Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng spent twenty-four years cultivating in seclusion while Yushan Island’s True Persons waited for him to open Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion. A Blood Sea invasion then struck the Five Directions Realm, and a system notice revealed that the realm was being dragged toward the Netherworld Blood Sea as its heavenly secrets were concealed.

• Sikong Qinglian and Yushan Island’s True Persons discussed Lu Qingfeng’s disappearance and waited for him to join the assault on Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• Lu Qingfeng cultivated on a remote island, refining artifacts and delaying the Immortal Mansion’s opening until his cultivation stalled.
• A blood-red light spread across the heavens, and Lu Qingfeng’s attempt to calculate its cause inflicted a severe backlash on his fingers.
• Lu Qingfeng received the words “Blood Sea Surging to the Heavens, Asura Killing Ground” and found that someone had concealed the heavenly secrets.
• A system notice identified the Heaven’s Retribution Asura’s Blood Sea invasion, revealed that the Five Directions Realm was being dragged toward the Blood Sea, and prohibited players from logging off.

The Blood Sea Lineage invaded the Five Directions Realm, overwhelming the four great immortal sects and spreading madness among its creatures. Lu Qingfeng chose the Five Directions Realm faction, killed a corrupted Flamecloud Condor, and returned to Yushan Island to seek allies and open the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.

• The Blood Sea defeated the Five Fire Gate, Pestilence-Dispelling Immortal Sect, and Five Dipper Palace, while the Golden Silkworm Gu swallowed part of it before being struck down.
• Lu Qingfeng killed a Blood Sea-corrupted Flamecloud Condor, chose the Five Directions Realm faction, and learned that defeating opposing cultivators could earn Merit as experience points.
• Lu Qingfeng hurried to Yushan Island, where the Blood Sea had driven demonic beasts and cultivators into violent disorder.
• Lu Qingfeng met Sikong Qinglian, Fire Crow Daoist, Water-Walking True Person, and Daoist Huoyun, who reproached him for disappearing for twenty-four years.
• Lu Qingfeng warned that tribulation qi had gathered around Water-Walking True Person, then Sikong Qinglian proposed gathering allies and contacting three sects to search for the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.

Lu Qingfeng joined Yushan Island’s True Persons as the four factions gathered to locate the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion. After Han Xiao tried to sow discord over Lu Qingfeng wielding the Five-Yang Sword, the six treasures converged and led the factions northwest toward the mansion.

• Fire Crow Daoist gathered Yushan Island’s thirteen True Persons and urged them to unite before the three sects arrived.
• Five Peaks Sect, Hundred Ghosts Gate, and Hollow Bamboo Sect assembled, bringing the Naraka Pearl, the Hundred-Ghost Yin-Locking Robe, and the Seven-Treasure Green Bamboo Staff.
• Han Xiao questioned Lu Qingfeng’s right to wield the Five-Yang Sword, but Wu Gong defended him and warned Han Xiao against provoking him.
• Sikong Qinglian cautioned Lu Qingfeng to keep a low profile, while Lu Qingfeng dismissed the danger of Han Xiao’s threats.
• Wu Gong and the other leaders activated the six treasures, which shone together and carried the gathered True Persons northwest toward the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.

Lu Qingfeng and the other cultivators reached the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion and discovered it was a Blessed Land, but the opening was interrupted by the Kunshan Alliance and an attack from Ghost Eye True Person. As the Blood Sea sent a pillar of light down over them, the group faced another immediate threat.

• Lu Qingfeng and the others traveled through a sea region consumed by slaughter and blood qi toward the Bamboo Mountain Immortal Mansion.
• The Six Treasures of Bamboo Mountain opened a space that Lu Qingfeng recognized as a Blessed Land, and the group prepared to enter.
• Dozens of Core Formation cultivators appeared, and Ghost Eye True Person attacked Lu Qingfeng with her Ghost-Eye Venom Needle; Lu Qingfeng blocked it.
• Sikong Qinglian revealed that Ghost Eye True Person had infiltrated Yushan Island, while the newcomers identified themselves as members of the Kunshan Alliance and proposed entering together.
• The Blood Sea trembled and sent a pillar of blood light down over Lu Qingfeng and the others.

Lu Qingfeng endured the Blood-Radiance Pillar’s forced conversion and used its endless experience points to strengthen his methods while his cultivation remained in the Spirit Void Fusion Realm. When the pillar finally targeted him, he escaped into Bamboo Mountain Paradise and vanished through a self-detonation technique, but the blood light then killed every other cultivator in Bamboo Mountain Sea.

