Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng defeated Xu Qi in a fierce battle, but Xu Qi unleashed a Divine Wisdom-level Origin Extinction Lightning attack. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng emerging almost unharmed inside a sphere of golden flames.

• Lu Sheng used his Yin-Yang Fusion state and multiple attacks to overwhelm Xu Qi’s grandmaster-level spear technique and knock him into a crater.
• Xu Qi raised a purple crystal bracelet and unleashed Origin Extinction Lightning after Lu Sheng dismissed the other Holy Lords’ offer to join the fight.
• Lu Sheng crushed a prepared item as the bracelet vanished, triggering three enormous explosions of purple lightning.
• Two observing Holy Lords believed the attack was beyond the Jade Star Realm and feared Lu Sheng had been killed.
• Lu Sheng appeared almost unscathed inside golden flames that extinguished the lightning, leaving Xu Qi and the observers stunned.

Lu Sheng completed his mission by defeating Xu Qi and claiming several Divine Weapons, then set out for Autumn Moon County with Duanmu Wan. When two Evil Sorcerers tried to rob him on the road, he killed them despite his lingering injuries.

• Lu Sheng forced Xu Qi to surrender the Heavenly Ear Saber and four other Divine Weapons, then left with his spoils.
• Lu Sheng returned to Nanli City, declined Mu Donghe’s gift, and flew toward Autumn Moon County with Duanmu Wan.
• Lu Sheng sensed his injury worsening mid-flight, set Duanmu Wan safely on the ground, and confronted two Evil Sorcerers waiting in the hills.
• The Evil Sorcerers demanded Lu Sheng’s Divine Weapons, but he entered his Yin-Yang Fusion state and devoured the plant-demon-bodied sorcerer.
• Lu Sheng used Cross Star to erase the fleeing bandaged Evil Sorcerer along with the surrounding ground.

Lu Sheng delivered the Heavenly Ear Saber to Cross Star, who rewarded him with an accessory that could help him comprehend Source Power. As he left her room, he encountered a motionless girl in black on the stairway.

• Devil Emperor Vella sent Miglu to investigate Xiao Zizhu and ordered him to return if anything had happened.
• Lu Sheng finished consuming his Divine Weapons, inspected the Heavenly Ear Saber, and entered the World of Pain to report his mission.
• Lu Sheng told Cross Star that he had obtained the Heavenly Ear Saber after losing track of the two other Evil Sorcerers, and Cross Star accepted the weapon.
• Cross Star gave Lu Sheng a two-use accessory infused with her power and explained that Source Power came from mastering the origin behind a power’s laws.
• Lu Sheng left Cross Star’s room and saw a girl in black with a long braid standing motionless beside a stairway window.

Lu Sheng encountered strange apparitions in the World of Pain, then sought Saint Lord Tong Sheng’s guidance on Source Power and agreed to his request in exchange for directions to source methods. Half a month later, Xu Lao tested Li Shunxi and offered him a path to become the third Saint King of the Three Saints Gate.

• Lu Sheng saw a silent girl and a terrified praying man in the Small Building, and Cross Star warned him not to interact with such beings.
• Back in his secret chamber, Lu Sheng considered using the Deep Blue Modifier and God-Entrusting Power to raise Yin Fire Netherflame to Source Power, then hid Cross Star’s ornament.
• Lu Sheng visited Saint Lord Tong Sheng and asked how to comprehend Source Power; Tong Sheng refused to reveal a sect source method but offered to point him toward others if Lu Sheng fulfilled a request.
• Half a month later, Li Shunxi studied the Profound Heaven Nine Order Algorithm at Xu Lao’s noodle stall in Level River County.
• Xu Lao told Li Shunxi that Great Yin and Yin Capital held the key to saving the overall situation, then challenged him to prove his strength and earn the position of the Three Saints Gate’s third Saint King.

