Chapter Summaries

Lu Bei gave Xiao Fengxian powerful manuals, helping him break through to the Core Formation stage while boasting about his own cultivation. He then sent Xiao Fengxian to keep Elder Zhan fishing by the riverbank, leaving the chapter with Xiao Fengxian facing a dangerous, high-reward quest.

• Zhan Lexian and Mu Lichen offered to teach Xiao Fengxian, but Lu Bei chose to instruct his new disciple himself.
• Xiao Fengxian used his Skill Points and experience books to master Long Charge Sword Song and break through to the Core Formation stage.
• Lu Bei urged Xiao Fengxian to study Five Elements Fate Evolution and Eight Gates Diagram, claiming they were the foundation of his Innate Primordial Qi.
• Xiao Fengxian accepted Lu Bei's quest to lure Elder Zhan away by fishing with him until dawn, with survival and fishing objectives offering large experience rewards.

Lu Bei offered to impersonate Zhao Wuyou and kill a great demon so she could restore her family name, but she refused and chose to report to the front lines herself. After Zhao Wuxie assigned her to Gushan City, Lu Bei reappeared aboard her ship despite her efforts to shake him off.

• Xiao Fengxian advanced to Core Formation and asked Zhan Lexian to teach him fishing while Lu Bei went to Zhan Hongqu's room and taught her music instead of persuading her to enter Solitary Confinement.
• Zhao Wuyou reminded Lu Bei of his promise, but he refused to sleep with her and offered to impersonate her at the front lines to earn her military merit.
• Zhao Wuyou declined Lu Bei's offer, and Lu Bei decided to return to Wu Zhou after the painted ship reached Yushan City.
• Zhao Wuyou contacted Zhao Wuxie, asked to serve at the front, and received orders to report as deputy general at Gushan City, where a Demon Fiend was stationed.
• Lu Bei appeared beside Zhao Wuyou after she had shaken him off, leaving her shocked at how he had returned.

Lu Bei persuaded Zhao Wuxie and the Xuanlong authorities to let him visit Gushan’s front line to hone his Immortal Sword Intent. He arrived at Gushan City with Zhao Wuyou, who feared he would pick a fight with Tu Yuan.

• Lu Bei tried to persuade Zhao Wuyou to take him to Gushan, but she refused until Zhao Wuxie contacted them.
• Zhao Wuxie questioned Lu Bei’s intentions, then secured approval for him to visit Gushan under an agreement that Xuanlong would not be responsible for his actions.
• Lu Bei teased Zhao Wuyou after the call ended, and she dismissed his claims that he would have fulfilled his promise to her.
• The chapter described Gushan City’s defenses and Xuanlong’s decision to anchor its Dragon of Destiny along the northern frontier.
• Lu Bei arrived at Gushan City with Zhao Wuyou, who asked him to restrain himself around Tu Yuan.

Lu Bei arrived in Gushan City with Zhao Wuyou and learned why Xuanlong relied on Demon Cultivators to defend its borders. In the Blackstone Hall, Zhao Fangce ordered Tu Yuan to find Lu Li and to make sure Lu Bei left behind the bloodline of the Immortal Sword Master, sending Tu Yuan after him.

• Lu Bei toured Gushan City with Zhao Wuyou, Xiao Fengxian, and Zhan Hongqu, and Zhao Wuyou explained why Xuanlong trusted its many Demon Cultivators.
• Lu Bei saw the battle-hardened soldiers and cultivation-powered catapults guarding Xuanlong’s military camp.
• Zhao Fangce demanded that Tu Yuan find Lu Li within two days, but Tu Yuan said she had sent Sword Fiend Dugu into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to investigate.
• Zhao Fangce told Tu Yuan that Lu Bei had defeated Dugu and ordered her to hold Lu Bei back and secure the Immortal Sword Master’s bloodline.
• Tu Yuan realized Zhao Fangce meant for her to carry out the plan and promised to handle it, joking that Zhao Wuyou would have a child with the bloodline within ten months.

Tu Yuan used the Five Emperors Great Demonic Seal to provoke a massacre among Lu Li’s forces, hoping to draw the great demon out. She then turned her attention to Zhao Wuyou and compelled her to approach Lu Bei.

• Lu Bei and Tu Yuan traded insults at Gushan City before Tu Yuan assigned Zhao Wuyou to receive Lu Bei and his companions.
• Tu Yuan secretly activated a modified Five Elements Great Array and used a scroll to locate Lu Li’s forces in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Tu Yuan invoked the Azure and Crimson Sky Demon Kings, driving more than ten thousand demons into a battle against one another.
• Tu Yuan afflicted a demon general with further demonic thoughts, causing him to attack the gathered demons while she waited for Lu Li to appear.
• Tu Yuan used the Five Emperors Great Demonic Seal on Zhao Wuyou, who rose and walked toward Lu Bei’s room.

Tu Yuan secretly used demonic thoughts to manipulate Zhao Wuyou into seducing Lu Bei, but her spells repeatedly backfired whenever Zhao touched him. The backlash exposed Tu Yuan’s location to Lu Bei, who entered her room and confronted her.

• Zhao Wuyou visited Lu Bei to grieve over her father’s battered helmet and asked him to watch her dance.
• Tu Yuan summoned demonic thoughts of female beauty and music to influence Zhao, but Zhao repeatedly regained control when she touched Lu Bei.
• Tu Yuan tried stronger spells against Lu Bei, suffered severe backlash, and realized he had discovered her location.
• Tu Yuan’s painting revealed Sword Fiend Dugu fighting the Demon General, while Lu Bei arrived in Tu Yuan’s room through a black rift.
• Lu Bei dragged the weakened Tu Yuan back when she tried to crawl away, and she asked him to kill her.
• Lu Bei struck Tu Yuan in the chest with a phantom fist, sending white light through her body.

Lu Bei defeated Tu Yuan, forced her into a Blood Oath, and learned that she had been investigating Lu Li, one of the Four Great Demon Kings. Tu Yuan remained convinced that Lu Bei was an Outer-Realm Sky Demon, while he kept her as his servant and promised he might remove her demonic thoughts someday.

• Lu Bei defeated Tu Yuan, extracted her skills, and demanded to know why she had attacked him.
• Tu Yuan offered to serve Lu Bei and swore a Blood Oath after he threatened Gushan City.
• Tu Yuan handed Lu Bei cultivation manuals, including a technique for concealing cultivation and avoiding tribulation lightning.
• Tu Yuan revealed that her mission was to investigate Lu Li and showed Lu Bei a painting depicting Lu Li in both demonic and human forms.
• Tu Yuan asked Lu Bei to remove her demonic thoughts, but he pretended not to find them and teased her about believing he was an Outer-Realm Sky Demon.
• Lu Bei treated Tu Yuan's wounds and promised he might remove her demonic thoughts if she obeyed him.

Lu Bei and Mu Lichen traveled into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to retrieve Sword Fiend Dugu and draw out Lu Li. After Lu Bei defeated Dugu, Dugu led them toward Lu Li, who watched their departure and prepared to carry out her plan to sever Xuanlong’s dragon vein.

• Lu Bei accepted Tu Yuan’s wanted-notice quest and set out with Mu Lichen, leaving Zhan Hongqu and Xiao Fengxian in Zhan Lexian’s care.
• Dugu killed a Savage Ape and ate its heart before Lu Bei and Mu Lichen arrived to bring him back to Gushan City.
• Dugu attacked Lu Bei, who defeated him and gained 300 million experience.
• Dugu refused to return and explained that he could sense powerful demons after eating their flesh, so Lu Bei agreed to follow him toward Lu Li.
• Lu Li watched the three leave, wondered whether her cover had been exposed, and prepared to sever Xuanlong’s dragon vein.

Lu Li and Liu Tuan discussed their plan to attack Gushan City and break Xuanlong's dragon vein, while Lu Bei, Mu Lichen, and Dugu were trapped in Prison Dragon's territory. Lu Bei confronted Prison Dragon and struck him with a powerful blow.

• Liu Tuan told Lu Li he had lured three Human Race Cultivators into Prison Dragon's territory, where they had killed several demon generals.
• Lu Li declared she would attack Gushan City and lead her army south afterward, while Liu Tuan refused to bring his own troops.
• Lu Bei, Mu Lichen, and Dugu were surrounded by demons in Prison Dragon's territory, and Dugu charged the Demon King despite Lu Bei and Mu Lichen considering retreat.
• Prison Dragon appeared and knocked Dugu into the ruins before turning to face Lu Bei.
• Lu Bei named himself, broke through Prison Dragon's demonic-cloud attack, and struck the Demon King in the face with a powerful punch.

Lu Bei and Qiu Long fought inside the demon king’s portal barrier, and Qiu Long revealed his Three-headed Vicious Flood Dragon form. Lu Bei used the Purple Firmament Tower and his sword arts to cut off one of Qiu Long’s heads, then sensed a sudden change coming from Gushan City.

• Lu Bei struck Qiu Long with a sword-imbued punch, prompting Qiu Long to suspect that Human Sacred Land experts had encircled him.
• Qiu Long transformed into three bodies representing the sun, moon, and stars, but Lu Bei broke through his starry barrier and overwhelmed the bodies in close combat.
• Lu Bei discovered that all three bodies were real parts of Qiu Long, and Qiu Long dismissed them before revealing his enormous Three-headed Vicious Flood Dragon form.
• Mu Lichen and Dugu joined Lu Bei after killing Demon Generals, and Dugu charged the flood dragon but was blasted into a crater.
• Lu Bei summoned Yinglong, froze Qiu Long briefly with the Purple Firmament Tower, and severed one of his heads with a sword strike.
• As Qiu Long’s remaining heads erupted in fury, Lu Bei sensed something at Gushan City and exclaimed, “Great Might Heaven!”

Tu Yuan defended Gushan City while Zhao Fangce watched for Lu Li, as Demon armies attacked several cities. Lu Li appeared over Gushan City and revealed the Ten Emperors Wheel, intending to sever Xuanlong’s Destiny Golden Dragon.

• Tu Yuan learned that Lu Li’s four Demon Generals were leading a large army toward Gushan City and ordered the city’s defenders to prepare.
• Zhao Fangce sent Tu Yuan to defend Gushan City while he monitored the Destiny Golden Dragon and vowed to stop Lu Li if he appeared.
• Gushan City’s defenders repelled the Demon army, and Tu Yuan used the Two-Lives Bottle to control the four Demon Generals.
• Tu Yuan sent three groups to aid Ironblood City, Wufeng City, and Sorrowful Song City after they reported attacks, then realized Lu Li had appeared at Gushan City instead of Wufeng City.
• Lu Li arrived above Gushan City and enlarged the Ten Emperors Wheel, a treasure made from the skulls of Xuanlong emperors, to sever Xuanlong’s Destiny Golden Dragon.

Lu Li used the Ten Emperors Wheel to control Xuanlong’s Destiny Golden Dragon and shatter Gushan City’s defenses, but Zhao Fangce appeared and led the fight against the Demon Race. As Tu Yuan and the defenders struggled to hold the city, Zhao Fangce’s undying martial souls empowered him for a final clash with Lu Li.

• Lu Li activated the Ten Emperors Wheel, using thirty-six Zhao Family heads to suppress the Destiny Golden Dragon and collapse Gushan City’s walls.
• Lu Li opened a rift and sent four demon generals and over ten thousand Demon Soldiers to attack the city, while Tu Yuan raised the Five Directions Great Demon Banners and turned Qiu Yin against the demons.
• Zhao Fangce arrived with Imperial Guards Thirty-One and Thirty-Six, reigniting the defenders’ morale as Tu Yuan fought the demon generals and Zhan Lexian, Zhan Hongqu, and Zhao Wuyou faced Kui Ling.
• Zhao Fangce confronted Lu Li with the Demon Slaying Sword, while Lu Li attacked him with a Fang Tian Hua Ji and tried to claim his head to strengthen the Ten Emperors Wheel.
• Zhao Fangce revealed three undying martial souls, absorbed them, and challenged Lu Li to share a death anniversary with him the following year.

Lu Li and Zhao Fangce battled over the dragon vein while the demon army pressed Gushan City's defenders toward defeat. Zhan Lexian and the others faced overwhelming odds until Lu Bei appeared and challenged Wu Ou for Great Might Heaven.

