Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng reached Spring Sect on Jade Chen Mountain seeking his mother, Tang Qingqing, but she refused to see him. Mu Rong, Tang Qingqing’s Senior Apprentice Sister, allowed Lu Sheng into her temple and began revealing what had happened ten years earlier.

• Lu Sheng learned that Spring Sect was on Jade Chen Mountain and climbed there asking after Tang Qingqing, also known as Clear Pond Daoist.
• Mu Rong summoned Tang Qingqing and told her that the worldly tie she had left behind had come seeking her again.
• Tang Qingqing refused to meet Lu Sheng and asked Mu Rong to turn him away, saying her heart toward the Dao could not be shaken.
• After the young Taoist priest told him Tang Qingqing would not see him, Lu Sheng pushed past the attendants and entered the rear temple.
• Mu Rong introduced herself as Tang Qingqing’s Senior Apprentice Sister and began telling Lu Sheng the truth about his mother’s past.

Lu Sheng learned that Pang Yuan Jun and Tang Qingqing’s marriage had been a union of convenience, but he still wanted to reunite his parents. When Tang Qingqing refused, he abducted her from the temple and faced Temple Master Mu Rong, insisting he would take her home.

• Mu Rong explained that Pang Yuan Jun and Tang Qingqing had married for ambition and cultivation, and Lu Sheng decided to visit his mother anyway.
• Tang Qingqing told Lu Sheng she had no intention of reuniting with Pang Yuan Jun, but Lu Sheng gave her three days to prepare to go home.
• During a temple sword demonstration three days later, Lu Sheng hurled a massive tree trunk at Tang Qingqing, then pulled her unconscious from the crater and carried her away.
• Temple Master Mu Rong intercepted Lu Sheng, but he declared that he would take Tang Qingqing home so he could experience family life.
• Lu Sheng threatened Mu Rong and said Pang Yuan Jun’s agreement did not matter, while Xiao Hong Lei watched in disbelief.

Lu Sheng rescued Tang Qingqing from the Supreme Oneness Sect and brought her back to Green Dew City, where her return caused a commotion at the branch altar. After arranging for her confinement, he reflected on his rapid rise to Martial Emperor and began studying how this world's cultivation system worked.

• Lu Sheng carried Tang Qingqing away from the Supreme Oneness Sect while Mu Rong hesitated to stop him, then escaped down the mountain to a waiting carriage.
• Tang Qingqing woke during the journey and questioned Lu Sheng about who had helped him abduct her, but he claimed he had come alone.
• Lu Sheng arrived in Green Dew City with Tang Qingqing, and the branch altar erupted when its members recognized her as the chief altar master's wife.
• Lu Sheng learned that his Partial Star Road Toad Skill had reached its seventh level and raised his strength to two hundred giant elephants, the limit of that technique.
• Lu Sheng ordered his subordinate to keep Tang Qingqing securely confined and prepared to seek other Martial Emperor cultivation methods.
• Lu Sheng studied the Partial Star Road Toad Skill's account of bodily stars, including the first star, the All Star, located at the heart.

Lu Sheng studied the world’s star-based martial arts and waited for Pang Yuan Jun to return, while Pang Yuan Jun besieged Wind Family Estate. When Lu Sheng confronted his father during the battle, he knocked him unconscious and carried him away.

• Lu Sheng failed to discover what martial stars were and planned to capture Pang Yuan Jun and take control of the branch altar.
• At Wind Family Estate, Liu Huan Zhuang read a letter saying Tang Qingqing had returned to Green Dew City and wanted Pang Yuan Jun to come home.
• Pang Yuan Jun ordered an all-out assault, and his forces used cannons to break through Wind Family Estate’s outer wall.
• As the fighting for the inner wall intensified, Pang Yuan Jun charged toward Feng Shan He, but Lu Sheng appeared and tried to take him home.
• Pang Yuan Jun attacked Lu Sheng with his Army Origin Ten Kill, and Lu Sheng dodged before slamming him through the city wall and carrying him away unconscious.

