Chapter Summaries

Lu Xuanji tracked a red-robed cultivator who had been using the Blood God Gourd to abduct and slaughter people, only to be pulled into the gourd himself. Inside, he discovered that Blood Bat Demon Venerable had set the trap, leaving him imprisoned in the vast sea of blood.

• Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi found towns, villages, and cultivation lineages mysteriously emptied by a red-robed cultivator wielding the Blood God Gourd.
• Lu Xuanji pursued the cultivator and killed him, then took the gourd, a Rank 6 Spirit Treasure filled with the blood and resentment of countless victims.
• Lu Xuanji tried to purify the gourd with Pure Yang True Fire, but it suddenly sucked him inside and vanished while Jin Xi gave chase.
• Lu Xuanji found himself in the gourd's vast sea of blood, where Blood Bat Demon Venerable revealed himself and greeted him.

Lu Xuanji battled the Blood Bat Demon Venerable inside the Blood God Gourd, resisting its Blood Sea and nearly cracking its sturdy space with his Nine Colored Divine Saber. After ten years of fighting, the Blood Bat summoned his Blood Slave army and absorbed them to break through to Spirit Transformation fifth layer, leaving Lu Xuanji facing a greatly strengthened foe.

• The Blood Bat Demon Venerable revealed how he had hidden his strength and explained his role in provoking war between the Human Race and the Demon Race.
• Lu Xuanji realized the Blood Sea was his Human Tribulation and used his Pure Yang True Fire to resist its corrosive waves while searching for an escape.
• Lu Xuanji's Nine Colored Divine Saber struck the gourd repeatedly and began to crack it, forcing the Blood Bat Demon Venerable to enter and attack him directly.
• Lu Xuanji and the Blood Bat Demon Venerable fought for ten years without either gaining a decisive advantage.
• The Blood Bat Demon Venerable summoned roughly three hundred Blood Slaves and absorbed them, advancing from Spirit Transformation third layer to fifth layer before striking at Lu Xuanji with a blood-colored saber.

Lu Xuanji killed the Blood Bat Demon Venerable after an eighty-year battle, then returned to the Lu Clan and reunited with Ye Wanyi. He learned that spiritual energy and cultivation were flourishing, but that a great cycle of tribulations and golden years lay ahead.

• Lu Xuanji used the Pure Yang Immortal Sword and his Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure to defeat the Blood Bat Demon Venerable and prevent him from escaping.
• The Blood Bat Demon Venerable begged to become Lu Xuanji’s Demon Servant, but Lu Xuanji chose to kill him, refining him to ashes over several decades.
• Lu Xuanji refined the Blood God Gourd back into a green-skinned gourd and returned to the Lu Clan after the eighty-year battle.
• Lu Xuanji reunited with Ye Wanyi, who told him that recovering spiritual energy had greatly increased the number of cultivators and raised the world’s cultivation ceiling.
• Lu Xuanji explained that the coming ten thousand years would bring a three-thousand-year calamity, a golden era, and then a decline into the End of Dharma Era.

After learning that war between the Human Race and Demon Race could escalate into a battle among Spirit Transformation experts, Lu Xuanji explained why he could not abandon the Lu Clan and taught its cultivators ways to survive. He then cultivated in seclusion for 150 years and reached Spirit Transformation Second Layer.

• Ye Wanyi told Lu Xuanji that the Demon Race was growing stronger, the border conflict was worsening, and a final battle between Spirit Transformation cultivators threatened the Lu Clan.
• Lu Xuanji explained that he would have to fight to protect the Lu Clan and Chu Kingdom, and that the conflict among powerful cultivators centered on Fortune and the chance to reach Void Refinement.
• Lu Xuanji gathered tens of thousands of Lu Clan cultivators, confirmed that Lu Xuanming, Lu Xuanshui, Lu Qiwen, and Li Qingwei were alive, and learned that Hong Fu had died in the Golden Crow Cave Dwelling.
• Lu Xuanji lectured the gathered cultivators on three life-preserving Divine Powers and the Mad Demon Life-Reducing Pill before returning to seclusion.
• Lu Xuanji cultivated four Divine Intents and refined innate spiritual energy from the Grotto-heaven Pearl, then emerged after 150 years at Spirit Transformation Second Layer.

Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi joined East Pole Celestial Venerable and the other Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivators to plan a surprise attack on the Golden Crow Clan. As the assembled cultivators prepared to set out, Great Venerable Golden Crow also resolved to use the coming war to destroy the Human Race and weaken rival Demon Race clans.

