Chapter Summaries

Li Zhōujūn killed the Void Immortal-level Array Spirit threatening the Lu Family and accepted Lu Zhining as his disciple. He gifted her a protective sword array and agreed to stay until she could see her parents and attend the lantern festival.

• The Array Spirit attacked the Lu Family, but Li Zhōujūn sent the Ao Xue Flying Sword to cut it down and earned system rewards.
• Lu Wuhen thanked Li Zhōujūn the next morning for saving the Lu Family from destruction.
• Lu Zhining called Li Zhōujūn her Master, and he accepted her as his disciple and imprinted the Extreme Cold Sword Array on her.
• The system rewarded Li Zhōujūn with the Heaven Slaying Sword Technique and Taiyin True Scripture after he accepted Lu Zhining.
• Lu Zhining asked to stay until her parents returned, and Li Zhōujūn agreed; Lu Wuhen then asked her to take him to the lantern festival.

Lu Zhining reunited with her parents and introduced them to her master, Li Zhōujūn, after he saved the Lu Family. Lu Wuhen revealed that Zhining had the Taiyin Body and that the Golden Sun Sacred Sect’s master was heading to Jiang City, leaving her family to hope Li Zhōujūn would protect her.

• Lu Zhining’s parents, Lu Fusheng and Liu Wan'er, arrived and learned that Li Zhōujūn had saved her and killed the Void Immortal who attacked the Lu Family.
• Lu Zhining led her parents to meet Li Zhōujūn, who reassured them that he would teach her wholeheartedly.
• Lu Fusheng and Liu Wan'er visited Lu Wuhen, who told them to conceal his failing health from Zhining so her cultivation would not be disturbed.
• Lu Wuhen explained that Zhining had the Taiyin Body and warned that the Golden Sun Holy Lord was heading to Jiang City because his son might benefit from cultivating with her.
• Lu Fusheng worried that Li Zhōujūn might not oppose the Golden Sun Holy Lord, but Lu Wuhen smiled without answering.

At Jiang City's lantern festival, Yunyang and the Golden Sun Holy Lord tried to claim Lu Zhining as a cultivation partner for Yunyang. Li Zhōujūn recognized their scheme and confronted them, leaving the conflict poised to escalate.

• Lu Fusheng learned that Lu Wuhen trusted Mr. Li to protect Lu Zhining from the Golden Sun Holy Lord.
• Li Zhōujūn accompanied Lu Zhining to Jiang City's lantern festival, where He Fayang tried to court her.
• Yunyang arrived with the Golden Sun Holy Lord, and He Fayang quickly fled after Yunyang ordered him away.
• Yunyang demanded that Lu Zhining become his cultivation partner, while the Golden Sun Holy Lord urged her to join the Golden Sun Sacred Sect.
• Li Zhōujūn identified Yunyang's plan to exploit Lu Zhining's Taiyin Body and told Yunyang and the Golden Sun Holy Lord to leave.
• Yunyang threatened Li Zhōujūn, who revealed that he was Lu Zhining's master.

Li Zhōujūn protected Lu Zhining from Golden Sun Holy Lord and Yunyang, revealing that he was Dao Tian Sect’s Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord. After the father and son apologized and left, Li Zhōujūn told Lu Zhining to say farewell to her family before returning with him to Dao Tian Sect.

• Yunyang insulted Li Zhōujūn and attacked him, but Li Zhōujūn knocked him down before Golden Sun Holy Lord intervened.
• Golden Sun Holy Lord demanded that Li Zhōujūn hand over Lu Zhining and attacked him with Blazing Sun Fist, but Li Zhōujūn caught the punch effortlessly.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed his identity as Dao Tian Sect’s Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, shocking Lu Zhining and making Golden Sun Holy Lord realize whom he had challenged.
• Golden Sun Holy Lord apologized and ordered Yunyang to apologize to Li Zhōujūn and Lu Zhining.
• Li Zhōujūn let Golden Sun Holy Lord and Yunyang leave after securing their promise to fulfill one future request.
• Li Zhōujūn told Lu Zhining to bid farewell to her family, and they planned to return to Dao Tian Sect the next day.

