Chapter Summaries

Lu Yu rescued Yun Yun, obtained Purple Spirit Crystal, and brought her to Xiao Yixian’s valley while advancing his effort to create a cultivation method of his own. He left Xiao Yan to pursue the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s cave and returned to find Yun Yun awake and cooking soup.

• Lu Yu rescued Yun Yun, took a piece of Purple Spirit Crystal from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and left the beast alive.
• After Lu Yu departed, Xiao Yan followed Yao Chen’s advice and entered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s cave.
• Lu Yu brought Yun Yun to Xiao Yixian’s valley, healed her injuries, removed her seal, and cultivated as Reverse Birth Triple reached a fourth layer.
• Xiao Yixian fell unconscious after consuming a potent poison, so Lu Yu disposed of the poison and placed her on her bed.
• Lu Yu let Xiao Yan continue pursuing Heavenly Flames, confirmed that Xiao Yan had not missed the associated Purple Crystal Source, and returned to the valley.
• Lu Yu found Yun Yun awake and cooking meat soup by the cave.

Lu Yu and Yun Yun shared a meal before accidentally consuming a potent drug, while Lu Yu left her to handle its effects herself. Xiao Yixian woke to find that Lu Yu had stayed beside her through a Calamity Poison Body outbreak, and he prepared to leave with her.

• Yun Yun thanked Lu Yu for saving her, offered him Iron Thorn Pig King soup, and asked about his origins and plans.
• After Yun Yun used an unfamiliar spice, Lu Yu and Yun Yun realized it had drugged them; Lu Yu expelled the poison and left Yun Yun to deal with hers alone.
• Xiao Yixian woke and asked whether Lu Yu had been poisoned, and he reassured her that he could withstand it and help resolve her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yixian realized Lu Yu had not rejected her after witnessing her poison outbreak, and she placed her trust in his promise to cure her.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Yixian to pack up because they were getting ready to leave.

Lu Yu returned to the Yunlan Sect with Xiao Yixian and Yun Yun, then rejected Yun Yun’s request that he protect or join the sect. After Yun Shan welcomed him and revealed that the sect believed him to be a young Dou Sheng, Lu Yu again asked what the Yunlan Sect could offer him.

• Lu Yu told Xiao Yixian he would not return to her shelter, and she tearfully packed her belongings with a renewed smile.
• At the foot of Yunlan Mountain, Yun Yun asked Lu Yu to keep their earlier incident secret and to stay with the Yunlan Sect, but he refused to join or protect it without a reason.
• Lu Yu and the women reached the mountaintop, where Chen Duo, the elders, Yun Shan, and Nalan Yanran gathered to welcome them.
• Yun Shan thanked Lu Yu for saving him, and Lu Yu explained that the protective restriction he had left for Chen Duo had activated against a Dou Zong threat.
• Yun Shan invited Lu Yu to stay, calling him a young Dou Sheng; Yun Yun and Xiao Yixian were shocked, while Lu Yu asked what the sect could offer him.

Lu Yu accepted Yun Yun as his registered disciple after Yun Shan pledged the Yunlan Sect’s loyalty, and he set her the challenge of unifying the continent and reaching Dou Di. While the Jia Ma Empire’s factions gathered to discuss the Yunlan Sect’s growing power, Lu Yu left for Wutan City.

• Lu Yu offered to stay with the Yunlan Sect on the condition that it stand with him when he became an enemy of the continent, and Yun Shan pledged the sect’s loyalty.
• Yun Shan asked Lu Yu to take Yun Yun as his disciple, and Lu Yu accepted after a breakthrough raised his cultivation to peak Half-Saint.
• Lu Yu taught Yun Yun Qi Body Origin Flow and challenged her to unify the continent and break through to Dou Di.
• The Yunlan Sect held a banquet to announce Yun Yun’s new master, while Yun Shan returned as Supreme Elder and explained that he had voluntarily severed their master-disciple bond.
• Leaders of the Jia Ma Empire’s factions gathered to discuss how to curb the Yunlan Sect, while Lu Yu departed for Wutan City.

