Chapter Summaries

A middle-aged Daoist and his three disciples faced overwhelming Ghostly Things at the Qinghong City reservoir until Lu Xuan arrived and destroyed them with a burst of golden light and a single punch. The spellcasters were left stunned by Lu Xuan’s inhuman power.

• The middle-aged Daoist recalled how reports of missing and dead spellcasters had led him to watch the Qinghong City reservoir while waiting for help.
• A shadow crept into one disciple’s shadow, and the middle-aged Daoist struck it with his blood-awakened Peachwood Sword.
• The wounded shadow shrank as Ghostly Things emerged beneath the streetlights and surrounded the middle-aged Daoist and his disciples.
• Lu Xuan appeared amid golden light and mountain phantoms, destroying the surrounding shadows and striking the reservoir with a powerful punch.
• The middle-aged Daoist and his disciples gaped at Lu Xuan’s overwhelming display and wondered whether he was human.

Lu Guangchen and Lu Guanghai investigated a string of violent attacks on Golden Goblet patrons and realized the Lu Family was under assault by martial artists. Their confrontation with the attackers’ apparent leader, Wei Feng, revealed his long-standing grudge over the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist.

• Mr. Wu told Lu Xuan that dwindling Spiritual Qi had weakened Daoists and asked for help finding his three disciples ordinary work, and Lu Xuan said someone would contact him.
• An assistant reported that masked attackers had broken President Bei’s leg, the third vicious assault on a Golden Goblet patron in seven days.
• Lu Guangchen watched footage of the attack and recognized the assailants as five Dark Jin martial arts masters before striking his desk in anger.
• Lu Guanghai concluded that the attackers had inside help and urged Lu Guangchen to return to the ancestral residence and consult Third Uncle.
• Wei Feng appeared at Lu Guangchen’s office, claimed the Lu Family did not deserve the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist, and demanded its inheritance.
• Lu Guangchen and Lu Guanghai recognized Wei Feng as Lu Yulong’s former disciple, who had fled overseas fifteen years earlier after trying to seize the fist’s forbidden final mysteries.

Wei Feng defeated Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen, then held them hostage to force Lu Yulong to surrender the complete Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist. At the Zhou Family villa, Lu Xuan planned a trip to the capital and agreed that Lu Xiaoying would meet him there.

• Wei Feng attacked Lu Guangchen and wounded his arm while Lu Guanghai tried to stop him.
• Wei Feng revealed himself as a Transforming Jin Grandmaster, broke Lu Guanghai's wrist, and knocked him unconscious.
• Lu Guangchen charged Wei Feng in rage, but Wei Feng broke his ribs and left him unconscious.
• Wei Feng told his masked followers to keep the brothers alive and give Lu Yulong one day to come see him, threatening an aerial acrobat performance from Yingnan Tower if he refused.
• Lu Xuan told his sons he planned to travel alone to the capital to investigate ancient spiritual treasures and gain System Points.
• Lu Yulong offered to arrange for Lu Xiaoying to meet Lu Xuan in the capital, and Lu Xuan agreed.

A fake maintenance notice concealed the lockdown of Yingnan Tower, where Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen hung from a rigged trap while Wei Feng watched from a hideout. Lu Yulong led an armed force to capture Wei Feng, who confronted his former master with a bitter question about why he was still alive.

• Authorities sealed Yingnan Tower, where guards found Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen bloodied and suspended from a thin line beside bombs.
• Director Feng received orders to withdraw his personnel to the first floor because the Lu Family had arrived.
• Wei Feng watched the hostages from an unfinished building and kept Qing Hu ready to shoot them if needed.
• Counterterrorism forces surrounded Wei Feng and his four masked subordinates at their hideout.
• Lu Yulong arrived, and Wei Feng greeted him with hatred and asked why his master was still alive.

Lu Yulong broke through to Transformative Jin after grasping the true meaning of the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist, but Wei Feng’s concealed strike wounded him and revealed a strength that surpassed his own. Wei Feng turned his greedy attention to Lu Yulong’s newly awakened power while armed guards and snipers aimed at him.

