Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji accepted that Two Forms Dao Lord had made him one of many chess pieces and opened the hidden eighth floor of the treasury. He discovered the golden box was Dao Tribulation Immortal Metal and learned that its contents offered fortune, cultivation guidance, protection, and a possible refuge at the East Sea Dragon Palace.

• Two Forms Dao Lord told Lu Xuanji that thousands of people across the universe had become his chess pieces through karmic ties and opportunities.
• Lu Xuanji decided to take the Void Treasure Chest and used incense and an incantation to enter the treasury’s hidden eighth floor.
• The black and pink boxes vanished, while the golden box struck Lu Xuanji and resisted his attempts to open it.
• Lu Xuanji’s phone identified the golden box as Dao Tribulation Immortal Metal, and he melted it with Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji opened the box and read that it contained a Luck Fruit, a Pure Yang Scripture, a Pure Yang Token, and a marriage contract with a Dragon Clan Princess.

Lu Xuanji claimed the treasures left by Pure Yang Dao Lord, learned how to better cultivate his Pure Yang Dao Body, and returned to Ziyang Mountain. He revealed that Jin Xi needed Immortal Metal to complete her Ninth Revolution and gave Azure Lotus enough to help her, leaving Azure Lotus astonished by its value.

• Lu Xuanji refined the Luck Fruit, raising his fortune to purple, then concealed it and studied the Pure Yang Scripture.
• Lu Xuanji claimed the Pure Yang Token and stored the marriage contract arranging for Pure Yang Dao Lord's successor to marry the Dragon Palace Princess.
• Lu Xuanji used the Spirit of the Pure Yang Sword's memories to build a teleportation gate and returned to a location near Ziyang Mountain.
• Azure Lotus asked Lu Xuanji whether he had found medicine for her, and he explained that Jin Xi's failed Ninth Revolution had been caused by a lack of Immortal Metal.
• Lu Xuanji gave Azure Lotus ten grams of Immortal Metal powder, and Azure Lotus said it was worth far more than she could repay.

Azure Lotus received the complete Two Forms Sword Scripture and immortal metal from Lu Xuanji, then overcame her greed and used the metal to help herself and Jin Xi reach the Ninth Revolution Golden Core. Jin Xi gained power comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator, but her chances of forming a Nascent Soul fell to less than ten percent.

• Lu Xuanji left Azure Lotus the Two Forms Sword Scripture and ten grams of Dao Tribulation Immortal Metal, and Azure Lotus realized the Jin Family's Two Forms Sword Art was a shortened version of the scripture.
• Azure Lotus was tempted to kill Lu Xuanji for his treasures, but hurt herself to break the impulse and spent three days suppressing her greed.
• Azure Lotus refined three grams of immortal metal and reached the Ninth Revolution Golden Core.
• Azure Lotus merged with the sleeping original body, and Jin Xi refined five grams of immortal metal to reach the Ninth Revolution as well.
• Jin Xi and Azure Lotus considered using the remaining immortal metal to improve the Two Forms Sword, while Jin Xi reaffirmed that she could not pursue love before avenging the Jin Family.
• Jin Xi said her strength now rivaled a Nascent Soul cultivator's, but her chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Stage had dropped from seventy percent to less than ten percent.

Lu Xuanji returned home after Azure Lotus nearly killed him for Immortal Metal, and learned that the Law Enforcement Hall had wiped out the Zhao Clan and given its holdings to the Lu Clan. He took stock of the Pure Yang Sword, which began repairing itself and nourishing his body.

• Lu Xuanji realized Azure Lotus had nearly killed him to seize his Immortal Metal, and regretted revealing its value.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Changyuan Mountain and reunited with Ye Wanyi, who told him how the Lu Clan survived and the Zhao Clan was exterminated.
• Ye Wanyi explained that the Law Enforcement Hall had killed the Zhao Clan cultivators and handed the clan’s assets to the Lu Clan.
• Lu Xuanji reflected on the power of Golden Core cultivators and how the Zhao Clan had been destroyed after making the wrong choice.
• Lu Xuanji blood-sacrificed the damaged Pure Yang Sword and merged it into his body, where it began to repair itself and improve his physique.

