Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji traveled to Yue Kingdom to visit his son Lu Fan, who had established a Lu Clan branch there. After hearing about the ongoing war and the branch's strength, Lu Xuanji gave Lu Fan many valuable resources, though Lu Fan accepted only half.

• Lu Xuanji thought about how the Lu Clan had divided into branches, with Lu Xian in Wu Kingdom and Lu Fan in Yue Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji traveled to Yue Kingdom with Li Qingwei, who reflected on its rules for demonic cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji arrived at Lu Fan's Spirit Mountain, where Lu Fan greeted him and welcomed Li Qingwei as his junior brother.
• Lu Fan told Lu Xuanji that Yue Kingdom's war continued but the Lu Clan branch could hold on with three Nascent Soul True Lords and more than thirty Golden Core cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji offered Lu Fan a large collection of precious items, but Lu Fan insisted on returning half of them.

Lu Xuanji discovered that Lu Fan was badly injured and had endured decades of bullying in Yue Kingdom, where the Lu Clan had suffered heavy losses and was being pressed by the Wang and Zheng Families. After learning what had happened, Lu Xuanji set out with Li Qingwei to challenge the powerful cultivators backing them.

• Lu Xuanji said goodbye to Lu Fan and left, while Lu Fan spat blood after concealing the severity of his injuries.
• Murong Xue urged Lu Fan to seek his father's help, but Lu Fan chose to give up territory and mineral veins rather than trouble him.
• Lu Xuanji realized Lu Fan was injured, stayed in Yue Kingdom, and questioned a Purple Mansion cultivator about the Lu Clan's troubles.
• The cultivator described the Lu Clan's clashes, losses during the Sea Race invasion, unpaid compensation, and defeat in a rigged Sword Duel tournament.
• Lu Xuanji decided to confront the Half-Step Spirit Transformation experts backing the Wang and Zheng Families, and departed with Li Qingwei.

Zhang Yuan passed the White Bone Demon Sect’s trial and witnessed Lu Xuanji challenge the sect’s Grand Elder, Fang Wuliang. Lu Xuanji drew Fang Wuliang away from the sect to fight, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Zhang Yuan climbed the White Bone Stairs and became a Menial Disciple despite having no spirit root.
• Xuanji True Lord arrived at the White Bone Demon Sect and forced Zhang Yuan and the nearby cultivators to kneel under his pressure.
• Lu Xuanji revealed himself as Xuanji True Lord and challenged Fang Wuliang, whom he suspected of backing the Wang Family and the Zheng Family.
• Lu Xuanji led Fang Wuliang a hundred li away from the sect, named himself, and prepared to fight with his divine saber.
• Fang Wuliang questioned why Lu Xuanji had come to challenge him, since their sects and kingdoms had no apparent grievance.

Lu Xuanji challenged Fang Wuliang over the mistreatment of his son Lu Fan, and the two fought until Lu Xuanji defeated him with his supreme saber technique. Lu Xuanji left after entrusting Lu Fan to Fang Wuliang’s discipline.

• Lu Xuanji told Fang Wuliang he had come to settle the grievance over Lu Fan, and they agreed to end their dispute after a battle.
• Fang Wuliang and Lu Xuanji fought hundreds of moves in the sky, with neither initially gaining the upper hand.
• Fang Wuliang unleashed the White Bone Seven Treasures and raised his combat strength, sending Lu Xuanji flying and drawing blood from him.
• Lu Xuanji used the Great Five Elements Yin Yang Primordial Magnetism Starlight Universe Extinction Divine Blade to damage Fang Wuliang’s treasures and cut his brow.
• Lu Xuanji asked Fang Wuliang to discipline Lu Fan as his senior, then departed.

Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan after securing Lu Fan’s safety in the Yue Kingdom, only to learn that Jin Xi had failed her attempt to reach Spirit Transformation and was gravely injured. He found her barely alive, with only ten years left unless her condition could be changed.

