Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan reunited with the mortal Lu Family in Xia'ao Town and arranged to test its children for spiritual roots, while taking only about half the mortals back to the Immortal Clan. The first child tested revealed a rare Heavenly Spirit Root, and Lu Wanyuan singled him out for the clan.

• Lu Wanyuan gave Lu Youxian a Longevity Pill and explained that the Lu Family had scattered its members to preserve their bloodline.
• Lu Youxian welcomed the Immortal Clan's return, and Lu Wanyuan asked him to arrange spiritual root tests and prepare roughly half the mortals to relocate.
• Ten days later, Lu Youxian brought 3,100 eligible children to the ancestral hall square for testing.
• Lu Wanyuan instructed the children to touch the Spirit Testing Platform and warned them to keep order.
• A little boy with a runny nose touched the platform, which released a beam of golden light, revealing his Heavenly Spirit Root.
• Lu Wanyuan moved the boy behind him and called for the next child.

During spirit-root testing, Lu Wanyuan found twenty promising youngsters and prepared to relocate them, then learned that a recurring calamity was threatening Xia'ao Town. Lu Youxian revealed that a lightning-covered Demonic Beast emerged from a gorge every so often and destroyed crops and houses.

• Lu Wanyuan discovered an Earth Spirit Root in Third Child and a three-element spirit root in Iron Child after a Heavenly Spirit Root appeared earlier.
• Twenty people with spirit roots were found before testing ended, and Lu Wanyuan told them to say goodbye to their families and return by the next night.
• Lu Youxian stayed behind to watch over the remaining Lu Family members while Lu Wanyuan planned to rally the tens of thousands awaiting relocation.
• A panicked voice announced that the calamity had appeared again, and Lu Youxian explained that a Demonic Beast covered in lightning emerged from a gorge about sixty li away and destroyed the town's crops and houses.

Lu Wanyuan entered a lightning-filled canyon to investigate a destructive demonic beast and discovered that the lightning-covered ball was a tiny duckling-shaped creature. After a blast shattered his hiding place and cut his neck, he secretly cast the Dragon Imprisonment Net around himself.

• Lu Youxian led Lu Wanyuan to a canyon where heavenly lightning struck and a destructive ball-shaped beast appeared.
• Lu Wanyuan sent the lineage members away and entered the canyon under the Concealment for Two Hours Entry.
• Lu Wanyuan advanced through the canyon while lightning struck around him, shielding his ears with spiritual power.
• A lightning-covered ball bounced among the rocks, and Lu Wanyuan hid behind a large rock to watch it.
• The ball's blast shattered the rock, cut Lu Wanyuan's neck, and revealed a fist-sized creature shaped like a little duckling inside the lightning.
• Lu Wanyuan watched the creature and instinctively cast the Dragon Imprisonment Net around himself.

Lu Wanyuan trapped the little duck in his Dragon Imprisonment Net, not realizing it was a powerful Thunder Spirit. The net sealed away its lightning, leaving it helpless as the Lu Family waited outside the valley.

• Lu Wanyuan hid and waited for the little duck to approach his Dragon Imprisonment Net.
• Lu Wanyuan sprang the trap and enclosed the Thunder Spirit in the golden net.
• The trapped Thunder Spirit unleashed lightning, but the net conducted the bolts into the ground and held firm.
• Lu Youxian reassured the Lu Family that Lu Wanyuan could handle the danger in the valley.
• Lu Wanyuan tightened the net until it sealed the Thunder Spirit's lightning energy, leaving it unable to move or summon lightning.

Lu Wanyuan began refining the newly born lightning spirit, forcing it to surrender and swear an oath to become his spirit pet. The pair formed a spiritual bond, and Lu Wanyuan promised to help it grow as it became an ally on his path to immortality.

• Lu Wanyuan appeared before the trapped lightning spirit and demanded that it surrender and become his pet.
• When the lightning spirit refused, Lu Wanyuan began refining it while cultivating the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture.
• The lightning spirit panicked as its body shrank under the refining pressure and begged Lu Wanyuan to spare its life.
• Lu Wanyuan stopped refining it after it agreed to surrender and ordered it to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• The lightning spirit swore the oath, acknowledged Lu Wanyuan as its master, and formed a spiritual bond with him.

Lu Wanyuan used the Lightning Spirit’s affinity with lightning to temper his body and soul, then cultivated with the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture inside a damaged Formation Crafting array. He broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and continued refining lightning to strengthen his cultivation.

