Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan extracted the Heaven and Earth Power from Qingfeng Sect’s ancient bluestone and advanced to Land Immortal, while the Crown Prince’s war against the Eastern Depot escalated into a palace conspiracy. Emperor Qian Dongji abandoned the Crown Prince to the Eastern Depot and ordered the organization eliminated after the matter was settled.

• Lu Xuan sealed the forbidden ground in ice, extracted the power from the bluestone, and destroyed it for 70,000 System Points.
• Lu Xuan deduced Extreme Cold Palm, reached the Land Immortal realm, and ordered the battered Eastern Depot agents to leave Qingfeng Sect.
• The Crown Prince told Grand Tutor Qing that he would not spare the Eastern Depot and offered territory and hereditary nobility to whoever killed Lu Xuan.
• Shen Wanbao revealed the Crown Prince’s plots to Emperor Qian Dongji, including his attempt to send assassins into the palace.
• Qian Dongji ordered Shen Wanbao to leave the Crown Prince to the Eastern Depot and declared that the Eastern Depot would be eliminated afterward.

The Crown Prince was executed by imperial decree, and Cao Er realized the Emperor intended to eliminate the Eastern Depot agents who carried it out. Cao Er and three Grand Protectors tried to escape the Imperial Guard’s ambush, but Shen Wanbao killed them, ending the Eastern Depot’s last stand.

• Cao Er read the Emperor’s decree abolishing the Crown Prince’s position and ordering him to drink poisoned wine, and the Crown Prince died after pleading for mercy.
• Cao Er led the Eastern Depot agents away from the Eastern Palace, suspecting the Emperor would silence them after using them to kill the Crown Prince.
• Shen Wanbao and the Imperial Guards ambushed the agents, while a second decree accused Cao Er and his men of rebellion and ordered their deaths.
• Cao Er used a smoke bomb to escape with four Protectors, but the Imperial Guards pursued them through the palace grounds.
• Shen Wanbao caught Cao Er and the three remaining Grand Protectors and killed them with his Azure Gang Sword.

Lu Xuan quelled the Eastern Depot uprising, helped the Second Prince take the throne, and ruled Great Yu for years before breaking through to the perfected Fourth Incarnation Mortal World Immortal. He departed the Mortal World and awakened in the body of a ninety-five-year-old man in a modern world as luxury cars arrived at his mountaintop villa.

• Shen Wanbao attacked Lu Xuan, but Lu Xuan froze Shen Wanbao and his sword force, then advanced toward the imperial palace.
• Lu Xuan arrived too late to save Qian Dongji, while Lin Qinghan recognized him as frost spread through the palace.
• The Second Prince became Emperor Shenghe, and Lu Xuan was enfeoffed as the Prince who Assists the State and given half the Tiger Tally.
• Ten years later, a beam of white light rose from Lu Xuan's residence, and Lu Xuan departed Great Yu as he reached the perfected Fourth Incarnation Mortal World Immortal.
• Lu Xuan awakened in a ninety-five-year-old body wearing a black Zhongshan Suit and saw luxury vehicles arrive at his modern villa.

Lu Xuan’s descendants knelt before him and revealed that an Art Gate master was targeting the Lu Family with evil arts after Lu Guangchen’s son killed the master’s only son. With the family’s great-grandson gravely ill, Lu Guangchen’s daughter attacking her father, and Yifeng Province’s Art Gate practitioners refusing to help, Lu Xuan was asked to save the family.

• Lu Yuliang, Lu Yulong, Lu Yuhong, and eight other descendants knelt before Lu Xuan and warned that the Lu Family was in danger.
• Lu Yuliang said someone had set their sights on the Lu Family and begged Lu Xuan to intervene.
• Lu Guangchen admitted that his son had killed an Art Gate master’s only son, provoking a curse against the family.
• Lu Guangchen reported that his great-grandson was near death and his daughter had tried to murder him.
• An Art Gate practitioner hired to counter the curse died from backlash, and other practitioners in Yifeng Province refused to help the Lu Family.
• Lu Yuliang and his brothers turned to Lu Xuan as the family’s last hope.

