Chapter Summaries

After comprehending all sixty-four Constellation Steles, Lu Qingfeng claimed them in the Heaven Stele Secret Realm and overwhelmed the Primordial Spirit cultivators who tried to stop him. He left with the steles as the remaining cultivators withdrew, while the Heavenly Dragon Goddess and eleven others remained trapped in the Netherworld’s pull.

• Lu Qingfeng manifested all sixty-four Constellation Steles and sent his Five Elements Rings to them, then collected the forty steles that flew to him.
• Lu Qingfeng sent twelve Dutian Demon Gods to claim the other steles, prompting Xunyangzi and the Heavenly Dragon Goddess to challenge him.
• Lu Qingfeng struck the Heavenly Dragon Goddess with his bamboo staff, sending her Primordial Spirit toward the Netherworld, and took her Chaos Treasure Mirror, Goddess Sword, and Constellation Stele.
• Lu Qingfeng struck eleven more Primordial Spirit cultivators with the staff and took their steles, leaving them struggling against the Netherworld’s pull.
• Masters Zhenjue and Jianming left the secret realm, followed by the Celestial Star Sect cultivators and Daoist Bingyi; the other cultivators withdrew as well.
• Lu Qingfeng remained alone in the Heaven Stele Secret Realm with the Constellation Steles.

After defeating the Primordial Spirit experts, Lu Qingfeng claimed all sixty-four Constellation Steles and discovered they formed an Immortal Artifact tied to the Nine Universes Immortal. He resolved to keep a low profile and cultivate carefully, just as Wu Jiu arrived to visit him.

• Old Devil Du Tian knocked twelve Primordial Spirit cultivators into the Netherworld, while Wu Jiu, Grandmaster Muyang, and the remaining experts escaped.
• Grandmaster Muyang gave Wu Jiu information about Lu Qingfeng and sent him to Biyang Lake to invite him to Kongling Gorge.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the sixty-four Constellation Steles, fused them into the Star Stele of the Celestial Constellations, and comprehended the All-Heavens Constellations Method.
• Lu Qingfeng realized the Star Stele was one of three treasures connected to the Nine Universes Immortal and decided to hide his identity and cultivate diligently.
• Wu Jiu arrived at Flying Cloud Island and called out to Lu Qingfeng.

Violet Spirit Fairy and Xie Zongyuan contacted Lu Qingfeng as fellow successors of the Nine Universes Immortal, warning him that they would aid him while eyeing the Star Stele of the Celestial Constellations. Lu Qingfeng grew wary and strengthened his defenses, then, a hundred years later in the Primordial World, completed the Heaven Centipede Bamboo Staff.

• Violet Spirit Fairy offered Xun Zhenbei's life and an Immortal Artifact for the use of Lu Qingfeng's Star Stele, then promised to aid him if he faced danger.
• Xie Zongyuan visited Lu Qingfeng, introduced himself as his senior brother, and offered help without asking for the Star Stele.
• Lu Qingfeng suspected that Violet Spirit Fairy and Xie Zongyuan coveted the Star Stele and resolved to strengthen his curse defenses before ascending.
• After another hundred years in the game, Lu Qingfeng finished refining the Green Bamboo Staff with Pure Heavenly Fire, crimson lotus karmic fire, and twelve Ironback Centipedes.
• Lu Qingfeng tested the staff's immense power and identified it as the Heaven Centipede Bamboo Staff.

After a hundred years of refinement, Lu Qingfeng completed the first-grade Pure Bamboo Staff and celebrated with Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage. The brothers drank themselves unconscious before they could explain what else they had come to tell him.

• Lu Qingfeng finished refining the Pure Bamboo Staff from his true body and other rare materials, and his artifact-refinement profession advanced to the Immortal Grade.
• Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage congratulated Lu Qingfeng and encouraged him to keep cultivating toward Earth Immortality.
• Lu Qingfeng resolved to study Seven Birds Lesser Evolving Numerology while also planning to attract the Eight Ministries of the Heavenly Court by making a name for Green Bamboo Cave.
• The three brothers drank Lu Qingfeng's strong Green Bamboo Wine, which Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage praised.
• While drunk, Azure Fox Great Sage began mentioning the Jiazi Grand Year Star, Central Pox God, Northern Plague-Bringing Envoy, and Lone Star Lord, but Lu Qingfeng passed out before he learned what they had come to tell him.

Lu Qingfeng learned that the Five Directions Realm was recovering after Heaven’s Retribution Asura turned its inhabitants into a Blood Sea, creating a rare chance to prove the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit. After Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage taught him the essentials of advancing, Great Sage Huangfeng sent him into the realm.

