Chapter Summaries

Wu Jiu sought the Wu Family Old Ancestor’s guidance about Lu Xuan and received Primordial Spirit power to confront him, while the family was warned not to defy the Empress’s protection of Lu Xuan. Seven days later, Lu Xuan began breaking through in the Blackbird Guard Headquarters, where purple mystic light surrounded his hall.

• Wu Yuan ordered Wu Shan to accompany him to check on Wu Ming Qing, fearing Lu Xuan’s rise might drive him to act rashly.
• Wu Jiu reported Lu Xuan to the Wu Family Old Ancestor and was told to demand the return of the Moon Chasing Staff in exchange for clearing the attack on the Wu Family.
• The Old Ancestor revealed that the Empress had taken an interest in Lu Xuan and gave Wu Jiu a strand of Primordial Spirit power, promising to intervene if Lu Xuan refused the offer.
• Seven days later, purple mystic light enveloped Lu Xuan’s hall at the Blackbird Guard Headquarters as he chanted about reaching Divine Mansion Realm Completion and becoming a Nascent Soul True Person.

After reaching major completion of the Divine Mansion Realm, Lu Xuan examined the Netherflame Dark Saber and began stabilizing his Divine Sense Primordial Spirit. Meanwhile, Li Chengxing sent two Earth Rank Blackbird Guards to investigate the Western Regions Arctic Land and Western Wasteland Continent, then learned that the Blackbird Guard Director had returned and wanted to see Lu Xuan.

• Lu Xuan completed his breakthrough to major completion of the Divine Mansion Realm and assessed his increased strength and remaining System Points.
• Lu Xuan summoned the Netherflame Dark Saber from the Ephemeral Floating Realm, sensed its vast Heaven and Earth Origin Power, and returned it before preparing to stabilize his Divine Sense Primordial Spirit.
• Li Chengxing ordered two Earth Rank Blackbird Guards to investigate the Western Regions Arctic Land and Western Wasteland Continent, giving them a Spirit Communication Red Crystal token to contact Lu Xuan in an emergency.
• After the two guards left, Li Chengxing heard the Blackbird Guard Director tell him to send Lu Xuan to the Blackbird Division Main Hall once Lu Xuan left seclusion.

Lu Xuan emerged from seclusion with his Divine Mansion Realm cultivation at major completion and used his Primordial Spirit power to save Li Chengxing from a dangerous inner demon. After Li told him that Blackbird Guard Division Head Zi Yao urgently wanted to see him, Lu Xuan went to the Blackbird Division Main Hall and met her.

• Li Chengxing waited outside Lu Xuan's courtyard after Division Head Zi Yao ordered him to find Lu Xuan, suspecting that a serious matter was unfolding.
• Lu Xuan emerged behind Li Chengxing without being sensed, revealing how completely he could now merge his aura with heaven and earth.
• Li Chengxing's thoughts fell into chaos and his Gang Yuan became unstable, so Lu Xuan suppressed it with his Primordial Spirit power and saved him from a deadly inner demon.
• Li Chengxing told Lu Xuan that Zi Yao was waiting for him at the Blackbird Division Main Hall, and Lu Xuan immediately set out.
• The Blackbird Guards recognized Lu Xuan and let him enter the hall, where he greeted Zi Yao as she approached.

Zi Yao tasked Lu Xuan with investigating a Ghost Realm that had sealed Haoran Prefecture City, where the Wen Family had mysteriously fled. Lu Xuan learned the eerie entity might be the deceased Star Moon Princess and set out for Wentai Prefecture, while Wu Jiu arrived at Blackbird Guard headquarters seeking him.

• Zi Yao told Lu Xuan that a Ghost Realm had appeared in Haoran Prefecture City and that the Wen Family had withdrawn to Mingxin Prefecture City.
• Zi Yao gave Lu Xuan a Jade Slip and revealed that the Empress had ordered the Wen Family killed if the Ghost Realm's entity proved to be a particular person.
• Lu Xuan read that the entity was a Calamity-Level Eerie Entity suspected to have formed from Star Moon Princess's death, then destroyed the Jade Slip and Jade Box.
• Lu Xuan requested a map of Wentai Prefecture and left to meet Deputy Division Head Mu Yun.
• Wu Jiu appeared at Blackbird Guard headquarters, where Li Chengxing confronted him and barred him from entering.

