Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji confronted Purple Cloud True Lord about her relationship with his son, Lu Xian, and learned their bond began in a secret realm and also served to fend off a marriage proposal from the East Sea Dragon Clan. He refused to let Lu Xian marry into Divine Water Palace, but Purple Cloud True Lord stopped him and said she had an important matter to discuss.

• Lu Xuanji met Purple Cloud True Lord at Welcome Guest Tower and reunited with Lu Xian.
• Lu Xian told Lu Xuanji that Purple Cloud True Lord had fallen into his arms while drugged in a Divine Water Palace secret realm, then later brought him to the palace and asked him to marry into it.
• Purple Cloud True Lord explained that her Myriad Waters Treasure Body and Lu Xian's Pure Yang Dao Body complemented each other, and that their relationship helped her refuse the East Sea Dragon Clan's marriage proposal.
• Lu Xuanji agreed to their marriage only if Lu Xian did not marry into Divine Water Palace, but Purple Cloud True Lord said the sect would not allow her to marry out.
• Lu Xuanji prepared to leave, but Purple Cloud True Lord blocked the doorway and said she had an important matter to discuss.

Purple Cloud True Lord told Lu Xuanji that she was carrying Lu Xian’s child and intended to marry him, despite the Divine Water Palace’s opposition. Azure Cloud True Lord confronted her and demanded that she reconsider, but Purple Cloud insisted on choosing her own fate.

• Purple Cloud True Lord explained that she had been betrayed by fellow disciples, become pregnant by Lu Xian, and could only marry him; Lu Xuanji examined her and congratulated her.
• Purple Cloud True Lord described the Divine Water Palace’s power and her rivalry with Azure Cloud True Lord, while Lu Xuanji briefed Lu Xian about the situation.
• Lu Xian frowned at the prospect of marrying Purple Cloud True Lord but stayed silent under his father’s sharp gaze.
• News spread through the Divine Water Palace that Purple Cloud True Lord would become Dao companions with a Golden Core cultivator from the Eastern Wasteland.
• Azure Cloud True Lord went to confront Purple Cloud True Lord, who said she was carrying Lu Xian’s child and asked her aunt to accept her choice.
• Purple Cloud True Lord warned Azure Cloud True Lord not to interfere, declaring that she had the right to decide her own fate even if they became enemies.

Lu Xuanji intervened when Azure Cloud True Lord attacked Purple Cloud True Lord, defeated her, and left Divine Water Palace with Lu Xian and Ji Ziyun. As they traveled toward the coast, Lu Xuanji learned about the East Sea Dragon Palace and discovered that it was hunting them.

• Azure Cloud True Lord urged Ji Ziyun to marry into the East Sea Dragon Palace, but Ji Ziyun rejected her aunt’s pursuit of power and accused her of putting profit first.
• Azure Cloud True Lord tried to strike Ji Ziyun, and Lu Xian stepped in before Lu Xuanji shattered Azure Cloud True Lord’s attacks and forced her to back down.
• Lu Xuanji, Lu Xian, and Ji Ziyun left Divine Water Palace with her two maidservants after Azure Cloud True Lord warned them to beware of the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Ji Ziyun told Lu Xuanji about the hidden East Sea Dragon Palace and its loose network of Sea Race territories.
• Lu Xuanji detected that the East Sea Dragon Palace was hunting them, used Baidu Maps to avoid interception routes, and led the group toward the coast over the following month.

Lu Xuanji brought Lu Xian and Purple Cloud True Lord safely back to Chu Kingdom, then learned that Long Aotian was coming to challenge him. Long Aotian met Lu Xuanji at Ziyang Mountain, and their conversation left the promised confrontation unresolved.

• Lu Xuanji settled Lu Xian and Purple Cloud True Lord on Seven Stars Mountain before returning to Ziyang Mountain.
• Long Aotian learned that Lu Xuanji had escaped the Sea Race interception and decided to go to Chu Kingdom.
• Jin Xi warned Lu Xuanji that his growing fortune brought increasing tribulation, but he dismissed the danger.
• Long Aotian arrived at Ziyang Mountain and sensed that Lu Xuanji was a formidable opponent.
• Lu Xuanji explained how he had married Purple Cloud True Lord, and Long Aotian agreed to give her up.
• Long Aotian praised his four companion demons and declared that many women still wished to serve him.

