Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan climbed to the summit to claim the Seven-Colored Spirit Fire and killed its eight beast guardians, only to face a powerful White Tiger. He defeated the White Tiger with the Slay Demons spirit sword, which then spoke to him.

• Xiao Bai led Lu Nan and Hu Mei'er to the mountain, and Lu Nan sent them to hide while he flew to the summit.
• Lu Nan attacked the eight beasts guarding the Seven-Colored Spirit Fire and killed them in a swift fight.
• As Lu Nan reached for the fire, a snow-white White Tiger appeared and fought him with its speed and roar.
• Lu Nan used Space Sword Intent and the Slay Demons divine ability to wound and kill the White Tiger.
• Lu Nan could not find the White Tiger's divine soul, and the Slay Demons spirit sword answered when he asked if it had spoken.

Lu Nan secured the Seven-Colored Spirit Fire and a Purple Jade Ginseng, then left the Blazing Fire Secret Realm with Hu Mei'er and Xiao Bai as the ranking battle began. He easily cleared every opponent from the arena and became the top-ranked contestant, leaving the challenge matches to follow.

• Lu Nan stored the Seven-Colored Spirit Fire and an almost eighty-thousand-year-old Purple Jade Ginseng, then continued searching the secret realm with Hu Mei'er and Xiao Bai.
• When the secret realm's time limit was announced, Lu Nan ended his deal with Xiao Bai, who agreed to form a master-servant contract with Hu Mei'er and leave with them.
• Lu Nan gave Xiao Bai two Six-Colored Spirit Fires, and he and Hu Mei'er entered the ranking battle after the secret realm closed.
• Lu Nan swept all nine opponents off his first arena, while Hu Mei'er chose to leave hers without fighting.
• After the ten arena winners were brought together, Lu Nan knocked the other nine contestants off the main arena and claimed the top rank as challenge matches began.

Lu Nan left the Blazing Fire Secret Realm with Hu Mei'er, reunited with the Boiling Fire Cult, and told Tao Huai he was mostly confident in an upcoming plan. Back at his residence, he prepared a hidden cache of Fire Cores and Spirit Stones inside a Purple Jade Ginseng, set to open in three days.

• Lu Nan watched the ranking battle conclude, received a Jade Slip, and left the secret realm with Hu Mei'er.
• Lu Nan parted from Hu Mei'er after warning her to keep her Six-Colored Spirit Fire secret, then returned to the Boiling Fire Cult and claimed a Nascent Soul cultivator had stolen the spirit fires he found.
• Lu Nan returned safely to the Boiling Fire Cult and told Tao Huai he was seventy to eighty percent confident, though he still needed Tao Huai's help.
• Lu Nan sealed his residence, hid the secret realm's Fire Cores and two-thirds of his Spirit Stones inside an Array Plate, and concealed it within a Purple Jade Ginseng set to open three days later.

Lu Nan and Tao Huai presented an eighty-thousand-year-old Purple Jade Ginseng to Boiling Fire Cult leader Huo Zou, disguising Lu Nan’s plan to place it within the main peak. Huo Zou accepted Tao Huai’s conditions, making Lu Nan a True Disciple and leaving the ginseng with the sect until Tao Huai prepared to refine it into pills.

• Lu Nan gave Tao Huai the Purple Jade Ginseng and insisted they proceed with placing it somewhere within the Boiling Fire Cult’s main peak.
• Tao Huai agreed to take Lu Nan to meet Huo Zou and bring the ginseng to the Sect Leader’s main hall.
• Tao Huai presented the nearly eighty-thousand-year-old Purple Jade Ginseng and proposed that Lu Nan become a True Disciple, Tao Huai refine the ginseng into a Purple Ginseng Longevity Pill, and each of them receive one pill.
• Huo Zou agreed to Tao Huai’s conditions, accepted the Purple Jade Ginseng for the sect to keep, and granted Lu Nan True Disciple status.

Huo Zou took the nearly eighty-thousand-year-old Purple Jade Ginseng to the Twelfth Ancestor, who ordered it stored in the sect treasure vault and Tao Huai watched. Lu Nan confirmed the Array Plate was somewhere on the main peak and told Tao Huai he planned to leave in three days, while concealing his real plans.

• Huo Zou presented the Purple Jade Ginseng to the Twelfth Ancestor, who ordered it placed in the sect treasure vault until Tao Huai could refine it and instructed that Tao Huai be watched.
• Huo Zou secured the ginseng in the treasure vault, while Tao Huai and Lu Nan discussed where it might be kept and noticed an observer monitoring their courtyard.
• Lu Nan sensed that the Array Plate inside the ginseng’s Pot Heaven space was somewhere on the main peak and decided to wait for it to fall out before activating the formation.
• Lu Nan returned to Tao Huai and claimed he planned to take sect missions and leave in three days to gain combat experience.
• Tao Huai accepted Lu Nan’s plan and gave him a jade pendant containing a strand of his Divine Thought for protection.

