Chapter Summaries

Wu Jiu attacked Mu Yun after demanding Lu Xuan’s whereabouts, using the Wu Family Old Ancestor’s power to suppress and wound him. Lu Xuan arrived just as Wu Jiu was about to cripple Mu Yun, broke the suppression, and left Wu Jiu panicking as he tried to claim he had come to discuss matters.

• Wu Jiu learned from Mu Yun that Lu Xuan had left Mingxin Prefecture, then threatened Mu Yun when he refused to say when Lu Xuan would return.
• Wu Jiu invoked the Wu Family Old Ancestor’s power, suppressing Mu Yun and the Blackbird Guards before striking Mu Yun with purple Gang Essence.
• Mu Yun used the Azure Darkness Sword to weaken Wu Jiu’s attack, but the blow still sent him crashing across the ground and left him badly wounded.
• Wu Jiu threatened Mu Yun for Lu Xuan’s whereabouts and decided to cripple him rather than kill a Blackbird Guard.
• As Wu Jiu struck at Mu Yun, Lu Xuan arrived and caused Wu Jiu’s right arm to burn away, then shattered the oppressive force with his divine sense and Primordial Spirit power.
• Wu Jiu recoiled in fear and told Lu Xuan not to act recklessly, claiming he had come to discuss matters on behalf of the Wu Family.

Lu Xuan suppressed Wu Jiu and confronted Wu Sheng, the Wu Family’s half-step Void Realm Third Ancestor, who offered to end their feud and give up the Moon Chasing Staff. Lu Xuan accepted the deal but insisted that Wu Jiu be executed for attacking a Blackbird Guard Vice Director.

• Lu Xuan seized Wu Jiu, suppressed the power hidden in his forehead, and carried him through a spatial fissure to a distant clearing.
• Wu Sheng’s purple markings left Wu Jiu’s forehead and formed the phantom of the Wu Family’s Third Ancestor, who rebuked Wu Jiu after realizing Lu Xuan could overpower him.
• Wu Sheng chose to reconcile with Lu Xuan and offered him the four-pattern Star Artifact Moon Chasing Staff as an apology.
• Lu Xuan accepted Wu Sheng’s offer but declared that Wu Jiu had to stay and die under Great Xia Dynasty law for attempting to kill a Blackbird Guard Vice Director.

Lu Xuan demanded custody of Wu Jiu, but Wu Sheng refused and used the Bone Erosion Staff to help Wu Jiu escape. Lu Xuan destroyed Wu Sheng’s Primordial Spirit phantom and set his sights on taking the staff.

• Wu Sheng refused to hand Wu Jiu over, insisting the Wu Family would punish him according to its own laws.
• Lu Xuan ordered the others to withdraw, and Wu Sheng challenged him as Wu Jiu fled.
• Wu Jiu’s Bone Erosion Staff unleashed a black tide that destroyed Lu Xuan’s purple-flame hand, while a faint wisp of purple qi followed Wu Jiu as he escaped.
• Lu Xuan revealed his interest in the Bone Erosion Staff and attacked Wu Sheng’s Primordial Spirit phantom.
• Lu Xuan’s purple-flame hand broke through the black canopy, crushed Wu Sheng’s phantom, and left him free to claim the staff.

Lu Xuan captured Wu Jiu and handed him to Mu Yun, who killed him after stopping his escape and ensuring he could not regenerate. Meanwhile, two robed figures arrived at the Brocade Scale River in White Path Prefecture, where one identified the river bottom as the Dragon Lord’s prison.

• Lu Xuan seized Wu Jiu with the Bone Erosion Staff and brought him to Mu Yun in Mingxin Prefecture City.
• Mu Yun confronted Wu Jiu, who tried to flee and use the city’s commoners as shields, but Mu Yun struck him down with Heaven and Earth Power.
• Mu Yun cut Wu Jiu apart with the Azure Darkness Sword and destroyed his remains to prevent him from regenerating through the Wu Family’s Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact.
• Two robed figures flew over Peaceful Town and landed beside the Brocade Scale River.
• One of the figures, addressed as Green King, incapacitated everyone nearby, and the other said the Dragon Lord was imprisoned at the river bottom.