• Azure Fox Great Sage explained that the Five Directions Realm had once flourished under several celestial lineages before Heaven’s Retribution Asura concealed it and slaughtered its inhabitants.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized that Mu Yuanyi had warned the immortals about the crisis, and learned that Heaven’s Retribution Asura had escaped after being driven from the realm.
• Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage said the Blood Sea kept outside immortals from entering, but Great Sage Huangfeng’s Threefold Samadhi Divine Wind could open a passage for Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng agreed to enter the Five Directions Realm to seize the opportunity to prove the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Great Sage Huangfeng and Azure Fox Great Sage spent nineteen days explaining how a True Immortal could advance to Earth Immortal.
• Great Sage Huangfeng opened a passage with his yellow wind and sent Lu Qingfeng into the Five Directions Realm.

Great Sage Huangfeng fought off several Heavenly Court gods and sent the injured Lu Qingfeng into the Five Directions Realm. Lu Qingfeng collapsed in the Bamboo Mountain Sea, where a young woman arrived seeking medicine and artifacts to save her master and protect her sect.

• Great Sage Huangfeng repelled Yang Wenhui’s Dispersing Pox Whip and Yu De’s Five Directions Cloud while forcing open the Blood Sea around the Five Directions Realm.
• Yu Hua ambushed Great Sage Huangfeng with the Blood-Transforming Saber, and Yang Ren’s Five-Fire Seven-Bird Fan drove Huangfeng to retreat after he sent Lu Qingfeng inside.
• Lu Qingfeng landed on a desolate island, recalled the gods’ attacks, and collapsed from his injuries after extinguishing the flames in his heart.
• A young woman entered the dangerous Bamboo Mountain Sea carrying a Green Bamboo Staff, hoping to find medicine for her master and artifacts to help the Cloud Mountain Sect.

Mu Chen entered the Bamboo Mountain Sea to find a spirit pill for her injured master, but the Green Bamboo Staff saved her from corruption and absorbed the pill she discovered. Its true owner, Lu Qingfeng, awakened after eighty-nine thousand years and gave her a new pill for her master before introducing himself as the Pure Great Sage.

• Mu Chen entered the Bamboo Mountain Sea and endured its Killing Intent for sixteen days, while the Green Bamboo Staff absorbed much of the danger and kept her from losing herself.
• The staff’s cool touch restored Mu Chen’s awareness, and she reached the ruined market on Yushan Island and found the Rain Mountain Pavilion.
• Mu Chen found a powerful spirit pill, but it dissolved into the Green Bamboo Staff, leaving her grieving and furious.
• Lu Qingfeng appeared, explained that the pill had healed his injuries, and offered Mu Chen an immortal pill for her master.
• When Mu Chen timidly asked who he was, Lu Qingfeng introduced himself as the Pure Great Sage.

Ding Yu recounted how he had escaped the demonic path and created the Astral Constellations Great Method, then announced that his Dao Path was ending and scattered his inheritance across the Five Continents and Five Seas. As he began to pass away, a Green Bamboo Staff whisked him away, and Zheng Chi arrived accusing others of harming his senior brother while claiming authority over the South Sea Alliance.

• Mu Chen received an Immortal Pill and a Green Bamboo Hairpin from a child, who sent him back near Cloud Mountain and told him to bow to the hairpin for answers to cultivation doubts.
• Ding Yu refused Fairy Yanlan's Glazed Immortal Peach and told his disciples that his wounds were injuries to the Great Dao that no medicine could heal.
• Ding Yu described his past, declared that the Blazing Sun Realm was not the end, and passed down the Three Stellar Methods before dissolving into streams of starlight.
• A Green Bamboo Staff appeared amid the gathered True Immortals and made Ding Yu and itself vanish, leaving Fairy Yanlan and the others unable to find him.
• Zheng Chi arrived with the Seven Immortal Venerables, ordered them to search for Ding Yu, and threatened anyone responsible while claiming that only the Azure Origin Sword Sect's sect master could lead the South Sea Alliance.

Lu Qingfeng sealed Ding Yu’s senses to preserve him after his lifespan ended, then fought an Oxhead Yin Deity who came to collect his soul. After recognizing Lu Qingfeng’s powerful connections, the deity gave Ding Yu a River-of-Forgetfulness Stone that would hide him from the Netherworld for three thousand years, and Lu Qingfeng led his sleeping disciple away.