• Lu Xuanji’s Divine Intent advanced, and he answered his disciples’ cultivation questions before receiving East Pole Celestial Venerable’s summons.
• Lu Xuanji reunited with Jin Xi, told her that Blood Bat Demon Venerable had been killed, and traveled with her to East Pole Celestial Venerable’s Grotto-Heaven.
• East Pole Celestial Venerable explained that victory over Great Venerable Golden Crow and the Demon Race could help him overcome his tribulations and attempt Void Refining.
• Eighteen Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivators gathered and agreed to follow East Pole Celestial Venerable’s plan for a surprise attack on the Golden Crow Clan’s ancestral land.
• East Pole Celestial Venerable sealed the palace against outside transmissions, and the gathered cultivators waited to depart.
• Great Venerable Golden Crow prepared for war, intending to seize Chu Kingdom and eliminate rival Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators.

The Golden Crow Clan prepared to attack Chu Kingdom, but the Human Race launched a surprise assault, beginning a battle between the two sides. As the Fusang Tree was damaged by One Yuan Heavy Water, Lu Xuanji and his allies fought the Golden Crows and gained the upper hand through their combined power.

• The Fusang Tree absorbed spiritual energy and supplied Innate Qi to the Golden Crow Clan as its leaders gathered to plan an attack on Chu Kingdom.
• Great Venerable Golden Crow ordered the clan to wage war, but the Human Race struck before the meeting ended.
• The Human Race descended with East Pole Hall, and One Yuan Heavy Water damaged the Fusang Tree until Great Venerable Golden Crow withdrew it into his dantian.
• East Pole Celestial Venerable and Great Venerable Golden Crow called their forces to fight, while Pill Aura Celestial Venerable sealed the battlefield to stop the Golden Crows escaping.
• Lu Xuanji, Jin Xi, and Azure Lotus killed a Golden Crow, and Lu Xuanji sensed that his destiny and comprehension had improved.
• Lu Xuanji fused with Jin Xi and Azure Lotus, reached Spirit Transformation sixth layer, and killed another Golden Crow with a single saber strike.

Lu Xuanji and his fused companions helped the Human Race destroy the Golden Crow Clan, with Lu Xuanji killing seventeen of its Spirit Transformation cultivators before the Great Venerable Golden Crow was sealed. Back at Ziyang Mountain, the three recovered and Lu Xuanji refined the fallen Golden Crows into a strand of Creation Qi.

• Lu Xuanji used their fusion to reach Spirit Transformation sixth layer and killed eight Golden Crow Spirit Transformation cultivators, but the Great Venerable Golden Crow wounded him before East Pole Celestial Venerable intervened.
• Lu Xuanji unleashed Fish Dragon Nine Transformations, sacrificing nine clones to kill nine more Golden Crow Spirit Transformation cultivators, then urged the Human Race cultivators to attack the Great Venerable Golden Crow.
• East Pole Celestial Venerable and twelve other Spirit Transformation cultivators sealed the Great Venerable Golden Crow inside East Pole Hall, then the Human Race forces departed after East Pole Celestial Venerable struck the Golden Crow Ancestral Land.
• Lu Xuanji returned to Ziyang Mountain with Jin Xi and Azure Lotus, where they separated from their fused state and began healing; Azure Lotus warned that both Demons and some Human cultivators might target them.
• Lu Xuanji used the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure to refine the corpses of the seventeen Golden Crow cultivators into Heaven Mending Qi, then transformed it into a strand of Creation Qi and offered it to Jin Xi and Azure Lotus.

Azure Lotus absorbed the remaining Creation Qi and advanced to Spirit Transformation Layer Seven Peak, while Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi warned each other about the dangers of human infighting after the Demon Race was defeated. Three months later, the unprecedented Beast Tide began the final battle, and Lu Xuanji activated the Lu Clan’s formations and attacked the invading hordes.

• Jin Xi refined a strand of Creation Qi, then Lu Xuanji and Jin Xi persuaded Azure Lotus to absorb the remaining seventeen strands.
• Azure Lotus refined the Creation Qi and advanced through Spirit Transformation fifth and sixth layers to Layer Seven Peak, while Lu Xuanji concealed her aura with formations.
• Azure Lotus and Lu Xuanji practiced dual cultivation, and Lu Xuanji’s Yin Yang Divine Intent reached the seventh grade.
• Azure Lotus and Jin Xi warned Lu Xuanji that the East Pole Celestial Venerable might target him after the Demon Race was defeated, and Lu Xuanji said he had trump cards.
• Three months later, an unprecedented Beast Tide swept into the Chu Kingdom as Human and Demon forces began the final battle.
• Lu Xuanji activated the Lu Clan’s formations and charged the demonic beast hordes with his saber.

