Chapter Summaries

Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi rescued Zhu Dao and defeated Gu Yunyan in the Stitched Secret Realm, while the Gate of No Life escaped with Ji Fu. They left Zhu Mu fighting alone in the Sandstorm Secret Realm after pretending not to hear his call for help.

• The Gate of No Life recalled its evil ghosts, seized Ji Fu, and vanished, while Zhu Xiushi identified its leader as Ji Han, an Earth Immortal who had failed his tribulation.
• Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi found Zhu Dao sealed inside a red fruit in the Stitched Secret Realm, where Gu Yunyan had been trying to refine him.
• Lu Bei struck Gu Yunyan with the Fantian Seal and Immortal Slaying Flying Knife, and Zhu Xiushi freed Zhu Dao from the fruit.
• Zhu Xiushi stopped Lu Bei from killing Gu Yunyan, explaining that the wounded Qi Yan cultivator supported Nandou City and was better alive than dead.
• When Zhu Mu called for Zhu Xiushi’s help from the Sandstorm Secret Realm, she left without answering, and Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi pretended they had heard nothing.

Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi discovered that Qi Yan’s forces had intercepted their reinforcements, while Zhu Xian, Grand Preceptor, and their enemies fought across the secret realm. Grand Preceptor captured Xiang Muqing, and Lu Bei entered the battlefield ready to confront Chong Yuxiao and Yan Jun before becoming fixated on the holy-looking Xiang Muqing.

• Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi realized Qi Yan had anticipated their plan and intercepted the reinforcements, while Zhu Xiushi explained how Qi Yan’s Innate Mansion united cultivation forces.
• Zhu Xian battled Chong Yuxiao and Yan Jun with demonic techniques, and their final clash collapsed the secret realm and sent all three into the Dark Abyss.
• Grand Preceptor fought Xiang Muqing, used the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart to capture her, and noticed the three battered fighters fall into her realm.
• Grand Preceptor opened a passage for Zhu Xiushi and Lu Bei, while Yan Jun wondered why she had allowed their opponents to join the fight.
• Lu Bei arrived and fixed his killing intent on Chong Yuxiao and Yan Jun, then turned his attention to Xiang Muqing and resolved to make the holy-looking woman fall into darkness.

The Grand Preceptor offered to help Lu Bei face the powerful cultivators trapped in her chart, but their dual cultivation transformed him into the Ten-Eyed Great Demon. The demon overwhelmed Xiang Muqing, Chong Yuxiao, and Yan Jun, while the Grand Preceptor watched in surprise at how much stronger it had become.

• The Grand Preceptor identified Xiang Muqing as a cultivator of Li Luan Palace and offered to send her to Heavenly Sword Peak, but Lu Bei ignored the offer.
• The Grand Preceptor summoned her Demonic Thought Female Form and offered Lu Bei help against the three Tribulation Stage cultivators.
• The Grand Preceptor held Lu Bei and poured demonic thoughts into him, but his yin-and-yang aura drew her into dual cultivation.
• Lu Bei used I Am the Demon to become an Unparalleled Demonic Body, unleashing the Ten-Eyed Great Demon upon the battlefield.
• The Ten-Eyed Great Demon struck Zhu Xian and drove Xiang Muqing, Chong Yuxiao, and Yan Jun back with its Demonic Might.
• Xiang Muqing used the White Jade Lotus Platform to resist the demon, but it shattered her defenses and forced her to flee while the Grand Preceptor realized it had grown stronger.

Yan Jun used the Broken Sword Technique to help Chong Yuxiao escape, but Lu Bei defeated him and granted his final request to experience the Immortal Sword Intent. Chong Yuxiao then fell into Going Berserk over Yan Jun’s death, undoing Xiang Muqing’s progress toward breaking out of the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart.

