Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji discussed the Demonic Path’s place in the world with Azure Lotus True Lord, then withdrew to cultivate after his fortune waned. Ten years later, he reached the Golden Core Seventh Revolution and sensed the possibility of advancing to Nascent Soul.

• Lu Xuanji described the demonic cultivators’ growing violence, and Azure Lotus True Lord explained why the Demonic Path could be restrained but not eradicated.
• Azure Lotus True Lord told Lu Xuanji to stay in seclusion and reach the Golden Core Ninth Revolution before going out again.
• Lu Xuanji entered his Cave Dwelling and cultivated while his exhausted fortune recovered.
• Lu Xuanji circulated several cultivation techniques, refining his body, comprehending yin and yang, and strengthening his Golden Core.
• After ten years, Lu Xuanji reached the Golden Core Seventh Revolution and felt that he could attempt to enter the Nascent Soul realm.

Lu Xuanji reached the Golden Core Ninth Revolution after decades of cultivation, transforming his Golden Core and physique but making a future Nascent Soul breakthrough far less likely. Jin Xi returned with Ye Wanyi and Ning Xue, and warned that attempting the Tenth Revolution remained extremely dangerous.

• Lu Xuanji advanced his Golden Core to the Eighth Revolution, restored his Metal and Water Spiritual Roots, and formed a Five Elements Spirit Root.
• Lu Xuanji spent years reshaping his Pure Yang Dao Body and refining twenty grams of immortal gold until his Golden Core became flawless and reached the Ninth Revolution.
• Azure Lotus True Lord congratulated Lu Xuanji and summoned Jin Xi, who returned three days later with Ye Wanyi and Ning Xue, both newly in the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Jin Xi offered to help Lu Xuanji attempt the Tenth Revolution, but he said his divine soul was strong enough to proceed without her help.
• Jin Xi warned Lu Xuanji that even treasures might not protect him from the laws of the Immortal Realm, then vanished to rest; Ning Xue told her master that Xi Yue Sword Sovereign had paid an enormous price for him.

After reaching the limit of the Golden Core realm, Lu Xuanji prepared to attempt Golden Core Tenth Revolution with help from Jin Xi, Ye Wanyi, and Ning Xue. He entered the Grotto-heaven Pearl and used the Time Tree to probe the hidden Immortal Realm, attempting what usually required a Void Refining cultivator.

• Ning Xue told Lu Xuanji how she and Ye Wanyi entered the Nascent Soul Realm after cultivating in the Ice and Snow Secret Realm, then went into seclusion to consolidate her foundation.
• Lu Xuanji spent ten years tempering his Golden Core and body until his essence, qi, and spirit reached the peak of the Golden Core realm.
• Jin Xi met Lu Xuanji and urged him to attempt Golden Core Tenth Revolution, while Ye Wanyi noted that Bai Ling'er was also present on another battlefield.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Grotto-heaven Pearl and brought Jin Xi, Ye Wanyi, Ning Xue, and the others inside to assist him during the attempt.
• Lu Xuanji sat beneath the Time Tree and used his divine sense to search the depths of spacetime for the Immortal Realm.

Lu Xuanji repeatedly used the Rank 8 Timefruit Tree to search for the Immortal Realm, suffering soul injuries but gaining insights that strengthened his cultivation. After breaking the Immortal Realm Gate with the Pure Yang Broken Sword, he finally entered the Immortal Realm with his divine sense and glimpsed its vast laws, energies, experts, and resources.

• Lu Xuanji failed his first attempt to find the Immortal Realm, and Ye Wanyi healed his injured soul through dual cultivation with him.
• Lu Xuanji failed twenty times, tempering his soul in void storms, before Fate Deduction helped him glimpse the Immortal Realm Gate on his twenty-first attempt.
• Lu Xuanji gained insights from seeing the gate, improving his comprehension and the spirituality of his Golden Core without opening it.
• Lu Xuanji used the Pure Yang Broken Sword to shatter the Immortal Realm Gate, absorbing its origin energy and laws before his divine sense burst apart.
• Lu Xuanji repeatedly attempted to enter the Immortal Realm, improving his magic power, soul, Ground Shrinking Golden Light, Pure Yang True Fire, and saber technique.
• After eighteen further failures, Lu Xuanji's divine sense entered the Immortal Realm and surveyed its energies, laws, powerful experts, and resources.