Long Aotian challenged Lu Xuanji to a duel and fought him in a fierce battle at Ziyang Mountain. Lu Xuanji ultimately shattered Long Aotian’s Eight Divisions and cut him in two with a Seven-Colored Long Saber.

• Long Aotian demanded a fight, but Lu Xuanji warned that young prodigies risk ruining their Dao Hearts by clashing too soon.
• Long Aotian attacked Lu Xuanji with Azure Dragon Claw, but Lu Xuanji’s Creation Divine Fist forced him back for the first time.
• Long Aotian unleashed a barrage of dragon techniques, and he and Lu Xuanji fought to a stalemate for a hundred moves.
• Jin Xi observed the battle and recognized Long Aotian as an ancient immortal descendant, while Hong Yu and Xue Yue watched Long Aotian struggle against Lu Xuanji.
• Long Aotian summoned the Eight Divisions, but Lu Xuanji increased his strength twelvefold with Ant Emperor Divine Form and shattered them.
• Lu Xuanji struck Long Aotian with a Seven-Colored Long Saber, splitting him in two.

Lu Xuanji defeated Long Aotian, overcoming his human tribulation while gaining some of his rival’s fortune. Long Aotian left to cultivate and promised to challenge Lu Xuanji again, while Lu Xuanji reflected on how fortune had affected their encounter.

• Lu Xuanji killed Long Aotian with his Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Primordial Magnetism Cosmic Starlight Extinction Divine Blade, but Long Aotian survived using a Substitute Death Puppet.
• Long Aotian rejected his maidservants’ proposals to kill Lu Xuanji and left to cultivate so he could defeat him himself in the future.
• Jin Xi congratulated Lu Xuanji on overcoming his human tribulation, and Lu Xuanji acknowledged that he had gained a powerful future enemy.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Ziyang Mountain and realized that one-third of his Tribulation Qi had dissipated.
• Lu Xuanji concluded that his fortune had suppressed the tribulation, weakened Long Aotian’s luck, and made his enemies more inclined to observe martial virtue.

After assessing Long Aotian’s weaknesses and the coming Golden Age, Lu Xuanji prepared to improve his chances of forming a Nascent Soul. He gathered rare ingredients from Ziyang Mountain’s treasury and learned which four medicinal ingredients he still needed to find.

• Lu Xuanji reflected on his battle with Long Aotian and identified the prodigy’s limited combat experience as a weakness.
• Jin Xi, Ye Wanyi, Ning Xue, and the others entered seclusion as the Golden Age approached and competition grew more urgent.
• Lu Xuanji visited Long Xuan, became intimate with her, and asked whether Ziyang Mountain had Nascent Soul Formation Pills.
• Long Xuan brought Lu Xuanji to the secret treasury, where she gave him twelve boxes of precious Rank 5 spirit medicines.
• Lu Xuanji checked his supplies and found that he still needed Dragon Scale Fruit, Nine Bends Spirit Grass, Sun Ganoderma, and Bodhi Flower; Long Xuan suggested purchasing them in Chu Capital.

Lu Xuanji and Long Xuan traveled to Chu Capital, where he bought several rare ingredients and learned that Bodhi Flower might be available at an upcoming auction. After he left a shop, its staff plotted to rob him, and the chapter ended with Lu Xuanji waiting for the auction to begin.

• Azure Lotus True Lord asked Lu Xuanji to bring Long Xuan on the journey and revealed that her dragon bloodline was exceptionally pure.
• Lu Xuanji and Long Xuan concealed their identities and traveled to Chu Capital, where he sensed that spiritual energy was rising.
• Lu Xuanji bought Dragon Scale Fruit and Nine Bends Spirit Grass at Treasure Gathering Pavilion but refused its VIP card.
• After Lu Xuanji left, the shopkeeper and a Black-Clothed Man decided to follow and rob him for his spirit stones.
• Lu Xuanji bought Sun Ganoderma elsewhere, learned Bodhi Flower might appear at the Stars Pavilion auction, and later attended the auction.

