Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan organized the Canglan Wilderness factions to resist the Demon Realm, then entered secluded cultivation and advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. Baili Qiuyue also broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, strengthening the allies as the conflict continued.

• Lu Wanyuan persuaded the cultivation factions to adopt a defensive war of attrition and arranged defenses and surprise attacks.
• The Demon Realm sent a large army into the Canglan Wilderness, but the prepared factions repelled its assaults.
• Lu Guzhao and Lu Guyan reinforced a breached defensive line and drove off an elite Devil Race unit.
• Lu Wanyuan broke through from the Nascent Soul Early Stage to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage after studying the Demon Emperor's clone's techniques.
• Baili Qiuyue broke through the Golden Core bottleneck and advanced to the Nascent Soul stage.

Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and the Lu Family rallied to oppose the Demon Realm. Over more than a century, the family grew into a powerful force with expanding cultivation, defenses, and businesses.

• Lu Wanyuan congratulated Baili Qiuyue on her breakthrough, and she said she could finally fight alongside him.
• Lu Wanyuan announced their breakthroughs to the Lu Family disciples and urged them to unite against the Demon Realm's invasion.
• Under Lu Wanyuan's leadership, the Lu Family strengthened its defenses and coordinated with other cultivation forces in the Canglan Wilderness.
• Over the following century, the Lu Family grew to tens of thousands of disciples, with more than a dozen Golden Core Cultivators and the five Lu brothers mastering a formidable battle formation.
• Lu Guzhao and Lu Guyan advanced to the peak of the late Golden Core stage, while Lu Wanyuan became a renowned Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
• The Lu Family expanded its industries across the Canglan Realm and Demon Realm, while its members developed their skills and safeguarded the family's growing prosperity.

Lu Wanyuan’s century-long investment in population growth, cultivation, and education paid off as the Lu Family’s population and ranks of cultivators expanded rapidly. The family became a powerful force centered on Cui Mountain, and Lu Wanyuan planned to keep leading its growth and protect its place in the Canglan Realm.

• The Lu Family’s population reached one billion, and gifted young cultivators emerged in growing numbers.
• Lu Wanyuan selected experienced elders to train promising youths and increased the resources available for cultivation.
• Cui Mountain developed into a cultivation center with Spirit Veins, vast Spirit Fields, immortal gardens, workshops, shops, and defensive arrays.
• Lu Wanyuan built cooperative relationships with other cultivation factions, which provided support during crises.
• Lu Wanyuan established departments to manage resources, train disciples, and handle external affairs, and he regularly consulted the family’s core members.
• The Lu Family secured a formidable position in the Cultivation World, while Lu Wanyuan resolved to keep strengthening it and contribute to peace in the Canglan Realm.

The Lu Family focused on preparing for the Demon Realm invasion while rival powers grew anxious about its rise. The Heavenly Dragon Sect launched a campaign to isolate and weaken the Lu Family, and Lu Guzhao resolved to defend the family and break the blockade.

• Xuan Fengzi, Chu Wudi, and Murong Yan worried about the Lu Family’s growing strength, and Murong Yan decided to visit the family to sound it out.
• Lu Guzhao and Lu Guyan discussed developing the Lu Family’s younger generation, studying the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Whip, and cooperating with other forces against the Demon Realm.
• A black-robed figure in the Demon Realm dismissed the Lu Family’s awakened Devil Race bloodline and promised to test how long it could resist.
• Xiao Tianba ordered the Heavenly Dragon Sect to suppress the Lu Family by spreading rumors, threatening its allies, and attacking its merchant caravans.
• After learning of the campaign, Lu Guyan condemned the Heavenly Dragon Sect, while Lu Guzhao ordered stronger defenses and sought a way to break the blockade.

The Lu Family resisted the Heavenly Dragon Sect, but after Hu Xiuyuan succeeded Xiao Tianba as sect master, he intensified the attacks and assembled an alliance against them. With the family threatened on the Canglan Continent and its branch under attack in the Demon Realm, Lu Guzhao and his relatives struggled to find a way through the crisis.

