Chapter Summaries

Lei Hao broke through to eighth-grade Martial Marquis and overwhelmed Lu Changsheng, but Lu survived his Holy Thunder Fist and summoned the Great Wheel Ming King Array. The chapter ended as the array’s six Dharma artifacts clashed with Lei Hao’s silver-white thunder palm.

• Lu Changsheng and Lei Hao both suffered injuries after their attacks collided, but Lei Hao grew furious at being wounded.
• Lei Hao broke through from seventh-grade to eighth-grade Martial Marquis during the battle and attacked Lu Changsheng with overwhelming force.
• Lei Hao battered Lu Changsheng, shattered his Three-Colored Thunder Shield with the Holy Thunder Fist, and sent him crashing into a crater.
• Lu Changsheng rose from the crater and activated the fifth-grade Great Wheel Ming King Array.
• Lu Changsheng commanded the array’s six Dharma artifacts to strike Lei Hao, who countered with a massive silver-white thunder palm.

Lu Changsheng’s Great Wheel Ming King Array collapsed under Lei Hao’s Eighth-grade Martial Marquis attack, leaving him gravely wounded and facing Lei Hao’s finishing move. He unleashed the Four-Colored Lightning Lotus, which destroyed Lei Hao’s thunder beast and detonated across the platform, shattering the barrier and sweeping into the stands.

• Lei Hao shattered Lu Changsheng’s Great Wheel Ming King Array with his silver-white lightning palm, badly injuring Lu Changsheng.
• Lei Hao summoned a three-headed thunder beast with the Primordial Thunder Beast Art and sent it charging at Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng fused Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning, and Great Void Divine Thunder into the Four-Colored Lightning Lotus.
• The Four-Colored Lightning Lotus destroyed Lei Hao’s thunder beast and flew toward him as Lei Gu tried to intervene, but Elder Chiyang blocked him under the tournament rules.
• The lotus detonated beside Lei Hao, shattered Elder Chiyang’s barrier, and sent a vast thunderstorm into the spectator stands, killing some weaker martial artists and forcing the survivors to flee or defend themselves.

Lu Changsheng survived the destruction caused by his Four-Colored Lightning Lotus and was declared the winner after defeating Lei Hao. Ling Yuechan conceded the final, making Lu Changsheng the North Divine Martial Gathering champion, while Lei Gu vowed revenge.

• Lu Changsheng's Four-Colored Lightning Lotus destroyed Qingyang Peak and killed Lei Hao, leaving the tournament venue in ruins.
• Lei Gu found Lei Hao's corpse and charged at Lu Changsheng, but Elder Chiyang stopped him and invoked the Four Great Sacred Sects' authority to enforce the tournament rules.
• Rui'er, Shi Jingtian, and Qing He helped Lu Changsheng recover, and Elder Chiyang announced his victory over Lei Hao.
• Tu Jiao conceded her semifinal match to Ling Yuechan, then Ling Yuechan conceded the final because she could not withstand Lu Changsheng's Four-Colored Lightning Lotus.
• Elder Chiyang declared Lu Changsheng of the Lingxiao Sect the champion of the North Divine Martial Gathering.

Lu Changsheng won the North Divine Martial Gathering, but Lei Gu and Nangong Qing attacked him and his companions as soon as it ended. Tu Jiao revealed an Azure Sun Token proving their connection to Old Ancestor Qingyang, prompting Elder Chiyang to protect them as descendants of the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s lineage.

• Elder Chiyang announced Lu Changsheng as champion and named Tu Jiao third, while the other top-ten contestants received their rankings.
• Elder Chiyang announced the tournament’s end and promised Lu Changsheng a chance to choose a treasure from the Sacred Sect Treasury.
• Lei Gu and Nangong Qing confronted Lu Changsheng’s group and demanded revenge for their dead relatives, while Elder Chiyang fell silent under their threats.
• Lei Gu and Nangong Qing restrained Lu Changsheng’s group with their Ninth-Grade Martial Venerable pressure, but Tu Jiao revealed an Azure Sun Token.
• Elder Chiyang recognized the token as belonging to Old Ancestor Qingyang and declared Lu Changsheng and Tu Jiao descendants of the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s lineage, vowing that Lei Gu and Nangong Qing could not harm them.

Elder Chiyang drove Lei Gu and Nangong Qing away and brought Lu Changsheng and his companions into the Azure Sun Sacred Sect. After seeing the sect’s formidable mountain range, they arrived at the Azure Sun Great Hall, where Elder Chiyang said they would meet the Grand Elder before discussing the Sky-Mending Divine Cauldron with the Sect Master.

