Chapter Summaries

The Golden Crow Demon Emperor ordered demons to kill the human prodigy marked by Xi Yue Sword Sovereign, and Bai Ling'er learned that Lu Xuanji was in danger. She used her newly awakened disguise ability to transform into a human woman and prepared to protect him.

• The Golden Crow Demon Emperor placed a wanted order on the Black Armor Youth and promised a blood feast for his corpse.
• A Purple Mansion demon beast saw the rewards for capturing the youth but judged itself too weak to pursue them.
• Bai Ling'er learned that Xi Yue Sword Sovereign had become a Nascent Soul True Lord and had killed the Golden Palace Demon King by triggering his Fate Tribulation.
• Bai Ling'er decided to protect Lu Xuanji from the Golden Crow Demon Emperor and used her fifth tail to disguise herself as a human cultivator modeled on a woman from Lu Xuanji's memories.
• Bai Ling'er introduced her disguise by saying, "My name is Qing You!"

Lu Xuanji fought his way through the Demon Race’s bounty hunters and returned toward Ziyang Mountain, but several powerful demons blocked his path. He swiftly crushed Ao Guang and began extracting his bloodline before Mu Yehuang launched an attack.

• Bai Ling'er wondered why Lu Xuanji could not forget a woman whose beauty she considered ordinary, and prepared to intervene if he was in danger.
• Lu Xuanji killed thirty-five Purple Mansion Demon Beasts while evading the Demon Race’s siege and hunting isolated enemies.
• After three days and nights of fighting, Lu Xuanji headed toward Ziyang Mountain to rest.
• Mu Yehuang, Ao Guang, and a white-clothed woman blocked Lu Xuanji and demanded that he become their slave.
• Lu Xuanji shattered Ao Guang’s head, suppressed him with the Heaven Mending Cauldron, and began extracting his essence blood.
• Mu Yehuang attacked Lu Xuanji with a vast palm technique.

Lu Xuanji defeated and refined Mu Yehuang, a powerful demon with Demon Ancestor bloodline, but suffered injuries that required treatment. He learned that Jin Xi had gone to the front lines to face the Golden Crow Demon Emperor, where the threat of a wider war kept both sides from escalating.

• Mu Yehuang unleashed his Demon Ancestor bloodline technique, but Lu Xuanji shattered Myriad Demon City and killed the demon cultivators around him.
• Mu Yehuang wielded his Rank 4 halberd against Lu Xuanji, who tore off his arm, broke the weapon, and struck down his body.
• Lu Xuanji trapped Mu Yehuang in the Heaven Devouring Cauldron and refined him with Pure Yang True Fire, leaving only a drop of violet-gold blood.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Ziyang Mountain, sealed his Cave Mansion, and treated his injuries after the Void Sky Armor vanished into his dantian.
• Azure Lotus told Lu Xuanji that True Lord Xi Yue had gone to the front lines to confront the Golden Crow Demon Emperor, but neither side wanted the conflict to spiral into all-out war.

Lu Xuanji planned to fight the Demon Race’s prodigies under the alias Ye Fan while hiding his identity from the Golden Crow Demon Emperor. As the challengers gathered at Ziyang Mountain, he prepared by choosing which demonic beast essence blood to absorb into the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations.

• Lu Xuanji asked Azure Lotus whether Nascent Soul Demon Emperors would intervene if he killed the top Demon Lords, and she said they would not, though she warned him the strongest could kill him.
• Lu Xuanji told Azure Lotus to announce that Ye Fan challenged the top ten Demon Lords, and Azure Lotus agreed to spread the challenge while warning him to be careful.
• Demon Race prodigies gathered near Ziyang Mountain, where Azure Lotus built an arena and vowed that neither side’s seniors would interfere in the juniors’ contest.
• Lu Xuanji secluded himself to prepare for the fight, deciding to use his Ye Fan disguise and avoid revealing the signature abilities tied to his real identity.
• Lu Xuanji considered which beast essence blood to use for the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations and resolved to choose abilities that suited him and could ultimately fuse together.

