Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng appointed Yao Xingzi and the other Star-Devouring Seven Ancestors to posts in the Censure Office, then inspected the Five Directions' prisons with Ao Le and Zhang Shu. In the Blazing Meteor Prison, he discovered Flood Dragon Adept, a Min River prisoner, and approached him.

• Lu Qingfeng appointed Yao Xingzi as Dominator of Records and Interrogation Envoy and assigned the other six Star-Devouring Seven Ancestors as his subordinates.
• Zhang Shu presented Lu Qingfeng with a register of the Five Hells' prisoners, and Lu Qingfeng decided to inspect the prisons with him and Ao Le.
• Zhang Shu explained the Five Directions' prisons, and Lu Qingfeng noticed the five Hell Generals' disdain for Zhang Shu; Zhang Shu declined Lu Qingfeng's offer to replace them.
• Lu Qingfeng and his companions entered the Blazing Meteor Prison, where they saw demons and monsters enduring punishment and heard their curses.
• Lu Qingfeng found Flood Dragon Adept's record in the golden register and learned that the Min River flood dragon had been imprisoned for sacrificing aquatic clansmen and humans.
• Lu Qingfeng entered Flood Dragon Adept's abyss, where the prisoner mocked him as the Censure Office's new Chief Official.

Lu Qingfeng tortured Flood Dragon Adept into confessing, then bound him with a Five Hells Mind-Form Headband and ordered him to serve for ninety thousand years. After adding Flood Dragon Adept to their company and continuing through the prison, the story shifted to the Heaven-Suppressing Prefecture, where Ao Jue questioned why Ao Zhan was finally departing with troops.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Lock-Bone-Piercing Little Asura Method to torment Flood Dragon Adept until he confessed to his crimes.
• Lu Qingfeng petitioned the Prison Sovereign, and a Five Hells Mind-Form Headband descended to restrain Flood Dragon Adept.
• Lu Qingfeng tested the headband’s curse and sentenced Flood Dragon Adept to serve under his command for ninety thousand years.
• Lu Qingfeng, Ao Le, and Zhang Shu left the abyssal prison with Flood Dragon Adept and continued to another prison.
• At the Heaven-Suppressing Prefecture, Ao Zhan departed south with two thousand officers and soldiers, prompting Ao Jue to ask whether the obstructions to his command had finally ended.

Lu Qingfeng was summoned before the Heaven-Suppressing Army’s marshals after demons from the Five Hells left the Eastern and Southern armies’ camps and returned to the Censure Office. He clashed with Zhu Jiu and Ao Shang, while Ao Zhuo eventually asked him to explain why the demons had been recalled.

• Ao Jue accused Ao Shang of leaving Ao Zhan without adequate troops and supplies, and Zhu Jiu reported that Lu Qingfeng had subdued dozens of powerful demons in the Five Hells.
• Ao Shang demanded that Lu Qingfeng hand over the demons and their treasures, but messengers reported that the demons employed by the Eastern and Southern armies had escaped their camps despite the Great Mind-Form Curse.
• Ao Zhuo summoned Lu Qingfeng, who denied knowing why the marshals had called him and argued with Zhu Jiu after Zhu Jiu demanded an explanation.
• Lu Qingfeng showed the gathered marshals a scene of Zhu Jiu slamming the table, then insisted that Ao Zhuo punish Zhu Jiu for threatening him with a Nine-Toothed Rake.
• Ao Jue sided with Lu Qingfeng against Ao Shang, and Ao Zhuo persuaded Lu Qingfeng to let the confrontation pass.
• Ao Zhuo explained that the demons from the Five Hells had returned to the Censure Office and asked Lu Qingfeng to address the matter.

Lu Qingfeng defied Ao Shang and Zhu Jiu, then gave Ao Zhan twenty powerful demons to strengthen his forces at Poison Dragon Pool. He kept the recalled demons imprisoned and delayed their investigation for centuries, leaving Ao Zhuo unable to make him act faster.

• Lu Qingfeng refused to let Ao Shang and Zhu Jiu dictate how the Censure Office handled the recalled demons, and Ao Zhuo gave him three months to clarify their charges.
• Ao Zhan warned Lu Qingfeng against confronting Ao Shang and Zhu Jiu, but Lu Qingfeng sent him twenty Fourth-Realm demons to support his forces at Poison Dragon Pool.
• Lu Qingfeng told Ao Le he would imprison the three hundred and sixty-seven recalled demons and make the Heaven-Suppressing Army experience the delays Ao Zhan had suffered.
• Lu Qingfeng explained that his authority over the demons could help him build connections and acquire cultivation methods and resources.
• After three months, then decades and centuries, Lu Qingfeng continued telling Ao Zhuo that the demons' charges had not yet been clarified.

