Recaps

Lu Bai watched two Myriad Insect Valley cultivators bully villagers and threaten their tribute, while a Li-surnamed Deathmatch Participant asked him to kill them. Lu Bai agreed he could handle the cultivators, but the chapter ended before he answered the request.

• The villagers sheltered from the rain in a ruined temple, where Lu Bai arrived and told them to carry on as usual.
• Two Myriad Insect Valley cultivators entered and ordered the villagers away from the fire.
• Senior Brother Du released bloodred insects, then tried to feed the villagers’ Blood-stealing Granny to his lifebound Spirit Insect.
• The Li-surnamed Deathmatch Participant asked Lu Bai to kill the two cultivators and offered him the spoils and his help.

Lu Bai effortlessly killed two Myriad Insect Valley cultivators who were threatening villagers, then considered whether his power could change the world. After the villagers left, Li Mu stayed behind and spoke with Lu Bai.

• Lu Bai questioned Li Mu about the villagers' lives, then confronted the two Myriad Insect Valley cultivators.
• Lu Bai crushed the cultivators with a single finger, annihilating their souls before they could finish begging for mercy.
• The village chief thanked Lu Bai and led the villagers away through the rain, wary of being linked to Myriad Insect Valley's deaths.
• Lu Bai reflected on the risks of imposing a new order and decided not to interfere without a better solution.
• Li Mu stayed behind and told Lu Bai he had sought to join Myriad Insect Valley only because he had no other choice.

Lu Bai entered Myriad Insect City with Li Mu and said he planned to conduct a social experiment involving Myriad Insect Valley. When he asked to meet the Valley Master at Immortal Gu Tower, the shop’s cultivators recognized him, and Steward Lai fled after learning he was there.

• Lu Bai and Li Mu walked through Myriad Insect City, where Lu Bai explained he wanted to conduct a social experiment starting with Myriad Insect Valley.
• Lu Bai marked the city’s Nascent Soul cultivators with his divine sense and took Li Mu to Immortal Gu Tower.
• Lu Bai asked the shop disciple Xiao Kuai to bring him to the person in charge so he could discuss Myriad Insect Valley’s survival with the Valley Master.
• Cultivators in the shop mocked Lu Bai until a Myriad Insect Valley disciple recognized him as Lu Bai of Qingwang Sect.
• Xiao Kuai sent a message to Steward Lai, who blasted through the roof and fled after realizing Lu Bai had arrived.

Lu Bai waited for the Valley Master of Myriad Insect Valley to answer his summons, but discovered that the Valley Master had fled rather than face him. Lu Bai stopped waiting and flew toward the valley as Myriad Insect Valley activated its Mountain Protecting Great Array.

• Lu Bai dragged Steward Lai back into Immortal Gu Pavilion and asked him to summon the Valley Master of Myriad Insect Valley.
• Steward Lai told Lu Bai that he had contacted the Valley Master, who said he would come, while the Valley Master secretly fled Myriad Insect Valley.
• After waiting half an hour, Lu Bai realized the Valley Master was not coming and decided to stop waiting.
• Lu Bai swept his hand and lifted the roof of Immortal Gu Pavilion, then flew out as cultivators gathered above Myriad Insect City.
• Myriad Insect Valley cultivators at the valley entrance activated the Mountain Protecting Great Array.

Lu Bai shattered Myriad Insect Valley’s Mountain Protecting Great Array and threatened to destroy the sect. When an unknown powerhouse pulled one of the Valley’s elders through a rift and warned Lu Bai about Qingwang Sect, Lu Bai stopped the rift from closing and began restoring space with the laws of the Dao.

• Lu Bai tested his mana against Myriad Insect Valley’s formation, then unleashed enough power to shatter its barrier and devastate the valley.
• The Valley’s elders and veterans flew out, and a battered old man charged at Lu Bai.
• A golden hand seized the old man and pulled him through a rift as an unseen elder praised Lu Bai and warned him that Qingwang Sect would be waiting.
• Lu Bai stopped the rift from closing, summoned the Immortal Dao Flower to stabilize his Primordial Spirit, and used Dao laws to force the rift open again.
• The Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land watched in disbelief as Lu Bai restored space.

Lu Bai confronted the Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land, learned he could not reach him across the void, and heard that the immortal sects planned to destroy Qingwang Sect. He left Myriad Insect City with Li Mu to return and deal with the threat.

