Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji passed Danyang Peak’s hidden fourth trial and received a Timefruit that could extend a cultivator’s life by a thousand years. He then explored the Grotto-heaven Pearl, discovering a Rank 6 Spirit Vein and a vast medicine garden containing a roughly three-hundred-thousand-year-old Medicine Emperor.

• Lu Xuanji entered the mountain and found a Timefruit Tree protected by a Spirit Transformation killing formation.
• Pill Aura Celestial Venerable’s voice granted Lu Xuanji one Timefruit, and the jade box teleported him back to Danyang Peak.
• Lu Xuanji hid in his cave dwelling and chose not to consume the Timefruit, deciding that Wanyi, Xi'er, or the Grand Elder might need it more.
• Lu Xuanji entered the Grotto-heaven Pearl and found a vast space with a Rank 6 Spirit Vein and a garden of ancient spirit medicines.
• Lu Xuanji discovered a Medicine Emperor about three feet tall, with nine golden-veined petals, that was roughly three hundred thousand years old.

Lu Xuanji discovered an intelligent Rank 7 Medicine Emperor, spared it, and named it Lu Yaoling after making it his son. Lu Yaoling showed him the grotto-heaven’s rare plants, including a dying Timefruit Tree bearing fruits that could extend a Void Refining Great Expert’s lifespan.

• Lu Xuanji identified the clover-like Medicine Emperor and stopped it from fleeing after it pleaded for mercy.
• Lu Xuanji taught the Medicine Emperor the Shapeshifting Technique, and it transformed into a small child.
• Lu Xuanji persuaded the child to call him Dad and named him Lu Yaoling.
• Lu Yaoling told Lu Xuanji that he had awakened intelligence less than two thousand years earlier and had roughly two hundred ten thousand years left to live.
• Lu Yaoling showed Lu Xuanji the Rank 7 Timefruit Tree and explained that its fruits could extend a Void Refining Great Expert’s lifespan, though each later fruit granted less time.

Lu Xuanji discovered the manuals, cultivation insights, and Rank 7 Dao Body Pill left by a Heavenly Gang Sect senior, then reunited with his wife after she entered the Golden Core realm. Their dual cultivation reached the highest level of Yin Yang Transformation, strengthening their karmic bond and more than doubling their cultivation speed.

• Lu Yaoling warned Lu Xuanji that he should wait until a higher realm before consuming a Rank 7 Timefruit.
• Lu Xuanji found three manuals, a pill, and a letter explaining the secret realm’s treasures and the Heavenly Gang Sect’s destruction by the Feathered Ascension Sect.
• Lu Xuanji learned that the gourd contained a Rank 7 Dao Body Pill and could also store a pill without decay for nearly a million years.
• Lu Xuanji reunited with his wife, who congratulated him on reaching the Golden Core realm and asked him to help stabilize her foundation through dual cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji and his wife reached the highest level of Yin Yang Transformation, forming an enduring karmic bond and more than doubling their cultivation speed.

Lu Xuanji gave Ye Wanyi a seventh-grade Dao Body Pill, which transformed her into an Ice Soul Dao Body and strengthened her frost abilities. After reaffirming that they would walk the path to immortality together, they spent time together before Ye Wanyi tended to their mountain peak and Lu Xuanji examined his gains.

• Lu Xuanji gave Ye Wanyi a pill that caused her body and soul to undergo a painful transformation, and she endured it while refining its medicinal power.
• After three days, Ye Wanyi awakened with an Ice Soul Dao Body, increasing her frost power and cultivation speed.
• Lu Xuanji explained that the pill was a seventh-grade Dao Body Pill and told Ye Wanyi he wanted her to accompany him on the road to immortality; she agreed.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi resumed their intimate time together, which lasted three days.
• Ye Wanyi began tending to their mountain peak, while Lu Xuanji examined a jade slip and discovered interesting gains.

Lu Xuanji read about Golden Core Revolutions beyond the Ninth, then continued cultivating with the Grotto-heaven Pearl. Ten years later, the Lu Clan’s Grand Elder formed a Mid-Grade Golden Core, giving the clan three Golden Cores and prompting a three-month celebration.

• Lu Xuanji learned that the Tenth through Twelfth Golden Core Revolutions involved the Immortal Realm, fate, and hidden taboos, but set aside the matter because he was only at the Third Revolution.
• Lu Xuanji cultivated with spiritual qi from the Grotto-heaven Pearl and expected to reach the Fourth Revolution within twenty years.
• Ten years later, Lu Xuanji sensed the Grand Elder’s breakthrough and arrived as the Grand Elder survived his ninth heavenly tribulation and formed a Mid-Grade Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji congratulated the Grand Elder, who celebrated the Lu Clan’s good fortune and its three Golden Cores.
• Ye Wanyi returned, and the Lu Clan held a grand feast that lasted three months while invited cultivators reacted with envy and unease.

