Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan used the Purification Leaf to restore his Heaven and Earth Dharma Image and awaken Creation Power, giving him a way to resist the Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul's world-rule suppression. As the remnant searched the Spirit Ruins Land for him, Lu Xuan concealed himself and spent his newly gained System Points to deduce the Heaven Burning Blade Art.

• Lu Xuan hid beneath a river and assessed the mysterious old man's strength, deciding to avoid him until he could protect himself.
• Lu Xuan extracted the Heaven and Earth Origin from the Nine Pupils Demon Fire Blade and swallowed the Purification Leaf, which restored his Dharma Image and filled his Grotto Heaven Small World with living creatures.
• Lu Xuan gained Creation Power from the Purification Leaf and infused it into his Heaven and Earth Seal to conceal himself from the Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul.
• The Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul searched across the Spirit Ruins Land, while martial artists in the Mass Burial Ground secret realm glimpsed its face and grew uneasy.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Leaf That Saves All Beings had given him 1,500,000 System Points and began deducing the Heaven Burning Blade Art.

The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and the Netherworld Python arrived at the Spirit Ruins Land, where the Feather Emperor overwhelmed the Great Xia forces and drove Empress Xia Mingyue to flee with her allies. He then ordered the surviving spectators to take him after her, while Lu Xuan remained unaware of the invasion as he cultivated in seclusion.

• Luo Lingxu failed to find Lu Xuan or restore his erased will imprints, then sensed an Earthly Venerable aura and fled.
• The Netherworld Python and the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor arrived outside the Spirit Ruins Land and killed the guards with their overwhelming pressure and flames.
• Empress Xia Mingyue and the Three Imperial Ancestors joined the sect leaders and family elders to face the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, who revealed his enormous true form and attacked with chains of world laws.
• Empress Xia Mingyue used the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron to break through the Flame World and escape with the Three Imperial Ancestors and others.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor ordered the surviving cultivators to lead him to Empress Xia Mingyue, while Lu Xuan remained in seclusion, unaware that the Netherworld Python was searching for him.

After six months of seclusion, Lu Xuan reached the Half-Step Earthly Venerable Realm and discovered that his Heaven Burning Blade Art had mutated into a power that could return things to nothingness. Learning that a Demon Emperor had entered the Spirit Ruins Land and the Great Xia Dynasty was in upheaval, he set out to gather treasures and prepare for the Spirit Ruins Lord’s appearance, ending by destroying the Luo Family cultivators in a secret realm.

• Lu Xuan emerged from seclusion with a transformed Grotto Heaven Small World and black-gold flames, reaching the Half-Step Earthly Venerable Realm.
• Lu Xuan received Empress Xia Mingyue’s message that a Demon Emperor had entered the Spirit Ruins Land and that the Spirit Ruins Lord would appear in the Nine Heavens Secret Realm on Looming Sky Island.
• Lu Xuan questioned Prince Xia Xuanyi and Princess Xia Yunshu, learning that the Netherworld Python had returned, a bird-shaped demon beast was hunting the Empress, and rebellion had erupted across the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Lu Xuan entered a hidden secret realm and confronted Luo Family cultivators who were claiming it for themselves.
• Lu Xuan incinerated a Luo Family cultivator’s signaling token and burned every living creature in the secret realm with his black-gold flames.

Lu Xuan absorbed the secret realm’s flames, claimed its five treasures, and escaped Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul using his newly developed spacetime power. Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul struck a deal with Feather Emperor Old Ancestor to target Lu Xuan, who ended the chapter reviewing his rewards and System Points.

• Lu Xuan absorbed the world-destroying flames, completed the Demon Slaying Cave trial, and took the Demon Slaying Sword and four Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.
• Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul trapped the secret realm with chains of world rules, but Lu Xuan escaped using a technique that showed signs of spacetime power.
• Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul summoned Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, then revealed that Empress Xia Mingyue held half the Spirit Ruins Source and the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron.
• Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul offered Feather Emperor Old Ancestor information in exchange for help capturing a human who would appear in the Sky Island Nine Heavens Secret Realm in three months.
• Lu Xuan confirmed that Within Reach, Yet Worlds Away had developed the power of time laws, checked his 21,000 System Points, and examined his secret realm rewards.