• Lu Qingfeng resisted Blood Sea Transmission as the Blood Sea True Scripture coexisted with his other cultivation methods and his flesh began changing toward an Asura form.
• Lu Qingfeng spent the incoming experience points strengthening his techniques, Divine Abilities, cultivation methods, Thousand Mechanisms Stone Refinement Method, and Spirit-Control Formation.
• More than half of the nearby cultivators died from the blood qi, including the Fire Crow Daoist and Water-Walking True Person, while Sikong Qinglian, Wu Gong, Meng Kuan, and Han Xiao survived the initial surge.
• As the other Blood-Radiance Pillars vanished, Lu Qingfeng continued deducing his four main cultivation techniques until a strange blood radiance swept toward him.
• Lu Qingfeng entered Bamboo Mountain Paradise, used Dutian Demon God Blood-Transforming Flight Technique to annihilate his body and primordial soul, and escaped the blood light’s grasp.
• The blood light swept across Bamboo Mountain Sea and killed every remaining cultivator, including Sikong Qinglian, Wu Gong, and all thirty-four Core Formation True Persons who had joined the Kunshan Alliance.

After dying to the Blood Sea’s attack, Lu Qingfeng revived inside Bamboo Mountain Paradise and explored the Bamboo Mountain Sect’s hidden treasures. He obtained the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and began analyzing the Seventh-Rank artifact before Heaven’s Retribution Asura could discover him.

• Lu Qingfeng revived in the Endless Immortal Palaces with his Root Bone reduced to 1 and reviewed the many Divine Abilities and Great Divine Abilities he had gained from the Blood-Radiance Pillar.
• He explored Bamboo Mountain Paradise, passed through its restricted buildings, and recorded three formation-diagram inheritances, the Five-Elements Yin-Baleful Earth-Center True Flame, and the Hollow Bamboo Gu-Refining Art.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered that his Luofu Sword Canon had become a Supreme-Grade Cultivation Method and continued searching the Blessed Land for its greatest treasure.
• He found the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies, a Seventh-Rank magical artifact that could refine slain enemies’ souls into Dutian Ghost Generals and Dark Nether Yin Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng sat down in Bamboo Mountain Paradise and began analyzing the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies.

Lu Qingfeng obtained four kinds of Dao soldiers, sent the Dutian Ghost Generals and Dark Nether Yin Soldiers to hunt the Heshan Way’s six True Persons, and acquired the Fire Crow Dao Soldiers method. After cursing the Blood Sea and drawing its attention, he let himself die and returned to reality, where he reviewed the gains from his twelfth life.

• Lu Qingfeng summoned thirty-six Dutian Ghost Generals and nine hundred sixty Dark Nether Yin Soldiers, then ordered them to kill the Heshan Way’s six True Persons.
• The Dutian Ghost Generals and Dark Nether Yin Soldiers attacked Five Yin True Person in his cave dwelling.
• Lu Qingfeng used his Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks to retrieve the Fire Crow Dao Soldiers method from a Mustard Seed Space, bringing the number of Dao Soldier types he had acquired to four.
• Lu Qingfeng watched True Person Six Paths die to the Dark Nether formation, then used a Great Divine Ability curse against the Blood Sea.
• The Blood Sea’s will confronted Lu Qingfeng, who declared his allegiance to Siming Duke Bin Yuanjun before allowing himself to die and reincarnate.
• Lu Qingfeng logged off, assessed his gains in reality, and left his cave abode.

Lu Qingfeng sold batches of Yellow Dragon Pills to secure medicinal ingredients and Crimsonfire Coal for Flying Cloud Island before beginning his thirteenth life in the Black Star Realm. He was nearly killed by falling debris on arrival and ended the chapter recovering in a river.

• Wang Hui reported that Flying Cloud Island had produced 47,640 Yellow Dragon Pills, while supplies of ingredients and Crimsonfire Coal were running low.
• Lu Qingfeng took 3,900 bottles of Yellow Dragon Pills to Feng Ping and arranged to trade them to major markets for medicinal ingredients and Crimsonfire Coal.
• Lu Qingfeng visited Lu Qingyu on Gathering Immortals Island, then spent two months cultivating, refining pills, and crafting artifacts before his thirteenth life began.
• Lu Qingfeng entered the Black Star Realm, learned of its Buddhist, Daoist, and demonic histories, and discovered that his Root Bone remained at one.
• Lu Qingfeng reached the third level of the Embryonic Breath Realm, then escaped into the earth and a river when a vast mass of metal and stone fell from above.
• Lu Qingfeng emerged injured and decided to recover before spending his experience points.

