Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng investigated the Ancient God Script and the purple fragment before leaving Luo Sang’s life behind and returning through a spatial rift in Luo Sang’s collapsing body. He survived by using Time Freeze, then realized how his earlier ambush had killed Xiao Zizhu.

• Lu Sheng recalled that the purple fragment reacted to the evil god script for Mi Sha and to You Ya’s constitution, while he considered the dangers posed by beings beyond his world.
• You Ya offered Lu Sheng a black-purple Crystal Pillar and her family’s support for Luo Di in exchange for help reducing Wu Lusi’s sentence; Lu Sheng agreed only to urge others to act fairly and rejected her personal offer.
• Lu Sheng disappeared after arranging support for Luo Di, who strengthened his position in White Eagle, reunited with Fu Lan, and later built a cenotaph for Luo Sang.
• Lu Sheng attempted to return using Luo Sang’s body, which began disintegrating as he entered the spatial rift, and he froze the Research Hall with his Divine Wisdom Sacred Lord-level divine soul power.
• Lu Sheng concluded that Time Freeze could last only about one minute and recalled how he had ambushed Xiao Zizhu by dragging him into the World of Pain, where Xiao Zizhu died.

Lu Sheng absorbed Luo Sang’s divine soul, strengthened his body and powers, and touched the boundary of the Lord of War. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that an unidentified girl named Lu Ran had been found at his residence and summoned the Yuan Devil Sect’s leaders to a council meeting.

• Lu Sheng absorbed Luo Sang’s divine soul, glimpsed the Boundary Gate of the Lord of War, and discovered that his divine soul had more than doubled as his fleshly body grew stronger.
• Lu Sheng inspected Deep Blue, found Time Freeze and Natural Deception among his traits, and concluded that he was close to becoming a Lord of War.
• Lu Sheng decided to seek guidance from Aurora Saint Lord and emerged from seclusion after more than two months.
• Duanmu Wan told Lu Sheng that the old madam had found an unconscious, amnesiac girl in a supposedly secured area and named her Lu Ran.
• Lu Sheng ordered Lu Ran to be brought to him and summoned the Yuan Devil Sect’s upper echelon to a council meeting.

Lu Sheng questioned Lu Ran after she was brought to the Yuan Devil Sect, but she concealed her identity and returned to Lu Estate. Lu Ran planned to leave within five days to evade pursuers, then reunited with Lu Ning and secretly taught him a breathing technique.

• Lu Sheng met with the Yuan Devil Sect’s leaders, discussed support for Yuanguang Yuan, Divine Weapon intelligence, and the surrounding devil armies, then ordered Duanmu Wan to handle the Yin Capital matter.
• Duanmu Wan brought Lu Ran before Lu Sheng, who questioned her about appearing in the forest; Lu Ran claimed she could not remember, and Lu Sheng sent her back to Lu Estate.
• Aboard the flying vessel, Lu Ran revealed through her thoughts that her cultivation was sealed, her identity concealed, and pursuers were closing in; she ordered her companion to prepare for her departure in five days despite his warning.
• Lu Ran returned to Lu Estate, where Lu Ning rushed to embrace her and pleaded with her not to visit Lu Sheng again.
• Lu Ran comforted Lu Ning, asked him to keep practicing her breathing technique in secret, and thought of her deceased child, Jia Ye.

Lu Ran vanished from the carriage after saying farewell to Lu Ning, prompting Lu Sheng to investigate her disappearance and agree to help find her. The chapter left Lu Ran surrounded by three consecrated Holy Lords when an unknown man intervened, startling her and Ding Wusheng with his voice.

• Lu Ran told Lu Ning to keep her breathing technique secret, kissed his forehead, and vanished from the carriage, leaving him sobbing.
• Lu Sheng learned that Lu Ran had disappeared and ordered an investigation into a possible leak within the Demon Palace.
• Lu Ning begged Lu Sheng to help Lu Ran, and Lu Sheng agreed while noticing a mysterious mark and unfamiliar inner breath on his son.
• De Lin, Lu Fengchou, and Hu Jin confronted Lu Ran and Ding Wusheng, revealing that they had been sent to kill Lu Ran.
• De Lin, Hu Jin, and Lu Fengchou suddenly felt a palpitation, and an unseen man warned that he would leave no consequences after interfering.