After months spent under Saint Lord Tong Sheng’s Origin Force, Lu Sheng recovered his memories and received the Nourishing Origin Method and directions to Gold Blood Mountain Manor. In the years after the Devil Disaster began, he led the Yuan Devil Sect’s rapid expansion and resistance against the devil army.

• Lu Sheng accompanied the elderly Tong Sheng on outings for several months, until Tong Sheng revealed his Origin Force had muddled Lu Sheng’s memories and urged him to stabilize his strength.
• Lu Sheng remembered his agreement with Saint Lord Tong Sheng, and Tong Sheng gave him directions to Gold Blood Mountain Manor before vanishing.
• Lu Sheng escaped the illusion, discovered the Nourishing Origin Method on the slip, and flew back toward Autumn Moon County.
• After the Devil Disaster erupted, Lu Sheng expanded the Yuan Devil Sect, joined forces with the Red Sun Sect, and sent recruits to fight the devil army.
• The Yuan Devil Sect defeated devil forces with the help of its three powerful generals, while Xiao Zizhu secretly supported it through Cross Star.

Over five years, Lu Sheng strengthened the Yuan Devil Sect while Great Yin and the Devil World exhausted themselves in war, and he continued searching for a way to improve Netherflame. Elder Huai gave him a demon technique to soften his formidable body so Chen Yunxi could bear his children, and Lu Sheng began testing it.

• Lu Sheng secretly gathered saint weapons across other worlds and fed their God-Entrusting Power into Netherflame, which continued to accumulate without visibly transforming.
• The Battle of Dianhua and other fighting devastated Great Yin, while the Yuan Devil Sect's stable rule drew refugees and expanded its influence.
• Lu Sheng asked Elder Huai for help with his physical strength preventing him from having children with Chen Yunxi.
• Elder Huai explained the Celestial Demon Flower Sutra Technique, a method for softening one's essence, and taught it to Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng circulated the technique and felt the vitality of his body weaken greatly.

Lu Sheng summoned Chen Yunxi to Vast Sea Pavilion and insisted on making amends for the years he had delayed her by trying to give her a child. The chapter ended after he carried her into the inner chamber and they had sex, leaving him hopeful that she might conceive.

• Chen Yunxi practiced Sun Chasing Swordplay before Xin Mei summoned her to Vast Sea Pavilion.
• Lu Sheng told Chen Yunxi that he owed her for delaying her life and that he could not let her leave, while she said she wanted only a quiet life.
• Chen Yunxi refused Lu Sheng's offer of amends and said she did not need him to care for her.
• Lu Sheng seized Chen Yunxi, carried her into the inner chamber, and forced her onto the bed despite her protests.
• Afterward, Lu Sheng held Chen Yunxi against his chest and wondered whether she might conceive after their encounter.

Lu Sheng returned home after Chen Yunxi became pregnant, then received Mu Qingye and her relatives at Yuan Devil Sect headquarters. He agreed to test Mu Jueqing before deciding whether to accept her as his disciple.

• Lu Sheng carried Chen Yunxi back to her courtyard, and the Lu Estate and Yuan Devil Sect celebrated after a physician confirmed her pregnancy.
• Lu Sheng gave Chen Yunxi nourishing medicines and a blood-controlling divine weapon, then completed a divine weapon retrieval mission in the World of Pain.
• Mu Qingye brought Mu Jueqing and the battered Mu Quening to meet Lu Sheng and asked him to accept Mu Jueqing as his disciple.
• Mu Qingye offered Lu Sheng a rare Soul-Seizing Seed and described Mu Jueqing’s Wood Spirit Body and potential to become a Weapon Master.
• Lu Sheng agreed to observe Mu Jueqing and accept her as his disciple only if she passed his test.
• Mu Qingye revealed that Mu Jueqing had run away from home because she insisted on taking Lu Sheng as her master.

After Mu Jueqing became Lu Sheng’s chief disciple, the Thousand Sun Sect’s main branch ordered Lu Sheng to report or meet its demands, prompting him to enter the Secret Realm and confront his teacher, Su Ningfei. Su Ningfei explained that Great Yin and other worlds existed on a planet within the Star Universe, leaving Lu Sheng with a glimpse of the world beyond his known realm.