• Zhao Fangce used three inherited martial souls to fight Lu Li, who transformed into his Half-Demon Form, and the two battled beyond Gushan City.
• Liu Yuan immobilized Imperial Guards Thirty-One and Thirty-Six while watching the fight, and Tu Yuan struggled to defend Gushan City's banners against Ji Ren and Wu Ou.
• Zhan Lexian and Zhan Hongqu wounded Kui Ling with their Broken Sword Technique, but his undefeated Primordial Spirit let him recover.
• Tu Yuan was struck down by a starbeam as the demon generals advanced, and Wu Ou severed Zhan Lexian's arm and seized Great Might Heaven.
• A flood dragon's head fell through a black fissure, and Lu Bei emerged from the Thirty-Six stars to order Wu Ou away from his sword.

Lu Bei rescued Zhan Lexian, Zhan Hongqu, and Zhao Wuyou, defeated the four demon generals, and learned the truth about Zhao Fangce’s Ten Emperors Wheel. When Liu Yuan asked him to stand aside, Lu Bei instead manifested his Great Demon God and attacked, forcing Liu Yuan to reveal his nine-headed giant beast form.

• Lu Bei used his swift movement to rescue Zhan Lexian, Zhan Hongqu, and Zhao Wuyou, recovered the Great Might Heaven, and healed the survivors.
• Lu Bei killed Kui Ling, Ji Ren, Wu Ou, and the other demon general, while Mu Lichen rescued Dugu and brought him to Tu Yuan.
• Tu Yuan explained that Zhao Fangce’s thirty-six stars and ten Emperor Beads were made from Zhao Family ancestors, and that the Ten Emperors Wheel had disrupted the dragon-vein formation.
• Liu Yuan arrived and asked Lu Bei to stand aside while Lu Li and Zhao Fangce fought, but Lu Bei instead purged Tu Yuan’s demonic thoughts and confronted him.
• Lu Bei transformed into the Great Demon God and struck Liu Yuan, who fell from the void before revealing his nine-headed giant beast form.

Lu Bei’s Great Demon God defeated Liu Yuan’s apparent body, but Liu Yuan escaped through a secret method and fled into the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Meanwhile, Lu Li pressed Zhao Fangce with the Life and Death Wheel Seal until Lu Bei’s intervention abruptly struck Lu Li down.

• Lu Bei controlled Great Demon God to crush Nine-Headed Demon Snake beneath the Five-Finger Seal, then realized Liu Yuan’s body was only an empty shell.
• Liu Yuan survived by feigning death, suffered severe backlash that cost him eight heads, and fled into a crack in the rocks to hide.
• Lu Li and Zhao Fangce continued their battle as Lu Li decided to end the fight and claim the Emperor Bead.
• Lu Li used the Life and Death Wheel Seal to attack Zhao Fangce, who began casting Nine Emperors of the Big Dipper.
• A black crack opened, and a Big Slap descended from the heavens, smacking Lu Li into the ground and erasing his seal.

Lu Bei and Zhao Fangce joined forces against Lu Li, who revealed his true Demonic Body and tried to use a double Lightning Tribulation to destroy Gushan City. The chapter ended as Lu Li prepared to drag everyone into the tribulation, while Lu Bei and Zhao Fangce faced the threat.

• Lu Bei used the Great Demon God to batter Lu Li until Zhao Fangce stopped his sacrificial secret technique and prepared to attack.
• Lu Bei introduced himself to Zhao Fangce, and the two attacked Lu Li together; Lu Bei seized Lu Li’s Fang Tian Hua Ji and sealed it in his Small World.
• Lu Li transformed into Lu Wu and unleashed a strange hurricane that wounded Lu Bei and threatened the Fang Tian Hua Ji inside his Small World.
• Zhao Fangce called on Xuanlong’s fortune dragon vein, which wrested control of Lu Li’s Ten Emperors Wheel and restored Gushan City’s protection.
• Lu Li revealed that his Lightning Tribulation was a double tribulation that could endanger Gushan City, and Lu Bei struck him as he began spreading a Star Array to make everyone perish with him.

Lu Bei killed Lu Li but drew her tribulation onto himself, while Zhao Fangce protected Gushan City with the Destiny Golden Dragon. After surviving the first thirty-six bolts, Lu Bei faced the forty-nine Transformation Tribulation bolts largely alone and was struck down when he tried to block one with three magic treasures.

