Chapter Summaries

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu found the Great Desolate Sect’s Creation Martial Tablet and learned that it contained the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavenly Finger. Ling Qingzhu declined to cultivate there, and Lu Yunxiao teased her as they continued to grow closer.

• Lu Yunxiao sensed an unusual energy fluctuation and identified it as the location of the Great Desolate Sect’s Creation Martial Tablet and sect treasure.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu reached an ancient plaza, where he explained how the Creation Martial Tablet granted martial arts to those who meditated before it.
• Lu Yunxiao revealed that the tablet contained the Great Desolate Emperor’s Great Desolate Imprisoning Heavenly Finger, a high-grade Spirit Martial Art.
• Ling Qingzhu decided the martial art did not suit her, so Lu Yunxiao said Lin Dong could have it and offered to teach her a Heaven Martial Art instead.
• Ling Qingzhu said she already had the Nine Heavens Grand Purity Palace’s inheritance, and Lu Yunxiao took her hand while teasing her about learning from him.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu uncovered the Underground Palace beneath the green stone plaza and found it filled with Pure Essence Pills tainted by Demonic Qi. After Lu Yunxiao explained the danger of the Demonic Beings’ influence, Ling Qingzhu better understood his resolve to eradicate them.

• Lu Yunxiao revealed that the Sect Treasure lay beneath the green stone plaza and shattered the ground to expose the Underground Palace.
• An Ancient Blood Bat Dragon burst from underground, but Ling Qingzhu struck it away with a single palm.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu entered the Underground Palace and found tens of millions of Pure Essence Pills.
• Lu Yunxiao removed the Demonic Qi from the pills and stored them away.
• Ling Qingzhu sensed the Demonic Qi’s evil nature and understood why Lu Yunxiao wanted to eradicate Demonic Beings.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu explored the Underground Palace, collecting vast quantities of pills and Spiritual Treasures, including a Pure Yuan Treasure Bronze Mirror. Taking the mirror awakened the palace’s guardian, and Lu Yunxiao led Ling Qingzhu toward the approaching threat without concern.

• Lu Yunxiao explained to Ling Qingzhu the evil nature of Demonic Beings as they continued through the Underground Palace.
• Lu Yunxiao removed the Demonic Qi from millions of Nirvana Pills and collected them for Ling Qingzhu’s future breakthrough.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu found a Spirit Treasure Room and packed its treasures for the Nine Heavens Grand Purity Palace.
• When the ownerless Bronze Mirror repelled Ling Qingzhu, Lu Yunxiao subdued it so she could collect it.
• The Underground Palace trembled and awakened its guardian, and Lu Yunxiao led Ling Qingzhu toward it calmly.

Lu Yunxiao sent Ling Qingzhu to test her strength against a powerful Gray-White Skeleton while he looted the Underground Palace. As he watched their battle, he received four check-in rewards, including the Darkness Ancestral Talisman and Tian Quan Sword.

• Lu Yunxiao pushed Ling Qingzhu into battle against the Gray-White Skeleton while he finished looting the Underground Palace.
• Ling Qingzhu fought the Skeleton at the green stone plaza, but she was outmatched by its Four-Yuan Nirvana Realm strength and relied on her treasures to stay safe.
• Lu Yunxiao appeared at the plaza and watched Ling Qingzhu continue fighting, judging that she still needed more training.
• The completed check-in mission rewarded Lu Yunxiao the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, Cosmic Tribulation Saint Body, Darkness Ancestral Talisman, and Tian Quan Sword.
• Lu Yunxiao recognized that the Darkness Ancestral Talisman would let him unseal the Dark Element and increase his combat power.

Lu Yunxiao claimed rewards including the Cosmic Tribulation Saint Body and learned the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, then assessed Ling Qingzhu’s abilities as she fought the Mysterious Skeleton. He entered the battlefield and caught Ling Qingzhu, who angrily demanded an explanation for his having sent her to face the enemy.

• Lu Yunxiao received the Darkness Ancestral Talisman, Tian Quan Sword, Cosmic Tribulation Saint Body, and Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.
• Ling Qingzhu fought the Mysterious Skeleton, staying unharmed behind her Divine Items despite being driven back.
• Lu Yunxiao judged Ling Qingzhu’s combat strength and concluded that her equipment could protect her from much stronger opponents.
• Lu Yunxiao entered the battlefield and caught Ling Qingzhu as she was flung toward him.
• Ling Qingzhu reproached Lu Yunxiao for sending her to fight the Mysterious Skeleton, and he said he had been testing her combat experience.

