Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng persuaded Umbrella Woman to conceal that he had destroyed the Red Workshop, using the control he had placed inside her and the threat of conflict with the Shangyang Family. Umbrella Woman returned to her sister, the Red Workshop Master, as the workshop was being rebuilt, but her agreement with Lu Sheng weighed on her.

• Lu Sheng learned that the Red Workshop Master had returned and left Xiao Hongye's manor after hearing that she had seized people to investigate the workshop's destruction.
• Ye Lingmo and Xiao Hongye discussed how Shangyang Jiuli's impending breakthrough and the Red Workshop Master's return could bring further turmoil.
• Lu Sheng told Umbrella Woman that her sister had returned and offered to let her go back if she concealed his role in destroying the Red Workshop.
• Umbrella Woman agreed after Lu Sheng argued that exposing him could provoke the Shangyang Family to retaliate against her sister.
• The Red Workshop Master welcomed Umbrella Woman back while directing Wandering Souls to rebuild the workshop headquarters.

The Umbrella Woman reunited with the Red Workshop Master and concealed the network inside her body while agreeing to help rebuild the Red Workshop. After receiving her warning that the Red Workshop Master was heading for the Martial Alliance, Lu Sheng used the Deep Blue Modifier to transform his body and strengthen his Extreme Yang Path.

• The Umbrella Woman told the Red Workshop Master that a black-clothed man had taken her and later released her, while hiding the network within her body.
• The Red Workshop Master asked the Umbrella Woman to lead the Red Workshop's rebuilding and said she planned to investigate the Martial Alliance; the Umbrella Woman agreed to accompany her.
• Lu Sheng received the Umbrella Woman's secret message and worried that the Martial Alliance investigation into Carefree Manor's Chief Priest could expose his past killing of its territory envoy.
• Lu Sheng decided to focus Yin Qi on hard martial arts, summoned Song Zhenguo, prepared to travel, and entered the Quiet Room to use the Modifier.
• Lu Sheng spent about forty units of Yin Qi to form his Second stage Yang Extremity State, growing ten bone spikes on his back and gaining the Fire Blood special effect.

Lu Sheng tested the power of his strengthened body, then used his Treasure Bottle Qi to assess and guide Song Zhenguo’s cultivation. He began cultivating a loyal force by forcing a breakthrough for Xu Chui, whose body started changing under the immense influx of inner qi.

• Lu Sheng discovered that a drop of his blood could consume iron, then fed his hunger with concentrated food pills after returning to his normal form.
• Lu Sheng met Song Zhenguo, confirmed that Treasure Bottle Qi still underlay his cultivation, and taught him the Meridian Opening Fist.
• Lu Sheng decided to build a hidden force capable of handling Restraint Level threats and summoned Xu Chui to test whether his qi could force another person’s breakthrough.
• Xu Chui agreed to bind his cultivation to Lu Sheng, and Lu Sheng explained that the connection would prevent him from ever raising a hand against his Gang Leader.
• Lu Sheng poured a vast amount of Treasure Bottle Qi into Xu Chui, whose body suffered severe pain and began growing crimson tumors and blood-red lines.

Red Workshop Master and Umbrella Woman investigated strange remains in the woods, where Umbrella Woman discovered that Lu Sheng had killed Carefree Manor’s Territory Envoy and destroyed the witnessing soul to hide the truth from her sister. Lu Sheng and Xu Chui reached the Martial Alliance, where Zhang Wuya and Zhang Minggu discussed the alliance’s growing turmoil before someone challenged the news that Guan Nian’s Green Intent Team had been disbanded.

• Red Workshop Master identified a bone fragment as part of a Six-Mark White Corpse and went to follow its lingering aura while Umbrella Woman searched the woods with Wandering Souls.
• Umbrella Woman saw Lu Sheng in a residual soul’s memories and crushed the soul so her sister would not learn about him.
• Lu Sheng explained that his transmission of the Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi had created a powerful Yin Crane Net in Xu Chui, and the two fought through red-eyed monkeys on their way to the Martial Alliance.
• Lu Sheng and Xu Chui entered the Martial Alliance by slipping past a group approaching from the cliffs above its hidden lake pavilion.
• Zhang Wuya told Zhang Minggu that the alliance was unsettled after Li Shunxi left, the Alliance Master entered seclusion, and Zhong Yunxiu and Guan Nian began fighting for influence.
• Zhang Wuya said Guan Nian’s Green Intent Team had been disbanded after a traitor was discovered, and someone outside the room challenged him.

