Chapter Summaries

Pei Xuan held Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Qing He, and Rui'er captive to lure Lu Changsheng into an ambush and demand his surrender and treasures. Lu Changsheng refused and challenged Pei Xuan, then used the Thunder Tribulation Armor to withstand his first attack; Pei Xuan prepared to unleash his full power.

• Pei Xuan revealed that he had captured Rui'er as bait, imprisoned Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, and Qing He, and planned to kill them and Lu Changsheng in the black coral forest.
• Lu Changsheng arrived, saw his companions' injuries, and rejected Pei Xuan's demand that he kneel and hand over his treasures.
• Lu Changsheng challenged Pei Xuan, who unleashed his First-Rank Martial King pressure.
• Lu Changsheng activated the Thunder Tribulation Armor, raised his cultivation to Sixth-Rank Martial Marquis, and used the Sea God Halberd to counter Pei Xuan's giant water palm.
• Lu Changsheng was forced back but remained standing, surprising Pei Xuan, who began preparing a stronger attack.

Lu Changsheng fought Pei Xuan through a prolonged battle in the black coral forest, with both men revealing powerful weapons and techniques. Pei Xuan unleashed the Nine Heavens Slaughter Hand, and Lu Changsheng answered with Mount Sumeru Palm; their supreme attacks were poised to collide as the chapter ended.

• Pei Xuan wounded Lu Changsheng with Azure Dragon Sky Rend Claw and pressed him with Shifting Stars, but Lu Changsheng defended with his Thunder Roc Wings and Sea God Halberd Art.
• Pei Xuan summoned the Twin Dragon Mace and struck with Twin Dragons Shake the Mountain, while Lu Changsheng countered with Water Dragon Chant; the clash injured both fighters and devastated the black coral forest.
• Pei Xuan began forming his Pei family secret art, the Nine Heavens Slaughter Hand, and sent its gray-white palm toward Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng summoned a thousand-yard mountain phantom with Mount Sumeru Palm, setting it against Pei Xuan's approaching slaughter hand.

Lu Changsheng endured Pei Xuan’s forbidden Asura Martial Art and relentless assault while secretly preparing his Four-Colored Lightning Lotus. The chapter ended as he revealed the lotus and prepared to counterattack, leaving Pei Xuan shaken by its lethal power.

• Lu Changsheng and Pei Xuan’s ultimate palm techniques collided, devastating the black coral forest and injuring them both.
• Pei Xuan activated the forbidden Asura Martial Art, raising his strength to the peak of the Second-Rank Martial King Realm.
• Pei Xuan overwhelmed Lu Changsheng with a brutal barrage, while Tu Jiao stopped Shi Jingtian from intervening.
• Tu Jiao noticed Lu Changsheng secretly gathering lightning into a Four-Colored Lightning Lotus as he endured Pei Xuan’s attacks.
• Pei Xuan struck Lu Changsheng into a crater, but Lu Changsheng rose with the completed lightning lotus and warned that it was his turn to attack.

Lu Changsheng used his Four-Colored Lightning Lotus to cripple Pei Xuan, then returned from the Myriad Immortals River as the assembly ended. After Ye Ge falsely accused him of attacking Pei Xuan, Elder Lin Yue ordered Lu Changsheng seized and sent to the Hall of Penalties.

• Lu Changsheng launched the Four-Colored Lightning Lotus at the fleeing Pei Xuan, while Tu Jiao led the others upstream to escape the blast.
• The lotus destroyed Pei Xuan's defenses and left him near death; Lu Changsheng and his companions later found him in a devastated crater.
• The Myriad Immortals Bell ended the assembly and transported the disciples to the jade plaza, where Elder Lin Yue used the formation to bring Pei Xuan out.
• Elder Lin Yue discovered that Pei Xuan's dantian had been destroyed, and Ye Ge blamed Lu Changsheng while falsely claiming Pei Xuan had acted honorably.
• Elder Lin Yue accepted Ye Ge's accusation, pressured the injured Lu Changsheng, and ordered his arrest and transfer to the Hall of Penalties.

After Elder Chiyang and Elder Moyang stopped Elder Lin Yue from arresting Lu Changsheng, they delayed judgment until an investigation and began the Immortal River Baptism. Murong Taxue displayed a quasi ninth-grade baptism, while Lu Changsheng prepared to reveal the Heart of the Immortal River as the crowd mocked him.

