Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan and his companions reached Longgang City after surviving dangers in the wilderness and learned they were a million kilometers from home. Old Man Xuanfeng mentioned a possible Space Teleportation Array, but armed men attacked his courtyard to seize his Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip, forcing Lu Wanyuan’s group to defend him.

• Lu Wanyuan and his companions found traces of people, reached Gucheng City, and learned that the larger Longgang City lay farther north.
• On the way to Longgang City, Lu Wanyuan and his companions fought off a flock of bat-like Demonic Beasts, though two companions were seriously wounded.
• In Longgang City, Lu Wanyuan and his companions learned they were a million kilometers from Luling Prefecture and began preparing for the journey home.
• Lu Wanyuan visited Old Man Xuanfeng, who told them of a mysterious Space Teleportation Array that might help them return home.
• A group of men in black stormed Old Man Xuanfeng’s courtyard demanding his Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip, and Lu Wanyuan and his companions moved to protect him.

Lu Wanyuan became caught between the Shadow Organization, the Zhao Family, and the City Lord's Mansion as they fought over the Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip. He proposed examining it in exchange for his companions being allowed to use its long-distance Teleportation Array to return to Cui Mountain.

• Lu Wanyuan and his companions battled the Shadow Organization until Protector Tu arrived and identified the black-robed attackers.
• The Shadow Organization's leader revealed that the jade slip supposedly recorded a long-distance Teleportation Array, and the Zhao Family arrived to claim it.
• The three factions clashed over the jade slip until City Lord Chu Fengyang intervened and demanded that Lu Wanyuan hand it over.
• Lu Wanyuan refused to surrender the jade slip without conditions and threatened to destroy it if the factions would not listen.
• Lu Wanyuan proposed examining the jade slip first and demanded that whoever controlled the array let his group use it to return to Cui Mountain.

Lu Wanyuan and the other factions searched for rare materials to break the Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip’s Forbidden Seal, but their hunt for Thousand Year Ice Marrow at a Cold Pond erupted into a battle. As the marrow neared emergence, Li Ming’s betrayal and a mysterious figure’s arrival raised suspicions of a larger conspiracy.

• The Jade Slip’s Forbidden Seal blasted Lu Wanyuan back, and the factions failed to break it before Old Man Xuanfeng proposed an ancient method requiring rare materials.
• Lu Wanyuan, Li Ming, and their companions traveled to a Cold Pond north of Longgang City to search for Thousand Year Ice Marrow, where an Ice Flood Dragon attacked them.
• After driving off the Ice Flood Dragon, Lu Wanyuan’s group confronted the Zhao Family and the Shadow Organization over the marrow, while a mysterious black-robed person arrived with a compass pointing into the pond.
• Li Ming attacked Lu Wanyuan and revealed that City Lord Chu Fengyang had ordered him to seize the marrow and eliminate Lu Wanyuan.
• Lu Wanyuan fought Li Ming as the other factions and the mysterious figure battled for the marrow, and the Cold Pond began cracking as the Thousand Year Ice Marrow neared emergence.

Lu Wanyuan and his allies obtained the Thousand Year Ice Marrow and used it with a mysterious pendant to break the Forbidden Seal on the Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip. The revealed Teleportation Array diagram triggered a trap in the City Lord's Mansion, leaving everyone in danger.

• Lu Wanyuan struck down the mysterious demonic cultivator after Old Man Xuanfeng stopped Li Ming from taking the Thousand Year Ice Marrow.
• Lu Wanyuan and the others returned to Longgang City and began breaking the Forbidden Seal under Old Man Xuanfeng's guidance.
• The Jade Slip's backlash halted their attempt until Lu Wanyuan presented a pendant from the Tai Zhen Secret Realm, which Old Man Xuanfeng identified as the needed catalyst.
• The pendant and Jade Slip merged their spiritual energies, revealing a complete long-distance Teleportation Array diagram.
• Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family head, and the Shadow Organization's leader argued over control of the array as Lu Wanyuan noticed its runes flickering strangely.
• The secret chamber shook and began to crack, and Old Man Xuanfeng warned that someone had tampered with the array and set a trap.

