Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing refined Top-Grade Spirit Pills and delivered cultivation medicine to Hu Ze Zhi before helping Madam Wei use a pill to break through into the Innate Realm. Madam Wei completed her breakthrough as the rules of heaven and earth appeared.

• Lu Qing and Yan successfully refined eighteen Purity and Spotlessness Dust Cleansing Pills, then refined the Five Spirits Unity Pill three days later.
• Lu Qing gave Yan inheritance jade slips and visited the Wei Family Residence to find Hu Ze Zhi.
• Lu Qing gave Hu Ze Zhi pills to cleanse her Golden Core and improve her cultivation, advising her to take the cleansing pill after reaching Third Revolution Completion of the Golden Core.
• Lu Qing offered Madam Wei a pill that could bring her into the Innate Realm but would exhaust her potential, and Madam Wei agreed to take it.
• Lu Qing guided Madam Wei through refining the pill’s medicinal power with his magical power and golden needles, and she broke through from Inner Organs Perfection into the Innate Realm.

Lu Qing used an Immortal Severing Pill to help Madam Wei break through to the Innate Realm, regain her youth, and begin cultivating the Evergreen Cultivation Method. After returning home, he gave Xiao Yan and Han Lingbai pills before entering seclusion to advance his [Illusion] divine power.

• Madam Wei broke through to the Innate Realm, regained her youthful appearance, and learned the Evergreen Cultivation Method from Lu Qing.
• Lu Qing reflected on the Immortal Severing Pill’s origins and its cost: it could force a mortal into the Innate Realm but damaged their potential and obstructed further breakthroughs.
• Lu Qing left the Wei family and returned home, where he gave Xiao Yan ice-element cultivation pills and Han Lingbai a pill to raise her Golden Core’s grade.
• Lu Qing entered the Jade Cave Chamber with Xiao Li to comprehend the Sea of Laws and advance his [Illusion] Minor Divine Power into a Greater Divine Power.

Lu Qing entered the Sea of Laws to sense the Great Dao of Illusion while the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect traveled toward the Guixu Secret Realm. At the Silent Star Sea, Yu Jian encountered Nether Palace, Black and White Monastery, Charm Immortal Pavilion, and Empty Clarity Sect, and the gathering grew increasingly tense.

• Lu Qing entered the deepest state of meditation and sensed the Great Dao of Illusion.
• Yu Jian led the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect disciples across the Starry Sky, and after two years they arrived at the Silent Star Sea.
• Hei Ming of Nether Palace proposed an alliance with Yu Jian, but Yu Jian refused because he did not trust him.
• Mo Tu Shan of Black and White Monastery arrived and provoked Yu Jian, who nearly attacked him before Peach Fairy and Charm Immortal Pavilion interrupted them.
• Peach Fairy offered to host a banquet, but Yu Jian declined and Mo Tu Shan mocked him.
• The Empty Clarity Sect arrived, and its Green-robed Woman praised Yu Jian for resisting Peach Fairy's charm.

As powerful factions gathered at the Silent Star Sea for the Guixu Secret Realm, they formed alliances and plotted against one another while the Great Yuan Immortal Clan hoped to reclaim its former glory. Back in the peaceful Home World, Lu Qing emerged from two years of secluded cultivation having advanced [Illusion] to a Greater Divine Power and reached the point where he could undergo his first Nascent Soul Tribulation.

• Qing Xi allied Empty Clarity Sect with Yu Jian and Heaven Piercing Sword Sect, leaving Hei Ming and the other factions weighing their options.
• Dozens of factions gathered at the Silent Star Sea, where the Great Yuan Immortal Clan joined forces with the Heng Clan and hoped to obtain a treasure that could restore its glory.
• Hei Ming and Peach Fairy discussed an alliance through Nascent Soul transmission while factions continued making secret plans ahead of the Guixu Secret Realm's opening.
• After Lu Qing slew four late-stage Golden Core fiends and left talismans at the Holy Mountain, the Holy Mountain and other factions wiped out most of the world's Demonic Cultivators.
• Lu Qing awoke from two years of secluded cultivation after elevating [Illusion] to a Greater Divine Power and realized his cultivation was ready for the first Nascent Soul Tribulation.

