Chapter Summaries

Nuwa investigated the site of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and damaged Lu Changsheng’s arrays, but he mistook her for an attacker and threatened her from inside his cave. Nuwa apologized and offered rare innate materials as compensation, while Lu Changsheng stared at them through his water mirror.

• Nuwa was astonished to hear Lu Changsheng curse her through an amplified array and realized he was not the peerless fiend she had imagined.
• Lu Changsheng threatened to destroy the spirit vein unless Nuwa stopped advancing and touching his arrays, though he had no intention of sacrificing the vein.
• Nuwa calmly explained that she had only stopped to investigate the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and apologized for damaging the arrays.
• Lu Changsheng rejected Nuwa’s explanation, accused her of targeting his treasures, and demanded that she leave the area.
• Nuwa offered Essence of Geng Metal, Marrow of Yi Wood, and drops of Three Lights Divine Water to compensate him, and Lu Changsheng stared at the materials through the water mirror.

Lu Changsheng discovered that a powerful woman was dismantling the outer layers of his Three Thousand Layer Array and mistook her for a relative of the Old Earth Dragon he had killed. He used his sound transmission array to order Nuwa to stop, leaving her startled by the accusation.

• Lu Changsheng woke to the enemy alarm and used the Water Mirror Technique to inspect the array.
• Lu Changsheng saw Nuwa calmly melting the Poison Mist Array with Creation Azure Light and feared she had come to avenge the Old Earth Dragon.
• Nuwa dissolved the Thick Earth Defense Array, and Lu Changsheng panicked over the damage and the treasures hidden deeper inside his mountain.
• Lu Changsheng refused to confront Nuwa and amplified his voice through the Sound Transmission Megaphone to shout at her.
• Nuwa paused before dismantling the Chain Earth Spike Array and looked confused when Lu Changsheng called her a thief.

Lu Changsheng rejected Nuwa’s offer of spiritual materials, convinced she was trying to trick him into opening his defenses. When Nuwa’s power began straining his formations, he threatened to provoke Heavenly Dao punishment by charging into her, leaving her to wonder whether his existence was protected by a supreme law.

• Lu Changsheng resisted his urge to take Nuwa’s spiritual materials and called them scrap metal, refusing to open the stone gate.
• Nuwa’s patience waned, and she used her immense power to strain the outer layers of Lu Changsheng’s formations.
• Lu Changsheng reinforced the formations and warned Nuwa that he was hiding to protect her and the Primordial Continent.
• Lu Changsheng claimed that touching him had caused Purple Heaven Divine Lightning to kill the Old Earth Dragon and threatened to make Heavenly Dao strike Nuwa if she harmed him.
• Nuwa considered whether Heavenly Dao treated any attack on Lu Changsheng as an assault on a supreme law of heaven and earth.

Lu Changsheng revealed a trace of his Great Dao Merit to convince Nuwa that touching him would bring catastrophe. Nuwa recognized what he was, stopped attacking the formations, and respectfully asked why he lived in seclusion.

• Lu Changsheng sent a tiny wisp of Great Dao Merit through a hidden passage in his formations.
• Nuwa sensed the aura, recognized it as Great Dao Merit, and concluded Lu Changsheng was a living being formed from it.
• Nuwa realized that harming Lu Changsheng could provoke the Heavenly Dao and make his defensive formations dangerous to breach.
• Lu Changsheng quickly sucked the wisp back into his dantian and lamented the cost of letting it escape.
• Nuwa apologized to Lu Changsheng with a respectful Daoist salute and asked why he hid in a remote place behind crude, complicated formations.

Lu Changsheng refused to leave his fortified cave while Nuwa settled outside to meditate and study the strange merit and earth-vein changes. Three thousand years later, Nuwa remained curious about what he was doing, while Lu Changsheng tended his spiritual garden and prepared a meal.