Lu Wanyuan discovered that the Teleportation Array led to an ancient ruin, but the leaders of Longgang City forced him to join their expedition. Just as they prepared to activate the array, the supposedly dead mysterious person appeared and challenged them.

• As the chamber shook and its hidden runes activated, Li Ming tried to steal the Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip and attacked Lu Wanyuan with a demonic Cultivation Technique.
• Lu Wanyuan used the mysterious jade pendant to stop the Formation diagram’s suction, then touched a hidden rune and learned that the Teleportation Array connected to an ancient ruin and required the Spiritual Rhinoceros Jade Slip and the pendant.
• Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family head, and the Shadow Organization leader agreed to explore the ruin, but Lu Wanyuan refused because he wanted to return home and feared the unknown dangers.
• The Zhao Family head and Chu Fengyang threatened to kill Lu Wanyuan unless he entered the ruin with them, so he reluctantly agreed and prepared to activate the Teleportation Array.
• Just as the group was about to enter the ancient ruin, the mysterious person whom Lu Wanyuan had seemingly killed arrived alive, warning them that entering would not be easy.

Lu Wanyuan and his companions entered an ancient ruin after Li Ming helped stabilize the Teleportation Array, then learned that Li Ming and the mysterious person had been forced to serve demonic cultivators. Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming confronted the mysterious person at the Core Formation Array, where the mysterious jade pendant repelled his demonic art and seemed to hold the key to destroying the array.

• Lu Wanyuan trapped the mysterious person in a Lightning Array, but the person turned into demonic strands and attacked the Teleportation Array.
• Li Ming used demonic arts to hold back the strands while Lu Wanyuan and the others activated the array and teleported into an ancient ruin.
• A Demonic Beast attacked the group, and Li Ming fled toward a cave before revealing that he and the mysterious person had been controlled by demonic cultivators.
• Li Ming explained that a Core Formation Array in the cave sustained a Demonic Seed breeding ground, and he and Lu Wanyuan fought through monsters and traps to reach it.
• The mysterious person attacked Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming alongside Guardian Demonic Shadows, but Lu Wanyuan's mysterious jade pendant repelled his demonic art.

Lu Wanyuan used the mysterious jade pendant and the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture to weaken the Demonic Cultivator core formation, but a stronger demonic cultivator emerged and attacked him and Li Ming. They exposed the figure’s weakness and destroyed the formation, though his final warning suggested the conflict was far from over.

• Lu Wanyuan combined the jade pendant’s power with the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture, cracking the Demonic Cultivator core formation and scattering its Guardian Demonic Shadows.
• A powerful figure shrouded in black mist emerged, revealed that the jade pendant had disrupted an earlier plan, and trapped Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming in his mist.
• Lu Wanyuan recognized that the figure’s mist wavered before powerful attacks and coordinated a counterattack with Li Ming.
• Lu Wanyuan used the pendant’s light to expose the figure and noticed runes on his body matching those on the Demonic Cultivator core formation.
• Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming destroyed the formation, causing the figure to fade away after warning that the demonic cultivators’ power could never be eradicated.

Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming searched the demonic cultivators’ cave and found Spirit Stones, magical treasures, manuals, pills, and several Golden Core Pills. Lu Wanyuan used one to break through to the Golden Core stage, then confronted the City Lord Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family patriarch, and the Shadow Organization leader as the Lu Family’s first Golden Core Cultivator.

• Li Ming told Lu Wanyuan that demonic cultivators had controlled him for years and forced him to commit acts against his conscience.
• Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming searched the cave and gathered the demonic cultivators’ valuable supplies, including several Golden Core Pills.
• Lu Wanyuan gave Li Ming the Spirit Stones and one Golden Core Pill, then began cultivating while Li Ming guarded him.
• Lu Wanyuan used the pill and Spirit Stones to form a Golden Core, sending a powerful aura through the cave.
• City Lord Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family patriarch, and the Shadow Organization leader hurried to the cave and realized Lu Wanyuan had advanced.
• Lu Wanyuan faced the three factions and challenged them to try taking his treasures now.

Lu Wanyuan and the others opened a sealed chamber with his jade pendant, releasing a powerful demonic shadow that they fought before escaping through a teleportation array. They arrived in a mysterious valley, where the shadow reappeared in a stronger form as Lu Wanyuan attacked it.