Lu Nan activated a vast array around the Boiling Fire Cult and unleashed nine sword arrays, massacring its disciples while Tao Huai stood by. The slaughter continued until Huo Zou returned with three elders, including the old man who had once killed Lu Nan.

• Lu Nan accepted a mission to leave the sect and met Tao Huai at the mountain gate, where Tao Huai admitted he had shaken off the person monitoring them.
• Lu Nan activated 108 pillars of light to seal the Boiling Fire Cult inside a massive barrier, and Huo Zou flew off to summon the Ancestor.
• Lu Nan raised nine giant swords and asked Tao Huai to kill their watcher, but Tao Huai explained that he could only act if the watcher attacked first.
• Lu Nan surrounded himself with protective arrays and directed the nine swords to split into countless blades that killed or wounded a third of the Boiling Fire Cult in less than a quarter of an hour.
• Huo Zou returned with three elders, and Lu Nan recognized the old man who had killed him before, releasing a surge of killing intent.

Lu Nan confronted Huo Qi and the Boiling Fire Cult from behind powerful formations, then rejected their offers of peace and demanded Huo Qi’s death. The chapter ended as the cult’s ancestors joined forces to attack the barrier, which began to crack.

• Tao Huai recognized Huo Qi and warned Lu Nan that the Boiling Fire Cult had several Tribulation Transcendence experts and sleeping ancestors.
• Lu Nan revealed himself to Huo Qi and trapped the cult members inside his peak eighth-grade formations, then resumed killing them with sword-like beams of light.
• The cult called in more than a dozen ancestors, including Huo Yan, who offered compensation and promised the cult would not retaliate if Lu Nan stopped.
• Lu Nan demanded that Huo Qi die, then restarted the slaughter when Huo Yan refused and offered instead to cripple him.
• Huo Yan ordered the ancestors to attack the formations, and their combined assault made the barrier tremble and crack.

Lu Nan activated three eighth-grade formations at once, trapping the Boiling Fire Cult and forcing its First Ancestor to negotiate. As Tao Huai arrived to block an attack on Lu Nan, a meteorite began descending from the sky.

• Lu Nan repaired the barrier, revealed another formation in the main peak, and linked all three formations into a super formation around the Boiling Fire Cult.
• The First Ancestor offered compensation, and Lu Nan demanded Huo Qi’s death; the First Ancestor killed Huo Qi and Lu Nan halted the formation’s slaughter.
• A black-robed ancestor tried to attack Lu Nan, but Tao Huai appeared and stopped him, warning him with his peak Void Return aura.
• Lu Nan said they should wait, then sensed a meteorite descending as everyone saw a crimson streak in the sky.

Lu Nan summoned a vast Heavenly Fire to destroy the Boiling Fire Cult, but the First Ancestor struck him with a Blood Fire Seal before the bombardment began. After the cult was reduced to a pit, Lu Nan killed the nine survivors with nine light swords.

• Lu Nan refused to stop the Heavenly Fire and warned the onlookers not to interfere in his fight with the Boiling Fire Cult.
• Lu Nan sent Tao Huai away with the Black-Robed Man while the cult members failed to break through his barrier.
• The First Ancestor struck Lu Nan with a Blood Fire Seal and said it would gradually destroy his cultivation and kill him within a year.
• Heavenly Fire struck the Boiling Fire Cult for a quarter-hour, destroying it and leaving a vast pit.
• The First Ancestor and eight others survived the bombardment, but Lu Nan summoned nine light swords and killed them.

Lu Nan escaped the Boiling Fire Cult ruins after looting what remained of its treasury, and reports of the cult’s destruction spread across the Fire Domain. He returned to Sword Valley, where he realized he had left Ye Hanyan and another woman behind and sensed a familiar presence.

• Lu Nan stripped the nine corpses of their Storage Rings, gathered the surviving treasures from the Boiling Fire Cult’s treasury, and fled using the Great Five Elements Escape.
• After Lu Nan left, Master Lu identified the barrier as resembling the Mountain River Confinement Array and began studying it as news of the Boiling Fire Cult’s destruction spread.
• In Sword Valley, Miao Feng told Yi Feng he planned to search for the elixir of immortality and asked him to protect Xiao Nan’s two wives; Yi Feng agreed.
• Lu Nan returned to Sword Valley, remembered that he had left Ye Hanyan and another woman in a valley, and sensed a familiar aura.

