Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn, Dao Tian Sect’s powerless Yunju Mountain Lord, finally received his system after more than forty years. Its gift made him evenly matched with anyone or anything, but the system warned that he had only four years to live and tasked him with recruiting a disciple within three days.

• Li Zhōujūn recalled how he became Yunju Mountain Lord despite being unable to cultivate, after his late master left him the position.
• The system awakened and gave Li Zhōujūn the ability to split evenly with all things; he tested it on a dagger and learned it could work against even a True Immortal.
• Li Zhōujūn saw that he was forty-six with four years remaining, and the system explained that completing tasks could grant him cultivation and extend his life.
• The system told Li Zhōujūn to recruit one disciple at Dao Tian Sect’s ceremony in three days, and he decided to attempt it despite knowing nothing about cultivation.

Sū Nán passed Dao Tian Sect’s Spiritual Root test and began the mountain trial, while Li Zhōujūn reached the Ascension Platform among the sect’s powerful leaders. A mysterious young woman in white arrived at the platform as the chapter ended.

• Dao Tian Sect began its disciple selection, and 5,210 candidates passed the Spiritual Root awakening test.
• Sū Nán passed with a mid-grade Wood Spiritual Root and rejected Chen Shaohua’s proposal to become Cultivation Partners.
• The gray-robed elder sent the successful candidates up Ascension Mountain to reach the Ascension Platform within a day.
• Li Zhōujūn admitted to Liǔ Yán that he had started climbing the mountain the previous day, then argued with his system about its reliability.
• A young woman dressed in white entered the Ascension Platform.

During the Dao Tian Sect’s disciple selection, Shui Nianyao and Yè Yǔ chose other Mountain Lords, while the Sect Master took the Saint-grade Wood Spiritual Root Ku Fengchun as his disciple. The system then identified Sū Nán as the target of Li Zhōujūn’s disciple-acceptance mission, leaving him to approach the girl despite his doubts.

• Shui Nianyao chose the Canglan Mountain Lord as her master, and Mu Taiyu congratulated her new master.
• Yè Yǔ, who had a Top-grade Fire Spiritual Root, joined Liǔ Yán’s Fire Maple Mountain and showed contempt for Li Zhōujūn.
• Ku Fengchun arrived with a Saint-grade Wood Spiritual Root, and Mu Taiyu claimed him as a disciple.
• The system revealed that Sū Nán had a hidden Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root and changed Li Zhōujūn’s mission to taking her as his disciple.
• Li Zhōujūn inspected Sū Nán’s talent and wondered whether he could persuade her to join Cloud Dwelling Mountain.

Li Zhōujūn accepted Sū Nán as his disciple and gained a Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root, Golden Core cultivation, and the Profound Nether Heart Sutra from the system. After Sū Nán learned that he was known as the useless Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, the system ordered him to awaken her Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root in front of everyone.

• Liǔ Yán recruited Chen Shaohua to Fire Maple Mountain, and Chen again tried to persuade Sū Nán to become his cultivation partner.
• After Liǔ Yán mocked Li Zhōujūn for not finding a disciple, the system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with Spiritual Root Awakening Ability for walking over to Sū Nán.
• Li Zhōujūn accepted Sū Nán as his disciple, and the system granted him a Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root, Golden Core Perfected Cultivation, and the Profound Nether Heart Sutra.
• Sū Nán discovered Li Zhōujūn was the reputedly useless Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord and regretted becoming his disciple, while Chen Shaohua dismissed him as no threat.
• The system instructed Li Zhōujūn to awaken Sū Nán's Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root on the spot, warning that the display would draw attention.

Li Zhōujūn awakened Sū Nán’s hidden Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root, prompting the mountain lords to challenge his right to teach her. Sū Nán chose to remain his disciple, and Li Zhōujūn defied Murong Xue as the other mountain lords erupted in shock.

