Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji refined the Thirty-Three Heavens Phenomenon into a powerful but costly attack, then witnessed the toll of cultivation on the Lu Clan. Jin Xi emerged from seclusion at the peak of Nascent Soul ninth layer and planned to receive the Earth Soul, while Lu Xuanji proposed seeking an Earthly Soul Fruit from the Danyang Sect to improve her chances.

• Lu Xuanji discarded his first version of the Thirty-Three Heavens and evolved a new one from his experiences, then tested its Spirit Transformation-level power and found it drained nearly all his magic power.
• Lu Xuanji saw twelve Purple Mansion cultivators die while collectively attempting to form Golden Cores and offered condolences to their grieving families.
• Lu Xuanji toured the crowded Lu Clan ancestral land, noticed another cultivator's family mourning his death, and returned to his Cave Mansion.
• Jin Xi emerged from fifty years of seclusion at the peak of Nascent Soul ninth layer and said she planned to receive the Earth Soul within ten years.
• Lu Xuanji urged Jin Xi to seek an Earthly Soul Fruit from the Danyang Sect to raise her chances, despite the favor they would owe Ancestor Danyang.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi visited Ancestor Danyang to obtain an Earth Soul Pill that could improve Jin Xi’s chances of guiding in her Earth Soul. Ancestor Danyang offered the pill in exchange for Rank 6 Enlightenment Tea Leaves from a fragile secret realm and gave Lu Xuanji its location.

• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi secretly left their Lineage and entered Danyang Sect through its defensive array.
• Ancestor Danyang, still injured from fighting Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators, agreed to give them an Earth Soul Pill in exchange for a treasure.
• Ancestor Danyang asked Lu Xuanji to retrieve Rank 6 Enlightenment Tea Leaves from a secret realm he could not enter himself.
• Ancestor Danyang gave Lu Xuanji a map and warned him that Demon Race cultivators were also heading to the secret realm.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi left Danyang Sect and discussed how oppressive it felt to meet a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi entered the White Bone Secret Realm and were ambushed by a Golden Crow great demon. They drove him off, though he escaped after Lu Xuanji struck at him as he fled.

• Lu Xuanji reviewed the information on Spirit Transformation cultivators and reflected on how a cultivator’s circle shaped their view of power.
• Pill Aura Celestial Venerable, whose injuries were worsening, decided to give True Lord Xi Yue and Xuanji True Lord the Earthly Soul Pill regardless of what they found.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi traveled to the northwest of Chu Kingdom and entered the White Bone Secret Realm through its hidden spatial gate.
• A Golden Crow great demon ambushed them with golden flames and a great bell, but Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi counterattacked together.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi wounded the Golden Crow great demon, who fled using the Rainbow Transformation Technique; Lu Xuanji slashed at him as he vanished.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi navigated the dangerous secret realm with the aid of Baidu Maps and found five Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators attacking a ruin's damaged array. They trapped and defeated the demons, with Lu Xuanji's Thirty-Three Heavens Phenomenon annihilating the remaining foes, and then replenished his exhausted magical power.

• Lu Xuanji used Baidu Maps and Fate Deduction to survey the secret realm's dangers and limitations as he and Jin Xi traveled through it.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi reached a ruin where five Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators were attacking the Eight Desolations Vast Array.
• Jin Xi trapped the five Great Demons in her array formation while Lu Xuanji entered and killed one with his Nine Colors Divine Saber.
• Lu Xuanji fought the remaining four Great Demons, who transformed into a Kunpeng, a peacock, a Golden Crow, and a black dragon.
• Lu Xuanji unleashed the Thirty-Three Heavens Suppression phenomenon, destroying the four demons and their Nascent Souls.
• Lu Xuanji absorbed ten Spirit Stones to restore his magical power, and Jin Xi withdrew her array formation.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi hunted Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators before heading to the Inheritance Hall, while Bai Ling'er fought her way into the dungeon's depths to seek the inheritance of a dead Qingqiu ancestor. The ancestor's body crumbled, and a drop of pink blood entered Bai Ling'er's brow.

• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi collected their spoils, broke the array around a Spirit Transformation cultivator's Cave Mansion, and found only a hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones inside.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi killed twenty Demon Race Nascent Soul cultivators in three days, then abandoned the hunt when the remaining enemies were too powerful or gathered in groups.
• After failing to find an Enlightenment Tea Tree or Earth Soul Pill, Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi chose to travel to the Inheritance Hall.
• Bai Ling'er killed three Human Race Nascent Soul Cultivators and continued through the dungeon, breaking its formations despite suffering minor injuries.
• Bai Ling'er reached a dead, seven-tailed Qingqiu ancestor, bowed and asked for her inheritance, and received a drop of pink blood between her brows as the body crumbled.

Bai Ling'er advanced her bloodline, gained Heavenly Heart Perception, and sensed an opportunity in the Inheritance Hall. Lu Xuanji entered the White Bone Palace, learned that its Demonic Qi accelerated cultivation at great spiritual risk, and comprehended the Eight Desolations Demonic Art from a statue-lined passage.

• Bai Ling'er absorbed blood essence, grew a new tail, and awakened Heavenly Heart Perception as her seventh Major Divine Power.
• Bai Ling'er sensed an opportunity in the Inheritance Hall and left the Heavenly Prison to seek it.
• Lu Xuanji entered the White Bone Palace and was separated from Jin Xi as the hall drew in other cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji scanned the Demonic Qi and cultivated with it, rapidly improving before its corruption threatened his soul and Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji sealed his acupoints, advanced through a passage of statues, and comprehended the Eight Desolations Demonic Art.

Lu Xuanji purified his soul with a Golden Lotus, broke through the lake’s barrier, and took the lake into his Grotto-heaven Pearl. After True Lord Shenfeng ambushed him, Lu Xuanji defeated and captured him, then began refining him with Pure Yang True Fire.

• Lu Xuanji consumed a Golden Lotus, purifying his soul and removing the demonic qi from his Pure Yang True Fire.
• Lu Xuanji combined his divine abilities to break the lake’s protective barrier and moved the lake and nearby soil into his Grotto-heaven Pearl.
• True Lord Shenfeng ambushed Lu Xuanji, wounding him and attacking with the Annihilation Great Hand Seal and Ten Thousand Swords Unleashed.
• Lu Xuanji used his twenty-four linked Magic Treasures to overwhelm True Lord Shenfeng, destroy his body, and seal his Nascent Soul inside the Universe Gourd.
• After recovering his magic power, Lu Xuanji rejected True Lord Shenfeng’s plea for mercy and began refining him with Pure Yang True Fire.

Lu Xuanji killed True Lord Shenfeng by suppressing his Nascent Soul with the Thirty-Three Heavens Phenomenon after Pure Yang True Fire proved too slow. Profound Earth Celestial Venerable arrived afterward, identified Lu Xuanji as the likely killer, and left to verify his suspicions.

• Lu Xuanji found that True Lord Shenfeng's Immortal Qi and approaching allies made refining him with Pure Yang True Fire too risky.
• Lu Xuanji used the Thirty-Three Heavens Phenomenon to grind away True Lord Shenfeng's Immortal Qi and kill him completely.
• Profound Earth Celestial Venerable arrived and discovered that his son had died without leaving a remnant soul for reincarnation.
• Profound Earth Celestial Venerable examined the battle's auras and identified Xuanji True Lord, Lu Xuanji, as the likely killer.
• Profound Earth Celestial Venerable questioned how Lu Xuanji had defeated his stronger son and left to investigate whether someone had framed him.

Lu Xuanji reached the White Bone Gate, where cultivators entered in search of the White Bone Devil Palace’s core. The Profound Earth Celestial Venerable attacked him for killing his son, and Lu Xuanji was thrown through the gate before the Celestial Venerable followed.