Lu Xuanji attended the Stars Pavilion auction with Long Xuan, bought Bodhi Flowers and an inscrutable Bronze Coffin, then returned to his Cave Dwelling and refined three Infant Transformation Pills. The coffin remained unexplained, while the successful pill refinement left Lu Xuanji with three usable pills.

• Zhao Lingmeng opened the auction and sold a variety of treasures, including three Bodhi Flowers that Lu Xuanji bought for eighty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• A white-robed youth won the ancient Kunpeng egg, and the auction continued with rare treasures and spirit medicines.
• Lu Xuanji used Phone Insight and Fate Deduction on the mysterious Bronze Coffin but could not scan it, then bought it for forty thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Xuanji placed the Bronze Coffin in his Grotto-Heaven Pearl, where it landed with a violent boom.
• After the auction, Lu Xuanji returned to his Cave Dwelling and refined three Infant Transformation Pills, while six pills were ruined during the process.

Lu Xuanji completed his pill refining and forged twenty-four Magic Treasures to prepare for his Nascent Soul tribulation. After investigating the bronze coffin and glimpsing the sleeping woman inside, he left Chu Capital with Long Xuan, but felt uneasy during their journey.

• Lu Xuanji refined and purified several kinds of fifth-grade pills, then stored them for future breakthroughs.
• Lu Xuanji used his vision of the River of Fate to learn that it was not yet suitable to undergo tribulation, so he forged twenty-four Magic Treasures and used the Universe Gourd to nourish them.
• Lu Yaoling explained that the bronze coffin was a living coffin, and Lu Xuanji used the Grotto-heaven Eye to see a beautiful sleeping woman inside before the treasure shattered and injured him.
• Lu Xuanji discovered that his phone preserved the sleeping woman's image despite the strange karma that made him forget her appearance.
• Lu Xuanji left an Infant Transformation Pill for Long Xuan and departed Chu Capital with her after twenty years had passed.
• After traveling several thousand li, Lu Xuanji sensed danger and brought Long Xuan into the Grotto-heaven Pearl.

Lu Xuanji was ambushed by three Nascent Soul Cultivators outside Chu Capital, but he activated his Twenty-Four Supreme Treasures and turned the fight against them. He evaded their combined attack and sent a powerful counterstrike toward the Rank 5 Array Master.

• Lu Xuanji sensed malice on the road and tucked Long Xuan into the Grotto-heaven Pearl before an assassin attacked him.
• A Rank 5 Array Master sealed the area with four banners while a red-clothed woman and a man in black appeared to rob Lu Xuanji.
• Lu Xuanji activated his Twenty-Four Supreme Treasures, using their combined powers to bolster his combat strength and conceal his weaknesses.
• The red-clothed woman attacked with her serrated saber, but Lu Xuanji broke it with a punch.
• The three attackers launched a coordinated assault, but Lu Xuanji evaded it and directed the God Slaying Hammer, Sky Supporting Pillar, and Sky Battling Axe at the Array Master.

Lu Xuanji defeated and captured three Nascent Soul cultivators, but the red-clothed woman’s father arrived and pursued him. Unable to foresee a safe escape or rely on Jin Xi, Lu Xuanji fled in another direction.

• Lu Xuanji killed the Array Master and the spear-wielding cultivator, sealing both of their Nascent Souls.
• Lu Xuanji broke through the red-clothed female cultivator’s Natal Talisman, killed her, and sealed her Nascent Soul with the Heavenly Mirror and Chaos Diagram.
• After capturing all three Nascent Soul True Lords, Lu Xuanji sensed danger and escaped a gigantic palm strike from the red-clothed woman’s father.
• Lu Xuanji fled from the powerful pursuer, while his calculations showed that returning to Ziyang Mountain would end with Jin Xi and him being killed.
• Lu Xuanji abandoned the route back to Ziyang Mountain and fled in another direction.

