Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan secured the Moon Disc, rewarded Bi Fan and his companions with a Ring, and asked them to search for Star Essence. As Lu Nan continued on, a hidden figure announced a great inheritance in Moonlight Valley, sending powerful cultivators racing to claim it.

• Lu Nan stored the Moon Disc after the trial ended, then gave Bi Fan a Ring as their agreed share of the treasure.
• Lu Nan asked Bi Fan about Shui Ge and tasked him with finding Star Essence, giving him a Communication Stone before leaving.
• Bi Fan and his companions found Spirit Stones and cultivation manuals in the Ring, placed restrictions on it, and decided to leave the cave mansion together.
• A concealed figure watched Lu Nan and announced throughout Myriad Treasures Cave Mansion that an inheritance lay in Moonlight Valley, requiring the sun, moon, and stars.
• A burly bald young man and another youth heard the announcement and set off toward the inheritance.

Lu Nan became the target of hunters seeking Sun and Moon, then learned he could enter Moonlight Valley as one of the top ten hunters. After mistaking a black-clad woman for an enemy and fighting a bald young man who wanted the inheritance, he continued battling the latter.

• A booming voice made Lu Nan a target, and he evaded successive search parties while trying to hide himself.
• The voice announced that the top ten hunters could enter Moonlight Valley, and Lu Nan spotted ten red points on his map and set off toward the nearest one.
• Lu Nan attacked a black-clad woman, but learned she had come for Sword Intent Grass rather than Sun and Moon, so he let her leave.
• Lu Nan found a bald young man who demanded Sun and Moon, and attacked him with a gale and his spirit sword.
• The bald young man used a golden body to withstand Lu Nan's attacks, then launched a rapid series of punches that Lu Nan mostly dodged before retreating to a safer distance.

Lu Nan defeated a Jue Ruo Temple monk, took his treasures, and continued hunting his targets. He found Liu Qilan wounded after an attack by the Boiling Fire Cult, killed the cult member harassing her, and learned that Sword Valley, Red Blade Pavilion, and Luanxian Pavilion had failed to help.

• Lu Nan blocked the monk’s Hundred Ripple Fists with his Five Elements Sword Formation and pierced the monk’s Vajra Body with a six-colored sword.
• The monk surrendered his ring and left after Lu Nan spared him, and Lu Nan realized the live map was shielding his location.
• Lu Nan heard Liu Qilan resisting a Boiling Fire Cult man and rushed in to beat him before giving Liu Qilan a healing pill.
• Liu Qilan explained that the Boiling Fire Cult had attacked and that Sword Valley, Red Blade Pavilion, and Luanxian Pavilion had not intervened.
• Lu Nan crushed the Boiling Fire Cult man’s head after learning he was a high-ranking member’s offspring, then listened as Liu Qilan recounted what had happened.

Lu Nan followed Liu Qilan to the valley where Xu Bai and the other factions had gathered, then killed the Boiling Fire Cult members who had harmed her. He punished Shen Wu for preventing the other factions from helping Liu Qilan and left the Red Blade Pavilion leader under his scrutiny.

• Liu Qilan told Lu Nan that Xu Bai and the other factions were in a valley, and he persuaded her to lead him there.
• Lu Nan entered the valley, killed every Boiling Fire Cult member, and demanded an explanation from Xu Bai and the other factions.
• An Miaoyu said the Boiling Fire Cult had been stronger and Shen Wu had forbidden them to interfere.
• Lu Nan immobilized Shen Wu and let Liu Qilan wound him before killing him.
• Lu Nan warned the Sword Valley disciples to keep quiet about what happened, then turned to the Red Blade Pavilion leader.

Lu Nan drove the Red Blade Pavilion from the valley, then opened a powerful formation and led everyone into a palace. Inside, Liu Qilan advanced to the eighth level of Spirit Transformation, Shui Ge received a Jade Slip, and Lu Nan shared the remaining treasures with the others.

• Shui Ge returned after killing a third-level Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Boiling Fire Cult, and Lu Nan gave him pills to recover.
• Lu Nan ordered the Red Blade Pavilion to leave the valley, allowed Luanxian Pavilion and the Xu Family siblings to stay, and cleared the rest of the valley.
• Liu Qilan identified the barrier as a peak sixth-grade formation, and Lu Nan opened it while explaining the runes to her.
• Lu Nan led the group into a palace and had Liu Qilan kneel on a prayer cushion, which raised her cultivation to the eighth level of Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Nan instructed Shui Ge to perform three kowtows and nine prostrations, gave him a Jade Slip, and let the others divide the remaining rings among themselves.

Lu Nan reunited with Ning Du, a powerful Boiling Fire Cult disciple whose innate divine ability let him see through Lu Nan’s disguise and cultivation. Their fight revealed Ning Du’s extraordinary close-combat strength and Lu Nan’s multiple divine abilities, and it left Ning Du eager to learn more about Lu Nan.

