Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng advanced the Mystic Origin Heart Sutra and awakened the Vermilion Bird Bloodline, reaching the completion of the Golden Core stage. He emerged from seclusion to find Hong Yun stunned by his bizarre interpretation of Vermilion Bird beauty and inheritance.

• Lu Sheng raised the Mystic Origin Heart Sutra, formed a golden core, and developed the Vermilion Bird Bloodline and its fire-aspect talent.
• Lu Sheng continued enhancing the bloodline, received Vermilion Bird inherited memories, and fell asleep as a firebird phantom appeared around him.
• Several days later, Lu Sheng emerged from his cave at the completion of the Golden Core stage, wearing a scarlet robe and carrying a turtle shell woven from his feathers.
• Hong Yun arrived to tell Lu Sheng to deal with a pile of trouble, then sensed Southern Blazing Fire and asked whether Lu Sheng had awakened the Vermilion Bird Bloodline.
• Lu Sheng proclaimed that beauty was strength and explained that his shell turned enemy strikes into music and power, leaving Hong Yun speechless.

Lu Sheng returned to Light Sect headquarters, heard reports of pressure from neighboring powers, and sent his forces to respond. He then met the Ghost River Clan at Twin Whale Lake and offered an apology and a gift, leaving the clan’s reaction unknown.

• Lu Sheng returned to headquarters and summoned the clan chiefs and demon kings to an assembly.
• Lan River Demon King, Three Claw Demon King, and another demon king reported attacks, disappearances, and demands for tribute from nearby factions.
• Lu Sheng ordered Ming Zhao and Lan River Demon King to test the Zeng Mu Witch Clan, then went to meet the Ghost River Clan himself.
• At Twin Whale Lake, Lu Sheng apologized to Gui Ru for the Light Sect’s rapid expansion and clapped for his followers to bring out a bronze cauldron of pale-red liquid as a gift.

Lu Sheng used Returning Bloom Liquid to secure the Ghost River Clan’s interest in trading with the Light Sect, then faced threats from the Zeng Mu Witch Clan, which demanded the formula and tribute. He chose to confront the witches himself, claiming he would eliminate everyone who knew the secret if necessary.

• Lu Sheng gave the Ghost River Clan Returning Bloom Liquid, and Kui Dong broke through to the Golden Core stage after one sip while Gui Ru advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Gui Ru agreed to future trades and hurried back with most of the liquid to consult his clan elders, while Lu Sheng sensed that those who drank it had become parasites he could control.
• The Lan River Demon King reported that the Zeng Mu Witch Clan had killed dozens of his bird demons and demanded free Returning Bloom Liquid and fifty pairs of birds each year.
• A Zeng Mu envoy delivered a Gou Mang Token and threatened to attack the Light Sect unless it handed over the formula within three days.
• Lu Sheng told his followers to endure and said he would visit the Zeng Mu Witch Clan, then the Qing Mu Witch Clan and Ghost River Clan if needed, to kill everyone who knew about the liquid.

Bo Mi La sought his godfather Xidi’s help in taking revenge on a human who possessed the Proof of the Overlord, and Xidi agreed to assist without directly joining the fight. In Hong Huang World, Lu Sheng reached the Zeng Mu Tribe’s grazing grounds and attacked its warriors with Southern Blazing Fire.

• Bo Mi La told Xidi that a human Mingluo powerhouse with the Proof of the Overlord had insulted him and asked for help killing him.
• Xidi explained that the Starry Sky Protocol barred him from directly attacking a Proof of the Overlord holder, but offered to help Bo Mi La act through an alliance or by targeting what the human valued.
• Xidi agreed to make a trip and told Bo Mi La to use the scale he had given him once he found his target.
• Lu Sheng reached the Zeng Mu Tribe’s grazing grounds and noticed that its people had powerful bodies but no divine soul aura.
• The Zeng Mu Tribe warriors attacked Lu Sheng with vines, but his firebird burned more than ten of them to ashes.
• Lu Sheng advanced as the firebird circled him, while the startled giant beasts fled and more Zeng Mu Tribe warriors approached.

