Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family in destroying the Nine Heavens Divine Sect and took its resources. Back at Cui Mountain, he considered future plans against the Qingfeng Sect and the Tianyuan Sect, then discovered that a magic crystal rapidly improved his Cultivation Realm.

• Lu Wanyuan revealed that the Lu Family had taught the Nine Heavens Divine Sect the Nine Heavens Imperial Lightning True Scripture as a trap, then killed Wang Xingfa and Huang Yihu.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered the Lu Family disciples to seize the Nine Heavens Divine Sect’s treasures and supplies, leaving the sect erased from the Cultivation World.
• The Lu Family disciples returned to Cui Mountain, and Lu Wanyuan considered attacking the Qingfeng Sect and the Tianyuan Sect before deciding to wait and learn more about them.
• Lu Wanyuan examined a magic crystal from the Demon Realm and absorbed its power, causing his Cultivation Realm to improve rapidly.

Lu Wanyuan discovered that items from the Demon Realm greatly strengthened him and the Lu Family disciples, while a hidden force watched the family for its dual cultivation technique. As Qing Fengzi and Tianyuanzi stirred up an alliance against the Lu Family, Lu Wanyuan left with elite disciples to uncover their scheme.

• Lu Wanyuan found that cultivating with Demon Realm items strengthened his body and spiritual power, and the Lu Family disciples followed his example.
• Lu Wanyuan improved the Lu Family's defenses and studied ways to combine immortal and demonic cultivation as a Dark Force secretly watched the family.
• Qing Fengzi and Tianyuanzi colluded with resentful sects and spread rumors that the Lu Family planned to dominate the Cultivation World.
• Lu Wanyuan convened the Lu Family's core members, sent envoys to negotiate, and fortified the family's territory while disciples cultivated.
• When diplomacy failed to ease tensions, Lu Wanyuan took several elite disciples into Qing Fengzi and Tianyuanzi's territory to investigate their scheme.

Lu Wanyuan sent Lu Gulei and four other Lu Family elites into the Demon Realm to trade for resources and scout the area, while he began cultivating the Nine Heavens Sword Art. After crossing the passage, the group arrived in the Demon Realm and was immediately attacked by Mo people.

• Lu Wanyuan decided the Lu Family needed new resources and planned to unify the Savage Land, advance into Zhongzhou, and trade with the Devil Race.
• Lu Wanyuan chose Lu Gulei and four other descendants for the Demon Realm mission, giving them defensive treasures and tokens and instructing them to trade, form an alliance, and scout.
• At Peach Blossom Valley, Lu Gulei used an incantation from the Nine Heavens Divine Sect to open the Immortal Alliance's sealed array, and the group passed through.
• Lu Wanyuan studied the Nine Heavens Sword Art and began cultivating a technique that would let him form lightning flying swords.
• Lu Gulei and the others traveled through the demonic passage and emerged in a dark corner of the Demon Realm.
• A group of Mo people attacked Lu Gulei and his companions as soon as they entered the Demon Realm.

Lu Gulei and his group survived an ambush in the Demon Realm, then cultivated in a hidden valley while Lu Wanyuan trained for two years and led the Lu Family against the Tianyuan Sect. As Lu Wanyuan battled Tianyuanzi, Tianyuanzi began chanting, hinting that the sect’s hidden trump card was about to be unleashed.

• Lu Gulei and Lu Guxin fought off one group of Mo people, but a stronger group surrounded them before they could rest.
• Lu Gulei used the Patriarch’s token to summon a black-robed figure, who drove off the Mo people and took the Lu Family group to a hidden valley to cultivate.
• Lu Wanyuan mastered the Nine Heavens Sword Art after two years of training and decided to unite the Savage Land by taking down the Tianyuan Sect and Qingfeng Sect.
• Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family to attack the Tianyuan Sect, where he and Tianyuanzi clashed as their followers fought around them.
• Lu Guxin used demonic arts to strike the Flame Qilin’s weak spot and make it dissipate, while Lu Wanyuan sensed the Tianyuan Sect was holding back a trump card.
• Tianyuanzi broke away from Lu Wanyuan and began chanting under his breath.