Lu Xuanji reforged four magic treasures with immortal metal and released them to undergo Rank 4 treasure tribulations under Ancestor Jin’s protection. After the treasures endured the lightning, Ancestor Jin warned that Lu Xuanji’s remaining lifespan might not be enough for him to reach the Golden Core stage.

• Lu Xuanji upgraded the Heaven Mending Cauldron and Heaven Devouring Cauldron to Rank 4, then reforged the Blazing Fire Sword and Void Sky Armor with immortal metal.
• Lu Xuanji summoned Ancestor Jin to protect the magic treasures while they underwent tribulation, and she agreed to keep other cultivators away.
• Lu Xuanji released the four treasures’ sealing formation in the wilderness, bringing down heavenly tribulation as he retreated ten li.
• Ancestor Jin drove off nearby Golden Core cultivators who approached the treasure tribulation.
• The four treasures endured the lightning and gained spirituality, while Ancestor Jin estimated that Lu Xuanji had only one hundred and fifty years of lifespan left and might not reach the Golden Core stage.

Lu Xuanji received a Rank 4 Life-Extending Pill from Ancestor Jin, who forced him to take it, then saw his magic treasures become Rank 4 spirit treasures after the heavenly tribulation. Ancestor Jin tested Void Sky Armor with him and warned him that its brief Golden Core-level power did not guarantee victory against a Golden Core cultivator.

• Lu Xuanji discussed Ancestor Jin’s dwindling lifespan and declining chance of reaching the Nascent Soul realm, but she forced him to swallow a pill that extended his life by a hundred years.
• After the heavenly tribulation ended, the Blazing Fire Sword, Heaven Mending Cauldron, Heaven Devouring Cauldron, Void Sky Armor, and his other treasures gained spirituality and drained his true essence and qi and blood to nourish themselves.
• Lu Xuanji acknowledged that his four Natal Magic Treasures slowed his cultivation, but said he would keep Void Sky Armor because it protected him from Golden Core cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji activated Void Sky Armor and asked Ancestor Jin to test it; they fought until its Golden Core-level boost faded after a hundred breaths.
• Ancestor Jin praised the armor’s defense and combat boost, then cautioned Lu Xuanji that many factors determined the outcome of a fight.

Ancestor Jin persuaded Lu Xuanji to accompany her to the dangerous Chaos City, where rare resources might help their family and allies advance. Back at Ziyang Mountain, Lu Xuanji refined Pure Yang Pills and used the Heaven Mending Cauldron to produce a Top-Grade Pill, giving him a powerful way to improve cultivation prospects.

• Ancestor Jin explained combat strategies and warned Lu Xuanji that cultivators could be defeated by enemies of lower realms.
• Ancestor Jin received an invitation to Chaos City's auction and told Lu Xuanji that the city offered rare resources but was extremely dangerous.
• Lu Xuanji initially refused to go, but Ancestor Jin urged him to consider the needs of the Lu Family's Great Elder and Ye Wanyi, so he agreed to accompany her.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Ziyang Mountain and used the Rank 4 Heaven Devouring Cauldron to refine twelve pills from four portions of Pure Yang Grass.
• Lu Xuanji used the Heaven Mending Cauldron to refine a Pure Yang Pill, which his phone identified as a Top-Grade Pill with less than one-in-a-million pill poison.

After refining a large batch of pills, Lu Xuanji reviewed the Lu Clan’s affairs and summoned its cultivators to assess their conduct. He ordered the execution of clan members who had committed serious crimes, then began distributing rewards to cultivators who had reached key cultivation stages.

• Lu Xuanji refined forty-eight Pure Yang Pills, fifty-five Purple Mansion Pills, and thirty Nirvana Pills, then stored them in the Medicine Nourishing Gourd to extend their shelf life.
• Lu Xuanji reviewed the clan’s accounts and learned that Lu Xuanling and Lu Xuanyue had advanced to Purple Mansion, while the Grand Elder and Ye Wanyi continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Lu Xuanji rang the bell and questioned the clan elders, rewarding those who had done well and identifying shortcomings among those responsible for clan affairs.
• Lu Xuanji named roughly thirty cultivators who had violated clan rules and ordered their execution; Elder Tianxing carried out the sentences in the hall.
• Lu Xuanji announced that the clan’s reward distribution would begin, including pills for cultivators who had reached the required cultivation stages.