• Lu Yulong offered Wei Feng a chance to cripple his meridians and enter prison, hoping to keep him calm while Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen remained in danger.
• Wei Feng mocked Lu Yulong, kicked over a coffee table, and challenged his martial arts skills.
• Remembering Lu Xuan’s guidance, Lu Yulong stayed composed and recalled how he had broken through to Transformative Jin ten days earlier by grasping the fist intent of the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist.
• Wei Feng kicked a piece of concrete at Lu Yulong, who caught it with his fist technique but suffered bleeding fingers as the strike pierced his defenses.
• The guards and snipers aimed their weapons at Wei Feng, who ignored them and fixed his gaze on Lu Yulong with greed for the power of the Myriad Ravines Return to Flow Fist.

Lu Xuan arrived at Yingnan Tower and rescued Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen just before Wei Feng detonated the bombs. Wei Feng’s plans collapsed, and he was killed by Lu Yulong’s forces and a sniper’s shot.

• Wei Feng threatened Lu Yulong and began a countdown, while Qing Hu aimed a sniper rifle at the two hostages from a nearby rooftop.
• An old man in white appeared behind Qing Hu and killed him before Wei Feng’s countdown ended.
• Lu Xuan walked up Yingnan Tower’s glass exterior and reached Lu Guanghai and Lu Guangchen as Wei Feng pressed the detonator.
• Lu Xuan cut the bomb lines, caught both falling hostages with a rope, and carried them to the observation deck as the tower’s spire exploded.
• Lu Yulong ordered a barrage of gunfire, and a heavy sniper round struck Wei Feng, killing him and his four core subordinates.

Lu Xiaoying eagerly waited at the capital airport for her grandfather, Lu Xuan, while her manager, Sister Qing, worried about her missing a demanding film schedule. After Lu Xuan arrived, Xiaoying welcomed him warmly, and Sister Qing was struck by his imposing presence as he thanked her for looking after his granddaughter.

• Lu Xiaoying asked Sister Qing to secure her leave from filming so she could spend time with her visiting grandfather, but Sister Qing warned that the production's schedule and Xiaoying's lead role were at risk.
• Lu Xuan flew to the capital without eating or drinking, then called Xiaoying after landing.
• Lu Xiaoying joyfully answered Lu Xuan's call and waited with Sister Qing outside the first-class passageway.
• Lu Xuan emerged from the passage, and Lu Xiaoying hurried over and carefully linked arms with him.
• Lu Xiaoying questioned why her father and cousins had let Lu Xuan travel alone, while Sister Qing greeted him respectfully.
• Lu Xuan calmly shook Sister Qing's hand and thanked her for looking after Xiaoying.

Lu Xiaoying struggled to choose between spending time with her grandfather, Lu Xuan, and filming for Tianyu International after Minghuang Group’s immense pressure forced the company to demand she work. Her agent Gong Qing persuaded her to bring Lu Xuan to the set, while Young Master Leng revealed his predatory interest in Lu Xiaoying.

• President Zhao warned Gong Qing that Tianyu International could not afford to breach its contract with Minghuang Group and ordered Lu Xiaoying’s schedule restored.
• Lu Xiaoying arrived at her villa with Lu Xuan and asked him to stay with her in the capital.
• Gong Qing urged Lu Xiaoying to film despite her refusal, explaining that the contract’s failure could ruin the company and Gong Qing’s career.
• Lu Xiaoying reconsidered when she feared Gong Qing would be blacklisted, and Gong Qing proposed bringing Lu Xuan to the production set.
• Young Master Leng told his companions that he wanted to tame Lu Xiaoying and was looking forward to pursuing her.

Lu Xuan saw through a scheme to force Lu Xiaoying into an intimate scene with Leng Shengchen and told her to leave the set with him. After Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing walked out, Leng Shengchen secretly plotted to have his hired masters intervene.

