Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng destroyed his Golden Silkworm Gu while attempting to defy fate in the game, but confirmed the change had not yet altered his real-world attributes. Weak from the ordeal, he fought off Zhou Su in the Profound Yin Cavern, then began refining an artifact while she endured the midnight yin winds.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Golden Silkworm Gu to challenge Fate, endured soul-rending agony, and watched the Gu be erased as he sensed a great terror.
• Lu Qingfeng checked his attributes in the game and in reality, finding that his root bone had changed only in the game; the pain had also left his real body weak.
• Zhou Su mocked Lu Qingfeng and challenged him to join her in fighting demons after they left the Profound Yin Cavern.
• When Zhou Su attacked, Lu Qingfeng used Karmic Obstruction and the Zhurong Demon God to beat her while she was unable to see or use her true essence.
• At midnight, Lu Qingfeng moved away from Zhou Su and began refining an artifact with his furnace, materials, and demon gods.

While imprisoned in the Profound Yin Cavern, Lu Qingfeng finished refining several powerful offensive artifacts and considered making a Dust-Veiling Banner for protection and escape. Unable to gather its materials until his release, he planned to use Yan Pingshu to make connections with the Hall of Rare Treasures.

• Lu Qingfeng refined three Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks and reviewed the pills and artifacts he had made during his imprisonment.
• Lu Qingfeng considered refining a Dust-Veiling Banner replica, which could defend him and carry him a hundred thousand li toward a location bound to its earth qi.
• Lu Qingfeng decided he needed materials from the Hall of Rare Treasures, since the Artifact Refining Hall was unlikely to help him after he chose the Pill Convergence Hall over Gai Yunshan.
• Lu Qingfeng ruled out Wang Hui and Zhou Su as useful contacts and settled on asking Yan Pingshu for an introduction to a True Disciple or elder of the Hall of Rare Treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng remembered he still had more than a year to remain in the Profound Yin Cavern.

Lu Qingfeng traveled from the Heavenly Shaman Realm to the Five Directions Realm and joined the Ruyi Sect on Mount Youyu. There, he learned that True Immortal Yuan Yi was Mu Yuanyi, his old friend from the Bingling World, who had become a Mahayana True Immortal.

• Lu Qingfeng subdued Zhou Su, then left the Heavenly Shaman Realm after his Root Bone stabilized at four points.
• Lu Qingfeng crossed the Teleportation Array into the Five Directions Realm and learned about its rival sects and their competing Dao lineages.
• Lu Qingfeng settled at Mount Youyu in the Cloud Emergence Kingdom and met Hou Fei, who introduced him to the Ruyi Sect.
• Hou Fei told Lu Qingfeng about True Immortal Yuan Yi, a prodigy from the Bingling World who had ascended in under two thousand years.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized True Immortal Yuan Yi as Mu Yuanyi, his former friend and founder of the Yuanyi Guild, and reflected on how far their lives had diverged.

Lu Qingfeng joined the Ruyi Sect, used alchemy missions to gather resources, and advanced to Foundation Establishment while preparing to refine the Golden Silkworm Gu and other artifacts. Ten years later, the story shifted to Ding Yu, a young prince’s son exiled to Cloudmist Mountain, who still could not sense Qi.

• Hou Fei introduced Lu Qingfeng to the Merit Hall, explained sect missions, and gave him a Ruyi Talisman.
• Lu Qingfeng planned to test the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method and gather materials for the Golden Silkworm Gu and Dust-Veiling Banner.
• Lu Qingfeng took alchemy missions, became the Ruyi Sect’s third Initiate Alchemist, and advanced from the First Layer True Qi Realm to Foundation Establishment in six years.
• Lu Qingfeng successfully refined the Golden Silkworm Gu on his third attempt and made the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks and twelve Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners.
• Lu Qingfeng remained in the Ruyi Sect for another ten years, continuing to cultivate and gather materials.
• Ding Yu trained on Cloudmist Mountain but failed to sense Qi despite his efforts.

Lu Qingfeng gave Ding Yu, a prince unable to cultivate, a way to begin cultivation and used him to test his plans for building the Azure Origin Sword Sect. Twenty years later, Lu Qingfeng had spread the sect's seeds across the Southern Continent and advanced close to the Body Tempering Realm.

