Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng adapted his cultivation to the Lesser Weakwater Realm and traveled to Five Hells Peak to find Zhang Yang. After surveying the struggling Prison-Suppressing Immortal Sect on Sea-Gazing Peak, he left its morning lesson unimpressed.

• Lu Qingfeng suppressed his true power to meet the Lesser Weakwater Realm’s limits and reflected on its cultivation system and the insights its practitioners gained.
• Lu Qingfeng traveled for a month to Five Hells Peak, where Great Victory Sect’s strength overshadowed the declining Prison-Suppressing Immortal Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng climbed Sea-Gazing Peak and inspected the two Primordial Spirit elders and fifteen Qi Refining cultivators of the Prison-Suppressing Immortal Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng judged that Sea-Gazing Peak’s disciples had little potential to advance, mocked the sect’s condition, and went to the mountain summit after the morning lesson.

Zhang Yang reunited with his long-lost teacher, Lu Qingfeng, on Sea-Gazing Peak. The chapter left Zhang Yang and Lu Qingfeng together in Righteous Heart Hall while Qin Fan struggled to process that he had nearly attacked his grandmaster.

• Qin Fan worried that Sea-Gazing Peak lacked promising disciples and complained that Great Victory Sect was poaching and courting its members.
• Zhang Yang gave Qin Fan a rare piece of Scarlet Jade to strengthen his flying sword and warned him to stay on the mountain as Lion Ridge and Peach Mountain prepared for war.
• Qin Fan recalled Zhang Yang’s role in a battle against Peach Mountain more than three thousand years earlier, but Zhang Yang dismissed the story.
• A young Daoist arrived without warning, and Zhang Yang knelt before him, identifying himself as Zhang Yang and greeting him as his teacher.
• In Righteous Heart Hall, Zhang Yang served Lu Qingfeng precious tea, and Lu Qingfeng urged him to relax after their long separation.

Zhang Yang reunited with Lu Qingfeng and recounted how he had twice died and reincarnated after being trapped in the Lesser Weakwater Realm, where True Immortals faced a perilous sequence of tribulations. After Lu Qingfeng explained how he had arrived, he rewarded Qin Fan, though Zhang Yang warned that the gifts were too precious.

• Zhang Yang told Lu Qingfeng how he had entered a Blackwater Pool while fleeing True Immortals, then reincarnated twice in the Lesser Weakwater Realm after failing its calamities and tribulations.
• Zhang Yang explained that True Immortals had to survive the Three Calamities, Nine Difficulties, Ten Tribulations, and the Five Declines of Heaven and Man before attaining the Earth Immortal realm.
• Lu Qingfeng listened to Zhang Yang's account and then told him how he had found Six Wings and traveled from the Nine Netherworlds through Maple Moon Star and the Southern Florescence Realm to the Lesser Weakwater Realm.
• Qin Fan greeted Lu Qingfeng as his Grandmaster, and Lu Qingfeng praised him for defending Zhang Yang and offered him a black stone and a fine gauze veil.
• Zhang Yang recognized the gifts as precious treasures and objected to Qin Fan accepting them.

Lu Qingfeng bestowed Magnetism Divine Iron and a Duer Immortal Robe on Qin Fan, who gratefully accepted them. The next morning, Lu Qingfeng joined the two Sea-Gazing Peak patriarchs on Cloud Platform and began lecturing the disciples on sword techniques and thunder arts.

• Lu Qingfeng explained the powers of the Magnetism Divine Iron and Duer Immortal Robe, then pushed both treasures into Qin Fan's arms despite his hesitation.
• Qin Fan accepted the treasures and sincerely thanked Lu Qingfeng, while Zhang Yang told him to accept the grandmaster's gifts.
• On Cloud Platform, Qiu Jin, Hong Tai, Bai Jing, and Zhao Qi discussed Lü Yuan's victory over Zhao Qi and wondered why the elders had not arrived.
• Lu Qingfeng descended with Zhao Dahai, Zhang Shu, and the two patriarchs, taking the main seat as the disciples bowed and called him Grandmaster.
• Lu Qingfeng lectured the disciples, whose understanding was immersed in visions of profound sword techniques, thunder arts, and golden lotuses.

