Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingfeng realized that the Evergreen Realm’s inheritances mostly belonged to the Thunder Ministry’s lineages and decided to wait for more spiritual mountains to appear before seeking further true methods. After studying formation restrictions, he headed to Tianyang Mountain as three Revival Fruits neared ripening.

• Lu Qingfeng connected the Evergreen Realm’s immortal sects and their thunder-based inheritances to the Thunder Ministry, then concluded that he could keep pursuing true methods without worrying about offending its Great Gods.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to focus on cultivating at General Ridge and studying formation dao, and he granted Daoist Changfeng and Wang Xuan permission to enter the sect with pills as rewards.
• Lu Qingfeng studied the Exposition of the Celestial Lord's Formation Dao and used Heavenly Silver to improve his understanding of restrictions, becoming capable of passing through the Hundred Herbs Garden’s medicine-mountain barriers.
• Lu Qingfeng reached Tianyang Mountain in concealment, where several cultivators had gathered beneath the restrictions around the Revival Fruit Trees as three fruits neared ripening.

As the sects and demonic factions gathered beneath Tianyang Mountain, Yue Lingxi and the others puzzled over the unusually low number of their enemies and wondered whether Lu Qingfeng was safe. Lu Qingfeng arrived unseen, used Grand Luo Insight to pass through the mountain’s restrictions, and found twelve unripe Revival Fruits.

• Yue Lingxi judged from the Skylark’s behavior that Lu Qingfeng was likely safe, while Zhang Qingyuan and Yue Miaoyin discussed the unexpectedly small number of Demon Race members and demonic cultivators.
• Zhang Qingyuan noted that the Scarlet Rainbow Sect had not appeared and suspected its members had been eliminated or forced to leave the Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived beneath Tianyang Mountain concealed from the gathered cultivators and examined the restrictions around it.
• Lu Qingfeng used Grand Luo Insight to identify a route through the restrictions and entered Tianyang Mountain without being noticed.
• Lu Qingfeng reached the Revival Fruit Tree and saw twelve unripe fifth-order fruits.

Lu Qingfeng received the Celestial Star Token after reaching the Revival Fruit Tree, learning it could admit him to the Celestial Star Sect as a true disciple and aid his study of formations. After waiting for the fruit to ripen and collecting all twelve, he saw powerful cultivators rushing up Tianyang Mountain.

• Lu Qingfeng examined the restrictions around the Revival Fruit Tree and realized the Hundred Herbs Garden used herb gatherers’ Spirit Stones to nourish it.
• A Celestial Star Token emerged from the tree’s roots and revealed that Lu Qingfeng had passed Patriarch Qin Feng’s test by reaching the tree without disturbing its restrictions.
• Lu Qingfeng put the token in his Storage Bag and planned to study its method for accelerating the deduction and deployment of formations.
• After three days, Lu Qingfeng picked and stored the twelve ripe Revival Fruit.
• When Tianyang Mountain’s restrictions opened, Lu Qingfeng concealed himself and watched powerful cultivators race uphill.

Lu Qingfeng gathered all thirty-six Revival Fruits, collected herbs from the remaining unexplored tier-three medicine mountains, and left the Hundred Herbs Garden with three Celestial Star Tokens. At Windhowl Cliff, he reunited with the Sunset Glow Sect and learned that the other factions had suffered heavy losses, while no one suspected his role in the strange events.

• Lu Qingfeng took the Revival Fruits from Earthsun Mountain and Profound Yang Mountain, bringing his total to three Celestial Star Tokens, then chose not to pursue the remaining tokens.
• Lu Qingfeng searched six unexplored tier-three medicine mountains for spiritual herbs and left the Hundred Herbs Garden twelve days later.
• Lu Qingfeng emerged at Windhowl Cliff and noticed the Golden Billows Sect and Demon-Slaying Fort disciples were angry, while the Scarlet Rainbow Sect mourned its missing Foundation Establishment elders.
• Lu Qingfeng reunited with Yue Miaoyin, Yue Lingxi, Zhang Qingyuan, and the Sunset Glow Sect members, explaining that he had stayed behind to gather herbs for alchemy.
• Mei Qingyan told Lu Qingfeng that no Revival Fruits had been harvested, the Demon Race and Demon Sect had suffered heavy losses, and the Scarlet Rainbow Sect's four Foundation Establishment cultivators had vanished.