Li Chengxing drove Wu Jiu from the Blackbird Guard headquarters, then warned Lu Xuan that the Wu Family wanted to see him. Lu Xuan arranged to meet Wu Jiu in Mingxin Prefecture, while the chapter ended with a refined-looking man threatening a frail woman in an estate there.

• Li Chengxing humiliated Wu Jiu and ordered him to leave the Blackbird Guard headquarters.
• Wu Jiu threatened that the Wu Family Old Ancestor would come if he could not meet Lu Xuan, so Li Chengxing withdrew to consult Lu Xuan.
• Li Chengxing used his Spirit Communication Red Crystal Token to tell Lu Xuan that Wu Jiu wanted to see him.
• Lu Xuan recognized Wu Jiu and told Li Chengxing to send him to Mingxin Prefecture in Wentai Prefecture, Eastern Region.
• A refined-looking man in an estate at Mingxin Prefecture cursed a dead maid and threatened the frail woman lying on a bed.

Wen MoChen revealed the Wen Family’s plan to join the Eight Great Families and obtain a Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact before Wen Lingyun attacked him for abusing Star Moon Princess and killing her childhood maid. Wen Fengyuan stopped Wen Lingyun from killing his son, then ordered him to prepare to receive powerful guests, leaving Wen Lingyun to realize that the Old Ancestor was behind the scheme.

• Wen MoChen gloated that the Wen Family would join the Eight Great Families and receive a Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact in six months.
• Wen Lingyun struck Wen MoChen, then confronted him over his crimes against Star Moon Princess and her maid and prepared to kill him.
• Wen Fengyuan intervened with a single finger and stopped Wen Lingyun’s attack on Wen MoChen.
• Wen MoChen begged Wen Fengyuan to save him, while Wen Lingyun knelt before the Old Ancestor.
• Wen Fengyuan told Wen Lingyun to rest and meet guests from the Eight Great Families and transcendent forces in three days.
• Wen Lingyun realized that Wen Fengyuan was controlling the events behind the scenes.

Wen Fengyuan revealed that he had allowed the Star Moon Princess to be harmed so the Wen Family could pledge itself to a coalition plotting against the Empress, hoping to obtain an artifact that might save his failing life. As Blackbird Guard gathered outside Haoran Prefecture City, Lu Xuan arrived and summoned Mu Yun to accompany him into the city.

• Wen Lingyun identified the Star Moon Princess and feared the Empress would destroy the Wen Family, while Wen Fengyuan ordered him and Wen MoChen out of the room.
• Wen MoChen fled in terror after realizing Wen Lingyun had killed his mother, and guards escorted the devastated Wen Lingyun away from the Star Moon Princess.
• Wen Fengyuan recalled that a failed breakthrough had damaged his Divine Mansion and left him with less than ten years to live unless he obtained a Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact.
• Wen Fengyuan revealed that he had permitted the attack on the Star Moon Princess as the Wen Family's pledge to the Jiang Family, the Tang Family, and other forces plotting against the Empress.
• Wen Fengyuan worried that the Blackbird Guard or Zhang Daofeng would discover the Star Moon Princess's companion had become a Calamity-Level Eerie Entity.
• Lu Xuan called Mu Yun to accompany him to Haoran Prefecture City, and Mu Yun immediately left the Blackbird Guard camp to meet him.

Lu Xuan and Mu Yun entered the eerie, Yin-shrouded Haoran Prefecture City to identify the Calamity-Level Eerie Entity and determine whether its residents were alive. Lu Xuan destroyed the swarming Black Shadows, but Mu Yun recognized the enormous face that appeared as the Star Moon Princess's personal maid, suggesting the princess was in danger.