• Lu Qingfeng used the Six Roots Purification Method to seal Ding Yu’s six senses and preserve his life while his injuries healed.
• An Oxhead Yin Deity attacked Lu Qingfeng for defying Ding Yu’s appointed death, and Lu Qingfeng wounded him with his bamboo staff and Karmic Fire.
• The Oxhead Yin Deity returned with Naihe River water that threatened to extinguish the Karmic Fire, so Lu Qingfeng surrendered his staff and revealed his connections to Great Sage Huangfeng and other powerful figures.
• After verifying Lu Qingfeng’s identity as the Pure Serenity Lad and Third King of Yellow Wind Ridge, the Oxhead Yin Deity returned the staff and gave him a River-of-Forgetfulness Stone for Ding Yu.
• Lu Qingfeng attached the stone to Ding Yu and walked with his unconscious disciple through the bamboo grove.

Lu Qingfeng returned to Bamboo Mountain Paradise and considered the paths to Earth Immortality before setting out to heal Ding Yu. As the South Sea Alliance searched in vain for Ding Yu, Fairy Yanlan began destroying the Immortal Farmer Sect’s Blessed Land in her grief, until Lu Qingfeng arrived and she recognized him as her teacher.

• Lu Qingfeng explained that a True Immortal could use an inherited Blessed Land to become an Earth Immortal, though he intended to create his own and first heal Ding Yu.
• Fairy Yanlan questioned Patriarch Bailuo, Daoist Xiyi, and Tianjizi, but their Heaven-Seeking Flying Ants, Dream Web, and deductions could not locate Ding Yu.
• Fairy Yanlan spent ten thousand years of her lifespan using the Herbal Spirit-Seeking Method, but failed to find Ding Yu.
• Believing Ding Yu dead, Fairy Yanlan began collapsing the Peach Blossom Miasma Blessed Land, risking the foundation of the Immortal Farmer Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived in the Peach Blossom Miasma with a barefoot child, and Fairy Yanlan recognized him as her teacher.

Lu Qingfeng told Fairy Yanlan that saving Ding Yu required an immortal pill and a breakthrough to the Earth Immortal realm, then sent her to gather the needed herbs and spirit veins. He began preparing to save Ding Yu by completing the Astral Constellations Great Method, using a dreamscape to study the technique.

• Lu Qingfeng explained that his layered Invert-Grand-Void Glazed Wall had hidden Ding Yu from Fairy Yanlan’s search and described how he had preserved Ding Yu’s life.
• Lu Qingfeng said Ding Yu needed an immortal pill and a rapid breakthrough to the Earth Immortal realm, and asked Fairy Yanlan to gather the herbs and at least eighteen supreme spirit veins within three thousand years.
• Fairy Yanlan agreed to search for the spirit veins and immortal herbs, then left the paradise to begin her task.
• Lu Qingfeng reduced his cultivation and created the Nine-Story Tower Dream-Building Method so he could complete and comprehend Ding Yu’s Astral Constellations Great Method before unsealing his senses.
• After a hundred years, Lu Qingfeng reached minor accomplishment in the dream-building method, entered a realistic dreamscape with Ding Yu, and drew out the Astral Constellations Great Method.

Lu Qingfeng strengthened Ding Yu’s self-created Astral Constellations Great Method and cultivated while protecting his disciple in a dreamscape. Meanwhile, Fairy Yanlan obtained the White Dragon Grass in Nether Yin Prefecture, but Immortal Venerable Ghostdark suspected she had a greater purpose.

• Lu Qingfeng strengthened Ding Yu’s Astral Constellations Great Method, completing its six stages and revealing that its final Heavenly Cycle stage could open a starry cosmic universe.
• Lu Qingfeng taught Ding Yu the strengthened method and maintained the Six Roots Purification Method and Nine-Story Tower Dream-Building Method while cultivating.
• Lu Qingfeng’s twelve Demon Gods gathered hundreds of spirit veins to enrich Bamboo Mountain Paradise and support his cultivation and the methods protecting Ding Yu.
• Fairy Yanlan entered Nether Yin Prefecture and seized the White Dragon Grass, but Immortal Venerable Ghostdark attacked her with the Myriad Ghosts Excavation technique.
• Fairy Yanlan escaped into vegetation after being wounded, while Immortal Venerable Ghostdark realized the White Dragon Grass might be connected to something in the South Sea.