Lu Sheng searched the Martial Alliance’s secret chamber but found no sign of its missing Alliance Master, then helped Zhong Yunxiu and other members flee the alliance. The Red Workshop Master arrived at the Martial Alliance and began attacking its guards.

• Xu Chui told Zhang Wuya and Guan Nian that Lu Sheng offered shelter, and they agreed to gather trustworthy people and leave the Martial Alliance.
• Lu Sheng searched the Alliance Master’s secret chamber, found only a faint trace of blood, and returned without discovering where Qin Wumian was.
• Lu Sheng told Zhong Yunxiu that the Alliance Master was missing and offered to hide her group, then tested his Treasure Bottle Qi on her, but her black membrane repelled it.
• Zhong Yunxiu, Guan Nian, Zhang Wuya, and more than twenty others left the Martial Alliance that night with bundles of manuals and secret texts.
• The Red Workshop Master arrived at the Martial Alliance, and its guards recognized her and fled as she smashed into the ground before a pavilion.

Red Workshop Master attacked the Martial Alliance while Lu Sheng hurried to strengthen himself and moved its displaced members to a new refuge. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng retrieving Li Shunxi’s Treasure Medicine Map to seek pills that could speed up his transformation.

• Red Workshop Master slaughtered her way into the Martial Alliance, but Ye Lingmo stopped her long enough to warn that her conspicuous attack could ruin their investigation; he revealed a clue pointing toward the Shangyang Family.
• Lu Sheng learned from Umbrella Woman that Red Workshop Master had reached the Martial Alliance and hurried his caravan onward, telling Zhong Yunxiu and the others that the alliance had been attacked.
• Guan Nian asked Lu Sheng whether he could identify spies, and Lu Sheng explained that suspects would need to open their black membrane for him to do so.
• Lu Sheng brought the Martial Alliance members to a concealed stream valley, settled them with supplies, and left Zhang Wuya to manage the group.
• Lu Sheng returned to his study and retrieved Li Shunxi’s Treasure Medicine Map, hoping to find pills that could accelerate his transformation.

Lu Sheng was approached by the Heart Wandering Society, which offered him medicine and urged him to help kill Red Workshop Master. Seeking a test subject for the pill, he went to the Red Whale Gang’s fourth-layer Water Dungeon and captured a powerful old man, leaving with him in hand.

• A mysterious voice introduced the Heart Wandering Society and asked Lu Sheng to cooperate in killing Red Workshop Master.
• The voice blamed Red Workshop Master for stealing the Red Dragon Calamity’s main component and gave Lu Sheng a Cloud Serpent Core Pill as a meeting gift.
• After the voice departed, Lu Sheng ordered a carriage and went to the Red Whale Gang’s Water Dungeon to find someone to test the pill on.
• Lu Sheng searched the fourth layer and found an old prisoner whose internal energy surpassed Zhang Wuya’s.
• When Lu Sheng opened the old man’s cell, the prisoner attacked, but Lu Sheng seized him by the throat and carried him away.

Lu Sheng drained the fourth-level Water Dungeon's prisoners of their inner qi, leaving Zhao Jiao Jiao as the sole survivor and gaining enough Treasure Bottle Qi to seek a way to balance yin and yang. He ordered Xu Chui to capture Mountain Tiger Gate's inner martial arts experts and send them to the prison.

• Lu Sheng fed a Heart Wandering Society pill to an old prisoner, absorbed the man's inner qi with the Yin Crane Net, and then searched the dungeon for more viable prisoners.
• Lu Sheng released Zhao Jiao Jiao, who warned that she might kill him, and absorbed her inner qi along with that of the other prisoners, leaving Zhao Jiao Jiao alive.
• Lu Sheng gained about four hundred years' worth of Treasure Bottle Qi and began studying how to convert it into yang energy to balance his inner qi.
• Lu Sheng ordered Xu Chui to capture the inner martial arts experts of Mountain Tiger Gate who had opposed the Red Whale Gang and bring them to the prison.

Lu Sheng continued strengthening his inner qi and sent Zhao Jiao Jiao to gather three precious medicines, while the Red Workshop Master pursued clues about the stolen supreme art manual. Her search led her to Lu Estate, where she avoided a confrontation but left Ying Ying increasingly convinced they should leave the Northland.

