Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi attended a Barter Meet in the Chu Capital, where cultivators traded under strict rules designed to protect their identities and prevent violence. As Lu Xuanji negotiated for a Purple Mansion Pill, Ye Linglong recognized him and was astonished by his and Ye Wanyi’s cultivation and transformations.

• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi arrived in the Chu Capital and waited at the Joyful Guest Tower for the Barter Meet.
• Three days later, Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi brought pills and spirit herbs to the Barter Meet and joined the other Golden Core cultivators.
• The presiding cultivator laid out rules permitting bargaining while forbidding threats, violence, and the sale of customers’ information.
• Cultivators began trading, and Lu Xuanji negotiated with another cultivator over a top-grade Purple Mansion Pill.
• Ye Linglong watched from the shadows, recognized Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi, and marveled at their Golden Core cultivation and their changed spiritual roots and physiques.

Ye Linglong watched Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi reunite, reflecting on how their fortunes had changed over three hundred years. Lu Xuanji traded for materials at the Barter Meet, unknowingly dealing with Ye Linglong, then forged the Rotting Heaven Cannon.

• Ye Linglong observed Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi, comparing their Golden Core achievements with the losses and struggles of their generation.
• Lu Xuanji traded herbs and spirit stones with Blazing Fire Daoist for a divine material, then bought ores from other stalls.
• Lu Xuanji traded with the Black-Clothed Man for Deep-Sea Silver, Pure Yang Pills, and a Nirvana Pill, then realized she was a woman who knew him.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the inn and spent about half a year smelting materials in the Heaven Devouring Cauldron.
• Lu Xuanji successfully forged the Rotting Heaven Cannon.

Lu Xuanji helped the Rotting Heaven Cannon undergo tribulation, turning it into a Rank 4 Spirit Treasure, and gave it to Ye Wanyi. They then encountered a battle in the wilderness, where a mysterious gray-clothed cultivator intervened as a Black-Clothed Man tried to abduct a defeated woman.

• Lu Xuanji explained the Rotting Heaven Cannon’s immense power and flaws, then sealed it and spent ten days storing energy in it.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi took the cannon far into the wilderness, where it endured heavenly tribulation and became a Rank 4 Spirit Treasure.
• Lu Xuanji gave the Rotting Heaven Cannon to Ye Wanyi and warned her not to rely on magic treasures over cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji sensed an interesting event nearby, and he and Ye Wanyi went to watch a battle between two Golden Core cultivators.
• After the Black-Clothed Man defeated a black-clothed woman and tried to carry her away, a gray-clothed cultivator appeared and attacked him.

Lu Xuanji killed a Joyful Union Demonic Vein cultivator and discovered that the poisoned woman Ye Wanyi wanted him to save was Ye Linglong, whom he had believed dead. Ye Linglong’s Six Desires Powder left Lu Xuanji facing the choice of helping her himself, and Ye Wanyi urged him to do so as atonement for the past.

• Lu Xuanji used a clone to distract the Black-Clothed Man, seized his Golden Core, and killed him with Pure Yang Heavenly Fire.
• Lu Xuanji inspected the man’s storage bag, then hurried to a mountain cave after Ye Wanyi called for help.
• Ye Wanyi told Lu Xuanji that the woman poisoned by the Joyful Union Demonic Vein was Ye Linglong, who had faked her death and later joined the Divine Water Palace.
• Lu Xuanji refused to help Ye Linglong at first because he resented how she had treated him in the past.
• Lu Xuanji explained that Six Desires Powder magnified its victim’s desires, while Ye Wanyi urged him to save Ye Linglong as atonement.

Lu Xuanji rescued Ye Linglong from the Six Desires Powder but remained angry about her past deception, then examined Spring Autumn True Person’s spoils and began fusing his three cultivation techniques through Fate Deduction. He fell into enlightenment while Ye Wanyi quietly kept watch.

• Lu Xuanji used Endless Mortal World to dispel the Six Desires Powder from Ye Linglong and left without accepting her apology.
• Ye Linglong admitted her past deception, gave Ye Wanyi a Divine Water Palace token, and departed; Ye Wanyi told her that Lu Xuanji remained petty about the matter.
• Lu Xuanji calmed down and sorted through the spoils taken from Spring Autumn True Person, including spirit stones, pills, and jade books.
• Lu Xuanji considered how the Yin Yang Transformation, Azure Lotus Creation Art, and Pure Yang True Scripture had become the foundation of his cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji activated Fate Deduction to fuse the three techniques, and Ye Wanyi noticed his enlightenment and withdrew to keep watch in silence.

