Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing infiltrated Zhou Tian City by posing as an artifact refiner, then secretly studied the Gongshu Family’s protective arrays while investigating Gongshu Lian and Qiao Rong. After comprehending seventy percent of the Zhou Tian Star Array, he prepared to assassinate Gongshu Lian on the latter’s next visit to Mengyun Tower.

• Lu Qing disguised himself as a Golden Core cultivator, entered Zhou Tian City’s outer city, and established an artifact refining shop as cover.
• Over several months, Lu Qing mapped the outer city’s forces and arrays, then began secretly downloading and comprehending the inner city’s defensive array patterns.
• Lu Qing replicated seventy percent of the Zhou Tian Star Array, greatly advancing his array mastery, but could not access the remaining portion behind the inner city walls.
• Lu Qing investigated Gongshu Lian and Qiao Rong, learning that Qiao Rong stayed secluded while Gongshu Lian planned to visit Mengyun Tower in three days.
• Lu Qing resolved to assassinate Gongshu Lian and spent the next three days comprehending arrays before hanging a resting sign outside his shop.

Lu Qing disguised himself and waited outside Mengyun Tower for Gongshu Lian, then killed the Nascent Soul elder and the brothel madam before fleeing. The Gongshu Family activated Zhou Tian City’s grand array to trap him, and its powerful elders mobilized to pursue him.

• Lu Qing closed his shop, changed his appearance, and watched Mengyun Tower while waiting for Gongshu Lian to arrive.
• Lu Qing identified Gongshu Lian as a cruel Nascent Soul elder who had killed more than a thousand women, and his killing intent drew the old man’s attention.
• Lu Qing vanished and struck Gongshu Lian down, then beheaded him and killed the Middle-Aged Beautiful Woman before escaping with their remains and valuables.
• A Black-Robed Old Man arrived, activated Zhou Tian City’s grand array, and chased after Lu Qing.
• The Black-Robed Old Man informed the Gongshu Family’s other powerful figures that Lao Qi had been killed and that the attacker remained inside the city.

Lu Qing exploited the Gongshu Family’s search for Gongshu Lian’s killer to slip into the inner city and download more of Zhou Tian City’s array. He reached Little You Peak to find Qiao Rong, while she learned that Gongshu Lian had been killed and openly celebrated his death.

• The Gongshu Family Ancestors learned that Gongshu Lian’s Soul Lamp had gone out and rushed into the outer city to hunt his killer.
• The Ancestors activated the Zhou Tian Star Array to search the outer city, but Lu Qing concealed his aura by merging it with the array.
• Lu Qing passed through the inner city’s protective array and downloaded information about the formation of its spirit peaks.
• Lu Qing traveled to Little You Peak, where he used an Illusion Technique on a maid to probe her memories.
• Qiao Rong learned that Gongshu Lian had been assassinated and rejoiced, then asked who had killed him.

Lu Qing captured Qiao Rong, learned about the Gongshu Family’s second-branch treasure vault, and infiltrated Hui Xing Peak while the family searched the city for him. He emptied the vault and fled as the Gongshu Ancestors rushed back to the inner city.

• Lu Qing killed Qiao Rong’s steward and sealed Qiao Rong inside the Li Fire Cauldron.
• Lu Qing used an illusion technique to extract information from Qiao Rong, then headed for Hui Xing Peak to loot the second branch’s treasure vault.
• Lu Qing bypassed the peak’s formations and guards and opened the vault.
• The Gongshu Ancestors realized the assassin might be in the inner city when the Second Branch Patriarch sensed his vault’s formation activate.
• Lu Qing sucked every treasure in the vault into the Li Fire Cauldron and Universe Qi Bag, then fled as the Ancestors approached.