Li Zhōujūn took Lu Zhining back to Dao Tian Sect, where she met Murong Xue and learned that Sū Nán had gone with Shui Nianyao to explore a secret realm. In the Ice Water Secret Realm, Sū Nán and Shui Nianyao discovered the Ice Water Daoist’s spirit in an ancient hall.

• Lu Zhining told her family that Li Zhōujūn was the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, and Lu Wuhen urged her to cultivate diligently under him.
• Li Zhōujūn and Lu Zhining left the Lu Family, and two days later returned to Dao Tian Sect, where Murong Xue recognized Lu Zhining’s Taiyin Body.
• Murong Xue told Li Zhōujūn that Sū Nán and Shui Nianyao had gone to the Shuiyue Dynasty to enter a secret realm.
• Sū Nán and Shui Nianyao explored the Ice Water Secret Realm’s ancient ruins and found no treasures in the great hall.
• The Ice Water Daoist emerged from a portrait and introduced himself to Sū Nán and Shui Nianyao.

Ice Water Daoist revealed that he planned to refine Shui Nianyao and Sū Nán to restore his body, but Li Zhōujūn intervened and destroyed his remnant soul. The group survived, while Canglan Mountain Lord realized Li Zhōujūn wielded a Ninth-grade Immortal Sword and might already be a Mahayana True Immortal.

• Ice Water Daoist told Shui Nianyao and Sū Nán that he had refined ninety-eight previous pairs of Ice and Water Spiritual Roots into pills and planned to use them to reconstruct his body.
• Ice Water Daoist overpowered the two disciples and attacked Shui Nianyao, but Canglan Mountain Lord emerged from her and challenged him.
• Ice Water Daoist shattered Canglan Mountain Lord's Sword Qi and struck down her clone before turning toward Sū Nán.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared in front of Sū Nán and confronted Ice Water Daoist, who assumed he could wait out the energy in Li Zhōujūn's clone.
• Li Zhōujūn summoned a Ninth-grade Immortal Sword and annihilated Ice Water Daoist's remnant soul.
• Canglan Mountain Lord and Shui Nianyao thanked Li Zhōujūn, while Canglan Mountain Lord wondered whether he had reached Mahayana True Immortal cultivation.

Sū Nán returned to Yunju Mountain, where Li Zhōujūn introduced her to her new junior sister, Lu Zhining, before entering seclusion. Meanwhile, Yuhua Ji relied on the True Immortal Token to face the Great Ling Dynasty’s threat, and the chapter ended with Ling Mu confronting him above the Divine Feather Dynasty.

• Sū Nán returned to Dao Tian Sect and parted from Shui Nianyao, while the Canglan Mountain Lord warned Shui Nianyao not to make an enemy of Yunju Mountain.
• Li Zhōujūn introduced Lu Zhining as Sū Nán’s junior sister and told the two to get along while he entered seclusion to refine his foundation.
• The Feather Emperor warned Yuhua Ji that the Great Ling Dynasty was preparing to attack, but Yuhua Ji claimed the incense he held would protect the Divine Feather Dynasty.
• Emperor Ling visited Ling Mu, who went to the Divine Feather Dynasty to meet Yuhua Ji.
• Yuhua Ji fearlessly challenged Ling Mu to attack, leaving Ling Mu wondering whether he had a hidden trump card.

Sū Nán and Lu Zhining helped a seemingly helpless old woman, only to discover she was a Golden Core cultivator with sinister intentions. The chapter ended as the Old Woman threatened them inside her house.

• Ling Mu gave Yuhua Ji one year to submit the Divine Feather Dynasty or face his personal attack.
• Sū Nán and Lu Zhining went to a nearby market and helped a lame Old Woman reach her home.
• Mu Hongyan recognized the Old Woman as an evil cultivator and followed the two girls, hoping to intervene and form a karmic connection with them.
• The Old Woman lured Sū Nán and Lu Zhining into her house and pressured Sū Nán to marry her dull-witted son, Dà Guā.
• After Sū Nán refused, the Old Woman threatened to use despicable methods and revealed her Golden Core cultivation.