Lu Yu brought rare pills to the Mittel Auction House, impressing Gu Ni and prompting him to summon the person in charge. That person was Ya Fei, a transmigrator with a powerful inheritance and ambitions to build a business empire and grow stronger; the chapter ended as someone knocked on her door.

• Lu Yu arrived at the Mittel Auction House and offered three third-tier Spirit Awakening Pills for auction.
• Gu Ni recognized the pills, promised to waive the auction commission, and agreed to seek an appraisal for Lu Yu's fourth-tier Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Ya Fei planned to mass-produce underwear and stockings, gain the Mittel family's support, and recruit Hai Bodong before Xiao Yan could.
• Ya Fei reflected on her transmigration, the Ahri inheritance and Soul Capture ability, and her goal of rising above Xiao Yan and the factions of the Dou Qi Continent.
• Someone knocked at Ya Fei's door, and she invited them in.

Lu Yu met Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House and recognized clues that she might be a transmigrator, while Ya Fei sensed his extraordinary power. After Lu Yu left pills for auction, Gu Ni told Ya Fei that Yun Yun had taken a new master and Yun Shan supported her, leaving Ya Fei confused by how far events had diverged from the original story.

• Gu Ni told Ya Fei that a young man had produced a fourth-grade pill, and she went to meet him at the appraisal room.
• Lu Yu and Ya Fei sensed each other's unusual power, and Lu Yu noticed that her stockings were unfamiliar clothing on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Ya Fei said she had designed the stockings herself, leading Lu Yu to suspect she was a transmigrator.
• Lu Yu left three third-grade Spirit Awakening Pills and one fourth-grade Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill for auction, then vanished.
• Gu Ni told Ya Fei that Yun Yun had taken a new master and that Yun Shan had publicly supported her decision.
• Ya Fei wondered whether her presence had caused the changes, as she struggled to understand why events no longer matched the original story.

Lu Yu confirmed that Ya Fei was a transmigrator, then returned to the Yunlan Sect and set a one-year limit on his protection while preparing Yun Yun to face her own trials. He helped Xiao Yixian and Chen Duo manage their dangerous constitutions and left Yun Yun free to decide whether to join Gu He’s trip to the Tagor Desert.

• Lu Yu realized Ya Fei was a transmigrator and left Wutan City in good spirits.
• Lu Yu gave Yun Shan a Three-One Sect cultivation method and warned that he would protect the Yunlan Sect for only one year, leaving Yun Yun’s trials to her.
• Yun Shan decided to enter seclusion, while Yun Yun agreed to accompany Gu He to the Tagor Desert for a Huangji Pill and three Dou Ling Pills.
• Lu Yu visited Xiao Yixian and Chen Duo, noted that their constitutions had stabilized, and gave Chen Duo a bronze mirror for long-distance written communication.
• Lu Yu told Yun Yun that her choices were her own and that he would not interfere in her affairs or the Yunlan Sect’s beyond his promised protection.

Lu Yu warned Yun Yun about Ya Fei, then traveled to the Black Corner Region to recruit people by buying intelligence. After killing a man who offered fake information, he secured his first genuine informant and kept his offer open.

• Lu Yu learned that the Hundred Sects Tournament would begin in three months and warned Yun Yun to be wary of Ya Fei.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Ya Fei had arrived from the Mittel family, and Lu Yu left for the Black Corner Region.
• Lu Yu disguised himself and publicly offered pills or cultivation methods in exchange for intelligence about Dou Huang, Dou Zong, and Dou Zun experts.
• When a burly Dou Ling offered ten fake reports about Dou Zun experts, Lu Yu killed him and took his storage ring.
• A woman gave Lu Yu information about a Dou Huang expert, accepted a fourth-grade pill, and left.

Lu Yu gathered intelligence across the continent, recruited powerful servants, and returned to the Jia Ma Empire. At the Tagor Desert, he found Queen Medusa preparing to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame and secretly intervened by appearing on her island.

