Chapter Summaries

Lu Hongye discovered that the Gold Dragon Clan had been using her and struggled to decide whether to leave with Lu Sheng as he prepared to depart. The Lord of Rainbow Radiance and his forces later vanished in the war fortress, while Lu Hongye stayed behind in the Gold Dragon Ancestral Land.

• Lu Sheng rejected the Black Dragon Clan’s apology and compensation, telling them to show mercy to Lu Hongye but kill the other Gold Dragons as they pleased.
• Grand Elder Jennis revealed that the Gold Dragon Clan had cultivated Lu Hongye’s attachment so they could use her and her father’s power, but she returned to retrieve her harp as the Black Dragons attacked.
• Lu Hongye watched the battle with Bo Ge, learned the Gold Dragon Clan had been using her, and hesitated over whether to leave her ancestral homeland with Lu Sheng.
• Nine years after the Lord of Rainbow Radiance appeared, the allied forces withdrew, and the Seven-Colored Dragon Clan and their followers prepared to migrate in the war fortress Devil Shadow.
• Lu Sheng and his forces disappeared with Devil Shadow, while Lu Hongye stayed at the Gold Dragon Ancestral Land in disguise to cultivate in seclusion.
• High Priestess Zuo En Na and the Lord of Rainbow Radiance’s followers continued attempting to summon him, but Lu Sheng could no longer hear them.

Lu Sheng struggled to protect his war fortress while crossing the Space-Time Vortex, then found a timeless pocket of space where he could shelter it. When he opened a passage to the Heavenly Devil World, the gate appeared bizarre and ominous despite the formation connecting correctly.

• Lu Sheng realized the Space-Time Vortex was cracking the fortress and discovered that its colored light contained particles resembling spatial worlds and time fragments.
• Lu Sheng sent fragments of his soul toward nearby spatial rifts, lost most of them, and found a rift compatible enough to shelter the fortress.
• Lu Sheng guided the fortress into a small rift and found a lifeless space with no detectable flow of time.
• Lu Sheng carved a World Traversing Array onto the fortress and connected it to the Heavenly Devil World with less earth qi than usual.
• Lu Sheng saw a gate filled with red liquid, lined with snapping mouths, and carrying eerie cries, though the formation confirmed it led to the Heavenly Devil World.

Lu Sheng returned from the Seven-Colored Dragon World to find that only two months had passed aboard his spacecraft, and he assessed the gains from his journey. He then learned that cultivators from the Green Ravine Sect had come to visit him.

• Lu Sheng left a World Beacon on the war fortress and returned through the world gate to his spacecraft.
• Ban Sai and Tuo Lanba He welcomed Lu Sheng back, and Tuo Lanba He reported that he had been gone for two months and seven days.
• Lu Sheng stored his belongings, reflected on the Seven-Colored Dragon’s merged divine soul, and gathered his scattered flesh into a reserve he named the Flesh Foundation.
• Lu Sheng checked his cultivation and noted that his Heart-Image World and control over earth energy had grown stronger.
• Tuo Lanba He told Lu Sheng that three cultivators from the Green Ravine Sect were waiting outside, and Lu Sheng went to meet them.

Lu Sheng accepted Green Ravine Sect’s invitation to become an external elder after learning the sect could help search for his scattered relatives and provide cultivation resources. When he revealed a possible connection between the Mother of Pain and the Ghost Poluo Realm, Xu Haobai went to report it to the Sect Master.

• Xu Yueling invited Lu Sheng to visit the Green Ravine Sect, and he traveled there with Tuo Lanba He.
• Xu Haobai offered Lu Sheng the position of external elder, with status equal to a Vice Sect Master, in exchange for his help against the Mother of Pain.
• Xu Haobai said the Green Ravine Sect had begun searching nearby realms for Lu Sheng’s missing relatives, and Lu Sheng asked what he would need to contribute.
• Lu Sheng suggested that the Ghost Poluo Realm might be connected to the Mother of Pain, and Xu Haobai went to report the possibility to the Sect Master.
• Xu Yueling told Lu Sheng that mysterious Void Nether powerhouses had turned the Green Ravine Sect’s recent victory into a retreat, leaving both sides wounded and the conflict unresolved.

