Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan reached the Imperial Capital and discovered that outsiders had carved up Great Xia after its Heaven and Earth Seal was lifted, while Extraterrestrial Demons increasingly afflicted martial artists. In the imperial palace’s underground forbidden grounds, Lu Xuan freed Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing from their chains, prompting the Imperial Ancestors to rush toward the disturbance.

• Lu Xuan sensed Central Province’s greatly increased spiritual qi and concluded that martial artists from other worlds had arrived in Great Xia.
• Xia Wushi and the other Imperial Ancestors agreed to yield the Heaven Stone Mansion to the Singing Immortal Sect and wait for Empress Xia Mingyue to emerge from seclusion.
• A disturbance in the Imperial Capital’s eastern district drew Old Ancestor Shangguan away, while the elders discussed how Extraterrestrial Demons invaded martial artists during breakthroughs.
• The Imperial Ancestors heard Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing howl from the palace’s forbidden grounds and realized an outside force had weakened their seal.
• Lu Xuan appeared in the underground palace and shattered the black chains binding Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing with a touch.

Lu Xuan confronted the Three Imperial Ancestors after Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing’s seal broke, then used his Inner World to expel and destroy the Extraterrestrial Demons controlling them. He restored the two men and discovered that the demons might lead him to a source of System Points.

• Xia Wushi and the other Imperial Ancestors found the Heaven and Earth Seal shattered and confronted Lu Xuan as Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing emerged fully demonized.
• Lu Xuan froze the Underground Palace, shattered the ancestors’ Void Realm manifestations, and forced them to recognize him as Lord True Immortal Lu.
• Inside his Inner World, Lu Xuan suppressed the Extraterrestrial Demons, removed them from Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing, and restored the two men’s bodies and spirits.
• The demons tried to ensnare Lu Xuan with illusions, but he broke their Bewitchment Tome, sensed their connection to Eerie Entities, and killed them for 100,000 System Points.
• Lu Xuan returned to the Underground Palace, and Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing apologized for their actions before he reassured them.

Empress Xia Mingyue reunited with Lu Xuan and revealed that the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, a Heaven Origin Immortal Artifact, had helped her refine the Spirit Ruins and reach the Earthly Venerable Realm. She offered the cauldron to Lu Xuan and began to state the favor she wanted in return.

• Xia Wushi and the other two left the Underground Palace, and Lu Xuan sent Liang Cheng and Lu Yun Qing out before Xia Mingyue arrived.
• Xia Mingyue appeared with a Creation Spirit, and Lu Xuan recognized that she had refined the Spirit Ruins and opened an inner world.
• Xia Mingyue summoned the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron and explained that it was a Heaven Origin Immortal Artifact she had used to refine the Spirit Ruins.
• Lu Xuan struggled to suppress his desire for the cauldron and questioned why Xia Mingyue had shown such a precious treasure to him.
• Xia Mingyue shrank the cauldron and offered it to Lu Xuan, saying it had been prepared for him, then began asking him for help.

Xia Mingyue offered Lu Xuan the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, explaining that the Great Xia Dynasty could no longer protect it from the forces converging on the Imperial Capital. As powerful human and demon factions gathered to seize the artifact and clashed above the city, Lu Xuan appeared with the cauldron and addressed them.

• Xia Mingyue first presented the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron as a supposed betrothal gift, then revealed that she wanted Lu Xuan to take it because the Great Xia Dynasty could not defend it.
• Lu Xuan agreed to help Xia Mingyue, and the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron appeared above the imperial palace, drawing hundreds of powerful cultivators toward it.
• The Purple Firmament Old Ancestor arrived and drove many cultivators away with his overwhelming pressure, while the Azure Darkness Old Ghost challenged him with a sword strike.
• The Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and leaders of the Sky Void Sect, Heaven Illusion Pavilion, and Flame Heaven Valley gathered to claim the cauldron, escalating the standoff into a clash of factions.
• Lu Xuan appeared above the imperial palace with the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, and the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor recognized him with anger.

Lu Xuan trapped the gathered Earthly Venerable experts in his Inner World, where Qing Ming Zi confronted Jingxin of the Pure Extreme Holy Sect. Lu Xuan then split Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s flame world with the Heaven Burning Blade Art and began turning the Demon Ancestor to ash, leaving the others to question whether he was a Mortal World Immortal.

