Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng killed Xun Zhenbei with the Innate One-Qi Separation-and-Union Annihilation Divine Light, fulfilling his Heart Demon Great Oath and uncovering the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Banners’ connection to a Demon Cave beneath Chilian Mountain. Three years later, Patriarch Qin summoned him, and he met his Third Senior Sister Han Ling’er, who proposed a spar.

• Lu Qingfeng killed Xun Zhenbei as he emerged from Mount Zhouyou, and Xun Zhenbei’s body and soul vanished, leaving his flying sword and Seven Emotions and Six Desires Banners behind.
• Lu Qingfeng analyzed the banners and learned that they could stabilize a Demon Cave and guide Demonic Beasts into the Spirit Domain; he decided not to investigate the cave beneath Chilian Mountain.
• Danxia Zi blamed Xun Zhenbei’s death on an expert from the Heart Demon lineage, while rumors claimed he had fallen into the demonic path; a Demon Cave entrance later appeared beneath Chilian Mountain’s Immortal-Crossing Bridge.
• Three years later, Patriarch Qin summoned Lu Qingfeng, who met his Third Senior Sister Han Ling’er at Heaven-Piercing Falls.
• Han Ling’er praised Lu Qingfeng’s rapid cultivation and suggested that they spar.

Patriarch Qin sent Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er to guard a newly discovered Demon Cave in Tai'e Ridge and temper themselves in the Demon Domain. After arriving, they met Han Ling'er's four disciples and inspected the array concealing the cave, where Han Ling'er proposed exploring the Demon Domain before the passage opened fully.

• Patriarch Qin told Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er to guard the Demon Cave in Tai'e Ridge, gave them Immortal Court General Seals and Azure Leaf Immortal Talismans, and ordered them to set out.
• Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er reached Tai'e Ridge and learned that its four Primordial Spirit cultivators, Zhang Zhan, Jun Liu, Gu Changzhou, and Feng Rou, were Han Ling'er's disciples.
• Lu Qingfeng gave each of Han Ling'er's disciples a bottle of Sea-Reflecting Pills, and Han Ling'er praised his generosity.
• Zhang Zhan led Lu Qingfeng and Han Ling'er to Sword-Controlling Peak and explained how Patriarch Qin had concealed the Demon Cave with an array.
• Han Ling'er suggested they explore the Demon Domain while the array still suppressed the Demon Cave and before experts on the other side discovered it.

After ten thousand years of conquest and cultivation, Lu Qingfeng reached the Heaven-Soaring Realm and entered the Starsea Realm to eliminate Qin Zhen. He killed Qin Zhen and ordered the Immortal Court to seize the Starsea Realm.

• Lu Qingfeng built the Immortal Court, conquered all nine continents of the Immortal Qin Realm, and advanced to the Heaven-Soaring Realm through cultivation and lectures.
• Lu Qingfeng left Ao Le and traveled to the Starsea Realm, where he discovered and took the corpse of Demon God Ming from the Cosmic Star Array.
• Qin Zhen emerged and attacked Lu Qingfeng with a sword empowered by the Immortal Qin Empire, the Cosmic Star Array, and billions of soldiers.
• Lu Qingfeng dispelled Qin Zhen's sword with the Five-Colored Divine Light, took his Son of Heaven Sword, and killed him with the Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Ao Le and ordered Zhang Shu and the other Emperor Lords to muster troops and seize the Starsea Realm.

Lu Qingfeng seized the Tomb of Gods after killing Qin Zhen, erased Qin Zhen’s traces, and helped Ao Le begin refining the treasure and the Realm of Everlasting Life. Ao Le started fighting the ancient Demon God Ji Hu to refine his tombstone, while Lu Qingfeng stood guard.