Lu Xuan arrived at the Lu Family estate to see his great-granddaughter Lu Keyi, who had been tormented by invisible Sinister Entities. He released his overwhelming martial pressure when she reacted violently, while Lu Yuhong warned that martial arts could not harm the spirits and revealed why the family had called on Lu Xuan.

• Lu Xuan entered the Lu Family estate with Lu Yuliang and the others as Lu Keyi’s screams echoed through the villa.
• Lu Yuhong told Lu Xuan that Sinister Entities had been haunting Keyi, and Lu Xuan agreed to see her.
• Lu Xuan found Keyi bound to her bed, convulsing and howling as though possessed.
• Keyi turned toward Lu Xuan and roared, prompting him to release his immense martial pressure.
• Lu Yuhong begged Lu Xuan not to hurt Keyi and explained that only Art Gate methods could subdue the intangible spirits.

Lu Xuan burned the ghostly qi out of Lu Keyi, then struggled with the toll his failing body paid for using his power. After checking that he had enough System Points to advance his cultivation, he rested while the Lu Family prepared to hunt down those who had plotted against them.

• Lu Xuan's Supreme Yang Blood Qi incinerated the black qi possessing Lu Keyi, and she regained her color as the room cooled.
• Lu Xuan clamped a hand on Lu Yulong's shoulder for support, revealing how frail his aged body had become.
• Lu Xuan checked his System Panel and saw 990 Points, enough to deduce Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist for 900 Points.
• Lu Xuan told the Lu Family that Lu Keyi was safe, asked to regulate his breathing, and instructed them to watch Lu Yuanhao until he could see him.
• Lu Yuliang vowed to uncover the people behind the plot and considered contacting Lu Xuan's Old Acquaintance for help.

Grandmaster Tang’s curse against the Lu Family rebounded, but he vowed to continue his revenge using a blood formation. At the Lu villa, Lu Yuanhao awoke possessed by a murderous entity and attacked Lu Guangchen and Lu Guanghai, until Lu Xuan arrived and seized him.

• Grandmaster Tang recognized the force that had shattered his curse as the Blood Qi of a Transformation Jin Grandmaster, then decided to use Lu Yuanhao’s doll in a Nine Baleful Blood-Gathering Formation against the Lu Family.
• Lu Guanghai told Lu Guangchen that Lu Yuliang had contacted someone in the capital as the family prepared to avenge Lu Yuanhao.
• Lu Yuanhao suddenly erupted with Blood Qi, appeared at the bedroom door with a dagger, and wounded Lu Guanghai while attacking the cousins.
• Lu Guangchen and Lu Guanghai fought the possessed Lu Yuanhao, but his Blood Qi overwhelmed them and his dagger cut Lu Guanghai’s back.
• Lu Guanghai shouted for his grandfather, and Lu Xuan appeared, broke through the door, and lifted Lu Yuanhao by the throat.

Lu Xuan destroyed the evil technique possessing Lu Yuanhao, defeated Master Tang through the doll that linked them, and discovered that he had newly entered the Core Condensation Realm. After ordering the Lu Family to investigate the Art Gate, Lu Xuan learned that his son Lu Yuliang had retired and prepared to contact Elder Huang in the capital.

• Lu Xuan broke through the sickroom door, restrained the possessed Lu Yuanhao, and struck the evil entity with his martial intent.
• The golden light from Lu Yuanhao's doll shattered Master Tang's ritual and inflicted devastating backlash, while President Li ordered his bodyguards to kill the disciples and contacted Elder Ren.
• Lu Yuanhao returned to normal, and the doctors confirmed his vital signs had stabilized.
• Lu Yuhong and Lu Yulong noticed signs that Lu Xuan had reached the Pill Condensation Realm, while the System Panel identified him as a newly entered Core Condensation Great Grandmaster with 1,590 points.
• Lu Xuan ordered Lu Yuliang to investigate the Art Gate, learned that he had retired, and told him to contact the capital; Lu Yuliang said Elder Huang was waiting for his call.

