Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng advanced the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies to the fifth tier, formed its Ghost Generals and Yin Soldiers, and began selling Clearbright Spirit Water through the Feather Immortal Pavilion. True Person Lingyi ordered the pavilion to secure the supply while its elders debated whether the water was connected to the Illusory Wave Sea.

• Lu Qingfeng used nearly all his stored Dutian Qi to form thirty-six Spirit Void Ghost Generals and three hundred and sixty-five Foundation Establishment Yin Soldiers in the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected on how his strength had grown after months of plundering the White Bone Realm and resolved to seek resources for refining the Golden Silkworm Gu.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Zhao Yang a bottle of Clearbright Spirit Water, and Yang Qi tested it and found that it strengthened his Myriad Transformations Spirit Eye by at least ten percent.
• Ming Chaozi suspected the Clearbright Spirit Water was connected to the Illusory Wave Sea, but Zhao Yang argued against probing Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• True Person Lingyi ordered the Feather Immortal Pavilion to have its alchemists analyze the water and told Zhao Yang to secure future supplies at Lu Qingfeng's stated price.

Lu Qingfeng refined Clearbright Spirit Water and planned to use its profits to gather materials for Golden Silkworm Gu, but Hall Master Wusheng of the White Bone Demon Sect arrived and tried to recruit him into the coming war. When Lu Qingfeng refused, Wusheng attacked with the Black Dog Nail, forcing Lu Qingfeng to summon the Zhurong Demon God and his Dao Soldiers.

• Lu Qingfeng refined eighty portions of Clearbright Spirit Water and decided to sell it through several merchant groups to fund his plans to refine Golden Silkworm Gu.
• Han Ji and Hall Master Wusheng reached the Heavenward Abyss, where Han Ji ordered Wusheng to recruit Rogue Person Blazing Fire if he seemed powerful and kill him if he seemed weak.
• Hall Master Wusheng visited Lu Qingfeng at Blazing Fire Isle and urged him to join the White Bone Demon Sect's war against the Mystic Origin Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng refused to join the fight, and Hall Master Wusheng attacked him with the Black Dog Nail.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and the Zhurong Demon God, whose power rose to the level of a True Person.

Lu Qingfeng’s Zhurong Demon God defeated Hall Master Wusheng’s Black Dog Nail, forcing him to retreat and drawing attention to Rogue Person Blazing Fire’s strength. Lu Qingfeng headed toward the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds, where Hall Master Wusheng joined Han Ji in launching an attack on the Mystic Origin Sect’s territory.

• Zhurong Demon God blocked Hall Master Wusheng’s Black Dog Nail and emerged unharmed, prompting Wusheng to apologize to Lu Qingfeng and leave.
• Lu Qingfeng restored his weakened Dao Soldiers with five hundred Spirit Stones, then followed Wusheng’s southeast route toward the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds.
• Witnesses spread news of Lu Qingfeng’s battle, and cultivators across the region began discussing Rogue Person Blazing Fire’s power.
• Hall Master Wusheng told Han Ji that Lu Qingfeng was his equal and wanted no part in their sect conflict.
• Han Ji ordered the assault on the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds, and he and Hall Master Wusheng descended on the site.

Lu Qingfeng intervened in the White Bone Demon Sect’s assault on the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds, disrupting Kumbhanda’s attempt to secretly attack True Person Five Fires and stealing her bronze mirror. Kumbhanda revealed herself and attacked Lu Qingfeng as the others recognized her.

• Han Ji broke the warning array and attacked True Person Five Fires while the White Bone Demon Sect’s Lifeless Hall cultivators surrounded the grounds.
• A hidden noblewoman used a bronze mirror to target True Person Five Fires, while Lu Qingfeng identified the White Bone Six-Yang Hammer’s horrific origins with Grand Luo Insight.
• Lu Qingfeng spotted the noblewoman and struck her with the Zhurong Demon God, knocking her out of concealment and seizing her mirror.
• The Hall Master of the Lifeless Hall recognized the noblewoman as Kumbhanda, the third ruler of Heavenly Wander Mountain, and Lu Qingfeng as Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• Lu Qingfeng defiled Kumbhanda’s bronze mirror with Dutian Baleful Gods and stowed it in his Storage Bag.
• Kumbhanda summoned a feather fan and swung it at Lu Qingfeng, unleashing a gale that swept toward him.

