Chapter Summaries

After the Bright Moon Sect rallied behind Lu Ming, he set a three-step plan in motion to merge the Pill Tower into the Moon Embracing Sect. Xiao Ling'er learned that Liang Danxia supported the merger but feared the Pill Tower’s enemies, so she and Wang Teng brought Little Dragon Girl to confront those factions, beginning with Burning Heart Valley.

• Lu Ming celebrated his growing support in the Bright Moon Sect and planned to create a crisis that would justify merging it with the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lin Fan asked Xiao Ling'er to discuss merging the Pill Tower with her teacher, Liang Danxia, and sent Fan Jianqiang to stir up a war as part of the plan.
• Xiao Ling'er killed spies outside the Pill Tower and learned that Liang Danxia favored joining the Moon Embracing Sect but would wait until the Pill Tower’s crisis was resolved.
• Lin Fan instructed Xiao Ling'er to bring Wang Teng and Little Dragon Girl to pressure the factions targeting the Pill Tower, with Old Hai ready to intervene if necessary.
• Little Dragon Girl raised the Sky Gazing Mirror over Burning Heart Valley, shattered its protective formation, and frightened its leaders into kneeling and begging for mercy.

Little Dragon Girl used the Sky Gazing Mirror to force Burning Heart Valley to escort the Pill Tower toward the Southwest Region, then helped Xiao Ling'er and Old Medicine defeat the factions blocking their way. The Pill Tower joined the Moon Embracing Sect as its Alchemy Lineage, and news of the merger spread across the world.

• Little Dragon Girl intimidated Burning Heart Valley with the Sky Gazing Mirror and made it promise compensation and an escort for the Pill Tower.
• Burning Heart Valley attacked factions that coveted the Pill Tower, keeping them occupied while Old Medicine began relocating the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Ling'er and Little Dragon Girl confronted factions blocking the Pill Tower, and Little Dragon Girl destroyed them with the Sky Gazing Mirror.
• Gu Xinglian claimed responsibility for the incident when the Black and White Academy asked the Myriad Flowers Holy Land about it.
• Lin Fan welcomed Old Medicine and the Pill Tower to the Moon Embracing Sect and announced that the Pill Tower would become its Alchemy Lineage.
• The next day, news spread that Pill Emperor Liang Danxia had led the Pill Tower into the Moon Embracing Sect.

News that the Pill Tower had merged with the Moon Embracing Sect spread across the region, alarming the Bright Moon Sect and prompting the Blazing Sun Divine Palace and Star Sea Alliance to plot against it. As Ji Haoyue fought Shadow Demon Palace experts at Nine Heavens Immortal Peak, the three hostile factions formed an alliance and prepared to attack the Bright Moon Sect.

• The Fan Family celebrated the Pill Tower's merger with the Moon Embracing Sect, while its patriarch warned the clan to act cautiously; Liu Wanli decided to strengthen the Liu Family's ties with the Moon Embracing Sect, and Hai Dongpo secretly killed nearby intruders.
• Lu Ming feigned concern as the Bright Moon Sect's elders panicked over the Moon Embracing Sect's increased strength, then received Lin Fan's signal to begin step two.
• Fan Jianqiang and Yaya disguised themselves as Zhao Tiexiong and Nie Xiongxin and separately persuaded the Blazing Sun Divine Palace and Star Sea Alliance to join forces against the Bright Moon Sect and seek Shadow Demon Palace support.
• Ji Haoyue was ambushed by Shadow Demon Palace cultivators on Nine Heavens Immortal Peak, but he fought back fiercely with his Bright Moon Golden Wheel while the palace watched its experts' jade slips shatter.
• Yan Lie and Alliance Leader Chen formed an alliance in the Silent Mountain Range, then joined with the Shadow Demon Palace and agreed to recruit additional helpers before launching an immediate attack on the Bright Moon Sect.

Lu Ming encouraged the Bright Moon Sect to prepare for an attack, then secretly used the crisis to advance his plan to merge the sect with the Moon Embracing Sect. As the enemy forces battered the sect’s formation and Ji Haoyue was gravely injured, Lu Ming was made Sect Master and led the elders into battle.