• Lu Guzhao rejected Xiao Tianba's demand for the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Whip, and Lu Wanyuan's arrival forced the Heavenly Dragon Sect to withdraw.
• Lu Wanyuan explained that he could not risk a decisive fight because other enemies were waiting to take advantage of the Lu Family's conflict with the Heavenly Dragon Sect.
• After becoming sect master, Hu Xiuyuan attacked the Lu Family's caravans, spread rumors accusing the family of colluding with the Devil Race, and recruited other sects into an alliance against them.
• The Heavenly Dragon Sect and its allies drove the Lu Family toward ruin as its resources dwindled and the Demon Realm invasion drew closer.
• Other factions attacked the Lu Family's branch in the Demon Realm, and Lu Guzhao worried that the family could not spare anyone to help it.
• Lu Guyan urged Lu Guzhao and the other family members not to give up, and they resolved to seek a way through the crisis.

Lu Wanyuan’s “Madness” Entry helped the Lu Family dominate artifact refining and discover ore for powerful high-grade artifacts, alarming rival factions. After Lu Guzhao learned that the Tianxuan Sect, Spirit Sword Sect, and Danxia Sect planned to attack, he organized a counterplan, leaving a major clash looming.

• Lu Wanyuan’s ideas helped the Lu Family mass-produce affordable magical artifacts and Spirit Tools, damaging the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s business and troubling Sect Master Hu Xiuyuan.
• Lu Guzhao expanded the family’s partnerships and training while Lu Wanyuan discovered spiritual ore that the Lu Family used to craft sought-after high-grade artifacts and Spirit Tools.
• Xuan Fengzi, Chu Wudi, and Murong Yan agreed to unite their sects against the Lu Family and planned to strike when it was vulnerable.
• Lu Guzhao learned of the conspiracy through the Lu Family’s intelligence network and convened advisers to devise a counterplan.
• Lu Guzhao ordered the family to carry out the plan as the Lu Family prepared for conflict with the three top factions.

Hu Xiuyuan ambushed a Lu Family caravan, but Lu Guyan arrived with reinforcements and forced the attackers to retreat. Lu Guzhao ordered a counterattack on a Heavenly Dragon Sect stronghold, where Hu Xiuyuan’s preparations left the Lu Family raiding team with heavy casualties.

• Hu Xiuyuan led Heavenly Dragon Sect forces in an ambush on Lu Guming’s caravan, hoping to seize its goods and damage the Lu Family’s trade.
• Lu Guming’s guards fought back, but the attackers gained the advantage and the Heavenly Dragon Sect elder stopped Lu Guming’s attempt to break through.
• Lu Guyan arrived with reinforcements, prompting the Heavenly Dragon Sect forces to retreat before they could take most of the goods.
• Lu Guyan reported the attack to Lu Guzhao, who formed an elite raiding team to strike a Heavenly Dragon Sect stronghold.
• Lu Guyan led the team out at night, but Hu Xiuyuan had prepared for the retaliation, and the Lu Family suffered heavy casualties.

Lu Guzhao strengthened the Lu Family’s caravan security and invested in its younger generation, but mounting defenses strained the Lineage’s finances. Hu Xiuyuan then allied the Heavenly Dragon Sect with the Asura Gate and spread false accusations against the Lu Family, leaving Lu Guzhao scrambling to expose their schemes as attacks intensified.

• Lu Guzhao added experienced escorts, defensive artifacts, secret routes, and allied factions to protect the Lu Family’s caravans, while also improving training and resources for younger disciples.
• As the Lu Family expanded its defenses and spending soared, Hu Xiuyuan recruited the Asura Gate’s Night Asura by promising rewards for joining the campaign against the Lu Family.
• Hu Xiuyuan fabricated claims that the Lu Family pursued evil cultivation and colluded with the Devil Race, prompting several factions to turn against it.
• Lu Guyan urged retaliation, but Lu Guzhao called for restraint and sent intelligence operatives and envoys to investigate the enemy and explain the Lu Family’s position.
• Some factions began doubting the accusations, but the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Asura Gate continued spreading rumors and attacking the Lu Family.