Lu Xuanji reinterpreted the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations as a way to strengthen his own human bloodline rather than imitate powerful Divine Beasts. After refining the bloodlines of nine lower-ranking demon beasts, he greatly improved his physical abilities and potential, leaving cultivation with a much stronger body.

• Lu Xuanji concluded that the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations used other bloodlines to nourish and evolve the practitioner's own bloodline, rather than to replace it.
• He refined the Thousand Jun Ant's Thousand Jun Strength and selected talents from eight other low-ranking demon beasts, including explosive power, defense, speed, recovery, and danger perception.
• Over three days, Lu Xuanji extracted and fused the nine bloodlines until their traces vanished and only his human bloodline remained.
• Lu Xuanji tested his changes and found that his strength, speed, explosive power, defense, true essence storage, recovery, and danger perception had greatly improved.
• He concluded that the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations had expanded both his combat power against peers and his long-term cultivation potential.

Lu Xuanji emerged from training with his Pure Yang Dao Body strengthened and challenged the Demon Race's top-ranked fighters. Qilin Saintess answered his call, and their battle began with both exchanging powerful blows.

• Lu Xuanji discovered that refining essence blood through the Fish Dragon Nine Transformations had greatly raised his body's potential.
• Azure Lotus True Lord noticed Lu Xuanji's stronger aura and warned him not to die in the arena.
• Lu Xuanji challenged the top three on the Demon Lord Ranking, and Qilin Saintess stepped forward, demanding that he become her servant.
• Lu Xuanji rejected Qilin Saintess's offer and attacked her, while her auspicious aura suppressed his connection to heaven and earth.
• Lu Xuanji and Qilin Saintess traded rapid blows, with their opening punch clash forcing Lu Xuanji back a step.

Lu Xuanji fought the Qilin Saintess, whose experience from her past life gave her an advantage despite their similar realms. After creating the Ant Emperor Fist in battle, he shattered her arm and sent her flying, leaving the duel unresolved.

• The Golden Crow Demon Emperor explained that the Qilin Saintess was a reincarnated Nascent Soul Demon Emperor, while the Kunpeng Demon Emperor noted that she and Ye Fan had already fought more than thirty moves.
• The Qilin Saintess injured Lu Xuanji and urged him to retreat, but he refused and challenged her resolve.
• The Qilin Saintess used her qilin aura and a Five Elements mountain attack, but Lu Xuanji shattered the mountain and forced her back for the first time.
• Lu Xuanji developed the rudiments of a fist art suited to himself, then unleashed the Ant Emperor Fist and shattered the Qilin Saintess's right arm.
• Lu Xuanji attacked again with the Ant Emperor Fist, sending the Qilin Saintess flying and making her spit blood.

Lu Xuanji defeated the Qilin Saintess, but the Golden Crow Demon Emperor rescued her before he could refine her. The other Demon Race experts fled rather than challenge him, and ten days later the Beast Tide ended.

• The Qilin Saintess sacrificed her fortune to boost her cultivation, but Lu Xuanji unleashed ten times his attack power and tore her body in two.
• Lu Xuanji tried to refine the Qilin Saintess in the Heaven Devouring Cauldron, but the Golden Crow Demon Emperor shattered the cauldron and carried her away.
• Little Stone Emperor judged Lu Xuanji too strong to fight and withdrew, while Black Dragon Demon Lord also avoided battle.
• The Demon Race cultivators fled as Lu Xuanji taunted them, and Azure Lotus True Lord explained that experienced cultivators would not risk their lives out of anger.
• Azure Lotus True Lord returned with Lu Xuanji to Ziyang Mountain, and ten days later the demon beasts withdrew and the Beast Tide ended.
• True Lord Xi Yue returned to Ziyang Mountain and found Lu Xuanji displeased that the Demon Race cultivators had been so afraid to fight.

Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan after the Beast Tide and reviewed its security, leadership, finances, and growing strength. The chapter ended with him visiting the medicinal garden and approaching the Rank 2 Creation Fruit Tree.

