Chapter Summaries

After recovering from his injuries, Lu Nan joined Mystic Mist Palace’s assault force bound for the Azure Wasteland, where he hoped to return without revealing his identity. The Otherworld army attacked Qinghuang Pass, and as Liuli Yan fought on the battlefield, reinforcements strengthened the pass’s barrier before nine powerful figures advanced.

• Lu Nan returned to Mystic Mist Palace wounded, told Wei Shu a half-truth about his encounter with a powerful aura, and learned that Netherworld Power had been inside him before it disappeared.
• After recovering, Lu Nan joined the Inner Court’s top one hundred disciples under Wu Huo and learned they would enter the Azure Wasteland to retrieve the Immortal King's inheritance.
• Lu Nan and the assault force reached the Otherworld Battlefield, where the assembled army attacked Qinghuang Pass and the pass’s defenders raised its golden barrier.
• Liuli Yan and Meng Zhan helped lead the Five Armies and Four Tribes against the attackers as the Azure Wasteland’s elders gathered to respond to the invasion.
• Lu Nan spotted Liuli Yan fighting and feared for her safety; then the barrier brightened with the arrival of reinforcements, and nine streams of light flew toward Qinghuang Pass.

The otherworld army attacked Qinghuang Pass and demanded Lu Nan, overwhelming Azure Wasteland's defenders until the pass's hidden power and Yu Yan halted their advance. Huang Mu then proposed sending the otherworld's younger generation into Azure Wasteland for a century to search for Lu Nan, and the defenders began preparing while unease lingered over his attack on the Divine Firmament Sect.

• Nine otherworld True Immortals attacked Qinghuang Pass and demanded Lu Nan, then fought the Azure Wasteland immortals, killing seven and taking parts of their corpses as crafting materials.
• Liuli Yan, Meng Zhan, and the other commanders joined the defenders as the golden barrier cracked; nine Azure Wasteland Golden Immortals appeared, but the barrier eventually shattered under the renewed assault.
• Huang Mu intervened, killing the attackers near the pass, while Yu Yan emerged to confront him; Qinghuang Pass severed Huang Mu's hand, but Huang Mu destroyed the Divine Firmament Sect after an unseen power briefly disrupted his attack.
• Huang Mu proposed that otherworld youths under five thousand years old enter Azure Wasteland for one hundred years to search for Lu Nan, and Yu Yan left to consult with the others before the otherworld army withdrew a thousand li.
• The defenders repaired Qinghuang Pass and prepared for battle, while Liuli Yan and Meng Zhan worried about Huang Mu's attempt to reach into Azure Wasteland.

Lu Nan entered the Azure Wasteland with the otherworldly delegation, then separated from them to investigate the sixth Nine Heavens Sealing Jade and learn the Immortal Crossing Secret Art. He chose to pursue the art by entering the mortal world, settled in a village under the name Ye Nan, and used Mortal Dust Eye to observe the village gathering as night fell.

• Huang Mu and Yu Yan agreed that two hundred people, including no more than fifty in the Supreme realm, could enter the Azure Wasteland, and Lu Nan joined the group.
• After the delegation crossed into the Azure Wasteland, Lu Nan left the others, changed his appearance, learned his location from the Glazed Treasure Pavilion, and secluded himself in a mountain hollow.
• Lu Nan activated the sixth Nine Heavens Sealing Jade at the Primordial Chaos Monument and received the Immortal Crossing Secret Art, choosing to cultivate it and learning Mortal Dust Eye and Silk-Binding Hand.
• Lu Nan entered the mortal world, saved Zhao San and Zhao Xiaohu from a striped tiger, and accepted Zhao San's invitation to settle in their village.
• Lu Nan shared the tiger meat with the villagers, joined their feast, and opened Mortal Dust Eye as he watched the village at night.