• Lu Yu traded cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and medicinal pills for intelligence, then killed attackers who tried to rob him.
• After gathering information on powerful experts, Lu Yu turned twenty-eight people into servants and sent them to build influence across the continent, assigning a one-star Dou Venerate to guard the Yunlan Sect.
• Lu Yu traveled to the Tagor Desert and used his divine sense to observe Queen Medusa, Gu He's group, Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Ya Fei.
• Lu Yu appeared on the island where Queen Medusa was preparing to swallow the Green Lotus Core Flame and sealed the island behind a spatial barrier.
• Lu Yu saw Queen Medusa beside the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the imprisoned Heavenly Flame, while she remained unaware of his presence.

Lu Yu intervened in Queen Medusa’s evolution, offering to save her and butterfly in exchange for a master-servant contract. After Queen Medusa died during the transformation, he used time and reincarnation powers to merge butterfly’s soul with the newborn seven-colored serpent, leaving the two queens reborn together under his control.

• Queen Medusa shed her robe, transformed into a purple serpent, and swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame to begin her evolution.
• Xiao Yan failed to reach the island, while Gu He and the other human experts waited outside the temple’s purple barrier.
• As tribulation lightning struck Queen Medusa, Lu Yu offered to save her and butterfly if she accepted a master-servant contract, and she agreed before her vitality faded.
• Lu Yu contracted Queen Medusa, took her charred body, and announced that the Heavenly Flame remained on the island, prompting Xiao Yan to rush toward it.
• Following Queen Medusa’s memories to butterfly’s grave, Lu Yu used time and reincarnation powers to merge butterfly’s soul into the newborn seven-colored serpent.
• The tiny serpent, bearing an azure left eye and a purple right eye, showed affection toward Lu Yu as he examined its soul.

After Queen Medusa and the butterfly began merging, Lu Yu took the newly named Cai Lin toward the Yunlan Sect while the Snake People Clan pursued Gu He’s fleeing party. Gu He’s group was trapped by Lü Man, an Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor, and the approaching Snake People leaders, while Xiao Yan and Ya Fei slipped away from the battle.

• Lu Yu named the merging snake Cai Lin and said he would take her to the Yunlan Sect before accompanying her back to the Snake People Clan.
• The Snake People leaders pursued Gu He and his allies, leaving the mist-covered island open for Xiao Yan to collect the Heavenly Flame and escape unnoticed.
• Ya Fei left the Snake People settlement after gathering Life Soul Essences and continued safely through the Tagor Mountain Range.
• Lü Man and the mid-level Dou Huang Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor blocked Gu He’s group near the edge of the Tagor Desert, and Gu He’s offer of Huangji Pills failed to persuade them to stand aside.
• The Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor attacked Gu He’s party while Lü Man fought Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan and Ya Fei hurried away from the area.
• The eight Snake People leaders arrived, led by the Grand Leader, and found themselves bewildered by the two unexpected Dou Huang opponents.

Lu Yu ended the confrontation between the Heavenly Snake Mansion and the Snake People Clan, then warned Gu He to protect Yun Yun and let her pursue her own strength. In Shimo City, Ya Fei realized that Lu Yu might be the reason events had diverged so drastically from the story she knew.

• Lu Yu froze the experts in the valley, revealed that someone with the Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils lived in the Jia Ma Empire, and sent Lü Man and the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor away to search for her.
• Lu Yu released the Snake People Clan commanders and told them to find their four elders, then ordered Gu He to keep human forces away from their territory and avoid scheming against Yun Yun.
• Lu Yu reminded Yun Yun that he would protect her and the Yunlan Sect for a year, then disappeared; Yun Yun told the others he was her teacher and asked them to keep his identity quiet.
• Yun Yun declared that she would rely on herself to make the Yunlan Sect powerful, while Gu He recognized his own feelings for her and felt unworthy beside her teacher.
• Ya Fei panicked in Shimo City over how far events had diverged from the original story and suspected that Lu Yu was the cause.