Lu Nan reunited with Miao Feng and learned that the Grand View Dao Academy might hold clues about an Undying Medicine. He traveled with Miao Feng to Two Realms Mountain for the academy’s admissions, where the first trial was about to begin.

• Lu Nan told Miao Feng how he had returned from death, entered the Great Geng Dynasty, and destroyed the Boiling Fire Cult.
• Miao Feng revealed that Lu Bao had brought back Ye and Liu in crystal coffins, and offered to watch over them while Lu Nan left.
• Miao Feng advised Lu Nan to seek information about an Undying Medicine at the Grand View Dao Academy and explained that its admissions would begin in seven days.
• After waiting beside Ye and Liu, Lu Nan departed with Miao Feng for Two Realms Mountain when admissions opened.
• Miao Feng explained the academy’s three trials and its twelve Celestial Being academy disciple candidates as an elder began the admissions assembly.

Lu Nan passed the Grand View Dao Academy’s entrance tests and learned about the Academy Son Candidates. After leaving the recruitment plaza with Miao Feng, he revealed that his cultivation had fallen from peak Heavenly Human to sixth-grade Heavenly Human, and Miao Feng discovered a blood net over his dantian.

• Lu Nan concealed his true cultivation during the Talent Pillar test, then comprehended the Mystic Soul Ice Needles in three minutes and earned Class A.
• Lu Nan defeated the arena examiner with one punch after asking him to go all out, passing the third test.
• Elder Yun recognized Lu Nan as Miao Feng’s disciple, gave him a high-grade spirit sword, and confirmed that he qualified to enter the Inner Sect.
• Elder Yun told Lu Nan that the twelve Academy Son Candidates ranged from peak Heavenly Human to late Void Returning.
• Miao Feng asked about Lu Nan’s cultivation, examined him, and found a blood net over his dantian.

Lu Nan sought help from Sword Valley’s ancestors after Huo Yan placed the Blood Fire Seal on him. The Second Ancestor offered to remove the seal and teach Lu Nan, but Lu Nan declined because he still needed to seek the Immortality Herb.

• Miao Feng brought Lu Nan to Yi Feng, who examined the Blood Fire Seal and admitted he could not remove it.
• Yi Feng led Lu Nan and Miao Feng to Sword Valley’s Second Ancestor for help with the seal.
• The Second Ancestor discovered Lu Nan’s true identity and learned that Lu Nan had destroyed the Boiling Fire Cult using three eighth-grade formations.
• The Second Ancestor offered to remove Lu Nan’s Blood Fire Seal and take him as a disciple.
• Lu Nan declined the offer, explaining that he still needed to seek the Immortality Herb.

Lu Nan learned that an Elixir of Immortality might be found in the Hundred Herbs Domain, then Second Ancestor removed the Blood Fire Seal from his dantian. After recovering and preparing to break through to Return to Void, Lu Nan went to Sword Valley’s Ten Directions Hall to sell a large collection of weapons.

• Lu Nan asked Second Ancestor to help Ye Hanyan and learned that someone had reportedly seen an Elixir of Immortality in the Hundred Herbs Domain.
• Second Ancestor used jade needles and a pill to remove the Blood Fire Seal from Lu Nan’s dantian, leaving him unable to use spiritual energy while he recuperated.
• Miao Feng shared his insights on breaking through to Return to Void, and Lu Nan said he had a seventy percent chance of succeeding once his cultivation recovered.
• After half a month of rest, Lu Nan absorbed Spirit Stones and recovered to peak Heavenly Human, then decided to prepare for his breakthrough and face the twelve candidates.
• Lu Nan visited Sword Valley’s Ten Directions Hall under the surname Zhao and asked steward Jin Lu to assess a large pile of weapons for sale.

Lu Nan sold his artifacts to Jin Lu and prepared a hidden valley for secluded cultivation. He broke through to Return to Void by surviving the lightning tribulation, then went to Grand View Dao Academy to find the Twelfth Academy Son Candidate.

• Jin Lu inventoried Lu Nan’s artifacts and paid him with spirit crystals and Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Nan left the Market and searched near Sword Valley for a secluded place to break through.
• Lu Nan found a valley, set up layers of formations, and began cultivating with crystal-clear beads.
• Dark clouds gathered as Lu Nan’s lightning tribulation began, and he charged into them after spreading Immortal Material through his body.
• Lu Nan drank all the purple liquid from a pool in the clouds, dispersed the lightning, and reached Return to Void.
• Lu Nan arrived at Grand View Dao Academy and asked a disciple where to find the Twelfth Academy Son Candidate.