The Holy Mother of White Lotus confronted the Luo Family Old Ancestor and Wu Family Old Ancestor in her Spirit Mirror World and forced them to surrender their Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts. After they escaped, she turned her attention to Lu Xuan, who remained unaware that another Earthly Venerable Realm Lord had taken an interest in him.

• The Luo Family Old Ancestor and Wu Family Old Ancestor lamented their families’ losses to Lu Xuan and their enslavement by the Demon Emperor while suppressing a formation node.
• The Holy Mother of White Lotus drew the two ancestors into her Spirit Mirror World and revealed that she had reached the Earthly Venerable Realm.
• She demanded their Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts and their service to the White Lotus Immortal, but the ancestors said the Demon Emperor’s power bound them.
• The Holy Mother of White Lotus tortured the ancestors with world-rule chains until they agreed to offer the artifacts and bring the other eight people to her.
• She promised to leave them power to counter the Demon Emperor’s control, then watched the ancestors flee and considered Lu Xuan’s secrets.

Lu Xuan destroyed the final large secret realm, then secluded himself for a month to deduce two cultivation techniques and break through to the Earthly Venerable Realm Lord. He emerged on the day the Nine Heavens Secret Realm opened, ready to confront the Spirit Ruins Lord and the trap awaiting him.

• Lu Xuan annihilated everyone in a secret realm, collected its treasures and ritual artifacts, and decided to spend a month in seclusion before visiting the Nine Heavens Secret Realm.
• Lu Xuan spent two million System Points to deduce Undying and Unkillable and Within Reach, Yet Worlds Away, transforming the laws of his inner world.
• Lu Xuan’s inner world developed Creation and spacetime powers as he advanced to the Earthly Venerable Realm Lord, also known as an Earthly True Immortal.
• After a month of seclusion, Lu Xuan emerged on the day the Nine Heavens Secret Realm opened and the Spirit Ruins Lord was expected to appear.

Lu Xuan arrived near Looming Sky Island and sensed a massive formation as the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, Xia Mingyue, Xia Ritian, and other powers gathered around the Spirit Ruins Lord’s statue. Xia Ritian revealed that he had faked his death, then prepared to kill his son to gain the power needed to face the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor.

• Lu Xuan reached Looming Sky Island and used his Manifestation of Creation to recognize the immense formation surrounding it.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, Netherworld Python, Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul, Xia Mingyue, and the Great Xia Dynasty’s allies assembled before the statue of the Spirit Ruins Lord.
• The Netherworld Python and the enslaved experts recognized Xia Ritian, who had been presumed dead after surviving the Spirit Ruins Lord’s Heaven Burial Blade Art.
• Xia Ritian explained that he had kept the Netherworld Python alive to obtain the Spirit Ruins Source power it had taken, but the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s arrival had disrupted his plan.
• Xia Ritian told Xia Mingyue that his final scheme required him to reach the tenth level of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Black Bird Art by devouring royal bloodlines, and declared he would have to kill his own son.

Xia Ritian sacrificed his ten sons to seize Earthly Venerable power, but the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor revealed its plan to devour him and unleashed a Flame World. The Holy Mother of White Lotus appeared and challenged the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor over the Great Xia Dynasty and the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, while Lu Xuan watched unseen.

• Xia Ritian used the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal to summon his ten imprisoned sons and sacrificed them, turning their blood into Essence Blood that raised him to the Earthly Venerable Realm Lord.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor let Xia Ritian complete his breakthrough, then summoned a violet-red Flame World that suppressed Xia Ritian and injured Xia Mingyue and the six old ancestors.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor forced the Holy Mother of White Lotus out of hiding, and she revealed her Earthly Venerable power.
• The Holy Mother of White Lotus demanded the Great Xia Dynasty and the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, warning that the Heavenly Martial Realm's old experts could discover the disturbance.
• Lu Xuan watched the standoff from concealment, pleased that he would not need to intervene himself.

The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor attacked Empress Xia Mingyue’s group while the Nine Heavens Secret Realm entrance appeared, and Xia Ritian and Xia Mingyue joined forces to hold him back. As the Holy Mother of White Lotus launched a lethal attack on Xia Mingyue, Lu Xuan intervened, leaving the battle between the three powers unresolved.

