Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan grew suspicious of Emperor Zhenwu’s sudden kindness when the emperor gave him Dragon Saliva Incense and ordered him to investigate the massacre in Qianfu Town. Escorted by three Wenjing Imperial Guards and a heavily armed cavalry, Lu Xuan reached Jinming Prefecture, where Governor Wei Yuanlang realized the arriving imperial envoy was the Crown Prince.

• Lu Xuan recalled Emperor Zhenwu’s ruthless rise to power and doubted that he had truly become a gentle old man willing to hand over the throne.
• Emperor Zhenwu gave Lu Xuan Dragon Saliva Incense and ordered him to investigate the disappearance of all 3,725 residents of Qianfu Town.
• Emperor Zhenwu assigned Lu Yi, Lu Er, and Lu San to guard Lu Xuan, then summoned Imperial Uncle Peng to the palace, leaving Lu Xuan without his strongest supporter.
• Lu Xuan departed for Jinming Prefecture in a carriage surrounded by three Imperial Guards and three hundred black-armored cavalrymen.
• Wei Yuanlang and the prefectural officials waited outside the city, and Wei Yuanlang recognized Lu Xuan’s carriage and ordered everyone to kneel before the Crown Prince.

Crown Prince Lu Xuan arrived in Jinming Prefecture to investigate Qianfu Town, where more than three thousand people had vanished and supernatural forces had appeared. Despite Governor Wei Yuanlang’s warnings, Lu Xuan went straight to the town gates, accompanied by three Imperial Guards.

• Lu Xuan arrived at Jinming Prefecture, where Governor Wei Yuanlang welcomed him and the townspeople knelt before the Crown Prince.
• Wei Yuanlang recounted how Qianfu Town’s residents had vanished and how later investigators who entered the town had died, leaving only bone ash.
• Bandits hiding beside the road recognized Lu Xuan’s procession and fled in terror.
• At Qianfu Town, Wei Yuanlang saw eerie red runes on the gate stele, distorted figures in empty buildings, and ghostly green lanterns flare to life.
• Lu Xuan dismissed Wei Yuanlang’s plea to enter in his place and appeared at the town gates, followed by Lu Yi and the other two Imperial Guards.

Lu Xuan destroyed the three imperial guards who tried to threaten him and entered Qianfu Town, where he exposed a group of ghostly children as monsters. As countless Black Shadows emerged from the town’s residences, he prepared to face them.

• Lu Xuan revealed his overwhelming Great Grandmaster power and warned Lu Yi and the other imperial guards not to treat him as someone they could control.
• Lu Yi and the other guards attacked with black sword astral energy, but Lu Xuan’s Golden Dragon Phantoms killed all three.
• Lu Xuan entered Qianfu Town and exposed the children who asked him to kick their grass ball as ghosts, destroying them with dragon phantoms.
• Countless Black Shadows seeped from the doors and windows as the residences along the street shook.

Lu Xuan slaughtered the ghosts haunting Qianfu Town, purified the town, and used the System Points he gained to advance to the Land Immortal realm. He then set his sights on the old emperor, while the other Princes plotted against him after Peng Lie was imprisoned.

• Lu Xuan unleashed hundreds of Golden Dragon Phantoms against Qianfu Town’s ghosts as Wei Yuanlang and the officials watched in terror.
• Lu Xuan found the source of the Yin-Sha Qi in an ancient well and destroyed the old woman’s ghostly face and the Ghost Infants emerging from it.
• Lu Xuan purified the remaining Yin-Sha Qi, restoring clear water and new growth to Qianfu Town, then vanished and left his imperial carriage behind.
• Lu Xuan spent System Points to derive the Nine Dragon Body Protection Scripture and emerged seven days later as a Land Immortal.
• Lu Xuan decided to target the old emperor for his source power, while the other nine Princes discussed how to deal with him after Peng Lie was imprisoned.

