Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan gained control of the Five Elements Mountain and fled as the crowd and Qingzhou City’s major families reacted to its disappearance. The Four Great Families prepared a force to protect the treasure, while a group blocked Lu Wanyuan’s path as he tried to leave.

• Yang Xiu and the black-mole-faced man took shape atop the enlarged Five Elements Mountain, and Lu Wanyuan closed off the space and fled with it.
• The cultivators realized the Five Elements Mountain had vanished and erupted into chaos, suspecting someone had taken the treasure.
• The Four Great Families discussed how to respond, rejected locking down Qingzhou City, and agreed to send guards and cultivators under representatives from each family.
• A scarred leader and his group blocked Lu Wanyuan as he tried to leave, and Lu Wanyuan held back and asked why they were stopping him.

Lu Wanyuan was ambushed by the scar-faced man and his gang, who demanded Spirit Stones, but he used the Dragon Imprisonment Net to seal their spiritual power and kill them. He, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe collected the gang’s belongings and left.

• The scar-faced man demanded Spirit Stones from Lu Wanyuan, who offered a hundred while secretly deploying the Dragon Imprisonment Net.
• The scar-faced man rejected the payment and attacked Lu Wanyuan and his companions with his gang.
• Lu Wanyuan triggered the Dragon Imprisonment Net, which entered the attackers’ Dantians and sealed their spiritual power.
• The scar-faced man tried to order his men to use Spiritual Talismans, but Lu Wanyuan stopped them from acting.
• Lu Wanyuan used a flying sword to kill the scar-faced man and his gang.
• Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe helped Lu Wanyuan collect the spoils, and the three left together.

Lu Wanyuan, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe escaped the chaos at Five Elements Mountain, but Murong Kaitian and Qingzhou City's enforcement squads pursued them. Murong Kaitian took a Blood Burst Pill and caught up, leaving Lu Wanyuan to face him if the three were to escape.

• Lu Wanyuan and his companions killed Scarface and his men, gathered spoils, and fled as fighting erupted behind them.
• The three raced toward Cui Mountain, avoiding Qingzhou City despite spotting Qingzhou Mountain ahead.
• Lu Wanyuan sensed pursuers approaching from Qingzhou City and sped away with Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe.
• Murong Kaitian led an advance team from several Qingzhou City families and swallowed a Blood Burst Pill to increase his speed.
• Murong Kaitian caught up to Lu Wanyuan, who realized they had to take him out to escape.

Lu Wanyuan used the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture to kill Murong Kaitian after Murong attacked him. The lightning alarmed Qingzhou City’s ancient family ancestors, who mistook the phenomenon for the return of a terrifying demon, while Lu Wanyuan urged his companions to flee.

• Murong Kaitian attacked Lu Wanyuan with a massive blade after Lu Wanyuan refused to obey him.
• Lu Wanyuan sent Shangguan Qianxue and his other companion to safety and began forming seals for his hidden technique.
• Lu Wanyuan summoned dark clouds and lightning with the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture, and Murong Kaitian retreated in fear.
• Lu Wanyuan pressed his hand down and struck Murong Kaitian with a bolt of lightning, making him disappear.
• The phenomenon awakened the ancestors of Qingzhou City's major families, who feared a demon from a thousand years ago had returned and fled.
• Lu Wanyuan weakly shouted for his companions to run.

After Lu Wanyuan exhausted himself using the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture, Xu Yuhe and Shangguan Qianxue fled with him as pursuers closed in. Lu Wanyuan recovered enough to use the Chaos Space, and planned to take Xu Yuhe somewhere safe before checking on Qianxue.

• Xu Yuhe grabbed the weakened Lu Wanyuan and fled southwest with Shangguan Qianxue as a distant Ancestor ordered the pursuers to chase them.
• Shangguan Qianxue turned back to hold off the pursuers while Xu Yuhe carried Lu Wanyuan into the mountains.
• After fleeing for two hours, Xu Yuhe stopped at Lu Wanyuan's request so he could recover his Spiritual Energy and Divine Sense.
• Xu Yuhe kept watch as Lu Wanyuan cultivated, and night fell before he opened his eyes again.
• Lu Wanyuan told Xu Yuhe he had recovered and would take her somewhere to rest before checking on Shangguan Qianxue.

Lu Wanyuan searched the Tianyin Mountain Range for Shangguan Qianxue, then began secretly killing the pursuers after learning the Zhang family might use a blood-tracking spell to find them. Xu Yuhe remained in the Chaos Space as bodies and loot accumulated, while the search party panicked over people disappearing.

