Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng and Gu Ruier defeated Su Kou and Zhou Li, rescued the Jiang sisters, and returned to Lingxiao Sect. At the Mission Hall, Lu Changsheng presented Su Kou’s head to complete the mission, stunning Elder Shi and the gathered disciples.

• Lu Changsheng reassured Jiang Yingying and Jiang Qingqing after killing Su Kou, while Gu Ruier finished off Zhou Li with her Minor Heavenly Stars Array.
• Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Li He arrived to support the group, and Lu Changsheng showed them Su Kou’s head.
• The group returned to Lingxiao Sect, where Li He and the Jiang sisters departed to recover before Lu Changsheng and the others went to the Mission Hall.
• Disciples at the Mission Hall doubted Lu Changsheng had completed the mission, and Elder Shi assumed the group had returned to abandon it.
• Lu Changsheng placed Su Kou’s head before Elder Shi and asked him to inspect and accept the completed mission, leaving the hall in uproar.

Lu Changsheng returned to the Lingxiao Sect after killing Su Kou, claimed the mission rewards, and shared them with Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Gu Ruier. As Gu Jianchen resolved to seek help from a mysterious person, Lu Changsheng focused on preparing for the Personal Disciple competition and decided to investigate the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda for the Thunder Origin needed to cultivate the Thunder Emperor Canon.

• Elder Shi verified Su Kou's head, then awarded Lu Changsheng one million High-Grade Spirit Stones, a Calamity Breaking Pill, and the Flowing Cloud Phantom Steps martial skill.
• Lu Changsheng gave Gu Ruier the pill, shared the movement skill with Yin Xue and Shen Yuening, and kept the spirit stones for his cultivation.
• News of Lu Changsheng's victory spread through the Inner Sect, alarming Gu Jianchen, who decided to ask a mysterious person to deal with him.
• Lu Changsheng considered the coming Personal Disciple competition and studied the Thunder Emperor Canon, learning that it required a high-grade Thunder Origin.
• Lu Changsheng searched the sect's records, discovered that the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda might contain Thunder Essence, and decided to visit it.

Lu Changsheng arrived at the Lingxiao Sect’s Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda and learned about its ranking, rewards, and forbidden eighteenth level. After paying to enter, he met Lin Feng and set his sights on reaching the higher levels to seek the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder.

• Lu Changsheng studied the Body Tempering Ranking and learned that ranked disciples received monthly Spirit Stone rewards, with Xu Tianba holding first place.
• A disciple warned Lu Changsheng that the eighteenth level contained the deadly Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, which might provide the origin power needed for the Thunder Emperor Canon.
• Lu Changsheng paid two hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and entered the pagoda’s vast thunder world.
• Lu Changsheng encountered Lin Feng, who had switched to body cultivation after finding a suitable body tempering technique.
• Lu Changsheng declined Lin Feng’s offer to cultivate together and resolved to explore the higher levels of the pagoda.

Lu Changsheng crossed the lower floors of the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda, searching for lightning powerful enough to temper his body. After forcing his way through the Thunder River Barrier, he reached the fourteenth floor.

• Lu Changsheng found that the lightning on the first several floors was too weak to affect his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and quickly advanced to the tenth floor.
• He judged the tenth-floor lightning insufficient and continued upward, finding the thirteenth floor's dark thunder dragons strong enough to warrant a brief stay.
• When Lu Changsheng searched for the fourteenth-floor entrance, disciples explained that he would have to cross the dangerous Thunder River Barrier using physical strength alone.
• A scaled-arm disciple mocked Lu Changsheng for attempting the crossing, but Lu Changsheng activated his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and stepped into the river.
• Lu Changsheng walked through the Thunder River Barrier unharmed, shocking the watching disciples, and reached the fourteenth floor.

Lu Changsheng endured three days of the fourteenth level’s Black Demonic Thunder, strengthening his Dragon Elephant Golden Body before charging through the barrier to the fifteenth level. The Body Tempering Ranking revealed that he rapidly passed through the next levels and entered the eighteenth, breaking Xu Tianba’s record as disciples watched in disbelief.

• Lu Changsheng entered the fourteenth level and met Zhao Gan, who was shocked to learn he was a new Inner Sect disciple.
• Lu Changsheng drew the entire fourteenth level’s Black Demonic Thunder toward himself and absorbed it for three days, tempering his body without being harmed.
• Lu Changsheng emerged stronger and crossed the Black Demonic Thunder River into the fifteenth level.
• The Body Tempering Ranking showed Lu Changsheng reaching the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth levels in quick succession.
• Lu Changsheng entered the eighteenth level, breaking Xu Tianba’s record and leaving the gathered disciples stunned.