The princes learned that the Crown Prince and the Peng Family had vanished into a web of imperial restrictions, while Lu Xuan appeared inside the besieged Eastern Palace and demanded answers from Eunuch Feng. Outside Heaven Prison, the Peng Family pleaded for Peng Lie’s release, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Second Prince Lu Xuhua revealed that Lu Yi and two other powerful Wenjing Imperial Guards had disappeared, and Lu Xuyang reported that the Eastern Palace was sealed and the Crown Prince’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Lu Xuyang told the princes that Peng Tiansheng had been taken away and that Peng Lie was imprisoned, prompting them to suspect the ailing Emperor was behind the upheaval.
• Lu Xuan appeared in the Eastern Palace without passing through its guards, and his presence forced Eunuch Feng and the soldiers to kneel.
• Lu Xuan demanded an explanation from Eunuch Feng, who agreed to tell him everything he knew.
• Hundreds of Peng Family members knelt outside Heaven Prison and pleaded for mercy, while Eldest Young Master Peng stood at their head.

The Ninth Prince Lu Xuyang tried to provoke the Peng Family and General Chen Denglou into defying the imperial decree outside Heaven Prison. Crown Prince Lu Xuan arrived and whipped Lu Xuyang unconscious, then repeatedly revived him to continue the punishment.

• General Chen Denglou asked Old Madam Peng to return home, but she said she sought justice for her imprisoned master, Peng Lie.
• Lu Xuyang accused Chen Denglou and the Peng Family of defying the imperial decree, but they restrained themselves despite his provocations.
• Lu Xuyang threatened the Peng Family’s daughters-in-law, prompting three Peng Family men to charge at him.
• Lu Xuan arrived at Heaven Prison using the Nine Dragon Body Protection Scripture and stopped Lu Xuyang from leaving.
• Lu Xuan struck Lu Xuyang with a Dragon Tail Whip, broke his legs, and repeatedly revived him as he screamed for half an hour.

Lu Xuan entered Heaven Prison, freed his grandfather Peng Lie, and restored his lost cultivation after learning that Emperor Zhenwu was no longer human. Peng Lie warned Lu Xuan not to enter the palace, but Lu Xuan revealed he had already sensed the Ghostly Thing there, and the two set out to confront it.

• Lu Xuan crippled Lu Xuyang, then ordered Chen Denglou to lead him into Heaven Prison despite the imperial prohibition.
• Old Madam Peng and the Peng Family greeted Lu Xuan, while prison guards fawned over the imprisoned Peng Lie out of fear of the Crown Prince.
• Peng Lie recalled how Emperor Zhenwu had frozen his cultivation and threatened the Peng Family, then warned Lu Xuan that the emperor was not his father and begged him to stay away from the palace.
• Lu Xuan shattered Peng Lie's cell and shackles, then restored his cultivation with golden dragon aura.
• Lu Xuan revealed that Emperor Zhenwu was a Ghostly Thing close to a Land Immortal, and Peng Lie recovered his peak Great Grandmaster strength.
• Peng Lie declared that he would fight alongside Lu Xuan and charged toward the prison exit.

Peng Lie stormed the Golden Carriage Hall to confront the creature on the Dragon Throne, while Crown Prince Lu Xuan revealed his extraordinary power and subdued Prince Shangwu. Lu Xuan entered the darkened Purple Gold Hall alone, where the hollow, pupil-less Emperor Zhenwu appeared beside him.

• Peng Lie unleashed nine fire dragons across the imperial palace and broke into the Golden Carriage Hall, while Lu Xuan watched without harming the fleeing guards.
• Prince Shangwu, Lu Zhanshi, arrived and ordered poisoned arrows fired at Peng Lie, but Lu Xuan destroyed them with a wave of his hand and declared that Peng Lie acted on his orders.
• Lu Xuan used a golden chain to overwhelm Prince Shangwu, who recognized Lu Xuan as a Land Immortal and knelt before him.
• Lu Xuan sent the Imperial Guards and Prince Shangwu back, then entered the Purple Gold Hall alone to confront the presence on the Dragon Throne.
• The pupil-less, floating Emperor Zhenwu appeared three steps from Lu Xuan and addressed him as the Crown Prince.

Lu Xuan confronted Emperor Zhenwu, who had fused with a Sinister Entity in his desperate attempt to escape death. At Emperor Zhenwu’s plea, Lu Xuan destroyed the entity and his father, leaving Prince Shangwu to recognize Lu Xuan as a Land Immortal and foresee a change for the Wenjing Dynasty.