Lu Qing escaped the Gongshu Family’s inner city after breaking through its formation, but dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators moved to intercept him. He unleashed a powerful sword strike against them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lu Qing stole the treasury’s contents and slipped away, but the Gongshu Family’s Old Ancestors found the emptied treasury and activated the Zhou Tian Star Array to search for him.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man detected Lu Qing near the inner city wall and blasted him into view with the array’s star power.
• Lu Qing resisted the pursuing Old Ancestors’ pressure, revealed his Golden Core aura, and crossed the strengthened formation barrier with a Magic Art.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man called on Nascent Soul cultivators throughout the outer city to stop Lu Qing, and dozens of them converged on his Escaping Light.
• Lu Qing empowered his Perfect Golden Core with his perfected Golden Witch physical strength and cut down one Nascent Soul Initial Stage cultivator, with his sword light sweeping toward two more.

Lu Qing escaped Zhou Tian City after killing three Nascent Soul cultivators and using the Teleportation Jade Talisman to evade the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man. He finally deployed the Void Flying Boat and vanished across an immense distance through the void, leaving his pursuer unable to follow safely.

• Lu Qing killed three Nascent Soul Initial Stage cultivators with one Po Tian Sword Qi strike and drove the other outer-city cultivators back.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man forcibly halted the Zhou Tian Star Array, damaging the Zhou Tian Array Disc and lifting the city's spatial suppression.
• Lu Qing and the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man repeatedly used Space Teleportation and Teleportation Jade Talismans as Lu Qing fled in unpredictable directions.
• Lu Qing chose to reveal the Void Flying Boat rather than use the Secret Realm Stone Tablet, then activated it to escape through a Space Vortex.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man failed to pursue the Void Flying Boat after realizing it had traveled too far for him to follow through the void safely.

After escaping Zhou Tian City, Lu Qing hid in a cave and counted the spoils he had taken from a Gongshu Family treasure vault, discovering that the haul far exceeded his expectations. The Gongshu Family tightened the city's defenses, while Lu Qing and his companions celebrated their immense stash of spirit stones.

• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man failed to catch Lu Qing and told the Gongshu Family ancestors that Lu Qing had escaped using a High-Grade spatial Spirit Artifact.
• The Gongshu Family strengthened Zhou Tian City's defenses, and the artifact refining shop across from a pill shop remained closed.
• Lu Qing escaped to a distant mountain forest, concealed himself in a cave, and released Xiao Li after confirming he was safe.
• Lu Qing and Xiao Li entered the Li Fire Cauldron's Spirit Artifact Space, where Yan revealed that the vault contained 383,546 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yan lifted a hand and produced a Treasure Box.

After looting the Gongshu Family's treasury, Lu Qing confronted his captive, Qiao Rong, and explained why he had targeted her. He revealed that he had killed her son Gongshu Zheng, and Qiao Rong attacked him as he killed her with a strand of sword qi.

• Yan gave Lu Qing a Treasure Box containing one thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, and Lu Qing counted roughly five hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in the treasury haul.
• Lu Qing decided not to contact the Nether Palace or claim the bounty for Gongshu Lian and Qiao Rong, since he feared the Nether Palace had identified him.
• Lu Qing released Qiao Rong from the Spatial Prison and told her he had already escaped Zhou Tian City and intended to kill her.
• Qiao Rong offered Lu Qing a hundred times the bounty and the Gongshu Family treasury in exchange for her life, but he showed her he had already taken the treasures.
• Lu Qing revealed that Qiao Rong had placed a bounty on him after he killed Gongshu Zheng, then removed his mask and confirmed his identity.
• Qiao Rong tried to attack Lu Qing, and he pierced her forehead with sword qi.

Lu Qing found a secluded cultivation site in the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range, subdued the Frost Jade Flood Dragon living there, and fortified the valley with a grand formation. He began a long seclusion to advance to the Golden Core’s Tenth Revolution, while Xiao Li and Five Elements stayed in the valley with him.

• Lu Qing identified his location near the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range and chose the ungoverned region for seclusion.
• Lu Qing found a natural formation’s eye in a valley, excavated a cave, and defeated the Frost Jade Flood Dragon that attacked him.
• Lu Qing placed a Divine Soul Imprint on the injured flood dragon and ordered it to guard the cave in exchange for benefits.
• Lu Qing built a grand formation around the valley, then sealed himself inside the cave to begin cultivating in seclusion.
• Lu Qing gave Spirit Stones and instructions to Xiao Li and Five Elements, and told Xiao Li they might return home after he emerged from seclusion.