• Li Zhōujūn revealed that Sū Nán possessed a hidden Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root in addition to her Mid-grade Wood Spiritual Root.
• Mu Taiyu watched as Liǔ Yán and Murong Xue argued that Li Zhōujūn was unfit to teach Sū Nán and urged her to join another lineage.
• Li Zhōujūn asked Sū Nán to choose whether she would stay with him or join Murong Xue’s lineage.
• Sū Nán remembered her father’s advice about responsibility and declared that she was willing to return to Yunju Mountain with Li Zhōujūn.
• Li Zhōujūn declared that no one could take his disciple, and the mountain lords reacted with alarm at his challenge to Murong Xue.

Li Zhōujūn challenged Murong Xue to stop her from poaching Sū Nán, and his hidden strength astonished the mountain lords. After he blocked Murong Xue’s attacks and she conceded defeat, Sū Nán stayed with her master.

• Murong Xue tried to persuade Sū Nán to leave Li Zhōujūn, but Sū Nán insisted she would follow the path she had chosen.
• After the system issued a mission to battle Murong Xue, Li Zhōujūn challenged her, wagering that Sū Nán could study under her if he lost.
• Murong Xue sent a barrage of icicles at Li Zhōujūn, and he shattered them with a punch that stunned the watching mountain lords.
• Murong Xue unleashed her flying-sword technique, but Li Zhōujūn caught the sword between two fingers and returned it to her.
• Murong Xue admitted defeat, encouraged Sū Nán to stay with Li Zhōujūn, and offered to help her if he ever bullied her.

After defeating Murong Xue, Li Zhōujūn received new system rewards and revealed his seventh-grade Natal Flying Sword, impressing the Dao Tian Sect's Mountain Lords and Sect Master. As the disciple recruitment assembly ended, the system assigned him a new mission to challenge Liǔ Yán at Fire Maple Mountain within three days.

• Liǔ Yán warned the new Fire Maple Mountain disciples not to provoke Li Zhōujūn or Sū Nán, while Chen Shaohua regretted underestimating Li Zhōujūn.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with the Ao Xue Flying Sword, Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivation, and a Supreme-grade Qi Condensing Pill, then gave him The Self-Cultivation of a Master.
• Mu Taiyu sent the unchosen recruits to Hidden Dragon Valley, and the Mountain Lords departed with their selected disciples.
• Li Zhōujūn summoned Ao Xue, and the Mountain Lords recognized it as a seventh-grade Natal Flying Sword; Mu Taiyu praised his talent and invited him for drinks.
• Liǔ Yán hurried away with his disciples, and the system assigned Li Zhōujūn a mission to visit Fire Maple Mountain and have a contest with him within three days.

Li Zhōujūn brought Sū Nán to Cloud Dwelling Mountain and began their life as master and disciple. After her cooking proved inedible, he knocked out the old hen that had bullied him for decades and returned with roast chicken, where he found Sū Nán afraid he had abandoned her.

• Li Zhōujūn took Sū Nán to Yunju Palace and told her he would begin teaching her cultivation the next day.
• Sū Nán cooked a meal that tasted so awful she vomited after trying it.
• Li Zhōujūn went into the forest and found the Foundation Establishment old hen that had bullied him for forty years.
• Li Zhōujūn tricked the old hen with a false sighting of a multicolored rooster, knocked it unconscious, and claimed the system's Aoliang Roast Chicken seasoning reward.
• Li Zhōujūn returned with roast chicken, and Sū Nán clung to him, worried he had left because of her cooking.

Li Zhōujūn’s nourishing meals repeatedly knocked Sū Nán unconscious, so she took over cooking and finally avoided another collapse. The chapter ended with Li Zhōujūn preparing to teach her a cultivation method at Cloud Dwelling Hall.

