Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng lured Head Priest Men Fa into destroying a fortress, then found and rescued Tuo Lanba He, a memoryless Silver Blood Human Anomaly. After returning to Libra City, he rose to head priest and began preparing to advance to the Void Nether, realizing he needed to experience the full cycle of life and death.

• Head Priest Men Fa destroyed the fortress and left with a silver block, while Lu Sheng returned to the ruins and absorbed tens of thousands of units of God-Entrusting Power from a damaged black mark.
• Lu Sheng found Tuo Lanba He buried in the debris and brought her to a cave, where she identified herself as a Silver Blood Human Anomaly with no memories of her past.
• Lu Sheng took Tuo Lanba He with him as he joined Men Fa's raids, earning over three hundred thousand units of God-Entrusting Power and helping deal with a wanted member of the Bei Long clan.
• Lu Sheng completed more than a decade's worth of missions, advanced to head priest, and attracted recruitment offers from Libra City's three major Red Moon factions.
• Lu Sheng considered how to advance from the Bewilderment Realm to the Void Nether and concluded that he needed to comprehend the Heart of Reincarnation by experiencing a complete life cycle through descent.

Lu Sheng descended into the body of Huang Jing, heir to the Moon Prince of the Western Cliff Dynasty, and discovered a world where immortals, Dao sects, and Nu Wa existed. He chose to keep a low profile, restore Huang Jing’s failing body, and seek out cultivators before trying to fulfill the body’s wish to preserve the dynasty.

• Lu Sheng prepared the descent formation, instructed Tuo Lanba He to guard the house and keep watch for news, then entered the fissure.
• Lu Sheng awoke as Huang Jing in a banquet hall and learned that the Western Cliff Dynasty was crumbling amid rebellions, disasters, and foreign threats.
• Lu Sheng discovered that the world contained Nu Wa and the powerful Spring Autumn Sect and Unfixed Church, and questioned how strong its immortals were.
• Lu Sheng decided not to act rashly, since preserving the dynasty’s fortune would require strength he did not yet understand.
• Lu Sheng found Huang Jing’s body severely weakened by excess and used Yang Essence to begin repairing it.
• Lu Sheng planned to visit the Moon Prince the next day and seek contact with the world’s cultivators.

Lu Sheng sought a path into the world’s daoist arts and asked Royal Concubine Ning He to find him a practitioner. She summoned Zhuang Wuyou, whose limited abilities left Lu Sheng still without a clear lead.

• Lu Sheng met Yuan Jikong, refused to discuss taking Chen Qiuhan as a concubine, and asked him to find out whether any daoist masters had appeared in the city.
• Lu Sheng visited Royal Concubine Ning He and asked her to invite masters who had attained the Dao.
• Ning He offered to bring over a daoist recluse from her family’s household, and Lu Sheng returned to his courtyard.
• Lu Sheng surveyed the Moon King Manor’s guards training and saw that they practiced only ordinary martial techniques.
• Zhuang Wuyou arrived and told Lu Sheng that his daoist arts were shallow and that he could not demonstrate the legendary arts Lu Sheng sought.

Lu Sheng sought a way to learn Dao arts and persuaded Wuyou Zi to contact his sect, Pure Crane Dao, while waiting for news and recovering his strength. The empire’s crises worsened when the Giant Sand Tribe rebelled and threatened Cloud Capital, leaving Lu Sheng convinced that the dynasty could collapse within two years.

• Lu Sheng asked Wuyou Zi to arrange Dao training, and Wuyou Zi explained the long process of tempering one’s heart before learning a primary canon.
• Lu Sheng promised Wuyou Zi a thousand taels of silver, and Wuyou Zi left to send word to Pure Crane Dao while planning to exploit the prince’s interest for profit.
• Lu Sheng gathered intelligence and waited more than ten days for a response, while his Yang Essence and Soul-Stirring Silk showed signs of recovering.
• Lu Sheng learned that Moon Prince had won a difficult campaign against the Western Foreign Tribes and feared the empire was nearing collapse.
• Mi Gong reported that Wang Chong had rebelled with two hundred thousand troops, declared Great Wu, and threatened Cloud Capital, the empire’s granary.
• Lu Sheng concluded that the dynasty might fall within two years and resolved to act quickly to avoid being overthrown with it.