Ya Fei hurried to Wutan City to investigate Lu Yu, while Lu Yu cared for Cai Lin, advised Yun Yun, and headed to the Mittel Auction House to see whether Ya Fei could rise as a rival force. He planned to make Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei compete so their pressure on one another would help them grow stronger.

• Ya Fei left Shimo City for Wutan City, determined to discover the mysterious young man's identity despite regretting that she had condensed only a few high-level life essence souls.
• Lu Yu discovered that his blood nourished Cai Lin and limited her to one drop a day.
• Yun Yun admitted that she had misunderstood the path of invincibility, and Lu Yu told her that Chen Duo was his niece before leaving Yunlan Mountain.
• Yun Yun felt relieved that Lu Yu was not Chen Duo's husband and began considering how to pursue her feelings for her teacher.
• Lu Yu arrived at the Mittel Auction House, hoping to see whether Ya Fei could become a major rival to Xiao Yan and Yun Yun.
• Gu Ni welcomed Lu Yu respectfully and led him inside.

Lu Yu confronted Ya Fei at the auction house and discovered that her seductive power came from the Nine-tailed Demon Fox’s inheritance. After leaving her three powerful corpses, he departed Wutan City while Ya Fei vowed to grow strong enough to kill him.

• Gu Ni led Lu Yu to Ya Fei’s private room, where she tried to use Charm Sorcery on him.
• Lu Yu overpowered Ya Fei with soul pressure and ordered her to use her Charm Sorcery again.
• Lu Yu experienced Ya Fei’s charm, which carried a power of Order, and later read some of her memories, learning about her transmigration and inheritance.
• Lu Yu left a storage ring containing two Dou Wang corpses and one Dou Huang corpse for Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei realized Lu Yu might know her secret ability to condense life essences from corpses and vowed to grow stronger and kill him.
• Lu Yu left Wutan City in good spirits.

Lu Yu refused to train Nalan Yanran for her three-year agreement but agreed to visit the Nalan family about Nalan Jie’s poison. He then stopped Xiao Yan from fusing two Heavenly Flames to rescue Qing Lin, taking the Green Lotus Core Flame as payment and promising to return it in three days.

• Yun Yun asked Lu Yu to guide Nalan Yanran for her coming duel with Xiao Yan, but Lu Yu told Yanran to rely on her own cultivation and reach Dou Emperor before seeking his inheritance.
• Yun Yun explained that Nalan Jie was dying from Brand Poison, and Lu Yu agreed to visit the Nalan family in three days.
• At the Mo family, Xiao Yan began fusing the Green Lotus Core Flame with Yao Chen’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame after the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor took Qing Lin.
• Lu Yu arrived, restrained the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor, and crushed Xiao Yan’s unstable Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus.
• Lu Yu extracted the Green Lotus Core Flame from Xiao Yan and said he would return it in three days; the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor promised the Heavenly Snake Mansion would care for Qing Lin and help her control her Jade Snake Three Flower Pupils.

Lu Yu comprehended the Purgatory Law from the Green Lotus Core Flame and then went to the Nalan family to treat Nalan Jie. His arrival stunned the family when he revealed himself as a Dou Zun, and he reprimanded Nalan Su for scolding Nalan Yanran.

• Lu Yu spared Xiao Yan from detonating the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus, and Xiao Yan realized that flame fusion could become a powerful technique once he gained control.
• Lu Yu absorbed a Law of Fire fragment from the Green Lotus Core Flame, created the Purgatory Law, and stabilized the flame with his law origin power.
• Lu Yu returned the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin to Xiao Yan and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire to fulfill his promise to Nalan Yanran.
• The Nalan family gathered to await Lu Yu, while Nalan Su questioned whether he would come and scolded Nalan Yanran for her reply.
• Lu Yu appeared through a spatial rift, shocking the Nalan family with his Dou Zun-level power, then rebuked Nalan Su for his treatment of Nalan Yanran.