Lu Xuanji absorbed Immortal Realm laws, advanced to a Ten-Revolutions Golden Core, and used Chu Kingdom’s peak Luck to attempt the Eleventh Revolution. Meanwhile, Kunpeng Celestial Venerable sensed a dramatic change in Chu Kingdom’s Luck.

• Immortal Realm laws transformed Lu Xuanji’s Golden Core into a Ten-Revolutions Golden Core and began evolving his body and bloodline toward immortality.
• Lu Xuanji’s magic power reached Four Thousand Jiazi, and he judged that he could defeat three versions of his former Ninth-Revolution self.
• At the hundred-year mark, Lu Xuanji felt Chu Kingdom’s Luck gather around him and began attempting the Golden Core Eleventh Revolution.
• Kunpeng Celestial Venerable reflected on Gu Changfeng’s difficult reincarnation and the vanished Luck that made it hard for fallen cultivators to regain their former heights.
• Kunpeng Celestial Venerable sensed that Chu Kingdom’s Luck had changed drastically and realized something major had happened.

A Demon Race sovereign ordered a massive Beast Tide and other attacks to throw Chu Kingdom into chaos. As the battle began, Jin Xi activated Ziyang Mountain’s defenses and mobilized its cultivators while demonic beasts battered the arrays.

• An old man sensed upheaval in Chu Kingdom, then ordered the Shadow Demon branch to investigate and the Demon Race to launch a Beast Tide, assassinate geniuses, and sow chaos.
• A farmer in a remote mountain village sensed the turmoil but decided it did not concern him as long as a certain person did not act.
• Tieling Pass warned of an unprecedented Beast Tide, prompting Chu Kingdom’s sects and cultivation forces to gather for battle.
• After a day of preparation, the Beast Tide swept forward and human and demon cultivators clashed.
• Jin Xi received the warning, activated the arrays around Ziyang Mountain, and mobilized its cultivators to defend the mountain.
• Demonic beasts battered Ziyang Mountain’s arrays, which slew many attackers but rapidly consumed spirit stones and suffered cracking Array Patterns.

As the Beast Tide besieged Ziyang Mountain, Bai Ling’er foresaw several futures in which True Lord Xi Yue died and used her power to alter them. Meanwhile, Lu Xuanji consumed his fortune to attempt Golden Core Eleventh Revolution with the Great Wish Art, and a mysterious imprint began to form.

• Jin Xi commanded Long Xuan and the Twelve Yuan Chen Sword Formation to repel the Demon Race’s Golden Core cultivators while Nascent Soul Great Demons watched for an opening.
• Bai Ling’er used her Heavenly Mystery Power to foresee nine possible futures in which True Lord Xi Yue fell during the Beast Tide.
• Bai Ling’er decided to intervene and used her Sixth Supernatural Ability, Peeking into the Future, to alter the unseen future.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Great Wish Art and spent his fortune to summon Heavenly Dao Power for Golden Core Eleventh Revolution.
• A Great Dao-like imprint appeared on the infant within Lu Xuanji’s Golden Core, and Heavenly Dao Power continued pouring into it.

Lu Xuanji risked his Golden Core Twelfth Revolution after condensing the Pure Yang Fate Pattern, despite his dwindling luck. As his cultivation collapsed, he glimpsed the River of Fate, while an Immortal Palace elder dismissed him as a ruined chess piece.