Lu Qingshan brought Xu Mi and their son, Lu Changsheng, to Golden Billow City to meet her parents, but they found them murdered by Qu Han, a Core Formation cultivator. As Qu Han attacked the family, Lu Qingshan fought to protect Changsheng while Xu Mi was struck by a heart demon.

• Qu Han traveled to Golden Billow City, intending to reap the affection he had planted in a surviving woman who had entered the Heart Movement realm.
• Lu Qingshan and Xu Mi arrived in Golden Billow City with their son, Lu Changsheng, to visit Xu Mi's parents.
• Lu Qingfeng noticed Lu Qingshan was in danger while watching through the Heaven-Hearing Earth-Seeing Great Method, then used the Great Five Ghosts Transportation Method to hurry to Golden Billow City.
• Lu Qingshan and Xu Mi found Xu Mi's parents dead, and Qu Han emerged and revealed his Core Formation aura.
• Lu Qingshan summoned his fiends and Great Geng Sword Formation to hold Qu Han back while urging Xu Mi to escape with Changsheng.
• Qu Han uttered “Explode,” causing Xu Mi's emotions to surge, shattering her True Essence and making her drop the Dust-Veiling Banner.

Lu Qingfeng arrived in time to save Lu Qingshan, Xu Mi, and Changsheng from Qu Han, then killed Qu Han after learning he was Xuan Yan's son. He explained that lightning would purge Xu Mi's Heart Demon and emotion seed, while his thoughts turned toward Xuan Yan.

• Qu Han's Seven Emotions Method drove Xu Mi into a Heart Demon, and his attack forced Lu Qingshan to defend Xu Mi and Changsheng with the Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe.
• A puppet and a hundred evil spirits appeared to hold off Qu Han's Seven Emotions Specters, but Qu Han exploited Lu Qingshan's fury and attacked his family.
• Xu Mi tried to kill herself, but lightning tore through the robe and bound her, preventing her death as Qu Han struck at Lu Qingshan and Changsheng.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived, destroyed Qu Han's Seven Emotions Specters and banner, and crushed Qu Han to ash after confirming his identity as Xuan Yan's son.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Qingshan that the lightning would dispel Xu Mi's Heart Demon and emotion seed, then recalled Xuan Yan and felt killing intent toward him.

Lu Qingfeng rescued Lu Qingshan, Xu Mi, and their son Changsheng, then learned that Qu Han was the son of a powerful Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect elder. He set out for Impermanence Island to settle old and new grudges, while Xu Mi recognized him as the famed Rogue Person Blazing Fire.

• Lu Qingfeng welcomed Little Changsheng and gave him a refined bronze bell to protect him.
• Lightning cleansed Xu Mi of her heart demon, and Lu Qingfeng explained that she needed only rest to recover.
• Lu Qingshan revealed that the slain Qu Han was Xuan Yan's son, prompting Xu Mi to fear retaliation from the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Lu Qingshan three Heavenly-Origin Thunderclap Pellets and departed to overturn Impermanence Island, telling the family to return to Blazing Fire Isle.
• Xu Mi connected Lu Qingfeng to the Three Friends of Impermanence and realized he might be Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Great Five Ghosts Transportation Method to travel rapidly toward Impermanence Island.

Lu Qingfeng disguised himself as Rogue Person Blazing Fire and attacked Impermanence Island after Xuan Yan learned that her son Qu Han had died. He trapped Xuan Yan, Li Gou, and Fei Huo in the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation, killed Fei Huo, and faced the other two as they warned that their sect’s experts would arrive.

• Lu Qingfeng decided to kill Xuan Yan, Li Gou, and Fei Huo before they could trace Qu Han’s death back to him, and changed his appearance to impersonate Rogue Person Blazing Fire.
• After more than fifty-two years of treatment, Li Gou and Xuan Yan helped Fei Huo expel the demon flame from his body.
• Xuan Yan discovered that Qu Han’s life tablet had shattered, and she vowed to avenge her son while Li Gou questioned how he could have been killed.
• Lu Qingfeng appeared outside Impermanence Island and trapped the three Golden Core True Persons in the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation.
• The formation overwhelmed the three, and Fei Huo was swept into the flames and killed while Li Gou and Xuan Yan failed to save him.
• Li Gou and Xuan Yan warned that the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s experts would arrive, but Lu Qingfeng said he would face them too.