• Fang Wuliang warned his disciples to help Lu Fan in the Yue Kingdom, and they understood that the Lu Clan’s treatment there was about to improve.
• Lu Xuanji collected Li Qingwei and returned to the Chu Kingdom, where he saw the Lu Clan’s strengthened formations, flourishing farms, and growing spiritual resources.
• A Golden Core cultivator told Lu Xuanji that Jin Xi had failed her Spirit Transformation breakthrough and was recovering from the backlash.
• Lu Xuanji left Li Qingwei in the clan’s care and went to the Cave Mansion to see Jin Xi.
• Lu Xuanji examined Jin Xi and discovered severe damage throughout her body, meridians, organs, Nascent Soul, and dantian.
• Jin Xi told Lu Xuanji that the Nascent Soul Pill had kept her alive after the failed breakthrough, but she expected to die within ten years.

Lu Xuanji used the Thirty-Three Heavens Grand Array to ease Jin Xi’s injuries and extend her lifespan, then set out for Qi Kingdom to seek a Rank 6 Creation Fruit that could heal her. He left the Lu Clan in Long Xuan and the others’ care as he began a dangerous journey to obtain the rare fruit.

• Lu Xuanji formed the Thirty-Three Heavens Grand Array, and Jin Xi absorbed Heaven Mending Qi that eased her injuries and gave her up to twenty more years to live.
• Lu Xuanji asked Long Xuan about Rank 6 Creation Fruits, and she told him one might be found with a clan in Qi Kingdom guarded by a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Long Xuanji gave Lu Xuanji the Azure Lotus Token and explained that Spirit Transformation cultivators had entered the Golden Crow Cave Dwelling while tensions and warfare across the region had subsided.
• Lu Xuanji left Spirit Stones and pills with the Lu Clan, instructed Long Xuan, Ning Xue, and the others to protect it, and departed for Qi Kingdom despite the dangers of the journey.

Lu Xuanji crossed a dangerous swamp and reached Qi Kingdom, where he learned about its martial artists and the mysterious Innate Creation Art. He studied the method, found its later layers beyond his ability to deduce, and continued gathering information about Qi Kingdom's powers while planning his next steps.

• Lu Xuanji crossed the swamp by avoiding powerful Fierce Beasts and reached its far side after about a month.
• Lu Xuanji flew for five years to Qi Kingdom, entered a city, and rented a Cave Mansion for a year.
• Lu Xuanji learned that Qi Kingdom's Strongmen cultivated martial arts and worked the fields, unlike the mortals of Chu Kingdom.
• Lu Xuanji obtained the Innate Creation Art and learned that its seventh layer could grant a Strongman a Spiritual Root and Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Xuanji studied the art but could not deduce its eighth layer, then continued investigating Qi Kingdom's forces and learning its dialect.

After spending two years preparing and disguising himself as a Qi Kingdom native, Lu Xuanji set out for Many Treasures Tower and found Lotus True Lord attacking True Lord Linglong and her companions. He intervened, and True Lord Linglong recognized him as the masked man appeared.

• Lu Xuanji spent two years learning Qi Kingdom customs, studying potential dangers, and preparing escape plans.
• Lu Xuanji traveled toward Many Treasures Tower and came upon Lotus True Lord surrounding True Lord Linglong and thirty-two Divine Water Palace cultivators.
• Lotus True Lord poisoned the women with Joyful Union Powder and used a black needle to suppress True Lord Linglong's magical power.
• Lotus True Lord threatened Lu Xuanji with the backing of Lotus Temple, but Lu Xuanji's overwhelming pressure made him retreat and cough blood.
• True Lord Linglong recognized the masked man as Lu Xuanji and was astonished by how much stronger he had become.

Lu Xuanji killed Lotus True Lord to rescue the female cultivators, then freed them from poison and reunited with Ye Linglong, who recognized him and confessed her regret. He left her behind, and she later reached Divine Water Palace as Lotus Temple’s monks besieged it; the palace fell after a day of battle.