• The Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land questioned Lu Bai and challenged him after seeing his Mahayana cultivation.
• Lu Bai widened the void rift, crushed the Grand Elder of Myriad Insect Valley to dust, and failed to reach the distant Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land.
• The Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land threatened that Qingwang Sect would soon be destroyed, then disappeared into the void.
• Lu Bai realized the immortal sects were joining forces against Qingwang Sect and decided to return.
• Lu Bai soul-searched a Myriad Insect Valley cultivator, then left Myriad Insect City with Li Mu, whose departure left a massive crater.

Qingwang Sect prepared to defend its mountain gate against an overwhelming alliance of sects seeking retribution and plunder. As the assault began, Yuxu Zi realized the enemy’s Immortal Artifact might bring down their protective array almost immediately.

• Yuxu Zi told Wang the Gambler that he had already arranged for Qingwang Sect’s remaining disciples to face the coming assault, then activated the Mountain Protecting Great Array.
• Qingwang Sect’s disciples took their assigned formation nodes, joking together as they prepared to fight and die for the sect.
• Hundreds of powerful cultivators and vast allied forces gathered around Qingwang Sect, while the enemy leaders sent their disciples to attack first.
• The Golden Scale Holy Land struck the Mountain Protecting Great Array with the Golden Scale Lotus, weakening it and alarming Qingwang Sect’s defenders.
• Yuxu Zi recognized the Golden Scale Lotus as an Immortal Artifact and feared the array would not hold for even an incense stick’s burn.

The Golden Scale Holy Land’s Immortal Artifact battered the Qingwang Sect’s Mountain Protecting Great Array as its disciples panicked and Yuxu Zi and Fairy Yuxia confronted the attacking sect leaders. The Golden Scale Holy Land’s Grand Elder arrived, crushed them, and urged the alliance to destroy the Qingwang Sect quickly after revealing that Lu Bai was alive and had reached the Mahayana stage.

• The Golden Scale Lotus struck the Mountain Protecting Great Array again, dimming its barrier and throwing the Qingwang Sect disciples into panic until Fairy Yuxia calmed them.
• Yuxu Zi told Wang the Gambler that the array could not withstand many more attacks, then struck at the enemy disciples outside the gate; the Sect Master of Taishi Sect stopped his Mana hand.
• Fairy Yuxia attacked the sect leaders, but the Sect Master of Taishi Sect intercepted her Mana and dismissed her strength.
• The Grand Elder of the Golden Scale Holy Land arrived and crushed Yuxu Zi and Fairy Yuxia into the mountain gate with a golden Mana strike.
• The Grand Elder ordered the alliance to flatten the Qingwang Sect and revealed that Lu Bai was alive, had exchanged a blow with him across the void, and was a Mahayana stage cultivator.
• The Sect Master of Taishi Sect frowned and began to suggest reconsidering the attack.

The allied immortal sects invaded Qingwang Sect, overwhelming its disciples while Senior Brother Chang tried to protect Shi Qingyu. Lu Bai arrived at the last moment and punched the Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land through two mountains.

• The Yuhuo Cult Leader attacked Qingwang Sect with a fire dragon as allied forces stormed the mountain gate and overwhelmed its defenders.
• Senior Brother Chang returned wounded to his cave dwelling and promised Shi Qingyu he would get her out safely.
• When enemy cultivators found the cave, Senior Brother Chang drew them away after warning Shi Qingyu to stay hidden.
• Lu Bai crossed most of Xuanzhou at extraordinary speed and struck the Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land with one punch.
• Lu Bai hovered before the sect leaders and asked whether he had arrived too late.

Lu Bai confronted the immortal sect leaders at Qingwang Sect and demanded that they follow his lead. After repeatedly overwhelming the Golden Scale Holy Land's Grand Elder with attacks enabled by Flash Time, Lu Bai drove the Grand Elder to ask for a negotiation.

• Lu Bai told the assembled immortal sect leaders to put their affairs in order and follow him, challenging them to oppose him.
• The Golden Scale Holy Land's Grand Elder rose from the crater and confronted Lu Bai, who used Flash Time to strike him again and bury him in the ground.
• The shaken Grand Elder called on the sect leaders to attack Lu Bai together, and three powerful cultivators launched Mana attacks.
• Lu Bai ignored the incoming attacks with Steel Body and punched the Grand Elder in the back of the head, making him fear for his life.
• The Golden Scale Holy Land's Grand Elder forced a smile and asked Lu Bai if they could talk.

Lu Bai withstood the immortal sect leaders’ attacks and demanded that their Spokespersons gather to discuss his plans. When Elder Jian attacked, Lu Bai defeated him and challenged the assembled leaders to object.

