Chapter Summaries

Lu Ming used the Qingqiu Token to shatter the red woman’s defenses and blast her into the void after Zhao Hai and Tie Bishan’s attacks failed. The group was left unsure whether she had been destroyed or would return, and Lu Ming suggested they search for a way to leave.

• The red woman nearly killed Zhao Hai, but Lu Ming struck her and gave him time to retreat.
• Zhao Hai summoned Old Man Wandering Snake’s Azure Dragon Strike, but the woman’s red light melted the serpent.
• Tie Bishan’s life-saving axe cracked the woman’s red shield but failed to cut through it.
• Lu Ming activated the Qingqiu Token, and its beast claw shattered the woman’s defenses and blasted her into the void.
• Tie Bishan wondered whether the woman had been destroyed or thrown into the depths of the void, and Lu Ming proposed that they look for a way out.

After driving away the woman in red, Lu Ming and the others searched the fourth floor and discovered a Five Elements Seal Restriction concealing a stone chamber. They shattered the restriction together, revealing a brightly colored room that appeared to contain a priceless treasure.

• The group searched the fourth floor and found nothing inside the black coffin.
• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun discovered that a five-colored halo concealed a space behind the wall, and Tie Bishan identified it as possibly being a Five Elements Seal Restriction.
• Tie Bishan explained that brute force was their only practical way to break the restriction, so Old Monster Yellow Earth tested it with a controlled punch.
• Lu Ming and the others joined their attacks, steadily increasing their power until the restriction cracked and shattered.
• The group saw a richly colored stone chamber beyond the restriction, and Old Monster Yellow Earth moved to enter first.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The group enters a stone chamber containing nine top-grade Divine Weapons, each on a waist-high stone platform.
• They decide to distribute the weapons based on merit, with Lu Ming taking the lead in decision-making.
• Lu Ming takes two weapons, including a defensive pair of shields and a malevolent blood-red long saber. Zhao Hai takes a spear and a Black Dragon Cudgel, Tie Bishan takes an axe and gauntlets, and the remaining three each take one weapon.
• They proceed to examine three more items protected by light barriers at the chamber's deepest part.

Character Developments

• Lu Ming demonstrates fairness and generosity by not hoarding all the weapons and distributing them based on merit, earning respect from the group.
• Old Monster Yellow Earth (Wang) asserts his presence but ultimately accepts Lu Ming's leadership.
• Zhu Ningyun, as Lu Ming's wife, supports his decisions.

Significant Themes

• Merit-based Distribution: Lu Ming's decision to distribute the weapons based on merit highlights the theme of fairness and equality among the group.
• Power Dynamics: The distribution of Divine Weapons showcases the shifting power dynamics within the group, with Lu Ming's influence growing.
• Greed vs. Self-Control: The temptation of the Divine Weapons tests the characters' self-control and restraint, with Lu Ming and others passing the test.

Character Interactions

• Lu Ming and Zhao Hai: They work well together, with Zhao Hai supporting Lu Ming's decisions.
• Lu Ming and Tie Bishan: They also cooperate well, with Tie Bishan following Lu Ming's lead.
• Lu Ming and Old Monster Yellow Earth (Wang): There's a power struggle between them, but Lu Ming's fairness and generosity eventually win Wang over.
• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun: Zhu Ningyun supports Lu Ming's decisions, showing a strong bond between them.

Lu Ming seized the black stone when the treasure chamber began collapsing and led the group to the teleportation array. He saved Tie Bishan from being left behind, and the group continued teleporting through the void.

