Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuan deduced Circulation Star Eyes and broke through to the Star Domain Realm while the Imperial forces cleared a Deep Crimson Worm swarm without him. After the battle, Lu Xuan found Chi Shan hiding nearby and confronted him.

• Lu Xuan spent 999 System Points to deduce Circulation Star Eyes, entering seclusion as three days passed.
• Gao Zheng ordered the Imperial forces to begin the extermination operation, and the soldiers and Bright Moon Realm fighters defeated the Deep Crimson Worm swarm.
• Chen Hu killed the surviving worm leader, and Gao Zheng ordered the troops to search the surrounding area for stragglers.
• Lu Xuan emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the Star Domain Realm, then discovered the worm swarm had already been wiped out.
• Chi Shan watched Chen Hu from concealment and vowed to devour the Imperial forces and Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan appeared behind Chi Shan and confronted him, remarking that his luck seemed poor.

Lu Xuan let Lord Black Tiger possess Chi Shan, then used the full power of his Star Domain Realm to destroy the S-class Crimson Monster’s vessel. He gained 100,000 System Points and considered hunting genuine S-rank Crimson Monsters for even greater rewards.

• Chi Shan fled from Lu Xuan, but Gao Zheng and Lu Xuan cornered it with their star powers.
• Gao Zheng crushed Chi Shan with Starlight Palm, but its Deep Crimson-granted vitality began regenerating its mangled body.
• Lu Xuan stopped Gao Zheng from finishing Chi Shan and told him to return to the Imperial Court with the troops.
• Lord Black Tiger descended into Chi Shan’s body, rebuilding it and driving its power toward the Star Domain Realm.
• Lu Xuan unleashed Circulation Star Eyes and erased the possessed Chi Shan, earning 100,000 System Points.
• Lu Xuan inspected the system’s offer to deduce Circulation Star Eyes and wondered how many points a genuine S-rank Crimson Monster would yield.

After deducing Circulation Star Eyes and slaughtering Crimson Monsters across the wasteland, Lu Xuan reached Rising Sun City and wiped out the monsters there. He set off with Old Master Feng toward a growing crimson egg surrounded by hundreds of monsters and four powerful guards.

• Lu Xuan spent 50,000 System Points to deduce Circulation Star Eyes, advanced to the Star Domain Realm (Xiao Cheng), and continued hunting Crimson Monsters across the wasteland.
• At Rising Sun City, Old Master Feng and his group fled a pack of Crimson Monsters while Xixi drove away with supplies and a star map.
• Lu Xuan appeared above the city and erased the pursuing Crimson Monsters with his Star Eyes, earning 5,000 System Points.
• Old Master Feng told Lu Xuan about a giant crimson egg near their settlement that was growing and attracting Crimson Monsters, so Lu Xuan grabbed him and flew southeast.
• Lu Xuan and Old Master Feng reached the egg, where hundreds of Crimson Monsters gathered around it and four powerful creatures guarded it.

Lu Xuan annihilated a newly hatched S-class Red Bull Demon, then deduced Circulation Star Eyes to greater mastery. He arrived at a Fifth Guard Regiment battlefield, where its commander and adjutant recognized the famed Ninth Guard Regiment deputy commander.

• Lu Xuan used purple starlight to destroy the Crimson Monsters guarding the giant red egg, and the egg hatched into a 300-meter Red Bull Demon.
• The Red Bull Demon attacked Lu Xuan with blood rays, but Lu Xuan suppressed and dismantled it with the power of the starry sky.
• Old Master Feng called for a pickup and reported that he had tremendous news, while Lu Xuan gained one million System Points and deduced Circulation Star Eyes.
• Half a month later, Lu Xuan reached the Fifth Safety Zone and saw the Fifth Guard Regiment battling an enormous swarm of pangolin-like Crimson Monsters.
• The Fifth Guard Regiment commander and her adjutant recognized Lu Xuan as the Ninth Guard Regiment deputy commander and wondered why he had come to their territory.

Lu Xuan reached the Star Domain Realm and began destroying Crimson Monster clans in the wilderness, prompting the Sun-Moon Imperial Court to appoint him Grand General despite noble opposition. The Sun-Moon Emperor approved the appointment but remained puzzled by Lu Xuan’s apparently futile campaigns.