• Lu Xuanji fought his way through the passages and arrived at a plaza where Human Race and Demon Race cultivators were entering the White Bone Gate.
• Lu Xuanji considered the gate’s connection to the White Bone Devil Palace but decided he had no need to risk entering because he possessed the Grotto-heaven Pearl.
• The Profound Earth Celestial Venerable exposed Lu Xuanji’s hidden aura and questioned him about killing True Lord Shenfeng.
• Lu Xuanji admitted killing True Lord Shenfeng, and the Profound Earth Celestial Venerable attacked him with a powerful punch.
• The Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s blows shattered Lu Xuanji’s saber and defenses, broke his body, and sent him crashing into the White Bone Gate.
• The Profound Earth Celestial Venerable entered the White Bone Gate to pursue Lu Xuanji and confirm his death.

After escaping through the White Bone Gate, Lu Xuanji recovered from his battle with Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s clone and began the White Bone Sect’s seven trials. He quickly advanced in the first trial, which tested his ability to comprehend White Bone Divine Thunder, but the challenge grew sharply at the thirteenth layer.

• Lu Xuanji woke severely injured after losing to Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s clone and recognized his shortcomings in combat experience and technique control.
• Lu Xuanji took a Heaven Mending Pill and gradually expelled the foreign magical power while healing his injuries.
• White Bone Daoist explained that Lu Xuanji had to pass seven trials to join the White Bone Sect and that failure meant death.
• White Bone Daoist set the first trial: comprehend White Bone Divine Thunder to its fifteenth layer within one day.
• Lu Xuanji used his phone to deduce the divine ability’s principles, then cultivated it through the twelfth layer before the difficulty increased at the thirteenth.

Lu Xuanji completed the White Bone Divine Thunder and passed the White Bone Demon Sect’s first trial after thirty years of cultivation. The White Bone Daoist awarded him the Saint Son Token and began explaining the sect’s origins.

• Lu Xuanji used the phone’s calculations to combine more than a million runes into a White Bone Demon God, bringing the White Bone Divine Thunder to Great Accomplishment.
• The White Bone Daoist told Lu Xuanji that thirty years had passed and that he had passed the first trial; impressed by his concentration, he exempted Lu Xuanji from the other trials and gave him a Saint Son Token.
• The White Bone Daoist brought Lu Xuanji to a hall and told him how Bai Wuji, the White Bone Demon Sect’s founder, overcame his shattered Golden Core by refining a Spirit Transformation cultivator’s Sword Bone.
• The White Bone Daoist explained that Bai Wuji later researched the bones of many races, became a demonic cultivator, and left his research notes to his sole disciple.

The White Bone Daoist told Lu Xuanji about the White Bone Demon Sect’s history and its goal of creating Artificial Immortal Bone. He explained that Lu Xuanji’s rapid progress in the White Bone Divine Thunder could improve his aptitude and transform his bones, and the chapter ended with the revelation that Immortal Bone could be transplanted.

• The White Bone Daoist recounted how Bai Xiaoyun became the White Bone Devil Lord and raised the White Bone Demonic Vein to prominence before the sect was destroyed.
• The White Bone Daoist offered Lu Xuanji the sect’s orthodox inheritance and explained its three great inheritances: the White Bone Relic, White Bone Divine Thunder, and White Bone Demonic Scripture.
• The White Bone Daoist explained that the sect sought to create Artificial Immortal Bone and that Bai Xiaoyun had used the White Bone Relic and White Bone Divine Thunder to transform himself.
• The White Bone Daoist praised Lu Xuanji for reaching the twentieth level of the White Bone Divine Thunder in thirty years, surpassing Bai Xiaoyun’s pace.
• Lu Xuanji learned that Immortal Bone could grant great cultivation advantages and could be stripped from one person and transplanted into another.

Lu Xuanji received the White Bone Relic forging method from the White Bone Daoist, who was revealed to be his reincarnated elder brother, Lu Xuanxin. As the White Bone Secret Realm collapsed, Lu Xuanxin destroyed the Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s clone, while the Profound Earth Celestial Venerable held back from attacking Lu Xuanji; a giant hand then seized the White Bone Devil Palace.