• Lu Qingfeng abducted Ding Yu, raised his Root Bone from zero to three, accepted him as his first disciple, and gave him an Auxiliary Nine Palaces Star Compass.
• Ding Yu returned to Cloudmist Manor excited that he could cultivate and resolved not to disappoint Lu Qingfeng or his father.
• Lu Qingfeng explained that he had refined thirty-four Nine Palaces Star Compasses and planned to use disciples bearing them to develop the Azure Origin Sword Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng spent decades traveling the Southern Continent, finding Root Bone cripples, reversing their fates, and scattering opportunities and sect disciples across the region.
• Thirty-six years after arriving in the Five Directions Realm, Lu Qingfeng had reached the Origin Nurturing Realm and was close to perfection while continuing to develop the sect and study cultivation arts.

Lu Qingfeng discovered that the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method could change the fate of only nine people before Heaven erased it, though it remained intact in reality. He also reflected on the management problems caused by distributing twenty-seven Nine Palaces Star Compasses and realized that appraising exchanged materials personally would become unmanageable.

• Lu Qingfeng saw that Gu Shaoshang had earned a large amount of merit and found Astral Silver Sand, which Lu Qingfeng appraised and accepted through the Nine Palaces Star Compass.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that changing Gu Shaoshang’s fate had used the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method’s ninth and final permitted use, causing Heaven to erase it from his Attribute Panel.
• Lu Qingfeng realized the method still existed in reality, where he planned to improve Qingshan and Qingyu’s Root Bones after leaving the Profound Yin Cavern.
• Lu Qingfeng recalled that he had distributed twenty-seven Nine Palaces Star Compasses and limited their Merit exchange functions to scheduled periods to manage their demands.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized that holders could exchange Merit for stored items directly, but he still had to appraise materials himself, a task he feared would become overwhelming.

Lu Qingfeng revised the Nine Palaces Star Compass to serve his needs and set out for the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect to seek the sect’s advanced Golden Silkworm Gu method. After discovering a tracking mark on Astral Silver Sand, he escaped an attack, but the black-robed pursuer still held a Nine Palaces Star Compass and began planning how to find him again.

• Lu Qingfeng revised the Nine Palaces Star Compass’s exchange rules so Spirit Stones could buy Minor Merit, while Major Merit came from his missions or valuable materials and was required for higher-grade items.
• Lu Qingfeng left Chexiong Kingdom for the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect, hoping to obtain the advanced Golden Silkworm Gu method by joining the sect or one of its affiliated groups.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed danger, divined with the Seven Birds Lesser Evolving Numerology, and discovered that Astral Silver Sand carried a concealed tracking mark.
• The black-robed cultivator sent a black-thread magic artifact after Lu Qingfeng, who escaped on the Dust-Veiling Banner’s Rainbow Cloud while the attack killed his Ironwing Flying Eagle.
• The black-robed cultivator retrieved the black thread and examined his Nine Palaces Star Compass, then resolved to plan carefully because Lu Qingfeng had escaped and the tracking mark was gone.

Lu Qingfeng used the Dust-Veiling Banner to escape True Person Six Paths and learned that Gu Shaoshang was imprisoned by the Heshan Way. After Gu Shaoshang was killed, Lu Qingfeng changed his plans while True Person Six Paths borrowed the Five Yin Pouch to capture the magical artifact that had eluded him.

• Lu Qingfeng traveled one hundred thousand li to Mount Cloudglory with the Dust-Veiling Banner and identified his pursuer as True Person Six Paths of the Heshan Way.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered Gu Shaoshang had been crippled and imprisoned, then set out toward the Heshan Way to rescue him.
• True Person Six Paths failed to make Gu Shaoshang reveal where his Nine Palaces Star Compass came from and killed him, taking his soul into a banner.
• Lu Qingfeng saw Gu Shaoshang die, abandoned his rescue attempt, and began laying plans against the Heshan Way.
• True Person Six Paths borrowed the Five Yin Pouch from True Person Five Yin Zhang Jue to capture and defile Lu Qingfeng’s escaping magical artifact.
• True Person Six Paths set out to borrow the Five-Horse Stupa Lock from Senior Brother Jiao because he still did not know where Lu Qingfeng was.

Lu Qingfeng’s Heshan-Slaying Pearls drove cultivators across the region to hunt the Heshan Way for the arts sealed inside them. True Person Six Paths tracked Lu Qingfeng down with the Five-Horse Stupa Lock, but Lu Qingfeng escaped with a second Dust-Veiling Banner, leaving Six Paths to return to the Heshan Way.

