Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing revealed that Shao Yuntian had enabled Shao Sidao’s crimes against Yun Shu and crushed the Myriad Manifestations Dao Sect’s Sect Master into ash. He then confronted Holy Alliance leader Luo Yuantian over the Alliance’s past imprisonment and torture of Daoist Wu Bao and Qin Zheng, demanding an explanation.

• Lu Qing told Five Treasures Daoist that Shao Yuntian had revealed Yun Shu’s Dao body secret to Shao Sidao and prepared the evil technique for him.
• Shao Yuntian denied the accusation, but Five Treasures Daoist believed Lu Qing and condemned the Sect Master for betraying Yun Shu.
• Lu Qing crushed Shao Yuntian to death and burned his remains to ash, leaving the Myriad Manifestations Dao Sect in terror.
• Five Treasures Daoist let go of his vengeance but felt empty after the culprits’ deaths.
• Lu Qing asked Luo Yuantian whether he objected to the deaths of Shao Sidao and Shao Yuntian, and Luo Yuantian agreed with his judgment.
• Lu Qing demanded that Luo Yuantian answer for the Holy Alliance’s seizure, imprisonment, and torture of Daoist Wu Bao and Qin Zheng.

Lu Qing forced Luo Yuantian, Mysterious Earth Golden Dragon, and Yuan Mo to clear Five Treasures Daoist and his companions’ grievances and promise compensation. Before leaving the Tian Yuan Great World with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li, Lu Qing gave Five Treasures Daoist cultivation treasures and gave Qin Zheng’s group his underground abode, while they resolved to abandon the Universe Sect and live as Rogue Cultivators.

• Luo Yuantian promised to publicly clear Five Treasures Daoist and his companions’ charges, investigate their framing, and compensate them, while Mysterious Earth Golden Dragon and Yuan Mo vowed their clans would not offend the group.
• Five Treasures Daoist said he would enter seclusion, and Lu Qing gave him the Primordial Chaos Dao Scripture and an Exquisite Pagoda before departing with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li.
• Lu Qing woke Qin Zheng, Ye Qingzhu, Chu Xiao Jing, and the others, told them their grievances had been cleared, and asked whether they would return to the Universe Sect.
• Qin Zheng, Ye Qingzhu, Chu Xiao Jing, and the others rejected the Universe Sect and declared they would become Rogue Cultivators.
• Lu Qing gave the underground abode to Qin Zheng and his companions as a place to settle and cultivate.

Lu Qing gave the Universe Sect disciples cultivation methods and treasures, then used divination to find Ye Qingzhu’s missing master, Mo Xuan Daoist, and brought him to reunite with them. After leaving the group with Mo Xuan to recover, Lu Qing took Xiao Yan and the others to the entrance of the Nether Palace Secret Realm.

• Lu Qing gave Qin Zheng and the other Universe Sect disciples cultivation methods and magical treasures collected from the Holy Alliance.
• Ye Qingzhu asked Lu Qing to divine the whereabouts of her master, Mo Xuan Daoist, but she had no personal item of his to guide the search.
• Lu Qing divined Mo Xuan’s location and used a divine ability to bring him from his hidden cave abode to the disciples.
• Mo Xuan reunited with Ye Qingzhu and explained that he had hidden nearby after fleeing the Universe Sect, then spent decades healing his severe injuries.
• Mo Xuan accepted Ye Qingzhu’s invitation to recover in the cave abode, which Lu Qing had gifted to the disciples.
• Lu Qing left with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, White Flood Dragon, Five Elements, and the others, arriving at the entrance to the Nether Palace Secret Realm.

Lu Qing visited Nether Palace’s Secret Realm with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li, where he reunited with Mo Hongyun and gave her a cultivation method suited to her Dao body. After settling his remaining karma in the Tian Yuan Great World, he prepared to leave, but a message revealed that his master was about to undergo the Nascent Soul Tribulation, so they would return home.