Lu Wanyuan broke Tianyuan Sect’s protective formation and forced Tianyuanzi to help him repel Qingfeng Sect’s ambush. Together, they defeated Qing Fengzi, leaving Qingfeng Sect’s disciples scattered.

• When Qingfeng Sect attacked the Lu Family’s rear, Lu Wanyuan sent elite disciples to reinforce it while he continued attacking Tianyuan Sect’s formation.
• Lu Wanyuan shattered the formation, restrained Tianyuanzi, and made him join the fight against Qingfeng Sect.
• Lu Wanyuan and Tianyuanzi reached the rear battlefield, where Lu Wanyuan clashed with Qing Fengzi and accused him of colluding with the Devil Race.
• Lu Wanyuan killed Qing Fengzi with his sword, and Qingfeng Sect’s disciples scattered.

Lu Wanyuan destroyed the Qingfeng Sect and persuaded Tianyuanzi to submit, then began planning how to govern and unify the vast Savage Land. As Lu Gucui gathered intelligence, she uncovered a plot to sabotage the border defenses, and Lu Wanyuan arranged a purge.

• Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family in destroying the Qingfeng Sect and killed an elder who begged for mercy.
• Lu Wanyuan offered Tianyuanzi his life and the preservation of the Tianyuan Sect's legacy in exchange for submission, and Tianyuanzi agreed.
• After studying maps of the Canglan Continent, Lu Wanyuan planned to gather information, strengthen regional ties, and develop the Savage Land.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Gucui to gather intelligence and dispatched three expeditionary forces to subdue those who refused to submit.
• Lu Gucui overheard rogue cultivators plotting with hostile minor forces to sabotage the border defenses and seize resources.
• Lu Gucui reported the plot to Lu Wanyuan through the Myriad Spirit Plate, and he arranged a purge.

After Lu Gucui reported on Huangzhou’s tangled factions, Lu Wanyuan launched a campaign to force them under the Lu Family’s leadership and expose hidden threats. The three forces defeated several factions and uncovered old enemies, while the vastness of Huangzhou left the campaign with years of work ahead.

• Lu Gucui returned from her reconnaissance mission and gave Lu Wanyuan intelligence about Huangzhou’s many factions and hidden resources.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered the campaign forces assembled, requiring Huangzhou’s factions to submit to the Lu Family or be destroyed.
• Lu Gufeng led the first force to destroy a small faction, while Tianjizi’s force dismantled poison arrays and eradicated another faction.
• The third campaign force intercepted and defeated a faction attempting to flee.
• Lu Wanyuan learned that remnants of the Qingfeng Sect, the Nine Heavens Divine Sect, the Zhang Family, and the Murong Family had been captured, and he considered establishing relay stations across Huangzhou.

Lu Wanyuan established the Myriad Spirits Academy to train cultivators and strengthen the Savage Land, then received word that former enemies were rallying forces in Huangzhou and that the Lingxiao Sect wanted to enter the region. He ordered the War God Hall to handle the remnants and planned to build ties with neighboring regions.

• Lu Wanyuan built the Myriad Spirits Academy and recruited instructors to teach cultivators from across the Savage Land.
• Lu Guxin taught students the dangers and methods of demonic cultivation, while the academy trained cultivators in theory, spells, and service to ordinary people.
• Academy graduates helped villages recover from floods and disease, improved crop yields, and protected merchant caravans from robbers.
• The academy grew into a major institution under the Lu Family, and Lu Wanyuan looked forward to its future impact.
• Lu Gucui told Lu Guyuan that remnants of the Qingfeng Sect and the Nine Heavens Divine Sect were gathering other forces in Huangzhou, and Lu Guyuan ordered Lu Gutian and the War God Hall to deal with them.
• Lu Gucui reported that the Lingxiao Sect wanted to enter Huangzhou, and Lu Guyuan said he intended to establish ties with neighboring regions to acquire cultivation techniques, treasures, and experience.