Lu Sheng intercepted De Lin, Hu Jin, and Lu Fengchou after they pursued Lu Ran, then fought the three Jade Star Realm Holy Masters to test his strength against theirs. The battle continued with Lu Sheng dominating them, while De Lin warned him of the Yin Extremity Lord of War.

• Lu Ran escaped with an old man by releasing a burst of blue threads, and De Lin used a jade mirror to track them north.
• Lu Sheng immobilized De Lin, Hu Jin, and Lu Fengchou with his water spheres and dragged them down to the ground.
• The three Holy Masters broke free and unleashed their divine weapons and escape techniques, but Lu Sheng’s Gesangna’s Eyes severely wounded their divine souls.
• De Lin, Hu Jin, and Lu Fengchou attacked Lu Sheng with their weapons and martial arts, while Lu Fengchou’s attempted escape brought him back into the fight.
• Lu Sheng blocked and overpowered the three as he studied their techniques and regenerative abilities.
• De Lin warned Lu Sheng that the Yin Extremity Lord of War would retaliate, while the three continued their assault.

Lu Sheng defeated three imperial Saint Lords with his hidden source power, while the imperial clan blamed their disappearance on a Devil Lord and came under pressure from the Thousand Sun Sect. As the Yuan Devil Sect gained allies, Li Shunxi visited with an invitation announcing his engagement and revealing that he had a daughter.

• Lu Sheng used his source power to put De Lin, Hu Jin, and Lu Fengchou to sleep, then took their three Jade Star Divine Weapons and left them behind.
• Lu Ran learned that the three imperial Saint Lords had fallen and continued her journey, recognizing that she had underestimated the Yuan Devil Sect.
• The imperial clan searched for the missing Saint Lords, while Tong Sheng arrived at the Yuan Devil Sect to support Lu Sheng and discuss the path to mastering source power.
• Lu Sheng received Li Shunxi as a formal representative of the Three Saints Gate, and Li Shunxi gave him an invitation to his engagement.
• Lu Sheng read the invitation and was surprised to learn that Li Shunxi already had a daughter.

Li Shunxi warned Lu Sheng that the World of Pain and invading evil spirits threatened Great Yin, and the two families became joined by a betrothal between their children. After studying the crisis and the Three Saints Gate’s intelligence, Lu Sheng decided to meet the Aurora Sect Master, prepare to relocate, and pursue his next descent.

• Li Shunxi showed Lu Sheng a map of Great Yin threatened by the World of Pain and evil spirits, and urged him to consider moving away from Autumn Moon County.
• Lu Sheng agreed to a childhood betrothal between Lu Ning and Li Hanzhu, and the families exchanged jade gifts with Saint Lord Tong Sheng as witness.
• The Three Saints Gate’s public alliance with Lu Sheng’s family drew hostile attention, but mysterious experts destroyed spies and other threats around Autumn Moon County.
• After Li Shunxi and Tong Sheng departed, Lu Sheng studied the Three Saints Gate’s intelligence and concluded that he needed to reach the Lord of War realm to protect his family and sect.
• Lu Sheng ordered the Yuan Devil Sect to prepare for his trip to the East Sea to meet the Aurora Sect Master, then checked Deep Blue and saw that his God-Entrusting Power had risen to over ninety thousand.

Lu Sheng visited the Aurora Lord of War at the Gate of Illusion seeking guidance on cultivation beyond his current realm, and received two private gifts. The jade revealed a teleportation array in the Nine Heads Realm near Swiftlet Town in southern Great Song, leaving Lu Sheng to question the Thousand Sun Sect’s knowledge of the Heavenly Devil World.

• Lu Sheng arrived at the Gate of Illusion and learned from Heartless Saint Lord that the Gate had erupted twice more, causing losses for Blood Sun and Earth Origin.
• Aurora Lord of War explained that grasping Source Power was the next stage of cultivation, but Lu Sheng declined to commit himself to the Thousand Sun Sect’s direct lineage.
• Aurora gave Lu Sheng a booklet on fusing a divine soul with a Divine Weapon, and Heartless later passed him Aurora’s personal jade containing further insights.
• After Lu Sheng departed, Aurora told Heartless to prepare more Ninety-Nine Flying Universe Arrays so he could try to contact the old Sect Master amid the approaching calamity.
• Lu Sheng examined the jade and discovered a map of teleportation arrays in the Nine Heads Realm, including one near Swiftlet Town in southern Great Song.