• Lu Qing arrived at Nether Palace’s Secret Realm and learned that Qiu Ruofeng had returned to the headquarters.
• Lu Qing recognized Mo Hongyun, learned that she had killed Myriad Desire Esteemed One, and gave her a modified cultivation method that sent her into Sudden Enlightenment.
• Lu Qing left with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li, and Nether Palace’s people agreed to protect Mo Hongyun and keep the encounter quiet.
• Lu Qing reunited his divine sense clone with his true body outside the Tian Yuan Great World and said he was ready to leave.
• Lu Qing received a message that his master was preparing for the Nascent Soul Tribulation and told Xiao Yan they would return home.

Lu Qing returned to the Home World after sensing that Grandpa Chen was about to undergo the Nascent Soul Tribulation. By using the Nascent Soul Mark embedded in the world’s origin, he gained its recognition and entered in his true body, arriving above Nine Li Village as Old Doctor Chen sensed his return.

• Lu Qing took Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the others aboard the Void Flying Boat and quickly traveled back from the Tian Yuan Great World.
• On the journey, Lu Qing mastered the Void Flying Boat’s spatial workings and realized its extraordinary abilities came from its material.
• Xiao Yan worried that the Home World would reject Lu Qing’s Integration Realm true body, but he decided to seek a gentler way inside.
• Lu Qing connected to the Nascent Soul Mark in the Home World’s origin, which recognized him as part of the world and allowed him to harmonize his aura with it.
• The Home World’s Boundary Wall opened for Lu Qing and his companions, and they crossed to Nine Li Village.
• Old Doctor Chen sensed their arrival, left his chess game with Wei Shanhai, and saw the silver flying boat hovering above the village.

Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Xiao Bai, who had all reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and helped his master prepare for his own tribulation. The Old Doctor began facing an exceptionally powerful Nascent Soul Tribulation, and the first bolt of lightning descended.

• Lu Qing returned to the village and told the Old Doctor and Wei Shanhai that he had made a breakthrough and that Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Xiao Bai had condensed their Nascent Souls.
• Lu Qing gave the Old Doctor healing and defensive talismans, then returned home with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li for the night.
• The next morning, Lu Qing set up a heaven-and-earth formation on a remote mountain peak before the Old Doctor began his tribulation.
• The Old Doctor released his suppressed cultivation, drawing a vast Heavenly Tribulation Vortex whose purple clouds surpassed the tribulations Xiao Yan and Xiao Li had faced.
• Lu Qing reassured Wei Shanhai as the first bolt of tribulation lightning gathered and descended toward the Old Doctor.

The Old Doctor faced a Water-Fire Dao Tribulation whose final bolts overwhelmed his sword strikes, but he survived the ninth and completed his Nascent Soul Tribulation. As heavenly energy healed and strengthened him, he began to formally condense his Nascent Soul.

• The tribulation clouds transformed into three colors, and the Old Doctor used his Sword Dao Domain to split the seventh bolt before enduring its red-and-black lightning.
• The Old Doctor cleaved at the eighth bolt, but it broke through his sword light and left him badly wounded.
• The ninth bolt shattered the platform and blasted the Old Doctor into a crater, where he lay gravely injured but alive.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and a stream of light entered the Old Doctor, healing his body and nourishing his soul.
• The Old Doctor's aura rapidly strengthened as he began to condense his Nascent Soul.

After the Old Doctor overcame his Nascent Soul Tribulation, Lu Qing celebrated with his reunited friends and family in Nine Li Village. That night, Lu Qing entered the Home World's source to strengthen his Nascent Soul Mark and pursue the secrets of a mysterious Jade Fragment.

• The Old Doctor emerged from his tribulation as a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator and received a divine ability related to the Water and Fire Dao.
• Lu Qing congratulated his Master and hosted a celebratory feast where he learned that Wei Zi'an had reached the Golden Core Realm and Hu Ze Zhi had advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Revolution.
• Lu Qing considered whether he could eventually remove the Immortal Severing Pill's hidden danger from Madam Wei.
• Lu Qing sent his Divine Sense into the Home World's source and sensed the Will of the Heavens, planning to deepen his Nascent Soul Mark's connection to the source.
• Lu Qing turned his attention to a damaged Jade Fragment within the world source and began transforming the Nascent Soul Mark with his Integration Realm power.

Lu Qing touched the mysterious Jade Fragment in the World Origin and witnessed its sealed memories: Xuanhua was ambushed by Demon Heaven and three Blood Demons, and his Jade Ruyi shattered. The fragment later gathered primordial energy and formed the Home World Lu Qing inhabited, revealing its origin.