Lu Qingfeng’s Dao lecture helped Sea-Gazing Peak’s disciples advance, including Zhao Qi’s breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Realm, and he created a bamboo grove to aid their cultivation. He then gave Zhang Shu an alchemy cauldron and two pill formulas, leaving Sea-Gazing Peak with new resources as Lu Qingfeng considered the sect’s fortunes and its conflict with the Great Victory Sect.

• Lu Qingfeng’s lecture improved the cultivation and comprehension of everyone listening, and Zhao Qi broke through to the Primordial Spirit Realm while Zhao Dahai advanced from the Fourth to the Fifth Layer of Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Qingfeng manifested Cloud Platform Bamboo Grove with his Pure Bamboo Staff and explained that cultivating there would help disciples purify their minds.
• Lu Qingfeng examined Zhao Qi’s, Zhao Dahai’s, and Zhang Shu’s fortunes and concluded that conflict between Sea-Gazing Peak and the Great Victory Sect would affect both sects’ rise and fall.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Zhang Shu the Azurewood King Cauldron, along with the Foundation-Nourishing Pill and True Yang Pill formulas, for use in supporting Sea-Gazing Peak’s disciples.

Lu Qingfeng expanded Sea-Gazing Peak’s plans, learned more about the Peach Mountain Four Sects’ control of the Lesser Weakwater Realm, and sent Zhang Yang to build alliances. He then left to test the Three Calamities, surviving the Wind Calamity and facing the Fire Calamity.

• Lu Qingfeng told Zhang Yang and the others to recruit more disciples and gave Zhao Dahai and Zhao Qi superior flying-sword materials; Zhang Shu discovered the Azurewood King Cauldron held vast medicinal fields and laborers.
• Zhang Yang explained that the Peach Mountain Four Sects controlled the righteous path and that Lion Ridge and other groups were too divided to challenge them; Lu Qingfeng ordered him to keep contacting Lion Ridge and befriend unorthodox Loose Immortals who did not commit evil.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Zhang Yang the Six-Yang Azure-Spirit Demonbane Armor, then used Five Ghosts Transport to reach a remote region of the Southern Borderlands.
• Lu Qingfeng deliberately triggered the Three Calamities and withstood the Wind Calamity without injury.
• Lu Qingfeng continued raising his cultivation, triggered the Fire Calamity, and watched as fire descended to burn him.

Lu Qingfeng endured the Three Calamities and began the Nine Difficulties, discovering that the Lesser Weakwater Realm’s tribulations offered a clear path toward the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit. Thirty years later, the feud between Sea-Gazing Peak and Great Victory Sect erupted again when Qiu Bai killed Zhang Zhu, and Qiu Jin and Lü Yuan faced off.

• Lu Qingfeng let the Yin Fire and heavenly thunder strengthen his body, magic power, and Primordial Spirit, then concluded that surviving the realm’s successive tribulations could lead to the Earth Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Lu Qingfeng began the first of the Nine Difficulties, the Earth Difficulty, and thirty years passed.
• In Little Dagger Town, Qiu Bai provoked Zhang Zhu into a duel, then killed him with Palm Thunder and Swordlight Splitting.
• Lü Yuan attacked Qiu Bai with Sword Qi Thunderclap, but Qiu Jin intercepted the strike with Sword-Forged Filament.
• Qiu Jin confronted Lü Yuan, who recognized the Sword-Forged Filament and was shaken.

