Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan announced his ambition to build the Lu Family into a powerful cultivation clan and revealed plans for major construction projects at Cui Mountain. He assigned leaders and teams to begin the work, then took the unassigned members to build an island in Wolong River.

• Lu Wanyuan described his goal of raising the Lu Family to Golden Core strength within a hundred years and eventually producing powerful cultivators, including a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.
• Lu Wanyuan reassured the family that resources would grow alongside its cultivators and urged them to work together and pursue the family’s future.
• Lu Wanyuan distributed Jade Slips with detailed construction plans and assigned Lu Wanshan, Lu Wanting, Lu Wanhe, and Lu Wanquan to lead separate projects.
• Lu Wanshan and the other leaders reviewed their plans, organized construction teams, and began preparing to carry them out.
• Lu Wanyuan gathered the members left without assignments and led them to build an island in Wolong River.

Lu Wanyuan planted the Nine-toothed Rake in the Wolong River, where it became Five Elements Mountain and split the current. The Lu Family began building the river channels and waterworks around it, and their progress suggested the project would finish ahead of schedule.

• Lu Wanyuan persuaded the Nine-toothed Rake to become a mountain in the river by promising to search for its missing artifact spirits and give it Profound Yellow Qi every hundred years.
• Lu Wanyuan dropped the Nine-toothed Rake into the Wolong River, where it grew into a colossal peak and divided the river in two.
• Lu Wanyuan named the peak Five Elements Mountain, and the Lu Family members began their construction projects around it.
• Lu Wanshan led sixty teams in widening the outer channel, then digging the inner channel and starting the Bao Pingkou diversion channel and retaining dike.
• Lu Wanyuan supplied the workers with pills to restore spiritual power and strength, while the cultivators grew stronger through the work and pushed the project toward early completion.

Lu Wanyuan completed the Wolong River waterworks and explained how developing the Mortal World would provide farmland and future Immortal Seedlings for the Lu Family. A year later, crops covered the reclaimed Spirit Fields, Demonic Beasts had been cleared from the villages, and the mortal population was beginning to grow.

• Lu Wanyuan finished the Mystic Tortoise Plays in Water Array and the Carp Leaping Upstream Formation, directing the Wolong River into the Baopingkou irrigation canal and preventing floods downstream.
• Lu Wanyuan told the Lu Family cultivators to help mortals reclaim wasteland, learn farming, improve their living conditions, and earn Family Contribution Points through Mortal World tasks.
• Lu Wanshan questioned whether the cultivators should spend time helping mortals, and Lu Wanyuan argued that a larger population would provide Immortal Seedlings and strengthen the Lu Family across generations.
• The Lu Family cultivators accepted Lu Wanyuan's arrangements and began working in the Mortal World.
• A year later, Lu Wanyuan saw crops growing across the reclaimed Spirit Fields as the mortals built homes, lived more safely after the Demonic Beasts were killed, and began to increase in number.

Lu Wanyuan inspected the completed Wolong River irrigation works and the Spirit Fields, then flew to Kuzhai Village to check on the Lu Family mortals. He saw the fields nearing their first harvest, while Lu Xiaofeng and the villagers looked toward a more hopeful future.

• Lu Wanyuan surveyed the Wolong River diversion and found the floodwater flowing as planned through the channels and irrigation canals.
• Lu Wanyuan inspected the reclaimed Spirit Fields and noted that they could grow low-grade spirit grain until they gained a grade in about twenty years.
• Lu Wanyuan flew to Kuzhai Village to see how the Lu Family mortals were living after years without his direct oversight.
• Lu Xiaofeng recalled the village’s losses from beasts, Demonic Beasts, and floods, and felt renewed hope as the newly prepared fields neared harvest.
• Lu Xiaofeng spotted an immortal flying over the village and recognized the frequent cultivator inspections from Cui Mountain.