• Li Zhōujūn gave Sū Nán a drumstick from a Foundation Establishment Realm chicken, and she fainted after eating it.
• The next morning, Sū Nán found Li Zhōujūn cooking vegetable and lean pork congee, then fainted again after eating meat left over from the chicken.
• After waking, Sū Nán decided to learn to cook for herself, but she accepted Li Zhōujūn’s braised rabbit and slept until morning.
• Sū Nán stopped Li Zhōujūn from cooking rice and made porridge herself, which both of them ate without her fainting.
• Li Zhōujūn told Sū Nán to come to Cloud Dwelling Hall so he could teach her a cultivation method, and she eagerly agreed.

Li Zhōujūn helped Sū Nán begin cultivating, and she broke through to Qi Refining Layer Three in her first session. He then visited Fire Maple Mountain to meet Liǔ Yán, who panicked when Li Zhōujūn arrived in person.

• Li Zhōujūn gave Sū Nán the Profound Nether Heart Sutra and a top-grade Qi Condensing Pill, promising she would reach Qi Refining Layer One.
• Sū Nán cultivated with the pill and broke through to Qi Refining Layer Three in two hours.
• Li Zhōujūn left Sū Nán to stabilize her cultivation and went to Fire Maple Mountain to fulfill the system's task.
• Fire Maple Mountain's gatekeeping disciples recognized Li Zhōujūn and respectfully greeted him after discussing his recent victory over Murong Mountain Lord.
• Liǔ Yán panicked when a disciple reported Li Zhōujūn's visit and tried to avoid meeting him.
• Li Zhōujūn entered Fire Maple Hall before Liǔ Yán could make an excuse, leaving Liǔ Yán convinced he was in trouble.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Liǔ Yán over his past mockery and challenged him to fight. He shattered Liǔ Yán’s True Sun Dharma Body with Ao Xue and received the Nine Dragon Chariot as his mission reward.

• Liǔ Yán dismissed his past mockery as justified, while Li Zhōujūn said he had come to settle accounts and challenged him to a bout.
• Li Zhōujūn promised to suppress his cultivation to Liǔ Yán’s level, and the two flew to the sky above Fire Maple Mountain.
• Liǔ Yán manifested his True Sun Dharma Body, but Li Zhōujūn summoned his Seventh-grade Flying Sword, Ao Xue.
• Liǔ Yán objected to Li Zhōujūn using a magical treasure, but Li Zhōujūn struck once and shattered the Dharma Body.
• Liǔ Yán conceded defeat, and the system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with the Nine Dragon Chariot.

Li Zhōujūn agreed to represent Dao Tian Sect at the Xue Family’s banquet, where the system assigned him a sign-in mission. After learning that the Blood Refining Sect was terrorizing Sū Nán’s family’s hometown, he promised to deal with it during the journey and arranged to meet Murong Xue in Pingyu City.

• After defeating Liǔ Yán, Li Zhōujūn learned he could summon a Nine Dragon Chariot pulled by nine Void Immortal-level Flood Dragons.
• Mu Taiyu summoned Li Zhōujūn and Murong Xue to represent Dao Tian Sect at the Xue Family’s banquet celebrating its ancestor’s breakthrough into the Integration Stage, and the system assigned Li Zhōujūn a sign-in mission there.
• Li Zhōujūn and Murong Xue agreed to leave in seven days, and Murong Xue asked about Sū Nán’s progress as Li Zhōujūn’s disciple.
• Back at Cloud Dwelling Mountain, Sū Nán told Li Zhōujūn that the Blood Refining Sect was demanding a hundred virgin boys and girls daily near Pingyu City and had taken one of her cousins.
• The system ordered Li Zhōujūn to destroy the Blood Refining Sect within three days, and he promised to deal with it while taking Sū Nán to visit her family.
• Li Zhōujūn sent Murong Xue a letter asking her to meet him in Pingyu City, then explained that his Ao Xue Flying Sword could develop intelligence and transform into human form.

Li Zhōujūn took Sū Nán toward Pingyu City in his Nine Dragon Chariot after learning her family was in danger. There, the Blood Refining Sect’s Fat Envoy and Thin Envoy threatened the city and confronted the Su Family, while Sū Nán’s father remained unaware that she was on her way.

