Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng intervened when Bie Feihe abused Chen Youjin and brutalized Chen Qun, claiming Bie Feihe had the aptitude to inherit his mantle. When Bie Feihe tried to leave, Lu Sheng struck him down and dragged him away.

• Bie Feihe assaulted Chen Youjin and beat Chen Qun, eventually severing Chen Qun's hand and ordering a waiter to summon the Chen family.
• Chen Qun begged the tavern's Jianghu People for help, but none dared intervene, and Lu Sheng initially ignored him.
• Lu Sheng stopped Bie Feihe, saying he was interested in Bie Feihe's aptitude and would take him as a disciple.
• Bie Feihe tried to leave the tavern with Chen Qun and Chen Youjin, but Lu Sheng struck him into a wall and dragged him away.

Lu Sheng beat and subdued Bie Feihe, then left the Green Robe Tavern after the Chen Family handed over the Coral Cup. He learned of Chen Youjin's mysterious nightly disappearances and left with Bie Feihe as the Black Vulture Gang's elders let them pass; meanwhile, Chen Jiuhua suspected her daughter Xiao Bi was still in contact with Zhang Yunzhe.

• Lu Sheng overwhelmed Bie Feihe, forced her to call him Master, and discovered that her aptitude was exceptional.
• The Jianghu People and Bie Feihe's subordinates fled the tavern, while Lu Sheng questioned a hunched old man about the Chen Family's missing Second Miss.
• The Chen Family arrived and left the Coral Cup for the experts to take, and Lu Sheng departed with Bie Feihe.
• Zhou San Ye and Zhou Er Ye confronted Lu Sheng outside the tavern but backed down after sensing his strength.
• At the Chen Family, Chen Jiuhua blamed Xiao Bi's strange condition on her continued contact with Zhang Yunzhe, and Chen ZhunGuang rejected the accusation.

Chen Jiuhua and Chen ZhunGuang discovered that Chen Jiabi was pregnant by Zhang Yunzhe and feared the Zhang Family would destroy the Chen Family. While Lu Sheng stayed at the Chen Residence searching for the Secret Land, Zhang Hong and two other men arrived to demand an explanation, leaving the family facing an imminent confrontation.

• An old mammy told Chen Jiuhua and Chen ZhunGuang that Xu Fang was Zhang Yunzhe in disguise and that Chen Jiabi had sought miscarriage-prevention medicine.
• Chen Jiuhua and Chen ZhunGuang feared the Zhang Family's retaliation and decided they had to act quickly to deal with the pregnancy.
• Lu Sheng settled into the Chen Residence, searched unsuccessfully for the Secret Land, and gave Chen Qun a few pointers on martial arts.
• After more than two weeks without finding clues, Lu Sheng heard a crash at the Chen Residence gates and went to investigate with Chen Qun and Bie Feihe.
• Zhang Hong and two other white-robed men smashed through the gates and demanded that the Chen Family explain the Zhang Yunzhe Affair.

Lu Sheng forced Zhang Hong to lead him to the Zhang Family’s Secret Land, the Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm. There, Zhang Mu boasted about a spirit array to Zhang Chenshan as Lu Sheng approached a massive concentration of spiritual power.

• Zhang Hong recognized Lu Sheng as a member of the Lu Family, and Lu Sheng asked whether the Zhang Family knew of a nearby Secret Land.
• When Zhang Hong threatened him for probing the Zhang Family’s greatest secret, Lu Sheng released overwhelming spiritual pressure and demanded to be taken there.
• Zhang Hong agreed to lead Lu Sheng to the Secret Land, and Lu Sheng left the Chen Family gates with Zhang Hong, two Zhang Family members, and Bie Feihe.
• Lu Sheng seized Zhang Hong and sped southeast toward the Secret Land, carrying Bie Feihe and sensing a huge concentration of spiritual power ahead.
• Inside the Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm, Zhang Mu proudly challenged Zhang Chenshan to solve his Wen Guang Fa Hua Array.