Lu Sheng joined Clear Crane Dao to learn its methods and received the Pure Crane True Method after presenting an offering. He returned to Moon King Manor with Wuyou Zi, having learned that the method cultivated an Eye Origin suspended outside the body.

• Lu Sheng asked about Zhu Chengguo and Wuyou Zi’s inquiry while he waited for news about the empire’s crisis.
• Wuyou Zi returned with a blue-robed old man, and Lu Sheng later received a disciple token and an invitation to visit Clear Crane Dao.
• At Green Vine Mountain, Long Hezhi, Bo Ruqing, and Zheng Qingjian competed to take Lu Sheng as a disciple, and Long Hezhi secured the right to teach him.
• Moon River the white crane welcomed Lu Sheng with a feather, and he completed the apprenticeship ceremony after presenting five thousand taels of patterned silver.
• Long Hezhi granted Lu Sheng the Pure Crane True Method, while Wuyou Zi warned him that the White Feather True Scripture could be dangerous before his Dao heart was fully polished.
• Lu Sheng returned to the manor with Wuyou Zi and learned that the Pure Crane True Method focused on spirit infusion into an Eye Origin outside the body.

Lu Sheng cultivated the Pure Crane True Method and obtained a young crane, but the Western Cliff Dynasty’s collapse and Moon Prince’s new orders made slow progress too risky. After sensing the formidable power of Grand Tutor Yang’s eunuch, Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to deduce the Pure Crane True Method, seeking a way to protect himself and his family.

• Lu Sheng borrowed twenty thousand taels from the Ning Family and bought the Double Spirit Zheng Source Scripture from Pure Crane Dao, then cultivated with a young crane.
• Rebellions, disasters, and an earthquake worsened the Western Cliff Dynasty’s crisis, and Moon Prince received an order to lead troops to Shan Province.
• Moon Prince warned Lu Sheng to rely on General Yuan and protect himself, while Lu Sheng sensed that the eunuch delivering the decree possessed immense hidden power.
• Lu Sheng returned to his courtyard, summoned Deep Blue, and began deducing the Pure Crane True Method with his remaining God-Entrusting Power.

Lu Sheng advanced the Greater Clear Crane True Art, which transformed his body and let him teach the little white crane to cultivate. Meanwhile, Yang Huanzhen and Empress Lin plotted with Unfixed Church and the demon race to destabilize the dynasty, and Lu Sheng continued growing stronger in Moon King Manor.

• Lu Sheng deduced the Pure Crane True Method into the Greater Clear Crane True Art, then raised it to sixty years of cultivation despite the strain on his body.
• In Míngdū, Yang Huanzhen gave brocade pouches to the border generals and discussed the dynasty's formation with Empress Lin, who represented Unfixed Church.
• Yang Huanzhen and Empress Lin agreed to target the three kings who maintained the national protection grand formation and to create an opportunity to act.
• At Ring Chives, Lu Sheng used Crane Control Skill and his true qi to guide the little white crane through a cultivation route, and it began cultivating on its own.
• Lu Sheng continued increasing his cultivation over the following days, while the little white crane grew rapidly and Wuyou Zi attributed its changes to its unusual talent and care.

Lu Sheng joined the Pure Crane Dao’s crane-rearing path and settled on the Taoist title Crane Truth before taking charge of the White Pine Crane Flock. He used his powerful Crane Control Skill to make Xiao Yun grow at an alarming rate, leaving the head crane, White Pine Seed, bewildered.

• Lu Sheng persuaded Long Hezhi to let him rear cranes, and Bo Ruqing warned him not to disturb Jade Red Mountain Hermit’s secluded residence.
• Long Hezhi and Bo Ruqing argued over Lu Sheng’s Taoist title before the three settled on Crane Truth.
• A Taoist guide led Lu Sheng to the White Pine Crane Flock and warned him to be careful around its head crane, White Pine Seed.
• Lu Sheng sent Xiao Yun to blend into the flock and secretly increased his cultivation while observing the cranes.
• Over four days, Xiao Yun grew from nearly two meters tall to almost ten meters, alarming White Pine Seed.
• Lu Sheng approached White Pine Seed and claimed that he had transformed Xiao Yun with legendary treasures and mysterious pills.

