Chapter Summaries

The three dragon ancestors suspected Lu Qingfeng had stolen their treasures, but they could not locate him. When Great Sage Spirit Communion launched a surprise attack, Ao Jun used the Wind-Fire Bracelet to block him, and the chapter ended with Spirit Communion deciding to seize the artifact.

• Ancestor of the West Sea, Ancestor of the Sorrow River, and East Sea Ancestor discussed Lu Qingfeng’s suspected role in the theft of their treasures and their inability to find him.
• The ancestors sensed Great Sage Spirit Communion approaching and watched as he descended toward the depths of the earth to attack.
• Ao Jun spotted Spirit Communion and unleashed the Wind-Fire Bracelet, trapping the Earth Immortal in raging astral wind and demon-burning fire.
• Great Sage Spirit Communion countered with a Surging-Water Beast, but Ao Jun’s Wind-Fire Bracelet held him at a standstill and stunned the watching True Immortals.
• Spirit Communion realized the bracelet belonged to Ancestor of the Sorrow River and vowed to take it from Ao Jun.

Lu Qingfeng seized Great Sage Spirit Communion’s Red Desire Bag with Five-Colored Divine Light, leaving Ao Jun to battle Spirit Communion with the Wind-Fire Bracelet. Patriarch Golden Light then intervened, but Zhang Shu blocked his thunder attack with the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler and kept him occupied with the Five-Thunder Grand Method.

• Great Sage Spirit Communion unleashed the Red Desire Bag’s six-desire mist against Ao Jun, while Zhang Shu prepared to support him.
• Lu Qingfeng swept up the Red Desire Bag with Five-Colored Divine Light and returned to the Blood Sea, ignoring Spirit Communion’s demand to give it back.
• Ao Jun used the Wind-Fire Bracelet to block Spirit Communion, while the three palace dragon ancestors watched and discussed the stolen treasures.
• Patriarch Golden Light arrived and attacked with a thunder-filled palm, claiming he had to intervene for the sake of Ancient Sorrow’s living beings.
• Zhang Shu used the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler to isolate and suppress the thunder, then fought Patriarch Golden Light with the Prison-Warding Five-Thunder Heart Scripture.

Mysterious Thunder True Immortal defended the underground immortal artifact and wounded Clearwind Demon Daoist with the Golden Light Sword, but Great Sage Battle arrived and crushed him beneath a powerful stomp. Mysterious Thunder recovered and launched a Thunder Sword Prison against Great Sage Battle, whose next attack shattered the formation.

• A greedy elder approached the underground site, but Mysterious Thunder True Immortal struck him with the Golden Light Sword, forcing Clearwind Demon Daoist to flee badly wounded.
• Mysterious Thunder True Immortal appeared with the Golden Light Sword, and the watching True Immortals recognized him as Guangyuan Divine Lord's ally.
• Great Sage Battle hurled a spear toward the Blood Sea, but Mysterious Thunder True Immortal intercepted it with the Golden Light Sword.
• Great Sage Battle stomped Mysterious Thunder True Immortal into the earth, leaving him severely injured before he emerged again.
• Mysterious Thunder True Immortal enveloped Great Sage Battle in a Thunder Sword Prison, but Great Sage Battle stomped down and shattered it.

Lu Qingfeng revealed that he wielded Karmic Fire, burning Great Sage Battle’s finger and making the Earth Immortals wary of him. He refused to abandon the Dragon Transformation Pool, which concerned his wife’s life, and asked Patriarch Yiyuan to protect it until she achieved True Immortal status.

• Great Sage Battle defeated Mysterious Thunder True Immortal, but the East Sea Ancestor intervened and rescued him; Mysterious Thunder True Immortal returned the Golden Light Sword to the Ancestor of the West Sea.
• Great Sage Battle struck toward Guangyuan Divine Lord in the Blood Sea while Great Sage Spirit Communion and Patriarch Golden Light restrained Ao Jun and Zhang Shu.
• Guangyuan Divine Lord countered Great Sage Battle’s finger with Karmic Fire, burning and wounding the Earth Immortal’s hand.
• The Earth Immortals recognized the danger posed by Guangyuan Divine Lord’s Karmic Fire, while Great Sage Spirit Communion became more cautious.
• Patriarch Yiyuan warned Guangyuan Divine Lord that the Dragon Transformation Pool would attract demons and devils, but Guangyuan asked him to protect the ritual until his wife became a True Immortal.

