Chapter Summaries

Zi Yao took charge of Lu Xuan’s case and summoned him to the Imperial Capital, while Lin Youya revealed that the Luo Family witnesses had been rendered useless. After half a year in seclusion, Lu Xuan reached the Void Glimpse True Lord realm, returned home for Qingqing’s Dragon and Phoenix Twins, and decided to borrow gifts from Li Chengxing.

• Zi Yao drove Luo Gongli from court and ordered the Luo Family servants transferred to the Blackbird Guard, but Lin Youya said Mirror Light Art had left them insane and useless.
• Lin Youya praised Lu Xuan to Zi Yao, hoping she would pass along his admiration, while privately judging that Lu Xuan might reach the Void Glimpse True Lord realm.
• Zi Yao contacted Lu Xuan with her token and told him that Your Majesty wished to see him; Lu Xuan agreed to arrive in the Imperial Capital in three days.
• Lu Xuan emerged from half a year of seclusion as a Void Glimpse True Lord and returned to the Lu Family Residence, where Lu Liu told him Qingqing had given birth to Dragon and Phoenix Twins.
• Lu Xuan decided to borrow gifts for the twins, while Li Chengxing told Li Chengfeng that Old Lu had appeared and said he should return to the Imperial Capital.

Lu Xuan visited Li Chengxing to request three High Grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects for his newborn nephew and niece and one for their mother. Meanwhile, at the Shen Family’s celebration in Dengfeng County, County Magistrate Liu Bifu warned Shen Yunwei not to let the family’s influence eclipse the county office.

• Lu Xuan appeared before Li Chengxing and Li Chengfeng, whose senses were astonished by how completely his aura had changed.
• Lu Xuan asked Li Chengxing for three High Grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects for the twins and one to help his younger sister recover after childbirth.
• The Shen Family held a celebration for the twins, and Shen Yunwei welcomed guests, including County Magistrate Liu Bifu.
• Liu Bifu’s thin attendant criticized the Shen Family for providing relief to the people and becoming more prominent than the county office.
• Liu Bifu reprimanded his attendant, then cautioned Shen Yunwei that the county magistrate—not the Shen Family—was Dengfeng County’s authority.

Shen Yunwei agreed to put the Shen Family’s relief effort under the county office’s name after Liu Bifu pressured him, while Liu secretly planned to exploit the family for its wealth. As Lu Jiahe prepared to return to Azure Cloud County, he left Li Daren behind to protect Lu Qingqing, while the Shen Family and Blackbird Guards continued to hope Lu Xuan would appear.

• Shen Yunwei agreed to run the relief stalls under the county office’s name, and Liu Bifu promised the Shen Family his support before leaving with a gift.
• Liu Bifu privately revealed that he coveted the Shen Family’s wealth and planned to investigate its weaknesses so he could strike later.
• Shen Yunwei told Shen Wenfeng to put the relief effort under the county office’s name and reduce its scale and visibility.
• Lu Jiahe arrived with Lu Yun'an, Qian Hao, and Li Daren, and Shen Yunwei welcomed him to the Shen Family’s celebration.
• Lu Jiahe said he would return to Azure Cloud County the next morning and asked Li Daren to stay for three months to protect Lu Qingqing.

Lu Xuan arrived at the Shen Family celebration with Li Chengfeng and Li Chengxing, delighting his family and friends. After greeting Lu Jiahe and Shen Yunwei, he went to visit his younger sister and her newborn twins.

• Lu Yunqing and Liang Cheng reassured Lu Jiahe that Lu Xuan would return soon.
• Lu Xuan arrived at the residence with Li Chengfeng and Li Chengxing, drawing everyone's attention.
• Lu Jiahe, Shen Yunwei, Lu Yun'an, Lu Yunqing, and Liang Cheng joyfully welcomed Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan introduced Li Chengfeng and Li Chengxing to Lu Jiahe and Shen Yunwei, who warmly received them.
• Lu Xuan headed to the inner courtyard to see Lu Qingqing and the twins, followed by Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing.

