Chapter Summaries

Old Doctor Chen used his Sword Dao Domain to suppress three Golden Core Late Stage fiends, but they fused their mangled bodies and unleashed a terrifying demonic aura. Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village with Xiao Li and their companions, learned of the crisis at Holy Mountain, and set off to help.

• Xiao Yan learned that Old Doctor Chen had wounded Eagle Demon, one of the four fiends who had attacked earlier.
• The Bewitchingly Handsome Man and the other two fiends attacked Old Doctor Chen, but he trapped them in his Sword Dao Domain and shredded their bodies with water-and-fire sword qi.
• As Old Doctor Chen sensed danger, the three fiends fused their bloodied flesh and threatened to kill everyone present.
• Lu Qing returned to his Home World with Xiao Li, Five Elements, and White Flood Dragon, arriving at Nine Li Village through space.
• Lu Qing learned from his puppet avatar that a crisis had unfolded at Holy Mountain, then took everyone there on the Void Flying Boat.

The Old Doctor struggled against a monster formed by three fiends, forcing Holy Mountain to evacuate. Lu Qing returned from the Starry Sky in time, froze the battlefield, and captured the monster, leaving Xiao Yan and the others staring at him in shock.

• The three fiends fused through the Heavenly Demon Symbiosis Method, shattered the Old Doctor's Sword Dao Domain, and attacked him with overwhelming force.
• The Second Holy Master ordered Holy Mountain's disciples and Elders to flee while the Old Doctor held the monster off, and Lin Zhi Rui saw the Old Doctor struck into the mountain.
• Lu Qing arrived on a Silver Flying Boat and froze the monster, the Demonic Qi, and the hurricane in midair.
• Lu Qing sensed that Xiao Yan and his Master were alive, then used a Five-Colored Glaze palm to shrink the monster and toss it into the Li Fire Cauldron.
• The people of Holy Mountain recognized Lu Qing and celebrated his return as he looked toward Xiao Yan on the summit.

Lu Qing returned to Holy Mountain, reunited with Xiao Yan, and healed the First Holy Master after defeating the demons threatening the mountain. He learned that demonic arts had resurged across the land, but Old Doctor Chen warned that one demon remained hidden.

• Lu Qing descended to Holy Mountain and reunited with Xiao Yan, who wept in his arms after years apart.
• Xiao Li joined Xiao Yan, and Lu Qing greeted Old Doctor Chen and thanked Han Lingbai for looking after his sister.
• Lu Qing removed the Demonic Qi from the unconscious First Holy Master and healed his wounds with a vitality talisman.
• The First Holy Master awoke, learned that Lu Qing had defeated the three demons, and thanked Lu Qing and Old Doctor Chen for saving them.
• The First Holy Master described the spread of demonic arts and the demons' attacks across the land, but Old Doctor Chen revealed that one demon remained in hiding.

Lu Qing repaired the Holy Mountain’s array and returned to Nine Li Village with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Han Lingbai after decades away. He learned that many villagers had died, while old friends discovered his return and began preparing to visit him.

• Lu Qing treated the Second and Third Holy Masters, helped purge the Holy Mountain’s polluted veins, and reinforced its grand array so it could withstand Nascent Soul Initial Stage experts.
• Lu Qing took everyone back to Nine Li Village aboard the Void Flying Boat, where Old Doctor Chen warned him that many villagers had died during his absence.
• Lu Qing returned to his family home with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Han Lingbai, while Wei Shanhai went home and told Wei Zi'an and the others that Lu Qing had returned.
• Wei Zi'an eagerly wanted to visit Lu Qing, but Wei Shanhai told him to wait until the next day and prepare proper gifts; Wei Zi'an then went to inform Ma Gu and Hu Ze Zhi.
• Lu Qing found his family home clean and unchanged, then saw a stooped old man enter the courtyard carrying a wooden basin.

Lu Qing reunited with Uncle Zhang in Nine Li Village, then prepared a spiritual feast for Xiao Yan, Han Lingbai, and the Old Doctor. The Golden Silk Dragon Tooth Rice quickly restored their injuries and depleted essence, and the Old Doctor asked Lu Qing to describe the worlds beyond.