• Lu Ming gave the elders high-grade pills and warned that Blazing Sun Divine Palace might attack again, just as a large force began assaulting the Sect Protecting Grand Formation.
• The elders learned that Ji Haoyue had been ambushed and that his life tablet had cracked; Second Elder became convinced First Elder might be an enemy Water Jumper and persuaded the others to suspect him.
• Lu Ming planned to make the Bright Moon Sect’s crisis real so it would turn to the Moon Embracing Sect, while Lin Fan dispatched allies and summoned outside support.
• Lu Ming declared that he would risk his life for the Bright Moon Sect, and Second Elder and Gu Qingyun urged him to become Sect Master; Lu Ming accepted and was installed in the Founders' Hall.
• Bright Moon Sect’s disciples rallied behind Lu Ming, and he led the elders out through the Sect Protecting Grand Formation to fight the attackers.

Lu Ming and the Bright Moon Sect were driven back behind their weakened protective formation by overwhelming forces, and the Second Elder proposed surrendering to the Moon Embracing Sect as their only chance to survive. Lu Ming arranged a sect-wide vote and left to contact the Moon Embracing Sect, while the elders began gathering the disciples’ decision.

• Lu Ming used Sword Twenty-Three twice to create brief openings, but the Bright Moon Sect suffered heavy casualties and retreated into its protective formation.
• The Second Elder concluded that joining the Moon Embracing Sect could save the Bright Moon Sect, citing its strength, alliances, and ties to the Pill Tower.
• The Second Elder persuaded many elders that surrender could preserve the sect and benefit its members, though they left the final decision to a vote of the entire sect.
• Several formation eyes exploded, weakening the protective formation as the besieging forces increased their attacks.
• Lu Ming announced the vote and said he would leave to contact Long Aojiao and the Moon Embracing Sect, then flew beyond the formation.
• The Second Elder urged the disciples to vote quickly, beginning with those who favored joining the Moon Embracing Sect.

Lu Ming maneuvered the Bright Moon Sect into swearing allegiance to the Moon Embracing Sect, then Long Aojiao and the sect’s other prodigies arrived just as the protective formation collapsed. As the battle against the three invading sects began, Lin Fan revealed that several powerful allies had also come to join the fight.

• Wen Ruyan, the sequence disciples, and Su Lie led the Bright Moon Sect’s disciples in voting to submit to the Moon Embracing Sect, while elders fought to buy Lu Ming time to contact them.
• Lu Ming staged a desperate battle, broke the hidden restriction with his flying sword, and claimed that Lin Fan would help if the sect swore Heavenly Dao and Dao Heart Oaths.
• The Bright Moon Sect’s elders and disciples swore their oaths as the protective formation fell, and Long Aojiao, Xiao Ling'er, Yaya, Wang Teng, He Anxia, Song Yunxiao, and Su Yan blocked the invaders’ attack.
• Xiao Ling'er declared the Bright Moon Sect the Moon Embracing Sect’s Haoyue Lineage, and the two sides’ combined attack met the three sects’ assault in a stalemate.
• Yan Lie urged his forces to outlast the Moon Embracing Sect’s disciples, but Lin Fan appeared and froze an attacking Rogue Cultivator.
• Rao Zhirou and Spirit Sword Sect cultivators, Qu Shi Fei and the Beast Taming Sect, Qian Yinyang and Taihe Palace, and the Hai Family arrived to reinforce the Moon Embracing Sect.

Lin Fan defeated the three sects’ attack, absorbed the Bright Moon Sect into the Moon Embracing Sect as the Haoyue Lineage, and rebuffed the elders’ request to rename the sect. He appointed Lu Ming chief steward of the Haoyue Lineage and left him responsible for its conduct.

• Lin Fan revealed that the Bright Moon Sect had joined the Moon Embracing Sect, turning the three sects’ attack into an assault on his own lineage.
• Yan Lie and the three sects escaped with a Reverse Teleportation Array, while Qu Shi Fei and his beast tide wiped out the remaining Eighth Realm fighters.
• Lin Fan told his allies to let the fleeing forces spread the news and revealed that He Anxia had planted dormant bacteria and viruses in them.
• Lin Fan entered the Bright Moon Sect with his disciples and declared that it would exist only as the Haoyue Lineage of the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Gu Qingyun asked Lin Fan to rename the sect, but Lin Fan rejected the request and argued that it could undermine their oaths; the elders agreed to keep the Moon Embracing Sect’s name.
• Lin Fan appointed Lu Ming chief steward of the Haoyue Lineage, made him accountable for its affairs, and received no objections from the elders.