• Lu Changsheng mocked Nuwa and insisted that he would stay inside his cave, warning her to leave.
• Nuwa chose not to press him but sat on a boulder near his formation and entered meditation.
• Lu Changsheng shouted at Nuwa for three days, then gave up and decided to wait her out.
• Three thousand years passed as Nuwa continued meditating outside and sensed that Lu Changsheng had not cultivated.
• Lu Changsheng tended his Red Sun Fruit Tree, harvested Starlight Grass, and prepared it with Earth Vein Spirit Marrow.

Lu Changsheng argued with Nuwa after she asked to trade for one of his mutated Red Sun Fruits. Nuwa offered a drop of Three Lights Divine Water, leaving Lu Changsheng stunned by the treasure’s value.

• Lu Changsheng watched Nuwa through his water mirror and mocked her claim that she wanted fruit because she was thirsty.
• Nuwa explained that she wanted to taste the fruit because it carried pure vitality that appealed to her Law of Creation.
• Lu Changsheng admitted he had fruit but demanded to see what Nuwa would offer in exchange.
• Nuwa presented a drop of Three Lights Divine Water and described its deadly components and healing power.
• Lu Changsheng recognized the divine water as a legendary treasure worth at least a mid-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.

Lu Changsheng learned that the cultivator outside his formation was Nuwa and immediately shifted from suspicion to eager flattery, though he still refused to open the door. He agreed to trade for her Three Lights Divine Water using a heavily cautious method, leaving a tiny opening and sending out a talisman-covered drawer on a vine rope.

• Lu Changsheng agreed to trade one Red Sun Fruit for Nuwa’s Three Lights Divine Water but refused to let her enter his formation.
• Nuwa introduced herself as Nuwa of Mount Buzhou, and Lu Changsheng realized he had insulted and threatened a future Sage.
• Lu Changsheng apologized to Nuwa and praised her, while still worrying that she might hold a grudge or be an impostor.
• Lu Changsheng proposed a special way to trade without leaving his formation.
• Lu Changsheng opened a fist-sized gap and sent out a crude drawer covered in talismans on a vine rope, asking Nuwa to put the water inside.

Lu Changsheng traded Nuwa a Red Sun Fruit for Three Lights Divine Water, carefully sterilizing the water before storing it. After the exchange eased their relationship, he gave Nuwa his name and tried to grow closer to the future Sage.

• Lu Changsheng had Nuwa place the Three Lights Divine Water in a drawer, then roasted and rinsed it for three days before sending her the Red Sun Fruit.
• Nuwa recognized the fruit’s merit-infused Dao-rhyme, ate it, and felt her restless Dao heart grow calm.
• Lu Changsheng stored the Three Lights Divine Water in a Pure Vase and celebrated the successful trade.
• Nuwa praised the fruit and asked Lu Changsheng how to address him.
• Lu Changsheng considered the risks of revealing his name, then told Nuwa he was Lu Changsheng.

Lu Changsheng defended his Dao of Cowardice to Nuwa, arguing that enduring while others perished was the truest form of longevity. After contemplating his words for eight hundred years, Nuwa reached the half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and recognized that preserving life was fundamental to creation.

• Nuwa questioned the meaning of Lu Changsheng's name and criticized his choice to hide behind his array instead of contending for opportunities.
• Lu Changsheng argued that cultivation was pointless if a cultivator died, and said true longevity meant outliving one's enemies by avoiding conflict.
• Nuwa meditated on Lu Changsheng's philosophy for eight hundred years, connecting endurance and avoiding calamity to her Dao of Creation.
• Nuwa attained the half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and concluded that preserving life was a foundation of creation.

Nuwa thanked Lu Changsheng for helping her glimpse the threshold of Great Luo and offered him Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to repay her karmic debt. She left him a jade slip with a way to contact her and information about a possible Innate Spirit Treasure in Phoenix Fall Valley.

• Nuwa bowed to Lu Changsheng and credited his words from eight hundred years earlier with helping her approach the Great Luo realm.
• Lu Changsheng pretended to downplay his role while welcoming the karmic debt Nuwa owed him.
• Nuwa offered Lu Changsheng a clod of Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to stabilize his mountain-protecting formation.
• Lu Changsheng had Nuwa place the treasure in his wooden box and step back three paces before he accepted it.
• Nuwa left a Sound Transmission Jade Slip and told Lu Changsheng that Phoenix Fall Valley might hold a damaged Innate Spirit Treasure.