• Lu Qing returned to his old house and reunited with Uncle Zhang, who was delighted to see him and asked permission to tell the villagers he was back.
• Lu Qing reassured Xiao Yan that Uncle Zhang was healthy and promised to help maintain his health.
• At Xiao Yan's request, Lu Qing cooked a spiritual meal and invited the Old Doctor to join them.
• Lu Qing served Golden Silk Dragon Tooth Rice, whose nourishing essence rapidly healed the Old Doctor's injuries and restored much of Xiao Yan's depleted origin.
• After tasting the rice, the Old Doctor asked Lu Qing to tell them what the outside world was like.

Lu Qing recounted his journey through the Starry Sky and revealed that he had become a Nascent Soul Great Power, then questioned the captured demons about the previous cultivation era and their missing ally. After learning they had no way to locate Eagle Demon, he burned the fused monster to ashes.

• Lu Qing told the Old Doctor, Xiao Yan, and Han Lingbai about the Great Yuan Immortal Domain, the Tian Yuan Great World, and his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xiao Li revealed that she had reached Golden Core Six Revolutions, Five Elements was at Golden Core Fourth Revolution, and Xiao Bai had reached Golden Core Nine Revolutions.
• Lu Qing offered spiritual treasures to the Old Doctor, Xiao Yan, and Han Lingbai, and everyone shared a meal that helped heal and strengthen them.
• After dinner, Lu Qing entered the Li Fire Cauldron and questioned Xie Feng and the other two captured Demonic Cultivators about their survival and the previous cultivation era.
• Xie Feng told Lu Qing that Eagle Demon had disappeared after being injured by Lu Qing's Master, and the demons did not know where he was.
• Lu Qing confirmed the demons had no information about Eagle Demon and burned the fused monster to ashes with Southern Samadhi Fire.

Lu Qing killed the Chilling Old Man after learning that he had anchored his Nascent Soul Mark in his home world's World Origin, then acquired the secret art [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter]. He began studying it and realized it might offer a way to resolve his home world's recurring spiritual-energy crisis.

• Lu Qing destroyed the fused monster with Southern Samadhi Fire and questioned the Chilling Old Man inside the Spatial Prison.
• Lu Qing revealed that he knew the Chilling Old Man's Divine Soul Imprint was tied to his Home World's World Origin and used [Illusion] to suppress him.
• After a decades-long illusion, the Chilling Old Man revealed [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter], and Lu Qing extinguished his Nascent Soul.
• Lu Qing learned the secret art could grant up to nine rebirths and might eventually let its practitioner control a world's World Origin.
• Lu Qing resolved to cultivate the secret art alongside his divine powers, studied it overnight, and judged it a profound Nascent Soul secret art.

Lu Qing reflected on the [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter] while the Chilling Old Man revived in his Home World and feared Lu Qing might come after him. Lu Qing reunited with old friends and promised Hu Ze Zhi pills that could refine her Golden Core.

• The Chilling Old Man revived in a Blood Pool, remembered Lu Qing's terrifying illusion, and considered how to escape the threat posed by Lu Qing.
• The Chilling Old Man concealed his defeat from his disciples, punished one who questioned him, and resolved to restore his strength while guarding his final two resurrections.
• Wei Zi'an, Wei Xinghe, Madam Wei, Ma Gu, Hu Ze Zhi, and others visited Lu Qing, who greeted them and learned how their lives had changed.
• Ma Gu asked whether Lu Qing would deal with the Demonic Cultivators, and Lu Qing said the Holy Mountain had already acted and he would handle any Evil Demons it could not defeat.
• Lu Qing congratulated Hu Ze Zhi on reaching the Golden Core Realm and offered to refine pills that could improve her Middle Grade Golden Core.

Lu Qing reunited with the people of Nine Li Village, gave gifts to Wei Zi'an's family, and reflected on how the village had changed over the decades. At the Half-Mountain Courtyard, he found the Thousand-Year Ginseng had taken human form and the Plum Tree had gained intelligence, then offered the Old Doctor a jade bottle of treasures.