• Lu Xuan summoned the Netherflame Dark Saber and led Mu Yun through the Yin Energy surrounding Haoran Prefecture City.
• Lu Xuan illuminated the silent city with his Primordial Spirit power, revealing countless Black Shadows and freeing Mu Yun from the Netherworld Power that had invaded his body.
• Lu Xuan unleashed Heaven Incineration and burned away the Black Shadows, earning thirty thousand System Points.
• The surviving Black Shadows gathered into an enormous woman's face in the sky.
• Mu Yun warned Lu Xuan that the woman was the Star Moon Princess's personal maid, not the princess, and realized something had happened to the Star Moon Princess.

Lu Xuan and Mu Yun witnessed the Image-Recording Mirror reveal the Star Moon Princess’s memories of Wen MoChen abusing Xu Zhilan and the Wen Family Old Ancestor intervening. Mu Yun preserved the scenes as evidence, leaving Lu Xuan to deal with the Ghost Realm and the Wen Family.

• Lu Xuan told Mu Yun to gather the Blackbird Guard while he stayed to handle the Ghostly Thing in Haoran Prefecture City.
• The Image-Recording Mirror showed the Star Moon Princess confiding in Xu Zhilan about Wen MoChen and their suspicions surrounding the Wen Family.
• The memories revealed Wen MoChen ordering men to assault Xu Zhilan, then mocking her as the Star Moon Princess arrived and attacked him with the Mystic Sky Hairpin.
• An invisible force erased the Star Moon Princess’s attack, knocked her down, and allowed Wen MoChen to break her limbs and try to kill her.
• Wen Fengyuan stopped Wen MoChen and killed the guards and Xu Zhilan with a burst of power.
• The scene ended, and Mu Yun told Lu Xuan that the Image-Recording Mirror had captured everything.

Lu Xuan unleashed the Heaven Burning Blade Art and destroyed the Calamity-Level Eerie Entity that had covered Haoran Prefecture City in Yin Energy. After the flames subsided, he examined the System Points he had gained and found a Mysterious Black Hairpin left behind by the entity.

• Lu Xuan cut open the Yin Energy mist with his saber, allowing Mu Yun to escape while he blocked the Yin Energy pursuing him.
• Lu Xuan sealed the city with his Primordial Spirit and unleashed a purple-black fire sea, burning the eerie woman's face to nothing while carefully containing the flames.
• Lu Xuan received 130,000 System Points for killing the Calamity-Level Eerie Entity and reviewed the System's cultivation-derivation options.
• Lu Xuan found a Mysterious Black Hairpin that had fallen from the woman's face.

Lu Xuan learned that the Star Moon Princess was still alive and received the Empress’s order to track her down and show no mercy to the Wen Family. After assigning Blackbird Guards to handle the devastation in Haoran Prefecture, he set out with Mu Yun for Mingxin Prefecture, where Wen MoChen was hiding in a pleasure quarter.

• Lu Xuan used his Primordial Spirit power to inspect the Mystic Sky Hairpin and discovered that the Star Moon Princess was not dead, though she remained in the Wen Family’s hands.
• Mu Yun arrived with Blackbird Guards, reported the Empress’s order to find the Star Moon Princess and show no mercy to the Wen Family, and described Wen Fengyuan and the other family members.
• Lu Xuan ordered Mu Yun to accompany him to Mingxin Prefecture, while Mu Yun assigned Cloud Crane Earth Envoy and Green Pine Earth Envoy to manage Haoran Prefecture with five hundred guards.
• Wen MoChen fled the Wen Family and hid in Floating Life Drunken Dream Pavilion in Mingxin Prefecture.

Mu Yun led the Blackbird Guard into Floating Life Drunken Dream Pavilion to hunt Wen Family members, after killing two Blackbird officials who had pledged allegiance to the Wen Family. Zhou Yue guided him toward Wen MoChen on the tenth floor, hoping to prove his loyalty and escape suspicion.

• Five Blackbird Guard arrived at Floating Life Drunken Dream Pavilion, and Brother Sheng was sent flying when he tried to question them.
• Brother Sheng ordered his men not to resist and told them to notify the pavilion master as the Blackbird Guard entered.
• Mu Yun was revealed as the old man leading the group, and he planned to eliminate the Wen Family descendants in Mingxin Prefecture without warning the Wen Family Mansion.
• Zhou Yue admitted that Wen MoChen was likely on the pavilion’s tenth floor and promised to find him.
• Mu Yun told Zhou Yue that finding Wen MoChen would count as a great merit, and Zhou Yue raced upstairs.