After recovering from his prolonged enlightenment, Lu Xuanji refined his Golden Core and strengthened his combat ability, then returned to the Lu Clan and planted two kinds of Spirit Medicine. He considered how Spirit Derivation Grass and Spirit Replenishing Grass could alter who could cultivate, but judged the seeds he had received to be of little practical use.

• Ye Wanyi fed Lu Xuanji a Creation Pill when his body withered from mana depletion, and he spent days recovering from his enlightenment.
• Lu Xuanji said he had reorganized his Golden Core and gained a deeper understanding of the Yin Yang Transformation and Pure Yang Scripture, though he had failed to combine them into a new cultivation technique.
• Ye Wanyi asked Lu Xuanji whether he wanted to renew his bond with Sister Linglong, but he refused and said the past should remain in the past.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi returned to the Lu Clan, where he planted Spirit Derivation Grass seeds and Spirit Replenishing Grass seeds in the medicinal garden.
• Lu Xuanji considered how the grasses could grant or complete Spiritual Roots, then recalled that the seeds had been thrown in as freebies and thought their medicinal effects seemed impractical.

Lu Xuanji planted Spirit Derivation Grass and Spirit Replenishing Grass, considering their uses and cultivation trade-offs. Twenty years later, his son Lu Xian returned as a Purple Mansion cultivator and reunited with his family.

• Lu Xuanji planted fifteen Spirit Derivation Grass seeds and kept three in reserve after assessing their cultivation time, cost, and chances of granting Spiritual Roots.
• Lu Xuanji planted five Spirit Replenishing Grass seeds and used Creation magic power to accelerate their growth.
• Lu Xuanji spent the next twenty years tending spirit herbs and medicines and living with Ye Wanyi.
• Lu Xuanji sensed Lu Xian's return, and Lu Xian arrived home as a Purple Mansion cultivator.
• Lu Xuanji told Lu Xian that Ye Feixue had reached Nascent Soul and praised her exceptional talent.
• Lu Xian gave gifts to his parents and younger brother Lu Fan, and the family shared a reunion meal.

Lu Xian left for the dangerous Return-to-Ruins Sea after receiving life-saving gifts from his parents. Several years later, Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that human cultivators were preparing to attack Heavenly Wolf Mountain, and he was ordered to join the war.

• At a family reunion meal, Lu Xian said he planned to explore the Return-to-Ruins Sea despite Lu Xuanji warning him of its dangers.
• Lu Xuanji gave Lu Xian a Gold Token with powerful abilities and a way to call for his father, while Ye Wanyi gave him the Rotting Heaven Cannon.
• After three years at home, Lu Xian entered seclusion, then left for the Return-to-Ruins Sea.
• Several years later, Jin Xi summoned Lu Xuanji and told him that war against the Demon Race was about to begin.
• Jin Xi explained that human forces would attack Heavenly Wolf Mountain because its wolf demons kept twenty million humans in captivity as livestock, and she said Lu Xuanji had to join the campaign.

As war with the Demon Race approached, Lu Xuanji learned that the Danyang Sect was fighting for resources and ordered most of the Lu Clan to mobilize. He initially kept his son Lu Fan off the battle roster, but let him join after Lu Fan insisted on proving himself.

• Jin Xi explained that the Danyang Sect was attacking the Heavenly Wolf Race to seize resources and said the Lu Clan had to send out at least sixty percent of its cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji gathered the Lu Clan and assigned more than twelve hundred cultivators to the battle, while the Great Elder and some young cultivators stayed behind to guard the clan.
• Lu Xuanji warned the fighters not to retreat without his order and opened the clan's secret treasuries so they could prepare for war.
• Lu Fan asked why he was not on the roster, and Lu Xuanji told him to stay home and have children.
• Lu Fan argued that he was a capable Foundation Establishment cultivator who wanted to prove he was not trash, and Lu Xuanji agreed to let him fight.

Lu Xuanji led the Lu Clan into the Danyang Sect’s campaign against the Demon Race, where Jin Xi fought a Demon Emperor and the army swept through demon beast territory. After killing a Golden Core Great Demon with two punches, Lu Xuanji headed deeper into the Demon Race hinterland to hunt more powerful enemies and seize greater rewards.

• Lu Xuanji prepared precious items for the Lu Clan cultivators, then led them to Ziyang Mountain to join the assembled army.
• Jin Xi ordered the offensive and took to the sky to battle a gigantic demonic python while the army advanced into Demon Race territory.
• Lu Xuanji directed the Lu Clan forces to breach demon beast mountain ranges and clear out the Purple Mansion Demon Beasts.
• Lu Xuanji killed a Golden Core Great Demon with two punches and took its Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji shrank the flying boat and led his group toward the Demon Race hinterland to hunt Golden Core cultivators and seek greater spoils.