• Yan Jun broke his short sword and unleashed the Broken Sword Technique, carving a path through the demonic sea so Chong Yuxiao could reach Xiang Muqing.
• The Grand Preceptor trapped Xiang Muqing and Chong Yuxiao inside the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart while Zhu Xiushi taunted her and was bound underground.
• Lu Bei lured Yan Jun through the Ten-Eyed Great Demon, then broke through his swordsmanship and overpowered him.
• Yan Jun traded his sword and final words for Lu Bei’s promise to give Shao Yi a fair choice, then asked to experience the Immortal Sword Intent before he died.
• Chong Yuxiao learned Yan Jun had died, fell into Going Berserk, and abandoned his attack on the chart to pursue revenge against Lu Bei.
• Xiang Muqing lost the solution she had nearly completed and began working on the chart again while Chong Yuxiao held back the Ten-Eyed Great Demon.

Chong Yuxiao unleashed a deadly sword technique that destroyed the Ten-Eyed Great Demon and shattered part of the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart, but Xiang Muqing’s escape was blocked by Lu Bei’s transformed Great Demon God. Lu Bei defeated her with the Only I Am Supreme Sutra, while the Grand Tutor and Zhu Xiushi reacted to the battle and its aftermath.

• Chong Yuxiao’s frenzied sword attacks overwhelmed the Ten-Eyed Great Demon, while the Grand Tutor’s chart shook under the assault and she released Zhu Xiushi from Solitary Confinement.
• Xiang Muqing waited for an opening in the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart as Chong Yuxiao’s demonic body began to collapse.
• Chong Yuxiao gathered his sword intent into a final strike, destroyed the Ten-Eyed Great Demon, and split the chart, leaving Xiang Muqing a path to escape.
• Xiang Muqing drove the White Jade Lotus Platform toward the opening, but Lu Bei rose as the Great Demon God and blocked her way.
• Xiang Muqing recognized Lu Bei’s Only I Am Supreme Sutra and transformed into a Luan Bird, but Lu Bei struck her down with a Great Slap.
• Zhu Xiushi teased the Grand Tutor about Lu Bei and Zhu Qilan, while the Grand Tutor regretted not having dealt with Xiang Muqing herself.

Lu Bei defeated Xiang Muqing in his Great Demon God state and captured her, while Zhu Xiushi and the Grand Tutor bickered over what to do with her. The allies then advanced to retake Guan Prefecture, and Lu Bei spotted Bu Zishi in trouble and intervened.

• The Grand Tutor restrained Zhu Xiushi, then watched as Lu Bei transformed into the Great Demon God and crushed Xiang Muqing’s Luan Bird and lotus platform before capturing her.
• Lu Bei dismissed the Grand Tutor’s offer to buy Xiang Muqing and sent her into Solitary Confinement, then urged Zhu Xiushi to pursue Qi Yan’s defeated forces and reclaim Guan Prefecture.
• The Grand Tutor and Zhu Xiushi argued after Lu Bei left, with Zhu Xiushi taunting the Grand Tutor for not daring to speak loudly in front of him.
• At Zhulián Mountain, Zhu Mu returned wounded after his Ji Family opponent withdrew, and Huangji Sect’s forces advanced toward Qinggan’s main camp.
• Lu Bei saw Bu Zishi hanging from a tree beside a female cultivator with a Jade Slip and called on her to release the demoness so he could handle her.

Lu Bei intervened in Bu Zishi and Yu Zixun’s feud, then learned about the Human Sacred Land’s ruthless internal competition before rejoining the campaign against Qinggan. After Wu Zhou reclaimed Guan Prefecture, Zhu Mu invited Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi to discuss invading Qi Yan.

• Lu Bei defeated Yu Zixun, freed Bu Zishi, and let her film Yu as retaliation for their feud.
• Bu Zishi explained how the Human Sacred Land’s Inner Disciples used blackmail and connections to survive its cutthroat hierarchy, and Lu Bei gave her Jade Slips containing her own compromising images.
• Lu Bei asked Bu Zishi to help him secure a low ranking at the end-of-year event so he could face strong opponents, then reunited with Zhu Xiushi on the Qinggan front.
• On August 2, Wu Zhou forces breached Qinggan headquarters, and Lu Bei killed former Nine Swords Elder Chen Jinghai.
• On August 4, Qinggan forces collapsed, and Guan Prefecture returned to Wu Zhou while Qi Yan stayed silent.
• On August 5, Zhu Mu invited Lu Bei and Zhu Xiushi to consider pursuing the Qinggan remnants into Qi Yan and seizing its territory.

After Wu Zhou’s victory over Qi and Yan, Zhu Mu and Zhu Xiushi weighed invasion against negotiation while Lu Bei strengthened ties with Huangji Sect and prepared to investigate Li Luan Palace. Disguised as the Grand Tutor, Lu Bei confronted Xiang Muqing, who saw through his disguise and learned that he was a Wu Zhou cultivator.

• Zhu Mu urged an invasion of Qi and Yan, but Zhu Xiushi favored negotiations until the Qing Gan Remnants were purged, so they asked the Capital City to draft a plan.
• Huangji Sect stationed troops along Qi and Yan’s border while Wu Zhou launched another campaign against the Qing Gan Remnants in the Western Three Prefectures.
• Lu Bei arranged for Huangji Sect to buy all the basic pills produced by Nine Bamboo Mountain and Heavenly Sword Sect.
• At Zhulián Mountain, Bu Zishi told Lu Bei about Li Luan Palace and its five-colored Luan Bird transformations, prompting him to seek its cultivation techniques from Xiang Muqing.
• Lu Bei disguised himself as the Grand Tutor to question Xiang Muqing, but she recognized him as a man and identified him as Lu Bei.
• Lu Bei dropped his disguise, threatened Xiang Muqing, and claimed that the Grand Tutor and Zhu Xiushi had been abducted by Li Luan Palace.

Lu Bei tricked Xiang Muqing into revealing Li Luan Palace’s Plain White Qi Transformation Wing Diagram, then let her go after making clear that he had only lied about imprisoning the Grand Tutor and Zhu Xiushi. As Lu Bei prepared to leave, he noticed that the pendant that usually stayed by his side was missing.

• Lu Bei threatened Xiang Muqing with harm to the Grand Tutor and Zhu Xiushi until she wrote out Li Luan Palace’s cultivation method.
• After Xiang Muqing completed the manuals, Lu Bei confirmed the method was genuine and studied its principles.
• Lu Bei took Xiang Muqing to a wilderness, released her, and revealed that the threatened dual cultivation and imprisonment had been a bluff.
• Lu Bei returned the manuals, but Xiang Muqing destroyed them and attacked him; he warned her not to reveal that she had leaked the method.
• Xiang Muqing left, and Lu Bei decided to say goodbye to Zhu Xiushi before returning home.
• Lu Bei realized that the pendant that usually stayed by his side was missing.

Zhu Xiushi tricked Lu Bei into helping the injured Grand Tutor recover through dual cultivation, while she planned to record the encounter. Lu Bei thwarted Zhu Xiushi’s scheme by taking the Grand Tutor into his Solitary Confinement, where his Innate Primordial Qi unexpectedly stirred her sealed Primordial Spirit.

• The Grand Tutor taught Zhao Shiran and Mu Jiling, giving Zhao Shiran personal guidance on Great Yin Killing Intent Dao.
• Zhu Xiushi stopped Lu Bei from interrupting the lesson and persuaded him to help heal the Grand Tutor for ten Silver Notes.
• Zhu Xiushi brought Lu Bei to the Grand Tutor’s room and tried to record their encounter, but Lu Bei transported them both into his Solitary Confinement.
• Lu Bei and the Grand Tutor began dual cultivation, and Lu Bei used Innate Primordial Qi to test her defenses.
• The Grand Tutor’s sealed Primordial Spirit opened when Lu Bei’s Innate Primordial Qi entered her body, and she pinned him to the ground.