Lin Fan completed the Haoyue Lineage’s submission to the Moon Embracing Sect while allowing it to retain local autonomy, and Lu Ming persuaded its elders to accept their new status. After enduring a half-month campaign for resources, Lu Ming returned with pills that eased the lineage’s resentment, though Wen Ruyan revealed the main lineage received even better treatment.

• The Haoyue Lineage accepted its new status as a branch of the Moon Embracing Sect, and Lin Fan toured its treasury while Wen Ruyan volunteered to guide him.
• Wen Ruyan explained that Tang Wu had looted the Spiritual Medicine Treasury, and Lin Fan realized Tang Wu could redirect the lineage’s hatred toward their enemies.
• Lu Ming urged the Haoyue elders to adapt, pardoned the suspected Water Jumper without investigating, and promised to secure pills and eventually avenge the lineage.
• Lu Ming and Wen Ruyan went to the main lineage, where Lu Ming argued with Lin Fan for half a month before obtaining the Haoyue Lineage’s first monthly pill allowance.
• The Haoyue Lineage celebrated receiving high-grade pills, then learned from Wen Ruyan that the main lineage’s usual allowances were even better and decided they needed to earn greater benefits.

While Ji Haoyue recovered from a deadly ambush and smoothly broke through to the Ninth Realm, Lu Ming and the elders strengthened their ties to the Moon Embracing Sect and purged dissenters. Ji Haoyue returned to find the Bright Moon Sect had become the Haoyue Branch of the Moon Embracing Sect, and he erupted in anger at the elders.

• The Haoyue elders competed to build loyalty to the Moon Embracing Sect, while Su Lie exposed a dissenting disciple and helped the Outer Sect Steward uncover and expel over a thousand black sheep.
• Lu Ming rewarded the Outer Sect Steward for earning merit, prompting other elders to find their own ways to serve the sect and receive rewards.
• Ji Haoyue escaped the Shadow Demon Palace’s trap, recovered, and smoothly reached the Ninth Realm before returning to the Bright Moon Sect.
• Ji Haoyue arrived to find disciples calling him the Old Sect Master and discovered that the sect’s people had grown stronger and more devoted to the Moon Embracing Sect.
• Lu Ming and the elders explained that the Bright Moon Sect had merged into the Moon Embracing Sect to survive a three-sect assault, leaving Ji Haoyue stunned and furious.

Ji Haoyue nearly attacked the Haoyue Lineage elders after learning they had joined the Moon Embracing Sect, but Lu Ming persuaded him to stay and inspect the changes before deciding whether to join. Lin Fan then prepared for the sect’s upcoming mountain-gate opening and considered the threat posed by Hongwu the Roving Immortal.

• Ji Haoyue accused the elders of betraying the Bright Moon Sect and attacked the Second Elder, but Lu Ming and the other elders intervened.
• Gu Qingyun explained that the elders had sworn Heavenly Dao Oaths and that joining the Moon Embracing Sect had improved the Haoyue Lineage, while Ji Haoyue realized he had become isolated.
• Lu Ming described the sect’s benefits and suggested that Ji Haoyue inspect the Haoyue Lineage before making a decision, and Ji Haoyue agreed to stay as a guest.
• The elders discussed persuading Ji Haoyue to join the Moon Embracing Sect and joked that Gu Qingyun might earn credit for the idea.
• Lin Fan planned to assimilate the Haoyue Lineage, withdraw Hai Dongpo, and prepare for the mountain-gate opening while avoiding a direct clash with Hongwu the Roving Immortal.

Lin Fan grew suspicious of Loose Immortal Hongwu and warned Wang Teng and Liu Wanli to leave the Hongwu Immortal Alliance and Hongwu Immortal City. As Hongwu’s forces sealed the city and alliance, Wang Teng tried to rescue his father, Liu Wanli warned Liu Xun through a talisman, and Lin Fan and Lu Ming prepared to respond.

