Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan recovered from defeating the antlered young man and set out to hunt more Spirit Transformation demonic beasts. He killed a boar-like beast, then prepared to continue hunting.

• Lu Nan burned the antlered young man's corpse, inspected his gains, and learned his Battle Mark and Immortal Material had increased.
• Lu Nan asked Lu Taiji for another target and traveled northeast to find a fifth-tier Spirit Transformation demonic beast.
• The boar-like demonic beast demanded that Lu Nan surrender, but Lu Nan attacked it and evaded its counterattacks.
• Lu Nan struck the boar-like beast with his five spirit swords, broke its tusks, and killed it.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji hunted demon beasts in the Crimson Maple Realm while its inhabitants investigated the deaths of Deer Wind and Second Pig. When experts from the Great Geng Dynasty arrived, the beasts fled and Lu Nan pursued one, intending to fight it himself.

• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji feasted on a fifth-rank boar demon beast, then tracked down a bear-headed demon beast called Xiong Da.
• Ying Hui told Xiong Da that Deer Wind and Second Pig had been killed, and the two discussed the lack of clues and the human sects' sudden withdrawal before Ying Hui left.
• After hiding from Ying Hui and Xiong Da, Lu Nan decided to target only demon beasts below the fourth layer of Spirit Transformation and continued hunting with Lu Taiji.
• Lu Taiji sensed many human experts entering the Crimson Maple Realm, including three at the peak of the eighth rank and four in the late stage.
• As demon beasts fled amid battle sounds, Lu Nan chased one; Lu Taiji blocked it and laid down a restriction so Lu Nan could fight it himself.

Lu Nan slew demonic beasts in the special space, gained new abilities from two spirit swords, and returned to the Feng Kingdom to collect intelligence and resources from Ling Ze. He left Ling Ze with the Ou Family’s assets as a reward, while the Ou Family’s hidden treasury remained undiscovered.

• Lu Nan avoided the Great Geng experts after they defeated the Demon Emperor, hid from a searching Middle-aged Man, then hunted down the remaining demonic beasts with Lu Taiji’s help.
• Lu Nan counted his Battle Marks and Immortal Material, then refined the two Earth Fiend Spirit Swords and acquired the Stone Boiling and Spirit Driving abilities.
• Lu Nan found that Spirit Driving received no response from mountain gods, earth deities, or underworld ghost officials, then left the desolate Demonic Beast Forest with Lu Taiji.
• Lu Nan arrived in Shan'ou Commandery and collected Ling Ze’s intelligence on the remaining eight families and the twelve Rings of Ou Family assets.
• Lu Nan learned the Ling Family had failed to find the Ou Family treasury and told Ling Ze to keep the assets as the Ling Family’s reward before vanishing.

Lu Nan encountered Fu Ye being held by Yue Mian and the Moon Family in Zhongshan Commandery, then killed the guards and took her away. After learning she had been captured while transporting goods, he left her to rest and discovered the Moon Family treasury beneath a luxurious estate.

• Lu Nan recognized Fu Ye at Zhongshan Commandery's gate and confronted Yue Mian, who claimed she belonged to the Moon Family.
• Lu Nan asked Fu Ye if she wanted his help, then killed the Moon Family guards when Yue Mian ordered them to attack.
• Lu Nan took Fu Ye to an inn, where she explained that the Moon Family had seized her while she was transporting goods.
• Lu Nan left medicinal pills for Fu Ye and went to the Moon Family estate with Lu Taiji to locate its treasury.
• Lu Nan found an array beneath a deep pool, opened it, and entered a treasury sealed by a gate made of Myriad Crystal Stone.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji plundered the Moon Family Treasury, including the spirit sword Zhang Jie, then returned to find Fu Ye warning that the Moon Family had powerful cultivators. When Yue Mian arrived seeking Fu Ye, Lu Nan confronted him and refused to reveal who stood behind him.

• Lu Nan found Zhang Jie in the Moon Family Treasury, refined it, and collected it along with many other treasures.
• Lu Taiji swept up everything Lu Nan had left behind and erased their traces before they returned to the inn.
• Fu Ye warned Lu Nan that the Moon Family had several Spirit Transformation True Lords and might be protected by Celestial Being Venerables.
• Lu Taiji told Lu Nan that the Moon Family had five Spirit Transformations but no Celestial Being, and that four seventh-rank and twenty-six sixth-rank cultivators were in the city.
• Lu Nan went outside and found Yue Mian leading subordinates in search of Fu Ye; Yue Mian demanded that Lu Nan hand her over.
• Yue Mian asked who stood behind Lu Nan, and Lu Nan answered that he had no name or sect before Yue Mian's expression abruptly changed.

