Arc 25The Canghua Secret Realm

Lu Zhen entered the Canghua Secret Realm seeking life-extending medicine, killed the Great Luo Divine Dynasty’s Divine Scion during a deadly contest, and returned to face an inquiry over the death. As the Heavenly Punishment Bureau weighed a five-hundred-year prison sentence, Lu Zhen strengthened himself through a monthly settlement.

  • Lu Zhen killed the assassins Lian Cheng and Kuya, then left for the Canghua Secret Realm with Ji Changkong and his hidden allies.
  • Lu Zhen explored the secret realm, found rare treasures, and joined Pavilion Master Chu’s group in a hunt for a Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine, but the Divine Scion claimed the prize and ordered Lu Zhen to scout the Ten-Thousand Ravines Maze.
  • Lu Zhen discovered an ancient Immortal City, lured Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Old Fiend Minggu into Guga’s ambush, and entered the city with the other explorers.
  • Lu Zhen survived the Immortal City’s duels and killed Wu Lingyun in the final free-for-all, then claimed a pitch-black flying sword before the city expelled him.
  • The Heavenly Eagle Marquis ordered Lu Zhen’s arrest after the Divine Scion’s death, but Venerable Xuantian Sword disrupted the Black Smolder Guards and helped Lu Zhen face questioning instead.
  • Divine Duke Wuji pressed the Heavenly Punishment Bureau to punish Lu Zhen, and eleven deputy chiefs voted for a five-hundred-year term in the Spirit-Severing Death Prison, though the Blood Prison Marquis postponed the ruling.
  • Lu Zhen refused to depend on others to save him and used his monthly settlement to upgrade his treasures, perfect his cultivation record, strengthen his physique, and raise the tides of his Inner Landscape Star River.
Chapters 601–625 Vol. 7 Read

Ch. 601Shadow Puppets

Lu Zhen improved his law-devouring cultivation to hasten his mastery of light and darkness, while the Third Prince hired the Shadow-Puppet Killer, Lian Cheng, to assassinate him. As Lu Zhen traveled through the capital, Lian Cheng prepared to strike, believing he could escape afterward through a forbidden rebirth technique.

  • Lu Zhen advanced the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record to Lv.6 and drew in nearby laws as he worked toward forming the Netherglow embryo.
  • The Third Prince and his advisers decided Lu Zhen had to die, and they hired Lian Cheng, a desperate assassin whose lifespan was nearly exhausted.
  • Lu Zhen cultivated at the Heavenly Wind Residence while Leng Qiu took charge of the Cloudship Bureau and divided its bribes with him.
  • Lu Zhen and Leng Qiu left the bureau in a lavish carriage guarded by royal knights, attracting attention across the capital.
  • A young son of Marquis Pingjiang resolved to invite Lu Zhen to join his Righteous Alliance despite his steward's warnings.
  • Lian Cheng watched Lu Zhen's carriage and prepared a swift assassination followed by Blood Drop Rebirth.

Ch. 602Shadow Kill

Lian Cheng launched an assassination against Lu Zhen, using his shadow-thread Dao technique to trap and destroy the carriage’s defenses. The attack left the royal knights and nearby cultivators caught in the carnage, while Kuya watched from the crowd.

  • Lian Cheng resolved to kill Lu Zhen in exchange for an immortal herb that could give him a little more time to advance.
  • The son of Marquis Pingjiang stopped Lu Zhen’s carriage and invited him to join the Righteous Alliance, but Lu Zhen ordered the knights to ignore him.
  • Kuya, a late fourth-realm expert of the State Religion, waited for the city’s turmoil to create a chance to kill Lu Zhen.
  • Lian Cheng unleashed Shadow Thread Manipulation and bound Lu Zhen’s carriage with countless black threads.
  • The shadow threads shattered the twelve royal knights’ battle formation, sliced apart the azure-scaled beasts, and struck nearby cultivators as the crowd fled.

Ch. 603Shaking the Heavens

Two assassins attacked Lu Zhen’s carriage in Heavenly Mang Royal City, but Lu Zhen revealed that he could fuse two great Dao branch embryos and killed both attackers. The royal city’s authorities and Ji Yue’s forces rushed to respond as the attack unfolded.