• Ji Haoyue watched the Haoyue Lineage thrive under the Moon Embracing Sect and grew conflicted about the disciples’ new energy and loyalty.
• Lin Fan warned Wang Teng that the Hongwu Immortal Alliance seemed dangerous, urged Jade Kirin Palace to relocate, and offered the Liu Family land in the former Ximen Family territory.
• Wang Teng rushed to Jade Kirin Palace, suppressed Wang Yulin, and tried to flee with him, but found alliance administrators blocking the exits with a warning about a great devil.
• Lin Fan learned from Liu Wanli that Hongwu had been recruiting talent and ordered the Liu Family to withdraw, but the city sealed its exits and cut off communications before they could escape.
• Liu Wanli shattered a Mother-Child Connection Talisman to alert Liu Xun, who contacted Lin Fan for help after failing to reach his family.
• Lin Fan set out to investigate as Lu Ming opened his eyes and prepared to move with an emerald willow leaf.

Lu Ming investigated Hongwu Immortal City as Hongwu began his Roving Immortal Tribulation and his fox-clan followers activated a scheme across the city and alliance. Wang Teng learned that the alliance’s administrators had been using Charm Techniques, and he and Wang Yulin faced a sudden attempt to bewitch everyone.

• Lu Ming used the Eightfold Magnification Technique to uncover Wang Yulin’s account of fox-clan Demon Cultivators infiltrating the Hongwu Immortal Alliance and secretly planning to seal it off.
• Lu Ming’s Scarecrow drew Hongwu’s notice while spying on the City Lord’s Mansion, and Lu Ming later saw Hongwu suppressing violent fluctuations in his body.
• Lu Ming approached Hongwu Immortal City after a vast region fell into unnatural darkness, while Hongwu emerged and prepared to undergo his Roving Immortal Tribulation.
• As Hongwu struggled with the powerful tribulation lightning, Lu Ming ordered Fan Jianqiang to begin rescuing people from the city and alliance.
• Hongwu ordered his black-clad subordinates to activate their plan, and the fox-clan cultivators unleashed their Charm Technique across the Hongwu Immortal Alliance.
• Wang Yulin warned Wang Teng that the followers had bewitched nearly everyone and urged him to flee at once.

Wang Teng, Wang Yulin, and Lu Ming tried to wake the Hongwu Immortal Alliance after discovering its members had been bewitched, while Hongwu revealed himself as a Nine-tailed Fox Demon and made hundreds of millions of people sacrifice themselves to empower him. As the Roving Immortal Tribulation grew more terrifying, Lu Ming sent the Liu Family away and called on Ji Haoyue and the Old Sect Master for help.

• Wang Teng and Wang Yulin traveled secretly to Phantom Spirit Valley, where a red-eyed youth used his special illusion technique to awaken its leaders and help them rouse others.
• Lu Ming entered Hongwu Immortal City, resisted a bewitchment technique, fought Hongwu's black-clad followers with his incarnations, and reached the Liu Family to lead them toward safety.
• Hongwu endured the third tribulation lightning bolt, revealed his Nine-tailed Fox Demon form, and commanded the bewitched people to offer themselves as a sacrifice, restoring and strengthening him.
• Lu Ming and the others escaped the city as hundreds of millions of people disintegrated into blood-qi; Fan Jianqiang explained that Hongwu's indirect method might lessen the tribulation's karmic backlash.
• The Heavenly Dao intensified Hongwu's tribulation, and Fan Jianqiang destroyed the black-clad fox demons with a hidden object while they struggled against inner demons.
• Lu Ming ordered the Liu Family to flee to the Moon Embracing Sect, stayed behind to delay Hongwu, and called to Ji Haoyue and the Old Sect Master for help.

Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue battled Hongwu after he passed his Roving Immortal Tribulation, but Hongwu overwhelmed them with his power and illusion techniques. Just as he moved to kill them, the Willow Deity arrived and reversed time, declaring that Hongwu deserved to die.

