Chapter Summaries

Zhu Yang, Lu Qingfeng, and Golden Eyes Demon King traveled to Mount Gui to obtain the Cold Marrow and confront Old Mother of Mount Gui. They entered the mountain’s underground passages, where they began navigating her traps and poisonous water mist.

• Zhu Yang explained Old Mother of Mount Gui’s power, the Yuan Gui Divine Sword, and the dangers of Mount Gui to Lu Qingfeng and Golden Eyes Demon King.
• Lu Qingfeng considered searching the world for rare treasures, while Zhu Yang privately worried about his declining lifespan and sought the Cold Marrow.
• After more than two months, the three reached the North Sea, and Zhu Yang described Mount Gui’s hidden entrances, forbidden formation, and underground defenses.
• Several days later, Lu Qingfeng, Zhu Yang, and Golden Eyes Demon King landed on Mount Gui and discovered that flight and earth escape were forbidden there.
• Zhu Yang revealed the dry-well entrance, and Golden Eyes Demon King led the group into the winding passages as they encountered Old Mother of Mount Gui’s icy poisonous mist.

Lu Qingfeng, Zhu Yang, and Golden Eyes Demon King reached Old Mother of Mount Gui’s Water Palace, where Zhu Yang defeated her Profound Yin Beauty Serpent. Old Mother of Mount Gui attacked with the Yuan Gui Divine Sword, but Lu Qingfeng seized both it and her Water-Mother Profound Yin Mirror, leaving her outmatched.

• Lu Qingfeng, Zhu Yang, and Golden Eyes Demon King reached a ledge above the bottomless ravine where Old Mother of Mount Gui’s Water Palace lay.
• Zhu Yang struck the Profound Yin Beauty Serpent with his Bloodflame Blade, and Old Mother of Mount Gui froze and shattered the wounded serpent before taking its inner core.
• Golden Eyes Demon King and Zhu Yang attacked Old Mother of Mount Gui, but she used the Yuan Gui Divine Sword’s cold light to halt them and slow the Bloodflame Blade.
• Lu Qingfeng swept the Yuan Gui Divine Sword from Old Mother of Mount Gui’s hand with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Old Mother of Mount Gui tried to freeze Lu Qingfeng with the Water-Mother Profound Yin Mirror, but he swept that treasure away too.

Lu Qingfeng, Zhu Yang, and the Golden Eyes Demon King secured two drops of Cold Marrow from Old Mother of Mount Gui and returned to End Mountain to refine the Rejuvenating True Water. Meanwhile, Xun Tiange secretly captured Lu Qingfeng’s true form with the God-Burning Tome, and Azurewood Valley began searching for his whereabouts before activating it.

• Old Mother of Mount Gui traded two drops of Cold Marrow for the return of the Water-Mother Profound Yin Mirror, while Lu Qingfeng kept the Yuan Gui Divine Sword.
• Zhu Yang and the Golden Eyes Demon King persuaded Lu Qingfeng to leave Old Mother of Mount Gui alive, and the three traveled toward End Mountain to refine the Rejuvenating True Water.
• Old Mother of Mount Gui vowed revenge after the three departed Mount Gui.
• Xun Tiange visited End Mountain, secretly captured Lu Qingfeng’s true form with the God-Burning Tome, and persuaded Lu Qingfeng to give Azurewood Valley five years to deliver a hundred Immortal Crystals.
• Granny Miaoyi convinced Xun Tiange and the others to delay activating the God-Burning Tome until they could locate Lu Qingfeng’s true body and reclaim Azurewood Valley’s treasures.

Xun Tiange and Azurewood Valley tried to kill Lu Qingfeng with the God-Burning Tome, but Lu Qingfeng severed its connection to him and caused the curse to rebound. Xun Bai, Kuang Tianqi, and Xi Yunzi died, while Xun Tiange’s attempt to escape through self-destruction ended with a mysterious hand rescuing his Primordial Spirit.

• After learning that Ghost Immortal Zhu Yang and the Golden Eyes Demon King had left End Mountain, Xun Tiange began the God-Burning Tome ritual with Xi Yunzi, Kuang Tianqi, and Xun Bai.
• The God-Burning Tome’s flames rebounded onto the four Azurewood Valley cultivators, killing Xun Bai, Kuang Tianqi, and Xi Yunzi.
• Lu Qingfeng entered Star Palace and explained that he had used Invisibility Technique and Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall to sever the curse’s connection to himself.
• Xun Tiange suppressed the curse with the Jade-Cloud Screen, then detonated the artifact and shattered his Primordial Spirit as Lu Qingfeng sheltered inside the Azurewood King Cauldron.
• A large hand reached from the void, extinguished the flames on Xun Tiange’s Primordial Spirit, and seized it.