Patriarch Yiyuan and Patriarch Golden Light led an assault on Lu Qingfeng to stop the Dragon Transformation Pool from merging, while Lu Qingfeng’s Karmic Fire and artifact-seizing power held them off. The Three Dragon Ancestors intervened as the Karmic Fire began to fail, and the East Sea Ancestor trapped Bai Changqing and Situ Zhan with the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler.

• Patriarch Yiyuan asked the Three Dragon Ancestors for Gui Water Mystic Essence, but they denied having any and the Ancestor of the Sorrow River took offense at his suspicion.
• Patriarch Yiyuan and Great Sage Battle attacked Lu Qingfeng’s Karmic Fire, but Lu Qingfeng seized Great Sage Battle’s Eight-Treasure Tortoise-Shell Dragon-Carrying Spear with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Patriarch Golden Light joined the assault, and Bai Changqing and Situ Zhan arrived to help break the Karmic Fire without using artifacts.
• Lu Qingfeng warned the Three Dragon Ancestors that the Dragon Transformation Pool was about to finish merging, so the Ancestor of the Sorrow River blocked Great Sage Battle while the two sides clashed.
• The East Sea Ancestor reclaimed the Nine-Heavens White Jade Ruler from Zhang Shu and used it to trap Bai Changqing and Situ Zhan.

Lu Qingfeng used his Blood-Sea Doppelganger to hold off Battle King and Patriarch Golden Light long enough for the three fused dragon treasures to become the spirit treasure called the Dragon Transformation Pool. As the Ancestor of the West Sea and Great Sage Spirit Communion raced to seize it, the contest for the treasure began.

• Lu Qingfeng stole Patriarch Yiyuan’s sword with Five-Colored Divine Light, weakening him and allowing the Ancestor of the West Sea to suppress him.
• Battle King arrived, forced the Ancestor of the Sorrow River back, shattered the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and ordered Patriarch Golden Light to capture Guangyuan.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned his Blood-Sea Doppelganger and twelve Ironback Centipedes to block Patriarch Golden Light and battle Battle King.
• The three immortal artifacts fused into the Dragon Transformation Pool, which the Earth Immortals recognized as a spirit treasure.
• The Ancestor of the West Sea reached for the Dragon Transformation Pool, but Great Sage Spirit Communion used the Soul-Drinking Technique to stop him and tried to take the treasure himself.

Lu Qingfeng used Karmic Fire to deter the gathered Earth Immortals from taking the Dragon Transformation Pool, securing ten years for Ao Le to cultivate inside it and reach True Immortality. When she failed to break through, he visited her within the treasure and prepared to rely on his remaining method to help her.

• The Dragon Ancestors, the Northern Yin and Northern Yang Great Sages, and other Earth Immortals fought over the Dragon Transformation Pool until Battle King overwhelmed them, but Lu Qingfeng burned him with Karmic Fire.
• Lu Qingfeng asked the Earth Immortals to wait ten years while Ao Le cultivated, and they agreed to hold back rather than risk facing his Karmic Fire.
• Great Sage Spirit Communion recovered his Red Desire Bag from Lu Qingfeng, while the other gathered factions settled into watchful waiting.
• After ten years passed, Lu Qingfeng entered the Dragon Transformation Pool and found Ao Le had advanced to the Integrated Body Peak Stage but had not become a True Immortal.
• Ao Le cheerfully accepted her failure and asked Lu Qingfeng to travel with her, while he agreed and kept his final method in reserve.

Lu Qingfeng gave up the Dragon Transformation Pool and spent a year traveling with Ao Le as her lifespan neared its end. To save her from becoming a deity amid the approaching great calamity, he proposed a dangerous Buddhist method that could take her beyond True Immortality.

• Lu Qingfeng sent the Dragon Transformation Pool into the void, then left with Ao Le while the Earth Immortals fought over it.
• The three Dragon Ancestors seized the pool, and the Three Dragon Palaces became targets as Ancient Sorrow Continent fell into turmoil.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le traveled together, and Ao Le's cultivation advanced as she let go of her worries, but she still failed to attain True Immortality before her lifespan ended.
• Fearing the great calamity would endanger Ao Le if she entered the Divine Path, Lu Qingfeng explained the perilous Buddhist Little Turning Wheel Three Vehicles Wondrous Aspect Transformation Miaofa to her.
• When Ao Le asked whether the method could let her attain True Immortality in days, Lu Qingfeng said it could grant more than True Immortality.