Lu Wanyuan discovered that Kuzhai Village had been devastated by beasts, Demonic Beasts, and poor farmland because the Lu Family had failed to learn about conditions in the mortal world. After hearing Lu Xiaofeng's account, he planned to establish Dao Palaces and gather scattered villages into larger, safer settlements.

• Lu Wanyuan met Lu Xiaofeng in Kuzhai Village and learned that its population had fallen from over two thousand to a little over four hundred.
• Lu Xiaofeng explained that beasts and Demonic Beasts had killed villagers, the surrounding land lacked farmland, and the dangerous roads had kept them from seeking help.
• Lu Wanyuan realized the Lu Family had not communicated with or investigated the mortal world and promised to improve conditions.
• Lu Xiaofeng thanked the Lu Family patrols for reducing the danger, and Lu Wanyuan gave him life-prolonging pills before returning to Cui Mountain.
• Lu Wanyuan planned Dao Palaces to gather information, teach skills, protect mortals, and find Immortal Seedlings.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to consolidate scattered villages into larger settlements near Dao Palaces so they could be managed and protected more easily.

Lu Wanyuan learned that the Lu Family lacked the resources and cultivators to build Dao Palaces across its territory, then received word that a secret realm was about to appear in Wind Thunder Valley. He brought fifty cultivators toward the site, and after a month of travel, he saw glowing clouds and lava rising from the earth.

• Lu Wanquan warned Lu Wanyuan that the Lu Family could not afford to establish Dao Palaces everywhere, so they agreed to start with a few locations and combine smaller villages.
• Baili Qiuyue told Lu Wanyuan that strange phenomena in Wind Thunder Valley suggested the Formation was breaking and the secret realm was appearing.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Wanquan to gather fifty volunteers and promised that the secret realm's spoils would be split evenly between the family and each individual.
• Lu Wanyuan moved the fifty cultivators into the Chaos Space, told them to cultivate and form teams, then flew toward Xia'ao Town on the Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle.
• After a month, Lu Wanyuan saw vast glowing clouds above the horizon and lava spewing from beneath the earth.

Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family into the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, where they found the Heart of Water Spirit and faced the Zhao Family over its ownership. Lu Gulei fought Zhao Hu in a one-on-one contest, and the battle remained undecided.

• Lu Wanyuan prepared the Lu Family to enter the Tai Zhen Secret Realm through Lightning Valley before the other cultivators.
• Lu Wanyuan led the disciples into the secret realm and found a Heart of Water Spirit in a meadow.
• A Foundation Establishment Middle Stage man from the Zhao Family claimed the treasure, and Lu Wanyuan proposed a one-on-one contest to avoid a costly fight.
• Lu Wanyuan chose Lu Gulei to face Zhao Hu, a peak Qi Refining Layer 9 disciple.
• Lu Gulei and Zhao Hu exchanged attacks, and Lu Gulei fought him to a draw, making the Zhao Family leader anxious.

Lu Wanyuan and the Lu Family disciples found a Spirit Quenching Pool that greatly strengthened them, then defeated a third-tier raccoon dog and claimed its affectionate cub. They continued their search through the secret realm with the cub in Lu Wanyuan’s care.

• Lu Gulei tricked Zhao Hu with his Lightning Escape Technique, won their duel, and secured the Heart of Water Spirit for the Lu Family.
• Lu Wanyuan and the disciples found the Spirit Quenching Pool and cultivated there, advancing several disciples’ cultivation and refining Lu Wanyuan’s spiritual energy.
• The group discovered a sleeping third-tier raccoon dog and its cub in a cave, and Lu Wanyuan tried to capture the cub.
• The raccoon dog attacked, but Lu Wanyuan and the disciples overwhelmed it with their combined techniques, and Lu Wanyuan struck it down with the Thunder Whip.
• Lu Wanyuan picked up the cub, which nestled against him as though it had accepted him as its master.