Lu Qingfeng learned that Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu had looted three sects in Hundred Herbs Garden and worried their gains would make them targets. He considered Scarlet Rainbow Sect’s enormous losses and began planning a way to protect his siblings.

• Lu Qingfeng concealed his knowledge of the upper level’s events while Mei Qingyan recounted the four missing Scarlet Rainbow Sect cultivators and the failed search for the Revival Fruit.
• Mei Qingyan described how Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu used the Seven Baleful Banner and their combat skills to defeat three sects’ disciples, seize their spirit stones and herbs, and drive them out of Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Mei Qingyan defended the siblings’ actions, while Yue Miaoyin assured Lu Qingfeng that the Four Gathering Cloud Sects would not pursue grudges from within Hundred Herbs Garden.
• Lu Qingfeng calculated that Scarlet Rainbow Sect had lost 1,160 Spirit Stones and that Golden Billows Sect and Demon-Slaying Fort had each lost 360, while his siblings had gained a dangerous share of the spoils.
• Lu Qingfeng worried that the well-known Spirit Stones in Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu’s possession would attract trouble and began considering a solution.

After Hundred Herbs Garden closed without the four Scarlet Rainbow Sect cultivators, Lu Qingfeng brought Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu back to Silver Horn Mountain and told them to lie low. He revealed that he had amassed thousands of Spirit Stones and many spirit medicines, leaving the siblings astonished as they prepared to wait out the coming trouble.

• Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu returned from Hundred Herbs Garden, while Lu Qingfeng submitted the required Spirit Stones and spirit medicines to Sunset Glow Sect.
• Lu Qingfeng warned Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu that their gains could bring danger, and they handed Zhou Yuan the 1,050 Spirit Stones they had taken from their enemies.
• After the seven-month limit passed, the four Scarlet Rainbow Sect cultivators never emerged, leaving their sect crippled and Sunset Glow Sect flush with spoils.
• Lu Qingfeng took Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu back to Silver Horn Mountain, where he showed them the thousands of Spirit Stones and many spirit medicines in his Storage Bag.
• Lu Qingfeng told his siblings to remain in seclusion at Silver Horn Mountain until the trouble from Hundred Herbs Garden had passed.

As the Four Gathering Cloud Sects’ covert war threw the Gathering Cloud Mountains into chaos, rumors about the Lu siblings’ wealth drew unwanted attention to Silver Horn Mountain. Lu Qingfeng drove off Entwining Cloud Old Ghost, but the region’s stronger cultivators remained a concern.

• The three Lu siblings stayed on Silver Horn Mountain while attacks on the four sects’ industries and cities escalated into open disorder.
• Rumors spread that Lu Qingfeng was wealthy and that Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu had kept more than a thousand Spirit Stones, making the siblings seem like easy targets.
• Two months after the Hundred Herbs Garden trip, Lu Qingfeng exposed Entwining Cloud Old Ghost’s concealment technique with Palm Thunder.
• Entwining Cloud Old Ghost demanded five hundred Spirit Stones, but Lu Qingfeng attacked, broke his cloud technique, and forced him to flee.
• Lu Qingfeng decided that driving off Entwining Cloud Old Ghost would deter weaker cultivators, though powerful cultivators still posed a threat.

Lu Qingfeng learned that rumors about Spirit Stones had drawn Rogue Cultivators to Silver Horn Mountain and suspected the Three Gathering Cloud Sects of spreading them. In the game, the God-Seeking Abbey continued to rise in power, while Lu Qingfeng prepared for its next move alongside Ren Changsheng and Zhang Wenye.

• Lu Qingfeng questioned Wang Yuan about the rumors that he had taken or handed over five hundred Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qingfeng suspected the Scarlet Rainbow Sect, Golden Billows Sect, and Demon-Slaying Fort had helped spread rumors about Windhowl Cliff, and vowed to deal with the Scarlet Rainbow Sect after breaking through to Foundation Establishment.
• The chapter recounted how Lu Qingfeng had spent decades establishing the God-Seeking Abbey as a dominant force in the Evergreen Realm and helping its disciples advance.
• Ren Changsheng told Lu Qingfeng that he and Zhang Wenye had notified Chen Zhang and made the preparations Lu Qingfeng requested.
• Chen Zhang had expanded his rule across seven prefectures, destroyed the Jing Royal House's power, and proclaimed the state of Chen nine years earlier.