A group of desperate men broke stones from a mysterious underground gate to harvest gold, widening cracks that stirred a mass of gray mist behind it. Meanwhile, conflict erupted across Yin Capital, and Autumn Moon County learned that nineteen settlements had gone silent as the Yuan Devil Sect also investigated missing disciples.

• A Jin led a group into a deep fissure, where they found gold-coated stones covering the base of an ancient gate and began tearing them away.
• As the men widened cracks in the gate, gray mist behind it began to churn.
• A black-gauze-robed man attacked Drunken Dream House in Yin Capital, killing its attendant and battling Mu Jinchun as fighting broke out across the capital.
• The Three Great Families clashed openly after the First Imperial Concubine's assassination, and Yuanguang Yuan sensed that the battle was going badly.
• Chen Xun told Autumn Moon County's gathered representatives that nineteen settlements near Green Fish Village had lost contact and all signs of life had disappeared.
• The Thousand Sun Sect Elder reported that dozens of Yuan Devil Sect disciples had vanished near the Devil Palace, prompting the sect to investigate.

Evil spirits overwhelmed the Yuan Devil Sect and destroyed Autumn Moon County City, where Andula led the slaughter. Lu Sheng arrived to find the dead and dying, then unleashed his Divine Seal and began Overturning Sea.

• Chen Xun received a dispatch reporting that Old Shi was critically wounded and the Yuan Devil Sect’s protective formation was preparing to activate.
• King of Shadows Xu Feila and the Yuan Devil Sect’s Weapon Masters fought the Gray Shadows, but the giant evil spirit Andula brushed aside their attacks and headed for Autumn Moon County City.
• Andula smashed through the county city’s barrier, and evil spirits slaughtered the people and routed the Yangming Army, Yin Talisman Army, and local experts.
• A woman consumed a lost boy with flesh-colored worms, and Lu Sheng arrived to find the boy’s severed hand and the city devastated.
• Lu Sheng killed the woman, invoked the Profound Water Divine Seal, and unleashed Overturning Sea across the county city.

Lu Sheng returned to the commandery city and unleashed Overturning Sea against the colossal evil spirit, then killed it with Infinite Slaughter. His family survived the attack at Lu Estate, though Lu Ning’s silver-eyed power appeared to protect Chen Yunxi at a cost.

• At Lu Estate, Chen Yunxi and Lu Quan'an tried to escape the evil spirits with help from Mu Jueqing and a middle-aged scholar, while Lu Ning’s jade pendant shielded them.
• A powerful evil spirit lunged at Chen Yunxi, but it veered away; Lu Ning’s silver eyes dimmed after apparently protecting her mother.
• At Yuan Devil Sect, Liu Shanzi and the other leaders assessed their losses and tried to send help to Lu Sheng’s family as evil spirits converged on the commandery city.
• Lu Sheng summoned the seawater of Overturning Sea and crushed the giant evil spirit Andula beneath its weight.
• Lu Sheng used Infinite Slaughter to cut Andula into eight pieces, killing the giant evil spirit.

Lu Sheng confronted a golden-haired figure amid Yin Fire before the story shifted to Great Yin’s nationwide evil-spirit crisis. At a council in the Yuan Devil Sect, Chen Jingzhi explained the enemy’s three levels, including the terrifying Law-Breaking beings.

• Lu Sheng faced a four-eyed figure beyond a curtain of golden flames, who declared that this was only the beginning.
• The White-Haired Old Man told young Jing Tiancheng that four tyrants would emerge in the coming age.
• In autumn 8122, civil war and evil-spirit invasions plunged Great Yin into chaos, and the three sects formed Netherlight to resist them.
• Lu Sheng accepted the allegiance of eleven local families, clans, and gangs after his forces defended Autumn Moon County.
• Chen Jingzhi reported that evil spirits were attacking across Great Yin and classified them as ordinary spirits, Titled Evil Spirits, and Law-Breaking beings.
• Chen Jingzhi explained that Law-Breaking beings could nullify borrowed powers and external weapons, while Lu Sheng recalled the black hand at the Gate of Illusion.

