Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng demonstrated his techniques to his disciples while fighting Neham, the Eclipse Grand Duke, in Abyss-Suppressing Mountain. He overwhelmed Neham and stripped him of his weapons, leaving the battle still underway after a blow to Neham’s forehead.

• Lu Qingfeng sent a divine-soul thought to confront Neham and explained the Cloud-Peak Step to his disciples.
• Neham charged at Lu Qingfeng, whose Vajra Spell blocked the ogre’s spiked mace without injury.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Yellow Robe True Formula and Great Possession Ring to overpower Neham in close combat and smash him into an abyssal rift.
• Neham rose with his Mad Demon Shield and charged again, but Lu Qingfeng’s Five-Colored Divine Light took the shield and his spiked mace.
• Lu Qingfeng struck the disarmed Neham in the forehead with the Great Possession Ring, sending him spinning through the air.

Lu Qingfeng captured Neham and cultivated while refining him in the Eight-Scenery Tower, then spent two years establishing Abyss-Suppressing Mountain and gathering powerful followers. When the two-year wait ended, Lu Qingfeng opened the mountain and invited those who were fated to enter his sect.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Purple-Gold Alms Bowl and Demon-Subduing Golden Ring to restrain Neham, then trapped him inside the Eight-Scenery Tower after he broke free and went berserk.
• Lu Qingfeng imprisoned Neham in the tower’s Four Seas Realm and True Fire Realm, repeatedly attacking his soul with the Golden Blade Soul-Slaughter Method while cultivating to the Late Void Core Stage.
• Over the next two years, Lu Qingfeng established Abyss-Suppressing Mountain in the Thorn Grand Rift, and crowds gathered nearby hoping to join his command.
• Lu Qingfeng’s seventy-two Dutian Ghost Generals and three thousand six hundred Dark Nether Yin Soldiers guarded the mountain and kept the surrounding area peaceful.
• At the end of the two-year term, Lu Qingfeng opened Abyss-Suppressing Mountain and invited all who were fated to enter his sect.

Ferdinand, Branlet, Adolf, Little Green, and Rock reached the upper platform at Abyss-Suppressing Mountain, where Lu Qingfeng welcomed them and assigned seats. The nine cushions were filled, leaving the gathered visitors to await what would happen next.

• Ferdinand climbed the white-cloud staircase, greeted Lu Qingfeng, and took the guest seat beside the restrained Neham.
• Branlet arrived next, recognized Neham tied to Lu Qingfeng’s lotus platform, and sat in the other guest seat.
• Adolf reached the platform, thanked Lu Qingfeng for killing Augustine and destroying the Thorn Grand Rift, and took the seventh cushion.
• Rock caught Little Green when the Gnome nearly fell from the staircase, and both newcomers greeted Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng seated Little Green on the eighth cushion and Rock on the ninth, filling all nine seats.

Lu Qingfeng closed Abyss-Suppressing Mountain to outsiders and spent years preaching immortal cultivation to those within, selecting people able to understand the Dao. Several listeners, including Little Green, Xuan Ning, Adolf, Locke, Ferdinand, and Buland, found cultivation methods suited to them as the Guangyuan Immortal Sect began gathering potential disciples.

• Lu Qingfeng dismissed the cloud stairways and sealed Abyss-Suppressing Mountain, leaving those outside unable to enter.
• Lu Qingfeng began explaining immortal cultivation, its methods, spells, alchemy, and artifact refining to everyone within the mountain.
• Little Green entered cultivation through the Yellow Robe True Formula, while Xuan Ning achieved Sudden Enlightenment and chose the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method.
• After years of lectures, Adolf comprehended the Luofu Sword Canon, Locke the Prison-Warding Five-Thunder Heart Scripture, Ferdinand the Profound Jade Chapter, and Buland the meaning of a fire spell.
• Lu Qingfeng stopped preaching, and Buland opened his eyes to find the lecture had ended.

After ending his three-year sermon, Lu Qingfeng announced future sermons and the founding of the Guangyuan Immortal Sect, then recruited new disciples and guardians at Abyss-Suppressing Mountain. He bestowed teachings and treasures on Adolf, Little Green, and Rock, who took the Dao names Xuan Jian, Xuanyu, and Xuan Shan, and secured Branlet and Ferdinand as Dharma-Protecting Venerables.

