Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng, Lu Qingyu, and Zhou Yuan arrived at the Mystic Origin Water Realm and settled on Gathering Immortals Island ahead of the auction. Lu Qingfeng revealed that he had advanced to the third tier in pill and artifact refinement, leaving Zhou Yuan both grateful for his help and worried that the Sunset Glow Sect could not keep such a gifted cultivator.

• Zhou Yuan guided Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu through Gathering Immortals Island and arranged Earth-Class cave abodes for them on Cloudrise Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan prepared to visit old friends and recruit help to guard the Sunset Glow Sect, but Lu Qingfeng told him he had advanced to the third tier in pill and artifact refinement.
• Zhou Yuan praised Lu Qingfeng and accepted his offer to refine pills and artifacts for the friends he visited.
• After leaving Cloudrise Mountain, Zhou Yuan worried that Lu Qingfeng's talent would take him beyond the Sunset Glow Sect, then decided to value their friendship and the help Lu Qingfeng intended to provide.

Lu Qingfeng settled in at Cloudrise Mountain, then returned to the Heavenly Shaman Realm, where the Yin Talisman Sect had grown into a major power under his leadership. After learning about the Soul-Seizing Sect and Golden Silkworm Divine Mountain, he ordered preparations and went to search the sect’s collected arts for ways to counter them.

• Wang Hui congratulated Lu Qingfeng on his supposed advancement to third-rank alchemy and artifact refining, and Lu Qingyu teased her brother afterward.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu returned to their neighboring cave abodes at Cloudrise Mountain to rest after their journey.
• Over twenty years under Lu Qingfeng’s leadership, the Yin Talisman Sect expanded across the Southern Borderlands and became a formidable force near the central battlefield.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned the Yin Talisman Sect’s hall masters, and Flying Tiger reported the strengths of the Soul-Seizing Sect and Golden Silkworm Divine Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng ordered the sect to test its methods against the Soul-Seizing Technique and Golden Silkworm Gu before launching a full-scale attack.
• Lu Qingfeng searched through the Yin Talisman Sect’s gathered inheritances for countermeasures and found something useful.

Lu Qingfeng used the Dust-Veiling Banner to consider how he might survive powerful enemies, then encountered Breakwind, an elder of Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect, at the Yin Talisman Sect. He defeated and captured Breakwind, learned of Golden Silkworm Blessed Land, and left the sect’s disciples believing he was an immortal.

• Lu Qingfeng examined the eighth-rank Dust-Veiling Banner and considered searching for the legendary Golden Silkworm Divine Mountain rather than leaving the Heaven­ly Shaman Realm.
• Breakwind arrived at Heavenly God Mountain on a black eagle and demanded to see Yin Talisman Guangyuan, while secretly sending Gu insects to attack the sect’s people.
• Lu Qingfeng destroyed the Gu insects, then trapped Breakwind and the black eagle in the Wind-Fire Grand Formation.
• Breakwind revealed that he was an elder of Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect in Golden Silkworm Blessed Land and released two Golden Silkworm Gu that damaged Lu Qingfeng’s rune artifacts.
• Lu Qingfeng froze both Golden Silkworm Gu, burned the black eagle, broke Breakwind’s defenses, and bound him with vines.
• The Yin Talisman Sect’s disciples celebrated Lu Qingfeng’s victory and concluded that their sect master was a legendary immortal.

Lu Qingfeng tortured Breakwind for information about the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect and learned that the dying Heavenly Shaman Realm’s cultivators were fighting to gather enough Spirit Stones to escape. He entered the Golden Silkworm Blessed Land, found its ancient Teleportation Array, and approached a cave dwelling.

• Lu Qingfeng drove off the Yin Talisman Sect disciples, tortured Breakwind, and forced him to reveal the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect’s strength and the Blessed Land’s location.
• Breakwind revealed that the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect had only ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and that the Heavenly Shaman Realm’s remaining cultivators sought to escape through ancient Teleportation Arrays.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that the realm’s dwindling resources had stalled departures for twelve hundred years, while cultivators from the Central Plains attacked the Southern Borderlands to seize Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qingfeng reached Golden Silkworm Divine Mountain, killed Breakwind, took his access token, and entered the Golden Silkworm Blessed Land.
• Lu Qingfeng used his Invisibility Technique to explore the declining Blessed Land and found its ancient Teleportation Array, then arrived at a cave dwelling.