• Liu Qilan recovered and chose to follow Lu Nan, while Shui Ge insisted on going with them despite Lu Nan’s warning about danger.
• Lu Nan found Ning Du on the real-time map and approached him with Liu Qilan and Shui Ge hidden nearby.
• Ning Du revealed that he could see through Lu Nan’s disguise, recognized his Spirit Transformation cultivation, and challenged him to a fight.
• Ning Du struck Lu Nan with a rapid barrage of attacks, breaking several of his bones before Lu Nan summoned his spirit swords.
• Lu Nan used wind and sword-element divine abilities to hold Ning Du back, surprising him with the number of divine abilities he possessed.
• Ning Du’s black flames surged and repelled the surrounding spirit swords with an unseen force.

Lu Nan fought Ning Du, who trapped him in a domain and threatened Liu Qilan to force his submission. After Ning Du struck Liu Qilan, Lu Nan broke free, battered him, and tore off his arm, but a powerful force stopped Lu Nan from destroying Ning Du’s fleeing divine soul.

• Ning Du explained his domain as Lu Nan tried to imitate it with a field of raging wind but could not complete it.
• Ning Du trapped Lu Nan in his domain and demanded that he submit, promising to clear him of the Boiling Fire Cult’s orders.
• Ning Du seized Liu Qilan and Shui Ge, threatened Liu Qilan, and slapped her when she resisted.
• Lu Nan’s face became covered in patterns, and he broke Ning Du’s domain with a blood-red punch before rushing to Liu Qilan’s side.
• After Liu Qilan fainted, Lu Nan attacked Ning Du with more than a hundred punches, tore off the arm that had touched her, and tried to destroy his divine soul.
• A powerful force stopped Lu Nan, allowing Ning Du’s divine soul to escape.

Lu Nan discovered that someone controlling Myriad Treasure Grotto Heaven had made him the target of a forced hunt, threatening everyone with death unless they killed the Sun and Moon holder within a month. He slaughtered the first wave of attackers and sent Shui Ge to warn their allies, while Liu Qilan's fate remained in the controller's hands.

• Lu Nan entrusted Shui Ge with taking his injured sister to Furui Restaurant and handing her over to Lu Taiji, then saw his location exposed on the maps.
• The grotto's controller gathered everyone around Lu Nan, announced a one-month contest for his inheritance, and threatened to kill anyone who tried to withdraw.
• Lu Nan used the Wind Borrower Sword and divine ability to devastate the attacking cultivators, forcing the surviving factions to retreat.
• After recovering his spiritual energy with pills, Lu Nan told Shui Ge to warn Sword Valley, Red Blade Pavilion, and Luanxian Pavilion, especially Xu Bai and the others, and gave him talismans and array plates.

Shui Ge fled while Lu Nan stayed to face his enemies, and Hua Ze organized the gathered factions into a plan to capture or suppress the Great Demon. The factions that withdrew escaped the valley and gambled on Lu Nan defeating the coalition.

• Lu Nan told Shui Ge that several enemies matched Ning Du's strength, then sent him away to stay safe.
• Hua Ze of Heavenly Sword Manor proposed taking Lu Nan's friends and family hostage before joining forces to suppress him.
• Hua Ze allowed factions to withdraw if they surrendered their recent gains and swore an oath, and many groups left the valley.
• Hua Ze ordered the remaining peak Nascent Soul cultivators to intercept Lu Nan while the others sought help from Sword Valley, Red Blade Pavilion, and Luanxian Pavilion.
• The withdrawing factions gathered their people and fled, hoping Lu Nan could create a miracle.

Lu Nan prepared formations and negotiated an alliance with Yu Sheng to protect his friends from the factions hunting them. Meanwhile, Shui Ge delivered Lu Nan’s defensive tools to the scattered groups and told them to hide.

• Lu Nan laid formations across a fifty-li radius and waited for the coming battle.
• Yu Sheng of Red Maple Valley told Lu Nan that sixteen factions had withdrawn from the alliance and revealed Hua Ze’s plan to capture people close to him.
• Lu Nan asked Yu Sheng to lead the sixteen factions in delaying the pursuers, offering them three days to explore the cave abode if his friends stayed safe; Yu Sheng agreed.
• Shui Ge found Xu Bai and Xu Qing with the depleted Red Blade Pavilion, gave them Lu Nan’s Array Plates and Talismans, and told them to hide.
• Xu Bai and Xu Qing asked to accompany Shui Ge, but he refused and continued searching for Lu Nan’s other allies.
• Shui Ge found the people of Luanxian Pavilion and Sword Valley over the following days and gave them Array Plates and Talismans.

