Chapter Summaries

Lu Yi advanced to the Golden Core Twelfth Layer while the White Cloud Sect gained territory and influence after five rival sects sealed their mountains. After sparring with Liu Ningshuang, he gave her an Ice Spirit Pearl, then offered Donggong Mingyue a Thunder Spirit Pearl, leaving the cave residence tense.

• The five sects led by the Blood Spirit Sect sealed their mountains, and the remaining Azure Province sects divided their territories, with the White Cloud Sect gaining the Blood Spirit Sect's lands.
• Lu Yi reached the Golden Core Eleventh Layer and obtained a Grand Dao Jade, then advanced to the Twelfth Layer after several more months.
• Donggong Mingyue broke through to the Golden Core Realm, while news spread that Qingqiu Hua had reached the Integrated Body Realm and killed an Azure Dragon Clan prodigy with an immortal artifact.
• Lu Yi defeated Liu Ningshuang in a spar and gave her an Ice Spirit Pearl to help her advance her Ice Intent; Liu Ningshuang accepted and agreed to drink with him.
• Donggong Mingyue joined Lu Yi and Liu Ningshuang for wine and spiritual food, and Lu Yi offered her a Thunder Spirit Pearl, prompting Liu Ningshuang to pause with a calm expression.

Lu Yi gave Donggong Mingyue and Liu Ningshuang Spirit Pearls, then received a sachet from each as he spoke openly about wanting to become Dao Companions with them. After years of cultivation, he broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, and heavenly lightning gathered over the White Cloud Sect.

• Lu Yi gave Donggong Mingyue the Thunder Spirit Pearl and told her that he had also given Liu Ningshuang an Ice Spirit Pearl.
• Donggong Mingyue returned to Lu Yi’s cave residence and gave him a purple sachet; Liu Ningshuang then asked whether he intended to become Dao Companions with both women, and Lu Yi said he did.
• Liu Ningshuang brought Lu Yi a white sachet the next morning, and he chose to wear both sachets.
• After four years, Lu Yi broke through the third Heavenly Dao Restriction and reached the thirteenth level of the Golden Core Realm; five more years of cultivation brought him to the Golden Core Realm’s limit.
• Lu Yi used Grand Dao Jade to break through his bottleneck, shatter his Glass Golden Core, and condense a seven-colored Nascent Soul.
• Lu Yi emerged into the sky as heavenly lightning gathered over the White Cloud Sect and woke its cultivators.

Lu Yi endured an immense lightning tribulation as he broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, using the thunder to deepen his understanding of the Dao and his techniques. His unusual Dao Self produced a phenomenon that granted insights to nearby cultivators, and news of his breakthrough spread across Azure Province.

• Lu Yi left the White Cloud Sect to undergo his lightning tribulation, whose fifty-li thunderclouds and successive waves of destructive lightning astonished the watching cultivators.
• Lu Yi endured the first two waves with his body and used his Sword Domain to resist the third wave, whose lightning took the form of swords.
• As Lu Yi comprehended the Grand Dao and refined his techniques, a mysterious phenomenon appeared and gave nearby cultivators new insights.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master recognized Lu Yi's rare state and celebrated having him as her Personal Disciple, while Liu Ningshuang and Donggong Mingyue wondered at her reaction.
• After the tribulation ended, Martial Uncle Liu gained hope of breaking through to the Void Realm, and Nangong Moyu comprehended Fire Intent and invited Lu Yi to a banquet.
• Lu Yi returned to his cave residence, while news of his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm spread throughout Azure Province.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, Lu Yi received gifts from Yun Xi and other allied sects, and Yun Xi agreed to become his Dao Companion after he told her about his feelings for his senior and junior sisters. Once the congratulations ended, Lu Yi announced that he would enter seclusion to refine True Dragon Essence Blood.

• Lu Yi welcomed Yun Xi, accepted Ten Thousand Flowers Dew from her, and offered her a Wood Spirit Pearl.
• Yun Xi confessed that she loved Lu Yi and agreed to become his Dao Companion once he told Donggong Mingyue and Liu Ningshuang; she kissed him and sparred with him before leaving.
• Lu Yi worried about how his senior sister and junior sister would react, but took comfort in their entering seclusion after gaining insights from his breakthrough.
• Han Yu brought Lu Yi Winter Valley's Ten Thousand Year Ice Jade, sparred with him, and received Ice Spirit Liquid in return.
• Other sects sent congratulatory gifts, including a Mid-Grade Treasure Item longsword from Sword Inquiry Villa, and Lu Yi announced that he would enter seclusion to consume True Dragon Essence Blood.

