Chapter Summaries

Wu Wan and Lian Feng fought through the red wind wall and crossed the gorge while Lu Nan and Su Wan found a way through a devouring crimson mountain. Lu Nan led Su Wan toward a golden-mist opening, and the woman in red followed them inside as Wu Wan and Lian Feng arrived behind her.

• Lian Feng protected Wu Wan from the monsters in the red wind wall, and Wu Wan gave her a defensive array that helped them escape.
• Wu Wan and Lian Feng recovered beyond the gorge as other cultivators fought through the wind wall and began crossing after them.
• Lu Nan used his Earth-Walking divine ability to pass through the devouring crimson mountain, then carried Su Wan through it with him.
• Lu Nan discovered that a fused red bead could shield both him and Su Wan as they entered the golden-mist opening.
• The woman in red reached the opening, noticed marks on her robes, and used a red bead to enter.
• Wu Wan and Lian Feng arrived at the opening and recovered after crossing the gorge.

Wu Wan and Lian Feng crossed a weapon-filled passage by using fire beads, then reunited with Lu Nan and Su Wan in a cavern before a massive gate. Lu Nan learned that the passage's exits were random and that the woman in red had come under orders from the Blood Shadow to invite him, while the group still needed Five Elements beads to open the gate.

• Wu Wan and Lian Feng entered the golden-mist hollow and used fire beads to protect themselves from its metal attacks.
• As weapons drained the beads' power in the passage, Lian Feng and Wu Wan replenished them with spiritual energy and reached the exit.
• Lu Nan placed wood-, water-, and earth-attribute beads into three grooves in the cavern gate, then set them aside when the other two grooves remained empty.
• Wu Wan and Lian Feng appeared in the cavern, and Lu Nan concluded that the passageway's exits were random.
• Wu Wan told Lu Nan that the woman in red had spared them and had come under orders from the Blood Shadow to invite him.
• Wu Wan and Lian Feng revealed that they had used all their beads in the trials, leaving the group short of the Five Elements beads needed to open the gate.

Lu Nan and the others waited at the giant door, ambushed newcomers for their beads, and used a deal with Xue Sha to obtain enough Five Elements beads to open the exit. Lu Nan and his companions entered the vortex, leaving another group of people stranded in the underground space.

• Lu Nan showed Wu Wan, Lian Feng, and Su Wan the beads they had and explained that they needed a Gold attribute bead to open the giant door.
• Wu Wan trapped a group of newcomers in her array, killed them when they refused to surrender their beads, and found no Gold attribute bead among their possessions.
• Lu Nan and Wu Wan set arrays near the giant door, then confronted Chi Hun and Xue Sha when another group fell into their trap.
• Lu Nan demanded Xue Sha's beads and promised to reveal a secret; Xue Sha handed them over, and Lu Nan told him that the Five Elements beads opened the giant door.
• Lu Nan placed the Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth beads in the door, opened a five-colored vortex, and entered with Su Wan, Wu Wan, and Lian Feng as another group appeared nearby.

A nine-person squad reached the giant gate and discovered the Five-Colored Vortex led to the next trial, but a woman in red arrived and entered before the passage vanished. When the crowd learned that only five people could pass per activation and the Five-Element Beads had to be replaced, fighting erupted over the beads.

• A squad led by Senior Brother Qing reached the giant gate, identified the vortex as the next trial’s passage, and Qing volunteered to scout it.
• A woman in red appeared, shattered the formations, stopped Qing, and demanded an explanation of the vortex.
• A handsome young man told the woman in red that Lu Nan’s group had opened the passage, and she entered the vortex.
• The vortex vanished after the woman in red passed through, and the crowd realized the beads had gone dark and each activation allowed five people through.
• Xue Sha killed a person and took the bead from their storage equipment, starting a new battle among the crowd.

Lu Nan was randomly teleported to a dangerous mountain range, separated from Su Wan and the others, and fought venomous snakes while exploring a perilous peak. After surviving their poison, he reached the mist-shrouded foot of the mountain and found a stone stele.

• Lu Nan realized he had been randomly teleported alone and worried that Su Wan might be in danger.
• Lu Nan descended into the forest and encountered two Foundation Establishment-level green snakes that could transfer damage to a nearby tree trunk.
• Lu Nan discovered the snakes’ damage-transfer trick and killed them, but their severed heads bit his leg and poisoned him.
• Lu Nan used the Forbidden Water divine ability to stop the poison, recovered with an array and medicinal pills, and found nothing of value in the snakes’ remains.
• Lu Nan killed more demon beasts on his way down the mountain and reached a stone stele at its mist-shrouded foot.