Lu Nan fought Hua Ze and the forces seeking Sun and Moon, defeating Hua Ze in their sword duel. Hua Ze’s final Heavenly Sword clashed with Lu Nan’s Five Elements sword, shattering the sky and exposing a devouring darkness that swept across the battlefield.

• Hua Ze led several cultivators to demand that Lu Nan hand over Sun and Moon, but Lu Nan refused and charged into battle, killing dozens of attackers.
• Lu Nan met Hua Ze in combat, and the two exchanged thousands of sword strikes before agreeing to decide the outcome with one final blow.
• Lu Nan’s Five Elements—Myriad Swords defeated Hua Ze’s Heavenly Sword—Falling Flowers, but Hua Ze refused to retreat and launched another attack.
• Hua Ze vanished into his sword, which rose into the sky and unleashed the colossal Heavenly Sword as Lu Nan formed a Sword Formation to meet it.
• Lu Nan’s five-colored sword collided with the Heavenly Sword, and the sky cracked apart, revealing devouring darkness and gray air that swept over the battlefield.

Lu Nan activated a battlefield formation to suppress his opponents after Hua Ze escaped, then confronted three surviving experts who had once pursued him. He asked the figure watching from the heavens to bring the remaining five targets to the battlefield, and the figure agreed.

• Hua Ze praised Lu Nan’s sword strike, explained that he had fought for the chance to improve his sword intent, then fled after losing.
• The watcher in the heavens chose not to stop Hua Ze, while Lu Nan regretted letting two opponents escape and activated his formation.
• Lu Nan’s formation weakened everyone on the battlefield, and his violent wind killed all but him and three experts: Shui Bai, Lang Huo, and Tang Yun.
• The three experts offered to compensate Lu Nan and asked to leave, but he said they were his targets and demanded that they fight him.
• Lu Nan called to the watcher in the heavens and asked for the remaining five targets to be brought over; the watcher agreed, surprising everyone present.

Lu Nan fought a group of prodigies under the rules of a mysterious game, defeating four opponents before taking on Le Yu in a fair duel. After exchanging blows with fists and weapons, the battle escalated as Lu Nan unleashed a five-colored sword attack.

• Lu Nan recognized that the mysterious controller might be the Middle-aged Man who had sold him the title page, then faced the other fighters.
• Tang Yun, Shui Bai, Lang Huo, and two others attacked Lu Nan, but he killed the first fighter almost instantly.
• Lu Nan lured the remaining four attackers into a trap, pierced them with swords from the void, and burned them to ashes.
• Le Yu offered Lu Nan an hour to recover, then introduced himself and challenged him to a fair fight.
• Lu Nan and Le Yu exchanged more than a hundred unarmed blows before drawing their weapons.
• Le Yu struck Lu Nan with the power of an enormous ape, and Lu Nan answered with a five-colored sword attack.

Lu Nan defeated Le Yu and prevented his Primordial Spirit from escaping, then faced the two remaining challengers after they joined forces. He activated a formation that suppressed their strength and killed the folding-fan youth, leaving the saber-carrying youth as the last opponent.

• Le Yu and Lu Nan exchanged powerful attacks until Lu Nan struck Le Yu through the chest with a hidden sword.
• Lu Nan engulfed Le Yu in crimson flames, killing him before his Primordial Spirit could escape.
• The saber-carrying youth and the folding-fan youth agreed to fight Lu Nan together, but Lu Nan activated his remaining formations and suppressed forty percent of their strength.
• Lu Nan attacked with dozens of sword weapons, then used the two men's focus on defending themselves to ambush them from behind.
• The folding-fan youth blocked Lu Nan's attack aimed at his head but was struck through the heart and burned to ashes.

Lu Nan left the Myriad Treasures Cave Mansion with the Soul Condensing Grass and a passage token, while Elder Duo treated Liu Qilan with Phoenix Luan Grass. He learned that an immortality herb had once appeared in the Central Continent and set off for Huangshi Commandery with Liu Qilan’s coffin.

• After confirming his enemies were dead, Lu Nan confronted Elder Duo and checked that Liu Qilan was unharmed.
• Elder Duo treated Liu Qilan with Phoenix Luan Grass, explaining that she would need three to nine years to refine its power, and gave Lu Nan the Soul Condensing Grass.
• Elder Duo outlined the demanding conditions for entering Moonlight Valley, advised Lu Nan to wait until he was stronger, and gave him a passage token for the Myriad Treasure Grotto Heaven.
• When Lu Nan asked about an immortality herb for his dying master, Elder Duo told him one had appeared in the Central Continent’s Hundred Herbs Domain three thousand years earlier.
• Elder Duo sent Lu Nan and the other visitors out as the cave mansion departed, and Lu Nan hurried to Furui Restaurant with Liu Qilan’s coffin.
• Lu Taiji asked Lu Nan how the mission had gone, and Lu Nan showed him the Soul Condensing Grass.