Zhou Yue led Mu Yun and the Blackbird Guards to the Floating Life Drunken Dream Pavilion to seize Wen MoChen. Mu Yun overpowered Wen MoChen, and the chapter ended with him saying he wanted to borrow Wen MoChen’s head.

• Zhou Yue reached the tenth floor, and the old man guarding it fled rather than oppose him and the Blackbird Guards.
• Zhou Yue’s group blasted open the private-room doors, interrupting Wen MoChen’s feast and injuring the guards stationed there.
• Wen MoChen recognized Zhou Yue and mocked him for once kneeling and begging for mercy.
• Zhou Yue revealed that Mu Yun was the one seeking Wen MoChen, and Wen MoChen’s confidence gave way to fear.
• Mu Yun unleashed his Gang Essence and Divine Sense Power, overwhelming Wen MoChen and ending with a remark that he wanted to borrow his head.

Lu Xuan and the Blackbird Guard attacked the Wen Family, and Lu Xuan found the captive Star Moon Princess hidden in the residence. After Wen Fengyuan confronted him and revealed a strand of his Primordial Spirit power was inside the princess’s heart, he demanded to leave.

• Mingxin Prefecture soldiers evacuated the area around the Wen Family Residence while the Prefect obeyed the Blackbird Guard’s orders.
• Lu Xuan and Mu Yun entered the Wen Family’s forbidden grounds and killed the guards; Mu Yun then went to confront Wen Lingyun.
• Lu Xuan found the Star Moon Princess concealed in a room and examined her with his divine sense.
• An invisible attack struck Lu Xuan, and their powers collided, destroying the room and nearby buildings.
• Wen Fengyuan arrived with a Bronze Ruler, recognized Lu Xuan, and revealed he had placed Primordial Spirit power in the Star Moon Princess’s heart.
• Wen Fengyuan demanded that Lu Xuan let him leave.

Wen Fengyuan tried to use the Star Moon Princess as a hostage against Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan revealed overwhelming strength and trapped them inside a barrier of violet flames. After Wen Fengyuan’s attack failed to break through, he chose to detonate the Star Moon Princess’s heart rather than surrender.

• Wen Fengyuan threatened Lu Xuan by using his Primordial Spirit power to constrict the Star Moon Princess’s heart.
• Lu Xuan swept the Blackbird Guards out of danger and crushed the Wen Family members within a thousand-meter radius.
• Lu Xuan sealed the area with violet flames, and Wen Fengyuan realized that Lu Xuan had reached the major accomplishment stage of the Divine Mansion Realm.
• Wen Fengyuan unleashed the Haoran Ruler’s power in an attempt to break Lu Xuan’s barrier, but the attack failed.
• Wen Fengyuan controlled his Primordial Spirit power and detonated the Star Moon Princess’s heart.

Lu Xuan fought Wen Fengyuan, who merged his Primordial Spirit with the Haoran Ruler and detonated its power, forcing Lu Xuan to contain the resulting devastation. As the sealed space expanded, Lu Xuan ordered Mu Yun to evacuate every civilian within ten miles.

• Lu Xuan overwhelmed Wen Fengyuan with a purple-black flaming saber beam while protecting the Star Moon Princess in a flame barrier.
• Wen Fengyuan fused his Primordial Spirit into the Seven-Pattern Moon Artifact Haoran Ruler and detonated its Heaven and Earth Origin Power in an attempt to kill Lu Xuan.
• The explosion destroyed Wen Fengyuan and unleashed a white torrent that Lu Xuan struggled to suppress within his sealed space.
• Lu Xuan reinforced the barrier protecting the Star Moon Princess and sent Mu Yun an order to evacuate civilians within ten miles in half a shichen.
• Mu Yun learned that the Wen Family's other members had been executed, then ordered the Blackbird Guards to begin the evacuation as the purple-flame domain expanded.