• Lu Xuanji complained to Jin Xi that the Demon Race Prodigies had fled after he defeated the Qilin Saintess, and Jin Xi explained why they had withdrawn.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi returned to the Lu Clan, which had survived the Beast Tide behind its defenses, though many of its Foundation Establishment fighters had died at Tieling Pass.
• The Grand Elder, strengthened by a Longevity Pill and now at the Half-Step Golden Core realm, entered seclusion to attempt to form a Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji reviewed the Lu Clan's reports and learned that it had over five thousand cultivators, more than two hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and a treasury surplus of thirteen million spirit stones.
• Lu Xuanji visited the medicinal garden, where the Rank 3 herbs were ready for harvest and the Rank 4 herbs needed forty more years to mature.
• Lu Xuanji approached the Rank 2 Creation Fruit Tree and sensed its pristine spiritual energy.

Lu Xuanji gave his second son, Lu Fan, a technique and Purple Mansion Peacock blood to improve his cultivation potential. After years of dangerous refinement, Lu Fan absorbed the blood and gained a Five Elements Treasure Body, leaving Lu Xuanji to urge him toward an even greater transformation.

• Lu Xuanji reflected on how long spirit trees took to mature, then summoned Lu Fan and assessed his cultivation progress.
• Lu Xuanji promised to prepare Foundation Establishment Pills for Lu Fan and taught him the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Lu Xuanji gave Lu Fan refined Purple Mansion Peacock essence blood, and Lu Fan began cultivating while absorbing it.
• Lu Fan suffered repeated Qi deviations and bloodline clashes, so Lu Xuanji repeatedly saved him and eventually refined him in the Heaven Mending Cauldron.
• After about five years, Lu Fan fully absorbed the peacock blood and gained a Five Elements Treasure Body with cultivation speed comparable to an Inferior Dual Spirit Root.
• Lu Xuanji told Lu Fan that a Five Elements Dao Body would offer him greater prospects.

Lu Fan emerged from ten years of instruction and resolved to expand the Lu Clan by taking more wives and having more descendants. Lu Xuanji spent the next decade developing the Nine Divine Forms, but managed to comprehend only three of them.

• Lu Xuanji passed Lu Fan memories of Five Elements techniques, and Lu Fan thanked his father after leaving the Cave Mansion ten years later.
• Lu Fan decided that he alone must grow the Lu Clan’s bloodline, aiming for at least thirty wives and a hundred sons.
• Lu Xuanji reflected on his battle with the Qilin Saintess and concluded that a divine power’s perfection depended on its resonance with the cultivator’s intent and character.
• Lu Xuanji practiced the Ant Emperor Fist and realized that self-created techniques could suit their creator more completely than techniques learned from others.
• Lu Xuanji spent ten years studying nine low-grade demon beasts and carved his Nine Divine Forms comprehension onto a stone stele.
• Lu Xuanji’s stone stele shattered, and he lamented that he had comprehended only the Ant Emperor, Dragonfly, and Flea Divine Forms.

Lu Xuanji tested the Three Great Divine Forms, whose powerful techniques carried dangerous costs, and broke through to Purple Mansion Layer 9 after years of cultivation. Ye Wanyi emerged from seclusion, and Lu Xuanji gave her pills to strengthen her body, divine soul, and mana as she prepared for the Golden Core stage.

• Lu Xuanji activated the Ant Emperor Divine Form, fought with twelvefold strength, and survived after his body exploded and regenerated.
• Lu Xuanji tested the Flea Divine Form and Dragonfly Divine Form, learning the former amplified attacks at great cost while the latter excelled at short-range speed and maneuvering.
• After practicing the divine forms, Lu Xuanji advanced to Purple Mansion Layer 9 and reached the Purple Mansion peak.
• Ye Wanyi emerged from thirty years of seclusion, and she and Lu Xuanji reunited before discussing her cultivation progress.
• Lu Xuanji gave Ye Wanyi Creation Pills, Golden Body Pills, and Divine Soul Pills to help her prepare for the Golden Core stage.