Lu Qingfeng destroyed the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s three patriarchs and confronted Ancestor Ku Yuan, seizing two of the sect’s supreme treasures with his Five-Colored Divine Light. Ancestor Ku Yuan invoked Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain and ordered the sect’s forces to attack, leaving Lu Qingfeng surrounded by nine thousand armored soldiers.

• Lu Qingfeng killed Li Gou and Xuan Yan in the Blazing Fire Immortal Formation, then captured their souls and those of Fei Huo as Dutian Ghost Generals.
• The Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s cultivators fled as Ancestor Ku Yuan arrived with nine detachments of Hundred-Battle Dao Troops.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ancestor Ku Yuan traded accusations before Zhurong Demon God charged at Ku Yuan.
• Lu Qingfeng’s Five-Colored Divine Light seized the Metamorphosis Heaven Eye and the Separation-and-Union Divine Tablet from Ancestor Ku Yuan.
• Ancestor Ku Yuan warned Lu Qingfeng that Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain would retaliate, then ordered the sect’s Core Formation True Persons and nine thousand soldiers to attack.

Lu Qingfeng defeated the Mie Du Divine Sect’s forces and killed Patriarch Ku Yuan, but Daoist Changqing intervened before he could finish off the survivors. Changqing drove Old Devil Blazing Fire away and began clearing the blood-and-baleful qi left over from the battle.

• Lu Qingfeng’s Ghost Generals, Yin Soldiers, and Zhurong’s fire array devastated the Mie Du Divine Sect’s army, while Lu Qingfeng pursued Patriarch Ku Yuan and killed him.
• Lu Qingfeng joined Zhurong and drove the remaining Mie Du Divine Sect fighters into a desperate retreat as their nine thousand Dao Soldiers were wiped out.
• Daoist Changqing arrived, destroyed the remaining Ghost Generals and Yin Soldiers, and fought Old Devil Blazing Fire with wind, fire, and thunder.
• Old Devil Blazing Fire failed to seize Changqing’s Wind-Fire Grand Mill and withdrew, leaving Changqing victorious.
• Jing Feng, Zhang Guo, and the other surviving Adepts thanked Changqing, who ordered them to retreat while he dispersed the battlefield’s blood-and-baleful qi.

After purifying Impermanence Island for three months, Lu Qingfeng met Jing Zhan of Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain and learned that a primordial spirit cultivator was preparing to ascend. When Jing Zhan’s mirror revealed twelve Iron-Wire Centipedes beneath the island, Lu Qingfeng immediately tried to capture them.

• Jing Feng and the other True Persons withdrew from Impermanence Island, and Jing Feng arranged to summon the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s surviving True Persons and report the deaths to Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain.
• After three months of refining the Blood Baleful Aura, Lu Qingfeng met Jing Zhan, who explained that Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain’s ancestors were attending Tianxing True One’s ascension ceremony.
• Lu Qingfeng criticized the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect for provoking Rogue Person Blazing Fire and blamed Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain for failing to curb the sect’s tyranny.
• Jing Zhan used an octagonal bronze mirror to detect twelve Iron-Wire Centipedes beneath Impermanence Island and asked Lu Qingfeng to help capture them.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned his Golden-Pattern Bamboo Staff and sent twelve streams of white qi underground toward the centipedes.

Lu Qingfeng refined twelve Iron-Wire Centipedes into the Iron Centipede Bamboo Staff, then left Jing Zhan a Dustless Pill and offered to deal with the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s Golden Core cultivators. At Tian'a Island, Lu Qingyu reassured Xu Mi about Lu Qingfeng, and the family looked toward a visitor entering their courtyard.

• Lu Qingfeng stripped the souls from twelve Iron-Wire Centipedes and refined them into the Iron Centipede Bamboo Staff, which the Twelve Demon Gods began nurturing.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Jing Zhan a Dustless Pill and told him Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain could send the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s Golden Core cultivators to Blazing Fire Isle for him to discipline.
• At Tian'a Market, Lu Qingyu told Lu Qingshan and Xu Mi that reports said Rogue Person Blazing Fire had destroyed the Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect’s forces and fought Daoist Evergreen.
• Lu Qingyu reassured Xu Mi that Lu Qingfeng would return safely and shared Hundred Blossom Brew with her while Lu Qingshan sat ignored.
• Someone entered the courtyard, prompting Lu Qingshan and Xu Mi to rise warily as Lu Qingyu laughed.

