Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji used the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations to create an incarnation and challenged Patriarch Wu to a duel over the mineral vein at Zhao Family Village. The incarnation defeated Patriarch Wu, securing the vein for the Lu Family.

• Lu Xuanji silenced Liu Rumeng and summoned an incarnation, which cultivators mistook for an Innate Divine Ability.
• Lu Xuanji explained that his incarnation came from the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations, a Supreme Divine Ability he had gained from the Black Armor Youth.
• Patriarch Wu challenged the incarnation after it admitted it looked down on him.
• The incarnation struck with a sword-palm, and Patriarch Wu countered with the Vast Sumeru Fist.
• The sword-palm shattered Patriarch Wu's mountain attack and defeated him, leaving the mineral vein to the Lu Family.
• Dan Chenzi treated Patriarch Wu as Lu Xuanji put away the incarnation and left after the Sword Duel ended.

After losing to Lu Xuanji, the Wu Family Patriarch reported to the Black-Clothed Man, who realized Lu Xuanji had a powerful incarnation technique and accepted that the duel had revealed his trump card. At the mineral vein, Liu Rumeng warned Lu Xuanji that powerful figures would target him, but he resolved to stay cautious and turn attacks against him into opportunities to seize resources.

• The Wu Family Patriarch recounted his duel with Lu Xuanji to the Black-Clothed Man, who ruled out several known incarnation techniques and concluded Lu Xuanji had cultivated a top-tier method.
• The Wu Family Patriarch explained that he had planned to kill Lu Xuanji with a forbidden artifact and then take his own life to appease Ancestor Jin, but Lu Xuanji’s incarnation had foiled the plan.
• The Black-Clothed Man told the Wu Family Patriarch that the failed plot was not his fault and that probing Lu Xuanji’s trump card had still been useful.
• At Zhao Family Village, Liu Rumeng asked Lu Xuanji why he had spared the Wu Family Patriarch, and Lu Xuanji said his duties as Lu Family Patriarch had kept him from killing him.
• Liu Rumeng warned Lu Xuanji that Golden Core Ancestors could use pawns to threaten his rise, while Lu Xuanji vowed to be careful and said he would seize resources from anyone who attacked him.

Liu Rumeng explained the three kinds of cultivation tribulations to Lu Xuanji and warned him that his great fortune would attract powerful enemies. She gave him the Ground Shrinking Golden Light divine ability and three protective talismans before leaving him to face the dangers ahead.

• Liu Rumeng explained that human tribulations were unpredictable trials of killing, while Lu Xuanji realized his exceptional luck had drawn both allies and enemies.
• Liu Rumeng told Lu Xuanji she had been appointed his Dao Protector and warned that she could only hold off an ordinary Golden Core cultivator briefly.
• Liu Rumeng gave Lu Xuanji a Jade Pendant containing the first passage of Ground Shrinking Golden Light and three powerful talismans from the Ancestor.
• Lu Xuanji absorbed the talismans into his dantian, where they could activate automatically to protect him.

Lu Xuanji learned that the Nameless Stone Tablet recorded the immortal Great Vow Technique, then spent ten years honing his divine abilities while Liu Rumeng strengthened the Lu Clan’s spirit vein. The chapter left him newly achieving minor mastery in Ground Shrinking Golden Light, though he still could not control or sustain it.

• Liu Rumeng told Lu Xuanji that Ancestor Jin was in seclusion attempting Golden Core Ninth Revolution and would remain there for thirty years.
• Lu Xuanji’s Fate Deduction revealed that the Nameless Stone Tablet contained the Great Vow Technique, an immortal art that granted power through wishes to the Heavenly Dao but incurred a dangerous debt.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Changyuan Mountain, where Liu Rumeng upgraded the Lu Clan’s spirit vein to mid-grade third rank over about half a year.
• Over the next ten years, Lu Xuanji focused on improving his divine abilities and spells rather than prioritizing cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji reached minor mastery in Ground Shrinking Golden Light, but its sudden speed made him crash into a mountain and drained his True Essence.
• Liu Rumeng explained that Lu Xuanji would need special resources and greater cultivation to bring his divine abilities to perfection, while Lu Xuanji said Great Accomplishment would be enough for now.