Sū Nán and Lu Zhining were threatened by an Old Woman who planned to force them into marriage with her son, but a White-robed Woman intervened and fought the concealed Nascent Soul cultivator. The White-robed Woman dodged the Old Woman’s attacks and countered her teleporting strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The Old Woman revealed her Golden Core aura, threatened to plant Love Gu in Sū Nán and Lu Zhining, and demanded they marry her son, Dà Guā.
• A White-robed Woman burst in and sliced the Love Gu apart before they could reach Sū Nán and Lu Zhining.
• The Old Woman revealed that she had concealed her cultivation and reached Nascent Soul Early Stage, while the White-robed Woman chose to fight her despite the disadvantage.
• The Old Woman attacked with a whip, but the White-robed Woman evaded it, and Dà Guā fled in terror.
• The Old Woman teleported behind the White-robed Woman, who reacted by swinging her sword at the attack from behind.

Lu Zhining’s hidden formation killed the Old Woman, and Li Zhōujūn appeared to rescue her and Sū Nán while rewarding Mu Hongyan for her help. After Li Zhōujūn returned to his true body and broke through to the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, Elder Chen summoned him to Dao Tian Hall.

• The Old Woman overpowered Mu Hongyan and tried to seize Lu Zhining, but Lu Zhining’s Extreme Cold Sword Array erupted and annihilated the Old Woman and her Primordial Spirit.
• The sword shadows formed Li Zhōujūn, who scolded Sū Nán and Lu Zhining for getting into trouble and praised their ordeal as tempering.
• Mu Hongyan introduced herself, and Li Zhōujūn gave her jade that would summon him if she faced danger; she planned to use her new confidence to avenge her younger brother, whom Yu Linglong had killed.
• Li Zhōujūn’s true body opened its eyes after advancing to the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Elder Chen summoned Li Zhōujūn to Dao Tian Hall at the Sect Master’s request, and Li Zhōujūn immediately went there.

Li Zhōujūn was chosen to face Xiao Yuanhuai, who announced he would visit Dao Tian Sect in ten days. Meanwhile, Mu Hongyan confronted Yu Linglong at the Jade Dragon Sect over the murder of her younger brother.

• Mu Taiyu told the mountain lords that Xiao Yuanhuai had defeated experts from three major sects, and Li Zhōujūn agreed to defend Dao Tian Sect's dignity.
• Xiao Yuanhuai appeared at the Azure Continent's border and declared he would visit Dao Tian Sect in ten days.
• Li Zhōujūn returned to Yunju Mountain, gave Lu Zhining the Taiyin True Scripture, and learned Mu Hongyan had gone to the Jade Dragon Sect.
• Mu Hongyan arrived at the Jade Dragon Sect and caught Yu Linglong's whip when the Young Sect Master attacked her.
• Mu Hongyan revealed that Yu Linglong had killed her younger brother, and Yu Linglong recognized her as the little beggar girl and prepared to eliminate her.

Mu Hongyan fought Yu Linglong at the Jade Dragon Sect, gaining the upper hand until Yu Fenghua intervened and sent her flying. Instead of avenging his daughter, Yu Fenghua reprimanded Yu Linglong and asked Mu Hongyan what had happened.

• Yu Linglong attacked Mu Hongyan with her Jade Dragon Whip, but Mu Hongyan easily dodged and mocked her lack of progress.
• Mu Hongyan enveloped Yu Linglong in mist and wounded her with repeated sword strikes while Yu Linglong wasted her strength lashing blindly.
• Mu Hongyan aimed a final strike at Yu Linglong’s throat, but a powerful force from the Jade Dragon Sect sent her flying.
• Yu Linglong complained to her father, Yu Fenghua, but he yelled at her and then asked Mu Hongyan what had happened.