• Lu Xuan emerged as a Star Domain Realm expert, annihilated the monsters pouring from the abyssal rift, and left the Fifth Guard Regiment to secure the area.
• Over the following month, Lu Xuan ventured into the fallen regions and wiped out Crimson Monster clans, drawing the attention of the empire’s upper ranks.
• At the Assembly, Minister Yunxing and other nobles condemned Lu Xuan’s unauthorized purges and demanded his return and access to his cultivation insights.
• Riyue Yingshu silenced the nobles and announced that the seven great councilors had agreed to appoint Lu Xuan Grand General of the Empire.
• Most councilors voted in favor despite protests from aristocratic nobles, and the Assembly passed the appointment.
• Riyue Yingshu told the Sun-Moon Emperor that the appointment had passed and questioned its haste; he explained that he wanted to observe Lu Xuan because his campaigns puzzled him.

Lu Xuan advanced to the Star Vortex Realm, spent a century exterminating Crimson Monsters, and drained the World Will of a billion System Points. As the World Will attacked him, Lu Xuan escaped, leaving the world’s supernatural sources depleted and its monsters and Starry Sky warriors destined to lose their powers.

• Lu Xuan found three powerful Deep Crimson Fallen tormenting human survivors in Source Brilliance Heart City and erased them with his starry sky power.
• Lu Xuan spent four million System Points to advance to the Star Vortex Realm and gained the power to summon a Natal Star Vortex that could annihilate a mountain.
• Lu Xuan resisted the World Will’s suppression and stayed in the world to gather points from its Crimson Monsters.
• Over the next hundred years, Lu Xuan’s campaigns helped the Sun-Moon Empire reclaim its lands, and humanity revered him as the Crimson Terminator and Human Pioneer.
• Lu Xuan reached the Cosmic Time Realm and accumulated one billion System Points by taking source power from the World Will.
• As the World Will attacked him, Lu Xuan escaped into the void, leaving the sources of Deep Crimson and the starry sky depleted.

Lu Xuan entered his seventh life in a supernatural warlord era, where he commanded a small army but had no cultivation or techniques. At General Mountain, he forced the Daoists of Fu Yuan Temple to hand over their inheritance and obtained the Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture.

• Lu Xuan deduced three cultivation techniques, reached the peak of the Sixth Mortal World Immortal, and entered a new Mortal World to face its tribulations.
• Lu Xuan awakened as a warlord at General Mountain, a feared tomb site, and learned that demons and specters haunted a realm where imperial fortune had collapsed.
• Lu Xuan discovered that his new life began with no cultivation, techniques, or System Points, while his army sought treasures buried in Great General Wei Yuan's tomb.
• Lu Xuan approached three Daoists from Fu Yuan Temple and demanded that they reveal their hidden skills.
• Lu Xuan pressed a Broomhandle Mauser to the youngest Daoist's temple, forcing the Old Daoist Priest to surrender the temple's incomplete Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture.

Lu Xuan returned to Peaceful Town after learning that the ancient tomb was protected by dangerous Yin Yang Inverse Sha, intending to strengthen his abilities before entering it. He sealed Fu Yuan Temple and had its imprisoned ghosts brought out so he could seek System Points from them.

• Lu Xuan examined the fragmentary Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture, added it to his System Panel, and questioned the old Daoist priest about the ancient tomb.
• The old Daoist priest described the tomb’s White Tiger Carrying Corpse formation, Yin Yang Inverse Sha, and the fierce Yin Soldiers Crossing that occurred nearby.
• Lu Xuan ordered his troops to withdraw to Peaceful Town, planning to investigate Fu Yuan Temple’s techniques and Magic Artifacts before returning to the tomb.
• Lu Xuan arrived at Fu Yuan Temple, cleared away its pilgrims, and temporarily sealed the temple.
• Lu Xuan asked the old Daoist priest to show him the imprisoned ghosts, and the priest led him to Magic Artifacts containing several malicious spirits.

Lu Xuan burned the temple’s sealed ghost vessels to gain System Points and rapidly advanced his Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture to Earth Master (Perfection). The burning released several powerful evil ghosts, including a Red Wedding Dress Female Ghost, and left Lu Xuan facing the supernatural storm.