• Elder Chiyang unleashed his True Monarch pressure and declared that anyone who harmed Lu Changsheng and Tu Jiao would become an enemy of the Azure Sun Sacred Sect.
• Lei Gu and Nangong Qing withdrew with their factions, threatening Lu Changsheng with future retaliation.
• Elder Chiyang ended the gathering and invited Lu Changsheng, Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, Rui'er, and Qing He to return with him to the Azure Sun Sacred Sect.
• News of Lu Changsheng's victory spread across the North Divine Domain while his group traveled by treasure ship to the sect's mountain gate.
• Elder Chiyang guided the group through the sect's protective formation and dense spiritual lands to the Azure Sun Great Hall, where he said they would meet the Grand Elder before discussing the Sky-Mending Divine Cauldron with the Sect Master.

Lu Changsheng and his companions reached the Azure Sun Sacred Sect, where Grand Elder Qingxuanzi recognized their connection to the sect's Old Ancestor and granted them a place to stay on Purple Sun Peak. Their request to borrow the Sky-Mending Divine Cauldron remained unresolved because the Old Ancestor was in secluded cultivation, leaving the Eastern Mausoleum Domain's spiritual-decay crisis hanging over them.

• Elder Chiyang brought Lu Changsheng and the others before Grand Elder Qingxuanzi, and the elders doubted that a half-step Martial Marquis could win the North Divine Martial Gathering.
• Elder Chiyang described Lu Changsheng's victories and his killing of a Martial King, then swore that his account was true, earning Qingxuanzi's admiration.
• Tu Jiao presented the Azure Sun Token and explained that Lingxiao Sect's master, Lingxuzi, was the Old Ancestor's final disciple; Qingxuanzi confirmed the token's authenticity.
• Tu Jiao asked to borrow the Sky-Mending Divine Cauldron to repair the shattered Eastern Mausoleum Domain Seal, but Qingxuanzi said the Old Ancestor's approval was needed and he was in secluded cultivation.
• Qingxuanzi ordered Elder Chiyang to house the five on Purple Sun Peak and grant them core disciple treatment and sect tokens with contribution points.
• Elder Chiyang took them to Purple Sun Peak, and Lu Changsheng told his companions to treat their injuries before making further plans.

Lu Changsheng and his companions cultivated on Purple Sun Peak, where Purple Sun Qi healed their injuries and helped several of them advance. After Elder Chiyang delivered their North Divine Martial Gathering rewards, the group set out to explore the Azure Sun Sacred Sect, unaware that hostile figures were watching them.

• Lu Changsheng used the Great Fortune Heaven Swallowing Art to absorb Purple Sun Qi, heal his injuries, and break through to First-grade Martial Marquis on the third day.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao also advanced to First-grade Martial Marquis, while Qing He strengthened his cultivation and Rui'er reached the peak of the eighth level of the Saint Heaven Realm.
• Elder Chiyang delivered the martial gathering rewards, including treasures for Tu Jiao and additional rewards for champion Lu Changsheng, whose chance to enter the Azure Sun Sacred Pool was replaced by permission to choose two treasures from the Sacred Sect Treasury.
• Tu Jiao gave her thousand-year Star Tear to Shi Jingtian, and Lu Changsheng gave his Dragon Blood Sacred Fruit to Qing He to help him advance.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions left Purple Sun Peak to explore the Azure Sun Sacred Sect, while several hostile figures appeared and plotted against their entry into the Sacred Sect Treasury.

Lu Changsheng and his companions toured the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s vast cultivation grounds and encountered Fang Tianci at the Spirit Tempering Waterfall. After learning that the Eastern Mausoleum Domain newcomers had been given Purple Sun Peak, Fang Tianci confronted them with open hostility.

• Lu Changsheng, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Rui'er, and Qing He admired the sect’s medicinal mountain, spiritual fruit orchard, Pill Rivers, and Five Elements Pagoda as they flew through its grounds.
• The group visited the Spirit Tempering Waterfall and watched disciples use its heavy Profound Heavy Water to temper their bodies.
• Fang Tianci emerged from the waterfall after cultivating beneath it for four days and four nights, and the disciples praised his strength and Indestructible Vajra Body.
• Fang Tianci learned that Elder Chiyang had brought back Eastern Mausoleum Domain participants who received Purple Sun Peak, which he had expected as a reward for completing a dangerous mission.
• Fang Tianci spotted Lu Changsheng and the others at the waterfall, and the two sides exchanged hostile looks.