• Zhu Ningyun identified the first treasure as a Death-Exemption Iron Token, while Lu Ming sensed that the black stone attracted the Dark Annihilation Sword’s dark substance.
• The group found no other treasures and gathered around the three items, but Zhao Hai could not break the jade slip’s light barrier.
• As the chamber shook and began to collapse, Lu Ming tore open the barrier around the black stone, took it, and brought Zhu Ningyun to the teleportation array.
• Purple Orchid Fairy and the others rushed to the array as cracks spread through the chamber, but a Space Rift blocked Tie Bishan’s path.
• Lu Ming used a sudden force to pull Tie Bishan into the array just before its light barrier closed.
• Tie Bishan realized Lu Ming had saved his life and thanked him while the group stood on a stone platform surrounded by the void.

After escaping the destruction of the City of Death, Lu Ming and the others were teleported to a place with an Elemental Sealing Array that suppressed their gang essence. They discovered they could still use their Primordial Spirits and physical strength, then heard locals approaching and headed out to confront them.

• Zhao Hai asked Lu Ming about his body-refining art, and Lu Ming confirmed that body refinement was his strongest skill.
• Zhao Hai thanked Lu Ming for saving him, but Lu Ming urged everyone to focus on where the teleportation would take them.
• The teleportation ended at a crimson stone wall, where an Elemental Sealing Array prevented everyone from mobilizing their gang essence.
• Lu Ming and the others found they could still use their Primordial Spirits and physical strength, and Lu Ming reassured them that he would help protect them.
• After hearing approaching people speak outside the cave, Lu Ming took Zhu Ningyun's hand and led the group out to meet them.

The collapse of the space in the Red Land Desert scattered fragments across the sands and released a Half-Beast King-level Flame Dragon Beast. Huang Liji escaped the destruction but was killed by a seemingly dead woman, who regenerated from her wounds and vanished when the beast approached.

• The space above the Red Land Desert collapsed, scattering building fragments as a Half-Beast King-level Flame Dragon Beast drove people to flee.
• Zhu Huaiwen saw the chaos and worried that Zhu Ningyun and Lu Ming had met with disaster.
• Huang Liji emerged from a building fragment, celebrated his escape, and found a badly wounded woman lying nearby.
• Huang Liji approached the woman and tried to kiss her, but she awoke, seized him, and drained his life until his body crumbled.
• The woman regenerated part of her chest wound, recalled Lu Ming, and vanished when a gigantic demonic beast approached.

Lu Ming and the others emerged from a cave into a strange land where they could not use Gangyuan, then fought a group of powerful animal-hide-clad people who mistook them for gifts from the heavens. The group defeated most of their attackers, and Lu Ming captured several survivors to question.

• Lu Ming led the group out of the cave, where they found a barren landscape and discovered that they could not absorb World Origin Energy or use Gangyuan.
• A burly leader and his followers arrived, worshipped the group, and attacked after Zhao Hai killed one of them with a spiritual serpent.
• Tie Bishan fought the leader while Lu Ming repelled attackers and captured several survivors alive.
• Zhu Ningyun, Purple Orchid Fairy, Zhao Hai, and Old Monster Yellow Earth defeated their opponents using their weapons and abilities.
• The group regrouped, confident that their Sea Transformation Realm strength and Primordial Spirits could protect them despite losing access to Gangyuan.

Lu Ming and his companions subdued a group of strange locals and discovered that one of them recognized Zhu Ningyun’s written characters. They withdrew to a secluded valley to question their captive, but he refused to cooperate.

• The burly man transformed his vitality and blood into a fierce tiger, badly injuring Tie Bishan before Lu Ming intervened and defeated him.
• Purple Orchid Fairy and the others treated Tie Bishan’s hand while Lu Ming restrained the burly man and led the group away to avoid drawing more attackers.
• Lu Ming’s group traveled several hundred li to a secluded valley, conserving their strength by using Human Rank movement techniques.
• Zhu Ningyun carved characters into the sand, and the burly man reacted in a way that showed he recognized them.
• Zhao Hai stepped forward, intending to use torture after the captive glared at them and refused to answer.

Lu Ming and the others questioned Ah Na about the strange world, learning that he belonged to the Na Gu Tribe and that its strongest warrior was a Half-king. With no way to find the Nine Provinces World, Lu Ming planned to confront the tribe’s strongest expert and had Ah Na reveal his cultivation technique.