Lu Changsheng broke Xu Tianba’s year-long Body Tempering Ranking record by reaching the eighteenth level, where he encountered the Yin-Yang Thunder Python. The python’s first attack shattered his defense and left him severely injured.

• The disciples at the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda saw Lu Changsheng take first place after reaching its eighteenth level, surpassing Xu Tianba’s record.
• Xu Tianba learned that Lu Changsheng had claimed the top spot, grew furious, and set out to test him personally.
• Lu Changsheng entered the eighteenth level and cautiously ventured through its lightless, silent expanse toward a dangerous presence.
• Lu Changsheng discovered the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder and the enormous Yin-Yang Thunder Python formed from it.
• The Yin-Yang Thunder Python attacked Lu Changsheng with a black-and-white lightning beam that destroyed his Dragon Elephant Golden Shield and severely injured him.

Lu Changsheng fought the vastly stronger Yin-Yang Thunder Python on the eighteenth floor of the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda, hoping to obtain its Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder origin. Just as the python prepared to swallow him, an Old Man in Green Robe appeared and saved him, leaving Lu Changsheng wondering who the mysterious senior was.

• Lu Changsheng chose to keep fighting the Yin-Yang Thunder Python despite his grievous wounds, seeking its origin to advance his cultivation.
• Lu Changsheng unleashed his fists and martial techniques, but the python broke through his attacks and battered him to the brink of collapse.
• The Yin-Yang Thunder Python formed a devouring vortex to swallow Lu Changsheng, who could no longer defend himself.
• An Old Man in Green Robe appeared and pierced the vortex with a chaos-colored rainbow gleam, forcing the python back.
• Lu Changsheng saw that the old man had suppressed the python and wondered who he was and why he had been on the pagoda's eighteenth floor.

Lu Changsheng swallowed the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder Origin and endured its violent power while refining it with his martial arts. After the Old Man in Green Robe stood guard, Lu Changsheng subdued the thunder and emerged stronger.

• The Old Man in Green Robe rebuked Lu Changsheng for entering the eighteenth level, and Lu Changsheng explained that he had used a Nine Heavens Thunder Array to break through the seal in search of a Thunder Origin.
• Lu Changsheng insisted he would return until he could subdue the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, so the Old Man in Green Robe trapped and crushed the Yin-Yang Thunder Python with spatial power.
• The Old Man in Green Robe extracted the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder Origin and warned Lu Changsheng that refining it could kill him.
• Lu Changsheng swallowed the Thunder Origin and used the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art and Great Fortune Heaven Swallowing Art to withstand and refine its destructive energy.
• Lu Changsheng subdued the thunder, healed his wounds, and released an aura several times stronger than before.

Lu Changsheng refined the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, advanced to the Law Tribulation Realm Fifth Level, and cultivated the Thunder Emperor Canon during a month on the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda’s eighteenth floor. He emerged to find Xu Tianba waiting among the stunned disciples, and their hostile gazes met.

• Lu Changsheng refined the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, broke through from the Law Tribulation Realm Third Level to the Fifth Level, and found the Old Man in Green Robe had disappeared.
• Lu Changsheng studied the Thunder Emperor Canon, condensed the Thunder God Seal, and learned about its five thunder-based martial skills.
• Lu Changsheng mastered the Thunder Emperor Palm’s basic one thousand thunder patterns and focused on improving it and the Nine Heavens Lightning Steps.
• Lu Changsheng spent thirty days on the eighteenth floor, drawing the attention of the Inner Sect while Xu Tianba waited outside and refused to believe he had survived.
• Lu Changsheng exited the pagoda and met Xu Tianba’s hostile gaze before the silent crowd.

Lu Changsheng emerged unharmed from thirty days on the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda’s eighteenth floor, then challenged Xu Tianba’s accusations that he had cheated. Their fight began with a head-on clash between the Heavenly Thunder Tyrant Body and the Dragon Elephant Golden Body, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Lu Changsheng came out of the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda after thirty days on its eighteenth floor, shocking the disciples gathered in the plaza.
• Xu Tianba confronted Lu Changsheng and accused him of using tricks to claim the top spot on the Body Tempering Ranking.
• Lu Changsheng dismissed Xu Tianba’s accusations and agreed to fight him when Xu issued a challenge.
• Xu Tianba attacked with the Heavenly Thunder Tyrant Body and Heavenly Thunder Fist, but Lu Changsheng met his punch with the Dragon Elephant Golden Body and Dragon Elephant Sky Collapse Fist, and both fighters staggered back evenly matched.
• Xu Tianba and Lu Changsheng continued exchanging fierce physical attacks as the plaza watched, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.

Lu Changsheng defeated Xu Tianba in a fierce physical battle outside the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda. After Xu Tianba unleashed his Thunder God's Hammer, Lu Changsheng revealed that he had refined Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder and knocked Xu Tianba unconscious, leaving the disciples stunned.