• Lu Sheng formally made Mu Jueqing his chief disciple and taught her the Eight-Headed Devil Extreme Path, whose long cultivation time made her skeptical despite her Wood Spirit Body.
• The Thousand Sun Sect’s main branch sent Lu Sheng a transfer order after his expansion and seizure of Mo Ling Prefecture’s resources angered the three sects.
• Lu Sheng dismissed his subordinates, checked on the pregnant Chen Yunxi, and entered the Secret Realm after the Secret Realm Stone lit up.
• Lu Sheng met Su Ningfei, who rebuked him for advancing the Yuan Devil Sect at the Thousand Sun Sect’s expense, then softened when he offered to help her.
• Su Ningfei explained that the Secret Realm and other outside worlds orbited a main world within the Star Universe, and that Great Yin, Great Song, the Devil World, and the World of Pain all existed on the same planet.

Su Ningfei told Lu Sheng to guard the Gate of Illusion for two to ten years, and Lu Sheng accepted after securing a life-saving treasure from Cross Star. He prepared the Yuan Devil Sect and Lu Estate for his absence, then welcomed the birth of his child.

• Su Ningfei explained that Lu Sheng would replace a Holy Lord guarding the Gate of Illusion and promised one Divine Wisdom Realm divine weapon as a reward.
• Cross Star agreed that Lu Sheng should take the assignment and gave him a black crow sculpture that could save his life three times.
• Lu Sheng reorganized the Yuan Devil Sect and Lu Estate, established rules, and asked Saint Lord Tong Sheng to look after them.
• Chen Yunxi gave birth, and Lu Sheng sensed that his newborn child carried his bloodline.

Lu Sheng named his newborn son Lu Ning, then took up his post guarding the Gate of Illusion on Illusory Sky Island. After helping his fellow Holy Lords defeat an evil creature, he was attacked by a gigantic black hand that seized the other guardians and closed in on him.

• Lu Sheng named his son Lu Ning and sent his blood for verification, prompting the Yuanguang Family to negotiate with him before withdrawing.
• Three years later, Lu Sheng served as one of four Holy Lords guarding the Gate of Illusion on Illusory Sky Island, where he discovered the gate was becoming increasingly unstable.
• Lu Sheng and the other Holy Lords fought an evil creature that emerged from the pool’s vortex, and Lu Sheng was blasted back when it self-destructed.
• The guardians discussed the growing danger and the possibility that the evil creatures had been created by someone.
• A massive black hand emerged from the vortex and crushed Liu Xingyun and the other two Holy Lords, while Lu Sheng tried to escape and crushed the Black Crow Statue as it pursued him.

After the Black Crow statue sent Lu Sheng into another world, he awoke inside Lu Chong’s body at Purple Smoke Mountain Manor and discovered their souls were virtually identical. He began investigating the manor’s strange ancestral rituals and suspected the world and Lu Chong were connected to the Celestial Demon.

• The Black Crow statue’s gray light destroyed the black hand, missed the rift back to the World of Pain, and vanished into the Star Universe.
• Lu Sheng awoke inside Lu Chong’s body, absorbed Lu Chong’s memories, and found their souls fused without distinction.
• Lu Sheng tested his Yang Essence and other energies but found that Lu Chong’s body could not endure them.
• Lu Sheng learned about Purple Smoke Mountain Manor’s bizarre annual ancestral rituals and the powerful people who emerged afterward.
• Lu Sheng visited the Ancestral Hall and suspected that Lu Chong and this world were connected to the Celestial Demon he had seen at Black Seal Temple.

Lu Sheng attended a ritual meant to help him gain a Guardian’s recognition and inherit Purple Smoke Mountain Manor, where he saw black shadows gathering around the ceremony. He realized Lu Chong’s unresolved wish to protect his father might be the key to completing their fusion, just as the ritual produced a black toad and a bowl of foul liquid.