Lu Bei and the Grand Tutor ended their forced dual cultivation after exchanging the Solar Counter-Current Dao for Lu Bei’s Innate Primordial Qi method, while debating what it revealed about cultivation. The Grand Tutor agreed to teach Zhao Shiran, and Lu Bei prepared to send her to the Capital City, leaving her with his Sect Master's Seal until the New Year.

• The Grand Tutor recovered her Primordial Spirit, studied the Twin Profound Treasure Map, and drained Lu Bei’s Innate Primordial Qi through nine rounds of forced dual cultivation.
• Lu Bei and the Grand Tutor exchanged the Solar Counter-Current Dao for his Innate Primordial Qi method, but she could not learn it because its component methods belonged to the Core Formation stage.
• The Grand Tutor suggested that everyone’s cultivation methods might have gone astray, and Lu Bei confirmed nothing plainly before refusing her proposal to continue dual cultivation.
• The Grand Tutor offered to teach Zhao Shiran, and Lu Bei agreed on the conditions that she remain free and not be pressured into acknowledging the Grand Tutor as her teacher.
• Lu Bei told Zhao Shiran she would study in the Capital City, comforted her when she asked to stay, and secretly let her keep his Sect Master's Seal until the New Year.

Lu Bei perfected Crimson Sun Heaven after cultivating the Solar Counter-Current Dao and told Qin Fantian that Chong Yuxiao and Yan Jun were dead by his hand. He ordered Qin Fantian to deal with Qinggan captives and memorialize Yan Jun, then announced he would travel to Xuanlong to advance the Immortal Sword Intent, forcing Qin Fantian to accompany him.

• Lu Bei used stored EXP to perfect Crimson Sun Heaven and considered how dual cultivation might help him shift from Yangming toward Jueyin.
• Qin Fantian visited Lu Bei, who revealed that he had killed Chong Yuxiao and Yan Jun and described the hidden losses suffered by Qi Yan and Qinggan.
• Lu Bei gave Qin Fantian Yan Jun's ashes and treasures, ordered him to handle Shao Yi and the Qinggan captives, and instructed him to erect a nameless stele for Yan Jun.
• Qin Fantian urged Lu Bei to remain at the sect, but Lu Bei announced that he would travel to Xuanlong to seek progress in the Immortal Sword Intent.
• Qin Fantian insisted on accompanying Lu Bei, and Lu Bei challenged him to ram the meditation room's door if he objected.

Lu Bei brought Mu Lichen, Zhan Lexian, and Zhan Hongqu to Xuanlong without authorization, using Zhao Wuxie’s Black Mountain Token to enter Jade Mountain. After Lu Bei and his companions headed into the city, a white-haired Zhao watched them and planned to seize hostages.

• Qin Fantian selected Mu Lichen, Zhan Lexian, and Zhan Hongqu to accompany Lu Bei, while Zhan Lexian replaced Xie Qingyi on the list to protect his daughter.
• Lu Bei’s group decided to slip across the border rather than seek official approval, since their cultivation made their entry difficult to authorize.
• Lu Bei led the three companions over Xuanlong’s border in broad daylight and asked Zhan Lexian to gather information about nearby cultivation sects.
• At Jade Mountain’s gate, Lu Bei showed the Black Mountain Token, and the guards and local civilians mistook him for General Zhao and knelt before him.
• Lu Bei asked for a map and took his companions through the marketplace to look for local goods and food.
• After the group left, a white-haired Zhao watched from the city wall and planned to take hostages now that Lu Bei was in Xuanlong.

Lu Bei and his companions toured an Xuanlong market before Zhao Wuxie separated them from the crowd and hosted them aboard a painted boat. As Zhao tested Lu Bei’s interests and offered to arrange a rematch with Dugu, the banquet’s entertainment left Lu Bei suspecting the Zhao Family wanted his body.

