Chapter Summaries

Lu Bei transformed into a towering Great Demon God and overwhelmed the demons’ Star Array with devastating Buddhist techniques. As the eight Demon Kings regrouped, he prepared to strike them with another vast palm.

• Jie Se claimed Lu Bei’s Demonic Intent came from the malice in everyone’s hearts and praised his actions as Great Compassion, though Zhu Xiushi and Lord Xinli remained skeptical.
• Lu Bei manifested a hundred-zhang Great Demon God, prompting Jie Se to identify his technique as the Only I Am Supreme Sutra and wonder whether Lu Bei was connected to Xuantian Temple.
• Shen Li and seven Demon Kings activated their Star Array and sent a meteor storm toward the Great Demon God.
• The Great Demon God dispersed the meteor attack with a Buddha Palm and shattered the Star Array with a single punch, leaving the eight Demon Kings injured and a Body Integration Realm demon reduced to ashes.
• Lu Bei’s Great Demon God declared, “My demon is compassionate,” and pressed a vast black palm toward the regrouping Demon Kings.

Lu Bei used the Great Demon God and then the Nascent Soul Demonic Form to fight the Demon Kings attacking Qisha City, leaving one mirage dragon defeated and the other two still battling. A hooded Venerable arrived, ordered Qin Ziyou to protect the envoys, and asked him to retrieve the Nine-Tailed Fox Gui Jing from Lu Bei.

• The Great Demon God crushed three Gu Diao Demon Kings and two Nine-Tailed Foxes, then battled Shen Li and two other mirage dragons.
• The Primordial Seal Profound Formation collapsed, freeing the Sacred Land cultivators as Qin Ziyou’s allies gathered the Gu Diao corpses.
• Lu Bei entered his third transformation and summoned the Nascent Soul Demonic Form, which fought the three wounded mirage dragons.
• A hooded Venerable arrived in Qisha City, gave Qin Ziyou the Primordial Seal Profound Formation diagram, and instructed him to protect the envoys.
• The Venerable told Qin Ziyou to ask Lu Bei to return Gui Jing, while Lu Bei’s Nascent Soul Demonic Form struck down a mirage dragon with a sword of light.

Lu Bei helped defeat the demons attacking Qisha City, killed Shen Li, and handed the surviving Nine-Tailed Fox Gui Jing to Elder Qin. After the battle, he negotiated with Zhu Xiushi over the spoils, while she used a honey trap to bargain for a share of a Mirage Dragon.

• Lu Bei used Bai Jin's Dao Rhyme and the Dragon Binding Rope to subdue the Mirage Dragon Shen Li had driven into a frenzy, then chased Shen Li to Qisha City's Teleportation Array.
• Elder Qin revealed that the holy land had arranged the trap, and Lu Bei killed Shen Li with the Demon Slaying Sword and Immortal Sword Intent.
• Lu Bei killed the remaining Mirage Dragons and then released Gui Jing, whom Elder Qin identified as a human ally disguised as a Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Lu Bei collected the demons' spoils and aptitude points while Zhu Xiushi gathered the battlefield remains and treasures for him.
• Elder Qin took Gui Jing away, and Zhu Xiushi bargained with Lu Bei to keep one Mirage Dragon for refining a treasure, eventually offering him a twenty-percent share.

Lu Bei exchanged demon kills for magical treasures and continued refining them while Xiao Fengxian’s opponents used coordinated tactics to eliminate her from the competition. After Sister She emerged from five months of seclusion, Lu Bei reunited with her in the Twin Profound Treasure Map and later told Zhu Qilan that her ancestor seemed to be trying to seduce him.

• Lu Bei exchanged his demon kills for forty-eight magical treasures, then used some to strengthen his weapons while keeping others for the Fantian Seal.
• Xiao Fengxian lost to a professional Player and was repeatedly forced into draws, missing the top four and the international grand finals.
• Lu Bei stopped following the professional competition closely and watched the popularity grand tournament instead.
• Lu Bei reunited with Sister She after her five-month seclusion, but the Golden Scale Viper interrupted their reunion.
• Sister She asked to leave the Solitary Confinement and visit the Human Sacred Land, but Lu Bei refused because the area was under tight guard.
• After leaving the Twin Profound Treasure Map, Lu Bei told Zhu Qilan that her old ancestor seemed to be trying to seduce him.

Lu Bei supported Zhu Qilan through the Sacred Land Tournament as she defeated Jie Se and advanced after Jiang He conceded, securing second place for Wu Zhou. The tournament ended with Empress Ji preparing to present awards to the top three, while Lu Bei learned her name was Ji Chang.

• Lu Bei continued dual cultivation with Zhu Qilan and joked that his bad character explained why women were attracted to him.
• Xiao Fengxian missed the international finals, while Lu Bei earned aptitude by helping students and foreign instructors in the Sacred Land arena.
• Zhu Qilan defeated Jie Se after he conceded, and he urged her to let Lu Bei sever his worldly ties; Zhu Xiushi defended Lu Bei and called him a lecher.
• Jiang He conceded to Zhu Qilan, giving her second place in the tournament, and Zhu Xiushi regretted not betting more on her.
• The Sacred Land Tournament concluded, and Empress Ji decided to present the awards to the top three; Lu Bei learned her name was Ji Chang.

After the Sacred Land Tournament, Empress Ji secretly investigated Lu Bei, while Lu Bei traveled home with Wu Zhou’s victorious delegation and continued his antics. In the Crimson Sky Desert, Lu Bei intercepted Lord Xinli’s fleeing shuttle disguised as a demon king and demanded that she become the bandit chief’s wife.

• Empress Ji presented Jiang He and Zhu Qilan with magical treasures, then silently touched Lu Bei’s shoulder and left; afterward, he wondered if she was a female emperor interested in him.
• Empress Ji returned to Tianfu City, summoned the white-robed Bronze Mask Venerable, and told him to investigate Lu Bei and his Immortal Sword Intent.
• The Sacred Land Tournament ended, and Wu Zhou’s delegation departed with Lu Bei and Zhu Qilan placing first and second; Lu Bei had Zhu Xiushi impersonate him while he went out to rob beauty.
• Lord Xinli diverted Mighty Chu’s flying shuttle through the Crimson Sky Desert to avoid Wu Zhou, but a great demon attacked and forced the shuttle toward the sand.
• Lord Xinli stayed behind so Bu Ziyang could evacuate the students, then recognized Lu Bei beneath his demon disguise and heard him demand that she become his bandit chief’s wife.

Lu Bei captured Lord Xinli and drained her blood to test whether it could break the seals on Mighty Chu’s Three Divine Artifacts, triggering her lightning tribulation in the process. As the tribulation battered them and the artifacts began to become real, Lord Xinli regained her strength and charged into the sky, only for her body to explode beneath the ninth bolt.

• Lu Bei seized Lord Xinli and drew her blood, breaking the seals on the Purple Cloud Tower and Xuan Zhu Bow but not the Longevity Seal.
• Lu Bei’s blood-draining forced Lord Xinli to enter her lightning tribulation, and he held her in place as the storm formed.
• Lord Xinli endured successive lightning strikes while the battle spear and shield emerged as physical treasures, and Lu Bei shielded her from a later bolt.
• Lu Bei restored Lord Xinli’s flesh with his blood after the lightning reduced her to bones, while the tribulation refined her will.
• Lord Xinli opened her eyes after the ninth bolt began, grabbed the battle spear and shield, and charged skyward before her body exploded and the White Jade Skeleton fell.

Lu Bei helped Lord Xinli survive her tribulation, then left her convinced that he loved her. Back on the flying shuttle, he revealed to Zhu Qilan that he had obtained the Longevity Seal and collected Gu Family blood to unseal Mighty Chu's Three Divine Artifacts.

• Lu Bei restored Lord Xinli after her tribulation, took some of her blood, and left after telling her their different allegiances meant they had to part.
• Lord Xinli concluded that Lu Bei loved her and told King Yuanxuan she wanted to marry him, but her father forbade her from going to Wu Zhou.
• Lu Bei returned to the flying shuttle in disguise, where Zhu Qilan demanded to know where he had gone.
• Lu Bei showed Zhu Qilan the Longevity Seal alongside the Purple Firmament Tower and Xuan Zhu Bow, explaining that he had gathered Gu Family blood to activate the artifacts.

Lu Bei returned to Sanqing Peak, reconciled with She Xuan, and heard Zhan Hongqu’s account of a mysterious swordswoman using Immortal Sword Intent. He went to Beijun Mountain to wait for Bai Jin while refining treasures, where he discovered an unfamiliar subordinate trapped inside the Yama Bead.

• Lu Bei left the flying shuttle in Wu Zhou and visited Changming Manor, where he spent two days with Steward Yu before heading to Nine Bamboo Mountain.
• She Xuan returned to Sanqing Peak, learned that Zhao Shiran had joined Feather Transformation Sect and moved into Lu Bei’s territory, then resumed secluded cultivation after Lu Bei reassured her.
• Zhan Hongqu told Lu Bei that a masked woman near Xiongchu had defeated her despite her use of Immortal Sword Intent, and Lu Bei suspected the woman was Bai Jin.
• Lu Bei raided the Great Mountain Treasury for sword-shaped treasures, tasked Qin Fantian with caring for nine dragonfish, and gave Wei Yu money to take to her parents.
• At Beijun Mountain, Lu Bei found Bai Jin in secluded cultivation and began refining treasures while waiting for her, then discovered the Yama Bead contained an extra subordinate.

Lu Bei recalled the Yama Bead’s connection to Lin Fengxian, upgraded the Fantian Seal, and visited Bai Jin to tell her how he had manipulated powerful allies to protect her and Lingxiao Sword Sect. He invited Bai Jin to the Capital City, but she refused and instead planned to learn from Zhan Hongqu.

• Lu Bei remembered that the Yama Bead could control whoever merged their soul into its Child Bead, and kept it as a possible way to use Lin Fengxian’s Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Bei sacrificed most of his stored magic treasures to raise the Fantian Seal to Tribulation Stage Third Level, while keeping the Black Demon Blade for a future trip to the Far West Land.
• Lu Bei entered Bai Jin’s quiet room, embraced her, and recounted how he had gathered allies and committed ruthless acts to protect her and Lingxiao Sword Sect.
• Bai Jin admitted that she liked Lu Bei despite his manipulation, and the two became intimate.
• While Lu Bei combed Bai Jin’s hair, she confronted him about Zhan Hongqu, and he blamed the situation partly on Bai Jin’s earlier closeness with her.
• Bai Jin refused to accompany Lu Bei to the Capital City and said she planned to ask Zhan Hongqu to teach her Immortal Sword Intent; Lu Bei told them not to cultivate together without him.

Lu Bei entered the Capital City and ignored its restrictions, then reunited with Fox Three, who took him to a feast. In the Imperial City, the waiting royals and elders learned Lu Bei had gone to Ju Xian Ya Ge, leaving Zhu Qilan and Zhu Qiyou puzzled.

• Lu Bei arrived at the Capital City with Steward Yu, chose to visit his godmother's residence before the Imperial City, and strolled down Vermilion Bird Avenue despite the rules.
• Capital City soldiers inspected Lu Bei's permit but let him go, while Players recognized him and tried to approach him.
• Lu Bei cornered a disguised Fox Three in an alley and beat him before recognizing him as his long-lost big brother.
• Fox Three told Lu Bei their mother was in the Imperial City Secret Realm and invited him to a feast at Ju Xian Ya Ge.
• Xuan Guard Yu Tao reported Lu Bei's whereabouts to the Imperial City, where Zhu Qilan and Zhu Qiyou admitted they did not know the venue.

Lu Bei was caught enjoying himself at Ju Xian Ya Ge by Zhu Qilan, who took him to the Imperial City to meet her family. He apologized to Zhu Qilan’s parents as her future husband, easing the awkwardness, while Zhu Qiyou struggled to accept their relationship.

• At Ju Xian Ya Ge, Lu Bei teased Fox Three about his refined tastes and compared Xunyi’s performance unfavorably with a Body Integration Realm woman he had met in Xuanlong.
• Zhu Qilan arrived with imperial guards, caught Lu Bei at the wine table, and hauled him away as Fox Three let her take him.
• As Zhu Qilan escorted Lu Bei toward the Imperial City, he explained that Fox Three had been holding Xunyi, and he persuaded Zhu Qilan not to regret choosing him.
• Lu Bei stopped to admire dragonfish in the Imperial City waterways, and Zhu Qilan promised he could fish after the family meal.
• At the family banquet, Lu Bei addressed Zhu Bangchun and the Empress Dowager as his in-laws, drank to acknowledge his mistake, and helped warm the gathering.
• Zhu Qiyou watched Zhu Qilan sit contentedly beside Lu Bei and realized that his hopes of preventing their relationship had collapsed.

After Zhu Qilan married Lu Bei, the imperial family held a family banquet and the Empress Dowager warned Zhu Qilan that Lu Bei’s status and talent could draw dangerous attention. Lu Bei followed Zhu Qilan to her temporary palace quarters, where Zhu Baiyu and Zhu Qilan joined him for an intimate evening.

• Zhu Qiyou reluctantly called Lu Bei brother-in-law at the family banquet and drank away his sorrow over Zhu Qilan’s marriage.
• The Empress Dowager advised Zhu Qilan to keep her temper and find ways to secure Lu Bei’s devotion, since his position and talent would attract factions.
• The Old Emperor arranged temporary palace quarters for Zhu Qilan, and Lu Bei gave the Old Eunuch Rang a ten-tael Silver Note before entering.
• Lu Bei dismissed the female officials and reunited with Zhu Baiyu, who joined him in the bathing pool.
• Zhu Qilan arrived, ordered the female officials out, and joined Lu Bei and Zhu Baiyu in the pool.
• Lu Bei teased Zhu Qilan about a promised reward, then brought both women to the bedroom.

Lu Bei visited Fox Three at Ju Xian Ya Ge, then entered the Imperial City Secret Realm to see Fox Two, who was recovering from a coming tribulation. Fox Two welcomed him warmly at Qingqiu Palace, while Fox Three reminded her that he was there too.

• Lu Bei met Fox Three and Xunyi at Ju Xian Ya Ge, where Fox Three warned that the imperial family would use Lu Bei against its rivals.
• Lu Bei learned from Fox Three that Fox Two was recuperating in the Imperial City Secret Realm and was facing a tribulation.
• Lu Bei and Fox Three entered the secret realm and walked through Fox Two’s mountain grounds, where Fox Three fed apples to her foxes.
• Lu Bei and Fox Three reached Qingqiu Palace, where Fox Two embraced Lu Bei and teased him about his reputation for seducing women.
• Fox Three opened his arms for Fox Two’s affection, but she only acknowledged that he was there.

Lu Bei removed Qi Lijing’s lingering sword intent from Fox Two’s wound, earning her gratitude and admiration. Back in the garden, Fox Two discovered Lu Bei’s relationship with the Grand Tutor and offered to help him make her give birth.

• Fox Two guessed that Lu Bei wanted to take advantage of her tribulation, then explained that Qi Lijing had wounded her at Immortal Mountain while she was protecting Lu Bei.
• Lu Bei used his Immortal Sword Intent to draw Qi Lijing’s sword intent and Dao Resonance out of Fox Two’s wound, then sealed the Dao Resonance inside himself.
• Fox Two left Lu Bei to meditate and went to the garden, where she mocked Fox Three and threatened to send him away.
• Fox Two asked Lu Bei whether he had slept with the Grand Tutor, and Lu Bei admitted they had practiced dual cultivation several times.
• Fox Three heard the confession and objected to Lu Bei’s relationship with the Grand Tutor, but Fox Two dismissed him and promised to help Lu Bei make her give birth.

Lu Bei gave Fox Two Jade Slips exposing Grand Tutor’s childhood history, then brought her to question two captured Nine-Tailed Foxes. Fox Two learned that Gui Xie ruled the lineage and that the Huo Clan bloodline had been exiled, but she uncovered little about the Demon Emperor’s bloodline before draining the prisoners’ energy and leaving them alive.

• Lu Bei gave Fox Two three Jade Slips about Grand Tutor, delighting her and prompting her to plan a visit to Grand Tutor’s residence with him.
• Lu Bei showed Fox Two Guihua’s damaged magic treasure and explained the circumstances surrounding the captured Nine-Tailed Foxes.
• Fox Two interrogated Gui Si and learned that Gui Xie ruled the Nine-Tailed Fox lineage and that the Huo Clan bloodline had been exiled.
• Gui Si and Guihua could not provide Fox Two with clear information about Gui Xie’s cultivation or the Demon Emperor’s bloodline, and both lost consciousness under questioning.
• Fox Two drained energy from Guihua and Gui Si, then told Lu Bei they were still alive; Lu Bei said he would end their suffering.