• Lu Qing offered Hu Ze Zhi pills that could cleanse and refine a Golden Core, thanking her for protecting the village.
• Wei Zi'an introduced Lu Qing to his wife and children, Shu Jun and Shu Yao, and Lu Qing gave the children protective jade plaques.
• Lu Qing visited the villagers at the Ancestral Hall, bestowed opportunities on them, and paid respects to his deceased family and acquaintances.
• At the Half-Mountain Courtyard, Lu Qing teased the human-form Thousand-Year Ginseng, which fled underground, and noticed the Plum Tree had gained spiritual consciousness.
• The Old Doctor told Lu Qing his injuries had healed, and Lu Qing presented him with a jade bottle of fortuitous opportunities.

Lu Qing gave the Old Doctor Origin Blood of the Witch and cultivation methods, then traced the injured Eagle Demon using a causal compass. He captured and killed the last surviving demon, leaving the threat from the previous Cultivation Era eliminated.

• Lu Qing gave the Old Doctor Foundation Establishment and Golden Core Realm Origin Blood of the Witch, warned him about its Baleful Qi, and offered him jade slips containing cultivation methods.
• Lu Qing asked the Old Doctor for traces of the demon who had attacked Nine Li Village, then used demon blood outside the village to activate a causal compass and locate Eagle Demon.
• Eagle Demon struggled to heal in an underground cavern, unaware that Xie Feng and the other demons had already been killed.
• Lu Qing seized Eagle Demon with a Five-Colored Glaze Dharma Palm and confronted him alongside Xiaoyan and Xiao Li.
• Lu Qing told Eagle Demon that he had killed the other three demons and confirmed that other cultivation worlds existed beyond their own.
• Eagle Demon accepted his fate, and Lu Qing crushed him into a cloud of blood mist.

Lu Qing discovered that Xiao Yan’s extreme cultivation path had weakened her foundation and threatened her future breakthroughs, so he gave her the Profound Ice Cold Flame to refine. Xiao Yan successfully made it her natal Spirit Fire, and Lu Qing promised another surprise after her transformation was complete.

• Lu Qing asked Xiao Yan to explain her cultivation technique and identified how her extreme practice had affected her emotions, body, and potential.
• Lu Qing reassured Xiao Yan that he could resolve the dangers of her cultivation and brought out the Profound Ice Cold Flame for her.
• Lu Qing explained that refining the Spirit Fire would restore Xiao Yan’s foundation and purify her spiritual power, and Xiao Li described how she had helped seize it.
• Xiao Yan began refining the flame while Lu Qing sealed the room and guarded her through the night.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Profound Ice Cold Flame, which began transforming her constitution, and Lu Qing promised her another surprise.

Lu Qing reported the Eagle Demon's death to the three Holy Masters, then returned to the Jade Cave Chamber to cultivate the [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter]. Meanwhile, an Immortal Clan patriarch and his Nascent Soul elders debated how to approach the Guixu Secret Realm, leaving Old Thirteen pressed to propose a solution to their powerful rivals.

• Lu Qing told Xiao Yan to finish mastering the Profound Ice Cold Flame before refining primordial blood, then left with Xiao Li for Holy Mountain.
• Lu Qing informed the three Holy Masters that he had slain the Eagle Demon and offered talismans to support their purge of Demonic Cultivators.
• Lu Qing returned to the Jade Cave Chamber, instructed his puppet incarnation to stand guard, and began cultivating the [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter].
• In a Vast World, an Immortal Clan patriarch and his elders argued over the Guixu Secret Realm and the threat posed by other factions with tokens.
• The patriarch acknowledged both Old Seven's call to pursue the realm's opportunities and Old Thirteen's concerns, then asked Old Thirteen for a sound solution.

Old Thirteen persuaded the Immortal Clan to consider cooperating with another faction to compete for the Guixu Secret Realm. Elsewhere, the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect prepared to send Nascent Soul disciples into the realm and investigate a young man using its Po Tian Sword Intent, while its elder worried that the Great Calamity was approaching.