Lu Nan left Fu Ye protected in the Moon Family territory and infiltrated the Ma Family estate to reach its treasure vault. After bypassing its defenses with the Great Five Elements Escape, he encountered a Seventh Rank, First Layer elder and learned the elder was one of the four Lu Taiji had mentioned.

• Lu Nan told Fu Ye to remain in the room, placed layers of formations around it, and left to investigate the Ma Family estate.
• Lu Nan followed Lu Taiji to the treasure vault, broke through ninety-nine formations, and reached a massive rune-covered door whose formation he could not identify.
• After a blue-clothed figure briefly approached the door and left, Lu Nan remembered he could use the Great Five Elements Escape to bypass the defenses underground.
• Lu Nan descended ten thousand meters to evade the Light Membrane, then escaped to the surface and collapsed from exhaustion.
• An old man confronted Lu Nan, and Lu Taiji captured him; Lu Nan learned the Seventh Rank, First Layer elder was one of the four Lu Taiji had mentioned.
• Lu Nan scolded Lu Taiji for not warning him and slapped the stunned old man.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji robbed the Ma Family treasury, forcing Ma Jia to swear secrecy before Lu Taiji erased his memories. After hearing that the Moon Family treasury had already been robbed, they moved on and emptied the Ge Family treasury.

• Lu Nan found the Earth Fiend Spirit Sword in the Ma Family treasury and secretly stored it away.
• Lu Nan made Ma Jia swear not to reveal what he had seen, and Lu Taiji erased Ma Jia's memories of the robbery.
• Ma Jia woke to find the treasury ransacked but kept silent, sensing that speaking about it would bring danger.
• Lu Nan heard people discussing the Moon Family treasury robbery and decided to hurry to the next target.
• Lu Taiji led Lu Nan into the Ge Family treasury, where they took the treasures and erased their traces before leaving.

After robbing the four great families, Lu Nan confirmed that Fu Ye could recover her ability to cultivate and prepared to leave with her for Fengdu. Meanwhile, the families discovered their vaults had been robbed and gathered at the Ma Family to demand an explanation.

• Lu Nan returned to the inn after taking Spirit Stones and spirit plants from the last family, then told Fu Ye they would leave the next day and travel to Fengdu.
• Lu Nan examined Fu Ye and told her that her injuries could be healed, though he still needed two medicinal ingredients; Fu Ye eagerly asked whether she could cultivate again.
• Lu Nan searched his storage space for the ingredients and then vanished to deal with something else.
• The Moon Family Ancestor said the vault robbery was beyond the family's power to handle and advised reporting it to the imperial family while investigating discreetly.
• The Moon Family learned that the Ge Family and Huang Family vaults had also been robbed, and their representatives joined the Ma Family to demand an explanation.

Ma Yuan met with the three other family heads after their treasure vaults were robbed, swore that his family was not responsible, and joined them in considering who was behind the thefts. He revealed that an ancestral high-grade spirit sword had been singled out, leaving the group with a possible clue to the thief’s motive.

• Ma Yuan denied that the Ma Family had robbed the other families and revealed that his own vault had also been looted.
• At Ge Zhan’s urging, Ma Yuan swore an oath that his family was not responsible, and the other heads apologized.
• The family heads discussed the possible connection between the thefts and the destruction of the Ou Family, and Yue Kai said he had contacted the imperial family and the Upper Three Families.
• Ma Yuan said his family’s ancestral high-grade spirit sword had been stolen while more valuable items beside it were left behind.

Lu Nan interrogated Yue Mian, learned that Wang Ling had arranged Fu Ye’s capture, and killed Yue Mian. After Miao Feng warned him that the Boiling Fire Cult was targeting him, Lu Nan chose to continue his journey and began watching the Moon Family estate.

• Ma Yuan speculated that the sword weapon the Upper Three Families had studied was not a treasure.
• Lu Nan abducted Yue Mian from the Moon Family estate and questioned him about Fu Ye’s capture.
• Yue Mian revealed that Wang Ling had traded a seventh-grade pill to the Moon Family head for Fu Ye’s life, and Lu Nan killed him.
• Miao Feng told Lu Nan that the Boiling Fire Cult was targeting him and that its people could arrive within a month.
• Miao Feng reported that Xiao Ye had reached peak Spirit Transformation and Xiao Liu was studying formations at Formation Sword Peak.
• Lu Nan refused to return to Sword Valley and went to the Moon Family estate, where he concealed himself and waited above it.

Lu Nan killed Yue Kai to learn where Wang Ling would meet him, then ambushed and killed Wang Ling in Desolate Outskirts Forest, gaining a Battle Mark. He returned to Fu Ye and planned to send her to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect for her safety before continuing toward Fengdu.