Lu Sheng entered the Zhang Family’s Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm and fought through its defenses, but Zhang Zhao repeatedly manipulated the grand array to send him back to the entrance. Lu Sheng continued testing the array while Zhang Zhao watched from within the valley.

• Zhang Zhao solved Zhang Chenshan’s spirit array diagram and sensed Lu Sheng approaching with Zhang Hong and Bie Feihe as hostages.
• Lu Sheng entered the mist-covered array, where his Fire Spirit melted an assault of ice spikes and defeated a tiger spirit formed from accumulated spirit power.
• The array returned Lu Sheng to the entrance, and he sent Bie Feihe back before entering again.
• Zhang Hong reported the incident to Zhang Zhao, who dismissed Lu Sheng’s reputation and used the array to watch his progress.
• Lu Sheng tried several approaches, including charging through at full speed, but Zhang Zhao repeatedly sent him back to the entrance.

Lu Sheng became trapped in the Zhang Family’s Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm while searching for a platinum-colored pillar, then destroyed its grand array with a burst of golden spiritual power. He confronted the Zhang Family’s guardians, explained what he was looking for, and learned that entering the Secret Land required passing two tests.

• Lu Sheng failed repeatedly to cross the white fog array, and San Bu warned him that their combined strength could not break it.
• Lu Sheng used the Holy Lord Divine Soul to navigate the fog, realized spatial guidance was also misleading him, and destroyed the array in frustration with a massive golden spiritual energy storm.
• Zhang Zhao, Zhang Mu, Zhang Chenshan, and Zhang Hong realized the Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm’s grand array had been broken and saw Lu Sheng approaching with a bandaged young woman.
• Lu Sheng told Zhang Zhao that he had come to find a platinum-colored pillar, not to pick a fight with the Zhang Family.
• Zhang Mu said Lu Sheng would have to pass two tests before entering the Secret Land.

Lu Sheng faced the Zhang Family elders in the Zhao Ling Illusionary Realm after answering their test with a threat disguised as a response. When Zhang Mu and Zhang Chenshan attacked, he endured their spirit flames and sword assault without serious injury, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Mu asked how many Snake Dragons emerged at Li Dragon Pool, and Lu Sheng answered ten, saying he could reduce their number to that if he was wrong.
• Zhang Chenshan challenged Lu Sheng's answer, but Zhang Zhao abandoned the tests and Zhang Mu and Zhang Chenshan attacked him.
• Lu Sheng dodged the elders' rapid strikes and shattered a boulder Zhang Mu hurled at him.
• Zhang Chenshan ignited boulders with spirit flames, which spread to Lu Sheng's hands, but Lu Sheng extinguished them with a surge of spiritual power.
• Zhang Mu summoned hundreds of sword strikes with a fish-shaped pendant, but they only shredded Lu Sheng's clothes and left pale marks on his body.

After Lu Sheng defeated the Zhang Family guardians, Zhang Zhao tricked him into entering the Mountain Mausoleum, where a woman and a colossal silver dragon guarded the platinum-colored pillar he sought. Zhang Zhao escaped and arranged for the clan to prepare defenses, while Lu Sheng confronted the woman and asked for the pillar.

• Lu Sheng withstood Zhang Mu and Zhang Chenshan's strongest attack, and Zhang Zhao offered to lead him to the platinum-colored pillar in the Hidden Cave.
• Zhang Zhao lured Lu Sheng into the Mountain Mausoleum using a Stone Spirit, then escaped through the cave wall and told the guardians that a monster was waiting inside.
• Zhang Mu ordered the Zhang Family to prepare the formations and move valuables, while Zhang Zhao hinted that the creature in the mausoleum was a divine beast.
• Lu Sheng entered an underground cavern and saw a colossal translucent silver dragon with a long-haired woman floating inside its body.
• The woman offered to fulfill Lu Sheng's wish, and he asked her for the platinum-colored pillar behind her; she questioned why he wanted it.