Fairy Yanlan spent more than 2,500 years risking her life to gather immortal medicines so Lu Qingfeng could save Ding Yu. Lu Qingfeng successfully refined the Heaven-Mending Immortal Pill and immediately began refining the Azure Nether Immortal Pill, leaving Ding Yu’s chance to reach the Earth Immortal realm still uncertain.

• Fairy Yanlan stole the Locust Immortal Herb from the Locust Demon Sound Sea and continued entering deadly realms to gather immortal medicines.
• After more than 2,500 years, Fairy Yanlan brought Lu Qingfeng the Evernight Immortal Lingzhi, which he confirmed was the final primary ingredient for the Heaven-Mending Immortal Pill.
• Lu Qingfeng began refining the Heaven-Mending Immortal Pill while Fairy Yanlan watched anxiously and protected him.
• Over sixty years, Lu Qingfeng added the rare ingredients to the pill furnace and completed the Heaven-Mending Immortal Pill.
• Lu Qingfeng trapped the escaping immortal pill in a Pure Jade Bottle and began refining the Azure Nether Immortal Pill.

Lu Qingfeng completed two Immortal Pills and gave them to Ding Yu, then gathered spirit veins across the Five Directions Realm to help him break through. He arrived at Eight Gods Mountain and gave Shentu Jiu a Spirit-Nurturing Secret Art, while Ding Yu continued cultivating.

• Lu Qingfeng finished the Azure Nether Immortal Pill and gave both it and the Heaven-Mending Immortal Pill to Ding Yu, who began absorbing them.
• Lu Qingfeng took Ding Yu and Fairy Yanlan to Nether Yin Prefecture, where the Houtu Demon God extracted its top-grade spirit vein and Lu Qingfeng awakened it into a divine dragon for Ding Yu to cultivate upon.
• Lu Qingfeng traveled across the Five Directions Realm, extracting spirit veins from the Longevity Alliance’s seven Immortal Venerables and from sites held by the remnants of the Blood Sea.
• The Longevity Alliance’s seven Immortal Venerables and the three orthodox alliances watched Lu Qingfeng’s progress without confronting him.
• Lu Qingfeng brought twelve spirit-vein divine dragons to Eight Gods Mountain, where Shentu Jiu greeted him and recognized the Green Bamboo Staff.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Shentu Jiu a page containing the Spirit-Nurturing Secret Art and explained that it could nourish spirit veins.

Lu Qingfeng secured six supreme spirit veins from Shentu Jiu and used them with twelve others to help Ding Yu ascend while fighting off the Longevity Alliance. Ding Yu achieved the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit but sealed himself in a cocoon to recover, leaving Fairy Yanlan to wait thousands of years or longer for his awakening.

• Shentu Jiu agreed to lend six supreme spirit veins in exchange for the Spirit-Nurturing Secret Art, and Lu Qingfeng gathered them with the twelve spirit veins already surrounding Ding Yu.
• The Night Demon Immortal Venerable attacked, but Lu Qingfeng struck him into the Netherworld with the Pure Bamboo Staff.
• Lu Qingfeng exposed the Black Feather Immortal Venerable's curse attack and sent five Demon Gods to engage the remaining Longevity Alliance Immortal Venerables.
• Three days later, Ding Yu achieved the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit and sealed himself in a cocoon to recover from his depleted strength.
• Lu Qingfeng told Fairy Yanlan that Ding Yu would awaken in at least several thousand years and possibly several tens of thousands.

After thirty years of study, Lu Qingyu mastered the surface of the Mind Ape Sword and reunited with Lu Qingfeng at Yellow Ox Mountain. As they drank, he assessed her cultivation and explained the Nine Realms of Arts, leaving Qingyu eager to learn more about them.

• Lu Qingyu completed thirty years of training in the Mind Ape Sword at Thunder Duke Mountain and set out to tell Lu Qingfeng about her progress.
• At the Celestial Star Immortal Sect’s mountain gate, Lu Qingyu asked the guards to inform Yellow Ox Mountain that she had arrived.
• Lu Qingfeng welcomed Qingyu at Yellow Ox Mountain, and she told him how she found the Mind Ape Sword inheritance and demonstrated the sword art.
• Lu Qingfeng praised Qingyu’s progress, judged that she had reached the Body Fusion realm with the Vajra Spell, and explained the Nine Realms of Arts.
• Qingyu asked about the ninth realm, and Lu Qingfeng explained that Attainment of the Dao meant mastering the Great Dao and becoming an Earth Immortal.