• True Person Yuan Xun killed a gray-robed Heshan Way cultivator with a Spiritlight Dharma Pearl and obtained the Water Dragon Art.
• Heshan-Slaying Pearls spread across neighboring kingdoms, provoking attacks on Spirit Void cultivators of the Heshan Way by outsiders and fellow disciples alike.
• Lu Qingfeng continued making the pearls, intending to stir the world against the Heshan Way and exact revenge on True Person Six Paths.
• True Person Six Paths found Lu Qingfeng using the Five-Horse Stupa Lock and tainted his first Dust-Veiling Banner with black qi.
• Lu Qingfeng escaped with a second Dust-Veiling Banner, and True Person Six Paths abandoned pursuit when the Five Yin Pouch and Yin horses pulled him back toward the Heshan Way.

Heshan Way faced attacks after Lu Qingfeng spread Heshan-Slaying Pearls offering powerful spells and cultivation methods for killing its cultivators. After Heshan Way’s mountain gate fell and its True Persons escaped, a Primordial Spirit cultivator from Empty Cicada Sect confronted Lu Qingfeng, who escaped using the Shell-Shedding Grand Art.

• True Person Six Paths returned to Heshan Way and learned that the Heshan-Slaying Pearls had made its Spirit Void cultivators targets and threatened the sect.
• True Person Wan Du and the other True Persons realized the rewards could tempt even Empty Cicada Sect, just as attackers gathered outside the mountain gate.
• More than ten True Persons and countless Rogue Cultivators attacked Heshan Way, destroyed its mountain gate, and forced its six True Persons to flee.
• Lu Qingfeng hid in a cave dwelling and learned that Heshan Way’s True Persons had escaped the assault using their distinctive techniques and treasures.
• A white-haired Primordial Spirit cultivator from Empty Cicada Sect found Lu Qingfeng and tried to take him back to answer for Heshan Way’s destruction.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Shell-Shedding Grand Art to escape, leaving the Golden Silkworm Gu behind, while the old Daoist wondered whether he was connected to the Golden Silkworm Immortal Sect.

Lu Qingfeng settled on Yushan Island, established Rain Mountain Pavilion as Qing Yuanzi, and spent a century building his reputation and advancing his cultivation. As trouble brewed among the Bamboo Mountain Sea's three major sects, Lu Jiang arrived to meet him.

• Lu Qingfeng fled the Southern Continent for the Shattered Star Sea and chose Yushan Island as a place to cultivate in safety.
• Zhao Bei guided Lu Qingfeng through Yushan Island and explained its markets and the power of its thirteen Rogue Cultivator True Persons.
• Over the next hundred years, Lu Qingfeng established Rain Mountain Pavilion in Qiantian Market and expanded it throughout Yushan Island's eight markets.
• Lu Qingfeng cultivated with his fifth-grade Luofu Heart Lamp and advanced to the Spirit Void Fusion Realm.
• Lu Jiang, a disciple of Qinglian True Person, arrived at Rain Mountain Pavilion and requested an audience with Lu Qingfeng.

Sikong Qinglian brought Lu Qingfeng into Five Peaks Sect territory to break a formation protecting an underground cave dwelling, where they discovered a Five-Yang Sword and a Hundred-Sword Diagram. As Lu Qingfeng recognized the treasures, Sikong Qinglian suddenly turned her Gengjia Celestial Radiance Needles toward him.

• Lu Jiang invited Lu Qingfeng to meet Sikong Qinglian, who asked him to help open a cave dwelling hidden in Five Peaks Sect territory.
• Sikong Qinglian gave Lu Qingfeng a Void-Concealing Robe, and they crossed several thousand li to a barren island before entering an underground cavern.
• Lu Qingfeng found the flaw in the formation protecting the cavern and directed Sikong Qinglian to attack it with her Gengjia Celestial Radiance Needles.
• The formation broke, revealing a Five-Yang Sword and a Hundred-Sword Diagram among the magma and stone pillars.
• Sikong Qinglian sent her Gengjia Celestial Radiance Needles surging toward Lu Qingfeng as he recognized the treasures.

Lu Qingfeng fought Sikong Qinglian over the Five-Yang Sword and the Hundred-Sword Diagram, using his Great Geng Sword Formation to resist her attacks and claim the sword. After they each seized part of the diagram, Lu Qingfeng offered Sikong Qinglian his forty-two stone pillars in exchange for her protection.