Lu Nan deciphered the stone stele’s warning about finding Earth Vein Peaks and fought his way toward a summit. After seeing images of numbered peaks and people appear in the sky, he began to suspect how the peaks could be identified and charged at a Green-Haired Bear.

• Lu Nan read a stele warning that choosing an Earth Vein Peak incorrectly meant death and that gathering nine peaks would reveal the Heavenly Vein.
• Lu Nan killed a cunning Unicorn Wolf that attacked him with barbed vines and a jade-green energy sphere.
• Lu Nan found the same inscription at another mountain, disguised his appearance and aura, and climbed to its summit.
• Lu Nan saw numbered images of Earth Vein Peaks appear in the sky, followed by images showing people, including a red-clad figure he recognized.
• Lu Nan inferred part of the method for identifying Earth Vein Peaks and charged into the forest, where he confronted a fifth-layer Green-Haired Bear.

Lu Nan searched for Earth Vein Peak while observing other cultivators, then encountered a powerful red-mist demonic creature that recognized a familiar aura on him and demanded he lead it to someone. The creature immobilized Lu Nan, leaving him unable to escape its grasp.

• Lu Nan killed a Green-Haired Bear, searched its mountain, and continued exploring perilous peaks after finding no sign of Earth Vein Peak.
• After checking nine peaks, Lu Nan spotted Senior Sister Su Wan in an image at Earth Vein Peak and noticed unfamiliar cultivators appearing in other images.
• At the thirtieth mountain, Lu Nan overheard Blood Demon Sect disciples describe a humanoid demonic creature in red mist, then killed them after questioning them about Earth Vein Peak and Xue Sha.
• The red-mist demonic creature appeared before Lu Nan, identified a familiar aura on him, and demanded that he take it to find someone.
• When Lu Nan said he did not know who it meant, the creature reached for him and immobilized him.

Lu Nan was captured by a powerful mysterious demon creature that resembled the woman in red and was ordered to find her. While searching for the Earth Vein Peaks, he discovered Azure Lotus Sword Sect members preparing to pursue a rare foundation-building opportunity.

• A mysterious demon creature emerged from Lu Nan’s crimson aura, released him, and demanded that he lead it to the woman in red.
• Lu Nan told the creature that the woman in red was somewhere in the secret realm, and it marked his arm and forced him to search for her.
• Lu Nan learned a secret art for identifying Earth Vein Peaks and searched one hundred mountains without success.
• Lu Nan found the Azure Lotus Sword Sect gathered at a mountain and overheard them discuss the dangers and scarcity of Earth Vein and Heavenly Foundation Establishment.
• Cang Ziqian sent Cang Ru up the mountain to establish his foundation while the sect members promised to protect him.

Lu Nan searched unsuccessfully for an Earth Vein mountain before rescuing Artifact Refining Sect disciples from two giant bugs. He learned that a youth among them had found a blood-red flower near a Meridian Connecting Grass and asked to be taken to its location.

• Cang Ziqian ordered his group to search for Earth Vein mountains, while Lu Nan marked the area and continued searching elsewhere.
• After checking nearly one hundred and fifty mountains without success, Lu Nan killed two fourth-layer Foundation Establishment demon beasts with Wind Blades.
• Lu Nan discovered Artifact Refining Sect disciples fighting two giant bugs and noticed Earth Vein Qi around a young disciple's waist.
• Lu Nan blocked the bugs' venom from reaching the injured Junior Brother Hua, then beheaded both bugs with wind.
• Chang Yun thanked Lu Nan, and the youth showed him a Meridian Connecting Grass that had grown near a blood-red flower.
• Lu Nan asked the youth to take him to the flower's location, and the youth agreed.

Lu Nan found an Earth Vein Peak and climbed toward its summit, where he encountered Xue Sha and the Soul Refining Sect. After evading Xue Sha, he attacked the sect members from underground and left the survivors terrified and gathered together.

• Lu Nan parted from Chang Yun and the others, then climbed the Earth Vein Peak after sensing dense Earth Vein Qi.
• Lu Nan killed a stone monster and other demonic beasts as he made his way toward the summit.
• Lu Nan discovered Xue Sha and the Soul Refining Sect, but escaped Xue Sha’s attack by using Earth-Walking to switch positions underground.
• Lu Nan dragged several Soul Refining Sect members underground and killed them, prompting Xue Sha to order the survivors to stay together and watch the ground.