Fang Tianci challenged Lu Changsheng’s group over Purple Sun Peak, but Tu Jiao met his attack and revealed her tenth-layer Primordial Hegemon Body. The dispute shifted to a contest beneath the Spirit Tempering Waterfall, where Fang Tianci settled in confidently while Lu Changsheng endured the crushing Profound Heavy Water without yet using his Dragon Elephant Golden Body.

• Fang Tianci confronted Lu Changsheng’s group and demanded that they surrender Purple Sun Peak, which Elder Chiyang had assigned to them.
• Lu Changsheng refused, and Shi Jingtian provoked Fang Tianci by citing the Eastern Mausoleum Domain’s North Divine Martial Gathering results.
• Fang Tianci attacked Shi Jingtian, but Tu Jiao blocked his punch and forced him back, revealing that she was a First-grade Martial Marquis with a tenth-layer Primordial Hegemon Body.
• Fang Tianci’s disciple proposed settling the dispute through a contest to see who could endure longer beneath the Spirit Tempering Waterfall, with the loser yielding Purple Sun Peak.
• Lu Changsheng accepted the contest, and Fang Tianci entered the waterfall and sat beneath it with his Indestructible Vajra Body fully activated.
• Lu Changsheng stepped beneath the waterfall and endured its crushing pressure and law power, while his companions trusted that his Dragon Elephant Golden Body would help him withstand the trial.

Lu Changsheng endured the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s Spirit Tempering Waterfall without using a body-protecting technique, while Fang Tianci relied on his Indestructible Vajra Body. After Fang Tianci withdrew on the fifth day, Lu Changsheng remained beneath the falls, leaving the sect disciples and elders astonished.

• Fang Tianci and Lu Changsheng cultivated beneath the Spirit Tempering Waterfall as sect disciples mocked Lu Changsheng and doubted he would last half a day.
• Lu Changsheng endured the waterfall for days without activating the Dragon Elephant Golden Body, drawing a growing crowd and prompting Elder Chiyang and Elder Moyang to wager on how long he would last.
• On the fifth day, Fang Tianci’s Indestructible Vajra Body collapsed, and he left the waterfall believing he had won.
• The crowd discovered Lu Changsheng was still seated beneath the waterfall, revealing that he had outlasted Fang Tianci.
• Shi Jingtian taunted Fang Tianci, while Elder Moyang conceded his wager to Elder Chiyang and wondered how much longer Lu Changsheng could endure.

Lu Changsheng emerged from ten days beneath the Spirit Tempering Waterfall with his body greatly strengthened and won Purple Sun Peak from Fang Tianci. After the elders awarded both men access to the Sacred Sect Treasury, Fang Tianci plotted to use its dangers to take revenge on Lu Changsheng.

• Lu Changsheng endured ten days beneath the Spirit Tempering Waterfall, tempering his body without activating the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Lu Changsheng emerged before the gathered Azure Sun Sacred Sect disciples and claimed Purple Sun Peak, while Fang Tianci angrily challenged his victory.
• Elder Chiyang stopped Fang Tianci from attacking, and Elder Moyang awarded Fang Tianci one treasure and Lu Changsheng two treasures from the Sacred Sect Treasury.
• News of Lu Changsheng's feat spread through the sect, drawing admiration as well as jealousy and contempt from some disciples.
• Fang Tianci and his followers plotted to exploit the Sacred Sect Treasury's formations and seize Lu Changsheng's treasures and Purple Sun Peak.

After consolidating his First-grade Martial Marquis cultivation, Lu Changsheng entered the Azure Sun Sacred Sect's Sacred Sect Treasury with eleven core disciples, including his hostile rival Fang Tianci. The treasury opened for five hours, and Lu Changsheng disappeared inside as Elder Lin faced criticism from the Guardian Elders for his prejudice against him.