• The Grand Elder of the Golden Scale Holy Land abandoned the fight, offered to support Lu Bai, and was punched until Lu Bai asked him to gather the immortal sects’ Spokespersons.
• Most sect leaders stopped attacking Lu Bai, but the Yuhuo Cult Master and a few others continued until Lu Bai confronted them and said they would pay a price.
• The Sect Master of Taishi Sect tried to calm Lu Bai, while Elder Jian urged the leaders to fight him; Fairy Yuxia condemned them for ganging up on a young disciple.
• Elder Jian sent a sword beam at Lu Bai, who caught it with his bare hand, then used Flash Time to strike Elder Jian and knock him to the ground.
• Lu Bai looked across the assembled leaders and asked who else objected.

Lu Bai confronted the immortal sect leaders gathered at Qingwang Sect and fought them after they refused to answer his demands. The battle escalated when three elders awakened a bronze Immortal Artifact, and other Immortal Artifacts began responding from across the battlefield.

• Lu Bai’s arrival stopped the fighting at Qingwang Sect, while Yuxu Zi and the surviving disciples watched the powerful sect leaders gather in the sky.
• The Grand Elder of Golden Scale Holy Land recovered and quietly moved to a position favoring Lu Bai.
• When the sect leaders remained silent, Lu Bai formed an Immortal Dao Flower and warned them that he would keep killing until they understood their place.
• A red halberd struck first, and the other leaders joined the attack, but Lu Bai’s [Steel Body] let him withstand their techniques as he charged through them.
• Three elders summoned a bronze bell and sent their Nascent Souls into it, awakening its Immortal Artifact power and forcing weaker cultivators toward the ground.
• Other Immortal Artifacts answered the bronze bell’s pressure, including one from the enormous golden lotus.

Lu Bai withstood an Immortal Artifact’s attack, killed the Yuhuo Cult Master, and forced the remaining immortal sect leaders to surrender. After he proposed they work toward a common goal, news of his victory spread through Xuanzhou and sent many sects fleeing.

• Lu Bai charged into the bronze bell’s Immortal Path Killing Technique and emerged unharmed.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to strike the Yuhuo Cult Master, killing him with a hole through his chest.
• The immortal sect leaders attacked Lu Bai’s Primordial Spirit, but he hid himself in darkness and killed many of them until the survivors surrendered.
• Lu Bai lifted the darkness, saw that most of the gathered leaders were dead or gone, and told the survivors they could work together.
• The fleeing leaders spread word of Lu Bai’s power across Xuanzhou, prompting many immortal sects to abandon the province with their lineages.

After Lu Bai’s victory at Qingwang Sect, Xuanzhou’s immortal sects anxiously debated how to respond while he remained quiet. Lu Bai began training a twenty-seven-member Inspection Team drawn from surviving sect leaders and elders, who were ready to enforce his laws.

• News of Lu Bai’s power spread across Xuanzhou, leaving immortal sects and even commoners in a state of panic.
• A white-robed old man used tortoiseshell pieces to divine Lu Bai’s identity, but found that Heaven’s secrets were obscured.
• A wounded Nascent Soul cultivator discovered that a fleeing elder’s body was unharmed but his Primordial Spirit had nearly collapsed, then retreated into seclusion.
• Golden Scale Holy Land’s leaders debated whether to submit to Lu Bai, while other sects across Xuanzhou held similar meetings and some fled the region.
• After half a month of peace, Lu Bai released some captured disciples and trained twenty-seven surviving high-ranking cultivators as his Inspection Team.
• Third Supreme told Lu Bai that the team had studied his laws and was ready to begin its inspection duties.

Lu Bai summoned the immortal sects’ representatives to Qingwang Sect and considered how to reshape society while they gathered. As sunset passed, he sent the Inspection Team to deal with sects that had not responded, then allowed the waiting representatives inside.

• Lu Bai made the senior masters at Qingwang Sect shout their loyalty, then used Ink Dye to darken Xuanzhou’s sky and announce that sect representatives must come to Qingwang Sect by sunset.
• While the representatives traveled to the sect, Lu Bai weighed different forms of government and concluded that any attempt at reform would be difficult to control.
• By sunset, representatives from hundreds of immortal sects had arrived, and the Third Supreme gave Lu Bai a list of sects that had sent no one.
• Lu Bai ordered the Inspection Team to deal with the absent sects, and twenty-three Integration stage cultivators, four Mahayana stage cultivators, and two Immortal Artifacts departed.
• After Yuxu Zi asked about the representatives waiting outside the gate, Lu Bai told him to let them in.