• Lu Qing transformed the Nascent Soul Mark, sent his Divine Sense deeper into the World Origin, and touched the Jade Fragment.
• Lu Qing witnessed Xuanhua and Demon Heaven fight across the Starry Sky, with their Jade Ruyi and demon wheel clashing in a stalemate.
• Three Blood Demons ambushed Xuanhua and joined Demon Heaven, turning the battle into a four-against-one siege.
• Xuanhua's Jade Ruyi shattered under the assault, and he fled as Demon Heaven and the Blood Demons pursued him.
• Lu Qing saw a shard of Xuanhua's Jade Ruyi absorb primordial energy over countless years and form the Home World.

After discovering that the Jade Fragment had evolved into the Home World, Lu Qing returned to Nine Li Village and quietly resumed his life among his old acquaintances. He agreed to oversee the village’s cultivation aptitude test, where Zhou Hu became the first child to step forward and revealed golden aptitude.

• Lu Qing withdrew from the World Origin, kept what he had learned about the Jade Fragment and the Home World’s origins to himself, and returned to a quiet routine in Nine Li Village.
• Lu Qing paid respects at his parents’ and Grandpa Zhang’s graves, visited old acquaintances, and secretly checked on the Holy Mountain and Cold Water Palace.
• Zhou Mingde asked Lu Qing to preside over the village’s ten-year aptitude test, and Lu Qing agreed to attend the next morning.
• Lu Qing arrived at the Ancestral Hall with Xiao Yan and Xiao Li and recalled the people who had gathered around the Jade Tablet when he first refined it.
• Zhou Hu bravely volunteered to be tested first, and the Jade Tablet’s glow settled on pale gold, surprising Lu Qing with the boy’s golden aptitude.

Lu Qing discovered that Zhang Ruoxi, a descendant of Grandpa Zhang, possessed rare purple aptitude and took her as his registered disciple, beginning to teach her cultivation. After several peaceful days, he sensed something in the starry sky and sent his Divine Sense Clone there to investigate.

• Zhou Hu displayed golden aptitude, and the village's other children were tested, with none matching his talent.
• Zhang Ruoxi tested with purple-gold light, revealing potential to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Qing took Zhang Ruoxi as his registered disciple, cleansed her meridians and marrow, and later taught her a basic cultivation method.
• Zhang Ruoxi returned regularly for guidance, and Lu Qing was pleased by how quickly she learned.
• Lu Qing sensed a disturbance in the starry sky, sent out his Divine Sense Clone, and vanished from his courtyard.

Lu Qing traced his sudden unease to the Black and White Monastery, then traveled across the Great Yuan Immortal Domain to meet Qiu Ruofeng at the Endless Demonic Abyss. He found Qiu and several powerful Black Robed Men emerging from the Abyss and demanded the promised information about the ancient Dao Dissolution Immortals.

• Lu Qing used his divination arts, reinforced with his origin power, to discover that his unease was connected to the Black and White Monastery, but its mysterious power blocked further deductions.
• Lu Qing contacted Qiu Ruofeng with the Cross-Domain Message Talisman and received coordinates deep in the Chaotic Star Domain.
• Lu Qing crossed the Great Yuan Immortal Domain and entered the Chaotic Star Domain, navigating its unstable space until he reached the enormous fissure known as the Endless Demonic Abyss.
• Lu Qing contacted Qiu Ruofeng, who soon emerged from the Abyss with several powerful Black Robed Men.
• Lu Qing asked Qiu Ruofeng to explain the information he had promised about the whereabouts of the ancient Dao Dissolution Immortals.

Lu Qing entered the Dark Demon Abyss with Qiu Ruofeng and the Nether Palace cultivators to learn why they had summoned him. At their stronghold, Qiu Ruofeng revealed they were searching for the inheritance of the fallen Great Expert Xuanhua, whose name Lu Qing recognized from an earlier vision.