Lu Sheng obtained the first Cosmic Control Pillar from the Silver Dragon after trading away his spiritual power, then fought the Zhang Family when they tried to stop him. After devastating the clan, he left for Bu Sa Jia to seek the second pillar as rumors spread that he was a demon star.

• Lu Sheng traded all his spiritual power to the Silver Dragon for her former true body, the first Cosmic Control Pillar, and broke the pillar to fulfill Ju Yan's request.
• Ju Yan sensed that the first shackle had opened and said the remaining two pillars would be harder to remove now that others had been alerted.
• Lu Sheng emerged from the cave and confronted Zhang Helun, Zhang Wenji, and Zhang Zhun, who had imprisoned his companion and surrounded him with a grand formation.
• Zhang Zhun's forces trapped Lu Sheng in the Spirit-Eating Demon Magic Formation, and Lu Sheng prepared to retaliate after demanding the return of his companion.
• Lu Sheng crippled the Zhang Family's four great Supremes and destroyed its Forbidden Zone's grand formation, leaving the clan weakened and its patriarch replaced.
• Lu Sheng departed the Zhang Family's territory for Bu Sa Jia, while rumors of Ancient Star's demon-star prophecy spread across Great Xia.

Lu Sheng befriended Mei Youjiang, a young woman with extensive knowledge of strange creatures, and learned that she had been kidnapped and disappeared outside Bu Sa Jia Town. As the Mei Family searched for her, her Jianghu acquaintances gathered at her courtyard to plan a rescue.

• Lu Sheng shared wine and stories with Mei Youjiang at the Snake Flower House, discovering that her knowledge of demons matched his own experience.
• Mei Youjiang's Big Sister arrived and dragged her home, and Lu Sheng continued meeting her at the tavern over the next half month to discuss supernatural matters.
• Lu Sheng's experiments on Bie Feihe began yielding results, and he planned to use Deep Blue to develop a stronger spiritual power technique.
• The Mei Family sent Lu Sheng word that Mei Youjiang had been kidnapped and had vanished outside town.
• Mei Yinhong and Mei Xiulan discussed the search and ransom letter while Mei Youjiang's Jianghu acquaintances argued noisily in her courtyard about rescuing her.

Lu Sheng joined the search for Mei Youjiang while continuing to test his cultivation methods on Zhang Zhao and Bie Feihe. The searchers learned she had gone northeast, toward the feared territory of the Secluded Mansion, and Lu Sheng asked a local about the disappearances there.

• Lu Sheng watched Bie Feihe endure forced eating and training while Zhang Zhao starved as they tested spiritual power and the Heavenly Demon Art.
• Du Quanfu became the searchers’ leader, and the group pooled its information to narrow the search area.
• The searchers learned that Mei Youjiang had left town with a well-fed man and headed northeast.
• More than ten people chose to continue searching despite the danger, while others stayed behind after hearing the destination was near the Secluded Mansion.
• Lu Sheng followed the departing searchers and asked a local why the northeast was feared; the man said people who passed through the cornfield often vanished.

Lu Sheng followed a burly man northeast toward the mysterious Secluded Mansion while using Deep Blue to rapidly cultivate his spirit power. He reached Dragon Level and began deriving the Spirit Power Method, hoping to uncover what Ju Yan was hiding.

• Lu Sheng decided to investigate the Secluded Mansion and brought Bie Feihe with him while sending Zhang Zhao back to rest.
• Lu Sheng and Bie Feihe followed the burly man out of the city toward the northeast under curfew.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue and God-Entrusting Power to reach the Five Fruits Stage and manifest Tiger Grade spirit power.
• Lu Sheng advanced his spirit power to Dragon Level, the limit Ju Yan had expected him to reach.
• Lu Sheng tapped the Derive button on the Spirit Power Method to seek what lay beyond Dragon Level.

Su Ran and Qin Shijun entered the Secluded Mansion and fell into a strange trap involving a false version of Su Ran. Lu Sheng and Bie Feihe also reached the mansion, where Lu Sheng sent her inside first while keeping his newly awakened power in check.