After Nuwa left Lu Changsheng a jade slip describing a dangerous ruin and its treasures, he struggled against his fear and greed before deciding to go. He began preparing an enormous stock of escape and defense tools, but still needed a way to detect danger early.

• Nuwa told Lu Changsheng about a shattered Xiantian Micro Spiritual Cave eighty thousand li east, where he could earn merit and find an unclaimed damaged Innate Spirit Treasure, then departed.
• Lu Changsheng burned, washed, and inspected Nuwa's gifts for seven days before confirming they held no trace of her divine sense or tracking methods.
• Lu Changsheng feared the dangers of traveling so far but decided the possible defensive treasure was worth the risk.
• Lu Changsheng packed thousands of talismans and dozens of formation disks to protect himself and escape from danger.
• Lu Changsheng realized he still needed an early-warning method and noticed the spiritual field in his cave dwelling.

Lu Changsheng revived the withered vine with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Lights Divine Water, awakening it as a concealed warning treasure he named the Cowardly Immortal Vine. He left his cave abode for the Primordial Land, cautiously evaded demons and a battle between powerful immortals, and eventually detected an extraordinarily strange region.

• Lu Changsheng planted Nine Heavens Breathing Soil mixed with Three Lights Divine Water at the withered vine's roots and waited ten years for it to sprout.
• The vine awakened with concealed detection abilities, wrapped around Lu Changsheng's wrist, and Lu Changsheng named it the Cowardly Immortal Vine.
• Lu Changsheng spent twenty years preparing talismans, formation plates, and other precautions before leaving his cave abode for the Primordial Land.
• Lu Changsheng traveled underground and detoured around several groups of demons rather than risk a confrontation.
• The Cowardly Immortal Vine warned Lu Changsheng of a battle between a True Dragon and a five-colored phoenix, so he hid underground for thirty years until the fighting ended.
• After traveling for one thousand years and eight months, Lu Changsheng's divine sense detected an extraordinarily strange region.

Lu Changsheng purified the Calamity Sha around Phoenix Fall Valley for three thousand years, earning merit and advancing his cultivation. He uncovered a damaged innate defensive treasure, the Profound Yellow Shield, and it accepted him as its owner.

• Lu Changsheng found Phoenix Fall Valley and began purifying its Calamity Sha with Great Dao Merit from a concealed array shelter.
• Over three thousand years, Lu Changsheng cleared a hundred-zhang-wide passage and gained Heavenly Dao Merit that raised his True Immortal cultivation to the middle stage.
• Lu Changsheng followed the purified passage to the ruined Xiantian Micro Spiritual Cave and spotted a damaged shield infused with Xiantian Profound Yellow Qi.
• Lu Changsheng recognized the shield as a damaged innate defensive Spirit Treasure and reached into the fissure to claim it.
• The Profound Yellow Shield hummed at Lu Changsheng’s touch and drifted into his palm.

Lu Changsheng repaired and refined the damaged Mysterious Yellow Shield with Heavenly Dao Merit and a trace of Great Dao Merit, restoring it as a powerful defensive treasure that concealed karma. As he prepared to leave Phoenix Fall Valley, the Cowardly Immortal Vine warned him that something was approaching at high speed.

• Lu Changsheng discovered that the Mysterious Yellow Shield’s innate restrictions had been badly damaged by a powerful fire law.
• Lu Changsheng surrounded himself with one hundred and eight formations and used Heavenly Dao Merit to purge the shield’s foreign laws.
• Lu Changsheng spent a trace of Great Dao Merit to restore the shield’s twelve innate restrictions over fifteen hundred years.
• Lu Changsheng bonded with the restored Mysterious Yellow Shield, which could defend him and conceal his karma from divination.
• Lu Changsheng packed away his formations and prepared to leave Phoenix Fall Valley, but the Cowardly Immortal Vine warned him that something was coming fast.