Lu Qingfeng prepared the God-Seeking Abbey and Chen Kingdom for the predicted Second Heavenly Cataclysm, which began in September with celestial lights and the expansion of mountains across the Evergreen Realm. As Thundercry Mountain transformed, Lu Qingfeng realized the realm might be restoring its original, vastly greater size.

• Lu Qingfeng confirmed to Ren Changsheng that the Second Heavenly Cataclysm was approaching and explained the need to prepare Chen Kingdom.
• Zhang Wenye reported that the God-Seeking Abbey had stationed Foundation Establishment cultivators at its spiritual lands and arranged its industries to protect the sect’s foundations.
• In September, streaks of light crossed the sky, the earth shook, and Lu Qingfeng sensed that Heaven’s secrets had become impossible to read.
• Lu Qingfeng watched General Ridge’s streams widen and its peaks rise, while Thundercry Mountain grew taller and took on an ethereal quality.
• Lu Qingfeng recalled that the Evergreen Realm had once been compressed from a hundred thousand li to one li and wondered how far the Second Heavenly Cataclysm would restore it.

During the Second Heavenly Cataclysm, General Ridge and the Evergreen Realm gained spiritual energy as starforce flooded down from the heavens. Lu Qingfeng and cultivators across the realm seized the rare chance to cultivate, leaving Lu Qingfeng’s progress surging ahead.

• Ren Changsheng, Zhang Wenye, Chen Fengyu, Ren Xiaoyao, and the other senior cultivators joined Lu Qingfeng to watch General Ridge transform during the Second Heavenly Cataclysm.
• Chen Fengyu recalled the divine treasures that had appeared during the First Heavenly Cataclysm and wondered what new spirit objects might emerge.
• Spiritual energy poured from General Ridge and spread across the Evergreen Realm, rapidly enriching the world’s cultivation environment.
• As night fell, the stars brightened and immense starforce descended, prompting Lu Qingfeng and Foundation Establishment cultivators throughout the realm to cultivate.
• Lu Qingfeng circulated four cultivation methods at once and absorbed nearly all the starforce over Thundercry Mountain, rapidly strengthening himself while the other cultivators refined what remained.

Lu Qingfeng and his companions cultivated with the power of the stars during the Second Heavenly Cataclysm, which lasted three months and expanded the Evergreen Realm tenfold. Lu Qingfeng reached the Fusion Realm, though the lack of experience and the difficulty of the next stage slowed his progress.

• Lu Qingfeng fused thunder cultivation methods into the Prison-Warding Five-Thunder Heart Scripture and refined his body and cultivation overnight with the power of the stars.
• Ren Changsheng broke through from the Qi Guiding Realm to the Liquid Condensation Realm, while Zhang Wenye, Chen Fengyu, and Ren Xiaoyao also strengthened their cultivation.
• During the Second Heavenly Cataclysm, cultivators and creatures across the Evergreen Realm absorbed the power of the stars, and Demon Race sects recruited spirits and monsters.
• After three months, the Evergreen Realm expanded tenfold, Thundercry Mountain rose ten thousand zhang, and the Central Plains grew to a million li across.
• Lu Qingfeng advanced from Foundation Establishment Body Tempering to Spirit Void in ten nights, then passed through Grain Avoidance, Heart Movement, and Divine Silence before reaching Fusion.
• Lu Qingfeng found that progress had become arduous in the Fusion Realm because he lacked cultivation experience and had to fuse divine sense with true essence.

Lu Qingfeng advanced to the early Fusion Realm and decided to focus on cultivating in this life rather than spending his experience points to repeat realms. As the Second Heavenly Cataclysm ended, the Void Ancient Hall appeared above the Central Plains, and the memorial tablet of the Earthly God-Seeking Great General revealed an extraordinary omen.