• Su Ran and Qin Shijun approached the Secluded Mansion, but Su Ran vanished after Qin Shijun entered the building.
• Qin Shijun followed an apparent Su Ran upstairs and was trapped in a room after the door slammed shut.
• Su Ran arrived at the mansion and followed a second apparent Qin Shijun toward an upstairs room after testing the voice with qilin blood.
• Chen Ziang scouted the forest around the mansion while Lu Sheng sent Bie Feihe ahead, amplifying her spirit power and size.
• Lu Sheng reached the mansion and followed Bie Feihe inside, while planning to address the purple seed within him after resolving the mansion's threat.

Lu Sheng entered the Secluded Mansion to find the Cosmic Control Pillar and rescue the people trapped inside. After outwitting Black Rope’s game and freeing Bie Feihe, Mei Youjiang, and the others, Lu Sheng returned and attacked Black Rope, then turned his attention to another figure.

• Lu Sheng saw through an illusion of Bie Feihe and met Black Rope in a hall filled with black holes containing trapped outsiders.
• Lu Sheng identified the hole holding Bie Feihe, Mei Youjiang, and the others, then repeated his correct guesses until Black Rope was forced to release them.
• Black Rope accused Lu Sheng of cheating and refused to fight him, so Lu Sheng left with the rescued people and asked where the Cosmic Control Pillar was.
• Black Rope and another man discussed how Lu Chong was expected to destroy the Cosmic Control Pillar when a golden blade tore through the Secluded Mansion’s roof.
• Lu Sheng seized Black Rope and smashed him through the floors, then looked toward another figure descending from the second floor.

Lu Sheng fought the white-masked man, discovered how advanced Spirit Force could bestow life, and transformed his true body into a powerful form. As the planet began rejecting him, he decided to end his time there and confronted the white-masked man and Black Rope.

• The white-masked man summoned his black eagle spirit beast, which destroyed Lu Sheng's platinum dragon and shattered his Spirit-Sensing Seed.
• Lu Sheng learned that Spirit Force could give life to powerful matter, then used the Deep Blue Modifier and God-Entrusting Power to awaken and empower his true body.
• Lu Sheng's true body unleashed a vast spiritual-pressure vortex, absorbing Spirit Force and shadow while overwhelming the white-masked man.
• Lu Sheng fused with Lu Chong, judged that he could not reach Ju Yan's level in time, and decided to end his stay after destroying one Cosmic Control Pillar.
• Lu Sheng knocked the white-masked man and Black Rope down with stones, crushed the glowing hairband despite Ju Yan's warning, and grabbed the white-masked man as he said the planet was rejecting him.

Lu Sheng escaped the spiritual-power world through the Flower of Emptiness and returned to Great Yin, where he discovered that his divine soul had grown dramatically stronger. He began studying Netherflame to pursue the Divine Wisdom Realm and summoned help after flying clear of Illusory Sky Island.

• Lu Sheng killed Black Rope, planted spiritual-power marks, took White Mask's cultivation books, and opened a Flower of Emptiness to return to his original world.
• Su Ran and other survivors woke in the Secluded Mansion ruins with dark-red feathered serpent marks on their necks, while Ju Yan reflected on Lu Sheng's escape and resolved to find another target.
• Lu Sheng emerged on Illusory Sky Island, returned to human form, and left after finding no sign that the other Saint Lords had survived.
• As he flew west, Lu Sheng tested his strengthened divine soul and concluded it had barely reached the Divine Wisdom Realm, then began systematically studying Netherflame Yin Fire.
• After three days, Lu Sheng left the East Sea's dense fog and sent an emergency jade talisman; Chen Si Ti arrived with Thousand Sun Sect cultivators and paid respects to him.

After surviving the disaster on Illusory Sky Island, Lu Sheng reported that the Three As Blood Venerable's fifth arm had escaped, prompting the three sects to gather forces and search the region. As Lu Sheng prepared to return to the Yuan Devil Sect, the Aurora Lord of War sent him generous compensation for defending the East Sea.