• Lu Wanyuan discovered that heavenly lightning no longer injured him and instead tempered his body and soul.
• Lu Wanyuan returned the Lightning Spirit to his Dantian and entered the damaged Formation Crafting array where heavenly lightning had fallen for over a hundred years.
• Lu Wanyuan cultivated the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture, refining lightning into power and toughening his muscles and meridians.
• Lu Wanyuan broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, expanding his Dantian and meridians and extending his perception several hundred zhang.
• Lu Wanyuan kept drawing in and refining lightning to consolidate his breakthrough as his spiritual energy rapidly increased.

Lu Wanyuan discovered that the gorge’s Lightning Pool was an ideal place for the Lu Family to cultivate lightning-rooted practitioners, but its failing Formation made the area dangerous. He arranged to move the family’s mortals and Immortal Seedlings to Cui Mountain while ordering the gorge guarded as a Forbidden Ground.

• Lu Wanyuan filled his Dantian with spiritual energy and recognized the gorge as a natural lightning cultivation site where five cultivators could use Lightning Spiritual Root Entries to learn the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture.
• Lu Wanyuan contacted Lu Wanshan and ordered preparations at Cui Mountain for fifty thousand people, reporting that he had found around twenty promising cultivation candidates.
• Lu Wanyuan instructed Lu Youxian to patrol the gorge, keep its existence secret as the Forbidden Ground, and prepare to move half the nearby mortal population and the Immortal Seedlings in three days.
• Lu Wanyuan searched the surrounding area for anything unusual, found nothing, and flew away.

Lu Wanyuan moved the Immortal Seedlings and tens of thousands of mortals from Xia'ao Town to Cui Mountain using his Chaos Space and the Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle. The mortals arrived safely and were told to choose caves and prepare to work on a city for the Lu Family.

• Lu Wanyuan welcomed twenty Immortal Seedlings into the Lu Family Immortal Clan and told them to learn patiently and prioritize staying alive in the Cultivation World.
• Lu Wanyuan sent the Immortal Seedlings through a teleportation gate into his Chaos Space, where Shangguan Qianxue guided them to their seats.
• Lu Wanyuan transported the seventy thousand mortals from the plaza into the Chaos Space, and Shangguan Qianxue instructed them to sit quietly.
• Lu Wanyuan told Lu Youxian to patrol the valley and flee if danger came, then flew toward Cui Mountain on the Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle.
• Lu Wanyuan released the mortals at Cui Mountain and instructed each small family to choose a cave and contribute to farming, construction, and building a city.

Lu Wanyuan and the Lu family leaders decided how to train the twenty new Immortal Seedlings, agreeing to provide cultivation basics, techniques, guidance, and extra resources for the most gifted. At a welcoming ceremony, Lu Wanyuan urged the newcomers to cultivate safely and strengthen the Lu Family Immortal Clan so it would not suffer its former decline again.

• Lu Wanyuan discussed the newly settled migrants and the twenty Immortal Seedlings, and the leaders considered how to help them cultivate despite the clan’s shortage of experienced cultivators.
• Lu Wanting proposed introducing the Immortal Seedlings to cultivation and letting them develop independently, with regular checks and help available when they had questions.
• Lu Wanyuan approved the plan, including access to Cultivation Techniques and extra resources for especially talented students, and the leaders agreed to hold a welcoming ceremony.
• Three days later, Lu Wanyuan addressed the new cultivators at the ancestral hall plaza and promised cultivation instruction, access to the Family Treasury, and protection from assignments until they reached Qi Refining Level Three.
• Lu Wanyuan explained that the Lu Family had declined because it lacked cultivators and strength, and urged the newcomers to grow stronger to protect their descendants and the clan.

Lu Wanyuan organized the Lu Family’s Immortal Seedlings into the Hidden Dragon Team and welcomed the births of children from Baili Qiuyue and the others. With the clan’s commoner population growing, he decided to stop having children and shift their efforts toward cultivation and protecting the Lu Family.

• Lu Wanyuan assigned instructors to the Immortal Seedlings, arranged for them to rotate yearly, and established the Hidden Dragon Team with Lu Gufeng as captain and Lu Gushuang as deputy captain.
• Laifu told Lu Wanyuan that Baili Qiuyue and the others were giving birth, and Lu Wanyuan hurried to their rooms.
• Lu Wanyuan found that all three women had given birth and comforted them as he held their newborns.
• Lu Wanyuan decided that he and the women would have no more children and would focus on cultivation now that the Lu Family had many commoners.
• Lu Wanyuan told Baili Qiuyue, Yuhe, and Qianxue that they would change their focus to cultivation and protecting the Lu Family.