Night Asura learned that the Lu Family’s rise came from the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Whip and awakened Devil Race bloodlines, so he allied the Asura Gate with the Heavenly Dragon Sect to seize its power. The allies annihilated the Lu Family’s ally, the Zeng Clan, and Lu Guzhao vowed that the Lu Family would make them pay.

• Night Asura ordered spies to investigate the Lu Family and discovered its artifact and Devil Race bloodline.
• The Asura Gate formed an Alliance with the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Hu Xiuyuan planned attacks against the Lu Family with Night Asura.
• The Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Asura Gate attacked the Zeng Clan by night, overwhelming its defenses and killing its members.
• Night Asura used the Asura Gate’s techniques while Hu Xiuyuan led the assault, and the allied sects wiped out the Zeng Clan.
• Hu Xiuyuan publicized the massacre as a warning to the Lu Family, and Lu Guzhao vowed revenge for the Zeng Clan’s destruction.

After the Zeng Clan’s destruction left the Lu Family fearing an attack by the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate, Lu Wanyuan organized the family’s defenses and secured allies. The Lu Family prepared to plan a joint campaign, as a fierce battle loomed over the Canglan Continent.

• Lu Wanyuan calmed the Lu Family’s council and urged them to exploit divisions between the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate.
• Lu Wanyuan ordered Lu Guzhao, Lu Guyan, and other disciples to strengthen the family’s defenses and sent envoys to seek help from the Gale Sect and Joyful Union Sect.
• The Lu Family trained and reinforced its Defense Formation Arrays while Lu Wanyuan shared rare Entries that accelerated the disciples’ cultivation and Hundred Arts skills.
• The Gale Sect and Joyful Union Sect agreed to cooperate after the Lu Family accepted major concessions.
• Lu Wanyuan celebrated the alliance and proposed discussing a battle plan to strike the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate.

Lu Guzhao pursued a three-pronged strategy to strengthen the Lu Family through expanded production, improved defenses, and a formal alliance with Gale Sect and Joyful Union Sect. The Lu Family gained the initiative against Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate, but Lu Guzhao knew the decisive test still lay ahead.

• Lu Guzhao expanded the Artifact Refining Hall's production and sent disciples to sell Lu Family goods at discounted prices, drawing customers away from Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate's shops and worsening their financial crisis.
• Lu Guzhao upgraded Cui Mountain's Defense Formation Arrays, organized military training, and planted hidden traps, while Lu Wanyuan taught weaker disciples battle formations to improve their chances of survival.
• Lu Guzhao negotiated an alliance charter and cooperation plans with Gale Sect and Joyful Union Sect, establishing a council and an executive body.
• At the alliance's founding ceremony, Lu Guzhao urged the members to unite against Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate, and the gathered disciples cheered in support.

The Lu Family Alliance fought the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate in a decisive battle and won after Hu Xiuyuan’s forbidden spell was interrupted. The Lu Family established its dominance in the Cultivation World of the Canglan Continent.

• Lu Wanyuan, Lu Guyan, Feng Yichen, and Hua Meiniang planned their strategy against the divided Heavenly Dragon Sect and Asura Gate.
• Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family Alliance’s assault as Feng Yichen’s wind magic and Hua Meiniang’s bewitching spells disrupted the enemy formation.
• Lu Wanyuan fought the three Nascent Soul Cultivators with the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Whip while Lu Guyan led the Lu Family disciples in close combat.
• Hu Xiuyuan began casting the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s forbidden spell, but Lu Wanyuan, Feng Yichen, and Hua Meiniang stopped him, and Lu Wanyuan gravely wounded him.
• Night Asura fled with the remaining Asura Gate disciples, but Lu Wanyuan pursued them and Lu Guyan killed Night Asura.
• The Lu Family Alliance wiped out the fleeing Asura Gate disciples and won the battle, establishing the Lu Family’s dominance in the Canglan Continent’s Cultivation World.