Lu Wanyuan established the Spirit Endowment Department to survey and reorganize the Wilderness’s Spirit Fields and Spirit Mines, while overseeing the creation of shield treasures that strengthened its border defenses. After learning that Qingfeng Sect and Nine Heavens Divine Sect sought a divine artifact in the Tianyun Secret Realm, he ordered preparations and dispatched a diplomatic mission to build ties with neighboring forces.

• Lu Wanyuan gathered elders from the Lu Family, Tianyuan Sect, and other forces and established the Spirit Endowment Department to inspect and allocate resources across the three regions.
• The department surveyed Spirit Fields and Spirit Mines, assigning Tianyuan Sect to cultivate rare herbs and the Lu Family to conduct mining and ore processing.
• Lu Wanyuan led Tianyuan Sect Formation Masters and Lu Family Artifact Refining experts in developing shield treasures that automatically activated Defense Formation Arrays, then had them mass-produced and distributed to border guards.
• Lu Gutian reported that Qingfeng Sect and Nine Heavens Divine Sect had discovered a divine artifact in the Tianyun Secret Realm, which would open in five years, and that their remnants were near the Zengzhou border.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Gutian to monitor the remnants and gather information about the secret realm, with Lu Gucui assisting, and considered seeking help from Zengzhou forces.
• Lu Wanyuan formed a diplomatic mission, supplied it with Wilderness specialties as gifts, and instructed its members to build relations with nearby sects.

Lu Guyao led a diplomatic delegation to the Lingxiao Sect, where she described Manhuang’s cultivation methods, resource management, sect cooperation, and protection of mortals. True Person Xuanxiao listened and asked questions, leaving with a favorable impression of Manhuang’s systems.

• Lu Guyao presented Manhuang specialties to True Person Xuanxiao and explained the Lu Family’s method for balancing immortal and demonic powers.
• A Lu Family disciple demonstrated how immortal and demonic powers could coexist without clashing, while Lu Guyao described the method’s training and supervision.
• Lu Guyao explained how the Spirit Endowment Department surveyed, managed, and fairly distributed Spirit Mines and Spirit Fields.
• Lu Guyao recounted how Manhuang’s sects combined their techniques into new forms of cultivation, including a style of swordsmanship.
• Lu Guyao described how Manhuang taught and protected mortals, recruited talented cultivators, defended settlements, aided disaster victims, and encouraged trade.

Lu Wanyuan and the Savage Land forces strengthened ties with other sects, then traveled to Lingxiao City for the Magic Treasure Trade Fair. Their stall attracted attention with an innovative Flying Artifact, while Lu Wanyuan promoted Savage Land’s resources and cultivation reforms.

• Lu Guyao proposed that Lingxiao Sect trade pills for Savage Land’s Spirit Mines and jointly explore ruins, and True Person Xuanxiao agreed.
• Lu Wanyuan welcomed envoys from Qingfeng Pavilion and Tianjian Sect, learned about their management practices, and discussed cooperation among the forces.
• After reflecting on the value of exchanges, Lu Wanyuan led selected disciples to the Magic Treasure Trade Fair in Lingxiao City.
• Lu Gulan demonstrated a fast, stable Flying Artifact made with Tianyuan Sect’s Formation Crafting and the Lu Family’s Artifact Refining, drawing bids after naming a price of one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Wanyuan promoted Savage Land’s development and open-door policies to cultivators, and an independent cultivator asked about its technique combining the immortal and demonic paths.

After the magical treasure exchange boosted the wilds’ influence, Lu Wanyuan investigated the deadly ancient ruins beneath the Wolong Mountain Range and sent Lu Guxin to lead an expedition. The group entered the ruins, found an ancient spellbook, and continued searching among its dangerous chambers.

• Lu Wanyuan promoted the wilds at the magical treasure exchange, where Lu Xinglan’s flying treasure sold for 150,000 Spirit Stones.
• After an ancient ruin appeared beneath the Wolong Mountain Range and entrants began dying, Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Family disciples not to enter recklessly.
• Lu Gucui gave Lu Wanyuan intelligence about the ruins, including reports of traps, monsters, puppets, and valuable treasures.
• Lu Wanyuan appointed Lu Guxin to lead an expedition of selected disciples into the ruins.
• Lu Guxin led the expedition through the mountain range and opened the ruins’ entrance after several days of travel.
• The expedition found and stored an ancient tome containing powerful spells, then discovered more magical treasures in a hidden chamber.