Lu Qingfeng killed Mo Han, took the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect's inheritance and Spirit Stones, then destroyed the sect and captured the Soul-Seizing Sect. He discovered the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method and prepared to add it to his Attribute Panel.

• Lu Qingfeng ambushed Mo Han, whose Golden Silkworm Gu took the fatal blow in his place, then killed him with the Thunder Prison after destroying his Gu insects.
• Lu Qingfeng collected Mo Han's treasures and inheritance, took the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect's 112 Spirit Stones, and killed its remaining eight Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lu Qingfeng led the Yin Talisman Sect to destroy Golden Silkworm Divine Mountain and capture the Soul-Seizing Sect, while the Celestial River Blessed Land left its pawn unsupported.
• Lu Qingfeng studied the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method and learned how a Mahayana True Immortal had created it while trying to change his wife's and son's fates.
• Lu Qingfeng thought of Qingshan and Qingyu, then pressed the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method into his Attribute Panel.

Lu Qingfeng studied the incomplete Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method and considered using it to improve Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu’s root bones, while noting that he also needed a Golden Silkworm Gu for the Shell-Shedding Grand Art. In the Heavenly Shaman Realm, he later received Zhou Yuan’s five Spirit Void Cultivator friends, who sought to befriend him for his alchemy and artifice.

• Lu Qingfeng learned that the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method could improve root bone but required a genuine Golden Silkworm Gu and cost the recipient half their lifespan.
• Lu Qingfeng considered completing and enhancing the method with Evolving Method, especially to improve Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu’s root bones before Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Qingfeng reviewed the Shell-Shedding Grand Art, which used a refined Golden Silkworm Gu to take one fatal attack in its owner’s place.
• After the Yin Talisman Sect occupied the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Mountain, Lu Qingfeng remained in the Golden Silkworm Blessed Land studying the two methods while the sect gathered intelligence.
• Zhou Yuan returned to Lu Qingfeng’s cave abode with five Spirit Void Cultivator friends, who congratulated Lu Qingfeng and sought his acquaintance.
• Dong Liu praised Lu Qingfeng’s reputation in alchemy and artifice and said he had planned to ask him to refine spirit pills and magical artifacts.

Lu Qingfeng met Dong Liu and the other Spirit Void cultivators, who sought to build ties with him as a third-grade alchemist and artifact refiner. Dong Liu entrusted him with materials and his Black Tortoise Shield to refine a nimble defensive artifact before the auction ended.

• Dong Liu recognized Lu Qingfeng and struck up a friendly conversation with him and the other cultivators.
• Dong Liu offered Lu Qingfeng Jade Paste, Spirit Stones, and materials, asking him to refine a third-grade artifact.
• Dong Liu described wanting a nimble protective shield and showed Lu Qingfeng his Inscribed Gold Blade and Black Tortoise Shield.
• Lu Qingfeng judged the materials insufficient for a strong shield and offered to use the Black Tortoise Shield in the refinement.
• Dong Liu handed over the shield and materials without hesitation, and Lu Qingfeng told him to return after the auction.

Lu Qingfeng completed Dong Liu’s artifact commission, built his reputation as an alchemist and artifact refiner, and took Lu Qingyu sightseeing around Gathering Immortals Market. Three days later, he and Zhou Yuan brought her to the opening of the Mystic Origin Auction, where cultivators gathered on floating islands according to their status.

• Lu Qingfeng reassured Zhou Yuan that he could refine Dong Liu’s Black Tortoise Shield, then completed the third-rank artifact in less than three days.
• Zhou Yuan visited cultivators around Gathering Immortals Market and spread Lu Qingfeng’s name, drawing clients who sought pills and artifacts.
• Lu Qingfeng took Lu Qingyu to Purple Lotus-Pod Mountain and other parts of the market, where they shopped without finding any hidden treasure.
• Zhou Yuan explained the Mystic Origin Auction’s scale and advertised lots, including Purple-Gold Copper and the Dustfall Pill, as the three of them headed to the auction grounds.
• The Mystic Origin Sect arranged floating islands as the auction venue, and Lu Qingfeng, Zhou Yuan, and Lu Qingyu joined the cultivators gathering there.

Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu entered the Mystic Origin Auction on Spirit Void Island, where Zhou Yuan explained its two bidding formats. Lu Qingfeng sold the Mystic Origin Sect a Mid-Grade Spell for two hundred Spirit Stones, recognizing that his collection of spells and methods was a major source of wealth, while he planned to save his funds for Purple-Gold Copper.

• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu used an azure jade disc to pass Spirit Void Island's restrictions and joined Zhou Yuan in a private auction hall.
• Zhou Yuan explained that the auction combined live bidding on the central stage with silent bids on other listed items.
• Lu Qingfeng browsed the auction listings and decided to save his Spirit Stones for Purple-Gold Copper rather than pursue the Sensing Pearl.
• Lu Qingfeng offered Water Dragon Chant, and the Mystic Origin Sect appraised and bought the Mid-Grade Spell for two hundred Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected that his many spells, cultivation methods, pill recipes, and artifact-refining methods were valuable assets, and anticipated that his Ironfire Ant colony could eventually produce a steady supply of resources.

Lu Qingfeng attended the Mystic Origin Auction, where the Mystic Origin Sect’s Kou Xuan and Nalan Xun opened the first session. He restrained himself from bidding on Magnetic Divine Light, which Vermilion-Glow Mountain Villa bought for 920 Spirit Stones, then collected the items he had won.

• Lu Qingfeng raised his bid on a Sensing Pearl to 68 Spirit Stones and continued bidding on other lots while waiting for the auction to begin.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu watched Core Formation True Persons and other notable cultivators arrive, while Zhou Yuan identified figures from the Giant Spirit Mountain sects and the Mystic Origin Sect.
• Kou Xuan announced the start of the 197th Mystic Origin Auction, with Nalan Xun overseeing it.
• The first session’s closing lot, the incomplete High-grade Magnetic Divine Light, drew fierce bids; Lu Qingfeng decided not to compete, and Vermilion-Glow Mountain Villa won it for 920 Spirit Stones.
• After the first session ended, Lu Qingfeng spent over a thousand Spirit Stones to collect the second-category items he had won.

Lu Qingfeng spent the Mystic Origin Auction gathering rare treasures and materials, then competed for the Purple Essence Copper needed for a Teleportation Array. His conspicuous bidding drew attention, while the Mystic Origin Sect’s leaders discussed his rapid rise and investigated his background.

• Lu Qingfeng used Spirit Stones earned from selling arts and a cultivation method to buy rare pills, artifact treasures, refining materials, and spiritual medicines.
• Lu Qingfeng completed most of his planned material collections and separated from Zhou Yuan so he could bid freely at the auction.
• Lu Qingfeng joined the competition for the Purple Essence Copper, driving other bidders to notice his wealth and recognize him as Grandmaster Lu.
• Kou Xuan told Nalan Xun about Lu Qingfeng’s rapid advancement in alchemy and artifact refining and explained that senior figures in the Mystic Origin Sect were investigating him.

Lu Qingfeng secured purple essence copper at the Mystic Origin Auction and returned to Cloudrise Mountain, where he delivered a powerful shield and lifesaving pills to their commissioners. He planned to remain at Gathering Immortals Market for a few more days while waiting for an influential benefactor.

• Lu Qingfeng outbid the remaining contenders and bought the purple essence copper for three thousand Spirit Stones, while worrying that his display of wealth might attract opportunistic cultivators.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu returned to Cloudrise Mountain, where Zhou Yuan, Dong Liu, and Hanging Mirror Wanderer were waiting for their commissions.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Hanging Mirror Wanderer two Baleful Reversal Pills and warned him that they could restore true essence and boost cultivation but would damage vital energy afterward.
• Lu Qingfeng presented Dong Liu with the Five-Qi Luo Smoke Shield, whose nearly invisible smoke repelled Lu Qingfeng's Sword Qi and impressed everyone present.
• Lu Qingfeng said he would stay at Gathering Immortals Market for a few more days, where he could refine his newly acquired materials and wait for an influential benefactor.

Lu Qingfeng’s third-order alchemy and artifact-refining skills attracted the attention of powerful cultivators, while he calmly dismissed the resentment of Deng Zhuo of the Ice Jade Sect. The chapter ended with the Mystic Origin Sect’s Pill Convergence and Artifact Refining Hall masters arriving at Cloudrise Mountain to recruit him.