• Lu Qingfeng ended the sermon, said he would preach again in a hundred years, and announced that the Guangyuan Immortal Sect would open in two hundred years.
• Lu Qingfeng accepted Adolf as his seventh disciple after Adolf discarded his former cultivation, renamed him Xuan Jian, taught him the Luofu Sword Canon, and gave him the Kanshan Sword and a Life-Giving Creation Pill.
• Lu Qingfeng accepted Little Green as a disciple, named him Xuanyu, imparted the Yellow Robe True Formula, and bestowed the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks.
• Rock discarded his battle aura to become Lu Qingfeng's ninth disciple; Lu Qingfeng named him Xuan Shan, taught him the Prison-Warding Five-Thunder Heart Scripture, and gave him the Purple-Gold Alms Bowl.
• Lu Qingfeng invited Branlet and Ferdinand to serve as Dharma-Protecting Venerables at Abyss-Suppressing Mountain, and both agreed after Ferdinand questioned him about immortality and the Immortal Dao.

Lu Qingfeng cultivated in the real world while advancing his Dutian Dark Nether Strategies to the sixth rank, realizing its enormous resource demands. He decided to seek more demons and monsters in White Bone Realm to strengthen his Dao soldiers.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Soul-Thought Generation Method to play the Primordial World while cultivating and refining artifacts in reality.
• He estimated that he could reach Core Formation in seventy or eighty years and judged that he could dominate Radiant Glow Domain with his current strength.
• Lu Qingfeng advanced the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies to the sixth rank, enabling it to contain seventy-two Core Formation Ghost Generals and three thousand six hundred Spirit Void Yin Soldiers.
• He found that raising the Yin Soldiers and Ghost Generals would require immense resources, including eighteen million Spirit Stones to bring the Yin Soldiers to the Spirit Void peak.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to visit White Bone Realm and slaughter demons and monsters to cultivate his Dao soldiers.

Lu Qingfeng refined the Azurewood King Cauldron and discovered its vast inner world, where Azure-Turban Strongmen had cultivated spirit medicines for thirteen thousand years. He began refining the strongmen to empower his Dark Nether Yin Soldiers and left with an enormous stock of medicines that could support his cultivation for years to come.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Jumang Demon God to refine the Azurewood King Cauldron’s first forty-five Earthly Fiend Restrictions and explored its inner world.
• Lu Qingfeng found 4,800 Azure-Turban Strongmen at the peak of Spirit Void, who had spent thirteen thousand years cultivating spirit medicines.
• Lu Qingfeng sent 3,600 Azure-Turban Strongmen into the Dutian Creation Pool to refine them and strengthen his Dark Nether Yin Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng inspected the cauldron’s medicinal fields and learned that its spirit medicines grew at rates ranging from several times to more than ten times the normal speed.
• Lu Qingfeng gathered the cauldron’s vast stores of spirit medicines, ordered the remaining Azure-Turban Strongmen to sort them, and left the artifact’s inner world.

Lu Qingfeng strengthened his Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and sent soldiers to reinforce the Ghost Generals protecting Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu before traveling toward Flying Spirit River. Near the Nine Witherings Sea, he encountered two cultivators being attacked by four members of the White Bone Demon Sect.

• True Person Lingyi and Zhao Yang traced the sudden demand for Clearbright Spirit Water to the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect and decided not to warn Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• Lu Qingfeng refined eight hundred Azure-Turban Strongmen, raising all three thousand six hundred Dark Nether Yin Soldiers to the spirit void peak.
• Lu Qingfeng dispatched three hundred soldiers to retrieve the Ghost Generals protecting Lu Qingyu and Lu Qingshan so he could strengthen them.
• Luo Yu received a warning about a Mystic Origin Sect intruder and led Wan Ze, Sheng Hai, and Gong Yushan out of the Nine Witherings Sea to hunt the intruder.
• Lu Qingfeng traveled toward Flying Spirit River and spotted two plain-robed cultivators trapped in a fight against Luo Yu's group and their White Bone Demon Gods.

Lu Qingfeng disguised himself as the Demon Dao expert Watercloud, saved Zhou Su and Xiang Chao from the White Bone Demon Sect, and forced Zhou Su to accept him as her master. He gave her two foundational cultivation arts and left, while Zhou Su and Xiang Chao departed together.