• Lu Sheng converted Treasure Bottle Qi into Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill inner qi and sent Zhao Jiao Jiao to find three precious medicines within a month.
• The Red Workshop Master slaughtered Heart Wandering Society attackers at the Martial Alliance and then traveled with the Umbrella Woman to Yan Mountain City to seek Old Taoist Bai Feng's clues.
• Old Taoist Bai Feng told the Red Workshop Master what he had learned, and she hurried to investigate despite his warning that it could alert the people involved.
• The Red Workshop Master recognized Lu Estate as the home of Lu Sheng and left without confronting his family after accusing Bai Feng's group of scheming.
• The Umbrella Woman urged the Red Workshop Master to leave the Northland, but the Red Workshop Master promised she would grow stronger and protect them.

Lu Sheng began uniting the Northland’s gangs and strengthened Kong Yi by implanting the Yin Crane Net, while calculating whether his growing cultivation could challenge Ye Lingmo. The Heart Wandering Society then offered him pills and asked him to use a jade pendant to poison the Red Workshop Master before Vice Society Master Chao Hu arrived, leaving Lu Sheng suspicious of why she was searching for the Red Workshop’s destroyers.

• Lu Sheng summoned the Northland gang leaders and implanted the Yin Crane Net in Kong Yi, allowing his inner qi to grow without meridian bottlenecks.
• Lu Sheng calculated that even five hundred years of cultivation in the Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill would not be enough to face Ye Lingmo, and decided he needed more inner qi.
• The Heart Wandering Society delivered two Cloud Serpent Core Pills and asked Lu Sheng to have someone close to the Red Workshop Master wear a jade pendant that would poison and weaken her.
• The Heart Wandering Society said Vice Society Master Chao Hu would arrive within half a month and that the Society Master would strike when the Nine Glory Flower bloomed.
• Lu Sheng wondered why the Red Workshop Master was searching for those who destroyed the Red Workshop instead of preparing for the coming attack, and suspected she was seeking something else.

Lu Sheng inferred that the Red Workshop Master was preparing for a conflict with the Heart Wandering Society, then focused on strengthening himself and absorbing the inner qi of captured Mountain Tiger Gate experts. The chapter ended with him draining Mountain Tiger Gate’s master Li Chong in the Water Dungeon.

• Lu Sheng concluded that the Red Workshop Master’s attacks were preparations for a coming fight with the Heart Wandering Society, and a report confirmed she had destroyed the East Mountain Association in Yan Mountain City.
• Lu Sheng decided to build his strength by absorbing inner qi and precious medicines, then sent a message by carrier pigeon while Jade Lotus Seed presented him with a ranking list of Northland experts.
• Xu Chui reported that Mountain Tiger Gate members had been captured, and Lu Sheng went to the Water Dungeon to confront their former master, Yang Sunlong.
• Lu Sheng absorbed Yang Sunlong’s inner qi with Yin-Yang Jade Crane Treasure Bottle Qi, then ordered the jailers to feed and treat him.
• Lu Sheng attacked Mountain Tiger Gate’s master, Li Chong, and began absorbing his inner qi as the other prisoners watched.

The Red Workshop Master used the Red Dragon Calamity fragment to gain power despite the cost to her own life force, while Ying Ying wore a jade pendant marked by a faint black line. Lu Sheng traveled from the Red Whale Ship to Knot Dragon City and confronted Meat Dragon and the Azure Kui Gang during a banquet.

• The Red Workshop Master absorbed power from the Red Dragon Calamity fragment and decided to target Common Ditch Gate next, while Ying Ying worried about the toll it took on her sister.
• Ying Ying wore the black jade pendant Lu Sheng had given her, and a faint black line flashed across it unnoticed.
• Lu Sheng left the Red Whale Ship at night and raced toward East Forest Prefecture using his inner qi to propel himself.
• Meat Dragon assured Knot Dragon City gang leaders that the Red Whale Gang could not threaten them and celebrated a successful voyage at sea.
• Lu Sheng burst into the banquet hall, sent two guards flying, and confronted Meat Dragon and the gathered gang leaders.

Lu Sheng reflected on the turmoil he had caused in Knot Dragon City and planned to keep expanding his cultivation while preparing to meet Old Taoist Bai Feng. When Chen Yunxi arrived to see him, Lu Sheng sensed a concealed aura inside her that resembled the Red Workshop Master’s.