Lu Sheng prepared for the arrival of a powerful Evil Spirit and protected his family and the surrounding area before entering a time-altering formation to descend again. He left the Devil Palace with a defensive illusion in place, beginning a new period of cultivation while threats remained outside.

• Lu Sheng arranged for the factions to defend Nine Bright Province, checked on his family, and found that Lu Ning's strange aura had weakened.
• Lu Sheng left the Devil Palace and slaughtered Evil Spirits around Autumn Moon County, rescuing survivors who later joined the Yuan Devil Sect.
• More than one hundred experts, including demons and Weapon Masters, joined the Yuan Devil Sect after Lu Sheng cleared the surrounding area.
• Lu Sheng activated the Research Hall's formation, adjusted its time ratio, and entered the gray fissure before the formation's crystals were exhausted.
• Lu Sheng left source power in divine weapons embedded in the hall walls to make it appear that he was still in seclusion.

Lu Sheng descended into the wolfman Black Bone in the Red Tree Forest tribe and began planning how to fulfill Black Bone’s wishes and survive in a dangerous world. After witnessing the tribe’s brutal subjugation by a Poison Dragon Envoy, he devised a basic cultivation method and prepared to improve it with Deep Blue.

• Lu Sheng examined Black Bone’s memories and learned that he wished to stop being oppressed and become the strongest tribe chief.
• Lu Sheng learned that the Red Tree Forest tribe faced dangerous neighboring beasts and depended on the Poison Dragon Herd, which forced it into battle.
• A Poison Dragon Envoy demanded that the tribe locate a Unicorn Shadow Dragon, then killed a Yellow Wolfman who challenged it.
• Lu Sheng tested cultivation approaches and created a rudimentary life-force method called Essence Art.
• Lu Sheng opened Deep Blue, found the Profound Water Divine Mark listed with Gesangna’s Eye and water control, and checked his remaining 97,306 units of God-Entrusting Power.

Lu Sheng, inhabiting Black Bone, learned that the Wolfmen’s tribe had once wielded Frost Power and received a symbol to study while the tribe prepared to search for a Unicorn Shadow Dragon. As he and Gold headed into the forest, Lu Sheng recognized the symbol as an Ice-Cold Divine Mark and began testing his new understanding.

• Gold dragged Lu Sheng to Witch Doctor White Ash, who ordered the Wolfmen to set out because the village would be vulnerable if the adults stayed behind.
• White Ash treated Lu Sheng’s head wound with an herb infused with Frost Power, and Lu Sheng saw the glowing mark in White Ash’s palm.
• White Ash explained that Frost Power could awaken in life-and-death trials and gave Lu Sheng a rag bearing a symbol to contemplate.
• Steel Shield threatened Lu Sheng and Gold for food, then left the village to search; Lu Sheng and Gold set out northwest with little intention of finding a Shadow Dragon.
• Lu Sheng analyzed the symbol using Ancient God Script, recognized it as the mark for cold, and killed a tree snake for Gold to eat.

Lu Sheng mastered Frost Power and raised his newly created Essence Art to its first level, nearly pushing his fragile body to collapse. After learning that the Red Tree Forest faced extermination, he received ancestral Life Atlas diagrams and realized he could use them to develop his own Frost Power evolution path.

• Lu Sheng used one unit of God-Entrusting Power to master Frost Power, gaining Cold Enhancement and Ice Claw.
• The Three-Eyed Ice Dragon discussed Ash's renewed interest in the Eternal Cold Spring and ordered a subordinate to gather beast packs as potential vanguards.
• Lu Sheng raised Essence Art to level one, nearly destroying his body before his Holy Lord divine soul suppressed the strain.
• Lu Sheng returned to the village and told White Ash he had mastered Frost Power, then knocked down a wolf man who attacked him.
• White Ash gave Lu Sheng ancestral diagrams, including the Frost Wolf Man and Frost Wolf King patterns, and Lu Sheng recognized them as Life Atlas evolution diagrams.
• Lu Sheng realized the Frost Divine Mark might work in Great Yin and decided to combine the diagrams into a powerful atlas of his own.

