Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng and the other cultivators entered the Hundred Herbs Garden, where Spirit Stones determined how long they could remain. After arriving in the garden, Lu Qingfeng tested whether his sword-movement divine ability could overcome its suppressive pressure.

• The Hundred Herbs Garden opened at Windhowl Cliff, and Lu Qingfeng warned Lu Qingyu to beware of the other sects, Demon Race, and demonic cultivators.
• Yue Lingxi reminded Lu Qingfeng that Foundation Establishment cultivators needed Spirit Stones to remain in the garden and could escape by placing them in their storage bags.
• Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu entered first, followed by Lu Qingfeng and the Foundation Establishment cultivators, including the four smiling elders of the Scarlet Rainbow Sect.
• Outside the sealed gates, Feng Yun and Yang Bufan questioned Zhou Yuan's decision to send Lu Qingfeng into the garden, leaving Zhou Yuan uneasy.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived in the garden, stored most of his Spirit Stones, and activated Light-Splitting Shadow-Transforming Void Sword Movement to test the garden's pressure.

Lu Qingfeng used his newly evolved divine ability, Grand Luo Insight, to break through the restrictions on a mountain in the Hundred Herbs Garden and gather spirit medicines. He headed toward Tianyang Mountain, where the first Revival Fruits were expected to ripen, while reflecting on why the Four Gathering Cloud Sects kept Rogue Cultivators out of the garden.

• Lu Qingfeng found that the garden suppressed his speed and increased his True Qi consumption, so he consulted his map and set out on foot toward Tianyang Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng entered a nearby mountain and used Grand Luo Insight to see through and dismantle its restrictions with Sword Qi.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered thirteen Earth Pear Fruits, assessed their value, and considered how profitable gathering the garden’s spirit medicines could be.
• Lu Qingfeng recalled Yue Lingxi’s explanation that the Four Gathering Cloud Sects barred Rogue Cultivators because of disputes over compensation and concerns about how they would handle the medicines.
• Lu Qingfeng noted that the sects and the Sanyuan Demon Sect and Tianyang Demon Race fought most fiercely over Revival Fruits and third-rank spirit medicines.

Lu Qingfeng used Grand Luo Insight to bypass the Hundred Herbs Garden’s restrictions and gathered valuable spirit medicines, focusing on third-tier mountain peaks. A fifth-tier Greenback Centipede attacked him, and his Zhurong Demon God burned away its poisonous mist as the battle continued.

• Lu Qingfeng quickly gathered Frostmist Grass and other spirit medicines by using Grand Luo Insight to break through mountain restrictions.
• Lu Qingfeng focused on third-tier medicine mountains and collected many rare spirit medicines over several days.
• A fifth-tier Greenback Centipede ambushed Lu Qingfeng as he traveled between medicine mountains.
• Lu Qingfeng summoned the Zhurong Demon God, which the Greenback Centipede mistook for a cultivator from the Sanyuan Demon Sect.
• The Zhurong Demon God burned away the centipede’s poisonous mist with Dutian Blazing Fire, but the centipede endured the flames and reached it.

Lu Qingfeng used Zhurong Demon God to restrain the Greenback Centipede, then killed it with Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light. After claiming its Spirit Stones, he continued through the Hundred Herbs Garden and encountered more enemies.

• Zhurong Demon God fought the Greenback Centipede with Zhurong Divine Flame but began to lose the stalemate.
• Lu Qingfeng struck the centipede with Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light, and Zhurong Demon God burned it to death.
• Lu Qingfeng took the centipede’s storage pouch and found two hundred Spirit Stones along with spirit medicines.
• Lu Qingfeng continued along his original route through the Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Over the next few days, Lu Qingfeng encountered another demonic cultivator and a cultivator from the Tianyang Demon Race.

Lu Qingfeng obtained three Spirit Candle Fruits on the fourteenth day in the Hundred Herbs Garden, securing the main ingredient for Foundation Establishment Pills. When Sun Fang tried to use Lu Qingfeng as a distraction while fleeing four Senyuan Demon Sect cultivators, Lu Qingfeng blocked him and attacked; Sun Fang’s shield shattered and his flying sword was thrown out of control.