Ye Wanyi entered a death seclusion to attempt to form a Golden Core while Lu Xuanji watched over the clan. Lu Xuanwen broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm as the Lu Clan’s sixth such cultivator, and Lu Xuanji later began preparing his own breakthrough to the Half-Step Golden Core Realm.

• Ye Wanyi spent about three years traveling with Lu Xuanji before entering a life-or-death seclusion to perfect her essence, qi, and spirit and trigger her tribulations.
• Lu Xuanji observed that the Grand Elder was also in seclusion, Lu Xian was traveling safely, and Lu Fan had twelve sons.
• Lu Xuanwen broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm, becoming the Lu Clan’s sixth Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Lu Xuanji congratulated Lu Xuanwen, explained the privileges and duties of a Grand Elder, and took him to the clan’s secret treasury.
• Lu Xuanwen chose Creation Divine Iron for his Natal Magic Treasure, and the Lu Clan celebrated his breakthrough with a grand feast.
• After the Purple Mansion banquet, Lu Xuanji entered seclusion to prepare for the Half-Step Golden Core Realm.

Lu Xuanji entered seclusion to reach Half-Step Golden Core and converted all his true essence into unusually powerful magic power in twenty years. Though he had already met the standards for Golden Core, he decided to investigate a suspicion about his exceptional aptitude at the martial arts training ground.

• Lu Xuanji converted his first strand of true essence into magic power after three years of seclusion, much faster than Ye Wanyi or the Grand Elder had managed.
• After twenty years, Lu Xuanji had converted all his true essence and measured one hundred Jiazi of magic power at Golden Core Second Revolution quality.
• Lu Xuanji assessed his body, divine soul, and perfected divine abilities and realized he met the standards for condensing a Golden Core and triggering the three tribulations.
• Lu Xuanji swallowed a Creation Pill, but it increased his magic power limit by only one Jiazi, leading him to suspect his aptitude had grown so strong that the pill barely affected him.
• Lu Xuanji recalled the many sources that had improved his aptitude and concluded that he might have almost no bottlenecks before Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Xuanji went to the martial arts training ground to test a guess that might help him break through his limits.

Lu Xuanji pushed his body and mana beyond their limits with the Ant Emperor Divine Form, then sought Jin Xi’s advice about his extraordinary foundation. Jin Xi identified his soul as his weakness and told him the Yin Yang Secret Realm might offer an opportunity, while Lu Xuanji learned that the Two Forms Illusory Annihilation Body they possessed was incomplete.

• Lu Xuanji used the Ant Emperor Divine Form each day to expand his mana limit, then spent twenty years recovering and refining spirit stones until his body and mana could grow no further.
• Lu Xuanji visited Jin Xi and asked how his foundation compared with hers before she achieved Golden Core; after testing his strength, she was shocked by how far he exceeded the usual limits.
• Jin Xi explained that the Heavenly Dao’s ultimate limit was twelve and that Lu Xuanji’s mana had surpassed what his Pure Yang Dao Body should allow.
• Lu Xuanji taught Jin Xi the Ant Emperor Divine Form, and she warned that it was dangerous and that her body could not withstand its full power.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that his soul was his main weakness and that the Yin Yang Secret Realm might contain an opportunity to strengthen it.
• Jin Xi shared the Two Forms Illusory Annihilation Body with Lu Xuanji, who realized Azure Lotus Dao Lord had given him an incomplete and partly false account of the technique.

Lu Xuanji learned that raising his divine soul further would require rare medicine, so he and Jin Xi traveled to Yue Kingdom to seek opportunities in the Yin Yang Secret Realm. They arrived three years before it opened, and Jin Xi explained the demonic sects’ rules and warned Lu Xuanji about the power of their true disciples.

• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that only Medicine Emperor-grade or Half-Immortal medicine might strengthen his already exceptional divine soul, and pointed him toward a lake and an inheritance in the Yin Yang Secret Realm.
• Lu Xuanji learned that the Yin Yang Secret Realm, controlled by the Joyful Union Demonic Cult, would open in about three years.
• Lu Xuanji remained at Ziyang Mountain for three years, tempering his divine soul with little improvement, before he and Jin Xi departed for Yue Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi entered Yue Kingdom and saw that its people lived under stable order despite the land being ruled by demonic sects.
• Jin Xi explained the differences between lesser and great demonic paths and warned Lu Xuanji that demonic sects’ Inner Sect Disciples and True Disciples could be formidable.

Jin Xi explained the history of the Yin Yang Secret Realm and brought Lu Xuanji to its entrance, where cultivators from many factions gathered. After paying the entry fee, Lu Xuanji entered and found a small world containing ancient medicinal gardens, which the Joyful Union Demon Sect used to test its cultivators.

• Jin Xi explained that the Yin Yang Secret Realm was a remnant of the ancient Joyful Union Demonic Vein and described how a shepherd boy's inheritance led to the founding of the Yue Kingdom Joyful Union Sect.
• Jin Xi reassured Lu Xuanji that the sect's Spirit Transformation founder had been absent for a thousand years.
• Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji arrived at the secret realm, where Jin Xi introduced Elder Sun Weiyi and several gathered sects and factions.
• A Joyful Union Sect female cultivator charged each entrant one hundred thousand spirit stones, and Lu Xuanji paid before entering through the teleportation array.
• Lu Xuanji appeared in a small world with twelve ancient medicinal gardens and learned that the Joyful Union Demon Sect used the realm to make outsiders compete for herbs and temper its own cultivators.

Lu Xuanji entered the Yin Yang Secret Realm’s Life and Death Lake and used its cycling life and death qi to strengthen his body and soul. After leaving with his Soul Origin increased to nine hundred jin, he headed to the Inheritance Hall and saw the Inheritance Stele.

• Lu Xuanji passed up the medicinal gardens because their spirit herbs were of little use to him.
• Lu Xuanji overcame the valley’s repelling force and entered the Life and Death Lake.
• Lu Xuanji endured the lake’s alternating life and death qi, comprehended its principles, and tempered his body for ten days.
• Lu Xuanji’s Soul Origin increased by more than a hundred jin, reaching nine hundred jin.
• Lu Xuanji went to the Inheritance Hall, entered with the other cultivators, and saw the Inheritance Stele.

Lu Xuanji used his phone to secretly record the seven cultivation techniques sealed in the Inheritance Stone Tablet, then returned to Ziyang Mountain with Jin Xi. After raising his divine soul to nine hundred jin, he prepared to undergo the tribulation for Golden Core and drew it down.

• Lu Xuanji learned how Jin Xi had gained the Two Forms Body and become a Guest Elder of the Joyful Union Demon Sect, backed by Six Desires Devil Venerable’s token.
• Lu Xuanji failed to resonate with the Inheritance Stone Tablet, but used his phone to bypass the seals and record all seven cultivation techniques without alerting anyone.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi left the Yin Yang Secret Realm and returned to Ziyang Mountain three days later.
• Jin Xi discovered that Lu Xuanji’s divine soul had risen to nine hundred jin, and told him to prepare for his tribulation.
• Three months later, Lu Xuanji drew down the heavenly tribulation atop the mountain.

Lu Xuanji endured his Golden Core tribulation, then entered the human tribulation and encountered Ye Feixue. Ye Feixue mistook him for an illusion created by her inner demons and attacked him with a powerful Flame Blade.

• Lu Xuanji swallowed and refined the first two tribulations, then tempered his body and Five Viscera with the later lightning strikes.
• Lu Xuanji used the Primordial Magnetism Celestial Blade and the Heaven Devouring Cauldron to overcome the final heavenly tribulation and collect its thunderwater.
• A dreamlike radiance enveloped Lu Xuanji, drawing him into the human tribulation.
• Lu Xuanji awoke in a misty realm and saw Ye Feixue, while she believed he was an illusion meant to test her.
• Ye Feixue attacked Lu Xuanji with her Flame Blade, wielding the Minor Divine Power with enough force to grievously wound a Nascent Soul cultivator.