Lu Nan discovered that he could gather Red Dust Silk from the joy of people around him, then accompanied Zhao San to Forest City to sell their tiger hide and deposit the proceeds. After buying new clothes and meeting Zhao San’s friend Zhang Tie, Lu Nan received a bow while Zhao San took a forged saber.

• Lu Nan gathered Red Dust Silk from the villagers’ joy while drinking with Zhao San, then woke the next morning at Zhao San’s home and agreed to settle on the hill behind the village.
• Lu Nan chose the hill for his home, and he and Zhao San traveled to Forest City to sell the tiger hide and buy supplies.
• At Treasure Pawnshop, Zhao San sold the ranked demon-beast hide to Jin Santong for five hundred gold, and Jin Santong told his attendant to watch Zhao San’s future visits.
• Lu Nan and Zhao San dressed as a young master and servant, deposited four hundred and fifty gold at Henglai Money House, and exchanged some of the remainder for silver.
• Lu Nan and Zhao San visited Zhang Tie’s blacksmith shop, where Zhang Tie gave Zhao San a ten-fold forged saber and Lu Nan a large bow.

Lu Nan bought a bow and gathered Red Dust Silk in Forest City before losing access to his cultivation and Divine Sense, though he sensed the silk had only disappeared from view. On the journey back to the village, he and Zhao San fought off a bandit ambush and continued on with their supplies.

• Zhao San bought a Ten-Forged Blade and Lu Nan bought a greatbow from Zhang Tie, then Zhang Tie hosted them at Yuelai Restaurant.
• After drinking overnight, Lu Nan woke to find Red Dust Silk had vanished from his hands and realized he could no longer use his Divine Sense.
• Lu Nan, Zhao San, and Zhang Tie parted ways, and Lu Nan and Zhao San bought supplies before leaving Forest City.
• A group of bandits blocked the road and demanded their goods, so Zhao San engaged them while Lu Nan retrieved his bow and arrows.
• Lu Nan shot several bandits, and Zhao San held off their leader until the group retreated; then the two resumed their journey to the village.

Lu Nan left the village to travel from city to city, gathering Red Dust Silk while searching for the strands that had vanished. After surviving Ta Yu’s destruction of Lingshan City, he continued his journey and eventually reached Qingmu City, where he headed toward the Divine Firmament Sect after hearing it was recruiting disciples.

• Lu Nan spent a year living on the mountain behind the village, befriending the children while Zhao Xiaohu became a disciple of the Linshan Sect.
• Lu Nan left the village because he could no longer gather much Red Dust Silk there, and he began collecting it in cities as he traveled.
• Ta Yu crushed Lingshan City with a giant hand, but Lu Nan survived beneath the ruins after a young woman forced Ta Yu to flee.
• Lu Nan traveled through dozens of cities over several years, gathering Mortal Dust aura while trusting that the vanished Red Dust Silk would return.
• After hearing that the Divine Firmament Sect was recruiting disciples, Lu Nan realized he had reached Divine Firmament State and traveled through Qingmu City toward the sect.

Lu Nan learned that the Divine Firmament Sect had been destroyed by the Desolate Wood Otherworld King, then spent a century gathering Red Dust Silk to prepare for his next breakthrough. As he gathered the last traces needed for nine yuan's worth in Xigu City, Yao Gusha attacked the city, and Ancient City intervened to fight him outside its walls.

• Lu Nan heard in Qingmu City that a giant hand had carried off and destroyed the Divine Firmament Sect, and he suspected Huang Mu had done it because of his inheritances.
• Lu Nan reached Yunxiao City, learned that the sect's ruins lay in Yunxiao Abyss, and fought off treasure hunters before entering the abyss and seeing the deadly Killing Intent blocking his way.
• Lu Nan spent years gathering Red Dust Silk, learned that nine yuan's worth could make him invincible beneath the Immortal King realm, and resolved to collect that amount.
• During the hundred-year invasion by the other lands' Prodigies, Lu Nan continued gathering Red Dust Silk until only a little remained to reach nine yuan's worth.
• In Xigu City, Yao Gusha began absorbing the city's mortal dust aura and lowered a giant hand to crush the city, but Ancient City challenged him and drew him into battle outside the city.