Green King and White Mirage reached Dragon Lord at the bottom of the Brocade Scale River and found him bound by the Great Xia Dynasty’s Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock. Through Xiao Jin, Dragon Lord learned that Feather Emperor Old Ancestor wanted this world but could not yet break its confinement.

• White Mirage promised Green King that the Pure World White Lotus Sect would help rescue Dragon Lord, while Green King refused to commit to an alliance against the Great Xia Dynasty before Dragon Lord was freed.
• Green King transformed into a colossal azure serpent and plunged into the Brocade Scale River, awakening Dragon Lord in the depths.
• Green King and White Mirage approached Dragon Lord but stopped when they sensed the black protective barrier and saw the nine chains binding him.
• White Mirage recognized the chains as the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock, a powerful ritual artifact wielded by the previous emperor, Xia Ritian.
• Dragon Lord recognized Green King as Qing Lin and Xiao Jin, then learned that Feather Emperor Old Ancestor had sent Xiao Jin's Primordial Spirit into the Great Xia Dynasty to seek a way into this world.

White Mirage, Lion Lord, and Dragon Lord coordinated their powers to open a brief gap in the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock. Lion Lord’s Primordial Spirit was destroyed as it entered the gap, but the drop of Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s Essence Blood passed through and plunged into Dragon Lord.

• Dragon Lord pressured White Mirage, who identified himself as a member of the Pure World White Lotus Sect and said he had come to rescue Dragon Lord.
• Lion Lord condensed its Primordial Spirit around the drop of Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s Essence Blood and sent it toward Dragon Lord.
• Dragon Lord struggled against the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock to weaken its seal, while Green King urged White Mirage to help.
• White Mirage used the Spirit Cleansing Pearl to strike the black curtain as Dragon Lord and Lion Lord attacked, opening a small gap.
• Lion Lord’s Primordial Spirit entered the gap but was crushed by black currents, while the essence blood passed through and entered Dragon Lord’s body.

Feather Emperor Old Ancestor appeared within Dragon Lord’s mind, recognized that Long You had reached the Demon Lord realm, and gave it a drop of Essence Blood to help it gain Great Demon Lord strength temporarily. After Dragon Lord vowed to return in three days and take revenge on Xia Ritian, the story shifted to an elderly man guarding the Primordial Beginning Sword in the Great Xia imperial mausoleum, who sensed that the seal containing the Netherworld Python had loosened.

• Long You prostrated itself before Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, who praised its successful breakthrough into the Demon Lord realm.
• Feather Emperor Old Ancestor examined the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock, identified the Spirit Ruins Land as an incomplete small world, and restrained its desire to seize it.
• Feather Emperor Old Ancestor gave Long You a drop of Essence Blood and instructed it to explain how it had entered Great Xia territory when it returned to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
• Long You swallowed the Essence Blood, then opened its eyes and threatened Xia Ritian, promising to return in three days and make him repay blood with blood.
• White Mirage watched Dragon Lord settle back into stillness and wondered whether Xia Ritian had ever truly died.
• An elderly man in the Great Xia imperial mausoleum sensed that the Heaven and Earth Seal containing the Netherworld Python had loosened, then returned his attention to the Primordial Beginning Sword and trusted Mingyue to handle matters.

Lu Xuan stayed in Mingxin Prefecture to protect the Blackbird Guard’s work and began refining the Wen Family’s Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects. Meanwhile, four mysterious figures from the Tang Family and Jiang Family sought news of Wen Fengyuan’s killer, then left to question the Blackbird Guard after Jiang Yan killed the Prefect Lord.

• Lu Xuan examined the Wen Family’s vast collection of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects and used his power to seal his room before beginning to refine them.
• Four mysterious figures confronted the Prefect Lord of Mingxin Prefecture and asked what had happened to the Wen Family.
• The Prefect Lord told them the Blackbird Guard had destroyed the Wen Family, but they demanded to know who had killed Wen Fengyuan.
• Jiang Yan turned the Prefect Lord into a skeleton before he could answer, prompting Tang Yun to challenge her.
• The other two figures stopped Jiang Yan and Tang Yun from fighting, and the four decided to question Blackbird Guard members before vanishing.