Lu Qing passed his first Nascent Soul Tribulation and became a First Tribulation Great Power, then returned to the village to rest before resuming his work. He eventually entered seclusion to deduce the later stages of the [Perfected Nascent Soul Method].

• Lu Qing recovered from two years of comprehending the [Great Dao of Illusion], set up a Spirit Gathering Array, and faced the Tribulation of the Five Signs of Decay.
• Lu Qing endured the Death Qi and Tribulation Qi through his abundant life force, passed the tribulation, and grew stronger as his body, magic power, and Nascent Soul transformed.
• Lu Qing decided to deduce the later stages of the [Perfected Nascent Soul Method] but first chose to leave seclusion and rest.
• Xiao Li learned that Lu Qing had passed his first Nascent Soul Tribulation, and the two returned to the village after more than two years away.
• Lu Qing saw that Xiao Yan had reached the peak of the Golden Core Six Revolutions and Han Lingbai the peak of the Golden Core Third Revolution.
• After spending more than ten days relaxing with his companions, Lu Qing entered seclusion to deduce the subsequent cultivation methods.

After five years of deduction, Lu Qing completed the [Perfected Nascent Soul Method] through the fifth tribulation and began cultivating in earnest, reaching the Minor Accomplishment realm of the first tribulation. As the Guixu Secret Realm’s emergence drew near and the Void Flying Boat reacted to its fluctuations, Lu Qing set out with Xiao Li to visit the village, unaware that the secret realm had just erupted with an even stronger disturbance.

• Lu Qing finished deducing the [Perfected Nascent Soul Method] through the fifth tribulation, then focused on cultivation because the laws beyond it were too difficult to understand at his current realm.
• The Silent Star Sea began turning, alerting the factions gathered outside it and prompting Yu Jian, Qing Xi, Hei Ming, Peach Fairy, and the Purple Dragon Robe Middle-Aged Man to prepare for the Guixu Secret Realm’s emergence.
• Lu Qing sensed the strengthened fluctuations and saw the Void Flying Boat tremble, but decided not to pursue the secret realm and continued cultivating.
• After more than half a year, Lu Qing reached the Minor Accomplishment realm of the first tribulation and left seclusion to rest; he learned Xiao Li had reached the Golden Core Seventh Revolution.
• Lu Qing and Xiao Li headed toward the village to visit, while the Silent Star Sea erupted with a powerful fluctuation and the Void Flying Boat began trembling violently.

The Void Flying Boat dragged Lu Qing and Xiao Li through the void toward the Guixu Secret Realm, forcing Lu Qing to disguise himself before they arrived. After the immortal palace appeared and the Star River Array stabilized, Lu Qing entered first, while the Great Yuan Immortal Clan was blocked by rival factions demanding its token.

• The Void Flying Boat carried Lu Qing and Xiao Li through the void toward the Guixu Secret Realm, and Lu Qing sent Xiao Li into the Li Fire Cauldron before disguising himself as a Nascent Soul Five Tribulations cultivator.
• The Guixu Immortal Palace appeared within the stabilized Star River Array, and the major factions prepared to enter and compete for its treasures.
• Lu Qing emerged from the void in the Silver Flying Boat and entered the Silent Star Sea before the other factions, shocking and angering the powerful figures gathered outside.
• Mo Tu Shan and the other factions activated their tokens and entered the array in pursuit of Lu Qing.
• The Purple Dragon Robe Middle-Aged Man tried to enter with the Great Yuan Immortal Clan, but the Heng Family and two allied factions blocked their flying boat and demanded their token.

Lu Qing entered the Guixu Secret Realm ahead of the pursuing factions and arrived at its vast Immortal Palace plaza, where he found that flight and spatial teleportation were restricted. As he headed toward a nearby building, a group in black-and-white Daoist robes appeared behind him.

• The Purple Dragon Robe Middle-Aged Man used the Dragon Head Flying Boat's array to smash a rival flying boat with a purple dharma palm, then led the Great Yuan Immortal Clan into the Star Sea Array.
• Lu Qing realized the pursuing factions threatened Xiao Li, discovered he could not use the Secret Realm Stone Tablet to escape, and changed his aura to imitate Po Tian Sword Intent.
• The Void Flying Boat carried Lu Qing through the Star River Array's black whirlwinds and into the Guixu Secret Realm, then reverted to a small silver boat.
• Lu Qing found himself on a vast plaza paved with top-grade Spirit Jade before a majestic Immortal Palace and sensed that flight and spatial teleportation were restricted.
• Lu Qing ran toward a nearby building, but spatial fluctuations appeared behind him and a group in black-and-white Daoist robes emerged.