Lu Qingfeng used the Zhurong Demon God and the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation to clash with Kumbhanda, while their battle devastated the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds and killed the White Bone Demon Sect’s forces. He trapped Hall Master Wusheng in the formation and hoped to stall the fighting until Mystic Origin Sect reinforcements arrived, while privately deciding he would eventually have to choose a side.

• Lu Qingfeng raised the Zhurong Demon God to Void Core strength and sent it against Kumbhanda with the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation.
• Kumbhanda’s Azure-Eyed Heavenly Net Fan and the formation’s fire, wind, and thunder spread across a hundred li, killing White Bone Demon Sect cultivators while Lu Qingfeng collected most of their souls.
• Hall Master Wusheng prepared to ambush True Person Five Fires, but Lu Qingfeng called for his help and Kumbhanda mistook the exchange for proof that Lu Qingfeng and Han Ji were allied.
• Lu Qingfeng and the Zhurong Demon God used Kumbhanda’s frenzy to trap Hall Master Wusheng inside the formation as Han Ji remained occupied with True Person Five Fires.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the fighting might hold the White Bone Demon Sect until Mystic Origin Sect reinforcements arrived, and decided he would eventually have to choose a side.

Lu Qingfeng escaped the battle at the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds after Weng Shaoqing drove off the White Bone Demon Sect, then returned to Blazing Fire Isle with captured souls and Kumbhanda’s Mind-Seizing Mirror. Han Ji and Cha Shan discussed recruiting Lu Qingfeng, while he prepared his forces and began refining the mirror.

• Han Ji broke Hall Master Wusheng out of Kumbhanda’s formation, and the two demons fled when Weng Shaoqing’s sword strike arrived.
• Kumbhanda transformed into her Rouge Bird form and escaped, while Lu Qingfeng withdrew after recognizing Weng Shaoqing as the master of Demon-Subduing Peak.
• At Heavenward Abyss, Han Ji and Cha Shan discussed Lu Qingfeng’s uncertain motives and resolved to invite him into the White Bone Demon Sect after Cha Shan recovered.
• Lu Qingfeng used the captured souls to complete his 1,800 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers and spent Spirit Stones to replenish the Dutian Creation Pool after calculating the battle’s cost.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the Mind-Seizing Mirror, recognized Kumbhanda’s plan to use it against True Person Five Fires, and had the Jumang Demon God swallow it for refinement.

After his battle at the Fire Spirit Shell Grounds made Rogue Person Blazing Fire famous, Lu Qingfeng hosted True Person Lingyi and revealed his skills as a fifth-tier alchemist and artifact forger. The Feather Immortal Pavilion delivered materials for refining Gu and poisons, and Lu Qingfeng planned to use the partnership to strengthen his cover and gather resources.

• News of the battle spread, and Rogue Person Blazing Fire became known across the Three Realms as a formidable expert who had defeated Hall Master Wusheng and faced Kumbhanda.
• True Person Lingyi and Zhao Yang visited Lu Qingfeng on Blazing Fire Isle, where Lu revealed that he was a fifth-tier alchemist and artifact forger.
• True Person Lingyi gave Lu Qingfeng a Storage Bag filled with materials for refining Gu and making poisons, including enough to refine six Golden Silkworm Gu.
• After leaving the isle, True Person Lingyi praised Zhao Yang for arranging the meeting and decided to return soon to pursue a partnership with Lu.
• Lu Qingfeng considered how the Rogue Person Blazing Fire identity would help him acquire resources and build connections while he continued developing his separate identity as Lu Qingfeng.

Lu Qingfeng used the Golden Silkworm Fate-Reversal Great Method to improve Lu Qingyu’s and Lu Qingshan’s Root Bones, then focused on supporting the Mystic Origin Sect while preparing to change his own Root Bone. In the Black Star Realm, Rogue Person Guangyuan’s victories over powerful cultivators made him a target for Maple Moon Star’s major sects, but he remained difficult to capture.

• Lu Qingfeng showed Lu Qingyu the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and explained its power and the time and resources needed to raise its rank.
• Lu Qingfeng used a Golden Silkworm Gu to raise Lu Qingyu’s Root Bone from 1 to 4, then went to the Sunset Glow Sect and did the same for Lu Qingshan.
• Lu Qingfeng left the Mystic Origin Sect’s war effort to its own strength and led alchemists on Flying Cloud Island in refining pills for the sect.
• Rogue Person Guangyuan defeated Lingyun of the Upper Origin Palace and killed two other Demon Dao True Persons, earning renown across Maple Moon Star.
• The Upper Origin Palace, the Azure Cloud Sect, Great Mount Sumeru, and Maple Moon Star’s Core Formation True Persons tried to capture Rogue Person Guangyuan, but he kept escaping and fighting on his own terms.

