Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng toured the Silver Horn Mountain medicine garden with Wang Yuan and learned how the Sunset Glow Sect could help him obtain spirit medicines. The chapter left them looking up as several second-tier demon birds approached.

• Wang Yuan showed Lu Qingfeng the medicine garden and explained its sections and workers.
• Lu Qingfeng assessed the garden's supplies and asked Wang Yuan how to obtain large quantities of higher-grade spirit medicines.
• Wang Yuan explained that the sect could provide common medicines for Spirit Stones and arrange missions for uncommon ones.
• Lu Qingfeng decided Wang Yuan could be useful in handling affairs at Silver Horn Mountain and entrusted him with the medicine garden.
• Lu Qingfeng and Wang Yuan heard birds overhead, and Wang Yuan spotted several approaching second-tier demon birds.

Lu Qingfeng brought his seven spirit birds to Silver Horn Mountain and arranged for Wang Yuan to keep the sect from mistaking them for demons. Back in his cave abode, he focused on cultivating while considering how to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Wang Yuan prepared to defend the medicine garden against the approaching spirit birds, but Lu Qingfeng revealed that he had raised them.
• Lu Qingfeng fed the seven second-rank spirit birds pills and asked Wang Yuan to ensure the sect's demon-beast handlers would not attack them.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to his cave abode and concluded that securing a Foundation Establishment Pill was his most urgent concern.
• Lu Qingfeng swallowed Qi-Gathering Pills and circulated his three cultivation methods, refining the pills' medicinal power into True Qi.

Lu Qingfeng cultivated three powerful methods in reality while traveling and gathering resources in the game, keeping a low profile as his reputation spread through the Sunset Glow Sect. He planned to build up his defenses by collecting materials for stronger puppets and the Seven Baleful Banner.

• Lu Qingfeng circulated the Luofu Sword Canon, Iron Refining Body, and Twelve Dutian Demon God Method together, quickly refining pills and consuming their toxins.
• He traveled through the game world to analyze methods and gather resources, while abandoning the constant pursuit of higher alchemy and artifact-refining skill.
• Lu Qingfeng remained secluded on Silver Horn Mountain, leaving Wang Yuan to handle dealings as his high-quality pills and Dharma Artifacts became popular throughout the Sunset Glow Sect.
• His Spider Puppets gathered few Spirit Stones and incomplete materials, so Lu Qingfeng began seeking resources to make stronger puppets, including Tiger Demon Puppets.
• Lu Qingfeng collected materials for the Seven Baleful Banner, which could turn Incense Offerings into combat strength, and had left three Founder Statues in the Azure Origin Sword Sect’s Founders' Hall.

Over three years, Lu Qingfeng strengthened the Azure Origin Sword Sect and refined his powers while settling at the Sunset Glow Sect. As the sect began its three-year competition, Lu Qingfeng, Lu Qingyu, and Lu Qingshan headed to watch, with Lu Qingshan expected to dominate the True Qi Realm disciples.

• The Azure Origin Sword Sect became Shangyang Country's hegemon, and its twelve ancestral statues provided Lu Qingfeng with substantial yearly Heavenly Silver.
• Lu Qingfeng spent three years cultivating, refining pills and artifacts, and playing "Primordial World" at the Sunset Glow Sect.
• The Sunset Glow Sect held its mountain-opening recruitment and launched its once-every-three-years sect competition.
• Lu Qingyu teased Lu Qingshan about showing off, while Lu Qingfeng noted that Qingshan had advanced slightly ahead of her and was far stronger than the sect's other True Qi Realm disciples.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu mounted the third-rank Ironwing Flying Eagle and White Crane and flew toward Dao Debate Peak to attend the competition.

Lu Qingshan and his friends gathered for the Sunset Glow Sect’s three-year minor competition, where they speculated about the prizes and likely contenders. Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu arrived on their spirit birds, drawing the disciples’ attention, and Lu Qingyu went to find her second elder brother while Lu Qingfeng waited.