• Lu Ming stopped Zhao Hai from killing every captive, and Ah Na drew his name after Old Monster Yellow Earth threatened him.
• Zhu Ningyun translated Ah Na’s account of the First through Fifth Tiers and learned that he was early Fourth Tier while Li Baqi was early Fifth Tier.
• Ah Na explained that the captives were Na Gu Tribe warriors who had come to hunt and believed the spatial anomaly had brought them Divine Sons and Daughters to marry.
• After learning they were trapped in a sealed world, Lu Ming proposed going to the Na Gu Tribe’s strongest expert, a Half-king, to seek information about escaping.
• Lu Ming said he could contend with the Half-king and ordered Zhu Ningyun to make Ah Na reveal his cultivation technique.

Lu Ming mastered Running Wolf Transformation and led the group toward the Na Gu Tribe, using blood and qi to travel as they went. Along the way, they found a barbarian woman cultivating with gang qi, and her sword technique shocked Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun because it was the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique.

• Lu Ming transformed into a giant wolf and crushed a small hillock, proving he had mastered Running Wolf Transformation.
• Lu Ming brought Ana along to guide the group to the Na Gu Tribe, and he used blood and qi to drive his movement while attempting to adapt the Dragon God Heavenly Merit.
• Zhu Ningyun questioned Ana and learned that the group was still about half a day from the tribe.
• Lu Ming spotted a barbarian woman absorbing World Origin Energy and converting it into gang qi, while Ana reacted with worry and hesitation.
• The woman leaped into the air and began a sword technique, which Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun recognized as the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique.

Lu Ming recognized the savage girl’s sword technique as the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, which linked her to Li Baiyun and the Wuji Sect. After confirming that her great-grandfather was Li Baiyun, the girl learned that Lu Ming was the Wuji Sect’s current Grand Elder and asked how he had reached this place.

• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun recognized the savage girl’s Flowing Cloud Sword Technique, and she revealed that her great-grandfather had been an outsider.
• Zhao Hai tried to kill Ana after the savage girl spoke their language, but Lu Ming stopped him and brought her to the group.
• The savage girl offered to explain the sword technique’s origins in exchange for Ana’s release, and Lu Ming asked her great-grandfather’s name.
• Zhu Ningyun demonstrated the Flowing Cloud Sword Technique with real sword qi, and Lu Ming identified her great-grandfather as Li Baiyun, the White Cloud Swordsman.
• The savage girl recognized Lu Ming’s Wuji Sect Grand Elder token and showed an identical token of her own, then asked how he had arrived there.

Lu Ming’s group learned from Li Siyuan that they were in the Exile Land, a place cut off from the outside world, and that Savage Saint Mountain might be connected to a way out. Li Siyuan offered to lead them to another possible opening, and the group set off while keeping their destination secret.

• Lu Ming’s group learned that Li Siyuan’s great-grandmother had been a saintess of the Savage King’s Hall, and Li Siyuan explained that the Hall united more than a dozen King-tier Tribes.
• Li Siyuan revealed that ancient records called their region the Exile Land and that World Origin Energy might have entered it through Savage Saint Mountain.
• Lu Ming asked whether there were other unusual places, and Li Siyuan named a dangerous location that might also connect to the outside.
• Li Siyuan said she had prepared to leave and carried her ancestors’ ashes in a storage ring; she then told Ana to conceal their encounter and give a false account of the hunting party’s fate.
• Lu Ming had Li Siyuan give Ana a false destination, then led the group away with her toward the possible opening.

Lu Ming and his companions entered Fierce God Mountain to locate the source of its unusually dense World Origin Energy. After escaping an attack by corrosive Corpse Bone Vines, they paused to recover before continuing deeper into the mountain.

