Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng, an incarnation of Great Dao Merit, hid in a remote mountain cave and discovered that spiritual energy barely improved his cultivation while attacks would consume his precious merit. After three thousand years of slow cultivation and avoiding the Dragon-Han conflict, he realized he might have to seek merit outside to advance.

• Lu Changsheng finished installing his 1,862nd concealment array in his cave dwelling.
• Lu Changsheng recalled that his body was formed from Great Dao Merit and that fighting back against attackers would consume his origin merit.
• Lu Changsheng hid from the rising Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans and cultivated for three thousand years, reaching only early-stage Heavenly Immortal.
• Lu Changsheng considered purifying baleful energy and restoring damaged Earth Veins to earn merit, but retreated whenever he sensed battles outside.
• Lu Changsheng concluded that scavenging merit might be the only way to improve his cultivation.

Lu Changsheng inspected his treasured orchard, then decided he could no longer hide forever from the dangers of the Primordial Land. He prepared supplies and broken magical treasures before attempting cultivation again, but his Great Dao Merit repelled the spiritual energy, leaving him without progress.

• Lu Changsheng tended his spiritual field, ate a Red Sun Fruit, saved its seed, and watered his plants.
• Lu Changsheng worried that the Dragon-Han First Tribulation could destroy his cave abode and resolved to prepare to leave.
• Lu Changsheng packed a hundred Red Sun Fruits and gathered a few usable broken treasures to carry with him.
• Lu Changsheng returned to seclusion and drew in spiritual energy, but his Great Dao Merit repelled it from his body.
• Lu Changsheng urged himself to try again.

After two thousand years of seclusion, Lu Changsheng remained stuck at peak early-stage Heavenly Immortal and decided he needed to seek merit to grow stronger. He reinforced his mountain’s defenses, but when he opened the door and sensed the danger outside, he shut it again and stayed inside.

• Lu Changsheng ended two thousand years of cultivation without advancing beyond peak early-stage Heavenly Immortal and concluded that he had to seek merit to become stronger.
• Lu Changsheng spent five hundred years repairing a damaged Inverted Five Elements Illusion Array disk.
• Lu Changsheng installed the disk, creating the eighteen hundred and sixty-third layer of defense and concealing the Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng opened the stone door and sensed the desolation, tribulation energy, and savage beasts outside.
• Lu Changsheng panicked, slammed the stone door shut, and decided he was not ready to face the dangers outside.

After ten years of struggling with fear, Lu Changsheng decided to leave his cave dwelling and seek a chance to advance, despite the danger outside. He packed up everything in his spirit field and triple-checked the cave’s formations, ending at its stone door ready to depart.

• Lu Changsheng resolved that hiding in his cave would leave him stagnant, so he decided to venture outside and seek merit.
• Lu Changsheng uprooted the Red Sun Fruit Tree, Starlight Grass, and Nameless Vine, packed them with the spiritual soil, and emptied his spirit field.
• Lu Changsheng spent three years checking all 1,863 layers of the cave’s formations at least three times and repairing any flaws.
• Lu Changsheng returned to the heavy stone door after confirming the cave dwelling was concealed and secure.

After leaving his hidden cave, Lu Changsheng cautiously crossed the Primordial Land and discovered a Sha Qi Pit whose baleful energy could earn him merit. He reached its edge after spending half a month watching it, but paused to prepare safety precautions before attempting to purify it.

• Lu Changsheng left the cave and concealed its entrance with an Illusion Array.
• He suppressed his Great Dao Merit aura and carefully traveled through the wilderness on foot.
• After seven or eight days, Lu Changsheng found a Sha Qi Pit and recognized that purifying its baleful energy could bring him merit.
• Lu Changsheng hid near the pit for half a month to make sure no danger was lurking nearby.
• He cautiously approached the pit but decided to put safety precautions in place before purifying it.

Lu Changsheng used Great Dao Merit to purify baleful qi in the Sha Qi Pit and earned his first trace of Heavenly Dao Merit. He continued the slow work for centuries, remaining safe but growing lonely and increasingly careful about his defenses.