Lu Sheng strengthened a white crane and gained the submission of White Pine Seed's clan, then began learning how immortal cranes communicated for his next plan. Meanwhile, Yuan Liuliu and Yuan Yuan searched for Huang Jing and left to investigate the Ning Family.

• White Pine Seed agreed to submit his crane clan if Lu Sheng could strengthen another crane, and Lu Sheng transformed the chosen bird in two days.
• After White Pine Seed approved the transformed crane, more than a hundred cranes accepted Lu Sheng's leadership, and he consulted White Pine Seed about crane communication.
• Yuan Liuliu and Yuan Yuan confronted Yuan Jikong about Huang Jing's disappearance, and he sent them to seek information from the Ning Family.
• Yuan Yuan told Yuan Jikong that General Yuan had asked her to help train female guards, then left to pursue clues about Huang Jing.

Yuan Jikong agreed to carry out another attempt on Huang Jing after a red-robed man pressured him, while Lu Sheng tested a new method for transforming white cranes. Xiao Zhen awakened as a powerful demon spirit, and Lu Sheng prepared to reveal his methods to the Pure Crane Dao.

• A red-robed man urged Yuan Jikong to serve the faction again, and Yuan Jikong agreed to hear his next plan.
• Lu Sheng infused a little white crane's spirit source with Greater Clear Crane True Qi mixed with Soul-Stirring Silk.
• The little white crane transformed, awakened its wisdom, reached the demon spirit tier, and Lu Sheng named him Xiao Zhen.
• Lu Sheng sent Xiao Zhen to look after Xiao Yun, then considered the cranes' potential and their power feedback.
• Xiao Zhen confronted Xiao Yun before the flock, and White Pine Seed marveled at the transformation.
• Lu Sheng decided to reveal his methods to the Pure Crane Dao and seek the more advanced White Feather True Scripture.

Lu Sheng completed his work at the crane flock and brought three shapeshifted Crane Demons to Pure Crane Dao, claiming they had transformed through a perfected cultivation method and a divine herb. Long Hezhi and Zheng Qingjian verified the demons and welcomed the sudden increase in their sect’s strength.

• Lu Sheng finished modifying White Pine Seed and raised the flock’s demon cranes to four, leaving Xiao Yun behind to guard the others.
• When Lu Sheng arrived at Pure Crane Dao with three Crane Demons, the alarmed Taoists assembled at the gate, and Long Hezhi cautiously let him enter for a private talk.
• Lu Sheng told Long Hezhi that a qi deviation, a divine herb, and a new Pure Crane True Method had transformed the cranes into his obedient companions.
• Long Hezhi learned that Lu Sheng had raised four Crane Demons and inspected the three who had accompanied him.
• Zheng Qingjian joined Long Hezhi in verifying the Crane Demons, and both were shocked and pleased by the sect’s newfound strength.

Lu Sheng took control of the Pure Crane Dao, built up its crane forces, and returned to Moon King Manor with three thousand years of cultivation. He found the Moon King gravely endangered and, while agreeing to leave, prepared to defend him and transform the manor into a stronghold.

• Long Hezhi taught Lu Sheng the White Feather True Scripture, and Lu Sheng converted his cultivation, losing five hundred years but gaining a method that extended his lifespan.
• After Long Hezhi left for the Spirit Land Dharma Assembly, Lu Sheng organized the Pure Crane Dao, established a Supervisory Team, and placed its crane flocks under his command.
• Lu Sheng chose twelve white cranes for demonization, named their cave Crane King Cave, and reached three thousand years of cultivation before leaving for Moon King Manor.
• Lu Sheng returned to find the Moon King wounded by a black centipede and learned that Uncle Hong had died protecting him.
• The Moon King ordered Lu Sheng to send his mother to the Ning Family Ancestral Home and take valuables from a hidden box before leaving Moon King Manor.
• Lu Sheng agreed to leave but called on Xiao Rong to prepare for action, determined to protect the Moon King and unite Moon King Manor with Crane King Cave.