• Lu Xuan overheard the deputy director explain that Leng Shengchen had arranged for the qualified stand-in actresses to take leave so he could appear in the intimate scene.
• The director and crew pressured Lu Xiaoying to perform the scene herself, while Gong Qing refused and cited the contract’s requirement to use stand-ins.
• The Minghuang Group producer threatened Tianyu International with contract termination, compensation, and blacklisting unless Lu Xiaoying completed the scene.
• Leng Shengchen arrived in costume and watched Lu Xiaoying, while she felt repulsed by him and heard Lu Xuan’s voice from across the set.
• Lu Xuan told Lu Xiaoying to go home with him, and she made two rude gestures at the producer before taking Gong Qing away.
• Leng Shengchen watched them leave and decided to ask his masters to help him pursue Lu Xiaoying covertly.

After Tianyu International faced a three-billion-yuan penalty from Minghuang Group, Lu Xuan took Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing to meet his old friend at the heavily guarded Qingquan Mountain. Lu Xiaoying realized the elder was Grandpa Huang, whom she had once seen on television at the center of a state banquet, as their convoy entered the mountain compound.

• Gong Qing endured a night of calls about Minghuang Group terminating its contract with Tianyu International and demanding three billion in liquidated damages.
• President Zhao blamed Gong Qing and Lu Xiaoying, then ordered Gong Qing to bring Lu Xiaoying to Minghuang Group to beg for forgiveness.
• Lu Xuan told Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing that his old friend was at Qingquan Mountain and that a pickup party had already been waiting for them.
• A convoy of unlicensed black sedans collected Lu Xuan, Lu Xiaoying, and Gong Qing and escorted them toward Qingquan Mountain.
• Lu Xiaoying asked if they were visiting Grandpa Huang, and Lu Xuan confirmed that she had seen him on television at a state banquet when she was a child.
• The convoy passed guarded checkpoints and traveled into the mountain compound at the heart of the Imperial Capital.

Lu Xuan reunited with Elder Huang at Qingquan Mountain, where he detected Yin Energy and a supernatural dragon roar that no one else could hear. After two Daoists found a cursed paper coin and a lock of hair, Lu Xuan sent Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing outside and began a private discussion with the elders about their respective important business.

• Huang Tangshi welcomed Lu Xuan at Qingquan Mountain with profound respect, and Lu Xuan greeted his old friend Elder Huang.
• Lu Xuan introduced Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing to the elders, then sensed Yin Energy near the room's door and heard a dragon roar that only he perceived.
• Two Daoists burst into the room to investigate Yin-Sha Qi, and Lu Xuan confirmed that an unclean presence had been spying on them.
• The Daoists discovered a circular piece of Road-Buying Paper wrapped around a lock of black hair and took it away to trace its source.
• Lu Xuan sent Lu Xiaoying and Gong Qing outside, then stayed with Elder Huang and Huang Tangshi to discuss their private matters.

Lu Xuan agreed to travel to the Great Eagle Federation to escort three patriotic researchers home, while the Huang family arranged protection for his descendants and Lu Xiaoying. Back at Leng Shengchen’s villa, a failed spell targeting Lu Xiaoying killed the three mages and left Leng Shengchen terrified.

• Huang Tangshi asked Lu Xuan to oversee the retrieval of three researchers from the Great Eagle Federation, and Lu Xuan agreed to leave the following night.
• Huang Tangshi gave Lu Xuan an encrypted terminal and explained that two reclusive grandmasters would travel on the same flight without contacting him openly.
• Elder Huang ordered Huang Tangshi to protect Lu Xuan’s descendants and assigned Huang Chengwu to approach and protect Lu Xiaoying, with permission to pursue her.
• The three mages’ Ghost Possession spell targeting Lu Xiaoying triggered a backlash that destroyed their ritual room and killed them.
• The dying mages realized they had targeted Qingquan Mountain and cursed Leng Shengchen, who stood terrified amid the wreckage.

