Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi left the Lu Family Ancestral Land and traveled through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains toward Wu Kingdom, seeking Taiyin Divine Iron for Jin Xi’s Two Forms Divine Sword. After buying a map in an ancient city, they left the shop unaware that its shopkeeper had sent an assistant to watch them.

• Lu Xuanji admitted to Jin Xi that stepping down as Patriarch left him feeling hollow, then explained his knowledge of Chu Kingdom and the wider world without revealing its source.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that the Taiyin Divine Iron might be in Wu Kingdom, and they chose to cross the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains rather than take the East Sea route.
• Lu Xuanji used Baidu Maps to avoid areas occupied by powerful cultivators and demons as he and Jin Xi traveled through the mountains for a month.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi reached Wu Kingdom, concealed their auras as Purple Mansion cultivators, and entered an ancient city.
• Lu Xuanji bought a third-grade map of Wu Kingdom and compared it with Baidu Maps before leaving the shop.
• The shopkeeper summoned an assistant and ordered him to find out whether Lu Xuanji was a fat sheep or a tiger.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi learned about Wu Kingdom’s dominance by the Li Family and prepared to leave for its capital in search of Taiyin Divine Iron. On the way, the shopkeeper who had cheated Lu Xuanji ambushed them, confident they were wealthy outsiders.

• Lu Xuanji sensed malice after leaving the shop, then explored Wu Kingdom’s streets and noticed that many market goods were counterfeit.
• Jin Xi returned with a detailed map and books, and Lu Xuanji used them to update his phone’s records about Wu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi discussed the Li Family’s rule over Wu Kingdom and agreed to avoid conflict with it.
• Lu Xuanji reviewed his substantial hoard of cultivation treasures, while Jin Xi said she possessed three Five Elements Fruits and a piece of Profound Nether Divine Iron.
• Jin Xi said Taiyin Divine Iron might appear at an upcoming auction and barter meet in Wu Kingdom’s capital, so Lu Xuanji decided they should leave at once.
• After Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi flew about a thousand kilometers, the shopkeeper appeared as a Golden Core cultivator and demanded a toll, intending to rob them.

Lu Xuanji defeated and killed a Li Family shopkeeper who had tried to ambush him, then destroyed the bloodline tracking mark left on the corpse. Three days later, a Li Family Nascent Soul True Lord vowed to avenge his son and began pursuing suspects.

• Lu Xuanji suppressed the shopkeeper, who begged for mercy and offered his storage bag.
• The shopkeeper’s storage bag exploded with Blood Fiend Divine Thunder, but Lu Xuanji intercepted him when he tried to escape and killed him.
• Lu Xuanji used the Nine Colored Divine Saber to destroy the bloodline tracking mark that flew from the shopkeeper’s body.
• Lu Xuanji found that the shopkeeper’s second storage bag also exploded, then burned the corpse and used the golden token to release its remaining Sword Qi.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi left the scene, and three days later a Li Family Nascent Soul True Lord vowed to avenge his son and identified several suspects.

Lu Xuanji entered the heavily fortified capital of Wu Kingdom to buy Sun Divine Iron for his Natal Magic Treasure, while Eternal Night True Lord continued searching for the culprit behind the Li Family killing. The chapter left Lu Xuanji meeting a Nascent Soul shopkeeper at the Li Family’s East Rising Tower.

• Eternal Night True Lord reasoned that the culprit was a powerful cultivator from Chu Kingdom and planned to search for him at upcoming events in Wu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi traveled toward the capital, and Lu Xuanji reassured Jin Xi that he could handle any danger short of a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lu Xuanji concealed Jin Xi in the Grotto-heaven Pearl, revealed his identity at the city gates, and entered the capital as Xuanji True Lord of Chu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji hired a young guide and learned that the Li Family’s East Rising Tower might sell the Sun Divine Iron he sought.
• At the East Rising Tower, Lu Xuanji asked the Nascent Soul shopkeeper whether the shop had Sun Divine Iron.

Lu Xuanji met Li Ruolan to buy Sun Divine Iron, but she arranged for him to return for the Li Family’s auction a month later. After he left, Li Ruolan considered capturing him for his Pure Yang Dao Body, while her brother warned her against provoking a powerful cultivator connected to Chu Kingdom.