• Elder Lin Yue ordered the Hall of Penalties guards to seize Lu Changsheng and his companions, but Elder Chiyang intervened and protected them as honored guests of Old Ancestor Qingyang.
• Elder Moyang persuaded Lin Yue to postpone punishment and arrange a joint investigation, then announced the start of the Immortal River Baptism.
• The sect disciples offered their Immortal Spirit Marrow, and Situ Lie, Ouyang Shan, and Wu Qingying each received an eighth-grade baptism.
• Murong Taxue revealed a true ninth-grade Immortal Spirit Marrow, but without the Heart of the Immortal River she could obtain only a quasi ninth-grade baptism.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions stepped onto the platform as disciples mocked their prospects, and Lu Changsheng raised his sleeve to reveal his harvest.

Lu Changsheng revealed three ninth-rank Immortal Spirit Marrows and the legendary Heart of the Immortal River, triggering the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s first perfect ninth-rank baptism. He shared the baptism with Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Qing He, and Rui'er, and the chapter ended with their transformation still underway as Murong Taxue watched.

• Lu Changsheng released hundreds of Immortal Spirit Marrows, including three ninth-rank ones, shocking the disciples and elders who had mocked him.
• Lu Changsheng revealed the Heart of the Immortal River, and Elder Chiyang and Elder Moyang recognized it as the source core needed for a perfect ninth-rank baptism.
• The Heart of the Immortal River activated the platform, producing nine-colored heavenly phenomena and overwhelming Murong Taxue’s quasi-ninth-rank baptism.
• Lu Changsheng invited Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Qing He, and Rui'er to share the baptism, and the five sat together beneath its pillar of light.
• The baptism healed Lu Changsheng’s injuries and strengthened all five companions while their cultivation continued to rise; Elder Lin Yue secretly resolved to kill Lu Changsheng.
• Murong Taxue completed her baptism and reached the Ninth-Rank Martial King Peak, then turned her attention to the still-radiant baptism surrounding Lu Changsheng and his companions.

Lu Changsheng and his companions completed a perfect Ninth-Rank baptism, and Lu Changsheng rose to Ninth-Rank Martial Marquis Peak. As the Hall of Penalties began investigating Pei Xuan’s crippling, Murong Taxue’s master discovered she had lost her virginity and demanded to know who was responsible.

• Lu Changsheng’s cultivation surged from Third-Rank Martial Marquis to Ninth-Rank Martial Marquis Peak, while Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao reached Ninth-Rank Martial Marquis and Rui'er and Qing He reached Sixth-Rank Martial Marquis.
• Elder Lin Yue threatened Lu Changsheng over Pei Xuan’s crippling, but Lu Changsheng calmly said he would wait; Lin Yue then took the unconscious Pei Xuan away.
• News of the baptism and Pei Xuan’s defeat spread through the Azure Sun Sacred Sect, and the Hall of Penalties began investigating the battle at the Myriad Immortals River.
• Murong Taxue returned to Proud Snow Peak, where Abbess Fahua discovered her virginity mark had vanished and demanded to know who had taken her purity.
• Murong Taxue refused to name Lu Changsheng, insisting the matter was her fault, while Abbess Fahua pressed her for the man’s identity.

Abbess Fahua learned that Lu Changsheng had been intimate with Murong Taxue and attacked him on Purple Sun Peak, enraged that a young man from the Eastern Mausoleum Domain had touched her disciple. Just as Fahua prepared to kill him, Murong Taxue arrived with Grand Elder Qingxuanzi, and Fahua vowed to fight them rather than spare Lu Changsheng.

• Abbess Fahua pressured Murong Taxue to reveal the name and background of the man who had been intimate with her, and Murong Taxue identified Lu Changsheng as an outside guest from the Eastern Mausoleum Domain.
• Murong Taxue explained Lu Changsheng's achievements, but Abbess Fahua flew to Purple Sun Peak, where she demanded that Lu Changsheng kneel and crushed him beneath her Saint Lord pressure.
• Shi Jingtian charged at Abbess Fahua to defend Lu Changsheng, but she struck him through a courtyard wall and left him buried in the ruins.
• Lu Changsheng resisted Fahua's pressure, explained that he had saved Murong Taxue from the Heavenly Demon Water Scorpion's poison, and vowed to become strong enough to stand openly by her side.
• Abbess Fahua raised her palm to kill Lu Changsheng, but Murong Taxue and Grand Elder Qingxuanzi arrived and Qingxuanzi dissolved the attack.
• Abbess Fahua refused to relent and told Qingxuanzi that she would kill Lu Changsheng even if she had to stake her own life.