Lu Xuanji used the Wish Rune to complete his Sky Wood Great Art, but the wish consumed twenty years of his lifespan and some of his luck. He realized the rune’s power carried a dangerous cost, while an old man in the Immortal Realm’s Temple of Destiny fished with karma and desire.

• Lu Xuanji assessed his cultivation, weapons, and slow progress toward Golden Core, then considered ways to improve his cultivation speed.
• Lu Xuanji activated his single Wish Rune and wished for Sky Wood Great Art to reach completion.
• The wish consumed twenty years of Lu Xuanji’s lifespan and some of his luck, while Sky Wood Great Art reached completion and advanced him to Rank 4 Spirit Plant Master.
• Lu Xuanji recognized that the Wish Rune could rapidly grant power but feared its costs and compared it to a dangerous shortcut.
• In the Immortal Realm’s Temple of Destiny, an old man fished with a straight hook, using karma as his line and desire as his bait.

An old man in the Immortal Realm selected Lu Xuanji as a potential Karma Chess Piece, despite his poor aptitude and timid nature, because he foresaw Lu Xuanji’s vast fortune and potential. The old man predicted Lu Xuanji would rise to Dao Integration Peak, then die during the Nine Layers of Immortal Tribulation, allowing him to use Lu Xuanji’s bones as a chess piece.

• The old man transformed a seven-colored fish into a black chess piece and added it to his chessboard, whose pieces became cultivators before changing back.
• Si Cang proposed Su Li and Bei Chen as candidates, but the old man rejected both as unsuitable.
• The old man identified Lu Xuanji as his preferred candidate, citing his hidden fortune, great comprehension, and potential to become an Immortal King.
• The old man recounted his predictions for Jin Xi, whose future death would allow him to refine her bones into a Karma Chess Piece.
• The old man predicted Lu Xuanji would suffer the loss of loved ones, turn to demonic cultivation, reach Dao Integration Peak, and die during the immortal tribulation.

Lu Xuanji comprehended the Great Wish Art and concluded that its true use was borrowing providence from the Heavenly Dao through great vows. Five years later, he went to investigate disappearances in the Lu Clan’s mine and encountered a lightning-fast white snake.

• Lu Xuanji learned that the Great Wish Art could consume providence and lifespan to strengthen abilities, then reasoned that its proper use was to make great vows and borrow providence from the Heavenly Dao.
• Five years passed, and Lu Xuanji remained at the Purple Mansion First Layer as his cultivation advanced slowly.
• Lu Xuanwen told Lu Xuanji that three Qi Refining Cultivators and two Foundation Establishment Elders had disappeared in the Lu Clan’s mine at Zhao Family Village.
• Lu Xuanji went to the mine, found high-level demon beast droppings, and ordered Lu Xuanwen and the other cultivators to leave.
• A white, three-foot-long snake lunged at Lu Xuanji like a bolt of lightning.

Lu Xuanji fought the White Spirit Snake, was swallowed into its Void Stomach, and escaped by breaking through its spatial illusion. After killing it, he absorbed its essence blood and chose to acquire the Void Stomach ability, leaving his stomach transformed and able to digest spirit stones.

• Lu Xuanji battled the White Spirit Snake, whose venom was neutralized by his Ink Carp Origin Blood, before it used Soul Capture and swallowed him.
• Inside the snake’s Void Stomach, Lu Xuanji used Baidu Maps to recognize the spatial illusion and escaped by breaking through the stomach wall with Ground Shrinking Golden Light and Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji trapped the White Spirit Snake in the Heaven Mending Cauldron and killed it with Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji refined the snake’s essence blood with Fish Dragon Nine Transformations and chose the Void Stomach ability over its deadly venom and Soul Capture.
• Lu Xuanji completed the transformation of his stomach and found that it could digest a spirit stone in ten minutes, converting it into nourishment and true essence.