Lu Bai summoned Xuanzhou’s immortal sect representatives and announced his plan to unite the Cultivation World under laws and regulations. The sect leaders publicly pledged support, though many privately doubted his intentions, and Lu Bai declared them all loyal subjects.

• The sect representatives arrived at Qingwang Sect’s main hall plaza and tried to win Yuxu Zi’s favor while watching Lu Bai.
• Lu Bai assured the gathered cultivators that he had not summoned them to wipe them out, then criticized Xuanzhou’s cultivation system and proposed uniting the realm under laws.
• The Golden Scale Holy Lord and Taishi Sect’s Grand Elder loudly pledged their sects’ support for Lu Bai.
• Other sect leaders hurried to echo their support, while some senior experts stayed silent despite their objections.
• Lu Bai watched the gathering and declared that they were all loyal subjects with no traitors among them.

Lu Bai announced laws for Xuanzhou, let demonic sect leaders who rejected them leave, then ordered their extermination. In Desolate City, Mu Xin waited to join Stone Seeking Sect as a decree from Lu Bai called for the market district’s guard.

• Lu Bai distributed his laws and explained that the ban on murder applied to cultivators and ordinary people alike.
• Blood Demon Old Ghost and other demonic sect leaders rejected the laws and departed, while Lu Bai allowed them to go.
• Lu Bai ordered Golden Scale Holy Lord to list the departing sects so they could all be killed, and Taishi Sect’s Grand Elder pledged his sect’s support.
• Mu Xin asked Senior Brother Shi when they would return to Stone Seeking Sect, and Senior Brother Shi said they must wait for the unrest to settle.
• A voice announcing a decree from Heavenly Venerate Lu called for the guard in charge of Desolate City’s market district.

Lu Bai's law was delivered to the Stone Seeking Sect and began provoking widespread opposition across Xuanzhou. As deathmatch participants realized Lu Bai might be one of their own, Mu Xin resolved to cultivate quickly while resistance to the law escalated into attacks on mortals.

• A Heavenly Venerate's walker delivered Lu Bai's decree to Shi Xuan and ordered him to enforce the law and distribute it throughout the marketplace.
• Shi Xuan read the decree and arranged for his subordinates to make copies, knowing inspectors would return in three months.
• Mu Xin suspected Lu Bai was a deathmatch participant and asked Shi Xuan to bring him into the sect so he could begin cultivating quickly.
• Deathmatch participants across Xuanzhou recognized Lu Bai's growing power and began trying to disrupt the region, though most lacked the strength to make an impact.
• Cultivators opposed Lu's Law because it threatened their privileges and practices, and many left their mountains to cause trouble and slaughter mortals.

Lu Bai enforced Lu's Law through a bloody crackdown that crushed open resistance and made Xuanzhou’s people safer, while recognizing that the system depended on his power rather than genuine loyalty. A bloodied bead awakened a new host who learned of the Deathmatch System and vowed revenge for the Ghost King Sect, leaving a hidden threat to Lu Bai.

• Lu Bai sent Heavenly Venerate walkers and expanded patrol teams to arrest lawbreakers, and the month-long executions established Lu's Law across Xuanzhou.
• A young man searching the marshes for the Ghost King Sect found a bead that absorbed his blood and took over his body.
• The young man learned about the Deathmatch System and Lu Bai’s role in the Ghost King Sect’s destruction, then vowed to take revenge.
• The Third Supreme reported that the patrol team had crushed the Blood River Sect and eradicated Xuanzhou’s Demonic Cults, and Lu Bai praised him.
• The Jiange Pavilion Master reported that the Third Supreme was secretly conspiring with colleagues, but Lu Bai said he could distinguish loyalty from treachery.
• Lu Bai’s law enforcement brought greater safety to Xuanzhou’s common folk, though he knew the law relied on fear and his strength.

Lu Bai pushed the Research Institute to develop machines ordinary people could use, insisting that they spread energy technologies people could produce themselves rather than rely on Spiritual Energy Etching. Three months later, he inspected an industrializing city, where ordinary people enjoyed improved living standards and strict law enforcement had so far kept the streets orderly.

• The Research Institute's deputy director reported that Spiritual Energy Etching had outperformed other energy sources, though ordinary people could not yet make it independently.
• Lu Bai ordered the Institute to continue researching Spiritual Energy Etching while distributing machines powered by other energy sources.
• Three months later, Lu Bai entered a city and saw ordinary people, mechanical carriages, and an internal combustion freight train.
• Lu Bai observed that industrialization had improved ordinary people's lives and that Lu's Law protected workers and inspired hope for the future.
• Lu Bai swept the city with his divine sense and found no beggars or lawbreaking, as the recent executions still deterred people.