• Lu Qingfeng gained experience through repeated cultivation, enhanced his techniques, and advanced to the Fusion Realm.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to cultivate seriously in this life and use his accumulated experience to study the higher realms later.
• During the final half-month of the Second Heavenly Cataclysm, Lu Qingfeng stabilized his early Fusion Realm cultivation.
• When the cataclysm ended, the ruined Void Ancient Hall appeared above the Central Plains, visible but unreachable to cultivators.
• Lu Qingfeng sensed an omen and went to the God-Seeking Abbey's Founders' Hall, where the memorial tablet of the Earthly God-Seeking Great General revealed an extraordinary sign.

After the second Heavenly Transformation, Lu Qingfeng received the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks from the God-Seeking Patriarch and learned that True Immortals were reincarnating in Evergreen. He resolved to take advantage of Evergreen’s revival while considering how to handle the three True Immortals tied to the God-Seeking Abbey.

• Lu Qingfeng knelt in the Patriarch Hall, where the God-Seeking Patriarch manifested and bestowed the eighth-grade Dharma artifact, the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks.
• Lu Qingfeng examined the artifact and learned that meteors from three months earlier had brought True Immortals descending into Evergreen through reincarnation.
• Lu Qingfeng realized that he could use the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks to locate the reincarnated bodies of True Immortals Chang Lin, Purple-Qi True Immortal, and Xuanyin.
• Lu Qingfeng considered the danger of the three True Immortals awakening their Past-Life Wisdom and acting as overbearing ancestors within the God-Seeking Abbey.
• Lu Qingfeng decided to try to benefit from Evergreen’s revival and studied how the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks could strengthen formations.

Lu Qingfeng refined the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks while the Second Heavenly Cataclysm plunged the Evergreen Realm into conflict between monsters and cultivators. Seven years later, he had become the God-Seeking Abbey’s famed master and found the three reincarnated True Immortals of the abbey, whom he accepted as disciples.

• Lu Qingfeng obtained the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks and began refining it, intending to analyze its crafting method.
• The Second Heavenly Cataclysm filled the Evergreen Realm with newly awakened monsters, sparking widespread slaughter and battles with cultivators.
• The God-Seeking Abbey defended its territories from monster attacks and made the Chen Kingdom a refuge amid the turmoil.
• Seven years later, disciples at General Ridge praised Spirit-Seeking Guangyuan while discussing other rising cultivators.
• Lu Qingfeng accepted three young children as disciples and confirmed to Ren Changsheng that they were the reincarnated True Immortals of the God-Seeking Abbey.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected on how repeated cultivation in the game could strengthen his foundations and improve his chances of advancing in reality.

Lu Qingfeng learned that Changfengzi, Sima Han, and Lin Chao might be reincarnated true immortals backed by powerful Thunder Ministry deities, and he anticipated their eventual challenge to God-Seeking Abbey. Meanwhile, Changfengzi defeated White Rock Adept at Baiyan Mountain and continued south.

• Ren Changsheng told Lu Qingfeng that Changfengzi, Sima Han, and Lin Chao had challenged immortal sects across the realm without losing, and Lu Qingfeng considered whether they were reincarnated true immortals.
• Ren Changsheng explained that Changfengzi had taken Nine Palaces Mountain from the Nine Palaces Sect and built Fire-Wind Abbey's following, leading Lu Qingfeng to suspect a connection to the Windfire Primordial Lord.
• Ren Changsheng warned that the three prodigies would likely challenge God-Seeking Abbey and Lu Qingfeng's standing as the world's foremost immortal, prompting Lu Qingfeng to devise a plan.
• At Baiyan Mountain, Changfengzi defeated White Rock Adept by overwhelming his Cloud-Rain Art with wind and fire techniques.
• Changfengzi thanked White Rock Adept for the match, invoked their patriarchs' shared bond within the Thunder Ministry, and departed south.

Changfengzi reached General Ridge after defeating White Rock Adept, drawing cultivators from across the region to witness his confrontation with Lu Qingfeng. Sima Han and Lin Chao arrived with him, and Lu Qingfeng appeared on the Five-Colored Phoenix to face the challengers.