After absorbing True Dragon Essence Blood and spending a year cultivating, Lu Yi learned that a ruin possibly belonging to the Undying Sword Sect had been found in Yuan Zhou and set out with Jian Ruyu. As they approached, they heard that the Heavenly Dragon Saint had come to the ruin too, and the chapter ended with Heavenly Dragon Holy Land disciples confronting people who discussed him.

• Lu Yi swallowed True Dragon Essence Blood, comprehended the True Dragon Dao Pattern, transformed his body, and deduced the Heavenly Thunder True Dragon Art.
• Lu Yi cultivated for a year, advanced the Nascent Soul chapter of the Undying Sword Scripture to lv4, and continued searching for an inheritance of the Undying Sword Sect.
• Jian Ruyu told Lu Yi that a suspected Undying Sword Sect ruin had been discovered in Yuan Zhou, and they left the White Cloud Sect together aboard Lu Yi's Azure Profound Boat.
• Lu Yi and Jian Ruyu learned that the ruin's formation patterns had drawn cultivators from across the Eastern Region and heard that the Heavenly Dragon Saint had challenged many sects after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Jian Ruyu told Lu Yi that the immortal behind Heavenly Dragon Holy Land was injured and was urgently nurturing a successor, then several Heavenly Dragon Holy Land disciples entered an inn and threatened cultivators discussing their Saint.

Lu Yi arrived at Cold Cicada Ancient City with Jian Ruyu to join the Divine Sword Sect as cultivators gathered around the newly discovered ruins. There, the Heavenly Dragon Saint challenged Lu Yi to a rematch, and their battle began before the gathered experts.

• Lu Yi suppressed a Nascent Soul disciple of the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land with sword-intent pressure, then learned that the Heavenly Dragon Saint had gone to the ruins.
• News of Lu Yi spread, and the Heavenly Dragon Saint announced that he was ready to fight Lu Yi again after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Yi and Jian Ruyu reached Cold Cicada Ancient City and joined the Divine Sword Sect, where Elder Ding Qing welcomed Lu Yi.
• The Heavenly Dragon Saint appeared above the city and challenged Lu Yi; Lu Yi accepted, and the two faced each other in the sky.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to defeat the Heavenly Dragon Saint for five drops of True Dragon Essence Blood, and the Heavenly Dragon Saint attacked first.

Lu Yi defeated the Heavenly Dragon Saint in a fierce battle, earning fame across the Eastern Region, then received five drops of True Dragon Essence Blood. The ruins had not yet opened, and Lu Yi asked Feng Buming about their status at a banquet with the Supreme Emperor Sword Sect.

• The Heavenly Dragon Saint used his second transformation and a replica of the Heavenly Dragon Spear, but Lu Yi's sword strike shattered his attacks and gravely wounded him.
• A golden-haired elder caught the falling Heavenly Dragon Saint, thanked Lu Yi for showing mercy, and left with him.
• Jian Ruyu, Wang Qifeng, and Ding Qing praised Lu Yi's strength and Sword Dao, while Lu Yi said he had used nearly all his power.
• News of Lu Yi's victory spread throughout the Eastern Region, and Lu Yi claimed five drops of True Dragon Essence Blood without using them.
• Feng Buming and other Supreme Emperor Sword Sect disciples invited Lu Yi to a banquet, where Lu Yi asked when the ruins would open.

Lu Yi and the cultivators from the major sects entered the collapsing formation surrounding the Undying Sword Sect ruin, then passed through its spatial gate into a vast plaza covered in formation patterns. As they faced four unknown passages, Lu Yi had accepted missions to explore the ruin and outperform the Heavenly Dragon Saint.

• The Imperial Sky Palace arrived in Cold Cicada Ancient City, and several nights later the formation around the ruin began to fail.
• Ding Qing led the Divine Sword Sect to the ruin, where its formation shattered in a deadly blast and revealed a spatial gate to a Small World.
• Scouts entered the gate and reported that lethal formation patterns filled the ruin, so Ding Qing and the other major sect elders went in first.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to explore the ruin, joined forces with the Supreme Emperor Sword Sect, and accepted the Heavenly Dragon Saint's challenge to obtain greater gains.
• Lu Yi and the cultivators entered the gate and found a vast plaza with four passages, walls and ground covered in formation patterns, and pools of blood.