Lu Qingfeng destroyed Azurewood Valley’s mortal-world lineage after its leaders’ curse backfired and killed them, then declared the sect’s disciples must disperse. Xun Zhenbei chose not to intervene, while news of Lu Qingfeng’s power made End Mountain forbidden to cultivators across Three Mountains and Nine Rivers.

• Lu Qingfeng announced that Xun Tiange, Xi Yunzi, Kuang Tianqi, and Xun Bai had died from a curse’s backlash, ordered Azurewood Valley’s disciples to disperse within three days, and killed Yue Zhong with the Azurewood King Cauldron.
• Xun Tiange explained the failed curse to Xun Zhenbei, who gave him a Golden Light Talisman and sent him into reincarnation rather than confronting Lu Qingfeng.
• Daoist Bingyi reported Azurewood Valley’s destruction to Ancestor Guyue, who ordered his disciples to avoid End Mountain and the East Sea.
• News of Lu Qingfeng’s actions spread across Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, and End Mountain became forbidden ground while the Demonic Daoist Du Tian became a taboo.

After five hundred years of peace and cultivation, Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le settled in Jimo Commandery and had dragon-phoenix twins, Lu Xiao and Lu Yao. Ao Jun visited them, and his aunt discovered that he loved Su Mu, a powerful marshal and Patriarch Yiyuan’s disciple.

• Lu Qingfeng spent centuries cultivating and comprehending the Constellation Steles after destroying Azurewood Valley.
• Ao Lie gave up his divine position and entered reincarnation, worrying Ao Le that they might never meet again.
• Ao Le asked her husband, the general serving as Jimo Commandery’s governor, to have children, and he agreed to have two.
• Ten years later, Ao Jun visited Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le and was teased while holding the infant twins, Lu Xiao and Lu Yao.
• Lu Qingfeng said the twins would eventually be sent to Ao Jun’s Heavenly Pivot Prefecture, prompting Ao Le to ask whether he had a woman he liked.
• Ao Jun admitted he loved Su Mu, Patriarch Yiyuan’s personal disciple and a marshal of the Heavenly Court.

Lu Qingfeng tried to hide the truth about his deteriorating body from Ao Le, but she recognized his aura in the life-extending pills and made him reveal his skeletal right arm. He explained that she could prolong her life by consuming his blood and flesh, while her cultivation had remained stalled for nearly twenty thousand years.

• After Ao Jun left Jimo City, Ao Le teased Lu Qingfeng about Ao Jun falling for Su Mu, who had long challenged Lu Qingfeng's Luofuzi incarnation.
• Ao Le asked Lu Qingfeng to promise she would not die before him, and he offered her a Nine-Turn Life-Extending Spirit Pill.
• Ao Le refused the pill and confronted Lu Qingfeng, saying she had recognized his aura in previous pills and dreamed of his body turning to bone.
• Lu Qingfeng removed the concealment spell and showed Ao Le that his right arm had become a white skeleton.
• Lu Qingfeng said his blood and flesh could extend Ao Le's life, but he could not finish explaining after seeing her tears.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected that despite years of guidance and cultivation aids, Ao Le had remained stuck in the Primordial Spirit Integration Realm for nearly twenty thousand years.

With only 104 years left in their lifespans, Lu Qingfeng chose to pursue True Immortality rather than have Ao Le abandon the immortal path. He began breaking through from the Primordial Spirit Realm to the Mahayana Realm by following the path of thunder.

• Lu Qingfeng explained why he opposed Ao Le cultivating the Mortal-World Longevity Method or becoming a divine spirit, and Ao Le agreed not to take the Nine-Revolution Life-Prolonging Spirit Pill again.
• Lu Qingfeng used the spirit pill to restore some of the flesh Ao Le had eaten from his arm, then saw that only 104 years remained before their lifespans ended.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to seek the West Sea Dragon-Leaping Gate to help Ao Le break through the Primordial Spirit Integration Realm and chose to advance to True Immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng set aside his plan to master all twelve Du Tian Great Daos and selected thunder as his path to the Mahayana Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng swallowed three Immortal-Ascension Pills and began his breakthrough as his Primordial Spirit, flesh, and magical power transformed.