• Lu Changsheng set up sixteen layers of formations around the Sha Qi Pit before purifying its baleful qi with a strand of Great Dao Merit.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Lu Changsheng with a trace of Heavenly Dao Merit, proving that purifying the pit could help him break through his cultivation bottleneck.
• Lu Changsheng purified the baleful qi for thirty years, then rested briefly before returning to work.
• After a century, the Lesser Five Elements Concealment Array failed, so Lu Changsheng replaced its formation plate and resolved to inspect his arrays regularly.
• After three hundred years of isolation, Lu Changsheng talked to himself about his loneliness, the meager rewards, and his plan to acquire better treasures for protection.

After eight hundred years, Lu Changsheng finished purifying the baleful qi in the pit and discovered that a broken Earth Vein and a Fierce Beast King’s Beast Horn had caused it. He tried to flee, but the chance to earn merit by repairing the Earth Vein made him hesitate.

• Lu Changsheng absorbed the Heavenly Dao Merit he had gathered over eight hundred years, and his cultivation bottleneck began to loosen.
• He purified the last of the baleful qi and uncovered a broken Earth Vein at the bottom of the pit.
• Lu Changsheng saw a giant Half Beast Horn embedded in the Earth Vein and recognized it as the remains of a Fierce Beast King.
• He realized the horn had polluted the Earth Vein and would cause the pit to fill with baleful qi again unless it was removed and the vein repaired.
• Lu Changsheng turned to flee, then stopped as he considered the merit he could earn by repairing the Earth Vein.

Lu Changsheng realized the black horn at the bottom of the Sha Qi Pit would consume too much of his Great Dao Merit to retrieve by force, so he spent two thousand years building layered arrays to grind away its destructive will. The final array core activated, but the chapter ended before its effect was revealed.

• Lu Changsheng tested the horn with a broken flying sword, which melted away before it could touch the horn.
• Lu Changsheng spent fifty years considering ways to retrieve the horn, then decided to use layered arrays to wear down its destructive will.
• Lu Changsheng sorted through his accumulated scraps and array materials to plan a grand array around the Sha Qi Pit.
• Lu Changsheng spent two thousand years constructing and repairing layers of arrays, using crude materials and his blood essence when needed.
• Lu Changsheng slammed the final spirit stone into the array's core, and the array began to hum.

Lu Changsheng built and activated a 360-layer formation to slowly purify the destructive aura clinging to the Half Beast Horn. After five hundred years of isolation, he planted his stored plants beside the formation to keep himself company as the work continued.

• Lu Changsheng activated the 360-Layer Heavenly Cycle Purification Array, which suppressed the Beast Horn's counterattack and began grinding away its destructive aura.
• Lu Changsheng spent five hundred years tending the formation and enduring the isolation, while the Beast Horn's aura diminished only slightly.
• Lu Changsheng took the Red Sun Fruit Tree, Starlight Grass, and Nameless Vine from his Jade Casket and planted them beside the formation.
• Lu Changsheng redirected some refined Xiantian Spiritual Qi to nourish the plants and chatted with them for company.
• Another one thousand, two thousand, and three thousand years passed as Lu Changsheng continued waiting by the formation.

After 5,500 years of maintaining the array and grinding away the Half Beast Horn’s destructive shell, Lu Changsheng finally exposed its true core. He pulled it from the severed Earth Vein and began forcing the broken ends together to restore the vein.

• At the array’s 1,800-year mark, the Half Beast Horn unleashed its final remnant of resentment, shattered many inner arrays, and sent Lu Changsheng fleeing with the Red Sun Fruit Tree and spirit herbs.
• Lu Changsheng spent his remaining supplies and battered magical treasures repairing the damaged array, then stayed at its outer control node as it continued grinding down the horn.
• After 3,500 years, the array had stripped away the horn’s black shell, revealing its dark-red crystalline core and ancient innate patterns.
• Lu Changsheng redirected the Heavenly Cycle Array to form giant spiritual-energy hands and pull the horn from the severed Earth Vein.
• As the freed Earth Vein surged with innate earth spiritual energy, Lu Changsheng used the array to drive its two broken ends together.

After restoring the Earth Vein, Lu Changsheng secured the purified Beast Horn and waited for the Heavenly Dao’s reward. A vast display of Heavenly Dao Merit descended on him, and he began absorbing it.

