Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng assessed Yuan Gui City's extensive damage and began redesigning its power core and formation system to rebuild the city more effectively. Beyond the Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, an eight-legged powerhouse found the Demonic Spirits blocking ascension and attacked them.

• Lu Qingfeng confirmed that Yuan Gui City was badly damaged and decided that rebuilding its Cloudmist Heaven-and-Earth Furnace was the first priority.
• Lu Qingfeng sent six Dutian Ghost Generals and seven thousand two hundred Dark Nether Yin Soldiers to search for Demonic Beasts and investigate their origins.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the Cloudmist Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, found its formations severely damaged, and began replacing the Ice-Snow Divine Palace formations with a system of his own design.
• An eight-legged powerhouse found Demonic Spirits feeding on a star and shattered it with his axe.
• Eighteen surviving Demonic Spirits fled, and the eight-legged powerhouse split into eighteen figures to pursue them.

Han Ling'er received Qin Feng’s newly completed Battle City and set out to purge the Star-Sucking Demon Spirits, while Lu Qingfeng continued repairing Yuan Gui City in Three Mountains and Nine Rivers. The chapter left Lu Qingfeng’s restoration progressing slowly as he focused on rebuilding its Spirit-Devouring Formation.

• An eight-legged powerhouse killed eighteen Star-Sucking Demon Spirits, then discovered a vast swarm led by a Fifth-Order Demon Spirit and was sent flying by its attack.
• Han Ling'er reported to Qin Feng that Meng Ba had received the Creation Spirit Pill and would recover from his severe injuries.
• Qin Feng tasked Han Ling'er with protecting the Mountain-Water Realm and using the Demon Spirits to train, then gave her the completed Battle City Han Ling City.
• Qin Feng told Han Ling'er to look after Lu Qingfeng if she met him, since he might become her fourth junior brother.
• Lu Qingfeng assessed Yuan Gui City’s extensive damage and began repairing its Heaven-and-Earth Furnace and Spirit-Devouring Formation with salvaged materials.

Lu Qingfeng repelled an attack on Yuan Gui City by Star-Sucking Demon Spirits, then learned that thousands had infiltrated Three Mountains and Nine Rivers. The chapter foreshadowed a devastating demonic calamity and its eventual defeat by Daoist Du Tian, while Han Ling'er later set out beyond the Mountain-Water Realm.

• Hundreds of Star-Sucking Demon Spirits attacked Yuan Gui City, but Lu Qingfeng and the six great Demon Gods killed or captured them, while their lord Gaizhi threatened to destroy the realm unless Lu Qingfeng surrendered the city.
• Gaizhi sent thousands of Star-Sucking Demon Spirits through the barrier into Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, prompting Lu Qingfeng to dispatch the Demon Gods to hunt them and search for a way to track the scattered creatures.
• Lu Qingfeng tortured a captured commander to test its summoning art, discovered it could not reliably locate its kind, and killed it when its attempt to summon help proved futile.
• A future account described 2,400 Star-Sucking Demon Spirits ravaging Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, exhausting the Primordial Spirit cultivators and causing heavy casualties.
• Daoist Du Tian slew the Fourth-Rank Demon Spirits, created the Star-Seeking Demon Order to help the realm hunt the survivors, and ended the calamity; by the ninth month after the Ascension Incident, Han Ling'er had departed beyond the Mountain-Water Realm.

Han Ling'er arrived at the Mountain-Water Realm in Han Ling City and sealed the Three Mountains and Nine Rivers while investigating the Star-Sucking Demon Spirit. When the Star-Sucking Lord attacked, Han Ling City wounded it with the Star-Radiance Profound Formation, and Han Ling'er sensed another Battle City beneath the North Sea.

• Han Ling'er discovered that the Blood-Baleful Calamity Qi around the Mountain-Water Realm was dissipating and sent a Dharma Body into the Three Mountains and Nine Rivers.
• Han Ling'er activated Han Ling City's formation to seal the realm, while Lu Qingfeng observed the city from Yuan Gui City and watched its giants build a continent from stars.
• The Star-Sucking Lord attacked Han Ling City, and its body withstood a barrage from a hundred Star-Annihilating Crossbows.
• Han Ling'er trapped the Star-Sucking Lord in the Star-Radiance Profound Formation and wounded it until it fled into the void.
• Han Ling'er sensed a familiar Battle City beneath the North Sea and realized that it had drawn the Star-Sucking Lord to the Mountain-Water Realm.