Lu Sheng abducted Pang Yuan Jun, fought off an ambush by the North Distance Two Elders and their giant crocodile, and discovered Pang Yuan Jun had escaped during the battle. Pang Yuan Jun fled to a Green Dew Altar base and asked two powerful allies for help, leaving Lu Sheng in pursuit.

• Lu Sheng knocked Pang Yuan Jun unconscious and carried him away from the battle with North Life Saber King.
• A giant crocodile and the North Distance Two Elders ambushed Lu Sheng, and he crippled the men and fatally wounded the crocodile.
• Lu Sheng realized Pang Yuan Jun had slipped away and followed a footprint through the forest.
• Pang Yuan Jun reached a secret Green Dew Altar base, where he encountered Sand King Hong Quan Guo and learned other allies had gathered.
• Pang Yuan Jun asked an elderly man and woman at the base to help him, and they questioned what threat could require their aid.

Lu Sheng broke into Stone Forest Land and claimed Pang Yuan Jun was his son, demanding that Pang return home and reunite with his family. Pang Yuan Jun summoned the Quiet Han Two Olds and the Sand King to stop him, but Lu Sheng faced them while continuing his bizarre appeal.

• Pang Yuan Jun asked Su Han and Xu Sun Jing to help capture or kill the powerful stranger who had disrupted his siege of Wind Family Estate.
• Lu Sheng arrived at Stone Forest Land, broke through its guards, and called Pang Yuan Jun his father while insisting they return home together.
• Pang Yuan Jun denied that Lu Sheng was his son, explaining that Pang Si Cheng was only ten years old and still lived in Green Dew City.
• Lu Sheng injured the guards who tried to stop him, and the Sand King and the Quiet Han Two Olds decided to confront him.
• Pang Yuan Jun, Su Han, Xu Sun Jing, and the Sand King surrounded Lu Sheng, who claimed he had brought his mother out from Spring Sect and tried to persuade Pang Yuan Jun to come home.

Lu Sheng fought through Pang Yuan Jun and his allies, then pursued the wounded man into a cave hidden in the forest. He entered despite sensing danger and found a martial-arts-trained giant black bear blocking the way.

• Pang Yuan Jun ordered the Green Dew Altar disciples to attack Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng scattered them and sent Pang Yuan Jun flying with a palm strike.
• The Sand King and the Quiet Han Two Olds intervened, but Lu Sheng repelled their attacks and overpowered Pang Yuan Jun’s Army Origin Tenth Kill: Empty Blaze.
• A white-haired archer and the others bought Pang Yuan Jun time to flee, and Lu Sheng chased him through the forest for more than half an hour.
• Pang Yuan Jun escaped into a concealed cave, while the Sand King and the Quiet Han Two Olds vanished from Lu Sheng’s pursuit.
• A giant black bear attacked Lu Sheng inside the cave, and he prepared to unleash the Life Nurturing Technique.

Lu Sheng killed the black bear guarding the cave and pursued Pang Yuan Jun and the other Martial Emperors through an ancient ruin. He caught up with them at an opening above a deep gorge and followed them over the cliff.

• Lu Sheng used earth energy to strengthen and heal his body, then killed the black bear with the Partial Star—Blood Jade Dragon technique.
• Lu Sheng found ancient murals in the cave and followed Pang Yuan Jun's fresh footprints deeper inside.
• Pang Yuan Jun met Sand King and Su Han of the Quiet Han Two Olds, and the group fled when they heard Lu Sheng approaching.
• Lu Sheng caught up to the four men at a bright opening overlooking a gorge, but they leaped through it and disappeared.
• Lu Sheng saw the gorge and the plains beyond, then stepped off the cliff after them.

Lu Sheng emerged from a deep pool into a vast bone-filled wasteland and explored a ruined White Bone Divine Hall, where the cemetery inexplicably drained years from his life. Elsewhere in the Gray World, Pang Yuan Jun saved the Sand King from walking into the White Bone Abyss, and the group continued cautiously through the ruin.