• Lu Qingfeng used his Golden Light Sword Formation, Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe, and Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks to withstand Sikong Qinglian’s Gengjia Celestial Radiance Needles.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized that Sikong Qinglian wanted the Hundred-Sword Diagram and was trying to silence him, then used the Light-Containing Shadow-Sweeping Method to draw the Five-Yang Sword into his sheath.
• Lu Qingfeng broke free of Sikong Qinglian’s attack and collected the Five-Yang Sword.
• Lu Qingfeng and Sikong Qinglian each seized dozens of stone pillars containing the Hundred-Sword Diagram, and Lu Qingfeng collected forty-two.
• Sikong Qinglian proposed combining their halves of the diagram, but Lu Qingfeng offered her his pillars in exchange for protecting him.

Lu Qingfeng and Sikong Qinglian exchanged a Heart-Demon Blood Oath, binding her to protect and obey him for two hundred years in return for the Forty-Two Stone Pillars. After the Black-and-White True Persons interrupted them, Lu Qingfeng escaped into the sea while Sikong Qinglian fought her way free, leaving the Five Peaks Sect to identify the Rain Mountain Pavilion Master as the cultivator who had fled.

• Lu Qingfeng negotiated with Sikong Qinglian, who agreed to a two-hundred-year term of service and protection in exchange for the Forty-Two Stone Pillars, and they established a Heart-Demon Blood Oath.
• The Black-and-White True Persons arrived at the deserted island to capture Sikong Qinglian and seize her Gengjia Celestial Radiance Needles.
• Lu Qingfeng escaped into the sea using the Gonggong Demon God visualization, while Sikong Qinglian held off the Black-and-White True Persons with her silver Celestial River and fled.
• Green Cloud True Person and True Person Lei Yi investigated the deserted island, then recognized the escaped cyan-robed cultivator as the Rain Mountain Pavilion Master.
• Lu Qingfeng and Sikong Qinglian regrouped several hundred li away, and Sikong Qinglian dismissed the Black-and-White True Persons as inferior to her.

Lu Qingfeng learned that his Five-Yang Sword was needed to open the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion, then left the Profound Yin Cavern after completing his three-year sentence. He sought news of his younger sister Qingyu, but Yan Pingshu hesitated, leaving Lu Qingfeng worried about what had happened.

• Sikong Qinglian offered to trade Lu Qingfeng’s Five-Yang Sword for Fire Crow Dao Soldiers, but he refused to part with it before the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion opened.
• Sikong Qinglian revealed that the Five-Yang Sword qualified Lu Qingfeng to enter the Immortal Mansion and proposed discussing the matter with Yushan Island’s other True Persons.
• Lu Qingfeng and Zhou Su completed their sentences and left the Profound Yin Cavern after three years.
• Xiang Chao greeted Zhou Su and questioned Lu Qingfeng, but Lu Qingfeng ignored him and greeted Yan Pingshu and Di Zhao instead.
• Lu Qingfeng declined Di Zhao’s invitation to return to Sunset Peak, saying he needed to visit Gathering Immortals Island first.
• Lu Qingfeng asked Yan Pingshu how Qingyu had fared over the past three years, and Yan Pingshu hesitated.

Lu Qingfeng returned from the Profound Yin Cavern, where Zhou Su’s heart demon caused her to attack him and Xiang Chao, earning her confinement in Blazing Sun Valley. He reunited with Lu Qingyu at Peak Rain Mountain, learned how she had squandered borrowed Spirit Stones, and heard about her unusual pride in becoming known as the Mystic Origin Sect’s greatest spendthrift.

• Yan Pingshu explained that Lu Qingyu had borrowed Spirit Stones in Lu Qingfeng’s name and spent at least six hundred on Bluegold Pure Essence, prompting Xiang Chao to mock them.
• Zhou Su’s heart demon made her mistake Xiang Chao for Lu Qingfeng and attack him, after which Yan Pingshu restrained her and took her to the Hall of Disciplinary Law.
• Lu Qingfeng and Yan Pingshu left the Profound Origin Water Realm, and Yan Pingshu agreed to introduce Lu Qingfeng to contacts in the Hall of Rare Treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng reached Peak Rain Mountain and reunited with Lu Qingyu, who tearfully greeted him after three years apart.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Qingyu that Zhou Su had been sent to Blazing Sun Valley, and Lu Qingyu celebrated the punishment before sharing stories from her years in the market.