• Emperor Zhenwu revealed his monstrous condition and tried to seize the power he sensed in Lu Xuan.
• Emperor Zhenwu briefly regained his humanity, admitted he had feared dying, and begged Lu Xuan to kill him.
• Lu Xuan summoned Golden Dragon Phantoms and unleashed golden divine light that destroyed the Sinister Entity and Emperor Zhenwu.
• The System awarded Lu Xuan two million points for defeating the Ghostly Thing, and displayed an offer to spend 500,000 points deducing his cultivation technique.
• Prince Shangwu realized Emperor Zhenwu had willingly accepted the sealed Ghostly Thing to escape death, then bowed to Lu Xuan as a Land Immortal.
• Peng Lie watched Lu Xuan and concluded that the Wenjing Dynasty’s future was about to change.

Lu Xuan stabilized the Wenjing Dynasty, transcended into a Human Immortal, and later severed his last ties to the Lu Family before entering another mortal world. The chapter ended as Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng argued over their failed mission and Shen Wanbao.

• Lu Xumin became emperor, while Prince Shangwu and Peng Lie were appointed supporting ministers; Lu Xuan was declared dead and posthumously honored as an emperor.
• Peng Lie received Lu Xuan’s jade pendant, gained insight into the Land Immortal Realm, and began restoring his youth.
• Lu Xuan reached the Human Immortal Realm, cleansed the Wenjing Dynasty of Eerie Entities, and transcended the world despite the World Will’s attack.
• After progressing through the Second and Three Lifetimes Mortal World Immortal realms, Lu Xuan saw the Lu Family flourishing and severed his remaining mortal ties.
• Lu Xuan entered another world, where Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng argued over reporting their failed mission and Cao Jin suggested killing Shen Wanbao.

Lu Xuan took over the body of the Eastern Depot Director, a feared eunuch and Grandmaster, and learned that both the emperor and his ministerial regime had made enemies across the court and jianghu. After Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng failed to capture the woman the emperor had ordered, Lu Xuan questioned whether betrayal within the Eastern Depot had exposed their operation.

• Lu Xuan examined his new body and recognized his Grandmaster strength, then reviewed the threats posed by Shen Wanbao and the four Pacification Commissioners.
• Lu Xuan recalled the original Director's brutal reputation and the emperor's bloody rule, while recognizing that both had helped drive Great Yu toward ruin.
• Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng argued over who would face their Foster Father for failing their assignment, then tried to decide by tossing a coin.
• Lu Xuan entered the hall and demanded to know where the target was; Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng knelt and reported that Yuan Qian had stopped them and broken Cao Jin's saber.
• Cao Haosheng accused someone within the Eastern Depot of betraying them, and Lu Xuan considered that several of the original Director's thirteen adopted sons might be disloyal.
• Lu Xuan recalled that the emperor had ordered the original Director to capture a beautiful woman and bring her to the palace.

Lu Xuan learned that Lin Qinghan was being sheltered by Yuan Qian in West City and prepared to take her back to the palace himself. At the estate, Lin Qinghan revealed her disappointment in the Crown Prince and planned to ensnare the emperor instead.

• Lu Xuan’s men reported that Lin Qinghan was hidden in a West City estate under Yuan Qian’s protection.
• Lu Xuan ordered Cao Haosheng and Cao Jin to receive twenty lashes, then set out to retrieve Lin Qinghan personally.
• Yuan Qian reassured Lin Qinghan that the Crown Prince would eventually destroy Lu Xuan, while she doubted the Crown Prince would keep his promises.
• Lin Qinghan recalled using her beauty to urge the Crown Prince to avenge her father, but he had repeatedly postponed acting against Lu Xuan.
• Lin Qinghan secretly sent messages into the palace and resolved to ensnare the emperor after losing faith in the Crown Prince.

Lin Qinghan hoped to use the Eastern Depot’s arrival to reach the emperor and avenge her father, but Lu Xuan appeared in person and overwhelmed the Imperial Guard. The chapter ended with Yuan Qian frozen by Lu Xuan’s perfected Ice Gang Qi while Lin Qinghan watched.