  • Kuya joined Lian Cheng’s assault on Lu Zhen’s carriage with withered yellow vines, while Leng Qiu raised water-cloud shields to protect those inside.
  • Experts across the royal city detected the attack, and the Royal Clan Temple guardian recognized the carriage and hurried to intervene.
  • The Third Prince watched the attack, while Ji Yue ordered her retainers to rescue Lu Zhen and seal off the area.
  • Lu Zhen unleashed a golden-and-red spear formed by fusing two great Dao branch embryos, killing Lian Cheng with a single strike.
  • Kuya tried to flee, but Lu Zhen’s spear pierced him and shattered his Hundred-Turn Star Wheel Origin Star.

Ch. 604Heaven-blessed talent

Lu Zhen fused two great Dao branch embryos and killed two late fourth-realm assassins in one strike, shocking the royal city. Ji Changkong promised an investigation, while Ji Yue offered Lu Zhen more important assignments suited to his strength.

  • Lu Zhen killed Lian Cheng and Kuya with a fused attack, drawing the attention of the Third Prince, Ji Yue, Leng Qiu, and the royal clan.
  • Ji Changkong arrived, praised Lu Zhen’s talent, and vowed to investigate the assassination and punish whoever violated the Royal Court’s rules.
  • Ji Yue checked that Lu Zhen was unharmed and returned with him and the others to her residence.
  • Lu Zhen explained that he had fused the light and fire laws into a blazing sun embryo with his tribulation light embryo, while Ji Yue insisted his strength was invincible in the fourth realm.
  • Ji Yue offered to secure Lu Zhen a more important assignment, and people across the royal city discussed his feat and its implications for the princes.

Ch. 605Reassurance

Su Xiao grew jealous and uneasy over rumors that Ji Yue might marry Lu Zhen, while Lu Zhen chose to enter the Canghua Secret Realm to find life-extending herbs for the Nine Provinces Small World. When Leng Qiu tested his reaction to the marriage rumors, Lu Zhen called her his Dao companion, leaving her flustered but not wholly unwilling.

  • Su Xiao heard rumors that the royal ancestor might arrange a marriage between Ji Yue and Lu Zhen, and worried that Ji Yue would accept.
  • Lu Zhen decided to enter the Canghua Secret Realm to obtain life-extending medicinal herbs before buying the Nine Provinces Small World and thwarting Blood Butcher Old Fiend.
  • Leng Qiu visited Lu Zhen and probed him about rumors that Ji Yue might become his marriage partner.
  • Lu Zhen pulled Leng Qiu into his arms and declared that she was his Dao companion.
  • Leng Qiu fled in embarrassment, then realized she felt no aversion to Lu Zhen's words.

Ch. 606Proud Sun Tier

Lu Zhen learned that powerful Fourth Realm experts were heading to the Primordial Ancient Star and that the Netherblood Sect planned to kill him to secure the Nine Provinces Small World. He left for the Canghua Secret Realm with Ji Changkong’s escort, while Leng Qiu remained under Ji Yue’s protection.

  • Lu Zhen recalled his avatar and heard from Lei Wanche that a stable spatial passage to the Primordial Ancient Star could admit Fourth Realm cultivators, prompting leading sects and the Great Luo Divine Dynasty to send powerful experts.
  • Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Minggu feared Lu Zhen would disrupt their purchase of the Nine Provinces Small World, so they decided to travel to the Primordial Ancient Star and kill him.
  • Ji Yue told Lu Zhen that the Canghua Secret Realm lay in the Far North and arranged for Ji Changkong to escort him there on a Sky-Rending Golden-Winged Roc.
  • Lu Zhen asked Ji Yue to protect Leng Qiu while he was away, and Ji Yue agreed.
  • Ji Changkong carried Lu Zhen away on the golden-winged roc, and Su Xiao felt relieved to see him leave.

Ch. 607Divine Scion

Lu Zhen brought Pavilion Master Chu and three other powerful allies aboard Ji Changkong’s Golden-Winged Roc as they headed toward the Canghua Secret Realm. He learned that a Divine Radiance Tier Divine Scion from the Great Luo Divine Dynasty would command entrants and claim their treasures, leaving Lu Zhen hoping to avoid him.