Lu Wanyuan rewarded Baili Qiuyue and his other wives for their contributions to the Lu Family by offering each a chance to gain a Lightning Spiritual Root. He used the opportunity on Baili Qiuyue as a demonstration, and she awaited its effects.

• Lu Wanyuan told the women that he would give each of them a fortuitous opportunity in recognition of their contributions to the Lu Family.
• He revealed that the opportunity could grant a Lightning Spiritual Root, leaving the women astonished.
• Baili Qiuyue asked to use her opportunity immediately because she feared falling behind Lu Wanyuan.
• Lu Wanyuan summoned a bolt of lightning that entered Baili Qiuyue through the Baihui acupoint without harming her.
• Baili Qiuyue asked whether that was all, and Lu Wanyuan told her to wait and see.

Ten years later, Lu Wanyuan visited the Lu Family’s lightning cultivators in Lightning Valley and planned to bring Lu Gutian to a hunting competition as a hidden trump card. After seeing Gutian demonstrate his powerful Lightning Whip, Wanyuan felt confident about the family’s expedition and planned to explore the mysterious Wuming Space after the competition.

• Over ten years, Lu Wanyuan used all six Lightning Spiritual Root Entries, and seven Lu Family members became lightning cultivators training in Lightning Valley.
• Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue discussed her rapid cultivation progress and the Lu Family’s growth to around a hundred cultivators and four Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
• Lu Wanyuan told Baili Qiuyue he wanted Lu Gutian to join a hunting competition held by the five Cultivation Families of the Wolong Mountain Range.
• Baili Qiuyue agreed that Gutian could serve as a hidden trump card, and she led Wanyuan to see him training.
• Lu Wanyuan watched Lu Gutian unleash his self-created Lightning Whip, which split the sky, and decided the Lu Family’s hunting expedition could proceed with confidence.

Lu Wanyuan prepared the Lu Family’s young cultivators for the Wolong Mountain Range hunting tournament, explaining that it would decide territory and resources and warning them about rival families. He appointed Lu Gujin and Lu Gutian as leaders and equipped the team before their departure.

• Lu Wanyuan praised Lu Gutian’s progress and told him to protect the Lu Family cultivators during the upcoming hunting tournament.
• Lu Gutian learned that the tournament would determine how nearby families divided territory and resources, and that the Lu Family had kept its Lightning Valley cultivators hidden for their safety.
• Lu Wanyuan took Lu Gutian back to Cui Mountain aboard the second-tier upper-grade Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle.
• Twenty days later, Lu Wanyuan warned twenty young cultivators that rival disciples would pose the greatest danger during the hunt.
• Lu Wanyuan appointed Lu Gujin captain and Lu Gutian deputy captain, then allowed each cultivator to take three Attack Spirit Talismans, one Defense Spirit Talisman, and an offensive magic artifact.

Lu Wanyuan brought cultivators to the Wolong Mountain Range for a hunting competition, showing off the Lu Family’s growing strength in beasts and cultivators. After he clashed with Chi Haonan, Xu Da stepped in to steer the gathered families toward discussing the competition.

• Lu Wanyuan reflected on the Lu Family’s growth, including the powerful second generation and its expanding force of demonic beasts and Golden Beak Black Iron Eagles.
• Lu Wanyuan arrived at the Wolong Mountain Range with dozens of cultivators aboard a Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle, startling the waiting crowd.
• The eagle’s departure blew the gathered cultivators off balance, and Chi Haonan attacked it in anger.
• Lu Wanyuan cut apart Chi Haonan’s conjured hands and accused him of trying to turn the other families against the Lu Family for the Chi Family’s benefit.
• Xu Da stopped the argument and called on the families to discuss how to hold the hunting competition.

The Lu, Wang, Chi, and Huang Families agreed to settle their disputes through the Wolong Mountain hunting competition, with each family putting up valuable stakes. Lu Wanyuan left the gathering intent on strengthening the Lu Family and preparing to conquer its rivals.

• Wang Haochen proposed using the hunting competition to settle the families’ grudges, and Lu Wanyuan agreed while warning that the Lu Family would show no mercy if provoked.
• Lu Wanyuan decided that the Lu Family would need to conquer the surrounding families to eliminate its security risks, but first he wanted to cultivate the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture to its second layer.
• Wang Haochen revealed that the Wang Family was staking forty bottles of Zengyuan Pills and its share of the profits from Tianyuan City, while relying on Wang Wenjie to lead its hunting team.
• Chi Haonan matched the Wang Family’s stake with valuable ore and the Chi Family’s share of the Tianyuan City profits.
• The Huang Family put up about 350 Spiritual Talismans and its share of the Chi Family’s Tianyuan City profits.
• Lu Wanyuan staked one hundred thousand Spirit Stones and the Lu Family’s share of the Chi Family’s Tianyuan City profits.