• Lin Qinghan planned to exploit the Crown Prince’s arrangement to get a message into the capital and pursue revenge against the Eastern Depot.
• Lu Xuan’s freezing attack struck Lin Qinghan’s hideout, and Cao Yi, Cao Er, and Cao San entered with Eastern Depot agents.
• Lu Xuan arrived and confronted Yuan Qian, who attacked him with the Imperial Guard’s Mystic Gang Body.
• Lu Xuan’s Ice Gang Qi shattered Yuan Qian’s saber and froze him in place, leaving his life in grave danger.

Lu Xuan ordered the Eastern Depot to plunder medicinal treasures across the capital, using its power to brutalize families who resisted while several martial arts sects held it at bay. After refining the stolen tonics, Lu Xuan found they yielded too few System Points to help him advance beyond the limits of the mortal world.

• Lu Xuan ordered Cao Yi to take Lin Qinghan to the imperial palace, and Cao Yi led her away after the Palace Maids guarding her were killed.
• Lu Xuan sent the Eastern Depot and Imperial Guard to seize powerful tonics throughout the capital, and Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng tortured the Feng Family for its medicinal stores.
• Zhao Huai'an objected to the Eastern Depot's abuse of the Feng Family, but Cao Haosheng struck him down and Zhao Huai'an stopped the Imperial Guards from resisting to protect their families.
• The Eastern Depot failed to force its way into Spirit Path Monastery, Qingfeng Sect, and Broken Sword Villa, while Bright Buddha Temple continued ringing its bell.
• Three days later, Lu Xuan inspected his System status and found that refining the plundered treasures had gained only 3,000 System Points, most of which he spent upgrading Extreme Cold Palm.

Lin Qinghan manipulated Emperor Yu Dongji into ordering Cao Yi to the palace, while Yu Dongji revealed that his apparent indulgence toward the Eastern Depot was part of a larger plan. At the Eastern Depot, Lu Xuan sent Cao Shi and the depot’s forces to Bright Buddha Temple, just as Cao Yi was summoned to receive an imperial reward.

• Lin Qinghan told Yu Dongji that Director Lu had threatened her, and Yu Dongji promised to deal with him when he was no longer useful.
• Lin Qinghan implied that Cao Yi had coveted her during her journey to the palace, prompting Yu Dongji to summon Cao Yi under the pretense of rewarding him.
• Cao Shi reported to Lu Xuan that Bright Buddha Temple held a Divine Object, a lotus said to restore flesh to White Bone, and described being injured by the Eighteen Arhat Formation.
• Lu Xuan ordered the Eastern Depot's forces in the capital to depart for Bright Buddha Temple.
• The chief eunuch delivered Yu Dongji's summons for Cao Yi, who accepted the order while Lu Xuan calmly drank tea.

Eunuch Yi delivered the Emperor’s order for the Eastern Depot to halt its actions, but Lu Xuan revealed that he had become a Great Grandmaster and sent Eunuch Yi away shaken. Later, Lu Xuan and the Eastern Depot’s forces surrounded Bright Buddha Temple, where Cao Shi demanded revenge as Master Bei Feng faced them.

• Eunuch Yi relayed the Emperor’s command for the Eastern Depot to stop its recent operations, and Lu Xuan answered with dismissive calm.
• Eunuch Yi attacked Lu Xuan with Yin Wind Finger, but Lu Xuan froze the technique and revealed his Great Grandmaster strength.
• Eunuch Yi retreated from the hall, while Cao Yi hurried after him and the remaining Protectors recognized Lu Xuan’s dominance over the Eastern Depot.
• Lu Xuan arrived at Bright Buddha Temple with the Twelve Protectors and Imperial Guard forces, frightening pilgrims and monks into retreat.
• Cao Er and the other Protectors smashed open the temple gates, killing and injuring the martial monks guarding them.
• Master Bei Feng arrived and chanted among the dead, while Cao Shi confronted him and demanded that Bright Buddha Temple repay blood with blood.