  • Lu Zhen arranged for Ji Changkong to divert the Golden-Winged Roc and pick up his supposed senior brothers, who were actually Pavilion Master Chu, Xing Lie, Elder Mo, and Elder Su.
  • Ji Changkong sensed the four newcomers’ formidable strength and became determined to report Lu Zhen’s mysterious connections to his ancestor.
  • Pavilion Master Chu told Lu Zhen through the Void Realm that experts from across the Great Wilderness were converging on the Canghua Secret Realm after the Spatial Passage was discovered.
  • Pavilion Master Chu explained that a Divine Radiance Tier Divine Scion from the Great Luo Divine Dynasty had come to the secret realm and could command Southern Gold Star Continent entrants to surrender their rare treasures in exchange for points.
  • Lu Zhen resented the Great Luo Divine Dynasty’s order and considered avoiding the Divine Scion by staying away from him in the vast secret realm.

Ch. 608Slaying the Dragon

Lu Zhen entered the Canghua Secret Realm with Pavilion Master Chu and the others, where Guga helped locate a rare spirit flower guarded by a fourth-realm demon. After Lu Zhen killed the Purple-Armored Earth Dragon in one strike, the group continued deeper and encountered experts from Voidspirit Mountain, who proposed a deal.

  • Ji Changkong explained how to enter and leave the Canghua Secret Realm, and Lu Zhen's group passed through a spatial rift into it.
  • Elder Mo said that following the origin aura north would lead toward the secret realm's center, and Lu Zhen brought out Guga to search for treasures.
  • Guga detected a creature in a gorge, where Lu Zhen killed the fourth-realm Purple-Armored Earth Dragon with one strike and claimed the White Jade Soul-Congealing Flower under the group's agreed division.
  • Pavilion Master Chu's group encountered Hua Nongying and Feng Wuji of Voidspirit Mountain, and Feng Wuji proposed making a deal.

Ch. 609Joining Forces

Feng Wuji and Hua Nongying persuaded Pavilion Master Chu’s group to join them in hunting a beast guarding a Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine, and Lu Zhen strengthened his star river while they waited for reinforcements. When a group from the Greenwood Royal Clan arrived, Pavilion Master Chu and his allies planned to use them as expendable help against the beast.

  • Feng Wuji and Hua Nongying explained that a monstrous beast guarding a Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine was too dangerous for their group alone, and Pavilion Master Chu agreed to join forces.
  • Pavilion Master Chu suggested waiting for another capable group, and the two groups settled in a hollow tree to prepare.
  • Lu Zhen consumed Taiyi Star Mud and Primordial Star Marrow, widening his star river and raising its tide crests from thirty-five to sixty-two.
  • Lu Zhen resumed cultivating the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record and sought to comprehend the Netherglow law embryo.
  • A dozen peak fourth-realm cultivators from the Greenwood Royal Clan arrived, and Pavilion Master Chu’s group secretly agreed to lure them into helping fight the beast.

Ch. 610Reigning supreme

Pavilion Master Chu tricked the Greenwood Royal Clan into helping fight a giant ape guarding Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine, but a Divine Scion arrived and killed the beast before claiming its corpse and the medicine. He ordered the gathered cultivators to obey him, while Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Minggu recognized Lu Zhen.

  • Pavilion Master Chu persuaded the wary Greenwood Royal Clan to join his group in hunting a giant ape in exchange for a share of its Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine.
  • The Greenwood Royal Clan formed a shield against the ape while Pavilion Master Chu, Feng Wuji, Xing Lie, and the others attacked, but the beast's immense strength pushed them toward defeat.
  • An unknown cultivator used a perfected great dao branch to destroy the ape's head, stunning Pavilion Master Chu, Feng Wuji, and the Greenwood Royal Clan.
  • The Great Luo Divine Dynasty's Divine Scion arrived in a floating immortal city, collected the ape's corpse and the medicine, and assigned points to Pavilion Master Chu's group.
  • Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Minggu recognized Lu Zhen, while the Divine Scion ordered the Greenwood Royal Clan to obey him and clear the way in exchange for life-extending pills.