Leng Shengchen was captured after trying to conceal the deaths of three sorcerers, while Lu Xiaoying gained powerful protection and a favorable new contract. Lu Xuan departed by private boarding stairs after Huang Chengwu took responsibility for Lu Xiaoying’s safety.

• Leng Shengchen ordered his bodyguards to clean up and bury the three sorcerers, but disciplined black-clad forces surrounded the villa and arrested him.
• Two Celestial Masters identified the sorcerers as remnants of the Netherworld Wealth Summoning Sect and dismissed Leng Shengchen’s threats about his family’s influence.
• Gong Qing teased Lu Xiaoying about her powerful connections while privately celebrating the relief from pressure over her contract with Minghuang Group.
• An elder pressed President Zhao to give Lu Xiaoying a favorable new contract, and President Zhao agreed and called Gong Qing to arrange its delivery.
• Lu Xuan boarded a plane from Capital International Airport, and Huang Chengwu introduced himself as the person assigned to protect Lu Xiaoying.

Lu Xuan secretly protected three Dragon Country researchers in the Great Eagle Federation and stopped a group of attackers before they could strike. As the researchers headed for the airport, a furious captain ordered Kruger Squad to intercept them on Highway Section 67.

• Lu Xuan watched No. 45 Bening Street from the slums and spotted a suspicious white sedan circling the researchers' villa.
• Mike, Jackson, and their armed crew prepared to attack the villa, but Lu Xuan stopped their car and knocked them unconscious with his spiritual pressure.
• At dawn, the three researchers left No. 45 under the protection of two Greater Mastery of Hua Jin masters, while Lu Xuan followed their business van toward the airport.
• A middle-aged captain discovered the researchers were already on the road and ordered the Sweeper contingency plan to stop them before they reached the airport.
• Kruger Squad, a team of three mechanically enhanced soldiers, raced toward Highway Section 67 to intercept the van.

Lu Xuan silently protected the researchers and National Martial Arts Grandmasters by destroying the Federation squad sent to stop them, then joined them aboard their flight. The two Grandmasters recognized him as a legendary elder and suspected he had reached the Pill Condensation Realm.

• Kray spotted Lu Xuan sitting on the truck bed, and Lu Xuan killed Hank by striking through his armor with Core Energy.
• Kray swerved the pickup, forcing himself and Rayne to jump out; Rayne was badly burned, and Kray fired a missile that destroyed the truck after Lu Xuan vanished.
• The Federation commander called Kray, but Kray could not report that the mission had failed as his damaged systems began shutting down.
• The White-robed Elder and the Black-robed Elder reached the international airport with three researchers without encountering an attack, and they wondered why the journey had been so peaceful.
• Lu Xuan boarded their flight, and the two Grandmasters recognized him as Senior Xuan and realized he had secretly protected them.
• The two Grandmasters sensed Lu Xuan's powerful vitality and wondered whether he had reached the legendary Pill Condensation Realm.

Lu Xuan arrived at Dragon Group’s Kunlun base to investigate a lake that produced mysterious dragon roars, hoping to find enough power to advance his cultivation. He discovered the lake was formed from concentrated Heaven and Earth Origin Power and began refining it.

• Lu Xuan arrived at Kunlun Base, where Xiao Tianye led him through the facility and punished soldiers who stared at their guest by ordering a grueling perimeter run.
• Hong Fei showed Lu Xuan the mysterious lake whose dragon roars had baffled Dragon Country’s researchers and mystics.
• At the lakeshore, Lu Xuan unleashed his Martial Dao Will, stirring violent winds, clouds, and waves, and Hong Fei recognized the power of the legendary Body-Coalescing Realm.
• Lu Xuan ordered Hong Fei to clear the area so he could cultivate, and Hong Fei established a five-kilometer restricted zone and personally stood guard.
• Lu Xuan’s system detected a large amount of Heaven and Earth Origin Power in the lake, and he confirmed its refinement.

Lu Xuan entered a new Mortal World and became a Blazing Sun Realm expert in the Star Radiance Empire. After Chi Shan massacred his comrades and survived their final counterattack, Lu Xuan opened his eyes in the Sun Moon Imperial Court.