• Chu Fengyang sought to claim Lu Wanyuan and Li Ming's treasures, but they agreed to explore the ruin together after sensing a mysterious fluctuation.
• Lu Wanyuan's jade pendant opened a sealed stone door, revealing a five-colored box in a vast chamber.
• Black chains trapped Lu Wanyuan, Li Ming, Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family head, and the Shadow Organization leader as a demonic shadow emerged from the box.
• Lu Wanyuan spotted the shadow's weak points, and the group injured it, but it began to swell and prepare to self-destruct.
• Lu Wanyuan led everyone to a teleportation array, which carried them to a mysterious valley as the ancient ruin exploded.
• The demonic shadow appeared in the valley stronger than before, and Lu Wanyuan struck first.

Lu Wanyuan defeated a Demonic Dragon shadow, killed the exhausted leaders of three factions, and discovered that Old Man Xuanfeng had lured everyone into a trap. As Old Man Xuanfeng attacked the survivors, Lu Wanyuan spotted his weakness and launched a Lightning Sword strike, forcing him to call back the Demonic Dragon.

• Lu Wanyuan found an opening above the Demonic Dragon shadow’s head and destroyed it with his Lightning Sword.
• Lu Wanyuan attacked and killed Chu Fengyang, the Zhao Family head, and the Shadow Organization leader, then took their treasures.
• Lu Wanyuan and his companions left the ruin and encountered Old Man Xuanfeng, who revealed that the ruin was a trap and that he planned to take control of Longgang City.
• Old Man Xuanfeng weakened the group and attacked them with shadows that fused into a Demonic Dragon.
• Lu Wanyuan noticed demonic energy gathering in Old Man Xuanfeng’s chest before his powerful attacks, and Li Ming distracted him with Sword Qi.
• Lu Wanyuan charged Old Man Xuanfeng with a Lightning Sword, and Old Man Xuanfeng recalled the Demonic Dragon to defend himself.

Lu Wanyuan defeated Old Man Xuanfeng, secured Longgang City for the Lu Family, and traveled through an ancient Teleportation Array to Qingzhou City on his way back to Cui Mountain. While he hurried home, the Yan Family attacked the Lu Family, unaware that its disciples had grown stronger inside the Chaos Space.

• Lu Wanyuan killed Old Man Xuanfeng with his Lightning Sword, then entrusted Longgang City to Li Ming and Fang Wei as a Lu Family stronghold.
• Lu Wanyuan found an ancient Teleportation Array in Old Man Xuanfeng's residence, discovered that it led to Qingzhou City, and told Li Ming and Fang Wei to guard it.
• Lu Wanyuan and his companions traveled through the array to Qingzhou City, concealed its location, and set off for Cui Mountain.
• Yan Zhentian led the Yan Family to attack the Lu Family at Cui Mountain, killing and tormenting clan members while destroying their homes and Spirit Fields.
• Baili Qiuyue supervised the Lu Family disciples as they trained in the Chaos Space, where the Spirit Vein and treasures from the ruins helped them grow stronger.

Lu Wanyuan returned to Cui Mountain to find the Lu Family in ruins and confronted Yan Zhentian and the Yan Family cultivators. After defeating them with the Lu Family’s combined strength and formations, he began rebuilding the family with resources from the ruins.

• Lu Wanyuan and his companions discovered the Lu Family’s destroyed home and the bodies of their clansmen when they returned to Cui Mountain.
• Yan Zhentian challenged Lu Wanyuan, who summoned the hidden Lu Family disciples to fight the Yan Family cultivators.
• Baili Qiuyue and others established the Four Symbols Guardian Array while Lu Wanyuan and his clansmen counterattacked.
• Yan Zhentian’s strongest strike failed to break the formation, and Lu Wanyuan struck him down with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Tribulation.
• The Yan Family cultivators fled but were trapped by the formation, and Lu Wanyuan began rebuilding the Lu Family with the Three Talents Spirit Gathering Array and the Eight Trigrams Demon Trapping Array.