• Lu Changsheng gradually suppressed Xu Tianba's Heavenly Thunder Tyrant Body with his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and stronger endurance.
• Lu Changsheng exploited an opening and kicked Xu Tianba into a crater, injuring him.
• Xu Tianba gathered his remaining power and summoned the Thunder God's Hammer to attack Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng met the hammer with Six Dragons Six Elephants, but Xu Tianba's strike began to overpower his fist.
• Lu Changsheng revealed Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, shattered the Thunder God's Hammer, and struck Xu Tianba unconscious.
• The disciples stared in shock as Lu Changsheng stood victorious, having refined the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder from the pagoda's eighteenth floor.

After defeating Xu Tianba and proving his strength, Lu Changsheng became the Inner Sect’s center of attention. Chu Ling challenged him after Gu Jianchen, Lei Qing, and Chu Yanlan accused him of misconduct, and Lu Changsheng accepted, leaving their showdown at the Martial Training Ground three days away.

• Lu Changsheng defeated Xu Tianba, then left as Inner Sect disciples recognized his victory and his mastery of Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder.
• Gu Jianchen, Lei Qing, and Chu Yanlan complained to Chu Ling about Lu Changsheng, and Chu Ling announced he would challenge him in three days.
• News of Chu Ling’s challenge spread through the Inner Sect, where disciples expected him to defeat Lu Changsheng.
• Rui'er, Yin Xue, and Shen Yuening warned Lu Changsheng about Chu Ling’s strength, but he accepted the challenge.
• Three days passed as the Inner Sect awaited the battle between Lu Changsheng and Chu Ling.

Lu Changsheng faced Chu Ling in a crowded Martial Arts Plaza duel, but Chu Ling’s overwhelming strength left him injured and on the verge of a harsher attack. Shi Jingtian, a Personal Disciple who knew Lu Changsheng, intervened and demanded that Chu Ling apologize, leaving Chu Ling humiliated and stunned.

• Chu Ling arrived at the Martial Arts Plaza with Gu Jianchen, Lei Qing, and Chu Yanlan, while the crowd doubted Lu Changsheng would dare appear.
• Lu Changsheng arrived with Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Gu Ruier, rejected Chu Ling’s demand that he kneel and apologize, and stood against Chu Ling’s spiritual pressure.
• Chu Ling struck Lu Changsheng with a palm, sending him flying and drawing blood, but Lu Changsheng refused to kneel even as Chu Ling prepared to cripple him.
• Shi Jingtian appeared, revealed himself as a Personal Disciple, and interrupted Chu Ling before his next attack.
• Shi Jingtian dismissed Chu Ling’s justification and told him to apologize to Lu Changsheng, leaving Chu Ling visibly humiliated.

Shi Jingtian forced Chu Ling to apologize to Lu Changsheng, humiliating him before the Inner Sect and returning the Spirit Stones he owed Lu. As Chu Ling plotted revenge for the Personal Disciple assessment in half a month, Lu Changsheng began searching for Spirit Arrays to counter him.

• Shi Jingtian crushed Chu Ling with spiritual pressure and forced him to apologize publicly to Lu Changsheng.
• Shi Jingtian returned Lu Changsheng one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and reminded him to prepare for the Personal Disciple assessment.
• Chu Ling left the plaza with Gu Jianchen, Lei Qing, and Chu Yanlan, then vowed to make Lu Changsheng pay during the assessment.
• Lu Changsheng discussed Chu Ling's likely revenge with Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er, then realized Spirit Arrays could help him overcome Chu Ling's strength.
• Lu Changsheng went to the Trading Hall and began searching for Spirit Array scrolls and materials to prepare for the assessment.

Lu Changsheng bought and mastered the Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array to prepare for his confrontation with Chu Ling. After half a month in seclusion, he summoned three ice dragons, then joined Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Gu Ruier as the Personal Disciple assessment began.

• Lu Changsheng rejected several Spirit Arrays before spending nearly all his Spirit Stones on the Nine Dragon Ice Absolute Array.
• Lu Changsheng secluded himself in a cold valley and repeatedly practiced the array despite painful failures.
• The Lingxiao Sect’s Inner Sect disciples prepared for the Personal Disciple assessment as the half-month deadline approached.
• Lu Changsheng successfully summoned three ice dragons with the array and judged its power sufficient to threaten Chu Ling.
• The assessment bell rang, and Lu Changsheng met Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Gu Ruier, who had also advanced in cultivation.
• Lu Changsheng and the three women hurried to Lingxiao Square as disciples gathered for the Personal Disciple assessment.