• Old Thirteen swore a Nascent Soul Oath to prove his loyalty, then argued that the Immortal Clan needed allies to contend with the major factions for the Guixu Secret Realm.
• The purple-robed Patriarch accepted that Old Thirteen had a point and asked which faction he proposed to cooperate with.
• A white-robed disciple met the grey-robed elder of the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect, who said signs suggested the Guixu Secret Realm would soon emerge and ordered him to select Nascent Soul disciples to enter it.
• The grey-robed elder told the white-robed disciple to investigate a young man who had used the sect's Po Tian Sword Intent and killed several Nascent Soul cultivators in the Tian Yuan Great World.
• After the disciple left, the grey-robed elder reflected that the Great Calamity foretold by the Third Founding Master was drawing nearer and hoped the Guixu Secret Realm would reveal clues about it.

Lu Qing fully understood the Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter and spent more than a month tempering a Nascent Soul Mark until he condensed a Myriad Tribulation Imprint. After restoring his Nascent Soul and resting briefly with Xiao Li, he returned to the quiet room to prepare to anchor the imprint upon the World Origin.

• Lu Qing began cultivating the Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter by repeatedly compressing Nascent Soul Marks, suffering failures as he learned to control the process.
• After ten days and nearly a hundred failures, Lu Qing condensed a Hundred Tribulations Mark, the minimum needed to imprint upon the World Origin.
• Lu Qing continued tempering the mark and condensed a Thousand Tribulations Mark ten days later, then pressed on toward a Myriad Tribulation Imprint.
• After another month, Lu Qing completed the Myriad Tribulation Imprint, which contained Nascent Soul power equivalent to his entire Nascent Soul.
• Lu Qing swallowed a bottle of pills to restore his Nascent Soul, then left the quiet room to rest and reassured Xiao Li that he was confident in the secret art.
• Lu Qing returned to the quiet room to prepare to imprint and anchor the Myriad Tribulation Imprint upon the World Origin.

Lu Qing successfully cultivated the [Mayfly Heaven and Earth Life Chapter] by entrusting his Myriad Tribulation Imprint to the World Origin, gaining a path to rebirth and a future source of Nascent Soul power. He left seclusion with Xiao Li and wondered how far Xiao Yan had progressed in refining the origin blood.

• Lu Qing used the Five Elements Spirit Pearls to travel through the earth and reach the World Origin.
• Lu Qing sent his Myriad Tribulation Imprint deep into the World Origin, where it withstood the origin’s power and became part of it.
• Lu Qing sensed a connection with the imprint that let him perceive the Origin Space and could eventually allow him to draw on the World Origin’s power.
• Lu Qing returned to his body after half an hour and confirmed that he had mastered the secret art.
• Lu Qing told Xiao Li about the secret art, promised to teach it to her once she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and agreed they should emerge from seclusion.

Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village and spent a peaceful day fishing with Xiao Li and Xiao Yan before resuming his cultivation. As he began comprehending [Great Strength], a strange ripple appeared in a mysterious starry sea.

• Lu Qing found Nine Li Village transformed by decades of abundant spiritual qi, then went fishing by the river with Xiao Li and caught many spirit fish.
• Xiao Yan joined Lu Qing and promised him to take her along the next time he left; they pinky-swore before she watched him fish.
• Lu Qing, Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, White Flood Dragon, Han Lingbai, and Master shared a meal made from the spirit fish and ingredients from the Tian Yuan Great World.
• After night fell, Lu Qing chose to cultivate [Great Strength] before [Illusion] and entered deep meditation to comprehend it.
• As Lu Qing comprehended [Great Strength], a wondrous ripple spread through a sea of stars in a mysterious starry sky.

Lu Qing learned that the Silent Star Sea’s disturbance heralded the Guixu Secret Realm’s emergence in ten years, and that his Void Flying Boat was part of the Flying Immortal Boat hidden within it. He set aside thoughts of competing for the secret realm and focused on cultivation, eventually sensing an opportunity to elevate [Great Strength] into a Greater Divine Power.