• Lu Xuanji introduced himself to Li Ruolan and asked to buy thirty jin of Sun Divine Iron for three thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Ruolan told Lu Xuanji that he could not buy the iron before the auction, encouraged him to attend, and gave him a VIP card and auction booklet.
• After Lu Xuanji left, Li Ruolan remarked that he had not drunk the tea and was exceptionally cautious.
• Li Ruolan’s brother revealed that Lu Xuanji possessed a Pure Yang Dao Body and warned her not to attack a fellow human cultivator.
• Li Ruolan’s brother recounted how East Pole Celestial Venerable had killed their Second Ancestor and explained why the Li Family had to avoid drawing his attention.

Lu Xuanji attended the Wu Kingdom capital’s auction, bought Sun Divine Iron, and watched other treasures sell for prices beyond his means. Eternal Night True Lord investigated his son’s death and concluded that Heavenly Heart True Lord was the murderer.

• Lu Xuanji declined to visit the capital’s pleasure district, wine shop, and arena, then settled at an inn while Jin Xi told him about the Li Family and the coming auction.
• A month later, Lu Xuanji entered Auction Venue No. 8 at East Rising Tower and greeted Li Ruolan, who was hosting the auction.
• Lu Xuanji bid 3,500 High-Grade Spirit Stones for the Sun Divine Iron and won it, but passed on later treasures because he lacked the money.
• Eternal Night True Lord narrowed the suspects to True Lord Qingyan, Heavenly Heart True Lord, and Xuanji True Lord, then ruled out Xuanji True Lord.
• Eternal Night True Lord decided Heavenly Heart True Lord had killed his son because he had bought a Rank 5 Fire Ganoderma and his son had possessed Flame Fire Grass, and he vowed to kill him.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi traveled to Purgatory Volcano to forge the Two Forms Divine Sword and temper their bodies. After cultivating the Pure Yang Undying Ring for thirty years, Lu Xuanji tested its defense before hearing a fight break out nearby.

• Lu Xuanji gave Jin Xi the Sun Divine Iron, and they decided to go to Purgatory Volcano to forge the Two Forms Divine Sword and temper their bodies.
• Jin Xi stopped in a suitable area and began forging with the Black-and-White Swords, while Lu Xuanji continued deeper into the volcano.
• Lu Xuanji used the white flames to cultivate his Pure Yang Dao Body and gradually condensed five Pure Yang Undying Rings over thirty years.
• Lu Xuanji tested the rings and found they could withstand an attack from a Nascent Soul fourth layer cultivator, though they still needed further tempering.
• Lu Xuanji heard a battle nearby as a female cultivator cried that her father was Flying Feather True Lord, and an attacker answered with a killing move.

Lu Xuanji rescued Lu Qingyan from Eternal Night True Lord, whose ambush had devastated her traveling companions. Eternal Night True Lord escaped as a Nascent Soul, and a furious infant appeared far away.

• Lu Xuanji recognized Flying Feather True Lord’s daughter and unleashed his Nine Colored Divine Saber against her pursuer.
• Lu Qingyan’s magical power dissipated as the saber intent locked onto her, while Eternal Night True Lord tried to defend himself with his shield, mist, and battle armor.
• Lu Xuanji’s saber shattered Eternal Night True Lord’s defenses and body, but his Nascent Soul escaped after unleashing Endless Nightfall.
• Lu Xuanji introduced himself as Xuanji True Lord and showed Lu Qingyan the Gold Token her father had given him.
• Lu Qingyan explained that her party of two Nascent Soul True Lords and three Golden Core cultivators had been ambushed on their journey.
• A fist-sized infant appeared a hundred thousand li away, its expression ferocious and mad.

Lu Xuanji sheltered True Lord Yuyang and True Lord Qingyan at Purgatory Volcano while Yuyang rebuilt his body and Lu Xuanji refined twenty-four fifth-grade Magic Treasures. Qingyan revealed that her group had come to Wu Kingdom to find an Ancient Ruins hidden within Purgatory Volcano, leaving Lu Xuanji suspicious that the map could be a demonic trap.