• Lu Xuan ordered soldiers to move Fu Yuan Temple’s talisman-covered Magic Artifacts into the sun, despite the Old Daoist Priest’s warnings.
• Lu Xuan had the artifacts piled on dry branches and set them alight while the Old Daoist Priest prepared an altar and gave him the Evil Suppressing Purple Firmament Talisman.
• As the flames destroyed sealed Yin Souls and granted Lu Xuan System Points, he completed and rapidly deduced the Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture to its seventh level, reaching Earth Master (Perfection).
• Black clouds, violent rain, and chilling winds descended as the burning artifacts released several powerful evil ghosts, driving the soldiers, adjutant, and feng shui master to flee.
• The Old Daoist Priest used Essence Blood to invoke his Patriarch’s protection, then warned Lu Xuan that the most ferocious evil ghosts were emerging.
• A Red Wedding Dress Female Ghost appeared five paces from Lu Xuan, blood streaming from her face as she stared into the rain.

Lu Xuan destroyed the escaped ghosts with the Sun Flame Evil-Slaying Talisman, prompting Zhang Daosheng to mistake him for Fu Yuan Temple’s founding patriarch. Lu Xuan gave Zhang a protective jade pendant and ordered his army to return to General Mountain the next day, then recalled the atrocities the original owner had committed against the Chen Family.

• Zhang Daosheng recognized the escaped Female Ghost in the red wedding dress and Water Ghost, then used a blood-sacrifice golden-light curse to weaken them and the other Yin Souls.
• Lu Xuan formed the Sun Flame Evil-Slaying Talisman and burned all the ghosts away, leading Zhang Daosheng to believe the temple’s founding patriarch had manifested through him.
• Lu Xuan returned the founding patriarch’s purple talisman to Zhang Daosheng and gave him a jade pendant containing a miniature Sun Flame Evil-Slaying Talisman for protection.
• Lu Xuan fired warning shots when Zhang Daosheng tried to refuse the jade pendant, and the returning adjutant and troops found the square cleared of ghosts.
• Lu Xuan ordered the army to return to General Mountain the next day, then went back to the Chen estate and remembered how the original owner had killed Chen Mingsheng and his three sons and seized the family’s property.

After Seventeenth Concubine and Chen Qing were found dead in a well, Lu Xuan suspected foul play and ordered Steward Wu to keep vigil over their bodies. That night, Seventeenth Concubine’s vengeful spirit attacked Steward Wu, who revealed that he had murdered the mother and daughter, before the Old Daoist Priest’s junior brother and the adjutant intervened.

• The adjutant and feng shui master told Lu Xuan that Seventeenth Concubine and Miss Qing had jumped into a well, and Lu Xuan went to inspect their bodies.
• Lu Xuan noticed that the bodies showed no signs of struggle and sensed a chilling aura, then ordered Steward Wu to guard them overnight.
• Steward Wu sat vigil in the mourning hall until the candles went out and Seventeenth Concubine’s spirit appeared before him.
• Steward Wu admitted that he had killed Seventeenth Concubine and Chen Qing after abusing Chen Qing, then tried to ward off the spirit with an Exorcism Talisman.
• Seventeenth Concubine hurled a coffin at Steward Wu, and the Old Daoist Priest’s junior brother saved him while the adjutant stood nearby.

Master Jiu subdued the Seventeenth Concubine’s vengeful spirit and used a talisman ritual to reveal that Steward Wu had murdered her and Chen Qing. Lu Xuan survived Steward Wu’s hostage attempt with the Yangyan Protective Talisman, then ordered the aftermath handled and the army assembled at General Mountain.

• Master Jiu drove the Seventeenth Concubine’s spirit back with a Yangyan talisman and Peachwood Sword, then pinned her with an Evil Suppressing Talisman without damaging her corpse.
• Lu Xuan asked Master Jiu to retrieve the Seventeenth Concubine’s memories, and Master Jiu prepared Source Tracing Talisman Water from a strand of her hair.
• Steward Wu tried to volunteer to drink the water, but Lu Xuan ordered Adjutant Mo to drink it, and Adjutant Mo witnessed the Seventeenth Concubine’s memories.
• Steward Wu seized a sidearm and took Lu Xuan hostage, but Adjutant Mo revealed that Steward Wu had drugged, assaulted, and killed the Seventeenth Concubine and Chen Qing, then staged their deaths as suicide.
• Lu Xuan redirected Steward Wu’s gun toward Adjutant Mo, whose Yangyan Protective Talisman stopped the bullet; Adjutant Mo then shot Steward Wu dead.
• Master Jiu recognized Lu Xuan’s protective talisman, and Lu Xuan ordered his men to clean up and assemble the army at General Mountain at dawn.