Lu Xuanji distributed pills and approved applications from clan cultivators, including Lu Ping'an's purchase of a Foundation Establishment Pill. Before preparing to leave for several years, he gave Ye Wanyi five supreme-grade Pure Yang Pills and an Ice Soul sword embryo for her to inscribe.

• Lu Xuanji approved nine credit applications for Foundation Establishment Pills and allowed Lu Ping'an to buy one outright for ten thousand spirit stones despite his Five Spirit Roots and age of seventy.
• Lu Xuanji approved applications for higher-tier pills, lectured the clan, answered questions, and supervised cultivators as they took their pills and entered secluded cultivation.
• After Ye Wanyi emerged from seclusion, Lu Xuanji gave her five supreme-grade Pure Yang Pills and said he would be away for several years without revealing where he was going.
• Ye Wanyi warned Lu Xuanji that Ancestor Jin might be using him and urged him to focus on cultivation rather than pill and artifact refinement.
• Lu Xuanji presented Ye Wanyi with an Ice Soul sword embryo, and she recognized that it was blank and ready for her to inscribe talismans upon.

Lu Xuanji left the Lu Clan under the guise of seclusion and traveled with Ancestor Jin toward Chaos City, where danger awaited them. As Devouring Metal Insects attacked their flying boat, Ancestor Jin explained their weaknesses and warned that neither she nor Lu Xuanji had the Ice Spiritual Root needed to counter them.

• Lu Xuanji gave Ye Wanyi the Ice Soul Sword, then left the Lu Clan after hanging a sign claiming he was in seclusion.
• Lu Xuanji met Ancestor Jin, confirmed that Azure Lotus was guarding Ziyang Mountain, and agreed to travel under the alias Ye Fan while she used the name Fang Qingxue.
• Ancestor Jin took Lu Xuanji aboard her flying boat, and he cultivated during their journey toward Chaos City.
• After the flying boat entered the dangerous region around Chaos City, Ancestor Jin warned Lu Xuanji to stay close and keep his guard up.
• A swarm of Devouring Metal Insects attacked the flying boat, and Ancestor Jin explained that ice attacks were their weakness even though neither she nor Lu Xuanji had an Ice Spiritual Root.

Lu Xuanji and Ancestor Jin survived the Devouring Metal Insects by killing their controller, Jiang Han, but Lu Xuanji fell asleep for three days after being exposed to Immortal Dream Powder. In Chaos City, he studied Jiang Han’s insect manuals after Ancestor Jin warned him to keep his cultivation focused before Nascent Soul.

• Ancestor Jin sent her flying sword a hundred li away and killed Jiang Han, causing the Devouring Metal Insects to retreat.
• Ancestor Jin warned Lu Xuanji about the Immortal Dream Powder on Jiang Han’s corpse, but he fell asleep despite trying to expel it with Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji woke three days later in an inn in Chaos City, where Ancestor Jin explained that she had killed their attackers and brought him there.
• Ancestor Jin told Lu Xuanji that an auction would begin in about three days and might offer a Nascent Soul Formation Pill.
• Lu Xuanji examined Jiang Han’s Insect Control Pot and manuals, but Ancestor Jin cautioned him against scattering his attention before Nascent Soul.
• Lu Xuanji recorded and studied the insect manuals as Ancestor Jin described the Gu Demon lineage’s strengths and its difficulty advancing to higher realms.

Lu Xuanji studied the Gu Cultivator lineage and its insects’ limitations before choosing a Devouring Metal Insect egg for an experiment. He made the insect his natal Gu worm and planned a second experiment once it reached the Purple Mansion bottleneck.

• Lu Xuanji read about the Gu Demon lineage and considered the insects’ low potential, combat power, and lifespans alongside their fast growth and low resource needs.
• Lu Xuanji declined Ancestor Jin’s Insect Control Pot and took one Devouring Metal Insect egg to conduct an experiment.
• Lu Xuanji offered ten top-grade Purple Mansion Pills for the auction, and Ancestor Jin reminded him to use their aliases, Ye Fan and Fang Qingxue.
• Lu Xuanji fed the insect egg his blood, placed it in his heart, and contracted with it as his natal Gu worm.
• Three days later, the egg hatched, and Lu Xuanji planned a second experiment for when the Devouring Metal Insect reached its Purple Mansion bottleneck.