• A masked, blue-clothed Lu Xuanji defeated Lotus True Lord with three of the Thirteen Swords of Qiankun, killing his Nascent Soul and rescuing the female cultivators.
• Lotus Temple monks found Lotus True Lord’s corpse, blamed Divine Water Palace for his death, and began searching for the swordsman.
• Lu Xuanji restrained the poisoned women and used Yin Yang Two Qi to cure them, then dismissed them despite Ye Linglong offering to serve him.
• Ye Linglong recognized Lu Xuanji by his magical aura and scent, confessed she regretted rejecting him, and embraced him, but he left her.
• Ye Linglong headed toward Divine Water Palace and found Lotus Temple besieging it; after a day of fighting, the palace fell over the killing of a Lotus Temple envoy.

Lu Xuanji arrived at Many Treasures Tower in the Qi Kingdom Capital, bought a Rank 6 Creation Fruit and a Heaven's Mandate Pill, and prepared for the auction. At the auction, he discovered that An Biyu was a powerful Spirit Transformation Expert, and the bidding began.

• After leaving Ye Linglong behind, Lu Xuanji reached the Qi Kingdom Capital and entered Many Treasures Tower.
• Lu Xuanji paid fifteen thousand Spirit Stones to buy a Rank 6 Creation Fruit in advance, then bought a Heaven's Mandate Pill for two thousand Spirit Stones.
• An Biyu invited Lu Xuanji to attend the auction ten days later and hinted that a Spirit Transformation Cauldron might be offered.
• Lu Xuanji spent ten days refining the Heaven's Mandate Pill, then entered a private room at the auction.
• An Biyu revealed her overwhelming Spirit Transformation aura, warned the attendees to obey the auction rules, and opened the bidding on a bottle of Nascent Soul Pills.
• The Nascent Soul Pills sold for one thousand three hundred Spirit Stones.

Lu Xuanji attended an auction where the later lots were enslaved female cultivators sold as cauldrons, and he spent lavishly to buy them all. He ended by winning an injured Spirit Transformation cultivator sealed in crystal for thirty thousand Spirit Stones.

• Lu Xuanji watched pills and rare materials sell at auction, then bought a piece of Western Grand Yi Platinum for fifteen thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ru Yue took over from An Biyu and began auctioning female cultivators as cauldrons, starting with Song Wei.
• Lu Xuanji outbid other buyers for Song Wei and Zhao Yu'er, then bought the next several cauldrons while claiming to cultivate a demonic art.
• Lu Xuanji won the ninth cauldron, a Nascent Soul cultivator with the Phoenix Dao Body, for twenty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Ru Yue presented an injured Spirit Transformation Cauldron sealed inside a crystal, and Lu Xuanji bought her for thirty thousand Spirit Stones.

After buying ten female cultivators at auction, Lu Xuanji escaped pursuit and released nine of them, but Fang Liuli chose to follow him as his maidservant. She willingly accepted a Joyful Union Bead, binding her life and location to his control.

• Lu Xuanji asked An Biyu to remove tracking marks and used Many Treasures Tower’s teleportation array to escape the auction city.
• Lu Xuanji revived the nine female cultivators in his palace and offered them pills to restore their strength and leave freely.
• Fang Liuli explained that she had submitted to survive and hoped to avenge the Heavenly Mystery Sect, but Lu Xuanji released all nine women instead.
• After the women scattered, Fang Liuli pursued Lu Xuanji and asked to become his maidservant so she could rely on his protection and resources.
• Fang Liuli insisted that Lu Xuanji bind her with a Joyful Union Bead, and she merged the bead into her Nascent Soul.

Lu Xuanji learned about Fang Liuli’s fallen Heavenly Mystery Sect and Qi Kingdom, then freed a wounded Spirit Transformation cultivator from a Life Crystal using the Pure Yang Broken Sword and a Rank 7 Timefruit. The cultivator awakened after two hundred thousand years and Lu Xuanji asked her to repay the cost of saving her.