• Lu Changsheng completed his cultivation beneath the Enlightenment Dao Tree, and Rui'er, Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Qing He warned him to watch out for Fang Tianci in the treasury.
• Elder Lin arrived on Purple Sun Peak, insulted Lu Changsheng's strength, and escorted him toward the Sacred Sect Treasury.
• Lu Changsheng met eleven core disciples at the hidden valley entrance, where Fang Tianci threatened him with a gesture.
• The Guardian Elders questioned Lu Changsheng's qualification, but Elder Lin explained that he had won the North Divine Martial Gathering and disparaged his victory as lucky.
• The Guardian Elders opened the treasury and explained that the disciples had five hours to choose treasures and must avoid its forbidden dangers.
• Lu Changsheng entered the treasury after the other disciples, and the round-faced Guardian Elder rebuked Elder Lin for holding a personal grudge against him.

Lu Changsheng searched the Sacred Sect Treasury, where treasures floated in a vast shadowy space and his divine sense was suppressed. After passing up several powerful but unsuitable treasures, he discovered a gray boulder that resonated with his three origin thunders and began probing the lightning treasure hidden within.

• The treasury’s consciousness examined Lu Changsheng, then transported him into a dim, seemingly endless space that suppressed his divine-soul perception.
• Lu Changsheng captured a Void Spirit Ganoderma but released it because he wanted a treasure more useful to him.
• He found an ice martial technique, a Heaven-tier sword, and a Nine Dragon Sky-Burning Cauldron, but let each go because none suited his needs.
• Lu Changsheng noticed a gray boulder that stirred his three unusual thunders and resonated with their lightning power.
• He concluded that a supreme lightning-related treasure lay inside the boulder and began channeling his three origin thunders into it.

Lu Changsheng refined the Ancient Thunder Roc Wings and discovered their extraordinary speed. While searching for his second treasure in the Sacred Sect Treasury, he found a powerful Spirit Array scroll, but a mysterious ancient fluctuation from deeper within the treasury made him reconsider.

• Lu Changsheng broke open a gray boulder, uncovered the Ancient Thunder Roc Wings, and learned they had belonged to a peak Martial Venerable Realm Thunder Roc.
• Lu Changsheng spent four hours refining the wings, tested their speed, and concealed them as silver patterns beneath his skin.
• Lu Changsheng explored the treasury’s main collection area and rejected the Nether Cloak, the Thousand-Hand Tathagata Palm, the Eye of Breaking Illusions, the Mount Sumeru Palm, and the Heavenly Desolation Halberd Technique fragment.
• Lu Changsheng selected the fifth-grade high-grade Nine Hells Immortal Burning Array scroll as his second treasure because its power could threaten even late-stage Martial Kings.
• A strange ancient fluctuation from deeper in the treasury made Lu Changsheng turn toward the darkness in shock.

Lu Changsheng ignored the treasury’s treasures to find the Dragon Armor Puppet, a dormant construct with early-stage Martial King combat strength, but Fang Tianci ambushed him and tried to claim it. Lu Changsheng repelled Fang Tianci’s attacks and suppressed his Indestructible Vajra Body in close combat, leaving Fang Tianci enraged and awakening a more dangerous power.

• Lu Changsheng followed an ancient summons deeper into the Azure Sun Sacred Sect treasury and discovered the Dragon Armor Puppet on a jade platform.
• Lu Changsheng learned that the puppet could rival an early-stage Martial King but was dormant and required blood binding and a powerful energy source.
• Fang Tianci ambushed Lu Changsheng, then recognized the puppet and declared that he would take it after killing Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng blocked Fang Tianci’s Azure Jade Divine Palm with his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and forced him backward.
• Fang Tianci activated his Indestructible Vajra Body and fought Lu Changsheng hand to hand, but Lu Changsheng’s physical strength gradually gained the advantage.
• Fang Tianci was driven back and humiliated, then unleashed a more dangerous aura as he swore to kill Lu Changsheng.

Lu Changsheng defeated and killed Fang Tianci after Fang Tianci broke through to the ninth level of the Indestructible Vajra Body and attacked him with a Heaven-rank halberd. Lu Changsheng then claimed the Dragon Armor Puppet, completing its master recognition.

• Fang Tianci broke through to the ninth level of the Indestructible Vajra Body, condensed a vajra dharma image, and launched a powerful punch at Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng fused three strange lightning types with his Dragon Elephant Golden Body, broke Fang Tianci's defenses, and sent him flying.
• Fang Tianci attacked with the Fang Tian War Halberd, but Lu Changsheng used the Thunder Tribulation Armor and Thunder Emperor Sword to overwhelm him and sever his right arm.
• Lu Changsheng caught Fang Tianci as he tried to flee and killed him with the Thunder Emperor's Three Absolute Slashes—Second Slash, Soul Execution.
• Lu Changsheng returned to the jade platform and completed master recognition of the Dragon Armor Puppet with his essence blood.

