Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng discovered that the third layer of the Evolving Method could greatly accelerate comprehension of cultivation methods and divine abilities, and could also help other living things gain spiritual intelligence. After testing it on a cheetah and a Skylark, he named the method Enlightenment and considered using it to help Qingshan and Qingyu.

• Lu Qingfeng mastered the Five-Colored Divine Light after the third layer of the Evolving Method advanced his comprehension.
• He realized the Evolving Method could accelerate his understanding of cultivation methods as well as techniques and divine abilities, though it consumed soul power.
• Lu Qingfeng used the method to awaken a cheetah and a Skylark, named them Mountain Wind and Skylark, and brought them along.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the method could help all living things comprehend cultivation and considered using it to improve Qingshan and Qingyu's comprehension.
• Lu Qingfeng named the third layer of the Evolving Method Enlightenment.

Lu Qingfeng broke the formation hiding the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk and began refining the restored eighth-order treasure. A Six-Winged Golden Silkworm larva burst from the disk, but he subdued it with the Five-Colored Divine Light and returned to refining the artifact.

• Lu Qingfeng used the newly advanced Five-Colored Divine Light to shatter the starry formation beneath the earth and reveal the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the disk, recognized its power to command polarity primordial magnetism and disrupt true essence, and suppressed it before beginning to refine it.
• A bloodthirsty Six-Winged Golden Silkworm larva sprang from the disk and attacked Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng repeatedly swept the silkworm with the Five-Colored Divine Light until he trapped it, then resumed refining the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk.

Wen Guang, Lin Ye, and Zhang Yang returned to Polarity Star and reunited with their new junior disciples, Mountain Wind and Skylark, while awaiting Lu Qingfeng. Lu Qingfeng emerged from seclusion and activated the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk, revealing its power as it transformed the planet’s discarded magical artifacts into ores.

• Wen Guang, Lin Ye, and Zhang Yang descended from the Eight-Scenery Tower and reminisced beside the Azure Dragon River.
• Mountain Wind and Skylark mistook the returning disciples for strangers, but Zhang Yang reassured them that they would learn the truth when Lu Qingfeng emerged from seclusion.
• Wen Guang demonstrated the Yellow Robe True Formula, confirming to Mountain Wind and Skylark that they shared Master’s cultivation method.
• Lu Qingfeng completed the preliminary refinement of the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk and unleashed its aurora across Polarity Star.
• Lu Qingfeng used the disk’s power to turn the discarded magical artifacts across the planet into mountains of ore.

Lu Qingfeng emerged from seclusion on Polarity Star and reunited with Lin Feng and his other disciples, while his Dao Soldiers drove away the True Persons gathered there. He took his disciples and attendants toward Maple Moon Star, leaving the Upper Origin Palace to plan for a future resurgence after Lu Qingfeng and the Guangyuan Four Immortals departed.

• Lin Feng noticed that the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk had not appeared and descended to Polarity Star after spotting Lin Ye, Wen Guang, and Zhang Yang below.
• Lu Qingfeng emerged from the earth, reunited with his four disciples, and welcomed Mountain Wind and Skylark as attendants who could address the disciples as senior siblings.
• Lu Qingfeng stopped Lin Ye and Wen Guang from attacking the arriving True Persons, then summoned seventy-two Dutian Ghost Generals and eighteen hundred Dark Nether Yin Soldiers to clear his path.
• Che Lizi and other cultivators congratulated Lu Qingfeng and withdrew, followed by the True Persons of the three sects, after they saw his Dao Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng said he would remain on Maple Moon Star for the time being, gathered his disciples and attendants, and left Polarity Star with Lin Feng and twelve Core Formation True Persons.
• Yuxinzi and True Person Wu Qiong discussed the Guangyuan sect’s growing strength and resolved that the Upper Origin Palace should lie low until Lu Qingfeng and the Guangyuan Four Immortals left.

A hundred and fifty years after the battle on Polarity Star, Lu Qingfeng reflected on the stages of Core Formation and planned the True Body needed for his future cultivation. He fused four True Body methods into an enhanced Nine-Turn True Body, laying a foundation for the path ahead.