• Li Zhōujūn summoned the Nine Dragon Chariot, astonishing Dao Tian Sect’s mountain lords, and carried Sū Nán toward Pingyu City.
• The Fat Envoy killed two civilians and demanded that Pingyu City provide fifty more children for the Blood Refining Sect.
• The Fat Envoy and Thin Envoy decided to collect children from the Su Family, praising the quality of children from wealthy families.
• Su Heng told the Su Family elders that they could not resist the Blood Refining Sect and hoped Sū Nán had reached Dao Tian Sect safely.
• The Fat Envoy and Thin Envoy entered the Su Family council hall and asked which boys and girls the family would hand over.

Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Su Household with Sū Nán and rescued the family from the Blood Refining Sect’s envoys. After Sū Nán reunited with her father, she revealed that her master was a Mountain Lord of the Dao Tian Sect, leaving Su Heng stunned.

• The Fat Envoy killed the Su Household’s Great Elder and demanded that the family hand over a boy and a girl before nightfall.
• Li Zhōujūn arrived at the Su Household on a chariot pulled by nine Void Immortal Stage Flood Dragons, and the Fat Envoy and Thin Envoy knelt before him.
• When the envoys refused to reveal the Blood Refining Sect’s location, Li Zhōujūn searched the Fat Envoy’s soul and shattered the Thin Envoy’s Golden Core.
• A Su Household couple dragged away the crippled envoys to avenge the child they had lost, while the family thanked Li Zhōujūn for saving them.
• Sū Nán reunited with Su Heng and told him that Li Zhōujūn was the Mountain Lord of the Dao Tian Sect.

Li Zhoujun left Su Nan with her father before driving the Nine Dragon Chariot to confront the Blood Refining Sect. Near the sect, he encountered the Nangong Three Sisters, who learned he was a Mountain Lord of Dao Tian Sect as he challenged the Blood Refining Ancestor.

• Li Zhoujun reassured Su Heng that he would deal with the Blood Refining Sect and told Su Nan he would return for her in seven days.
• Li Zhoujun departed for the Blood Refining Sect while Su Nan stayed behind with Su Heng and the Su Family.
• The Nangong Three Sisters gathered below Blood Refining Mountain, intending to obtain Lin Yishang's jade pendant to enter the Void Immortal Tomb.
• The sisters saw Li Zhoujun arrive in the Nine Dragon Chariot, and his gaze briefly pressed down on them before he continued toward the sect.
• Li Zhoujun announced himself as the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord of Dao Tian Sect and challenged the Blood Refining Ancestor to come out and die.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Xue Lianzi on Blood Refining Mountain, where a scarlet phantom revealed itself as a formidable Blood Ancestor clone. As the Old Beggar arrived unseen by the others, Li Zhōujūn challenged the phantom to a bet, leaving the clash poised to begin.

• Nangong Xinran, Nangong Youran, and Nangong Anran watched Li Zhōujūn arrive with nine Void Immortal level flood dragons, and Xue Lianzi greeted him from Blood Refining Mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn ordered the flood dragons to attack Xue Lianzi, but a scarlet phantom emerged and scattered their freezing mist.
• An Old Beggar sensed the phantom, appeared above the battlefield, and found that he could not see through Li Zhōujūn.
• The Nangong sisters recognized the phantom as possibly belonging to the Blood Ancestor, whom True Immortal Zai Lu had sealed ten thousand years earlier.
• The Blood Ancestor clone attacked Li Zhōujūn, but Li Zhōujūn proposed a bet that the loser would call him Dad, amusing the Nangong sisters and the Old Beggar.

Li Zhōujūn defeated the Blood Ancestor’s avatar and destroyed the Blood Refining Sect, earning new system rewards. The Nangong Three Sisters recognized him as a Mahayana True Immortal, while the Blood Ancestor vowed revenge from Blood God Island.