Lu Yunxiao protected Ling Qingzhu from the Mysterious Skeleton, which grew stronger by absorbing the lingering wills of fallen Strong Persons in the Ancient Stele Space. Lu Yunxiao suppressed it effortlessly and then began to deal with it, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Ling Qingzhu stayed out of the Mysterious Skeleton's attack, and Lu Yunxiao pierced its palm strike with a flick, sending it crashing into a mountain.
• The Mysterious Skeleton emerged from the rubble and absorbed the lingering wills of fallen Strong Persons, raising its strength to around Five-Element Nirvana.
• Lu Yunxiao invoked the Heaven and Earth Rules to suppress the Mysterious Skeleton, then teased Ling Qingzhu about being her strong man.
• Lu Yunxiao enveloped the pinned Mysterious Skeleton in white light, explaining that he respected the warrior who had resisted Demonic Beings in life.

Lu Yunxiao purified the Mysterious Skeleton of Demonic Qi, and Ling Qingzhu asked him to help her become stronger so she could face future dangers beside him. After learning that Lu Yunxiao intended to kill the sealed Nine Kings Hall, the Mysterious Skeleton saw him reveal three Ancestral Symbols and welcomed the chance to take revenge for the Great Desolate Sect.

• Lu Yunxiao told Ling Qingzhu about the devastation caused by the Demonic Beings and the death of Old Man Black Eyes, prompting her to ask to become stronger.
• Lu Yunxiao agreed to help Ling Qingzhu and then expelled the Demonic Qi from the Mysterious Skeleton, restoring its consciousness.
• The Mysterious Skeleton thanked Lu Yunxiao, who asked whether the Nine Kings Hall was sealed beneath the land and said he had come to kill it.
• The Mysterious Skeleton warned Lu Yunxiao that freeing the Nine Kings Hall could endanger all living beings, but Lu Yunxiao insisted he could defeat it.
• Lu Yunxiao revealed the Devouring Ancestral Talisman, the Lightning Ancestral Talisman, and the Primordial Ancestral Talisman, convincing the Mysterious Skeleton that he could kill the Nine Kings Hall.

Lu Yunxiao went to the seal beneath the Great Desolate Sect to destroy the Nine Kings Hall, using lightning to force the Demon Lord out. The Nine Kings Hall attacked him, but Lu Yunxiao effortlessly destroyed his Black Bone Sword.

• Lu Yunxiao promised the Mysterious Skeleton that he would destroy the Nine Kings Hall, then brought it and Ling Qingzhu to a vast plain.
• Lu Yunxiao unleashed lightning to cleanse the land and break the seal, but the Nine Kings Hall tried to hide and spread Demonic Qi.
• Lu Yunxiao tore open the earth with a lightning dragon and forced the Nine Kings Hall to emerge from the abyss.
• The Nine Kings Hall boasted that he had killed the previous Devouring Ancestral Talisman Controller and vowed to kill Lu Yunxiao, while Lu Yunxiao scorned him and the Demonic Creature race.
• The Nine Kings Hall sent Demon Corpses at Lu Yunxiao, then forged them into a Black Bone Sword and attacked; Lu Yunxiao shattered the sword with a glance.

Lu Yunxiao overwhelmed the Nine Kings Hall, then let it unleash the Demon Emperor Armor to continue their fight. After stopping its armored punch with one finger, he revealed his Ancestral Realm strength and left the Nine Kings Hall terrified.

• Lu Yunxiao struck the Nine Kings Hall into a vast abyss, then warned Ling Qingzhu not to underestimate Demonic Beings.
• Lu Yunxiao forced the Nine Kings Hall out of the abyss with a bolt of lightning.
• The Nine Kings Hall activated its Demon Emperor Armor and charged Lu Yunxiao with a powerful punch.
• Lu Yunxiao stopped the armored punch with one finger, causing the Nine Kings Hall to realize he was at the Ancestral Realm.
• Lu Yunxiao tapped forward again as the Nine Kings Hall stared at him in terror.

Lu Yunxiao killed Nine Kings Hall and purified the Ancient Stele Space, avenging the Great Desolate Sect. He left the Mysterious Skeleton to guard the sect and departed with Ling Qingzhu, who quietly grew more at ease in his embrace.

• Lu Yunxiao bound Nine Kings Hall, severed its remaining limbs, and destroyed its body and soul with Golden Sword Aura.
• Lu Yunxiao purified the Ancient Stele Space of all remaining Demonic Qi.
• The Mysterious Skeleton thanked Lu Yunxiao for avenging the Great Desolate Sect and chose to stay and guard it.
• Lu Yunxiao teased Ling Qingzhu about his looks and her feelings, then pulled her into his embrace and carried her away.
• Ling Qingzhu felt calm beside Lu Yunxiao and acknowledged his extraordinary charm.