• The Spirit Ruins Lord statue opened a glowing white gate, revealing the entrance to the Nine Heavens Secret Realm.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor attacked Empress Xia Mingyue’s group with purple-gold flames, and Xia Ritian countered with the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal.
• As Xia Ritian began to falter, Empress Xia Mingyue drew power from the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron and helped hold back the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor.
• The Holy Mother of White Lotus attacked Xia Mingyue with tens of thousands of White Lotus Phantoms, hoping to eliminate her and claim the Heaven Origin Immortal Artifact.
• Lu Xuan cut apart the White Lotus Phantoms with a Black-Gold Flame Blade, saving Xia Mingyue from the attack.

Lu Xuan arrived at the battlefield and accepted Empress Xia Mingyue’s offer of everything except the Spirit Ruins Source, including the thirteen Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts. As the other powerful fighters engaged one another, Lu Xuan faced Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and struck with a flame attack that warped time and space, leaving the battle poised for a decisive blow.

• Empress Xia Mingyue offered Lu Xuan the spoils of the battle, and Lu Xuan agreed by accepting her terms.
• Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul attacked Lu Xuan for the secret behind his breakthrough, but Supreme Emperor Xia Ritian confronted it with the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal.
• Empress Xia Mingyue attacked Holy Mother of White Lotus as the Flame World began to break apart and the weaker fighters fled through its openings.
• Feather Emperor Old Ancestor faced Lu Xuan in a separate half-realm and demanded the secrets hidden within him.
• Lu Xuan unleashed Heaven Incineration, and Feather Emperor Old Ancestor countered with Golden Feather Sacred Flame.
• Lu Xuan’s flames warped time and space, disrupting Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s power and setting off black-gold Flame Blade arcs from spacetime nodes behind it.

Lu Xuan killed the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s incarnation and seized the Azure Wood Divine Staff, which contained a World Rule Origin. As Looming Sky Island returned to the Spirit Ruins Land and the remaining leaders continued their battle, Lu Xuan turned his attention to claiming the thirteen Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts.

• Lu Xuan’s Heaven Burning Blade Art overwhelmed the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s phoenix form, destroying the Netherflame Dark Saber and scattering the Old Ancestor’s remnant thought.
• Lu Xuan captured the Azure Wood Divine Staff and discovered that it contained a World Rule Origin.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s Flame World domains collapsed, and Looming Sky Island returned to the Spirit Ruins Land in ruins.
• Xia Ritian launched a fierce attack on the Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul while the other fighters reacted to the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s death.
• Lu Xuan ignored the battle between the four powerful figures and summoned a small world as he prepared to seize the thirteen Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts.

Lu Xuan collected three Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts from the Li, Mo, and Shangguan families, then killed the ten enemies who attacked him with the Ten Absolute Sacred Lotus Grand Array. After returning to Looming Sky Island, he found Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul captured and asked Xia Ritian for the remaining artifact.

• The Li Family Old Ancestor, Mo Family Old Ancestor, and Shangguan Family Old Ancestor handed their Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts to Lu Xuan, who sent them and the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family Ancestors out of his small world.
• Ten enemies activated the Ten Absolute Sacred Lotus Grand Array, but Lu Xuan shattered its White Lotus Phantom with World Rule Power and erased all ten formation cores.
• Lu Xuan said that twelve Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts had been gathered and that only one remained, then withdrew his small world.
• Lu Xuan returned to Looming Sky Island, where Xia Ritian and Xia Mingyue had captured Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul after the Holy Mother of White Lotus fled.
• Luo Lingxu Remnant Soul tried to persuade Xia Ritian and Xia Mingyue to seize Lu Xuan, but Xia Mingyue sealed his mouth.
• Lu Xuan told Xia Ritian that it was time for the Ten-Pattern Sun-Rank Ritual Artifact to belong to him.

Lu Xuan obtained the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal from Xia Ritian after Xia Mingyue vouched for him, then left the Spirit Ruins Land. Xia Ritian prepared to help Mingyue pursue a breakthrough to the Earthly Venerable Realm and settle accounts with the dynasty’s enemies, while the Netherworld Python’s Demon Soul threatened Lu Xuan as he emerged.