Lu Qing escaped Mo Tu Shan’s attack and hid in the outer palaces while the sects and clans pursued opportunities recorded in their ancestors’ dossiers. He realized the palaces held treasures behind formations and began considering how to break them, as the Great Yuan Immortal Clan entered a Pill Hall.

• Mo Tu Shan attacked Lu Qing with a Black Bone Claw, but Lu Qing escaped because the secret realm’s stable space weakened its suppressive power.
• Yu Jian blocked Mo Tu Shan from pursuing Lu Qing, and the factions dispersed to seek opportunities recorded by their ancestors.
• Lu Qing hid from a group led by a White Jade Horns elder, watched them open a palace, and slipped away after learning that the outer buildings held opportunities behind formation screens.
• The Purple Dragon Robe Middle-Aged Man led the Great Yuan Immortal Clan to a Pill Hall and opened its formation using a method left by their ancestor.

Lu Qing learned part of the Xuan Yuan Restriction inheritance and used it to enter a secluded palace safely. Inside, he found and initially refined Azure Radiance, a High-Grade Spirit Sword, then turned his attention to the restrictions surrounding the room’s remaining treasures.

• The Great Yuan Immortal Clan and other factions followed their ancestors’ instructions to seek opportunities while Lu Qing secretly left the main cluster of buildings.
• Lu Qing examined the restriction around a secluded palace, downloaded and learned part of the Xuan Yuan Restriction inheritance, and brought Xiao Li out to guard him.
• Lu Qing used his new knowledge to open the palace’s restriction, entered with Xiao Li, and restored the light screen behind them.
• Lu Qing searched the empty palace and found a restricted treasure sword that his ability identified as the High-Grade Spirit Sword Azure Radiance.
• Lu Qing learned the sword’s restriction, took Azure Radiance, and initially refined it, then examined the restrictions surrounding the room’s other items.

Lu Qing gathered and comprehended the restriction inheritances hidden throughout a remote hall, learning the structure of the [Xuan Yuan Restriction] and how to master it. He left to seek more medium restrictions, hoping to make their power his strongest trump card in the Guixu Secret Realm.

• Lu Qing spent a day downloading the restriction inheritances from every light screen in the hall without being discovered by passing cultivators.
• After several days of meditation, Lu Qing learned that the complete [Xuan Yuan Restriction] consisted of one hundred thousand minor restrictions, three thousand medium restrictions, and one hundred and eight grand restrictions.
• Lu Qing formed a minor restriction and realized that each medium restriction contained numerous minor restrictions, allowing him to focus on mastering the medium restrictions in the side halls.
• Lu Qing sent Xiao Li back into the Li Fire Cauldron and left the hall, using his newfound restriction abilities to conceal himself and sense approaching enemies.

Lu Qing explored the Immortal Palace’s outer halls and studied their restrictions, eventually reaching minor achievement in the interconnected principles of the [Xuan Yuan Restriction]. He gained the ability to break any outer-region hall’s restriction almost instantly, leaving him ready to face the other powers with greater confidence.

• The Purple Dragon Robe Middle-Aged Man found a Breakthrough Pill, swallowed it, and began his tribulation while his clansmen concealed his aura with an array.
• Yu Jian and his Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters opened a vault of Spirit Swords, while Mo Tu Shan and Peach Fairy found treasures in other halls.
• Lu Qing cautiously explored empty outer halls and comprehended the restrictions within them, avoiding the other forces as they searched for treasures.
• After studying a hundred medium-sized restrictions, Lu Qing entered larger halls and found rare Refining Materials, but chose not to risk approaching the largest halls.
• Lu Qing studied restrictions from five hundred halls and reached minor achievement, allowing him to break any outer-region hall’s restriction almost instantly.