• Lu Nan questioned Yue Kai about Wang Ling, learned they would meet in Desolate Outskirts Forest, then killed Yue Kai and destroyed his body.
• Lu Nan waited in Desolate Outskirts Forest until Wang Ling arrived, then lured him close and killed him with flames and a sword strike.
• Lu Nan saw a new Battle Mark appear on his Nascent Soul and returned to the inn, where he told the blinded Moon Family servants to live peacefully.
• Lu Nan told Fu Ye they would leave for Fengdu the next day and promised she could cultivate again once he found the last two medicinal ingredients.
• Lu Nan decided to send Fu Ye to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect so she would be safe while he dealt with the dangers ahead.

Lu Nan returned Fu Ye to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and asked Qingchuan to look after her while he pursued the next stage of his journey. At the sect, Azure Painting Ancestor took an interest in Fu Ye and suggested that her destroyed dantian might not be a bad thing.

• Lu Nan told Fu Ye he would send her to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect before heading toward Fengdu, then flew her to the sect's mountain gate.
• Lu Nan gave Fu Ye his Young Sect Master token and left after watching her enter the sect.
• Azure Painting appeared to Fu Ye on the mountain path, brought her to Sect Leader Peak, and revealed herself to Qingchuan as an Azure Lotus Sword Sect Ancestor.
• Qingchuan read Lu Nan's message on the token and offered to take Fu Ye as his disciple, but Azure Painting interrupted and claimed her as a promising student.
• Fu Ye told Azure Painting that her dantian had been destroyed, and Azure Painting said that might not be a bad thing.

Fu Ye learned that she had the rare Two Forms Spirit Body, became Qing Hua’s disciple, and left with her for the Great Geng Dynasty to restore her dantian. Meanwhile, Lu Nan arrived in Fengdu, took a spirit sword from the Di Family’s vault, and approached the Bu Family’s vault before sensing danger.

• Qing Hua revealed that Fu Ye’s Two Forms Spirit Body could be activated by shattering and restoring her dantian, and Fu Ye accepted her as master.
• Qing Hua told Fu Ye that Lu Nan had reached peak Golden Core, then left with her for the Great Geng Dynasty in search of spiritual medicine.
• Lu Nan entered Fengdu, booked an inn room, and waited until nightfall while Lu Taiji ate a table full of food.
• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji entered the Di Family’s treasure vault, took the Earth Fiend Spirit Sword, and withdrew without taking anything else.
• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji approached the Bu Family’s vault, where Lu Nan sensed danger and stopped before going closer.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji attacked the Bu Family to seize its Earth Fiend Spirit Sword, Great Strength. After killing Bu Chen and obtaining the sword, they left the Bu Family's courtyard with Lu Nan angered by Lu Taiji eating their target.

• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji ambushed four Bu Family experts, killing them before Lu Nan searched the family treasure vault for its spirit sword.
• When the spirit sword was not in the vault, Lu Nan and Lu Taiji escaped underground and then appeared in Bu Chen's secluded courtyard.
• Lu Nan demanded the Bu Family's spirit sword, and Bu Chen revealed the sword Great Strength while questioning him about the Earth Fiend Divine Ability.
• Bu Chen transformed and launched the sword at Lu Nan, but Lu Nan dodged underground and ordered Lu Taiji to kill him.
• Lu Taiji swallowed Bu Chen, and Lu Nan picked up Great Strength before rushing toward Lu Taiji in anger.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji took the Wu Family’s Earth Fiend Spirit Sword and killed its ancestor despite Lu Nan’s oath to spare him. At the Li Family, its white-clothed ancestor voluntarily offered the final sword as a pledge of allegiance, saying he hoped to advance further.

• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji infiltrated the Wu Family, where Lu Taiji revealed that its ancestor, Wu Ke, was a ninth-layer Heavenly Being.
• Lu Nan demanded the spirit sword, and Wu Ke surrendered it after Lu Nan swore to spare him and the Wu Family.
• Lu Taiji swallowed Wu Ke despite Lu Nan’s oath, then joined Lu Nan in heading to the Li Family.
• The white-clothed Li Family ancestor welcomed Lu Nan and Lu Taiji, offered them tea, and willingly placed the Earth Fiend Spirit Sword on the table.
• The Li ancestor offered to lead the Li Family in following Lu Nan, explaining that he wished to take another step forward.

Lu Nan accepted Li Ge’s test to obtain the Feng Family’s three Earth Fiend Spirit Swords within half a day without alerting anyone, in exchange for the Li Family’s loyalty. Lu Nan and Lu Taiji took the swords from the Feng Family’s ancestral cave and left after the family erased their memories.