Lu Xuan forced Bright Buddha Temple to surrender the Seven Treasures Glazed Lotus by surrounding it with overwhelming imperial forces and revealing that he had reached the Great Grandmaster realm. Master Bei Feng admitted defeat to spare the temple from destruction, while Lu Xuan stayed outside and demanded the lotus within half an hour.

• Cao Shi provoked the monks, but Master Bei Feng calmed them and appealed to the Director of the Eastern Depot to withdraw.
• Lu Xuan threatened Bright Buddha Temple with ten thousand elite troops and thousands of Armor Piercing Crossbows unless it handed over the lotus.
• Master Bei Feng offered the temple’s other treasures and begged Lu Xuan to spare the monks, but Lu Xuan demanded the Seven Treasures Glazed Lotus specifically.
• Lu Xuan and Master Bei Feng clashed auras, revealing that Lu Xuan had entered the Great Grandmaster realm.
• Master Bei Feng admitted defeat and offered to lead Lu Xuan to the Treasure Pavilion, but Lu Xuan refused to enter and gave the temple half an hour to produce the lotus.

Master Bei Feng reflected on Director Lu’s power and the suffering caused by the Great Yu Kingdom’s struggles, while the Eastern Depot received an imperial decree condemning Cao Yi and stripping Lu Xuan of authority over the Imperial Guard. In his chamber, Lu Xuan refined the Seven Treasures Glazed Lotus into a pill and swallowed it.

• Master Bei Feng watched Director Lu’s procession leave Bright Buddha Temple and lamented that even his peerless strength could not protect the people from the world’s upheaval.
• Cao Er and the Twelve Protectors confronted three palace eunuchs who arrived at the Eastern Depot with an imperial decree.
• The eunuch announced that Cao Yi had been executed and that Lu Xuan was punished, stripped of his post as Commander of the Imperial Guard, and ordered to reflect on his faults.
• Cao Er accepted the decree on Lu Xuan’s behalf, while the eunuchs left behind a wooden casket containing a head.
• Lu Xuan used his icy astral essence to crush and refine the Seven Treasures Glazed Lotus into a seven-colored pill, then swallowed it.

Lu Xuan emerged from ten days of seclusion after deducing Extreme Cold Palm to completion and learned that more than a thousand Eastern Depot agents had been killed in coordinated attacks. He ordered the Twelve Protectors to target the Qingfeng Sect, and the chapter ended as Qingfeng Sect Leader Xiao Fenghe confronted the Eastern Depot attackers.

• Lu Xuan spent 79,000 System Points to deduce Extreme Cold Palm, reached Great Grandmaster Completion, and awakened after ten days.
• Cao Er reported that more than a thousand Eastern Depot agents had died, while Cao Jin and Cao Haosheng described ambushes and identified several factions whose techniques had been used against them.
• Cao Haosheng suspected a powerful mastermind had united rival factions to destroy the Eastern Depot, and Lu Xuan demanded to know the nearest faction to the capital.
• Cao Er identified the Qingfeng Sect, and Lu Xuan set out to confront it.
• A wounded Qingfeng Sect disciple reported an attack, and Xiao Fenghe arrived to find disciples frozen and the Eastern Depot's Twelve Protectors fighting across the plaza.

Lu Xuan crushed Xiao Fenghe’s attack with his freezing power and forced the Qingfeng Sect master to reveal that Grand Tutor Qing had orchestrated the assault. Xiao Fenghe offered the sect’s treasure to appease Lu Xuan, who was led to a mysterious stone that could grant a once-in-a-lifetime insight into the Dao.

• Xiao Fenghe attacked Lu Xuan and the Eastern Depot agents with Qingfeng Palm, but Lu Xuan’s presence froze the attack and devastated the sect’s forces.
• Lu Xuan froze Xiao Fenghe’s ultimate technique, Wind Howls Through the World, with a casual point of his finger.
• Xiao Fenghe knelt and confessed that Grand Tutor Qing had used an Eastern Palace token to recruit the sect for a plot against Lu Xuan.
• Xiao Fenghe offered the Qingfeng Sect’s treasure in exchange for Lu Xuan sparing the sect.
• Xiao Fenghe led Lu Xuan to a green stone in the sect’s forbidden rear mountain and explained that it could grant a person a single opportunity to draw upon the Dao essence within it.