Mu Yun and the Blackbird Guards evacuated Mingxin Prefecture as a Seven-Pattern Moon Artifact detonated, unleashing a shockwave that Lu Xuan contained with walls of purple flame and redirected into the sky. After the blast subsided, Lu Xuan sensed Plum Blossom Guard Director Man Qingqiu approaching while Star Moon Princess remained inside a purple fire barrier.

• Mu Yun warned the Prefect of Mingxin Prefecture to evacuate, and the Blackbird Guards and officials led civilians away from the Wen Family Residence.
• The Seven-Pattern Moon Artifact erupted in a massive blast, and the shockwave threatened the fleeing people.
• Lu Xuan raised four walls of purple flame to contain the shockwave and channel its force into the sky.
• The white pillar of light faded, leaving the area in ruins while Lu Xuan remained unharmed but had spent more than half his strength protecting the city.
• Lu Xuan sensed Plum Blossom Guard Director Man Qingqiu nearby and saw Star Moon Princess still lying within a purple fire barrier.

Man Qingqiu arrived with the Empress's decree to bring Star Moon Princess back to the palace, while Lu Xuan concealed his suspicions about her condition. After the Plum Blossom Guard took Star Moon Princess away, Lu Xuan searched the ruined Wen Family Residence for surviving ritual artifacts and found a mysterious bronze bead.

• Mu Yun recognized Man Qingqiu, ordered the Blackbird Guards to seal off the area around Lu Xuan, and left without questioning her.
• Man Qingqiu told Lu Xuan she had come under the Empress's decree to retrieve Star Moon Princess, and Lu Xuan claimed the princess had died.
• Man Qingqiu reassured Lu Xuan that the Plum Blossom Guard would handle Star Moon Princess, then revived her with crimson mist and had her guards carry her away.
• Lu Xuan mourned the destruction of Wen Fengyuan's Seven-Pattern Moon Artifact, then realized other Wen Family ritual artifacts could remain buried beneath the residence.
• Lu Xuan searched the Wen Family Residence with his Primordial Spirit power and spotted a bronze bead among the rubble, then pulled it toward himself.

Lu Xuan extracted System Points from three ritual artifacts and used them to deduce the Heaven Burning Blade Art twice, reaching Divine Palace Perfection. He sensed Heaven and Earth Law Power within his Divine Palace but found that the Void Realm bottleneck still blocked him from exploring it.

• Lu Xuan sealed himself inside a mountain cave with a purple flame wall and prepared to deduce his cultivation techniques.
• Lu Xuan extracted 230,000 System Points from the Azure Spirit Pearl and two other ritual artifacts recovered from the Wen Family Residence.
• Lu Xuan spent 410,000 System Points to deduce the Heaven Burning Blade Art twice, then endured seven days of violent power surges inside the cave.
• Lu Xuan reached Divine Palace Perfection and sensed a purple vortex in his Divine Palace that seemed to contain Heaven and Earth Law Power.
• Lu Xuan recognized that an invisible bottleneck still prevented him from fully exploring the power associated with the Void Realm.

Mu Yun oversaw the search of the Wen Family ruins and the discovery of its treasury, then confronted Wu Jiu, who arrived claiming the Wu Family ancestor wanted to see Lu Xuan. Mu Yun told him Lu Xuan had left and warned him to leave, leaving tensions between the Blackbird Guards and the Wu Family unresolved.

• Mu Yun ordered the Blackbird Guards to search the Wen Family ruins for its treasury and secret records.
• An elderly Blackbird Guard reported that the Wen Family treasury had been found and presented more than fifty boxes of precious spiritual objects.
• Mu Yun ordered the objects recorded and reserved all decisions for Lu Xuan, then asked to inspect the treasury and locate the Wen Family records.
• Mu Yun sensed Wu Jiu approaching and recognized the Wu Family Supreme Elder, suspecting the Wu Family had sent him to interfere.
• Wu Jiu landed at the ruins, mocked Mu Yun, and demanded to see Lu Xuan in the name of the Wu Family ancestor.
• Mu Yun said Lu Xuan had left Mingxin Prefecture and warned Wu Jiu to leave immediately.