• Lu Xuan left Dragon Country with 10 million points and sent his Divine Soul through a fissure into an unknown Mortal World.
• Chi Shan revealed that it had betrayed the Sun Moon Imperial Court and embraced Crimson, then killed Leibuli with a slash of its claws.
• The middle-aged woman and two surviving soldiers prepared to die rather than be captured by Chi Shan.
• The woman used Bright Moon Purify the World, sacrificing herself to erase Chi Shan, but it regenerated from its scattered flesh.
• Lu Xuan opened his eyes inside the Sun Moon Imperial Court as a complete Blazing Sun Realm cultivator and recognized that he had entered a new Mortal World.

After arriving in a world ravaged by Crimson corruption, Lu Xuan joined the Ninth Guard Regiment as its deputy commander and learned that Chi Shan had betrayed the empire and killed four comrades. He resolved to hunt down Chi Shan, but Gao Zheng led the regiment to meet the seven councilors first.

• Lu Xuan considered whether the system could turn Crimson power into points before an emergency Crimson Summons called him to the Imperial Court.
• Gao Zheng told the Ninth Guard Regiment that Chi Shan had fallen into the Crimson and betrayed the empire, while Leibuli and three others had died.
• Xin Pulan and the other members reacted with grief and fury, and Gao Zheng vowed to make Chi Shan pay.
• Lu Xuan arrived and ordered the group to go, keeping his plans to test the system against Crimson Monsters to himself.
• Xin Pulan said Chi Shan had killed Sister Xin, and Lu Xuan declared that he would find the traitor himself.
• Gao Zheng ordered the Ninth Guard Regiment to leave for the Imperial Court and meet the seven councilors.

Gao Zheng and Lu Xuan received the Imperial Court’s order to purge Crimson Pollution around the Ninth Safety Zone and hunt down Chi Shan, with strict instructions to retreat if an S-Class Crimson presence emerged. They reached Tebik City and mobilized its garrison to confront a monster gathering beyond the city, as Gao Zheng prepared to avenge his fallen comrades.

• Gao Zheng, Lu Xuan, and the Ninth Guard Regiment appeared before the Imperial Supreme Seven Councilors, who issued their mission to clear Crimson Pollution and pursue Chi Shan alive or dead.
• Councilor Riyue Yingshu warned Gao Zheng and Lu Xuan that an S-Class Crimson Monster might use Chi Shan as a vessel, and ordered them to flee and alert the Sun-Moon Divine Guard Sequence if they detected a descent.
• Riyue Yingshu cautioned Lu Xuan not to let anger cloud his judgment, and he acknowledged her warning before leaving the Imperial Court with the regiment.
• Gao Zheng and Lu Xuan flew to Tebik City, where the base commander assembled the garrison to receive their orders.
• Gao Zheng ordered the troops to move against a large Crimson Monster gathering detected fifty kilometers beyond the city, determined to kill Chi Shan and avenge his fallen comrades.

Lu Xuan diverted from the regiment’s operation to destroy a Bright Moon Realm Crimson Monster attacking the Sibert estate, then learned the kill had given him enough System Points to deduce Circulation Star Eyes. He left at once to handle that opportunity, asking the base commander to delay the operation if possible.

• A patrol reported a Bright Moon Realm Crimson Monster at the Sibert estate, and Lu Xuan volunteered to deal with it while Gao Zheng continued the planned mission.
• Lu Xuan flew to the Platinum Garden with the base commander in hand and arrived to find the monster killing residents and guards after destroying Baron Sibert’s estate.
• The monster charged Lu Xuan, but his Circulation Star Eyes crushed it with an overwhelming force and killed it instantly.
• Lu Xuan saw a prompt offering to deduce Circulation Star Eyes for 999 of his 1,000 System Points.
• Lu Xuan told the base commander to rejoin Gao Zheng and ask him to delay the operation, then flew away as the commander arranged a helicopter and priority transit authorization.