The Ant Emperor commanded the Demon Race’s army in a coordinated assault on the Chu Kingdom while the Kun Peng Demon Venerable waited to absorb scattered destiny and break through. In the East Pole Hall, the Eastern Extremity Celestial Venerable kept the Great Venerable Golden Crow imprisoned, but learned that the Golden Crow believed Lu Xuanji would eventually replace him.

• The Kun Peng Demon Venerable had the Ant Emperor direct the Demon Race’s forces in precision attacks against the Chu Kingdom.
• The Ant Emperor questioned the Kun Peng Demon Venerable about reinforcements, another half-step Void Refining expert, his breakthrough, and whether the Eastern Extremity Celestial Venerable would intervene.
• The Eastern Extremity Celestial Venerable noticed the Demon Race’s improved coordination and saw that the Human Race could suffer heavy losses.
• The Eastern Extremity Celestial Venerable used the East Pole Hall’s formations to suppress the Great Venerable Golden Crow, who broke some chains but remained trapped.
• The Great Venerable Golden Crow said his dwindling destiny left him only three hundred years and warned that Lu Xuanji would replace the Eastern Extremity Celestial Venerable; the Celestial Venerable responded with killing intent.

Lu Xuanji fought Fang Wutian, the Lunar Beast and Child of the World, after the Demon Race attacked him with a Rank 6 Spirit Treasure. Their battle escalated as Fang Wutian discovered Lu Xuanji could withstand his attacks, and the chapter ended with Fang Wutian launching his Heavenly Punishment Divine Fist.

• East Pole Celestial Venerable vowed to kill Lu Xuanji if he survived his tribulation, while Great Venerable Golden Crow broke his chains only for them to regenerate.
• Lu Xuanji slaughtered Demon Cultivators until an ancient great ship appeared and its occupant attacked him with a chaotic palm.
• Lu Xuanji countered the attacker with his Pure Yang Seal, but the Demon Cultivator summoned a Lunar Beast vision that suppressed Lu Xuanji's Pure Yang Dao Body.
• The Lunar Beast revealed that he was Fang Wutian, boasted of his destiny, and threatened to capture Lu Xuanji as a slave.
• Lu Xuanji and Fang Wutian traded powerful attacks, and Lu Xuanji used a Fish Dragon Nine Transformations clone to survive Fang Wutian's killing finger.
• Fang Wutian increased his regard for Lu Xuanji and struck at him with the Heavenly Punishment Divine Fist.

Lu Xuanji battled Fang Wutian, who broke through to Spirit Transformation fourth layer and gained the upper hand before Lu Xuanji unleashed the Thirty-Three Heavens to grievously wound him. Lu Xuanji refined half of Fang Wutian's body and advanced to Spirit Transformation fourth layer, while the fleeing Fang Wutian was intercepted by Long Aotian.

• Lu Xuanji and Fang Wutian traded increasingly powerful attacks, and Lu Xuanji used the fight to refine his techniques and advance his understanding.
• Fang Wutian broke through to Spirit Transformation fourth layer, gained the advantage, and sealed the void while the Demon Race attacked the Lu Clan's Immortal Continent to keep Lu Xuanji's allies occupied.
• Lu Xuanji unleashed the Thirty-Three Heavens, pierced Fang Wutian's skull, and tore apart half his body as Fang Wutian fled.
• Lu Xuanji captured Fang Wutian's remaining half-body in the Heaven Mending Cauldron and refined it, advancing to Spirit Transformation fourth layer and gaining some of Fang Wutian's luck.
• Fang Wutian regrew his lower body and fled, but Long Aotian sealed the void, revealed himself as the son of the Candle Dragon, and attacked with Solar True Fire.

Long Aotian tried to refine Fang Wutian, but Fang Wutian abandoned his body and escaped as a Primordial Spirit. Lu Xuanji then turned his power against the Demon Race, sealing the White Tiger Demon Lord and unleashing the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• Long Aotian burned Fang Wutian with Solar True Fire and revealed his suspicion that Lu Xuanji had reached the Golden Core Tenth or Eleventh Revolution.
• Fang Wutian used the Way of Self-Sacrifice to escape Long Aotian's seal, leaving his body behind as his Primordial Spirit fled.
• Long Aotian absorbed Fang Wutian's remaining body and hid himself, intending to assassinate Lu Xuanji during the battle.
• Kun Peng Demon Venerable learned that Fang Wutian had lost and explained to Ant Emperor that Lu Xuanji's luck rivaled the Lunar Beast's; the East Pole Celestial Venerable worried over Lu Xuanji's strength.
• Lu Xuanji stabilized his cultivation at the fourth layer of Spirit Transformation, then sealed the eighth-layer Spirit Transformation White Tiger Demon Lord inside the Universe Gourd.
• Lu Xuanji summoned the thirty-three worlds of the Thirty-Three Heavens and sent them crashing down on the Demon Race.