Lu Changsheng tested the Dragon Armor Puppet, then memorized the Nine Hells Immortal Burning Array before the treasury’s time limit expired. After returning, he was accused of killing Fang Tianci, and the Guardian Elders ordered an investigation while restricting Lu Changsheng to Purple Sun Peak.

• Lu Changsheng tested the Dragon Armor Puppet, suffered a serious injury from its punch, and stored it alongside the Thunder Sparrow Wings as his two chosen treasures.
• Lu Changsheng memorized the Nine Hells Immortal Burning Array’s complete diagram without taking its scroll, then left the treasury when his time ran out.
• The disciples returned to the valley, but Fang Tianci was missing, so Elder Lin reentered the treasury to search for him.
• Elder Lin returned with Fang Tianci’s corpse and accused Lu Changsheng of killing him, but the Guardian Elders stopped him from seizing Lu Changsheng without evidence.
• The Guardian Elders ordered an investigation by the Punishment Hall and told Lu Changsheng to remain on Purple Sun Peak and cooperate.

After Fang Tianci's death sparked an investigation and outrage within the Azure Sun Sacred Sect, Pei Xuan led disciples to confront Lu Changsheng on Purple Sun Peak. Pei Xuan attacked him, but Lu Changsheng's Dragon Armor Puppet struck back and sent the Martial King flying, leaving the disciples stunned.

• The Hall of Penalties began investigating Fang Tianci's death, while sect disciples blamed Lu Changsheng and urged Pei Xuan to act.
• Pei Xuan agreed to visit Purple Sun Peak and challenge Lu Changsheng, then led more than twenty disciples there.
• Lu Changsheng showed his companions the Ancient Thunder Roc wings, Dragon Armor Puppet, and Nine Hells Immortal Burning Array he had obtained from the Sacred Sect Treasury.
• Pei Xuan demanded to know whether Lu Changsheng had killed Fang Tianci, and injured Tu Jiao with his Martial King pressure when she challenged him.
• Lu Changsheng denied Pei Xuan's accusations and demanded evidence, but Pei Xuan attacked him with a palm strike.
• Lu Changsheng ordered the Dragon Armor Puppet to stop Pei Xuan, and the puppet countered with one punch that sent Pei Xuan flying and left him coughing blood.

Lu Changsheng used the Dragon Armor Puppet to defeat Pei Xuan, whose attempt to attack him was stopped by Elder Chiyang. Elder Chiyang revealed that the sect had concealed Fang Tianci’s death and warned Lu Changsheng to avoid killing fellow disciples again, then announced that he had another important matter to share.

• Pei Xuan attacked Lu Changsheng to seize control of the Dragon Armor Puppet, but the puppet repeatedly struck him down and drove him to unleash a secret technique.
• Elder Chiyang arrived, stopped Pei Xuan, ordered him to apologize to Lu Changsheng, and sent him and the other disciples away.
• Elder Chiyang asked Lu Changsheng whether he had killed Fang Tianci, and Lu Changsheng admitted that Fang had attacked him first in the treasury.
• Elder Chiyang explained that the treasury could reconstruct the fight and that the Grand Elder had persuaded the sect to conceal Fang Tianci’s death as an accident caused by an ancient restriction.
• Elder Chiyang warned Lu Changsheng that the sect would not excuse another killing of a fellow disciple, then said he had another important matter to announce.

Elder Chiyang told Lu Changsheng and his companions they had been granted special permission to join the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s Myriad Immortals Assembly and pursue the powerful Immortal River Baptism. As the sect’s disciples reacted with hostility to their inclusion, Pei Xuan plotted to kill them in the Myriad Immortals River three days later.

• Elder Chiyang explained that the Myriad Immortals Assembly would let participants collect Immortal Spirit Marrow and exchange it for a baptism that could greatly strengthen cultivation, but warned that the riverbed was dangerous and that disciples might attack one another.
• Lu Changsheng, Tu Jiao, Shi Jingtian, Qing He, and Rui'er agreed to enter the assembly, prepare carefully, and face the danger together.
• The assembly’s participant list revealed the five outsiders had been approved as external guests, provoking protests and accusations from Azure Sun Sacred Sect disciples.
• Pei Xuan learned the five were on the list and, urged by his trusted disciples, planned to use the riverbed’s dangers to kill them and seize their Dragon Armor Puppet.