Lu Wanyuan sent the Lu Family disciples out to seek resources and grow independently, then discovered Heaven and Earth Spiritual Milk with Baili Qiuyue in a cave. Zhao Yiming and the Zhao Family confronted them over the treasure, and Lu Wanyuan struck first with a powerful Long Whip.

• Lu Wanyuan released the Lu Family disciples from Chaos Space and sent them out in small groups to search the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, warning them to use Spiritual Talismans and signal for help if they faced danger.
• Lu Wanyuan explained to Baili Qiuyue that the disciples needed to face risks and grow into cultivators who could shoulder responsibility for the Lu Family.
• Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue explored farther into the cave and found a pool of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Milk, a precious treasure that could boost cultivation, heal injuries, and restore spiritual energy.
• Zhao Yiming and at least ten Zhao Family members appeared and claimed the spiritual treasure, mocking Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue for being outnumbered.
• Lu Wanyuan attacked Zhao Yiming with a pitch-black Long Whip, which smashed into the ground where Zhao Yiming had stood, and Zhao Yiming ordered the Zhao Family to attack.

Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue fought Zhao Yiming and the Zhao Family cultivators over the Hundred Year Spiritual Milk as a dangerous black mist spread through the cave. Lu Wanyuan raised a defensive array, and Baili Qiuyue began collecting the milk while Zhao Yiming’s group attacked from outside.

• Lu Wanyuan attacked Zhao Yiming with black vines and lightning after Zhao Yiming demanded the Hundred Year Spiritual Milk.
• The Zhao Family cultivators surrounded Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue, and both sides clashed with spells and magical treasures.
• When Baili Qiuyue was wounded, Lu Wanyuan unleashed the Forbidden Lightning Technique, but Zhao Yiming strengthened his barrier by swallowing a black pill.
• A black mist filled the cave, and Lu Wanyuan tried to reach the spiritual milk before Zhao Yiming struck at him with black Sword Qi.
• Lu Wanyuan activated a Formation Disk to shield himself, Baili Qiuyue, and the spiritual milk, then told Baili Qiuyue to collect it as the Zhao Family attacked the array.

Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue fought Zhao Yiming and a cave monster while collecting Hundred Year Spiritual Milk. After Zhao Yiming broke their formation and trapped them, Lu Wanyuan unleashed Nine Heavens Divine Thunder to open a path, and the couple escaped toward the cave's exit.

• Lu Wanyuan absorbed the Hundred Year Spiritual Milk to replenish his spiritual energy and repaired the formation while Baili Qiuyue collected the rest.
• Zhao Yiming drank his own Hundred Year Spiritual Milk, rallied the Zhao Family cultivators, and broke Lu Wanyuan's formation as the monster attacked.
• Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue fought off the monster's tentacles and the Zhao Family cultivators, then used the tentacles' weak points to create an opening.
• Zhao Yiming controlled several tentacles to block the couple's escape, but Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue held him back while Lu Wanyuan prepared Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
• Lu Wanyuan unleashed Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, destroyed the tentacles ahead, and led Baili Qiuyue toward the cave's exit while Zhao Yiming and the Zhao Family cultivators could not stop them.

Lu Wanyuan, Baili Qiuyue, and Lu Gulei learned that Lu Gulei’s discovery of a Spirit Mine had brought a powerful group of pursuers after them. A mysterious girl revealed that the mine was tied to a dangerous spell and offered a lead to hidden family treasures, but the Black Robed Old Man tracked them to their refuge as they prepared to fight again.

• Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue rescued Lu Gulei from black-clad pursuers, and he revealed that he had discovered a Spirit Mine.
• The Black Robed Old Man led reinforcements in an attack, but a fire phoenix struck him and gave the three time to escape.
• In a secluded valley, a red-clad girl told Lu Wanyuan that the fire phoenix was her spirit pet and that the pursuers were using the Spirit Mine to research a horrifying spell.
• The girl offered to lead them to her family’s hidden treasures and cultivation manuals, and Lu Wanyuan agreed to go despite the danger.
• The Black Robed Old Man and his experts found the group at the valley entrance, forcing them to prepare for another battle.