Lu Nan defeated the Twelve Seats of Grand View Dao Academy, gained heir status and access to the Xuantian Dynasty’s Scripture Repository, then found the Immortality Medicine and used it to revive Ye Hanyan. When she opened her eyes, she looked at him with icy indifference, and Lu Nan glimpsed a figure amid black clouds and lightning before collapsing with a headache.

• Lu Nan challenged the Twelfth Seat, defeated him, and learned that his name was Xu Bai.
• Lu Nan challenged and defeated the remaining seats in succession, prompting the Academy Head of Grand View Dao Academy to declare him an academy heir.
• Lu Nan used his heir status to enter the Xuantian Dynasty’s Scripture Repository and obtain information about the Immortality Medicine.
• Lu Nan found the Immortality Medicine, survived a life-and-death struggle and pursuit, and brought it to Ye Hanyan to extend her life.
• Ye Hanyan awoke and met Lu Nan’s gaze with icy indifference, while Lu Nan glimpsed a figure surrounded by black clouds and lightning and then suffered a headache.

Lu Nan endured the final trial, defeated a Tribulation Manifestation, and advanced to the Return to Void realm. After returning to Sword Valley and visiting Ye Hanyan and Liu, he learned from Miao Feng what he would have to do to compete for Grand View Dao Academy's heir position.

• Lu Nan survived the tribulation, absorbed the pool's purple liquid, and defeated the youth formed from the clouds.
• Lu Nan reached the Return to Void realm, opened a spatial passage back to Sword Valley, and visited Ye Hanyan and Liu in their ice coffins.
• Lu Nan promised Ye Hanyan he would find the immortal medicine, then placed more restrictions and formations around the two women.
• Lu Nan told Miao Feng he had broken through and planned to return to Grand View Dao Academy to compete for the heir position.
• Miao Feng explained that Lu Nan would need to challenge the Twelve Seats in order, withstand their combined assault as First Seat, and make sufficient contributions to the academy.

Lu Nan learned that the Heavenly Pride Competition could help him become Academy Heir and gain access to the Xuantian Dynasty’s Scripture Repository, so he set his sights on placing in the top ten. He challenged Kong You, the Twelfth Seat, and their battle to the death began in the life-and-death arena.

• Miao Feng told Lu Nan about the Heavenly Pride Competition and advised him to aim for the top ten.
• Lu Nan decided to enter the competition and said he would first challenge the Twelfth Seat.
• Lu Nan found Elegant Peak and challenged Kong You, but defeated Xiao Yu when he tried to test him.
• Kong You appeared and told Lu Nan that a seat battle had to be fought to the death.
• Lu Nan and Kong You entered the life-and-death arena, where two Elders approved the battle and sealed the platform with a Light Membrane.

Lu Nan fought Kong You in a life-and-death battle, countering his strange techniques before overpowering him in close combat. Kong You surrendered, and Lu Nan became the new Twelfth Seat of the Grand View Dao Academy.

• Kong You filled the arena with smoke and attacked Lu Nan, but Lu Nan swept the smoke away with a wind ability.
• Kong You used spoken techniques to unleash blade and sword attacks, strike Lu Nan with a golden figure, and trap him, but Lu Nan countered with spirit swords and Five Elements Sword Intent.
• Lu Nan located Kong You through spatial fluctuations and, after activating the Divine Movement and Mountain Bearer abilities, battered him across the arena.
• Kong You transformed into a muscular giant and turned the fight around, but Lu Nan matched his strength and resumed attacking when Kong You grew tired.
• Kong You summoned his spirit swords and forced Kong You to surrender, and Zhang Fang announced Lu Nan as the new Twelfth Seat of the Grand View Dao Academy.

After becoming the Twelfth Seat, Lu Nan searched the Grand View Dao Academy’s Scripture Pavilion for information about immortal herbs and found a lead pointing to the Hundred Herbs Domain. He told Miao Feng he planned to go there immediately, despite Miao Feng suggesting he first check the Xuantian Dynasty’s records.

• Lu Nan accepted Kong You’s Twelfth Seat token, registered at the Disciple Hall, and settled into his new residence.
• Lu Nan visited the Scripture Pavilion, where its elder let him freely browse the first six floors as the Twelfth Seat.
• Lu Nan read the first floor’s miscellaneous records and learned about immortal herbs’ rare appearances, varied forms, and life-saving abilities.
• Lu Nan discovered that the sixth floor’s manuals required far more points than he possessed, then found neglected Jade Slips on the second floor containing reports of a suspected immortal herb in the Hundred Herbs Domain.
• Lu Nan returned to Miao Feng and explained the lead; he insisted on leaving for the Hundred Herbs Domain as soon as possible rather than waiting to consult the Xuantian Dynasty’s Scripture Repository.