• Lu Qingfeng changed his appearance and aura, then approached Zhou Su and Xiang Chao as the white-haired Watercloud.
• Watercloud froze Xiang Chao's sword before it could explode and used the Soul-Seizing Technique to stop Xiang Chao from self-detonating.
• Watercloud's four water dragons swallowed Luo Yu and the other three White Bone Demon Sect cultivators along with their White Bone Demon Gods.
• Watercloud demanded that Zhou Su become his first disciple, threatening to kill her and Xiang Chao if she refused, and Zhou Su accepted to save their lives.
• Watercloud passed Zhou Su the Watercloud Method and Water Dragon Art, then left; Xiang Chao urged Zhou Su to leave the area with him.

After Zhou Su and Xiang Chao escaped to Illusory Wave Sea, Zhou Su revealed that Daoist Watercloud had passed her a transcendent-grade spell and an unorthodox-grade cultivation method. Meanwhile, the Mystic Origin Sect learned that Daoist Evergreen had devastated the White Bone Demon Sect, and Zhou Su and Xiang Chao prepared to report another major development.

• Zhou Su thanked Xiang Chao for protecting her, then revealed that Daoist Watercloud's Water Dragon Art was transcendent-grade and his Watercloud Method was an unorthodox-grade method.
• Lu Qingfeng, disguised as Daoist Evergreen, reflected that he had passed the techniques to Zhou Su to repay the Mystic Origin Sect and prepare for the future.
• True Person Wu Jie told the Mystic Origin Sect leaders that Kumbhanda had refined the Immortal Spirit Pearl and advanced to the spell gathering realm.
• Kou Xuan reported that Daoist Evergreen had killed thirteen White Bone Demon Sect True Persons and forced its remaining True Persons to stay on Cloudmist Mountain.
• Shi Wan suggested the Mystic Origin Sect could exploit the White Bone Demon Sect's weakness, while Gu Buyan said his disciple Lu Qingfeng would shake the Three Realms in two hundred years.
• Zhou Huayu announced that two Jade Pillar Peak disciples had another momentous matter to report.

Lu Qingfeng slaughtered demonic cultivators across the White Bone Realm, then rushed to Blazing Fire Isle when Zou Buping and Tu Jiao attacked it. Tu Jiao demanded the Clearbright Spirit Water formula, and after Lu Qingfeng refused her offer of three hundred thousand Spirit Stones, she brought out the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s Fallen God Pavilion.

• Lu Qingfeng killed the remaining Spirit Void Peak cultivators in the Nine Withered Sea and decided to target smaller demonic sects after the White Bone Demon Sect withdrew to Cloudmist Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed trouble at Blazing Fire Isle and hurried south, where Zou Buping was attacking its formation with yin fire and azure clouds.
• The Zhurong Demon God emerged from Blazing Fire Isle and quickly suppressed Zou Buping, while Kumbhanda watched from concealment.
• Tu Jiao introduced herself as a member of the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect and sought the Clearbright Spirit Water formula, but Lu Qingfeng demanded three million Spirit Stones.
• Tu Jiao rejected Lu Qingfeng’s price and summoned the seventh-tier Fallen God Pavilion as he turned to leave.

Lu Qingfeng fought Tu Jiao and Zou Buping of the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect, killing both with his divine abilities and formations. He seized the Fallen God Pavilion and killed Kumbhanda, then withdrew behind Blazing Fire Isle’s protective formation as witnesses reeled from the battle.

• Tu Jiao attacked Lu Qingfeng with the Fallen God Pavilion while Zou Buping fought the Zhurong Demon God, but Lu Qingfeng’s demon flame and Dutian Baleful Gods stopped Tu Jiao and trapped Zou Buping.
• Lu Qingfeng and the Zhurong Demon God overwhelmed Zou Buping with the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation and seven Dutian Ghost Generals, killing him and suppressing his soul.
• Lu Qingfeng broke Tu Jiao’s Metamorphosis Divine Eye and Five-Element Escape Technique, then killed her as she tried to retreat and bargain.
• Lu Qingfeng subdued the Fallen God Pavilion, destroyed the soul imprint that emerged from it, and took the artifact.
• Lu Qingfeng trapped and killed Kumbhanda of Heavenly Wander Mountain before returning to Blazing Fire Isle and closing its mountain-protecting formation.
• Witnesses on Blazing Fire Isle discussed how Lu Qingfeng had killed three Spell Gathering opponents.