Lu Qingfeng advanced from the Primordial Spirit realm to become a Thunder True Immortal, using his vast accumulation to master thunder and transform his body and magic power. As his new cultivation drew immortal qi from the Nine Heavens, wisps of the aura began scattering around him.

• The Lord of the Min River and countless Primordial Spirit True Ones and True Immortals sensed the omen of a True Immortal and gathered to witness it.
• Lu Qingfeng chose the Thunder Dao as his path, drawing on his past-life accumulation and comprehending yin and yang, life and death, and the Five Thunder Orthodox Method.
• Lu Qingfeng’s thunder cultivation reached perfection, and he became a True Immortal with an Innate Dao Body; he demonstrated his mastery by wielding the Five Thunder.
• Several True Immortals emerged from the void, and one identified Lu Qingfeng as a Thunder True Immortal before extinguishing the thunder and flames threatening to spread.
• Lu Qingfeng’s magic power transformed as spiritual energy and immortal qi poured into him, refining the Immortal Crystal in his dantian; wisps of the newly arrived aura began to dissipate around him.

Lu Qingfeng completed his breakthrough and became a Mahayana True Immortal, then reunited with Ao Le and their children. When Zhang Ke arrived to congratulate him, Lu Qingfeng revealed that he and Ao Le were the Divine Lord of Censure and Divine Lord of Palace Clerks, and recalled Zhang Ke’s father, Zhang Shu.

• Lu Qingfeng sensed the celestial qi gathering around him, completed twelve days of mastering his new powers, and left seclusion as a True Immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng reunited with Ao Le, Lu Xiao, and Lu Yao, who called him Father while Lu Xiao playfully bit his chin.
• The Southern Kingdom’s ruler, the Min River Water Lord Zhang Ke, Daoist Yufeng, and General Beiye gathered outside Jimo City after the True Immortal phenomenon ended.
• Zhang Ke entered the Prefect’s residence after Lu Qingfeng summoned him, and congratulated Prefect Lu on attaining Mahayana.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le revealed their original identities as the Divine Lord of Censure and Divine Lord of Palace Clerks, and Zhang Ke knelt to pay his respects.
• Ao Le recalled that Zhang Ke’s father, Zhang Shu, had been Lu Qingfeng’s subordinate and had become a Mahayana True Immortal and first-rank marshal.

After leaving Jimo City, Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le settled in Celebration City to raise Lu Xiao and Lu Yao among mortals for eighteen years. As Lu Xiao considered his friend Zhang Kui’s journey to seek immortality, Lu Qingfeng sensed something to the west, and Lu Yao declared that she wanted her family to live together forever.

• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le avoided meeting Ao Zhong and the other immortals, then left with Lu Xiao and Lu Yao using the Great Five Ghosts Transportation Method.
• Lu Qingfeng explained that he and Ao Zhong had a longstanding grudge, while Ao Le teased him for revealing the five ghosts’ aura as they departed.
• The family settled in Celebration City, where Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le ran an apothecary and raised the children among mortals for eighteen years.
• Zhang Kui invited Lu Xiao to travel north to the Yangwater Immortal Mountain, but Lu Xiao refused and asked Lu Yao to prepare supplies for him.
• Lu Yao warned Lu Xiao against going with Zhang Kui and gave him salves and other provisions to take to his friend.
• Lu Yao told Lu Qingfeng that she believed Lu Xiao wanted to seek immortality, then said she wished the family could become immortal and stay together forever.

Lu Qingfeng revealed that he and Ao Le were immortals after removing a mind-confusing spell from Lu Xiao, who had been hurt by Zhou Yujing’s coldness and feared losing Zhang Kui to cultivation. The family flew to confront Zhou Yujing and Wang Chao of the Treasure Vase Sect, leaving Lu Xiao stunned and Lu Yao delighted to discover her parents outclassed them.

• Lu Xiao returned home dejected after Zhang Kui left and Zhou Yujing ignored him when he tried to greet her.
• Ao Le explained that Lu Xiao feared cultivation would estrange Zhang Kui from him as Zhou Yujing had become distant.
• Lu Qingfeng removed two streams of black qi from Lu Xiao and revealed that he was an immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng lifted Lu Xiao and Lu Yao into the air on clouds, while Ao Le flew to steady them and the people of Celebration City recognized the family.
• Wang Chao and Zhou Yujing came out to greet the powerful visitor, and Zhou Yujing was shocked to see Lu Xiao standing on the clouds.
• Lu Yao mocked Zhou Yujing’s sect after Ao Le assured her that few people were stronger than Lu Qingfeng.