After learning that the Lu Clan’s spirit vein could not support its Golden Core cultivators, Lu Xuanji gave the Grand Elder a Timefruit that extended his lifespan and considered how to strengthen the family’s foundation. He then visited Jin Xi with Ning Xue, whose Pure Yin Sacred Body caught Jin Xi’s attention.

• The Grand Elder explained that upgrading the Lu Clan’s spirit vein would require at least fifty million spirit stones and fifty years, and Lu Xuanji agreed to remain with the clan while the Grand Elder served the Danyang Sect.
• Lu Xuanji gave the Grand Elder a Timefruit, increasing his lifespan by a thousand years, and urged him to keep pursuing a High-Grade Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji cultivated using the Grotto-heaven Pearl and decided not to reveal it, then concluded that the Lu Clan needed a Level 5 Array Master to upgrade its spirit vein.
• Lu Xuanji took Ning Xue to Ziyang Mountain to visit Jin Xi in the Chaos Palace.
• Jin Xi recognized Ning Xue’s Pure Yin Sacred Body and said it would pair well with Lu Xuanji’s Pure Yang Dao Body for dual cultivation after they reached the Golden Core Realm.

Jin Xi reunited with Lu Xuanji, explained Ning Xue's potential, and proposed using the Chaos Palace's time-acceleration formation to help Ning Xue advance before Lu Xuanji attempts Golden Core Tenth Revolution. The chapter ended with Jin Xi beginning to explain the formation's drawbacks.

• Jin Xi used Plum Blossom Divination to learn Ning Xue's past and glimpse how Lu Xuanji's involvement had transformed her uncertain future.
• Jin Xi gave Ning Xue a Jade Pendant to conceal her pure yin qi and sent her to rest in the side hall.
• Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji reunited and discussed their cultivation, with Lu Xuanji promising to catch up and help bear her tribulations.
• Jin Xi offered to train Ning Xue, and Lu Xuanji confirmed he hoped to use her pure yin qi to attempt Golden Core Tenth Revolution.
• Jin Xi proposed using the Chaos Palace's time-acceleration formation to give Ning Xue centuries of cultivation in a shorter span of real time.
• Jin Xi warned that time spent in the formation still consumed a cultivator's lifespan, even though it shortened the time passing outside.

Lu Xuanji learned that Spirit Veins above Rank 4 depended on Spirit Trees and realized the dying Timefruit Tree in his Grotto-heaven Pearl threatened its nearly Rank 7 Spirit Vein. He tried Heaven Mending Qi without success, then sent Creation magic power into the withered tree.

• Jin Xi explained the drawbacks of the time acceleration Grand Array and agreed that Ning Xue could stay there.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that high-grade Spirit Veins depended on Spirit Trees and that a Rank 5 Spirit Tree would be too costly and dangerous for him to obtain.
• Lu Xuanji realized the dying Rank 6 Timefruit Tree in his Grotto-heaven Pearl could cause its Spirit Vein to dry up.
• Lu Xuanji entered the Grotto-heaven Pearl and saw the Timefruit Tree withering, then tried Heaven Mending Qi without effect.
• Lu Xuanji activated his Creation magic power and sent it into the withered Timefruit Tree.

Lu Xuanji used his Creation magic power to revive the aging Timefruit Tree while cultivating, eventually reaching the Golden Core Fourth Revolution. He later sparred with Long Xuan and stopped his saber just short of killing her.

• Lu Xuanji repeatedly drained and restored his magic power to nourish the Timefruit Tree, and after a year it sprouted new buds.
• After twenty years, Lu Xuanji broke through to the Golden Core Fourth Revolution, while Lu Yaoling watched from nearby.
• Lu Xuanji determined that the Timefruit Tree had less than eighty years before its lifespan ended and said it might transform into a seventh-grade tree or die.
• Lu Xuanji met Long Xuan, who had reached the Golden Core peak, and agreed to spar with her in the training hall.
• Lu Xuanji's saber overwhelmed Long Xuan's sword strike and stopped less than an inch above her head.

Lu Xuanji defeated Long Xuan with the Time Blade, then helped Ning Xue advance from Half-Step Purple Mansion through true qi dual cultivation. Ning Xue survived her tribulations and attained Purple Mansion, emerging with greater confidence.

• Lu Xuanji defeated Long Xuan with one strike of the Time Blade, leaving her despondent.
• Jin Xi saw Lu Xuanji demonstrate the blade’s speed and said she would comfort Long Xuan.
• Jin Xi asked Lu Xuanji to help Ning Xue purify her true qi and prepare for the Purple Mansion breakthrough.
• Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue practiced true qi dual cultivation, and her foundation steadily improved.
• Ning Xue endured her Purple Mansion tribulations and absorbed the spiritual qi flowing back from heaven and earth.
• After three days of Dao comprehension, Ning Xue emerged with Purple Mansion cultivation and newfound confidence.