After securing Ye Hanyan’s recovering soul in a crystal coffin, Lu Nan left Huangshi Commandery to cultivate in seclusion, while the forces angered by the Myriad Treasures Cave Mansion’s losses began pursuing him. Sword Valley’s elders argued over Zhao Qi’s actions and the deaths of fellow disciples.

• Lu Nan confirmed that the Soul Condensing Grass had stabilized Ye Hanyan’s divine soul, placed her in a rune-sealed crystal coffin, and arranged it beside his other master’s coffin.
• Lu Nan gave Shui Ge insights into the blade and Xu Bai, Xu Qing, and An Miaoyu compensation, then told them to leave him in peace.
• Lu Nan departed Huangshi Commandery that night with the two coffins; Shui Ge and the others arrived the next morning and learned he was gone.
• Major forces blamed Zhao Qi for their losses in the Myriad Treasures Cave Mansion, and the Boiling Fire Cult and other groups dispatched cultivators to hunt him down.
• Sword Valley’s elders debated Zhao Qi’s actions, with Miao Feng defending him and condemning Shen Wu while other elders objected to the killing of fellow disciples.

Sword Valley declared its support for Zhao Qi and destroyed the Shen Family, while Lu Nan and Lu Taiji were ambushed by a Boiling Fire Cult elder in the forest. Lu Taiji revealed his Eighth-tier strength and defeated the elder, then chased down his escaping Primordial Spirit.

• Ancestor Yifeng ordered Sword Valley to protect Zhao Qi, and the sect declared the Boiling Fire Cult a hostile faction.
• Fei Shi slaughtered everyone in the Shen Family residence and reduced it to ruins while Miao Feng and An Ruizhen watched.
• Lu Nan sensed a concealed Eighth-tier Boiling Fire Cult elder, who tried to capture him and demand his treasure.
• Lu Taiji severed the elder's hand and struck him apart, revealing that Lu Taiji was an Eighth-tier Demon Venerable.
• The elder used the Boiling Blood Escape Technique to flee as a wisp of flame, but Lu Taiji pursued him and soon returned to Lu Nan.

Lu Nan and Lu Taiji escaped after killing Ma Xiu, prompting the Boiling Fire Cult to launch a hunt for Zhao Qi and consult its ancestors. Lu Nan settled in a guarded cabin near Fengman City and began cultivating while Lu Taiji kept watch.

• Pi Hong discovered Ma Xiu's shattered life plaque, and Elder Wang brought it to Cult Master Huo Zou.
• Huo Zou ordered Spirit Transformation and Celestial Realm cultivators to hunt Zhao Qi, offering powerful rewards for his death.
• Huo Zou sought the ancestors' guidance about Lu Nan and Sword Valley, and Ancestor Qi ordered him to eradicate the threat; Huo Qi was then sent after Zhao Qi with the warning that he might have a guardian.
• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji chose a valley near Fengman City, built a cabin, and Lu Nan laid down layers of protective formations.
• Lu Nan began cultivating beside Ye Hanyan and the other woman as Lu Taiji guarded the valley; three days later, Lu Nan's surrounding Spirit Stones had turned to dust.

Lu Nan went to Fengman City to gather information and found an auction at the Spirit Treasure Pavilion, where he learned the significance of a token given to him by an older sister. Gu Le recognized the Spirit Treasure Token and treated Lu Nan as a distinguished guest, offering him a private room and explaining its benefits.

• Lu Nan left Lu Taiji to watch over Ye Hanyan and the other woman while he went alone to Fengman City.
• Lu Nan listened for news at a restaurant but heard nothing useful, then ordered food to take back with him.
• Lu Nan visited the Spirit Treasure Pavilion seeking higher-grade array inheritances and learned that an auction would begin shortly.
• Lu Nan asked Gu Le about entering a private room and showed him a black Spirit Treasure Token.
• Gu Le recognized the token, arranged a private room, and explained that it granted a twenty percent discount and access to loans of up to one hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.

Lu Nan attended the Spirit Treasure Auction House and bought the damaged Earth Fiend Spirit Sword after sensing a connection to it. The auction’s final lot was revealed as one of Master Cangshan’s inheritance array plates, drawing Lu Nan’s attention as bidding was about to begin.

• Lu Nan asked Steward Gu to preview the auction lots, but Gu Le refused and arranged a private room for him.
• Lu Nan watched the auction and bought a damaged spirit sword for five hundred High-grade Spirit Stones after his own spirit sword reacted to it.
• Lu Nan found none of the later auction lots useful and considered leaving early.
• Lele announced the final lot: an array plate containing Master Cangshan’s sixth-grade Two Forms Solidify Defense Formation, with a starting price of ten thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.