• Lu Qingfeng slew the demonic and Demon Race cultivators who attacked him, gaining four hundred Spirit Stones.
• On the fourteenth day, Lu Qingfeng found and harvested three ripe Spirit Candle Fruits, enough for a batch of Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Lu Qingfeng descended Spirit Candle Mountain and encountered Sun Fang fleeing four Senyuan Demon Sect cultivators.
• Sun Fang tried to pass Lu Qingfeng and block his escape, but Lu Qingfeng used the Vajra Spell to stop him.
• Lu Qingfeng struck Sun Fang with thunder, shattered his Twelve Locust Shield, and used Magnetic Annihilation Sword Qi to send Sun Fang’s flying sword off course.

Lu Qingfeng killed Sun Fang with Palm Thunder, then turned to fight four demonic cultivators. He overwhelmed them with layered techniques but failed to break through the hunched old man’s third-grade talisman, leaving the battle unresolved as he escaped its suppressive force.

• Lu Qingfeng struck Sun Fang with Palm Thunder, learned that the Scarlet Rainbow Sect’s master had ordered his death, and killed him with Sword Qi.
• Lu Qingfeng faced four demonic cultivators and used Light-Splitting Shadow-Transforming Void Sword Movement to confuse them before attacking the hunched old man.
• Lu Qingfeng used Zhurong Demon God and the Seven Baleful Banner to hold back the other three demonic cultivators while he attacked the old man.
• The old man used a third-grade Three Mountains Talisman to swallow Lu Qingfeng’s Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light and suppress him.
• Lu Qingfeng used Cloud-Peak Step to break free of the Three Mountains’ suppressive force, shocking the hunched old man.

Lu Qingfeng battled Elder Yun and three demonic cultivators, using his many techniques and summons to keep them occupied. He outlasted the Three Mountains Talisman and laughed as its final use crumbled it to dust.

• Elder Yun and Lu Qingfeng were both astonished by the other's power, while Lu Qingfeng replenished his summons with Heavenly Silver and restored his own true qi with pills.
• Lu Qingfeng released his Dharma-Form Puppet to hold off Elder Yun while he moved to attack the gloomy cultivator.
• Elder Yun used the Three Mountains Talisman to suppress the puppet, then hurried to protect the gloomy cultivator and activated the talisman for the last time.
• The Three Mountains Talisman crumbled after its final use, and Lu Qingfeng laughed that Elder Yun had run out of tricks.

Lu Qingfeng killed Yun Changshui and the other demonic cultivators in the Hundred Herbs Garden, then gathered their Storage Bags and Spirit Stones. With the Foundation Establishment Pill ingredients secured, he decided to remain on Silver Horn Mountain until he reached Foundation Establishment.

• Lu Qingfeng killed the gloomy cultivator with Great Sun Nirvana Divine Light and dodged Elder Yun's Three Mountains Talisman while the Zhurong Demon God absorbed its blow.
• Elder Yun recognized that the fight was lost and tried to flee, while Lu Qingfeng's Zhurong Demon God recovered and reappeared beneath the mountains.
• Lu Qingfeng blocked Yun Changshui's escape and left the two abandoned cultivators to be burned to ashes by the Zhurong Demon God and the seven vicious fiends.
• Lu Qingfeng and his summoned forces surrounded Yun Changshui, and the Zhurong Demon God tore him apart and burned his body after Lu Qingfeng gravely wounded him.
• Lu Qingfeng collected five Storage Bags and reflected that he had gained sixteen hundred Spirit Stones, then resolved to stay on Silver Horn Mountain until he reached Foundation Establishment.

After two months of fighting in the Hundred Herbs Garden, Lu Qingfeng had killed seventeen opponents and amassed Spirit Stones and spirit medicines. He entered his ninth life in the newly discovered Evergreen Realm, learned that cultivation had only recently become possible there, and began rapidly raising his cultivation with experience points.