• Lu Qingshan discussed the competition’s rewards and contenders with Zhang Ye, Qian Yunhai, and Feng Bai.
• More than a thousand disciples and stewards gathered at Dao Debate Peak for the competition.
• Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu arrived on the Ironwing Flying Eagle and White Crane, stirring excitement among the disciples.
• Lu Qingyu left to find her second elder brother, while Lu Qingfeng stayed on the viewing platform to wait.

Lu Qingfeng analyzed the Black-Veined Golden-Spot Butterfly’s corpse and developed a way to repeatedly cultivate through two Spirit Void realms to gain experience. After spending that experience on new abilities and profound-grade cultivation methods, he emerged much stronger.

• Lu Qingyu spotted Lu Qingshan among the disciples and jumped down from the stands to join him.
• Lu Qingfeng analyzed the Black-Veined Golden-Spot Butterfly’s corpse, learning the Yin-Yang Nine-Turn Luminous Heart Canon and discovering the Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe and Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light.
• Lu Qingfeng repeatedly cultivated through the Spirit Void Heart Movement and Divine Silence realms, gaining over a hundred million experience points in three hundred years.
• Lu Qingfeng redeemed the Taiyin Calamity-Crossing Robe and other analyzed methods, then enhanced the Luofu Sword Canon to profound grade.
• Lu Qingfeng also enhanced the Twelve Dutian Demon God Method to profound grade.

Lu Qingfeng spent three centuries improving his methods and mastering spells, though his cultivation still failed to reach Core Formation in his eighth life. After leaving the Primordial World, he joined Sunset Glow Sect’s elders at Dao Debate Peak for the minor competition, where his dual mastery earned him the seat of honor beside Sect Master Zhou Yuan.

• Lu Qingfeng refined the Zhurong Demon God Method to Profound Grade and strengthened his foundation, but remained unable to form his core in this lifetime.
• Lu Qingfeng practiced numerous spells and Divine Abilities before sensing a Foundation Establishment cultivator approaching in reality and leaving the Primordial World.
• Zhou Yuan, the three Supreme Grand Elders, and the other elders arrived at Dao Debate Peak and apologized for making Lu Qingfeng wait.
• Lu Qingfeng explained that Lu Qingyu had urged him to arrive early, then accepted the honored seat beside Zhou Yuan at the elders’ urging.
• Lu Qingyu watched proudly as the disciples discussed Lu Qingfeng’s status, while Qian Yunhai looked forward to the elders’ competition rewards.
• Zhou Yuan asked the newly appointed Elder Yue Miaoyin what rewards she had prepared.

At the Sunset Glow Sect’s Dao Debate Peak, Yue Miaoyin and the other elders offered prizes for the minor competition before Lu Qingfeng presented a powerful Seven Baleful Banner. Sect Master Zhou Yuan answered with his Purple Radiance Pearl, and the elders prepared to rank the offerings for the competing disciples.

• Yue Miaoyin offered Cold Jade from the Weeping Marsh as a reward for the minor competition.
• The Sunset Glow Sect’s elders and Supreme Elders contributed pills, Talisman Artifacts, and rare treasures, with Zhang Cheng, Mo Han, and Elder Guqin among the most generous.
• Lu Qingfeng offered his Seven Baleful Banner, which contained seven guardians at the peak of the True Qi Realm and could potentially be refined to Foundation Establishment level.
• Zhou Yuan offered the Purple Radiance Pearl, a first-order defensive magical artifact he had relied on when he was younger.
• Zhou Yuan explained that the elders would rank the offerings so disciples would receive prizes according to their competition results.

Lu Qingshan swept through four rounds of the Sunset Glow Sect’s minor competition and advanced to the finals, drawing attention as a dark horse. Zhou Yuan praised his skill, while Lu Qingfeng dismissed his brother’s cultivation as unimpressive and said his mastery of spells was what made him formidable.