Lu Xuan opened General Wei Yuan’s tomb by force and watched its exploration through a talisman link while remaining safely aboveground. After a hidden crossbow trap failed to harm the soldiers protected by his talismans, they praised him and prepared to continue looting the tomb.

• Lu Xuan ignored the feng shui master's proposed routes and ordered the soldiers to dig straight down into the main burial chamber.
• Five hundred soldiers descended while Lu Xuan stayed aboveground and used a Subordinate Talisman swallowed by Adjutant Mo to view the tomb.
• The soldiers found Great General Wei Yuan's black stone coffin, nine Blood Coffins, more than a hundred other coffins, and a hoard of burial treasures.
• A soldier triggered a hidden mechanism, releasing a rain of crossbow bolts that shattered against the soldiers' talisman-protected bodies.
• Adjutant Mo declared that Lu Xuan's talismans had saved them, and the soldiers cheered for the Marshal before turning back toward the coffins with renewed confidence.

Adjutant Mo and the soldiers opened a black coffin, releasing a deadly cloud and revealing a remarkably preserved Daoist corpse. As the tomb’s other corpses awakened, the soldiers used Lu Xuan’s talismans to empower their rifles and destroyed the horde, leaving the mysterious main coffin unopened.

• Adjutant Mo ordered six soldiers to open a black coffin, and their Exorcism Talismans shielded them from the Black Smoke that burst out.
• The soldiers saw an old Daoist in the coffin, and the feng shui master warned that the corpse had become a monster as unnatural darkness and wind engulfed the tomb.
• Lu Xuan ordered Adjutant Mo to attach Exorcism Talismans to the torches and guns, and the talismans kept the flames burning and empowered the weapons.
• The remaining black and Blood Coffins burst open, releasing over a hundred Bronze Armor Corpses and nine Silver Armor Corpses.
• Adjutant Mo ordered the soldiers to fire, and their talisman-blessed rifles burned the 109 corpses to ash.

Lu Xuan destroyed the Golden Armor Flying Zombie at General Mountain, then used the spoils and System Points to advance from Earth Master Perfection to Heavenly Master Xiao Cheng. After discovering that others could earn him points by using his talisman-enhanced weapons to kill Demons and Monsters, he resolved to unite the realm and command a talisman-armed army.

• The Golden Armor Flying Zombie emerged from its coffin, shrugged off the soldiers’ gunfire, and shook General Mountain with its roar.
• Lu Xuan drew a vast blood-red talisman that crushed the Golden Armor Flying Zombie into golden dust and ended the mountain’s collapse.
• Lu Xuan returned to Dingnan County with his army and the tomb’s treasures, dismissed the original owner’s family, and spent System Points deducing the Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture.
• A deity above the Ninth Heaven sent Lu Xuan Crimson Divine Power, breaking his bottleneck and raising him to the Heavenly Master realm.
• Lu Xuan spent nearly all his remaining points to reach Heavenly Master Xiao Cheng and confirmed that kills made with his talisman-enhanced weapons credited System Points to him.
• Lu Xuan resolved to unite the realm, equip his armies with talisman-engraved weapons, and use them to exterminate Demons and Monsters.

Lu Xuan attended Hu Weibang’s banquet at Wangjiang Tower and rejected his demand for most of the Ancient Tomb treasure, declaring that Sanshui County would belong to the Southern Pacification Army. Hu Weibang and his Heretical Paths accomplices attacked, but Lu Xuan effortlessly broke their techniques and left Hu Weibang facing his retaliation.

• Secretary-General Zhou Zhili delivered Hu Weibang’s invitation, and Lu Xuan recognized the Killing Intent hidden in its ink.
• Despite Adjutant Mo and the feng shui adviser’s warnings, Lu Xuan ordered them to wait with a thousand elite soldiers and went to Wangjiang Tower with just over fifty men.
• Hu Weibang offered Lu Xuan an alliance in exchange for seventy percent of the Ancient Tomb treasure, while Lu Xuan identified Su Wan as a practitioner of Charm Arts and Hu Weibang’s retainers as Heretical Paths practitioners.
• Lu Xuan demanded Sanshui County instead, and Hu Weibang dropped his polite facade as Su Wan, the Gu Poison Master, and the Soul-Snatching Sect practitioner launched a coordinated attack.
• Lu Xuan shattered Su Wan’s Demonic Sound, incinerated the Gu insects, and turned the soul-snatching attack back on its practitioner before confronting Hu Weibang.