Yu Fenghua punished Yu Linglong for killing Mu Hongyan’s younger brother, then tried to force Mu Hongyan to marry him. Mu Hongyan summoned Li Zhōujūn, whose terrifying aura appeared over the Jade Dragon Sect as he greeted her.

• Yu Fenghua sentenced Yu Linglong to three years at the Cliff of Contemplation and ordered her to apologize to Mu Hongyan.
• Yu Linglong apologized and left for the Cliff of Contemplation, while Mu Hongyan recognized that Yu Fenghua was trying to protect her daughter.
• Yu Fenghua proposed marriage to Mu Hongyan, but she refused and told him to kill Yu Linglong if he wanted her to agree.
• Yu Fenghua tried to seize Mu Hongyan, so she crushed the jade stone Li Zhōujūn had given her.
• Li Zhōujūn’s True Immortal aura enveloped the Jade Dragon Sect, and his phantom appeared in the sky to greet Mu Hongyan.

Li Zhōujūn forced Yu Fenghua to compensate Mu Hongyan with a place in the Jade Dragon Secret Realm. Ten days later, Xiao Yuanhuai arrived at the Dao Tian Sect seeking a contest with Li Zhōujūn, who appeared at the mountain gate to meet him.

• Li Zhōujūn pressured Yu Fenghua into giving Mu Hongyan a Jade Dragon Secret Realm spot as an apology, then warned her that she would still have to compete for its opportunities.
• After Li Zhōujūn's avatar vanished, the Jade Dragon Sect's elders discussed his formidable cultivation and Yu Fenghua resolved not to risk offending him.
• Ten days later, Xiao Yuanhuai of the Taixu Sect arrived at the Dao Tian Sect and publicly challenged the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord.
• The You Ran Mountain Lord received Xiao Yuanhuai at the gate while Li Zhōujūn and the Dao Tian Sect's leaders discussed the visitor.
• Li Zhōujūn appeared before Xiao Yuanhuai, who recognized him as the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord and grew excited.

Li Zhōujūn fought Xiao Yuanhuai while the system’s Fifty-Fifty ability let him match Xiao’s attacks, and Xiao eventually admitted defeat despite realizing Li was stronger. Li then revealed he was forty-six, shattering Xiao’s invincible heart and completing his mission, which earned him cultivation, a pill, and a divine ability.

• Xiao Yuanhuai challenged Li Zhōujūn to a fight, and Li caught his punches with ease as the mountain lords and disciples watched.
• Xiao Yuanhuai attacked with successive techniques, while Li Zhōujūn matched him and remained unharmed even after Xiao struck him in the chest.
• Xiao Yuanhuai realized Li Zhōujūn was stronger and asked him to fight at full strength, but Li could only continue matching him.
• Xiao Yuanhuai admitted defeat, vowed to cultivate until he could fight Li at the same realm, and turned to leave.
• Li Zhōujūn told Xiao Yuanhuai he was forty-six, completing the mission to shatter Xiao’s invincible heart and earning three system rewards.

After defeating Xiao Yuanhuai, Li Zhōujūn investigated a mysterious corruption in the Dark Abyss and met True Lord Wei Huo and his disciple. The three pressed deeper into the ravine after fighting human-faced spiders, and True Lord Wei Huo learned that his companion was the famous Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord.

• Li Zhōujūn accepted the system's mission to investigate an anomaly in the Dark Abyss and flew there after greeting Sū Nán and Lu Zhining.
• Li Zhōujūn met True Lord Wei Huo and his young disciple, who explained that the Dark Abyss had become a Forbidden Land ten days earlier and that Wei Huo's eldest disciple had disappeared there.
• Li Zhōujūn, True Lord Wei Huo, and the girl found corpses and strange black stones that transformed into human-faced spiders.
• True Lord Wei Huo attacked the spiders with spirit fire, while Li Zhōujūn slapped one into ashes.
• True Lord Wei Huo learned that Li Zhōujūn was the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord and respectfully apologized for failing to recognize him.

