Chapter Summaries

Lu Wanyuan attacked the Xiao family occupying Green Bamboo Peak, killing Ouyang Yongqiang and the others before Ouyang Tingting arrived to confront him. The chapter ended with Lu Wanyuan and Ouyang Tingting clashing in midair.

• Lu Wanyuan killed Ouyang Yongqiang with a single strike, prompting the Xiao family members to send up signal fireworks for Ouyang Tingting.
• Ouyang Tingting's alarm interrupted her seclusion, caused cultivation backlash, and drove her to fly toward the mountain's foot.
• Lu Wanyuan killed more than a dozen Xiao family members after they sent the signal.
• Ouyang Tingting attacked Lu Wanyuan with her whip, but he blocked her strikes with the Golden Light Sword.
• Lu Wanyuan and Ouyang Tingting fought in midair, with their weapons meeting in a series of blows.

Lu Wanyuan wore Ouyang Tingting down and captured her, confronting her over what she had done to Green Bamboo Peak. He sent Big Flower to kill everyone on the mountain and search for Lu Hu, whose absence left him worried something had happened to him.

• Ouyang Tingting slowed her attacks and tried to seduce Lu Wanyuan, but he rejected her advances and attacked her fiercely.
• Lu Wanyuan overwhelmed Ouyang Tingting, slashed her face, and taunted her about renaming Green Bamboo Peak Heaven Pillar Peak.
• Lu Wanyuan sent Big Flower to kill everyone on the mountain and search for Lu Hu, who had not come down with Ouyang Tingting.
• Lu Wanyuan sealed Ouyang Tingting's Dantian after she collapsed, leaving her unable to fight back.
• Ouyang Tingting asked who Lu Wanyuan was and offered to reveal an important secret, but he dismissed her offer.

Lu Wanyuan confronted Ouyang Tingting, who revealed that the Murong Family in Peach Blossom Valley came from the Devil Race and had taken Lu Hu. She warned that the family caused the Yao Beast Tide to turn Luling Prefecture into a demonic domain, and Lu Wanyuan tried to kill her.

• Lu Wanyuan revealed his identity to Ouyang Tingting, who recognized him as Lu Yuan and accepted that he had survived her trap.
• Lu Wanyuan threatened to have the Xiao Family buried with Ouyang Tingting, but she offered him a secret about the Murong Family.
• Ouyang Tingting told Lu Wanyuan that the Murong Family came from the Devil Race and had disguised themselves as human cultivators.
• Ouyang Tingting revealed that the Murong Family had taken Lu Hu and claimed Lu Wanyuan might also be of the Devil Race.
• Ouyang Tingting said the Murong Family had caused the Yao Beast Tide to transform Luling Prefecture into a demonic domain, and Lu Wanyuan swung his flying sword at her neck.

Lu Wanyuan killed Ouyang Tingting and gathered Green Bamboo Peak’s resources before setting off for Cui Mountain. He returned with green bamboo shoots to plant and focused on protecting the Lu Family, leaving questions about his father and the Devil Race unresolved.

• Lu Wanyuan killed Ouyang Tingting and reflected on how resource competition had driven her to oppress the Lu Family.
• He used his divine sense to confirm that Green Bamboo Peak was deserted, then collected its resources, spirit plants, and green bamboo shoots.
• Lu Wanyuan decided to return to Cui Mountain and protect the Lu Family, setting aside his search for Lu Hu and his doubts about the Devil Race.
• He rode Big Flower past corpses, cultivators, and Demonic Beasts without stopping, then reached Cui Mountain and planted green bamboo shoots.
• Lu Wanyuan traveled through the Wolong River and the food space into the Earth Bunker without using Qingxi Cave.

Lu Wanyuan returned to the Lu Family as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, bringing spoils from Green Bamboo Peak and news that the Murong Family had captured their father. He urged the family to grow stronger and increase its numbers, then went off with his three wives to start expanding the family.

• Lu Wanyuan returned after nearly five months away and distributed more than a dozen Storage Bags of spoils.
• Lu Wanyuan revealed that he had reached Foundation Establishment, avenged the Lu Family at Green Bamboo Peak, and killed the villains there.
• Lu Wanyuan told Lu Wanting and Lu Wanhe that their father had been captured by the Murong Family and that the family was not yet strong enough to rescue him.
• Lu Wanting counted Lu Wanyuan, Xu Yuhe, Shangguan Qianxue, and Big Flower as the Lu Family's four Foundation Establishment-level forces.
• Lu Wanyuan urged his siblings to help the Lu Family grow, then announced he would try to father many children with his three wives.
• Baili Qiuyue volunteered to spend the night with Lu Wanyuan, leaving Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe stunned.