• Li Siyuan explained that Fierce God Mountain’s ferocious beasts had grown stronger as World Origin Energy became denser, and the group sensed the same density as they prepared to enter.
• Lu Ming warned Li Siyuan to stay in the middle of the group, then led everyone through the mountain’s thick vegetation.
• Lu Ming’s punch destroyed the first Corpse Bone Vine, and Li Siyuan identified the poisonous plants as the group came under attack from all sides.
• Lu Ming opened a path through the vines while Purple Orchid Fairy, Zhu Ningyun, Old Monster Yellow Earth, Tie Bishan, and another companion fought off attacks from the sides and rear.
• The group ran for dozens of li until the vines stopped pursuing them, and Li Siyuan said the road ahead should be safer because ferocious beasts avoided areas where the vines grew.
• Lu Ming called for a rest, and Purple Orchid Fairy offered Spirit Replenishing Pills to help the group recover.

Lu Ming’s group pushed deeper into Fierce God Mountain and encountered a Black Tooth Beast whose power rivaled a Late Sea Transformation Realm cultivator. Lu Ming tested his newly created Sacred Dragon Fist against it, then rejoined the group, who continued north toward the World Origin Energy entrance.

• Purple Orchid Fairy gave Spirit Replenishing Pills to the group, and they continued through Fierce God Mountain while stopping to recover from their injuries and exhaustion.
• A Black Tooth Beast attacked the group with a devastating black beam, and Lu Ming ordered everyone to retreat while he held it off.
• Old Monster Yellow Earth struck the beast and escaped, while Lu Ming blasted it away with a dragon-shaped force.
• Lu Ming used his newly created Sacred Dragon Fist to clash with the Black Tooth Beast’s black beam, then left after the beast was temporarily incapacitated.
• Lu Ming caught up with the group, reassured Zhu Ningyun, and led everyone north after Old Monster Yellow Earth identified the direction of the origin energy.

Lu Ming led the group deep into an earth chasm, where they found a void fissure pouring out World Origin Energy. After testing the Spatial Turbulence, the group prepared to enter the fissure together.

• After more than ten days of trekking, Lu Ming and the others reached a pitch-black chasm, and Old Monster Yellow Earth identified the dense origin energy below as their destination.
• Lu Ming guided the group down through chaotic winds, and they fought off swarms of bat-like ferocious beasts while using up their strength and secret artifacts.
• More than three thousand miles underground, Lu Ming and the others found a fissure filled with void and surging World Origin Energy.
• Lu Ming tested the Spatial Turbulence with a High-grade Divine Weapon and found that it could withstand the force, giving the group hope of crossing safely.
• Lu Ming gave Li Siyuan his Lightning Armor, while Zhu Ningyun offered her Flowing Cloud Armor and Purple Orchid Fairy agreed to protect Zhao Hai and Tie Bishan with her life-saving trump card.
• Lu Ming led the group into the stretch of void.

Lu Ming and the others crossed the spatial passage toward the Nine Provinces World, where their strength returned, but Li Siyuan was pulled back into the Exile Land. Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun turned around to rescue her while the rest continued onward.

• Lu Ming led the group through the stable passage in the void, reassuring them that following the World Origin Energy would take them out.
• Purple Orchid Fairy sensed the Nine Provinces World's Realm Power, and the group regained the use of their gang yuan and their full strength.
• Li Siyuan felt the Realm Power pulling her blood back toward the Exile Land, and the force began dragging her away from the others.
• Lu Ming turned back to reach Li Siyuan and told Zhu Ningyun to go ahead, but Zhu Ningyun followed him into the void.
• Zhao Hai and Old Monster Yellow Earth let the force carry them onward, while Tie Bishan and Purple Orchid Fairy also chose to leave, planning to seek help if Lu Ming could not return.

Lu Ming, Zhu Ningyun, and Li Siyuan entered a mysterious fissure that opened in the Exile Land and found an isolated patch of land covered in beast bones and writing. A giant stone stele left by the vanished Kui King might reveal how Li Siyuan can escape, and Zhu Ningyun began translating it.

• Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun returned to rescue Li Siyuan, and Lu Ming reasoned that they might find another cause for her inability to leave the Exile Land.
• Zhu Ningyun spotted a newly appeared fissure, and Lu Ming entered it first after shielding himself and the two women.
• Lu Ming found a small, enclosed stretch of land scattered with inscribed beast bones and returned to bring Zhu Ningyun and Li Siyuan inside as translators.
• The three discovered a giant stone stele, and Li Siyuan recognized its writing as the work of Kui King, a former rival for the Barbarian King's position.
• Zhu Ningyun said the stele could answer Li Siyuan's questions and might help her escape, then began translating its contents for Lu Ming.

Lu Ming learned that the Exile Land was a prison that marked its inhabitants’ bloodlines and studied the Kui King's cultivation art, teaching Li Siyuan a secret technique to conceal her qi and blood so she could escape. As the barrier around their refuge began to collapse and void currents broke through, Lu Ming decided to pull Li Siyuan out by force before it was too late.

• Zhu Ningyun explained the stone stele’s account of the Exile Land and translated the Kui King's cultivation art with Li Siyuan.
• Lu Ming used the Eternal Divine Jade to comprehend the Kui King's technique for concealing qi and blood, then taught it to Li Siyuan.
• Li Siyuan began cultivating the concealment technique while Lu Ming studied the [Kui King Art] and Zhu Ningyun searched the beast bones.
• Cracks spread across the barrier, and Lu Ming saw turbulent void currents pressing through as Li Siyuan's life force faded during cultivation.
• After the barrier began shattering and void currents entered the refuge, Lu Ming decided to take Li Siyuan away by force.

Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun helped Li Siyuan escape the Exile Land by using the Hidden Blood Technique, and she discovered she could live normally in the Nine Provinces World. They met Tie Bishan and Purple Orchid Fairy outside, where Lu Ming concealed the escape method and claimed he had received help from a senior.

• Lu Ming led Li Siyuan and Zhu Ningyun through the Exile Land while Li Siyuan circulated the Hidden Blood Technique to hide her blood and qi.
• The three escaped into the Nine Provinces World, where Li Siyuan withdrew the technique and found she could use her Gang Qi without discomfort.
• Li Siyuan agreed to travel with Lu Ming and Zhu Ningyun and seek out the Wuji Sect to deliver her great-grandfather's ashes.
• Lu Ming and the women encountered Tie Bishan and Purple Orchid Fairy, who had waited for them after leaving the Exile Land.
• Lu Ming concealed how Li Siyuan escaped and claimed a senior had given him a method, then mentioned his Primordial Spirit Jade Slip from Great Wheel Bright Venerable.
• Lu Ming asked Tie Bishan and Purple Orchid Fairy where they were.

Lu Ming and his companions crossed into Shazhou, but Old Man Wandering Snake tried to seize Li Siyuan before they could leave. Lu Ming invoked his powerful connections, and Purple Light Star Lord’s arrival forced Old Man Wandering Snake to withdraw, allowing Lu Ming and the two women to continue home.

• Lu Ming and his companions crossed Dragon Ridge Mountain into Shazhou and declined Tie Bishan’s invitation to visit the Divine Sea Sect.
• Old Man Wandering Snake arrived with Zhao Hai and tried to pull Li Siyuan toward him.
• Lu Ming severed the suction force, protected Li Siyuan, and challenged Old Man Wandering Snake’s attack.
• Lu Ming warned that he had seen many Heavenly Humans and invoked Great Wheel Bright Venerable, while Tie Bishan confirmed his connection to the Venerable.
• Purple Light Star Lord appeared and stopped the confrontation, and Old Man Wandering Snake left with Zhao Hai.
• Lu Ming exchanged farewells with Tie Bishan and departed with Li Siyuan and Zhu Ningyun.