• Lu Qingfeng identified the Tomb of Gods as a Primordial Heavenly Court treasure that had let Qin Zhen resurrect, and used Five-Colored Divine Light to seize it before Qin Zhen could return.
• Lu Qingfeng erased Qin Zhen’s imprint from the Tomb of Gods and explained that he wanted Ao Le to refine it as a means of surviving death.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le entered the Tomb of Gods, where Ao Le refined the Realm of Everlasting Life as Lu Qingfeng fought off its terracotta warriors and horses with his Green Bamboo Staff and twelve Ironback Centipedes.
• After Ao Le refined the Realm of Everlasting Life, Lu Qingfeng explained that she still needed to defeat the wills within the tombs and refine all one thousand four hundred tombstones.
• Ao Le began refining the tombstone of the Primordial Demon God Ji Hu, who attacked her with an axe, and she used Cloud-Peak Step and Minor Thousandfold Thunder Prison to fight back while Lu Qingfeng guarded her.

Lu Qingfeng used the Tomb of Gods and his Spacetime Dao to prepare a way to cultivate in dreamscapes tied to the ancient Earth Immortal Realm, hoping to grow stronger and protect himself. After Ao Le finished refining the Tomb of Gods, he took her with him as they vanished into spacetime.

• Lu Qingfeng sensed that someone had detected the Tomb of Gods and decided he needed to improve his cultivation quickly.
• Purple Doll emerged and empowered Azure Bamboo Blessed Land, accelerating its passage of time and strengthening its world.
• Lu Qingfeng devised a plan to combine Carefree Dream Path, the Spacetime Dao, and the buried immortals' bodies to reach fragments of the ancient Earth Immortal Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le spent ten years preparing their methods while Ao Le refined the Tomb of Gods and Lu Qingfeng located a stable place to enter.
• After Ao Le completed the refinement, Lu Qingfeng began taking her and the Tomb of Gods into the Earth Immortal Realm through spacetime.

After Ao Le and Lu Qingfeng became immortals in Black Wind Mountain, they learned that the Heavenly Dao Hierarch had not yet arrived and that nearby demon kings ruled unchecked. Thirteen demon kings gathered and tried to recruit them, and Lu Qingfeng recognized Poison Dragon as a figure he had known from another realm.

• Ao Le transformed from a carp into a dragon and became an Earth Immortal after a hundred years, while Lu Qingfeng wondered why his own cultivation had advanced so quickly.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned the local Land Deity and Mountain God, who explained that they were in Black Wind Mountain territory on Two-Realm Mountain, where nine caves and ten ravines were ruled by demon kings.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that Great Emperor Gouchen had perished and inferred that the Heavenly Dao Hierarch had not yet reached the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Thirteen demon kings arrived, prompting the Land Deity and Mountain God to flee; Three-Tailed Blackfish invited Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le to join his command.
• Poison Dragon offered Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le places as sworn siblings in Poison Dragon Cave, and Lu Qingfeng recognized him as the Venerable Poison Dragon he remembered from the Galaxy Realm.

Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le settled near Black Wind Mountain to protect a nearby human city, where Lu Qingfeng stopped Venerable Poison Dragon from abducting two women. He fought Poison Dragon, stole his prized halberd, and continued the battle to temper his martial skills.

• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le declined Venerable Poison Dragon’s invitation to join his forces and left Black Wind Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng chose to settle near a nearby human city so he could protect its residents from the mountain’s man-eating demons.
• Venerable Poison Dragon abducted two sisters, but Lu Qingfeng intercepted him and sent the women to Ao Le.
• Poison Dragon attacked Lu Qingfeng, who seized the Blackglow Divine Halberd with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng fought Poison Dragon with his Green Bamboo Staff, testing his martial skills and strengthening his body and magic power.

Lu Qingfeng drove Poison Dragon away after a fierce battle, then brought the rescued sisters to Black Wind City and met its guardian, Ji Yaozi. He and Ao Le agreed to settle near Black Wind Mountain and help restrain its demon kings, while Ji Yaozi warned them that Three-Tailed Blackfish was the mountain’s most dangerous threat.

• Lu Qingfeng fought Poison Dragon to a standstill with the Green Bamboo Staff and drove him back to Black Wind Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le took the two rescued sisters to Black Wind City to settle them and met Ji Yaozi.
• Ji Yaozi explained Poison Dragon’s threat to the surrounding people, and Lu Qingfeng offered to help restrain the demons of Black Wind Mountain.
• Ji Yaozi welcomed Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le as allies and warned that Three-Tailed Blackfish, armed with a heavenly scripture and magic treasures, was especially formidable.