Abbess Fahua reluctantly spared Lu Changsheng after Qingxuanzi reminded her that he was Old Ancestor Qingyang’s granddisciple, but set three perilous conditions before she would accept his marriage to Murong Taxue. Lu agreed to all three, while rumors about him spread through the Azure Sun Sacred Sect and enraged Wu Tianyang.

• Qingxuanzi stopped Abbess Fahua from killing Lu Changsheng by invoking Old Ancestor Qingyang, and Fahua gave Lu one year to meet three conditions.
• Abbess Fahua demanded that Lu reach the Martial Venerable Realm within a year, defeat the inheritors of three other Great Sacred Sects, and retrieve the Qilin Saint Medicine from the Ancient Ruins Forbidden Land.
• Lu accepted all three conditions, and Murong Taxue worried over him before he reassured her that he would not retreat for her sake.
• Rumors falsely claimed that Lu had forced Murong Taxue, turning the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s disciples against him.
• Wu Tianyang heard the rumors about Murong Taxue and erupted in fury, vowing to kill Lu Changsheng.

Lu Changsheng accepted Wu Tianyang’s challenge to a life-or-death duel seven days later and learned that the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder might give him the strength to win. He flew to the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Thunder Abyss and plunged inside to seek it.

• Rumors about Lu Changsheng and Murong Taxue enraged the Azure Sun Sacred Sect’s disciples, but Grand Elder Qingxuanzi barred them from approaching Purple Sun Peak.
• Wu Tianyang issued Lu Changsheng a challenge to fight on the Life and Death Platform in seven days, and Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao urged Lu Changsheng not to accept.
• Lu Changsheng accepted, saying he would prove himself worthy of Murong Taxue and fulfill his promises to Abbess Fahua.
• Murong Taxue warned that Wu Tianyang was a powerful Seventh Grade Martial King Peak expert, and Lu Changsheng decided he needed a fourth Strange Thunder to strengthen his Four-Colored Thunder Lotus.
• Murong Taxue told Lu Changsheng that the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder lay in the dangerous Ten-Thousand-Zhang Thunder Abyss, and he refused her offer to accompany him.
• Lu Changsheng flew to the Thunder Abyss and plunged into its depths to seek the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder.

Lu Changsheng descended into the Thunder Abyss, found and consumed a mature Thunder Tribulation Fruit, then entered the thunder sea in search of the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder. He defeated the First-Rank Martial King Realm Heavenly Thunder Demon Flood Dragon, leaving the way open to continue deeper.

• Lu Changsheng braved the Thunder Abyss’s lightning and found a silver tree bearing one mature golden Thunder Tribulation Fruit and one immature silver fruit.
• Lu Changsheng ate the golden Thunder Tribulation Fruit, strengthening his Lightning Power, then continued down to a vast sea of liquid lightning.
• Lu Changsheng activated the Dragon Elephant Golden Body and plunged into the thunder sea, fighting through its lightning and whirlpools.
• The First-Rank Martial King Realm Heavenly Thunder Demon Flood Dragon emerged and attacked Lu Changsheng with its tail and three lightning beams.
• Lu Changsheng fought the Heavenly Thunder Demon Flood Dragon with the Sea God Halberd, breaking its horn and piercing one of its eyes.
• Lu Changsheng used the Sea God Halberd Art’s Fifth Form, Water Dragon Chant, to pierce the flood dragon’s central head and kill it.

After reaching Ninth-Rank Martial Marquis Peak, Lu Changsheng descended to the bottom of the Thunder Abyss and found the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder. He used his three Strange Thunders to subdue it, leaving the thunder condensed into an origin orb.

• Lu Changsheng reflected on how his Ninth-Rank Immortal River Baptism had strengthened him enough to defeat the Heavenly Thunder Demon Flood Dragon and renewed his resolve to face Wu Tianyang.
• Lu Changsheng reached the deep-blue lightning zone, was blasted into a cliff by a single arc, then used his Thunder Tribulation Armor to absorb the lightning and descend safely.
• Lu Changsheng followed the Strange Thunder aura through the crystal passages and found the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder in a cavern.
• Lu Changsheng sent the Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder to attack the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder, then added the Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning when the first thunder began to lose ground.
• Lu Changsheng released the Great Void Divine Thunder, and the three Strange Thunders gradually exhausted and subdued the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder.
• The Nine Nether Demonic Thunder surrendered and condensed into a palm-sized origin orb, and Lu Changsheng celebrated his success.

