Chapter Summaries

Lu Bei raided the Zhu Family treasury for manuals and skill books, then attended a clan gathering with Zhu Qilan, who proudly showed him off. He encountered Jing Ji outside the banquet and demanded the Four Peaks treasury, leaving Jing Ji terrified as Lu Bei recounted the deaths of the other Nine Swords elders.

• Lu Bei met Zhu Xiushi and took Cultivation Manuals, Tribulation Stage treasures, and dozens of Secondary Profession skill books from the Zhu Family treasury.
• Lu Bei reasoned that his Lucky 3 meant boundless good fortune as the Players logged off at the end of Version 1.0.
• Zhu Qilan brought Lu Bei to the Zhu Family clan gathering and displayed him proudly to her relatives.
• Lu Bei spotted Jing Ji avoiding him and cornered him in the courtyard outside the banquet hall.
• Lu Bei told Jing Ji that the other Nine Swords elders were dead and demanded the Four Peaks treasury, while Jing Ji pleaded for his life.

Jing Ji surrendered the treasure vaults he had stolen from Immortal Mountain to Lu Bei and was allowed to leave alive. At the banquet grounds, Zhu Bangbai tried to seduce Lu Bei to spite Zhu Qilan, but the encounter ended with Lu Bei and Zhu Qilan heading back to their own affairs.

• Jing Ji knelt before Lu Bei and handed over the stolen resources from the four peaks, asking Lu Bei to spare his life.
• Lu Bei accepted the treasure vaults and dismissed Jing Ji, who waited until he had left before standing up.
• Zhu Bangbai introduced herself to Lu Bei and pulled him into the woods, hoping to humiliate Zhu Qilan by seducing her husband.
• Zhu Qilan confronted Lu Bei after seeing what happened, then went into the woods to deal with Zhu Bangbai while Lu Bei changed his clothes.
• Lu Bei told Zhu Qilan he was going to Qingqiu Palace to see Xunyi and discuss the Fox Household with his big brother, and Zhu Qilan left without indulging his explanation.

Fox Two faced her tribulation until Zhu Xiuyun interfered and left her incapacitated, prompting Lu Bei to fight him and race toward the Capital City. Zhu He and Zhu Xian blocked Lu Bei, but he shattered the Buddha summoned against him and turned his attention to Zhu He.

• Fox Two endured the lightning tribulation and transformed into her Nine-Tailed Fox form as the trial intensified.
• Zhu Xiuyun provoked Heaven's might with his twelve Sariras, leaving Fox Two gravely wounded and unable to move.
• Lu Bei confronted Zhu Xiuyun, defeated him, and rushed toward the Capital City to stop the attack on Fox Two and threaten the city.
• Zhu He and Zhu Xian intercepted Lu Bei and tried to prevent him from reaching the Capital City.
• Lu Bei shattered Zhu He's golden Buddha with a single blow and challenged Zhu He to fight.

Lu Bei fought Zhu Xiuyun while Zhu He secretly assembled Huangji Sect and imperial family cultivators into a trap meant to suppress Lu Bei’s demonic power. Lu Bei revealed the trap could not restrain him, knocked Zhu Qilan unconscious to spare her from choosing sides, and attacked the formation’s cultivators as Zhu He realized the Grand Tutor was missing.

• Zhu Xiuyun used Great Good Temple techniques to battle Lu Bei, but Lu Bei overpowered him and drew blood with a Golden Thread attack.
• Zhu Xiushi tried to stop the fight, but Lu Bei struck her; Zhu He then formed the Great Might Demon Subduing Diagram with Huangji Sect and imperial family cultivators.
• Zhu Xiushi questioned the imperial family, and Zhu Jingli answered that they had gathered to slay demons and exterminate evils.
• Zhu He added Great Good Temple’s Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Suppressing Steles, but Lu Bei laughed because the formation had no demonic intent to suppress.
• Lu Bei knocked Zhu Qilan unconscious, swallowed her, freed the trapped cultivators, and began beating the imperial family’s Body Integration Realm cultivators for experience.
• Zhu He realized the Grand Tutor was missing and ordered Zhu Xian to guard the Blood God Formation.

The Grand Tutor broke into Huangji Sect headquarters and uncovered its Blood God Great Formation, while Lu Bei fought Huangji Sect and Wu Zhou’s imperial family outside Capital City. The Grand Tutor confronted Zhu Mu and Zhu Xian as Lu Bei learned that Zhu He was being manipulated by another, still-unknown expert.

• The Grand Tutor dismantled Huangji Sect’s formations, discovered that twenty-four evil flood dragons had consumed Wu Zhou’s Destiny Golden Dragon, and found Zhu Yuan presiding over the Blood God Great Formation with ninety-nine godchildren.
• The Grand Tutor used the Pure Stamen Lamp to purify the blood sea and attack the evil flood dragons, but Zhu Mu and Zhu Xian arrived to obstruct her.
• The Grand Tutor rejected Zhu Mu’s plea to stay out of Wu Zhou’s conflict and opened the Grand Unity Heaven Calculation Chart to test a perfected divine ability on Zhu Mu and Zhu Xian.
• Lu Bei used the Rumble Character to defeat the imperial family’s Body Integration cultivators and batter Huangji Sect’s fighters, including Lu Zhou.
• The Grand Tutor sent Lu Bei a message about the blood formation, the stolen Destiny Golden Dragon, and someone manipulating Zhu He, leaving Lu Bei to suspect an unknown expert stood behind the scheme.

Lu Bei fought Zhu Xiuyun and Zhu He inside the Great Might Demon Subduing Diagram, overcoming their Buddhist and magical attacks and leaving Zhu Xiuyun near death. Fox Two then appeared outside the formation, alive and uninjured after her tribulation, as the Grand Tutor arrived and Lu Bei moved to finish Zhu He himself.

• Lu Bei defeated Huangji Sect’s cultivators while Zhu Xiuyun pursued him, until only Lu Bei, Zhu Xiuyun, Zhu He, and the fallen Zhu Xiushi remained in the arena.
• Zhu He formed the Earth-Touching Demon-Subduing Seal, empowering Zhu Xiuyun to slow and attack Lu Bei with a series of Buddhist techniques.
• Zhu Xiuyun unleashed a great sun wheel seal, but Lu Bei emerged unharmed and revealed his overwhelming speed.
• Zhu Xiuyun and Zhu He attacked together, but Lu Bei used his fist and sword intent, the Jade Gourd, the Dragon Binding Rope, and the Fantian Seal to cripple Zhu Xiuyun and sever his head.
• A blood-colored claw carried Zhu Xiuyun’s body beneath the Vajra, while Zhu He tried to excuse himself by blaming Zhu Xiuyun for Fox Two’s death.
• Fox Two appeared outside the formation alive and uninjured after her tribulation, and the Grand Tutor appeared as Lu Bei insisted on dealing with Zhu He himself.

Lu Bei killed Zhu He, recovered the Shore Flower and battle flag, and discovered that Zhu Xiuyun still had a strand of Primordial Spirit left. A mysterious woman delivered a token and promised another meeting in a month, then appeared in Yue Province and said the coming secret realm still lacked a Gravekeeper.

• The Grand Preceptor revealed that Zhu Xian and Zhu Mu were inside her formation, while Lu Bei learned that Zhu He held Zhu Xiuyun's Blood Bead.
• Lu Bei broke through Zhu He's battle-flag gateways and used the Life and Death Wheel Seal to pull the Shore Flower out of the void and strip the Primordial Spirits from Zhu He and Zhu Xiuyun.
• Lu Bei killed Zhu He, took the Shore Flower and battle flag, and gave the Yama Bead containing Zhu Xiuyun's remaining Primordial Spirit to the thrill-seeker.
• Lu Bei denied that he wanted to become emperor, while Fox Two questioned him about Zhu Xiushi and the Grand Preceptor dismissed his claims of imperial ambition.
• A white-robed woman appeared, gave Lu Bei a square seal, and said her master wanted to meet him again in a month.
• The woman reappeared in Yue Province, put on a Bronze Mask, and said the coming secret realm still lacked a Gravekeeper.

After exposing Zhu He as a pawn in a test arranged by a mysterious powerful woman, Lu Bei crippled Huangji Sect, seized its treasury, and left Zhu Xian and Zhu Mu alive. He then navigated the growing rift between the imperial family and Heavenly Sword Sect while visiting Zhu Qilan’s family and Fox Two in the Capital City.

• Lu Bei and the Grand Preceptor concluded that an unknown force had targeted Lu Bei, and neither the Grand Preceptor nor Fox Two could identify the mysterious woman’s cultivation realm.
• Lu Bei entered Huangji Sect headquarters, killed Zhu Yuan and his faction, spared Zhu Xian and Zhu Mu, and took the sect’s treasury and treasures.
• At a tense family banquet, Lu Bei and Zhu Qilan acknowledged the widening divide between the imperial family and Heavenly Sword Sect, then went to Qingqiu Palace to visit Fox Two.
• Zhu Qilan left Qingqiu Palace relieved after meeting Fox Two and Fox Three, while Lu Bei begged Fox Two to keep Fox Three from revealing his secrets.
• Zhu Qilan insisted on visiting the Grand Preceptor at Jing Shang Palace, and Lu Bei complained that their relationship and seniority were difficult to navigate.

Lu Bei cultivated with the Grand Tutor until he reached a Solar constitution, then met Zhu Xiushi, who came to ask about Zhu Xiuyun’s missing magic treasure. He hinted that he had it and demanded that Zhu Xiushi ask him for it without formalities.

• Zhu Qilan visited the Grand Tutor, who took Lu Bei to the quiet room to cultivate and told him to reach the Solar level.
• Lu Bei told the Grand Tutor that Zhu Xiuyun’s magic treasure was in his hands and that the royal family would have to come to him for it.
• Over the next three days, Lu Bei and the Grand Tutor exchanged cultivation techniques, and Lu Bei reached a Solar constitution while the Grand Tutor gained Innate Primordial Qi.
• Lu Bei returned to Qingqiu Palace and found Zhu Xiushi waiting in the Back Garden while Fox Two was in seclusion after surviving her tribulation.
• Zhu Xiushi asked Lu Bei about Zhu Xiuyun’s missing magic treasure, and Lu Bei told her to ask him for it without formality.

After returning to the Heavenly Sword Sect, Lu Bei strengthened two magic treasures and learned that Bai Jin and Zhan Hongqu had both comprehended Immortal Sword Intent. He joined their cultivation on Northlord Mountain, where the three shared Dao Rhymes for seven days, leaving Lu Bei with little insight of his own.

• Lu Bei returned to the Heavenly Sword Sect, refined the Fantian Seal and Dragon Binding Rope, and strengthened their abilities by fusing other treasures into them.
• Lian Lin asked Lu Bei for a shortcut to comprehending Immortal Sword Intent, then told him Bai Jin and Zhan Hongqu had used it during a martial arts contest and gone to Northlord Mountain to study together.
• Lu Bei learned that Zhan Lexian had tried to rush to the Capital City after the contest, so the elders restrained him and sent him to the secret realm for Qin Fantian to educate.
• Lu Bei went to Forget-Me-Not Peak and forced his way into Bai Jin and Zhan Hongqu's cultivation session, using his Immortal Sword Intent to help their Primordial Spirits comprehend Dao Rhymes.
• Bai Jin and Zhan Hongqu advanced their understanding of their respective Dao Rhymes over seven days, while Lu Bei borrowed their insights but failed to comprehend much himself.

Lu Bei sought the Grand Preceptor’s help to comprehend Dao Rhyme, but she could offer no easy shortcut and agreed to study the matter for a month. He later met the mysterious woman who had sent him a token and learned that she belonged to the Ascension Gate Sect, where he had been assigned the title Heart Moon Fox.

• Lu Bei visited the Grand Preceptor and asked her to help him comprehend Dao Rhyme despite his poor comprehension.
• The Grand Preceptor examined Lu Bei’s Dao Rhyme and identified it as Immortal Dao Rhyme, connected to the Nine Immortal Swords.
• The Grand Preceptor said a shortcut might require a great deal of Innate Primordial Qi and agreed to try to find a way within a month.
• Lu Bei learned from the Grand Preceptor that the Demon Suppressing Stele had not belonged to Zhu Xiuyun and that its appearance suggested someone was pursuing a larger plan.
• Lu Bei continued borrowing Bai Jin and Zhan Hongqu’s Dao Rhyme while they studied together.
• Lu Bei met the woman in white, who introduced herself as Azure Dragon, named him Heart Moon Fox, and identified their sect as the Ascension Gate Sect.

Azure Dragon revealed that Ascension Gate was part of the ancient Gravekeepers and gave Lu Bei a mask and the Scattering God Art for his new role as Heart Moon Fox. Lu Bei prepared for an upcoming tomb expedition by seeking allies, but the chapter left Elder She wary of his interest in helping the Golden Scale Viper transform.