Lu Sheng used the Frost Power atlases and God-Entrusting Power to advance from Frost Wolf to Frost Wolf King, then drew the attention of powerful rulers in the forest. He left the wolf tribe celebrating its new strength as the Four-Winged Iron Eagle King and Earth Dragon Rhinoceros King arrived to acknowledge him.

• Lu Sheng took White Ash’s atlases, beat Steel Shield, and claimed the Wolf King position after the previous king yielded.
• Lu Sheng absorbed the God-Entrusting Power in the old king’s iron token and used Deep Blue to enhance the Frost Power Cultivation Method.
• After two days of repeated enhancements, Lu Sheng reached Frost Wolf King and gained Extreme Cold Enhancement, Snow Wolf Summon, and Ice Roar.
• White Ash recognized Lu Sheng’s new rank, and the wolf tribe howled in celebration.
• The Four-Winged Iron Eagle King visited and congratulated Lu Sheng, but he told her she was unwelcome in Frost Wolf territory.
• The Earth Dragon Rhinoceros King appeared briefly to congratulate Lu Sheng before returning to its territory.

Lu Sheng used Deep Blue and God-Entrusting Power to rapidly advance his Frost Power Diagram, transforming into an elf-level being as the horned giant python and red-eyed lizard waited outside Red Tree Forest Village for a chance to attack. The two great lords charged toward the village when the cold qi began to recede.

• Lu Sheng hunted animals to provide food for his starving clansmen, then made peace with the Poison Dragon Clan, which sent him a gift.
• A Prairie Wolf Clan sought refuge at Red Tree Forest Village, and other struggling Forest Wolf Clans began gathering there under Lu Sheng’s protection.
• Lu Sheng entered seclusion and used God-Entrusting Power to raise his Frost Power Diagram through the Frost Grand Lord levels, spreading intense cold across the village.
• A horned giant python and a red-eyed lizard watched the village, plotted to seize Lu Sheng’s treasure, and waited for his breakthrough to end.
• Lu Sheng advanced to elf-level, grew to five meters tall, and sprouted a second wolf head from his left shoulder.
• When the cold qi began to recede, the red-eyed lizard and horned giant python rushed toward the village to attack.

After advancing to Elf-level, Lu Sheng intimidated two Great Lords who had come seeking treasure and forced them to promise tribute for the Snow Wolf Tribe. He returned to the village, checked his new powers, and asked White Ash about powerful nearby tribes.

• Lu Sheng emerged from his Mud House in his enormous new form, and the One-Horned Giant Python and Red-Eyed Giant Lizard realized he was an Elf-level powerhouse.
• Lu Sheng ordered White Ash to help the Snow Wolf Tribe produce at least a hundred cubs within five months, promising Frost Power to the wolf with the most children.
• Lu Sheng dragged the two Great Lords into the forest and learned they had come searching for treasure; he demanded aged treasures and prey in exchange for sparing them.
• Lu Sheng released the monsters after marking them with Frost Power that would threaten their hearts if they failed to return, and they fled in panic.
• Lu Sheng inspected his Frost Power Diagram and God-Entrusting Power, then summoned White Ash to ask about powerful tribes in the surrounding area.

Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to evolve into a Nine-Headed Winter Night Giant Wolf, whose cold aura and Winter Night Roar darkened the sky and froze the surrounding land. When Molly and a flock of wind dragons attacked, Lu Sheng’s beams overwhelmed them, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear beneath the spreading ice and darkness.

• White Ash warned Lu Sheng that Saint Dragon Hall controlled Poison Dragon Pool and urged him to consider moving the tribe away.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to advance his Frost Power Chart beyond Elf-level, transforming into a Great Elf Nine-Headed Winter Night Giant Wolf.
• The Three-Eyed Saint Dragon sent Molly to investigate the abnormal cold and subdue its source, ordering her to kill it if it resisted.
• Molly arrived with more than ten Hurricane Green Dragons, and their combined wind pressure struck Lu Sheng’s village.
• Lu Sheng answered with Winter Night Roar, darkening the sky and freezing the wind dragons as they tried to flee.
• Molly recognized the giant wolf as a deadly threat, but Lu Sheng fired beams from his nine heads and engulfed the sky in ice and snow.