Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Bai continued claiming points from the Deathmatch contestants killed in the arena until the survivor count triggered the second-round Ability Pool. He chose Iron Fist Breaks Wind as the duels resumed, confident that no one could challenge him.

• Lu Bai activated his mana mark after the first fight, killing the defeated contestant and gaining two points while the winner stayed silent.
• Li Mu continued calling matches as Lu Bai claimed points from the defeated contestants, and the survivor count fell to one hundred.
• The Deathmatch System opened the second-round Ability Pool, and Lu Bai chose Iron Fist Breaks Wind, noting that he already had Needle Woman Spirit Control in his discard pile.
• The contestants selected abilities, but none dared to challenge Lu Bai; Li Mu then called the next pair into the arena.
• Two contestants with new abilities began their duel, while Lu Bai used Load Save to judge their relative strength and foresee the outcome.

Lu Bai oversaw another round of deathmatches after nullifying the contestants’ abilities, and the resulting eliminations opened the arena’s final objectives and third Ability Pool. He realized that completing either world-changing objective might require using the Immortal Dao Flower attached to his Primordial Spirit, the world’s Node.

• Lu Bai declared that luck would play no part in the fights, and his words caused every deathmatcher’s newly acquired ability to vanish.
• The first round of fights resumed, and the winners agreed to another round so that the remaining deathmatchers could decide their survival through combat.
• Li Mu hosted as the fifty-four survivors drew lots and fought again, while Lu Bai collected points from the defeated contestants.
• After the twenty-fifth pair finished, Lu Bai reached 246 points, and the Deathmatch System opened the objectives to open the ascension passage or permanently sever the path to immortality, along with the third-round Ability Pool.
• Lu Bai let four deathmatchers who had not fought skip further combat, then recognized that the Immortal Dao Flower attached to his Primordial Spirit was the Node he might need to complete the target mission.

Lu Bai realized the Immortal Dao Flower could offer cultivators a guaranteed path to immortality and help preserve his laws after he was gone. He decided to make the flower conceal its radiance from any bearer who broke the law, leaving the flower’s future role as an incentive for lawful conduct.

• Lu Bai examined the Immortal Dao Flower and judged its gradual insights into the Immortal Dao too slow to benefit him.
• He recognized that the flower’s guaranteed cultivation progress would be invaluable to sect elders as the world’s spiritual energy declined and ascension became rare.
• Lu Bai realized he could pass the flower to someone else and imprint his will upon it.
• He decided the flower should conceal its radiance if its bearer ever broke the law, making access to immortality depend on obeying the law.

Lu Bai finished adding restrictions to the Immortal Dao Flower and summoned the Mahayana cultivators to Qingwang Sect to choose its successor. While considering how to ensure Xuanzhou remained stable after his departure, he voiced the idea of killing all its Mahayana cultivators, alarming Yuxu Zi, and waited for the others to arrive.

• Lu Bai completed his restrictions on the Immortal Dao Flower, returned it to his Primordial Spirit, and summoned the Mahayana cultivators in the Inspection Team to Qingwang Sect.
• Lu Bai considered giving the flower to a powerful successor, then worried that the Mahayana cultivators might misbehave after he left and contemplated killing them all.
• Yuxu Zi arrived, heard Lu Bai's threat, and asked whether Lu Bai was dissatisfied with him as Sect Master.
• Lu Bai asked Yuxu Zi whether he wanted to become a Heavenly Venerate, then said they would discuss it after the others arrived.
• The Third Supreme arrived before the other Mahayana cultivators, declared his loyalty to Lu Bai, and waited as Lu Bai regretted their shouted slogan.

Lu Bai summoned Xuanzhou’s Mahayana cultivators and offered the Immortal Dao Flower to a successor who would accept its restrictions. He chose Daoist Yuan Zhong as the Second-generation Heavenly Venerate, then warned the other candidates that their opinions still mattered.

• Lu Bai gathered the Mahayana stage cultivators and revealed that he intended to pass on his Immortal Dao Flower.
• Lu Bai explained the restrictions attached to the flower, and the cultivators eagerly competed for the chance to receive it.
• The Third Supreme, Daoist Yuan Zhong, declared his loyalty to Lu Bai, while the other cultivators challenged his claims and promoted themselves.
• Yuxu Zi urged the seniors to let Lu Bai decide, and Lu Bai chose Daoist Yuan Zhong as the Second-generation Heavenly Venerate.
• Daoist Yuan Zhong vowed to improve people’s lives, and Lu Bai told the remaining cultivators he could not ignore their views.