• The Guangyuan Immortal Sect rose to supremacy on Maple Moon Star after Patriarch Guangyuan forced more than a hundred True Persons to retreat.
• Lu Qingfeng cultivated on Cloudwander Mountain, using the Yellow Court Scripture’s Dominion over All Arts to control four distinct arts without conflict.
• Lu Qingfeng reviewed the Void Core, Solid Core, Dharma Gathering, and Golden Core realms and considered how the Solid Core True Body would shape his future cultivation.
• Lu Qingfeng fused the Yellow-Robed True Body, Demon God True Body, and Five-Thunder True Body into the Nine-Turn True Body.
• The resulting Supreme Grade method combined the four bodies’ strengths and could support Ninefold Astral Baleful and Nine-Turn Golden Core cultivation.

Lu Qingfeng left Guangyuan Immortal Sect after spending his final years on Maple Moon Star strengthening his disciples and bestowing divine abilities on them. He rode the Six-Winged Golden Silkworm into the starry sky to search for a path beyond the known cultivation world.

• Lu Qingfeng fused the Light-Splitting Shadow-Transforming Void Sword Movement with the Seven Birds Lesser Evolving Numerology, found the result mediocre, and concluded that unrelated divine abilities should not be combined.
• After 150 years, Lu Qingfeng summoned Lin Feng, Lin Ye, Mountain Wind, and Skylark and used Enlightenment to teach each a cultivation art and a divine ability.
• Lin Feng and Lin Ye recovered and found Lu Qingfeng gone from Cloudwander Mountain; Mountain Wind and Skylark arrived, and they realized their master had left.
• Lu Qingfeng recalled that he had also bestowed divine abilities on Wen Guang and Zhang Yang before they departed to gain experience.
• Lu Qingfeng rode the Six-Winged Golden Silkworm through the starry sky, searching for a way forward beyond Maple Moon Star.

Lu Qingfeng traveled through the starry sky, mastering the limits of his Enlightenment method and advancing through the Solid Core Realm into the Spell Gathering Realm. By age 2,999, he had forged three layers of Astral Fiend into powerful natal abilities, but still had not found the Qiantian Astral Qi required for the fourth layer.

• Lu Qingfeng discovered that using Enlightenment too often damaged a target’s spirit soul, and determined that about twenty years of recovery prevented lasting harm.
• Lu Qingfeng recovered to the peak of the Void Core, broke through to the Solid Core Realm, and began forging the Nine-Turn True Body.
• At age 1,044, Lu Qingfeng completed the Nine-Turn True Body and entered the Spell Gathering Realm, gaining Blood-Drop Rebirth and the ability to transform into four Demon Gods.
• Lu Qingfeng spent five hundred years forging Five-Elements Magnetic Astral Baleful Force and making the Five-Colored Divine Light his natal Great Divine Ability.
• After another seven hundred years, Lu Qingfeng forged Taiyin Astral Baleful Force and made the Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe his natal Divine Ability, then continued searching for more Astral Fiend.
• At age 2,999, Lu Qingfeng had forged three layers of Astral Fiend but had not found the Qiantian Astral Qi needed for the fourth.

Lu Qingfeng spent his final moments in the Black Star Realm teaching Six Wings, then returned to the Profound Origin Water Realm after his lifespan ended. Thirty years later, he left seclusion and went to Sunset Peak to meet his aging master, Gu Buyan, as the Pill Convergence Hall prepared for Lu Qingfeng to take over.

• Lu Qingfeng recalled how he had guided Six Wings from a brutal, mindless silkworm into a cultivator over nearly three thousand years, then urged him to restrain his innate murderous nature and follow the Dao.
• Lu Qingfeng used his final Enlightenment on Six Wings to teach him the Prison-Warding Five-Thunder Heart Scripture, the Minor Thousandfold Thunder Prison, and the Iceheart Formula before his aura faded and he vanished.
• Six Wings wept as Lu Qingfeng disappeared, leaving behind iron tallies and a compass, then knelt alone on a drifting meteorite in the starry sky.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to the Profound Origin Water Realm, reflected on the Black Star Realm and Six Wings, and resolved to leave that realm behind.
• Thirty years later, Lu Qingfeng left Flying Cloud Island for Sunset Peak, where Mystic Origin Sect disciples discussed his standing as the sole candidate to lead the Pill Convergence Hall.
• Lu Qingfeng paid his respects to Gu Buyan and saw that his aging master had grown frail, while Gu Buyan took pride in his disciple’s achievements and prospects.