Lu Nan rescued the Azure Wasteland fighters at Xigu City, annihilated most of the invading otherworldly creatures, and used the Two Forms Sword to sever Huang Mu’s arm. After escaping, he settled in a hidden mountain cave while the Divine Firmament ancestors sought to learn whether he would stand with them.

• Yao Gusha defeated Gucheng and Bai Shanfeng, then humiliated and injured Qing Yiyue, provoking the Azure Wasteland crowd into battle.
• Lu Nan appeared at Xigu City, restrained both sides with the Four Seasons Sword Formation, and killed every otherworldly creature below the Supreme realm.
• When Huang Mu reached into the Azure Wasteland to save the remaining Supremes, Lu Nan used the Two Forms Sword to sever his arm, then escaped with the sword and formation.
• At Qinghuang Pass, Huang Mu withdrew after an aged powerhouse warned him not to violate the Promise by entering the Azure Wasteland.
• The First Ancestor of Divine Firmament learned from Liuli Yan that Lu Nan would likely support them and asked her to contact him while the ancestors pledged to nurture him.
• Lu Nan reached a hidden barren mountain and prepared a cave as his base by laying formations and restrictions.

Lu Nan restored himself with Huang Mu’s severed arm, completed the Red Dust Cloth, and entered an eighty-one-year cocoon as the Azure Wasteland’s factions hunted him and pressured Divine Firmament. The Divine Firmament survivors escaped with Liuli Yan, confirmed Lu Nan was safe, and relocated the Azure Lotus Sword Sect to protect it from becoming leverage against him.

• Lu Nan refined Huang Mu’s severed arm to restore his origin, power, and lifespan, then let the Two Forms Sword devour it in exchange for three Immortal King-level attacks while its spirit slept for three years.
• Lu Nan wove the Red Dust Silk into a vast red-and-white cloth, rested for nine days, and entered Cocoon Formation; eighty-one years later, a pulsing cocoon remained in his cave.
• Azure Wasteland factions searched for Lu Nan and targeted people connected to him, forcing the Divine Firmament ancestors and Liuli Yan into battle at Qinghuang Pass before they escaped with the survivors.
• The First Ancestor of Divine Firmament used Liuli Yan’s life token to confirm Lu Nan was safe, then agreed to hide the Azure Lotus Sword Sect to keep it from becoming a burden to him.
• Liuli Yan and the First Ancestor of Divine Firmament persuaded Qingchuan to let the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s members choose whether to leave or stay, then the First Ancestor lifted the remaining sect into his palm and carried it away.

The Divine Firmament survivors fled to the Northern Continent, where the Frost Palace agreed to help protect them, while five hundred years passed without news of Lu Nan. Lu Nan emerged from a cocoon as a Golden Immortal, discovered major changes to his Primordial Chaos Space, and headed to the Otherworld Battlefield to face his waiting tribulation.

• At Sword Valley’s ruins, Liuli Yan and the First Ancestor of Divine Firmament told Qingchuan that Azure Wasteland powers were pursuing Xiao Nan for an Immortal King legacy, and Qingchuan agreed to follow their arrangements.
• The First Ancestor evaded three pursuing Half-Immortals and led the Divine Firmament survivors to the Northern Continent, where the group chose a snowy mountain as its base.
• The First Ancestor met the Frost Palace’s white-robed leader, who promised that no one above the Realm of Comprehension would enter the territory and said he believed Lu Nan would survive and grow stronger.
• Five hundred years later, Qingchuan and Liuli Yan still worried about Lu Nan, while the Azure Lotus Sword Sect’s survivors had grown stronger with Divine Firmament’s help.
• Lu Nan broke free of his cocoon, discovered that he had entered the Golden Immortal realm, and found that his Primordial Chaos Space now contained immortal spirit qi and flowed ten times faster than the outside world.
• Lu Nan appointed Qiu Tao to manage the Herb Garden, then went to the Otherworld Battlefield as Mu Liu to prepare for his lightning tribulation, whose million-li storm clouds drew the attention of both sides.