After the battle devastated the Lu Family, Lu Wanyuan laid out a twenty-year plan to rebuild the clan by expanding and improving its mortal population. He left the clan’s cultivators responsible for protecting and developing mortal settlements so they could produce more Immortal Seedlings.

• Lu Wanyuan assessed the Lu Family’s heavy casualties and took comfort in the clan’s new Golden Core cultivator and third-stage Formations, which kept other forces at bay.
• Lu Wanyuan decided that the Lu Family needed to grow its mortal population to create a steady supply of Immortal Seedlings.
• At the first council meeting since the battle, Lu Wanyuan announced a twenty-year plan to improve mortal settlements, register their populations, teach practical skills, and establish Daoist Palaces.
• Lu Wanyuan distributed Jade Slips detailing the plans and set a goal of raising the mortal population to one hundred million within twenty to fifty years.
• The clan’s core members read the plans and reluctantly accepted that cultivators would have to act as guardians and caretakers for the mortals.

Lu Wanyuan persuaded the Lu Family to devote more effort to developing its mortal settlements, arguing that a stronger population would provide the clan with more disciples and a firmer foundation. Five years later, mortal guard units had begun protecting their settlements and hunting dangerous beasts, while Lu Wanyuan's larger plan to field armies and expand into the Wolong Mountain Range remained ahead.

• Lu Wanyuan explained that the Lu Family should strengthen its foundations by developing the mortal world, and Baili Qiuyue clarified how doing so would address the clan's shortage of cultivators.
• Lu Wanyuan promised that the family's secret-realm resources and spoils from the Yan Family would support cultivation for twenty years, and the family members agreed to follow his orders.
• Yan Batian considered attacking the Lu Family after learning that Yan Zhentian's force had been wiped out, but abandoned the plan because of the cost and threats to his undefended rear.
• Over five years, the Lu Family organized mortal settlements, taught residents martial arts, and helped them form guard units to protect their homes.
• A mortal hunting team surrounded a giant wild boar, demonstrating the early success of Lu Wanyuan's plan; he intended to develop mortal armies that could hunt in and reclaim the Wolong Mountain Range.

After five years of improvements to mortal life, the Lu Family’s population and Cui Mountain’s Spirit Vein had grown, but Lu Wanyuan worried the clan was not strong enough to protect its gains. A meeting about the family’s halls left him questioning why the talent factors he had bestowed on his siblings had produced so little progress.

• The mortal population rose to ten million as new homes, farmland, and trained midwives improved living conditions and newborn survival.
• Reclaimed hills beneath Cui Mountain strengthened its Spirit Vein to the Third-tier, greatly improving cultivation conditions.
• Lu Wanyuan worried the Lu Family’s resources and excellent cultivation grounds made it vulnerable, though its cultivators continued advancing and three more reached Foundation Establishment.
• Lu Wanshan reported that the Artifact Refining Hall had fifty members, while Lu Wanhe and Lu Wanting described severe shortages of Spirit Talisman and alchemy talent.
• Lu Wanyuan wondered whether the talent factors he had given his siblings were dormant or ineffective, despite the clear results of the Lightning Spiritual Root he had bestowed on Baili Qiuyue and others.

Lu Wanyuan planned to expand the Lu Family's influence, recruit more cultivators, and take Qingzhou City as the Family prepared to step into the wider world. As he focused on Cui Mountain, Yan Batian led the recovering Yan Family toward Luling Prefecture to destroy the Lu Family, unaware that danger was approaching.

• Lu Wanyuan urged the family leaders to expand their halls, train talent, and prepare for a Spiritual Root Assessment in three years.
• Lu Wanyuan assigned Baili Qiuyue to organize elite teams to retake Qingzhou City and expand Lu Family territory.
• Lu Wanyuan made plans to return to Cui Mountain and eliminate or drive out rival Immortal Cultivating Families in Luling Prefecture.
• The Yan Family Old Ancestor reached Golden Core peak, allowing the Yan Family to recover and reassert control over nearby clans.
• Yan Batian led Yan Family disciples toward the Lu Family to avenge their losses, while Lu Wanyuan remained unaware of the threat.