Lu Xuan visited Lu Qingqing after she gave birth, used his Life Law Power to restore her strength, and gave her and her newborn twins three treasured Jade Boxes. Two days later, he arrived at the Imperial Capital palace, where Man Qingqiu personally welcomed him.

• A Little Maid announced Lu Xuan’s arrival, and he greeted Lu Qingqing and her newborn child.
• Lu Xuan used the power of Undying and Unkillable to restore Lu Qingqing and refresh everyone nearby.
• Lu Xuan gave Lu Qingqing and her two nephews three Jade Boxes to help strengthen their bodies and support future cultivation.
• Lu Qingqing recovered fully and accompanied Lu Xuan to see their father, while Liang Cheng marveled at her transformation.
• Two days later, Lu Xuan arrived at the imperial palace, where Man Qingqiu personally welcomed him.

After returning to the Imperial Capital, Lu Xuan became the focus of Great Xia’s powerful factions, while Ying Lingfeng and Chang Mingsheng discussed how to exploit or remove him. Empress Xia Mingyue summoned Lu Xuan and revealed that Star Moon Princess had returned from the dead.

• Lu Xuan entered the palace with Man Qingqiu as reports of his return spread among the Imperial Capital’s factions.
• Chang Mingsheng met secretly with his master Ying Lingfeng, who advised him to wait while other factions moved against Lu Xuan and focused on the Spirit Ruins Land.
• The Li Family elders discussed Lu Xuan’s return, and Li Chengping said Li Yanran had emerged from seclusion and would decide for herself what to do.
• Lu Xuan met Empress Xia Mingyue in Xuan Yi Hall, where she praised his handling of the Wen Family matter.
• Empress Xia Mingyue called Star Moon Princess forward, and Star Moon greeted Lu Xuan.

Star Moon Princess thanked Lu Xuan, and Empress Xia Mingyue tested his strength before presenting him with three treasures. Lu Xuan accepted all three and was appointed to choose the top hundred candidates for the Spirit Ruins Land expedition.

• Star Moon Princess thanked Lu Xuan for rescuing her and then took her leave from Xuan Yi Hall.
• Empress Xia Mingyue and Lu Xuan clashed with their powers of Heaven and Earth Laws, alarming the Three Imperial Ancestors, including Xia Wushi.
• The Three Imperial Ancestors discussed their plan to claim the origin of Spirit Ruins Land and pursue the Earthly Venerable Realm.
• Lu Xuan judged Xia Mingyue and the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family to be formidable, then watched her end their test of strength.
• Empress Xia Mingyue offered Lu Xuan two Grotto Heaven Spiritual Objects and the Eight-Pattern Moon-Rank Spirit Suppression Pendant, and Lu Xuan asked for and received all three.
• Empress Xia Mingyue ordered Lu Xuan to preside over the next day's Martial Arts Grand Competition and select the top hundred candidates for Spirit Ruins Land; Lu Xuan accepted and departed.

The Martial Arts Grand Competition gathered the Great Xia Dynasty’s major factions and officials to compete for places in the Spirit Ruins Land. After Left Prime Minister Chang Mingsheng and Right Prime Minister Bi Zhengzhi arrived as deputy examiners, an Imperial Decree named Blackbird Guard Vice Director Lu Xuan chief examiner, and he appeared and opened the competition.

• Sect leaders and elders discussed the competition’s sudden changes and the valuable places in the Spirit Ruins Land.
• Left Prime Minister Chang Mingsheng and Right Prime Minister Bi Zhengzhi arrived and announced that they had been ordered to serve as deputy examiners.
• Leng Yuanjun read the Imperial Decree appointing Lu Xuan chief examiner and granting him authority as though the Emperor were present.
• Lu Xuan suddenly appeared in the chief examiner’s seat with the Imperial Decree in hand.
• Lu Xuan announced that the Martial Arts Grand Competition had begun.