Zhang Shu reported Sea-Gazing Peak’s rapid growth to Qin Fan, who urged her to focus on cultivation before Hong Tai warned that Qiu Jin had killed a Great Victory Sect elder and was gravely wounded. At Five Hells Peak, Great Victory Patriarch and Nangong Pojun watched Qin Fan battle Qian Bu'er, until an unexpected turn made the Patriarch rush to intervene.

• Zhang Shu told Qin Fan that Sea-Gazing Peak had trained many Qi Refining disciples and gained six new Primordial Spirit cultivators, including Zhu Lang, who had reached the second level.
• Qin Fan praised Zhang Shu’s aptitude and encouraged her to hand off her duties so she could pursue cultivation and perhaps reach the True Immortal Realm.
• Hong Tai reported that Qiu Jin had killed Great Victory Sect elder Lü Yuan, that Qiu Jin was gravely wounded, and that Qin Fan had gone with several elders to support him.
• At Five Hells Peak, Great Victory Patriarch told Nangong Pojun that he planned to kill Zhang Yang after provoking Qin Fan into a battle with Qian Bu'er.
• Nangong Pojun recognized Magnetism Divine Iron in Qin Fan’s flying sword as it disrupted Qian Bu'er’s weapon, and Great Victory Patriarch dismissed the advantage.
• Great Victory Patriarch suddenly crushed his wine cup and vanished toward the battle, while Nangong Pojun followed after noticing a treasure-level immortal garment.

Qin Fan defeated Qian Bu'er with the Heaven Pivot Sword, but Nangong Pojun moved to attack him until Zhang Yang and three Southern Borderlands allies intervened. Great Victory Patriarch, Nangong Pojun, and Gongsun Xun fled, only to find their path blocked by a Ninth-Tribulation True Immortal.

• Qin Fan survived Qian Bu'er's sword strike with the Duer Immortal Robe and critically wounded Qian Bu'er with the Heaven Pivot Sword, destroying his cultivation and Primordial Spirit.
• Great Victory Patriarch arrived to tend to Qian Bu'er, while Nangong Pojun attacked the wounded Qin Fan and promised to join Qian Bu'er afterward.
• Fire Daoist Li Nan and Wind Daoist Wu Yuan shielded Qin Fan, then Zhao Yan'er and Zhang Yang appeared to confront Nangong Pojun and Great Victory Patriarch.
• After Qian Bu'er died, Great Victory Patriarch and Nangong Pojun broke through the group and fled, but Zhang Yang, Zhao Yan'er, and the Firewind Daoist pursued them.
• Gongsun Xun appeared and urged Great Victory Patriarch and Nangong Pojun to run, then fled ahead before returning in panic when he saw the pursuers and the Ninth-Tribulation True Immortal blocking their way.

Lu Qingfeng revealed himself as Zhang Yang’s teacher, captured three Peach Mountain True Immortals, and ordered the Loose Immortals to prepare for an assault on Peach Mountain. The chapter then shifted to Peach Mountain, where its leaders discussed the growing coalition against them and the danger of the coming calamity.

• Gongsun Xun tried to provoke the gathered True Immortals into opposing Lu Qingfeng by revealing that Lu Qingfeng had obtained a spiritually awakened Zhi Horse.
• Zhang Yang addressed Lu Qingfeng as his teacher, shocking the others and prompting Daoist Windfire and Zhao Yan'er to abandon their plans to fight.
• Lu Qingfeng used the Cloud-Peak Step and Green Bamboo Staff to capture Gongsun Xun, Great Victory Patriarch, and Nangong Pojun.
• Lu Qingfeng ordered Zhang Yang and the other Loose Immortals to summon allies and reach Peach Mountain within three months, then departed.
• Zhang Yang and his companions agreed to spread news of Lu Qingfeng's strength and prepare for an assault on Peach Mountain.
• At Peach Mountain, Yu Zhenzi, the Three Elders, and the gathered Swordsmen discussed the growing coalition and their concerns about the approaching calamity.