The Four Great Families began a ten-day Demonic Beast hunting competition, and Lu Gujin organized the Lu Family team after they entered the canyon. The team set out to hunt a herd of Spiritual Rhinos after scouts located them.

• Chi Haonan explained the competition rules, rewards, and penalties for cheating before ordering the teams into the hunting grounds.
• The Lu Family team entered the canyon, chose the far-left path, and disappeared into the woods as the other families entered by separate routes.
• Lu Gujin sent three pairs of scouts ahead and ordered the rest of the team to rest while keeping watch.
• Lu Guchun reported that a herd of at least fifteen Spiritual Rhinos was five li away, including several ranked beasts.
• Lu Gujin ordered the team to follow him toward the herd while Lu Guchun stayed behind to watch for rival teams.

Lu Gutian volunteered to draw the Spiritual Rhinos out of the stream so the Lu Family hunting team could attack them on land. He crept close to the herd and began channeling lightning into the water, with the team waiting to strike.

• Lu Gujin cautioned the team that attacking the Rhino King in the center of the herd could leave them vulnerable, while Lu Gugu argued for a quick assault.
• Lu Gutian proposed driving the Spiritual Rhinos onto the bank, but Lu Gugu mocked his plan and Lu Gujin defended him.
• Lu Gutian set off alone to lure the rhinos out, and Lu Gujin ordered the team to prepare to support him or attack when the chance came.
• Lu Gutian changed into pale green clothes and stealthily approached the herd from upwind, reaching the stream about twenty meters away.
• Lu Gutian put his hand into the stream and channeled lightning spiritual power through his fingertips toward the submerged rhinos.

Lu Gutian used lightning to drive the Rhino King and the herd out of the river, giving the Lu Family a chance to attack. While Lu Gujin and four others pursued the Rhino King, Lu Gutian’s group brought down the remaining rhinos, though one rampaging blind rhino caused heavy casualties among them.

• Lu Gutian shocked the rhinos in the river with lightning, and the frightened Rhino King fled ashore.
• Lu Gujin and four Lu Family members pursued the Rhino King while the others surrounded three Spiritual Rhinos.
• Lu Gutian urged his group to attack quickly, then struck one Rhino Yao with lightning and told Lu Guchun to aim for its eyes.
• Lu Guchun blinded the stunned rhino with his flying sword, and it rampaged into two other rhinos, fatally injuring them.
• The blind Rhino Yao charged another fleeing rhino and knocked it down, killing it.

Lu Gutian rushed to help the five Lu brothers after discovering that Wang Jie’s hunting team had ambushed them while they were weakened. He unleashed a devastating lightning attack that killed Wang Jie and more than ten Wang Family disciples, but the effort left him pale and collapsed.

• Lu Gutian hurried ahead after hearing weapons clash and found the five Lu brothers surrounded by more than twenty Wang Family cultivators.
• Wang Jie revealed that the hunting competition was a trap intended to eliminate the Lu Family’s fighting forces, while the brothers struggled to maintain their defensive formation.
• Lu Gujin steadied the formation after Lu Gushui warned him to focus on escaping.
• Lu Gutian appeared behind the Wang Family team and sent a white bolt of lightning through more than ten disciples, killing them.
• The lightning struck Wang Jie and reduced him to ashes, and Lu Gutian collapsed as the Lu brothers realized he had rescued them.

After waking from the battle, Lu Gutian learned the Lu Family group had spent days evading attacks from rival families. He urged them to strike back and devised a plan to lure their enemies into an ambush.

• Lu Gujin discovered that Lu Gutian had only fainted from overusing his spiritual energy and gave him spirit pills; he realized Lu Gutian was a Lightning Cultivator with a rare and powerful secret.
• Lu Gujin led the group away from the scorched battlefield, carrying the unconscious Lu Gutian while the others followed.
• Three days later, Lu Gutian woke and learned Lu Gujin had kept the group moving and hidden while rival families searched for them.
• Lu Gutian insisted they should avenge the Lu Family and argued that staying passive would only invite further attacks.
• Lu Gutian proposed sending a small group ahead as bait to lure the enemy into an ambush, and Lu Gufeng volunteered to go.