At Dragon-Breaking Cliff, Lu Qingfeng faced cultivators from Great Mount Sumeru, the Azure Cloud Sect, and Upper Origin Palace, who used powerful dharma artifacts and Thunder Technique to trap and wound him. As Lu Qingfeng tried to escape, Yue Qinghan pulled him into the Upper Origin Eight-Scenery Tower.

• Divine Monk Kutu used the Purple-Gold Alms Bowl while Formless Divine Monk reinforced its prison with Great Sumeru Wishful Obstacle Formless Divine Light, sealing Lu Qingfeng's escape routes.
• Smiling-Faced Divine Monk attacked Lu Qingfeng with the Demon-Subduing Golden Ring, but Lu Qingfeng's Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe and borrowed strength resisted it.
• Daoist Xuanji and the Azure Cloud Seven True Ones summoned thunder, but Lu Qingfeng seized control and unleashed Minor Thousandfold Thunder Prison across Dragon-Breaking Cliff.
• A cultivator used the Two-Qi Ring against Lu Qingfeng, shattering his Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe and striking him hard enough to make him spit blood.
• As Lu Qingfeng prepared to use the Dutian Demon God Blood-Transforming Flight Technique, Yue Qinghan cast the Upper Origin Eight-Scenery Tower and drew him inside.

The Upper Origin Palace captured Old Devil Guangyuan in the Upper Origin Eight-Scenery Tower, then invited Great Mount Sumeru and the Azure Cloud Sect to discuss how to subdue him. After Guangyuan escaped the tower’s sword formation and shattered its profound ice, True Person Qinghan sent him into the Desolate Otherworld, where he remained hidden for years.

• True Person Qinghan captured Lu Qingfeng in the Upper Origin Eight-Scenery Tower, and Great Mount Sumeru and the Azure Cloud Sect insisted on joining the effort to deal with him.
• True Person Qinghan showed the gathered True Persons Guangyuan strolling unharmed through the tower’s sword formation, then sent him into the Four Seas Realm.
• Guangyuan shattered the Heaven-One Profound Ice Formation’s profound ice and emerged unharmed, embarrassing the Upper Origin Palace.
• True Person Qinghan sent Guangyuan into the Desolate Otherworld but admitted he could not control or observe that realm fully.
• After waiting for years, the True Persons received no sign of Guangyuan from the Desolate Otherworld.

Lu Qingfeng explored the Desolate Otherworld for three hundred years, refining pills and artifacts and growing stronger while the Upper Origin Palace struggled against the Four Devils. The chapter ended with Lu Qingfeng escaping the Golden Phoenix King’s attack through a spatial portal.

• Lu Qingfeng discovered that Yue Qinghan could not control the tower’s upper floors and explored the Desolate Otherworld while hidden.
• Lu Qingfeng gathered rare spirit herbs and materials, then spent three hundred years refining pills and artifacts, cultivating, and battling the realm’s creatures.
• Meng Zhu and Yue Yu discussed the Upper Origin Palace’s worsening troubles, including the elusive Four Devils and the absent Old Devil Guangyuan.
• Yue Qinghan, Meng Zhu, and Yue Yu heard the tower shake and feared that Old Devil Guangyuan had grown too powerful to release safely.
• The Golden Phoenix King attacked Lu Qingfeng with its Golden Phoenix Divine Light and five-colored needles, but Lu Qingfeng escaped through a spatial opening.

Lu Qingfeng analyzed a Golden Phoenix Sparrow corpse, learned the Golden Phoenix Divine Light, and spent nearly two centuries strengthening and comprehending it. He finally used the Divine Light to disperse the Golden Phoenix King’s Grand Five-Elements Magnetic Annihilation Light Needles.

• Lu Qingfeng ambushed and killed a Core Formation Golden Phoenix Sparrow with the Triangular Demon-Slaughter Thorn, then escaped the pursuing Golden Phoenix King into Eight-Scenery Tower.
• Lu Qingfeng analyzed the corpse for twelve years, exchanged experience for the Golden Phoenix Divine Light, and began strengthening it through cultivation.
• While Lu Qingfeng secluded himself, Yue Qinghan and Meng Zhu passed away, Upper Origin Palace declined under attacks, and Lingyun True Person later reached the Golden Core Realm.
• After 198 years of deduction, Lu Qingfeng faced the Golden Phoenix King and repeatedly swept its five-colored needles with his strengthened Divine Light until they vanished.