Lu Qingfeng exposed and killed Treasure Vase True Person and his accomplices after discovering their role in abducting children for evil cultivation. He then warned Lu Xiao about recognizing evil, ordered Jing Kingdom’s gods to investigate wicked practitioners, and left with Lu Xiao and Lu Yao.

• Lu Yao challenged Zhou Yujing’s excuses, while Lu Qingfeng brought Treasure Vase True Person before Wang Chao and Zhou Yujing.
• Lu Qingfeng shattered Treasure Vase True Person’s jade vase, freed the twin children trapped inside, and killed the wicked Daoist.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed Zhou Yujing and Wang Chao plotting to abduct children, then killed them after they begged for mercy.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Xiao to keep kindness in his heart while learning to recognize and eliminate evil.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned Jing Kingdom’s City God and Nine Yang Mountain God, ordered them to report evildoers to the patrolling envoys, and departed with Lu Xiao and Lu Yao.

Lu Qingfeng took Lu Yao, Lu Xiao, and Zhang Kui to the Heavenly Pivot Prefecture, where they discovered that Ao Le and Lu Qingfeng were immortals and that Ao Jun was a powerful war god. They reunited with Ao Jun after he returned from defeating a vicious Flood Demon, and he invited Lu Xiao and Lu Yao to eat the captured dragon.

• Lu Yao cheered herself up in the clouds and reassured Lu Xiao that Lu Qingfeng had killed Zhou Yujing and the others to protect innocent people.
• Lu Xiao asked Lu Qingfeng to take Zhang Kui as a disciple, and Lu Qingfeng instead offered to have Ao Jun teach him.
• Ao Le and Lu Qingfeng revealed their true immortal appearances, and Zhang Kui was swept up to join the family in the clouds.
• More than fifty thousand years later, Lu Qingfeng brought Lu Le, Lu Xiao, and Zhang Kui to the Heavenly Pivot Prefecture and learned that Ao Jun had gone south to face a vicious Flood Demon.
• Ao Jun returned carrying the defeated Flood Demon, greeted Lu Xiao and Lu Yao, and ordered his generals to prepare the dragon for a meal.

Lu Qingfeng stole the West Sea’s Dragon-Leaping Gate to help Ao Le advance, but the Ancestor of the West Sea wounded him as he escaped. The Ancestor suspected the other Dragon Palaces had also been targeted and headed toward the East Sea.

• Lu Qingfeng decided to steal the Dragon-Leaping Gate, the Nine Dragons Seal, and the Dragon Transformation Pool so he could aid Ao Le or combine the three treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng infiltrated the West Sea Dragon Palace and swept the Dragon-Leaping Gate into his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• The Ancestor of the West Sea revealed his dragon form and struck Lu Qingfeng, who used the Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe to survive and fled into the Nine Heavens.
• The Ancestor of the West Sea failed to divine Lu Qingfeng’s identity and rushed toward the East Sea after suspecting the other Dragon Palaces had been targeted.
• The Ancestor of the West Sea encountered the Ancestor of the Sorrow River, who revealed that the Dragon Transformation Pool might also have been stolen.

Lu Qingfeng stole the East Sea Ancestor’s Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler, then seized the West Sea Golden Light Sword and the Sorrow River Wind-Fire Bracelet when the other ancestors attacked. He escaped to the South Sea with all three treasures by using the Dutian Demon God Blood-Transforming Flight Technique, badly injuring himself, and then headed toward the East Sinking Continent to help Ao Le.

• The Ancestor of the Sorrow River and the Ancestor of the West Sea attacked Lu Qingfeng as he faced the East Sea Ancestor’s Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Five-Colored Divine Light to take the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler, but the East Sea Ancestor’s palm strike delayed his escape.
• Lu Qingfeng swept up the Wind-Fire Bracelet and the Golden Light Sword with the Five-Colored Divine Light as the three Earth Immortals closed in.
• Lu Qingfeng sacrificed his heart’s blood and detonated his twelve Demon Gods to use the Dutian Demon God Blood-Transforming Flight Technique, vanishing from the East Sea.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived at the South Sea gravely wounded, reflected on the danger of facing Earth Immortals, and set out with the five ghosts toward the East Sinking Continent.