Lu Xuan called Elder Huang to investigate an Art Gate practitioner causing trouble in Yingnan City, and Elder Huang ordered his family to act. Two days later, Li Gangshan was brought before the Lu Family and threatened until he revealed where Tang Huang was hiding.

• Lu Xuan asked Elder Huang to investigate an Art Gate practitioner in Yingnan City and said he might visit the capital soon.
• Elder Huang tasked Huang Tangshi with having Huang Tangming investigate the threat to the Lu Family.
• Two days later, Li Gangshan sat under interrogation in the main villa of Lu Family Manor.
• Lu Yuhong accused Li Gangshan of colluding with Art Gate demons and demanded Tang Huang's location.
• Lu Yuhong threatened Li Gangshan, whose schemes had been exposed by the investigation from the capital.

The Lu Family exposed Li Gangshan’s role in Tang Huang’s murder and arranged to have him taken to the Guard Bureau. As the Li Family’s downfall began, Lu Yuliang prepared to receive allies from the capital who would deal with Li Gangshan’s powerful backer.

• Li Gangshan denied knowing Tang Huang, but Lu Yuhong and Lu Yulong warned him that the Lu Family would not let the matter go.
• Lu Yuhong brought in five captured bodyguards, who confessed that Li Gangshan had ordered Tang Huang and the jianghu sorcerers killed and revealed where their ashes were buried.
• The bodyguards threatened to expose Li Gangshan’s incriminating recordings and videos if they were harmed.
• Lu Yuliang ordered his men to verify the evidence and contact Director Zhang of the Guard Bureau, while Lu Yuhong escorted Li Gangshan there.
• Lu Yuliang told Lu Xuan that people from the capital were arriving and went out to welcome them.

Lu Yuliang welcomed Leader Huang Tangming and two senior officials from the capital, who had come to remove Li Gangshan’s protection and pay respects to Lu Xuan. Huang Tangming reunited with Lu Xuan, and Lu Xuan said he would visit the capital himself.

• Lu Yuliang received Leader Huang Tangming, two senior officials, and six guards at the Lu Family Manor.
• Huang Tangming confirmed that the two officials were there for an inspection, and Lu Yuliang understood that they intended to act against Li Gangshan’s backer.
• Huang Tangming entered the villa and greeted Lu Xuan with heartfelt respect, recalling Lu Xuan’s legendary past and his own childhood memories of him.
• Huang Tangming told Lu Xuan that his father had been thinking of him but was too unwell to travel to Yingnan City.
• Lu Xuan said he would visit the capital, and Huang Tangming worried about whether he could endure the journey.

Huang Tangming left the Lu Family reassured that Lu Xuan was fit to join a critical mission to the Great Eagle Federation. Lu Xuan then pursued a twenty-year-old murder case after learning it might involve supernatural beings, while Lu Yuliang recognized the case as one he had failed to solve.

• Huang Tangming recalled Lu Xuan's private message that his strength had improved and left confident that Lu Xuan could help bring three stranded researchers home from the Great Eagle Federation.
• Lu Yuliang found Lu Xuan reading a report about three female university students who had died at Yingnan City University twenty years earlier.
• Lu Xuan asked Lu Yuliang to gather every record about the case, and he floated the newspaper into Lu Yuliang's hand with his power.
• Lu Yuliang revealed that he had led the original investigation, which found no clear cause of death or way the second and third victims had reached the sealed dormitory floor.
• Lu Yuliang recalled that the sole surviving roommate later lost her sanity and wondered whether the case had involved the same supernatural forces that had recently endangered his family.

Lu Yuliang brought Lu Xuan to Yingnan University's sealed Building D to revisit a twenty-year-old case involving the deaths of three female students. Lu Xuan sensed faint, suppressed Yin Energy on the fifth floor, leaving the source of the disturbance unexplained.