Lu Changsheng attended Lingxiao Sect’s Personal Disciple assessment, where he recognized Chief Elder Qingwei as the mysterious elder who had helped him in the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda. Qingwei announced the four assessment stages and the limited number of disciples the six Martial Venerable elders would accept, leaving the gathered disciples poised to begin.

• Lu Changsheng and Yin Xue arrived at Lingxiao Square, where Chu Ling, Gu Jianchen, and Lei Qing threatened him before he brushed them off.
• Six Martial Venerable elders emerged above the square, and Lu Changsheng recognized the leading Elder Qingwei from the Body Tempering Thunder Pagoda.
• Yin Xue identified Qingwei as Lingxiao Sect’s chief elder and introduced the other five elders to Lu Changsheng.
• Elder Qingwei announced that each elder would accept only four Personal Disciples, for a total of twenty-four places.
• Elder Qingwei revealed the four assessment stages: the Beast Tide, Illusionary Space, Heavenly Sound Valley, and Giant Valley, followed by challenges against three guardians.

Lu Changsheng, Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er entered the Personal Disciple assessment and fought to survive the first trial against a massive beast tide. Chu Ling and his allies doused them with Beast Luring Liquid, drawing a frenzied swarm toward them as their defenses began to buckle.

• Elder Qingwei opened the spatial gate and began the assessment, and Lu Changsheng led Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er into the trial.
• The disciples arrived on a black plain filled with beasts and faced the first trial: surviving the beast tide for three incense sticks.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions held a rocky stronghold, combining their combat skills and Rui'er's formations to fend off the beasts.
• Chu Ling, Gu Jianchen, and Lei Qing splashed Beast Luring Liquid onto the four before fleeing through the chaos.
• The scent drove nearby beasts into a frenzy, and they abandoned other targets to charge the four in overwhelming numbers.
• Lu Changsheng's defensive line began to falter as he recognized Chu Ling's ruthless trap.

Lu Changsheng and the others were overwhelmed by demonic beasts drawn by Beast Luring Liquid, forcing him to shelter them inside a spirit array. When an eighth-layer pháp kiếp Realm Desolate Flame Sky Bull threatened to break through, Lu Changsheng left the barrier to fight it, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Beast Luring Liquid drove the demonic beasts into a frenzied assault, and Lu Changsheng, Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er fought back as Yin Xue and Shen Yuening were injured.
• Nearby disciples blamed Lu Changsheng's group and gloated that they would be torn apart.
• Lu Changsheng formed the Golden Bowl Protecting Heaven Array, giving the group time to recover while Rui'er, Yin Xue, and Shen Yuening condemned Chu Ling's side for their treachery.
• An eighth-layer pháp kiếp Realm Desolate Flame Sky Bull emerged and cracked the barrier with its first charge.
• Lu Changsheng ordered Rui'er to maintain the array, then left its protection to confront the Desolate Flame Sky Bull as it prepared to charge again.

Lu Changsheng defeated the eighth-level Desolate Flame Sky Bull with a fusion of Dragon Elephant power and Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, then joined Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er in hunting beasts for demon cores. After Elder Qingwei ended the first trial, the four entered the light pillar for the second trial, Illusionary Space.

• Lu Changsheng endured the Desolate Flame Sky Bull's powerful attacks and struggled to damage its defenses with his martial skills.
• Lu Changsheng fused Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder with his Dragon Elephant strength and killed the Desolate Flame Sky Bull with the Dragon Elephant Yin-Yang Thunder Fist.
• Lu Changsheng recovered the bull's demon core, returned to the barrier, and burned his Beast Luring Liquid-stained clothes as the beasts' frenzy eased.
• Lu Changsheng, Yin Xue, Shen Yuening, and Rui'er hunted the remaining demonic beasts together and collected many valuable demon cores.
• Elder Qingwei announced that the Beast Tide trial had ended and directed the survivors through the light pillars to the Illusionary Space trial.
• Lu Changsheng and the other three set off toward the second light pillar with the other surviving disciples.

Lu Changsheng entered the Illusionary Space, where lifelike illusions attacked him and tested the disciples’ judgment. After surviving a false treasure trove that drove several disciples to madness and slaughter, he continued toward the depths, knowing the trial had only begun.

• Lu Changsheng found himself alone in the fog-shrouded Illusionary Space, unable to use his divine sense or sense Spiritual Qi.
• Lu Changsheng recognized that the crying Rui'er approaching him was an illusion and struck it down when it attacked with a dagger.
• Lu Changsheng and Yin Xue mistook each other for illusions and fought briefly before realizing they were real, then joined other disciples to advance together.
• Lu Changsheng warned the disciples that a clearing filled with treasures was likely an illusion, but several greedy disciples rushed in to claim them.
• The treasures’ mist drove the disciples who touched them into madness, and they attacked one another until the illusion vanished, leaving Lu Changsheng and the survivors to face the trial’s dangers.