Ch. 611Treasure hunting

As the expedition advanced through the Canghua Secret Realm, Lu Zhen used Guga to collect treasures while keeping his strength inconspicuous. At the Ten-Thousand Ravines Maze, the Divine Scion ordered Lu Zhen to scout inside, leaving Lu Zhen pleased at the chance to search freely.

  • Minggu and Blood Butcher Old Fiend praised Lu Zhen to provoke the Divine Scion, but Pavilion Master Chu and the elders assured Lu Zhen that the Heavenly Pivot Order prevented the Divine Scion from openly harming fellow soldiers.
  • The Immortal City expedition swept through the secret realm, gathering rare herbs and earning points as Lu Zhen followed Guga's hints to find treasures without attracting attention.
  • Lu Zhen reached 2,800 points, though he still needed more to buy the Nine Provinces Small World.
  • The Divine Scion halted the Immortal City at the Ten-Thousand Ravines Maze, a dangerous region filled with branching paths and rare treasures.
  • The Divine Scion ordered Lu Zhen and members of other groups to enter the maze and scout, dismissing Pavilion Master Chu's objection.
  • Lu Zhen accepted the order, while Minggu and Blood Butcher Old Fiend believed the dangerous assignment would get him killed; Lu Zhen privately welcomed the chance to explore alone.

Ch. 612Traces of Immortals

Lu Zhen discovered a Bluefall Everlasting-Life Grass and an ancient immortal hall in the Ten-Thousand Ravines Maze, then returned to report the ruins without revealing the herb. Wu Lingyun ordered the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect to lead the way to the hall, leaving Lu Zhen to follow with the group.

  • Lu Zhen followed Guga into a fissure and found an unguarded Bluefall Everlasting-Life Grass, which he planned to save for a future critical feedback boost.
  • A Voidspirit Mountain scout was killed in the maze, but Lu Zhen continued exploring and collected a crimson spirit herb.
  • Lu Zhen discovered an ancient immortal hall beyond a vast underground space and chose to retreat rather than enter alone.
  • Lu Zhen reported the hall to Wu Lingyun but concealed the Bluefall Everlasting-Life Grass; Old Fiend Minggu accused him of hiding treasures, and Wu Lingyun awarded him five hundred points.
  • Pavilion Master Chu warned Lu Zhen that the Netherblood Sect and Wu Lingyun might target him, while Wu Lingyun ordered the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect to lead the way to the immortal hall.

Ch. 613Soul Fixation

Lu Zhen and the other experts were sucked into the sealed Primordial Immortal City, where the Void Realm network could not reach them. Guided by Guga, Lu Zhen found Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Old Fiend Minggu and launched a surprise attack, leaving their fate unresolved as his spear struck toward them.

  • The experts discovered that the supposed immortal palace was a Primordial Immortal City, but its formation suddenly sucked them through the gates and scattered them inside.
  • Lu Zhen found that the Immortal City blocked the Void Realm network, then asked Guga to track Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Old Fiend Minggu.
  • Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Old Fiend Minggu decided to hunt Lu Zhen, unaware that he was already approaching them.
  • Lu Zhen and Guga coordinated an ambush, with Guga planning to freeze the two fiends' divine souls while Lu Zhen attacked.
  • Guga revealed her enormous true form and froze Blood Butcher Old Fiend and Old Fiend Minggu, as Lu Zhen hurled a spear at them.

Ch. 614Heavenly Rules

Lu Zhen killed the Blood Butcher and Minggu, then followed Guga through the darkness and reunited with Pavilion Master Chu and Elder Mo. They reached a vast plaza where Wu Lingyun and Feng Wuji were waiting before a stairway to the Immortal City Core, blocked by a deadly supreme rule.

  • Lu Zhen seized the treasures and spirit crystals left behind after Guga swallowed the Divine Souls of the Blood Butcher and Minggu.
  • Guga explained that it could refine swallowed Divine Souls with origin flame and use their pure power to nourish its bloodline and soul.
  • Guga guided Lu Zhen through the darkness, where he encountered Pavilion Master Chu and Elder Mo, who had barely survived a fight with a Great Demon.
  • The three followed Guga's safe route out of the darkness and arrived at a vast White Jade Plaza with an immense Dark-Gold Stairway.
  • Wu Lingyun warned them that an invisible supreme rule crushed anyone who tried to step onto the stairway, preventing passage to the Immortal City Core.