Lu Qing mastered two thousand medium-sized restrictions, strengthening his control over the Guixu Secret Realm and giving him the confidence to explore its largest outer palaces. While covertly moving between palaces, he was caught in a sweeping attack as a faction in black-and-white Daoist robes pursued fleeing cultivators.

• Lu Qing avoided a remote palace after sensing a terrifying aura within, while the Middle-aged Man in Purple Dragon Robe consolidated his newly gained Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations realm.
• Over the next three months, Lu Qing mastered two thousand medium-sized restrictions and greatly reduced the secret realm’s suppression on him.
• Lu Qing began exploring the largest outer palaces, breaking their restriction screens with a thought and collecting pills, restrictions, and a peak mid-grade spirit artifact.
• As Lu Qing headed toward another palace, fleeing figures and their pursuers burst out ahead of him.
• The pursuers in black-and-white Daoist robes unleashed attacks across a wide area, catching Lu Qing in the blast.

Lu Qing escaped a combined attack and outpaced Mo Tu Shan, humiliating the Black and White Monastery cultivator before vanishing into a cluster of palaces. After the factions dispersed, Yu Jian worried that Qing Xi had provoked Mo Tu Shan and resolved to keep the Empty Clarity Sect traveling with his sect.

• Lu Qing evaded the Black and White Monastery disciples’ attack, while their intended targets were badly injured and Mo Tu Shan recognized him.
• Mo Tu Shan pursued Lu Qing, but Lu Qing matched and then surpassed his speed despite appearing to be only a Nascent Soul Five Tribulations cultivator.
• Yu Jian and Qing Xi watched the chase, while Hei Ming and Peach Fairy considered whether Lu Qing possessed an Exotic Treasure worth seizing.
• Mo Tu Shan activated his trump card, but Lu Qing mocked him, sped away into a cluster of palaces, and left him unable to catch up.
• Qing Xi publicly ridiculed Mo Tu Shan, who departed with the Black and White Monastery disciples as the other factions returned to their halls.
• Yu Jian warned Qing Xi that Mo Tu Shan might retaliate, then planned for the Empty Clarity Sect and his own sect to travel together while he went to the injured cultivators.

Yu Jian learned that Mo Tu Shan had slaughtered members of a Great Hao Immortal Domain force, while Lu Qing investigated powerful cultivators and resolved to focus on increasing his strength. After months of refining Spirit Nurturing Pills, Lu Qing advanced to First Tribulation Completion and began his second Nascent Soul Tribulation.

• Yu Jian treated the surviving members of a force attacked by Mo Tu Shan, then promised to help them leave the Guixu Secret Realm if possible.
• Yu Jian warned Qing Xi that Mo Tu Shan’s powerful spiritual artifact could threaten other forces and realized Lu Qing had revealed Po Tian Sword Intent.
• Lu Qing investigated Mo Tu Shan’s evil deeds and the White-Robed Youth’s identity as the Eldest Brother of Heaven Piercing Sword Sect, then chose cultivation over seeking more inheritances.
• Lu Qing summoned Xiao Li to guard him and repeatedly refined Spirit Nurturing Pills, reaching the major achievement stage of the First Tribulation after a month and First Tribulation Completion after two more months.
• Lu Qing drew upon the Tribulation Qi and began transcending his second Nascent Soul Tribulation while Xiao Li watched in shock.

After surviving his second Nascent Soul Tribulation, Lu Qing remained too weak to challenge the experts outside and resumed cultivating. Elsewhere, Mo Tu Shan massacred Luoyun Sect and hid with Black and White Monastery, while Yu Jian and Qing Xi watched warily; years later, the Great Yuan Immortal Clan Patriarch emerged from seclusion as a stabilized Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations cultivator, just as a huge fluctuation shook the air.

• Lu Qing completed his second Nascent Soul Tribulation, told Xiao Li that he still could not contend with the experts outside, and began cultivating again.
• Mo Tu Shan defeated and killed the Nascent Soul cultivators of Luoyun Sect, displaying a terrifying black pagoda phantom before departing with Black and White Monastery.
• Yu Jian and Qing Xi found the corpses, suspected Mo Tu Shan had acquired a powerful Demonic Treasure, and later withdrew rather than risk entering his guarded palace.
• After Luoyun Sect's destruction spread through the secret realm, weaker factions gathered near Yu Jian's hall for protection, while Black and White Monastery remained hidden for several years.
• The Great Yuan Immortal Clan Patriarch emerged from seclusion with his Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations cultivation stabilized and dismissed the possibility that Mo Tu Shan could reach the Ninth Tribulation.
• A huge fluctuation suddenly shook the air as the elderly man was about to question the Patriarch further.