After a month investigating the barren mountain ruins, Lu Qingfeng encountered Lin Feng, a clever scavenger who cared for his sick younger sister, and accepted him as a disciple. Lu Qingfeng diagnosed Lin Ye’s illness as curable and left Lin Feng preparing to bring her to live with him.

• Lu Qingfeng explored the mountains of discarded artifacts and watched Lin Feng find a usable broken sword with help from his keen scavenging instincts.
• Lin Feng tried to trade his broken sword for a metal piece Lu Qingfeng was examining, but Lu Qingfeng spotted the Spirit-Sniffing Mouse hidden in his sleeve and stopped him from fleeing.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed his strength, identified the hungry Spirit-Sniffing Mouse, and offered to take Lin Feng as his disciple; Lin Feng accepted.
• Lu Qingfeng met Lin Feng’s younger sister, Lin Ye, and determined that pills and true qi could cure her illness within half a year.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lin Feng to pack up and bring Lin Ye to live with him, and Lin Feng gratefully watched him leave.

Lu Qingfeng used the Dutian Demon Flame to recover materials from Abandoned Mountain’s discarded artifacts and made twelve Talisman Artifacts for Lin Feng to trade for medicinal materials. After sending Lin Feng to Treasure-Gathering Mountain, Lu Qingfeng began gathering river shrimp to raise as Water-Element Dao Soldiers, but found their growth would take a long time.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Dutian Demon Flame’s Revert to Root, Return to Origin ability to separate Silver Essence from a damaged artifact.
• Lu Qingfeng sent the Zhurong Demon God to extract more materials from the Artifact Graveyard and refined twelve second-grade Talisman Artifacts.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Lin Feng the artifacts and a list of medicinal materials to trade for at Treasure-Gathering Mountain, promising to look after Lin Ye.
• Lin Feng set out for Treasure-Gathering Mountain carrying the artifacts and talismans, while Lu Qingfeng reflected on the region’s martial cultivation stages.
• Lu Qingfeng dug a pit with Sword Qi and drew green shrimp from the Azure Dragon River, but realized that raising them into Water-Element Dao Soldiers would take a long time.

Ten years after settling at Treasure-Gathering Mountain, Lu Qingfeng had raised his disciples into powerful figures and continued developing his crafts and forces. When Wen Guang sought permission to expand the Overlord Army, Lu Qingfeng revealed ten Green-Bamboo Guards to help him face opposition from the Demonrock Kingdom’s western prefectures.

• Lu Qingfeng established ten spiritually nourished breeding grounds in the Azure Dragon River to raise shrimp and crabs for future Water-Element Dao Soldiers.
• Over ten years, Lin Feng, Lin Ye, Wen Guang, and Zhang Yang became influential figures around Treasure-Gathering Mountain, while Lu Qingfeng trained them and pursued alchemy and other cultivation.
• Lu Qingfeng refined medicinal pills, and Lin Ye helped store them while describing her progress in alchemy.
• Wen Guang returned to ask Lu Qingfeng’s guidance on expanding Treasure-Gathering Mountain and the Overlord Army into nearby regions.
• Wen Guang explained that the Demonrock Kingdom’s western prefectures might intervene, so Lu Qingfeng produced ten Green-Bamboo Guards, each comparable to a martial master.

Lu Qingfeng spent decades cultivating Dao Soldiers and refining the Tier-Four Dutian Dark Nether Strategies, an artifact that could turn living beings and treasures into Dutian Qi. He began feeding it ruined artifacts from Garbage Star, expecting it to advance in grade, while considering how to secure the Illusory Wave Sea and its Pure Essence resources.

• Lu Qingfeng spent ten years inscribing Spirit-Control Formations into a Thousand Mechanisms Stone but could not reach the full six hundred and forty arrays because his proficiency and soul strength fell short.
• Lin Feng gathered spirit herbs and fire-attribute demon birds, while Zhang Yang searched the Azure Dragon River for spiritual shrimp and crabs to support Lu Qingfeng's efforts to raise Dao Soldiers.
• After another forty years, Lu Qingfeng completed the Tier-Four Dutian Dark Nether Strategies, whose inner Dutian Creation Pool absorbed spiritual energy and transformed living beings and artifacts into Dutian Qi.
• Lu Qingfeng considered using the Ironfire Ants' Refined Crystal and Pure Essence from the Illusory Wave Sea to fund the artifact's growth, but decided he needed to plan around the White Bone Demon Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies to gather ruined artifacts from a mountain, filling its inner space and starting the furnace that refined them into Dutian Qi.