• White Rock Adept warned that Changfengzi could not assume he would defeat Lu Qingfeng, and Changfengzi left for General Ridge.
• Lu Qingfeng learned from Ren Changsheng about the battle at Baiyan Mountain and wondered what artifact the Heavenly Edict Patriarch had bestowed.
• Changfengzi spent half a year traveling to General Ridge as cultivators gathered to watch him challenge Lu Qingfeng.
• Changfengzi, Sima Han, and Lin Chao arrived outside General Ridge, where renowned cultivators from nearby sects had assembled.
• Lu Qingfeng arrived on the Five-Colored Phoenix with Ren Changsheng, Zhang Wenye, Chen Fengyu, and Ren Xiaoyao behind him.

Lu Qingfeng met Changfengzi at General Ridge and arranged a high-stakes duel, wagering the Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks against Changfengzi’s Twin Windfire Pearls. The chapter left the fight beginning as Lu Qingfeng launched a thunder technique at Changfengzi.

• Lu Qingfeng greeted the cultivators gathered outside General Ridge, then exchanged pointed remarks with Changfengzi of the Fire-Wind Abbey.
• Changfengzi challenged Lu Qingfeng to a contest and offered the Twin Windfire Pearls as his wager.
• Lu Qingfeng offered his Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks, and Changfengzi agreed that the loser would hand over his artifact.
• Lu Qingfeng began the battle by forming a thunderous Purgatory prison and sending it crashing toward Changfengzi.

Lu Qingfeng defeated Changfengzi with his Divine Ability, Thunder Prison, but Changfengzi tried to avoid paying their wager by accusing him of stealing a heavenly inheritance. Lu Qingfeng rejected the accusation and judged that Changfengzi’s behavior belied his status as a Reincarnated True Immortal.

• Lu Qingfeng’s Thunder Prison shattered Changfengzi’s Windfire Grand Mill and knocked him into a deep pit.
• White Rock Adept, Guanlanzi, Changsun Nishang, and the other onlookers recognized Lu Qingfeng’s power and realized he had not fallen behind since the Second Heavenly Cataclysm.
• Changfengzi emerged from the pit and accused Lu Qingfeng of secretly learning the Great God of the Prison-Holding Five Thunders’ inheritance, threatening to report him unless he abandoned the technique.
• Lu Qingfeng said his spell was Thunder Prison rather than Five-Thunder Purgatory and dismissed Changfengzi’s threats.
• Lu Qingfeng reflected that Changfengzi’s petty conduct showed that immortal cultivation had not changed his nature, and Changfengzi vowed to report him to his patriarch and the great god.

Lu Qingfeng killed Changfengzi with the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation and claimed the Twin Windfire Pearls after Windfire Primordial Lord let them go. Lin Chao and Sima Han suspected Lu Qingfeng had planned the encounter and wondered about his origins.

• Changfengzi attacked Lu Qingfeng with the Windfire Grand Mill, while Lu Qingfeng deployed the Dutian Blazing Fire Immortal Formation and Nine-Strategies Profound-Hao Sticks.
• Lu Qingfeng overwhelmed Changfengzi with the formation and burned him to ashes, leaving the Twin Windfire Pearls behind.
• Lu Qingfeng appealed to Windfire Primordial Lord when the pearls tried to fly away, and the deity allowed him to claim them.
• Lin Chao and Sima Han discussed Changfengzi's death and questioned how Lu Qingfeng had reached the Spirit Void Fusion Realm without being a reincarnated True Immortal.

After killing Changfengzi, Lu Qingfeng deterred the other cultivators and hosted Lin Chao and Sima Han at General Ridge. Sixteen years later, five Azure Origin Sword Sect disciples entered the Weeping Marsh to begin Lu Qingfeng’s Immortality Trial, which aimed to test them and help them reach Foundation Establishment.

• Lin Chao and Sima Han declined to spar with Lu Qingfeng, while the other visiting cultivators left rather than accept his invitation.
• Lin Chao and Sima Han stayed to drink with Lu Qingfeng after Yuyangzi departed for the Six-Eyed Heavenly Gate.
• For sixteen years after Changfengzi’s death, no cultivators challenged Lu Qingfeng, who cultivated and studied formation arts at General Ridge.
• Zhang Bo, Ma Wenju, Xie Tian, Xie Di, and Han Baiyun arrived at the edge of Weeping Marsh to undertake the Immortality Trial.
• Zhang Bo explained that the group had to survive, reach Foundation Establishment, and follow the Black-Clad Guardians’ guidance to leave the marsh.