Lu Xuan destroyed Hu Weibang’s forces, expanded the Southern Pacification Army across northern Azure Prefecture, and eliminated two rival warlords who tried to attack him with evil ghosts. As Lu Xuan emerged as one of Azure Prefecture’s four powers, reports of blood-draining zombies in Sanshui County sent him and Adjutant Mo to investigate.

• Lu Xuan used the Heaven and Earth Reversal Talisman to turn Hu Weibang’s gunmen against one another and routed the Heretical Path practitioners at Wangjiang Tower.
• Lu Xuan’s army grew to more than twenty thousand troops and took control of Dingnan, Beiyu, Cen, and Sanshui Counties, alarming Zhang Tianbiao and Zhao Shouchang.
• Zhang Tianbiao and Zhao Shouchang formed an alliance and hired Xuan Gouzi to send three evil ghosts after Lu Xuan.
• Lu Xuan’s will shattered Xuan Gouzi’s ritual, and the freed ghosts devoured Zhang Tianbiao and Zhao Shouchang before Lu Xuan erased the ghosts and ordered Blackstone and Panan Counties occupied.
• Lu Xuan’s Southern Pacification Army took six counties, making him one of four major powers in Azure Prefecture and earning him three hundred thousand System Points.
• Adjutant Mo reported that suspected zombies had drained victims’ blood in two Sanshui County towns, and Lu Xuan ordered him to lead a thousand Talisman Battalion soldiers there.

Adjutant Mo led the Southern Pacification Army and a group of spiritual practitioners into Linjiagang to confront the Corpse Disaster. When a vengeful ghost attacked under a supernatural darkness, talisman-enhanced guns destroyed it, and Mo handed the stunned Old Monk a rifle.

• Adjutant Mo arrived in Withered Stone Town, ordered the town secured and supplied, and announced that the army would march against the demons at Blackwater Town and Linjiagang.
• At Zhao Deming’s banquet, the Old Monk warned that powerful corpse kings and ghosts threatened the towns and that ordinary firearms would be ineffective, but Adjutant Mo insisted the army was prepared.
• At dawn, Adjutant Mo’s convoy reached Linjiagang, where the soldiers formed a blockade and entered alongside monks, Daoists, and martial wanderers.
• The spiritual practitioners destroyed several Bronze Armor Hairy Zombies, but a blood-colored pillar and unnatural darkness heralded a powerful attack.
• The Old Monk’s Prayer Beads failed to stop a vengeful ghost, but soldiers killed it with talisman-covered rifles, and Adjutant Mo gave the Old Monk a gun.

Adjutant Mo led the Southern Pacification Army and mystic practitioners to destroy the Corpse Horde in Linjiagang with talisman-enhanced rifles and a cannon, then recruited the survivors into the Talisman Battalion. Lu Xuan watched from Dingnan County as the operation earned him five hundred thousand System Points.

• Adjutant Mo issued talisman-covered rifles and protective Red Talismans to the soldiers and mystic practitioners as zombies and fierce ghosts converged on Linjiagang.
• The army and newly armed practitioners fired together, destroying the Bronze Armor Hairy Zombies and fierce ghosts, while Adjutant Mo summoned a Mountain Cannon to blast apart a half-step Golden Armor Flying Zombie.
• With the corpse demon dead, sunlight returned to Linjiagang, and Yu Huo Temple's Daoist and other practitioners agreed to join Commander Lu's Talisman Battalion; the old monk silently chose to accompany them.
• Lu Xuan checked his System screen in Dingnan County and saw that Adjutant Mo's campaign had earned him five hundred thousand System Points.

The Southern Pacification Army’s Talisman Battalion attacked supernatural threats across six counties, while Captain Yi’s force exterminated the Zhou Family’s ghosts in Cen County. Lu Xuan received the resulting System Points and used 1,400,000 of them to deduce the Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture.

• Adjutant Mo reported several demonic incidents across Azure Prefecture, and Lu Xuan ordered his units to subdue demons and slay devils.
• The Talisman Battalion advanced on the yin-filled tomb in Phoenixfall Town, Dingnan County, to confront its corpse-Killing Intent and possible corpse puppets.
• Captain Yi led three hundred soldiers into the Zhou Family estate and used talisman barriers and gunfire to destroy its vengeful ghosts.
• Captain Yi’s soldiers tracked down and burned the powerful Green Ghost Shadow, completing their mission in Cen County.
• Lu Xuan received System Points from the exterminations across six counties and chose to deduce the Sun Flame Talisman Fire True Scripture.