• Ji Haoyue refused to help Lu Ming, while Hongwu used the wishes of all living beings to weaken his tribulation and passed all nine bolts to become a Four-Tribulation Roving Immortal.
• Lu Ming unleashed his stacked techniques and secret arts against Hongwu, injuring him with the Willow Deity Method and Severing My Dao Art but failing to overcome their difference in strength.
• Hongwu trapped Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue in an illusion that mixed reality and illusion, and Lu Ming used Sword Twelve to strike Hongwu's soul before both men were badly wounded.
• Ji Haoyue chose to stay and fight alongside Lu Ming, but Hongwu suppressed Sword Twelve and prepared to kill them.
• The Willow Deity arrived through a gateway in the void, reversed the events with a wave of her hand, and judged Hongwu for his crimes.

Willow Deity killed Hongwu after he fled, then revealed she had to return to the Primordial Gate. Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue subdued the surviving fox demons and debated what to do with Hongwu Immortal City's abandoned resources, leaving Ji Haoyue shocked by Lu Ming's ruthless plan.

• Hongwu attacked Willow Deity, but she effortlessly shattered his assault, pinned him with willow branches, and destroyed his body and soul.
• Ji Haoyue confronted Lu Ming about his many Moon Embracing Sect techniques, and Lu Ming demonstrated numerous Haoyue Lineage arts until Ji Haoyue accepted that he was extraordinarily gifted.
• Willow Deity explained that Hongwu's extreme faith-cultivation method threatened all living beings, said she would report it to the Heavenly Dao, and returned to the Primordial Gate after asking Lu Ming to handle the demons.
• Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue suppressed the surviving Black-Clad Fox Demons and stored them in a Beast Taming Ring, while Lu Ming mourned the vanished people of Hongwu Immortal City.
• Lu Ming proposed collecting the city's abandoned resources for the Haoyue Lineage, returning some property to other forces, and secretly keeping copies of their techniques; Ji Haoyue was stunned by his scheme.

Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue looted Hongwu Immortal City and arranged to dismantle it for the Haoyue Lineage. At Moon Embracing Sect, Lin Fan welcomed rescued sect leaders into the sect’s alliance, recruited Zuo Yu for his extraordinary illusion techniques, and gave him ideas for developing them.

• Lu Ming and Ji Haoyue finished looting Hongwu Immortal City, decided to tear it down, and planned to bring its materials and resources back to the Haoyue Lineage.
• At Moon Embracing Sect, Lin Fan revealed that a peak expert had killed Hongwu, and Wang Yulin asked to make Jade Kirin Palace an affiliated sect.
• Chen Bixuan and the leaders of five other sects swore Dao Heart Oaths and agreed to become Moon Embracing Sect’s affiliated sects.
• Wang Teng told Lin Fan about Zuo Yu, a red-eyed disciple of Phantom Spirit Valley, and Chen Bixuan agreed to let him join Moon Embracing Sect.
• Zuo Yu demonstrated an unusually realistic illusion technique on Lin Fan, who praised his talent and accepted him into the sect.
• Lin Fan suggested that Zuo Yu explore illusion techniques involving altered time, self-awakening, resurrection, influencing wills, and vast illusion worlds, and Zuo Yu swore to develop his abilities for the sect.

Lin Fan ordered the Moon Embracing Sect to prepare to relocate, while the Haoyue Lineage exposed Hongwu’s scheme and Shangguan Chunqiu died after trying to copy it to overcome his tribulation. After hearing that the Hehuan Sect disputed the recovered assets from its Hongwu Immortal City branches, Lu Ming confronted its representatives and denied their claim.

• Lin Fan told Yaya to prepare the Moon Embracing Sect’s main lineage to move and said they would leave the Medicine Fields behind as cultivation land for future use.
• Lu Ming instructed the Haoyue Lineage to inventory the spoils from Hongwu Immortal City and return twenty percent of assets belonging to reputable factions.
• The Haoyue Lineage exposed Hongwu as a Nine-tailed Fox Demon who had plotted to seek investiture through the sacrifice of hundreds of millions of people, prompting Roving Immortals to consider imitating him.
• Shangguan Chunqiu gathered people for sacrifice and sought investiture during his tribulation, but the Heavenly Dao intensified the lightning and destroyed him and those he had coerced.
• Lu Ming learned that the Hehuan Sect wanted its Joyful Union Tower assets returned and met its representatives after they said the recovered funds fell far short of their records.
• Lu Ming argued that the Hehuan Sect’s claimed twenty-three million four hundred seventy thousand high-grade Origin Stones were not its property because the three recovered Storage Bags contained only a little over four million.