Jing Zhan reported his theories about Daoist Evergreen to Daoist Bingyi, who decided to recruit him for Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain. Meanwhile, Lu Qingfeng cultivated at Blazing Fire Isle under his Daoist Evergreen identity and began negotiating with Daoist Bingyi about joining the sect.

• Jing Zhan told Daoist Bingyi that Daoist Evergreen had gone to the Illusory Wave Sea to confront Rogue Person Blazing Fire and protect five Nirvana Extermination Divine Sect cultivators.
• After reviewing Jing Zhan’s information, Daoist Bingyi decided to meet Daoist Evergreen before Azurewood Valley or Yellow Maple Gorge could recruit him.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Blazing Fire Isle as Daoist Evergreen, occupied it, and cultivated the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method while refining magical artifacts.
• Daoist Bingyi visited Lu Qingfeng and offered him access to Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain’s cultivation secret realms and pills if he joined.
• Lu Qingfeng said he was considering joining an immortal sect and asked Daoist Bingyi what the sect would require of him.

Lu Qingfeng joined Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain and accompanied Daoist Bingyi to Green Conch Ravine to eliminate the Green Conch Eight Demons. After Lu Qingfeng killed Xue Ping, the other demons tried to flee, and he attacked Qian Qingxuan as the pursuit continued.

• Lu Qingfeng accepted Daoist Bingyi's invitation to join Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain, and the two celebrated with wine.
• Daoist Bingyi explained the Green Conch Eight Demons' history and led Lu Qingfeng to their hidden palace in Green Conch Ravine.
• Lu Qingfeng attacked the eight demons with the Windfire Grand Mill and Thunder Prison while Daoist Bingyi engaged Huang Suo.
• Lu Qingfeng killed Xue Ping with the Iron Centipede Bamboo Staff and an Iron-Wire Centipede.
• Huang Suo ordered the remaining demons to retreat, and Lu Qingfeng struck at Qian Qingxuan as they fled.

Lu Qingfeng and Daoist Bingyi hunted down the Green Conch Eight Demons, killing seven while Huang Suo’s soul escaped. Their victory secured Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain’s standing, and Daoist Bingyi said Six Dust Temple would owe Lu Qingfeng a favor.

• Lu Qingfeng killed Qian Qingxuan as the remaining demons escaped, then he and Daoist Bingyi agreed to search for them after Lu Qingfeng deciphered the Snow Mountain Grand Formation.
• After three days, Lu Qingfeng found the demons’ hiding place and trapped Huang Suo with his violet-gold alms bowl while Daoist Bingyi attacked with the Big Dipper Mysterious Light Sword Formation.
• Lu Qingfeng killed the other five demons as Daoist Bingyi battled Huang Suo, whose fire poison weakened him.
• Ancestor Xipi intervened to save Huang Suo, but Daoist Guyue countered his attack and forced him to withdraw.
• Daoist Bingyi shattered Huang Suo’s dharma body, but a wisp of his soul escaped; Daoist Bingyi declared the Green Conch Eight Demons defeated and said Six Dust Temple would owe Lu Qingfeng a favor.

Lu Qingfeng claimed the Snow-Soul Pearl after he and Daoist Bingyi defeated the Green Conch Eight Demons, then helped clear their underground palace of demon cultivators. The two returned to Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain, where Lu Qingfeng saw the Military Tome Stone and Treasure Sword Stone and was told he could study their hidden inheritances after meeting Daoist Guyue.

• Lu Qingfeng found and removed the Snow-Soul Pearl, causing the Snow Mountain Great Array across Green Conch Ravine to collapse.
• Daoist Bingyi explained the Snow-Soul Pearl’s history and warned Lu Qingfeng not to squander it by refining it solely into a treasure.
• Lu Qingfeng and Daoist Bingyi slew most of the demon cultivators in the underground palace, took its treasures, and left the Green Conch Devil Palace in ruins.
• Lu Qingfeng and Daoist Bingyi arrived at Myriad Beasts Immortal Mountain’s Xiling Gorge, where Lu Qingfeng examined the Military Tome Stone and Treasure Sword Stone.
• Daoist Bingyi told Lu Qingfeng that the stones contained the true intent of battle formations and slaughter and the Thousand Mechanisms Sword Dao, and Lu Qingfeng chose to meet Daoist Guyue first.

Lu Qingfeng entered secluded cultivation in Military Tome and Treasure Sword Gorge and used the Snow-Soul Pearl to strengthen himself through the Shebi Shi Demon God. Meanwhile, Ancestor Guyue urged Daoist Bingyi to consider a perilous Buddhist method, and three months later a chilling presence entered the gorge.