Lu Xuanji and Ancestor Jin explored Chaos City, where cultivators practiced Mortal Transformation by living like ordinary people, then attended an auction at the Treasure Gathering Pavilion. The auction opened with valuable materials and a Core Formation Pill, while Lu Xuanji reflected on the Lu Clan’s growing wealth.

• Lu Xuanji and Ancestor Jin walked through Chaos City and observed its peaceful mix of races and cultivation levels.
• Ancestor Jin explained that the City Lord’s Spirit Transformation authority maintained order and that powerful cultivators concealed themselves among ordinary residents to undergo Mortal Transformation.
• Lu Xuanji and Ancestor Jin entered the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with an invitation and took a private room to watch the auction.
• The auctioneer offered Grand Yi True Metal, which bidders competed for until the price reached 2.8 million spirit stones.
• A Purple Mansion peak cultivator bought a Core Formation Pill for 3.5 million spirit stones, and Lu Xuanji calculated that the Lu Clan could save enough to afford one in thirty years.

Lu Xuanji bought the Flying Feather Treasure Chest after recognizing it, then learned that opening it required Great Yin True Water and female blood. Ancestor Jin won the Nascent Soul Formation Pill and planned to use it with a Five Elements Fruit to attempt a breakthrough, while Lu Xuanji asked her for a drop of blood to open the chest.

• Ancestor Jin stopped bidding for the Earth Spirit Pearl after the red-clothed female cultivator raised its price to three million five hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Lu Xuanji outbid other cultivators and bought the Flying Feather Treasure Chest for six million spirit stones, then scanned it with his phone and learned its opening requirements.
• Ancestor Jin won the Nascent Soul Formation Pill for twenty million spirit stones as the Auction Conference reached its climax.
• Ancestor Jin told Lu Xuanji she planned to combine the pill with a Five Elements Fruit to improve her chances of breaking through to Nascent Soul.
• Lu Xuanji asked Ancestor Jin for a drop of her blood and explained that female blood was needed to open the Void Treasure Chest.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi opened the pink treasure chest using Great Yin True Water and witnessed the apparition of a powerful woman, who offered Jin Xi two paths. Jin Xi chose the sword path and received the Chaos Palace and a sword embryo, while Lu Xuanji realized the opportunity had never been meant for him.

• Ancestor Jin prepared a secure room, and Lu Xuanji used her blood and Great Yin True Water to open the chest.
• A white-clothed woman appeared and offered Jin Xi the choice of joining the Goddess Palace or taking a sword to fight her way to immortality.
• After asking Lu Xuanji's opinion, Jin Xi chose the sword path, and the woman destroyed the Goddess Token.
• The woman gave Jin Xi the Chaos Palace and a sword embryo, which entered her glabella and dantian as she began refining them.
• Lu Xuanji apologized for taking Jin Xi's opportunity, and Lu Xuanji reflected that the chest had only used him to open it.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi explored the treasures within the Chaos Palace before Jin Xi went into seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm. After twenty years of cultivating, Lu Xuanji reached Purple Mansion Layer 6 and worried that Jin Xi had not emerged.

• Lu Xuanji explained why he wanted Jin Xi to claim the Void Treasure Chest's treasures, and Jin Xi asked him to call her Jin Xi instead of Ancestor Jin.
• Jin Xi chose a sword embryo over the Goddess Token and showed Lu Xuanji the Chaos Palace, including its Rank 9 Spirit Vein and Enlightenment Tea.
• Jin Xi showed Lu Xuanji the palace's Nine Heavens Breath Soil and array diagrams, then announced she would go into seclusion for ten to twenty years to pursue the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Jin Xi entered seclusion in Chaos City while Lu Xuanji cultivated and fed his Devouring Metal Insects with his heart's blood.
• Lu Xuanji advanced to Purple Mansion Layer 5 in the ninth year and Layer 6 in the twentieth year, then worried that Jin Xi had not emerged.