Han Ling'er visited Kongling Gorge, learned about Lu Qingfeng's accomplishments, and treated him as her future junior fellow disciple, giving him three Immortal Crystals. After she went to meet Daoist Du Tian, Lu Qingfeng welcomed her into Yuan Gui City, where she recognized the battle city's connection to Ice-Snow Divine Palace.

• Han Ling'er heard Grandmaster Muyang recount the demonic calamity and asked him to describe Daoist Du Tian, who had slain the Star-Sucking Lord.
• Han Ling'er told Lu Qingfeng that he would become her teacher Ancestor Qin's fourth disciple, gave him three Immortal Crystals, and invited him to seek her out in Han Ling City.
• Han Ling'er left for the North Sea to meet Daoist Du Tian, while Lu Qingfeng realized her visit could present an opportunity involving Yuan Gui City.
• Several days later, Lu Qingfeng welcomed Han Ling'er into the ruined Yuan Gui City, where she inspected its defenses and asked whether the battle city had come from Ice-Snow Divine Palace.

Lu Qingfeng refused to sell Yuan Gui City after Han Ling'er offered him Immortal Crystals, then proposed partnering to sell his Clearbright Spirit Water in the Spirit Domain. Han Ling'er took samples to test, leaving Lu Qingfeng planning to use their business connection to expand sales of spirit medicines and raise funds for cultivation and repairs.

• Han Ling'er warned Lu Qingfeng about powerful enemies and offered to buy Yuan Gui City, first proposing ten Immortal Crystals and then raising her offer to thirty-five.
• Lu Qingfeng explained the value of Yuan Gui City's Immortal Soil and refused to sell the city, while Han Ling'er gave him a jade talisman in case he changed his mind.
• Lu Qingfeng proposed that Han Ling'er help him sell Clearbright Spirit Water in the Spirit Domain and described its benefits for Spirit Eye and Dharma Eye techniques.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Han Ling'er samples of three grades of Clearbright Spirit Water and assured her that his advanced formulas were difficult to copy.
• Han Ling'er departed to test the samples, and Lu Qingfeng planned to use their partnership to sell more spirit medicines and fund his cultivation and Yuan Gui City's repairs.

Lu Qingfeng expanded the Dutian Gate’s training by ordering annual lectures, then negotiated a Clearbright Spirit Water trade with Han Ling'er to earn Spirit Stones and obtain materials for repairing Yuan Gui City. The deal was struck, though Han Ling'er added another fee for procuring the materials.

• Lu Qingfeng questioned Xie Daoyun about Jumang Hall’s alchemists, then announced that he would lecture in each of the twelve halls and required senior cultivators and craftspeople to teach as well.
• Han Ling'er emerged from cultivation after Clearbright Spirit Water improved her Star-Gazing Spirit Eye and later traveled to the North Sea to meet Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er bargained over prices for three grades of Clearbright Spirit Water, eventually agreeing to double her original offer.
• Lu Qingfeng sold Han Ling'er his first batch of spirit water and accepted ten Immortal Crystals, while insisting that the remaining six million Spirit Stones stay in Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qingfeng asked Han Ling'er to purchase materials for Yuan Gui City’s repair, and she recognized that he was working on a Heaven-and-Earth Furnace before demanding an additional fifty-percent procurement fee.

Han Ling'er weighed how to defeat the Star-Sucking Lord while planning to profit from Clearbright Spirit Water, then refused Xun Zhenbei's request to use Han Ling City to hunt Lu Qingfeng. Xun Zhenbei left to seek his teacher's intervention, while Han Ling'er chose to protect Lu Qingfeng and keep the Star-Sucking Lord nearby until she had earned enough Immortal Crystals.

• Han Ling'er concluded that Han Ling City’s formation and weapons could not kill the Star-Sucking Lord, so she planned to wear him down while earning money from Clearbright Spirit Water.
• Xun Zhenbei visited Han Ling City and asked Han Ling'er to use its formation to locate the fiend who had destroyed Azurewood Valley and bring him to justice.
• Han Ling'er refused, claiming Lu Qingfeng’s role in stopping the Star-Sucking Demon Spirit disaster made it wrong to pursue him under her teacher’s authority.
• Xun Zhenbei recognized her excuse, suspected she was protecting the fiend, and departed to ask his teacher to intervene.
• Han Ling'er revealed that she valued the profits Lu Qingfeng could bring more than Xun Zhenbei’s offer of ten Immortal Crystals, and sent Star-Picking Strongmen to track the Star-Sucking Demon Spirits.

