Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan broke through to Dao Comprehension in the Nether Soul Abyss and triggered a devastating Nine Tribulation Lightning tribulation. As powerful figures watched and interfered, three lightning-made Saints attacked him, leaving his survival uncertain.

• Wang An reported that Wang Kai's life tablet had shattered, and Wang Long ordered the Wang Family to hunt the killer while keeping the matter secret.
• Lu Nan absorbed the last of the origin, reached the peak of his breakthrough, and was struck by a lightning tribulation that devastated everything within nine hundred and ninety-nine li.
• Lu Nan defeated successive waves of lightning figures at early, middle, and late Dao Comprehension, using his sword techniques to overcome them.
• Powerful beings debated Lu Nan's fate as Mangu and Yin Jiu opposed the human observers, and the thunderclouds turned crimson.
• Three lightning figures at the Saint realm revealed that someone had tampered with the tribulation and attacked Lu Nan, sending him flying.

Lu Nan endured the mutated lightning tribulation, gained control over lightning, and survived an attack from Mangu when Lin Huang intervened. Red Woman then revealed that Lu Nan was under her protection and warned the powerful onlookers not to target him before reaching the Immortal Dao.

• Lu Nan defeated the tribulation’s increasingly powerful figures, absorbed their lightning, and grew a fruit within the small tree inside him.
• Lu Nan trapped Jian Xiaoyao, Zhan, and Huo Huang in his Four Seasons Gold Sword Formation, and they willingly turned into lightning to help him complete the tribulation.
• As the tribulation clouds dispersed, a giant hand attacked Lu Nan, shattered his four-colored sword strike, and pursued him as he fled.
• Lin Huang stopped the giant hand, severing it from Mangu, while Lu Nan learned the attacker’s identity and vowed to take revenge.
• Red Woman appeared, crushed Mangu, restored him with grievous injuries, and warned everyone that Lu Nan was under her protection.

After the Different Land forces withdrew, Lu Nan collected three drops of Immortal Blood and fled the battle site with Lu Taiji, but a foreign Supreme pursued them. Liuli Yan killed the attacker, and Lu Nan asked her about the Nether Soul Abyss.

• Yin Jiu decided that the Different Land Clan would target Lu Nan through those below the Immortal Path, while Elder Bai ordered Lin Huang not to intervene unless Immortal Path Beings acted.
• Lu Nan approached Mangu's blood, resisted its pressure with his Indestructible Body, and collected three drops when Supremes and demonic beasts gathered around the pit.
• Lu Nan returned to the cave, rescued Lu Taiji, and escaped a Middle-aged Man who demanded the Immortal Blood but then told Lu Nan to leave after learning he was from Shenxiao Holy Land.
• A foreign Supreme blocked Lu Nan and demanded his clan's Immortal Blood, so Lu Nan summoned Liuli Yan with his life-saving trump card.
• Liuli Yan killed the foreign Supreme and scolded Lu Nan for entering the Nether Soul Abyss; Lu Nan asked her about the abyss's origins.

Lu Nan learned that the Nether Soul Abyss had an entrance in the Otherworld and that powerful otherworldly beings were targeting him. The Mystic Yellow Ox brought him to a protected mound and challenged him to retrieve the treasure buried inside, and Lu Nan uncovered a box whose contents remained unrevealed.

• Liuli Yan identified Lu Nan’s dark green blood as Immortal Blood from a powerful otherworldly being and explained that both Azure Wasteland and the Otherworld had entrances to the Nether Soul Abyss.
• Lin Huang warned Liuli Yan that otherworldly Immortal Path Beings had targeted Lu Nan, told her to keep him away from the Otherworld Battlefield until he reached Supreme, and urged her to secure his three drops of Immortal Blood.
• Lu Nan and Lu Taiji continued searching for a jade pendant until the Mystic Yellow Ox appeared, sealed the area, and transported them to its protected lair.
• The Mystic Yellow Ox told Lu Nan that the jade pendant was buried in the mound and that he could keep it only if he retrieved it without external strength.
• After Lu Taiji was repelled by the mound, Lu Nan dug into it with his bare hands, found a box, and opened it.

Lu Nan obtained the jade pendant and left the Nether Soul Abyss with Lu Taiji, then joined the Grand Competition of the Three Holy Lands. In the first round, he slaughtered beasts and robbers for points before subduing a Saint-realm Two-headed Wolf, which submitted after taking his attack.

• Lu Nan retrieved the jade pendant, and the Mystic Yellow Ox broke through toward the Supreme Realm after sending him and Lu Taiji away.
• The Heavenly Mystery Hermit brought Lu Nan to the Grand Competition, where he registered as rogue cultivator Ye Nan and learned the rules of the three-round contest.
• Lu Nan entered the demon-hunting secret realm, killed thousands of beasts in a swamp, and had Lu Taiji collect their ears for points.
• Lu Nan killed sixteen robbers who tried to take his belongings, then collected their waist tokens and beast ears.
• Lu Nan found a Saint-realm Two-headed Wolf and asked it to lead him to the other Saint-realm beasts in exchange for a way out of the secret realm.
• After Lu Nan struck the Two-headed Wolf with the Extinguishing Finger, the wolf submitted, leaving Lu Nan suspicious of how easily it had yielded.

Lu Nan continued hunting Saint Realm demonic beasts with the Two-headed Wolf and Lu Taiji, while spectators and the three great sacred lands became intrigued by his strength. The Two-headed Wolf defeated an old rival but Lu Nan killed it, and the group continued their hunt.

• Lu Nan swore to free the Two-headed Wolf after leaving the Secret Realm, then established a master-servant contract and set off to hunt Saint Realm beasts.
• Lu Nan killed the Spiritual Tide Tiger with a finger strike and the Cave Demon Spider with one sword stroke; Lu Taiji and the Two-headed Wolf ate the remains, and Lu Taiji broke through to Great Power Peak.
• Spectators outside the Secret Realm watched Lu Nan's growing kill count, and the three great sacred lands investigated his identity as an early Enlightenment Realm rogue cultivator named Ye Nan.
• After collecting materials from his twenty-fifth Saint Realm kill, Lu Nan encountered a group of juniors and let the Two-headed Wolf fight a middle Saint Realm Black Wolf.
• The Two-headed Wolf nearly defeated the Black Wolf, but Lu Nan killed it when it used black mist to escape; he took its right ear and core and allowed the Two-headed Wolf to eat the corpse.

Lu Nan hunted Saint Realm Demon Beasts in the secret realm, then faced Rock Sacred Land after it tried to claim the Two-headed Wolf and Lu Taiji. He protected the Two-headed Wolf, drove off a Great Sage Realm elder, and entered the event’s scoring stage.

• Lu Nan ignored the group he had rescued and rode the Two-headed Wolf to hunt more Saint Realm Demon Beasts.
• Wu Qi tried to rob Lu Nan after claiming friendship, but Lu Nan and his companions killed Wu Qi and his group and collected their Demon Beast proof.
• Lu Nan’s group hunted for seven days, gathering proof from seventy-two Saint Realm Demon Beasts before the secret realm closed.
• A Rock Sacred Land elder claimed the Two-headed Wolf and Lu Taiji as its property, but a white-haired elder’s attempt to seize the Two-headed Wolf was stopped when Lu Nan shattered his attack with Scorching Sun.
• Lu Nan offered one hundred jin of Spirit Source and kept the Two-headed Wolf, which chose to remain with him, then submitted his identity token for scoring.

Lu Nan won the first round of the grand competition, then killed nearly every other contestant in the second-round melee and fled after killing Stone Saint. Heavenly Mystery Hermit gave him a jade pendant stolen from the Three Sacred Lands, forcing Lu Nan to decide whether to accept a fight to the death with them.

• The scorekeeping disciple recorded Lu Nan’s first-round total as 9,913,281, placing him first and advancing him to the second round.
• Heavenly Mystery Hermit raided a concealed palace, stole a jade pendant, and escaped the elders pursuing him.
• Heavenly Mystery Hermit urged Lu Nan to kill contestants from the Three Sacred Lands and promised him a gift if he survived their pursuit.
• Lu Nan unleashed the Four Seasons Sword Technique during the melee, killing the other contestants and Stone Saint before fleeing with the Great Five Elements Escape.
• Heavenly Mystery Hermit caught up with Lu Nan and gave him the stolen jade pendant, warning that taking it would make him an enemy of the Three Sacred Lands.

Heavenly Mystery Hermit revealed that Lu Nan’s jade pendant came from Divine Pendant Holy Land and warned him that an immortal demon was sealed in the lower realm. After Lin Huang rescued Lu Nan from eight ancient holy-land elders, Lu Nan reached Giant Wood City to buy supplies, and Chen Er delivered them the next day.

• Heavenly Mystery Hermit explained that Divine Pendant Holy Land had split into Shengyan, Bedrock, and Parting Flame, and told Lu Nan that an immortal demon was sealed in the lower realm.
• Eight elderly men seized Lu Nan’s jade pendant and tried to kill him, but Lin Huang appeared, killed them, concealed the pendant’s Dao charm, and returned it to Lu Nan.
• Lu Nan woke beside the unconscious Lu Taiji, recovered the pendant, and vowed to take revenge on Divine Pendant Holy Land.
• In Giant Wood City, Lu Nan ordered supplies from Chen Er at Glazed Treasure Pavilion and accepted lodging and Xiao Yu’s assistance at the Glazed Restaurant.
• Lu Nan taught Lu Taiji a transformation technique, allowing him to take the form of a little black-and-white cat, and the two rested after eating.
• The next day, Chen Er gave Lu Nan a Storage Ring containing the requested goods.

Lu Nan refined three trapping Array Plates and planted them in Blazing Fire Sacred Land, Rock Sacred Land, and Shengyan Holy Land to target their disciples. As he buried the last plate, a Supreme detected him and attacked, forcing him to flee.

• Lu Nan bought more array materials from Chen Er and returned to his cave, where he refined two additional Array Plates.
• Lu Nan decided to plant the plates in the three Sacred Lands, but Lu Taiji refused to help, so Lu Nan set out with the Two-headed Wolf and Lu Taiji.
• Lu Nan used Great Five Elements Escape to enter Blazing Fire Sacred Land and conceal an Array Plate beneath its Sect Square.
• Lu Nan repeated the plan at Rock Sacred Land, burying a second Array Plate beneath its Sect Square.
• Lu Nan planted the third Array Plate in Shengyan Holy Land, but a powerful Divine Sense attack struck after an enraged voice caught him sneaking inside.

Lu Nan trapped Shengyan Holy Land inside a devastating array and inflicted massive casualties before reinforcements from Parting Flame and Bedrock arrived. He withdrew with Lu Taiji and the two beasts as the three Holy Lands prepared to break the array.

• Lu Nan killed a middle-aged man pursuing him after the man recognized him as Ye Nan and threatened him with Shengyan Holy Land’s retaliation.
• Lu Nan returned to Shengyan Holy Land, where Lu Taiji and the Two-headed Wolf chose to stay and fight alongside him.
• Lu Nan activated a powerful array that sealed Shengyan Holy Land beneath a golden curtain, which its experts could not break with their own strength.
• Lu Nan’s array unleashed rain of light that killed many cultivators and, after he intensified it, devastated Shengyan Holy Land and left more than half its disciples dead or wounded.
• Shengyan’s Supreme summoned aid from Parting Flame and Bedrock, whose experts arrived and joined the effort to break the array.
• Lu Nan put away the Array Plate and quietly left with Lu Taiji, the bear, and the Two-headed Wolf as reinforcements gathered outside the curtain.

After leaving the ruined Shengyan Holy Land, Lu Nan entered seclusion and used two Mysterious Jade Pendants to obtain a growable sword, a powerful fruit, and new coordinates. He reached Dao Comprehension Peak and learned that the coordinates led to the Barren Continent.

• Elder Zhang and the other Supremes searched Shengyan Holy Land, discussed the attack and the missing ancestors, then began rebuilding the damaged holy land.
• Lu Nan listened in disguise as people discussed Shengyan's destruction, then decided to strengthen himself before pursuing anything else.
• Lu Nan merged the two Mysterious Jade Pendants with the Mysterious Stone Stele, obtained a growable sword and a fruit, and received another set of coordinates.
• Lu Nan fed heavenly treasures to the sword, swallowed the fruit, reached Dao Comprehension Peak, and suppressed the energy that could push him further.
• Lu Nan traveled to Moon Forest City and learned from an information seller that the coordinates pointed to the Barren Continent.

Lu Nan attacked Lotus Phoenix Valley with the Four Seasons Gold Sword Formation after learning that the Wang Family had sent people to kill him. He revealed his identity as a member of Shenxiao Holy Land and struck a bargain with Wang Tian: Lotus Phoenix Valley would help him kill the deputy sect leader of the Seven Star Sword Sect, and Lu Nan ordered the family to eliminate Wang Kai’s branch.

• Lu Nan killed the Wang Family pursuers who ambushed him outside Moon Forest City, spared one man for questioning, and learned about Lotus Phoenix Valley and its strength.
• Lu Nan returned to the Glazed Treasure Pavilion for information, then trapped Lotus Phoenix Valley in the Four Seasons Gold Sword Formation and killed many disciples and higher-ups.
• The formation killed Lotus Phoenix Valley’s three openly known Great Sages, prompting Wang Long and the others to face the valley’s hidden ancestors.
• Lu Nan identified himself as Ye Nan and agreed to spare Lotus Phoenix Valley if Wang Tian helped him kill the deputy sect leader of the Seven Star Sword Sect.
• Lu Nan revealed that he came from Shenxiao Holy Land, and Wang Tian accepted the request before Lu Nan ordered the Wang Family to wipe out Wang Kai’s branch.

Lu Nan sent Wang Tian to kill Mo Jian'er and recover Qi Lan, then reunited the pair of matching jade hairpins and invited Qi Lan to join him. Wang Tian offered Lotus Phoenix Valley’s submission if Lu Nan became Shenxiao’s Holy Son within ten years, and Lu Nan agreed to take Wang Tian’s sealed junior along on his travels.

• Wang Tian killed Wang Long and ordered Lotus Phoenix Valley to eliminate Wang Long’s bloodline, then promised Lu Nan Mo Jian'er’s head and help recovering a woman surnamed Qi.
• Wang Tian, Wang Zhan, and Wang Xiao went to the Seven Star Sword Sect, where Sword Nine agreed to cooperate after learning Shenxiao was involved.
• Wang Tian identified Qi Lan using the jade hairpin, killed Mo Jian'er, and brought Qi Lan and Mo Jian'er's corpse back to Lu Nan.
• Qi Lan joined Lu Nan after he confirmed her paired hairpin and told her Elder Feng was not currently in this realm; she arranged to meet him at the Linshi Imperial Capital in seven days.
• Wang Tian offered to lead Lotus Phoenix Valley in submitting to Lu Nan if he became Shenxiao’s Holy Son within ten years, and Lu Nan agreed to take Wang Tian’s sealed junior with him.

Lu Nan traveled to Barren Continent to find Feng Lang and investigate the seal, then infiltrated Divine Transformation Mountain to learn about its harvests of the lower realms and inheritance item. He discovered the next harvest would take place in three days and learned that the Mountain Lord held the faction’s inheritance item.

• Lu Nan refused Wang Tian’s proposal regarding Wang Yi, and the white-robed elder warned Wang Yi that Lu Nan came from Shenxiao Holy Land and had defeated three peak Great Saints.
• Lu Nan reunited with Qi Lan and Fang Xiaoyu’s family in Shidu, then set out for Barren Continent after learning Feng Lang was there.
• A passerby identified Yin Wind Valley, Ageless Sect, Star Moon Dynasty, and Divine Transformation Mountain as Barren Continent’s major factions, while Heavenly Mystery Hermit said their inherited artifacts were tied to breaking the seal.
• Lu Nan reached Divine Transformation Mountain, secretly entered its grounds, and captured He Yu, Third Elder of Qingxiao Peak.
• He Yu told Lu Nan that the four factions would harvest the lower realms in three days and used a formation to send down Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators at full strength.
• He Yu said Divine Transformation Mountain’s inheritance item was held by its Mountain Lord, who was at the peak of Minor Sage and usually cultivated on the main peak.

Lu Nan prepared to enter the Lower Realm before the four factions’ next harvest, then arrived in the Southern Domain and returned to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect. At an inn in Azure Lotus City, he learned Shopkeeper Mo had died and offered to help Mo Nan enter the sect as an Inner Disciple.

• Lu Nan killed He Yu, bought the materials he needed from the Glazed Treasure Pavilion, and told Lu Taiji he had found a way to travel to the Lower Realm.
• Lu Nan arranged for Lu Taiji to guide his return, entrusted Lu Bao’s safety to the Two-headed Wolf, and activated the formation to descend to the Southern Domain.
• Lu Nan reached the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and met Zhao Yu, who directed him to the disciple recruitment assembly in Azure Lotus City.
• Lu Nan recognized the inn where he had once stayed and met Shopkeeper Mo’s descendant, who told him Shopkeeper Mo had died a hundred years earlier.
• Lu Nan offered to help the innkeeper’s daughter, Mo Nan, enter the Azure Lotus Sword Sect as an Inner Disciple and asked her to follow him.

Lu Nan returned to the lower realm, reunited with Qingchuan and Liu Qilan, and brought Mo Nan to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect to become Qingchuan’s disciple. He learned that Ye Hanyan was being forced into marriage, confronted Sword Valley’s ancestors, and reunited with Ye Hanyan, whose memories had returned.

• Lu Nan took Mo Nan from Yuanlai Wine House to the Azure Lotus Sword Sect and asked Qingchuan to accept her as an inner sect disciple; Qingchuan agreed and gave her a jade pendant.
• Lu Nan visited his master’s gravestone in Sword Valley, then reunited with Liu Qilan at his former residence and explained that he had reached the Dao Comprehension Realm and could return only for seven days.
• Liu Qilan told Lu Nan that Ye Hanyan had agreed to marry the Young Master of the Divine Transformation Cult under pressure from the faction and Sword Valley’s ancestors.
• Lu Nan summoned Sword Valley’s ancestors, confirmed that Ye Hanyan was unwilling and that most of them had stayed silent, then gave three Storage Rings to Second Ancestor for Sword Valley, himself, and Ancestor Yifeng.
• Lu Nan asked Liu Qilan to leave with him and brought Ye Hanyan to them; Ye Hanyan recognized Lu Nan, and Liu Qilan explained that her memories had returned.

Lu Nan protected the Lower Realm from the descending forces, settled Ye Hanyan’s grievance, and returned to investigate the seal’s center in the Middle Land. Inside an altar chamber, he found the Suppressing Jade and heard a mysterious voice reveal that the vast formation had five parts whose cores were scattered elsewhere.

• Ye Hanyan embraced Lu Nan, and he demanded that Sword Valley answer for pressuring her within one day before leaving with Liu Qilan and Ye Hanyan.
• Lu Nan destroyed the Divine Transformation Cult with a single strike and told Ye Hanyan no one would force her again.
• Lu Nan discovered that the Lower Realm’s seal centered on the Middle Land, and Lin Yi confirmed the region’s reputation as a dangerous forbidden zone.
• When the four great forces opened a passage and sent Mortal Transformation Realm experts down, Lu Nan killed them and destroyed the vortex, then erased those who had pressured Ye Hanyan.
• Lu Nan gave Liu Qilan and Ye Hanyan resources before returning to the Middle Land, where he found an altar, a bronze coffin, and a glowing Suppressing Jade.
• A mysterious voice told Lu Nan that five formations formed the structure and that four of their formation cores were located elsewhere.

Lu Nan learned from Tuo Mu Meng how to undo the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation and agreed to help him in exchange for an oath and assistance. He found the first formation eye at Divine Transformation Mountain and infiltrated the Star Moon Dynasty to search for the next one, where he was discovered by a woman bathing in a palace pool.

• Tuo Mu Meng told Lu Nan that the formation had four eyes, explained his imprisonment by the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade, and swore oaths accepting Lu Nan’s three conditions.
• Tuo Mu Meng gave Lu Nan a pearl that pointed toward the formation eyes, and Lu Nan used it to locate a bronze mountain in the Mountain Lord’s Storage Ring at Divine Transformation Mountain.
• Lu Nan subdued the Mountain Lord, disguised him as He Yu, arranged for both men to appear in seclusion, and left the mountain with Lu Taiji and the others.
• Lu Nan’s group traveled to the Star Moon Dynasty and settled at Floating Immortal Tower in Star Moon Capital before Lu Nan bought information about the dynasty from Glazed Treasure Pavilion.
• Lu Nan followed the pearl into the imperial palace and entered a woman’s bathing chamber, where she attacked him and he restrained her before she could raise an alarm.

Lu Nan gathered the third and fourth formation cores from Yin Wind Valley and the Ageless Sect, escaping after the sect discovered his theft and issued a kill order. Back in Star Moon, he reunited with Lu Taiji and the others, and the Star Moon Empress proposed joining forces to undo the lower realm’s seal, warning that the entire Azure Realm could turn against him.

• Lu Nan swore to suppress Yang Dian within ten years in exchange for the Star Moon Dynasty’s crimson inherited treasure, then left for Yin Wind Valley.
• Lu Nan took the black wind from Yin Wind Valley’s array eye, while the Star Moon Empress abducted Lu Taiji and the others and left Lu Nan a message.
• Lu Nan entered the Ageless Sect disguised as a new disciple, stole the Ageless Spring from its central peak, and escaped after an elder pursued him; the sect then issued a kill order.
• Lu Nan returned to Star Moon, found Lu Taiji with the Star Moon Empress, and asked why she had taken his companions.
• The Star Moon Empress proposed cooperating to undo the lower realm’s seal and warned Lu Nan that Yin Wind Valley had reacted to the theft and that the other powers might make him an enemy of the Azure Realm.