• Fang Liuli told Lu Xuanji that the Night Emperor Sect had destroyed the Heavenly Mystery Sect and that Qi Kingdom held many powerful cultivators.
• Lu Xuanji revealed his true appearance, asked Fang Liuli about her divination skills and the Pure Yang Broken Sword, and learned about Qi Kingdom’s ruthless conflicts.
• Lu Xuanji failed to break the Life Crystal sealing a wounded Spirit Transformation cultivator, then used his phone to learn that the Pure Yang Broken Sword could open it and a Rank 7 Timefruit could heal her.
• Lu Xuanji cut open the Life Crystal with the Pure Yang Broken Sword and fed the female cultivator the Rank 7 Timefruit as her body began to age outside the crystal.
• The female cultivator awakened, learned that two hundred thousand years had passed, and Lu Xuanji asked her to compensate him for the fifty thousand Spirit Stones and the Timefruit he had spent saving her.

Lu Xuanji rejected Su Haitang’s offer to become his Dao partner, despite her claim that his existing partners weakened his luck. After he left for Chu Kingdom, Su Haitang decided she could wait for his partners to die and took revenge on the Many Treasures Tower for auctioning her.

• Lu Xuanji asked Su Haitang for compensation for saving her, but she said she had no suitable scriptures, techniques, or wealth to give him.
• Su Haitang introduced herself and offered to become Lu Xuanji’s Dao partner if he left Ye Feixue, Ye Wanyi, and Jin Xi; she claimed they drained his luck, but Lu Xuanji defended them and refused.
• Su Haitang gave Lu Xuanji a strand of hair that could unleash a lethal Supreme attack, then departed with Wangxi while Lu Xuanji headed toward Chu Kingdom.
• Su Haitang watched Lu Xuanji leave and resolved to wait until his Dao partners died, while naming Ye Feixue as her greatest rival.
• Su Haitang went to Qi Kingdom and destroyed the Many Treasures Tower with a gigantic palm, killing its cultivators and customers.

Lu Xuanji returned from Qi Kingdom with a Rank 6 Creation Fruit and used it to begin healing Jin Xi’s severe injuries. After she recovered enough to speak, she learned he had traveled safely by making others believe he had a powerful background, and she planned to spend fifty years recovering before attempting Spirit Transformation again.

• A cold voice announced that the Many Treasures Tower had been destroyed for selling furnace cauldrons, and An Biyu later found the ruined branch tower and feared she would be blamed.
• Lu Xuanji gave Fang Liuli thirty thousand Spirit Stones and a token, assigning her to establish intelligence networks across several cultivation nations; he refused her attempt to seduce him.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Changyuan Mountain and gave Jin Xi juice from a Rank 6 Creation Fruit, which began healing her injuries.
• After three days of recovery, Jin Xi learned that her injuries would take ten years to heal and that she would need fifty years before trying to reach Spirit Transformation again.
• Lu Xuanji encouraged Jin Xi to keep her confidence after failure, and the two shared a private bath together.

After Jin Xi’s repeated failures to reach Spirit Transformation, Lu Xuanji took her into the mortal world to help her regain her ordinary state of mind. They arrived in Wu Xi City with her cultivation sealed, beginning their attempt at Mortal Transformation.

• Jin Xi felt discouraged that Lu Xuanji had surpassed her, and he promised to protect her and help her reach immortality.
• Lu Xuanji explained that Jin Xi’s anxiety over Azure Lotus and his rapid progress had unsettled her, so he proposed a journey through the mortal world.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi concealed their auras and spent a month traveling, though Jin Xi struggled to enjoy the scenery and ordinary pleasures.
• Lu Xuanji described Mortal Transformation as returning to one’s original nature, and Jin Xi recalled her original aspiration.
• In Wu Xi City, Lu Xuanji sealed Jin Xi’s cultivation and senses, and the two began living as mortals during the New Year’s Eve festivities.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi secluded themselves in a small city to undergo Mortal Transformation, living among mortals while Lu Xuanji befriended and instructed Situ He. Ten years later, Situ He tried to force Lu Xuanji to reveal a cultivation method, and Lu Xuanji killed him before he and Jin Xi left for another place.

