Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.