After the Demon Realm invaded the Canglan Continent, Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family into battle and exploited the chaos to destroy the weakened Heavenly Dragon Sect. The Lu Family seized the sect’s resources and territory, leaving its dominance over the continent firmly established.

• Lu Wanyuan gathered the Lu Family after the Demon Realm’s invasion and joined forces with the Savage Lands to resist the demonic army.
• The Lu Family disciples fought effectively against the demons, while the other forces suffered heavy losses from demonic techniques.
• After learning that the Heavenly Dragon Sect was struggling against the demons, Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family to attack it.
• The Lu Family occupied the Heavenly Dragon Sect’s gardens, repositories, pavilions, and other holdings, taking its treasures and taming its Demonic Beasts.
• The Lu Family wiped out the Heavenly Dragon Sect, and Lu Wanyuan declared that the Canglan Continent would belong to his family.

Envious factions demanded that the Lu Family share its war spoils, and Lu Guzhao tried to negotiate while preparing the family’s defenses. Meanwhile, Lu Wanyuan led the Lu Family against a full-scale Demon Realm invasion, repelling repeated assaults as the war continued.

• Other cultivation factions envied the Lu Family’s gains and threatened to attack unless it handed over wealth and resources.
• Lu Guzhao sent envoys to negotiate and strengthened the family’s defenses, but the factions rejected his arguments and spread rumors against the Lu Family.
• Lu Wanyuan organized the Lu Family’s defense against the invading demon army, using powerful treasures, healing medicines, and defensive formations to sustain the battle.
• A wounded Lu Family cultivator recovered after a companion gave him a healing elixir and returned to the fight.
• Lu Wanyuan rallied the cultivators as they repelled repeated demon attacks and gained the upper hand, though he warned that the war was not over.

Lu Wanyuan's Entries helped the Lu Family become a leading force in the Canglan Realm, but the Asura Gate and the Heavenly Dragon Sect joined forces to stop its expansion. Lu Guzhao led a surprise attack that destroyed their alliance's stronghold and left the Lu Family feared across the realm.

• Lu Wanyuan helped the Lu Family grow through powerful Cultivation Techniques, weapons, pills, and cooperation with other forces.
• The Asura Gate and the Heavenly Dragon Sect formed an Alliance, spread rumors about the Lu Family, and plotted a fatal attack.
• Lu Guzhao and Lu Guyan discovered the conspiracy, and the Lu Family strengthened its defenses and trained its younger generation.
• After learning the location of the Alliance's stronghold, Lu Guzhao gathered elite disciples and led them there under cover of night.
• Lu Guzhao and Lu Guyan led the assault, and the Lu Family's disciples overwhelmed the Asura Gate and Heavenly Dragon Sect forces.
• Lu Guzhao pursued the fleeing leaders as the Lu Family destroyed the stronghold, causing the Alliance to collapse and spreading fear of the Lu Family.

The Lu Family’s resistance to the Demon Realm drew the attention of the Tianxuan Sect, Spirit Sword Sect, and Danxia Sect, whose leaders each considered how to monitor or benefit from the family’s rise. At Cui Mountain, Lu Guzhao and his kin remained unaware of their plans, while Lu Wanyuan considered letting Guzhao succeed him as Patriarch.

• True Person Xuanfeng ordered the Tianxuan Sect to watch the Lu Family and make things difficult for them if an opportunity arose.
• Jian Chenzi told the Spirit Sword Sect to monitor the Lu Family and seek a cautious alliance against the Demon Realm.
• Dan Shengzi prepared high-grade pills to trade for the Lu Family’s resources and gain influence over them.
• Lu Guzhao and the Lu Family trained their younger members and prepared for the Demon Realm’s next attack, unaware of the three sects’ schemes.
• Lu Wanyuan, impressed by Lu Guzhao’s performance while searching for the divine artifact, considered yielding some authority and making him Patriarch.