Lu Qingfeng used the Lesser Turning Wheel Three Vehicles Wondrous Aspect Transformation Dharma to guide Ao Le through nine reincarnations and advance her toward Earth Immortality. On the ninth day, as Ao Le approached Mahayana Dao Inquiry, Battle King, Patriarch Yiyuan, and Patriarch Golden Light watched from above in shock.

• Lu Qingfeng began the reincarnation ritual, and Ao Le entered the golden wheel’s birth compartment, forgetting her former life.
• Across her first reincarnation, Ao Le endured poverty, loss, slavery, and war while remaining kind and steadfast, and her Primordial Spirit advanced to True Immortality.
• Lu Qingfeng placed Ao Le’s body in a replica Dragon Transformation Pool and spent vast resources to strengthen it alongside her growing Primordial Spirit.
• Heavenly phenomena and successive tribulations appeared over the Blood Sea as Ao Le’s cultivation advanced through the following days.
• On the ninth day, Battle King, Patriarch Yiyuan, and Patriarch Golden Light observed Ao Le nearing Mahayana Dao Inquiry, and Patriarch Golden Light questioned how Lu Qingfeng’s method had advanced her so quickly.

Lu Qingfeng continued casting the reincarnation method to help Ao Le attain Earth Immortalhood, but three Earth Immortals tried to stop him. He unleashed a deadly curse that bound all three, leaving him free to protect Ao Le as the ninth day passed.

• Battle King used the Impermanence Banner to send Black and White Impermanence after Lu Qingfeng, but Lu Qingfeng sensed them and destroyed them with Golden Blade Soul Slaughter.
• Battle King ordered Patriarch Yiyuan and Patriarch Golden Light to attack; Lu Qingfeng sent his Blood-Sea Doppelganger and twelve Ironback Centipedes to hold them back.
• Lu Qingfeng sacrificed heartblood and lifespan to cast a curse, binding Battle King's soul and forcing him to stop.
• Patriarch Yiyuan and Patriarch Golden Light joined the attack, but Lu Qingfeng's curse ensnared their souls and Dao Fruits, forcing them to focus on resisting it.
• With the three Earth Immortals incapacitated and no other powerful figures able to intervene, Lu Qingfeng continued protecting Ao Le, and the ninth day passed with her unharmed.

Ao Le completed her Earth Immortal tribulation, but Lu Qingfeng died after taking the backlash from her ascension and killing three Earth Immortals. She waited at Mount Fulong for his promised return, while the chapter showed her saving Qin Yun and Yi Xiao and later receiving visits from their children.

• Lu Qingfeng awakened Ao Le from her ninth life, and she returned to her body and attained an Earth Immortal Dao Fruit and an imperishable body.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed that his lifespan had run out, then used his curse to kill Battle King, Patriarch Yiyuan, and Patriarch Golden Light; he died as Ao Le watched.
• Ao Le searched for Lu Qingfeng across the Blood Sea and Mount Yu, but found no trace of him and eventually settled at Mount Fulong to await his promised return.
• Yi Xiao brought the dying Qin Yun to Mount Fulong and begged the Fulong Holy Mother for help; Ao Le healed them after Yi Xiao’s sincere nine-day pilgrimage.
• Sixteen thousand years later, Lu Xiao and Lu Yao visited Ao Le after reaching the Primordial Spirit Integration Realm, but she remained at Mount Fulong, certain Lu Qingfeng would return.

Venerable Yinjietuo and Venerable Nujuluo arrived at Yellow Wind Ridge to confront Azure Fox Great Sage over the stolen Mountain-Splitting Pearl and Pure Law Bamboo. They discovered the bamboo had become a Mahayana True Immortal, leaving the monks astonished as it achieved immortality.

• The chapter described the Earth Immortal Realm and introduced Yellow Wind Ridge, ruled by Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage.
• Venerable Yinjietuo and Venerable Nujuluo entered Yellow Wind Ridge to reclaim the Pure Law Bamboo and address Azure Fox Great Sage's theft of the Mountain-Splitting Pearl.
• Patrol Wind boasted to Venerable Yinjietuo about Azure Fox Great Sage's defeat of the Eighteen Arhats and the theft of the Mountain-Splitting Pearl.
• Patrol Wind recognized the monks and rushed into the mountain to warn the demons that monks from the Western Heaven had arrived.
• Wondrous signs appeared over Yellow Wind Ridge, and Venerable Yinjietuo first believed a blessed child was becoming an immortal.
• Venerable Nujuluo recognized the ascending Green Bamboo as the stolen Pure Law Bamboo, which had attained the Mahayana True Immortal realm.

