Chapter Summaries

After recovering from the battle with Black Crow, Lu Sheng visited Chen Yunxi and invited her to the Golden Light Poetry Gathering at Golden Light Temple. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng and Chen Yunxi facing each other after her father left them alone.

• Shangyang Jiuli stopped Old Hei from attacking Lu Sheng, warned Lu Sheng about his corpse poison, and left with the unconscious middle-aged man.
• Lu Sheng returned to Swallow Hall, stopped Su Yue'er from kneeling, and told her he still needed to judge whether she suited his martial arts.
• Lu Sheng recuperated, then visited the Chen Family to invite Chen Yunxi to the poetry gathering at Golden Light Temple.
• Chen Yunxi hurried to change after hearing Lu Sheng had arrived, while Chen Daozao encouraged Lu Sheng to take her to the gathering and stay overnight.
• Chen Yunxi entered the hall, scolded her father for his remarks, and was left alone with Lu Sheng when Chen Daozao departed.

Liu Qin sacrificed herself to merge her half of the Mystic Jade into Li Shunxi, revealing visions and drawing pursuers toward him. Meanwhile, Lu Sheng rejected a suspicious appeal to visit the Martial Alliance and discussed restoring confidence among Red Whale Gang disciples.

• Liu Caiyun was thrown from her horse and captured by gray-clothed pursuers while Liu Qin and Li Shunxi escaped using the Mystic Jade.
• Liu Qin told Li Shunxi that the Mystic Jade let its bearers perceive hidden things and that Carefree Manor had hunted her family for it.
• Liu Qin exploded into blood mist that merged into Li Shunxi, and he used the Mystic Jade to see a vision of the White River Gang as pursuers closed in.
• Lu Sheng told Hong Mingzi that the letter asking him to go to the Martial Alliance seemed suspicious, and Hong Mingzi advised monitoring Li Shunxi's trail instead.
• Hong Mingzi proposed holding martial exchange meets with other gangs and sects to rebuild the Red Whale Gang disciples' confidence.

Lu Sheng arranged a discreet engagement to Chen Yunxi and prepared an exchange with the White River Gang as he considered building forces to protect his loved ones. After discovering his qi could transform and control Song Zhenguo’s inner qi, he recovered from his injuries and led Red Whale Gang elites toward White River Gang territory.

• Lu Sheng chose the White River Gang for an exchange and decided to hold a low-key engagement to Chen Yunxi before departing.
• Lu Sheng and Chen Yunxi’s families met at a modest banquet, formalizing their relationship.
• Lu Sheng found Song Zhenguo training, learned he had been fooled into buying the Wave-Turning Hand, and examined his progress in the Azure Pine Single-Minded Art.
• Lu Sheng transferred a thread of Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi into Song Zhenguo, where it absorbed and imitated his inner qi while remaining under Lu Sheng’s control.
• Lu Sheng taught Song Zhenguo Lesser Grappling Hands and encouraged him to keep practicing his single punch.
• After recovering from his injuries, Lu Sheng assembled thirty Red Whale Gang experts and led the caravan toward the White River Gang.

Li Shunxi entered Twin Eagle City to prevent the White River Gang’s predicted destruction and investigate the Evil Jade, but he found an unexpected Red Whale Gang delegation holding a martial meet. At the meet, Lu Sheng sensed an Anomalous aura among the White River Gang as a young girl tried to reach Bai Zhenming.

• Li Shunxi recalled the Mystic Jade’s vision that Carefree Manor would trigger the Evil Jade and destroy Twin Eagle City, then entered the city to warn the White River Gang.
• Li Shunxi heard that the Red Whale Gang had come to exchange martial techniques with the White River Gang, contradicting the future he had seen.
• Li Shunxi reached the city’s central district and decided to find a way into the White River Gang’s headquarters to learn how Carefree Manor would break the Evil Jade’s seal.
• Bai Zhenming and Lu Sheng opened the martial meet, and Zhang Sheng faced Xuan Teng in a match between heavyweight experts.
• Lu Sheng sensed traces of an Anomalous aura throughout the White River Gang and watched as a young girl tried to approach Bai Zhenming.