• Nascent Soul cultivators monitoring the Silent Star Sea sensed its fluctuations and realized the Guixu Secret Realm would emerge within ten years.
• Lu Qing sensed the distant disturbance, then discovered that the Void Flying Boat was reacting to it inside his Universe Qi Bag.
• The Void Flying Boat revealed that it was part of the Flying Immortal Boat, a Dao Artifact left by the Dao Dissolution Immortal who created the Guixu Secret Realm.
• Lu Qing judged himself too weak to compete for the secret realm’s treasures and returned to cultivating [Great Strength].
• One year later, Lu Qing sensed a breakthrough opportunity, teleported to the Jade Cave Chamber, and began transforming [Great Strength] into a Greater Divine Power.

Lu Qing evolved [Great Strength] into a Greater Divine Power and tested its immense power in the Ten Thousand Mountains. After returning to the village, he reassured everyone that the frightening aura they sensed had been his, before the Old Doctor asked whether he had noticed a strange fluctuation between heaven and earth.

• Lu Qing comprehended the laws beneath the [Great Dao of Strength] and evolved [Great Strength] from a Minor Divine Power into a Greater Divine Power.
• Lu Qing activated [Great Strength] and his True Witch Body in the Ten Thousand Mountains, shattering space with a punch and realizing he could overpower the White Ape King and the eight Five Tribulations Nascent Soul Grandmasters.
• Lu Qing stopped testing his power to avoid damaging the Home World and flew back toward the village, looking forward to advancing [Illusion] as well.
• The Old Doctor met Lu Qing and asked about the terrifying baleful aura; Lu Qing explained that it had come from his test of the newly evolved divine power.
• Lu Qing and the Old Doctor returned to the Half-Mountain Courtyard and reassured Xiao Yan, Han Lingbai, and the others before sharing Plum Tea.
• The Old Doctor asked Lu Qing whether he had recently sensed a strange fluctuation between heaven and earth.

Lu Qing explained the Guixu Secret Realm’s fluctuations to the Old Doctor, then rested by fishing before beginning to refine pills with Yan. At the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect, the Sword Master prepared a group of Nascent Soul disciples to seek opportunities in the secret realm, while the White-Robed Youth reported that he had uncovered the truth about the Tian Yuan Great World swordsman who used Po Tian Sword Qi.

• The Old Doctor told Lu Qing he had sensed mysterious fluctuations while cultivating, and Lu Qing confirmed they came from the approaching Guixu Secret Realm.
• Lu Qing took Xiao Yan, Han Lingbai, Xiao Li, and the others fishing, then prepared a Spirit Fish feast for them.
• Lu Qing summoned Yan and promised to share pill and artifact-refinement methods, then began refining ice-element pills with it.
• The Sword Master instructed several dozen Nascent Soul disciples to prepare for their journey to the Guixu Secret Realm and follow the White-Robed Youth’s arrangements.
• The White-Robed Youth told the Sword Master that his investigators had uncovered the identity of the person in the Tian Yuan Great World who could use Po Tian Sword Qi.

The Grey-robed Elder learned that Lu Qing had achieved astonishing feats in the Tian Yuan Great World and decided the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect should not make an enemy of him. As the White-Robed Youth prepared to enter the Guixu Secret Realm, the Grey-robed Elder worried that a Great Calamity was approaching.

• The White-Robed Youth reported Lu Qing’s feats to the Grey-robed Elder, including his unusual tribulation and his defeat of the Five-Tribulation White Ape King.
• The Grey-robed Elder called Lu Qing an aberration beyond all reason and decided not to antagonize him, since he had learned Po Tian Sword Qi through an outside inheritance.
• The Grey-robed Elder dismissed the Tian Yuan Great World factions’ protest and gave the White-Robed Youth a treasure for the Guixu Secret Realm.
• The White-Robed Youth departed, and the Grey-robed Elder wondered whether the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect could survive the coming Great Calamity and the struggle for the Secret of Dao Transformation.