Lu Yunxiao guarded Ling Qingzhu as she absorbed Nirvana Pills to prepare for her breakthrough, then refined the Darkness Ancestral Talisman and unsealed his Dark Element. The awakening engulfed the Sky Profound Continent in darkness and granted him four new divine abilities, leaving him eager to discover what might happen when he eventually unsealed the Light Element.

• Lu Yunxiao poured more than ten million Nirvana Pills into a ravine to help Ling Qingzhu break through to the Nirvana Realm and stayed to guard her.
• Lu Yunxiao recalled his sign-in rewards and refined the Darkness Ancestral Talisman to unseal his Dark Element.
• Darkness Power erupted from Lu Yunxiao and swallowed the light across the Sky Profound Continent, alarming powerful experts throughout the continent.
• Lu Yunxiao received the divine abilities Eternal Night of Annihilation, Despair Black Domain, Darkness Sky Veil, and Eyes of Dark Night.
• Lu Yunxiao sensed his increased strength and considered how the Dark Element might interact with the Light Element.

Lu Yunxiao’s Darkness Power receded, ending the darkness that had covered the continent and revealing a Nine-Colored Lotus mark on his brow. Three days later, Ling Qingzhu forged a Nirvana Golden Body and entered the Nirvana Realm, then continued to challenge the Nirvana Tribulation.

• Lu Yunxiao circulated the Elemental True Scripture, withdrew his Darkness Power, and discovered a Nine-Colored Lotus mark on his brow.
• Lu Yunxiao dispersed the darkness covering the continent, while powerful factions grew wary and intensified their investigations.
• Ling Qingzhu absorbed Nirvana Qi for three days as Lu Yunxiao watched over her beside the mountain stream.
• Ling Qingzhu forged a Nirvana Golden Body after absorbing more than five million Nirvana Pills and broke through to the Nirvana Realm.
• Ling Qingzhu continued cultivating, intending to challenge the Nirvana Tribulation immediately after her breakthrough.

Ling Qingzhu completed two consecutive Nirvana Tribulations and reached the Two-Yuan Nirvana Stage, strengthening her Nirvana Golden Body. After awakening to her new power, she tested it by punching at Lu Yunxiao, whose expression turned irritated as he made the attack disappear.

• Ling Qingzhu suppressed and overcame her first Nirvana Tribulation, advancing to the One Yuan Nirvana Stage.
• Ling Qingzhu endured a second, more dangerous Nirvana Tribulation head-on to temper her Nirvana Golden Body, while Lu Yunxiao watched without intervening.
• Ling Qingzhu overcame the second tribulation and awakened as a Two-Yuan Nirvana Stage expert.
• Ling Qingzhu realized her newfound strength could let her defeat the Mysterious Skeleton with one full-power strike.
• Ling Qingzhu punched at Lu Yunxiao, and he made her golden fist imprint vanish in midair.

Lu Yunxiao kissed Ling Qingzhu, gave her a powerful sword named Cloud Bamboo, and explained that the Nine Heavens Grand Purity Palace's teachings about the Supreme Dao Induction Scripture were mistaken. The chapter ended with Lu Yunxiao taking offense when Ling Qingzhu questioned whether his claims were true.

• Lu Yunxiao swept Ling Qingzhu into his arms and repeatedly kissed her, while she protested but eventually accepted his affection.
• Lu Yunxiao praised Ling Qingzhu's Two-Yuan Nirvana Stage cultivation and gave her the Cloud Bamboo Sword, a powerful weapon named after them both.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Ling Qingzhu to call him Yunxiao, and she admitted that her concerns about the Supreme Dao Induction Scripture had kept her from fully accepting his feelings.
• Lu Yunxiao argued that preserving her virginity and Pure Yin Body had not helped generations of cultivators sense Taishang, and that Ling Qingzhu had been following the wrong path.
• Ling Qingzhu asked whether Lu Yunxiao was serious, and he angrily accused her of doubting his honesty before turning away.

Lu Yunxiao became angry when Ling Qingzhu's reaction made him feel she doubted his character. Ling Qingzhu apologized and embraced him from behind, and Lu Yunxiao's anger faded as they reconciled.