Lu Sheng noticed something unusual about Bai Qiuling and offered to help her if she ever faced trouble. Meanwhile, Li Shunxi tried to warn her of Twin Eagle City's impending calamity, but she could not meet him, and the chapter ended with her alone in her father's secret chamber as night fell.

• Lu Sheng noticed Bai Qiuling's unusual aura, met her at the White River Gang headquarters, and told her to seek him if she ran into trouble.
• Bai Qiuling refused to meet Li Shunxi that evening, and Li Shunxi saw ominous gray mist above the White River Gang headquarters and resolved to sneak inside at night.
• Bai Qiuling found her father's study unattended, unlocked its hidden entrance, and entered his secret chamber to examine his collection.
• Bai Qiuling lost track of time among the chamber's antiques and, as night fell, turned her attention to an enormous scroll painting.

Bai Qiuling encountered a supernatural painting in the White River Gang headquarters, and Li Shunxi rescued her from the silent compound. When she insisted on finding her father, Li Shunxi agreed to accompany her; elsewhere, Lu Sheng and Xu Chui noticed signs that something was wrong in Twin Eagle City and went to investigate.

• Bai Qiuling saw a woman in a painting turn to watch her, then woke on the floor beside Li Shunxi, who had entered the study to save her.
• Li Shunxi carried Bai Qiuling out of the study and found the White River Gang headquarters deserted, but she struggled free and insisted on finding Bai Zhenming.
• Bai Qiuling refused to believe the whole city was in danger, so Li Shunxi agreed to go with her and took out talisman papers.
• In North Garden, Xu Chui told Lu Sheng that Twin Eagle City’s residents looked exhausted and that the night watchman had stopped passing by.
• Lu Sheng recalled the Glass Mirror case, suspected something had happened, and set out with Xu Chui to investigate.

Lu Sheng found White River Gang Headquarters deserted and discovered Bai Zhenming dead, then led the Red Whale Gang out as Corpse Servants gathered around them. When a Red Whale Gang member was attacked near the exit, Lu Sheng burst through the gates to pursue the culprit, leaving his people behind.

• Lu Sheng investigated the silent White River Gang Headquarters, found Bai Zhenming's courtyard dark and bloodied, and returned to gather the Red Whale Gang.
• The Umbrella Woman and a black-robed figure discussed the Evil Jade's impending eruption and decided to deal with Lu Sheng as well.
• Bai Qiuling found Bai Zhenming and the White River Gang leaders dead, while Li Shunxi identified Carefree Manor as responsible before a black-robed old man attacked them.
• Lu Sheng led the Red Whale Gang convoy toward the headquarters exit as Corpse Servants gathered along the streets without initially attacking.
• A gang member was found bleeding near the exit, and Lu Sheng smashed through the gates and raced after the attacker while Xu Chui and the others followed.

Lu Sheng rescued Li Shunxi and Bai Qiuling from the old man, then led the Red Whale Gang out of Twin Eagle City as the city vanished in the Evil Jade’s eruption. A radiant spear appeared above the ruins, and Lu Sheng forced his gang members to their feet after they mistook the spectacle for a divine revelation.

• The old man transformed and attacked Li Shunxi and Bai Qiuling, but Lu Sheng burst in and smashed him to death.
• Lu Sheng recognized Li Shunxi and Bai Qiuling, learned the Evil Jade was about to erupt, and carried them back to the Red Whale Gang.
• Li Shunxi explained that the Corpse Servants came from the Carefree Manor and Red Workshop’s sacrifice of Twin Eagle City, while the Evil Jade Crystal Ten Spears could unleash ten strikes before shattering.
• Lu Sheng led the gang through the city gates as Twin Eagle City turned transparent and exploded into vanishing fragments.
• A purple crystal spear rose from the mountaintop amid blinding golden light, prompting many gang members to kneel and pray.
• Lu Sheng struck the mountain wall with his saber and ordered the terrified gang members to get up.