Lu Nan underwent a perilous Immortal Ascension Tribulation in the Otherworld Battlefield while the Azure Wasteland forces considered sabotaging him and the Other Land gathered to protect him. After overcoming the tribulation and reaching the Golden Immortal realm, he reunited with Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji and invented an explanation for his long disappearance, which they believed.

• The Azure Wasteland forces identified Lu Nan as a likely enemy and debated sacrificing someone to disrupt his tribulation, while Fang Miao’s report led Liu Bai to alert Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji that Lu Nan might be Mu Liu.
• Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji confirmed Lu Nan’s identity, and Elder Shen summoned reinforcements from the Shen Clan and the Other Land to guard him.
• Lu Nan endured successive lightning attacks, survived being reduced to starlight, and defeated a violet-gold tiger and a lightning dragon as the tribulation escalated toward Golden Immortal strength.
• The tribulation clouds erupted with blood-red lightning before divine light descended and stabilized Lu Nan’s realm, completing his tribulation.
• Lu Nan greeted Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji, then claimed he had survived in a True Immortal’s secret realm until becoming an immortal; Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji accepted his story and praised his luck.

After Lu Nan became a True Immortal, Wu Jing summoned him, tested him, and made him his disciple despite Lu Nan’s refusal. Back at Alchemy Peak, Lu Nan told Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji that he intended to seek the seventh Nine Heavens Sealing Jade in the Forbidden Land, and they urgently warned him not to go.

• Shen Kaiji explained that the Longevity Palace was governed by the Shen, Chang, Liu, and Wu lineages, and Wu Yu brought Lu Nan to meet the Otherworld King.
• Wu Jing probed Lu Nan, offered to take him as a disciple, and appointed him anyway after Lu Nan refused out of loyalty to Wei Shu.
• Wu Jing gave Lu Nan a golden jade talisman and warned him not to reveal who had given it; Wu Yu then escorted Lu Nan back to Alchemy Peak.
• Lu Nan showed Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji the talisman and explained that Wu Jing had taken him as a disciple, easing his guilt when Wei Shu and Shen Kaiji celebrated the opportunity.
• Lu Nan said he planned to travel to the Otherworld Battlefield and then the Forbidden Land to find the seventh Nine Heavens Sealing Jade, and Wei Shu warned that entering the Forbidden Land could be fatal.

Lu Nan joined the Longevity Palace, then received Wu Jing’s permission and a protective jade slip to train in the Otherworld Battlefield and the Forbidden Land’s outer region. After Liuli Yan warned him that Qinghuang Pass was unsafe, she and the First Ancestor of Divine Firmament went to find him and came face-to-face with Lu Nan.

• Liu Qing, Chang Zhan, and Wu Er brought Lu Nan to the Longevity Palace, where he registered with the Palace Master and chose a secluded room.
• Lu Nan asked Wu Jing for permission to train in the Otherworld Battlefield and the Forbidden Land, and Wu Jing allowed him to enter only the Forbidden Land’s outer region while giving him a jade slip containing an incarnation.
• Lu Nan traveled to the Otherworld Battlefield, hesitated to approach Qinghuang Pass, and contacted Liuli Yan with his communication Jade Slip.
• Liuli Yan warned Lu Nan not to enter Qinghuang Pass and told him she would come to him, then reported his location to the First Ancestor of Divine Firmament.
• The First Ancestor of Divine Firmament and Liuli Yan traveled to the Otherworld Battlefield and contacted Lu Nan, who revealed himself right in front of them.