• Lu Wanyuan used the Concealment Entry and hurried back through the forest to look for Shangguan Qianxue.
• Lu Wanyuan overheard Murong Qing explain that the Zhang family might use the Blood Soul Tracing Great Law to track their targets.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to wipe out the pursuers and killed three men with a flash of silver light.
• Xu Yuhe cultivated in the Chaos Space, collected the possessions of the headless corpses falling into the pit, and watched the pit deepen as the bodies shrank away.
• Searchers in the Tianyin Mountain Range grew terrified as groups vanished without leaving traces, and they suspected a demon was responsible.

The Four Great Families agreed to pay the Zhang Family to perform the Blood Soul Tracing Great Law and search for the Lu Family in the Tianyin Mountain Range. As Lu Wanyuan desperately searched for Shangguan Qianxue, she hid nearby, gravely wounded and believing she might not survive.

• Murong Changhong warned the Four Great Families that the returned Lu Family might threaten them, and Zhang Yongqiang argued that the Zhang Family would not help without compensation.
• Zhang Yongqiang demanded resources for the Zhang Family to perform the Blood Soul Tracing Great Law, and Murong Changhong ordered the other families to provide them.
• Zhang Yongqiang left with members of the Zhang Family to prepare for the ritual, while the other families departed the Murong residence.
• Lu Wanyuan searched the Tianyin Mountain Range for Shangguan Qianxue and attacked members of the search parties he encountered.
• Shangguan Qianxue hid in a hollow tree about five li away, badly wounded and missing her left hand, and thought of her husband as she waited.

Zhang Yongqiang performed the Blood Soul Tracing Great Law to reveal the location of the jade hand’s owner, while secretly arranging for part of the Zhang Family to flee Qingzhou City. Murong Changhong left with the tracing light’s direction, and Zhang Yongqiang was left weakened as Qingzhou City’s crisis loomed.

• Zhang Yongqiang told Zhang Yongtian to lead the Zhang Family’s elite and promising disciples through a secret passage to Tianhe City while the spell drew attention, and Zhang Yongtian agreed.
• Murong Changhong and the other great family heads brought the required resources to the Zhang Family estate, where Zhang Yongqiang inspected them and led everyone to the prepared courtyard.
• Zhang Yongqiang used the formation, spiritual energy, and his Soul Power to perform the Blood Soul Tracing Great Law on the jade hand Murong Changhong had brought.
• A strand of multicolored light revealed the direction of the jade hand’s owner, and Zhang Yongqiang warned Murong Changhong that it would last only six hours.
• Murong Changhong picked up the jade hand and ordered the group to set out while Zhang Yongqiang sat down to recover.

Shangguan Qianxue hid in a tree hollow while Murong Changhong tracked her using her severed hand, and Lu Wanyuan fought through cultivators searching the mountain. As the hunters surrounded her hiding place, Lu Wanyuan reached out to take Qianxue somewhere safe.

• Shangguan Qianxue woke in a tree hollow and cultivated while a blood-red thread appeared around her.
• Murong Changhong led cultivators toward the Tianyin Mountain Range, following the thread from Shangguan Qianxue's severed hand.
• Lu Wanyuan continued killing cultivators, while Xu Yuhe cultivated inside the Chaos Space and worried about him.
• Lu Wanyuan spotted Murong Changhong's group closing in on a tree and hurried after them.
• Shangguan Qianxue realized the hunters had tracked her through her missing right hand and prepared to face them.
• As Murong Changhong's group surrounded the tree, Lu Wanyuan called to Qianxue and promised to take her somewhere else.

Lu Wanyuan rescued Shangguan Qianxue from the encircled tree and brought her into the Chaos Space, where she reunited with Xu Yuhe. Murong Changhong discovered the target had vanished and ordered a search, suspecting a spatial artifact, while Lu Wanyuan hid safely inside the Chaos Space.

• Shangguan Qianxue entered the Chaos Space and reunited with Xu Yuhe, who told her Lu Wanyuan had sent her there after recovering.
• Shangguan Qianxue explained that she had lost her right hand while fighting off pursuers and had believed she would never see Xu Yuhe again.
• Lu Wanyuan used Concealment 2 Hours to slip into the tree hollow and draw Shangguan Qianxue into the Chaos Space.
• Murong Changhong noticed the red tether had vanished, struck down the towering tree, and found the hollow empty.
• Murong Changhong ordered his cultivators to search nearby and suspected the target had hidden inside a spatial artifact.
• Lu Wanyuan used the chaos from the falling tree to enter the Chaos Space without being detected.