• Lu Sheng chased a flicker of clothing through the pool’s tunnels and surfaced in a desolate land covered in ancient bones.
• Lu Sheng examined the remains and discovered a ruined White Bone Divine Hall whose carvings and bones had endured for millions or billions of years.
• Lu Sheng found an unfamiliar inscription, a spear, and a cemetery beyond a broken statue; reaching into the cemetery caused his hand to age and cost him ten years of life.
• Pang Yuan Jun pulled the dazed Sand King away from the edge of the White Bone Abyss after a gray wind nearly led him to fall in.
• Pang Yuan Jun, the Sand King, Su Han, and Xu Sun Jing warned one another about the Gray World’s dangers and the possibility that the Three Great Gangs had entered.

Pang Yuan Jun and three other Half Devil members fled Lu Sheng through the Sea of Bones, using its dangerous creatures to delay him. After several days, they reached a joint expedition led by Wen Huai and Chen Qiao Ou, who promised their protection while waiting for Martial Emperor Liu Fei to return.

• Pang Yuan Jun and the other Half Devil members spotted Lu Sheng near the White Bone Divine Hall and fled as he pursued them.
• The four entered a rib-like passage and stirred up a swarm of poisonous moths, but Lu Sheng roared the swarm down and adapted to its poison.
• Lu Sheng reached the end of the passage and confronted a giant gray moth as the four continued escaping.
• Several days later, the exhausted fugitives emerged beside a joint force from the Like Dragon Gang and the Mountain Sea Gang.
• Wen Huai recognized Pang Yuan Jun and offered protection, reassuring the fugitives that Martial Emperor Liu Fei had been invited to their expedition.

Lu Sheng caught up with Pang Yuan Jun in the Gray World and revealed that he was Pang Si Cheng, then defeated Pang Yuan Jun’s companions and captured his father. He headed back toward Green Dew City to reunite Pang Yuan Jun with Tang Qingqing.

• Sand King urged the group to keep moving, but Lu Sheng appeared through the bone dust and revealed the Martial Deity Furnace, frightening Wen Huai and the others.
• Lu Sheng demanded that Pang Yuan Jun return with him, and Pang Yuan Jun and Sand King questioned whether he really was Pang Si Cheng.
• Lu Sheng proved his identity by recalling Pang Si Cheng’s bathing accident, leaving Pang Yuan Jun stunned.
• Pang Yuan Jun refused to return and tried to enlist Lu Sheng’s help in the Gray World, so Lu Sheng attacked and seized him.
• Wen Huai, Chen Qiao Ou, Sand King, and the others attacked Lu Sheng, but he badly wounded them and escaped with Pang Yuan Jun after defeating Senior Liu Fei’s palm strike.
• Pang Yuan Jun accused Lu Sheng of rebellion, but Lu Sheng ignored him and headed back toward Green Dew City to reunite him with Tang Qingqing.

Lu Sheng forced Tang Qingqing and Pang Yuan Jun to experience exhausting dreams that made them abandon their ambitions, then fulfilled his karmic wish and learned more about the Gray World. Pang Yuan Jun revealed that the Gray World held legendary Crystal Bones, which recorded martial paths, and Lu Sheng prepared to seek them.

• Lu Sheng brought Pang Yuan Jun back from the Gray World and reunited him with Tang Qingqing at the Green Dew City branch altar.
• Lu Sheng sent Pang Yuan Jun and Tang Qingqing into elaborate dreams that made them weary of conquering the world and pursuing immortality.
• After they awoke, Pang Yuan Jun and Tang Qingqing abandoned their ambitions, and Lu Sheng fulfilled the karmic wish tied to Pang Si Cheng.
• Lu Sheng searched for antique items containing God-Entrusting Power but found that they held too little.
• Lu Sheng learned from Pang Yuan Jun that the Gray World contained precious medicine and that Crystal Bones could record legendary martial paths.