• Lu Qingfeng collected the spoils from Sun Fang and the four demon cultivators, destroyed their bodies and storage bags, and fled to recover his true qi.
• Over two months in the Hundred Herbs Garden, Lu Qingfeng killed seventeen members of the Demon Race, demon cultivators, and Scarlet Rainbow Sect cultivators, while passing peacefully by cultivators from Demon-Slaying Fort and the Golden Billows Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng reached Rainbow-Robe Mountain and, after sixteen years in the game, entered his ninth life through the Rebirth Pool.
• Lu Qingfeng discovered that the new world was the Evergreen Realm and read that an Evil Dragon's defeat had split the realm and led to 5,600 years of Heaven-Severing and Earth-Isolating.
• Lu Qingfeng learned that the Dipper Ministry had recently sent stellar power to revive the realm's spiritual qi, then used experience points to raise his three techniques to the sixth layer of the True Qi Realm in one month.

Lu Qingfeng learned how spiritual energy’s revival had reshaped the Evergreen Realm and set out for General Ridge to investigate the struggling God-Seeking Abbey. As the abbey’s young master Ren Changsheng failed to break through to the Heavenly Realm, the Immortal-Questioning Tower’s forces closed in on the ridge.

• Lu Qingfeng reached the Sixth Layer True Qi Realm and learned how the Central Plains’ expansion had unleashed feudal lords and raised powerful sects across Jing Kingdom.
• The Star-Judging Sect, Flying Phoenix Pavilion, and Purple Cloud Palace each claimed a Spirit Mountain, while the Jing Royal House established the Immortal-Questioning Tower to compete for power.
• A fourth Spirit Mountain emerged at General Ridge, drawing the Jing Royal House and the three sects to compete for its inheritances.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to visit the God-Seeking Abbey at General Ridge and flew there on a Dark Eagle.
• At the God-Seeking Abbey, Ren Changsheng could not break through to the Heavenly Realm as Chen Fengyu warned that the Immortal-Questioning Tower had breached the ridge’s defenses and could attack within three days.

Ren Changsheng and the other disciples faced Immortal-Questioning Tower’s assault on General Ridge, while Guanlanzi held back because of the God-Seeking Abbey’s connection to his sect. Lu Qingfeng observed the siege and learned of the abbey’s ancient ties to the Thunder Ministry.

• Ren Changsheng worried that he could not protect the God-Seeking Abbey, and thunderous sounds revealed that Immortal-Questioning Tower had arrived.
• Immortal-Questioning Tower’s forces pressed through the Demon-Slaying Evil-Breaking Five-Thunder Grand Array as Ren Changsheng and the other three disciples watched.
• Chu Tianhe urged the disciples to surrender and join Immortal-Questioning Tower, but Chen Fengyu refused to yield General Ridge.
• Guanlanzi told Mu Xing that the Star-Judging Sect and God-Seeking Abbey shared a connection, so he would not worsen the attack on the abbey’s juniors.
• Lu Qingfeng watched the siege and overheard Guanlanzi explain the abbey’s origins.

Lu Qingfeng arrived at Thundercry Mountain to claim its spirit mountain and seek the God-Seeking Abbey’s inheritance, especially knowledge of Teleportation Formations. As the Immortal-Questioning Tower continued breaking the formation, he appeared before the gathered forces and claimed a family connection to the abbey, leaving Ren Changsheng cautiously hopeful.

• Lu Qingfeng observed the Star-Judging Sect, Flying Phoenix Pavilion, and Purple Cloud Palace waiting while the Immortal-Questioning Tower attacked the formation around Thundercry Mountain.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to claim the spirit mountain and investigate the God-Seeking Abbey for cultivation inheritances and knowledge of Teleportation Formations.
• Lu Qingfeng rode Dark Eagle into the open and shouted at the Immortal-Questioning Tower for acting recklessly at the God-Seeking Abbey.
• Ren Xiaoyao welcomed Lu Qingfeng’s apparent aid, while Zhang Wen warned that his unknown origins made him untrustworthy.
• Lu Qingfeng told Chu Tianhe that his grandfather had been a personal disciple of Fuyaozi and that he had come to fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish.
• Ren Changsheng recalled that Fuyaozi had many disciples and concluded that Lu Qingfeng’s claim might be true.