• Lu Qingfeng’s Five-Qi Luo Smoke Shield drew requests for more commissions, and Deng Zhuo left Cloudrise Mountain angry after Lu Qingfeng refused to refine an artifact for him.
• Deng Zhuo saw Hall Masters Wen Zhong and Kou Xuan arrive with two revered elders, learned they were seeking Lu Qingfeng, and abandoned his hostile plans.
• Zhou Yuan told Lu Qingfeng that he would return to the Gathering Cloud Mountains with three Spirit Void Cultivators to help protect the Sunset Glow Sect.
• Wang Hui brought Wen Zhong, Kou Xuan, Gu Buyan, and Gai Yunshan to meet Lu Qingfeng at Cloudrise Mountain.
• Gu Buyan invited Lu Qingfeng to join the Pill Convergence Hall, while Gai Yunshan urged him to join the Artifact Refining Hall.

Lu Qingfeng joined the Mystic Origin Sect as a True Disciple of the Pill Convergence Hall after its master, Gu Buyan, competed with the Artifact Refining Hall to recruit him. As Gu Buyan showed him around Sunset Peak, Lu Qingfeng discovered how badly the Pill Convergence Hall lacked skilled alchemists and understood why his talents mattered so much.

• Gu Buyan offered Lu Qingfeng a True Disciple seat in the Pill Convergence Hall, while Gai Yunshan tried to recruit him for the Artifact Refining Hall.
• Lu Qingfeng chose the Pill Convergence Hall because he was more passionate about pill refinement, and Gu Buyan immediately accepted him as his fourth disciple.
• Zhou Yuan told Dong Liu, Zhu Ye, and Luo Han that Lu Qingfeng had joined the Mystic Origin Sect, then departed for the Gathering Cloud Mountains.
• Gu Buyan brought Lu Qingfeng to Sunset Peak and explained the Mystic Origin Sect's peaks, halls, and the distinction between the clear and turbid streams.
• After touring the Pill Convergence Hall, Lu Qingfeng realized it had no Fourth-Order Alchemists and that Gu Buyan had recruited him to address its shortage of talent.

Lu Qingfeng settled into the Mystic Origin Sect as a True Disciple and discussed with Lu Qingyu why Lu Qingshan should remain in the Sunset Glow Sect. After easing Qingyu’s fears about their family growing apart, he agreed to help her rent a shop in the Gathering Immortals Market.

• Lu Qingfeng learned that the Pill Convergence Hall lacked skilled alchemists and considered how his talent could earn him security and influence in the Mystic Origin Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng left Gu Buyan and returned to his cave residence on Sunset Peak, where he found Lu Qingyu waiting for him.
• Lu Qingyu worried that living in the Profound Origin Water Realm would separate her from Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingfeng explained why Qingshan should remain in the Sunset Glow Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Qingyu that their temporary separation was a loss balanced by the longer lives cultivation would bring them, and offered to take her back to the Sunset Glow Sect to train with Qingshan.
• Lu Qingyu refused to live with Qingshan and reminded Lu Qingfeng of his promise to help her open a shop; Lu Qingfeng agreed to rent her one in the Gathering Immortals Market.

Lu Qingfeng joined the Mystic Origin Sect’s Pill Convergence Hall and impressed Gu Buyan with his alchemy skill and knowledge. Gu Buyan sent him to Flying Cloud Island to train alchemists, while Lu Qingfeng doubted the hall’s costly plan could reverse its decline without making its finances sustainable.

• Gu Buyan guided Lu Qingfeng through the Pill Convergence Hall, and Lu Qingfeng became one of the Mystic Origin Sect’s True Disciples.
• Lu Qingfeng refined twelve unusually potent Five-Element Pills, and Gu Buyan praised his skill after testing his knowledge for two hours.
• Gu Buyan sent Lu Qingfeng to Flying Cloud Island with alchemists and apprentices to teach, while requiring him to report to Sunset Peak each month.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected that alchemy required talent, good teaching, and extensive practice, making the Pill Convergence Hall’s plan to train many alchemists difficult and expensive.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the Pill Convergence Hall’s reserves could sustain its spending only temporarily unless its pill production covered the cost of training disciples.

Lu Qingfeng took charge of Flying Cloud Island, inspected its first batches of pills, and planned how to train its alchemists and meet production quotas. He then brought Lu Qingyu to Gathering Immortals Market to find her a shop, where Wang Hui began showing them available properties.