As the Guixu Secret Realm trembled, the factions learned that the Vast Immortal Palace was opening and gathered to face its trials. Lu Qing stabilized his Nascent Soul Four Tribulations cultivation and headed toward the palace, but stopped to download restriction inheritances from the abandoned outer palaces while the other factions gathered outside.

• The Great Yuan Immortal Clan and the other factions recognized the tremors as the Immortal Palace opening and set out toward it.
• Yu Jian and Qing Xi decided not to attack Mo Tu Shan before the trials, while Mo Tu Shan finished restoring the Nine Abyss Demonic Pagoda and vowed to kill his rivals.
• Lu Qing woke after stabilizing his Nascent Soul Four Tribulations cultivation, reassured Xiao Li, and stored her in the Li Fire Cauldron with its restrictions partly loosened.
• Lu Qing saw the Immortal Palace flare with light, concluded the secret realm was not closing, and headed toward the palace.
• Lu Qing noticed the large outer palaces were empty, changed course, and began downloading their restriction inheritances.

The Immortal Palace opened eight gateways, each leading to trials in a different path of the Immortal Dao, and the sects split up to pursue their chosen paths. After the others entered, Lu Qing arrived, learned how the trials worked, and entered a gateway as ancient wills within the palace awakened.

• Mo Tu Shan confronted Yu Jian and Qing Xi, but Hei Ming and Peach Fairy's arrival stopped the factions from fighting.
• The Immortal Palace revealed eight gateways for trials in body, pills, talismans, formations, sword dao, magical power, divine soul, and laws.
• Mo Tu Shan chose body, Yu Jian and Qing Xi chose sword dao, Hei Ming chose laws, and Peach Fairy chose divine soul.
• The other factions entered gateways, including the Great Yuan Immortal Clan, whose patriarch chose magical power, and the Nascent Soul cultivators Yu Jian had told to hide.
• Lu Qing arrived after the area emptied, used his ability to understand the gateways, and entered one as ancient wills in the Immortal Palace awakened.

Lu Qing chose the Array Dao Passage and entered its first trial, where he used his ability to rapidly learn the Nine Revolutions Chain Array. As the ancient wills watched the contestants, Lu Qing began breaking the array that trapped him.

• Three ancient wills awoke in the Vast Immortal Palace and reviewed the cultivators entering the trials, briefly noticing Lu Qing before focusing on stronger contestants.
• Lu Qing chose the Array Dao Passage, learned that combat was forbidden except at special nodes, and entered its first trial through a Teleportation Array.
• Lu Qing found himself trapped in nine linked Array Light Screens alongside dozens of Nascent Soul powerhouses, many of whom recognized him from his encounter with Mo Tu Shan.
• After inspecting the formation, Lu Qing used his ability to download and simulate the Nine Revolutions Chain Array inheritance.
• Lu Qing finished learning the array and formed Magic Arts to begin breaking the Array Light Screens.

Lu Qing quickly broke all nine formation layers in the first stage and entered the second stage, drawing attention from cultivators and the Immortal Palace’s ancient wills. He began studying the harder second-stage formation, while the ancient wills also noticed several other cultivators reaching the third stage.

• Lu Qing broke the first stage’s nine formation Light Screens in about a quarter of an hour and was transported to the second stage.
• The ancient wills recognized Lu Qing’s true Fourth Tribulation Nascent Soul cultivation, moved his image forward, and watched to see how far he could go.
• Lu Qing found ten powerful cultivators in the second stage, learned that its trial allowed one day, and began analyzing its eighteen-layer formation.
• After studying the Eighteen Profound Heavens Array, Lu Qing used his ability to acquire and learn its formation inheritance while other cultivators watched.
• The ancient wills debated whether Lu Qing had gained insight, then turned their attention to cultivators who had reached the third stage through the Law, Sword Dao, and Physical Body Passages.