After five hundred and ten years in the Eight-Scenery Tower, Lu Qingfeng perfected Five-Colored Divine Light and escaped the Desolate Otherworld. He returned to Maple Moon Star, where True Person Lingyun and another Upper Origin Palace figure confronted him.

• Lu Qingfeng defeated Golden Phoenix King in a clash of divine abilities and revealed that he had advanced Golden Phoenix Divine Light into Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng opened a portal out of the Desolate Otherworld and left Golden Phoenix King trapped in the Eight-Scenery Tower.
• Lu Qingfeng emerged onto Maple Moon Star after five hundred and ten years and encountered True Person Lingyun, who had formed a Golden Core.
• True Person Lingyun attacked Lu Qingfeng with his Golden Radiance Realm and Qianqing Upper Origin Grand Unity Divine Thunder Net, but Lu Qingfeng broke the sword formation and swallowed the thunder net with Minor Thousandfold Thunder Prison.
• Another Upper Origin Palace figure arrived and hurled the Great Possession Ring at Lu Qingfeng.

Lu Qingfeng escaped the Upper Origin Eight-Scenery Tower and overwhelmed the Upper Origin Palace’s defenders with the Five-Colored Divine Light, seizing their treasures. As the palace called for aid, four more devils appeared outside its mountain gate.

• Lu Qingfeng used divine light to shrink and seize True Person Yue Yu’s Great Possession Ring, then revealed himself as Old Devil Guangyuan, shocking Yue Yu and True Person Lingyun.
• Lu Qingfeng swept the Eight-Scenery Tower with all five colors of divine light, shrank it, and seized it along with True Person Lingyun’s Kanshan Sword.
• Lu Qingfeng shattered Yue Yu’s Upper Origin Eight Views Talisman Art with the Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light and wounded him, while Yue Yu recognized the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng deflected Lingyun’s attack and destroyed an island, then learned that True Persons Qinghan and Meng Zhu had died after their lifespans ran out.
• When the Upper Origin Palace’s Core Formation True Persons attacked, Lu Qingfeng swept away and collected their magic artifacts; Yue Yu ordered aid from Great Mount Sumeru and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• A messenger sent to call for aid was knocked back, reporting that four devils had appeared outside the mountain gate.

Lu Qingfeng escaped Upper Origin Palace with his four disciples, then distributed the sect’s treasures and seized more magical artifacts from Azure Cloud Sect and Great Mount Sumeru. After returning to Garbage Star, he prepared for his fourteenth life and ended his thirteenth life by spending his experience points on a divine ability.

• Lin Feng, Lin Ye, Wen Guang, and Zhang Yang arrived at Upper Origin Palace and welcomed Lu Qingfeng as their master, allowing him to escape its formations.
• On Maple Moon Star, Lu Qingfeng gave Lin Ye the Kanshan Sword, Wen Guang the Great Possession Ring, and Lin Feng and Zhang Yang the Eight-Scenery Tower and its secret inheritance.
• Lu Qingfeng seized treasures from Azure Cloud Sect, Great Mount Sumeru, and other sects, then gave the Two-Qi Ring to Lin Ye and Buddhist artifacts to Zhang Yang.
• Lu Qingfeng left his disciples and returned to Garbage Star, where he prepared supplies for his fourteenth life and waited for his cultivation to decline.
• Lu Qingfeng exchanged his experience points for the Grand Five-Elements Magnetic Annihilation Light Needles and turned to ash, ending his thirteenth life.

Five years after improving his root bone, Lu Qingfeng had advanced rapidly while building wealth and influence as Rogue Person Blazing Fire. Yan Pingshu visited Flying Cloud Island after finding Soul-Swaying Stones in the White Bone Realm, and explained that the Mystic Origin Sect had mined and destroyed the mountain before the enemy could claim it.

• Lu Qingfeng finished cultivating and reflected on how raising his root bone to four had accelerated his progress to the Liquid Condensation Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng reviewed his powerful attributes and equipment, then considered how Rogue Person Blazing Fire let him gather resources while keeping his identity within the Mystic Origin Sect concealed.
• Wang Hui informed Lu Qingfeng that Yan Pingshu had arrived, and Lu Qingfeng welcomed the returning disciple to Flying Cloud Island.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that Yan Pingshu had reached the peak of spirit void divine silence after finding several Soul-Swaying Stones in the White Bone Realm.
• Yan Pingshu explained that Weng Shaoqing and Leng Qianjue had led a team to mine the Soul-Swaying Mountain and destroy it before the White Bone Demon Sect could occupy it.

