Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan traveled to the Hundred Herbs Domain, bought information about the Soul Severing Abyss, and ventured into it seeking the Immortality Herb. There he rescued Hu Mei'er's grandmother from two attackers and captured their fleeing divine souls.

• Lu Nan asked Miao Feng to look after his people, then traveled through the Teleportation Array to the Hundred Herbs Domain.
• At Ten Directions Zhai, Lu Nan bought information about the Soul Severing Abyss and the forces within it, learning that the abyss lay in the Myriad Blades Mountain Range.
• Lu Nan crossed the mountain range and descended into the mist-shrouded Soul Severing Abyss, where he found lush vegetation but no signs of ordinary life.
• Lu Nan killed a lizard-like creature and then discovered two burly men attacking Hu Mei'er's grandmother.
• Lu Nan intervened, knocked the men back, and killed them with sword light before pursuing and capturing their fleeing divine souls.

Lu Nan rescued and healed Qingqiu Nan, then learned that Mei'er had given him one of her Life-Substitute Fox Tails at the cost of regressing her cultivation and age. Determined to help Mei'er activate her bloodline, he took Qingqiu Nan to the valley where the Orange Heart Fruit grew and went to face its guardian.

• Lu Nan crushed two souls, then healed the injured Qingqiu Nan and gave her Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Qingqiu Nan explained that she sought Orange Heart Fruit, Green Vine Grass, and Blue Dew to help Mei'er activate her bloodline.
• Lu Nan revealed that he had destroyed the Boiling Fire Cult and showed Qingqiu Nan an Array Plate from the battle.
• Qingqiu Nan told Lu Nan that Mei'er had given him one of her Life-Substitute Fox Tails, causing her cultivation and age to regress.
• Lu Nan persuaded Qingqiu Nan to lead him to the Orange Heart Fruit, then set up defensive formations for her outside the valley.
• Lu Nan entered the valley alone to seek the Orange Heart Fruit.

Lu Nan secured the Orange Heart Fruits from a black bear and helped Qingqiu Nan obtain Blue Dew in the Soul Severing Abyss. After confronting the Peak Valley disciples who had stolen it, he handed the Blue Dew to Qingqiu Nan and faced their leader.

• Lu Nan defeated the black bear guarding the Orange Heart Fruits, took both fruits, and reunited with Qingqiu Nan outside the valley.
• Qingqiu Nan explained that Blue Dew came from Blue Silver Flowers and led Lu Nan to the Bone Sea of Flowers, where their collection containers had been emptied.
• Lu Nan traced the missing Blue Dew to Bao Ming and a group of Peak Valley disciples resting in a hollow valley.
• Lu Nan killed Bao Ming, reclaimed the Blue Dew, and gave it to Qingqiu Nan, who confirmed it was enough.
• The Peak Valley disciples' leader demanded to know what Lu Nan intended to do.

Lu Nan killed the Peak Valley group and gave Qingqiu Nan the rare herbs she needed for Hu Mei'er. Qingqiu Nan told him an ancestor had glimpsed an immortality medicine in the elusive Hundred Herbs Valley, leaving Lu Nan with a cryptic clue to pursue as he prepared to take her back to Green Hill.

• Lu Nan sealed the sunken valley with a gale and killed the Peak Valley cultivators after they threatened him and leered at Qingqiu Nan.
• Lu Nan learned Qingqiu Nan still needed Purple Jade Ginseng and Azure Marrow Grass, then retrieved ancient specimens from his Mysterious Space and gave them to her for Hu Mei'er.
• Qingqiu Nan accepted the herbs after Lu Nan insisted they were for his little sister, and she confirmed she had finished gathering medicinal ingredients.
• Qingqiu Nan realized Lu Nan had come seeking an immortality medicine and told him an ancestor had once seen one in the unpredictable Hundred Herbs Valley.
• Qingqiu Nan shared a cryptic description of how to find Hundred Herbs Valley, and Lu Nan agreed to escort her back to Green Hill by Teleportation Array.