Lu Sheng attacked the Zeng Mu Tribe over its demand for Returning Bloom Liquid and fought Zeng Mu Great Wizard, whose body and regeneration overwhelmed him in human form. Lu Sheng transformed into his true Vermilion Bird form and prepared to finish Zeng Mu with a golden claw.

• Lu Sheng used Southern Blazing Fire to kill the Zeng Mu wizards and burn through the tribe’s main camp.
• Zeng Mu Great Wizard returned, learned Lu Sheng was from the Light Sect, and attacked him with a massive wall of green mist.
• Lu Sheng shattered the green wall with Instant Extinction Martial Arts, Aerial Strike, then fought Zeng Mu at close range.
• Zeng Mu enlarged his body and struck Lu Sheng into a deep pit, leaving him to reconsider fighting with his weaker humanoid body.
• Lu Sheng transformed into a Vermilion Bird, broke through Zeng Mu’s giant palm, and descended on him with a golden claw.

Lu Sheng destroyed the Zeng Mu Witch Clan and absorbed the God-Entrusting Power stored in its Wizard Artifact, leaving evidence that pointed to the Vermilion Bird Clan. The Witch Clan reported the massacre to the Demon Court, where Yu Xuan was summoned and confronted with accusations against her people.

• Lu Sheng killed Zeng Mu Great Wizard and the other wizards, then drained more than three million units of God-Entrusting Power from a Wizard Artifact.
• Witch Clan envoys inspected the ruins, identified the traces as high-purity Vermilion Bird Fire, and left to report the attack as a provocation by the Demon Court.
• Demon Master Kunpeng relayed the Witch Clan's accusation to Dong Huang Taiyi during a gathering at the Demon Court.
• Dong Huang Taiyi summoned Vermilion Bird Yu Xuan, who denied that her clan had attacked the Witch Clan and begged the court to investigate.
• Demon gods cited the burned ash and the Star Officials' investigation as evidence of Vermilion Bird Fire, and Di Jun asked Yu Xuan what her clan had to say.

After the Vermilion Bird Clan surrendered its inherited Southern Blazing Fire Sword to avert punishment, Yu Xuan went to White Hill to investigate a nearby Vermilion Bird descendant. Lu Sheng agreed to help her find the firebird, then learned it had slaughtered a Witch Clan tribe and pretended to condemn it.

• The Demon Gods blamed the Vermilion Bird Clan for provoking war, and Xi He helped Yu Xuan avoid being handed over to the Witch Clan in exchange for the clan's Southern Blazing Fire Sword.
• Yu Xuan left the Heavenly Court with a trusted subordinate to investigate the destroyed Zeng Mu Witch Clan.
• At White Hill, Lu Sheng reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage and discussed his awakened Vermilion Bird Bloodline with Lan Xi and En Ruo.
• Yu Xuan arrived at the Light Sect seeking help to locate a Vermilion Bird descendant, and Lu Sheng agreed in exchange for a drop of essence blood.
• Yu Xuan told Lu Sheng that the firebird had slaughtered a Witch Clan tribe, and Lu Sheng feigned outrage and promised to help capture it.

Lu Sheng and his parents joined the Vermilion Bird Clan, received inherited cultivation arts and a magical token, and helped Yu Xuan investigate Feng Lin. After secretly letting Feng Lin escape, Lu Sheng declined Yu Xuan’s offer to return with her and planned to study his new inheritance and treasure.

• Lu Sheng agreed to join the Vermilion Bird Clan after his parents eagerly accepted Yu Xuan’s offer, and the three entered their blood and divine souls into the Clan Register Mirror.
• The mirror revealed Lu Sheng’s exceptionally pure Vermilion Bird bloodline and granted him and his parents inherited cultivation arts; Yu Xuan also gave Lu Sheng a Jun Shan Token that could summon a Lava Giant.
• Lu Sheng ordered the Light Sect to search for Feng Lin, and two days later Yu Xuan secretly instructed him to let her escape after they cornered her.
• Yu Xuan declared Feng Lin unrelated to the true Vermilion Bird Clan and issued a Wanted Order, while the Witch Clan pursued her.
• Yu Xuan invited Lu Sheng and his parents to return to the Vermilion Bird Clan, but Lu Sheng declined so he could cultivate and study the Jun Shan Token.