Lu Qingfeng accepted Gu Buyan’s succession plan and became presiding lord of the Pill Convergence Hall, while securing the herbs needed to refine a Longevity Pill. He returned to cultivation after the ceremony, but Gu Buyan then took him to his first sect meeting to ensure he took part in the hall’s affairs.

• Gu Buyan offered Lu Qingfeng the seat of presiding lord and gave him dragon-pattern grass, which Lu Qingfeng needed to refine a Longevity Pill.
• Lu Qingfeng became presiding lord of the Pill Convergence Hall at a ceremony attended by the sect’s leaders and disciples; Zhou Su watched after returning from Blazing Sun Valley.
• After the three-day ceremony, Lu Qingfeng met the sect’s senior figures but left the hall’s routine affairs to Gu Buyan and returned to Flying Cloud Island to cultivate and refine the Longevity Pill.
• Half a month later, Gu Buyan brought Lu Qingfeng to his first sect meeting and urged him to participate so he would not become a hall master in name only.

The Mystic Origin Sect learned that an immortal mansion hidden in Black Death Marsh belonged to Yushan Daoist, a famed cultivator whose extraordinary longevity might be explained by a longevity method. The sect resolved to compete for the mansion despite facing the White Bone Demon Sect, Heavenly Wander Mountain, Yellow-Robed Mountain, and powerful rogue cultivators.

• True Person Wu Jie told the assembled Mystic Origin Sect leaders that an Immortal Shell had led searchers to hidden formations and an immortal mansion in Black Death Marsh.
• Qian Lai identified the mansion as the cave abode of Yushan Daoist, who had lived for 5,300 years at Core Formation before reaching the primordial spirit realm.
• Shi Wan said the mansion might contain Yushan Daoist's longevity method, prompting the sect leaders to recognize its potential to help them advance.
• Wen Zhong warned that the White Bone Demon Sect and rogue cultivators had also discovered the mansion, while Zhuo Jun named Rogue Person Blazing Fire, Daoist Evergreen, and Yellow-Robed Old Monster as major rivals.
• True Person Wu Jie described Yellow-Robed Old Monster's strength and followers, and Qian Lai declared that the Mystic Origin Sect would compete for the mansion.

Lu Qingfeng adopted the identity of the Yellow-Robed Old Monster and sent the Four Rogue Persons to locate Yushan Daoist’s immortal mansion and its Longevity Method. He returned to Flying Cloud Island to refine pills, while his fifteenth life began.

• Lu Qingfeng transformed himself into the Yellow-Robed Old Monster and revealed his four identities and his command of the Four Rogue Persons.
• Lu Qingfeng told Rogue Person Granny Hua, Cold Rhinoceros Wanderer, Gui Zang Wanderer, and Rogue Person Vajra that Yushan Daoist’s immortal mansion had been discovered in the Black Death Marsh.
• Lu Qingfeng ordered the Four Rogue Persons to find the mansion and report when it emerged, warning them not to fight the Mystic Origin Sect’s cultivators.
• The Four Rogue Persons left for the Black Death Marsh, suspecting that the Yellow-Robed Old Monster had ties to the Mystic Origin Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Flying Cloud Island and resumed refining the Longevity Pill.
• Two months after his death in his fourteenth life, Lu Qingfeng’s fifteenth life began.

Lu Qingfeng began his fifteenth life in the Galaxy Realm but was killed by a meteorite before he could cultivate, then returned sixteen years later for his sixteenth life. He explored the transformed, spiritually corrosive world and found abundant Earth Baleful Yin Veins, leaving him confident he could reach the Spell Gathering Realm without obstacles.

• Bai Han tested an armored heavy truck in an abandoned factory when Lu Qingfeng, dressed in hemp clothes, appeared nearby.
• Meteors began striking the Galaxy Realm, and a meteorite killed Lu Qingfeng while Bai Han watched from the truck.
• Sixteen years later, Lu Qingfeng emerged from the void in his sixteenth life and found the factory and city replaced by forest and ruins.
• Lu Qingfeng read the Galaxy Realm’s system description, which explained the Spirit Tide Apocalypse and the awakening of supernatural powers.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed that the realm’s corrosive spiritual energy altered his body, while the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method readily formed Zhurong.
• Lu Qingfeng spotted Earth Baleful Yin Veins throughout the land and anticipated reaching the Spell Gathering Realm in this life.