Lu Xuanji crushed the Demon Race’s forces and survived a deadly curse cast with the Nail Head Seven Arrows Book, though it exhausted his Fortune and seemingly drained the power from the Pure Yang Broken Sword. The curse also depleted the Golden Crow Clan’s Fortune, leaving the trapped Great Venerable Golden Crow even closer to being refined by the East Pole Celestial Venerable.

• Lu Xuanji absorbed Creation Qi from the slaughtered demons, strengthening his body, then crushed a Spirit Transformation fifth layer Kunpeng Great Demon and refined him into the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure.
• A Golden Crow Great Demon used the Nail Head Seven Arrows Book to curse Lu Xuanji and died after paying its terrible cost.
• The curse eroded Lu Xuanji’s Fortune from purple down to black, but the Pure Yang Broken Sword dispelled it at the cost of losing its radiance and power.
• The curse consumed the Golden Crow Clan’s Fortune and weakened the Great Venerable Golden Crow, whom the East Pole Celestial Venerable continued to refine in the East Pole Hall.

After the war against the Demon Race, Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, refined White Tiger Demon Lord, and strengthened the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure. As he traveled to Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Capital to seek materials, a mysterious pursuer followed him, and Baidu Maps revealed an imminent assassination threat.

• Lu Xuanji helped drive back the Demon Race, and the Human Race gathered to plan defenses after both sides suffered heavy losses.
• Ant Emperor reported Lu Xuanji’s strength to Kun Peng Demon Venerable, who admitted he could not act while refining a Luck Pill from gathered Fortune.
• Long Aotian considered attacking Lu Xuanji, but an old man in black offered to pursue him despite Long Aotian’s doubts.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, learned of its casualties, warned his companions about killing intent, and refined White Tiger Demon Lord into the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure.
• Lu Xuanji left for Chu Kingdom’s Imperial Capital to seek materials, while a shadow figure followed him.
• Lu Xuanji checked Baidu Maps and saw a black dot behind him, but the phone could not identify the Black-Clothed Man through the surrounding fog.

Lu Xuanji fought the Black-Clothed Man, first using the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure to withstand and escape his attacks. After negotiations over the Black-Clothed Man’s offer to recruit him failed, Lu Xuanji unleashed the treasure’s full power and killed him, then gathered the remains.

• Lu Xuanji used a false body to lure the Black-Clothed Man into the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure, whose linked treasures absorbed and repaired damage as they fought.
• The Black-Clothed Man escaped the treasure’s enclosure, praised Lu Xuanji, and offered him a chance to serve his Young Master; Lu Xuanji rejected the offer as insufficient.
• The Black-Clothed Man revealed his Spirit Transformation ninth-layer peak cultivation and overwhelmed Lu Xuanji in their first exchange of punches.
• Lu Xuanji merged with the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure, raised his cultivation to Spirit Transformation Layer Seven and half-step Void Refining strength, and prepared to fight within a ten-second limit.
• Lu Xuanji broke the Black-Clothed Man’s Rank 7 Spirit Treasure saber and killed him with a punch, then collected the remains in the Universe Gourd.

Lu Xuanji refined the Black-Clothed Man’s blood and Primordial Spirit fragments into the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure, then took it through tribulation until it reached Rank 6. Long Aotian learned of his Companion Demon’s death and studied the record of their battle, while the East Pole Celestial Venerable killed the Great Venerable Golden Crow and prepared to deal with Lu Xuanji.

• Lu Xuanji smelted the Black-Clothed Man’s blood and Divine Soul fragments into the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure, raising it to Rank 6.
• Lu Xuanji left Chu Kingdom and endured ten days of tribulation in a swamp, after which the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure completed its advancement.
• Long Aotian opened the Golden Crystal left by the Black-Clothed Man, watched his final battle with Lu Xuanji, and learned how powerful Lu Xuanji had become.
• Long Aotian vowed to kill Lu Xuanji but recognized that he could not defeat him yet, so he studied the recorded techniques and weaknesses.
• The East Pole Celestial Venerable finally killed the Great Venerable Golden Crow after one hundred and fifty years and overcame his Human Tribulation.
• The East Pole Celestial Venerable resolved to deal with Lu Xuanji before he could grow stronger.