Lu Sheng joined the Green Ravine Sect as an External Seat Elder and was sent to defend the war-torn Yuan Guan Star System. He defeated the Mother of Pain’s forces at Green Mountain Star, declared himself its guardian, and received three planets as cultivation offering land.

• Xu Haobai welcomed Lu Sheng into the Green Ravine Sect and gave him the Moon Shadow Flowing Crown of an External Seat Elder.
• Ouyang Ling and the Green Mountain Star defenders struggled against Kong Sha’s forces as the space station came close to destruction.
• Lu Sheng arrived as a Void Nether powerhouse, killed hundreds of Evil Sorcerers, drove Kong Sha into retreat, and healed the defenders with Yellow Light.
• Lu Sheng announced that he was Instant Shadow, the Devil Emperor, and would guard the Yuan Guan Star System.
• The Green Ravine Sect granted Lu Sheng Green Mountain Star and two nearby planets as cultivation offering land.

Lu Sheng gathered the strongest cultivators from three planets, then led Ouyang Ling in a raid on Mother of Pain’s major stronghold on Netherworld Star. He destroyed the stronghold’s defenders and Pain Eggs, killed a Bewilderment Realm skeleton, and continued deeper inside.

• Lu Sheng ordered sixty-one Lords of War and three Bewilderment Realms to assemble at the front-line stronghold on Shen Comet Star.
• Lu Sheng and Ouyang Ling breached the Netherworld Star stronghold, where Alta refused Kong Sha’s request for reinforcements.
• Lu Sheng blasted a new passage through the stronghold and effortlessly destroyed its attackers and tentacles.
• Lu Sheng and Ouyang Ling reached the core, where Lu Sheng burst the Pain Eggs covering the walls.
• Lu Sheng killed a Bewilderment Realm skeleton by repeatedly destroying it until its soul vanished, then continued onward with Ouyang Ling.

Lu Sheng destroyed Mother of Pain’s military stronghold and escaped Freila’s attack, spreading his fame across the starfield. Back on Green Mountain Star, he established himself as a fourth major power in the Green Ravine Sect while Mother of Pain’s forces retreated and awaited a chance to retaliate.

• Lu Sheng annihilated the monsters defending the stronghold and split its mass of flesh apart, while Arta and Kong Sha escaped in a Magical Artifact.
• Lu Sheng let Arta and Kong Sha go, repelled Freila’s attack, and fled with Ouyang Ling aboard a flying vessel.
• Lu Sheng destroyed a Mirror Spirit Master formation blocking their route, and the vessel returned safely to Green Mountain Star.
• News of Lu Sheng’s raid spread, but Tu Jin refused Lu Sheng’s invitation to bring his family to Green Mountain Star, so Lu Sheng arranged discreet support for him.
• Lu Sheng established himself as the Green Ravine Sect’s fourth major power, while Mother of Pain’s army retreated and waited for a chance to retaliate.

Lu Sheng met Green Ravine Sect Master Yuan Qing Li and proposed joining forces with the Three Sacred Spirit Gate to attack Yellow Springs Star. He then returned to Great Song with two subordinates to find the Three Saints Gate’s planted agents, but paused to explore his homeland.

• Xu Haobai brought Lu Sheng to meet Yuan Qing Li and Hua Yunzi at the Green Ravine Sect headquarters.
• Yuan Qing Li revealed that natives escaping Yellow Springs Star were being pursued, and the group discussed attacking the World of Pain’s headquarters.
• Lu Sheng said the Three Sacred Spirit Gate had agents on Yellow Springs Star, prompting Yuan Qing Li to plan contact with Sect Leader Li.
• Half a month later, Lu Sheng entered Great Song with Li Dong and Li Xi to find the Three Saints Gate and its planted agents.
• Lu Sheng decided to wander around his homeland before beginning the search.

Lu Sheng investigated the Three Saints Gate while befriending Feng Zhongzheng, a scholar fascinated by strange tales. After hearing about the mysterious Mist Garden, Lu Sheng urged Feng to investigate it himself and offered him gold, leaving Feng uncertain of Lu Sheng’s intentions.