Lu Qingfeng survived in the woods, advanced to the True Qi Realm, and learned about the post-apocalyptic world’s evolution and its psionic power system. After meeting Wang Yu and Zhang Jin, he discovered that his strength was already close to the level of an Ability King.

• Lu Qingfeng reached the Third Layer of the Embryonic Breath Realm, killed a Bloodfang Rabbit, and took its meat and teeth.
• Wang Yu and Zhang Jin found the rabbit’s blood but no corpse, and Zhang Jin warned that its killer was stronger than Lv 0.5.
• Lu Qingfeng hid in the woods, studied the Bloodfangs, and spent three months cultivating while learning about the apocalypse.
• Wang Yu explained how the meteor disaster had changed Blue Star, how psionic energy and Ability ranks worked, and which factions controlled the surrounding area.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed Wang Yu and Zhang Jin’s levels and estimated his own strength at Lv 0.985, near the King Tier threshold.

Lu Qingfeng arrived at the Tourist Bus Station area with Wang Yu and Zhang Jin and watched General Qian Yu fight a powerful Highland Yak. When he stepped onto the battlefield, his approach distracted Qian Yu, leaving her facing a fatal charge as her Ability began to awaken.

• Wang Yu and Zhang Jin told Lu Qingfeng about the rival General Qian Yu and General Wang Ye, who controlled the bus and railway stations.
• A Highland Yak attacked near the stations, and Qian Yu fought it with her iron axes while the crowd retreated.
• Qian Yu struggled to injure the beast, and the crowd learned that Wang Ye and his two brothers were away hunting a Fire Wolf.
• Lu Qingfeng assessed Qian Yu's strength and walked onto the battlefield despite warnings from Wang Yu, Zhang Jin, and the onlookers.
• Qian Yu was distracted by Lu Qingfeng, and the Highland Yak knocked aside her axe and charged at her; she began awakening her Ability in the face of death.

Lu Qingfeng saved Qian Yu from a charging Highland Yak and killed the beast, revealing himself as a powerful Ability King. He ignored Wang Ye’s attempt to ingratiate himself and accepted Qian Yu’s invitation to rest at the tourism station while the yak was processed.

• Lu Qingfeng caught the Highland Yak’s horns and pulled Qian Yu to safety as the beast’s charge shook the arena.
• Lu Qingfeng twisted the Highland Yak’s head and killed it, then removed its valuable horns.
• Qian Yu thanked Lu Qingfeng, who noticed her newly awakened ability growing stronger and considered that she might reach Lv 1.
• Wang Ye returned with Zhou Zhan and Jingjiang, tried to address Lu Qingfeng as a little brother, and drew a sharp rebuke.
• Lu Qingfeng asked Qian Yu to arrange for the yak to be processed, then went with her to the tourism station while Wang Ye and the others left.

Lu Qingfeng secured a place for Wang Yu and Zhang Jin at Qian Yu’s tourist station while assessing its leaders and planning to build his own power. After beginning to cultivate in private, he considered the apocalyptic abilities and suspected they were connected to Great Venerable Jiuli.

• A little girl brought Wang Yu and Zhang Jin to Lu Qingfeng, who asked Qian Yu to take them under her wing.
• Qian Yu agreed to have Sun Junjun show the two newcomers around and introduced Lu Qingfeng to Sun Junjun, Dong Yunyang, Wang Meng, and her younger sister, Qian Xiaoyu.
• After Lu Qingfeng went to rest, Qian Yu ordered Wang Meng to investigate his origins and Dong Yunyang to handle his needs, while Qian Xiaoyu tried to invent a kingly title for him.
• Lu Qingfeng meditated in the reception room and reflected on his fast cultivation, the unusual power inside Ability users, and his suspicion that Great Venerable Jiuli was connected to the apocalypse.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to cultivate Qian Yu’s people and draw them together into a group to help him gather resources and investigate his suspicions.