• Li Ge offered the Li Family’s spirit sword and loyalty if Lu Nan secretly obtained the Feng Family’s three spirit swords, and the two swore an oath.
• Lu Taiji detected an eighth-rank Feng Family member and several powerful elders, then brought Lu Nan beneath the imperial palace.
• Lu Nan ordered the yellow-robed elder killed when the elders challenged them, and the Feng Family’s three ancestors emerged from their coffins.
• The central ancestor handed Lu Nan the three swords, and the Feng Family members erased their memories of the intruders.
• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji left after confirming the memories were erased, while the Feng Family ancestor warned the others to keep the visit secret.

Lu Nan collected the Nine Great Families’ spirit swords, advanced to peak Nascent Soul, and learned the Boiling Fire Cult was searching for him. After leaving Fengdu, he killed a pursuer who mistook him for Zhao Qi.

• Lu Nan obtained the Li Family’s spirit sword after Li Ge recognized the Feng Family aura on the three swords Lu Nan had acquired.
• Lu Nan refined eleven spirit swords but comprehended only five divine abilities, then returned to the Li Family and advanced to peak Nascent Soul during a month of seclusion.
• Li Ge told Lu Nan that the Feng Family planned a Genius Gathering to draw out someone sought by visitors from the Boiling Fire Cult, and Lu Nan warned him to keep their connection secret.
• Lu Nan collected the medicinal ingredients Fu Ye needed and promised to help Li Ge reach Heaven and Man in three years before leaving Fengdu.
• A burly young man tracked Lu Nan down, called him Zhao Qi of Sword Valley, and was killed by Lu Nan with one sword strike.

Lu Nan fought Shui Ge, a peak Nascent Soul cultivator who had come after the Boiling Fire Cult’s bounty, and spared him after their duel. After learning that Lu Nan had angered the cult by subduing one of its subordinate Void Return forces, Shui Ge asked to travel with him, and Lu Nan agreed to let him handle opponents below Spirit Transformation.

• Lu Nan killed one bounty hunter and fought Shui Ge, who impressed him with his saber techniques, including Sky Splitting Slash and Draw Sword Slash.
• After Shui Ge spent all his spiritual power and accepted defeat, Lu Nan spared him, and the two shared roasted meat with Lu Taiji.
• Shui Ge revealed that the Boiling Fire Cult had offered a seventh-grade pill and one million Top-grade Spirit Stones for Lu Nan’s death, and Lu Nan explained that he had subdued one of the cult’s subordinate Void Return forces.
• Shui Ge admitted he had accepted hundreds of bounties to find fights, then asked to follow Lu Nan and broaden his horizons.
• Lu Nan agreed to take Shui Ge along and assigned him opponents below Spirit Transformation as they set off.

Lu Nan climbed Hidden Sword Peak and found two Earth Fiend Spirit Swords, then tried to leave with Shui Ge. Hidden Sword Manor inspected the climbers’ swords, and Lu Nan refused to let the Middle-aged Man search his Storage Ring.

• Lu Nan paid twenty High-grade Spirit Stones for himself and Shui Ge to enter Hidden Sword Peak.
• Lu Nan sensed an Earth Fiend Spirit Sword at the barren peak, found a broken sword and a rust-covered Longsword, and stored both.
• Lu Nan and Shui Ge returned empty-handed, but Hidden Sword Manor surrounded the platform and demanded that climbers present their swords for inspection.
• The Middle-aged Man killed a man who refused to open his Storage Ring, then demanded that Lu Nan and Shui Ge open theirs.
• Lu Nan refused, and Shui Ge released his Peak Nascent Soul aura; the Middle-aged Man offered one hundred High-grade Spirit Stones as an apology, but Lu Nan rejected the offer.

Lu Nan defeated and killed a Spirit Transformation cultivator after Shui Ge failed to beat him, then reluctantly accepted Shui Ge’s insistence on following him as his big brother. The pair continued their travels and arrived before a majestic giant city.

• Lu Nan stepped aside and let Shui Ge fight the middle-aged Spirit Transformation cultivator, but Shui Ge was badly wounded and gave up.
• Lu Nan dodged the middle-aged man's attack, pierced his chest with a spirit sword, killed him, burned his body, and scattered the ashes.
• Shui Ge asked to follow Lu Nan as his big brother, and Lu Nan rejected the idea but could not persuade him to leave.
• When a fourth-layer Nascent Soul cultivator confronted them, Shui Ge killed him with a single slash and followed Lu Nan onward.
• Lu Nan and Shui Ge traveled together until they reached a majestic giant city.