• Lu Changsheng restored the Earth Vein, reviving the barren land and clearing the lingering gloom.
• Lu Changsheng stored the Beast Horn’s purified source of fire in his Storage Jade Box, recognizing its value as artifact material.
• Lu Changsheng waited for the Heavenly Dao to reward his work repairing the Earth Veins and purging Fierce Beast poison.
• Golden clouds of Heavenly Dao Merit spread across the sky, frightening Lu Changsheng because they could attract powerful beings.
• Lu Changsheng failed to conceal the merit with his damaged formations, and a golden pillar descended onto him.
• Lu Changsheng absorbed the Heavenly Dao Merit as it flowed gently into his body.

Lu Changsheng absorbed the Heavenly Dao Merit from repairing the heavens and cultivated for three thousand years, advancing from early-stage Heavenly Immortal to early-stage True Immortal. After testing his new strength, he reminded himself that powerful beings in the Primordial Land still far outclassed him and decided he could not stay where he was.

• Lu Changsheng absorbed the incoming Heavenly Dao Merit and entered deep seclusion, ordering the Red Sun Fruit Tree and Little Grass to guard the entrance.
• After a thousand years, Lu Changsheng broke through to mid-stage Heavenly Immortal, then reached late-stage Heavenly Immortal by the eighteen-hundredth year.
• As the war between the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans devastated the Primordial Land, Lu Changsheng continued cultivating in the remote ruins.
• After twenty-five hundred years, Lu Changsheng reached peak Heavenly Immortal and used the remaining merit to break through to True Immortal.
• Lu Changsheng spent another five hundred years stabilizing his early-stage True Immortal realm, then tested his strength by slicing the top off a distant hill.
• Lu Changsheng suppressed his pride by recalling how far stronger the Primordial Land's great powers were and decided he had to leave.

After breaking through to the True Immortal realm, Lu Changsheng tried to leave before trouble arrived, but discovered that an ancient Mystic Immortal Earth Dragon lived beneath the Earth Vein. The dragon awoke and pursued him, leaving Lu Changsheng fleeing as its gigantic body burst from the ground.

• Lu Changsheng packed up the Red Sun Fruit Tree, concealed his True Immortal power, and prepared to return to Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng sensed a rumble underground and discovered an ancient Mystic Immortal Earth Dragon beside the reconnected Earth Vein.
• The Earth Dragon awakened, drawn by the shockwave of Lu Changsheng's breakthrough and the aura of Heavenly Dao Merit and innate pure yang energy.
• Lu Changsheng fled toward Nameless Low Mountain as the Earth Dragon surged toward the surface.
• The Earth Dragon erupted from the ruins and roared, nearly disrupting Lu Changsheng's power; he looked back and saw its upper body towering ten thousand zhang into the sky.

Lu Changsheng fought desperately to escape Old Earth Dragon, but his attacks failed and the beast swallowed him. He awoke in the dragon's stomach, surrounded by a foul acidic swamp.

• Old Earth Dragon chased Lu Changsheng, drawn by his innate fire qi and merit.
• Lu Changsheng detonated old formation plates, but they could not harm or slow Old Earth Dragon.
• Lu Changsheng struck Old Earth Dragon with his full-strength Innate Pure Yang Sword Qi, leaving only a faint mark on its scales.
• Old Earth Dragon unleashed a powerful suction force, pulled Lu Changsheng and the rock beneath him into its mouth, and swallowed them.
• Lu Changsheng tumbled down Old Earth Dragon's esophagus and landed in an acidic swamp inside its stomach.

Trapped in Old Earth Dragon’s stomach, Lu Changsheng exhausted his magic power trying to withstand its corrosive acid and refused to spend his Great Dao Merit. As the acid began burning through his feathers, he finally released the merit in a desperate counterattack.

• Lu Changsheng discovered that the stomach acid was a corrosive divine ability and used his True Immortal magic power to protect himself.
• Lu Changsheng searched for a way out, but his attacks bounced off the stomach membranes.
• Lu Changsheng refused to spend his Great Dao Merit and swallowed the Red Sun Fruit Tree to replenish his magic power.
• Old Earth Dragon intensified its stomach acid, and Lu Changsheng’s protective aura ran out and shattered.
• As the acid burned his feathers, Lu Changsheng unleashed the Great Dao Merit within him.