Lu Nan escorted Qingqiu Nan to Tushan City, then returned to the Myriad Blades Mountain Range to search for the special deer described in a cryptic verse. After months of fruitless searches, he sensed a group of cultivators and felt compelled to save the snow-white Little Deer among them.

• Lu Nan escorted Qingqiu Nan through a void passage to Savage Mountain City and parted from her without visiting Hu Mei'er.
• Lu Nan returned to the Myriad Blades Mountain Range and decided the verse required him to find a special deer and follow it to water.
• Lu Nan spent months observing and chasing deer, earning a reputation as a pervert among the great deer clan without finding his target.
• Lu Nan sensed human cultivators near the mountain range and investigated their group.
• Lu Nan spotted a snow-white Little Deer among the cultivators and felt an inexplicable urge to save her.

Lu Nan rescued a white deer from a group of captors and followed her to a mysterious pool that might lead to the Valley of a Hundred Flowers. The antlered girl said the passage would open at the full moon, leaving Lu Nan waiting with her and asking how she had been captured.

• Lu Nan killed the men capturing the white deer and freed her, then followed her through the forest.
• The white deer transformed into an antlered girl and used her antlers to awaken a pool that reflected a scene of flowers beneath the moon.
• Lu Nan recognized the pool as a possible passage to the Valley of a Hundred Flowers and stopped the girl to question her.
• The antlered girl said a mysterious voice had led her there and that she knew the valley but could only take him when the moon was full.
• The girl refused payment, saying Lu Nan's rescue repaid her debt, and Lu Nan asked how she had ended up in the captors' hands.

Lu Nan helped Little Deer leave the Woods and took her to explore Myriad Blades City, but when the voice urged her to return, she vanished despite his efforts to resist it. Lu Nan searched for her, finding no trace, and vowed to uncover who was responsible.

• Little Deer told Lu Nan she had lived alone in the Woods and agreed to test whether she could stay away when the voice called her back.
• Little Deer led Lu Nan out of the Woods into the Myriad Blades Mountain Range, and Lu Nan disguised her antlers with a fifth-grade formation.
• Lu Nan and Little Deer traveled to Myriad Blades City, where she eagerly enjoyed the market and spent the next two days eating and playing with him.
• When the voice urged Little Deer to return, Lu Nan took her back to the Myriad Blades Mountain Range and asked her to resist it.
• Little Deer vanished as Lu Nan watched, and he searched the area without finding a trace before vowing to uncover who was responsible.

Lu Nan waited for the white Little Deer to return, then followed her through a hidden passage into a flower-filled realm. He found a sunken valley fragrant with medicinal herbs, bringing him closer to the immortality medicine he sought.

• Lu Nan waited for the white Little Deer for a year, then spotted her again but lost her trail when she vanished into the forest.
• After another year of waiting and cultivating to Void Returning ninth grade, Lu Nan caught the white Little Deer and noticed the spatial fluctuation that revealed her route.
• Lu Nan followed the Little Deer through a passage to the white pool, where he used her antlers to clear the water and met the antlered girl.
• The antlered girl jumped into the pool to pick flowers, and Lu Nan followed her into a realm filled with blossoms.
• Lu Nan found a sunken valley that smelled of medicinal herbs and hurried to its entrance.

Lu Nan studied a mysterious formation that surpassed ninth grade while the antlered girl played nearby and later left the hidden space. A year later she returned, and Lu Nan had become a Ninth-grade Formation Master and began to understand the formation.

• Lu Nan found spirit medicines inside a valley protected by a formation he could not recognize, and decided to master the Nine Revolutions Formation Dispelling before tackling it.
• The antlered girl played and slept beside Lu Nan as he studied for about a month, then lightning forced her to leave the hidden space.
• The antlered girl returned to the Myriad Blades Mountain Range, wandered for a year, and waited until the pool reflected a full moon to enter the space again.
• Lu Nan completed his study of the Nine Revolutions Formation Dispelling and realized the valley's formation surpassed ninth grade.
• Lu Nan began carefully examining the formation, determined to conquer it, while the antlered girl slept beside him.