• Lu Yunxiao turned cold after feeling insulted by Ling Qingzhu's apparent suspicion.
• Ling Qingzhu tossed aside her Cloud Bamboo Sword, embraced Lu Yunxiao from behind, and explained that she had been shocked rather than doubting him.
• Ling Qingzhu apologized and pleaded for another chance while Lu Yunxiao remained silent, though his anger gradually subsided.
• Ling Qingzhu teased Lu Yunxiao that he should not hold a grudge against a woman, prompting him to turn back and challenge her.
• Lu Yunxiao warned that he would spank Ling Qingzhu if she questioned his character again, and Ling Qingzhu bashfully agreed.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu resolved their misunderstanding and openly affirmed their feelings for each other. After Ling Qingzhu admired the Cloud Bamboo Sword Lu Yunxiao forged, she persuaded him to accompany her to Great Puppet City, where he hoped to find the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.

• Lu Yunxiao realized Ling Qingzhu had sincerely apologized and comforted her, and she promised to trust him.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu embraced and kissed, with Ling Qingzhu responding willingly.
• Ling Qingzhu admired the Cloud Bamboo Sword that Lu Yunxiao had forged.
• Ling Qingzhu suggested visiting Great Puppet City, and Lu Yunxiao recognized it as a place tied to the Ancient Qiankun Formation and the Yin Puppet Sect.
• Lu Yunxiao claimed he would not go, but Ling Qingzhu took his hand and led him toward Great Puppet City.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu entered Great Puppet City and discussed its size and factions as they walked together. Ling Qingzhu explained that the Yin Puppet Sect, the Great Devil Gate, and the Martial Alliance dominated the city, leaving Lu Yunxiao curious about how she knew so much.

• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu approached Great Puppet City, drawing attention as they entered hand in hand.
• Ling Qingzhu praised the city, while Lu Yunxiao dismissed it as a remote backwater compared with the great cities he had seen.
• Lu Yunxiao teased Ling Qingzhu about being scheming, but she calmly turned his complaint back on him, leaving him speechless.
• Ling Qingzhu explained that the Yin Puppet Sect, the Great Devil Gate, and the Martial Alliance controlled most of Great Puppet City's resources.
• Lu Yunxiao questioned how Ling Qingzhu knew so much about the Great Yan Dynasty and its city.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu discussed his knowledge of Huangpu Jing and his other confidantes, teasing each other about his shamelessness and her jealousy. He assured Ling Qingzhu that he would never abandon her or the women who followed him, and vowed to die before letting them come to harm.

• Ling Qingzhu explained that her ties to the Huangpu Clan had taught her about the Great Yan Dynasty, then questioned why Lu Yunxiao knew Huangpu Jing's name.
• Lu Yunxiao teased Ling Qingzhu for suspecting he was interested in Huangpu Jing and told her the woman did not catch his eye.
• Lu Yunxiao admitted that he had other confidantes and declared he would never abandon them or Ling Qingzhu.
• Ling Qingzhu reproached Lu Yunxiao for his shamelessness but acknowledged that she had already accepted sharing him with other women.
• Lu Yunxiao said he would always stand between danger and the women who followed him, even if he had to die for them.

Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu went to the Martial Alliance auction in Great Puppet City, where they unexpectedly encountered Lin Dong. The chapter ended with Lu Yunxiao reacting with exasperation while Lin Dong greeted him excitedly.

• Ling Qingzhu warned Lu Yunxiao not to become arrogant, and he insisted that he was confident rather than overconfident.
• Ling Qingzhu persuaded Lu Yunxiao to attend the Martial Alliance auction, and he let her lead him there.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu paid for premium seats and settled in, holding hands as they waited for the auction.
• Lin Dong recognized Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu and greeted them excitedly.
• Lu Yunxiao complained that he had run into Lin Dong too many times.

At the Martial Alliance auction, Lu Yunxiao reunited with Lin Dong and learned that Qing Tan had stayed home while Lin Dong went out to train. As the crowded auction began, Lin Dong noticed Mu Qianqian of the Great Puppet Sect, and Lu Yunxiao left the story focused on her beauty and his praise of Ling Qingzhu.

• Lin Dong revealed himself to Lu Yunxiao at the auction and said he had come out to gain experience while Qing Tan remained at home.
• Lu Yunxiao questioned Lin Dong about his rapid cultivation and warned him not to take Qing Tan’s resources; Lin Dong denied doing so.
• Lin Dong noticed that Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu were holding hands and congratulated them.
• The auction house filled with crowds, and Lu Yunxiao and Ling Qingzhu complained about the noise and lack of private rooms.
• Lin Dong spotted Mu Qianqian, and Ling Qingzhu identified her as a beauty from the Great Puppet Sect.
• Lu Yunxiao called Mu Qianqian merely all right and told Ling Qingzhu that she was far more beautiful.