Lu Changsheng released his Great Dao Merit to survive inside the Old Earth Dragon, triggering heavenly punishment that destroyed the beast. He escaped, but discovered that a sliver of his merit origin had been damaged, leaving him furious.

• Lu Changsheng’s golden merit neutralized the Old Earth Dragon’s stomach acid and formed a protective field inside its stomach.
• The Old Earth Dragon felt the supreme aura within it and desperately tried to vomit Lu Changsheng out.
• The Old Earth Dragon’s attack on Lu Changsheng’s Great Dao Merit caused the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to appear and strike it with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• The Old Earth Dragon was erased, and Lu Changsheng fell free from its remains.
• Lu Changsheng checked his dantian, found a sliver of his merit origin missing, and cursed the dead Old Earth Dragon.

Lu Changsheng found an Earth Dragon Pearl in the ashes of the Old Earth Dragon and decided the danger of exploring the Primordial Land outweighed any rewards. He returned to Nameless Low Mountain, activated all 1,863 layers of its arrays, and celebrated surviving.

• Lu Changsheng discovered the Earth Dragon Pearl among the Old Earth Dragon’s ashes and added it to his Storage Jade Box beside the Half Beast Horn.
• After reflecting on the dangers he had faced nearby, Lu Changsheng decided to stop exploring and head home to Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng concealed his aura and used Earth Escape to flee toward his lair.
• Lu Changsheng entered his cave abode, shut the stone door, and activated all 1,863 layers of arrays around the mountain.
• Lu Changsheng collapsed by the stone door, relieved to be safe, and laughed that he had outlasted the Old Earth Dragon.

Lu Changsheng used the Earth Dragon Pearl and Half Beast Horn to upgrade his mountain defenses into a 3,000-layer array. After five thousand years of work, he finished the Mysterious Yellow Pure Yang Array and felt safe from the Old Earth Dragon and its kin.

• Lu Changsheng inspected the Half Beast Horn and Earth Dragon Pearl, then planned to fuse the pearl with the mountain’s Earth Vein and use the horn as the killing array’s core.
• Lu Changsheng spent three thousand years refining the Earth Dragon Pearl into the Earth Vein, strengthening the mountain and surrounding land.
• Lu Changsheng spent another two thousand years carving array patterns into the Half Beast Horn while fighting among the three clans intensified elsewhere in the Primordial Land.
• Lu Changsheng placed the horn inside a stalactite and linked his arrays, expanding them into a 3,000-layer formation with earth-based defenses and a Pure Yang Fire killing array.
• Lu Changsheng rested after completing the Mysterious Yellow Pure Yang Array and declared that he no longer feared the Old Earth Dragon or its family.

Nuwa investigated the site where Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had destroyed an Old Earth Dragon, but Heaven’s workings had been erased and she could not discover what it had swallowed. Following a trace of merit, she found a low mountain sealed beneath three thousand crude, overlapping arrays.

• Lu Changsheng fell asleep after finishing five thousand years of array formation.
• Nuwa arrived at the Old Earth Dragon’s ruined site and sensed its Earth Origin and Fierce Beast energy.
• Nuwa used Creation Tracing to reconstruct the dragon’s final moments, but the vision shattered when it reached what the dragon swallowed.
• Nuwa waited a hundred years, detected a faint trace of merit, and followed it away from the abyss.
• Nuwa found a small mountain covered in three thousand layers of arrays and was astonished by their crude, wasteful construction.

Nuwa began dismantling the heavily layered formation surrounding Nameless Low Mountain after discovering that it concealed a mysterious being tied to merit and hidden from the Heavenly Secrets. While Lu Changsheng slept inside, she methodically removed a hundred outer layers over a century.

• Nuwa broke through the outer Illusion Array, triggering poison and gravity traps that failed to harm her.
• Nuwa sensed thousands of interlocking formations powered by an Origin of Earth and chose to dismantle them carefully instead of destroying them outright.
• Nuwa spent a hundred years using the Law of Creation to remove a hundred layers of formations.
• Inside the cave abode, Lu Changsheng slept through eight hundred years of recovery, dreaming of merit raining down on him.
• As Lu Changsheng slept with a leg draped over the Red Sun Fruit Tree, an alarm began wailing.