Lu Qingfeng tested the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies, discovered its Dao Soldier limits and a powerful hidden weapon among discarded artifacts, then mastered the entry level of Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall. He began modifying a Cosmic Light Disc to improve its scouting capabilities.

• Lu Qingfeng turned a water fish’s soul into a Dark Nether Yin Soldier and learned that the fourth-grade Dutian Dark Nether Strategies could hold eighteen Foundation Establishment Ghost Generals and three hundred and sixty Postnatal Yin Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng compared the quickly raised Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals with the specialized Water-Element and Fire Crow Dao Soldiers, deciding that each type had different strengths.
• Lu Qingfeng found a sixth-grade Triangular Demon-Slaughter Thorn among the discarded artifacts being refined and recognized its power as a vicious one-use weapon.
• Lu Qingfeng comprehended Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall to the entry level, concealing his soul from mortal investigation.
• Lu Qingfeng infused glazed talismans into the Cosmic Light Disc as he began modifying the scouting artifact.

Lu Qingfeng tested the Cosmic Light Disc, then learned that the White Bone Demon Sect had gravely injured the Mystic Origin Sect’s two supreme elders and stolen two components of the Three Talents Pure Tranquility Ring. He offered pill formulas to help heal them and warned Lu Qingyu that the sect might soon declare war.

• Lu Qingfeng confirmed that the Cosmic Light Disc could evade divination and resolved to use it alongside the Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall to protect his plans.
• Wang Hui told Lu Qingfeng that Qian Lai and Shi Wan had returned gravely wounded after a clash with the White Bone Demon Sect, which had also taken two parts of the Three Talents Pure Tranquility Ring.
• Gu Buyan explained that the Sevenfold Secret Demon Star Shuttle’s toxic flames had injured the supreme elders when their fight interrupted its refinement, and asked Lu Qingfeng whether he could help them recover.
• Lu Qingfeng supplied formulas for the Three-Source Soul-Fixing Pill and Purple Cloud Pill, believing they could treat the supreme elders’ injuries.
• Lu Qingfeng cautioned Lu Qingyu to keep a lower profile and told her he expected the Mystic Origin Sect to declare war on the White Bone Demon Sect.

Lu Qingfeng brought Lu Qingyu back to the Sunset Glow Sect as war between the Mystic Origin Sect and the White Bone Demon Sect threatened to unsettle the wider region. The siblings reunited with Lu Qingshan, while prominent elders from three other sects arrived to meet Lu Qingfeng.

• Lu Qingfeng warned Lu Qingyu that war could endanger the Gathering Cloud Mountains and told her to return with him to the Sunset Glow Sect.
• Lu Qingshan traveled through the Gathering Cloud Mountains with Feng Bai, Zhang Ye, and Qian Yunhai as demon activity and rumors of war worried him.
• Elders Deng Zhuo, Yu Sheng, and Liu Qing arrived at Brocade Cloud Peak to request an audience with Master Lu.
• Lu Qingshan reunited with Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu on Peak Rain Mountain.
• Lu Qingshan gave Lu Qingyu an Ice Epiphyllum, and she shared Pure Essence wine with him before revealing its enormous price.

Lu Qingfeng returned to the Gathering Cloud Mountains, gave Lu Qingshan Dust-Veiling Banners and pills, and nurtured Ironfire Ants while refining the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies. In the Black Star Realm, the artifact reached Sixth Rank, but Lu Qingfeng still lacked powerful souls to fill its ranks as he flew toward Abandoned Mountain.

• Lu Qingfeng gave Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu Dust-Veiling Banners, then provided Lu Qingshan with Foundation Establishment Pills and Blazing Sun Pills.
• Lu Qingfeng visited Sinkhole Mine Mountain, found seventy-two Ironfire Ant eggs, and used the Violet Bell and Soul-Refining Grand Array to nurture and bind them to himself.
• Lu Qingfeng stayed in the Gathering Cloud Mountains to care for the ants and refine the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies before returning to the Black Star Realm.
• Over twenty years on Garbage Star, the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies rose to Sixth Rank and held 220 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers, but Lu Qingfeng found no Spirit Void cultivators or stronger souls to recruit.
• Lu Qingfeng considered how to raise souls into Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals, then put away the artifact as Abandoned Mountain came into view.