Lu Xuanji tried to find the human True Lords’ target as battles erupted across the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and communication with Jin Xi failed. Baidu Maps revealed that the assaults on several powerful demon clans were diversions and that the true target was the Blood Demon Race.

• Lu Xuanji used the Golden Eagle’s essence blood to transform into a Golden Eagle, concealed himself inside it, and headed for the Heavenly Wolf Mountain Range.
• At Heavenly Wolf Mountain, Lu Xuanji warned the Heavenly Wolf lineage that humans might attack, then left without entering their territory.
• Lu Xuanji sensed battles breaking out in the Golden Eagle, Kun Peng, and Golden Crow territories, along with fighting in other regions.
• Lu Xuanji found that Primordial Magnetism Power had cut off his contact with Jin Xi, so he used Baidu Maps to survey the battlefield.
• Lu Xuanji concluded that the attacks on the Golden Crow, Great Roc, and Golden Eagle territories were diversions and that the human forces’ true target was the Blood Demon Race.

Lu Xuanji led the Lu Clan in an assault on the Heavenly Wolf Mountain Range while its Nascent Soul experts were absent. He used the Grotto-heaven Pearl to break the Heavenly Wolf Race’s Mountain Protection Array and entered the opening, leaving the battle underway.

• Lu Xuanji studied the battle and chose to attack the Heavenly Wolf Mountain Range because its two Nascent Soul experts were away.
• Lu Xuanji brought more than twelve hundred Lu Clan cultivators out of the Grotto-heaven Pearl and assigned them to begin breaking the formation.
• The Heavenly Wolf Race elder ordered a retreat from the outer regions and concentrated its defenses in the core area.
• Lu Xuanji used the Grotto-heaven Pearl to disrupt the earth veins and smash a gap in the Heavenly Demon God Annihilation Array.
• Lu Xuanji entered through the gap and detonated a Golden Core, killing many members of the Heavenly Wolf Race.

Lu Xuanji’s attempt to break the Heavenly Wolf Race’s layered formations cost him nine clones and many Lu Clan cultivators, forcing a retreat. He summoned Jin Xi to share urgent military intelligence.

• Lu Xuanji detonated Spring Autumn True Person’s Golden Core among the demon beasts, then used clones to attack the array’s core while a surviving clone drew the Heavenly Wolf Race’s fire.
• The Heavenly Wolf Race’s layered formations killed all nine clones and eight human cultivators who had entered the core area to destroy array nodes.
• Lu Xuanji retreated with the Lu Clan cultivators after the Blood Soul Divine Thunder injured and killed many of them.
• Lu Xuanji sent a Purple Mansion cultivator with a coded message to request reinforcements from Jin Xi.
• Jin Xi arrived with a large force, entered a warship with Lu Xuanji, and asked him to explain the intelligence.

Lu Xuanji revealed the battlefield’s troop movements and learned that the human forces were targeting the Blood God Fruit, while Jin Xi explained why Heavenly Wolf Mountain’s formation network was so difficult to breach. Lu Xuanji showed her the Grotto-heaven Pearl and transformed it into a Rank 5 Array Breaking Bead, offering a possible way to break through before the assault ended.

• Lu Xuanji used a secret art to display the armies’ deployments, and Jin Xi deduced that the human forces’ true target was the Blood God Fruit in the Blood Demon Mountain Range.
• Jin Xi explained that her mission was to harass the Demon Race and that she had already killed a Nascent Soul Great Demon python, while the attack on Blood Demon Ridge was reserved for Danyang Sect cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji said his attempt to attack Heavenly Wolf Mountain had destroyed nine avatars and caused losses among the Lu Family cultivators, and Jin Xi described the powerful formation network protecting the mountain.
• Jin Xi said breaking the formations would normally take her seven days, longer than the three-day assault allowed, unless they could use a powerful treasure or another exceptional method.
• Lu Xuanji handed Jin Xi the Grotto-heaven Pearl, then transformed it into a Rank 5 Array Breaking Bead that could interfere with formations.

Jin Xi gathered allies to attack the Heavenly Wolf Mountain Range, revealing that a fifth-grade Array Breaking Bead could disrupt its formations for ten breaths. The six True Lords agreed on battle and spoils terms and swore binding oaths before preparing to strike.

• Jin Xi sent messages to invite True Lords to join her assault on the Heavenly Wolf Mountain Range.
• Flying Snow True Lord, Nether Fire True Lord, Savage True Lord, Black Fire True Lord, and Profound Earth True Lord arrived, while Nether Fire True Lord secretly recognized Lu Xuanji’s Pure Yang Dao Body and suspected he had killed a cultivator of her vein.
• Six True Lords gathered aboard the warship and listened as Jin Xi explained how the Array Breaking Bead could briefly paralyze the enemy formation.
• Jin Xi proposed rules for cooperation and dividing spoils, and the True Lords added terms of their own.
• The six True Lords agreed to the terms, swore oaths to the Heavenly Dao, and signed contracts.