• The White Bone Daoist gave Lu Xuanji the White Bone Relic forging method and forced him out of the collapsing secret realm.
• Fewer than ten cultivators, including Jin Xi, survived the secret realm, while the Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s clone failed to emerge.
• The White Bone Daoist revealed himself as Lu Xuanxin and recalled how he had reincarnated, regained the White Bone Devil Palace, and reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Lu Xuanxin used the White Bone Devil Palace to suppress and destroy the Profound Earth Celestial Venerable’s clone, avenging its earlier attack on Lu Xuanji.
• The Profound Earth Celestial Venerable learned that his clone and son True Lord Shenfeng had died, but decided to wait rather than attack Lu Xuanji immediately.
• As the secret realm shattered, a giant palm seized the White Bone Devil Palace.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi escaped the White Bone Devil Palace after witnessing a clash between White Bone Daoist and a powerful blue-clothed cultivator, but Demon Race forces trapped them in a formation. They faced Jin Yue, who had come prepared with a Rank 6 Spirit Treasure to kill them.

• A blue-clothed cultivator pursued the wounded White Bone Daoist through the void after their battle shattered the secret realm.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji she had obtained Enlightenment Tea leaves, and the two left the dangerous area.
• Twelve Demon Race True Lords trapped Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi in a hundred-li binding formation, and Jin Yue blocked their attempt to escape.
• Jin Yue revealed the Demon Race’s preparations and drew the Golden Sun Sword, while Jin Xi identified him as the Golden Crow Clan’s Third Elder.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi activated their sword bodies and attacked Jin Yue, who met them with his great bell and golden sword.

Lu Xuanji escaped a fatal strike from the Third Elder of the Golden Crow Clan, but he and Jin Xi remained trapped as the Demon Race blocked outside help. Azure Lotus and Pill Aura Celestial Venerable were intercepted, while Profound Earth Celestial Venerable refused to rescue them and pretended his injuries were severe.

• After a hundred exchanges, the Third Elder overpowered Lu Xuanji and split his body with his golden sword, but Jin Xi distracted the Third Elder long enough for Lu Xuanji's Nascent Soul to escape destruction.
• At the western front, East Pole Celestial Venerable sensed that the heavenly secrets had turned chaotic and faced five Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators while presiding over the defensive formation.
• Azure Lotus saw that Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi were trapped and sent a palm attack across millions of miles, but Golden Crow Demon Venerable blocked it and fought her to prevent her from reaching them.
• Pill Aura Celestial Venerable set out to rescue Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi, but Peacock Demon Venerable intercepted him, so he secretly asked Profound Earth Celestial Venerable to help.
• Profound Earth Celestial Venerable refused the request because Lu Xuanji had killed his son, then coughed blood and feigned severe injuries.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi escaped into the Grotto-heaven Pearl after being gravely wounded, but the Third Elder of the Golden Crow Clan began erasing Lu Xuanji’s spiritual imprint with Nine Nether Divine Water. With rescue unlikely and the pearl close to being breached, Lu Xuanji prepared to self-destruct so Jin Xi might escape.

• Lu Xuanji pulled Jin Xi into the Grotto-heaven Pearl as they neared defeat, and both took Heaven Mending Pills to recover.
• Lu Xuanji concluded that Azure Lotus had been intercepted and that the Demon Race had arranged a major trap against them.
• The Third Elder of the Golden Crow Clan poured Nine Nether Divine Water over the pearl, gradually erasing Lu Xuanji’s spiritual imprint.
• Lu Xuanji told Jin Xi he would self-destruct to weaken the formation and give her a chance to escape, while Jin Xi urged him to let them die together.
• Lu Xuanji began building up the power for his self-destruction as the enemy’s assault continued.

Lu Xuanji used the Timefruit Tree to kill the Third Elder of the Golden Crow Clan and the twelve Nascent Soul Great Demons, then recovered and advanced to the Nascent Soul seventh layer. As Jin Xi entered seclusion to attempt Half-Step Spirit Transformation, Lu Xuanji learned that the Lu Clan’s front line remained locked in bloody fighting and that many cultivators had died trying to advance or had been assassinated.