• Lu Bei killed Lu Li and fled as her tribulation struck him instead of Gushan City.
• Zhao Fangce mistook Lu Bei's repeated lightning strikes for deliberate self-sacrifice and used the Destiny Golden Dragon to shield him and Gushan City.
• Lu Bei moved away from the city and endured Lu Li's thirty-six Tribulation Stage bolts with the dragon's protection.
• When the forty-nine Transformation Tribulation bolts began, Lu Bei was struck again, and Zhao Fangce said he could block only forty of them.
• Lu Bei raised the Purple Sky Tower, Withered Cicada Bell, and Fantian Seal to defend himself, but the lightning erased their Primordial Spirit imprints, struck his spiritual platform, and left him coughing blood on the ground.

Lu Bei endured the lightning tribulation by transforming his Golden Winged Great Peng incarnation and awakening its Divine Spirit ability. After Zhao Fangce killed a snake demon and the tribulation ended, Lu Bei defended his human identity, declined to move the Heavenly Sword Sect to Xuanyong, and offered to establish several branches there.

• Lu Bei used picked-up treasures and his Primordial Spirit to face the tribulation, and the first two strikes badly injured him.
• Lu Bei switched to his Golden Winged Great Peng incarnation, spent nearly six billion talent points to strengthen it, and endured the remaining lightning strikes as its bloodline awakened.
• Zhao Fangce returned with a snake demon close to undergoing the Transformation Tribulation and killed her with the Demon Slaying Sword.
• After the tribulation ended, Lu Bei revealed that the transformed great demon was his second incarnation and refused to explain the technique behind it.
• Zhao Fangce invited Lu Bei to a banquet and urged him to move the Heavenly Sword Sect to Xuanyong, but Lu Bei declined and offered to establish three or five branches there.

After returning to Gushan City, Zhao Fangce restored Zhao Fangjin’s reputation and reassigned Zhao Wuyou, while Lu Bei recovered and entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains to test his new divine ability. With the demon kings and generals in hiding, Lu Bei awakened a tiger’s Spiritual Intelligence and named it Little Scout.

• Zhao Fangce returned Zhao Fangjin’s skull, restored his name to the clan genealogy, and ordered the other generals’ remains returned to their descendants or buried in the imperial mausoleum.
• Zhao Fangce stripped Zhao Wuyou of her deputy general post and gave her seven days before a new assignment, while ordering Tu Yuan to keep Lu Bei in Gushan City until a promised gift arrived.
• After recovering from the tribulation, Lu Bei went with Mu Lichen into the Hundred Thousand Mountains to hunt demons and test his new divine ability, Divinity.
• Prison Dragon warned Shang Tu that the Human Race might target the remaining demon kings, so Shang Tu and the demon generals hid in their caves.
• Mu Lichen brought Lu Bei a subdued tiger, and Lu Bei used Divinity to awaken its Spiritual Intelligence and transform it into a Half-beastman.
• The tiger asked Lu Bei for a name, and Lu Bei named it Little Scout.

Lu Bei secured Xuanlong’s cooperation with the Heaven Sword Sect, accepted a Demon Slaying Sword, and agreed to help Xuanlong monitor the Demon Kings in exchange for support for his pill factory. He returned to Wu Zhou and prepared to demonstrate a strange new craft to Qin Fantian.

• Lu Bei named the tiger demon Little Scout, forged him armor and a saber, and introduced him to Xiao Fengxian and Tu Yuan in Gushan City.
• Zhao Fangce agreed to establish a Xuanlong branch of the Heaven Sword Sect through official channels and explained that Zhao Wuyou would serve as a resident diplomat in Yue Province.
• Lu Bei warned Zhao Fangce that Liu Yuan was still alive, then agreed to help Xuanlong monitor the Demon Kings in exchange for cooperation on his pill factory.
• Zhao Fangce gave Lu Bei the Demon Slaying Sword, whose previous owner was his great-grandfather, and asked him to provide Xuanlong with undercover agents.
• Lu Bei left Tu Yuan to watch for Demon Kings, then returned to Cangqian Mountain and gave Qin Fantian a souvenir before inviting him to watch a demonstration.