• Zhou Yuan announced the competition’s rankings and rewards, including the Seven Baleful Banner for first place, then officially began the minor competition.
• Eight Foundation Establishment elders, including Yue Miaofa, took positions at the spellcasting platforms to oversee the matches.
• Lu Qingshan defeated his first three opponents with Sword Qi and the Wind-Riding Art, advancing through the opening rounds.
• Lu Qingshan beat Zhou Chu, a Ninth Layer True Qi Realm disciple and True Disciple, to reach the finals.
• Zhou Yuan admired Lu Qingshan’s deep foundation and powerful spells, while Lu Qingfeng said his younger brother relied on spells rather than cultivation.

After Lu Qingshan won the Sunset Glow Sect’s competition, Lu Qingfeng met with sect master Zhou Yuan to discuss the Hundred Herbs Garden. Zhou Yuan explained its rules and the valuable Revival Fruits within it, leaving Lu Qingfeng aware of the treasure’s life-extending power.

• Lu Qingshan defeated the Sunset Glow Sect’s True Qi Realm competitors and won the seven-day competition, earning recognition for himself and renewed interest in Lu Qingfeng.
• Mei Jiancheng thanked Lu Qingfeng on Zhou Chu’s behalf and said the defeat might spur Zhou Chu to cultivate harder.
• Lu Qingfeng met Zhou Yuan at Bowang Platform and said he had come to discuss the Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Zhou Yuan described the Hundred Herbs Garden’s history, entry limits, Spirit Stone requirements, and medicinal resources.
• Zhou Yuan explained that the Revival Fruit Tree produced twelve fruits every thirty-six years and that each fruit could extend a cultivator’s lifespan by ten years.

Lu Qingfeng learned the details of the Revival Fruit and the competing forces in Hundred Herbs Garden, then explained why he had prepared the Seven Baleful Banner for Lu Qingshan. Zhou Yuan realized Lu Qingfeng had come to Hundred Herbs Garden for a reason beyond his younger brother, but the chapter ended before Lu Qingfeng revealed it.

• Zhou Yuan told Lu Qingfeng that Hundred Herbs Garden held Revival Fruits and was contested by the Four Gathering Cloud Sects, the Sanyuan Demon Sect, and the Six Yang Veins.
• Zhou Yuan explained that Lu Qingshan had earned a place in Hundred Herbs Garden by winning the minor competition and that the Seven Baleful Banner would strengthen Sunset Glow Sect's group.
• Lu Qingfeng said he had refined the Seven Baleful Banner to help protect Lu Qingshan, while still supporting his younger brother's independence and entry into the garden.
• Zhou Yuan praised Lu Qingshan's prospects and asked what had brought Lu Qingfeng to Hundred Herbs Garden, since he now knew it was not simply concern for his brother.

Lu Qingfeng asked Zhou Yuan for a place in the Hundred Herbs Garden so he could find rare spirit medicines, including those needed for Foundation Establishment Pills and the Revival Fruit. Zhou Yuan warned him that the garden was deadly, then questioned Lu Qingfeng’s concealed cultivation, and Lu Qingfeng claimed he was only at the Foundation Liquid Condensation Realm.

• Lu Qingfeng told Zhou Yuan he wanted to enter the Hundred Herbs Garden to seek the Revival Fruit and other spirit medicines.
• Zhou Yuan warned that the garden’s formations, restrictions, and hostile cultivators made it dangerous, and urged Lu Qingfeng to let the sect’s elders gather medicines instead.
• Lu Qingfeng insisted that he needed to find the Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients himself rather than risk waiting another twelve years.
• Zhou Yuan questioned why he could not perceive Lu Qingfeng’s cultivation, and Lu Qingfeng attributed it to his special cultivation technique and said he was at the Foundation Liquid Condensation Realm.

Lu Qingfeng accepted that he would enter the Hundred Herbs Garden despite his worries about Root Bone and cultivation, while the Sunset Glow Sect’s leaders debated his request. The chapter ended with Yue Lingxi concluding that Lu Qingfeng would have to enter alongside them.