Lu Xuan exposed the being controlling Earth Envoy Yuan Feng, then used his transformed Heaven and Earth Dharma Image to save Yuan Feng and destroy the power controlling him. He pursued the mysterious controller, while his cultivation advances brought him to the threshold of the Void Realm.

• The Profound Envoy reported that the Prefect of Mingxin Prefecture had vanished and that powdered human bones had been found, so Mu Yun ordered an investigation and sent word to the Governor of Wentai Prefecture.
• A red-robed Blackbird Guard reported that Earth Envoy Wu Chong, three Azure Rank Blackbird Envoys, and ten Yellow-Rank Mysterious Black Bird Envoys had disappeared while traveling toward West City.
• Mu Yun recognized that the apparent Earth Envoy Yuan Feng was controlled by an eerie force, and the impostor revealed that he knew Lu Xuan and had come to see him.
• Lu Xuan identified Primordial Spirit power around Yuan Feng, then used his Heaven and Earth Dharma Image to freeze the wooden structure and erase the force threatening Yuan Feng.
• Lu Xuan pursued the mysterious controller through a different-dimensional space after the attacker tried to kill Yuan Feng, and his cultivation status showed that he had reached the threshold of the Void Realm.

Lu Xuan intercepted Tang Yun, Jiang Yan, and two other mysterious pursuers and annihilated them with a devastating purple attack. Tang Yun survived by returning to the Ancestral Land Extremity through the Ancestral Artifact, where an imposing voice demanded to know what had happened in the Eastern Region.

• Lu Xuan gathered the Blackbird Guard corpses in a bamboo grove and tracked the four fleeing figures using the mysterious power taken from Earth Envoy Yuan Feng.
• Tang Yun warned Jiang Yan and the two other men that Lu Xuan could not be fought, then the four encountered Lu Xuan blocking their path.
• Lu Xuan attacked the four with purple light and appeared to annihilate them, but he sensed four strange forces escaping and wondered if they had survived.
• Tang Yun reappeared in a secret realm near the Imperial Capital and realized that Lu Xuan was not a Void Glimpse True Lord.
• An aged voice asked Tang Yun why he had activated the Ancestral Artifact and whether something had happened to the Wen Family.

Lu Xuan returned to Mingxin Prefecture after confirming that four mysterious attackers had not revived, then the story shifted to White Path Prefecture, where Su An, Liang Cheng, and Lu Yunqing captured Yan Chengping for the Feng Family massacre. They brought him to the ruined Feng Residence, where Liang Cheng tortured him to force him to stop pretending to be unconscious, while Lu Yunqing wondered why his methods seemed so cruel.

• Lu Xuan ordered proper burials and tenfold compensation for the dead Blackbird Guards, then decided to return to Peace Prefecture after watching the four attackers for a day.
• Su An, Liang Cheng, and Lu Yunqing ambushed Yan Chengping in Panshi County and beat him until he revealed that he had acted under orders.
• Su An told Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing to take Yan Chengping to the Feng Residence, where county yamen runners had gathered.
• Liang Cheng bound Yan Chengping in a rag and carried him with Lu Yunqing to the Feng Residence.
• Liang Cheng forced a healing pill into Yan Chengping and crushed his fingers when he continued pretending to be unconscious.
• Lu Yunqing watched Liang Cheng torture Yan Chengping and privately wondered why his cousin's methods resembled those of brutal officials.

Yan Chengping exposed Fu Songde as the killer of Feng Jin and the thief of the Feng Family’s treasures, but Liang Cheng and Su An left him inside the burned estate as bait for the Feng Family’s Ghostly Things. He Yan arrived to watch the spirits emerge and consume Yan Chengping, leaving him facing the Black Shadows at the hall entrance.

• Yan Chengping accused Fu Songde of murdering Feng Jin and stealing more than half of the Feng Family’s treasure.
• Fu Songde attacked Yan Chengping, but Liang Cheng stopped him and overpowered him; Su An knocked Fu Songde unconscious and ordered the county officials to take him away.
• Liang Cheng carried Yan Chengping into the burned Feng Family estate, where Su An left him alone as bait while the three men went outside to wait.
• He Yan arrived and explained that resentment could let the dead return as Ghostly Things, warning the others not to act rashly.
• The Feng Family’s Ghostly Things emerged inside the hall and consumed Yan Chengping, reducing him to ashes as He Yan watched from the entrance.