Lu Changsheng refined the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder during the seven days before his life-and-death battle with Wu Tianyang, then raced toward the arena after gaining control of four supreme Strange Thunders. Wu Tianyang arrived at the Life and Death Platform and demanded that Lu Changsheng face him, while Lu Changsheng had not yet appeared.

• Lu Changsheng swallowed the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder and used the Thunder Emperor Canon and his three existing Strange Thunders to contain and refine it.
• Over seven days, Lu Changsheng absorbed the Nine Nether Demonic Thunder, awakened four Strange Thunders, and strengthened his aura to an even more formidable level.
• Lu Changsheng set out for the Life and Death Platform, determined to defeat Wu Tianyang with the Five-Colored Thunder Lotus.
• Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Rui'er, and Qing He worried about Lu Changsheng's absence and left Purple Sun Peak to wait at the martial arena.
• Tens of thousands of Azure Sun Sacred Sect disciples gathered at the Life and Death Platform and accused Lu Changsheng of fleeing the battle.
• Wu Tianyang descended onto the platform amid nine blazing suns and called for Lu Changsheng to come out and die.

Lu Changsheng arrived at the Life and Death Platform after hours of taunts and began fighting Wu Tianyang, who accused him of defiling Murong Taxue. Wu Tianyang’s first attack overwhelmed Lu Changsheng’s water technique, but Lu Changsheng activated his Dragon Elephant Golden Body as Wu Tianyang unleashed the Nine Yang Divine Body for a clash of physiques.

• Wu Tianyang waited on the Life and Death Platform and threatened Lu Changsheng, while Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Qing He, and Rui'er arrived without him.
• After the crowd mocked Lu Changsheng for hours, he descended onto the platform in a burst of five-colored lightning.
• Lu Changsheng rejected Wu Tianyang’s demand that he kneel and confess, and accused him of acting out of jealousy over Murong Taxue.
• Wu Tianyang attacked with Nine Suns Burning Heaven Palm, and Lu Changsheng’s Water Dragon Chant failed to stop the strike, leaving him injured and disarmed.
• Lu Changsheng activated his Dragon Elephant Golden Body, and Wu Tianyang merged his nine phantom suns into his body to reveal his major-completion Nine Yang Divine Body.

Lu Changsheng’s Dragon Elephant Golden Body advanced to major completion during his desperate fight with Wu Tianyang, allowing him to injure the stronger martial king in a clash of their ultimate attacks. Wu Tianyang then revealed that he had reached Eighth-Rank Martial King and vowed to show Lu Changsheng true despair.

• Wu Tianyang initially overwhelmed Lu Changsheng with his Nine Yang Divine Body and Heavenly Flame, battering him into a crater and preparing a killing blow.
• Under pressure at the brink of death, Lu Changsheng condensed a tenth dragon and elephant phantom, completing his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and gaining the power of Ten Dragons Ten Elephants.
• Lu Changsheng counterattacked and drove Wu Tianyang back, then clashed with his Nine Yang Suppressing Heaven Finger using the Ten Dragon Ten Elephant Fist.
• The collision destroyed the martial arena and sent both fighters flying; Lu Changsheng landed among the Ruins, while Wu Tianyang spat blood and suffered a severe wound.
• Wu Tianyang unleashed an aura revealing that he had advanced to Eighth-Rank Martial King and declared that their warm-up was over.

Wu Tianyang overwhelmed Lu Changsheng on the Life and Death Platform, shattering his armor and breaking his limbs before unleashing a killing blow. As the giant palm descended, Lu Changsheng revealed five kinds of Strange Thunder in his hand, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Wu Tianyang revealed his Eighth-Rank Martial King strength and used his Nine Yang Divine Fist to smash Lu Changsheng into the ruins.
• Lu Changsheng emerged wearing the Thunder Tribulation Armor, temporarily raised his strength to First-Rank Martial King, and attacked Wu Tianyang with the Thunder Emperor Sword.
• Wu Tianyang dispelled Lu Changsheng's attacks and battered him until the Thunder Tribulation Armor shattered, then broke his right arm and left leg.
• Wu Tianyang summoned a giant palm with his Nine Yang Shaking Heaven Palm, while Lu Changsheng rose and revealed five kinds of Strange Thunder in his hand.

Lu Changsheng fused five kinds of Strange Thunder into a Five-Colored Thunder Lotus and used it to devastate Wu Tianyang, leaving the Eighth-Rank Martial King barely alive. As Lu Changsheng stood wounded above the ruined plaza, Elder Lin Yue attacked him in fury.