Lu Yi led his companions through an Immortal Sect ruin by following the Undying Sword Seed and avoiding its killing formations. When a Spirit Transformation cultivator tried to seize Azure Steel Gold and attacked them, Lu Yi altered a formation to magnify its power, forcing the cultivator to retreat and yield the treasure.

• The Taiyi Saint, other powerful cultivators, and their groups crossed the outer formations before Lu Yi followed the Undying Sword Seed’s guidance into a passage.
• Lu Yi effortlessly led Jian Ruyu, Feng Buming, Wang Qifeng, and others through the formations, while Feng Buming and Wang Qifeng forced Feng Buyi’s group to stop following them.
• As Lu Yi’s group entered deeper, they found more powerful formations and fragments of Azure Steel Gold puppets beside a passage.
• A Spirit Transformation cultivator claimed the Azure Steel Gold and attacked Lu Yi’s group when they approached it.
• Lu Yi shattered the cultivator’s palm attack, strengthened a killing formation with one finger, and drove him away from the Azure Steel Gold.

Lu Yi uncovered a hidden chamber in the maze by changing its formations, then used the ruin’s killing formations to deter dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators and claim the treasure. He led the two sects’ disciples inside, where they discovered spirit milk, spirit marrow, and numerous treasure artifacts.

• Lu Yi altered the formations on a golden wall, opening a concealed chamber and drawing nearby Spirit Transformation cultivators toward it.
• The cultivators demanded the treasure, but Feng Buming fought one of them while Lu Yi finished opening the chamber.
• Lu Yi activated and strengthened the surrounding killing formations, forcing the Spirit Transformation cultivators to back down and agree to let him take the treasure.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to take the maze’s treasures in the presence of Spirit Transformation cultivators, earning the promised reward of the secret art True Fire Artifact Refining Art.
• Lu Yi led the disciples into the chamber, where Jian Ruyu and Lin Yu identified thousands of drops of spirit marrow and different kinds of spirit milk, while Wang Qifeng and Feng Buming found numerous treasure artifacts, including a High-Grade Treasure Item.

Lu Yi led the Divine Sword Sect and Supreme Emperor Sword Sect through the plaza’s dangerous formations, astonishing the array dao masters with his skill. After Imperial Sky Palace attacked Jian Ruyu, Lu Yi retaliated by altering the formation around them, leaving the confrontation on the verge of escalating.

• Lu Yi guided his group through the maze, opened more secret chambers, and reached the plaza before an enormous immortal sect palace complex.
• Jian Ruyu and Feng Buming reunited with their sect elders, who learned that Lu Yi had guided the group through the arrays.
• Lu Yi accepted a task to explain array dao and led the two sects rapidly across the plaza, overtaking other groups as he taught their array dao masters.
• Wang Beiming invoked Lei Tianyin’s admiration for Lu Yi in an attempt to draw him toward Thunder Sound Immortal Sect, but Lu Yi declined to join them.
• An array attack from Imperial Sky Palace injured Jian Ruyu, so Lu Yi struck back with the plaza’s formations and began altering the formation around Imperial Sky Palace.

Lu Yi suppressed Imperial Sky Palace’s cultivators with his array mastery, forcing them to surrender an advanced array book before he led his allies into the immortal palace. Deep inside, the Undying Sword Seed resonated with what Lu Yi recognized as the complete Undying Sword Scripture, but a terrifying monster’s roar shook the palace complex.

• Lu Yi used the palace’s arrays to overwhelm Imperial Sky Palace’s cultivators, injuring an array master and forcing their leaders to negotiate.
• Lu Yi accepted a mission to defeat the Imperial Sky Palace cultivators, demanded an advanced array book, and stopped his attacks after receiving one.
• Lu Yi and the cultivators of Divine Sword Sect and Supreme Emperor Sword Sect entered the palace complex, where they found ancient corpses and signs of deadly battles.
• As Lu Yi’s Undying Sword Seed resonated with the Undying Sword Intent, he sensed that the complete Undying Sword Scripture lay deeper inside the palace.
• A deafening rumble and a hellish roar came from deeper in the palace, revealing the presence of an extremely terrifying monster.

Lu Yi led the cultivators through the palace’s deadly formations and reached the main hall, where they found the remains of a battle with a terrifying monster. Liu Tu tried to seize Lu Yi for Imperial Sky Palace but withdrew after other great cultivators intervened, and the group turned its attention to an immortal formation guarding the Undying Sword Sect’s inheritance.