Chen Sigu captured Jade Sword Mo Yushan and used his new Dharma-Beyond-Incarnation ability to impersonate him, while the story revealed that Guangyuan had already captured three Peach Mountain leaders. As the four righteous sects gathered at Peach Mountain for the coming battle, Lu Qingfeng collected treasured mirrors and portals from their leaders.

• Yu Zhenzi named Zhang Yang as Peach Mountain’s first target and said Nangong Pojun had gone to Five Hells Peak to help Great Victory Patriarch attack him.
• Chen Sigu lured Mo Yushan to his cave abode, captured him with five-colored radiance, and transformed a Green Bamboo leaf into a perfect Mo Yushan double.
• Chen Sigu revealed that he had created the Great Divine Ability Dharma-Beyond-Incarnation and erased the Jade Sword’s original imprints before giving it to the Mo Yushan double.
• Three months earlier, Guangyuan had captured Great Victory Patriarch, Gongsun Xun, and Nangong Pojun, prompting Lion Ridge’s allies to advance on Peach Mountain and Peach Mountain to summon its allies.
• The Seven Swords of Tianshan, the Five Patriarchs of the North Sea, and the Four Great Divine Monks of Snow Ridge arrived at Peach Mountain with their followers.
• Lu Qingfeng visited the four sects’ leaders in the Spirit-Void Great Hall and collected four treasured mirrors and three resplendent portals.

Lu Qingfeng spent thirty years tempering his cultivation and secretly took control of the four sects before examining their treasures. He discovered that the Lesser Weakwater Realm was the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm, and the chapter ended as he restored the South Heaven Gate with a Heaven-Gazing Mirror.

• Lu Qingfeng tempered himself through the Nine Tribulations and prepared his plan without risking the Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• Lu Qingfeng captured Gongsun Xun, Zhang Yang, Nangong Pojun, and Chen Sigu, then impersonated them and took control of all four sects.
• Lu Qingfeng identified the four gates and Heaven-Gazing Mirrors as First Rank Immortal Treasures tied to the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng used a Heaven-Gazing Mirror to uncover Qin Fan's past-life connection to Zhang Yang and learned how the realm tracked its inhabitants and drew power from them.
• Lu Qingfeng hung a Heaven-Gazing Mirror on the South Heaven Gate, causing pillars, dragons, and divine guards to appear around it.

Lu Qingfeng discovered that Lesser Shu Mountain Realm was an immortal artifact sustained by Immortal Crystals, then disguised himself as Yu Zhenzi and led the gathered righteous forces toward Dragon Spring Mountain as the demonic host approached. The two armies were about to meet, while Lu Qingfeng’s control of Heaven Gate and Heaven-Gazing Mirror remained concealed.

• Lu Qingfeng learned that Lesser Shu Mountain Realm depended on Immortal Crystals and calculated that its upkeep consumed far more than he could readily afford.
• Lu Qingfeng examined South Heaven Gate, recognized how its entrances and exits were controlled, and dismantled it to return its treasures to their apparent owners.
• Lu Qingfeng disguised himself as Yu Zhenzi and made the people in the hall appear to come alive.
• Three months after Peach Mountain’s three True Immortals disappeared, the four sects’ leaders and righteous Loose Immortals gathered but failed to agree on a plan.
• A report announced that the Seven Cultivator Swords of Lion Ridge and their demon host had reached Golden Pavilion Peak.
• Yu Zhenzi led the gathered immortals toward Dragon Spring Mountain to confront the approaching enemy.

Zhang Yang joined the gathered Rogue Cultivators at Dragon Spring Mountain as the Peach Mountain Four Sects challenged them to battle. He defeated three of Peach Mountain’s Twelve Swordsmen in succession, leaving the confrontation ongoing.