• Lu Xuan drew the experts into his Inner World and revealed that Jingxin was hiding nearby, bringing their number to eleven.
• Qing Ming Zi trapped Jingxin in his Azure Lotus Sword World and fought him over the Pure Extreme Holy Sect’s massacre of his kin.
• Jingxin unleashed extraterrestrial power, and Qing Ming Zi attacked him with the full force of his sword world.
• Feather Emperor Old Ancestor and four other Demon Ancestors attacked Lu Xuan, while Yan Gu, Purple Firmament Old Ancestor, Ming Xuzi, and Qing Yan Shuang intercepted them.
• Lu Xuan used the Heaven Burning Blade Art to split Feather Emperor Old Ancestor’s sacred flame world and destroy its demon body, prompting it to recognize him as a Mortal World Immortal.

Lu Xuan killed the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor, drawing the Three Great Demon Saints and Five Great Immortal Venerables into a clash over the old boundary between the races. After the Immortal Venerables forced the Demon Saints to retreat, Lu Xuan spared five subdued Earthly Venerables and warned them that the continent belonged to the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family.

• Lu Xuan's killing of the Feather Emperor Old Ancestor stunned the combatants and awakened the Three Great Demon Saints, while Yan Gu recognized Lu Xuan's power as the Power of Dao.
• Lu Xuan attacked the four remaining Demon Ancestors with black-gold flames, but the Three Great Demon Saints intervened and rescued them.
• The Five Great Immortal Venerables confronted the Demon Saints, struck Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, and warned that another breach of the boundary would mean war; the Demon Saints withdrew after threatening the Human Race.
• Jing Xin Old Ghost escaped during the chaos, while Purple Firmament Old Ancestor, Yan Gu, Qing Yan Shuang, Qing Ming Zi, and Ming Xuzi remained under Lu Xuan's control.
• Lu Xuan asked whether the five still wanted the Mysterious Black Bird Cauldron, then released them and declared that the continent belonged solely to the Great Xia Dynasty Royal Family.

Lu Xuan met the Five Great Immortal Venerables, who mistook him for a Mortal World Immortal and explained the path to becoming a Heavenly Origin Dao Immortal. After learning how powerful the Demon Race’s hidden forces were, Lu Xuan restrained his urge to attack Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and turned his attention to the immortal artifacts he had obtained.

• Lu Xuan arrived at the Asking Immortal Holy Domain, where the Five Great Immortal Venerables presented him with the Myriad Life Tribulation Pearl.
• The Five Great Immortal Venerables asked how Lu Xuan had transcended the mortal world, but Lu Xuan said he had never claimed to be a Mortal World Immortal.
• Lu Xuan admitted he did not know what a Mortal World Immortal was, so the leading Immortal Venerable explained the reincarnations required to reach the Heavenly Origin Dao Immortal realm and ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Lu Xuan reviewed his peak Earthly Venerable Realm Lord status and his 32.6 million System Points, while considering attacking Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain for more points.
• After learning that the Demon Saints matched the Five Great Immortal Venerables and that both sides had terrifying hidden foundations, Lu Xuan suppressed his urge to attack and commanded the System to extract the immortal artifacts.

Lu Xuan advanced to the Mortal World Immortal realm and learned that the Heavenly Martial Realm’s World Will would eventually force him to leave. He returned to Azure Cloud County to spend Lu Jiahe’s final year with him, then departed to temper his divine soul in an illusory cycle of mortal life.

• Lu Xuan spent System Points to derive his cultivation techniques, broke through to the Mortal World Immortal realm, and remolded his body into a Glass Immortal Body.
• Lu Xuan sensed the Heavenly Martial Realm’s World Will rejecting him and realized that Mortal World Immortals would ultimately be expelled from the world after reaching the required cultivation.
• Lu Xuan saw Lu Jiahe near death at the Lu Family Residence and rushed to Azure Cloud County as Lu Jiahe entrusted the family’s future to Lu Yunqing and Lu Yun'an.
• Xia Xingyue arrived with Great Xia Dynasty officials to pay her respects, and Lu Xuan returned to the Lu Estate to see his father.
• Lu Jiahe told Lu Xuan he understood the cost of extending his life and refused further intervention, and Lu Xuan stayed with him for his final year.
• Lu Xuan left the Lu Family under protective restrictions and entered an illusory cycle of mortal life to temper his divine soul.

Lu Xuan began his first mortal-world life as the powerful but famously righteous Grand Marshal of All Troops, and discovered that his System Panel had followed him into reincarnation. When his son Lu Jinyun begged him to investigate the charge against grandson Lu Hao Wu, Lu Xuan gave him the Grand Marshal's Gilt Token and ordered him to seek the truth.