• Chao Hu reported to the enormous crimson-eyed being that a woman had escaped with the largest fragment, and vowed to pursue her after releasing Nether Shattered Jade.
• Lu Sheng reviewed the aftermath of his killings in Knot Dragon City and calculated that absorbing forty-three experts had added three drops of qi liquid to his cultivation.
• Lu Sheng received Old Taoist Bai Feng’s invitation to discuss the Red Whale Gang’s movements and decided to attend to gather intelligence.
• Jade Lotus Seed reported that Shangyang Ce had sailed toward the ice ocean, while Chen Yunxi secretly left home and traveled to headquarters to see Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng welcomed Chen Yunxi in the small garden and tried to nourish her with Treasure Bottle Qi, but detected an aura like the Red Workshop Master’s within her body.

Lu Sheng found a faint mark the Red Workshop Master had placed on Chen Yunxi and left it in place while preparing for the coming deadline to attack the Workshop Master. After meeting Bai Feng and Xiao Hongye, he learned that his mother’s origins were obscure; meanwhile, the Red Workshop Master and Ying Ying reached a town on the White Grass Ice Plains.

• Lu Sheng examined Chen Yunxi, discovered a faint mark on her arm, and decided not to remove it or alert the Red Workshop Master.
• Chen Yunxi invited Lu Sheng to see the Nine Glory Flowers, but he declined because the festival coincided with the Heart Wandering Society’s deadline for his move against the Red Workshop Master.
• Lu Sheng met Bai Feng and Xiao Hongye, discussed the Red Workshop Master’s killings, and heard that Li Shunxi was wanted by the Huang Family.
• Bai Feng told Lu Sheng that his mother, Sun Yan, had not been a biological daughter of the Sun Family and that her origins were obscure.
• The Red Workshop Master and Ying Ying arrived at a town on the White Grass Ice Plains, where the Workshop Master melted a hole in its icy wall.

Ying Ying accompanied the Red Workshop Master as she continued sacrificing people in small cities, while Lu Sheng strengthened his inner qi and prepared to break through by consuming a Four-Legged Dragon. The chapter ended with Lu Sheng swallowing the creature’s blood and beginning his transformation.

• The Red Workshop Master and Ying Ying left a fourth small city after the Red Workshop Master sacrificed its inhabitants, and Ying Ying treasured the Concentric Knot her sister had made with her.
• Lu Sheng drained the inner qi of more than thirty hostile experts, brought Gongye City and Li Huan City under his command, and raised both of his skills to nine hundred years of cultivation.
• Zhao Jiao Jiao returned with a Four-Legged Dragon that had eaten the Thousand-Year Shattered Leaf Lotuses, and Lu Sheng discovered that the creature’s bite could poison him.
• Lu Sheng studied how to process the Four-Legged Dragon, then entered seclusion because he believed the Red Workshop Master would eventually come after him.
• Lu Sheng crushed the Four-Legged Dragon and drank its blood, causing his body temperature to rise rapidly.

Lu Sheng used the Four-Legged Dragon’s flesh and blood to advance his martial arts during seclusion, then prepared to use the Nine Glory Festival as cover for his own plans. As the Red Workshop Master and the Umbrella Woman traveled by river, four Heart Wandering Society fighters ambushed them and began a fierce battle.

• Lu Sheng swallowed the Four-Legged Dragon’s flesh and blood, triggering a powerful transformation as his inner qi surged and impurities left his body.
• During the Nine Glory Festival preparations, Jade Lotus Seed asked Lu Sheng to preside, but Lu Sheng ordered him to lead the celebration and confirmed that the flowers would bloom the next day.
• Lu Sheng recalled the Heart Wandering Society’s letter arranging an interception of the Red Workshop Master, then called Deep Blue and considered advancing the Extreme Yang Path with his remaining Yin Qi.
• The Red Workshop Master and the Umbrella Woman traveled downriver as Nine Glory Flower petals drifted around them.
• Three Cyclopes and a masked woman emerged to ambush the pair, demanding the Red Dragon Calamity fragment and the Red Workshop Master’s eyes.
• The Red Workshop Master fought the four attackers, broke the lead Cyclops’s Wolf Fang Mace, and was surrounded while the Umbrella Woman watched helplessly.