After sixteen thousand years as a Pure Law Bamboo, Lu Qingfeng transformed into a True Immortal on Yellow Wind Ridge and became its third king, Pure Great Sage. He remained determined to find a way back to Ao Le in the Immortal Qin Realm, while two Buddhist monks arrived to interrupt the brothers’ celebration.

• Lu Qingfeng transformed from the Pure Law Bamboo into a five- or six-year-old child after being reincarnated in the Earth Immortal Realm and cultivating for sixteen thousand years.
• Lu Qingfeng recalled how Meditating Arhat had cared for him before Azure Fox Great Sage stole him away to Yellow Wind Ridge, and he worried that Ao Le was still waiting for him in the Immortal Qin Realm.
• Azure Fox Great Sage tried to choose Lu Qingfeng a name, but Lu Qingfeng chose Pure, and Great Sage Huangfeng named him the third king of Yellow Wind Ridge, Pure Great Sage.
• Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage prepared to celebrate Lu Qingfeng’s transformation, but Azure Fox Great Sage warned that two Buddhist monks had come to the mountain.

Cloth-Bag Arhat and Meditating Arhat confronted the Great Sages of Yellow Wind Ridge over Azure Fox Great Sage and Lu Qingfeng, but Great Sage Huangfeng drove them away with his Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind. Lu Qingfeng remained at Yellow Wind Ridge, leaving open the possibility of seeking Meditating Arhat later.

• Cloth-Bag Arhat and Meditating Arhat entered Yellow Wind Ridge and recognized the Pure Law Bamboo in Lu Qingfeng’s childlike form.
• Azure Fox Great Sage resisted Cloth-Bag Arhat’s Qiankun Sack with the Mountain-Splitting Earth-Rending Method, but Cloth-Bag Arhat reclaimed the Mountain-Splitting Pearl and nearly captured him.
• Great Sage Huangfeng steadied Azure Fox Great Sage and asked the Arhats to let the matter go, while Meditating Arhat used a spell to summon Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng broke free of Meditating Arhat’s spell through the Pure Law Bamboo and decided to remain at Yellow Wind Ridge while searching for the Immortal Qin Realm.
• Great Sage Huangfeng unleashed the Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind, which swept Cloth-Bag Arhat and Meditating Arhat more than thirty thousand li beyond Yellow Wind Ridge.

Lu Qingfeng settled into life as Yellow Wind Ridge’s third king while seeking a way to find the Immortal Qin Realm and reunite with Ao Le. More than six hundred years later, Zhu Yang visited him in the Three Mountains and Nine Rivers to announce his imminent ascension and warn him about dangers in the upper realm.

• Cloth-Bag Arhat and Meditating Arhat abandoned their attempt to seize Pure Law Bamboo after Yellow Wind Great Sage’s Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind blew them away, and they departed with the Mountain-Splitting Pearl.
• Yellow Wind Great Sage celebrated Lu Qingfeng’s attainment of the Dao with a drunken feast, and Lu Qingfeng woke ten days later thinking of Ao Le and the difficulty of finding the exiled Immortal Qin Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng resolved to cultivate and build connections, then established himself as Pure Great Sage, gathered three thousand demons, and trained and equipped his forces on Yellow Wind Ridge.
• More than six hundred and sixty years after Azurewood Valley’s destruction, Zhu Yang visited Lu Qingfeng at End Mountain and said he had recovered, defeated Old Mother of Mount Gui, and planned to ascend to the upper realm.
• Zhu Yang warned Lu Qingfeng that Azurewood Valley had considerable influence in the upper realm and that he should be wary of it and Six Dust Temple.

Lu Qingfeng explained that he would remain in Three Mountains and Nine Rivers for two or three thousand years to strengthen himself before ascending, while he planned to find an open backer for Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu. Meanwhile, Lu Qingyu discovered a mysterious sword inheritance on Thunder Duke Mountain and began comprehending it in seclusion.

• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu that the Upper Realm was dangerous because he had offended Azurewood Valley and Six Dust Temple, so he would cultivate in Three Mountains and Nine Rivers before ascending.
• Lu Qingfeng reviewed how he had grown powerful, established the End Mountain Du Tian Lineage, gathered wealth and resources, and selected three ancient inheritances for his siblings.
• Lu Qingyu pursued a cat demon into a mist-shrouded forest, used the Grand Luo Insight to overcome its maze formation, and killed the demon.
• Lu Qingyu discovered a blue stone stele on Thunder Duke Mountain depicting a monkey's sword path amid thunder and lightning.
• Lu Qingyu began cultivating in seclusion on Thunder Duke Mountain, intending to share the inheritance with Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingshan after gaining insight.

Lu Qingfeng arranged for Qingyu and Qingshan to inherit legacies from ancient sword immortals, then entered Lu Mountain to challenge the Celestial Star Sect’s Twelve Formation Mountains. Three years later, his rapid ascent into the ranking shocked the sect’s Grandmaster Muyang and Wu Jiu.

• Lu Qingfeng watched Qingyu claim the Thunder Duke Sword Venerable’s legacy and Qingshan obtain Sword Venerable Muye’s legacy, preparing both to gain powerful protectors after ascending.
• Lu Qingfeng traveled to Lu Mountain in the Arctic Snow Domain and used his Celestial Star Token to begin the Twelve Formation Mountains trial.
• Three years later, Grandmaster Muyang noticed Lu Qingfeng’s name racing up the Twelve Formation Mountains Ranking and checked his record of clearing eighteen levels in 1,065 days.
• Grandmaster Muyang and Wu Jiu watched Lu Qingfeng break into the top ten, pass the nineteenth level, and reach sixth place on the ranking.

Lu Qingfeng reached the summit of Lu Mountain’s Formation Mountain, where Patriarch Qin Feng recognized him and bestowed nine powerful swords, apparently intending to take him as a disciple. He later returned to the Mystic Origin Sect for Wen Zhong’s funeral and saw how time and death had changed the people and sect he once knew.

• Lu Qingfeng broke, comprehended, and set formations until he passed all twenty-seven levels of Lu Mountain, setting an unprecedented record.
• Patriarch Qin Feng contacted Lu Qingfeng from One-Line Heaven-Piercing Gorge, invited him to visit after ascending to the Spirit Domain, and bestowed the Nine-Palace Divine Swords.
• Lu Qingfeng accepted the swords, considered Qin Feng a likely future patron, and left Lu Mountain for the Mystic Origin Realm.
• Eight hundred years after Lu Qingfeng first entered the Mystic Origin Sect, he returned to attend Martial Uncle Wen Zhong’s funeral.
• Lu Qingfeng remembered the sect members who had died before Wen Zhong and observed that more of his old companions were nearing death while the sect had changed greatly.

Lu Qingfeng reunited with Yue Miaoyin, now an aged Spirit Void cultivator nearing the end of her life, and listened as she reminisced about their past and lamented her lack of progress. He then placed a finger between her brows and began imparting profound mysteries, leaving her immersed in an unexpected opportunity.

• Lu Qingfeng recognized Yue Miaoyin at the Ascension Grand Ceremony and followed her to Shangyang Mountain.
• Zhou Ming asked Yue Miaoyin to let Han Shuang establish a cave dwelling on Shangyang Mountain, but withdrew after realizing she would rather leave than share her quiet home.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed himself to Yue Miaoyin, and they reunited in her cave dwelling.
• Yue Miaoyin reminisced about Shangyang Country, Weeping Marsh, and Qingshan and Qingyu, then confessed her resentment over her stagnant cultivation and approaching death.
• Lu Qingfeng told Yue Miaoyin to steady her mind and pointed between her brows, causing profound mysteries to arise in her mind.

Lu Qingfeng openly returned to the Mystic Origin Sect after helping Yue Miaoyin survive the forty-nine heavenly tribulation and advance to core formation. He revisited Flying Cloud Island and reunited with the aged Little Nine, whom he intended to help advance in cultivation.

• Zhou Ming and Silver Frost Peak’s True Persons sensed Yue Miaoyin’s forty-nine heavenly tribulation and gathered outside Shangyang Mountain.
• Yue Miaoyin survived the tribulation and became Silver Frost Peak’s sixth True Person, while Lu Qingfeng appeared and greeted Nalan Xun and the others.
• Lu Qingfeng’s return stirred the Mystic Origin Sect, whose chiefs and hall masters gathered to welcome him.
• Lu Qingfeng went to Flying Cloud Island and found the nine aged Skylark Birds waiting there to welcome their master.
• Lu Qingfeng helped the Little Nine rise and invited them into his cave abode.