Jin Xi, Lu Xuanji, and the Human Race army attacked the Heavenly Wolf Race’s core stronghold, using the Array Breaking Bead and coordinated assaults to weaken its grand arrays. The Human Race began to gain the upper hand, and Jin Xi killed a Golden Core Great Demon before it could self-destruct.

• After the True Lords arranged their forces, Jin Xi ordered the six True Lords to activate the Array Breaking Bead and smash it into the Heavenly Wolf Race’s array formations.
• The Human Race army attacked from inside and outside, while the Heavenly Wolf Race’s Great Elder activated the surviving grand arrays to repel the invaders.
• Jin Xi and the other True Lords battled the Golden Core demons guarding the arrays as their allies destroyed Array Foundations and Array Nodes.
• Lu Xuanji used the Primordial Magnetism Yin Yang Celestial Sabre to break blood thunderbolts and observed that the weakening arrays were shifting the battle in the Human Race’s favor.
• Jin Xi pierced a Golden Core Great Demon with her sword and stopped it from self-destructing.

After the cultivators defeated the Heavenly Wolf Race, they divided the spoils and safely returned to Tieling Pass. Meanwhile, six True Lords secretly planned to ambush the surviving Heavenly Wolf Nascent Soul Cultivators.

• As the formation weakened, Lu Xuanji survived the Golden Core Great Demons’ self-detonations and helped slaughter the remaining Demon Race forces.
• Jin Xi led the cultivators in dividing the spoils, and Lu Xuanji received a share of the battle’s considerable wealth.
• The cultivators left the Silver Moon Tree behind because its roots would take too long to relocate, while its three Silver Moon Fruits went to Nether Fire True Lord, Profound Earth True Lord, and Savage Demon Lord.
• Jin Xi and five other True Lords secretly agreed to ambush the two surviving Heavenly Wolf Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• The flying vessels reached Tieling Pass, where Lu Xuanji marveled at the city’s formidable defenses.

After the Lu Clan settled at Tieling Pass, Lu Xuanji arranged compensation for fallen cultivators and heard Jin Xi’s account of the Demon Race’s losses and coming counterattack. A month-long assault ended with Di Tian challenging the humans to wagered duels between their prodigies, with the terms still to be stated.

• Lu Xuanji finalized compensation and rewards for the Lu Clan cultivators who had died or earned merit in battle.
• Jin Xi returned after helping kill a Nascent Soul demon, reported the Demon Race’s losses, and warned Lu Xuanji to beware a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Heavenly Wolf Race.
• Ten days later, the ten imperial Demon Race clans gathered beneath Tieling Pass and launched a fierce assault on the city.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji the attack was largely a show of force, and the Demon Race stopped attacking about a month later.
• Di Tian challenged the humans to send prodigies into life-and-death duels across multiple cultivation realms and began to announce the stakes.

Jin Xi explained that the arena duels wagered the two races’ clan fortune and urged Lu Xuanji to fight in the Golden Core battle for a chance at greater fortune. Three days later, the duels began, and Jin Hao killed twenty-six human Foundation Establishment cultivators in succession.

• The Golden Crow Demon Emperor and Tieling Pass’s defenders set out matching stakes and established rules for three arena battles, with violations costing one-tenth of a clan’s fortune.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that the battles wagered portions of each race’s clan fortune and urged him to join the Golden Core fight to seek the fortune needed for a Ten-Revolutions Golden Core.
• Jin Xi gave Lu Xuanji a token that would let him enter the arena, leaving participation to him.
• Three days later, Jin Hao entered the arena and challenged the humans.
• Jin Hao killed twenty-six Foundation Establishment cultivators one after another, leaving the human spectators furious and their lower-level cultivators terrified.

Lu Xuanji entered the Golden Core arena and cut down one Demon Race cultivator after another with a single blade. After his strength was exposed, a Demon Emperor ordered Demon King Xuan Ming to challenge him.

• Humanity conceded the Foundation Establishment battle after Jin Hao killed twenty-six human prodigies.
• The Demon Race won the Purple Mansion battle after both sides suffered heavy losses, leaving only five Demon Race tokens intact.
• Lu Xuanji stepped into the Golden Core battle and killed the first Demon Race cultivator with a punch.
• Lu Xuanji killed a Golden Crow challenger with one blade and stored away its corpse.
• Lu Xuanji continued killing Golden Core challengers with single strikes, and a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor ordered Demon King Xuan Ming to face him.