Lu Wanyuan and his companions escaped an enemy encirclement, only to discover that the girl leading them had lured them into a trap to expose the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture. After defeating her and her Demonic Beast, they realized their enemies had found them and resolved to protect the Lu Family while pursuing its restoration.

• Lu Wanyuan, Baili Qiuyue, Lu Gulei, and the girl fought the Black Robed Old Man's forces, then used the fire phoenix to distract him and break through toward a cave.
• The girl revealed that the cave was a trap and attacked Lu Wanyuan and his companions with black vines after recognizing the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture.
• Lu Wanyuan, Baili Qiuyue, and Lu Gulei exploited a flaw in the girl's control of her Demonic Beast and killed both the girl and the beast with their strongest attacks.
• Lu Wanyuan told Baili Qiuyue and Lu Gulei that the Lu Family's past power had made it a target, and they worried their cultivation technique could lead enemies to the family.
• Lu Wanyuan urged his companions to help make the Lu Family great again, and they rested in the hidden cave before leaving more alert to danger in the Tai Zhen Secret Realm.

Lu Wanyuan, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue fought their way through the black-clad men and Demonic Beasts to reach the heart of the Spirit Mine. Lu Wanyuan drew the mine into Chaos Space, transforming the once-barren space and leaving him eager to discover what further changes it would bring.

• Lu Wanyuan, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue attacked the black-clad men surrounding the Spirit Mine and broke through their defensive formation.
• The three pushed into the mine, where they fought off several powerful Demonic Beasts emerging from black mist.
• Baili Qiuyue gave Lu Wanyuan and Lu Gulei Hundred Year Spiritual Milk, restoring their spiritual energy and giving them bottles to carry.
• Lu Wanyuan used a Secret Technique, with help from Lu Gulei and Baili Qiuyue, to draw the Spirit Mine into Chaos Space.
• The Spirit Mine's arrival caused Chaos Space to fill with surging spiritual energy, glowing spirit patterns, vortices, and strange five-colored plants.

Lu Wanyuan, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue defeated a band of black-clad robbers and took their leader’s treasures, including demonic cultivation manuals. As they headed home through the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, strange mist surrounded them and shadowy figures sprang from the valley.

• The black-clad men returned with reinforcements, and Lu Wanyuan fought their powerful Black Robed Old Man using new Chaos Space lightning techniques.
• A five-colored sword emerged from the Chaos Space, and Lu Wanyuan used it with his lightning to overwhelm the attackers.
• The Black Robed Old Man spread deadly black frost across the battlefield, but Lu Wanyuan spotted his weakness and killed him with a decisive strike.
• Lu Wanyuan, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue examined the leader’s Storage Ring and found Spirit Stones, rare materials, herbs, and demonic cultivation manuals.
• The three decided to take the manuals to the Lu Family and use the other treasures to strengthen it, then set off for home.
• A strange mist surrounded them in a secluded valley, and shadowy figures emerged and encircled them.

Lu Wanyuan and his companions fought off ambushers, but the deaths of a young woman and the theft of a Spirit Mine brought the Yan Family and demonic cultivators down on the Lu Family disciples. The Lu Family disciples were left hunted by every side in the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, with Lu Wanyuan still unsure why the attacks had begun.

• Lu Wanyuan, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue defeated a group of robbers using lightning techniques and Attack Spirit Talismans, then watched their leader order a retreat.
• The Yan Family used a blood-sacrifice ritual to learn that Lu Wanyuan had killed their young relative with the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture, and spread news of his technique throughout the Cultivation World.
• Demonic cultivators pursued Lu Wanyuan and his companions to avenge themselves and reclaim the Spirit Mine, while righteous cultivators joined the hunt out of fear of the Lu Family's growing power.
• Lu Gulei helped Lu Family disciples resist a demonic attack, and Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue arrived to drive the attackers back.
• Lu Wanyuan learned that every force in the Tai Zhen Secret Realm was hunting the Lu Family disciples, though he did not know the full reason.