Lu Sheng returned to the Gray World to investigate the Crystal Bone and discovered a moth-covered Bone Mountain containing a box with an ornate fork and an unreadable booklet. He finished setting up a return array, while reflecting on the safeguards he had left behind and the likely twins in Tang Qingqing’s belly.

• Lu Sheng entered the Gray World again and traveled across its sea of bones, passing through toxic winds.
• Lu Sheng found a Bone Mountain covered in giant moths carrying humans in cocoons and killed the attacking swarm.
• Lu Sheng climbed the Bone Mountain and opened a rusted box, finding a small Three-Pronged Fork and an indecipherable booklet.
• Lu Sheng stored the booklet in the Overturning Sea Pearl and built an array to return from the Gray World.
• Lu Sheng noticed webbing enveloping the moth corpses and recalled that he had arranged safeguards for Pang Yuan Jun and Tang Qingqing, who was likely carrying twins.

Lu Sheng transformed into his true body to explore the Gray World, but its growing rejection forced him to return to Instant Shadow Star. After learning that Ban Sai had found clues to the spacetime direction of Lu Sheng’s relatives, Lu Sheng reacted with overwhelming excitement and power.

• Lu Sheng unleashed his true body and flew deep into the Gray World, where he found endless bones and increasingly strong monsters as the world’s rejection of him intensified.
• Lu Sheng used a formation to return to Instant Shadow Star, narrowly avoiding being stranded as the Black Crystals powering the formation were nearly depleted.
• Ban Sai and Tuo Lanba He told Lu Sheng that the Three Sacred Spirit Gate had clashed with the Mother of Pain and that some enemy reinforcements appeared to be fused from Evil Spirits and flesh.
• Lu Sheng asked about the search for his relatives, and Ban Sai revealed that he had found clues to their general spacetime direction.
• Lu Sheng’s excitement unleashed a vast pressure across the surrounding area, incapacitating nearby animals.

Lu Sheng learned that Ban Sai’s prophetic artifact had identified the Eye of Sin as a clue to his relatives’ whereabouts and ordered Ban Sai to improve its capabilities. He then traveled to the Green Ravine Sect’s frontline fortress, where Yuan Qing Li said the operation against Mother of Pain depended on him.

• Ban Sai told Lu Sheng that his calculations had revealed an Eye of Sin in an unknown universe, and he showed him the Yin E Shi Jia artifact.
• Lu Sheng examined the artifact’s results and learned that its calculations could help adjust the descent formation to reach a particular space-time universe.
• Lu Sheng ordered Ban Sai to improve the artifact’s computing power and promised to supply more Energy Crystals.
• Lu Sheng left for the Green Ravine Sect headquarters after checking that Instant Shadow Star was secure.
• At the Green Ravine Sect’s frontline fortress, Xu Haobai explained that Mother of Pain’s forces had ambushed his disciples, and Yuan Qing Li said Lu Sheng would be key to their operation.

Lu Sheng investigated a sealed space-time distortion where Green Ravine Sect war fortresses had vanished, finding them ensnared in webs and infected by the Civilization Virus. After discovering two apparent investigators inside one fortress, he was caught in a sudden explosion when Lin Yuezhi attacked.

• Hua Yunzi arranged Lightning Crystals for Lu Sheng, and Yuan Qing Li asked him to investigate the distortion after several Elders disappeared there.
• Lu Sheng traveled to the distortion, entered alone, and found dense white webs surrounding seven silent war fortresses.
• Lu Sheng boarded Number Ten and discovered decayed corpses and the Civilization Virus spreading through its main control hall.
• Lin Yuezhi and Maple Forest Daoist appeared and claimed they had come to investigate the abnormalities.
• Lin Yuezhi suddenly lunged at Lu Sheng and exploded, blasting him with fragments of flesh and blood.

Lu Sheng used an illusion to turn the war fortress’s defenders against an empty patch of space, then confronted Koremes, the Blood Bewilderment Virus. She warned him that a vast organization required Mother of Pain to survive for another one or two hundred years, and Lu Sheng reported the encounter to Yuan Qing Li.