Ch. 615Death Game

A mysterious guardian forced the survivors of the White Jade Plaza to choose between leaving and entering a deadly tournament where only one person would survive. Lu Zhen chose to stay and was paired with Netherblood Sect elder Lin Ku for the first duel.

  • The guardian declared that only one of the outsiders who stayed would survive, and nine experts chose to remain.
  • Lu Zhen ignored Pavilion Master Chu, Xing Lie, and Elder Su’s pleas and chose to stay, bringing the number of contestants to ten.
  • The guardian sealed the plaza with the Great Dao of space and announced that the contestants would fight in five hidden duels.
  • Lu Zhen was paired with Lin Ku, who believed he had an easy path to survival because Lu Zhen was only in the Third Realm.

Ch. 616Martial canon

Lu Zhen killed Lin Ku in the first round and returned to the White Jade Plaza among the five survivors. The blurred face sent them into a second-round free-for-all, with the last survivor earning the right to choose a treasure from the Immortal Hall.

  • Wu Lingyun was matched against Hua Nongying, while Lu Zhen was matched against Lin Ku.
  • Lin Ku attacked Lu Zhen with his fused Netherdecay Death River, but Lu Zhen resisted with his star river foundation and fused dao embryos.
  • Lu Zhen used the War Canon of Martial Mu to destroy Lin Ku and his primordial spirit origin star, then took Lin Ku's Space Ring.
  • Lu Zhen returned to the plaza with Wu Lingyun, Elder Mo, Feng Wuji, and a black-robed Great Luo Divine Dynasty expert; Hua Nongying had died.
  • The blurred face declared a five-person free-for-all, and Lu Zhen and the other four were sent into a single enormous cube.

Ch. 617Godslaying

Lu Zhen defeated Young Divine Duke Wu Lingyun, entered the Immortal Hall, and chose a dark flying sword before the secret realm expelled him and the others. He emerged alive with the Divine Scion dead, leaving the survivors stunned.

  • Elder Mo, Feng Wuji, and a black-robed Great Luo Divine Dynasty expert joined forces against Wu Lingyun, but he killed all three with his Light Lotus.
  • Wu Lingyun attacked Lu Zhen, who shattered the Light Lotus with the War Canon of Martial Mu and killed Wu Lingyun through his defenses.
  • The Immortal Hall's guardian allowed Lu Zhen to choose one treasure, and Lu Zhen took a pitch-black flying sword bearing a dark great dao branch embryo.
  • A spatial force expelled Lu Zhen, Pavilion Master Chu, Xing Lie, and the others from the Canghua Secret Realm.
  • The survivors saw Lu Zhen alive and realized that Wu Lingyun and the other fighters were missing, prompting disbelief that the Divine Scion was dead.

Ch. 618Life Tablet

Lu Zhen concealed that he had killed the Divine Scion, telling the Great Luo Divine Dynasty that the Divine Scion and three others had perished together in the Immortal City. After the Divine Scion’s Life Tablet shattered, Marquis Tianying began investigating his final movements and discovered the deaths of several accompanying experts.

  • Lu Zhen told the Great Luo Divine Dynasty’s survivors that Elder Mo, Feng Wuji, and a black-robed expert had joined forces against the Divine Scion, and that all four had perished together.
  • Pavilion Master Chu, Xing Lie, and Elder Su warned Lu Zhen that Divine Duke Wuji might retaliate against him and the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, so Pavilion Master Chu decided to alert the Grand Supreme Elder.
  • A disciple in Divine Duke Wuji’s Life-Soul Hall discovered that the Divine Scion’s Life Tablet had shattered and reported the disaster.
  • Marquis Tianying used an ancient mirror to investigate the Divine Scion’s movements and learned that he had gone to the Canghua Secret Realm’s Primordial Ancient Star for the Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine.
  • Marquis Tianying saw that more than half of the Life Tablets belonging to the eight accompanying Fourth Realm Peak experts were dead.

Ch. 619Calling to account

After the Canghua Secret Realm expelled its survivors, the Heavenly Eagle Marquis ordered Lu Zhen arrested, while rival powers hesitated to attack him and his companions. Suspecting they would soon be hunted from both sides, Lu Zhen left Ji Changkong’s group and told Leng Qiu that the Divine Scion had died.