• Lu Xuanji condensed the Pure Yang Fate Pattern during the Golden Core Eleventh Revolution, but his luck fell too low to safely attempt the Twelfth.
• Lu Xuanji used Fate Deduction, received the answer “Unknown,” and chose to attempt the Twelfth Revolution rather than leave the mystery unexplored.
• An old man in the Immortal Realm celebrated Lu Xuanji’s rise as a potential chess piece and planned to harvest him after his ascension.
• Lu Xuanji’s attempt failed, shattering his Pure Yang Fate Pattern, injuring his origin, and dropping his Golden Core from the Eleventh Revolution to the Ninth.
• The old man judged Lu Xuanji useless and abandoned him as a chess piece.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Great Wish Art, exhausted his luck and essence, qi, and spirit, then glimpsed the River of Fate.

Lu Xuanji entered the Golden Core Twelfth Revolution and used the River of Fate to glimpse countless possible futures, including his own eventual death beneath the Nine Layers of Immortal Tribulation. The dormant phone became a boat that carried him upstream through the history of the universe to the Taiyi Era, where he witnessed the Cosmic Singularity.

• Lu Xuanji peered into the River of Fate and saw countless versions of his future, most ending in death, while the best path still ended beneath the Nine Layers of Immortal Tribulation.
• Lu Xuanji resolved to find a supreme path to immortality and understood that the Golden Core Twelfth Revolution let cultivators sense and alter their possible destinies.
• The phone appeared in the River of Fate as a small boat and carried Lu Xuanji upstream through scenes of legendary figures and the creation of the Immortal Realm.
• The boat passed through the Taiji, Taisu, and Taishi Eras and reached the Taiyi Era, where Lu Xuanji saw the Cosmic Singularity ejecting primordial particles.
• Lu Xuanji observed how the universe evolved through its earliest eras before reaching the age of competing races and the present era.

Lu Xuanji comprehended the end of the River of Fate and completed the Golden Core Twelfth Revolution, though his cultivation appeared to regress to the Ninth Revolution. He left with greater control over his fate and a safer path ahead.

• Lu Xuanji failed to derive the Innate Five Tai Scripture after trying to comprehend the universe’s origins.
• The little boat carried Lu Xuanji through the past and into the future, evading attacks from the Chaos Bell, a demonic claw, and a Taiji Diagram.
• The little boat reached a break in the River of Fate, where Lu Xuanji realized the universe was heading toward destruction and comprehended the Path of Termination.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the present and saw illusory figures in the River of Fate, then coughed as his body weakened and his Golden Core appeared to regress to the Ninth Revolution.
• Lu Xuanji recognized that his Golden Core was secretly at the Twelfth Revolution, which concealed his strength and loosened karmic ties.
• Lu Xuanji concluded that the Twelfth Revolution was the Golden Core’s limit and gained confidence in his ability to control his own fate.

Lu Xuanji emerged from the Grotto-heaven Pearl during the Beast Tide assault on Ziyang Mountain and used the Pure Yang Token to lock onto a concealed Nascent Soul ninth-layer Great Demon. As the red-clad woman prepared to kill True Lord Xi Yue, she realized a deadly attack had targeted her.

• Lu Xuanji discovered that Ye Wanyi, Ning Xue, and the others had left the Grotto-heaven Pearl to reinforce Ziyang Mountain during a massive Beast Tide.
• Lu Xuanji surveyed the battle and judged that he still lacked the speed and killing techniques needed to defeat Nascent Soul experts decisively.
• Lu Xuanji sensed a hidden Nascent Soul ninth-layer Great Demon whose intervention could doom Ziyang Mountain and True Lord Xi Yue.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Pure Yang Token and fixed its Aura of Destruction on the concealed expert.
• The red-clad woman prepared to attack True Lord Xi Yue, then sensed the lock and failed to shake it by changing her position and aura.

Lu Xuanji used the Pure Yang Token to drive off a powerful demon, while True Lord Xi Yue killed a Golden Crow Great Demon and forced the remaining demons to retreat. Ziyang Mountain survived the attack, and Jin Xi began recovering from her injuries with Lu Xuanji’s help.