Lu Guxin's expedition uncovered runes connected to the Devil Race and fought its way through deadly ruins, including a Magic Beast and a powerful Yao Beast. As Lu Guyu studied the Yao Beast during battle, he noticed its neck scales moved just before it breathed fire, revealing a possible weakness.

• Lu Guxin identified strange wall runes as connected to the Devil Race, and the team made rubbings before awakening a black-mist Magic Beast.
• Lu Guxin led the team in using water, wind, and a trapping formation to defeat the Magic Beast, then continued onward with the runes and other discoveries.
• The team endured a twisting, corrosive passage, hallucinogenic fog, and deadly floor and wall mechanisms, leaving the mechanism-detecting disciple near death from a poisoned arrow.
• Lu Guxin directed the team to surround a gigantic Yao Beast, but its flames and strong defenses wore them down.
• Lu Guyu attacked the Yao Beast's leg joint and was knocked away, then noticed its neck scales moved just before it breathed fire.

Lu Guyu’s team defeated a Demonic Beast and found a Spirit Nurturing Pearl inside its corpse, but zombies attacked as they continued through the passage. They opened a rune-covered stone gate with the pearl and rushed through it to escape.

• Lu Guyu’s team strengthened their Beast-Trapping Formation with an enhanced rune, allowing him to strike the Demonic Beast’s vital joint and kill it.
• While carving up the beast, the team found a Spirit Nurturing Pearl, and Lu Guxin decided they would take it to the Patriarch.
• As the team carried the pearl and beast materials through the passage, zombies burst from the walls and overwhelmed them with repeated attacks.
• Lu Guyu spotted a stone gate and led the team toward it through the zombie horde.
• Lu Guyu brought the Spirit Nurturing Pearl near the gate, illuminating its runes and opening it, and the team rushed inside.

The Lu Family expedition team found a Nascent Soul cultivation technique, a rare advancement pill, and a fourth-tier Spirit Talisman Legacy, but the Ganzhou expedition team attacked to seize them. The Lu Family escaped across a collapsing rope bridge, only to encounter purple mist and an unknown creature in the valley.

• Lu Guyu discovered the Nascent Soul cultivation technique, rare pill, and Spirit Talisman Legacy in the stone chamber, and Lu Guxin vowed to bring the treasures back safely.
• The Ganzhou expedition team attacked, and Lu Guyu recovered the jade box after Lu Gulei wounded their leader, but the Lu Family suffered mounting casualties.
• Lu Guxin led the Lu Family through a hidden passage to escape, with the Ganzhou team pursuing them into a barren valley.
• Lu Guxin led the team onto a rotten rope bridge while Lu Gulei fought off the Ganzhou pursuers, and Lu Guyu cut a main rope to send many enemies plunging into the ravine.
• The Lu Family crossed the tilted bridge and reached the opposite bank, where purple mist gathered around a low growl from an unknown creature.

Lu Gulei reunited with the Lu Family team at a Demon Realm entrance, where they and the Ganzhou team fought a monster and then faced waves of Demonic Soldiers and Demonic Generals. The survivors escaped into the western rocks, but the invasion threatened the Savage Land, and Lu Guxin planned to contact the Patriarch after recognizing the value of their Nascent Soul treasures.

• Lu Guyu noticed the jade box glowing in the purple mist as the Lu Family team braced for an attack.
• Lu Gulei and his companions emerged from the Demon Realm entrance, and he warned Lu Guxin that the mist was miasma and monsters guarded the passage.
• Lu Gulei, the Lu Family, and the Ganzhou team joined forces to defeat a gigantic monster, while Lu Guyu used the jade box to weaken it.
• Demonic Soldiers and Demonic Generals poured through the entrance, and Lu Guyu realized the jade box's power might be connected to the passage expanding.
• Lu Gulei ordered everyone to break through west, and Lu Guyu used the jade box to form a barrier while the survivors fled into jagged rocks, leaving many behind.
• Lu Guxin resolved to contact the Patriarch about the invasion and considered their Nascent Soul Cultivation Technique and advancement item valuable gains.