Li Zhōujūn, True Lord Wei Huo, and Wu Shu encountered Linghuang’s corpse, which had been turned into a powerful puppet. The Spirit Dynasty’s National Preceptor revealed that he had created the Dark Abyss and used Linghuang as revenge for his son’s death.

• True Lord Wei Huo prepared to attack a black coffin, but Wu Shu appeared and warned them that her husband, Linghuang, lay inside.
• The coffin burst open, and Linghuang attacked True Lord Wei Huo, knocking him flying before standing obediently beside Wu Shu.
• True Lord Wei Huo accused Wu Shu of creating the Dark Abyss, but the Spirit Dynasty’s National Preceptor appeared and claimed responsibility for refining Linghuang’s corpse.
• The National Preceptor said Linghuang had killed his son, so he had made Linghuang’s corpse serve as his son’s vessel.
• Wu Shu attacked the National Preceptor with a golden phoenix, but Linghuang stepped in front of him, forcing Wu Shu to redirect her strike and shatter a nearby mountain.

Li Zhōujūn confronted Wu Shu and the Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor over their plot to turn Linghuang’s corpse into a puppet, only for Wu Shu to summon the Demon Realm’s Aha Demon Lord. Aha possessed Linghuang’s body and attacked Li Zhōujūn, beginning a battle between True Immortals.

• The Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor used Linghuang’s corpse to repel True Lord Wei Huo’s flames and revealed that he had refined the corpse into a puppet.
• True Lord Wei Huo asked Li Zhōujūn, the Cloud Dwelling Mountain Lord, to intervene, and Li Zhōujūn challenged the National Preceptor to expose the mastermind.
• Li Zhōujūn identified Wu Shu as the one who ordered the plan, and she admitted her role while hinting that she had a trump card.
• Li Zhōujūn revealed his Ninth-grade Immortal Sword, but demonic energy surged into Linghuang’s corpse, and Wu Shu welcomed the arriving Devil Master.
• Aha Demon Lord possessed Linghuang’s corpse, identified himself as being from the Demon Realm, and attacked Li Zhōujūn with a colossal Dharma idol and its Bone Shattering Saber.

Li Zhōujūn revealed his True Immortal power and fought Aha Demon Lord in a fierce, evenly matched battle. Aha admired him as a kindred spirit, while Li Zhōujūn suggested he seek opponents in the Immortal Realm.

• Li Zhōujūn summoned his Sky-Covering Dharma Form, revealed his True Immortal strength, and completed his Dark Abyss investigation mission.
• Li Zhōujūn received a system-modified version of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and used its close-combat techniques to strike Aha Demon Lord's Dharma Form.
• Aha Demon Lord put away his weapons, and he and Li Zhōujūn traded blows while the people nearby watched in awe.
• Aha Demon Lord complained when Li Zhōujūn interrupted his talk with a punch, then asked Li Zhōujūn's name and called him a kindred spirit.
• Li Zhōujūn told Aha Demon Lord to seek opponents in the Immortal Realm, and Aha said he would conquer it someday, but not yet.

Li Zhōujūn tricked Aha Demon Lord into believing his name was Xiao Yuanhuai, then left the Dark Abyss and set out on foot. Seeking shelter from the rain, he entered a ruined temple and heard travelers arrive outside.

• Li Zhōujūn told Aha Demon Lord that his name was Xiao Yuanhuai, while the real Xiao Yuanhuai sensed a powerful presence targeting him in seclusion.
• Aha Demon Lord departed with Spirit Dynasty National Preceptor and Empress Wu Shu, and the Dark Abyss vanished.
• True Person Wei Huo praised Li Zhōujūn’s strength and speculated that he was delaying his ascent to the Immortal Realm to accumulate power.
• Li Zhōujūn walked toward Dao Tian Sect, entered a ruined temple out of curiosity, and started a fire as rain fell.
• A group of travelers arrived outside, and a man suggested that they spend the night in the temple despite someone already being inside.