• Lu Xuanji activated the Pure Yang Token, frightening the red-clad Nascent Soul ninth-layer Great Demon into fleeing.
• True Lord Xi Yue killed the Golden Crow Great Demon with the Black-and-White Swords, and the two surviving Nascent Soul Great Demons escaped.
• True Lord Xi Yue struck down Golden Core demons as the demon army collapsed into a rout, suffering only eight Golden Core Great Demon deaths.
• The human cultivators pursued the demons for a thousand li, gathered the dead, and began tallying battle merits and losses.
• Jin Xi returned to her cave dwelling to heal, and Lu Xuanji offered dual cultivation to help her recover.

Lu Xuanji used Yin-Yang dual cultivation to heal Jin Xi and refine his Golden Core, while Jin Xi later split into Xi Yue Dao Lord and Azure Lotus Dao Lord to join him. After the Beast Tide retreated, Lu Xuanji reviewed the battle accounts and ordered rewards distributed as his Golden Core neared fruition.

• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi practiced Yin-Yang dual cultivation, which helped heal her injuries and purified his Golden Core.
• A year later, Jin Xi asked Lu Xuanji whether he liked her or Azure Lotus, then used the Illusory Annihilation Body to split into Xi Yue Dao Lord and Azure Lotus Dao Lord.
• Lu Xuanji emerged from the Cave Mansion after another month and sensed that his Golden Core was close to gestating to completion.
• Liu Rumeng brought Lu Xuanji the account books and answered his questions about the battle's rewards, compensation, and gains.
• Lu Xuanji ordered Liu Rumeng to distribute rewards and noted that the Beast Tide had retreated from Chu Kingdom.

Lu Xuanji reunited with Azure Lotus True Lord, discussed his cultivation and future Nascent Soul breakthrough, then visited the Lu Clan as it rebuilt after the Beast Tide. The chapter left him encouraging the Great Elder to pursue Nascent Soul Stage.

• Lu Xuanji reunited with Azure Lotus True Lord, and they discussed her divided body, his Golden Core realm, and his plan to wait a hundred years before attempting Nascent Soul Stage.
• Lu Xuanji learned that Ye Wanyi and Ning Xue were both in seclusion, then left Ziyang Mountain because he had little else to do.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, where its cultivators were repairing damage from the Beast Tide and welcomed him as their Patriarch.
• Lu Xuanji saw how the Lu Clan had grown into a prosperous Golden Core family under his leadership, though many faces he once knew had disappeared over time.
• Lu Xuanji met the Great Elder and urged him to work toward Nascent Soul Stage; the Great Elder vowed to try rather than waste his long lifespan.

Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, learned of its prosperity, and told the Grand Elder about its three Nascent Soul cultivators. After sensing his own humanity fading, he gave Lu Fan valuable gifts and ordered a purge of clan members who had abused their positions.

• The Grand Elder celebrated the clan’s six Golden Core cultivators, then was stunned when Lu Xuanji revealed that Ye Wanyi and Ning Xue had reached Nascent Soul and that he planned to become Dao companions with True Lord Xi Yue.
• After drinking with the Grand Elder, Lu Xuanji noticed his emotions growing colder and his humanity fading.
• Lu Xuanji praised Lu Fan’s Purple Mansion cultivation, gave him treasures and spirit stones, and asked about problems within the clan.
• Lu Fan described corruption and crimes among clan members, so Lu Xuanji ordered the clan bell rung and called for a cleanup.
• Lu Xuanwen read out the offenders’ crimes as the law enforcement team dragged them away, while Lu Xuanji watched.

After enforcing the Lu Clan’s rules and rewarding those who served during the Beast Tide, Lu Xuanji replenished the clan’s spirit-stone reserves and tended to its resources. He then received a desperate message from Lu Xian, and his divination revealed both great calamity and great fortune.

• Lu Xuanwen ordered the Law Enforcement Squad to act, and Lu Xuanming killed clan cultivators found guilty of serious crimes while others were expelled.
• Lu Xuanji warned the clan members to obey the rules or leave, and Lu Xuanwen distributed rewards and compensation for the Beast Tide.
• Lu Xuanji used the Heaven Devouring Cauldron to make thirty million low-grade spirit stones and had Hong Fu add them to the treasury.
• Lu Xuanji tended the Creation Fruit Tree and spirit herbs, then refined pills for storage in the Medicine Nourishing Gourd.
• Lu Xian’s token called out, “Father, save me!” before shattering, and Lu Xuanji divined great calamity and great fortune.