• Lu Sheng ordered Chen Si Ti to impose martial law and seal off the East Sea coastline while they waited for reinforcements.
• Aurora arrived with the Heartless Saint Lord of Blood Sun and another companion, and Lu Sheng recounted how the black hand had seized the other Saint Lords.
• The Heartless Saint Lord explained that the black hand was the fifth arm of the Three As Blood Venerable, which the Lords of War had once divided and suppressed inside the Gate of Illusion.
• Aurora and Lu Sheng inspected Illusory Sky Island, then Aurora and the arriving three-sect forces surrounded the fog region and searched for the escaped arm.
• Lu Sheng later heard that two more Saint Lords had died and Aurora had been injured in a battle near Illusory Sky Island, then prepared to return to the Yuan Devil Sect.
• A messenger from Aurora gave Lu Sheng five divine weapons and promised additional valuables as compensation for his defense of the East Sea.

Lu Sheng returned to Nine Bright Province after the Devil Disaster and reunited with his family, then arranged cultivation guidance for his disciple Mu Jueqing. He prepared to study the Spirit Power techniques and Shamun Jade Classic for another independent possession while continuing his work on Netherflame Yin Fire.

• Lu Sheng accepted Aurora Sect Master's rewards, flew inland, and returned to the Lu Family estate in Nine Bright Province.
• Lu Sheng reunited with his four-year-old son Lu Ning and brought Mu Jueqing to Elder Locust for advice about her Wood Spirit Body.
• Elder Locust recommended the Nine Zero Heavenly Demon Subduing Devil Scroll, and Lu Sheng chose it for Mu Jueqing to cultivate.
• Lu Sheng taught Mu Jueqing the technique, devoured the five Divine Weapons, and raised his God-Entrusting Power total to forty thousand units.
• Lu Sheng began studying the Spirit Power techniques and Shamun Jade Classic in preparation for another independent possession, while investigating Netherflame Yin Fire.

Lu Sheng researched a formation for a second crossing while considering the Myriad Transformation Divine Weapon and the limits of his cultivation. A Yuanguang Family envoy then sought his support for Yuanguang Yuan, and Lu Sheng demanded the final volume of the Four Seasons Ice Heaven Strategy in return.

• Lu Sheng studied his failed Saint Weapon Pool and developed a formation intended to make his next crossing safer.
• Lu Sheng read that the Myriad Transformation Divine Weapon had changed hands and Prince Qiong Shang was missing, then found that Deep Blue could not advance his understanding of Law Fusion.
• Lu Sheng tested his crossing formation with a Divine Weapon Shard, but interference prevented the energy currents from gathering.
• A Yuanguang Family envoy told Lu Sheng that Yuanguang Yuan needed stronger allies against Zheng, who had the Azure Water Sect's backing.
• Lu Sheng demanded the final volume of the Four Seasons Ice Heaven Strategy as the price of supporting Yuanguang Yuan.

Lu Sheng studied the Four Seasons Ice Heaven Strategy and revised his Return to One Array to reduce the dangers of traversing worlds. Meanwhile, Li Shunxi was beaten by his senior brother Kong Cheng and wondered how Kong Cheng would fare against his friend Lu Sheng.

• Lu Sheng refused to change his demand to the Yuanguang Family, then continued researching his traversal array and named it the Return to One Array.
• Yuanguang Yuan sent Lu Sheng the final volume of the Four Seasons Ice Heaven Strategy, which explained how Holy Masters traversed worlds and entered the Lord of War realm.
• Lu Sheng studied the dangers of traversal, including conflicting world laws, weakened strength, and hostility from native inhabitants, then adjusted his array to address them.
• The records revealed that none of nineteen Ice Industry Sect Holy Masters had succeeded in their attempts, but Lu Sheng trusted Deep Blue to help him adapt to other worlds.
• Kong Cheng defeated Li Shunxi in their training match and mocked his weakness, while Li Shunxi recovered with the power of his master's divine weapon.
• Li Shunxi thought that Lu Sheng might be a worthy opponent for Kong Cheng and imagined introducing the two of them.