• Lu Qing warned Qiu Ruofeng to stop withholding information, and Qiu Ruofeng invited him into the Dark Demon Abyss to see the truth for himself.
• Lu Qing followed Qiu Ruofeng and the Black-Robed Figures through the perilous rift, using his understanding of spatial fluctuations to navigate its darkness.
• The group reached the Nether Palace’s floating-stone stronghold, where Qiu Ruofeng explained that the palace had established it to search for an ancient inheritance.
• Qiu Ruofeng showed Lu Qing a broken jade slip containing a profound cultivation art and said it had been recovered from the Abyss by a Nether Palace Grand Elder who died there.
• Qiu Ruofeng identified the fallen ancient expert as Xuanhua, and Lu Qing privately recognized the name from the White Figure in his earlier vision.
• Qiu Ruofeng told Lu Qing that the Nether Palace had finally found a clue to Xuanhua’s inheritance.

Qiu Ruofeng explained that a Nether Palace patriarch’s prophecy warned of a Starry Sky-wide catastrophe emerging from the Dark Demon Abyss within several hundred to a thousand years. The Nether Palace hoped the inheritance site of Great Expert Xuanhua could reveal more, and Lu Qing asked why they had brought him there.

• Qiu Ruofeng showed Lu Qing a map of the Dark Demon Abyss and identified the place where the Nether Palace found Great Expert Xuanhua’s inheritance.
• Qiu Ruofeng explained that the Abyss’s dark aura had weakened over the past hundred thousand years, making its outskirts more accessible than they had been in the Ancient Era.
• Lu Qing challenged Qiu Ruofeng for avoiding his promise to explain why the Ancient Era’s Dao Dissolution Immortals disappeared, and Qiu Ruofeng brought up the prophecy of a great catastrophe.
• Qiu Ruofeng revealed that a Nether Palace patriarch had made the prophecy at the cost of his life and predicted the catastrophe would arrive within several hundred to a thousand years.
• Qiu Ruofeng said the Dark Demon Abyss was one source of the coming calamity and that the Nether Palace sought answers at the site where Great Expert Xuanhua perished.
• Lu Qing considered whether the catastrophe involved the figures that had pursued Xuanhua, then asked why the Nether Palace had brought him there.

Lu Qing agreed to help Qiu Ruofeng explore Great Expert Xuanhua’s legacy site in exchange for learning where the ancient Dao Dissolution Immortals had gone. After crossing the demon abyss and enduring waves of Demonic Fire Monsters, the group reached the black mountain range containing the place where Xuanhua fell.

• Qiu Ruofeng asked Lu Qing to guide the Nether Palace through the Dark Demon Abyss to find Great Expert Xuanhua’s legacy, and Lu Qing demanded to know how it related to the ancient Dao Dissolution Immortals.
• Qiu Ruofeng offered to reveal the ancient immortals’ whereabouts if Lu Qing took the group to Xuanhua’s legacy site, and Lu Qing agreed to send only his Divine Sense Clone.
• Lu Qing led Qiu Ruofeng and the Black-Robed Figures deeper into the abyss, where they avoided dangerous Demonic Flames and fought successive waves of Demonic Fire Monsters.
• The group escaped the monster-infested darkness, and Qiu Ruofeng noticed that the monsters had not attacked Lu Qing.
• Lu Qing and the others reached a vast black mountain range, where Qiu Ruofeng identified a colossal palace-like tomb as the place where Great Expert Xuanhua fell.

Lu Qing led Qiu Ruofeng and the others through the Dark Demon Abyss, repeatedly annihilating waves of Demonic Fire Monsters with his Spatial Laws until they reached the Black Great Tomb. Inside, he found Great Expert Xuanhua’s corpse still seated on a jade throne, half corrupted by darkness and continuously spawning monsters, and addressed him without receiving a response.

• Lu Qing sensed something strange about the Black Great Tomb’s Demonic Qi as he and Qiu Ruofeng’s group approached it.
• A wave of tens of thousands of Demonic Fire Monsters attacked, and Lu Qing crushed them by collapsing the surrounding space into a black point.
• Lu Qing repeatedly cleared further, increasingly powerful monster waves as the group advanced to the tomb’s entrance.
• Lu Qing opened the stone door and led the group through the passage into a vast chamber containing a white jade throne.
• Lu Qing recognized the half-corrupted figure on the throne as Great Expert Xuanhua and realized his corpse was producing the monsters.
• Lu Qing respectfully addressed Senior Xuanhua, but the figure remained silent as Demonic Qi continued spawning monsters.