Lu Sheng and his companions escaped Twin Eagle City after the Evil Jade destroyed it, and Li Shunxi explained the rules of Divine Weapons and the threat posed by Carefree Manor. The chapter left Lu Sheng with a map and a possible refuge in the Central Plains as Li Shunxi set out to save Giant Spirit Blood carriers and oppose Carefree Manor.

• Lu Sheng led the survivors out of the gorge, and Li Shunxi explained that the Evil Jade had destroyed Twin Eagle City after rejecting Bai Zhenming as its Weapon Master.
• Li Shunxi revealed that he carried the Mystic Jade, a Divine Weapon that could foresee the future, and explained Carefree Manor’s search for Giant Spirit Blood.
• Lu Sheng returned to Northland and sent Shangyang Jiuli a report and a large supply of resources before arranging matters for Li Shunxi and Bai Qiuling.
• Li Shunxi told Lu Sheng that Snake-level experts were exceedingly rare and that the Carefree Manor Lord needed Giant Spirit Blood to survive.
• Li Shunxi vowed to gather Giant Spirit Blood carriers and destroy Carefree Manor, then gave Lu Sheng a Martial Alliance map and directions to Green Vertical Valley.

Lu Sheng sent Li Shunxi and Bai Qiuling to the Central Plains, then discovered that Li had left him a map of rare medicinal treasures. Meanwhile, the Carefree King learned that two Chief Priests had vanished and ordered his people to investigate threats to Carefree Manor as a crucial Law Sacrifice approached.

• Lu Sheng gave Li Shunxi a place to seek refuge in the Central Plains, disguise training, and gold before seeing him and Bai Qiuling off by ship.
• Li Shunxi gave Lu Sheng a sealed cloth scroll, which Lu Sheng later opened and found to be a map marking more than ten valuable medicinal treasures across the Northland.
• After receiving a letter about Shangyang Ce's duel, Lu Sheng declined to intervene publicly and ordered the forests near Half-Leaf City closed to ordinary people until after the Double Fire Festival.
• At the Carefree King's palace, a messenger summoned the King away from a gathering, where Zhaorong and Ye Lingmo reported that White Corpse had gone silent, the Evil Jade operation had failed, and Ghost Hair was also missing.
• The Carefree King learned that two Chief Priests had vanished and focused on identifying who was targeting Carefree Manor before the Law Sacrifice was delayed.

Ye Lingmo prepared to investigate the Northland Law Sacrifice and White Corpse’s disappearance while Umbrella Woman returned to a ruined Red Workshop. At a family banquet in Yan Mountain City, Lu Sheng learned that his pregnant sister Lu Yingying was to become a concubine and vowed to deal with the scholar’s family.

• The Carefree King sent Ye Lingmo to join Red Workshop in investigating the Northland Law Sacrifice and Twin Eagle City, and ordered him to learn what happened to White Corpse.
• Umbrella Woman returned badly injured to Red Workshop, mourned its losses, and waited for Carefree Manor’s experts to arrive.
• Lu Sheng attended a banquet celebrating Lu Anping’s transfer to Yan Mountain and noticed the officials’ fear of him.
• Lu Anping told Lu Sheng that Lu Yingying’s scholar had taken a principal wife, leaving her to become a concubine.
• Lu Sheng slammed the table, promised to handle the matter personally, and left to see Lu Yingying and Yi Yi.

After learning that Yang Yundu had impregnated Lu Yingying and married another woman, Lu Sheng ordered the Red Whale Gang to make the Yang Family answer for it. Upper Azure Dragon’s men overwhelmed the family, exposed Yang Yundu as a secretly trained flower-plucking bandit, and captured him for delivery to the Lu Estate.

• Lu Sheng learned Lu Yingying was over six months pregnant and ordered the Red Whale Gang to investigate the Yang Family.
• After Old Man Yang refused to submit, Lu Sheng ordered the gang to beat the family until they agreed to his demands.
• Upper Azure Dragon led Red Whale Gang members into the Yang compound and demanded that Yang Yundu divorce his wife, marry Lu Yingying, and have the family publicly admit wrongdoing.
• The gang beat and bound the Yang Family, then dragged Yang Yundu and his wife out of their cellar hiding place.
• Upper Azure Dragon revealed that Yang Yundu had secretly cultivated the Nine Provinces Roaring Fist and deceived women; Yang Yundu tried to flee but was caught in a net.
• Upper Azure Dragon had Yang Yundu bound and escorted to the Lu Estate.