Lu Qingfeng received rare cultivation and crafting materials from Yan Pingshu, including a Dream illusion stone, while news spread of possible Immortal Shells in the Black Death Marsh. He then visited Gu Buyan, who urged him to explore the Scripture Transmission Hall's First Secret Realm and attend visiting alchemy masters, leaving Lu Qingfeng's plans to see Qingshan and Qingyu postponed.

• Lu Qingfeng discussed Soul-Swaying Stones and the war between the Mystic Origin Sect and the White Bone Demon Sect with Yan Pingshu, who reported rumors of Immortal Shells in the Black Death Marsh.
• Yan Pingshu congratulated Lu Qingfeng on reaching fourth-order alchemy and gave him spirit herbs, materials, and a Dream illusion stone.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to his cave abode and recognized the Dream illusion stone as a rare material needed to refine a Teleportation Array Disc.
• Lu Qingfeng visited Gu Buyan, who told him that True Person Liuguang and True Person Half Moon would soon visit and encouraged him to learn from them.
• Gu Buyan reminded Lu Qingfeng to use his jade talisman to visit the Scripture Transmission Hall's First Secret Realm, and Lu Qingfeng agreed to go after the visiting alchemy masters arrived.

Lu Qingfeng watched Lu Qingyu defeat a Black Fox Demon in the Weeping Marsh and used a Dutian Ghost General to kill the demon’s stronger pursuer. Back on Flying Cloud Island, he gave the island’s alchemists a top-grade Qi-Coalescing Pill formula to learn and pass on.

• Lu Qingyu used her spells and the Seven Baleful Fiends to kill a Foundation Establishment Black Fox Demon, then took its Storage Bag and left the forest.
• Lu Qingfeng noted Lu Qingyu’s progress in cultivation and combat, and explained that he had sent her out to gain experience while protecting her with Dutian Ghost Generals.
• A Spirit Void Stage Black Fox Demon pursued Lu Qingyu, but a Dutian Ghost General intercepted and killed it.
• Lu Qingfeng gathered Flying Cloud Island’s alchemists and gave them jade slips containing his improved top-grade Qi-Coalescing Pill formula.
• Lu Qingfeng explained that the improved pill was still far weaker than a First-Order Spirit Pill, though its effect was greatly increased over an ordinary top-grade pill.

Lu Qingfeng entered the Mystic Origin Sect’s First Secret Realm and spent two months there cultivating, while his fourteenth life began with his root bone improved to four. Two hundred years later, his disciples had established the Guangyuan Immortal Sect and brought Maple Moon Star under their influence.

• Lu Qingfeng met Zhuang Bie, received guidance into the First Secret Realm, and chose to cultivate rather than study its transcendent-grade palm art.
• Two months passed as Lu Qingfeng remained in the secret realm.
• Lu Qingfeng emerged from the Rebirth Pool in his fourteenth life and discovered that his root bone had risen to four.
• Lu Qingfeng calculated that the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk would appear in two hundred and four years, then spent two hundred years cultivating.
• Patriarch Guangyuan broke free of the Eight-Scenery Tower, seized the three sects’ supreme treasures, and gave them to Lin Feng, Lin Ye, Wen Guang, and Zhang Yang.
• Lin Feng and the other three disciples founded the Guangyuan Immortal Sect, defeated the three sects, and established the Four Immortals as the dominant power on Maple Moon Star.

Lu Qingfeng advanced the Yellow Court Scripture to its third layer after 2,800 years and nearly exhausted his soul force while gaining insight into the Five-Colored Divine Light. A year later, recovered on Polarity Star, he tested his new Evolving Method and saw the earth and stone he swept away floating inside his five-colored divine light.

• The Guangyuan Four Immortals traveled toward Polarity Star in the Eight-Scenery Tower, hoping to encounter their missing master when the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk appeared.
• Lin Ye and Wen Guang discussed the disk’s powers and the coming struggle for its limited places, while Lin Feng remembered his master, Guangyuan.
• Lu Qingfeng awakened to the Yellow Court Scripture’s third layer after years of recitation and entered an overwhelming insight into the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng’s soul force was nearly drained by the insight, and he spent half a month recovering before continuing to recuperate for a year.
• After recovering, Lu Qingfeng swept away earth and stone with yellow divine radiance and found it floating within his five-colored divine light.