• Lu Sheng met Lu Quan and Lu Zhenling, answered their questions about Shanglin Swordplay, and then went to see Manor Lord Lu Dangfeng.
• Lu Dangfeng explained that Lu Sheng needed a Guardian’s recognition to inherit the manor and ordered him to attend a supplementary ritual that afternoon.
• After preparing for the ritual, Lu Sheng joined Lu Dangfeng and five elders in Liancao Hall as two red-dressed girls danced and screamed within a blood-red formation.
• Lu Sheng spotted black shadows gathering at the edge of the candlelight and realized that Lu Chong’s wish to protect his father had become an obsession tied to his return to Great Yin.
• The ritual changed as Lu Dangfeng sprinkled black, foul-smelling liquid over a large green-eyed toad.

After completing the Spirit Gathering Ritual, Lu Sheng learned that the Lu Family guarded a seal containing a terrifying evil colossus and relied on Guardian Spirits to fight the evil spirits that escaped. He mastered the ritual, strengthened his body through training, and began reshaping the family’s swordplay to build the manor’s strength and protect its people.

• Lu Dangfeng told Lu Sheng that the Guardians had approved of him and explained that the Lu Family had long guarded a seal containing an evil colossus.
• Lu Dangfeng explained the Spirit Gathering Ritual’s Yin, Zheng, and Yang stages and gave Lu Sheng a book containing its teachings.
• Lu Sheng mastered the ritual and discovered that Lu Chong’s body had the same structure as his former mortal body, while his soul power could move through it freely.
• Over the next year, Lu Sheng trained in the Lu Family’s Shanglin Swordplay and used his soul power to transform his frail body into a muscular one.
• Lu Sheng defeated the guards’ training instructor, took charge of their training, and reshaped Shanglin Swordplay into a heavy-sword art that also developed soul power.

Lu Sheng strengthened his essence qi method and trained the family guards as the manor prepared for another ritual. The ritual went disastrously wrong, killing the Second Elder and leaving Lu Dangfeng to contain the aftermath.

• Lu Sheng ordered the family guards to gain weight and increase their training, then declined to attend the ritual because Lu Dangfeng was not presiding over it.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to advance the Nameless Essence Qi Method to the Limit Realm, converting his essence qi into silver essence origin that supported his body but could not be released in combat.
• Lu Sheng resolved to pursue pure physical strength and tested the essence origin's effects while supervising the guards.
• Lu Sheng heard an explosion at Liancao Hall and found the Second Elder's body dissolving into black-yellow slime after the ritual failed.
• Lu Dangfeng ordered the manor sealed and servants silenced, and Lu Zhenling told Lu Sheng that the Second Elder had died after his Guardian Spirit failed to defeat a leaking evil spirit.

After the Second Elder died during a ritual, Lu Sheng strengthened his body and secretly summoned Guardian Spirits to learn whether they could help him deal with the evil spirit in the seal. He left the ritual with eighteen spirits under contract and discovered he could destroy them with his physical and spiritual power.

• Lu Sheng comforted Lu Zhenling after the Second Elder's fatal ritual accident and resolved to investigate Guardian Spirits and the seal.
• During the ten days of mourning, Lu Sheng used God-Entrusting Power to transform his essence into Snake Rank and strengthen his physical abilities.
• Lu Sheng performed a ritual alone, contacted a burly Guardian Spirit, and ended their conversation when it demanded ten thousand White-Gold Flowers as a gift.
• Lu Sheng offered braised pig trotters in a second ritual, then overpowered the Guardian Spirits and forced eighteen of them into the contract circle.
• When the captured spirits refused to explain how to deal with evil spirits and threatened him, Lu Sheng destroyed one with a punch powered by his divine soul.

Lu Sheng altered the summoning ritual to bind a dozen Guardian Spirits with contracts that had no time limit, then questioned the cooperative San Bu about spirit power. After absorbing her power, Deep Blue revealed an Unknown Spirit Power Method that increased vitality and longevity, and Lu Sheng asked her about its cultivation stages.