• Lu Yaoling stopped Lu Xuanji from self-destructing and urged him to use the Rank 8 Timefruit Tree against the enemy.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Timefruit Tree, erased the Third Elder’s remaining lifespan, and killed him and the twelve Nascent Soul Great Demons.
• Jin Xi rescued the unconscious Lu Xuanji and brought him back to the Lu Clan, where he spent thirty years recovering from his injuries.
• Lu Xuanji studied the Time Tree’s ability to drain lifespans, while Jin Xi received an Earth Soul Pill from Ancestor Danyang and entered seclusion to attempt Half-Step Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Xuanji cultivated for fifty years and reached the Nascent Soul seventh layer, then asked Lu Xuanming about the Lu Clan’s situation.
• Lu Xuanming reported that eight cultivators had failed to reach Spirit Transformation and that multiple True Lords had been assassinated on the front line.

Lu Xuanji witnessed Chu Kingdom’s Spiritual Energy resurgence and the changes it brought to the world. His phone absorbed Spiritual Energy for three months, then unlocked a new feature called Mobile Banking, which could provide storage and exchange functions.

• Lu Xuanming told Lu Xuanji that Chu Kingdom’s Spiritual Energy had more than doubled and that eruptions and earthquakes were reshaping the land.
• Lu Xuanji surveyed the changes with Primordial Magnetism Power and sensed that Spiritual Energy and Heaven and Earth Laws were growing stronger as the Golden Age approached.
• Lu Xuanji’s phone began absorbing Spiritual Energy and Starlight Power, creating a vast vortex that drew the attention of spies and prompted the Lu Clan to activate its Rank 6 Array Formation.
• A massive palm attacked the Lu Clan, but the array wounded it and forced it to withdraw.
• After three months, the phone finished absorbing Spiritual Energy, which later flowed back into the depleted area, and it unlocked Mobile Banking with storage and exchange functions.

Lu Xuanji discovered that his upgraded phone could exchange vast quantities of low-grade Spirit Stones for rare high-grade resources, then attended Flying Feather True Lord’s attempt to break through to Spirit Transformation. After Flying Feather True Lord successfully received the Heaven Soul and began transforming, the Danyang Sect came under attack by the Demon Race and another Spirit Transformation cultivator.

• Lu Xuanji tested Mobile Banking and exchanged ten million Lower-Grade Spirit Stones for ten Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Over ten years, Lu Xuanji accumulated Spirit Crystals, Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, and High-Grade Spirit Stones, then went to the Danyang Sect to observe Flying Feather True Lord’s breakthrough attempt.
• Flying Feather True Lord swallowed a Nascent Soul Pill, drew down the Heaven Soul, and successfully received it into his body.
• Flying Feather True Lord began fusing the Heaven Soul with his Nascent Soul as spiritual energy and Spirit Stones supported his transformation.
• A Demon Race True Lord and another Spirit Transformation cultivator appeared outside the Danyang Sect’s protective formation, and the Demon Race’s forces began attacking.

Lu Xuanji helped the Danyang Sect withstand the Demon Race’s attacks while Flying Feather True Lord completed his Spirit Transformation tribulation and survived with Pill Aura Celestial Venerable’s protection. Back at the Lu Clan, Xuanji announced a Dao lecture, where he began teaching more than one hundred thousand cultivators accessible cultivation methods and urged them to protect the Human Race.

• Lu Xuanji activated Xuanji Peak’s formation as the Kun Peng Demon Race attacked the Danyang Sect and tried to disturb Flying Feather True Lord’s cultivation.
• After three years, Flying Feather True Lord faced nine tribulation bolts, survived, and was protected from the Kun Peng Demon Venerable by Pill Aura Celestial Venerable.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, where new cultivators underwent tribulations; most perished, but five Golden Core cultivators and three Purple Mansion cultivators succeeded.
• Lu Xuanji announced a Dao lecture, and Zhao Qiwen attended with his grandfather at Changyuan Mountain alongside roughly one hundred and thirty thousand cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji began the lecture by urging cultivators to remain compassionate toward ordinary people, then taught cultivation methods from Qi Refining through Foundation Establishment and introduced eight accessible attribute-based techniques.