• Eternal Night True Lord fled after Lu Xuanji destroyed his physical body, while True Lord Yuyang’s Nascent Soul was rescued and brought to Lu Xuanji.
• True Lord Yuyang identified the attacker as Eternal Night True Lord, a Nascent Soul sixth layer cultivator connected to the Li Family, and asked to stay with Lu Xuanji.
• True Lord Yuyang rebuilt a weak physical body and restored it to the Nascent Soul stage within a month, though it still needed decades or longer to recover fully.
• Lu Xuanji spent twenty years upgrading twenty-four Magic Treasures, which survived their Treasure Tribulation and advanced to the fifth grade.
• True Lord Qingyan told Lu Xuanji that her group had traveled to Wu Kingdom to locate an Ancient Ruins at Purgatory Volcano, and Lu Xuanji questioned whether the map was a demonic trap.

Lu Xuanji joined True Lord Qingyan and True Lord Yuyang to investigate a protected corpse and its treasures in Purgatory Volcano. After Qingyan used her Profound Nether Eye to identify how the array could be broken, the group agreed to sign a Netherworld Contract before Lu Xuanji attacked it.

• True Lord Qingyan told Lu Xuanji about the preserved corpse and treasures hidden behind an array in the Five Colors Volcano, and Lu Xuanji agreed to join the expedition.
• Lu Xuanji alerted Jin Xi to follow from a distance and provide support if anything went wrong.
• The group reached the great array and killed the Nascent Soul Fire Crow and the Golden Core Fire Crows attacking it.
• Lu Xuanji and True Lord Yuyang tested the array, while True Lord Qingyan used her Profound Nether Eye to inspect its nodes and find a way to break it.
• True Lord Qingyan said Lu Xuanji could break the array with the Nine Colors Swordplay, and the three agreed to sign a Netherworld Contract governing their conduct and the division of the treasures.

Lu Xuanji and his companions broke the formation in Purgatory Volcano, discovered the corpse of a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and swore a Karmic Oath to avenge him in exchange for his treasures. After escaping with the storage bag, they found a letter identifying the dead cultivator as Sky Azure Daoist and learned that he had left behind a legacy tied to his revenge.

• True Lord Qingyan identified a weak point in the formation, and Lu Xuanji destroyed it with the Nine Colors Divine Saber.
• The group discovered a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s corpse and heard its message requiring an oath of vengeance before they could take his storage bag.
• Lu Xuanji, True Lord Qingyan, and True Lord Yuyang swore the Karmic Oath, after which the corpse and its remaining power dissipated.
• Lu Xuanji collected the formation artifacts, and the group left Purgatory Volcano before opening the storage bag several days later.
• The group found more than five thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, eighteen volumes of techniques, several Rank 5 Magic Treasures, and a letter identifying the dead cultivator as Sky Azure Daoist, who had demanded that his heirs kill his enemies.

Lu Xuanji and his companions accepted Sky Azure Daoist’s inheritance, divided the treasures, and returned safely to Chu Kingdom. Back at Ziyang Mountain, Jin Xi teased Lu Xuanji about True Lord Qingyan taking the most precious pills.

• Lu Xuanji and the others learned that Sky Azure Daoist’s inheritance required them to kill Ziyang Daoist within two thousand years and reopen Jade Cauldron Lineage, but they decided to accept the challenge.
• True Lord Yuyang and True Lord Qingyan each took a Nascent Soul Pill, while Lu Xuanji received a Rank 5 Heavenly Spirit Pill, a Rank 5 Heavenly Profound Pill, and extra treasures as compensation.
• The three divided the top-grade Spirit Stones, five Rank 5 magic treasures, and copies of the beast-hide scrolls containing cultivation methods and secret arts.
• Lu Xuanji, True Lord Qingyan, and True Lord Yuyang crossed the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and returned to Chu Kingdom without incident.
• True Lord Qingyan invited Lu Xuanji to Tianling Sect, Qingyan Peak, and the companions parted ways before Lu Xuanji returned to Ziyang Mountain.
• Jin Xi emerged from the Grotto-heaven Pearl and accused True Lord Qingyan of taking the best Nascent Soul Pills while leaving Lu Xuanji less valuable items.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi assessed the treasures from the ancient ruins, including a damaged high-grade spirit treasure, and used pills to advance their cultivation. Jin Xi reached the Nascent Soul sixth layer after twenty years in seclusion, while Lu Xuanji remained at the Nascent Soul second layer.