• Lu Sheng tore apart parts of the ritual formation and used altered gestures and syllables to bind the Guardian Spirits with contracts that would not expire.
• Several Guardian Spirits attacked Lu Sheng in panic, but he defeated them and reminded them they could not harm anyone from Purple Smoke Mountain Manor.
• San Bu stayed near Lu Sheng, explained that Guardian Spirits used spirit power to oppose Evil Spirits, and described how they could absorb the essence of precious human objects to grow stronger.
• Lu Sheng asked San Bu to infuse his hand with spirit power, then circulated it through his body until Deep Blue displayed the Unknown Spirit Power Method with Vitality Level One and Longevity Level One.
• Lu Sheng thanked San Bu and asked her to explain the stages of spirit power cultivation.

Lu Sheng learned how Guardian Spirits advanced and used Deep Blue to raise his spirit power to the Spirit Fruit Stage before entering the sealed chamber beneath the manor. There, he met a powerful imprisoned man who recognized the Heavenly Demon within him and offered to reveal a secret about Heavenly Demons.

• San Bu explained the stages of Guardian Spirit evolution, and Lu Sheng sent him away after learning what he needed.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue and God-Entrusting Power to advance his Unknown Spirit Power Method, forming five spirit flowers before reaching the Spirit Fruit Stage.
• Lu Sheng entered the manor's sealed cavern despite the guards' warnings and sensed an aura like the evil thing inside the Gate of Illusion.
• Lu Sheng touched the bronze gate, absorbed a vast surge of God-Entrusting Power, and entered the hall beyond it.
• A sealed man recognized the Heavenly Demon within Lu Sheng, invited him to talk, and offered a secret that would clarify Lu Sheng's situation.

Lu Sheng learned from Ju Yan that Heavenly Devils cultivated by merging with other versions of themselves, and accepted a Jade Classic in exchange for breaking three Cosmic Control Pillars and capturing Guardian Spirits. After studying Ju Yan’s gifts for over two months, Lu Sheng left Purple Smoke Mountain Manor alone to begin fulfilling the agreement.

• Ju Yan explained Heavenly Devil cultivation and offered Lu Sheng the first half of the Heavenly Devil Jade Classic in exchange for destroying three Cosmic Control Pillars and gathering Guardian Spirits.
• Ju Yan gave Lu Sheng a ribbon that let him see and contact Guardian Spirits, along with a simplified spiritual-power cultivation method, and taught him E Language.
• Lu Sheng secretly visited Ju Yan over the next two months, studied the Jade Classic, and heard no further reports of evil spirits escaping.
• Ju Yan urged Lu Sheng to fulfill their agreement and warned that evil spirits would remain contained only if Lu Sheng kept his promise.
• Lu Sheng asked Lu Dangfeng for permission to travel outside the Great Wall, while Lu Quan and Lu Zhenling were forbidden from joining him.
• Lu Sheng left the manor alone at night, intending to visit the three Secret Lands and break their Cosmic Control Pillars.

Lu Sheng arrived in Chaoan County to investigate the first platinum stone pillar and found the city crowded with martial artists drawn by the Chen Family's reward. At the Green Robe Tavern, Chen Qun was beaten and thrown downstairs, and Yunxi Bie Feihe vowed to cripple him while the onlookers fell silent.

• Lu Sheng entered Chaoan County, learned about the Chen Family's strange occurrence and the Eight Treasures Coral Cup reward, and went to the Green Robe Tavern.
• Lu Sheng sat quietly to eat while Chen Qun and several young Chen Family heirs arrived at the tavern.
• A hunchback and a veiled middle-aged woman joined the growing crowd of wary martial artists.
• Chen Qun was thrown down the stairs with a broken sword after a fight upstairs.
• Yunxi Bie Feihe announced that he would cut off one of Chen Qun's hands and legs, silencing the tavern.