• At Golden Pavilion Peak, Qin Fan told Zhang Yang that the gathered Loose Immortals were growing suspicious because Daoist Guangyuan had not appeared, while Zhang Yang worried his teacher might be undergoing the Five Declines of Heaven and Man.
• The next day, 217 True Immortals led by Lion Ridge and Three Wanderers Cave gathered south of Dragon Spring Mountain as the Peach Mountain Four Sects assembled to the north.
• Yu Zhenzi demanded that Daoist Guangyuan appear, and Zhang Yang answered his taunts while refusing to step onto Dragon Spring itself.
• Yu Zhenzi sent Fan Peng to fight Zhang Yang, who killed him in one exchange and took his sword.
• At Yu Zhenzi’s command, Mo Junshan and Chen Sigu fought Zhang Yang and were both killed after two exchanges each.

Zhang Yang killed three Peach Mountain Swordsmen and Master Golden Lamp, leaving both banks stunned as he challenged the northern bank’s fighters. Master Jifa then killed Black Mountain Patriarch, and stood over Dragon Spring surveying the southern bank.

• Zhang Yang killed Fan Peng, Mo Junshan, and Chen Sigu in succession, while the northern bank struggled to choose someone to face him.
• Master Golden Lamp challenged Zhang Yang, who killed him in a few exchanges and privately realized the deaths were suspicious because Green Bamboo leaves had shattered with each victim.
• Zhang Yang called for another challenger and taunted Peach Mountain and Snow Ridge, prompting Master Jifa to step forward.
• Black Mountain Patriarch intervened, but Master Jifa killed him within a few exchanges and revealed that his true form was a black tiger.
• Master Jifa collected Black Mountain Patriarch’s corpse and surveyed the stunned immortals on the southern bank.

Zhang Yang led the surviving Loose Immortals and demons through a three-day battle that nearly annihilated the Peach Mountain Four Sects, then rallied reinforcements at Golden Pavilion Peak. The four sects repeatedly sought aid from the Spiritvoid Immortal Realm, but their forces and treasures failed to defeat Zhang Yang, and they returned in defeat for the third time.

• Zhang Yang killed Master Jifa, and the battle between the South Bank and North Bank forces erupted across Dragon Spring Mountain.
• Zhang Yang fought Yu Zhenzi and six other experts while aiding his allies, but both sides suffered enormous losses over three days; Zhang Yang was the only surviving one of the six great experts.
• Wu Song proposed destroying the four sects, and Zhang Yang rallied the survivors to avenge their dead and attack Peach Mountain.
• Yu Zhenzi and the surviving leaders summoned aid from the Spiritvoid Immortal Realm, while more Loose Immortals and demons gathered behind Zhang Yang at Golden Pavilion Peak.
• The four sects received reinforcements and powerful artifacts but lost successive battles against Zhang Yang's forces, even after the Spiritvoid Immortal Realm sent four Immortal Artifacts.
• The four sects returned to Peach Mountain in defeat for the third time.

Lu Qingfeng used disguises and false reports to trick Peach Mountain into sending more True Immortals and immortal artifacts into the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm, then helped destroy its mortal foundation. He later tried to lure the Jade Dragon Immortal into another trap, but the Immortal chose to wait, leaving the four sects’ Earth Immortals unaware of how thoroughly they had been deceived.

• Yu Zhenzi pleaded with the Peach Mountain Immortal for reinforcements, and the Immortal sent more immortal artifacts, supplies, and fifty True Immortals into the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm.
• After the Peach Mountain Immortal left, the disguised 'Yu Zhenzi' met with Grandmaster Kongjue, Patriarch Kongkong, and Jun Mowen, and they revealed the immortal artifacts they had taken from the four sects.
• Seven days later, the disguised 'Jiao Yang' falsely told the Peach Mountain Immortal that Peach Mountain’s mortal foundation had fallen, and the Immortal advised him to hide and wait for Zhang Yang to die or leave the realm.
• Three months later, the disguised 'Jun Mowen' claimed that Zhang Yang had entered the Five Declines of Heaven and Man, but the Jade Dragon Immortal refused to attack without an immortal artifact and ordered his people to wait.
• After the Heaven Gate was put away, 'Jun Mowen' decided there was no need to sow suspicion among the four sects, since their Earth Immortals would eventually face the same fate.