• Yingnan University's leaders waited at the gate for Lu Yuliang and an unknown elder, then learned the elder was Lu Yuliang's father.
• Lu Yuliang asked Principal Zhang to take them to West District Women's Dormitory Building D, which had been sealed after the old murder case.
• Vice Principal Li explained that Building D had been abandoned and sealed, while the university leaders connected the visit to the case's recent return to public attention.
• Lu Yuliang said he had been one of the people in charge of the original investigation and led the group to Building D.
• Lu Xuan inspected the building with a flash of golden light and sensed faint Yin Energy near the fifth floor, suppressed enough to pose no harm to people.

Lu Xuan entered sealed Building D alone and reached Dormitory 506, where he discovered three Black Talisman Papers suppressing the Yin Energy. He destroyed the talismans, leaving the dormitory’s Yin Energy restless and the mystery unresolved.

• Lu Xuan snapped the chains on Building D’s entrance and climbed through the dark building as Lu Yuliang and the university leaders watched below.
• Lu Xuan reached the fifth floor and broke through the boards sealing Dormitory 506.
• Lu Xuan sensed unusual Yin Energy behind three bunk beds, moved them aside, and found a Black Talisman Paper behind each one.
• Lu Xuan hurled pieces of wood at the three talismans, slicing them apart and allowing the Yin Energy to grow restless.

Lu Xuan destroyed three ghostly beings in Dormitory 506, then used System Points to advance Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist and restore his body to near the strength of a sixty-year-old. After Lu Yuliang found the torn talismans that had suppressed the spirits, they set out to investigate the old murder case and find who had drawn them.

• Three ghostly beings attacked Lu Xuan in Dormitory 506, but his golden force and scorching hurricane destroyed them and cleared away the Yin Energy.
• Lu Yuliang sent Principal Zhang and the other university leaders away after a scream from the dormitory frightened them.
• Lu Xuan spent 4,500 System Points to advance Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist to 6/9, strengthening his body and restoring its vitality.
• Lu Xuan showed Lu Yuliang three torn Black Talisman Paper pieces and explained that they had suppressed something dangerous.
• Lu Yuliang recalled strange noises from the fifth floor after the murder case twenty years earlier and suspected his former superior had concealed the truth.
• Lu Yuliang asked Lu Xuan to help uncover the truth behind the three girls' murders, and Lu Xuan agreed, hoping to find the talisman maker.

Lu Xuan visited Yifeng Province’s top leaders with Lu Yuliang and reunited with an Elder Council member he had met decades earlier. After the two met privately, Lu Xuan demonstrated his overwhelming strength by pinning three Dark Jin guards to the floor with his aura.

• Lu Yuliang brought Lu Xuan to the Yifeng Province Leaders' Family Compound to seek the province’s top leader’s cooperation with their plan.
• Lu Xuan sensed eight hidden Dark Jin guards around the villa but judged that their defenses posed no real threat to him.
• Lu Yuliang introduced Lu Xuan to the three provincial leaders, and the leader in the middle recognized Lu Xuan from a celebration gala thirty years earlier.
• The central leader asked everyone else to wait outside and privately offered to cooperate with Lu Xuan, then questioned his health and strength.
• Lu Xuan unleashed a gale in the office, drawing in three Dark Jin guards, then used his pressure to force them all to their knees.

Lu Yuliang confronted Fang Hai about the talisman papers placed in Dormitory 506, and Lu Xuan used his Martial Dao Will to make Fang Hai reveal that the Red-robed Daoist had sacrificed three female students to avert Fang Hai’s disaster. Lu Xuan tracked the Daoist to Mingxin Temple and entered his secret chamber, where he demanded the old man’s help.