• Lu Qingfeng persuaded Zhou Yuan with detailed knowledge of Foundation Liquid Condensation cultivation, and Zhou Yuan promised to consult the three Supreme Elders and answer in three days.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to Silver Horn Mountain and worried that Lu Qingyu’s poor Root Bone and limited experience would slow her cultivation compared with Lu Qingshan’s.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected on his own progress toward Foundation Establishment and decided that entering the Hundred Herbs Garden was important for Qingyu’s safety and his need for a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lu Qingfeng prepared to enter the Hundred Herbs Garden by reviewing his artifacts, spells, and plans for dealing with its formations and restrictions.
• Zhou Yuan told Mei Qingyan, Sui Hanshan, and Yue Lingxi about Lu Qingfeng’s firm intention to enter the Hundred Herbs Garden, and Yue Lingxi concluded that he would have to accompany them.

Yue Lingxi persuaded the Sunset Glow Sect leaders to secure Lu Qingfeng a place in the Hundred Herbs Garden, even declaring she would risk her life to protect him there. In Shangyang Country, the Azure Origin Sword Sect’s strongest disciples learned they could attempt a trial through the Weeping Marsh to reach the Biyang Lake cultivation world, but they debated whether to go now or improve their chances first.

• Yue Lingxi argued that the Sunset Glow Sect should grant Lu Qingfeng a Hundred Herbs Garden spot to preserve their relationship and recruit him, offering to protect him at the cost of her life.
• Zhou Yuan, Sui Hanshan, and Mei Qingyan accepted Yue Lingxi’s reasoning, and Lu Qingfeng received word that the sect had settled his entry into the garden.
• Zhang Bo, Ma Wenju, Xie Tian, Xie Di, and Han Baiyun gathered after learning that disciples at the fourth layer of the True Qi Realm could attempt the Weeping Marsh trial to reach Biyang Lake.
• Ma Wenju and Xie Di urged the group to cultivate further and learn practical techniques before attempting the trial, while Han Baiyun warned that scarce supplies would make advancement difficult.

Lu Qingfeng used the Great Art of Peering into Heaven and Measuring the Earth to observe the Azure Origin Sword Sect and planned to turn its disciples into scouts and allies across the cultivation world. He sent the sect crafting methods and prepared to use hardship and trials to select disciples worthy of crossing the Weeping Marsh.

• Lu Qingfeng watched Zhang Bo's five sons discuss the Weeping Marsh trial through his Great Art of Peering into Heaven and Measuring the Earth.
• After learning of the Hundred Herbs Garden, Lu Qingfeng decided the Azure Origin Sword Sect could search the cultivation world for rare resources and treasure lands on his behalf.
• Lu Qingfeng planned to select capable disciples, lead them across the Weeping Marsh, and spread them through the cultivation world while expanding Shangyang Country.
• Lu Qingfeng sent the Azure Origin Sword Sect methods for alchemy, talisman-making, and artifact refinement, and decided to stop supplying its disciples with pills directly.
• Lu Qingfeng intended to use stricter cultivation conditions and the Weeping Marsh trial to test the disciples' talent, character, and loyalty.

Lu Qingfeng planned to bind the Azure Origin Sword Sect’s far-flung branches through missions, merit, and rewards, and began seeking formations to make the system work. At Bowang Platform, he prepared Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu to enter the Hundred Herbs Garden, warning them to meet up and stay alert.

• Lu Qingfeng considered how to keep the Azure Origin Sword Sect’s branches united and concluded that disciples needed tangible benefits such as cultivation methods, spirit pills, and magical artifacts.
• Lu Qingfeng envisioned a Main God Space-like system in which disciples completed missions for rewards, then identified reward distribution and resource collection as problems that might require teleportation formations.
• After eight years in the game and a month in reality, Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingyu arrived at Bowang Platform, where Sunset Glow Sect disciples and elders greeted them.
• Lu Qingshan told Lu Qingfeng that he had refined four layers of restrictions on the Seven Baleful Banner.
• Lu Qingfeng told Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu to agree on a meeting place in the Hundred Herbs Garden and warned them about the Demon Race, demonic sects, and rival sects; Lu Qingyu showed eagerness to enter.