Lu Qingfeng revealed that he had orchestrated the destruction of the four sects and left Zhang Yang to rule the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm, entrusting him with powerful treasures and a possible new disciple. After leaving the realm, Lu Qingfeng used the Grand Luo Insight to spot the Landscape Realm Painting hidden in Lesser Weakwater.

• Lu Qingfeng returned to his true appearance after the four sects’ True Immortals were wiped out, then traveled to Peach Mountain as the Prison-Suppressing Immortal Sect gathered new followers.
• Whitecloud Youth brought Wu Meng and other disciples to pledge allegiance, and Wu Meng briefly encountered Lu Qingfeng without realizing who he was.
• Lu Qingfeng examined Zhang Yang’s greatly increased providence and told him it could help him survive the Five Declines of Heaven and Man and attempt to become an Earth Immortal.
• Lu Qingfeng gave Zhang Yang the Four Directional Heavenly Gates and the Voidspace Seal, then suggested that Zhang Yang consider taking Wu Meng as a disciple.
• Lu Qingfeng departed the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm and used the Grand Luo Insight to find the Landscape Realm Painting concealed in Lesser Weakwater.

Lu Qingfeng discovered that Granny Lu had designed the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm to sacrifice immortals and countless living beings to complete the Seven-Treasure Gourd, so he seized the realm and fled with several decoys. Granny Lu realized she had been deceived and attacked the four Peach Mountain sect ancestors who had obtained the false paintings, leaving Peach Mountain Immortal calling for his patriarch as he escaped.

• Lu Qingfeng learned that the Seven-Treasure Gourd required seven Earth Immortals and billions of living sacrifices, then used Five-Colored Divine Light to seize the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm and split its painting into decoys.
• Granny Lu sensed that her supreme treasure had been touched and left Great Wilderness Mountain for the Lesser Weakwater.
• Peach Mountain Immortal mourned Peach Mountain's losses until its Ascension Pools exploded and a Landscape Realm Painting emerged, which he refined as an ownerless immortal item.
• Granny Lu found a false painting in the Lesser Weakwater, discovered it was a dead branch, and exposed the decoy paintings held by Peach Mountain Immortal Gong Han and three other sect ancestors.
• Granny Lu struck Peach Mountain Immortal with the Star-Absorbing Divine Hairpin, then overwhelmed Gong Han and the other three Earth Immortals as they tried to flee.
• Peach Mountain Immortal escaped into Peach Mountain and called for his patriarch to save him.

Granny Lu blamed the Peach Mountain Four Sects for the loss of the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm and burned their strongholds, while Lu Qingfeng escaped the backlash and prepared to return to Yellow Wind Ridge. Withered Bamboo Elder’s crystal ball failed to reveal the thief, leaving Granny Lu worried that the hidden Seven-Treasure Gourd might be beyond recovery.

• Granny Lu pursued the four immortals, shattered Peach Mountain’s formation, and burned the mountain after Peach Mountain Immortal retreated with his disciples into the Blessed Land.
• Granny Lu sent the Star-Sucking Divine Hairpin to burn Heaven Mountain, Snow Ridge, and the depths of the North Sea, convinced that one of the Four Sects had stolen her Spirit Treasure.
• Lu Qingfeng watched the Four Sects’ defeat from afar and was pleased that Granny Lu had taken the blame for the theft instead of him.
• Lu Qingfeng planned to destroy the Divine Empyrean Sect, return to Yellow Wind Ridge, and remain there until he became an Earth Immortal.
• Withered Bamboo Elder used his crystal ball to investigate the theft, but the image remained obscured, and he began to suspect that Granny Lu was hiding a secret about the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm.