Recaps

Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi ventured deeper into Beast God Mountain as more cultivators searched for the Wushen Fruit and discovered Bone Spirit Crystals. After Lu Ming faced a mid-level Bone Spirit King, he activated the Sword of Annihilation to help overcome its defenses.

• Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi encountered Fire Invincible, the young patriarch of the Firebird Tribe, and continued deeper while avoiding a mid-level Bone Spirit King.
• Gu Mingzi explained the history of a Sword Profundity scar on an enormous beast corpse as they traveled farther into Beast God Mountain.
• Fire Invincible killed a mid-level Bone Spirit King with his flames, found a Bone Spirit Crystal, and set off to hunt more Bone Spirit Kings.
• Liu Ziqin and Nangong Liangmeng heard that True Man Wanshan had found a Bone Spirit Crystal and decided to search for more instead of confronting him.
• Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi fought a mid-level Bone Spirit King, and Lu Ming activated the Sword of Annihilation after his Fire Profundity attacks failed to break its defenses.

Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi hunted Bone Spirit Kings for Bone Spirit Crystals, but their hunt was interrupted when a divine palace appeared in the White Bone Battlefield and drew the high-level Bone Spirit Kings toward it.

• Lu Ming killed a mid-level Bone Spirit King with Sun Concealment and discovered a Bone Spirit Crystal, which Gu Mingzi said could temper bones during the Late Sea Transformation Realm.
• Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi agreed to hunt mid-level Bone Spirit Kings and split their gains, collecting more than a dozen Bone Spirit Crystals.
• The pair encountered a high-level Bone Spirit King whose Nether Fire killed an Early Sea Transformation Realm cultivator, so Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi tried to retreat.
• Lu Ming used Destruction Storm against the pursuing Bone Spirit King, but the Nether Fire burned away much of the attack.
• A divine-glowing palace appeared in the distance, and the high-level Bone Spirit King abandoned its pursuit to race toward it along with other high-level Bone Spirit Kings.

Lu Ming and others set out or turned away from the newly appeared White Bone Palace, while he found seven Wushen Fruits on the way. An elder named Zhan Cang Shangren demanded the fruits, and Lu Ming prepared to fight him.

• Gu Mingzi parted ways with Lu Ming to search elsewhere for Wushen Fruit, while Liu Ziqin headed toward the palace and sent Nangong Liangmeng back to report.
• Fire Invincible sent a warning to his clan, while Baili Liuyun and the Yun siblings chose to focus on cultivation rather than investigate the palace.
• Lu Ming traveled toward the White Bone Palace, passing Fire Invincible, who scoffed at him for going despite his recent breakthrough.
• Lu Ming found a tree bearing seven Wushen Fruits in a white-bone canyon and collected them.
• Zhan Cang Shangren arrived and demanded the Wushen Fruits, but Lu Ming refused and readied his sword.

Lu Ming defeated Zhan Cang Shangren in White Bone Gorge and claimed his Azure Dragon Saber before continuing toward the White Bone Palace. After Lu Ming left, a mysterious white figure emerged, revealed its hatred for the Bone Spirit clan’s human Nether Bone Ghost Venerable, and killed a passing Late Sea Transformation Realm expert.

• Lu Ming broke Zhan Cang Shangren’s ice-based saber techniques with his sword and defeated him with Scorching Sun Across the Sky.
• Zhan Cang Shangren tried to flee, but Lu Ming caught up and killed him with a Sword Light.
• Lu Ming claimed Zhan Cang Shangren’s High-grade Divine Weapon, named it the Azure Dragon Saber, and continued toward the White Bone Palace.
• A pure-white humanoid figure appeared in the gorge and watched the direction Lu Ming had gone.
• The figure declared its revenge against Nether Bone Ghost Venerable and burned a passing Late Sea Transformation Realm expert to ash before vanishing.

Lu Ming found Scarlet Cloud Hermit fighting Bone Spirit Kings near the White Bone Palace and helped him defeat one. The two exchanged the incomplete sixth-level [Dragon God Heavenly Merit] for Lu Ming’s cultivation method and Wushen Fruit, then Scarlet Cloud Hermit explained why he had shared the technique widely.

• Lu Ming recognized Scarlet Cloud Hermit’s Dragon God Heavenly Merit as he fought two mid-tier Bone Spirit Kings.
• Lu Ming killed one Bone Spirit King with a golden sword strike, allowing Scarlet Cloud Hermit to defeat the other.
• Lu Ming revealed he had cultivated the [Dragon God Heavenly Merit] to the fifth level and asked Scarlet Cloud Hermit for its later methods.
• Scarlet Cloud Hermit gave Lu Ming his incomplete sixth-level cultivation method, explaining he had shared it to deter people seeking the Dragon God Palace secret art.
• Lu Ming traded a section of his revised [Rebirth Soul Transformation Great Law] and a Wushen Fruit for the jade slip.
• Lu Ming told Scarlet Cloud Hermit that his third disciple was worried about him, then asked what was happening at the White Bone Battlefield.

Lu Ming found that the White Bone Palace was sealed by a deadly black-gray curtain and turned to hunting Bone Spirit Kings before leaving. Old Monster Qing Mo demanded his Bone Spirit Crystals, but Lu Ming refused and met his attack with a powerful sword strike.

• Scarlet Cloud Hermit explained that the black-gray light curtain withered anyone who touched it, so Lu Ming decided not to approach the White Bone Palace.
• Lu Ming parted from Scarlet Cloud Hermit, hunted Bone Spirit Kings, and gained three more Bone Spirit Crystals.
• Old Monster Qing Mo threatened Lu Ming and demanded his Bone Spirit Crystals, while Liu Ziqin, Fire Invincible, and the others watched.
• Lu Ming refused to back down, and Old Monster Qing Mo attacked him with the Asura Yin Sha Palm.
• Lu Ming drew the Silver Cloud Sword and used Rising Sun to block the palm, then his sword qi exploded with a burst of energy.

Lu Ming used his lightning and fire sword techniques to withstand Old Monster Qing Mo’s powerful Netherworld Prison attacks. After surviving the second clash, he charged again, and Old Monster Qing Mo escalated to Quadruple Netherworld Prison.

• Lu Ming blocked Old Monster Qing Mo’s Triple Netherworld Prison with a Rising Sun Sword Qi, though the palm’s explosion blasted him away.
• Old Monster Qing Mo unleashed another attack, and Lu Ming struck it with Lightning Blade, weakening its Yin aura with lightning.
• Lu Ming used the Thunder Rain Sword and Silver Cloud Sword together to defeat the descending palm, but the clash sent him flying dozens of miles while Old Monster Qing Mo staggered back.
• Lu Ming recovered and charged Old Monster Qing Mo again, determined to continue fighting.
• Old Monster Qing Mo, enraged by Lu Ming’s renewed attack, unleashed Quadruple Netherworld Prison.

Lu Ming broke through Old Monster Qing Mo’s fourfold Netherworld Prison palm force and fought back, forcing Qing Mo to unleash the fivefold Sea-Quelling Style. As the crushing force closed in, Lu Ming awakened the power of the Eternal Jade and prepared to use Void Annihilation.

• Lu Ming detonated the trapped Scorching Suns, then used seven more to crack Old Monster Qing Mo’s fourfold Netherworld Prison and attack him with Golden Radiance Assassination.
• Old Monster Qing Mo countered Lu Ming’s golden sword strike and exchanged hundreds of attacks with him, but Lu Ming kept pressing forward.
• Old Monster Qing Mo sent Lu Ming flying and unleashed the Fivefold Netherworld Prison—Sea-Quelling Style.
• King Huoling and a middle-aged man in brocade robes arrived and recognized the Asura Yin Sha Palm being used against Lu Ming.
• Lu Ming merged his consciousness with the Golden Man, drew on the Eternal Jade’s everlasting aura to weaken the crushing force, and invoked Void Annihilation.

Lu Ming broke free of Old Monster Qing Mo’s palm-force attack, drawing the attention of numerous Heavenly Human Realm experts. He rejected their invitations, including one from the Holy Heaven Palace, and said that powerful experts already protected his own power.

• Lu Ming used the Destruction Sword Profundity and the power of darkness and eternity to shatter Old Monster Qing Mo’s palm-force enclosure and escape.
• The Heavenly Human Realm experts emerged, recognized Lu Ming’s rare profundities, and considered recruiting or eliminating him if they could not claim him.
• Ling Tian, King Huoling, and other powerful figures offered Lu Ming generous terms to join their forces, while Old Monster Qing Mo feared they would capture him.
• A Grand Elder of the Holy Heaven Palace invited Lu Ming to join, but Lu Ming calmly declined all the offers because he already belonged to a power.
• The Holy Heaven Palace elder urged Lu Ming to reconsider, and Lu Ming replied that powerful experts protected his existing power.

After revealing that Great Wheel Bright Venerable protected him, Lu Ming deterred the powerful experts from trying to recruit him and let Old Monster Qing Mo escape. The experts then investigated the white-bone palace, debating whether it held Nether Bone Ghost Venerable’s inheritance or was connected to the Bone Spirit King, before entering through the Corpse Bone Evil Qi.

• Lu Ming identified Great Wheel Bright Venerable as his protector, and the powerful experts recognized him and abandoned their plans to recruit him.
• The experts expressed goodwill toward Lu Ming, while he let Old Monster Qing Mo flee without seeking revenge.
• The Holy Heaven Palace elder identified the palace’s Corpse Bone Evil Qi and suggested it might be Nether Bone Ghost Venerable’s inheritance.
• King Huoling recalled that Nether Bone Ghost Venerable had borrowed the Crimson Sun True Fire to counter Netherflame Poison, raising the possibility that the palace was connected to the Bone Spirit King.
• The Holy Heaven Palace elder crossed the Corpse Bone Evil Qi unharmed, and more than half the powerful experts followed him toward the palace.

Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi traveled from the White Bone Battlefield to Gu Ming Island, where they reunited with Fairy Miaoyin and learned she had been staying there. They gathered the spirit pearls and prepared to combine them to seek the Four Symbols Emperor Venerable's cultivation technique.

• Lu Ming and Scarlet Cloud Hermit left the White Bone Battlefield together, then reunited with Gu Mingzi and agreed to meet again later.
• Lu Ming and Gu Mingzi set out for the Falling Star Sea to find Fairy Miaoyin, discussing the cultivation technique rumored to be hidden in the spirit pearls.
• The two traveled beyond the Sky Curtain and returned to Gu Ming Island, where they found Fairy Miaoyin living in a newly built courtyard.
• Lu Ming told Fairy Miaoyin about Little Fox's origins and explained the spirit pearls' possible cultivation technique; she became excited at the prospect of improving her water cultivation.
• Lu Ming, Gu Mingzi, and Fairy Miaoyin each took out their spirit pearls to combine them.

Lu Ming, Gu Mingzi, and Fairy Miaoyin opened the Four Symbols Emperor Scripture and learned the history behind the inheritance. After staying to protect Fairy Miaoyin through her breakthrough, Lu Ming left for the Nine Provinces Continent, while she remained on Luanfeng Continent with her feelings for him unresolved.

• The four spirit pearls revealed the Four Symbols Emperor Scripture, and Lu Ming, Gu Mingzi, and Fairy Miaoyin memorized its four chapters.
• They read the Four Symbols Emperor Venerable’s message explaining that he had created the pearls to preserve his disciples’ bonds, but their discord had only grown before he departed for the Outer Starry Sky.
• Gu Mingzi chose to remain on the island to cultivate the inheritance, while Lu Ming told Fairy Miaoyin that he came from the Nine Provinces Continent and planned to return there.
• Lu Ming stayed for over a month to protect Fairy Miaoyin as she used the Spirit Rain Scripture and broke through to the Sea Transformation Realm.
• Lu Ming departed, and Fairy Miaoyin told Gu Mingzi she would remain on Luanfeng Continent to handle her family feud and keep her feelings for Lu Ming to herself.

Lu Ming returned to Qingqiu Mountain to say farewell to Little Fox, who was undergoing a long transformation in the Form Transformation Pool. After making a promise to return, he left for the Nine Provinces Continent, leaving Qingqiu Lan Chen with gifts for his grandson.

• Lu Ming told Qingqiu Lan Chen he planned to return to the Nine Provinces Continent and wanted to say goodbye to Little Fox.
• Qingqiu Lan Chen took Lu Ming to the Form Transformation Pool, where Little Fox was asleep and absorbing energy as she transformed.
• Little Fox clasped Lu Ming's hand, then hooked fingers with him after he promised to return soon and explore the world and starry sky together.
• Lu Ming gave Qingqiu Lan Chen the Four Symbols Emperor Venerable's lightning and thunder cultivation chapters and a Wushen Fruit for Little Fox.
• Lu Ming declined Qingqiu Lan Chen's invitation to stay and left for the Nine Provinces Continent, while Qingqiu Lan Chen reflected on his character and examined the jade slip.

The chapter followed rumors about Lu Ming’s disappearance and showed Su Xinghan resolving to pursue the same path of competition. Zhu Ningyun broke through to the Sea Transformation Realm amid rising tensions in the Zhu Family, while Lu Ming finally returned to the Nine Provinces Continent.

• Su Xinghan worried about Lu Ming’s absence, and Daoist Xingxuan explained that Central Continent forces were watching him and that he would face immense pressure there.
• Su Xinghan told Daoist Xingxuan he would go to the Central Continent and contend with the world’s prodigies.
• Zhu Ningyun’s breakthrough drew Heaven and Earth Origin Energy to Vermillion Bird Mountain, and Zhu Xiaojian ordered the Zhu Family sealed off.
• Zhu Family elders argued over Zhu Ningyun’s marriage to Lu Ming and whether his mixed sword and saber intents would hinder his advancement, until Zhu Xiaojian silenced them.
• Lu Ming emerged from a teleportation lotus platform in Wild Cloud Ridge and said he had returned to the Nine Provinces Continent.

Lu Ming returned to the Nine Provinces Continent and headed for the Wuji Sect, where he found a youth abusing his name to threaten Nine Tripod Sect disciples. After recognizing the youth as an impostor and compensating the disciples, Lu Ming took the Wuji Sect group away.

• Lu Ming left puppets to guard the hidden teleportation array, emerged from Wild Cloud Ridge, and set out for the Wuji Sect.
• Lu Ming overheard a youth claiming to be his cousin while trying to seize a demonic beast from Nine Tripod Sect disciples.
• The youth attacked a Nine Tripod Sect disciple, but Lu Ming immobilized everyone and declared that the youth was not his relative.
• Lu Ming explained that he had recovered memories proving he had no cousins, then gave the Nine Tripod Sect disciples a Storage Ring as compensation.
• Lu Ming carried the Wuji Sect disciples away, while the Nine Tripod Sect group opened the ring and marveled at its contents.

Lu Ming returned to the Wuji Sect and exposed impostors who had claimed to be his relatives, revealing that he had reached the Sea Transformation Realm. He left the false family at the sect’s mercy after demonstrating his overwhelming power.

• Lu Ming returned to the Wuji Sect, heard how disciples had robbed and threatened a young man in his name, and ordered the elders to gather the sect and the family claiming to be his relatives.
• Ren Canqing summoned everyone, and Lu Ming questioned the kneeling old man about Yongshui Village and the Sea Transformation Realm.
• Lu Ming revealed that he had reached the Sea Transformation Realm, stunning the sect with the vast pressure of his aura.
• Lu Ming offered to acknowledge the family if their blood fused with his, then split the sky with a slash to demonstrate his power.
• The impostors admitted they were not his relatives, and the assembled sect members condemned them as Lu Ming asked how they should be dealt with.

Lu Ming punished the Lu family for abusing the Wuji Sect’s name and killing an orphan, then accepted promotion to Grand Elder after reaching the Sea Transformation Realm. He agreed to attend the Wuji Sect’s rank-advancement ceremony in three months as news of his return and breakthrough spread across the region.

• Ren Canqing declared that the youth and his accomplices deserved execution, and Li Yishan killed the youth.
• The kneeling men revealed that Lu Xinzheng had killed an orphan who recognized Lu Ming, and Lu Xinzheng blamed his accomplices before killing himself.
• Lu Ming killed the remaining Lu family members, and Ren Canqing reminded the gathered disciples to obey the Wuji Sect’s rules.
• Ren Canqing and the elders bowed to Lu Ming as Grand Elder and explained the sect’s rules for promotion after reaching the Sea Transformation Realm.
• Lu Ming agreed to the Wuji Sect’s rank-advancement ceremony, scheduled for three months later, and news of his breakthrough spread beyond Fengzhou.

News that Lu Ming had broken through to the Sea Transformation Realm spread across the surrounding kingdoms and beyond, unsettling rival forces and drawing the attention of powerful young cultivators. As the Wuji Sect prepared for its Rank Advancement Ceremony, challengers and a hidden enemy began making plans to confront him.

• Leaders and geniuses across the surrounding kingdoms reacted to Lu Ming's breakthrough, while Gu Sha at Xuanwei Palace and Su Xinghan at Seven Stars Palace considered their own cultivation plans.
• Xia Yue received an order to lead a delegation from the Xian Ning Kingdom to congratulate the Wuji Sect, and the Eight Gates Family ordered its members not to provoke Lu Ming or the sect.
• Kou Yu set out to challenge Lu Ming, and Young Master Wu Wang of Myriad Sword Palace resolved to challenge Kou Yu before facing Lu Ming.
• Young cultivators in Yizhou discussed Lu Ming, while Jiang Ruoshui confirmed to Senior Brother Sun that Lu Ming had once saved her; Sun privately vowed to seek him out.
• An unidentified young man in Yizhou planned to defeat Lu Ming publicly at the Rank Advancement Ceremony, seeking a reward promised by someone from the Central Continent.

Lu Ming deduced the sixth layer of the Dragon God Heavenly Merit but needed blood from a powerful dragon-blooded demonic beast, so he traveled to the Ice Dragon Pool to investigate. Beneath the pool, he discovered a Bronze Giant Gate and opened it, leaving what lay beyond unknown.

• Lu Ming completed his deduction of the sixth-layer cultivation method and learned it required blood from a late fifth-level dragon-blooded demonic beast.
• Lu Ming left the Wuji Sect, where Ren Canqing oversaw preparations for the Rank Advancement Ceremony, and traveled to the Ice Dragon Pool in Zhu Zi Kingdom.
• Lu Ming used his Spiritual Sense and Sword Dao of Annihilation to pass through the pool’s powerful chill and will, discovering a huge bronze portal below.
• Lu Ming equipped his Lightning Armor and pushed open the Bronze Giant Gate, then darted aside as an extreme chill and mysterious will surged out.

Lu Ming entered the crystal palace behind the Bronze Giant Gate and obtained the Ice Dragon Pearl, which fused with the dragon-vein power inside him. The Star River Supreme warned him of karma tied to the pearl before vanishing, and Lu Ming left for Wuji Sect as the source of the region’s unnatural cold disappeared.

• Lu Ming entered the palace and found a jade-like skeleton seated on a crystal throne, with a white pearl in its hand.
• The Ice Dragon Pearl flew toward Lu Ming, and his golden dragon-vein power swallowed it and grew stronger.
• A figure formed from the skeleton’s light and identified himself as the Star River Supreme, warning Lu Ming that the pearl carried karma.
• The Star River Supreme vanished with the skeleton, and Lu Ming drew the pearl into his body alongside the golden dragon.
• Lu Ming left the palace and returned toward Wuji Sect after discovering that the cold had lost its source.

As the Wuji Sect prepared for its grand ceremony, powerful figures made plans around Zhu Ningyun and Lu Ming, while guests from across the continents arrived to build ties with the sect. The chapter ended as the Huayu Palace and Myriad Sword Palace of Guzhou arrived.

• A demonic-eyed young man offered Xi Chan a Five Thunder Stone if he defeated Lu Ming and sent an Ancient Sword Manual to the Zhu Family as a congratulatory gift for Zhu Ningyun's breakthrough.
• Zhu Xiaojian said he had never opposed Ning Yun's feelings for Lu Ming and sent a Zhu Family representative to congratulate the Wuji Sect while Ning Yun remained in seclusion.
• The Wuji Sect received a steady stream of visitors, including the Imperial Family of the Xian Ning Kingdom led by Xia Yue, whose group presented lavish gifts.
• Guests discussed Lu Ming's reputation and the Wuji Sect's rise as powers from Fengzhou and Guzhou continued to arrive.
• The Huayu Palace and Myriad Sword Palace of Guzhou arrived at the Wuji Sect.