Lu Nan hunted the Soul Refining Sect members climbing the mountain, leaving only Xue Sha and Chi Hun as they neared the summit. There, they encountered a Foundation Establishment Late Stage serpent guarding the peak.

• Xue Sha ordered the Soul Refining Sect members to keep climbing despite the underground attacker, and Lu Nan dragged several more disciples beneath the earth.
• The group split, with many fleeing downhill; Xue Sha let them go and continued toward the summit with Chi Hun and four loyal followers.
• Lu Nan killed more climbers until only Xue Sha and Chi Hun remained, while Xue Sha insisted the mountain was likely an Earth Vein Peak.
• As Xue Sha and Chi Hun approached the summit, an enormous Foundation Establishment Late Stage serpent appeared before them.

Xue Sha and Chi Hun battled the giant serpent near the summit while Lu Nan waited underground for an opportunity. The serpent’s attacks and Xue Sha’s techniques left all three locked in a dangerous clash, until Lu Nan intervened with nine spirit swords.

• Xue Sha and Chi Hun attacked the giant serpent, but their strikes barely harmed it, and its tail raised a dust fog that restricted their Divine Sense.
• Xue Sha escaped the fog with his Blood Burning Saber, rejoined Chi Hun, and the two fought the serpent as it fired a purple-black lightning sphere.
• The explosion wounded the serpent and sent Xue Sha and Chi Hun flying, after which the serpent constricted Chi Hun and Xue Sha used his Blood Refining Technique to attack its wounds.
• Chi Hun escaped with a Blood Shadow as Xue Sha sent blood into the serpent’s open maw, and the serpent prepared another lightning attack.
• Lu Nan sent nine spirit swords into the clash, splitting them among Xue Sha, Chi Hun, and the serpent as all four sides’ attacks collided.

Lu Nan killed Xue Sha, claimed a giant snake’s green bead, and used it to activate an Earth Vein Peak. He discovered that his Mysterious Space absorbed the peak’s Earth Vein Qi and stored it as liquid, giving him a fallback path to Earthly Foundation Establishment before he left the depleted mountain.

• Lu Nan killed the barely living Xue Sha, searched the giant snake’s corpse, and took a green bead from its head.
• Lu Nan placed the bead in a groove on the summit’s stone stele, activating the peak and learning that he was supposed to hold it for seven days.
• Lu Nan found that Earth Vein Qi entering his body vanished, then discovered that his Mysterious Space was collecting it in a pit as earthen-yellow liquid.
• Lu Nan confirmed that the Mysterious Space had absorbed the peak’s Earth Vein Qi and decided the stored energy could secure Earthly Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Nan failed to remove the fused bead from the stele, collected his Array Plates, and left the depleted peak as the sky’s count reached ninety-nine.

Lu Nan found and drained the final Earth Vein Peak, Peak One, completing all 108 peaks. Their images formed a vast formation in the sky, where nine colossal peak phantoms appeared and released a might that startled everyone nearby.

• Lu Nan continued draining Earth Vein Peaks and reached Peak Three, leaving only one peak to find.
• While searching, Lu Nan encountered an unfamiliar group but chose to leave them alone.
• Lu Nan found Peak One, defeated its guardian, a two-tailed black cat, and placed its bead in the summit stele.
• The final image appeared, and all 108 images rotated into a white ring that sent beams of light into the perilous mountains.
• The 108 illuminated peaks formed a massive formation, and nine colossal peaks emerged as figures across the mountains sensed Heavenly Dao's might.

Lu Nan stayed on Peak One to absorb its Earth Vein Qi while the others searched the nine peaks for Heavenly Qi. After a day, the absorption ended, and he flew toward the nearest peak as the search for the rare beads grew increasingly violent.

• Lu Nan resisted joining the others on the nine peaks and focused on letting the Mysterious Space absorb the Earth Vein Qi.
• A heavenly voice announced that nine strands of Heavenly Qi lay across the peaks and that gathering them could allow someone to forge a Heaven grade Dao Foundation at Heaven Vein Peak.
• Wu Wan found a Seven-Colored Water Bead, learned that ninety-nine beads made one strand of Heavenly Qi, and used arrays to defeat a group trying to rob her.
• Lian Feng investigated the corpses left behind, suspected Wu Wan, and left to avoid meeting her and Lu Nan too soon.
• After a day, Lu Nan finished absorbing the Earth Vein Qi and flew toward the nearest of the nine peaks.