• Officials from the Yifeng Province Inspectorate took Fang Hai from his villa to assist with an investigation.
• Lu Yuliang questioned Fang Hai about the Black Talisman Paper placed in Dormitory 506 twenty years earlier, but Fang Hai pretended not to understand.
• Lu Xuan used his Martial Dao Will to compel Fang Hai to explain that the Red-robed Daoist had chosen the three Yingnan University students as sacrifices to take Fang Hai’s tribulation in his place.
• Fang Hai revealed that the Red-robed Daoist was at Mingxin Temple in Liangqing City.
• Lu Xuan smashed into the Daoist’s secret chamber, wrecked its altar, and told the Red-robed Daoist he needed his help.

Lu Xuan defeated the Red-robed Daoist and used his power to force the man to reveal his origins and the truth behind the Yin-Sha schemes in Yifeng Province. The confession exposed the Red-robed Daoist’s decades-long plot to sustain the Blood Infant Spirit, leaving Lu Xuan with the scope of the conspiracy and its goal of transcending human limits.

• The Red-robed Daoist shattered his Magic Artifacts to unleash Yin-Sha Qi and ghostly shadows, but Lu Xuan’s golden aura repelled them and his punch crushed them, badly injuring the Daoist.
• The Red-robed Daoist scrambled through the altar’s ruins for a means of escape, but Lu Xuan cornered him and shattered his will with an overwhelming display of power.
• Lu Xuan compelled the Red-robed Daoist to disclose that he had entered Yifeng Province thirty-five years earlier and used his followers and false blessings to gather Yin-Sha offerings and manipulate local elites.
• The Red-robed Daoist revealed that his fortune-changing rituals secretly burdened clients with karmic debt, including Fang Hai, whose wife and child had died after he sought help advancing his career.
• The Red-robed Daoist confessed that he had transferred his own karma onto elites and innocent victims, while those elites covered up the yearly disappearance of newborn infants sacrificed to sustain the Blood Infant Spirit.
• The Red-robed Daoist revealed that he wanted to merge with the Blood Infant Spirit, escape the limits of mortal life, and wield power beyond humanity.

Lu Xuan unearthed the Blood Infant Spirit and took it to the outskirts, where he exposed it to the sun and struck as it lunged at him. After his fist flew toward the spirit, the System revealed that destroying it had earned him fifty thousand points.

• Lu Xuan confirmed the Red-robed Daoist was dead, dug up the scarlet clay jar, and bound it without touching it directly.
• Lu Yuliang arranged an escorted route out of Liangqing City, and Lu Xuan carried the jar to an empty stretch of sandy ground.
• Lu Xuan ordered Lu Yuliang to stay away, then smashed the jar beneath the blazing sun and released the Blood Infant Spirit.
• The sun scorched the Blood Infant Spirit, but it pounced at Lu Xuan in an attempt to possess him.
• Lu Xuan unleashed Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist as the System reported that destroying the Blood Infant Spirit had earned him fifty thousand points.

Lu Xuan broke through to the mid-stage Body-Coalescing Realm and traveled across Yifeng Province to investigate strange occurrences, including the case of the revived Yingnan University students. He arrived at a reservoir and compelled Daoist Mr. Wu to help draw out the ghostly thing lurking in its waters.

• Lu Xuan advanced the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist to its seventh level and broke through to the mid-stage Body-Coalescing Realm, gaining tremendous speed and strength while retaining his aged appearance.
• Lu Xuan learned how the Red-robed Daoist had sealed the three revived Yingnan University students with Demon-Sealing Talismans to keep them from exposing his Blood Infant Spirit scheme.
• Lu Xuan traveled across Yifeng Province for half a month, visiting places connected to bizarre occurrences and reflecting on karma and his pursuit of becoming a Heavenly Origin Dao Immortal.
• Mr. Wu and his three disciples waited beside a reservoir at night, preparing a ritual to lure out the ghostly thing beneath the water.
• Lu Xuan met Mr. Wu in a black sedan and ordered him to draw out the reservoir's ghostly thing, leaving Mr. Wu awed and afraid of Lu Xuan's power.