• Lu Xuanji assembled the eighteen beast-hide rolls into an ancient scroll and discovered it was a damaged Rank 7 Spirit Treasure currently functioning as a Rank 6 treasure without its artifact spirit.
• Lu Xuanji gave Jin Xi a Rank 5 Heavenly Profound Pill, and she swallowed it before entering seclusion in the Chaos Ancient Hall.
• Lu Xuanji took a Heavenly Spirit Pill and entered seclusion, strengthening his body and increasing his physical strength by two layers over fifteen years.
• After twenty years of seclusion, Jin Xi emerged having reached the Nascent Soul sixth layer.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi studied the inheritance hidden in the Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting, and Jin Xi used the Life and Death Scripture to find a path to repair her incomplete foundation. While Jin Xi and Azure Lotus True Lord entered seclusion, Lu Xuanji improved his Creation Art and began comprehending an advanced healing technique.

• Lu Xuanji revealed the Life and Death Scripture, a Void Refinement cultivation method, and Jin Xi studied it with Azure Lotus True Lord.
• Jin Xi realized the Life and Death Scripture could help her repair her incomplete Two Forms Illusory Annihilation Body and entered seclusion.
• Lu Xuanji shared his Two Forms Yin Yang Body method with Azure Lotus True Lord, who praised it before entering seclusion as well.
• Lu Xuanji studied the painting's hidden inheritance and used its cultivation methods to improve the Creation Art to the Nascent Soul sixth layer over ten years.
• Lu Xuanji began comprehending the Nirvana Rebirth Technique, an auxiliary Supreme Divine Ability that used flames and lifespan to heal injuries.

Lu Xuanji reviewed his cultivation and treasures before learning that the war between Chu Kingdom and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had devastated the cultivation world. He found his son Lu Xian gravely wounded by Demon King Xuan Ming and began treating the Profound Nether Magic Power corroding his body and Golden Core.

• Lu Xuanji assessed his cultivation, techniques, treasures, and family, joking that he should have called himself True Lord Duobao.
• Ning Xue reported that Chu Kingdom and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had been at war for thirty years, with heavy losses among cultivators and the Lu Clan.
• Ning Xue told Lu Xuanji that Lu Xian had been gravely wounded, so Lu Xuanji went to examine him.
• Lu Xuanji discovered Profound Nether Magic Power corroding Lu Xian's flesh and damaging his Golden Core after Demon King Xuan Ming attacked him.
• Lu Xuanji infused Lu Xian with Pure Yang magic power and began wearing away the Profound Nether Magic Power.

Lu Xuanji purged the demonic power from Lu Xian, only to discover it was a trap laid by a Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivator. After surviving the attack, he was stabbed by Purple Cloud True Lord, and Azure Lotus True Lord subdued her before Lu Xuanji asked her to show mercy.

• Lu Xuanji spent seven days using Pure Yang magic power to remove the Profound Nether Magic Power from Lu Xian, then found himself attacked by a Heaven-Devouring Python formed from the hidden power in Lu Xian's Golden Core.
• Lu Xuanji used his twenty-four magic treasures and the Rank 6 Lone Boat, Raining Hat, and Bamboo Cloak Painting to destroy the python.
• Purple Cloud True Lord stabbed Lu Xuanji with a cursed dagger and attacked him while the curse drained his magic power.
• Ning Xue fought Purple Cloud True Lord, and Azure Lotus True Lord arrived and suppressed her.
• Lu Xuanji and Lu Xian pleaded for mercy as Azure Lotus True Lord prepared to kill Purple Cloud True Lord.

Lu Xuanji was struck by the Wither-Bloom Curse after Purple Cloud True Lord was controlled into stabbing him, and Azure Lotus True Lord explained the curse’s deadly effects. The chapter ended with Lu Xuanji revealing a Rank 7 Timefruit that could give him enough lifespan to survive, though its power might kill him.