• Lu Xuan sealed himself in a forbidden island abyss and sent his Divine Soul into mortal-world reincarnation, reflecting on the powerful Mortal World Immortal Xia Wuji.
• Lu Xuan awoke in the body of an eighty-year-old Supreme Grandmaster and found that his System Panel remained with him.
• Lu Xuan learned that his new identity was the Great Qian Dynasty's revered Grand Marshal, Pillar State Duke, and Grand Tutor, whose ruthless impartiality had earned him fear throughout his household and court.
• Lu Jinyun knelt for two days, pleading with Lu Xuan to investigate the accusation that Lu Hao Wu had molested the Prime Minister's daughter and insisting that his son had been framed.
• Lu Xuan lifted Lu Jinyun to his feet and handed him the Grand Marshal's Gilt Token, ordering him to investigate the alleged injustice.

Lu Xuan faked qi deviation to explain his sudden change in temperament, then discovered the Lu Family Treasury had been emptied and found a mysterious rusty horseshoe that triggered his System. Meanwhile, Lu Jinyun and Li Ming rescued Lu Hao Wu from the Heaven Prison and took him back to the Lu residence.

• Lu Xuan pretended his qi had gone astray, ordered Lu Jinyun and Li Ming to investigate, and vanished from the courtyard.
• Lu Xuan found the family treasury nearly empty because its treasures had been sold or donated, then opened a forbidden box and took a rusty horseshoe that activated his System's spiritual-qi extraction prompt.
• In the Heaven Prison, Chen Yuhong, Liu Sheng, and Zhang Li taunted and tortured Lu Hao Wu while threatening the Lu Family.
• Lu Jinyun and Li Ming led the Tiger's Roar Guard into the prison, and Li Ming broke the three young men's legs as Lu Jinyun found Lu Hao Wu badly wounded.
• Lu Jinyun ordered the guards to take Lu Hao Wu back to the residence, while Li Ming promised to explain the rescue to Lu Xuan.

Lu Xuan completed his deduction of the Tiger Splitting Blade Art, reached the Supreme Grandmaster Xiao Cheng stage, and accepted Li Ming’s unauthorized rescue of Lu Hao Wu. After learning Hao Wu’s injuries had ruined his martial arts prospects, Lu Xuan healed him with his aura essence, and a golden pillar of light burst from Hao Wu’s dantian.

• Lu Xuan spent 99 System Points to deduce the Tiger Splitting Blade Art to its ninth level and advanced to Supreme Grandmaster Xiao Cheng.
• Lu Xuan emerged from the secret chamber, startling Li Ming with his overwhelming aura.
• Li Ming confessed that he had mobilized ten thousand Tiger's Roar Guards, stormed Heaven Prison, and crippled the sons of Chen Yuhong, Liu Sheng, and Warden Zhang; Lu Xuan approved and told him to get up.
• Lu Xuan entered the inner courtyard, where his family and imperial physicians told him that Lu Hao Wu’s injuries had damaged his meridians and qi sea, leaving him unable to practice martial arts.
• Lu Jinyun admitted that he had mobilized the Tiger's Roar Guard to rescue Hao Wu, and Lu Xuan raised him from his kowtow and said he had his own arrangements.
• Lu Xuan poured his aura essence into Hao Wu, healed his injuries, and restored his meridians as a golden pillar of light erupted from the youth’s dantian.

Emperor Qian Xi and Zhao Xian plotted to use Lu Jinyun’s assault on Heaven Prison to weaken the Lu Family and eliminate its descendants. At the Lu Estate, Lu Xuan learned of Lu Hao Wu’s recovery and breakthrough, then ordered the witnesses, evidence, and Zhao Ning Xue silenced.

• Emperor Qian Xi raged over the Tiger's Roar Guards breaking into Heaven Prison and asked Zhao Xian how to respond.
• Zhao Xian urged the emperor to use Lu Jinyun’s actions to pressure Lu Xuan, seize military authority, and secretly target the Lu Family bloodline.
• Emperor Qian Xi approved Zhao Xian’s plan and ordered Lu Xuan to explain himself at the next morning court.
• Lu Jinyun told Lu Xuan and the other Lu brothers that Lu Hao Wu had recovered and reached the peak of the Inner Qi Realm, and said Zhao Xian had framed him.
• Lu Jinyun and his brothers feared Lu Xuan would punish Lu Hao Wu as he had once punished their kin, but Lu Xuan ordered them to make the witnesses, evidence, and Zhao Ning Xue disappear.

Lu Xuan attended morning court after his family broke Lu Hao Wu out of Heaven Prison, where their men injured the sons of several officials. When Emperor Qian Xi asked whether he had ordered the raid, Lu Xuan admitted that he had.