Lu Xuanji broke through a declining formation and discovered a Cave Mansion filled with spirit stones and rare Spirit Cleansing Lotuses. He learned that its owner, Cold Robe True Lord, had died attempting Spirit Transformation, then took the remaining treasures and left.

• Lu Xuanji realized the Void Stomach let him eat a wide range of materials and use them to strengthen his cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji used the Blazing Fire Sword to break a weakened fourth-grade formation and enter the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuanji found millions of low-grade spirit stones, over a hundred thousand middle-grade spirit stones, a hundred high-grade spirit stones, and an ultimate-grade spirit stone, storing the haul in his Void Stomach.
• Lu Xuanji discovered three fourth-grade Spirit Cleansing Lotuses and collected them in jade boxes.
• Lu Xuanji read the diary and learned that Cold Robe True Lord had died while attempting Spirit Transformation; he paid his respects, searched the Cave Mansion, and left with its remaining treasures.

After reaching Purple Mansion Layer 2, Lu Xuanji reviewed the Lu Clan’s finances and uncovered widespread corruption and betrayal in the Dark Guards’ ledger. He and the Great Elder argued over which offenders to execute, and Lu Xuanji revealed a fourth-grade Spirit Cleansing Lotus that he offered to the elder.

• Lu Xuanji advanced to Purple Mansion Layer 2, then reviewed the Lu Clan’s accounts and found its finances generally healthy.
• A Dark Guard delivered the secret ledger, which revealed clan members embezzling, attacking customers, stealing clan property, and selling information to outsiders.
• Lu Xuanji met the Great Elder and called for severe punishments, including executions for those who preyed on customers, colluded with demons, or practiced demonic cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji and the Great Elder argued over which offenders should be killed, with the Great Elder insisting some could not be spared because they still had uses.
• Lu Xuanji argued that stricter rules were needed if the Lu Clan hoped to become a Golden Core Family.
• Lu Xuanji gave the Great Elder a fourth-grade Spirit Cleansing Lotus, but the elder laughed and urged Lu Xuanji to consume it himself.

Lu Xuanji persuaded Grand Elder Hai Feisi to resume cultivating and gave him a Spirit Cleansing Lotus, then shared a rare Pure Yang Grass with him. Two years later, Hai Feisi successfully refined three Low-Grade Pure Yang Pills, and Lu Xuanji observed and recorded the process.

• Lu Xuanji gave the Grand Elder a Spirit Cleansing Lotus and urged him to keep cultivating despite his poor aptitude and limited chances of reaching Golden Core.
• The Grand Elder warned Lu Xuanji to keep the details of his Cave Dwelling gains private and explained that the clan could not support every Purple Mansion cultivator equally.
• Lu Xuanji promised to help the Grand Elder reach Purple Mansion Layer 9, and Hai Feisi renewed his dedication to cultivation and abstained from women.
• Two years later, Lu Xuanji gave Hai Feisi one of the two harvested Pure Yang Grass stalks and watched him begin refining pills.
• After seven days and nights, Hai Feisi opened the furnace and produced three Low-Grade Pure Yang Pills as Lu Xuanji's phone recorded and analyzed the process.

Lu Xuanji used the Heaven Devouring Cauldron and Heaven Mending Cauldron together to produce High-Grade Pure Yang Pills, accelerating his cultivation while keeping the method secret. Three years later, Ye Wanyi arrived at Changyuan Mountain after breaking through to the Purple Mansion stage.

• Lu Xuanji swallowed a Pure Yang Pill and used his Pure Yang Dao Body to break down its Pill Poison, shortening the time before he could take another.
• Lu Xuanji refined Pure Yang Pills with the Heaven Devouring Cauldron, then used the Heaven Mending Cauldron to remove Pill Poison and raise their grade to high-grade.
• Lu Xuanji decided that High-Grade Pure Yang Pills were sufficient and planned to alternate them with Purple Mansion Pills as he pursued the Golden Core stage.
• Lu Xuanji showed the Great Elder the High-Grade Pure Yang Pills, and they agreed to keep them secret and sell only pills refined by the Great Elder.
• Three years later, Ye Wanyi arrived at Changyuan Mountain after breaking through to the Purple Mansion stage.