Lu Wanyuan discovered that the Chaos Space had expanded into a vast realm with land, mountains, and an open sky, then reunited with Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe after their escape. He revealed that cultivator corpses could make the space grow and planned to recover there before returning to Qingzhou City.

• Lu Wanyuan explored the expanded Chaos Space and found that it now had land, mountains, and a sky he could not reach.
• Lu Wanyuan reunited with Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe and apologized for the dangers they had faced escaping their pursuers.
• Lu Wanyuan told the women they could rest safely inside his magic treasure until they recovered.
• Lu Wanyuan promised Shangguan Qianxue that she could cultivate again and that her injured hand could grow back as her Cultivation Realm improved.
• Lu Wanyuan explained that cultivator corpses made the Chaos Space expand and that it could become a source of cultivation resources.

Lu Wanyuan, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe discussed how the growing pocket dimension could help the Lu Family cultivate resources, then sorted the treasures they had collected. They ended the chapter discovering a vast haul of Spirit Stones, herbs, pills, and other supplies that could support the family for years.

• Lu Wanyuan explained that the pocket dimension could become a private world for the Lu Family, where they could grow spiritual plants, crops, and Demonic Beasts.
• Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe considered taking corpses from the Wolong Mountain Range to expand the space, but Lu Wanyuan warned that a Great Demon made the range too dangerous.
• Lu Wanyuan urged the group to recover and return safely to Cui Mountain before they planned the dimension's development.
• Lu Wanyuan gathered more than a thousand Storage Bags and magical treasures, and the three spent three days sorting their contents.
• The three counted at least ten million Spirit Stones, 302 boxes of sealed medicinal herbs, more than a thousand bottles of pills, and valuable Dust Washing Pills among the haul.

Lu Wanyuan, Xu Yuhe, and Shangguan Qianxue rested with their seized supplies while Lu Wanyuan planned to check outside. After the target vanished, Murong Changhong offered Foundation Establishment Pills as rewards and ordered a search, while a group of four cultivators kept watch near the tree.

• Lu Wanyuan decided to leave the seized ore and materials in place, rest, and later check the situation before returning home.
• Murong Changhong found the hollow tree empty after the target disappeared, and Murong Changyun urged him to act.
• Murong Changhong offered one Foundation Establishment Pill for clues and three for capturing the target, then claimed the Luling Murong Family could supply them.
• Murong Changhong ordered everyone to search the area and keep watch for at least three months.
• A triangular-eyed cultivator led his three companions to watch the tree, believing the target was still nearby.

Lu Wanyuan left the Chaos Space and found the four cultivators who had been waiting to capture him. He subdued them and brought them inside as the first slaves to work the land, then left again.

• Lu Wanyuan emerged from the Chaos Space, and the four cultivators spotted him and gave chase.
• The four cultivators tried to surround Lu Wanyuan and planned to claim a reward from the Murong Family.
• Lu Wanyuan revealed his Foundation Establishment peak aura, injured the four cultivators, and knocked them unconscious.
• Lu Wanyuan sent the four men into the Chaos Space and told Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe they would reclaim hillsides and open Spirit Fields.
• Xu Yuhe agreed to teach the captives a lesson, and Lu Wanyuan returned outside.

Lu Wanyuan returned to Cui Mountain after escaping Tianyin Mountain and reported the success of his dangerous trip to the Lu Family’s hall masters. He presented the formations and Nine-toothed Rake needed to begin transforming the Wolong River, leaving the family ready to start the project.

• Lu Wanyuan disguised himself as an ordinary rogue cultivator and left Tianyin Mountain after most of the searching cultivators had departed.
• Three months later, Lu Wanyuan arrived at Cui Mountain, where a disciple welcomed him and summoned the hall masters for a meeting.
• The hall masters rejoiced at Lu Wanyuan’s return and noticed that Shangguan Qianxue had lost her right hand.
• Lu Wanyuan presented the Mystic Tortoise Plays in Water Array and the Carp Ascending the Stream Formation, explaining how they would collect and transfer spiritual energy from the Wolong River.
• Lu Wanyuan revealed the Nine-toothed Rake and explained that it would help redirect and stabilize the Wolong River, enabling the Lu Family’s water-control and farmland project.

Lu Wanyuan explained that the Wolong River project would strengthen the Lu Family’s mortal population and provide future cultivators, and ordered the family to devote its resources and manpower to the plan. He supplied the gathered cultivation resources and set work to begin in three months.