Lu Ming presided over Wuji Sect’s Rank Advancement Ceremony after prominent guests and challengers arrived from across the region. As the sect began its Ancestral Worship, the assembled powers witnessed the strength Wuji Sect had gained under Lu Ming’s leadership.

• Kou Yu and Young Master Wu Wang arrived at Wuji Sect, presented gifts, and declared their intent to challenge Lu Ming and each other.
• Zhu Changting arrived from the Zhu Family and asked to see his son-in-law, Lu Ming, but Ren Canqing explained that Lu Ming was in secluded cultivation.
• Guests gathered for the ceremony, and Lu Ming appeared on the high platform to welcome them and announce that Wuji Sect would first conduct Ancestral Worship.
• Ren Canqing called for the cauldron, and eighteen Gang Yuan Realm core elders carried it into the square as the guests marveled at Wuji Sect’s growth.

Wuji Sect’s rank advancement ceremony moved from ancestral worship to public displays of strength, culminating in a duel between Wu Xingbai and the Water Dragon Swordsman. Lu Ming intervened to stop the winning swordsman’s final attack and declared him the victor.

• Ren Canqing read the ancestral offering text, and Lu Ming led the gathered guests in offering incense to complete the ancestral worship.
• Lu Ming opened the arena to anyone wishing to spar, and Wu Xingbai challenged the Water Dragon Swordsman.
• The Water Dragon Swordsman fought Wu Xingbai without suppressing his cultivation, and the two traded powerful sword techniques in the arena and sky.
• Lu Ming judged that the Water Dragon Swordsman had the advantage because Wu Xingbai’s rapid attacks could not break through his defenses.
• The Water Dragon Swordsman’s final attack overwhelmed Wu Xingbai, but Lu Ming caught and dispersed the pursuing water dragon before it could strike him.
• Lu Ming declared the Water Dragon Swordsman the winner and asked whether either fighter objected.

Young Master Wu Wang challenged Kou Yu, and their fierce battle revealed the strength of Wu Wang’s True Profound Meaning sword and Kou Yu’s Sky Peng techniques. Kou Yu won, though Wu Wang had narrowed the gap, and an unknown voice then called for Lu Ming to show his strength.

• Wu Xingbai conceded defeat to the Water Dragon Swordsman after Lu Ming saved his life, and the Water Dragon Swordsman bowed to Lu Ming.
• Young Master Wu Wang challenged Kou Yu and asked Lu Ming to let them fight in the sky.
• Kou Yu easily broke Wu Wang’s Source of Calamity sword and explained that it lacked Calamity Profound Meaning.
• Wu Wang unleashed a sword carrying an aura Zhu Changting identified as True Profound Meaning, forcing Kou Yu to use Sky Peng Shattering and Heavenly Dance Mad Shatter.
• The two prodigies clashed until Wu Wang spat blood and conceded that Kou Yu had won, though he vowed to defeat him next time.
• A loud voice praised the duel and called on Lu Ming, the Fenggu Prefectures’ number-one prodigy, to demonstrate his strength.

Xi Chan of Heavenly Silkworm Palace challenged Lu Ming at Wuji Sect, but Kou Yu stepped in to settle their old grievance. After Xi Chan defeated Kou Yu in three moves, he turned to Lu Ming and challenged him, leaving Lu Ming’s response unresolved.

• Xi Chan appeared above Wuji Sect and declared that he had come to test Lu Ming’s strength.
• Kou Yu recovered with a Snow Dragon Pill and insisted on fighting Xi Chan first, while Zhu Changting warned Lu Ming that the challenge was likely connected to Ning Yun.
• Kou Yu attacked with Sky Peng Shattering, but Xi Chan countered with Heavenly Silkworm Divine Skill and bound Kou Yu with silken threads.
• Xi Chan struck Kou Yu down within three moves, stunning the crowd and making them doubt Lu Ming could defeat him.
• Xi Chan turned toward Lu Ming and asked whether he dared to fight.