Lu Nan reunited with Liuli Yan and First Ancestor of Divine Firmament, learned that Azure Wasteland’s factions had attacked those around him, and discovered a secret art that let him briefly evade the formation barring Immortals. He entered Azure Wasteland and began wiping out the guilty factions, ending the chapter as he struck the gathered alliance.

• Lu Nan revealed his identity to Liuli Yan and First Ancestor of Divine Firmament, then learned that Divine Firmament Sect and Sword Valley had been destroyed while Azure Lotus Sword Sect had survived.
• First Ancestor of Divine Firmament explained Azure Wasteland’s formation and taught Lu Nan a Secret Art that concealed him from it for three hours.
• Lu Nan entered Azure Wasteland with Liuli Yan and First Ancestor of Divine Firmament, then destroyed Myriad Sword Sect and other factions that had targeted his associates.
• News of Lu Nan’s revenge spread across Azure Wasteland, prompting guilty factions to flee or form an alliance against him.
• Lu Nan confronted the allied factions and brought down a giant hand as their representative tried to offer compensation.

Lu Nan returned to the Azure Wasteland, reassured his allies, and then challenged the powerful figures watching from beyond Qinghuang Pass. After revealing his Golden Immortal strength and binding Hua Ze as his servant, he confronted Immortal King Panshi, but a Daoist-robed elder arrived to stop the confrontation.

• Lu Nan rejected the heavenly voice’s accusation over his slaughter and continued searching with Liuli Yan and the other man.
• At Azure Lotus Snow Mountain, Han Ling thanked Lu Nan for stabilizing the situation, and Lu Nan gave him a Jade Token before reuniting with Qingchuan at the Azure Lotus Sword Sect.
• Lu Nan gave Liuli Yan and the other man Storage Rings, then returned to the Otherworld Battlefield and challenged the observers near Qinghuang Pass.
• Lu Nan killed Zhou Nian and another attacker, then defeated a Golden Immortal elder and bound him as his servant, Hua Ze.
• Immortal King Panshi demanded that Lu Nan release Hua Ze, but Lu Nan refused and prepared to fight until a Daoist-robed elder appeared and told Panshi not to act.

Lu Nan negotiated with Immortal King Qingze, killed the factions that had targeted him, freed Hua Ze from the master-servant contract, and entered the Forbidden Land to seek Mangu. He found Mangu at the Blazing Volcano Range and immediately severed both of his arms.

• Immortal King Qingze persuaded Lu Nan to negotiate inside Qinghuang Pass, where Lu Nan agreed to dissolve Hua Ze’s contract after every faction that had attacked him was dealt with.
• Lu Nan visited Qingchuan and Liuli Yan, then killed the gathered enemies at Azure Lotus Snow Mountain and dissolved his contract with Hua Ze.
• Lu Nan entered the Forbidden Land, where he learned from a local that Mangu was seeking a Heaven and Earth Exotic Fire at the Blazing Volcano Range.
• Nanfeng Qingya joined Lu Nan on the journey to the Blazing Volcano Range, where Mangu appeared and recognized Lu Nan.
• Mangu attacked Lu Nan, but Lu Nan cut off both of Mangu’s arms with a streak of sword light.

Lu Nan killed Mangu and the six reinforcements who came to rescue him, then returned to the Blazing Volcano Range and agreed to help Nanfeng Qingya obtain a Golden Immortal inheritance in exchange for a favor. Half a month later, the volcano’s flames erupted into turmoil as the Heaven and Earth Exotic Fire began to emerge.