Lu Xuanji harvested and ate Dragon Tooth Rice while his Devouring Metal Insect continued its evolution. When Ancestor Jin entered her Nascent Soul Fate Tribulation, Lu Xuanji was pulled into the Illusionary Realm it created, where Ancestor Jin faced the heavenly tribulation.

• Lu Xuanji harvested Dragon Tooth Rice from the medicinal garden, then ate thirty jin and improved his aptitude.
• Lu Xuanji saw that the Devouring Metal Insect had reached Purple Mansion Layer 9 and continued evolving after consuming Dao Tribulation Immortal Metal and Heaven Mending Qi.
• Lu Xuanji wondered how Ancestor Jin was faring and realized she was undergoing her Fate Tribulation.
• Lu Xuanji sensed his aura connect with Ancestor Jin's, fell asleep, and was drawn into her Illusionary Realm.
• Ancestor Jin shattered nine heavenly tribulations, while a man watching her celebrated her impending breakthrough but could not remember what he had forgotten.

Jin Xi faced an illusion in her Fate Tribulation in which Zi Yunxiao attacked her and killed Lu Xuanji, but she saw through the illusion and shattered it. After passing the human and Fate Tribulations, she reunited with Lu Xuanji and learned that her vision might have warned her of a possible future.

• As Jin Xi entered the Nascent Soul Stage, Zi Yunxiao appeared and overwhelmed her, then explained that the Zi Family had cursed Jin Family descendants who tried to reach Nascent Soul.
• Zi Yunxiao threatened to kill Lu Xuanji, and Jin Xi knelt to beg for his life, but Zi Yunxiao killed him anyway and urged her to awaken her Heavenly Devil Dao Body.
• Lu Xuanji's severed head revealed that the scene was an Illusionary Realm in Jin Xi's Fate Tribulation, and Jin Xi shattered the illusion.
• Jin Xi completed her seclusion with her Golden Core replaced by a Nascent Soul, having passed the human and Fate Tribulations, while only the heavenly tribulation remained.
• Jin Xi embraced Lu Xuanji, and he suggested the illusion could be a warning from Fate about a possible future.

Jin Xi explained the Infant Slaying Curse that threatened her if she advanced to Nascent Soul, and Lu Xuanji proposed using Sword Island to hide her tribulation. She also revealed how she acquired the Heavenly Devil Dao Body and created the Azure Lotus Clone to contain it.

• Jin Xi explained that the Infant Slaying Curse would kill Jin Family cultivators attempting to reach Nascent Soul, while breaking it would alert a Spirit Transformation enemy.
• Jin Xi said a Ninth Revolution Golden Core could resist the curse, but the enemy would pursue her after she broke through.
• Lu Xuanji proposed undergoing tribulation on Sword Island, where damaged formations and chaotic heavenly secrets could conceal them.
• Jin Xi explained that a Heavenly Devil attack awakened her Heavenly Devil bloodline and gave her the Heavenly Devil Dao Body.
• Jin Xi said she used the Two Forms Sword Art and Rank 7 Pure Lotus to cut out the Azure Lotus Clone and guide the devilish origin away from herself.

After discussing the risks of Jin Xi’s split nature and the Heavenly Devil Dao Body, Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji left Chaos City for the Chu Kingdom and were ambushed by two Nascent Soul Cultivators. Jin Xi defeated them while concealing her true strength, then explained that she had staged her injuries and allowed one enemy’s Nascent Soul to escape so watching cultivators would underestimate her.

• Lu Xuanji searched the Pure Yang Sword’s memories and explained the flaws of the Heavenly Devil Dao Body, easing Jin Xi’s worries about Azure Lotus.
• Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji left Chaos City aboard a flying boat bound for the Chu Kingdom.
• Two Nascent Soul Cultivators ambushed them, and Jin Xi put Lu Xuanji in the Chaos Palace before fighting back.
• Jin Xi killed the Green-clad cultivator and captured his Nascent Soul, then pursued the black-clothed cultivator and destroyed his body while his Nascent Soul escaped.
• A Black-Clothed Man recorded the battle and assessed Jin Xi as a likely Eighth Revolution Golden Core cultivator with Spirit Transformation aptitude.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that she had feigned injury and held back her power because revealing her full strength could attract powerful enemies.