Lu Qing led Qiu Ruofeng and the others away from Xuanhua’s dangerous corpse and returned to Nether Palace, where Qiu Ruofeng explained that ancient Dao Dissolution Immortals had vanished after being marked by Darkness Power from a rift. The chapter ended with Lu Qing considering this revelation, while the fate of those drawn into the rift remained unknown.

• Lu Qing warned Qiu Ruofeng and the Black Robed Men not to approach Xuanhua’s corpse, and they agreed to leave the tomb empty-handed.
• Lu Qing led the group safely through the Demon Abyss and back to Nether Palace’s stronghold.
• Qiu Ruofeng thanked Lu Qing, then began explaining the ancient mystery of the missing Dao Dissolution Immortals as promised.
• Qiu Ruofeng said an enormous rift had once appeared across the Starry Sky, unleashing Darkness Power and destroying countless stars and worlds.
• Qiu Ruofeng revealed that Dao Dissolution Immortals exposed to Darkness Power bore hidden marks that could eventually drag them into the rift, where they never returned.

Lu Qing learned that the Black and White Monastery’s founding patriarch may have been corrupted by the Dark Demon Abyss and that the monastery was preparing a vast scheme. After leaving the Nether Palace, Lu Qing headed to the Guixu Secret Realm to seek more answers from Old Cang Long.

• Lu Qing questioned Qiu Ruofeng about the Black and White Monastery, and Qiu Ruofeng said its founding patriarch had changed after exploring the Dark Demon Abyss and might have become a puppet of its Darkness Power.
• Qiu Ruofeng warned that the monastery’s rapid expansion, resource plundering, and capture of cultivators could be part of a scheme tied to the prophesied calamity.
• Qiu Ruofeng and the Black-Robed Figures wondered whether Lu Qing was the prophecy’s promised hope, while Qiu Ruofeng kept secret that this hope faced a trial with nine parts death and one part life.
• Lu Qing thanked Qiu Ruofeng, departed through the chaotic space, and left the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Lu Qing traveled toward the Guixu Secret Realm to consult Old Cang Long about the mysteries surrounding vanished experts and the monastery.

Lu Qing returned to the Guixu Secret Realm after secretly entering through the Star River Array, whose mysteries he could now partly understand. Old Cang Long, Ming Feng, and the Black Barbarian Bull discovered him, and Old Cang Long was shocked to sense that Lu Qing had entered the Integration Realm.

• Lu Qing studied the Star River Array and found a hidden path through it using his formation knowledge and the Guixu Daoist's inheritance.
• Lu Qing passed through the array without an identity jade tablet and entered the Guixu Secret Realm.
• Old Cang Long sensed an unexplained spatial fluctuation, and Ming Feng confirmed that someone had crossed the Star River Array without triggering it.
• Old Cang Long, Ming Feng, and the Black Barbarian Bull traveled to the disturbance and found Lu Qing waiting outside the White Jade Plaza.
• Lu Qing greeted the three seniors, and Old Cang Long sensed his powerful new aura and asked whether he had entered the Integration Realm.

Lu Qing revealed that his Divine Sense Clone had reached the Integration Realm, stunning Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng with his strength and rapid cultivation. He showed them nine Great Dao essences and explained that he had anchored his Divine Sense in all nine to break through, leaving them overwhelmed by the revelation.

• Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng sensed that Lu Qing was an Integration Realm cultivator despite appearing only as a Divine Sense Clone.
• Lu Qing confirmed he had reached Integration in the Tian Yuan Great World, prompting the three veteran cultivators to marvel at his rise from Nascent Soul Six Tribulations in less than a hundred years.
• The Black Barbarian Bull asked which Great Dao Lu Qing had used, and Lu Qing revealed several distinct Dao intents flowing from him.
• Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng counted nine Great Dao essences and were shocked that Lu Qing had integrated with all nine at once.
• Lu Qing said he had luckily comprehended and anchored his Divine Sense in nine Great Daos, leaving the three unable to comprehend what they had heard.