• Emperor Qian Xi blamed Cao Quan for Lu Xuan's absence, and Cao Quan accepted punishment rather than reveal that he had delivered the decree.
• Lu Xuan arrived with Lu Jinhua, Lu Jinwu, and Lu Jinchang, then took his seat opposite the emperor's throne.
• Zhou Zhen accused the Tiger Guard Army of entering Qianning City and going to Heaven Prison, while Zhang Zhaoran, Liu Fu, and Chen Jiequan described their sons' injuries.
• Emperor Qian Xi defended the Tiger Guard Army and challenged the ministers' claims, but Zhao Xian vouched for the accusations.
• Emperor Qian Xi asked Lu Xuan whether he had anything to say, and Lu Xuan admitted that he had ordered the raid.

Lu Xuan openly admitted to breaking into Heaven Prison and demanded rare treasures from the Imperial Palace Treasury to heal Lu Hao Wu, exposing the court’s helplessness before his power. As officials tried to retrieve evidence, an unseen attacker killed the case witnesses and Zhao Ning Xue, and Lu Xuan left the palace with his sights set on its treasury.

• Lu Xuan stunned the court by admitting he had broken into Heaven Prison, then told Emperor Qian Xi that Lu Hao Wu had been framed and demanded Thousand-Year Blood Ginseng and Nine-Leaf Lingzhi from the Imperial Palace Treasury.
• Zhang Zhaoran challenged Lu Xuan’s claim, so Zhao Xian ordered Sun Lingyuan and Zhang Zhaoran to retrieve his daughter, the witnesses, and the case testimony.
• A hunched figure entered the Ministry of Justice archive, killed an official, and demanded every piece of evidence in Lu Hao Wu’s case.
• A group of killers murdered the bribed witnesses in Qianning City, while the hunched figure killed Zhao Ning Xue at the Zhao Residence.
• Sun Lingyuan and Zhang Zhaoran returned empty-handed, and Lu Xuan left Imperial Pinnacle Hall, planning to search the Imperial Palace Treasury for legendary treasures.

Emperor Qian Xi agreed to surrender territory and grant privileges to Treasure Appearance Temple and Clear Yang Sect in exchange for their Supreme Grandmasters helping him kill Lu Xuan. While Lu Xuan cultivated in seclusion, Lu Jinyun led the family in gathering treasures, then marched a hundred thousand troops toward Treasure Appearance Temple after its monks stole their goods; Illusory Extinction and Void Yang arrived at court and planned to use the Lu brothers as bait for Lu Xuan.

• After learning that Zhao Ningxue had died, Emperor Qian Xi accepted Zhao Xian's conditions and offered Eastern Sun County and Western Mountain County to the two sects, along with the right to collect taxes and recruit soldiers, to secure their help against Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan gave Lu Jinyun the Grand Marshal of All Troops' Command Token, ordered him to lead the Lu Family and gather rare weapons, artifacts, and nourishing treasures, then entered seclusion to absorb spiritual energy and cultivate.
• A month later, Lu Jinyun and his brothers learned that Treasure Appearance Temple had stolen three cartloads of their strange stones; Lu Jinyun ordered a hundred thousand Tiger Guard Army troops to march on the temple and sent Lu Jinchang to seek Lu Xuan's instructions.
• Chen Jiequan accused the Lu Family of rebellion as Zhao Xian worried about the family's growing power, while Emperor Qian Xi demanded to know when the two sect leaders would arrive.
• Illusory Extinction and Void Yang arrived at the palace and told Emperor Qian Xi they would capture Lu Jinyun and his brothers as bait to lure Lu Xuan into a trap.

Lu Xuan emerged from seclusion as a Land Immortal and flew with Lu Jinchang toward the conflict at Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain. There, an imperial decree empowered Treasure Appearance Temple and Clear Yang Temple, and Master Illusory Extinction moved to detain Lu Jinyun and his brothers as they withdrew.

• Lu Xuan consumed the Lu Family's treasures, reached the Land Immortal realm, and tested the powers of his nine tiger phantoms.
• Lu Jinchang told Lu Xuan that Treasure Appearance Temple had seized three carts of the Lu Family's exotic stones, and Lu Xuan flew with him toward Eastern Sun County.
• Lu Jinyun threatened Treasure Appearance Temple with an army of a million unless it returned the stones, unsettling the temple's monks.
• An imperial decree named Master Illusory Extinction and Void Yang True Person Great Dharma Protectors of the Nation, forcing Lu Jinyun and his brothers to withdraw their army.
• Master Illusory Extinction blocked Lu Jinyun, Lu Jinhua, and Lu Jinwu as they tried to leave, and the brothers prepared to fight.