Lu Qingfeng prepared for the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s retaliation after killing its Dharma Gathering True Persons and seizing the Fallen God Pavilion. As he tried to preserve the Illusory Wave Sea and strengthen his forces, he refined his Divine Abilities and artifact, then set out to seek more Ghost Generals before the sect arrived.

• Ancestor Ku Yuan sent Fei Huo, Xuan Yan, and Li Gou with three thousand soldiers to capture Rogue Person Blazing Fire alive.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to protect the Illusory Wave Sea while attempting to transplant its Spirit-Eye Trees into the Azurewood King Cauldron.
• Lu Qingfeng used Enlightenment in the Barbarian God Realm to improve his Dutian Demon Flame, while Zhurong and Gonggong began refining the Fallen God Pavilion.
• Lu Qingfeng’s Dutian Dark Nether Strategies refined Zou Buping, Tu Jiao, and Kumbhanda into three Ghost Generals.
• Lu Qingfeng judged his ten available Ghost Generals insufficient against the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect and left to seek more in the White Bone Realm.

Daoist Evergreen slaughtered demonic cultivators across the White Bone Realm while the Three Friends of Impermanence led three thousand Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect troops to confront Rogue Person Blazing Fire. Their army arrived at Blazing Fire Isle, where rival factions watched and waited for the battle to begin.

• Daoist Evergreen killed eleven Demon Dao True Persons across seven sects, then killed Dark Frost and Golden Tiger, driving the White Bone Realm's remaining rogue True Persons to flee or join the White Bone Demon Sect.
• Fei Huo, Xuan Yan, and Li Gou traveled to the Illusory Wave Sea with three thousand troops to avenge the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect's slain True Persons.
• Xuan Yan warned Fei Huo that Rogue Person Blazing Fire commanded powerful guardians and a Flame Demon God, and the three discussed their strategy.
• Three thousand Hundred-Battle Dao Troops arrived above Blazing Fire Isle as cultivators gathered outside the Illusory Wave Sea to watch.
• Han Ji, King Coiling Mountain, and Weng Shaoqing watched secretly, each hoping the battle would resolve the threat posed by Rogue Person Blazing Fire or Daoist Evergreen.

Lu Qingfeng confronted the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s three True Persons with his 3,600 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers and launched an attack instead of revealing any affiliation. As the armies clashed, Lu Qingfeng gained the upper hand against Fei Huo and sent the Zhurong Demon God to counter Xuan Yan.

• Fei Huo challenged Lu Qingfeng over the death of a Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect True Person, and Lu Qingfeng summoned 3,600 Dark Nether Yin Soldiers led by nine Ghost Generals.
• Xuan Yan asked Lu Qingfeng to state his name and affiliation, but he blamed the sect’s slain True Person for invading his cave abode and harboring murderous intentions.
• The three Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect True Persons decided to test Lu Qingfeng, and Fei Huo taunted him before ordering an attack.
• Lu Qingfeng formed the Bamboo Mountain Rainfall Formation and charged the three True Persons while his Yin Soldiers engaged the Hundred-Battle Dao Troops.
• Lu Qingfeng’s Dutian Demon Flame damaged Fei Huo’s Maha Twin Hooks and overwhelmed his attempts to counterattack.
• Lu Qingfeng sent the Zhurong Demon God to confront Xuan Yan, whose Separation-and-Union Mystic Light could not affect the demon god.

Lu Qingfeng used the Fallen God Pavilion to break True Person Fei Huo’s defenses and severely injure him, forcing True Persons Li Gou and Xuan Yan to retreat with their brother. He let them go rather than risk a costly fight, resolving to grow stronger before crushing the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect.

• True Person Xuan Yan and True Person Li Gou held off Zhurong Demon God and the Dutian Ghost Generals, leaving True Person Fei Huo without support.
• Lu Qingfeng unleashed the Fallen God Pavilion, blasted Fei Huo aside, and struck him repeatedly with Dutian Demon Flame.
• Li Gou and Xuan Yan broke free from their opponents and rushed to save Fei Huo as their Dao troops charged into battle.
• Lu Qingfeng warned Li Gou and Xuan Yan that he could let the demon flame cripple Fei Huo if they threatened him, so they withdrew with their injured brother.
• Lu Qingfeng chose not to pursue them, judging that his exhausted ghost generals made further fighting too risky, and resolved to build his strength first.