Lu Qingfeng defended God-Seeking Abbey by driving Immortal-Questioning Tower’s forces away from General Ridge with the Water Dragon Art. The attackers withdrew, leaving Lu Qingfeng and the abbey in control of the retreat’s outcome.

• Ren Changsheng identified Lu Qingfeng as a senior brother of God-Seeking Abbey, while Guanlanzi watched him from the forest.
• Lu Qingfeng warned Immortal-Questioning Tower to leave General Ridge, then used the Water Dragon Art to hurl more than a hundred of its fighters far away.
• The onlookers were shocked by Lu Qingfeng’s powerful technique, and Ren Changsheng and the others celebrated the strength of their new protector.
• Chu Tianhe acknowledged that Immortal-Questioning Tower was no match for Lu Qingfeng and announced the group’s withdrawal.
• Chu Tianhe led his forces away, bitter over another failed attempt to seize a Spirit Mountain, while Lu Qingfeng watched them go.

Lu Qingfeng faced the leaders of the Star-Judging Sect, Purple Cloud Palace, and Flying Phoenix Pavilion at God-Seeking Abbey, then defeated the Five-Colored Phoenix in a fierce battle. He claimed the phoenix and Flying Phoenix Pavilion for the abbey and ordered its remaining protectors to return to Calf-Holding Mountain.

• Guanlanzi and the Star-Judging Sect revealed themselves, followed by Changsun Nishang and the people of Purple Cloud Palace.
• The Five-Colored Phoenix challenged Lu Qingfeng, who answered with Light-Splitting Shadow-Transforming Void Sword Movement.
• Lu Qingfeng overwhelmed the Five-Colored Phoenix, leaving it badly injured and its will shattered.
• Lu Qingfeng declared the Five-Colored Phoenix the spirit beast of God-Seeking Abbey and Flying Phoenix Pavilion a secondary residence of the abbey.
• Golden-Eyed Tiger demanded to know what Lu Qingfeng had done to its Great Sage, and Lu Qingfeng struck it down with thunder.
• Lu Qingfeng ordered the other four protectors to return to Calf-Holding Mountain and manage Flying Phoenix Pavilion until his people arrived.

After defeating Great Sage Flying Phoenix, Lu Qingfeng saw Changsun Nishang and Guanlanzi off and reunited with his fellow disciples at God-Seeking Abbey. He offered to teach them Palm Thunder, then examined the abbey’s ancient cultivation records and considered how limited cultivation had become in the Evergreen Realm.

• Lu Qingfeng ordered Flying Phoenix Pavilion’s four remaining protectors to leave General Ridge with the wounded Golden-Eyed Tiger.
• Lu Qingfeng bid farewell to Changsun Nishang and Guanlanzi, who departed with their disciples.
• Changsun Nishang told her disciples that Lu Qingfeng’s strength might surpass the Divine Realm and urged them to keep training.
• Lu Qingfeng reunited with Ren Changsheng, Zhang Wenye, Chen Fengyu, and Ren Xiaoyao, then explained that he had learned Palm Thunder while traveling and offered to teach it to them.
• Lu Qingfeng studied the Secret Record of God-Seeking and the Thirty-Sixfold Record of God-Seeking, noting that the latter described cultivation methods that reached only the Late Stage of the Embryonic Breath Realm.

Lu Qingfeng examined the God-Seeking Abbey’s records and discovered that the Secret Record of God-Seeking contained a powerful cultivation method, a Thunder Technique, and a valuable formation classic. He found that the classic explained Teleportation Formations, leaving him eager to study its formation principles.

• Lu Qingfeng dismissed the incomplete Thirty-Sixfold Record of God-Seeking and recorded the Secret Record of God-Seeking in his Attribute Panel.
• He discovered that the Secret Record of God-Seeking included the Transcendent-Grade Divine Firmament Five-Thunder Evil-Breaking Method and the Orthodox-Grade True Exposition of the Celestial Lord's Formation Dao.
• Lu Qingfeng concluded that the later God-Seeking Abbey disciples had treasured the derivative record while neglecting the more fundamental Secret Record of God-Seeking.
• He chose to focus on studying the Thunder Technique and formation classic rather than immediately cultivating the Secret Record of God-Seeking.
• Lu Qingfeng found that the True Exposition of the Celestial Lord's Formation Dao contained instruction on Teleportation Formations, which he planned to study after mastering its foundations.