Lu Wanyuan celebrated the Lu Family’s growth with Baili Qiuyue, then watched his children hunt and conceived a plan to expand the family’s strength by taming Demonic Beasts. He began preparing to capture beasts during the ongoing Yao Beast Tide using his Mysterious Space and Dragon Imprisonment Net.

• Lu Wanyuan and Baili Qiuyue celebrated his new Foundation Establishment Realm and discussed building the Lu Family into a powerful Cultivation Family.
• After three days with his Cultivation Partners, Lu Wanyuan visited his children and saw Lu Gulei lead his younger siblings in a coordinated hunt.
• Lu Wanyuan noticed the children’s growing pets and realized that taming beasts could rapidly increase the Lu Family’s strength.
• With the Yao Beast Tide underway, Lu Wanyuan devised a plan to capture Demonic Beasts using his Mysterious Space, Dragon Imprisonment Net, and Concealment Entries.

Lu Wanyuan learned what the Lu Family had recovered from the Storage Bags and decided to study their Formation Legacy as a way to make up for the family’s lack of people. He left to consider how formations could help defend the family and strengthen its forces.

• Lu Wanting told Lu Wanyuan that the family had found forty-five magical weapons and Spirit Tools, several Cultivation Techniques and legacies, pills and materials, and nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones.
• Lu Wanting warned Lu Wanyuan that studying formations required extensive knowledge and resources, but he asked her to copy the Formation Legacy for the Family Treasury and give him the original.
• Lu Wanyuan instructed Lu Wanting to let family members use the treasury’s resources to grow stronger and to train the young ones to coordinate their attacks.
• Lu Wanyuan considered capturing Demonic Beasts to strengthen the Lu Family but worried that the four Foundation Establishment Cultivators could not face a Great Demon.
• Lu Wanyuan realized that formations could compensate for the family’s shortage of people and began considering the Formation Legacy as a way to defend their territory.

Lu Wanyuan entered the Mysterious Space to study the Formation Legacy, hoping to strengthen the Lu Family and protect its members. After enduring a painful transfer of knowledge, he learned the basics and discovered the legacy contained 108 formation diagrams.

• Lu Wanyuan decided to study formations so he could improve the Lu Family's defenses and help its members survive dangerous encounters.
• He entered the Mysterious Space and pressed the Jade Slip to his forehead, suffering severe pain as the Formation Legacy poured into his mind.
• After ten days, Lu Wanyuan finished receiving the information and swallowed a soul-restoring pill.
• He studied the legacy's principles, learning about formation types, power sources, materials, and how terrain could strengthen and conceal a formation.
• After a year, Lu Wanyuan had learned the basic theories and found that the Formation Legacy contained diagrams for 108 formations.

Lu Wanyuan modified the Azure Vine Formation into a powerful formation that used cultivators casting Entanglement Spells, then spent a year training his partners to use it. He left the Underground Fortress with Xu Yuhe, Shangguan Qianxue, and Big Flower to hunt Demonic Beasts, and they heard a Second Order Late Stage beast approaching near Luoye City.

• Lu Wanyuan adapted the Azure Vine Formation so cultivators could serve as Formation Flags and cast Entanglement Spells, creating a powerful formation capable of threatening cultivators above their level.
• Lu Wanyuan and his three Cultivation Partners tested the formation, finding that the three-person version lasted longer and could be used more often than the four-person version.
• Lu Wanyuan spent a year training with his partners until they had become skilled and coordinated.
• Lu Wanyuan left Baili Qiuyue, Lu Wanhe, and Lu Wanting to guard the children while he took Xu Yuhe, Shangguan Qianxue, and Big Flower out to hunt Demonic Beasts.
• Lu Wanyuan and the others traveled toward Luoye City, then heard the roars of a Second Order Late Stage Demonic Beast drawing near.

Lu Wanyuan survived the Great Earth Cang Ape’s attack by detonating twenty Sky Thunder Seeds and escaping into the Mysterious Space, then helped Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe capture the beast. He sealed away its demonic power and demanded that it accept a Forbidden Seal, threatening to kill it if it refused.

• The Great Earth Cang Ape struck at Lu Wanyuan with a gigantic palm, trapping him while Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe watched in horror.
• Lu Wanyuan detonated twenty Sky Thunder Seeds against the ape’s palm and escaped into the Mysterious Space as the blast severed its arm.
• Shangguan Qianxue believed Lu Wanyuan had died, but he reappeared and ordered her and Xu Yuhe to form the Azure Vine Formation.
• Lu Wanyuan, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe bound the wounded ape, and Lu Wanyuan used the Dragon Imprisonment Net to seal its demonic power and shrink its body.
• Lu Wanyuan asked the ape to accept a Forbidden Seal, warning that he would kill it if it refused.

Lu Wanyuan controlled the Great Earth Cang Ape and moved it, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe into his Mysterious Space before escaping to a secluded cave. After ten months of recovery and cultivation, he reassured his wives that he still did not understand where the space came from or what it could do.