Lu Bei accompanied Fox Two and Fox Three to Jing Shang Palace, where Fox Two confronted the Grand Tutor while claiming the role of her grandmother. The Grand Tutor warned Fox Two that Huangji Sect intended to capture her as a cultivation cauldron, but Fox Two dismissed the threat and continued teasing her.

• Fox Two gave Lu Bei the Star Banner’s cultivation method in a Jade Slip, and Lu Bei revealed his transformed Demonic Body could cultivate Demon Race arts.
• Fox Two brought Lu Bei and Fox Three to Jing Shang Palace, intending to make the Grand Tutor acknowledge her as a grandmother.
• Mu Jiling welcomed Fox Two as her former teacher and led the group into the reception hall, while Fox Three slipped away to pursue her.
• The Grand Tutor arrived with Zhao Shiran, and Lu Bei left with Zhao Shiran after explaining her cultivation to Fox Two.
• The Grand Tutor warned Fox Two that Huangji Sect planned to take her as a cultivation cauldron for eight hundred years, but Fox Two vowed to destroy them if they came.

Lu Bei reunited with Zhao Shiran, then watched Fox Two and the Grand Tutor fight before cultivating with the Grand Tutor. He learned Huangji Sect might be targeting Fox Two and suspected a hidden faction in the imperial capital.

• Lu Bei demanded the Sect Master's Seal from Zhao Shiran, then took her to watch Fox Two and the Grand Tutor fight at Jing Shang Palace.
• Fox Two and the Grand Tutor battled with their treasures until Lu Bei arrived and claimed he would help his mother capture the Grand Tutor; the Grand Tutor then withdrew.
• Fox Two told Lu Bei that the Grand Tutor wanted to speak with him alone, and Lu Bei went to her quiet chamber to cultivate through dual cultivation.
• The Grand Tutor warned Lu Bei that Huangji Sect was targeting her in court and might be preparing to strike at Fox Two.
• Lu Bei left the chamber suspecting another faction in the imperial capital was backing Huangji Sect, possibly a sacred land or the Demon Race.

Lu Bei warned Fox Two that Huangji Sect might exploit her imminent Tribulation and gave her a cultivation method, then returned to Zhu Qilan’s palace before studying Fox Two’s Star Dou inheritance in the Imperial City Secret Realm. After learning two techniques, he decided to pursue the unpaid debt owed by the Old Zhu Family.

• Lu Bei told Zhao Shiran that the Grand Tutor had threatened him, then caught Fox Three and brought him back to Qingqiu Palace.
• Lu Bei warned Fox Two that Huangji Sect might target her while she prepared for her fourth Tribulation and gave her the Nine Year Qi Circulation Method - Incomplete.
• Lu Bei returned to Zhu Qilan’s palace, explained that his cosmetic scent came from Fox Two and the Grand Tutor, and went to the bedroom with Steward Yu while Zhu Qilan followed.
• Lu Bei entered the Imperial City Secret Realm, learned Star Dou Formation - Incomplete Formation and Life and Death Wheel Seal, and complained that he lacked Skill Points for more skills.
• Lu Bei remembered the Old Zhu Family’s unpaid debt and decided to visit Zhu Qilan’s doorstep.

Lu Bei visited Zhu Xiushi to discuss the danger facing Fox Two during her lightning tribulation and learned how the imperial family and Huangji Sect became rivals. Zhu Xiushi dismissed his worries, but Lu Bei remained suspicious and tried to claim a share of the Old Zhu Family’s treasury, only to be refused.

• After cultivating with the Grand Tutor and Zhao Shiran, Lu Bei asked the Grand Tutor whether Fox Two’s tribulation preparations were complete and promised to help if Huangji Sect threatened them.
• Lu Bei visited Zhu Xiushi and asked her to explain the imperial family’s history with Huangji Sect while they fished.
• Zhu Xiushi explained that the emperor sent Zhu He into Huangji Sect, where the Zhu family gained influence, fought a devastating battle, and eventually saw Zhu He take control and rename the sect.
• Zhu Xiushi argued that Huangji Sect lacked the strength to disrupt Fox Two’s tribulation, but Lu Bei suspected the sect might still act out of desperation.
• Lu Bei asked to settle accounts with the Old Zhu Family’s treasury, but Zhu Xiushi refused because the Destiny Golden Dragon was still present.