Lu Wanyuan secured vast harvests and powerful Entries at Cui Mountain, arming the Lu Family as threats closed in. Outside Qingzhou City, Baili Qiuyue's squad ambushed Murong Family forces, beginning a fierce battle.

• Lu Wanyuan settled land disputes in the mortal villages while Baili Qiuyue led the Lu Family squad toward Qingzhou City and Yan Batian advanced on Cui Mountain.
• Murong Changhong learned of the Lu Family squad's approach, closed Qingzhou City's gates, and sent an elite force to search outside the city.
• After learning nearby Cultivation Families were secretly gathering, Lu Wanyuan returned toward Cui Mountain and discovered ten million mu of mature Spirit Fields covered in hundreds of Entries.
• Lu Wanyuan harvested the crops and Entries, distributed equipment and supplies to the Lu Family disciples, and refined the Wind-Lightning Wings and Thunder Hammer.
• Baili Qiuyue's squad laid defensive Formations and traps outside Qingzhou City, then struck Murong Family's search party with lightning when it attacked their camp.

The Yan Family advanced on Cui Mountain while Lu Wanyuan rallied the Lu Family to defend it. Outside Qingzhou City, Baili Qiuyue fought the Murong Family’s forces and reinforcements, leaving the battle at a stalemate as she spotted a weakness in their formation.

• Yan Batian led the Yan Family’s army toward Cui Mountain, and Lu Wanyuan ordered the Lu Family to prepare its defenses and summoned Baili Qiuyue back from Qingzhou City.
• Baili Qiuyue learned that the Murong Family had found her squad, set up defensive arrays, and launched a lightning ambush when the enemy entered range.
• The Murong Family commander called for reinforcements, so Baili Qiuyue led her squad into close combat and struck the enemy forces with a powerful lightning attack.
• Murong Changhong sent a spike-covered Demonic Beast against Baili Qiuyue’s squad, then the Murong Family’s reinforcements arrived from the city.
• The Lu Family squad repelled the Murong Family’s spells with lightning, and Baili Qiuyue spotted a weakness in the enemy formation as the battle reached a stalemate.

Baili Qiuyue’s squad turned the battle at Qingzhou City before a Nine Heavens Divine Sect elder intervened, and a Spiritual Fiend Sect elder then threatened the Lu Family. At Cui Mountain, Lu Wanyuan used the Lingxiao Battle Drum to rally his defenders and faced Yan Batian in a duel.

• Baili Qiuyue ordered the Lu Family squad to break the Murong Family’s left flank, but a Nine Heavens Divine Sect elder arrived and attacked the Murong army after receiving the sect’s scripture.
• Murong Changhong activated his family’s protective array and sent a distress signal, prompting a Black Robed Old Man of the Spiritual Fiend Sect to demand that the Lu Family leave Qingzhou City.
• Baili Qiuyue defended the Lu Family’s claim to its territory as the Black Robed Old Man confronted her squad.
• At Cui Mountain, Yan Batian led the Yan Family’s assault against Lu Wanyuan and the Lu Family cultivators defending their three arrays.
• Lu Wanyuan exchanged the Entry for the Lingxiao Battle Drum and used it to raise his disciples’ morale and strengthen their defense.
• Yan Batian charged Lu Wanyuan, and the two Golden Core Cultivators began fighting in the sky.

The Outer Elder of the Nine Heavens Divine Sect defeated the Black Robed Old Man outside Qingzhou City and ordered the Murong Family to withdraw. With the elder’s support, the Lu family prepared to retake the city as the Murong Family fled with its legacy.

• The Outer Elder of the Nine Heavens Divine Sect struck the Black Robed Old Man with lightning after he threatened the Lu family.
• Murong Lie held back the Murong Family’s forces, hoping the two experts would weaken each other.
• The Black Robed Old Man hurled the Spirit Annihilation Pearl at the Outer Elder, but the elder destroyed it in a lightning clash and left him gravely injured.
• The Outer Elder spared the Black Robed Old Man and sent him back with a warning against provoking the Nine Heavens Divine Sect or the Lu family.
• The Outer Elder assured Baili Qiuyue and the Lu family’s squad that they could retake Qingzhou City, prompting Murong Lie to order a retreat and evacuate the family’s legacy.