• Lu Bei learned from Azure Dragon that Ascension Gate was a local name for the Gravekeepers, and she recruited him as Heart Moon Fox under her authority.
• Azure Dragon gave Lu Bei a concealment mask and the Scattering God Art, telling him to master the art before their meeting three days later.
• The Grand Tutor told Lu Bei that her master had mentioned the Gravekeepers, but she refused to join the expedition and urged Lu Bei to focus on comprehending the Dao resonance.
• Lu Bei visited Elder She at Sanqing Peak and asked her and the Golden Scale Viper to accompany him into a tomb in a few days.
• Lu Bei offered Longevity Grass to help the Golden Scale Viper undergo its Transformation Tribulation, making Elder She suspicious of his motives.

Lu Bei and Di Tuhe were assigned by Azure Dragon to explore a secret realm in Mighty Chu, which Lu Bei believed would trigger the National War. After defeating Di Tuhe in a contest of strength, Lu Bei took charge, and the pair entered the secret realm while Lu Bei wondered why the Gravekeeper organization had chosen this moment.

• Azure Dragon introduced Di Tuhe as Lu Bei's partner and gave them maps and tokens for a secret realm in Mighty Chu.
• Lu Bei connected the secret realm to the future National War and planned to use his partial knowledge of old Player guides to find treasures and avoid dangers.
• Di Tuhe challenged Lu Bei to determine who would lead, but Lu Bei crushed his hand in their contest, so Di Tuhe accepted Lu Bei's leadership.
• Lu Bei and Di Tuhe traveled east, beat up passersby to demonstrate their strength, and agreed to eliminate any rival teams they encountered.
• Di Tuhe opened a vortex passage with the Ink Character Token, and the two entered the secret realm as Lu Bei questioned the Gravekeeper organization's timing and limitations.

Lu Bei and Di Tuhe explored the secret realm, reached an ice-sealed entrance in the snowy mountains, and met Kui Mulang and Lou Jingou. They agreed to work together to investigate the deeper mystery, but Lu Bei’s false identity left their new allies baffled.

• Lu Bei sent the Golden Scale Viper ahead to search for treasures while he and Di Tuhe headed east toward the snowy mountains.
• Lu Bei triggered an avalanche and revealed a pair of enormous iron doors sealed beneath ancient ice.
• Di Tuhe exposed Kui Mulang and Lou Jingou, who introduced themselves and recognized Lu Bei’s assumed identity as Dou Muxie.
• Lu Bei and Di Tuhe agreed with Kui Mulang that the group should cooperate until they uncovered the mystery beyond the entrance.
• Lu Bei identified his companion as Di Tuhe and himself as Ji Shuibao, prompting Kui Mulang and Lou Jingou to fall silent again.

Lu Bei and his companions opened the secret realm’s iron gates, where he uncovered an unfamiliar inscription and claimed a treasure while concealing what it was. They reached the second level, where Wei Yueyan had also arrived at Black Tortoise’s summons.

• Di Tuhe failed to open the gates, and Kui Mulang deciphered the Four Symbols formation that opened them.
• Lu Bei recognized Kui Mulang as possibly connected to a shabby Daoist he had seen before, while Lou Jingou invited him to reveal his identity and cooperate; he refused.
• Kui Mulang found the Teleportation Array, but Lu Bei discovered a hidden White Tiger mural covered in writing resembling the script from the Tome Fragment.
• Lu Bei activated the mural, collected the quicksilver treasure it produced, and told Di Tuhe it was Qi Ling Pills.
• Lu Bei, Di Tuhe, Kui Mulang, and Lou Jingou reached the second level, where the group encountered Wei Yueyan, who said Black Tortoise had summoned him.

Lu Bei and the other Gravekeepers reached a ruined hall in the secret realm, where a group of powerful soldiers repelled four Tribulation Stage fighters. After Kui Mulang and Zhang Yuelu deduced how to break the soldiers’ formation, the sky changed again and a colossal, possibly immortal face appeared overhead.

• Lu Bei, Kui Mulang, and Di Tuhe flew toward the central mountain after learning that someone had reached it before them.
• Lu Bei’s group found Zhang Yuelu, Yi Huoshe, Wei Yueyan, and Bi Shuiyu outside a ruined hall, where more than a hundred stone soldiers awakened and knocked four of them back with a single move.
• Kui Mulang and Zhang Yuelu deduced that the formation’s missing core was inside the soldiers’ ranks, and Lou Jingou, Lu Bei, Di Tuhe, and Wei Yueyan agreed to charge it.
• The sky turned dark, black mist engulfed the soldiers, and a gigantic bewitching face appeared above them.