• Mangu sent distress signals, but Lu Nan captured and burned him and the six arriving reinforcements, including a Golden Immortal, to ashes.
• Lu Nan returned to the Blazing Volcano Range, where Nanfeng Qingya waited and invited him to pursue a Golden Immortal inheritance.
• Nanfeng Qingya explained that the inheritance lay in the territory of the Red Woman, whose strength might reach the Immortal King realm, and Lu Nan agreed to help in exchange for a favor from him or the Nanfeng Clan.
• Nanfeng Qingya told Lu Nan that the Heaven and Earth Exotic Fire would emerge in about half a month and described the Immortal Domain’s clans and the Gengjin Clan’s ties to Immortal King Panshi.
• After half a month, the flames in the Blazing Volcano Range surged and split the void, and Lu Nan took Nanfeng Qingya into the air to watch.

Lu Nan refined the Azure Nether Blazing Fire, then escorted Nanfeng Qingya to a secret realm where he sought an inheritance. As Nanfeng Qingya entered the realm with Lu Nan’s incarnation, Lu Nan killed a trespassing True Immortal and negotiated with a group of immortals over who could enter.

• Lu Nan seized the Azure Nether Blazing Fire from its hidden space, refined it into his body, and found that it improved his physical strength.
• A group of horned outsiders confronted Lu Nan over Mangu’s death; Lu Nan burned them to ashes after Nanfeng Qingya was badly injured, then healed him with a pill.
• Lu Nan and Nanfeng Qingya reached the crimson mountain range, where Red Woman sent Hong Ru to greet them and warned her not to kill.
• Nanfeng Qingya opened the secret realm’s gate with a crescent-shaped jade pendant, and Lu Nan sent an incarnation inside with him to protect him.
• Lu Nan killed a wolf-headed True Immortal who tried to enter the realm, then agreed that only those below the Immortal Dao could enter after speaking with a group led by a blond elder.

Lu Nan reunited with Hong Ru, now called Lu Bai Yi, after she and Nanfeng Qingya emerged from the Golden Immortal secret realm, and learned that Red Woman had raised her to repay a debt. When the golden-haired old man's group threatened them over their descendants' deaths, Lu Nan challenged them and asked Red Woman where the Shang Clan was as reinforcements arrived.

• Red Woman ordered Hong Ru to enter the secret realm and kill the golden-haired old man's descendants, while Lu Nan recognized her as Bai Yi.
• Three months later, Nanfeng Qingya and Hong Ru emerged from the shattered gate, and Hong Ru called Lu Nan Master after he restored her memories.
• Lu Bai Yi admitted that she and Nanfeng Qingya had killed the descendants, prompting the golden-haired old man to demand half the secret realm's gains and threaten Lu Nan's group.
• Red Woman arrived and forced the golden-haired old man's group to retreat, but Lu Nan stopped them and gave them half an hour to summon reinforcements.
• Red Woman explained that she had trained Bai Yi to repay the karma she owed Lu Nan, then new arrivals from the Shang Clan appeared and a red-haired young man attacked Lu Nan.
• Lu Nan told Red Woman he could handle the newcomers, asked where the Shang Clan was, and drew the Earth Fiend sword.

Lu Nan killed the forces of the red-haired youth, the blond-haired elder, and two clans, then freed Lu Bai Yi and set out with Red Woman to eliminate the Shang Clan. He attacked the Shang Clan’s territory, where its quasi-Immortal King leader mistook Red Woman for the attacker and charged at her.

• Lu Nan used the Earth Fiend Sword to kill the red-haired youth and wipe out the blond-haired elder’s group and the youth’s followers.
• Lu Nan told Red Woman he was a Golden Immortal, severed his connection to Lu Bai Yi, and freed her; Lu Bai Yi chose to remain with Red Woman.
• The Shan Clan Second Ancestor and the Lang Clan Patriarch demanded their clansmen, but Lu Nan killed both groups and asked Red Woman to lead him to the Shang Clan.
• Lu Nan and Red Woman arrived at the Shang Clan’s mountain, where Lu Nan attacked the territory with a sword formation and a giant hand.
• The Shang Clan’s black-robed quasi-Immortal King confronted Red Woman, blaming her for the attack and charging at her.