• Lu Sheng’s illusion redirected the defenders’ attacks and self-destructive assaults, leaving the main control hall nearly empty.
• Koremes re-formed from the defenders’ remains, revealed that she was a Civilization Virus, and explained that she and Mother of Pain served a larger force.
• Lu Sheng attacked Koremes with his transformed body and Netherflame, but she escaped destruction because any remaining infected place could sustain her.
• Koremes warned Lu Sheng that her organization would support Mother of Pain if he refused to let her live, and suggested Mother of Pain might be killable in one or two hundred years.
• Lu Sheng found the spatial distortion gone, considered the threats facing the star region, and told Yuan Qing Li what Koremes had revealed.

Lu Sheng investigated the Eye of Sin and prepared to travel to another Small World, while Li Shunxi and Saint Lord Tong Sheng established threat grades for Anomalies. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng entering a newly perfected Descent Array as Ban Sai hoped to return to his clan.

• Yuan Qing Li suspected the Star Spirits were behind the destruction of many Void Nethers, and she and Lu Sheng agreed to lie low for now.
• Lu Sheng converted his tribute resources into Lightning Crystals, and Ban Sai used them to build a new Descent Array.
• Li Shunxi and Saint Lord Tong Sheng classified Anomalies as Mortal Grade, Ghost Grade, Source Grade, and Annihilation Grade, while Lu Sheng urged them to expand their research team.
• Lu Sheng instructed Ban Sai and Tuo Lan to ignore interfering space-time forces during their research into the Eye of Sin.
• Ban Sai completed and tested a more powerful Descent Array, which could reach worlds with Level Five energy and a time flow of about ten to one.
• Lu Sheng entered the array to travel to another Small World, promising Ban Sai that he would take him back to his clan when he returned.

Lu Sheng awakened in the body of Chen Zi Luo, a Leaf Mountain Sword Sect disciple, and pieced together the young man's identity and the martial world he had entered. He discovered Chen Zi Luo's faint wish was to stop living as an ordinary man, then met the sect's kindly, white-bearded master with Ning Mei.

• Lu Sheng woke in an unfamiliar bedroom after entering a world rift and found that he had received almost none of the body's memories.
• Lu Sheng recovered fragments identifying the body as Chen Zi Luo, a second-tier disciple of the Leaf Mountain Sword Sect who had recently learned the Skylark Plumage Sword.
• Lu Sheng learned from two junior disciples that the world resembled The Smiling, Proud Wanderer and had no Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• Lu Sheng met Senior Apprentice Sister Ning Mei, who noticed that his bearing had changed, and accompanied her to a gathering of the sect's four branches.
• Lu Sheng uncovered Chen Zi Luo's congenital heart disease, lack of ambition, and faint wish to stop living as an ordinary man.
• Ning Mei greeted the sect's kindly old master, and Lu Sheng followed her in saluting him.

Lu Sheng prepared to improve Chen Zi Luo’s swordsmanship during the Leaf Mountain Sword Sect’s competition, but his preparations were interrupted by the curious He Chu Ruan and He Chu Xiang. He ignored their alarming reputations and began modifying his sword arts as Ning Mei faced Guan Xiunian.

• Du Fengzi and Li Yulan gathered the four branches for the annual competition, and Ning Mei was called to fight Guan Xiunian.
• Lu Sheng inspected Chen Zi Luo’s body, corrected flaws in its sword techniques, and prepared to strengthen it with God-Entrusting Power.
• He Chu Ruan and He Chu Xiang approached Lu Sheng, who did not recognize them and dismissed their questions.
• He Chu Ruan invited Lu Sheng for food and wine, and he casually rubbed her head despite the sisters’ surprise.
• The sisters revealed their identities as the daughters of the Poison King and Medicine King, but Lu Sheng showed no concern and opened Deep Blue to modify his three sword arts.