Ning Xue reached the Purple Mansion Realm with Lu Xuanji’s help, and Jin Xi showed him the Time Fleeting Light Array. When Lu Xuanji tried to use it, his powerful Golden Core resisted the time distortion and caused the array to backfire on Jin Xi, leaving her injured.

• Ning Xue emerged from five years of secluded cultivation as a Purple Mansion Ancestor, and Jin Xi praised her solid foundation.
• Jin Xi took Lu Xuanji to the core hall and explained that the Enlightenment Tea Tree could take at least three thousand years to return to Immortal Grade.
• Jin Xi explained that the Time Fleeting Light Array could accelerate time, but its effect weakened against cultivators with higher realms and stronger foundations.
• Lu Xuanji entered the array, but his Creation Golden Core resisted the distortion until the array stopped after three breaths.
• Jin Xi suffered a severe backlash and meditated to heal, while Lu Xuanji realized he could not use the array to accelerate his cultivation.

After recovering from her injuries, Jin Xi reached Nascent Soul Layer 2 and set out with Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue to experience ordinary life across Chu Kingdom. Meanwhile, Bai Ling'er survived her Nascent Soul tribulation but was betrayed by her aunt, forcing her to flee as Green Hill was sealed off.

• Three months after her injuries healed, Jin Xi advanced to Nascent Soul Layer 2 and proposed traveling with Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue.
• Lu Xuanji, Jin Xi, and Ning Xue concealed their cultivation and spent three years traveling through Chu Kingdom as ordinary people.
• Bai Ling'er overcame her heavenly tribulation in Green Hill and became a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor.
• Bai Ling'er's aunt bound her and revealed that she intended to devour Bai Ling'er's bloodline to evolve into a Six-Tailed Demon Fox.
• Bai Ling'er escaped by shedding her shell, and her aunt activated a formation to seal off Green Hill.

Bai Ling'er escaped Green Hill after discovering that her aunt had attacked her out of jealousy over her powerful bloodline. After traveling west for three days and nights, she encountered a golden-robed man who called out to her.

• The Qingqiu Patriarch activated Green Hill's grand formation and ordered a search for a disguised Human Race Nascent Soul True Lord accused of killing Bai Ling'er.
• Bai Ling'er revealed that she had foreseen her aunt killing her and refining her into a Blood Pill, and realized that her aunt's jealousy had driven her to attack.
• Bai Ling'er decided to leave Green Hill and become a wandering fox rather than confront her Nascent Soul ninth layer aunt.
• Bai Ling'er left Green Hill and traveled west for three days and nights.
• A golden-robed man descended from the sky, transformed from the sun, and called, "Fellow Daoist, please stay!"

Bai Ling'er rejected Wu Xingyun’s proposal to become his Dao companion, refusing to help him turn against Qingqiu. After Wu Xingyun tried to capture her, she used a forbidden secret art to break through his array and escape, while he pursued her.

• Wu Xingyun intercepted Bai Ling'er and offered to protect her and make her his Queen if she joined the Golden Crow Clan.
• Bai Ling'er refused because Wu Xingyun would use their union to attack Qingqiu, and Wu Xingyun threatened to hunt her if she declined.
• Wu Xingyun revealed that he would capture Bai Ling'er and use her as a cultivation furnace, then attacked her and trapped her inside an envelopment Grand Array.
• Bai Ling'er activated the forbidden secret art Burning Six Tails, raising her cultivation to the Nascent Soul eighth layer.
• Bai Ling'er shattered the barrier with her blood-colored saber and escaped as her cultivation began to fall.
• Wu Xingyun pursued Bai Ling'er, determined to capture her.

Bai Ling'er fled Wu Xingyun into Human Race territory, where Annihilation True Lord intervened and forced the Golden Crow Demon Emperor to retreat. Severely wounded and stripped of her powers, she collapsed far away and was captured by a mortal hunter.

• Bai Ling'er used a Blood Burning Pill to escape Wu Xingyun and crossed into Human Race territory.
• Annihilation True Lord blocked the pursuers, allowing Bai Ling'er to escape by casting off her shell.
• Wu Xingyun and Annihilation True Lord fought until Human Race reinforcements arrived, prompting Wu Xingyun to flee.
• Bai Ling'er’s injuries forced her back into fox form and reduced her to an ordinary mortal fox with one tail.
• A mortal hunter found Bai Ling'er, bound her, and knocked her unconscious.

Lu Xuanji rescued a badly injured fox from a hunter and recognized her as a Qingqiu Demon Emperor he had once known. After waking, Little Fox revealed that his fortune had dissolved the Tribulation Qi threatening her and offered to become his Dao companion in return for saving her.