Lu Nan broke into the Valley of a Hundred Flowers, captured the Immortality Herb, and took it and the valley’s spirit plants into his Mysterious Space. After learning the antlered girl had spent years luring victims to the valley, he left her behind and departed with his prize.

• The antlered girl waited while Lu Nan studied the barrier, then hurried toward the sea of flowers when thunder rumbled.
• Lu Nan broke the formation and entered the valley, while an old man learned the seal had been breached and sent Tang An to Sin State to retrieve hidden items.
• Lu Nan found the seven-colored Immortality Herb, trapped it, and brought it into his Mysterious Space, where it warned him about the Old Man who had imprisoned it.
• Lu Nan realized the valley’s formation had drawn in living beings to nourish its spirit plants, then packed the plants into his Mysterious Space and found bones scattered beneath them.
• Lu Nan learned that three years had passed and that the antlered girl had been luring beings into the valley; he left without taking her, and she returned to the pool as a little white deer.

Lu Nan returned to Sword Valley with immortal medicine that began healing Ye Hanyan, who was expected to awaken in three months. Meanwhile, Tang An arrived from the Upper Realm and began forcing factions across the lower realm to surrender their treasures, prompting Sword Valley to consider resistance.

• Lu Nan returned to Sword Valley after three years and gave Ye Hanyan the seven-colored immortal fruit, which began repairing her injuries.
• Miao Feng warned Lu Nan to keep the immortal medicine secret, then hurried away after his expression changed, leaving Lu Nan uneasy.
• Tang An entered the Hundred Herbs Domain, subdued the Hundred Flowers Sect, and demanded the region's heavenly treasures under threat of annihilation.
• The Hundred Flowers Sect's old matron and Shennong Valley's green-haired elder agreed to contact major factions and discuss resisting Tang An, though the elder warned that they could not defeat him without help from the Upper Realm.
• Tang An forced the Serpentfolk Clan to surrender its resources and disperse its younger members after killing its Ancestor and threatening the clan.
• At Sword Valley, Yi Feng told Miao Feng and the gathered elders that Tang An was likely beyond Ascension, and asked whether Sword Valley should join the other domains in striking back.

Sword Valley’s Second Ancestor warned that a Mortal Transformation cultivator from the Upper Realm was devastating the Lower Realm and planned to take precautions. He offered to seal Lu Nan away, but Lu Nan refused to leave the people he cared about, and Miao Feng urged him to prepare to hide.

• Second Ancestor told Sword Valley’s gathered cultivators that their chances against the Upper Realm invader were less than ten percent and ordered gifted disciples relocated before leading them to the Demon Realm in three days.
• Second Ancestor summoned Lu Nan and proposed sealing him away until the invader left, explaining that the enemy had reached Mortal Transformation and could overwhelm the Lower Realm’s cultivators.
• Second Ancestor revealed that the Lower Realm was a sealed region of the Upper Realm and offered to help Lu Nan reach the Upper Realm if he survived and eventually reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence.
• Lu Nan refused to be sealed away because he could not abandon the people in the Lower Realm, and Second Ancestor accepted his decision.
• Miao Feng told Lu Nan to pack and find a secluded place to hide, while Lu Nan joked that he would run if the danger became too great.

Lu Nan secretly left Sword Valley for the Demon Realm after learning that Tang An had targeted Green Hill, leaving Ye Hanyan and Master Liu in his master's care. As Sword Valley prepared to disband and protect Ye Hanyan, Miao Feng discovered Lu Nan's farewell message and learned that he had gone to confront the danger himself.

• Lu Nan moved Ye Hanyan and Master Liu into the Second Ancestor's cave abode and left Ninth-grade formations to protect them before departing without telling Miao Feng.
• The Second Ancestor led Sword Valley's experts to the Demon Realm, where he negotiated with Tang An and agreed to give him two percent of their resources in exchange for his restraint.
• Tang An took Qingqiu Rou to Green Hill and demanded resources and a hundred beauties from every clan, while the Second Ancestor returned to Sword Valley and ordered it to disband.
• The Second Ancestor and Yi Feng found Lu Nan's farewell Jade Slip behind the formation and learned that Lu Nan had gone to the Demon Realm, mastered a mysterious formation, and was a Ninth-grade Formation Master.
• The Second Ancestor discovered Ye Hanyan's value as a human-shaped medicine, ordered Yi Feng to search for Lu Nan, and reinforced the protections around the two women.
• Miao Feng refused to reveal Lu Nan's secrets and stayed behind to guard the women, worried that Lu Nan would not return.

Lu Nan traded an eighty-thousand-year spirit herb to Grand View Dao Academy for rare formation materials, then fled and began refining them. After discovering Lu Nan had entered his master's ruined Hundred Herbs Domain, Tang An destroyed the domain and demanded his capture, while the Second Ancestor and other leaders secretly chose to protect Zhao Qi and sent the Second Ancestor to find him.

• Lu Nan exchanged the Bloodthirsty Ganoderma for formation materials from the Academy Head, escaped Grand View Dao Academy, and began refining the materials in hiding.
• Tang An threatened to destroy Green Hill if the Nine-tailed-bloodline girl did not emerge from seclusion, then entered the Hundred Herbs Domain and found its treasure valley ruined.
• Tang An learned from the white Little Deer that Lu Nan had entered the valley, destroyed Myriad Blades City and the Hundred Herbs Domain, and demanded that the leaders hand Lu Nan over within three hours.
• Steward Lu identified Lu Nan as an expelled disciple of Grand View Dao Academy, and Tang An ordered the academy to find him with the other forces’ help.
• The Second Ancestor revealed to the gathered leaders that Zhao Qi was a twenty-five-year-old Return to Void cultivator and Ninth-grade Formation Master who had destroyed the Boiling Fire Cult.
• The leaders agreed to protect Zhao Qi despite the danger, and the Second Ancestor departed to find him.

Tang An crippled Sword Valley’s Second Ancestor, threatened to destroy the Desert Region unless Zhao Qi appeared, and seized Ye Hanyan and Liu Qilan. After learning what had happened and receiving warnings from the mysterious Bai Le, Lu Nan headed for the Demon Realm with less than an hour left before Tang An’s deadline.

• Tang An sealed Sword Valley, crippled the Second Ancestor, and ordered Sword Valley destroyed after one day and the Desert Region after two if Zhao Qi did not appear.
• Tang An discovered Ye Hanyan and Liu Qilan in ice coffins, took them away, and killed Miao Feng and Yi Feng.
• Lu Nan learned of the threat and the destruction of the Hundred Herbs Domain from cultivators in Luocheng, then met Bai Le, who told him about Tang An and the Upper Realm’s powerful factions.
• Lu Nan swore to avenge his master, kowtowed toward Sword Valley, and hurried into the Demon Realm to prepare, with less than an hour remaining.

Lu Nan challenged Tang An and used a formation to trap him and the surrounding spectators beneath a summoned meteor. Though Tang An survived the impact, Lu Nan killed him with a final sword strike and collapsed, gravely wounded and near death.

• Lu Nan prepared a valley formation, announced his challenge to Tang An, and drew attention from across the Lower Realm.
• Tang An arrived with Ye Hanyan, Liu Qilan, and Hu Mei'er, and Lu Nan negotiated their release and the safety of Sword Valley and the Desert Region in exchange for the Immortality Medicine.
• Lu Nan lured Tang An into the valley, sealed it with a formation, and summoned a celestial body that devastated the area and severely wounded Tang An.
• Lu Nan emerged from the Mysterious Space and used his remaining cultivation, sword intent, and lifespan to kill Tang An, then collapsed in the crater as Hu Mei'er called to him.

After Lu Nan died defeating the Upper Realm enemy, Lin Yi promised to protect Hu Mei'er, Ye Hanyan, and Liu Qilan. Liu Qilan awakened, learned of Lu Nan's death, and fainted after her hair turned white, leaving Lin Yi to take her away with Hu Mei'er and Ye Hanyan.

• Lu Nan thanked Lin Yi and the others for rescuing Hu Mei'er, Ye Hanyan, and Liu Qilan, then sank into a pit he had dug with his remaining spiritual power.
• Hu Mei'er tried to break the formation and burn her bloodline, so Lin Yi knocked her unconscious and accepted the other groups' agreement that Sword Valley would take half the resources.
• Liu Qilan awakened in her ice coffin with power near the Return to Void realm and asked Lin Yi where Lu Nan was.
• Lin Yi told Liu Qilan that Lu Nan had perished with the Upper Realm enemy, and she attacked the formation before collapsing in grief as her hair turned white.
• Lin Yi checked that Liu Qilan was alive, then left with her, Hu Mei'er, and Ye Hanyan through a passage in the void.

Lin Yi rescued the injured Second Ancestor, led Sword Valley's retaliation, and negotiated over the confiscated resources with the other powers. He revealed that Lu Nan might have survived and pointed the others toward the formation holding the inheritance, then left with Sword Valley's share.

• Lin Yi arrived at Sword Valley, healed the Second Ancestor, sheltered Hu Mei'er and Liu Qilan, and sent his brothers to eliminate the forces that had attacked them.
• The forces from the barren mountain village launched their own purges, while the Old Man in the Upper Realm learned that Tang An had failed and destroyed the formation.
• At the resource meeting, Lin Yi demanded half the spoils and refused to give the Hundred Barrens Dynasty a share; after Bai Huangnan challenged him, the other powers killed Bai Huangnan and ordered his dynasty destroyed.
• Lin Yi told the gathered powers that Lu Nan might still be alive and said Lu Nan had destroyed the Boiling Fire Cult after its cultivator killed him.
• Lin Yi claimed the Immortal Medicine was in the formation but admitted he was guessing, then explained that the formation contained Lu Nan's inheritance and asked them not to damage Lu Nan's corpse.
• Hua Yi handed Lin Yi Sword Valley's resources, and Lin Yi left with his people.

After returning to Sword Valley, Lin Yi found Miao Feng and Yi Feng dead, then told Liu Qilan that Lu Nan might still be alive and took her to Godfall Land. Liu Qilan settled beside its sealed abyss to wait for Lu Nan, while his body began to heal; Lin Yi then brought Hu Mei'er back to Green Hill.

• Lin Yi returned to Sword Valley, ordered its disciples recalled, and found Miao Feng and Yi Feng dead in the Second Ancestor's cave abode.
• Liu Qilan woke and asked whether Lu Nan had died, so Lin Yi told her he might have returned to life before and took her to Godfall Land.
• Liu Qilan chose to wait outside the Light Membrane and built a cottage, unaware that faint light had begun healing Lu Nan's body beneath the abyss.
• Lin Yi brought Hu Mei'er to Green Hill, where the white-haired fox woman thanked him and invited him to sit and talk.

Hu Mei'er sacrificed her life to create a Spirit Revival Blood Fox in an attempt to resurrect Lu Nan, leaving Qingqiu Nan and Qingqiu Yazhi grieving over her death. Ten years later, Godfall Land had become a bustling gathering place around the formation enclosing it.

• Lin Yi persuaded Qingqiu Yazhi to agree to an alliance between Green Hill and Sword Valley, and Qingqiu Yazhi arranged Hu Mei'er's Saintess consecration.
• Hu Mei'er reunited with Qingqiu Nan, gathered cultivation resources, and entered seclusion to reach the seventh tier.
• After ten years, Hu Mei'er used a forbidden art to create a Spirit Revival Blood Fox from her heart and sent it toward Godfall Land to help Lu Nan.
• Qingqiu Yazhi tried to save Hu Mei'er, but Hu Mei'er died after asking her to keep the sacrifice from Lu Nan; Qingqiu Yazhi collected her remains in a gourd.
• Qingqiu Yazhi told Qingqiu Nan that Hu Mei'er had used the forbidden art to try to revive Lu Nan, and Qingqiu Nan mourned her granddaughter.
• Over ten years, visitors gathered outside Godfall Land's formation, forming a Market as they sought to study, honor, or breach it.