Lu Qingfeng used Enlightenment to help Qian Yu derive the Basic Training Method, a Shaman Clan technique, while nearby Ability Kings sought contact with him. Qian Yu left exhausted and grateful, though Qian Xiaoyu and Wang Meng misunderstood what had happened between them.

• The Iron Arm King ordered Chu Zhao to keep contact with the tourist station and investigate why Lu Qingfeng wanted medicinal materials before agreeing to trade.
• Qian Yu told Lu Qingfeng that Bao Gong Park, Yaohai Park, and Xiaoyaojin had invited him to meet, and he asked her to gather news about Spiritual Energy Fruit Trees and King-Tier Beasts.
• Lu Qingfeng used Radiance to grant Qian Yu Enlightenment, and she formed the rudimentary Basic Training Method before collapsing from spiritual exhaustion.
• Lu Qingfeng realized that Qian Yu's method awakened the Shaman Clan Bloodline and that the Galaxy Realm served as Great Venerable Jiuli's inheritance and testing ground.
• Qian Yu woke, studied the Basic Training Method, thanked Lu Qingfeng, and left the reception room to rest.
• Qian Xiaoyu and Wang Meng saw Qian Yu's exhausted appearance and wrongly assumed Lu Qingfeng had taken advantage of her, but Qian Yu told them she would explain the next day.

Lu Qingfeng considered how Shaman Clan bloodline spells could enrich his Twelve Dutian Demon God Method as the ages of evolution passed on Blue Star. By Evolution Era Three, the legendary Myriad Arts War God had founded the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate, but rumors and suspicion turned it into the Myriad Arts Demon Sect and its master into the Myriad Arts Old Devil.

• Lu Qingfeng examined Qian Yu’s Low-Grade Strength Amplification and considered fusing Shaman Clan spells into the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method.
• Blue Star passed through three evolution eras, and Steel War God became the first Lv 3.0 evolver, earning the title Steel Heavenly God.
• Yishan’s Three Kings defeated several War Gods until Myriad Arts War God arrived, defeated them, and founded the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate.
• Myriad Arts War God challenged experts and copied their abilities, while the Heavenly Gate recruited or brought ability users back to Yishan.
• Rumors, accusations, and crimes committed in the Heavenly Gate’s name turned it into the Myriad Arts Demon Sect, and Myriad Arts War God became known as Myriad Arts Old Devil.

Steel Heavenly God Bai Han attacked Yishan to confront Myriad Arts Old Devil, but the Myriad Arts Three Gods joined forces to stop him. Their attacks forced him to shrink and evade Qian Yu’s Great Possession Ring, leaving him vulnerable to their next move.

• Bai Han arrived at Yishan and demanded that the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate move aside so he could confront Myriad Arts Old Devil.
• Fire God Zhang Yang attacked Bai Han, but Bai Han wounded him with a pair of swords and disrupted his control of the Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners.
• God of Earth Zhuge Qing bound Bai Han with the Meridian Divine Light Rays, but Bai Han expanded into a steel giant and broke free.
• Zhuge Qing used the Polarity Cosmic Light Disk to halt Bai Han’s growth at thirty-six zhang while Qian Yu hurled the Great Possession Ring at him.
• Bai Han shrank to ordinary height and diverted the Great Possession Ring, which destroyed a mountain peak; Zhuge Qing then removed a Golden Ring and tossed it into the air.

Bai Han’s attack on Yishan ended when Zhuge Qing used the Demon-Subduing Golden Ring to restrain him, while Lu Qingfeng sensed that the victory had further increased the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate’s fortune. Lu Qingfeng continued prioritizing cultivation and Divine Ability comprehension, leaving the chapter focused on his progress toward greater strength.

• Zhuge Qing used the Demon-Subduing Golden Ring to trap Bai Han, who failed to break free or transform into his steel body.
• The evolvers of the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate celebrated, and more than a hundred God of War powerhouses emerged from Yishan as outside observers fled.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed that Bai Han’s second defeat had shifted more fortune to him and the Myriad Arts Heavenly Gate.
• Lu Qingfeng reviewed the Heavenly Gate’s collection of 10,921 abilities and decided to prioritize cultivation before redeeming or fusing them.
• Lu Qingfeng continued cultivating toward the Fusion Realm and steadily comprehending Divine Abilities, especially the Five-Colored Divine Light.