Lu Xuan presided over the Martial Arts Grand Competition until it concluded, while a gathering of powerful families and sects plotted to seize the secret behind his strength. They decided to target Lu Xuan’s family in Azure Cloud County and send eight Sun Spirit Envoys there to capture his relatives.

• Lu Xuan introduced the competition, whose top hundred contestants would enter the Spirit Ruins Land, and the matches proceeded under his supervision.
• Lu Xuan noticed the competition was unusually orderly and attributed the calm to the presence of Left Prime Minister Chang Mingsheng and Right Prime Minister Bi Zhengzhi.
• The Martial Arts Grand Competition ended, and Lu Xuan announced that the top three would enter the palace the next day to meet Your Majesty.
• In a dreamlike spirit realm, ancestors from several of the Eight Great Families and leaders of three transcendent powers discussed Lu Xuan’s origins and resolved to lure him away from the Imperial Capital by threatening his family.
• The conspirators ordered eight Sun Spirit Envoys to capture Lu Xuan’s blood relatives in Azure Cloud County before he discovered their plan.

Liu Bifu tried to exploit the Shen Family’s absence and target Lu Qingqing, but Li Daren killed him after uncovering his plot. Meanwhile, eight Sun Spirit Envoys searched for Lu Xuan’s relatives and followed Lu Jiahe’s trail to Yunteng Valley, where Lu Xuan was waiting to confront them.

• Two men learned that Shen Yunwei and the Shen Family had left Dengfeng County, then reported the news to Liu Bifu.
• Liu Bifu ordered more surveillance of the Shen Family and further investigation into Lu Qingqing as he planned to use her to force the family into submission.
• Li Daren and the Blackbird Guard confronted Liu Bifu, learned he wanted the Shen Family’s wealth, and Li Daren killed him.
• Eight Sun Spirit Envoys raided the Lu Family Residence but found Lu Xuan’s relatives gone and learned that Lu Jiahe had gone to Yunteng Valley.
• The Sun Spirit Envoys found Lu Xuan waiting on a stone platform, and he declared that he would settle their old score and keep them there.

Lu Xuan revealed that he had become a Void Glimpse True Lord and annihilated Tang Yun and six other Sun Spirit Envoys, preventing their resurrection. Mo Wendao’s betrayal became clear, and he bowed to Lu Xuan, whose breakthrough could elevate the Lu Family to the ranks of the great families.

• Tang Yun accused Mo Wendao of leaking the Sun Spirit Envoys’ plans to Lu Xuan, while Mo Wendao denied betraying them.
• Tang Yun fled, and six other Sun Spirit Envoys scattered, but Lu Xuan’s aura trapped them beneath his Void Glimpse True Lord Dharma Image.
• Lu Xuan burned Tang Yun and the six envoys to nothing with black-gold flames, then destroyed the ritual artifact’s power as it tried to retrieve their souls.
• Lu Xuan collected the envoys’ ritual artifacts and four cloth bags, then stored them in the Ephemeral Floating Realm.
• Mo Wendao arrived, revealed himself as a double-dealer, and bowed to Lu Xuan after discovering he had become a Void Glimpse True Lord.

After killing the Sun Spirit Envoys, Lu Xuan sent Mo Wendao away and headed to the Western Regions to confront the Netherworld Python. In WanSheng Prefecture, Zi Yao and Lü Ze searched for the Python and learned that Lu Xuan had arrived.

• Lu Xuan revealed that he had hidden his relatives and friends in a protected world before the coming danger of the Spirit Ruins Land.
• Lu Xuan warned Mo Wendao that he saw through the Mo Family's interest in his secrets, then accepted the family's assistance and let Mo Wendao leave.
• Lu Xuan stored the Sun Spirit Envoys' ritual artifacts and pouches and set off for the Western Regions to settle old debts with the Netherworld Python.
• Seven powerful figures discovered that their Sun Spirit Envoys had been killed and suspected Mo Chen and the Mo Family of betraying them.
• Lü Ze used the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Mirror to locate the Netherworld Python in WanSheng Prefecture, while Zi Yao realized Lu Xuan had arrived and went to meet him.