• Jin Xi learned to cook while Lu Xuanji set up a fortune-telling stall, where he turned a hooligan's attempt to collect protection fees into a medical consultation.
• The hooligan, Situ He, returned regularly to learn the Fierce Tiger Fist, and Lu Xuanji explained to Jin Xi that Mortal Transformation meant adopting a mortal's state of mind.
• Over ten years, Situ He rose from a minor gang member to the overlord of the Fierce Tiger Gang, while Lu Xuanji continued to answer his martial arts questions.
• Situ He poisoned Lu Xuanji and demanded a method of cultivating immortality, threatening to imprison him and harm Jin Xi if he refused.
• Lu Xuanji revealed he was unharmed, then killed Situ He when he attacked with a dagger; Jin Xi burned the body, and the couple left to change locations.

After a century of changing mortal identities while cultivating, Lu Xuanji settled in a mountain city with Jin Xi and resumed practicing saber techniques. He began testing a local boy’s perseverance, while the boy’s widowed mother, Zhao Yu'er, worried over her son and realized Lu Xuanji was an Immortal Master.

• Lu Xuanji ended his life as emperor and settled with Jin Xi in a mountain city, where he sealed his cultivation and practiced saber techniques as a mortal.
• A boy who watched Lu Xuanji practice asked if he was a hero, and Lu Xuanji told him that true heroism required justice and helping the weak.
• The boy imitated Lu Xuanji’s saber practice and continued watching as the other children grew up and moved on.
• Lu Xuanji gave the boy a bronze saber and told him to hack at a wooden post three thousand times; the boy persevered despite pain and exhaustion.
• Zhao Yu'er visited Lu Xuanji to thank him for testing her son, and Jin Xi revealed that Zhao Yu'er had a Water-Element Heavenly Spirit Root.
• Zhao Yu'er returned home believing Lu Xuanji was an Immortal Master and wondering whether he would take an interest in Little Stone.

Lu Xuanji drew down his Heaven Soul, survived the Heavenly Tribulation, and entered Spirit Transformation. He helped Jin Xi make the same breakthrough and decided they would remain in the mountain city to stabilize their foundations and cultivate in the Grotto-heaven World.

• Lu Xuanji seized his chance to draw down the Heaven Soul and used his three cultivation arts to merge it with his Nascent Soul.
• Lu Xuanji endured a month of tribulation before his Nascent Soul transformed into a Primordial Spirit and he entered Spirit Transformation.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Jin Xi and used dual cultivation to share his Spirit Transformation insights and Primordial Spirit origin qi with her.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi concealed her transformation from the Heavenly Tribulation while she absorbed Innate Spiritual Energy and strengthened her cultivation.
• Jin Xi emerged from seclusion, underwent tribulation, and returned three months later as a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi chose to stay and stabilize their foundations, recognizing that the Grotto-heaven Pearl could preserve Innate Spiritual Energy and become a Supreme Blessed Land.

After Jin Xi entered Spirit Transformation, she and Lu Xuanji stayed in the mountain city to consolidate their cultivation while their future tribulations accumulated. Three years later, Lu Xuanji taught the persistent Little Stone a cultivation method and departed with Jin Xi, leaving Zhao Yu'er to begin cultivating on her own.

• Lu Xuanji explained that the tribulations had not vanished but were accumulating, and he and Jin Xi sealed their cultivation and remained in the mountain city.
• Lu Xuanji focused on four Divine Intents, tempered his magic power and treasure, and reflected on the dangers and long timescales of Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• After three years of training, Little Stone impressed Lu Xuanji, who taught him the Innate Creation Art and gave him pills to support his cultivation.
• Jin Xi taught Zhao Yu'er the Water Spirit Scripture and offered to match her with Lu Xuanji, but Zhao Yu'er hesitated and their relationship grew distant.
• Lu Xuanji left Little Stone supplies worth three hundred thousand Spirit Stones, then departed with Jin Xi, explaining that Zhao Yu'er had been testing what she might gain from them.