Lu Qingfeng returned to the Celestial Star Sect and helped Lu Qingyu improve her Mind Ape Sword while Old Mother of Mount Gui secretly recovered in an abyss beneath the North Sea. After she revealed her Yuan Gui City and its dao soldiers, Lu Qingfeng learned she had resurfaced and decided to investigate Mount Gui on his own.

• Lu Qingfeng became the Celestial Star Sect’s third Primordial Spirit True One and guided Lu Qingyu’s sword cultivation on Yellow Ox Mountain.
• Old Mother of Mount Gui emerged from hiding in a deep-sea ruined city and revealed that the Seven-Star Tower taken by Zhu Yang was only one of many from Yuan Gui City.
• Old Mother of Mount Gui summoned 214 fourth-grade Seven-Star Beauty Serpent dao soldiers and vowed revenge on Zhu Yang, Du Tian, and Golden Eyes.
• Wu Jiu told Lu Qingfeng that Old Mother of Mount Gui had killed seven Celestial Star Sect True Persons and four Core Formation True Persons from Goddess Peak at Mount Gui.
• Lu Qingfeng declined Wu Jiu’s invitation to investigate with Heavenly Dragon Goddess, then resolved to go to Mount Gui himself.

Lu Qingfeng disguised as Du Tian ambushed and killed Old Mother of Mount Gui, then discovered that her Ice-Cold Imperial Seal had led him to the ruined Yuan Gui City. After learning the city was a Battle City built by a True Immortal and filled with Dao Soldiers, he entered it to investigate further.

• Old Mother of Mount Gui resolved to rebuild Yuan Gui City and govern a territory before ascending, but Du Tian of End Mountain suddenly attacked and killed her and her Dao Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed himself as Du Tian and collected Old Mother of Mount Gui's Water-Mother Profound Yin Mirror, Yuan Gui Divine Sword, and Ice-Cold Imperial Seal.
• Lu Qingfeng followed the Ice-Cold Imperial Seal into the depths of Mount Gui and found the ruined Yuan Gui City, its Frost Spirit Immortals, and its Seven-Star Beauty Serpent Dao Soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng used Grand Luo Insight to learn that Yuan Gui City had begun as Cloudsmoke City, a Battle City built by the Ice-Snow Divine Palace and later rebuilt by Yuan Gui Water Mother.
• Lu Qingfeng entered Yuan Gui City with the Ice-Cold Imperial Seal to investigate the Battle City further.

Lu Qingfeng took control of Yuan Gui City after killing Old Mother of Mount Gui, then let Wu Jiu and the Heavenly Dragon Goddess leave without revealing the city’s value. Twelve years later, Grandmaster Muyang prepared to ascend and entrusted the Celestial Star Sect to Lu Qingfeng and Wu Jiu.

• Lu Qingfeng collected the Seven-Star Beauty Serpent Dao Soldiers and surveyed Yuan Gui City’s surviving towers, workshops, arrays, and other structures.
• Lu Qingfeng found and began refining the Estate-Sealing Stele, which controlled Yuan Gui City and its spiritual structures, but decided to deal with Wu Jiu and the Heavenly Dragon Goddess first.
• Lu Qingfeng met Wu Jiu and the Heavenly Dragon Goddess at Mount Gui, claimed he had killed Old Mother of Mount Gui on their sects’ behalf, and watched them leave without challenging him.
• Wu Jiu and the Heavenly Dragon Goddess concluded that provoking Lu Qingfeng was too dangerous and departed the North Sea.
• Twelve years later, Grandmaster Muyang told Wu Jiu and Lu Qingfeng that he planned to ascend and asked them to manage the Celestial Star Sect.

Grandmaster Muyang ascended from Three Mountains and Nine Rivers but was driven back by mysterious void Demonic Beasts, losing his right arm before Lu Qingfeng and Wu Jiu rescued him. After recovering, he identified the dangers ascenders could face and decided to report the unprecedented creatures to the upper realm.

• Grandmaster Muyang ascended after bidding farewell to Lu Qingfeng and Wu Jiu.
• Void Demonic Beasts attacked Grandmaster Muyang during his ascent, and Wu Jiu rushed into the void while Lu Qingfeng's sword formation broke the creatures' encirclement.
• Grandmaster Muyang returned to Three Mountains and Nine Rivers with his right arm severed, and Lu Qingfeng helped him recover.
• Grandmaster Muyang explained the known dangers of ascension and recalled a Six-Winged Heavenly Demon that had killed an earlier ascender.
• Grandmaster Muyang chose to report the unknown Demonic Beasts to the upper realm, and he, Lu Qingfeng, and Wu Jiu completed purification rites before preparing an altar.