• Lu Xuanji spotted a pure-white fox being sold by a hunter and sent Ning Xue to buy her.
• Lu Xuanji identified the fox as a severely injured Demon Emperor from the Qingqiu Lineage, and Jin Xi proposed saving her so she might help him cultivate.
• Little Fox woke in the inn, realized the Tribulation Qi around her had vanished, and thanked Lu Xuanji for saving her.
• Little Fox told Lu Xuanji that her aunt had plotted against her and Wu Xingyun had hunted her after she became a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Little Fox offered herself as repayment and explained that she needed a fortunate Dao companion to help dissolve the Tribulation Qi that threatened her life.

Little Fox offered to become Lu Xuanji’s Dao companion, revealing that her Peeking into the Future ability could help him pursue a tenth-turn Golden Core, though its visions were limited and fallible. After recovering with Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji’s help, she healed through dual cultivation; years later, Lu Xuanji wondered how a Golden Core cultivator could sense the Immortal Realm.

• Little Fox listed the benefits of marrying her and explained that Peeking into the Future could raise Lu Xuanji’s chance of forming a tenth-turn Golden Core from one percent to ten percent.
• Little Fox described the ability’s limits, and Jin Xi warned that Lu Xuanji’s great fortune and precious treasure could make its visions unreliable.
• Jin Xi gave Little Fox healing pills, and Little Fox recovered enough to take human form before continuing her recuperation.
• A year later, Little Fox asked Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji to help heal her damaged foundation through dual cultivation, and they did so while recovering their origins and strengthening their bloodlines.
• After three years of healing through dual cultivation, Lu Xuanji asked how a Golden Core cultivator could sense the Immortal Realm and send divine sense into it.

The Little Fox explained how Immortal Artifacts could help cultivators glimpse the Immortal Realm and why reaching the Golden Core Tenth Revolution remained uncertain, then left to avoid bringing powerful enemies to the Lu Clan. Lu Xuanji reflected on the limits of laws against the powerful and was left wishing he were strong enough for her to stay.

• The Little Fox told Lu Xuanji that Immortal Artifacts could let an Upper Realm immortal guide divine sense into the Immortal Realm, but she had failed to form a Golden Core Tenth Revolution and could not discuss the Eleventh Revolution.
• The Little Fox said she would leave to avoid the Qingqiu Master and the Golden Crow Demon Emperor, promising to help Lu Xuanji when he reached the Golden Core Ninth Revolution, then vanished.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that the Little Fox had her own path and that neither the Qingqiu Patriarch nor the Golden Crow Demon Emperor could be resisted by the Lu Clan.
• Lu Xuanji reasoned that powerful figures were constrained by profit rather than rules, comparing the Cultivation World’s hierarchy to the power of money in his previous life.
• Lu Xuanji sighed that the Little Fox might have stayed if he had reached the Nascent Soul ninth layer, and admitted he was still too weak.

Lu Xuanji prepared the Lu Clan for a possible war between the Chu Kingdom and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, but both sides withdrew after three years. Three years later, his son Lu Fan reached Foundation Establishment, and Lu Xuanji gave him five treasured swords before spending days teaching him.

• Jin Xi left to confront the mobilized Demon Emperor of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and Lu Xuanji returned with Ning Xue to the Lu Clan and ordered its defenses readied.
• After three years of tension, the Nascent Soul Cultivators on both sides withdrew and signed an agreement, averting a major war.
• Three years later, Lu Fan emerged from seclusion at age fifty-three as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and Lu Xuanji congratulated him.
• Lu Xuanji gave Lu Fan the Blazing Fire Sword and four other swords that could combine into the Five Elements Divine Sword.
• Lu Xuanji taught Lu Fan about Foundation Establishment for several days, patiently answering his many questions despite his poor comprehension.

Lu Xuanji nurtured his family and cultivation, then advanced the Creation Fruit Tree to fourth grade and reshaped Changyuan Mountain’s Spirit Vein. He and Ye Wanyi traveled to the Chu Capital for the Trading Convention.

• Lu Xuanji taught his son and learned that many of his grandchildren had spirit roots, but none had Heavenly Spirit Roots.
• Lu Xuanji cultivated with Ye Wanyi and used Creation magic power to ripen Spirit Medicine and strengthen the Creation Fruit Tree.
• In the fifteenth year, the Creation Fruit Tree advanced to fourth grade and began producing enough spiritual qi to support a Golden Core cultivator.
• Lu Xuanji changed the formations around Changyuan Mountain so the Spirit Vein gathered spiritual qi from the tree, anticipating that it would eventually become a mid-grade fourth-grade Spirit Vein.
• Ye Wanyi told Lu Xuanji the Chu Capital Trading Convention would be held in three months, and they departed in a third-grade flying boat.
• A month later, Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi arrived at the Chu Capital, home to the Chu Kingdom’s largest cultivation market.