Lu Qingfeng defeated the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect, killed the remaining leaders of Heavenly Wander Mountain, and caused the mountain’s collapse. Back on Blazing Fire Isle, he prepared new guardians for Qingshan and Qingyu and began improving a Sword Firmament Puppet.

• Lu Qingfeng captured the surviving Hundred-Battle Dao Troops, drove off the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect, and forced King Coiling Mountain to flee by severing his tail.
• Lu Qingfeng caught and killed King Coiling Mountain, Old Woman Wutou, and two demon generals, bringing about Heavenly Wander Mountain’s collapse.
• Lu Qingfeng refused Han Ji’s request to help the White Bone Demon Sect, and Daoist Evergreen later killed Han Ji at the Heavenward Abyss.
• Lu Qingfeng added five Core Formation souls to the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies and refined two Hundred-Ghost Yin-Locking Robes for Qingshan and Qingyu’s future protection.
• Lu Qingfeng considered using puppets as guardians and enhanced a Sword Firmament Puppet ten times in the game.

Lu Qingfeng finished crafting two Sword Firmament Puppets and returned to the Mystic Origin Sect while the Non-Smoke Pavilion planned to buy up his Clearbright Spirit Water. Master Zhenjue used the Two-World Diagram to trace the Azurewood King Cauldron, but the vision ended with a blood-red light entering an unborn child.

• Lu Qingfeng crafted two Sword Firmament Puppets, sent them away with Dutian Ghost Generals, and decided to keep a low profile before returning to the Mystic Origin Sect.
• At the Non-Smoke Pavilion, Qu Xiao and the elders discussed the threat of Clearbright Spirit Water reaching the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect and decided to buy up Lu Qingfeng's supply.
• Qu Xiao sent Zhuge Ziyang to the Illusory Wave Sea to negotiate with Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• Xun Tiange asked Master Zhenjue to use the Two-World Diagram to find the Azurewood King Cauldron and recounted how it had passed from Yushan Daoist to the Yellow-Robed Old Monster.
• Master Zhenjue's diagram showed the Yellow-Robed Old Monster entering the Immortal Mansion, then followed a blood-red light into a pregnant woman's belly before revealing a newborn with a brief red gleam in its eyes.

Master Zhenjue’s divination failed to reveal the Azurewood King Cauldron or the Yellow-Robed Old Monster, though it uncovered signs of a Blood Demon remnant. On Flying Cloud Island, Lu Qingfeng’s nine Skylark Birds survived Foundation Establishment Tribulation Lightning, took human form, and left to explore while Lu Qingfeng returned to seclusion.

• Master Zhenjue told Xun Tiange that powerful protection concealed the Azurewood King Cauldron and the yellow-robed man, and identified the blood-red light as belonging to the Blood Demon Lineage.
• Xun Tiange left the Six Dust Temple and vowed to report the suspected protection of the cauldron to his ancestor.
• The nine Skylark Birds endured Foundation Establishment Tribulation Lightning north of Flying Cloud Island and transformed into human forms.
• The nine Skylark Birds visited Lu Qingfeng, who congratulated them and warned them to cultivate diligently.
• Lu Qingfeng sent the nine Skylark Birds from his cave residence, and they scattered across Flying Cloud Island before he sealed the formation and resumed seclusion.

Forty-four years after beginning the Immortality Trial, Zhang Bo, Xie Di, and three fellow disciples surveyed Facing-Sun Mountain and submitted their findings through the Qingyuan Pearl, earning 1,600 Merit. Lu Qingfeng reviewed their report while monitoring them, as the chapter revealed how few Azure Origin Sword Sect disciples had survived the trial.

• Zhang Bo and the other four disciples presented their survey of Facing-Sun Mountain to the Third Ancestor through the Qingyuan Pearl.
• The Qingyuan Pearl awarded the five 1,600 Merit and unlocked higher-grade spells and more advanced cultivation, alchemy, and artifact-refinement techniques.
• Xie Di proposed saving Merit for the Unorthodox Grade Azure Origin Sword Art, but Zhang Bo urged the group to prioritize practical spells and useful craft techniques.
• Zhang Bo planned to recruit disciples and Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators to explore nearby regions and earn more Merit.
• Lu Qingfeng recorded the survey from Flying Cloud Island and watched the five disciples to ensure their report was truthful.
• Lu Qingfeng noted that only 314 of the 3,520 disciples who had entered the Weeping Marsh over forty-four years had passed the Immortality Trial.