Lu Yu saved Nalan Jie, gave Xiao Yixian and Chen Duo a way to control their poisonous constitutions, then sent them to the Middle Continent to grow stronger. As Ya Fei rose to prominence in the Jia Ma Empire, she continued to compare every potential suitor to Lu Yu.

• Lu Yu removed Nalan Jie's Brand Poison, warned Nalan Yanran to destroy the Mo family's remnants, and returned to the Yunlan Sect.
• Lu Yu gave Xiao Yixian and Chen Duo the Poison Pill Method, gathered the materials it required, and helped them form Poison Pills that raised their cultivation to Dou Zong.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Yixian and Chen Duo to travel to the Middle Continent and seek an ancient Dou Sheng tomb once they reached Half-Saint, and they left the next morning.
• Ya Fei took control of the Mittel family with Hai Bodong's support, and the family's influence spread across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Ya Fei won the imperial genius tournament with peak Dou Ling strength and rejected marriage proposals because no suitor could compare to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu returned to the Mittel family and Yunlan Sect, leaving Ya Fei with beast-flame resources and meeting Cai Lin after her souls had fused. As Yun Yun prepared for the approaching Hundred Sects Tournament, she asked Lu Yu to help Elder Shan break through to Dou Zong.

• Ya Fei considered choosing a business confidant and obtaining stronger beast flames before Lu Yu appeared, forced himself on her, and left her two seventh-tier magical beast corpses and Purple Crystal Source.
• Lu Yu returned to the Yunlan Sect, found Cai Lin waiting, and gave her a drop of his blood while teasing her about taking it.
• Lu Yu reflected on the upcoming Alchemist Tournament, Xiao Yan’s expected victory, and the rivalry among Ya Fei, Xiao Yan, and Nalan Yanran ahead of their Three-Year Pact.
• Yun Yun arrived as a six-star Dou Huang and said she was not strong enough for the Hundred Sects Tournament.
• Yun Yun asked Lu Yu to help Elder Shan break through to Dou Zong and emerge from seclusion.

Lu Yu sent Cai Lin to represent the Yunlan Sect at the Hundred Sects Tournament while traveling to Wu City to recruit talent and secure resources for his cultivation. After learning about the tournament’s major forces, he spotted a woman from Wenqing Peak and vanished from his inn to approach her.

• Yun Yun worried that the Yunlan Sect lacked the strength to compete, so Lu Yu summoned Cai Lin and ordered her to represent the sect at the Hundred Sects Tournament.
• After Yun Yun left, Cai Lin told Lu Yu that Cai Die had only recently awakened and needed time to adapt; Lu Yu then instructed a Dou Zun to kill any powerful enemy threatening the Yunlan Sect before leaving.
• Lu Yu traveled to Wu City, hoping to build a force that could gather natural treasures and accelerate his cultivation without relying on the Heaven-Defying Seal’s limited soul rings.
• Lu Yu spent three days learning that the tournament was hosted by the Heavenly Snake Mansion, the Dragon Elephant Sect, and Hundred Flower Valley, and he became interested in restoring Wenqing Peak’s inheritance.
• Lu Yu vanished from his inn and saw an ethereal woman in a light green gown holding a bamboo flute in a courtyard near the tournament’s central halls.

Lu Yu met Jian Yao, whose flute carried an artistic conception that matched his own, and invited her to join him. He then confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion in Wu City, where its elders realized he was likely a Dou Sheng; he introduced himself as Three-One.

• Lu Yu watched Jian Yao play her flute by Wu City's moat and recognized the profound regret in her artistic conception.
• Lu Yu invited Jian Yao to join him in conquering the Great Thousand World, and she accepted.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion gathered in Wu City, where Snake Grandma heard Lü Man's account of Lu Yu and vowed to visit the Jia Ma Empire after the Hundred Sects Tournament.
• Lu Yu appeared behind Snake Grandma and effortlessly suppressed her Dou Qi, frightening the Heavenly Snake Mansion members.
• Snake Grandma asked Lu Yu's name and title, and he answered that he was Three-One.