Xun Zhenbei obtained a Great Sun Demon-Breaking Immortal Pill and help from his master to track down Lu Qingfeng. Sensing danger from beyond Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, Lu Qingfeng focused on concealing Yuan Gui City and upgrading its furnace while expanding the Dutian Gate’s pill production.

• Xun Zhenbei visited his master on Vermilion-Glow Mountain and received the pill intended for Chao Jue of the Flame God Palace.
• Xun Zhenbei’s master arranged for Chao Jue to help search the Mountain-Water Realm and planned to borrow Black Dragon True Lord’s Three-Eyed Divine Hound to locate the hidden target.
• Lu Qingfeng divined that a threat was approaching from beyond Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, and decided to conceal Yuan Gui City before it exposed him.
• Lu Qingfeng used recovered materials to repair and upgrade the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, abandoning his weaker formation design for a complete version.
• Lu Qingfeng taught Dutian Gate alchemists recipes for enhanced unranked pills, and the sect began recruiting and training apprentices on a large scale.

After centuries of cultivation, Lu Qingfeng encountered the injured Fairy Yanlan guarding Ding Yu’s recovery and refused to help her hide from her coming tribulation. He awakened Ding Yu, who recognized Lu Qingfeng and knelt to greet his Venerable Master.

• Meng Qiu told Meng Huo the legend of how an immortal and twelve dragons created the Twelve Dragon Immortal Ridges, while Meng Huo lamented that his damaged dantian prevented him from cultivating.
• Lu Qingfeng appeared to Meng Huo in the bamboo forest and granted him a chance to cultivate the Astral Constellations Great Method.
• Lu Qingfeng found Fairy Yanlan guarding Ding Yu’s light cocoon and explained that her many injuries had nearly exhausted her life force.
• Fairy Yanlan asked Lu Qingfeng to conceal her approaching Windfire Tribulation so she could remain alive until Ding Yu awoke, but he warned that the hidden tribulation would later destroy her.
• Lu Qingfeng struck Ding Yu’s cocoon with his Green Bamboo Staff and called him awake; Ding Yu emerged, rebuked Fairy Yanlan for her disrespect, and knelt to greet his Venerable Master.

Lu Qingfeng awakened Ding Yu to save Fairy Yanlan, destroying Ding Yu’s hard-won Earth Immortal Dao Fruit in the process. After revealing their mutual love, he brought the two together for the sixteen years they had left, then accepted Ding Yu’s Divine Fire Fan and asked about Zheng Chi.

• Lu Qingfeng asked whether Ding Yu resented him for ruining his Earth Immortal Dao Fruit, and Ding Yu said he felt only gratitude toward his master.
• Fairy Yanlan collapsed after realizing the child before her was Qing Yuanzi, and Lu Qingfeng urged Ding Yu to admit his feelings for her.
• Lu Qingfeng revealed that Ding Yu had called Yanlan’s name while near death, and half a day later Ding Yu and Yanlan emerged together, hand in hand.
• Ding Yu and Fairy Yanlan said they would travel through the South Sea during the sixteen years they had left before reincarnating together.
• Ding Yu gave Lu Qingfeng the Divine Fire Fan and began recounting how he had met his junior brother Zheng Chi.

Sixteen years later, Lu Qingfeng arranged for Ding Yu and Fairy Yanlan to enter reincarnation safely by trading Oxhead Yin Deity the Ghost-God Transformation Divine Ability. He also asked Oxhead Yin Deity to search for the Immortal Qin Realm, then set out to integrate the Five Directions Realm and pursue the Earth Immortal realm.

• Ding Yu and Fairy Yanlan told Lu Qingfeng they had settled their mortal affairs and planned to enter reincarnation together.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned Oxhead Yin Deity with Spirit-Communing Incense and asked him to escort the pair through the Yellow Springs.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Oxhead Yin Deity the Ghost-God Transformation Divine Ability in exchange for arranging Ding Yu and Fairy Yanlan's safe reincarnation in the Five Directions Realm.
• Oxhead Yin Deity took the two disciples away and agreed to search the myriad realms for news of the Immortal Qin Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng resolved to integrate the Five Directions Realm, gather its Dao lineages, and cultivate toward the Earth Immortal realm, then flew toward the South Sea.

Chao Jue entered the Mountain-Water Realm with Xun Zhenbei’s help and used the Three-Eyed Divine Hound to search for Lu Qingfeng. Lu Qingfeng identified Chao Jue and saw the hound leading him toward the exposed Yuan Gui City, so he sent twelve demon gods to intercept them.