Lu Sheng expanded the Light Sect’s territory with the Jun Shan Token before entering seclusion to cultivate the Vermilion Bird inheritance. Meanwhile, Yu Xuan learned that the Witch and Demon clans were nearing war and began considering how to protect the Vermilion Bird Clan.

• Yu Xuan concealed Feng Lin in an ancient ruin, and the Vermilion Bird Clan’s intervention helped the dispute with the Witch Clan subside.
• Lu Sheng used the Jun Shan Token to summon a Lava Giant, forced the Moxi Cow Clan to retreat, and expanded the Light Sect’s territory.
• Lu Sheng handed the sect’s affairs to his subordinates and entered seclusion to study the Nanming Longevity Record.
• Qing Zhong warned Yu Xuan that great chaos was coming, and she overheard that the ten Golden Crow princes would descend to the Lower Realm while Gong Gong and Zhu Rong fought without Zhu Jiuyin to mediate.
• Lu Sheng began cultivating the Vermilion Bird inheritance and called upon Deep Blue.

Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to enhance the Nanming Longevity Record, discovering that it strengthened his Vermilion Bird Divine Fire and purified his soul without causing fatigue. The chapter ended with him reaching the seventy-first revolution after spending all 1.5 billion units of God-Entrusting Power.

• Lu Sheng enhanced the Nanming Longevity Record through its first two levels and expelled Boundary Stone formed from deathly energy and heat.
• Lu Sheng completed the first revolution and found that the method left him energized rather than fatigued, so he enhanced it further.
• Lu Sheng advanced through successive revolutions as the method drew deathly energy and impurities from his body and true soul, producing vast amounts of gray stone.
• Lu Sheng's true soul grew purer and stronger as he continued enhancing the Nanming Longevity Record, while the God-Entrusting Power cost increased sharply.
• Lu Sheng reached the seventy-first revolution when his God-Entrusting Power ran out, leaving his arms covered in gray stone.

After reaching the seventy-first transformation of the Nanming Longevity Record, Lu Sheng strengthened the Jun Shan Token and learned that Mount Buzhou had broken, prompting him to evacuate with his followers to the Vermilion Bird Clan’s territory in the Heavenly Court. There, while he waited for Yu Xuan, Xiao Ning propositioned him.

• Lu Sheng discovered that his body had become vastly stronger and his lifespan had risen to five hundred and fifty thousand years, then used Natural Deception to contain his dangerous aura.
• Lu Sheng spent God-Entrusting Power to enhance the Jun Shan Token, which reached its limit after consuming more than ten thousand points.
• A quake and a message from Yu Xuan revealed that the Sky Pillar had broken and warned Lu Sheng to leave the Giant Wood Forest before chaos and a possible Witch-Demon War began.
• Lu Sheng gathered his followers at White Hill, then arranged for those willing to evacuate to follow Yu Xuan to the Heavenly Court.
• At the Vermilion Bird Palace, Xiao Ning brought Lu Sheng to a guest hall and invited him to have a round with her while the other sisters were away.

Lu Sheng learned that the Demon Court was mobilizing for war after Gong Gong’s attack began breaking Mount Buzhou, and Yu Xuan brought him to the Vermilion Bird Clan for safety. He settled into the clan’s palace with warnings to stay inside and lock his door, while his search for the Eye of Sin and the black giant tree remained unresolved.

• Xiao Ning flirted with Lu Sheng, but several Vermilion Bird women interrupted and Ni Er escorted him to meet Clan Chief Yu Xuan.
• Lu Sheng encountered Nan Chi Luo, a male Vermilion Bird who resented the attention Lu Sheng was receiving.
• Yu Xuan showed Lu Sheng a memory of Mount Buzhou breaking after Gong Gong rammed it during his fight with Zhu Rong.
• Yu Xuan explained that the Golden Crow princes had schemed to bring about the Ancestor Wizards’ mutual destruction, and warned that the Wizard Clan would soon go to war with the Heavenly Court.
• Ni Er led Lu Sheng to his residence and warned him not to leave Vermilion Bird Palace and to lock his door at night.