• Xia Ritian questioned Lu Xuan’s promise and proposed that they swear a Heaven and Earth Oath, but Lu Xuan refused to be bound by one.
• Xia Mingyue stepped between Lu Xuan and the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family, declared that she trusted him, and persuaded Xia Ritian to hand over the Mysterious Black Bird Heavenly Seal.
• Lu Xuan inspected the Heavenly Seal for hidden dangers, accepted it, and vanished from Looming Sky Island.
• Xia Ritian told Mingyue that the Spirit Ruins Source could support her breakthrough to the Earthly Venerable Realm, then called on the Li, Mo, and Shangguan families to help eliminate the dynasty’s traitors.
• Lu Xuan left the Spirit Ruins Land, and the Netherworld Python’s Demon Soul cursed him and vowed that its Demon Ancestor would take revenge.

Lu Xuan returned to the Lu and Shen families, brought them back from their hidden refuge to Azure Cloud County, and announced that the younger generation would undergo a year of rigorous cultivation. He planned to enter seclusion for a hundred years and wanted to prepare his relatives before he left.

• Lu Qingqing told Shen Yunwei and Lu Jiahe that Xiang Rong and Xiang Lin had begun walking, and Lu Xuan arrived to reunite with his family.
• Lu Xuan confirmed that the dangers outside had mostly been settled and used his power to dissolve the families’ hidden refuge, transporting everyone back to the Lu Family Residence in Azure Cloud County.
• Liang Cheng celebrated their return until Lu Xuan ordered him, Yun Qing, and the other juniors to train under him for a year; Liang Cheng begged to be spared and was kicked into a tree.
• Lu Xuan’s family accepted his decision to teach the juniors, as he intended to enter seclusion for a hundred years and leave protection for his relatives.

Lu Xuan entered seclusion after using Creation Power to extend Lu Jiahe’s life by a thousand years, though the act nearly exhausted him and drew the real world’s hostility. The next day, the Great Xia Empress granted Lu Jiahe sweeping titles and authority over the Southern Region, while Lu Xuan prepared to extract power from ritual artifacts in his mountain retreat.

• Lu Xuan told Lu Jiahe he would enter seclusion for a period that might last decades or even a thousand years, then used Creation Power to renew his father’s body and extend his life by a thousand years.
• Lu Xuan warned that extending another person’s life had nearly drained his small world’s Rule Power and that the real world’s rejection might bring a Heavenly Tribulation; he bowed to Lu Jiahe and vanished.
• The next morning, Star Moon Princess and the Left Prime Minister arrived at the Lu Family Residence with an imperial procession, and the Left Prime Minister proclaimed Lu Jiahe Duke Who Pacifies the Nation and King Who Suppresses the South.
• The imperial decree granted Lu Jiahe authority over the Southern Region and bestowed titles, privileges, and rewards on the Lu Family and its relatives.
• Lu Xuan settled into a secluded mountain cave with 500,000 System Points and fourteen Sun-Rank Ritual Artifacts, including an Azure Wood Divine Staff, and chose to extract their power.

Empress Xia Mingyue learned that Lu Jiahe possessed astonishing vitality and realized Lu Xuan had gone into seclusion, while the Star Moon Princess showed signs of recovering and becoming a possible successor. As the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and Emperor Saint Old Ancestor attacked Great Xia's Heaven and Earth Seal, Xia Ritian appeared and ordered Xia Mingyue to summon the Sacred Ancestor.

• The Star Moon Princess told Empress Xia Mingyue that Lu Jiahe's vitality exceeded that of Grotto Heaven Spiritual Objects, and Xia Mingyue inferred that Lu Xuan had gone into seclusion.
• Empress Xia Mingyue praised Xia Xingyue for recovering from the Wen Family betrayal and asked her to help review more memorials, considering her as a potential future ruler.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and Emperor Saint Old Ancestor agreed to cooperate, with the Feather Emperor demanding one human while the Emperor Saint claimed the other spoils.
• The two demon ancestors created a barrier around the sea and attacked Great Xia's Heaven and Earth Seal with their World Rules.
• Empress Xia Mingyue sensed the assault, and Xia Ritian appeared with three ancient-robed figures and ordered her to summon the Sacred Ancestor.
• Xia Mingyue released the royal family's Heaven Origin Immortal Artifact, the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, into the sky.

Xia Wuji’s phantom emerged from the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron and drove off the demon ancestors after they broke the Heaven and Earth Seal. One hundred and fifty years later, Lu Xuan awakened in seclusion and reached Earthly Venerable Greater Mastery.

• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and Emperor Saint Old Ancestor struck the Heaven and Earth Seal, but the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron slowed its collapse and summoned Xia Wuji’s phantom.
• Xia Wuji attacked the demon ancestors, shattered the Emperor Saint Old Ancestor’s tortoise-shell defense, and badly wounded both of them.
• The Emperor Saint Old Ancestor accused the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor of concealing Xia Wuji’s strength, then fled with its followers; the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor also retreated.
• Figures from the Asking Immortal Holy Domain appeared after the demon ancestors left and discussed meeting Xia Wuji’s descendants.
• After one hundred and fifty years in seclusion, Lu Xuan opened his eyes and reached Earthly Venerable Greater Mastery.

After one hundred and fifty years of seclusion, Lu Xuan emerged with power beyond Earthly Venerable Realm Lord Greater Mastery and discovered that the Heaven and Earth Seal had vanished, greatly increasing spiritual qi across the Great Xia Dynasty. He returned to Azure Cloud County, where his half-brother Lu Yun'an recognized him and urgently led him to their father.

• Lu Xuan used his newly overwhelming power to repel the Singing Immortal Sect disciples who had mistaken his cave for a Blessed Grotto-Heaven.
• Lu Xuan discovered that the Heaven and Earth Seal had disappeared and spiritual qi in the Great Xia Dynasty had grown at least tenfold.
• Lu Xuan returned to Azure Cloud County and appeared at the Lu Family Residence after one hundred and fifty years away.
• Lu Yun'an recognized Lu Xuan as his Big Brother, and the Lu Family elders identified him as Uncle Xuan.
• Lu Yun'an welcomed Lu Xuan back and urged him to visit their father, whom Lu Xuan had already sensed nearby.

Lu Xuan returned to the Lu Family after more than a hundred years and reunited with his father, Lu Jiahe, and younger brother, Lu Yun'an. After delighting his great-grandchildren with miraculous gifts, he learned that something had happened to Xiao Cheng and Yun Qing.

• Lu Jiahe played with his six great-grandchildren and told them that Lu Xuan's miraculous hands had restored his black hair.
• Lu Xuan arrived, and Lu Jiahe greeted his son with deep emotion while the children mistook him for a handsome young man.
• Lu Jiahe revealed that Lu Xuan was the Grandpa Xuan the children had been eager to meet, and they rushed to him.
• Lu Xuan used spiritual power to lift the children and conjured candied hawthorns, a dress, a sword, fruit, a puppy, and other wonders for them.
• Lu Yun'an arranged for maids to take the children to the rear garden, and Lu Jiahe told Lu Xuan that something had happened to Xiao Cheng and Yun Qing.

Lu Xuan learned that Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing had gone mad and been imprisoned, so he headed for the Great Xia Imperial Palace after entrusting Lu Yun'an with a sword containing his power. When the Ripple Sea Sect attacked the Lu Family, Lu Yun'an used the sword to destroy its forces, and Lu Xuan's power annihilated the sect's leaders.

• Lu Yun'an told Lu Xuan that Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing had lost control while breaking through and were imprisoned, where they risked perishing within a hundred years.
• Lu Xuan resolved to go to the imperial palace, gave Lu Yun'an a tiny black-gold sword with power for three uses, and left to investigate the crisis.
• The Ripple Sea Sect's leaders ordered Black Sun to attack the Lu Family and kill everyone after learning the family refused to yield Azure Cloud County's spiritual land.
• Black Sun led disciples to the Lu Family Residence, but Lu Yun'an used Lu Xuan's sword to burn them all to ashes.
• A black-gold pillar of fire struck the Ripple Sea Sect's hall and annihilated its four Divine Palace True Person leaders and core members.