Lu Xuanji escaped Yuan Ming by hiding in the sea and tricking him into recovering Yuan Xiyue’s Nascent Soul, while he retreated to a deserted island. There, he refined the Nascent Souls of two other enemies into pills but fed them to his Devouring Metal Insects rather than consume them himself.

• Lu Xuanji fled Yuan Ming toward the sea, concealed himself in the Heaven Deceiving Coffin, and evaded the search with the Chaos Diagram and Heaven's Mandate Orb.
• Lu Xuanji tried to refine Yuan Xiyue’s Nascent Soul but abandoned the attempt and threw it away to divert Yuan Ming.
• Yuan Ming recovered Yuan Xiyue, heard her account of Lu Xuanji’s strength, and gave up the pursuit despite his desire to kill him.
• Lu Xuanji watched Yuan Ming leave, then reached a deserted island and carved out a Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuanji refined the Nascent Souls of the long-spear cultivator and the Rank 5 Array Formation master into green pills, then fed them to his Devouring Metal Insects.

Lu Xuanji attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and endured nine Heavenly Tribulations before facing a tenth that manifested as the Chaos Bell. He survived by sacrificing the Twenty-Four Supreme Treasures, but as he recovered, powerful enemies surrounded him to strike during his Human Tribulation.

• Lu Xuanji shattered his Golden Core and consumed pills, Spirit Stones, and a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone to provide enough energy for his Nascent Soul to form.
• Lu Xuanji endured nine escalating Heavenly Tribulations over a day and night, suffering injuries and exhausting most of his magic power.
• A projection of the Chaos Bell appeared as the tenth tribulation and attacked Lu Xuanji, cutting off every path he could foresee.
• Lu Xuanji poured his remaining magic power into the Twenty-Four Supreme Treasures, which blocked the Chaos Bell's fatal strike but nearly shattered.
• Lu Xuanji repaired his injuries and treasures as powerful auras surrounded him, preparing to attack while he was weakened.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, Lu Xuanji was surrounded by Nascent Soul cultivators seeking to kill him, but the Pure Yang Token restored his strength and let him defeat several attackers. He escaped after the Pure Yang Dao Lord intervened, and the Jade Dragon King pursued him to seize the Pure Yang inheritance.

• Lu Xuanji killed a black-clothed cultivator, shattered Xuanming's turtle-shell defense, and defeated a white-robed Dragon Race prodigy, sealing two Nascent Souls and losing another when his damaged cauldron could not contain it.
• A Dragon Race old man overwhelmed Lu Xuanji with his iron fists as more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators surrounded him and cut off his escape.
• With his magic power nearly exhausted, Lu Xuanji activated the Pure Yang Token, recovered from his injuries, and temporarily reached Nascent Soul ninth layer cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji used Pure Yang Annihilation to kill three Nascent Soul cultivators, but an overwhelming palm forced the Pure Yang Dao Lord's phantom to intervene and pierce it.
• The Pure Yang Token's power teleported Lu Xuanji away, and the Jade Dragon King used Lu Xuanji's blood to identify him as a Pure Yang descendant before pursuing him.

Lu Xuanji learned that Pure Yang Dao Lord had fallen and lost the power and protection of the Pure Yang Token, then fled into the Guixu Forbidden Zone to escape Jade Dragon King. Trapped in a desolate palace where time passed far faster than outside, he searched for a way forward with Long Xuan, who found a Dragon Race cultivation technique.

• Pure Yang Dao Lord told Lu Xuanji that he had fallen and that the Pure Yang Token could no longer draw on his power or reliably summon his connections, then dissipated.
• As Lu Xuanji’s borrowed power faded, Jade Dragon King pursued him, so Lu Xuanji fled toward the Guixu Forbidden Zone rather than risk capture.
• Lu Xuanji entered the forbidden zone, and its destructive formation drove Jade Dragon King back while the Pure Yang Broken Sword shielded Lu Xuanji.
• Lu Xuanji arrived in a vast, ruined palace and discovered that one day outside equaled one year inside, with almost no spiritual energy to sustain cultivation.
• Lu Xuanji summoned Long Xuan, and they searched the palace among ancient remains until Long Xuan found a tome titled the Eightfold Heavenly Dragon Scripture.