• Dongfang Ling led the Divine Sword Sect group out of the palace halls after they encountered terrifying fighting inside, and the other cultivators gathered at the entrance.
• Lu Yi altered the palace formations so the cultivators could pass, impressing the formation masters and agreeing to discuss formations with Xu Mingyun.
• The cultivators entered the main hall and found a ruined battlefield, a slain scaled monster, and many dead or injured great cultivators.
• Liu Tu tried to seize Lu Yi and punish him in Imperial Sky Palace, but Ding Qing and Nan Yuqing stepped in to protect him, and Liu Tu backed down.
• The cultivators examined the formation-covered door behind the monster’s corpse and suspected it led to the Undying Sword Sect’s inheritance.

Lu Yi’s Undying Sword Token opened the immortal array protecting the Undying Sword Sect’s inheritance, revealing the awakened Undying Sword and a young man sealed in spiritual jade. As Tribulation Transcendence cultivators fought over the immortal artifact, the crystal began to crack, and the young man opened his eyes.

• The Undying Sword Token flew from Lu Yi’s Space Ring and resonated with the immortal array, opening the palace doors.
• Cultivators rushed toward the entrance, but the Undying Sword killed several Great Ascension cultivators and revealed itself as the Undying Sword Sect’s immortal artifact.
• Tribulation Transcendence cultivators arrived and fought over who would claim the Undying Sword.
• Lu Yi accepted offers from Ding Qing, Nan Yuqing, and Yuan Jin to study their sects’ techniques or array inheritance if they obtained the sword.
• The Heavenly Dragon Saint noticed cracks in the spiritual jade, and Lu Yi suspected the sealed young man was waking.
• The young man opened his eyes, and the fighting and thunderous roars outside abruptly stopped.

Lu Yi encountered a young man sealed in spirit jade for millions of years, who restored the Vengeful Corpse and gave him the complete Undying Sword Scripture. After the immortal departed, Lu Yi returned with the Divine Sword Sect and collected the rewards for his ruin quests, including a wisp of an Undying Law Fragment.

• The young man emerged from the spirit jade, restored the Vengeful Corpse to its original form, and spoke with Lu Yi about his Undying Sword Scripture.
• The young man praised Lu Yi's talent, returned his Undying Sword Token, imparted the complete Undying Sword Scripture, and left with the Undying Sword.
• The cultivators recovered from the young man's pressure, and the sect leaders hurried their people out of the Small World as rumors spread that the Undying Sword Sect's immortal had returned.
• Lu Yi chose to return aboard the Divine Sword Sect's vessel, where Fang Tianyao again urged him to join the sect and marry Jian Ruyu.
• Lu Yi reviewed his completed ruin quests and received a wisp of Undying Law Fragment for exploring the ruins, while the Heavenly Dragon Saint admitted Lu Yi had gained more than he had.
• Lu Yi examined the reward for surpassing the Heavenly Dragon Saint and discovered it was the Mahayana secret art Dragon Soaring Phoenix Singing Art.

Lu Yi received several secret arts, became famous after the Undying Sword Sect ruins, and visited the Divine Sword Monument with Divine Sword Sect disciples. After deciding to return to the White Cloud Sect, he brought Jian Ruyu to his room to give her a Sword Heart Fruit, leaving her startled by his actions.

• Lu Yi learned the Dragon Soaring Phoenix Singing Art, the True Fire Artifact Refining Art, and new Array Dao insights, then heard that an immortal had revived in the Undying Sword Sect and that his own achievements had spread widely.
• Lu Yi returned to the Divine Sword Sect with Jian Ruyu, where he met its immortal’s phantom and was invited to comprehend the Divine Sword Monument alongside nine other geniuses.
• Lu Yi entered enlightenment at the monument and raised his Sword Dao Domain to thirty percent, then fled when Fang Tianyao and the elders looked eager to keep him at the sect.
• Lu Yi told Jian Ruyu he planned to return to the White Cloud Sect, and they drank together through the night before he decided to give her a treasure.
• Lu Yi sealed his room and presented Jian Ruyu with a Sword Heart Fruit, while she had mistaken his actions for something else.

Lu Yi absorbed a fragment of the Undying Law, learned about the turmoil surrounding the Restricted Area and the Undying Sword Scripture, and discovered that cultivators had targeted the White Cloud Sect. After setting out for Azure Province, he was ambushed by a group of powerful pursuers and faced four Void Realm cultivators and more than thirty Spirit Transformation cultivators.