After more than eighty years protecting Black Wind Mountain, Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le entered seclusion while the local gods praised their deeds to the newly appointed Gouchen Emperor. As a heavenly tribulation gathered over Green Bamboo Mountain, the Emperor considered the two immortals useful recruits.

• Lu Qingfeng learned that cultivation in the ancient Earth Immortal Realm had four broad stages and set becoming a Celestial Immortal as his goal.
• More than eighty years later, the Black Wind Mountain City God and mountain god shared Lu Qingfeng’s immortal wine and discussed how he and Ao Le had kept the Demon Kings in check.
• The gods told the visiting Daoist about Green Bamboo Mountain and the two immortals’ deeds, then recognized him as Gouchen Emperor and knelt before him.
• The gods described how Lu Qingfeng had fought the nineteen Demon Kings and stopped the Three-Tailed Blackfish from eating humans.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered over Green Bamboo Mountain, and Gouchen Emperor considered Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le potential recruits.

Lu Qingfeng welcomed the newly appointed Gouchen Emperor, hoping to join his service, but the emperor fled after the Nine-Toothed Rake burst free, and later reports claimed he had died. With his plans disrupted, Lu Qingfeng stayed on Green Bamboo Mountain and began enhancing his cultivation method while Ao Le continued cultivating.

• Lu Qingfeng watched Ao Le prepare to face her fourth heavenly tribulation as the Gouchen Emperor arrived at Green Bamboo Mountain.
• The Gouchen Emperor offered Lu Qingfeng a place among the celestial ranks, but the Nine-Toothed Rake escaped and two pursuers drove him away before Lu Qingfeng could accept.
• Lu Qingfeng waited for the Gouchen Emperor to return, but three years later the mountain god and earth god reported that he had died after a series of battles and an ambush.
• Lu Qingfeng abandoned his hopes of relying on the Gouchen Emperor and decided to cultivate on Green Bamboo Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng spent his Celestial Immortal cultivation enhancing the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method, then spent thirty years recovering his cultivation and passing through the heavenly tribulations again.

After five hundred years of repeated cultivation and refinement, Lu Qingfeng raised the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method to Sect Master Grade and rapidly strengthened his body and cultivation. He discovered an array of Nether King Banners concealing powerful treasures, seized them and seven masterless treasures, then fled.

• Lu Qingfeng dispersed and rebuilt his cultivation repeatedly over five hundred years, deepening his understanding of the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method.
• Lu Qingfeng completed the method at Sect Master Grade and drew in spiritual energy while transforming into the Twelve Demon Gods, quickly surpassing his former cultivation and tempering an undying body.
• Lu Qingfeng's immense Demon God form shattered Green Bamboo Mountain's formations, startling Ao Le, before he sensed twelve Nether King Banners and hidden treasures to the south.
• Lu Qingfeng tried and failed to seize the treasures directly, then repeatedly used the Five-Colored Divine Light until he captured the unmastered Nether King Banners.
• Lu Qingfeng swept up the seven fleeing treasures, including the Eastern Emperor Bell and Apricot-Yellow Banner, then escaped through the void in his Di Jiang form.

Lu Qingfeng escaped Maitreya Buddha and the Jade Void Palace’s pursuers from the True-False Realm by abandoning several treasures, then returned to the Immortal Qin Realm with four treasures. He began examining them and discovered that the Heaven Centipede Bamboo Staff had become a Lower-Grade Spirit Treasure after crossing between spacetimes.

• Lu Qingfeng returned to Green Bamboo Mountain, gathered Ao Le and his seven Treasure Gourd Avatars, and tried to flee.
• Maitreya Buddha trapped Lu Qingfeng in a Buddha Kingdom, while Yellow-Brow Lad attacked with the Golden Cymbal and Human-Seeding Bag.
• Lu Qingfeng abandoned the Seven-Treasure Wondrous Tree, Apricot-Yellow Banner, and God-Striking Whip to escape with Ao Le to the Immortal Qin Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the pursuers would struggle to find them in the True-False Realm and celebrated bringing back four treasures.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the Heaven Centipede Bamboo Staff and found that it was now a Lower-Grade Spirit Treasure; he then began inspecting the Five-Colored Divine Light.