Lu Qing broke through to the Golden Core Tenth Revolution, gaining a power that surpassed the limits of his former cultivation. As he continued cultivating in seclusion, news of the Zhou Tian City killings reached Nangong Yuanwu, who learned that Qiao Rong was dead and realized the Nether Palace had completed his bounty.

• Lu Qing used a vast supply of Spirit Stones to transform his dharma power, physical strength, and Divine Soul Power, entering the Golden Core Tenth Revolution as heavenly flowers appeared around him.
• Lu Qing tested his new power and judged that it could rival Nascent Soul Initial Stage dharma power, while its combined form might let him fight Nascent Soul Two or Three Tribulations cultivators.
• Lu Qing considered the immense Nascent Soul Tribulation his deep foundation might bring, then resumed cultivating with the resources he had taken from the Gongshu Family.
• Xiao Li and Five Elements felt Lu Qing's breakthrough aura, then returned to cultivation with renewed determination as Lu Qing remained in seclusion.
• Nangong Yuanwu heard from his old steward that Qiao Rong's Soul Lamp had gone out after an assassin attacked the Gongshu Family in Zhou Tian City.
• Nangong Yuanwu revealed that he had secretly placed the Nether Palace bounty on Qiao Rong and rejoiced that the assassin had killed her.

Xiao Li enjoyed a visit with Xiao Bai and looked forward to returning to the Home World after Lu Qing finished cultivating. There, Xiaoyan fought an ancient Evil Demon but withdrew when she realized she could not defeat him and more enemies were approaching.

• Xiao Li visited Xiao Bai, ate the Spirit Fish he caught, and told him she hoped to return to the Home World and see Xiaoyan soon.
• Xiao Li returned to the cave and warned Five Elements to stop pestering Xiao Bai, then urged it to cultivate harder as she prepared to advance her own techniques.
• Xiao Li began cultivating with renewed motivation, unaware that Xiaoyan was battling an ancient Evil Demon in the Home World.
• Xiaoyan's sword attacks failed to break the Evil Demon's Myriad Demon Light Smoke Miasma, and she sensed two more powerful Evil Demons approaching.
• Xiaoyan fled, and the Evil Demon revealed his handsome face as two allies arrived and asked where Lu Xiaoyan had gone.

Xiaoyan returned from confronting an ancient demonic Nascent Soul and told the three Holy Masters what she had discovered. Worried that her solitude was hardening her temperament, the First Holy Master arranged for Han Lingbai to join her on the Holy Mountain, while Lu Qing remained in seclusion until he opened his eyes more than ten years later.

• The Bewitchingly Handsome Man explained that he had let Xiaoyan leave because her High Grade Golden Core and swordsmanship made forcing a fight too dangerous, and he focused instead on restoring his strength before the Myriad Demon Secret Realm emerged.
• Xiaoyan returned to the Holy Mountain and told the three Holy Masters that Xie Guang had been possessed by an ancient demonic Nascent Soul, who escaped with the help of his allies.
• The First Holy Master urged Xiaoyan to take disciples with her when investigating demonic traces, but she refused and sent the Holy Masters away so she could cultivate.
• The First Holy Master worried that Xiaoyan's isolation had made her increasingly cold and sent letters to the Old Doctor and Han Lingbai seeking a way to help her.
• Han Lingbai received the First Holy Master's letter, traveled to the Holy Mountain, and began residing there while occasionally returning to Cold Water Palace.
• More than ten years later, Lu Qing opened his eyes after remaining in seclusion.

Lu Qing reached the Great Perfection of Golden Core Twelve Revolutions and sensed the Great Dao would force his Nascent Soul Tribulation within ten days. He began preparing the valley’s formations and arranged for Xiao Li, Five Elements, and Xiao Bai to leave the area before the tribulation.

• Lu Qing assessed his strength and realized his mana, fleshly body, and divine soul had all reached the limit of twelve revolutions, while the Great Dao warned him that his tribulation would arrive within ten days.
• Lu Qing emerged from seclusion and told Xiao Li and Five Elements that he would prepare for the Nascent Soul Tribulation before returning home with them.
• Xiao Li called Xiao Bai from the pool, and Lu Qing told the white flood dragon to leave the valley with them so the tribulation would not harm it.
• Xiao Bai agreed to go after Lu Qing reassured it and gave it a Storage Magic Treasure for its belongings.
• Lu Qing flew above the valley and surveyed its natural formation to begin preparing for the tribulation.

Lu Qing reshaped a vast natural world array to aid his coming Nascent Soul Tribulation, then triggered it from the mountain above the valley. As the enormous tribulation vortex shocked creatures across the region, two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators tracked the White Flood Dragon toward the valley, unaware of the danger Lu Qing’s tribulation posed.

• Lu Qing spent nine days refining and placing array nodes across the thousand-li world array, then warned Xiao Li, Five Elements, and the White Flood Dragon to retreat before he began regulating his condition.
• Two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators searching for the White Flood Dragon detected it with their Myriad Beast Compass and flew east toward the valley.
• Lu Qing told Xiao Li, Five Elements, and the White Flood Dragon to withdraw at least a hundred li, then rose above the valley to begin his Nascent Soul Tribulation.
• Lu Qing triggered the tribulation, summoning a hundred-li-wide Heavenly Tribulation Vortex that drove nearby creatures to flee and forced Xiao Li’s group to retreat farther.
• The two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators sensed the tribulation from thousands of li away, while powerful beings and beasts across the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range noticed the vortex.

Lu Qing’s Nascent Soul Tribulation drew powerful observers from both the Human Race and Monster Race, while he learned that he faced a Great Dao Nascent Soul Tribulation of three kinds and twenty-seven bolts. The first Five-Colored lightning bolt struck him as the Body Tribulation began, but Lu Qing remained confident that its force could not harm him.

• Powerful figures from both races gathered near the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range to investigate the enormous Nascent Soul Tribulation, while a middle-aged man and his young companion cautiously continued toward it.
• Xiao Li hid Five Elements and the White Flood Dragon from nearby Nascent Soul experts and reassured them that Lu Qing would be safe.
• Yan saw the Five-Colored Tribulation Cloud form and recognized it as the same kind of Five Elements tribulation Lu Qing had faced before.
• Lu Qing learned that his Great Dao Nascent Soul Tribulation required him to endure nine bolts each of the Body, Qi, and Soul Tribulations.
• Lu Qing faced the first Five-Colored lightning bolt without using magic treasures or dharma power, and judged that its destructive force could not harm him.

Lu Qing endured nine increasingly powerful bolts of Five-Colored Tribulation Lightning, absorbing their power to strengthen and transform his body. After the ninth bolt, a Black and White Tribulation Cloud formed within the still-active Heavenly Tribulation Vortex, leaving Lu Qing and the watching Nascent Soul Great Powers facing an unexpected new ordeal.

• Lu Qing withstood the first bolt of Five-Colored Tribulation Lightning and refined some of its power with the Myriad Tribulations Undying Heavenly Witch Body.
• Lu Qing endured the next seven bolts, sustaining increasingly severe injuries while using the lightning to repair and strengthen his body.
• Yan and the Nascent Soul Great Powers watched in shock as Lu Qing survived eight bolts and the tribulation cloud prepared a ninth.
• Lu Qing survived the ninth bolt and rapidly regrew his flesh, while the Nascent Soul Great Powers expected the tribulation to end.
• A Black and White Tribulation Cloud formed inside the Heavenly Tribulation Vortex, surprising Lu Qing, Yan, and the watching Nascent Soul Great Powers.

Lu Qing endured the Dharma Tribulation as black-and-white lightning destroyed his Dantian Qi Sea and threatened his Golden Core and Five Elements Gourd. He detonated his Perfect Golden Core, then rebuilt his Dantian and emerged with a Nascent Soul holding a transformed Five Elements Gourd.

• Lu Qing’s flesh recovered after the Body Tribulation, and he realized he had entered the True Shaman Realm while preparing for the Dharma Tribulation.
• Black-and-white tribulation lightning struck Lu Qing’s Dantian Qi Sea directly, where his Perfect Golden Core and Five Elements Gourd initially helped him withstand it.
• As successive bolts shattered his Dantian Qi Sea and cracked the Five Elements Gourd, Lu Qing merged the Chaos Pearl into the gourd to repair and transform it.
• The ninth bolt formed a lightning millstone that threatened to shatter Lu Qing’s Golden Core, and he realized he had to destroy it to achieve the Nascent Soul.
• Lu Qing used the heaven-and-earth grand formation to contain the explosion as he detonated his Perfect Golden Core, then gathered the black-and-white lightning to rebuild his Dantian Qi Sea.
• A vast new Dantian Qi Sea formed around Lu Qing’s Nascent Soul, which held the transformed black-and-white Five Elements Gourd.

Lu Qing endured the final Soul Tribulation, breaking through illusions that strengthened his divine soul, until the last illusion placed him in a hospital with his parents. He recognized that the scene might be a fabricated memory, leaving the final tribulation unresolved.

• Lu Qing discovered that his shattered Five Elements Gourd had become the Middle-Grade Yin-Yang Five Elements Gourd and his Nascent Soul’s companion spirit artifact.
• Lu Qing sensed two hidden Golden Core cultivators near Xiao Li’s group and warned her before the third tribulation cloud appeared.
• The third tribulation cloud formed as an immense eye and struck Lu Qing with invisible lightning that drew his mind into an illusion.
• Lu Qing broke illusion after illusion, absorbing the tribulation lightning and strengthening his divine soul.
• The ninth bolt showed Lu Qing waking in a hospital after a car accident, greeted by his parents, and he suspected the heavenly tribulation had woven memories into his mind.

After spending more than fifty years in an illusion created by the final tribulation, Lu Qing broke free, completed his transformation into the true Nascent Soul Realm, and reunited with his awakened power. As the Heavenly Tribulation Vortex vanished, heavenly flowers, golden lotuses, and repeated sounds of the Great Dao appeared, leaving the watching experts stunned by the existence who had passed the tribulation.

• Lu Qing returned home after recovering from his brain injury and spent more than fifty years living peacefully with his parents in the final tribulation’s illusion, refusing to marry so he would not become entangled in karma.
• As Lu Qing’s parents died peacefully, he recognized that the world was an illusion, rejected it, and shattered it with his mind.
• Lu Qing awoke after the ninth bolt of tribulation lightning and absorbed the fragments of the illusion, then his Nascent Soul took command of his glabella aperture and he entered the true Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Heavenly Tribulation Vortex dispersed, and human and Monster Race Nascent Soul experts prepared to approach while Xiao Li and the White Flood Dragon decided to wait for Lu Qing.
• Heavenly flowers fell, golden lotuses bloomed across the ground, and the Sound of the Great Dao rang out repeatedly, astonishing the watching experts.

Lu Qing completed his tribulation, gained gray mana and the Primordial Spirit Chapter of the Great Dao, then confronted the Nascent Soul powers who had gathered. After discovering two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators had attacked Xiao Li and the others, he suppressed them and prepared to kill them, but someone asked him to show mercy.

• Lu Qing’s mana, physical body, and divine soul fused into powerful gray mana, and the Heavenly Tribulation Vortex bestowed him the Primordial Spirit Chapter of the Great Dao.
• Lu Qing revealed his true appearance and met the cautious Human Race and Monster Race Nascent Soul powers, telling them he was an obscure rogue cultivator.
• Lu Qing sensed danger and raced hundreds of li to find two Myriad Beast Sect cultivators suppressing his spirit beasts; he subdued them and recovered a compass linked to the White Flood Dragon’s father.
• Lu Qing gave the compass to the White Flood Dragon, learned that the two cultivators had attacked Xiao Li and the others, and declared that they must die.
• An unidentified voice interrupted Lu Qing as he prepared to kill the two cultivators and asked him to show mercy.