• Lu Yi gave Jian Ruyu the Sword Heart Fruit, left the Divine Sword Sect, and secluded himself in a mountain cave to absorb an Undying Law Fragment.
• After a month of comprehending the Law, Lu Yi discovered that he could heal wounds almost instantly and use the Undying Law to strengthen his techniques.
• Lu Yi learned of a gigantic arm appearing in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, rumors about the Undying Sword Sect immortal, and Qingqiu Hua's rise among the Demon Race.
• Lu Yi heard that cultivators were seeking the Undying Sword Scripture and that several Integrated Body and Great Ascension cultivators had vanished after entering the White Cloud Sect; he suspected his master had stopped them.
• As Lu Yi traveled toward Azure Province, Spirit Transformation cultivators followed him, and he accepted a mission to kill them.
• A Void Realm cultivator attacked Lu Yi with an enormous azure palm, but Lu Yi dodged it; four Void Realm cultivators and more than thirty Spirit Transformation cultivators then surrounded him.

Lu Yi used the Profound Star Bell and Heaven Array Diagram to defeat cultivators sent by the Heaven Origin Sect, then learned their diviners could only narrow his location to a broad area. An Integrated Body cultivator ambushed him, and Lu Yi faced the attack with a talisman as the chapter ended.

• Four Void Realm cultivators and several Spirit Transformation cultivators attacked Lu Yi to seize the Undying Sword Scripture, but the Profound Star Bell blocked their assault.
• Lu Yi activated the Heaven Array Diagram, killing most of the attackers with Innate True Fire and freezing the survivors with icy swords before destroying two Void Realm Nascent Souls.
• Lu Yi learned through soul-searching that the attackers belonged to the Heaven Origin Sect and that its divination could estimate his location but not pinpoint it.
• An Integrated Body cultivator struck Lu Yi from behind, wounding him despite the Profound Star Bell, and revealed that the Heaven Origin Sect's Patriarch had divined his location.
• The Integrated Body cultivator trapped Lu Yi under a pressure that seemed to merge with heaven and earth, and Lu Yi took out a talisman.

Lu Yi escaped the Heaven Origin Sect Integrated Body Great Talent and returned safely to the White Cloud Sect, where the sect welcomed him with relief. At Drifting Soul Peak, he learned that his master had dealt with the Great Ascension and Integrated Body cultivators who had entered the sect, and he asked how strong she was.

• Lu Yi used the Three Yang True Fire Talisman to injure the Heaven Origin Sect Integrated Body Great Talent, then fled with Sword Essence Escape as news of his escape spread across the Eastern Region.
• Lu Yi claimed the Dream Cloud Jade Pendant reward, used it to conceal his aura, and traveled cautiously back toward Azure Province while evading experts searching for him.
• Lu Yi returned to the White Cloud Sect, reunited with Lu Gaoyang and Wang Siqi, and reassured them that he was safe.
• Elder Qiling spread word of Lu Yi's return, and Sect Master Wu Qingfeng, Elder Ming, and the White Cloud Sect's other leaders visited him and celebrated his safe return.
• Lu Yi went to Drifting Soul Peak the next morning, found his master, and asked whether she had dealt with the powerful cultivators who entered the White Cloud Sect.
• The Drifting Soul Peak Master confirmed that she had dealt with them, and Lu Yi asked how strong she was.

Lu Yi returned safely to the White Cloud Sect, informed Liu Ningshuang and Donggong Mingyue that he planned to become Dao Companions with Yun Xi, and awkwardly proposed dual cultivation with them. He spent six years cultivating and advancing his arts, while news of his return faded and his senior and junior sisters continued to grow stronger.

• The Drifting Soul Peak Master lectured Lu Yi on the Dao after he agreed to cook her something delicious.
• Lu Yi reunited with Donggong Mingyue and Liu Ningshuang, who had emerged from seclusion with their Thunder Intent at seventy percent and Ice Intent at ninety-nine percent, respectively.
• Lu Yi told Liu Ningshuang and Donggong Mingyue that he planned to become Dao Companions with Yun Xi, then proposed they practice a three-person dual cultivation art; they attacked him with lightning and frost before leaving.
• Lu Yi returned to his cave residence to cultivate, and news of his safe return caused an uproar before the great experts gradually left Azure Province.
• Over six years, Lu Yi reached the seventh level of the Nascent Soul Realm, mastered the Nascent Soul chapter of the Undying Sword Scripture, forged Treasure Items, and created the Undying Thunder Dragon Art.
• Lu Yi raised his Ice Intent to the Ice Domain and his Thunder Intent to ninety-eight percent through sparring, while Liu Ningshuang and Donggong Mingyue also advanced their cultivation and Intents.