Lu Xuan, Zi Yao, and Lü Ze tracked the Netherworld Python to a road near Linquan County, where it had disguised itself as an old man. The Python revealed its true form after swallowing a group of men, just as Lu Xuan and the others arrived.

• Lu Xuan met Zi Yao and Lü Ze after completing the ninth level of the Heaven Burning Blade Art, though he remained short of the Grotto Heaven Realm.
• Lü Ze reported that the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Mirror had detected the Netherworld Python's Demon Soul, and Lu Xuan led the group toward its location.
• The Netherworld Python revealed that it had deliberately leaked its aura to lure the Blackbird Guard away while preparing to escape the Great Xia Dynasty.
• A fleeing man grabbed the disguised Python's staff and begged for help as five riders chased him, and the riders mocked and whipped the old man.
• The whip failed to hurt the Python, which transformed and swallowed the riders, their horses, and chunks of earth.
• Lu Xuan, Zi Yao, and Lü Ze descended before the Python, which recognized Lu Xuan and Zi Yao.

Lu Xuan pursued the Netherworld Python to Aurora Prefecture and attacked its true body before it could cross the Great Xia Dynasty’s Heaven and Earth Seal. The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor intervened from beyond the seal, forcing Lu Xuan to retreat after a direct brush with an Earthly Venerable Realm Lord’s power.

• Lu Xuan revealed that his apparent self was a Heaven and Earth Dharma Image, while the real Lu Xuan and Zi Yao headed for Aurora Prefecture to intercept the Netherworld Python.
• Lü Ze used the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Mirror to locate the Netherworld Python’s true body near the Black Aurora Firmament, where it planned to cross the seal into the sea.
• Lu Xuan ambushed the Netherworld Python with purple flames and World-Destroying Fire, then overwhelmed its water-law attacks and set its body ablaze with Heaven Incineration.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor projected two violet eyes through the Black Aurora Firmament and attacked Lu Xuan as the Netherworld Python called for help.
• Lu Xuan escaped the attack through the void, emerged injured a thousand li away, and merged into heaven and earth again.

The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor rescued Long You and took the Spirit Ruins Land’s origin power, then learned that Lu Xuan had advanced from Divine Mansion Realm to Void Realm in half a year. It promoted Long You to its Fifth Demon Lord and set its attention on Lu Xuan, who recovered from his injuries in a cave.

• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor used Golden Feather Sacred Flame to extinguish the flames burning Long You and restore its body.
• Long You gave the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor the Spirit Ruins Land’s origin power, which it absorbed into its Azure Wood Divine Staff.
• Long You told the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor that Lu Xuan had reached Void Realm after being at Divine Mansion Realm just half a year earlier.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor named Long You its Fifth Demon Lord and gave it a violet-gold flame mark before they departed.
• Lu Xuan sat in a cave, recovered from his wound, and considered the power of the Earthly Venerable Realm demon beast.

The Spirit Ruins Land emerged, and Empress Xia Mingyue gathered the realm’s young prodigies and powerful leaders to open its gate. Lu Xuan arrived after recovering from his injuries, then watched the others enter while reconnecting with Li Yanran.

• Empress Xia Mingyue and the leaders of the Great Xia Dynasty, Eight Great Families, and five transcendent factions gathered at the Returning Ruins Forbidden Ground as the Spirit Ruins Gate opened.
• Empress Xia Mingyue announced that only those under thirty could enter the Spirit Ruins Land, and everyone waited for Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan arrived after recovering from an encounter with a Demon Emperor, and the young prodigies recognized him as their chief examiner and a Void Glimpse True Lord.
• Empress Xia Mingyue granted permission to enter, and the young martial artists rushed through the gate while Lu Xuan remained behind.
• Lu Xuan spotted Li Yanran, greeted her through a voice transmission, and she was delighted that he remembered her.

Lu Xuan entered the Spirit Ruins Land, followed its spatial power to a crimson desert, and found a bronze hall packed with demonic enemies. After annihilating them and confirming they granted System Points, he encountered a powerful ancient blade hovering above an altar.