• Lu Sheng sent Li Dong and Li Xi to investigate separately and marked them with a signal he could sense if they were in danger.
• Lu Sheng befriended Feng Zhongzheng at a tea house, and Feng’s local knowledge helped him gather intelligence.
• Feng told Lu Sheng about the Mist Garden, a hidden place in Nine Springs County that people could encounter in fog at midnight and supposedly never leave.
• Lu Sheng challenged Feng to stop relying on rumors and investigate strange events himself, arguing that Feng had few responsibilities holding him back.
• Lu Sheng offered Feng an ingot of gold, and Feng asked what Lu Sheng wanted from him.

Lu Sheng established the Weird Entity Research Association and used its collection of verified anomaly reports to cultivate fear and indignation among its members. After Chen Da confronted an anomaly and returned with strange silver metal, Lu Sheng revealed that Chen Da had gained a transformed arm and declared his hatred of anomalies.

• Lu Sheng recruited Feng Zhongzheng and three others to establish the Weird Entity Research Association, which gathered and verified reports about anomalies.
• Lu Sheng expanded the Association’s intelligence network, compiled reports in the Strange Tales Pavilion, and subtly guided members toward feeling threatened by anomalies.
• After reading about the tragedy at Member Song’s Manor, Chen Da left the city to confront the anomaly there.
• Chen Da returned covered in blood with his right arm apparently severed, carrying a piece of strange silvery-white metal, and Lu Sheng secretly treated him.
• Chen Da entered the sickroom with all his limbs restored and transformed his right arm into silvery-white tentacles as he cursed the anomalies.

Lu Sheng used Moon Silver modifications to strengthen the Research Institute and recruit people seeking revenge, beginning with Zhuo Qingjiu. As modified survivors hunted Anomalies and brought back more Moon Silver, the Institute’s ranks and supply grew, though some recruits failed to return.

• Lu Sheng revealed Chen Da’s Moon Silver arm to Feng Zhongzheng and the other core members, explaining its limits and giving them pocket watches.
• Zhuo Qingjiu asked Lu Sheng to make her strong enough to defeat Anomalies, and he offered her a restricted Moon Silver modification in exchange for joining the Research Institute.
• Lu Sheng’s surgery transformed one of Zhuo Qingjiu’s eyes and one of her legs into Moon Silver structures, and she began training and investigating her family’s murder.
• Rumors of the modifications spread, and Chen Da returned from dealing with an Anomaly with more Moon Silver and orphaned relatives of Member Song’s family.
• Lu Sheng selected more survivors for modification; those who succeeded hunted for revenge and returned with additional Moon Silver, while some never came back.

Lu Sheng built the Research Institute into a powerful organization that hunted Anomalies, then tracked down the Three Saints Gate and demanded the return of an ultimate weapon left by its Main Sect. The Gate refused and attacked him with an array of Bronze Mirrors, leaving him surrounded by a torrent of Evil Spirits.

• The Research Institute expanded to more than seventy modifiers and established its Sanctions, Judgment, Intelligence, and Supervision Departments under Lu Sheng's direction.
• Lu Sheng introduced Moon Silver implants and trained physicians to perform modifications as the modifiers gained a reputation across the Great Song jianghu.
• During an Anomaly investigation, Lu Sheng found the Three Saints Gate and met its representatives, a white fox and a black hen, at an abandoned manor.
• The white fox rejected Lu Sheng's demand for cooperation and claimed the Three Saints Gate had severed ties with the Main Sect.
• When Lu Sheng said he would reclaim the Main Sect's item, the white fox summoned Bronze Mirrors that transported him into a desolate valley surrounded by Evil Spirits.
• Lu Sheng transformed into a towering monster and prepared to face the oncoming spirits.

Lu Sheng escaped the Three Saints Gate’s attack, expanded his preparations in Great Song, and invited Shangyang Jiuli to join him before leaving for Great Yin. The chapter ended with Li Shunxi learning that Lu Sheng had returned and was leading the Weird Entity Research Association.