• Lu Bei had Zhan Lexian buy unusual Xuanlong goods until Zhan Lexian pushed a loaded cart through the market, while Zhan Hongqu secretly flirted with Lu Bei.
• Zhao Wuxie isolated Lu Bei, Zhan Lexian, Zhan Hongqu, and Mu Lichen in a spiritual-energy barrier and invited them aboard his painted boat for a banquet.
• Lu Bei refused Zhao Wuxie’s wine because he had sworn off drinking, while Zhan Lexian drank the blood-red wine and recognized its powerful effects.
• Zhao Wuxie mentioned fishing, prompting Lu Bei to recall his itch to compete and complain inwardly about the fish’s bones.
• Lu Bei told Zhao Wuxie he had come to Xuanlong to test its cultivators and seek another match with Dugu, but Zhao said Dugu had gone beyond the borders and had not returned.
• A red-robed pipa player joined the dancers, and Lu Bei suspected the Zhao Family was interested in his body.

Lu Bei rejected Zhao Wuxie’s attempt to send him the dancer Zhao Wuyou, then heard the story of her family and the real purpose behind the offer. The chapter left Lu Bei asking Zhao Wuxie to arrange a meeting with one of Xuanlong’s other Three Fiends, offering to accept more Zhao clan women if he lost.

• Zhao Wuxie arranged for Zhao Wuyou to dance for Lu Bei, but Lu Bei claimed he had to return home and refused the offer of her company.
• Zhao Wuxie told Lu Bei how Zhao Fangjin died defending a city, how his family was punished, and how Zhao Wuyou was raised in the palace as a female official.
• Zhao Wuxie admitted that he wanted Zhao Wuyou to bear Lu Bei’s child so he could restore her father’s reputation and return him to the Zhao Family genealogy.
• Lu Bei dismissed Zhao Wuxie’s claims that Zhao Wuyou suffered in the palace and rejected the idea that he would accept a woman simply because she was offered to him.
• Lu Bei asked Zhao Wuxie to arrange a meeting with one of the other Three Fiends and promised to accept as many younger Zhao clan sisters as Zhao Wuxie offered if he lost.

Zhao Wuxie arranged sword cultivators for Lu Bei to spar with while trying to push Zhao Wuyou toward seducing him, but Zhao Wuyou doubted Lu Bei was a lecher. After Lu Bei visited Zhan Hongqu and returned to his room, Mu Lichen sensed a strange spiritual fluctuation and drew his sword.

• Zhao Wuxie explained Xuanlong's military-focused customs and promised to contact sword cultivators, while Lu Bei urged him to find opponents with sword intent, even at low cultivation levels.
• Lu Bei sent Zhan Lexian out to catch ten fish, entered Zhan Hongqu's room, and left after she beat him out; Zhan Lexian then kept watch outside her room.
• Zhao Wuyou rejected Zhao Wuxie's plan to use her beauty to tempt Lu Bei and said she intended to earn military merit at the front lines.
• Zhao Wuxie insisted that Lu Bei was a lecher and recounted Lu Bei's demand for younger sisters as compensation whenever he lost a sparring match.
• At night, Mu Lichen sensed a strange spiritual energy fluctuation near Lu Bei's room and drew his sword.

Mu Lichen broke Zhao Wuxie’s illusion formation while Zhao Wuyou tried to get Lu Bei drunk and fulfill her mission. Zhao Wuyou passed out after revealing her family’s grievance, and the chapter left her awake and mortified after Zhao Wuxie departed.