• Lu Qingfeng browsed the Repository of Techniques, selected methods connected to the gorge and the Snow-Soul Pearl, then began cultivating in Military Tome and Treasure Sword Gorge.
• Ancestor Guyue and Daoist Bingyi discussed Lu Qingfeng’s value to the sect and agreed that his unknown origins meant he could not be trusted with its core.
• Ancestor Guyue revealed that he planned to ascend within five hundred years and suggested Daoist Bingyi seek Master Zhenhui’s help to obtain a dangerous Buddhist life-transformation method.
• Daoist Bingyi left without deciding whether to accept the method, while Ancestor Guyue promised to compensate Lu Qingfeng for his role in killing the Green Conch Eight Demons.
• Lu Qingfeng chose to refine the Snow-Soul Pearl with the Shebi Shi Demon God rather than use it to advance the Dutian Dark Nether Strategies.
• Three months later, a profound, bone-chilling aura followed the Chengyang River into the gorge.

Lu Qingfeng traded the Snow-Soul Pearl to Mysterious Venerable for nineteen treasure peaks, then received the White Geng Ring from Daoist Bingyi as compensation for defeating the Green Conch Eight Demons. After learning about the Heaven Stele Secret Realm and its dangerous inscriptions, Lu Qingfeng entered it to cultivate.

• Lu Qingfeng met the Cold Jade Black Tortoise, known as Mysterious Venerable, who offered his treasures for the Snow-Soul Pearl.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Mysterious Venerable the Snow-Soul Pearl and collected the nineteen treasure peaks in exchange.
• Daoist Bingyi praised Lu Qingfeng and explained that he would seek Master Zhenhui's help at Six Dust Temple.
• Daoist Bingyi placed the White Geng Ring in Lu Qingfeng's care for a hundred years, granting him access to the Heaven Stele Secret Realm.
• Daoist Bingyi described the secret realm's sixty-four Heaven Steles and warned Lu Qingfeng against forcing himself to comprehend them.
• Lu Qingfeng activated the White Geng Ring and entered the Heaven Stele Secret Realm.

Lu Qingfeng entered White Geng Dark Star to cultivate under its crushing gravity and White Geng Sword Qi while studying the Constellation Steles. After thirty years passed, he had been strengthening his body and True Essence, and he had decided to seek wealth through the Great Five Ghosts Transportation Method.

• Lu Qingfeng tried to comprehend the sixty-four Constellation Steles but found their mysteries moved too quickly for his current insight, so he planned to improve his grasp of Ancient Eroded Script.
• Lu Qingfeng entered White Geng Dark Star and struggled to stand under its immense gravity before adapting through the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method.
• Lu Qingfeng endured White Geng Sword Qi alongside the gravity, tempering his physical body and True Essence as he cultivated.
• Lu Qingfeng drew spiritual qi from the White Geng Ring and estimated its Spirit Stones would fund only two years of cultivation, while his treasure mountains could last twenty or thirty years.
• Lu Qingfeng suspected Ancestor Guyue had arranged for him to obtain the White Geng Ring and decided to seek wealth through the Great Five Ghosts Transportation Method.
• Lu Qingfeng cultivated and occasionally watched the constellations as thirty years passed.

Xun Tiange used the Taiyin Soul-Seeking Art and the Heaven-Observing Treasure Mirror to locate the Yellow-Robed Monster, revealing that several seemingly separate figures were incarnations of Evergreen. Azurewood Valley’s elders set out to pursue two of the revealed manifestations, while Xun Tiange sent a message beyond the heavens.

• Xun Tiange announced that he had mastered the Taiyin Soul-Seeking Art and prepared to search for the missing Azurewood King Cauldron and Yellow-Robed Monster.
• Xun Tiange’s first attempt failed until he detonated immortal essence within the Heaven-Observing Treasure Mirror and called the Yellow-Robed Monster again.
• The mirror revealed a Daoist refining artifacts on an East Sea immortal mountain and another Daoist, Evergreen, in an ancient wilderness; both answered the call at the same time.
• Volcano Child and Feng Han departed for the East Sea, while Yue Zhong and Granny Miaoyi set out toward Xiling Gorge to intercept the wilderness Daoist.
• Xun Bai and the others concluded that the Yellow-Robed Old Monster, Evergreen, and Rogue Person Blazing Fire were likely manifestations of the same person.
• Xun Tiange formed a seal and sent a ray of mystic light beyond the heavens.