• Feng Jin handed Lu Qingfeng the inventory for Flying Cloud Island, and the island’s steward verified that all supplies had arrived.
• Lu Qingfeng identified flaws in Zhang Qi and the other six alchemists’ pills and taught them how to improve their methods.
• Lu Qingfeng planned to screen and train Flying Cloud Island’s alchemists and apprentices so they could meet the Pill Convergence Hall’s production quotas.
• Lu Qingyu told Lu Qingfeng that Wang Hui had found two shops for rent or purchase at Gathering Immortals Market, and Lu Qingfeng offered to take her there.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu met Wang Hui at Cloudrise Mountain, and he led them to inspect the shops on Soaring Phoenix Mountain.
• Wang Hui told Lu Qingyu that the three-story shop in an excellent location rented for thirty Spirit Stones a year.

Lu Qingfeng rented the Misty Sky Pavilion on Soaring Phoenix Mountain for Lu Qingyu, but True Disciple Zhou Su tried to seize it and attacked him. Lu Qingfeng trapped and battered her in a formation until True Disciple Yan Pingshu intervened, and he dispelled the formation.

• Lu Qingfeng chose the larger, thirty-Spirit-Stone shop and rented it for ten years, then gave its control talisman to Lu Qingyu and asked Wang Hui and Zhao Jiu to look after her.
• Zhou Su arrived and tried to take the Misty Sky Pavilion's control talisman from Lu Qingyu, but Lu Qingfeng broke her spell and reclaimed it.
• Zhou Su attacked Lu Qingfeng with her Sky-Supporting Palm Seal and Raging Tide Mountain, but he resisted and trapped her in his Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Stick formation.
• Lu Qingfeng's formation battered Zhou Su while Wang Hui and Zhao Jiu urged him to stop, until Yan Pingshu arrived and intervened with his chains.
• Lu Qingfeng sent a blue robe into the formation, withdrew the sticks, and released Zhou Su.

After Lu Qingfeng and Zhou Su were both sentenced to three years in the Profound Yin Cavern, Lu Qingyu resolved to grow stronger and build their family’s shop while he was away. In the cavern, Lu Qingfeng turned his punishment into a chance to cultivate, then fought Zhou Su when she tried to avenge the beating she had received.

• Yan Pingshu took Lu Qingfeng and Zhou Su to the Hall of Disciplinary Law, where both were sentenced to three years in the Profound Yin Cavern.
• Yan Pingshu reassured Lu Qingyu that Lu Qingfeng was unharmed, and she renamed the Misty Sky Pavilion Peak Rain Mountain and began preparing to open a shop.
• Lu Qingyu studied the Gathering Immortals Market, cultivated Grand Luo Insight, and vowed to become strong enough to support and protect Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng used the yin wind and the chains’ yang fire to temper his body and true essence, while worrying about Lu Qingyu being on her own.
• Zhou Su approached Lu Qingfeng in the cavern, apologized for his punishment, and then attacked him to avenge the beating.
• Lu Qingfeng overpowered Zhou Su in close combat, struck her into the distance, and sat back down after his anger had eased.

In the Heavenly Shaman Realm, Lu Qingfeng spent his tenth and eleventh lives mastering the Contemplation of the Eight-Nine Calamities and ultimately succeeded in refining the Golden Silkworm Gu. After advancing his understanding of the next tribulation, he died and entered his twelfth life.

• Gu Buyan confronted Zhuo Jun over Lu Qingfeng's punishment, while Zhou Huayu apologized for Zhou Su and promised to make amends.
• Zhou Su endured the Profound Yin Cavern's punishment beside Lu Qingfeng, unaware that his consciousness was elsewhere and he felt no pain.
• Over twenty-eight years, Lu Qingfeng subdued or destroyed the Heavenly Shaman Realm's grotto-heavens and blessed lands, strengthened the Yin Talisman Sect, and gathered materials for the Golden Silkworm Gu.
• Across his tenth and eleventh lives, Lu Qingfeng comprehended the calamities of the Contemplation of the Eight-Nine Calamities, eventually mastering the first tribulation and glimpsing Closest Kin.
• Lu Qingfeng failed his first attempt to refine the Golden Silkworm Gu, then succeeded with his second attempt near the end of his eleventh life.
• Lu Qingfeng extrapolated the first two calamities of Armed Conflict, died, and began his twelfth life.