Lu Qingyu revealed that she had secretly bought and stockpiled Bluegold Pure Essence, which Lu Qingfeng recognized as a valuable ingredient for Clearbright Spirit Water. He returned to Sunset Peak to pay his respects to Gu Buyan, leaving the siblings’ newfound fortune and Qingyu’s growing independence in view.

• Lu Qingyu gave Lu Qingfeng a Storage Bag containing 390 flasks of Bluegold Pure Essence, after drinking 22 flasks to maintain her cover at Gathering Immortals Market.
• Lu Qingfeng realized the 142,350 drops could be worth 284,700 Spirit Stones in the Shattered Star Sea, though he decided their value was too risky to exploit immediately.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected that Qingyu had grown more independent during their separation and that discovering Pure Essence had helped her recognize her own abilities.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived at Sunset Peak, greeted his master Gu Buyan, and thanked Eldest Senior Brother Di Zhao for lending Qingyu Spirit Stones during his imprisonment.

After leaving the Profound Yin Cavern, Lu Qingfeng repaid the Spirit Stones his sister had borrowed and returned to Flying Cloud Island, where he began investigating its declining performance and accounts. He reviewed the island’s stewards and alchemists, then prepared to examine hundreds of account books for possible losses.

• Gu Buyan gave Lu Qingfeng a jade token granting access to the Scripture Transmission Hall, and Di Zhao explained the hall’s importance before Lu Qingfeng repaid the fifty-two Spirit Stones he had lent Lu Qingyu.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Flying Cloud Island, greeted Zhang Qi, Liu Feng, Qin Hai, Zhao Yunxing, and the other staff, and repaid the Spirit Stones Lu Qingyu had borrowed from them.
• Qin Hai reported that Flying Cloud Island had failed its assessments for three years, causing its supply allocations to decline and leaving many alchemy apprentices idle.
• Lu Qingfeng asked Qin Hai and the pill-refining chamber leaders to provide detailed records of supplies, spending, and losses, while Zhang Qi and several others reacted uneasily.
• Qin Hai returned with hundreds of account books, and Lu Qingfeng began reviewing them as he dismissed Zhang Qi and the others.

Lu Qingfeng purged corrupt officials from Flying Cloud Island and introduced the Yellow Dragon Pill, a mid-grade pill made from low-grade herbs, to revive the island’s finances. After sealing and fortifying the island, he met Elder Feng Ping and Feng Bai of the Hall of Rare Treasures, where Feng Bai teased him for seeming old and stodgy.

• Lu Qingfeng expelled Qin Hai, Zhang Qi, Liu Qing, and Zhou Qing after Zhao Yunxing revealed their embezzlement and sabotage of Flying Cloud Island’s assessments.
• Lu Qingfeng gave four alchemists the Yellow Dragon Pill Formula and ordered them to train apprentices to produce it.
• Lu Qingfeng sealed Flying Cloud Island, planning to build its profits and train alchemists, and spent half a month setting up defensive formations.
• Lu Qingfeng traveled to the Gathering Immortals Market and met Elder Feng Ping and Feng Bai at the Feather Immortal Pavilion.
• Feng Bai introduced himself as Feng Ping’s grandnephew and teased Lu Qingfeng for acting old and stodgy.

Lu Qingfeng secured Elder Feng's help in sourcing rare materials and returned to managing Flying Cloud Island. In the Primordial World, the Five Peaks Sect discovered that Lu Qingfeng had obtained the Five-Yang Sword and began planning for the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.

• At the Feather Immortal Pavilion, Feng Bai introduced Lu Qingfeng to Feng Ping, who agreed to help gather materials through the Hall of Rare Treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Feng Ping two lists of materials for pills and artifacts, including supplies for the Luofu Heart Lamp, Longevity Pill, and High-Grade Violet Insect Bell.
• After dining with Lu Qingyu, Lu Qingfeng returned to Flying Cloud Island and organized its pill-refining apprentices to produce Enhanced Yellow Dragon Pills.
• At the Five Peaks Sect's council hall, Flying Eagle True Person used the Light-Returning Divine Mirror to show that Lu Qingfeng had fought Sikong Qinglian over a cave-abode treasure and escaped with it.
• Wu Gong and Zhu Lingzi identified the treasure as the Five-Yang Sword and discussed how the Six Treasures of Bamboo Mountain could lead to the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• The Five Peaks Sect leaders agreed to summon absent True Persons and plan their entry into the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.