Lu Sheng waited for the Red Workshop Master to defeat Chao Hu, then attacked her after Ying Ying betrayed her under the influence of the Yin Crane Net. When Ye Lingmo intervened, Lu Sheng revealed his armored monster form and overwhelmed him and the wounded Red Workshop Master.

• Lu Sheng watched as the Red Workshop Master killed Chao Hu after a brutal fight in which both combatants suffered severe wounds.
• The Red Workshop Master rushed to help the injured Ying Ying, who stabbed her twice with a dagger coated in Jade Pendant Powder.
• Lu Sheng tried to strike the Red Workshop Master from behind, but Ye Lingmo appeared and blocked his blades.
• Ye Lingmo accused Lu Sheng of causing the earlier killings and attacks, then lunged at him.
• Lu Sheng transformed into a towering, armored monster, seized Ye Lingmo, and slammed him into the ground.
• The Red Workshop Master and Ye Lingmo attacked Lu Sheng together, but he sent her flying and broke Ye Lingmo's claws before knocking him into the river.

Lu Sheng fought Ye Lingmo and the Red Workshop Master in the Thread of Heaven, overwhelming them with his strength and killing Ye Lingmo. After the Red Workshop Master unleashed the power of the Red Dragon Calamity, she and Lu Sheng clashed again in a fiercer battle.

• Ye Lingmo and the Red Workshop Master attacked Lu Sheng together, but he battered them both into the river and stone wall.
• Lu Sheng seized Ye Lingmo and burned him with his Red Zenith Nine Fiends Skill inner force, while the Red Workshop Master prepared her full-powered strike.
• Ye Lingmo immobilized Lu Sheng with Ink Lock, allowing the Red Workshop Master to hit him with Void Spirit Five Slashes, but the attack left only a shallow mark.
• Lu Sheng crushed Ye Lingmo to death and approached the exhausted Red Workshop Master to inspect her blade.
• The Red Workshop Master revealed her willingness to trade everything for power and blasted Lu Sheng into the stone wall with a fiery explosion.
• Lu Sheng and the Red Workshop Master declared themselves the strongest and collided in a renewed, more violent battle.

Lu Sheng defeated the Red Workshop Master after a fierce battle fueled by the Red Dragon Calamity fragment, then collected trophies and searched the fallen enemies for useful items. He left the riverbank with a black Book from the Red Workshop Master that contained a large amount of Yin Qi.

• The Red Workshop Master unleashed her fragment-enhanced attacks, but Lu Sheng struck her with Yin-Yang Fusion: Primal Fiend and extinguished the fragment’s power.
• The Umbrella Woman rushed to protect the Red Workshop Master, who shielded her from Lu Sheng’s blow; both women were fatally wounded by his inner qi.
• Lu Sheng searched Chao Hu’s corpse, found a black pouch with three dried fruits, and removed the giant’s eye and the eyes of the other fallen giants.
• Lu Sheng searched Ye Lingmo’s corpse, found a demonic cultivation Book, and burned the body with the other giant corpses.
• Lu Sheng returned to the riverbank, found the Red Workshop Master’s tiny black Book among the women’s remains, and discovered that it contained substantial Yin Qi.

Lu Sheng hid the remains of the Red Workshop Master and Ye Lingmo, while their disappearance stirred concern and investigation across Northland. After Shangyang Jiuli emerged from seclusion having broken through, Lu Sheng tested what she knew and learned more about the Black Snake Realm and the Upper Three Heavens before she prepared to return to her family.

• Lu Sheng packed the Red Workshop Master, Ying Ying, and Ye Lingmo's remains into an awning boat and pushed it upstream as the fire spread.
• The Carefree King learned that Ye Lingmo and Zhou He had missed their reports and ordered Zhaorong to ask Shangyang Jiuli for help investigating.
• News that the Red Workshop Master had died spread through Northland, prompting the Surveillance Division and Flying Curtain Army to investigate.
• Shangyang Jiuli emerged from two months of seclusion after breaking through, and Lu Sheng welcomed her.
• Shangyang Jiuli explained that Black Snake experts could enter the Upper Three Heavens and described its nine levels to Lu Sheng.
• Shangyang Jiuli gave Lu Sheng an incense case and half a Kirin Jade Pendant, then told him to manage Northland and obey anyone who came with her token.