As the Tai Zhen Secret Realm collapsed and enemies attacked, Lu Wanyuan hid the Lu Family disciples in the Chaos Space and fled alone. In a secluded cave, he found two techniques that could help him evade his pursuers and began practicing them.

• Lu Wanyuan opened the Chaos Space and led the Lu Family disciples inside while Lu Gulei and Baili Qiuyue held off the attackers.
• The Chaos Space responded to Lu Wanyuan's spiritual energy, empowering his lightning arts as he brought the last disciples, Lu Gulei, and Baili Qiuyue inside.
• Lu Wanyuan closed the Chaos Space, escaped the battlefield, and hid in a secluded valley while the Tai Zhen Secret Realm continued to collapse.
• Lu Wanyuan found an ancient Jade Slip in a cave and learned it contained the Spirit Abyss Concealment Technique and the Illusory Bone Shaping Art.
• Lu Wanyuan practiced forming a spiritual vortex to conceal his aura, then began using spiritual energy to reshape his bones.

Lu Wanyuan used his disguises to hunt cultivators and provoke factional conflict in the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, amassing a fortune amid the chaos. When the faction leaders organized strict inspections to find the culprit, he tried to pass as a Qingfeng Sect team, but a woman exposed his story as a lie.

• Lu Wanyuan mastered the Spirit Abyss Concealment Technique and Illusory Bone Shaping Art, then disguised himself as a desperate cultivator and killed three travelers with lightning.
• Over the next half month, Lu Wanyuan continued hunting cultivators and spreading fear, prompting survivors to form factions that fought over territory and resources.
• Lu Wanyuan exploited the faction feuds with changing disguises, collecting Storage Bags while the Tai Zhen Secret Realm descended into turmoil.
• After faction leaders noticed their people were disappearing, they gathered everyone for strict identity inspections, and Lu Wanyuan recruited three nervous cultivators to pose as a team.
• At the checkpoint, Lu Wanyuan claimed that his group were Qingfeng Sect disciples, but a woman stepped forward and declared that she had never seen them.

Lu Wanyuan escaped the collapsing Tai Zhen Secret Realm with a group of cultivators who had fought alongside him. Outside, he proposed forming a team to protect one another, while preparing for the threats awaiting him and the Lu Family.

• Lu Wanyuan concealed his cultivation and fought through the encirclement after his deception was exposed, but a Golden Core cultivator sealed his attempted escape.
• As the Tai Zhen Secret Realm began to collapse, Lu Wanyuan unleashed his lightning art and led his companions toward the exit.
• Lu Wanyuan and at least ten others escaped the secret realm, emerging at different locations from where they had entered.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to find a safe place for the group to recover and considered the dangers awaiting him and the Lu Family.
• Lu Wanyuan proposed forming a team so its members could help one another, and one cultivator thanked him with a Storage Bag before leaving.

After leaving the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, Lu Wanyuan and five companions found themselves in an unknown primeval forest and settled in a secluded valley to cultivate. Once they grew stronger, they explored the forest and defeated a Six-armed Ape, but the unfamiliar land still lay ahead.

• Lu Wanyuan let the others leave and formed a group with Fang Wei, Tian Yufei, Xu Haochuan, He Yuze, and Guo Qifeng.
• The group discovered the secret realm had sent them to an unfamiliar forest and established a temporary cultivation base in a secluded valley.
• Lu Wanyuan visited Baili Qiuyue in the Chaos Space, told her what had happened, and gave her more than a hundred Storage Bags to sort through.
• Lu Wanyuan and his companions cultivated and trained in the valley while he studied how to improve his techniques.
• Lu Wanyuan led his companions through the forest, identified the Six-armed Ape's weakness, and defeated it with a lightning attack.