Lu Sheng spent over a month in the Vermilion Bird Palace before asking Ni Er to search for two objects and agreeing to protect Xiao Ning when she was summoned by Demon God Yun Meng. After Yun Meng tried to keep Xiao Ning alone in his isolated palace, Lu Sheng revealed his Vermilion Bird Saint Body and unleashed his power.

• Lu Sheng settled into the Vermilion Bird Palace, where the Vermilion Bird women repeatedly tried to seduce him.
• Lu Sheng asked Ni Er to use the clan’s intelligence network to find a black giant tree and a silver metallic eyeball.
• Ni Er asked Lu Sheng to accompany Xiao Ning to Yun Meng’s palace and protect her, and Lu Sheng agreed.
• Lu Sheng and Xiao Ning arrived at Yun Meng’s palace, where the doors closed and the space became isolated.
• Lu Sheng knocked out Xiao Ning and revealed his Vermilion Bird Saint Body after Yun Meng tried to make him leave.
• Lu Sheng unleashed his Vermilion Bird Divine Fire and formed a barrier around the Demon God Palace.

Lu Sheng defeated and parasitized Demon God Yun Meng, then questioned him about Demon Gods and primordial spirits. He left Demon God Palace with Xiao Ning, concealing what had happened from her as they returned to Vermilion Bird Palace.

• Yun Meng transformed and attacked Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng overwhelmed him with tentacles and parasitized his body.
• Lu Sheng discovered that his Evil God Power could control Yun Meng’s body but not his mind, so he subdued him with pain and forced him to cooperate.
• Yun Meng explained that Demon Gods possessed powerful primordial spirits, described their abilities, and revealed his own divine ability and cultivation art.
• Lu Sheng asked Yun Meng how he had formed a primordial spirit, while pretending to examine a cultivation jade slip he could not read.
• Lu Sheng carried the unconscious Xiao Ning out of Demon God Palace, then told her that Yun Meng’s urgent business had allowed them to escape danger.

The Demon Court and Witch Clan began their war as Nu Wa and Zhun Ti faced the Three Pure Ones, while Lu Sheng studied how to form a primordial spirit. When ten suns split from the Sun Star, Lu Sheng rushed to the eastern extremity and arrived to find the Golden Crows victorious over a fallen Great Wizard.

• Tai Yi ordered the Demon Court armies to attack the Witch Clan, and both sides clashed across the plains near Mount Buzhou.
• Nu Wa declared that she would intervene to protect the Human Race, and Zhun Ti allied with her against the Three Pure Ones.
• Lu Sheng studied the Vermilion Bird inheritance and learned that uniting essence, qi, and divine soul could produce a primordial spirit.
• The Sun Star split into ten blazing bodies, and Lu Sheng flew from Vermilion Bird Palace toward the earth.
• Lu Sheng reached the eastern extremity and saw ten Golden Crows circling above the charred corpse of a Great Wizard.

Lu Sheng watched Hou Yi use the divine bow to shoot down the Golden Crows and secretly forced the earth's resentment back into it, hoping to claim its immense God-Entrusting Power. As Hou Yi continued firing, Lu Sheng exhausted his reserves sustaining the resentment, and the bow began to crack before he could seize it.

• Lu Sheng saw Hou Yi arrive and confront the Golden Crows after finding Kua Fu's corpse.
• Hou Yi drew on the earth's vital essence and resentment to shoot down the first Golden Crow.
• Lu Sheng used a secret art to force dissipating resentment back into the divine bow, losing a large amount of Evil God Power.
• Hou Yi shot down a second Golden Crow as Lu Sheng repeatedly restrained the resentment and spent his remaining God-Entrusting Power on recovery.
• Hou Yi continued shooting down the Golden Crows, and Lu Sheng anticipated claiming the bow's growing power.
• A crack appeared in the Hou Yi Divine Bow, freezing Lu Sheng's smile as he feared losing what he had invested.