Lu Nan gathered ninety-nine rainbow pearls to form a strand of Heavenly Qi, then used a map to locate others who possessed it. When the red-clad woman appeared among the marked opponents, Lu Nan’s arm sensed her aura.

• Lu Nan found a Heavenly Qi droplet by a broken stele and learned that he needed ninety-nine drops to form a complete strand.
• Lu Nan collected forty-five drops, then killed a young man who tried to steal his pearls and took the twenty pearls at his waist.
• Lu Nan killed the fat man’s two followers and the fat man, raising his total to eighty-one pearls.
• Lu Nan gathered ninety-nine pearls, formed a strand of Heavenly Qi, and saw a map marking three red dots and one green dot.
• Lu Nan stored the strand in the Mysterious Space, checked the map again, and saw a red-clad woman among four red dots.
• A streak of red emerged from Lu Nan’s right arm and said it had sensed the woman’s aura.

Lu Nan searched the eight peaks and discovered that their stone steles bore characters associated with the Eight Trigrams, then used the map to wait for another Heavenly Qi bearer. The monk Juechen arrived to challenge him, and Lu Nan wounded him with his spirit sword before attacking from underground.

• Lu Nan hid his strand of Heavenly Qi in the Mysterious Space and searched several peaks, finding steles marked Gen and Xun among other characters.
• Lu Nan found the first peak's stele had changed from Life to Kun, recognized the eight characters as the Eight Trigrams, and saw the map show eight Heavenly Qi bearers.
• When Lu Nan took out his Heavenly Qi, the stele changed back to Life, one map dot absorbed another, and six dots began moving in pairs; he prepared for the bearer heading toward him.
• Juechen arrived and attacked Lu Nan with a golden body, but Lu Nan's spirit sword severed his hand.
• Juechen summoned a giant golden Buddha, and Lu Nan burrowed underground and struck upward with his sword, prompting Juechen to cry out.

Lu Nan defeated Juechen and the woman who attacked him, then won Wu Wan’s Heavenly Qi in a three-move duel. After collecting five inches of Heavenly Qi, he approached the last red dot and found Lian Feng dead beside the woman in red, as a red-clad figure appeared at his side.

• Lu Nan severely wounded Juechen, took his Heavenly Qi, and defeated the woman who ambushed him, sparing Juechen after he pleaded for a normal death.
• Lu Nan collected his Array Plates and headed for the nearest red dot, where he challenged the injured Wu Wan to a three-move contest for her Heavenly Qi.
• Lu Nan broke through Wu Wan’s formations and claimed her Heavenly Qi, bringing his total to five inches.
• Lu Nan followed the final red dot toward the woman in red and found Lian Feng dead beside her.
• A red-clad figure appeared beside Lu Nan and said, “I finally found you!!!!”

Lu Nan absorbed the woman in red’s remaining Heavenly Qi and obtained the Into Water Sword, triggering the opening of the eight peaks’ central mountain. He safely entered through the Gen gate and reached an altar, where sitting on its cushion left his body numb.

• The red-robed woman captured and swallowed the fleeing woman in red, then gave Lu Nan the Longsword and remaining Heavenly Qi before disappearing.
• Lu Nan bound the Longsword as the Into Water Sword, comprehended its water-avoidance ability, and combined the Heavenly Qi until it grew to nine inches.
• The enlarged Heavenly Qi sent a seven-colored beam skyward, causing eight peaks and their gates to appear as people rushed toward the central mountain and many died on the white ribbons.
• Lu Nan chose the ribbon leading from the Gen gate and passed through safely, while Wu Wan realized the danger and abandoned the contest for Heavenly Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Nan reached the central mountain’s summit and sat on the altar’s meditation cushion, immediately feeling his whole body go numb.

Lu Nan endured nine bolts of lightning and completed Foundation Establishment with nine Dao Foundations. He discovered that the Mysterious Space had expanded and obtained two powerful cultivation techniques, leaving him eager to learn more about them.

• Lu Nan refined the Heavenly Qi while trapped on the meditation cushion, provoking lightning strikes that left him badly injured.
• A golden pillar of light bathed Lu Nan as he cultivated the Azure Lotus Sword Canon, forming nine solid Dao Foundations.
• Wu Wan and Su Wan began condensing their Dao Foundations as slaughter erupted among the Myriad Perilous Peaks.
• After completing Foundation Establishment, Lu Nan found that the Mysterious Space had expanded by more than ten times.
• Lu Nan touched two jade-colored bones and learned the Myriad Dao Method, which reconciled cultivation techniques, and the Myriad Dao Body, a body-tempering art.