• Xun Zhenbei used the Heaven-Concealing Umbrella to bring Chao Jue to the Mountain-Water Realm, where Chao Jue burned through its boundary with the Eight Desolations Profound Fire Mirror.
• Chao Jue commanded the Three-Eyed Divine Hound to search for Lu Qingfeng, and the hound led him north through the astral winds.
• Han Ling'er warned Lu Qingfeng that Xun Zhenbei had escorted someone into the realm, and Lu Qingfeng concealed himself from the searching gaze sweeping the world.
• Lu Qingfeng used his divine methods to identify Chao Jue, inspect his mirror and the hound, and realize the hound was leading Chao Jue toward Yuan Gui City.
• Lu Qingfeng saw that Yuan Gui City's concealment formation was still unrepaired and sent twelve demon gods beyond the heavens.

Lu Qingfeng ambushed and killed Chao Jue, took the Eight Desolations Profound Fire Mirror, and escaped after the Three-Eyed Divine Hound was also slain. Han Ling'er blamed Xun Zhenbei for arranging the attack, while Xun Zhenbei vowed to report the deaths to the Flame God Palace and the Black Dragon True Lord.

• Chao Jue and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound encountered the Twelve Demon Gods, and Chao Jue used the Eight Desolations Profound Fire Formation to fight them.
• A Demon God killed the Three-Eyed Divine Hound despite Chao Jue invoking the Black Dragon True Lord, and Chao Jue consumed the Great Sun Demon-Breaking Immortal Pill to attempt a breakthrough.
• Lu Qingfeng ambushed Chao Jue with the Green Bamboo Staff, interrupted his breakthrough, took the Eight Desolations Profound Fire Mirror, and killed him with the Demon Gods.
• Lu Qingfeng disappeared with Chao Jue's corpse and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound's corpse as Han Ling'er and Xun Zhenbei watched from beyond the void.
• Xun Zhenbei said he would report the killings to the Flame God Palace and the Black Dragon True Lord, while Han Ling'er condemned him for provoking the conflict and sent a Dharma Body toward the North Sea.

After killing Chao Jue and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound, Lu Qingfeng weighed the dangers posed by their powerful backers and decided to strengthen Yuan Gui City and create a new incarnation rather than venture into the Spirit Domain. He arranged regular trades with Han Ling'er and began planning new businesses to fund his ambitions.

• Lu Qingfeng refined the Eight Desolations Profound Fire Mirror, considered the forces behind his enemies, and decided to turn the artifact into a powerful incarnation while rebuilding Yuan Gui City.
• Han Ling'er arrived and warned Lu Qingfeng that killing Chao Jue and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound had made enemies of the Flame God Palace, Chilian Mountain, and other powerful factions.
• Han Ling'er explained that Xun Zhenbei had previously offered her one hundred Immortal Crystals to investigate Lu Qingfeng, but she had refused and later blocked him from intervening directly.
• Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er agreed to trade Clearbright Spirit Water once a year so he could obtain materials more quickly.
• Lu Qingfeng proposed another profitable venture to Han Ling'er, then planned to use enhanced formulas for basic pills and thousands of wine recipes to build further sources of income.

Lu Qingfeng examined Chao Jue’s spoils and gained valuable resources and Battle City plans that could strengthen Yuan Gui City. He set aside projects that depended on repairs and began studying Spirit Rice cultivation and the abilities of Chao Jue and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound as a storm brewed beyond Three Mountains and Nine Rivers.

• Lu Qingfeng sorted Chao Jue’s Demonic Beast materials, including thirteen Thunder Rhino Horns worth roughly five hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and counted more than two million Spirit Stones and two Immortal Crystals.
• Lu Qingfeng found and recorded the Void-Trapping Spider refining method, giving Yuan Gui City plans for another war killing weapon.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered the third-tier Cloud-Mud Coiling-Silk Cave and its Marshwalking Spider Dao Soldiers, but deferred installing it until Yuan Gui City’s Heaven-and-Earth Furnace was repaired.
• Lu Qingfeng found fifth-tier Bloodbud Rice, which could help Dao Soldiers advance, and planned to research Spirit Rice cultivation before planting it.
• Lu Qingfeng began studying the Immortal Farmer Sect’s Spirit Rice method and analyzing Chao Jue’s corpse and the Three-Eyed Divine Hound’s abilities while a storm brewed beyond Three Mountains and Nine Rivers.

Black Dragon True Lord attacked the Mountain-Water Realm in rage over Three-Eyed Divine Hound’s death, while Xun Zhenbei suffered his wrath at Chilian Mountain. Qin Feng intervened with formations to stop the destruction, and Black Dragon True Lord withdrew after agreeing to let the younger generation settle the dispute.