Trapped in a forbidden palace, Lu Xuanji and Long Xuan spent ten years cultivating and trying to escape, while Lu Xuanji discovered terrifying seals hidden on Long Xuan's soul. As they discussed her past, an unknown powerful voice addressed them, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Lu Xuanji and Long Xuan studied the Eight Divisions Heavenly Dragon Art and cultivated in the palace, where ten years passed for them but only ten days passed outside.
• Long Xuan told Lu Xuanji she could not remember anything before she was eight and had once been sold as a slave before Young Miss rescued her.
• Lu Xuanji used Fate Deduction to discover twenty-one terrifying talismans sealing Long Xuan's soul, but the effort left him severely depleted and unconscious for seven days.
• Lu Xuanji told Long Xuan about the seals and admitted he could not yet break them, even after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• An unknown voice called Lu Xuanji and Long Xuan desperate lovers, and Lu Xuanji asked the speaker how he should address them.

Lu Xuanji escaped the Guixu Forbidden Zone after Guixu Daoist taught him for ten years and asked him to return someday to break the seal. He made it back to Chu Kingdom and reunited with Jin Xi and Long Xuan at Ziyang Mountain.

• Guixu Daoist revealed that the Gate of Three Lives had imprisoned him after his defeat by Lord of Time, then identified Lu Xuanji’s Pure Yang Broken Sword as a damaged former immortal artifact.
• Over ten years, Guixu Daoist guided Lu Xuanji’s cultivation and helped him deepen his understanding of the higher realms.
• Guixu Daoist tore open the Guixu Forbidden Zone’s seal, and Lu Xuanji agreed to rescue him when he became powerful enough.
• Lu Xuanji escaped into the East Sea, used Baidu Maps to orient himself, and returned to Chu Kingdom about a year later.
• At Ziyang Mountain, Lu Xuanji reunited with Jin Xi and Long Xuan, and Jin Xi reassured him that the East Sea Lineage would not act recklessly in Human Race territory.

After becoming Dao companions, Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi celebrated his rise to the Nascent Soul Realm. The Great Elder planned to use the celebration to strengthen the Lu Clan’s standing and proposed an attack on Black Bear Territory to secure resources.

• Lu Xuanji explained that his oath required him to rescue the Guixu Daoist once he became powerful enough, despite the danger of offending the Lord of Time.
• Jin Xi and Lu Xuanji became Dao companions, and news of his Nascent Soul breakthrough spread across the Chu Kingdom.
• The Lu Clan celebrated Lu Xuanji’s advancement, while the Great Elder outlined the kingdom’s Nascent Soul families and the need to renegotiate their spheres of influence.
• The Great Elder proposed that the Lu Clan ally with the Ye Family, the Sun Family, and others to attack Black Bear Territory and seize Demon Race lands.

Lu Xuanji learned that Ye Xuance had died and, after Ye Wanyi emerged from seclusion as a Nascent Soul cultivator, traveled with her to pay their respects. At Ye Xuance’s grave, Lu Xuanji’s fear of death deepened his desire for immortality, and Ye Linglong thanked them for visiting her father.

• The Great Elder told Lu Xuanji to stay out of the planned attack on Black Bear Territory so the conflict would remain controlled.
• The Great Elder informed Lu Xuanji that Ye Xuance had passed away, and Lu Xuanji decided to visit the Ye Family with Ye Wanyi.
• Ye Wanyi emerged from sixty years of seclusion as a Nascent Soul cultivator and told Lu Xuanji that Sister Xi Yue had helped her secure a place in a secret realm.
• Lu Xuanji and Ye Wanyi traveled to the Ye Family and paid their respects at Ye Xuance’s grave.
• Lu Xuanji felt afraid of his own death and resolved to pursue immortality, while Ye Linglong thanked him and Ye Wanyi for visiting her father.