After reuniting following sixty years apart, Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi discussed her breakthrough, their future, and the resources he would devote to helping her reach Golden Core. They resumed cultivating together, leaving Ye Wanyi’s spiritual roots further transformed by their yin-yang cultivation.

• Ye Wanyi told Lu Xuanji that she had spent fifty-five years in seclusion and nearly died during her tribulations while breaking through to High-Grade Purple Mansion.
• Ye Wanyi asked to have a child, but Lu Xuanji urged her to focus on cultivation and promised to help her pursue Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji gave Ye Wanyi a high-grade Pure Yang Pill and explained that his Pure Yang Grass had matured and that he had refined a batch.
• Ye Wanyi worried that accepting his resources would hinder Lu Xuanji’s progress, and he reassured her that he was willing to make sacrifices for his Dao companion.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi cultivated together through Yin Yang Transformation, strengthening their cultivation and shifting Ye Wanyi’s roots toward water while his Pure Yang Dao Body restored some of her fire nature.

Lu Xuanji broke through the bottleneck to Spirit Transformation after gaining insight into Mortal Transformation, while Ye Wanyi’s Water and Fire Spiritual Roots fused into a Superior Ice Spiritual Root. A year later, Lu Xuanji received an invitation to a Purple Mansion Barter Meet, where he hoped to find a cultivation art suited to Ye Wanyi.

• During dual cultivation, Lu Xuanji gained enlightenment, broke through his Spirit Transformation bottleneck, and strengthened his state of mind.
• Ye Wanyi’s Water and Fire Spiritual Roots fused over three days and transformed into a Superior Ice Spiritual Root.
• Lu Xuanji used Phone Fate Deduction to search for an ice-element cultivation art, but the available information could only produce one reaching Purple Mansion Layer 5.
• The Grand Elder gave Lu Xuanji an invitation to a Purple Mansion Barter Meet at Roaring Dragon Market.
• Lu Xuanji agreed to seek a suitable cultivation art for Ye Wanyi at the meet.

Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi attended a Barter Meet in hopes of finding an ice-element cultivation method for her. A cloaked cultivator offered an ice method reaching the Nascent Soul ninth layer, but the chapter ended before Lu Xuanji responded.

• Ye Wanyi said she might have to create an ice-element cultivation method herself, and Lu Xuanji urged her to seek a suitable one at the Barter Meet first.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi traveled to Roaring Dragon Market and entered Treasure Gathering Pavilion wearing Heavenly Mystery Cloaks to conceal their identities.
• A Purple Mansion cultivator announced the Barter Meet's rules and warned that anyone who fought would be suppressed.
• A cloaked cultivator offered Myriad Things Soil, a Rank 3 Golden Bell, and the Longevity Art in exchange for Pure Yang Pills, but Lu Xuanji held back because Ye Wanyi's method was the priority.
• Several cultivators displayed treasures, and one offered an ice-element cultivation method reaching the Nascent Soul ninth layer, an Ice attribute Rank 3 Spirit Artifact, and a fire-element method in exchange for Purple Mansion Pills.

Lu Xuanji traded pills for cultivation techniques and treasures at the Barter Meet, then left after restoring his true appearance. A hidden mark on the Myriad Things Soil let his enemies track him, and a Purple Mansion Layer 9 cultivator confronted him in the wilderness.

• Lu Xuanji exchanged a Purple Mansion Pill and four Pure Yang Pills for Ice- and Fire-element Nascent Soul cultivation techniques and a third-grade Ice spiritual artifact.
• Lu Xuanji bought more goods, spending three Purple Mansion Pills, eight Pure Yang Pills, and four hundred thousand spirit stones in total.
• Lu Xuanji left the Barter Meet through a secret passage after changing back to his true face.
• A black-clothed cultivator told a man in white that he had hidden a tracking mark in the Myriad Things Soil Lu Xuanji bought, and the man in white sent out a signal to begin the attack.
• Two assassins received the signal, including an old man who transformed and vanished from a ghost village.
• A Black-Clothed Man with Purple Mansion Layer 9 cultivation blocked Lu Xuanji in the wilderness and attacked him with a blood-red sword.