After escaping the mysterious ruin, Lu Guxin and Lu Gulei reported the growing Devil Race threat and the jade box’s possible connection to an ancient magic. Lu Wanyuan established the Demon Suppressing Research Institute and organized defenses across the Savage Land, leaving its cultivation world preparing for a possible invasion.

• Lu Guxin and Lu Gulei escaped the ruin with their group and hurried to Cui Mountain to report the demonic calamity to Lu Wanyuan.
• Lu Gulei told Lu Wanyuan about the Dark Forces, the Demon Realm’s ancient runes, and the jade box’s possible role in opening the portal.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to seek help from other regions and founded the Demon Suppressing Research Institute to study and resist the Devil Race.
• The institute gathered ancient texts and bought intelligence, learning that the Devil Race combined soul power with demonic energy and might invade through hidden spatial passages.
• Lu Wanyuan met with sect leaders and elders, assigning them to strengthen soul defenses, monitor spatial passages, expand intelligence networks, and coordinate joint training.

Lu Wanyuan and the Savage Land’s major forces strengthened their defenses against the Demon Race by building the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Array, organizing border patrols, and training cultivators. The Demon Suppressing Research Institute then uncovered clues to a divine artifact that could fatally harm the Demon Race, but its possible locations were dangerous forbidden lands.

• Lu Wanyuan oversaw the construction of the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Array and urged the cultivators to make it flawless.
• Lu Gufeng led a border patrol that tracked down and drove back several low-level members of the Demon Race.
• Lu Wanyuan organized mock combat drills and taught the disciples to stay calm, find weaknesses, and work together.
• Lu Wanyuan remained worried that the Demon Race was secretly building up its strength despite the Savage Land’s preparations.
• A researcher at the Demon Suppressing Research Institute found scattered clues to a divine artifact and identified several possible locations.
• Lu Wanyuan received the report and saw that the artifact’s possible locations were unexplored forbidden lands.

Lu Guyan's team fought off the Demonic Beasts guarding a cave and found a stone stele bearing information about an ancient divine artifact. When Lu Guyan touched the stele with his spirit sword, lightning surged through the weapon and into his body, leaving the sword on the ground.

• Lu Wanyuan sent elite teams across the Savage Lands and the surrounding Cultivation World to search for ancient divine artifacts.
• Lu Guyan's team followed mysterious runes into a misty valley, where Demonic Beasts attacked them.
• Lu Guyan led the team in battle, and a disciple skilled in Formation Crafting trapped the beasts long enough for the team to drive them off.
• Lu Guyan found a cave containing a massive, rune-covered stone stele that recorded the artifact's approximate location and clues to its use.
• Lu Guyan found no writing on the stele and touched it with his spirit sword, which conducted lightning into his body and fell to the ground.

Lu Guyan was trapped by the stone stele as the Devil Race’s plot to revive the Demonic General was revealed, and he discovered that the Lu Family’s ancestor had placed a Kin Slaying Curse on him. After combining demonic and spiritual power to escape, he attacked the traitorous clan elders, killing one as the battle continued.

• Lu Guyan’s eyes changed, and the stele’s electric arcs trapped him while lava poured into the cavern.
• Two clan elders revealed their allegiance to the Devil Race and attacked the group with the Soul Devouring Banner.
• Lu Guyan touched the stele, learned of his ancestor’s Kin Slaying Lock and the curse within him, and heard that nine steles could break it.
• Su Wange sent a blood butterfly and recalled her missing father’s scroll as Lu Guzhao struggled against the wronged souls.
• Lu Guyan merged demonic and spiritual power, shattered the electric cage, and charged the clan elders.
• Lu Guyan pierced the Soul Devouring Banner and struck down one of the elders.