Lu Qingfeng examined the treasures brought back from the True and False Realm, gave Ao Le the Chaos Bell, and began secluded cultivation with her. After discovering that the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method’s path to the Dao was blocked by the Way of Heaven Sage, he resolved to keep cultivating it and find another way forward.

• Lu Qingfeng examined the Five-Colored Divine Light, Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, and Eastern Emperor Bell, identifying each as a powerful Top-Grade Spirit Treasure.
• Lu Qingfeng realized the treasures would return to their original space-time after three thousand years and gave Ao Le the Chaos Bell to refine.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le entered secluded cultivation in the Starsea Realm while the Guangyuan Celestial Court attacked the Immortal Qin Empire.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered that the original space-time’s Way of Heaven Sage had gathered the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ scattered thoughts, making his cultivation of the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method difficult.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the method’s path to transcendence was blocked, but decided to continue cultivating it and seek a new path once he grew stronger.

Lu Qingfeng cultivated in the True-False Realm for 120 years, refining the Dutian Nether King Banners and strengthening his Five-Colored Divine Light. When Yellow-Brow Patriarch arrived seeking the corpses of old friends, the two fought briefly before realizing they had misunderstood each other and parting peacefully.

• Lu Qingfeng used the twelve Dutian Nether King Banners to aid his cultivation and studied how to develop a different path with the Yellow Court Scripture.
• Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le continued cultivating in dreams for 120 years after Lu Qingfeng slew Qin Zhen and Ao Le refined the Tomb of Gods.
• Yellow-Brow Patriarch entered the Starsea Realm and used the Human-Seeding Bag to swallow millions of soldiers stationed in the Cosmic Star Array.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized Yellow-Brow Patriarch from the bag and swept the Human-Seeding Bag down with his Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng and Yellow-Brow Patriarch explained their purposes, discovered the encounter was a misunderstanding, and Yellow-Brow Patriarch returned the swallowed soldiers to the stars.

Lu Qingfeng gave Yellow-Brow Lad the remains of his four brothers, then hid Guangyuan Realm and entered a dream fragment to cultivate alone. There, he became a bamboo staff carried by a monkey who called himself the Handsome Monkey King, leaving Lu Qingfeng uncertain whether he had encountered the famous monkey from Flower-Fruit Mountain.

• Ao Le found the four Weasel Demons in the Tomb of Gods and gave their corpses to Yellow-Brow Lad, who thanked Lu Qingfeng and Ao Le before leaving.
• Lu Qingfeng fused Starsea Realm with the surrounding world to create Guangyuan Realm, concealed it with the Eastern Emperor Bell, and entered a dream fragment alone to cultivate.
• A monkey pulled up Lu Qingfeng, cut him into a bamboo staff, and carried him away; Lu Qingfeng accepted that he would have to endure the indignity while cultivating.
• Lesser demons on Gold-Silver Mountain chased the monkey, and the monkey escaped while vowing to return after finding an Immortal who could teach him to live forever.
• The monkey called himself the Handsome Monkey King, and Lu Qingfeng wondered if he was the famous monkey from Flower-Fruit Mountain, though he concluded the name might be a coincidence.
• The monkey asked woodcutters where to find immortals, learned that nearby demons ate monkeys, thanked one woodcutter with a peach, and hurried onward while Lu Qingfeng complained about being jolted around.

Lu Qingfeng accompanied a monkey on a ten-year search for immortals, then fled when the monkey found Slanting-Moon Three-Stars Cave and its Sage. The monkey chased him across ten thousand miles and revealed he was Six Ears, not the Handsome Monkey King from Flower-Fruit Mountain.

• Lu Qingfeng healed the monkey as they traveled, grew fond of him, and planned to take him as a disciple.
• After crossing the West Sea, the monkey reached the Continent of West Ox Congratulations and continued wandering with Lu Qingfeng.
• The monkey found Slanting-Moon Three-Stars Cave, and Lu Qingfeng fled to avoid Bodhi Patriarch and keep from interfering with the monkey's fate.
• The monkey chased Lu Qingfeng ten thousand miles and said he would not become anyone's disciple.
• The monkey identified himself as Six Ears, not the stone monkey from Flower-Fruit Mountain.