• Black Dragon True Lord knocked Xun Zhenbei beneath Immortal-Crossing Bridge and left him trapped in its freezing depths.
• Black Dragon True Lord struck the Mountain-Water Realm repeatedly, devastating the land and forcing Han Ling'er to separate Han Ling City from it.
• Qin Feng deployed the Heavenly Rotation Formation to halt the realm’s destruction and trapped Black Dragon True Lord in the Violetstar Northern Dipper Judgment of Heaven's Fortune Formation.
• After hours of fighting, Black Dragon True Lord demanded that Qin Feng hand over Three-Eyed Divine Hound’s murderer.
• Qin Feng told Black Dragon True Lord to let the younger generation settle their disputes, and Black Dragon True Lord accepted before departing.

After Black Dragon True Lord’s attack devastated the North Sea and shook Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, Lu Qingfeng returned to the Celestial Star Sect and concealed his involvement by claiming he had mastered the Collapsing Star Grand Formation during secluded cultivation. Grandmaster Muyang and Wu Jiu believed him and explained that a Celestial Star Sect patriarch had intervened to stop the Demon Dragon.

• Lu Qingfeng surveyed the destruction across the North Sea, blamed Black Dragon True Lord, and suspected the attack was connected to the Star Steles surrounding Di Jiang Demon God.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Twenty-Four Pearl Waterside Pavilion, where Grandmaster Muyang and Wu Jiu questioned his calm absence during the upheaval.
• Lu Qingfeng claimed the catastrophe had helped him master the Collapsing Star Grand Formation, then demonstrated the formation in his palm.
• Grandmaster Muyang and Wu Jiu praised Lu Qingfeng’s supposed achievement, and their suspicions about his absence subsided.
• Wu Jiu told Lu Qingfeng that a Celestial Star Sect patriarch had suppressed the Demon Dragon beyond the heavens, and Lu Qingfeng feigned relief at the news.

Han Ling'er warned Lu Qingfeng that Black Dragon True Lord and Flame God Palace would seek to trap him when he left the Mountain-Water Realm, while Lu Qingfeng spent the following years rebuilding Yuan Gui City and preparing for war. As Zheng Tu traveled toward Three Mountains and Nine Rivers, a Battle City Lord unexpectedly descended into the Mountain-Water Realm first.

• Han Ling'er told Lu Qingfeng that Black Dragon True Lord and Flame God Palace could use True Immortals, Battle Cities, and Dao Soldiers against him, especially when he ascended, and offered to take him to Heaven-Piercing Gorge; Lu Qingfeng declined to follow her.
• Over the next thirteen years, Lu Qingfeng received supplies through Han Ling'er, repaired Yuan Gui City's Heaven-and-Earth Furnace, completed its Spirit-Devouring Energy-Expelling Grand Formation, and began producing Marshwalking Spiders.
• Lu Qingfeng moved Yuan Gui City to Black Cloud Island, drove away the Black Cloud Eagles, and fortified the Black Cloud Archipelago with Marshwalking Spiders, Seven-Star Beauty Serpents, and the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Extinguishing Grand Formation.
• In the seventeenth year, Lu Qingfeng completed the Eight-Wastes Daoist clone, doubled his repair speed, and began restoring Yuan Gui City's two Demon-Slaying Ballistae.
• Han Ling'er learned that Black Dragon True Lord had gone to the Cloudwaste Domain and that Zheng Tu was returning to Three Mountains and Nine Rivers; before Zheng Tu arrived, a Battle City Lord descended into the Mountain-Water Realm.

Daoist Hu Feng arrived at the Mountain-Water Realm under Black Dragon True Lord’s orders and sent three hundred Mountain Spirit Warriors to attack Lu Qingfeng at Black Cloud Archipelago. Lu Qingfeng’s first defenses suffered heavy losses, but his Marshwalking Spiders began turning the warriors’ rocky bodies into mud.

• Daoist Hu Feng descended on a divine mountain, drove Fairy Han Ling’er’s formation away, and summoned four towering rock giants as guards.
• After waiting four hours, Hu Feng sent Mountain Spirit Warriors down from the stars toward Black Cloud Archipelago.
• Lu Qingfeng identified the warriors and used Seven-Star Beauty Serpents to intercept them, but the Mountain Spirit Warriors killed dozens with their overwhelming strength.
• Three hundred Mountain Spirit Warriors surrounded Lu Qingfeng and pressed forward, while he spread marshes beneath them and sent Marshwalking Spiders to cling to and transform their bodies.