• Lu Xuan entered the Spirit Ruins Land, discovered that its spatial power scattered entrants into separate trials, and allowed it to transport him to a crimson desert.
• Lu Xuan walked into a Bronze Ancient Hall, where he found Demon Qi surrounding the statues and a hidden watcher observing him.
• A bronze demon beast and an army of bronze statues attacked Lu Xuan, but he froze them with spatial power and erased them.
• Lu Xuan checked his System Panel and confirmed that killing the hall’s strange creatures had earned him twenty thousand System Points.
• A Bronze Altar rose from the floor with a powerful Dark Green Ancient Blade above it, and Lu Xuan approached cautiously and searched the area with his Divine Sense.

Lu Xuan detected a mysterious World Will attached to the Nine Pupils Demon Fire Blade and was teleported from the collapsing Bronze Ancient Hall into a sinister forest. At the gates of Sentient Beings Temple, he saw Li Yanran, his family, and his mother, and erupted in fury.

• Lu Xuan discovered that the Nine Pupils Demon Fire Blade was an Eight-Pattern Moon-Rank Artifact, then saw a System warning about an unknown World Will and put the blade away.
• Lu Xuan searched the Bronze Ancient Hall with his Divine Sense, then allowed a white halo to teleport him away as the hall collapsed.
• An old man in white revealed that he had waited 139,900 years and planned to seize Lu Xuan's body to pursue immortality.
• Lu Xuan arrived in a Yin Energy-filled forest and resisted the evil Buddha's attempt to bewitch him before approaching Sentient Beings Temple.
• The temple gates opened, and Lu Xuan recognized Li Yanran, his father Lu Jiahe, his sister Lu Qingqing, and his mother among the figures in the shadows.

Lu Xuan broke through to Greater Mastery of the Void Glimpse True Lord realm after unleashing his anger, then destroyed the false Buddhist temple and exposed the horrors beneath it. A Void Realm aberration emerged as a towering black Buddha, and Lu Xuan eagerly prepared to face it.

• Lu Xuan's anger caused his purple vortex to form a Grotto Heaven Small World, advancing him to Greater Mastery of the Void Glimpse True Lord realm.
• Lu Xuan reached the pagoda summit, entered an illusion of a Buddhist temple, and slapped the abbot elder monk through seven pagodas.
• The abbot elder monk showed Lu Xuan an apparent Pure Land, but Lu Xuan's black-gold flame exposed the monstrous forms of the commoners and temple.
• Lu Xuan used manifested laws to unleash a black-gold flame vortex that devoured the Ghostly Things and revealed a Buddha made from countless corpses.
• A black shadow extinguished Lu Xuan's flames and rose from underground as a hundred-zhang black Buddha, which Lu Xuan recognized as a Void Realm aberration.

Lu Xuan destroyed the Black Buddha phantom with his Heaven Burning Blade Art, then discovered that a disguised elder had been manipulating events. After stealing the Heaven-Grade Purification Leaf, Lu Xuan escaped the elder’s law-bound bamboo prison with a Dharma Manifestation avatar, leaving the true Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul enraged.

• Lu Xuan manifested his Heaven and Earth Dharma Image and used the Heaven Burning Blade Art to destroy the Black Buddha phantom, its temple, and the surrounding forest.
• An old monk appeared and thanked Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan challenged him for hiding and failing to defeat the monsters himself.
• The old monk transported Lu Xuan to a bamboo world, revealed himself as a golden Buddha-faced elder, and presented the Heaven-Grade Purification Leaf as a reward.
• Lu Xuan collected the Purification Leaf into the Ephemeral Floating Realm, tossed the realm through a spatial rift, and mocked the elder before trying to leave.
• The elder revealed himself as the Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul and trapped the bamboo world in chains of worldly law, but Lu Xuan’s Dharma Manifestation avatar shattered and ignited the grove.
• Lu Xuan’s true body appeared thousands of miles away and snuffed out the light guiding him to the secret realm.