• Lu Wanyuan placed a Forbidden Seal in the Great Earth Cang Ape’s Divine Sea and sent Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe into the Mysterious Space to recover.
• Lu Wanyuan gave the wounded Great Earth Cang Ape medicine, moved it into the Mysterious Space, and fled to a secluded cave as two Golden Core Cultivators searched the battle site.
• Lu Wanyuan entered the Mysterious Space and cultivated for ten months while Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe recovered there.
• Shangguan Qianxue questioned Lu Wanyuan about the Mysterious Space, and Xu Yuhe urged her to accept that he did not know its origins or abilities.
• Lu Wanyuan promised to explain more when he understood the space better, then teased Shangguan Qianxue about punishing her.

Lu Wanyuan, Shangguan Qianxue, and Xu Yuhe left their refuge to inspect the ruined Luoye City and visit the Shangguan Family. At Qinghe Beach, they found the family’s ancestral grounds replaced by a towering mountain, leaving Xu Yuhe hopeful that the family had survived untouched.

• Lu Wanyuan and the two women decided to go outside after recovering, while keeping the Great Earth Cang Ape hidden as a trump card.
• They reached Luoye City and found its walls, buildings, and Lu Wanyuan’s former properties reduced to ruins, with no Demonic Beasts in sight.
• Lu Wanyuan suggested visiting the Shangguan Family, and Big Flower carried them toward Qinghe Beach.
• At Qinghe Beach, they found a towering mountain where the Shangguan Family’s ancestral grounds had been, and Xu Yuhe said the family might not have been touched.

Shangguan Qianxue, Lu Wanyuan, and Xu Yuhe found the Shangguan Family hidden behind an illusion formation and reunited with Shangguan Qinghong. He brought them inside and restored the Clan Protection Formation, then revealed that the Patriarch had suffered a tragic fate.

• Xu Yuhe realized the mountain before them was an illusion concealing the Shangguan Family, and Lu Wanyuan confirmed the family grounds should be nearby.
• Shangguan Qianxue shouted her name toward the hidden entrance, causing the illusion to waver and reveal the Shangguan archway.
• Shangguan Qianxue reunited with her second uncle, Shangguan Qinghong, and introduced Lu Wanyuan as her husband.
• Shangguan Qinghong led them inside and activated the Clan Protection Formation, which made the hidden mountain reappear.
• Shangguan Qinghong said the formation had saved the Shangguan Family, but grieved over what had happened to the Patriarch.

After learning that her father had died protecting the Shangguan Family, Shangguan Qianxue paid her respects and accepted a powerful talisman from her Second Uncle. Later, Lu Wanyuan captured Golden Beak Black Iron Eagles and investigated a Murong Family convoy of prisoners, where he heard a lullaby his mother used to sing.

• Shangguan Qianxue learned from Shangguan Qinghong that her father had died after being gravely injured while fighting over the Thousand Changes Void Array.
• Shangguan Qianxue declined to stay with the Shangguan Family, explaining that she and her Cultivation Partner had children to return to, and Shangguan Qinghong gave her a third-grade Mysterious Thunder Spirit Talisman her father had found.
• After paying respects to Shangguan Qianxue's father, Lu Wanyuan and the others left through a secret passage and captured four Golden Beak Black Iron Eagles and five eggs.
• On the way back to Cui Mountain, Lu Wanyuan concealed himself and followed a Murong Family convoy made up of prisoners in cages.
• As Lu Wanyuan inspected the prisoners, he heard a lullaby his mother had sung to him.

Lu Wanyuan followed a Murong Family prisoner convoy and watched masked cultivators ambush it. Amid the chaos, he stole a cage full of prisoners and escaped, but a Murong Family guard saw him and realized someone had used a spatial method to take it.

• Lu Wanyuan followed the Murong Family convoy and was shaken by the size of its Turtle Elephant caravan.
• Masked cultivators attacked the convoy, and fighting spread as Murong Family guards tried to defend it and destroyed prisoner cages.
• Lu Wanyuan climbed onto a panicked Turtle Elephant, cut the chains, and used a mysterious spatial power to make a cage of prisoners vanish.
• Lu Wanyuan slipped into the woods and fled without leaving a trace.
• A hooked-nosed Murong Family guard saw the cage disappear and resolved to report the suspected spatial treasure.

Lu Wanyuan brought a cage of prisoners into the Chaos Space, where he discovered that one of them was his dying father, Lu Hu. Before dying, Lu Hu revealed the Lu Family’s history and gave Lu Wanyuan a map marking scattered family members and a hidden Lightning Cultivation Technique, leaving him to decide whether to pursue his father’s dream.