Lu Ming outmaneuvered the Hehuan Sect over recovered wealth, while the Moon Embracing Sect prepared to move its headquarters and expand the Illusory God Realm. He drew Ji Haoyue into the sect as a guest elder and revealed a plan to strike three hostile powers at once, with Ji Haoyue leading the assault on the Shadow Demon Palace.

• Lu Ming refused to return the Hehuan Sect’s claimed losses, arguing that the four million recovered Origin Stones belonged to an unidentified rightful owner; after other factions collected their shares, the Hehuan Sect left empty-handed.
• Lu Ming explained to Ji Haoyue that weaker factions accepted partial recoveries gratefully, while the Hehuan Sect’s stronger position let it challenge the settlement.
• Wang Teng delivered nearly five billion high-grade Origin Stones from the main branch, and Lin Fan ordered preparations to build a new sect headquarters and expand the Illusory God Realm.
• Lin Fan approved Fan Jianqiang’s proposal to request more Spirit Mountains from the Haoyue Lineage for a protective formation, while Fan Jianqiang admitted he had forgotten where his true body was.
• Lu Ming presented Ji Haoyue with Immortal Ascension Pills, then persuaded him to become a guest elder of the Haoyue Lineage and swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Lu Ming proposed a simultaneous attack on the Blazing Sun Divine Palace, the Star Sea Alliance, and the Shadow Demon Palace; Ji Haoyue volunteered to lead the force targeting the Shadow Demon Palace.

After the Blazing Sun Divine Palace, Star Sea Alliance, and Shadow Demon Palace abandoned and devastated their territories, Lu Ming persuaded Ji Haoyue to restore and take over the lands with support from the Moon Embracing Sect’s main branch. Meanwhile, Long Aojiao asked Lin Fan to help her take revenge on the Feather Clan, and he proposed a scheme that would pit the Feather Clan against other powers; she agreed to learn his transformation arts and Dragon Family techniques before setting out.

• The three sects’ attackers found their people and resources gone and their Spirit Mountains ruined, while Ji Haoyue furiously beat the Second Elder and cursed the fleeing factions.
• Yan Lie, Alliance Leader Chen, and the Shadow Demon Palace Master discussed their escape to the Central Continent and worried that their destruction of the sect territories would bring universal condemnation.
• Lu Ming persuaded Ji Haoyue to let the Haoyue Lineage restore the ruined territories, then arranged for the main branch to receive more than two thousand Spirit Mountains in exchange for support and resources.
• Other cultivators questioned how the Moon Embracing Sect could still count as a third-rate sect despite its powerful branches and Ninth Realm strength.
• Long Aojiao asked Lin Fan to help her avenge her family by building her reputation through challenges, but Lin Fan proposed disguising her and stirring up conflict between the Feather Clan and its rivals instead.
• Long Aojiao agreed to consider Lin Fan’s plan and asked to learn the Seventy-Two Transformations and Dragon Family techniques before leaving.

Lin Fan traded Long Aojiao the Seventy-Two Transformations and the Word of Battle Secret for the first four fingers of the Overlord Finger, then arranged for Jie Se and Fatty Fish to guide her toward the Dragon Family. After Long Aojiao fought her way through Central Continent, she reached the Dragon Family’s ancestral grounds and was stopped at the entrance by a horned youth.

• Lin Fan offered Long Aojiao access to Moon Embracing Sect’s secret techniques if she joined the sect, but she refused because of her oath and traded the first four fingers of the Overlord Finger instead.
• Long Aojiao studied the Seventy-Two Transformations and the Word of Battle Secret, then left for Central Continent to challenge the Dragon Family’s prodigies.
• After Central Continent natives insulted her, Long Aojiao killed three young men, fought off the city guards, and escaped a Ninth Realm city lord’s attack.
• Jie Se and Fatty Fish met Long Aojiao at Lin Fan’s request and guided her to within ten thousand li of the Dragon Family’s ancestral grounds.
• Long Aojiao learned that the Dragon Family’s sequence disciples used their numbers as names, then approached the ancestral grounds and was stopped by a horned youth.