Lu Sheng stayed at Moon King Manor while Xiao Rong repelled repeated waves of assassins, then helped Moon King recover and sent a demon crane to protect him on the journey to the capital. At court, Moon King heard that rival factions were discussing the failed attacks and the threat posed by the Three Plum Righteous Army.

• Lu Sheng reassured Moon King that the manor's guards had repelled the assassins and told him how to draw out the Black Poison Blood Centipedes with a medicinal paste.
• Lu Sheng questioned An TengHui, then revealed that he had been controlled and killed by Qing Lingzi before An TengHui recovered and fled in alarm.
• Xiao Rong killed dozens of assassins over three days, including two Yin spirits, until the attacks stopped.
• Moon King's injuries healed after the centipedes were lured from his body, and Lu Sheng sent one of the Twelve Demon Cranes to escort him to the capital.
• Moon King attended court, where ministers discussed the failed attacks on his manor and the Three Plum Righteous Army's threat.

Lu Sheng discovered that Clear King had placed a dangerous mark on Moon King and managed to suppress it, but the mark’s residue spread across his own arm and cost him nearly a hundred years of White Feather True Scripture cultivation. He resolved to collect more proper scriptures and develop a stronger version of the technique.

• At court, Clear King urged Moon King to grow closer, then secretly left a strange mark on his shoulder while patting him.
• Xiao Rong reported sensing unusual auras around Moon King and Clear King, and Lu Sheng ordered her to keep watching Moon King.
• Lu Sheng examined Moon King’s shoulder and used his soul force to destroy the mark, but the clash permanently cost him a tiny portion of his soul.
• General Yuan proposed that Lu Sheng marry one of his daughters, Yuan Liuliu or Yuan Yuan, and Lu Sheng vaguely agreed before asking permission to leave the manor.
• The mark’s residue spread across Lu Sheng’s arm, but he found an energy that could suppress it and expelled the blackness, losing nearly a hundred years of White Feather True Qi.
• Lu Sheng decided to collect proper scriptures the next day and deduce a stronger White Feather True Scripture.

Lu Sheng exchanged the Greater Clear Crane True Art for Jade Red Mountain Hermit's Stone Dao Mountain Moving Art, then learned that Pure Crane Dao disciples were clashing with the Jade Fox Clan over a cold spring. He arrived at Yellow Mountain Gully and heard both sides' dispute, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jade Red Mountain Hermit agreed to exchange his Stone Dao Mountain Moving Art for Lu Sheng's Greater Clear Crane True Art after verifying Lu Sheng's standing in the Pure Crane Dao.
• Lu Sheng and Jade Red Mountain Hermit spent the night discussing the scriptures, and Lu Sheng left with the complete Stone Dao Mountain Moving Art.
• Jade Red Mountain Hermit's servant warned Lu Sheng that Jade Fox Clan members had confronted Pure Crane Dao disciples at Yellow Mountain Gully.
• Lu Sheng hurried to the gully and found four Pure Crane Daoists facing several hunter-clad members of the Jade Fox Clan.
• A Pure Crane Daoist explained that both groups claimed a cold spring used to nurture Ice Vine Seeds, and Lu Sheng turned to confront the Jade Fox Clan members.

Lu Sheng used Pure Crane Dao’s expansion to gather sacrificial artifacts and God-Entrusting Power, then derived the White Feather True Scripture and discovered a powerful new trait called Undying True Nature. After strengthening Xiao Zhen and sending him to investigate Clear King Residence, Lu Sheng prepared to pursue Clear King and advance his cultivation further.

• Lu Sheng killed the Jade Fox Clan hunters at the cold spring and told the Pure Crane Dao priests to come to him if the clan retaliated.
• Lu Sheng ordered six demon cranes to sweep nearby clans, and they devastated Jade Fox Village before driving off or exterminating the Iron Rat and White Wolf clans.
• Lu Sheng entered seclusion while Moon King Manor searched for Daoist Canon scriptures, and the demon cranes brought him ancient sacrificial artifacts that supplied God-Entrusting Power.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to derive the White Feather True Scripture three times, raising Undying True Nature to Level 3 as his cultivation condensed and a vortex formed behind his head.
• Lu Sheng sent Xiao Zhen to Clear King Residence to investigate and kill Clear King if the danger was manageable, then resolved to comprehend the Heart of Reincarnation and condense the Spirit of Reincarnation.