• Lu Changsheng endured severe backlash while forcing the Great Void Divine Thunder, Geng Metal Tribulation Lightning, Yin-Yang Fiendish Thunder, and Nine Nether Demonic Thunder to fuse into a Five-Colored Thunder Lotus.
• Wu Tianyang attacked with his Heaven-Shaking Giant Palm, but Lu Changsheng sent the unstable lotus through it and into Wu Tianyang's Nine Yang Protective Body.
• The lotus exploded, destroying the plaza and nearby structures, killing some disciples, and leaving Wu Tianyang gravely wounded before the elders suppressed the spreading thunderstorm.
• Elder Lin Yue found Wu Tianyang in the crater and used a seventh-tier healing pill to stabilize him, though Wu Tianyang remained unconscious and nearly crippled.
• Elder Lin Yue blamed Lu Changsheng for crippling Pei Xuan and Wu Tianyang, then charged at him with the intent to seize and punish him.

After Lu Changsheng defeated Wu Tianyang in a life-and-death duel, Elder Lin Yue arrested him and tortured him in the Hall of Penalties. News of Wu Tianyang’s crippling reached the Wu Family, where Wu Tianlong vowed to attack the Azure Sun Sacred Sect unless it handed Lu Changsheng over.

• Elder Lin Yue tried to kill Lu Changsheng, but Elder Chiyang intervened, and Lu Changsheng argued that the life-and-death challenge left Wu Tianyang’s defeat to fate.
• Elder Lin Yue invoked the Wu Family’s power, seized Lu Changsheng, and took him to the Hall of Penalties despite Elder Chiyang and Elder Moyang’s objections.
• Elder Lin Yue had Lu Changsheng chained and whipped, but Lu Changsheng refused to answer his questions and spat blood in his face.
• News of Lu Changsheng’s victory spread through the Azure Sun Sacred Sect and reached the Wu Family in the West Xuan Domain.
• Wu Tianlong ordered the Iron-Blooded Protectors and three True Lord elders to accompany him to the North Divine Domain, where he planned to demand Lu Changsheng and threatened to destroy the Azure Sun Sacred Sect if it refused.

Murong Taxue and Lu Changsheng’s companions learned that Elder Lin Yue was torturing him in the heavenly prison while the Wu Family demanded his surrender, so they broke into the Azure Sun Mystic Realm to seek Old Ancestor Qingyang. Rui'er became separated and found a sleeping blue-bearded old man beneath a divine tree, who revealed that he knew where the Old Ancestor was.

• Murong Taxue told Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Qing He, and Rui'er that Lin Yue had tortured Lu Changsheng and that Wu Tianlong had arrived with the Wu Family to claim him.
• Murong Taxue led the others toward the Azure Sun Mystic Realm, and two hidden guardian elders let them pass under Qingxuanzi’s secret order.
• The group entered the misty forbidden ground, where Rui'er became separated and wandered alone until she found an enormous azure divine tree.
• Rui'er woke a blue-bearded old man by tickling his nose, then told him about Lu Changsheng’s imprisonment and the threat from the Wu Family.
• The old man grew furious on Lu Changsheng’s behalf and told Rui'er that he knew where Old Ancestor Qingyang was.

Rui'er and Murong Taxue found Old Ancestor Qingyang in the forbidden ground and brought him to rescue Lu Changsheng. As Wu Tianlong prepared to destroy Lu Changsheng’s cultivation, Qingyang’s voice stopped him and threatened the Wu Family.

• Rui'er led Shi Jingtian, Tu Jiao, Murong Taxue, and Qing He to the bearded old man, whom Murong Taxue recognized as Old Ancestor Qingyang.
• Old Ancestor Qingyang learned how Lin Yue had tortured Lu Changsheng and vowed to protect his disciple-grandson from the Wu Family.
• Old Ancestor Qingyang transported Rui'er and the others from the forbidden ground as Wu Tianlong arrived at the Azure Sun Sacred Sect with his forces and demanded Lu Changsheng.
• Lin Yue handed the tortured Lu Changsheng to Wu Tianlong, despite Qingxuanzi and Elder Chiyang protesting.
• Wu Tianlong grabbed Lu Changsheng and moved to destroy his cultivation, but Old Ancestor Qingyang’s voice halted him and threatened to crush the Wu Family’s Quasi-Saint.