Lu Xuanji neared the Void Refining realm, but the East Pole Celestial Venerable identified him as his Fate Tribulation and attacked him while ordering a massacre of the Lu Clan and its allies. As their battle escalated, Ning Xue joined Lu Xuanji and fused her Pure Yin Sacred Body with his Pure Yang Dao Body.

• The East Pole Celestial Venerable saw Lu Xuanji’s Fortune rising and decided to kill him to seize it and overcome his Fate Tribulation.
• The East Pole Celestial Venerable intercepted Lu Xuanji, declared that they had to fight to the death, and refused his attempts to delay or dissuade him.
• The East Pole Celestial Venerable ordered the Tianling Sect to attack the Lu Clan, Ziyang Mountain, and Lu Xuanji’s allies across the Chu Kingdom.
• The East Pole Celestial Venerable struck Lu Xuanji with East Pole Fist Intent, and Lu Xuanji countered with his Nine Colors Divine Saber before his injuries healed through Creation Qi.
• Ning Xue emerged from the Grotto-heaven Pearl, and she and Lu Xuanji fused their Pure Yin and Pure Yang bodies as his cultivation rose.

Lu Xuanji fused with Ning Xue and fought East Pole Celestial Venerable in a prolonged battle, using his secret techniques and treasures to keep pace with the stronger opponent. After both exhausted their trump cards, Lu Xuanji reached half-step Void Refinement and shattered East Pole Celestial Venerable with a final punch.

• Lu Xuanji and Ning Xue fused, raising his cultivation to Spirit Transformation seventh layer and bringing his power close to that of a half-step Void Refining expert.
• Lu Xuanji and East Pole Celestial Venerable exchanged hundreds of attacks high above the ground, and both suffered severe injuries.
• Lu Xuanji used Fish Dragon Nine Transformations to recover from a lethal blow, then wounded East Pole Celestial Venerable with Yin Yang Finger.
• East Pole Celestial Venerable drew Crimson Firmament as Lu Xuanji unleashed the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure and Ant Emperor Divine Form; both were blasted apart and recovered.
• Lu Xuanji and East Pole Celestial Venerable fought for three days and nights, exhausting their mana and suffering worsening injuries.
• Lu Xuanji fused the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure into his body, rose to half-step Void Refinement, and shattered East Pole Celestial Venerable with a punch.

Lu Xuanji killed East Pole Celestial Venerable by turning the Withered Glory Curse from his Void Refining strike against the foe’s true body, and his Fortune began to recover. At the Lu Clan, Tianling Sect attacked under orders to exterminate the clan, and both sides fought as the clan’s formation came under heavy bombardment.

• East Pole Celestial Venerable’s true body appeared after his Second Nascent Soul died and battered Lu Xuanji while Lu’s cultivation and magic power were depleted.
• Lu Xuanji revealed that his Void Refining strike had carried the Withered Glory Curse into East Pole Celestial Venerable’s true body, whose lifespan expired before he could suppress it.
• Lu Xuanji burned East Pole Celestial Venerable’s corpse, gained seven layers of Chu Kingdom’s Fortune, and reunited with Ning Xue as they discussed returning to the Lu Clan.
• The Sect Master of Tianling Sect accused Lu Xuanji of aiding the Demon Race, announced that the Lu Clan would be exterminated, and ordered his forces to attack its defenses.
• The Lu Clan’s formations and cultivators counterattacked Tianling Sect’s thunder cannons and forces, beginning a brutal battle with both sides committed to fighting to the end.

After the Lu Clan defeated the Tianling Sect and Lu Xuanji killed the East Pole Celestial Venerable, the Kun Peng Demon Venerable broke through to half-step Void Refining and chose to flee rather than challenge Xuanji. Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan as its forces pursued the defeated enemy and began a brutal purge.

• Azure Lotus and Jin Xi fused into a Spirit Transformation sixth-layer cultivator, destroyed the Tianling Sect's formation, and killed its six Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Jin Xi destroyed most of the Tianling Sect's flying vessels and slaughtered its Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, while the remaining forces fled.
• Ancestor Danyang learned that the East Pole Celestial Venerable had fallen and killed a Tianling Sect cultivator who urged him to attack the Lu Clan.
• The Kun Peng Demon Venerable reached half-step Void Refining, judged that fighting Lu Xuanji would bring disaster, and fled with his clan to seek help from Five Colors Celestial Venerable.
• Lu Xuanji returned to the Lu Clan, whose forces pursued the Tianling Sect's survivors and began killing its powerful cultivators.