Lu Sheng forced Yang Yundu to marry Lu Yingying and made arrangements for his younger relatives before pursuing a rare medicinal herb. Back aboard the Red Whale Ship, he merged his hard arts into the Extreme Yang Path and began advancing it to strengthen his body, consuming Yin Qi at a startling rate.

• Lu Sheng threatened Yang Yundu’s family until Yang Yundu agreed to divorce his wife and formally marry Lu Yingying.
• Lu Sheng reunited with the younger generation of the Lu Family, then left after receiving word from Jade Lotus Seed about two stalks of Soul Condensing Grass guarded by a fierce creature.
• Lu Sheng ordered Jade Lotus Seed to gather crossbowmen in five days and find easy positions for Lu Hongying and Lu Yiyi.
• Lu Sheng returned to the Red Whale Ship, visited Chen Yunxi and his fiancée, and then entered seclusion in the Quiet Room.
• Lu Sheng merged his hard arts into the Extreme Yang Path on the Modifier and began raising it by one level, causing a massive expenditure of Yin Qi and transforming his body.

Lu Sheng used Yin Qi to complete the first stage of the Extreme Yang Path, then chose to advance the Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi rather than strengthen another yang technique. The technique formed a new internal qi meridian network, and Lu Sheng discovered that he had reached the Yin Extremity State.

• Lu Sheng endured the painful transformation caused by Yin Qi and reached Great Accomplishment in the first stage of the Yang Extremity State.
• Lu Sheng treated his injuries with medicine and consumed the rare Fourfold Tiger Robe Pill.
• Lu Sheng absorbed the remaining Yin Qi from the Carefree Manor Chief Priest's hair and considered how to prepare for trouble with Carefree Manor and the Red Workshop.
• Lu Sheng decided to strengthen the Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi to preserve balance and avoid overburdening his body with yang-attributed internal qi.
• The technique formed a new network of yin-attributed meridians within Lu Sheng, and the Modifier showed the eighth layer with the Yin Crane Net and Yin Extremity State.

Lu Sheng completed the ninth level of the Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi, liquefying his yin inner qi and transforming his appearance while strengthening his body. Elsewhere, the Red Workshop Master encountered a black-clad figure who challenged her over the missing Divine Weapon Shard.

• Lu Sheng tested the Yin Extremity State and found that it accelerated qi recovery and healing, suppressed the Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill's side effects, and concealed his aura.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue to raise the Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi to the ninth level, forming three drops of yin qi liquid.
• Lu Sheng's appearance softened and his hair grew long, while he sensed the Yin Extremity State was gradually remolding his body and strengthening his Yang Extremity State.
• A gray-robed woman called the Red Workshop Master stopped in a snowy forest after a voice accused her of hiding the Divine Weapon Shard.
• A black-clad figure carrying a Wolf Fang Mace appeared before the Red Workshop Master and challenged her to fight.

Lu Sheng emerged from seclusion and learned that famine was worsening across the Northland, complicating his plans to gather and train orphans. Meanwhile, Ye Lingmo traveled back to the Northland to investigate the Chief Priest’s disappearance and considered rebuilding Juan Ren Estate, leaving him on the road toward Yan Mountain City.

• Lu Sheng praised the Red Whale Gang guards and summoned Jade Lotus Seed to bring him maps of precious herbs and report on the gathered orphans.
• Jade Lotus Seed told Lu Sheng that more than a hundred orphans had been gathered, but famine, rising grain prices, and the fishing industry’s closed season made feeding them difficult.
• Lu Sheng asked about fast-growing medicinal plants, then decided to leave the gang for a while.
• Ye Lingmo traveled through Rongxin Pass with Lao Suntou and said he intended to return to the Northland and confront those who had once offended him.
• Ye Lingmo told Red-Haired Devil Zhou He that they would investigate the Chief Priest’s disappearance, contact the Red Workshop, and seek a chance to rebuild Juan Ren Estate.