• The Three Saints Gate’s offspring shattered, and Lu Sheng emerged from the black sphere after destroying the Mother of Pain’s avatar and the surrounding Evil Spirits; the white fox, Black Chicken, and python were killed by his leaked power.
• Lu Sheng returned to the Research Institute headquarters, secretly recruited people with strong wills, prepared implants, and planned to travel to Great Yin to meet Li Shunxi.
• Shangyang Jiuli visited Lu Sheng, but declined his invitation to leave because she had a family to protect; Lu Sheng gave her a mark and asked her to safeguard the Research Institute’s development.
• Lu Sheng vanished, and Shangyang Jiuli was left with the mark and a sense of loss.
• In Great Yin, Li Shunxi received intelligence identifying the leader of the Weird Entity Research Association as Lu Sheng, his long-missing friend.

Lu Sheng recruited Li Shunxi into the Weird Entity Research Association and gathered powerful allies to plan an assault on the World of Pain. The group prepared to exploit the Gates of Pain and Gate of War, while Li Shunxi struggled to understand their plans to divide the enemy’s living beings as spoils.

• Lu Sheng explained his theory that Anomalies were a disease of pain harming the world, and Li Shunxi agreed to join the Weird Entity Research Association.
• Lu Sheng and Li Shunxi signed an accession contract, making Li Shunxi the Association’s first member.
• Cheng Huan, Yue Rulong, Xu Haobai, and a black-clad woman arrived, and Lu Sheng warned them not to insult Li Shunxi.
• Lu Sheng outlined his plan to detonate ten points in the Grid Black Net, provoke the opening of Gates of Pain and the Gate of War, then invade the World of Pain.
• Xu Haobai and the others discussed dividing the World of Pain’s living beings among themselves, alarming Li Shunxi.
• Lu Sheng told Li Shunxi that an old friend would arrive and asked him to keep her from acting impulsively.

Lu Sheng and the other Void Nethers launched an operation against Mother of Pain while Li Shunxi went to gather people for protection. Mother of Pain’s forces sprang a trap, leaving Lu Sheng and his allies facing separate enemies and Zhao Xijing betraying Yue Rulong.

• Lu Sheng agreed to protect up to ten people Li Shunxi chose, then sent him to find them and bring them back within a day.
• Lu Sheng and four other Void Nethers prepared to attack Mother of Pain’s forces as a breach opened in the sky above Yellow Mountain City.
• Mother of Pain detected attacks on the Grid Black Net, ordered Fukena to hunt down the culprits, and discussed a larger plan against the Green Ravine Sect.
• Cheng Huan and Yue Rulong urged Lu Sheng to act, but the Void Darkness Reincarnation Domain shattered their projections and revealed that they had walked into a trap.
• Enemies confronted Cheng Huan, Xu Haobai, Yue Rulong, and Zhao Xijing, while Zhao Xijing stabbed Yue Rulong in the side.

Lu Sheng battled Seven Souls Asura Zheng inside Zheng’s Void Darkness Reincarnation Domain while a black-clad Heavenly Devil watched. After Zheng trapped his apparent body in a deadly technique, Lu Sheng revealed that an avatar had fought in his place and that a hidden flesh fragment had struck Zheng from behind.

• Zheng explained how his Void Darkness Reincarnation Domain strengthened him and suppressed his opponent, then attacked Lu Sheng inside the domain.
• Lu Sheng fought back with martial arts, a transformed body, and the Yuan Zhen Flame Transformation Array, but Zheng’s attacks repeatedly wounded him.
• Zheng unleashed the Blood River Nether Path and trapped Lu Sheng beneath the blood-red moon of Infinite Netherworld, believing the technique would wear him down.
• Lu Sheng appeared atop distant ruins and revealed that his avatar had fought Zheng while a hidden fragment of flesh and blood invaded Zheng’s body.
• Lu Sheng explained that his true body had stayed outside the domain and that his Thousand Gods Undying Body let even tiny flesh fragments wield immense power.

Lu Sheng challenged Mother of Pain, was killed by her power, and escaped with his allies after learning Yue Rulong had perished. Mother of Pain returned to find Lu Sheng’s hidden forces attacking the Nether Springs Divine Palace across the World of Pain.