Lu Bei and the other cultivators fought their way through an immortal’s military formation and entered the main hall, where a fiery eyeball vanished into the void. A red-clad man appeared in the formation and looked beyond the secret realm, observing that everyone had fallen except the One.

• Lou Jingou led the group into the military formation, where the soldiers’ power and the shifting black-and-white skies overwhelmed the cultivators’ attacks.
• Zhang Yuelu revealed her skeletal Demonic Cultivator form as the group tried to reach the formation’s center, then they rushed for the main hall when the sky changed again.
• Lou Jingou used a movement technique to reach the hall entrance, breaking the formation and causing the soldiers to revert to stone statues.
• Wei Yueyan and Bi Shuiyu shattered the statues, and the group entered the vast main hall together, where they spotted a fiery eyeball in the ceiling.
• The fiery eyeball escaped through the void, and the cultivators failed to follow it before a red-clad man appeared in the commanding general’s place and said that only the One had not died.

The Man in Red tested the Gravekeepers in the secret realm, devoured Wei Yueyan and Bi Shuiyu, and forced the survivors to fight together. On the surface layer, he killed King Yuanxuan’s group, recognized Tengshe’s inheritance in She Xuan, and named her the one with the greatest destiny.

• The Man in Red attacked the eight Gravekeepers, and Yi Huoshe and Kui Mulang unleashed their abilities against him.
• The Man in Red overturned Wei Yueyan and Bi Shuiyu’s Taiji formation, seized them, and devoured them along with their treasures.
• Lu Bei and the other survivors joined forces to attack the Man in Red, with Lu Bei summoning the Longevity Seal.
• She Xuan concealed herself as a Golden Scale Viper while King Yuanxuan and three companions searched for a hidden treasure site.
• The Man in Red appeared above the cliff, declared that King Yuanxuan’s group had no destiny, and killed all four.
• The Man in Red recognized Tengshe’s inheritance in She Xuan, called her the one with the greatest destiny, and spoke of Lu Bei’s demonic arts.

Candle Dragon dismissed the Gravekeepers after declaring that only Di Tuhe or Yi Huoshe could survive, and Yi Huoshe was killed in the ensuing fight. Lu Bei discovered that She Xuan and the Golden Scale Viper had reached the secret realm’s third layer to cultivate, then brought a White Tiger inheritance opportunity to Zhu Qilan before Di Tuhe reunited with King Yuanxuan.

• Candle Dragon sent She Xuan and the Golden Scale Viper away with an opportunity, then forced Di Tuhe and Yi Huoshe to face a deadly choice.
• Lu Bei and Kui Mulang left the inner layer, while Zhang Yuelu joined Di Tuhe and Lou Jingou against Yi Huoshe.
• Lu Bei sensed She Xuan cultivating in the secret realm’s third layer and decided to seek help before going after her.
• Lu Bei gave Zhu Qilan mercury containing a White Tiger inheritance and bloodline, then hurried away.
• Lou Jingou killed Yi Huoshe, and Di Tuhe woke King Yuanxuan and the others beneath the cliff.
• King Yuanxuan pointed out that the opportunity remained, but Di Tuhe said he had something more important to discuss.

King Yuanji identified Heart Moon Fox as the likely thief of the Longevity Seal and sent out a search through Mighty Chu’s intelligence network, while Sirong secretly forwarded the same intelligence elsewhere. Lu Bei recruited Fox Two and Grand Tutor to join him in the dangerous secret realm, then learned from Zhu Xiushi that a secret realm had appeared in Mighty Chu.

• King Yuanji told King Yuanxuan that Heart Moon Fox had stolen blood and used the Longevity Seal and Five Directional Lightning Arts, then narrowed the suspect’s identity to powerful divination and body-cultivation sects.
• King Yuanxuan left to alert the sovereign and invite eminent monks from Xuantian Temple, while King Yuanji ordered Sirong to search Mighty Chu for Heart Moon Fox.
• Sirong used a Green Lamp to send the intelligence through a channel outside Mighty Chu’s network.
• Lu Bei persuaded Fox Two to join the secret-realm expedition, and she insisted that Grand Tutor accompany them.
• Lu Bei told Grand Tutor he had seen a Cloud Pavilion cultivator using Divine Firmament and Crimson Palace sword intents, and she went to prepare for the journey.
• Zhu Xiushi found Lu Bei outside Jing Shang Palace and told him that a secret realm had appeared in Mighty Chu.