After spending decades on the Garbage Star, Lu Qingfeng used the arrival of Shangyuan Palace cultivators to escape aboard their Cosmic Void Ship and traveled to Maplemoon Star. When the four cultivators betrayed him upon arrival, he stepped through their talisman traps and out of the ship.

• Lu Qingfeng waited for the next artifact delivery, then confronted Zhao Cheng, Qin De, Lin Han, and Mo Xun and subdued them with 108 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that Maplemoon Star was ruled by Shangyuan Palace, Azure Cloud Sect, and Great Sumeru Mountain, and decided to study their techniques and test his abilities there.
• Lu Qingfeng analyzed the fifth-tier Cosmic Void Ship while traveling with the four cultivators for four years.
• As the ship approached Shangyuan Palace, Zhao Cheng and the others attacked Lu Qingfeng with talismans and sealed him inside the ship.
• Lu Qingfeng used Cloud-Peak Step to bypass the seals and escape into the void outside the Cosmic Void Ship.

Lu Qingfeng escaped four Upper Origin Palace cultivators and studied their talisman arrays before returning to plans for his cultivation and family. He sought Feng Ping’s help gathering Golden Silkworm Gu materials, but Feng Ping objected to the unorthodox practice.

• Zhao Cheng, Qin De, Lin Han, and Mo Xun used the Upper Origin Eight Views Talisman Art to trap Lu Qingfeng, but he saw through the illusions and escaped.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected on the talisman art, then resolved to investigate the Three Sects and Maple Moon Star while raising his Dao Soldiers and visiting the Upper Origin Palace.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu used the Dust-Veiling Banner to return quickly, and Lu Qingfeng planned to rely on future Refined Crystal and other businesses to fund their cultivation.
• Lu Qingfeng supplied Feng Ping with improved pills at low prices, helping Feng Ping’s business and performance assessment improve.
• Lu Qingfeng asked Feng Ping to collect materials for refining Golden Silkworm Gu, but Feng Ping questioned why he would practice what he called wicked sorcery.

Lu Qingfeng learned that the Hall of Rare Treasures would not help him gather gu and poison materials, so he sought another path. Meanwhile, True Person Lingyi approved selling the Illusory Wave Sea to Rogue Person Blazing Fire amid rising tensions between the Mystic Origin Sect and the White Bone Demon Sect.

• Feng Ping told Lu Qingfeng that the Hall of Rare Treasures' head loathed gu and poison arts because his teacher had died from gu poison.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Flying Cloud Island and decided to look for another way to obtain materials.
• Zhao Yang warned True Person Lingyi and Ming Chaozi that Rogue Person Blazing Fire's request to buy part of the Illusory Wave Sea might conceal a military purpose.
• True Person Lingyi ordered the Feather Immortal Pavilion to sell unneeded holdings as war threatened to spread across the region.
• Zhao Yang showed Rogue Person Blazing Fire the Illusory Wave Sea and handed him the control flag for the Bluegold Grove formation.
• Rogue Person Blazing Fire said that five hundred li of the Illusory Wave Sea would be enough.

Lu Qingfeng secured the Illusory Wave Sea’s Bluegold Trees, fortified the area, and upgraded the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies to a Fifth-Rank Dharma Artifact. Meanwhile, the White Bone Demon Sect prepared to test the Mystic Origin Sect by attacking the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds, and Lu Qingfeng celebrated reaching a level of power that could make him count among the Three Realms’ Core Formation True Persons.

• Lu Qingfeng bought the Illusory Wave Sea’s five-hundred-li territory from Zhao Yang for eighteen hundred Spirit Stones under the identity Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• Lu Qingfeng spent half a month building a formation around the Bluegold Trees, then decided to explore the White Bone Realm with his iron scroll.
• Feng Boping reported that thirteen sects and several Rogue Cultivators had suffered devastating attacks, prompting the White Bone Demon Sect’s leaders to suspect their rivals and debate the attacker’s identity.
• True Person Illusory Nether ordered Han Ji to lead the Lifeless Hall in an attack on the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds to test the Mystic Origin Sect’s strength.
• Lu Qingfeng fed accumulated materials into the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and upgraded it from fourth rank to fifth rank, giving it capacity for thirty-six Dutian Ghost Generals and 1,080 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers.