Chapter Summaries

Lu Nan and Liuli Yan entered a dangerous mountain range surrounding a secret realm tower and learned that nine monster-dropped beads were needed to enter. After Lu Nan’s incarnations gathered far more than enough keys, the pair returned to the tower, where Lu Nan challenged Ma Lou to honor his boast.

• Lu Nan and Liuli Yan fought their way through the mountain range, discovered that flight was restricted, and learned from a group of hunters that nine beads from powerful demonic beasts opened the tower.
• Lu Nan and Liuli Yan tried to enter behind a man who opened the tower door, but a mysterious force stopped them and the door shut.
• Lu Nan killed a four-headed lion, found a bead, and sent Original Lu Nan, White Lu Nan, and Blood Lu Nan to hunt for more while he and Liuli Yan searched too.
• Liuli Yan and Lu Nan’s incarnations returned with enough beads to enter the tower, including 205 beads from the three incarnations.
• Lu Nan gave Liuli Yan nine beads and carried another nine to the stone door as the onlookers watched and Ma Lou faced his boast to smash an ancient tree with his head if they had gathered the keys in four days.

Lu Nan reunited with Liuli Yan in the palace, rescued her from treasure hunters, and joined her in entering a hidden space containing a piece of Nine Heavens Sealing Jade and a mysterious White Jade Staircase. After the staircase separated them into trials against increasingly powerful demonic beasts, they met again and prepared to continue climbing together.

• Lu Nan killed Ma Lou and the other cultivators who tried to steal his keys, then entered the passage after Liuli Yan.
• Lu Nan found Liuli Yan being chased in the palace and killed her attackers, who had pursued her for the Azure Soul Glazed Grass.
• Liuli Yan led Lu Nan to a concealed space behind a palace wall, where they found a platform bearing a Nine Heavens Sealing Jade, a scripture, and a ring.
• A White Jade Staircase appeared, and Lu Nan vanished upon reaching its ninth step; Liuli Yan followed and defeated successive groups of demonic beasts in her own trials.
• Liuli Yan caught up with Lu Nan after defeating three Early Supreme beasts, and they entered the next trial together.

Lu Nan and Liuli Yan climbed the endless staircase and reached a platform where the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade claimed Liuli Yan as its master, but Lu Nan refused to kill her for it. The illusion shattered, and Lu Nan entered the Mystic Refining Tower, defeated Tuo Yuan Qing Feng on the ninety-ninth floor, and prepared himself before moving on.

• Lu Nan and Liuli Yan reached the jade gates and found three treasures, including the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade, an Immortal King cultivation technique, and a Storage Ring filled with resources.
• Liuli Yan became the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade's master, and Lu Nan refused to kill her to claim it; the scene then shattered, revealing that the trial had been an illusion.
• Lu Nan entered the Mystic Refining Tower and defeated the demon beasts on successive floors with single punches as their cultivation realms rose.
• On the ninety-ninth floor, Tuo Yuan Qing Feng identified the tower as a trial created by Star Immortal King to select an inheritor.
• Lu Nan and his three avatars struck Tuo Yuan Qing Feng with the Four Seasons Gold Sword Formation, defeating him and opening the gate to the next floor.
• Lu Nan sat down to take medicinal pills and regulate his breath before entering the next floor.

Lu Nan defeated the white-robed elder on the hundredth floor and entered a trial of comprehension, where he mastered several powerful arts and rose into the top hundred. After the trial ended, he entered the Inheritance Hall, leaving Liuli Yan behind with a strand of his hair so he could find her later.

• Lu Nan used Yinfeng Hall to kill the white-robed elder, then recovered and entered the next gate.
• Lu Nan reunited with Liuli Yan in a space of stone steles and learned that the trial tested comprehension and ranked entrants by points.
• Lu Nan comprehended the True Immortal-grade technique Illusory Three Thousand, causing its giant stele to shatter, and warned the others away after killing a challenger.
• Lu Nan and Liuli Yan comprehended more giant steles until the trial ended; Lu Nan entered the top hundred, while those below the top thousand were sent to the Purgatory Realm.
• Lu Nan gave Liuli Yan a strand of his hair and asked her to wait somewhere safe, then entered the Inheritance Hall and found himself in a desolate, chaotic hall.

Lu Nan fought his way through the Inheritance Hall and discovered that the black-and-white sword phantom in his mind led him to the Yin Yang Immortal King's inheritance. He claimed the Two Forms Sword and Yin Yang Sword Scripture, then vanished from the throne as the hall announced the inheritance had been claimed.

• Lu Nan defeated the stone guardians, used their red and blue beads to open the great doors, and seized the scripture from the jade platform amid a melee.
• Qingfeng Lanyue, a red-haired man, and a nine-tailed woman confronted Lu Nan; the Yin Yang Immortal King announced that whoever obtained the Two Forms Sword would receive his inheritance.
• Lu Nan traced the sword phantom's reaction to the second golden door on the right, opened the Armory Pavilion, and took a pitch-black longsword along with two immortal artifacts.
• Lu Nan's blood awakened the longsword, which became the Two Forms Sword; the Yin Yang Immortal King appeared, granted Lu Nan the sword and the Yin Yang Sword Scripture, and revealed a way out.
• Lu Nan sat on the throne with the Two Forms Sword, triggering the hall's announcement that the inheritance had been claimed; he disappeared as the others rushed toward the exit vortex.

After obtaining the Yin Yang Immortal King inheritance, Lu Nan learned that both Azure Wasteland and Other Land factions were moving to find him. He hid his identity with Illusory Three Thousand, cultivated new scriptures, and accidentally entered Other Land, where he disguised himself and entered a city.

• Liuli Yan overheard that Lu Nan had obtained an Immortal King inheritance and went to find him, unaware that creatures from Other Land were following her.
• Qingfeng Alien King and the Alien Kings planned to send their younger generation into Azure Wasteland in ten years to seize Yin Yang's inheritance and attack Azure Wasteland's younger generation.
• The Azure Wasteland leaders resolved to find and protect Lu Nan while monitoring Other Land and preparing for a possible breach of the pass.
• Lu Nan discovered that a sixth piece was somewhere in Azure Wasteland Realm, hid in an underground space, and used Illusory Three Thousand to change his appearance and aura.
• Lu Nan comprehended the Frost Sword and gained frost-cold sword intent, then traveled for more than half a month before finding a city in Other Land.
• Lu Nan entered the city after intimidating a guard with his Return to Void Realm aura and went to a restaurant to observe its inhabitants.

Lu Nan assumed the name Mu Liu and entered Mystic Mist Palace’s recruitment trial, quickly climbing the White Jade Staircase and reaching the mountain gate. After the three-month trial period ended, he entered the sect as an outer-court recruit, where an elder’s knowing glance left him wondering whether his disguise had been exposed.

• Lu Nan met Ox Horn and Sheep Horn, adopted the name Mu Liu, and learned that Mystic Mist Palace tested candidates in aptitude, strength, and character.
• Lu Nan arrived at the recruitment square, watched powerful youths and clans gather, then stepped onto the White Jade Staircase.
• Lu Nan knocked a brocade-clad youth off the staircase and raced to its summit, where the white-robed elder admitted him to the waiting group.
• After the three-month deadline, the white-robed elder brought Lu Nan and the other survivors through the mountain gate into Mystic Mist Palace.
• Mo Bai explained that the recruits had three months to pass the Sect Assessment, then sent them to collect their identity tokens and follow a guide to the Disciple Residence.

Lu Nan completed his Outer Sect assessment by collecting Crimson Blood Ginseng and became a Formal Disciple of Mystic Mist Palace. After cultivating for a year and reaching Late Supreme, he prepared for the Inner Sect Assessment, whose details he could not find in his identity plaque.

• Lu Nan bound his Jade Token, learned that Southern Qin Peak lay in the Inner Court, and accepted a mission to collect three Crimson Blood Ginseng.
• In the Silver Moon Mountain Range, Lu Nan killed the bandits who attacked him, took their Crimson Blood Ginseng, and secretly killed their one-eyed leader after letting him flee.
• Lu Nan submitted the ginseng to Ji Feizhang and passed the assessment, becoming a Formal Disciple under the name Mu Liu.
• Lu Nan declined an invitation to join other new disciples on their collection mission and decided to pursue the Inner Sect Assessment to reach the Three Thousand Peaks and seek the sixth piece of Nine Heavens Sealing Jade.
• Lu Nan cultivated in seclusion for a year, reached Late Supreme, and went to the Disciple Hall to look for information about the upcoming Inner Sect Assessment.

Lu Nan entered the Inner Sect Assessment, hunted demonic beasts, and took points from a group of disciples who tried to rob him. He rescued Ji Feizhang from Zhang Hong’s group, and Ji Feizhang offered to follow him.

• Lu Nan asked Ji Feizhang about the Inner Sect Assessment and learned that it would begin in fifteen days and admit the top ten thousand participants to the Inner Court.
• Lu Nan entered the assessment’s Small World, hunted demonic beasts, and accumulated 13,682 points in seven or eight days.
• A black-robed youth and his group tried to steal Lu Nan’s points, but Lu Nan knocked them unconscious and transferred their points to his token, raising his total to 139,883.
• Lu Nan found Ji Feizhang surrounded by Zhang Hong and his group, who were demanding points from him.
• Lu Nan swiftly subdued Zhang Hong and the others, then Ji Feizhang collected their tokens, buried them, and pledged to follow Lu Nan.

Lu Nan hunted demon beasts throughout the assessment, amassed more than ten million points, and killed several Saint Realm beasts despite posing as a Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator. When he encountered a wary Two-Winged Demon Wolf, it recognized the death aura of Saint Realm beasts on him and agreed to help him stage an act.

• Ji Feizhang gave Lu Nan his score plaque and asked to follow him, but Lu Nan told him to become an Inner Court disciple first and gave him three strands of sword intent.
• Lu Nan killed a crimson Saint Realm bird, then realized the kill could expose that his apparent cultivation was a disguise.
• Lu Nan continued hunting for more than two months and killed a Saint Realm black elephant after it defeated ten young cultivators, collecting their plaques and passing ten million points.
• Lu Nan found a Two-Winged Demon Wolf chasing a group of exhausted cultivators; the wolf sensed Saint Realm death aura on him and fled from the area.
• Lu Nan intercepted the wolf, which knelt and begged for its life, then agreed to carry out his plan.

Lu Nan used the Winged Demon Wolf to gather points during the Inner Sect Assessment and won first place with an overwhelming score. After advancing to the Inner Court, he was invited to consider joining Alchemy Peak.

• Lu Nan coerced the Winged Demon Wolf into helping him hunt demon beasts for assessment points, then gave it a flame to protect it while it drew attention.
• The Winged Demon Wolf fought other powerful beasts and delivered prey to Lu Nan, while its exploits spread through the assessment space.
• After the assessment ended, Lu Nan scored over eighteen million points; an elder verified the score and questioned him about defeating four Saint Realm demon beasts.
• Lu Nan claimed he had used a pill he accidentally refined to drug a Saint Realm demon beast, and the elder accepted his explanation.
• Lu Nan took first place, advanced with the successful disciples, and traveled by Flying Boat to the Inner Court.
• At the Inner Court entrance, an elder invited Lu Nan to join Alchemy Peak because of his aptitude for alchemy.

After joining Alchemy Peak as Wei Shu’s disciple, Lu Nan sought out remote Southern Qin Peak to investigate its hidden secrets. Its mysterious Peak Lord captured him and decided he would stay to refine pills.

• Wei Shu accepted Mu Liu as his third disciple after watching him refine nine patterned Spirit Grade pills, then gave him the Earth-grade chapter of the Ten Directions Pill Scripture.
• Lu Nan registered at the Disciple Hall with Peng Shu’s help and learned that Southern Qin Peak was remote, shrouded in poisonous mist, and rarely visited.
• Lu Nan persuaded Peng Shu to guide him to Southern Qin Peak, where the peak’s master suddenly pulled them inside.
• The Peak Lord recognized Lu Nan as the assessment’s top scorer and, after learning he was Wei Shu’s disciple, took him away to refine pills.

Lu Nan spent years refining pills for Nan Qianning while secretly investigating the forbidden rear mountain, then agreed to refine the perilous Two Elements Fusion Pill in exchange for access to the area. After advancing to Saint-tier, he began preparing the pill alone despite Wei Shu’s concerns.

• Nan Qianning kept Lu Nan on Southern Qin Peak refining increasingly demanding pills, and Wei Shu later came to ask that his disciple be released.
• Over the next year, Lu Nan reached Earth-grade alchemist status and was permitted to explore Southern Qin Peak, but he found nothing outside the forbidden rear mountain.
• Lu Nan spent ten years secretly investigating the rear mountain’s restrictions, then agreed to refine the Two Elements Fusion Pill before Nan Qianning would let him enter its forbidden area.
• Three years later, Lu Nan told Nan Qianning he had reached Saint-tier and requested a Saint-rank Cauldron and pill materials for the refinement.
• Wei Shu objected to Lu Nan taking the dangerous task, but Lu Nan insisted he had promised Nan Qianning and understood the risks.
• Wei Shu supplied a Saint-rank Cauldron, and Lu Nan began refining the Two Elements Fusion Pill alone.

Lu Nan refined the Two Elements Fusion Pill, and Nan Qianning took on its lightning tribulation so the pill could absorb the power of heaven and earth. After the ninth strike engulfed Southern Qin Peak, she emerged, while Wei Shu warned Lu Nan that his achievement would attract attention.

• Lu Nan separately refined the yin and yang ingredients and prepared their liquids for fusion.
• After half a month of controlling the unstable mixture, Lu Nan caught the completed pill and explained that it still needed to survive a lightning tribulation.
• Lu Nan handed the pill to Nan Qianning, who stayed beneath the tribulation while Wei Shu and the others moved out of its range.
• Nan Qianning endured the successive lightning strikes, taking severe injuries as the later bolts reached Invincible Supreme strength.
• The ninth bolt engulfed Nan Qianning and Southern Qin Peak, and Wei Shu warned Lu Nan that refining the pill would make him famous and could draw the attention of the Immortal Path Ancestors.
• As onlookers arrived and questioned Wei Shu, a figure flew out from Southern Qin Peak.

Lu Nan secured his place as Alchemy Peak’s Peak Heir after refusing Shen Kaiji’s offer to become his disciple, then returned to Southern Qin Peak with Nan Qianning to search its Forbidden Land and treasury. He found the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade and took it back to Alchemy Peak without revealing its importance.

• Nan Qianning left after refining the Two Elements Fusion Pill, while Wei Shu pulled Lu Nan away from Alchemy Peak elders seeking to recruit him.
• Lu Nan explained his rapid progress to Wei Shu, who inspected his soul and confirmed that he had Saint-level soul strength without signs of body-snatching.
• Shen Kaiji approved Lu Nan as Alchemy Peak’s Peak Heir, and Lu Nan refused Shen Kaiji’s offer of tutelage despite being pressured.
• Shen Kaiji told Wei Shu that the Three Thousand Peaks Grand Competition would select young cultivators to enter the Azure Wasteland and pursue Lu Nan’s Immortal King inheritance.
• Lu Nan visited Nan Qianning and followed her into Southern Qin Peak’s Forbidden Land, where his strange feeling faded without leading him to a treasure.
• Nan Qianning let Lu Nan choose one item from Southern Qin Peak’s treasury, and he selected the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade while concealing its true value.

Lu Nan learned that the Three Thousand Peaks Grand Competition would grant its top hundred competitors a chance to enter the Azure Wasteland, and Wei Shu arranged intensive cultivation for him. After secretly advancing his strength, Lu Nan returned to Alchemy Peak and found himself chased by disciples eager to claim Wei Shu’s promised reward for defeating him.

• Wei Shu learned that Lu Nan had chosen the Nine Heavens Sealing Jade as payment, explained the competition and its Azure Wasteland quota, and gave him a Saint-tier Soul Mimicry Technique to study.
• Lu Nan mastered the Soul Mimicry Technique within a month and impressed Wei Shu, who agreed to let him cultivate independently and check his progress every three months.
• Lu Nan secretly advanced to the Mortal Transformation Realm, shook off Wei Shu’s surveillance, and returned to Mystic Mist Palace, where Wei Shu accepted his claimed breakthrough.
• Lu Nan collected cultivation resources repeatedly and cultivated under concealed formations, building his hidden strength toward the Mid Supreme stage.
• At the Resource Pavilion, several disciples confronted Lu Nan, and Wei Shu announced that any Alchemy Peak disciple below Dao-Planting Realm who defeated him could claim a Breakthrough Pill; Lu Nan fled as the crowd pursued him.

Lu Nan returned to the Mystic Mist Palace after secretly cultivating to the Late Supreme Realm, disguised his strength as Early Saint Realm, and joined the Three Thousand Peaks Grand Competition. After learning the competition world was sealed from outside observation, he began hunting its prodigies, and the chapter ended as he approached an Early Supreme Realm participant.

• Lu Nan fled the Mystic Mist Palace, cultivated in hiding until reaching the Late Supreme Realm, then disguised himself as an unstable Early Saint Realm cultivator and returned to his cave abode.
• Lu Nan convinced Wei Shu that a mysterious fruit had caused his breakthrough, and Wei Shu arranged his registration for the competition and told him to stabilize his realm.
• Lu Nan passed the Heart-Questioning Ladder after lingering in an illusion of Liu Qilan and Hanyan, then entered the competition Small World the next day.
• A black-armored young man attacked Lu Nan and revealed that the competition space was sealed off from outside observation; Lu Nan defeated him and destroyed his divine soul.
• Lu Nan changed his plan from hiding until the competition ended to seeking out prodigies, altered his appearance, and rushed toward an Early Supreme Realm young man.

Lu Nan survived the final melee by sleeping and casually slaughtering attacking demonic beasts, then returned to Mystic Mist Palace and entered the third-stage arena duels. He began defending Arena Three Hundred and Sixty-Five, building a thirty-five-match streak before defeating a middle Saint Realm opponent in his thirty-sixth match.

• Lu Nan defeated an Early Supreme young man during his search for sparring partners, then gave up challenging opponents and waited for the competition to end.
• When the final three days began, Lu Nan slew hundreds of demonic beasts with one sword strike and later drove away more beasts that disturbed his sleep.
• Lu Nan returned to Mystic Mist Palace, received clearance token number two thousand three hundred and twenty-one, and learned from Wei Shu that the third stage would begin after three days of rest.
• Lu Nan defeated his first opponent on Arena Three Hundred and Sixty-Five, then chose to defend the arena and won matches against a succession of challengers.
• After Lu Nan reached thirty-five consecutive victories, a middle Saint Realm opponent tried to attack from concealment, but Lu Nan used divine-soul longswords to knock him off the arena.

Lu Nan continued his arena streak, overcoming Chen Chi’s flames and Liu Chi’s sword attack before reaching ninety-nine victories. He defeated Li Qingping’s illusion technique, secured one hundred consecutive wins, and received a place among the top hundred for the ranking battles.

• Lu Nan defeated Chen Chi by resisting his flames and evading his attacks, extending his streak to seventy-three wins.
• Several challengers voluntarily conceded, raising Lu Nan’s streak to eighty-six wins; Liu Chi then attacked him, but Lu Nan trapped him in an illusion and forced him off the arena.
• A young girl in purple conceded, giving Lu Nan his ninety-ninth consecutive victory.
• Li Qingping used spirit power to ensnare Lu Nan in an illusion, but Lu Nan broke free and returned the attack with the Great Dream Immortal Scripture, prompting Li Qingping to concede.
• Lu Nan won his hundredth consecutive match, received a golden Jade Slip and a place among the top hundred, then left the arena.

After earning a hundred consecutive victories, Lu Nan declined the ranking battles and left Mystic Mist Palace to cultivate in seclusion. He reached Peak Supreme, entered the Netherworld through his divine ability, and was sent back before an Immortal King’s power shattered his gate and badly injured him.

• Wei Shu learned that Lu Nan had won a hundred consecutive battles, and Lu Nan said he would skip the ranking battles and cultivate before entering the Azure Wasteland.
• Shen Kaiji and Wei Shu discussed making Mu Liu the peak disciple of Alchemy Peak and arranging for him to rank between fiftieth and seventieth despite his absence from the ranking battles.
• Lu Nan received a purple peak disciple waist token, left Mystic Mist Palace, and secluded himself in a cave until he reached Peak Supreme.
• Lu Nan opened a black gate with his divine ability, entered the Netherworld, and fought through vicious dogs that repeatedly revived and multiplied.
• Old Zhao and a white-robed man identified the place as the Netherworld and sent Lu Nan back, warning that his world did not qualify for reincarnation.
• Lu Nan tried to reopen the gate, but an Immortal King-level aura shattered it and severely injured him, so he began healing before deciding to return to Mystic Mist Palace.