He Yan destroyed the Calamity-Level Eerie Entity that had taken Feng Jin’s form, then ordered Su An, Liang Cheng, and Lu Yunqing to resolve the Feng Family extermination case and return to the prefectural city. At Peaceful Town, Lu Xuan emerged from a spatial rift above the Brocade Scale River, where the Netherworld Python recognized him as the one who had killed Red Scale and destroyed its dharma manifestation.

• He Yan fought the Eerie Entity formed from Feng Jin, burned through its endless Black Shadows, and cut it down with his Golden Silk Black Great Saber.
• He Yan ordered Su An, Liang Cheng, and Lu Yunqing to visit the county office the next day, resolve the Feng Family extermination case, and return to the prefectural city.
• Su An warned Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing that Ghostly Things and resentful human souls were appearing more often, while Liang Cheng trusted that Xuan-ge could handle any danger.
• Lu Xuan emerged from a black spatial rift above the Brocade Scale River in Peaceful Town.
• The Netherworld Python opened its eyes and recognized Lu Xuan as the brat who had killed Red Scale and destroyed its dharma manifestation.

Lu Xuan arrived at the Brocade Scale River after Li Chengfeng warned him that the Netherworld Python might be breaking free, and he summoned Blackbird Guard Division Head Zi Yao as backup. White Mirage fled when he sensed Zi Yao’s arrival, but Lu Xuan struck at him, forcing him to escape and join up with White Bone.

• At the river bottom, Green King recognized Lu Xuan and urged White Mirage to hold him off for one day until the Netherworld Python, whom he called Dragon Lord, broke free.
• Li Chengfeng told Lu Xuan that strange events at the Brocade Scale River might signal the Netherworld Python’s escape, and Lu Xuan came seeking the beast and its sealing Ritual Artifact.
• Lu Xuan called for Division Head Zi Yao, prompting White Mirage to flee and leaving Green King behind; Zi Yao arrived as Lu Xuan departed to pursue a Pure World White Lotus Sect demon.
• Lu Xuan attacked White Mirage with a massive palm strike, but White Mirage escaped the shockwave and reached White Bone, warning him that they could not defeat Lu Xuan head-on.

White Mirage and White Bone attacked Lu Xuan with their combined lotus technique, then tried to escape when he survived and unleashed a terrifying purple vortex. Lu Xuan burned White Bone to ashes, but the white radiance carrying Holy Mother escaped after calling his name.

• White Bone recognized Lu Xuan and blamed White Mirage for bringing her near the Blackbird Guard's Chief, Zi Yao, while they were still in danger.
• White Mirage and White Bone launched their Myriad Illusion Lotus Shadow attack at Lu Xuan, then fled, believing their combined Moon-Rank artifacts would stop him.
• A purple vortex appeared above White Mirage and White Bone, immobilized them, and struck them with a giant hand of purple flames.
• Lu Xuan emerged from the flames and slashed at the escaping white radiance with the Heaven Burning Blade Art.
• The blade reduced White Bone to ashes, while the white radiance escaped and left Holy Mother's cry of “Lu Xuan!” echoing behind it.

Lu Xuan recovered White Bone’s Bone Eating Rod, then helped Zi Yao kill the Green King and claimed its Demon Core. He withdrew to watch as Zi Yao recognized how rapidly his strength was growing.

• Lu Xuan decided not to pursue the powerful woman who rescued White Mirage, retrieved White Bone’s seven-pattern Bone Eating Rod, and stored it in the Ephemeral Floating Realm.
• Beneath the Brocade Scale River, Zi Yao discovered the Green King preparing to ambush her and summoned a giant water dragon to attack it.
• Lu Xuan appeared and asked Zi Yao to wait, then crushed the Green King himself to preserve its Demon Core and gained 35,000 System Points.
• Lu Xuan collected the Green King’s Demon Core, bowed to Zi Yao, and withdrew five li away to observe the battle he expected between Void Realm beings.
• Zi Yao watched Lu Xuan depart and remarked that his growth was frighteningly rapid and that he might soon become another True Lord of the Void Realm.