• Azure Lotus True Lord discovered that Purple Cloud True Lord was under a Demon Race cultivator’s control and purified her, while the curse on Lu Xuanji took hold.
• Azure Lotus True Lord locked Purple Cloud True Lord and Lu Xian in the dungeon as Lu Xuanji weakened from the curse.
• Azure Lotus True Lord explained that the Wither-Bloom Curse could consume 8,100 years of lifespan and that she could only partially suppress it.
• Lu Xuanji asked whether ten thousand years of lifespan could withstand the curse, and Azure Lotus True Lord confirmed it could.
• Lu Xuanji revealed a sealed Rank 7 Timefruit that could add ten thousand years to his lifespan, but warned that its medicinal power might overwhelm his weak cultivation.

Lu Xuanji consumed the Rank 7 Timefruit to battle the Wither-Bloom Curse, while Ning Xue used her Pure Yin Sacred Body to help him withstand its power. The curse and the fruit’s medicinal power continued to clash inside them as Ning Xue circulated Lu Xuanji’s Pure Yang magic power and returned it as Pure Yin magic power.

• Lu Xuanji told Azure Lotus True Lord he would consume the Rank 7 Timefruit, and she left to guard the Cave Mansion with formations.
• Azure Lotus True Lord told Ning Xue that her Pure Yin Sacred Body could help Lu Xuanji suppress the curse, and Ning Xue entered the Cave Mansion.
• Lu Xuanji taught Ning Xue the Yin Yang Transformation cultivation art and consumed the Timefruit.
• The Timefruit’s vitality and the Wither-Bloom Curse fought inside Lu Xuanji, causing his lifespan to repeatedly rise and fall as his body neared collapse.
• Ning Xue joined hands with Lu Xuanji and circulated his Pure Yang magic power, along with the fruit’s medicinal power and curse, through her body before returning it as Pure Yin magic power.

Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue shared the Wither-Bloom Curse, allowing him to refine it and advance his Withered Glory Divine Intent to Rank 8. Azure Lotus True Lord then told him that the Chu Kingdom was in grave danger as the Demon Race invaded.

• Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue used the Yin Yang Transformation to divide and weaken the Wither-Bloom Curse, while Lu Xuanji refined it with his Withered Glory Divine Intent.
• After ten days, the curse dissipated and Lu Xuanji's Withered Glory Divine Intent reached Rank 8; Ning Xue's cultivation advanced to the Second Grade of the Nascent Soul Realm, and she went into seclusion.
• Lu Xuanji reached the third layer of the Nascent Soul Realm and discovered his Rank 8 Divine Intent could draw plant vitality from within a thousand-kilometer radius to replenish his magic power.
• Azure Lotus True Lord told Lu Xuanji that East Pole Celestial Venerable was trapped, Northern Dipper Celestial Venerable had died, and Celestial Venerable Hou Tu had been seriously wounded in the war against the Demon Race.
• Azure Lotus True Lord reported that Demon Race forces had invaded the Chu Kingdom, causing heavy losses, and that the Lu Clan, Ziyang Mountain, and other forces had sent cultivators to the front lines.

Azure Lotus True Lord explained that the Human Race and Demon Race had entered a chaotic war after their Spirit Transformation cultivators clashed over a secret realm. Lu Xuanji concluded that Chu Kingdom was temporarily safe, but he and Azure Lotus True Lord prepared for the possibility that the Human Race would lose and they would need to flee.

• Azure Lotus True Lord told Lu Xuanji that Nascent Soul cultivators and Spirit Transformation cultivators had entered the war, leaving the Human Race badly outnumbered.
• Lu Xuanji asked whether Chu Kingdom could withstand a Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivator, and Azure Lotus True Lord said that even more than a hundred Nascent Soul True Lords could not defeat one.
• Azure Lotus True Lord reasoned that the Spirit Transformation cultivators were fighting over a secret realm's valuable opportunity rather than territory, so none would leave the battle to attack Chu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji recognized that Chu Kingdom was safe only while the secret-realm conflict continued and said they might have to flee if the Human Race's Spirit Transformation cultivators fell.
• Azure Lotus True Lord said she had already arranged for some cultivators to withdraw to Wu Kingdom, Yue Kingdom, the East Sea, and other places.