• Lu Sheng grew into his thousand-meter true body and struck Mother of Pain with Star Annihilation, but she shattered his blade and killed him with Void Pain.
• Lu Sheng regenerated from flesh hidden on Xu Haobai, then helped drive off the gray-robed, long-necked fighter before the enemy vanished.
• Cheng Huan received a message that Yue Rulong had perished, and Lu Sheng ordered the group to retreat toward the blood-red gate.
• Lu Sheng and his allies joined Li Shunxi’s flying ship and broke through the World of Pain’s blockade while Lu Sheng concealed that his cells had infiltrated the realm.
• Mother of Pain prepared to intercept the fleeing ship, but an alarm drew her to the Nether Springs Divine Palace, where Lu Sheng’s controlled Evil Sorcerers and Mirror Spirit Masters had already destroyed nearly half the stronghold.

Lu Sheng settled Li Shunxi and Saint Lord Tong Sheng on Instant Shadow Star, revived Tong Sheng, and established a base for studying Anomalies. After the clash with the Mother of Pain, he entered seclusion to advance his power and prepare a formation for descending into another universe, while hoping to reunite with Lu Ning and the others.

• Lu Sheng met Li Shunxi and Saint Lord Tong Sheng on Instant Shadow Star and used Soul-Stirring Silk to remove the Night Emperor Power afflicting Tong Sheng.
• Lu Sheng tasked Li Shunxi with building the Research Institute’s foundation and promised to look for Li Shunxi’s missing master while keeping watch on the sect experts from Yellow Springs Star.
• Lu Sheng compiled his Anomaly research into books, established a Strange Tales Pavilion, and used his clone to continue gathering information on Yellow Springs Star.
• Lu Sheng concealed that he was unharmed and entered seclusion to pursue a higher realm after the battle with the Mother of Pain.
• Lu Sheng spent eighty million units of God-Entrusting Power to reach the third realm of the Void Wheel and prepared a formation to descend into a level-five universe.
• Lu Sheng remained unable to locate Lu Ning and the others, though he could sense they were still alive.

Lu Sheng descended into Pang Si Cheng, the obese son of Green Dew Altar’s chief altar master, and learned that Pang Si Cheng’s only wish was to find his missing mother and reunite his family. After discovering the martial world’s power structure and his father’s campaign to conquer it, Lu Sheng met Zhong Xiu, who warned him to avoid someone named Zhuang Xie Sheng.

• Lu Sheng entered the formation’s fissure, leaving Ban Sai and Tuo Lanba He to replace the shattered Black Crystals and stabilize the passage.
• Lu Sheng merged with Pang Si Cheng’s soul and memories, learning that Pang Si Cheng was Pang Yuan Jun’s son and wished to find his missing mother.
• Lu Sheng examined the martial world and Pang Si Cheng’s cultivation, learning that Pang Yuan Jun was a powerful Martial Emperor leading a campaign to unify the martial world.
• A servant told Lu Sheng that Zhong Xiu had arrived, and Lu Sheng invited his elder brother in.
• Zhong Xiu said Pang Yuan Jun wanted Lu Sheng to visit Wind Family Estate, but Lu Sheng refused.
• Zhong Xiu warned Lu Sheng to avoid Zhuang Xie Sheng if he encountered him near Green Dew City.

Lu Sheng learned that Pang Yuan Jun feared a prophecy naming a man called “sheng,” then strengthened his body by advancing the Partial Star Road Toad Skill. He left the Green Dew Altar for the Jade Chen Palace to find Tang Qingqing, whose disappearance his inquiries suggested was tied to Pang Yuan Jun.

• Zhong Xiu told Lu Sheng that he had settled the matter involving Xiang Hong Fei, and Green Robe explained the prophecy about Pang Yuan Jun's death at the hands of a man whose name contained “sheng.”
• Lu Sheng summoned the Beacon Fire Thunderous Sword, used Deep Blue to advance the Partial Star Road Toad Skill, and began losing weight so he could move independently.
• After more than ten days, Lu Sheng left the Green Dew Altar and set out for the Jade Chen Palace, where Tang Qingqing had last appeared.
• Lu Sheng traveled into East Locust Province and rapidly advanced the Partial Star Road Toad Skill to its fifth layer, gaining the strength of ten oxen.
• Lu Sheng's inquiries suggested that Tang Qingqing had not left Pang Yuan Jun willingly and that her disappearance was connected to secrets Pang Yuan Jun was hiding.