  • The Heavenly Eagle Marquis learned that only Lu Zhen had emerged from the Immortal City and ordered the Black Smolder Guards to arrest him at the Spatial Passage exit.
  • The Canghua Secret Realm’s main passage opened, and Lu Zhen and the other survivors escaped as the realm began to seal.
  • A Greenwood Royal Clan native accused Lu Zhen’s group of stealing the Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine and causing the secret realm to close early, but the assembled factions withdrew rather than risk a battle.
  • Pavilion Master Chu and Xing Lie warned Lu Zhen that the native powers and the Great Luo Divine Dynasty would soon become their enemies, so the group decided to leave the Primordial Ancient Star.
  • Lu Zhen collected Leng Qiu and told Ji Changkong that his sect had urgent business, then revealed to Leng Qiu that the Divine Scion had died.

Ch. 620The sword arrives

At the Primordial Ancient Star passage, the Great Luo Divine Dynasty ordered Lu Zhen seized after the Divine Scion died in the Canghua Secret Realm. Venerable Xuantian Sword arrived to protect Lu Zhen, and his overwhelming presence left Tie Zhan fearing he had reached the Dao Domain stage.

  • Old monsters gathered at the passage exit to trade for Longevity-Extending Immortal Medicine while Marquis Purple Thunder oversaw the market ward.
  • Tie Zhan arrived with the Black Smolder Guards and announced that the passage would be sealed and Lu Zhen seized after the Divine Scion fell in the secret realm.
  • Lu Zhen and the other survivors emerged, and Tie Zhan ordered his guards to capture Lu Zhen, claiming his survival was a crime.
  • Venerable Xuantian Sword appeared and split the Black Smolder Guards' battle formation with a sword strike.
  • Tie Zhan sensed that Venerable Xuantian Sword's power might have reached the Fifth Realm's Dao Domain stage.

Ch. 621Detention

Lu Zhen faced an investigation into the Divine Scion’s death, but Venerable Xuantian Sword prevented Tie Zhan and Marquis Purple Thunder from seizing him outright. After Lu Zhen’s public storage-ring search revealed no evidence, he agreed to remain under guard in a great hall while the Divine Dynasty investigated.

  • Tie Zhan presented a Heavenly Pivot Order demanding that Lu Zhen be brought in for questioning, but Venerable Xuantian Sword challenged his authority and demanded an account of what happened in the Immortal City.
  • Lu Zhen said Elder Mo, Feng Wuji, and a black-robed expert had fought the Divine Scion, and all four had perished in an explosion while he escaped by luck.
  • Tie Zhan demanded a search of Lu Zhen’s storage ring, and Lu Zhen agreed after moving his hidden treasures into his Inner Landscape World.
  • Tie Zhan and Marquis Purple Thunder found no belongings of the Divine Scion in the ring and withdrew their demand to arrest Lu Zhen, but ordered him to stay on Primordial Ancient Star under guard.
  • Venerable Xuantian Sword agreed to the detention and privately warned Lu Zhen to maintain that the Divine Scion had perished with the others.
  • Lu Zhen went with the Black Smolder Guards to the great hall, trusting that the Heavenly Punishment Bureau would eventually investigate.

Ch. 622Heaven's Wrath

After the Divine Scion died in the Primordial Ancient Star, Divine Duke Wuji demanded that the Heavenly Punishment Bureau condemn Lu Zhen without evidence. Blood Prison Marquis refused, leaving Lu Zhen detained while Wuji vowed to watch the investigation and its verdict.

  • Pavilion Master Chu worried that Lu Zhen would be blamed for the Divine Scion's death, but Venerable Xuantian Sword said the Heavenly Punishment Bureau might protect him and led the others away.
  • The Heavenly Eagle Marquis informed Divine Duke Wuji that his son had died, Lu Zhen was the only survivor, and the Heavenly Punishment Bureau had taken charge of the case.
  • Divine Duke Wuji erupted in grief and anger, declaring that whoever killed his son would suffer eternal punishment in Nine Nether.
  • Divine Duke Wuji confronted Blood Prison Marquis in the Void Realm and demanded that Lu Zhen's divine soul be sentenced to Nine Nether.
  • Blood Prison Marquis refused to condemn Lu Zhen without conclusive evidence, citing the law and the danger of alienating the sects conscripted under the Heavenly Pivot Order.
  • Divine Duke Wuji departed after warning that he would watch the Bureau's verdict, and Blood Prison Marquis urgently contacted Prison-Suppressing Divine Duke.