• Lu Wanyuan escaped the Murong Family’s trackers by traveling along a riverbed, then entered the Chaos Space and found Shangguan Qianxue and Xu Yuhe examining the prisoners he had brought there.
• Lu Wanyuan sealed the prisoners’ spiritual power and questioned a filthy, toothless man, who angrily revealed that he was Lu Wanyuan’s father, Lu Hu.
• Lu Hu asked for brush and ink, drew a map, and told Lu Wanyuan that his original name was Lu Huanghu and that he had once led the declining Lu Family of Qingzhou Taiyue Prefecture.
• Lu Hu explained that the map showed where he had scattered the Lu Family’s ordinary members and where he had hidden a Lightning Cultivation Technique on Green Bamboo Peak; he also said Ouyang Jiaojiao had been planted to watch him by the Demonic Sect.
• Lu Hu died after entrusting Lu Wanyuan with the map, and Lu Wanyuan considered bringing the scattered Lu Family members to Cui Mountain to increase its population.

Lu Wanyuan returned to Cui Mountain with Lu Hu’s remains and new spirit pets, then organized the Lu Family’s growing beast-raising efforts. He also told Lu Wanhe and Lu Wanting about Lu Hu and proposed finding the people his father had recorded to help the family grow.

• Lu Wanyuan killed the prisoners to protect the secret of his Chaos Space, stored their remains, and set aside Lu Hu’s body to bury at Cui Mountain.
• A month later, Lu Wanyuan and his companions returned to the Earth Bunker, where the Lu Family welcomed their new spirit pets and counted ten Demonic Beasts.
• Lu Wanyuan asked the family to develop Beast Taming, and Ouyang Lulu volunteered to study the legacy and manage the beasts.
• Lu Wanyuan gave Ouyang Lulu a backup copy of the Beast Taming Art and encouraged the family to preserve and pass down its legacies.
• Lu Wanyuan showed Lu Wanhe and Lu Wanting Lu Hu’s remains and recounted his story.
• Lu Wanyuan proposed visiting the places Lu Hu had recorded to bring people back and expand the Lu Family.

Lu Wanyuan organized the Lu Family’s work on Cui Mountain and planned to investigate the Yao Beast Tide and retrieve items from Green Bamboo Peak. Three months later, he prepared to leave while trying to develop a reusable communication method to stay in touch with his family.

• Lu Wanhe proposed moving over a million Lu Family mortals to Cui Mountain, but Lu Wanyuan urged the family to plan carefully and focus first on their strength.
• Lu Wanyuan assigned the family to clear Qingxi Cave, guard the area with trained Demonic Beasts, and cultivate Spirit Fields while he investigated the Yao Beast Tide and retrieved items from Green Bamboo Peak.
• Lu Wanyuan planned to return and visit the Lu Family mortals with Lu Wanhe before deciding whether to relocate them.
• Three months later, Lu Wanyuan’s cultivation had advanced, and he learned that Baili Qiuyue and two other women were pregnant again.
• Lu Wanyuan studied Patriarch Ouyang’s Sound Transmission Spirit Talisman and considered how to make it reusable so he could communicate with his family while away.

Lu Wanyuan and Lu Wanhe worked to understand the Sound Transmission Talisman and devised a new communication system using divine senses, an array, and marker tokens. Ten days later, Lu Wanyuan completed the first samples, leaving Lu Wanhe astonished by what he had made.

• Lu Wanhe explained that a Sound Transmission Talisman sent messages by attaching them to a trace of divine sense sealed inside it.
• After their attempt to study the talisman failed, Lu Wanyuan proposed connecting two marked divine senses through a shared array.
• Lu Wanyuan adapted the Soul Imprisonment Array idea so it could admit only divine senses bearing the right markers and let them communicate.
• Lu Wanyuan and Lu Wanhe agreed to build and test the communication system.
• Ten days later, Lu Wanyuan made a core Formation Disk and two marker tokens, and Lu Wanhe stared at the samples in disbelief.

Lu Wanyuan developed a long-distance communication system using tokens and arrays, then traveled to Yangmei Market to investigate the Lu Family Artifact Refining Workshop. He learned the workshop’s troubles stemmed from its success driving rival shops out of business.

• Lu Wanyuan and Lu Wanhe tested communication tokens and found their range depended on the Soul Imprisonment Formation Disk’s coverage.
• Lu Wanyuan created a Projection Array that projected the Formation Disk into the sky, enabling the tokens to communicate on scheduled days.
• Lu Wanyuan gave tokens to the Lu Family, appointed Baili Qiuyue to activate the array twice a month, and left for Green Bamboo Peak with Big Flower and a Golden Beak Black Iron Eagle.
• Lu Wanyuan reached Yangmei Market two months later and asked an old man about the Lu Family Artifact Refining Workshop.
• The old man explained that the workshop’s improved artifact-refining skills had driven rival shops out of business, leading to its current troubles.