• The Blood Ancestor’s avatar attacked Li Zhōujūn, who matched its perfected Tribulation Crossing Stage punch and shocked it into retreating.
• Li Zhōujūn earned the Automatic Cultivation reward, taunted the Blood Ancestor, and watched its avatar dissipate as it threatened him from Blood God Island.
• The Old Beggar saluted Li Zhōujūn and departed, while the Nangong Three Sisters realized he was a Mahayana True Immortal.
• Li Zhōujūn froze and shattered the Blood Refining Ancestor, then sent the Ao Xue Flying Sword to eliminate the Blood Refining Sect.
• Ao Xue reported that the sect had been wiped out and survivors found in its dungeon, prompting the system to reward Li Zhōujūn with a sword, sword art, and Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation.

Li Zhōujūn took Sū Nán from her family home and traveled with Murong Xue to the Xue Family at Great Zhao Mountain to congratulate its Old Ancestor on reaching the Integration Stage. The Xue family misjudged Li Zhōujūn as a powerless mountain lord until the Old Ancestor appeared.

• Li Zhōujūn told the Nangong Three Sisters that the Blood Refining Sect had been destroyed and left them to decide what to do next.
• After seven days with her family, Sū Nán left with Li Zhōujūn, who reassured Su Heng that he would protect his disciple.
• Murong Xue joined Li Zhōujūn and Sū Nán, and they traveled by Nine Dragon Chariot to the Xue Family at Great Zhao Mountain.
• The Xue Family celebrated its Old Ancestor's breakthrough as guests gathered, and Xue Wenyan became enamored with Sū Nán.
• Xue Zhan recognized Sū Nán's Saint-grade Ice Spirit Root and warned Xue Wenyan not to underestimate Li Zhōujūn.
• The Xue Family Old Ancestor emerged in the sky, and Xue Zhan and the family members knelt to welcome him.

Li Zhōujūn, Sū Nán, and Murong Xue attended Xue Wuliang’s banquet, where the Crimson Eyed Demon Lord arrived seeking revenge. The demon lord revealed that he was Chu Fan, a survivor who had spent thousands of years preparing to avenge Xue Wuliang’s daughter, Xue Ying.

• Xue Wuliang welcomed Li Zhōujūn and Murong Xue to his mansion, and Li Zhōujūn signed in to receive a one-use punch capable of killing anyone below the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
• Xue Wuliang introduced the Dao Tian Sect mountain lords to the banquet guests, some of whom privately dismissed Li Zhōujūn as a Cultivation Waste.
• The Crimson Eyed Demon Lord shattered the Xue Family’s Mountain Protection Array and appeared above the banquet plaza.
• The demon lord threw the severed heads of Xue Zhan and Xue Wenyan at Xue Wuliang’s feet and threatened to kill him.
• Chu Fan revealed that Xue Wuliang had forced Xue Ying into an arranged marriage, leading her to take her own life, and that he had survived his earlier death and prepared for revenge.

Chu Fan activated the Blood Sacrifice Great Array at the Xue Family gathering and overwhelmed Murong Xue with his Integration Stage perfection cultivation. Li Zhōujūn revealed his strength by catching Chu Fan’s redirected sword barehanded and declared that he would kill him.

• Chu Fan sealed the Xue Family beneath a Blood Sacrifice Great Array and announced that he would sacrifice everyone present to advance to the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
• Murong Xue asked whether Li Zhōujūn could face Chu Fan, and Li Zhōujūn said one punch would be enough to kill him.
• Chu Fan threatened to make Murong Xue his cultivation furnace, so she attacked him with a flying sword.
• Chu Fan caught Murong Xue’s sword with a blood-red hand and sent it flying back toward her.
• Li Zhōujūn caught the sword barehanded, returned it to Murong Xue, and identified himself to Chu Fan as the man who would kill him.