• Mu Lichen used his Sword Soul Eye and Great Strict Heaven to destroy Zhao Wuxie’s illusion spaces and pursue her through the formation.
• Lu Bei reunited with Zhao Wuyou in the banquet hall, refused her wine, and asked her to change out of her red outfit.
• Zhao Wuyou drank repeatedly as Lu Bei encouraged her, then drunkenly recounted how her father had been wronged and pleaded with Lu Bei to help clear his name.
• Zhao Wuyou mistook a pillar for Lu Bei and knocked it down while Lu Bei watched; Mu Lichen and Zhao Wuxie then arrived.
• Mu Lichen left after seeing Lu Bei was safe, and Zhao Wuxie carried the unconscious Zhao Wuyou away after Lu Bei said he liked her personality.
• Zhao Wuyou woke alone with her memories intact and concluded that Lu Bei had something wrong with him.

Lu Bei spent days sparring with sword cultivators in Xuanlong while failing to gain experience, then persuaded Zhao Wuyou to take him to Thousand Blades Mountain by promising to grant her heart’s desire. Zhao Wuyou agreed but demanded that he put his promise in writing.

• Lu Bei sparred with four Body Integration Realm sword cultivators and later several more, but their cautious bouts gave him no experience, while Mu Lichen and the other two improved their swordsmanship.
• Lu Bei visited Zhan Hongqu, teased her about Zhao Wuyou, and the two flirted before he asked whether she liked him; she quietly agreed.
• Zhao Wuyou told Lu Bei that Zhao Wuxie had hurried back to the front line on a mission likely related to the Demon Race, and she offered to guide Lu Bei around Xuanlong in his absence.
• Lu Bei insisted that Zhao Wuyou take him to Thousand Blades Mountain, and she warned that the Hundred Swords Sect there lacked sword cultivators with profound Sword Intent.
• Lu Bei promised to help Zhao Wuyou with her heart’s desire if she led him to the mountain, and Zhao Wuyou agreed on the condition that he write the promise down.

Lu Bei traveled with Zhao Wuyou to the Hundred Swords Sect and disguised himself as Zhao Wuxie to provoke its disciples into fighting him. Their Sword Intents helped him raise Immortal Sword Intent to Lv5, and two onlookers found his status display filled with warnings to flee.

• Lu Bei wrote Zhao Wuyou a debt agreement with deliberately messy handwriting, then refused her request to deliver the goods early.
• Lu Bei and Zhao Wuyou reached Thousand-Blade Mountain, where he disguised himself as Zhao Wuxie and staged an attack to attract sword cultivators.
• Three Hundred Swords Sect disciples fought Lu Bei, mistook the encounter for a test for the inner sect, and went to summon more disciples.
• Lu Bei used the disciples’ Sword Intents and other stored intents to raise his Immortal Sword Intent to Lv5, where its pursuit shifted from power to Dao resonance.
• Two figures hiding in the grass saw Lu Bei laughing among the fallen cultivators and received repeated warnings that he was extremely dangerous.

Lu Bei encountered the players Xiao Fengxian and Iron Crutch Lu Zhishen after they witnessed his power, then took Xiao Fengxian as a named disciple. Xiao Fengxian learned that Lu Bei led the Heavenly Sword Sect and ended the chapter preparing a forum post about his new master.

• Iron Crutch Lu Zhishen and Xiao Fengxian hid in the grass, mistook Lu Bei for a demon king, and discussed asking the forum about his name.
• Lu Bei revealed himself to the two players and offered to make Xiao Fengxian his disciple, while Iron Crutch Lu Zhishen failed to earn the same offer.
• Lu Bei used his Small World to pressure Xiao Fengxian into accepting, then took him to the Painted Boat and left Iron Crutch Lu Zhishen behind.
• Lu Bei declared Xiao Fengxian a named disciple and said he would observe him before deciding whether to hold an apprenticeship ceremony.
• Zhan Lexian and Zhan Hongqu explained the Heavenly Sword Sect to Xiao Fengxian, who realized Lu Bei was the famous village chief of Wu Zhou's strongest Novice Village.
• Xiao Fengxian returned to his room, delighted by his new connection, and began writing a forum post titled "My Sect Master Master."