True Person Xuanfeng accused the Lu Family of colluding with the Devil Race and threatened them, while Jian Chenzi and Dan Shengzi each offered Lu Guzhao a different form of cooperation. Lu Guzhao avoided choosing sides and urged the powers to focus on resisting the Demon Realm, leaving the crisis temporarily defused but the Lu Family’s decision unresolved.

• True Person Xuanfeng arrived with Tianxuan Sect disciples and accused Lu Guzhao and the Lu Family of colluding with the Devil Race, prompting both sides to prepare for battle.
• Jian Chenzi intervened, challenged the accusation, and offered the Lu Family an alliance with the Spirit Sword Sect.
• Dan Shengzi arrived and called for unity against the Demon Realm, then offered the Lu Family a trade for high-grade pills in exchange for rare Spiritual Materials.
• Lu Guzhao explained that the Lu Family had awakened the Devil Race’s bloodline to better understand and resist them, and urged the powers not to weaken themselves with infighting.
• Lu Guzhao deferred both offers until he could consult his family, and the three powers departed after the confrontation was temporarily eased.

Lu Wanyuan infiltrated Tianxuan Sect’s forbidden grounds and freed a Divine Envoy from a sealed orb, asking him to save the Lu Family. The Divine Envoy defeated Tianxuan Sect’s forces, killed Perfect Person Xuanfeng, and told Lu Wanyuan to return and restore order.

• Lu Wanyuan used an invisibility technique to enter Tianxuan Sect’s forbidden grounds and break through its seals.
• Lu Wanyuan released the Divine Envoy from a black orb and promised to fulfill a future condition in exchange for help.
• The Divine Envoy learned of the Lu Family’s plight and used his power to incapacitate Tianxuan Sect’s disciples.
• Perfect Person Xuanfeng led the elders to confront the Divine Envoy, but the Divine Envoy sent the elders flying and reduced Xuanfeng to ashes.
• The Divine Envoy told Lu Wanyuan that Tianxuan Sect’s threat was over and urged him to restore order in the Lu Family.

The Lu Family resisted the Demon Realm while facing blame and attacks from Tianxuan Sect followers after the sect’s destruction. The Divine Envoy offered the family resources in exchange for help reaching the Divine Realm, and Lu Guzhao and the others agreed to the deal.

• Lu Wanyuan reorganized the Lu Family, and Lu Guzhao and the others united the Savage Wastes’ cultivation forces to repel the Demon Realm’s attacks.
• Rumors about the Divine Envoy spread after Tianxuan Sect’s destruction, and its followers blamed and attacked the Lu Family.
• Lu Guzhao summoned the Lu Family’s core members to discuss reports that the Divine Envoy was hiding among them.
• The Divine Envoy appeared in the council hall and offered a minor world and a ruin full of resources in exchange for help finding a way to reach the Divine Realm.
• Lu Guzhao and the others debated the risks and accepted the deal, resolving to spend three days gathering information and preparing.

The Divine Envoy uncovered a Lu Family ancestor’s clue to a mysterious ruin tied to the God Realm and alerted the deities, while the Demon Realm prepared a new assault on the Canglan Realm. Lu Guzhao led Lu Guyan, Qin Yi, and other elites to search for the ruin as the Lu Family strengthened its defenses, leaving the family braced for conflict on multiple fronts.

• The Divine Envoy secretly searched the Lu Family Library Pavilion, found an ancestor’s note about a mysterious ruin, and sent a signal to the God Realm.
• The deities decided to send an envoy to the Canglan Continent, while Lu Guzhao learned of the message and called the Lu Family together to plan.
• The Demon Realm learned of the God Realm’s impending arrival and launched another assault on the Canglan Realm, spreading panic across the cultivation factions.
• Lu Guzhao arranged defenses against the Demon Realm and led Lu Guyan, Qin Yi, and other elites to search for the ruin before the God Realm’s envoy arrived.
• The Lu Family prepared for war and exchanged intelligence with its allies, while Lu Wanyuan relied on Cui Mountain’s resources and formations to defend the family.