Lu Sheng attacked the Red Workshop to question Umbrella Woman about what she had seen in Twin Eagle City. After defeating her and overwhelming the manor’s ghosts, he captured her alive and began searching for answers.

• Umbrella Woman waited at the Red Workshop for the Workshop Master when a hooded man entered and revealed that he had killed Xiao Bing.
• Umbrella Woman summoned the manor’s ghosts and lantern fires to encircle the intruder, but his protective energy burned or repelled them.
• Umbrella Woman attacked with her Red Umbrella, snatched away the man’s face covering, and recognized him as Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng transformed into a towering monster, seized Umbrella Woman, and asked what she had seen in Twin Eagle City.
• Lu Sheng carried the helpless Umbrella Woman through the manor and questioned her while looking for useful treasures.

Lu Sheng looted the Red Workshop, absorbed Yin Qi, and burned the estate before fleeing with Umbrella Woman. The Red Workshop Master returned to find the ruins and joined Ye Lingmo in seeking the culprit, while Lu Sheng began examining his spoils in a cave near Yan Mountain City.

• Lu Sheng failed to break the formation protecting the Luan Shen Nine Palaces Diagram, looted the Red Workshop, absorbed Yin Qi from the ashes, and set the estate on fire as he escaped with Umbrella Woman.
• The Red Workshop Master returned to find her home destroyed and confronted Ye Lingmo, who had come to investigate the Carefree Manor Chief Priest’s disappearance.
• The Red Workshop Master revealed that she possessed the Luan Shen Nine Palaces Diagram and destroyed it, then agreed with Ye Lingmo to investigate their suspected common enemies and search for Ying Ying.
• Lu Sheng settled in East Mountain Cave near Yan Mountain City and began examining three Yin Qi-laden objects he had taken from the Red Workshop.
• Lu Sheng asked Umbrella Woman to identify a small bell while keeping her restrained by his Blood Web.

Lu Sheng questioned the Umbrella Woman about ghosts and experimented by injecting Treasure Bottle Qi into her, discovering that the Yin Crane Net could control a ghost’s body. He used the same method on a Water Ghost, then left the Umbrella Woman alive as an experimental subject and prepared to return to the gang.

• Lu Sheng learned that the three items he had taken were a bell that summoned ghostly subordinates, the core of the Red Workshop Master's formation, and a treasure map tied to the Headless Ghost King.
• The Umbrella Woman explained that resentment could produce yin souls, which grew by feeding on fear and could eventually become ghosts and Anomalies.
• Lu Sheng’s first attempt to implant Treasure Bottle Qi in the Umbrella Woman caused a violent rejection that badly damaged her soul body.
• Lu Sheng implanted more Treasure Bottle Qi, formed a Yin Crane Net inside the Umbrella Woman, and discovered that he could control her remotely.
• Lu Sheng implanted a Yin Crane Net in a Water Ghost, which exploded and vanished when he tested his control over it.
• Lu Sheng kept the Umbrella Woman alive as a test subject, subdued her, and prepared to return to the gang with plans to use Yin Qi to accelerate his physical transformation.

Lu Sheng attended Xiao Hongye’s invitation and was questioned by Ye Lingmo, Carefree Manor’s Deputy Manor Lord, about the missing Chief Priests. After concealing what had happened and learning that Ye Lingmo could inspect people’s cultivation, Lu Sheng left wary of the powerful investigator.

• Jade Lotus Seed delivered Xiao Hongye’s invitation, and Lu Sheng ordered Umbrella Woman to stay home that night.
• Lu Sheng traveled to the Xiao Estate with Xu Chui and heard that Yunxi had been asking Old Black Head about him.
• Ye Lingmo questioned Lu Sheng about the missing Chief Priests, and Lu Sheng repeated his fabricated account of the incident.
• Ye Lingmo mistook Lu Sheng’s concealed, weakened aura for the result of an injury and let him leave.
• Lu Sheng judged Ye Lingmo to be stronger than White Corpse and encountered Huang Qiuyuan at the estate gates.