• Lu Wanyuan urged the family to use its resources freely and assign its cultivators to develop the Wolong River, despite Lu Wanting's concerns about the project's scale and effect on cultivation.
• Lu Wanyuan explained that the project would improve living conditions for the Lu Family's mortals, grow its population, and create a lasting supply of Immortal Seedlings for the Immortal Clan.
• Lu Wanyuan argued that the family had to unite across generations to grow strong enough to overcome the dangers of the cultivation world and pursue immortality.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Wanquan and Lu Gulou to sort his Spirit Stones, magical treasures, pills, and Cultivation Techniques into the family Storehouse for the disciples to use.
• Lu Wanyuan announced that work on the Wolong River project would begin in three months, and the family members rushed to admire the resources he had brought back.

Lu Wanyuan distributed the Lu Family’s seized resources to strengthen its cultivators and ordered that disciples receive cultivation resources without conditions. As cultivation spread through the family, Lu Guquan worried about how they would replenish the rapidly dwindling supplies.

• Lu Wanyuan gave five Storage Bags of resources to Lu Wanquan and Lu Gulou and urged the family to use them to increase its strength against looming threats.
• Lu Wanyuan explained that the Lu Family should spend its stored resources on cultivation rather than let them benefit enemies, and the family members pledged to follow his decree.
• The Lu Family posted a notice allowing disciples to collect cultivation resources according to their needs without conditions.
• Lu Guyu and other disciples went to the General Affairs Hall, where Lu Guquan and Lu Gulou confirmed the offer and encouraged them to spread the news.
• Lu Guquan and Lu Gulou welcomed the growing wave of cultivation, but Lu Guquan worried that the Lu Family could not sustain its resource consumption.

Lu Wanyuan returned to Qingxi Cave and focused on strengthening the Lu Family, including preparing the Wolong River project to turn wasteland near Cui Mountain into farmland. After speaking with his son Lu Guxin and reflecting on his role as a father, he resolved to spend more time with his children and establish a family festival before returning to work on the project.

• Lu Wanyuan ordered the Lu Family cultivators to prepare for the Wolong River project, which would convert swamp and wasteland near Cui Mountain into farmland and provide food for the family’s mortals.
• Lu Wanyuan met Lu Guxin, who told him he had become a first-tier Spirit Planter capable of managing a hundred mu of Spirit Fields.
• Lu Wanyuan advised Lu Guxin to keep improving his cultivation, learn about ordinary people’s lives, and temper his state of mind.
• Lu Wanyuan admitted to Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe that he felt he had failed as a father and promised to spend more time with the children.
• Lu Wanyuan proposed a festival for the Lu Family’s children, then entered the Cultivation Room to prepare the Wolong River project blueprints for construction in three months.

Lu Wanyuan planned the Wolong River project to turn flood-prone land into farmland and establish footholds for the Lu Family in the Wolong Mountain Range. He organized the construction approach and reviewed the family’s cultivators and Demonic Beasts as he prepared for work to begin in the dry season.

• Lu Wanyuan planned to divide, dredge, and divert the Wolong River so the Lu Family could irrigate farmland and prevent floods.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to make terrain models, prepare detailed construction standards, and form four teams to build the central landmass, dredge the river, excavate the Bao Ping Kou canal, and build the diversion embankment.
• Lu Wanyuan planned to begin construction at four sites when the dry season arrived in three months, using the Nine-toothed Rake to create a central island as the project’s anchor.
• Lu Wanyuan assessed the Lu Family’s cultivators, noting Baili Qiuyue’s rapid advancement to Foundation Establishment Early Stage and the family’s other Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lu Wanyuan was pleased that Old Turtle had advanced to the second order and planned to use the family’s Demonic Beasts for hauling and heavy construction work.

After three months of open cultivation resources, Lu Family’s disciples had advanced but nearly exhausted the family’s reserves. Lu Wanyuan gathered the family and unveiled plans to transform Cui Mountain and its surrounding land, leaving them poised to begin a project he said would bring Lu Family glory for a thousand years.

• Lu Wanyuan emerged from the Cultivation Room after spending three months drawing plans and building scale models.
• Lu Guquan reported that the family’s cultivation resources were nearly depleted, while many disciples had advanced; Lu Wanyuan said the family needed to find more resources.
• Lu Wanyuan rang the emergency bell and gathered the family’s cultivators in the main hall.
• Lu Guquan reported that 300 of Lu Family’s 315 cultivators were present, with the others away or cultivating elsewhere.
• Lu Wanyuan brought out two scale models of Cui Mountain and explained that the plans would develop the mountain, improve its spiritual energy, and create at least a hundred million mu of Spirit Fields.
• Lu Wanyuan told the assembled cultivators that their work would help make Lu Family a powerful cultivation family and bring it glory for a thousand years.