Ch. 623[New Volume: Renown Across Great Xia]-Imprisonment

Divine Duke Wuji pressured the Heavenly Punishment Bureau to punish Lu Zhen, and eleven deputy chiefs voted to sentence him to five hundred years in the Spirit-Severing Death Prison. The vote was postponed for lack of the required majority, and Elder Qing urgently contacted Venerable Xuantian Sword to seek evidence that could save Lu Zhen before the next vote.

  • Divine Duke Wuji secretly urged the deputy chiefs to have Lu Zhen killed, while the Prison-Suppressing Divine Duke told the Blood Prison Marquis to handle the case as he saw fit.
  • The Blood Prison Marquis convened all eighteen deputy chiefs, who argued over whether Lu Zhen was guilty or should be punished to appease Divine Duke Wuji.
  • Eleven deputy chiefs voted to send Lu Zhen to the Spirit-Severing Death Prison for five hundred years, but the Blood Prison Marquis postponed the ruling because they lacked enough votes.
  • Divine Duke Wuji told the Blood Prison Marquis to secure the sentence at the next vote and warned him he would be held responsible if it failed.
  • Elder Qing contacted Venerable Xuantian Sword and urged him to ask Lu Zhen for evidence that could prove he had nothing to do with the Divine Scion's death.

Ch. 624Evidence

Lu Zhen learned that Divine Duke Wuji had pushed the Heavenly Punishment Bureau to sentence him to five hundred years in the Spirit-Severing Death Prison, while Venerable Xuantian Sword sought a way to save him. Refusing to rely on others, Lu Zhen received a huge monthly settlement bonus for his feats in the Canghua Secret Realm and Immortal City.

  • Qi Xuan celebrated the news that Lu Zhen was likely to die in the Spirit-Severing Death Prison, while Leng Qiu worried that no one could intervene against Divine Duke Wuji.
  • At the Supreme Unity Mystic Sect, a burly disciple defended Lu Zhen’s deeds in the Canghua Secret Realm and condemned another disciple for urging the sect to hand him over.
  • Venerable Xuantian Sword told Lu Zhen that eleven deputy bureau chiefs supported a five-hundred-year sentence and asked whether he had evidence that Wu Lingyun had been killed by someone else.
  • Lu Zhen denied having evidence, and Venerable Xuantian Sword promised to appeal to influential figures in the Great Luo Divine Dynasty on his behalf.
  • Lu Zhen resolved not to place his life in others’ hands and received a monthly settlement rated lower second grade, multiplying his gains by 31,000.

Ch. 625Embryonic Transformation

Lu Zhen used his monthly settlement to enhance his treasures and spirit herbs, then spent his accumulated experience to perfect a cultivation technique and transform his physique. After gaining the Faceless Embryonic Transformation trait, he swallowed two enhanced spirit herbs to strengthen his Inner Landscape Star River.

  • Lu Zhen's settlement enhanced his treasures, turning the Bluefall Everlasting-Life Grass into a Taiyi Longevity Fruit, his weapons and artifacts into supreme treasures, and his spirit crystals into 446 million mid-grade spirit crystals.
  • Lu Zhen hid the Taiyi Longevity Fruit and considered how his limited foundation left him at a disadvantage against powerful Fourth Realm cultivators.
  • Lu Zhen spent 24.3 Xuan of experience to perfect the Grand Luo Myriad Phenomena Star-Devouring Record.
  • Lu Zhen invested nearly 190 Xuan in his physique, reaching Lv.45 and gaining the Faceless Embryonic Transformation trait and a tenfold physique amplification.
  • Lu Zhen swallowed the Third-Grade Star Abyss Grass and Heavenly River Jade Dew to raise the tides of his Inner Landscape Star River.
Arc 25 of 26
Arc 25 of 26