Lu Qingfeng became the twentieth-generation master of God-Seeking Abbey and began rebuilding its strength while studying formations and refining its accumulated incense into Heavenly Silver. He assigned Ren Changsheng and the others tasks to recruit disciples and support local feudal lords, then inspected three spirit plants on Thundercry Mountain.

• Lu Qingfeng studied the True Exposition of the Celestial Lord's Formation Dao and decided to develop his skill in formations.
• Ren Changsheng yielded the abbey master position to Lu Qingfeng, who formally took over God-Seeking Abbey.
• Lu Qingfeng refined incense from God-Seeking Abbey and General's Temple into ten liang of Heavenly Silver, which strengthened the Zhurong Demon God.
• Lu Qingfeng told Ren Changsheng, Zhang Wenye, Chen Fengyu, and Ren Xiaoyao to prepare to open the mountain gates, recruit disciples, and support mortal feudal lords.
• Lu Qingfeng inspected the Heavenly Crystal Cherry Tree, Seven-Radiance Lotus, and Azure Thunder Bamboo on Thundercry Mountain.

Lu Qingfeng assigned the Five-Colored Phoenix to guard General Ridge’s spiritual treasures and learned that Calf-Holding Mountain held a Scarlet Fruit Tree. He sent Ren Changsheng to gather ingredients for Seven Radiances Pills and used Heavenly Silver to accelerate his study of restrictions.

• Lu Qingfeng entrusted the Azure Thunder Bamboo, Seven-Radiance Lotuses, and Heavenly Crystal Cherry Tree to the subdued Five-Colored Phoenix, ordering her to guard them at General Ridge.
• The Five-Colored Phoenix told Lu Qingfeng that Calf-Holding Mountain’s Scarlet Fruit Tree had borne three fruits, which she had already eaten.
• Lu Qingfeng returned to God-Seeking Abbey and sent Ren Changsheng to collect ingredients for refining Seven Radiances Pills.
• Lu Qingfeng studied restrictions from the True Exposition of the Celestial Lord's Formation Dao and burned Heavenly Silver to strengthen his comprehension and replenish his mental energy.

Lu Qingfeng swept across the Seven Kingdoms for eight years, collecting cultivation manuals and building God-Seeking Abbey into Jing Kingdom’s foremost sect. The chapter ended as an old Daoist and his young disciple traveled to seek Iron Curtain Marquis’s patronage, hoping the youth could study at the abbey.

• Lu Qingfeng descended from General Ridge and used his strength to borrow inheritances from Spirit Mountains and other sites across the Seven Kingdoms.
• Eight years later, an old Daoist and his young disciple headed toward Lei Prefecture to offer their services to Iron Curtain Marquis.
• The old Daoist hoped to send his disciple to God-Seeking Abbey, while the young Daoist vowed to earn a Heavenly Immortal Pill for his master.
• The chapter recounted how Guangyuanzi gained renown across the Seven Kingdoms and made God-Seeking Abbey the strongest sect in Jing Kingdom.
• Seven Divine Realm experts in God-Seeking Abbey survived the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation and reached the Calamity Realm.

Lu Qingfeng reviewed the major powers of Jing Kingdom and the rare cultivation methods he had gathered over eight years. After receiving the Prison-Holding Heart Canon, he planned to keep searching Spirit Mountains for more true arts.

• The chapter described how Jing Kingdom’s four immortal sects and four feudal lords came to dominate their respective borders, with the God-Seeking Abbey Master standing above the rest.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the classics and secret arts he had collected through the God-Seeking Abbey and the Iron Curtain Marquis’s Estate.
• He identified the Nine-Colored Phoenix Art, the Yellow Robe True Formula, and the newly obtained Prison-Holding Heart Canon among the rare Unorthodox-Grade methods he had gathered.
• Lu Qingfeng decided that traveling through Spirit Mountains offered the best route to finding more true arts.