Lu Xuanji used his manifestations to wear down a Purple Mansion Layer 9 assassin and learned to guide their combat with Fate Deduction. As Liu Rumeng fought another attacker, the hidden plotter ordered Plan Two: kill her if Lu Xuanji could not be killed.

• The assassin in black killed Lu Xuanji’s manifestation with one strike, and Lu Xuanji realized he had underestimated the gap between their realms.
• Lu Xuanji repeatedly sent manifestations against the assassin, using Fate Deduction to refine their attacks until the fight became a war of attrition.
• The exhausted assassin in black withdrew and hid nearby, while Lu Xuanji used Baidu Maps to track him and saw Liu Rumeng battling a Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Liu Rumeng broke her opponent’s golden shield with three strikes and pushed the enemy into a disadvantage.
• A subordinate reported that Plan One had failed, and the man in black ordered Plan Two to kill Liu Rumeng.

Liu Rumeng was ambushed by Xumi Devil Lord and seven other demonic cultivators, who trapped her inside a formation and sought to capture her. She revealed her Quadruple Spirit Root and fought back, but the demonic cultivators activated a grand formation around her.

• Liu Rumeng killed a Purple Mansion cultivator, then confronted Xumi Devil Lord as his forces sealed off the area.
• Xumi Devil Lord revealed that he had arranged the ambush with a Golden Core cultivator's help, and seven other Devil Lords joined him.
• Liu Rumeng recognized the attack as a human tribulation and resolved to fight despite being surrounded by eight Devil Lords and their followers.
• Liu Rumeng unleashed four elemental swords and revealed that she was a Quadruple Spirit Root cultivator, wounding the seven Devil Lords while Xumi Devil Lord remained unharmed.
• Xumi Devil Lord ordered the demonic cultivators to activate one hundred and eight Devil Flags, enclosing Liu Rumeng in a grand formation.

Lu Xuanji watched Liu Rumeng struggle against eight Devil Lords and a formation of Foundation Establishment Cultivators, then decided to intervene. He sacrificed sixty years of lifespan to activate the Mad Demon Talisman, raising his cultivation to Purple Mansion Layer 9 as he rushed toward the battlefield.

• Lu Xuanji saw Liu Rumeng surrounded by eight Devil Lords and one hundred and eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and recognized that the formation prevented her escape.
• Liu Rumeng fought back with her four treasure swords but suffered mounting injuries and lost much of her true essence.
• Lu Xuanji weighed whether to intervene, used the Golden Token to kill a black-clothed assassin with a Formless Sword, and hurried toward the battlefield.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Mad Demon Talisman, spent sixty years of lifespan, and raised his cultivation to Purple Mansion Layer 9.

Lu Xuanji joined Liu Rumeng on the battlefield and killed Xumi Devil Lord, but a mysterious golden palm attacked them as they tried to escape. Lu Xuanji’s second talisman carried them away, while the enemy withdrew after Golden Core experts noticed the battle.

• Liu Rumeng and the remaining cultivators continued fighting despite their injuries, and she warned the demonic forces she could still kill two Devil Lords.
• Lu Xuanji arrived, broke the encircling formation with his Primordial Magnetism Celestial Blade, and joined Liu Rumeng.
• Lu Xuanji endured Xumi Devil Lord’s attacks, then used the Great Accomplishment Primordial Magnetism Celestial Blade to kill him with one strike.
• Liu Rumeng carried the badly injured Lu Xuanji into the sky, but a golden palm attacked them and shattered the barrier from his first talisman.
• Lu Xuanji’s second talisman transported him and Liu Rumeng away, and the golden palm ordered the demonic forces to withdraw.