lu Qing comprehended the Golden Core mysteries in the White Robe Youth’s jade slips and the Great Dao Chapter, learning that his Perfect Golden Core could reach twelve revolutions, though advancing beyond nine would be exceptionally difficult.

• The Gray Robe Man dropped the Innate Realm Martial Warrior safely to the ground and followed the Secret Realm Gate’s fluctuations to a valley.
• The Gray Robe Man found the black vortex entrance and sensed that his Junior Brother had been there.
• Lu Qing finished comprehending the White Robe Youth’s jade slips, learning about the Golden Core Nine Revolutions and the grades of Golden Cores.
• Lu Qing realized the Great Dao Chapter described twelve revolutions as the Golden Core Realm’s true limit, attainable beyond nine only by someone with a Perfect Golden Core.
• Lu Qing recognized that his exceptional cultivation potential would make his future progress more difficult.

Lu Qing began deriving a cultivation art suited to his Perfect Golden Core, using the Great Dao Chapter as its foundation. Meanwhile, the Gray Robe Man followed a Causal Red Thread to Nine Li Village, where he spotted an array around the village just as Lu Qing sensed a disturbance.

• Lu Qing concluded that the Five Elements Body Refining Art was imperfect and no longer suited his dual cultivation of law and body.
• Lu Qing activated his supernatural ability and used the Great Dao Chapter and his cultivation knowledge to begin deriving a personal cultivation art.
• The Gray Robe Man entered the Secret Realm and found traces of his junior brother’s brutal killing spree, but no sign that he had fallen there.
• The Gray Robe Man used a Bagua-shaped magic treasure and a shattered jade token to derive and follow his junior brother’s Causal Red Thread.
• The Gray Robe Man followed the thread to Nine Li Village and saw the village shrouded in an array as Lu Qing’s brows furrowed.