Lu Bai visited a newly prosperous city and was driven out of a fruit shop after casually criticizing the Venerate’s laws. When the Heavenly Venerate Office workers recognized him, the shopkeeper and crowd learned that the accused cultivator was Lu Bai himself.

• Lu Bai entered a fruit shop and learned that its shopkeeper wore jeans inspired by the Heavenly Venerate’s walkers and that a local businessman had opened a garment factory to sell them.
• After Lu Bai called the Venerate’s laws harsh, the shopkeeper expelled him, and nearby merchants and residents gathered to condemn him and refuse him service.
• Lu Bai apologized and offered to buy fruit, but the shopkeeper and crowd still refused to sell to him.
• Li En and Shi Fei arrived from the Heavenly Venerate Office, recognized Lu Bai, and knelt to pay their respects.
• The shopkeeper turned pale, and the gathered crowd erupted into cries of loyalty.

Lu Bai saw the devotion ordinary people felt toward him and the discontent industrialization and labor laws had caused among shopkeepers, leaving him troubled about whether his reforms would survive the power of cultivators. Back at Qingwang Sect, he used the Great Evolution Immortal Art to divine the future and saw a desolate, ruined land without people.

• Two Heavenly Venerate walkers apologized to Lu Bai, while the crowd recognized him, cried out in loyalty, and knelt before him.
• Lu Bai raised the crowd to its feet, urged them to value integrity over worship, and flew away as they called farewell.
• Lu Bai overheard Boss Zhou complain that labor laws and the Heavenly Venerate’s support for peasants made it hard for shopkeepers to hire workers.
• Lu Bai reflected that reforms could fail because cultivators could use force to destroy ideas and enslave mortals, and he questioned how long his ideals could last.
• At Qingwang Sect, Lu Bai read the Great Evolution Immortal Art and used it to divine the outcome of his social experiment.
• Lu Bai saw a vision of a barren, ruined, lifeless world.

Lu Bai used the Great Evolution Immortal Art to trace the cultivation world's past and future, discovering that his reforms eventually failed and the world collapsed after scientific experiments and dwindling spiritual energy. Troubled by what he saw, he left to search for the surviving Deathmatch Showdown participants and found more than fifty.

• Lu Bai's first deduction showed him a desolate future, and he began a second deduction to trace the world's history.
• Lu Bai saw that his laws lost influence after his departure, while Demonic Cultivators massacred mortals and inequality returned.
• Lu Bai discovered that scientific thought endured, but experiments and cultivation-world capitalism ravaged the land before spiritual energy disappeared and the cultivators destroyed themselves.
• Fairy Yuxia noticed Lu Bai's troubled mood and suggested he kill Demonic Cultivators to feel better; Lu Bai accepted her Magic Treasure Sword and left.
• Lu Bai searched cities for surviving Deathmatch Showdown participants and found more than fifty in less than half a day.

Lu Bai realized the other Deathmatch participants were no longer a threat and killed the Replicants he had marked across Xuanzhou. The surviving participants began considering surrendering to him, and he sent the Inspection Team to bring them to Qingwang Sect.

• Lu Bai scanned Xuanzhou and concluded that his strength had far surpassed the other Deathmatch participants.
• Lu Bai killed the marked participants he had identified as Replicants, gaining 46 points and reaching first place.
• Li Mu and the other surviving participants were shaken by the deaths, and many began planning to pledge allegiance to Lu Bai.
• Lu Bai returned to Qingwang Sect and ordered the Inspection Team to visit the immortal sects and cities, spread word that he was waiting, and bring those who came back to him.

Lu Bai gathered the deathmatchers in Xuanzhou and decided to reduce their numbers through paired fights, presenting the matches as a fair way to settle who could remain. The first duel began at Qingwang Sect, with more deathmatchers still awaiting their turns.

• Lu Bai sent the Inspection Team across Xuanzhou to find deathmatchers, and over a hundred were brought back to Qingwang Sect.
• After the Inspection Team returned, Lu Bai activated hidden mana marks to eliminate nearly twenty deathmatchers who had been hiding.
• Lu Bai gathered the remaining deathmatchers at the back mountain, moved the local onlookers to the main plaza, and greeted the crowd.
• Lu Bai arranged for the deathmatchers to draw lots and face opponents in pairs, explaining that their numbers needed to be reduced.
• Li Mu announced the first fight, and the first two deathmatchers charged at each other.