Fifty thousand years after East Sinking Continent joined the Sorrow River, Lu Qingfeng prepared to help Ao Le break through using the Dragon-Leaping Gate. He gave Ao Jun and Zhang Shu immortal artifacts to defend them if the Dragon Clan’s Earth Immortals came, and the chapter ended with Ao Le emerging from the Blood Sea after crossing the gate.

• Lu Qingfeng gave Ao Jun the Wind-Fire Bracelet and explained that he had taken treasures and immortal artifacts from the three Dragon Palaces, warning that their Earth Immortals might come after them.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned Zhang Shu and entrusted him with the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler, asking him to help protect Ao Le during her breakthrough.
• Ao Jun and Zhang Shu worried that they would not be able to hold off all three Earth Immortals, and a youth with a thunderbolt mark arrived as another potential ally.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Dragon-Leaping Gate to aid Ao Le’s cultivation while Ao Jun, Zhang Shu, and the youth secretly refined their immortal artifacts above the Blood Sea.
• After half a year, Ao Le’s true dragon form endured the gate’s deadly obstacles and crossed it, then emerged from the Blood Sea in human form.

Ao Le used the Dragon-Leaping Gate and broke through the first threshold of Primordial Spirit Fusion Stage, but she did not become a True Immortal. Lu Qingfeng revealed that he had stolen the Dragon Transformation Pool and Nine Dragons Seal as well, then traveled to Six Dust Temple and forced Master Zhenhui to teach him a powerful Buddhist art.

• Ao Le thanked Lu Qingfeng for bringing her the Dragon-Leaping Gate, but she lamented that it had not made her a True Immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed the Dragon Transformation Pool and told Ao Le he had also taken the Nine Dragons Seal, intending to fuse all three treasures to help her break through.
• Ao Le entered the Dragon Transformation Pool to recover while Lu Qingfeng turned his attention to the real world.
• Lu Qingfeng brought the captured Snow Mountain Ancestor to Master Zhenhui at Six Dust Temple, and Master Zhenhui agreed to confine her and guide her with sutras.
• Lu Qingfeng demanded the Buddhist Lesser Wheel, Three Vehicles, Wondrous Forms and Manifestation Method and threatened to slaughter everyone at Six Dust Temple if Master Zhenhui refused.
• Master Zhenhui recited the method, and Lu Qingfeng verified it before thanking him and departing.

Lu Qingfeng comprehended and enhanced a Buddhist reincarnation divine ability while Ao Le prepared to refine the Dragon Transformation Pool, Dragon-Leaping Gate, and Nine Dragons Seal into one treasure. As the artifacts merged and their aura drew powerful figures to East Sinking Continent, Lu Qingfeng’s plans faced a growing threat.

• Lu Qingfeng used Enlightenment to advance the Buddhist Minor Turning Wheel Three-Vehicle Wondrous Aspect Transformation Marvelous Method into a great divine ability capable of passing through nine lifetimes of reincarnation.
• After Ao Le reached her peak, Lu Qingfeng began merging the three dragon treasures, and Ao Le entered the radiance to refine them.
• Lu Qingfeng anticipated that the fusion’s immense aura would reveal their location and continued improving the divine ability as protection.
• Three dragon elders in the chaotic void learned that Guangyuan was in Chunshen Region and descended toward East Sinking Continent.
• The three dragon treasures fused, sending a pure yang aura across the region and attracting True Immortal Guangning.
• Ao Jun told True Immortal Guangning that Lu Qingfeng was refining the treasure, and Guangning reconsidered his desire to seize it.

Ao Jun defeated Blackfiend Old Devil and destroyed his Soul-Severing Sand while True Immortal Guangning watched. Golden Lotus Cult Master and Firecloud Old Mother arrived but held back when Zhang Shu appeared, and the gathered True Immortals waited as Divine Lord Guangyuan continued refining a treasure beneath the earth.

• True Immortal Guangning chose not to interfere with Ao Jun while Divine Lord Guangyuan refined a treasure.
• Ao Jun struck Blackfiend Old Devil with Soul-Severing Divine Radiance, destroyed his Soul-Severing Sand, and drove him away.
• Golden Lotus Cult Master and Firecloud Old Mother arrived and prepared to attack Ao Jun, but halted when Zhang Shu joined him.
• Ao Jun and Zhang Shu let the other True Immortals wait rather than spend their strength before the Earth Immortals arrived.
• True Immortals from East Sinking, East Submerging, and East Aspect Continents gathered and watched the aura below grow stronger over three days.