Lu Sheng fought to claim the cracking Hou Yi Divine Bow after Hou Yi collapsed, killing Demon God Kun Li when he tried to steal it. Lu Sheng escaped with the bow to absorb its God-Entrusting Power, while Kunpeng learned of Kun Li’s death and decided to deal with the matter himself.

• Hou Yi shot down the seventh and eighth Golden Crows, but collapsed before he could kill the tenth, and the Hou Yi Divine Bow began to crack apart.
• Lu Sheng rushed toward the bow to devour its God-Entrusting Power, but a lightning-wielding figure struck him and Kun Li seized the treasure.
• Lu Sheng fought off the lightning figure and used the Thousand Gods technique to kill Kun Li and recover the Hou Yi Divine Bow.
• Lu Sheng fled as the Demon Race army approached, intending to find a place to absorb the power within the bow.
• Kunpeng discovered that Kun Li had died, declined the old man’s offer of assistance, and said he would handle the matter himself.

Lu Sheng absorbed the Hou Yi Divine Bow’s power and used parasitized Demon Gods to expand his influence and collect treasures. With his forces paused after months of infiltration, he gathered three Demon God leaders to plan their next move as the world edged toward catastrophe.

• Lu Sheng absorbed the Hou Yi Divine Bow, gained 246 million God-Entrusting Power, and decided that famous mythical treasures could yield especially large amounts.
• Lu Sheng learned that the cool-looking girl in the Vermilion Bird Palace courtyard was Bi Fang, then flew toward Yun Meng’s Demon God Palace.
• Yun Meng tricked Bai Jing with a false treasure and parasitized him, helping Lu Sheng’s tentacles spread through nearly half the Demon Court’s Demon Gods over three months.
• Lu Sheng halted further attacks while depleted, ordered his hosts to bring him their Dharma treasures and witch artifacts, and appointed three powerful Demon Gods to lead the others.
• As the Sky Pillar of Mount Buzhou toppled and heaven and earth drew closer, Lu Sheng inspected eight collected Dharma treasures and frowned that the haul was small.

Lu Sheng learned the Demon Court’s hierarchy and planned an ambush against Jiu Ying, then descended to Mount Buzhou to search for treasures and God-Entrusting Power. After spotting Nu Wa refining stones to repair the sky, he hid nearby and entered seclusion to assess his gains.

• Ming Snake explained that Tai Yi, Di Jun, and Xi He ruled the Demon Court, with Kunpeng and seven powerful Demon Gods beneath them.
• Lu Sheng ordered the Demon Gods to gather in three months and ambush Jiu Ying when he went to kill the Great Witch Xiang Liu.
• Ming Snake reported that Yu Xuan wanted to join the war, while Fei Yi revealed the location of the Eye of Sin and its dangerous, disorienting terrain.
• Lu Sheng descended to Mount Buzhou, where the Heavenly River had flooded the surrounding lands, and collected rare plants and other treasures.
• Lu Sheng saw Nu Wa refining multicolored stones beside a chained black beast, then dug a burrow nearby and entered seclusion to check how much God-Entrusting Power his finds could yield.

Lu Sheng was nearly killed by Ancestor Ming He while Saints gathered to help Nu Wa mend the heavens, but he regenerated and destroyed one of Ming He's incarnations. The two prepared to fight again as Nu Wa continued her work and watched them.

• Lu Sheng sensed Fu Xi and other powerful beings near the cave as Nu Wa called for aid in mending the heavens.
• Ancestor Ming He struck Lu Sheng with his Blood River Grand Technique, badly damaging his body and taunting him.
• Lu Sheng regenerated with Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, tore off Ming He's head, and burned his incarnation to ash.
• Ming He reappeared and revealed that he had lost only an incarnation, while Lu Sheng confronted him and vowed to kill him.
• Ming He drew the Avīci Sword, and his killing intent clashed with Lu Sheng's strange force field and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire.
• The other Saints departed after offering aid, while Nu Wa continued refining the Seven-Colored Stone and watched Lu Sheng and Ming He face off.