The Sunset Glow Sect assembled its team to enter the Hundred Herbs Garden, with Lu Qingfeng joining Yue Lingxi, Mei Jiancheng, Yue Miaoyin, and eighteen disciples. After setting off from Bowang Platform on spirit mounts, the group began its journey to the garden.

• Mei Qingyan warned Lu Qingfeng about the Hundred Herbs Garden’s dangers, but Lu Qingfeng refused to withdraw, and Yue Lingxi promised to protect him.
• Zhou Quan and the elders gathered with the chosen cultivators, including Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu, before the group set off for the garden.
• The Sunset Glow Sect’s riders mounted Curlfeather Pelicans and other spirit beasts, while Zhou Quan and the elders arranged their mounts.
• Lu Qingyu complained that the Curlfeather Pelicans were ugly and slow, and Lu Qingfeng explained how difficult spirit birds were to tame and raise.

The Sunset Glow Sect arrived at Windhowl Cliff, where the other three Gathering Cloud Sects had gathered for the opening of Hundred Herbs Garden. Lu Qingfeng assessed the rival sects and exchanged wary courtesies with Scarlet Rainbow Sect master Yang Bufan as the four groups prepared to enter the garden.

• The Sunset Glow Sect reached Windhowl Cliff at sunset and found the Scarlet Rainbow Sect, Golden Billows Sect, and Demon-Slaying Fort already there.
• Lu Qingfeng recognized the leaders Yang Bufan, Jin Jiuxiao, and Feng Yun and considered the rivalries and resource struggles among the four sects.
• Yue Lingxi warned Lu Qingfeng to stay close to her inside Hundred Herbs Garden because the other sects might pose a danger.
• Lu Qingfeng studied the other sects' cultivators with Grand Luo Insight and asked Yue Lingxi about their experts.
• Yang Bufan praised Lu Qingfeng's alchemy and artifice skills, and Lu Qingfeng replied politely while suspecting the sect master's flattery concealed an ulterior motive.

Lu Qingfeng divined that the Luofu Sword Sect was closing in on his identity because of the Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners, so he decided to leave the Chiyan Realm. He departed for Luofu Mountain and sent a storage pouch to repay a favor to a Primordial Spirit cultivator there.

• Yang Bufan invited Lu Qingfeng to visit the Scarlet Rainbow Sect, but Lu Qingfeng gave a noncommittal reply and Zhou Yuan objected to the poaching.
• Lu Qingfeng calculated that immortal sects, especially the Luofu Sword Sect, were tracing his reincarnations and the Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to leave the Chiyan Realm and took the twelve Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners with him.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived at Luofu Mountain and sent a storage pouch to the newly appointed master of Still True Peak to repay an old favor.
• The white-robed Daoist broke the pouch’s restriction and raised his brows after examining its contents.

Lu Qingfeng left the Chiyan Realm after entrusting the Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners to Daoist Ironfeather and began preparing for a new reincarnation. While investigating his sudden unease, he discovered that Yang Bufan and Scarlet Rainbow Sect elders planned to kill him and Yue Miaoyin in the Hundred Herbs Garden, and learned that the sect had murdered Yue Changchun.

• Lu Qingfeng gave the Dutian Blazing Fire Divine Banners to Daoist Ironfeather, then died and departed the Chiyan Realm without leaving a trace of his divine soul.
• Daoist Ironfeather arrived too late to find Lu Qingfeng and returned to Luofu Mountain to report the banners to the sect’s true immortal ancestors.
• After waking from the game, Lu Qingfeng used Seven-Bird Feathers and the Heaven-Peering Earth-Reading Grand Art to investigate his unease.
• Lu Qingfeng overheard Yang Bufan order Scarlet Rainbow Sect elders to kill him and Yue Miaoyin in the Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Lu Qingfeng realized that Scarlet Rainbow Sect cultivators had killed Yue Changchun and resolved that the sect had made a grave mistake by targeting him.