Lu Xuanji set out for the Guixu Divine Sea to rescue his eldest son, Lu Xian, accepting the human tribulation he foresaw. After crossing into the lawless East Sea and fighting off repeated bandit ambushes, he witnessed a black giant serpent undergoing tribulation and beginning to transform into a flood dragon.

• Lu Xuanji decided to face his human tribulation and departed for the Guixu Divine Sea to save Lu Xian.
• Lu Xuanji crossed the East Sea after his protection from Chu Kingdom’s national fortune faded.
• Lu Xuanji killed eight Foundation Establishment Cultivation Bandits who ambushed his flying boat and took their storage bags.
• Lu Xuanji fought off repeated attacks from Rogue Cultivators as he traveled through the lawless sea.
• Lu Xuanji saw a black giant serpent endure heavenly tribulation as horns and claws emerged and it began transforming into a dragon.

Lu Xuanji rescued a black dragon from a Black-Clothed Man who tried to capture it, then killed the attacker and collected his treasures. The black dragon thanked Lu Xuanji and promised to repay him someday, while Lu Xuanji continued onward with the Demon God Cauldron among his spoils.

• Lu Xuanji decided not to interfere as the black dragon completed its tribulation, but changed his mind when the Black-Clothed Man attacked it.
• The Black-Clothed Man trapped the black dragon in a formation and wounded it, so Lu Xuanji broke the formation and let the dragon escape.
• The Black-Clothed Man attacked Lu Xuanji with the Overturning Sea Seal, but Lu Xuanji shattered it and killed him with a Calamity Arrow after he fled.
• The black dragon returned, thanked Lu Xuanji for saving its life, and promised to repay him someday.
• Lu Xuanji examined the Black-Clothed Man's spoils aboard his flying boat and identified the Demon God Cauldron as a peak fourth-grade magic treasure.

Lu Xuanji discovered that the slain bandit had secretly served Divine Water Palace and used the bandit’s chart to find his hidden island lair. He looted the island but restrained himself from killing its inhabitants, then found the Rank 5 Pan Tao Tree that had helped the bandit reach Golden Core.

• Lu Xuanji searched the bandit's storage bag, read his diary, and learned that Divine Water Palace had used him as a disposable black glove.
• Lu Xuanji burned the bandit's remains, used the sea chart to locate his lair, and flew to its hidden island.
• Lu Xuanji considered killing the island's residents, including the bandit's descendants, but suppressed his killing intent because his Nascent Soul Three Tribulations were approaching.
• Lu Xuanji entered the island and looted its treasure vaults and medicinal herbs while the island's cultivators stood by in fear.
• Lu Xuanji found the Rank 5 Pan Tao Tree and realized it had been the bandit's great opportunity to surpass his limited aptitude and become a Golden Core cultivator.

Lu Xuanji salvaged a Rank 5 Pan Tao Tree, acquired the Boundless Sea Art and Nine Sea-Covering Seals, and traveled to Wan Gui Island to find his son, Lu Xian. He learned Lu Xian was alive but had been forced into a marriage by Purple Cloud True Lord, and agreed to meet her.

• Lu Xuanji transplanted the Rank 5 Pan Tao Tree into his Grotto-heaven Pearl and used Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Creation magic power to save it.
• Lu Xuanji found the Boundless Sea Art and Nine Sea-Covering Seals in the treasure vault, studied them, and took the stone stele for his clan.
• Lu Xuanji traveled to Wan Gui Island, concealed his cultivation, and settled in the city where Lu Xian had last appeared.
• A female cultivator told Lu Xuanji that Purple Cloud True Lord intended to marry Lu Xian after he refused to become her Dao companion.
• Lu Xuanji rejected the idea of Lu Xian becoming a live-in son-in-law and agreed to meet Purple Cloud True Lord.