Lu Qingfeng discovered that the monkey he had traveled with was the Six-Eared Macaque and chose to stay with him, teaching him cultivation while the Stone Monkey entered Bodhi Patriarch’s mountain. Seven years after Six Ears began serious cultivation, he had reached the late Return to Void stage and was determined not to be surpassed.

• Lu Qingfeng recognized the monkey as Six Ears and decided not to abandon him, despite knowing the macaque’s future fate.
• Six Ears explained that he had refused to seek immortality at the Slanting-Moon Three-Stars Cave because he did not want to leave Lu Qingfeng.
• Lu Qingfeng taught Six Ears the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method and other arts after spending three years training his mind and manners.
• Six Ears reached the late Return to Void stage after three years of cultivation, while the Stone Monkey entered the immortal mountain and became a Daoist’s disciple.
• Six Ears learned through his Divine Ability that the Stone Monkey had joined the immortal mountain, then trained harder to keep from being surpassed.
• Another seven years passed as Six Ears continued cultivating with Lu Qingfeng.

For twenty-six years, Six Ears secretly learned profound cultivation methods and Divine Abilities and passed them off as insights of his own, greatly advancing Lu Qingfeng’s cultivation. After Lu Qingfeng exposed him, Six Ears confessed that he felt inferior to Stone Monkey, and Lu Qingfeng decided to take him out to gain experience.

• Six Ears secretly listened to something at night, then told Lu Qingfeng the next morning that he had gained another cultivation insight.
• Six Ears shared a transformed version of the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method, and Lu Qingfeng studied it and made rapid progress.
• Over the next three years, Six Ears shared increasingly powerful techniques and Divine Abilities, including the Seventy-Two Transformations, Cloud-Somersault, and Three Heads and Six Arms.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized that Six Ears had secretly learned these methods rather than comprehending them himself and confronted him.
• Six Ears admitted that he felt inferior to Stone Monkey, and Lu Qingfeng comforted him by pointing out the advantages Stone Monkey had enjoyed while training with Bodhi Patriarch.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to take Six Ears out to challenge celestial immortals and Demon Kings, and Green Bamboo transformed into a young man.

After leaving his master, Lu Qingfeng took Six Ears to Gold-Silver Mountain to test their skills against the Gold-Silver King, but the fierce battle drew Sun Wukong to the scene. The chapter ended with Wukong identifying himself and confronting the demon king.

• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears returned to Southern Jambudvipa and headed for Gold-Silver Mountain to challenge the Gold-Silver King.
• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears ambushed the Gold-Silver King, but he survived and overwhelmed Six Ears in their fight.
• Lu Qingfeng joined the battle with his Pure Bamboo Staff, and he and Six Ears fought the Gold-Silver King for hours without using their strongest abilities.
• The Gold-Silver King bound Lu Qingfeng with a rope refined from his fur, but Lu Qingfeng escaped, while Six Ears used Law-Heaven-Image-Earth to attack.
• Sun Wukong arrived, introduced himself as the Handsome Monkey King of Flower-Fruit Mountain, and accused the Gold-Silver King of killing countless people.

Lu Qingfeng intervened when Gold-Silver King nearly killed Wukong, but the Demon King survived being buried beneath Gold-Silver Mountain. Lingji Bodhisattva arranged for Huangfeng to blow the monkeys toward Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears arrived there as well.

• Gold-Silver King overpowered Wukong, and Lu Qingfeng blocked the Demon King's strike when Wukong exposed his back while lifting Gold-Silver Mountain.
• Wukong hurled the mountain at Gold-Silver King, but the Demon King cut his way out alive.
• Lingji Bodhisattva ordered Huangfeng to blow Wukong toward Flower-Fruit Mountain, and Huangfeng's wind swept Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears along with him.
• Lu Qingfeng and Six Ears recovered in a mountainous region, where Six Ears recognized Flower-Fruit Mountain as his home.