The Netherworld Python broke free of Xia Ritian’s seal by wielding the power of a Grotto Heaven Small World, then attacked Xia Ritian’s phantom and everyone caught within its reach. Lu Xuan fought the force bearing down on him while Zi Yao summoned her purple Void Glimpse to confront the Python’s small world.

• The Netherworld Python erupted from the riverbed and revealed a blue Grotto Heaven Small World, shocking Zi Yao with its apparent Grotto Heaven Master power.
• Xia Ritian’s Dharma Image appeared and recognized that the Netherworld Python’s strength came from outside assistance.
• The Netherworld Python’s blue beams shattered the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock, and Xia Ritian recalled the chains as the Python escaped its seal.
• The Netherworld Python expanded its Grotto Heaven Small World and crushed it toward Xia Ritian, trapping Lu Xuan and Zi Yao within its range.
• Lu Xuan used the Undying and Unkillable Cultivation Technique and Heaven Burning Blade Art to resist the attack, while Zi Yao raised her purple Void Glimpse against the Python’s small world.

Lu Xuan escaped the Netherworld Python with Zi Yao’s help and secured the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock. Hidden underground near Azure Cloud County, he prepared to refine it and break through into the Void Realm.

• Lu Xuan survived the clash of Grotto Heaven powers but suffered wounds that the Netherworld Python’s laws kept from healing.
• Zi Yao sent the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock to Lu Xuan and used her Heaven and Earth Dharma Image to distract the Netherworld Python while he escaped.
• The Netherworld Python abandoned its pursuit as the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s Essence Blood power waned, then transformed into an inconspicuous old man.
• Lu Xuan emerged in the mountains outside Azure Cloud County, concealed himself underground, and decided to refine the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock to reach the Void Cavern realm.

Lu Xuan spent half a year in seclusion after deducing the Heaven Burning Blade Art and began breaking through toward the Void Glimpse True Lord realm. In the Great Xia court, Empress Xia Mingyue addressed his absence from the Martial Arts Grand Competition and revealed that Lu Xuan had reappeared the previous day, leaving his return to the capital uncertain.

• Lu Xuan spent six days extracting power from the Mysterious Black Bird Sky Lock and Bone Eating Rod, earning enough System Points to deduce the Heaven Burning Blade Art.
• Lu Xuan fused Flame Law Power with Destruction Law Power, while his Divine Palace and Heaven and Earth Dharma Image phantom began transforming as he prepared to break through.
• Lu Xuan's seclusion lasted half a year, while the Great Xia court gathered ahead of the Spirit Ruins Land's emergence and the final stage of the Martial Arts Grand Competition.
• Lü Ze asked Empress Xia Mingyue when Lu Xuan would return, noting that the final battle would begin in three days and its top one hundred candidates would enter the Returning Ruins Forbidden Ground.
• Empress Xia Mingyue told the court to follow precedent and later revealed that Lu Xuan had reappeared and sent a message to Li Chengxing the previous day.

Luo Gongli accused Blackbird Guard Vice Director Lu Xuan of murdering Luo Jin and presented memories that showed Lu Xuan at the scene. Lin Youya questioned the evidence and suggested someone had impersonated Lu Xuan, while Empress Xia Mingyue left the case to Zi Yao before dismissing the court.

• Luo Gongli raised Luo Jin’s murder case before Empress Xia Mingyue and identified Lu Xuan as the killer based on the memories of Luo Family servants.
• Lin Youya displayed the servants’ memories showing Lu Xuan, then warned that memories could be unreliable and appearances could be altered.
• Luo Gongli demanded Lu Xuan’s arrest and insulted Lin Youya, but Man Qingqiu rebuked him and Empress Xia Mingyue docked his salary for three months.
• Lin Youya argued that someone might have disguised themselves as Lu Xuan to frame him and sow discord at court.
• Zi Yao offered to handle the case for the Blackbird Guard, and Empress Xia Mingyue accepted before dismissing the court.