Lu Xuan arrived at Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain after Illusory Extinction and Xu Feng wounded his sons and turned the Tiger Guard Army against them. He revealed Land Immortal power, killed Illusory Extinction and Void Yang, healed his sons, and ordered them to proceed with the plan and gather the entire world if Great Qian was not enough.

• Illusory Extinction defeated Lu Jinyun, Lu Jinhua, and Lu Jinwu, while Xu Feng used an imperial decree to arrest Zhao Meng and incite the Tiger Guard Army to retreat.
• Lu Jinchang arrived and found his three elder brothers injured as the army recognized Lu Xuan, who had come to Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain.
• Illusory Extinction summoned Void Yang True Person, and the two Supreme Grandmasters unleashed their full attacks on Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan shattered their attacks and killed Illusory Extinction and Void Yang with nine phantom tiger claws, revealing power beyond that of a Supreme Grandmaster.
• Lu Xuan healed Lu Jinyun and the others, ordered them to continue the original plan with Li Ming's help, and said they should gather the entire world if Great Qian was not enough.

After destroying Treasure Appearance Temple and Clear Yang Temple, Lu Xuan ordered his sons to seize Qianning City and the imperial palace while keeping Emperor Qian Xi alive as a tool for the Lu Family’s ambitions. The Lu Family overran the palace, and Lu Jinyun confronted the emperor under the pretense of treating his supposed delusions.

• Lu Jinyun and his brothers presented the treasures seized from the two sects to Lu Xuan, who ordered them to silence other voices in Qianning City and deal with the imperial palace.
• Lu Xuan demonstrated the power of his saber restriction, then explained that he planned to keep Emperor Qian Xi alive and use Great Qian’s strength to pursue his goal of conquering the world.
• Lu Xuan extracted the energy from the Nine Ringed Staff and the Celestial Master's Dust Whisk, gaining 500,000 System Points.
• Lu Jinyun and his family seized Qianning City and fought their way through the imperial palace, where Li Ming killed Sun Lingyuan and Lu Jinyun killed Yuan Lichen and the three thousand elite guards.
• Lu Jinyun entered the Imperial Dragon Hall and told Emperor Qian Xi that he had come to protect him, then ordered his commanders to give the emperor a strange green medicine.

Lu Jinyun and the Lu Family seized control of Great Qian’s court and planned to use Emperor Qian Xi’s authority to expand their power. When General Wei Feng and his men from the Ten Thousand Beginnings Dynasty demanded the northern six counties, Lu Jinyun attacked them and ordered a survivor taken for interrogation.

• Emperor Qian Xi issued a decree appointing Grand Tutor Lu to govern alongside the Crown Prince, and Zhang Changwang, Wang Suk, and Li Gong protested.
• Lu Jinchang killed Li Gong, while Lu Jinyun arrived, presented the Tiger Tally, and took charge of Great Qian’s court affairs as the officials submitted.
• Lu Jinyun and his brothers discussed using the emperor’s decrees to requisition supplies and soldiers, then identified Ten Thousand Beginnings, Supreme Imperial, and Extreme Scenery as targets for expansion.
• Wei Feng and five armored men entered the palace to demand the transfer documents for the northern six counties, but Lu Jinyun’s commanders surrounded them.
• Lu Jinyun summoned a Golden Giant Tiger that struck down one of Wei Feng’s men, then ordered the survivor taken away for torture and questioning.

Great Qian annexed the Ten Thousand Beginnings Dynasty in two months, and Lu Jinyun’s Golden Saber drew the four neighboring dynasties into a plot to kill him. Their emperors and forty Supreme Grandmasters attacked the Lu Estate, where Lu Xuan revealed that he had prepared for their arrival and declared that the mortal world was nearing its end.

• Great Qian’s army defeated the Ten Thousand Beginnings Dynasty, and Lu Jinyun killed its emperor with the Golden Saber before the dynasty surrendered.
• The four dynasties’ Imperial Tutors concluded that Lu Jinyun’s Divine Weapon threatened them and agreed to gather forces against him.
• Lu Family’s prestige rose across Great Qian as the people celebrated Lu Jinyun’s swift conquest of Ten Thousand Beginnings.
• The emperors of Azure Heaven, Supreme Imperial, Vermilion Fire, and Extreme Scenery arrived at the Lu Estate with forty Supreme Grandmasters and demanded the Golden Saber.
• Lu Jinyun told Lu Xuan that nearly all their enemies had arrived, and Lu Xuan stepped forward, saying it was time to end everything.