Xiao Zhen attacked the Clear King Residence on Lu Sheng’s orders, but was trapped by the Clear King’s shadow fighters before breaking free and fighting his way out. Lu Sheng learned that Xiao Zhen was injured but had killed one of the Clear King’s experts, while the Clear King vowed to retaliate against the Moon King Manor.

• Xiao Zhen entered the Clear King Residence and killed several gray-robed men among the hall’s shelves of human heads.
• The Clear King and the Shadow Swordsman trapped Xiao Zhen in Black Mud, but Xiao Zhen broke free, enlarged himself, and struck the Clear King.
• Xiao Zhen fought the Shadow Giant Wala, defeated him, and escaped when more Shadow Giants arrived.
• The Clear King learned Wala had died and vowed to wait for his allies before destroying the Moon King Manor.
• Lu Sheng received Xiao Zhen’s report in a tavern near the residence and learned he was injured and needed two days to recover.

After witnessing an old man’s soul vanish as a new soul appeared in a nearby unborn child, Lu Sheng abandoned his affairs to wander and seek insight. Ten years later, he lived as a physician in Qi Pillar Town, where a newborn’s arrival brought him face to face with the cycle of life again.

• Lu Sheng witnessed an old man die and sensed a fresh soul emerge in a pregnant woman’s belly at the same moment.
• Lu Sheng strengthened Crane King Cave and Pure Crane Dao, left two letters, and wandered the world to pursue his insight.
• Crane King Cave became a powerful force under White Pine Seed, while Moon King and his allies helped defeat the Three Plum Righteous Army and preserve the Western Cliff Dynasty.
• Ten years later, Lu Sheng ran a modest clinic in Qi Pillar Town and befriended Xu Landlord’s daughter, Xu Zijun.
• Xu Chang brought his newborn son to Lu Sheng and asked him to mark the child’s Spirit Talisman.

Lu Sheng remained a doctor in the town as years passed, watching Xu Zijun grow up, marry, endure her husband's death, and raise a son. Decades later, he was still at the clinic, old and frail, with the pinwheels she and her family had given him.

• Lu Sheng welcomed infant Xu Ziquan and gave him a blessing, while Little Jun gave the baby a blue pinwheel.
• Years later, Xu Zijun visited Lu Sheng before marrying into the Zhong Family, and he gave her a gift as she brought him Green Clam Grass and a new pinwheel.
• Xu Zijun returned in the rain to tell Lu Sheng that her husband had died after bandits attacked him while he was on county yamen patrol.
• Twenty years later, Xu Zijun visited with her son Zhong Quan and his bride-to-be, and she and Lu Sheng remembered the pinwheels.
• The Zhong Family sent Lu Sheng a new red pinwheel, and another thirty years passed as the clinic deteriorated and Lu Sheng grew old.

Lu Sheng cared for the dying Xu Zijun, then found clarity in her memories and returned to youth before leaving town. Decades later, White Pine Seed told Moon King that the Unfixed Church threatened Moon King Manor as the conflict between it and the Spring Autumn Sect intensified.

• Lu Sheng searched for the Zhong Family after hearing of a plague, but found their home deserted and received no news until he found Xu Zijun ill a year later.
• Lu Sheng cared for Xu Zijun at his clinic, where she recalled her family and died after asking what people lived for.
• Lu Sheng buried Xu Zijun and kept her pinwheels; after Bing Er gave him a fourth, he visited the former Xu Family residence and regained his youthful form.
• Decades later, White Pine Seed told Moon King that the Unfixed Church stood behind Clear King Residence and that Moon King Manor was caught between powerful daoist sects.
• White Pine Seed urged Moon King to move south for safety, while privately recognizing that the Unfixed Church's fourth Surrender Order could no longer be delayed.