Lu Changsheng was discovered by four wounded Dragon and Phoenix Clan remnants, who attacked him for his Innate Spirit Treasure. Cornered, he declared that he would kill them all, and the Phoenix Clan elder struck his Mysterious Yellow Shield before the outcome of the blow became clear.

• Lu Changsheng hid as three Dragon Clan remnants and a Phoenix Clan elder landed in Phoenix Fall Valley after fleeing a battlefield.
• The Phoenix Clan elder sensed the trace of Innate Treasure Light and exposed Lu Changsheng’s hiding place.
• The four Mystic Immortals surrounded Lu Changsheng and demanded his treasure, dismissing him as an easy target.
• Lu Changsheng summoned the Mysterious Yellow Shield and vowed to kill the four remnants.
• The Phoenix Clan elder attacked Lu Changsheng with Southern Bright Separation Fire, but his smugness faded after the strike hit the shield.

Lu Changsheng turned the four Mystic Immortals’ attack against them, killing one with the Cowardly Immortal Vine and Pure Yang Sword Qi. He unleashed a dangerous technique fueled by Great Dao Merit essence, and the Phoenix Clan elder and two Dragon Clan remnants fled as he prepared to stop them.

• The Mysterious Yellow Shield blocked the Phoenix Clan elder’s Southern Bright Separation Fire, and Lu Changsheng survived the rebound unharmed.
• Lu Changsheng detonated three hundred array plates to obscure the Mystic Immortals’ vision and spiritual sense.
• Lu Changsheng used the Cowardly Immortal Vine to ensnare a Dragon Clan remnant, dragged him close, and killed him with Pure Yang Sword Qi.
• The Phoenix Clan elder tried to gather the two remaining Dragon Clan remnants, but Lu Changsheng activated a powerful divine ability by extracting Great Dao Merit essence.
• The Phoenix Clan elder burned his life essence to flee, and the two Dragon Clan remnants ran in opposite directions.

Lu Changsheng used Great Dao Merit to trigger heavenly retribution against the fleeing Phoenix Clan elder and Dragon Clan soldiers, then cleaned the battlefield and returned safely to his cave. Several hundred years later, a mysterious gray-robed old man appeared at Phoenix Fall Valley.

• Lu Changsheng split the Great Dao Merit into three golden streaks, causing heavenly karmic sin and Purple Heaven Divine Lightning to destroy the Phoenix Clan elder and two Dragon Clan soldiers.
• Lu Changsheng spent much of his cultivation and looted the surviving spoils before thoroughly erasing traces of the battle.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Lu Changsheng with a small cluster of merit for purifying the area and restoring its earth vein and spiritual energy.
• Lu Changsheng used the Mysterious Yellow Shield to conceal himself on the journey home and returned to his cave in less than a hundred years.
• Several hundred years after Lu Changsheng left, a gray-robed old man appeared at Phoenix Fall Valley, where the surrounding Tribulation Sha Qi retreated from him.

After eight thousand years in seclusion, Lu Changsheng recovered his cultivation and mastered the Mysterious Yellow Shield. He safely opened the storage bags of four Dragon Phoenix remnants and began counting their treasures.

• An old man arrived at Phoenix Fall Valley, found the Innate Spirit Treasure gone, and failed to divine who had taken it.
• Lu Changsheng spent eight thousand years recovering in his cave dwelling, restoring his Great Dao Merit origin and advancing to the middle True Immortal stage.
• Lu Changsheng finished mastering the Mysterious Yellow Shield, which concealed his aura and karma from even a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Lu Changsheng set up a Nine Palaces Spirit-Trapping Array and burned away the blood and divine sense imprints on the four storage bags.
• Lu Changsheng opened the bags and found millions of immortal stones, several weapons and armors, and jade boxes filled with medicinal fragrance.

After finding a classified report of the devastating war between the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, Lu Changsheng abandoned any thought of scavenging outside and spent a century fortifying his cave abode. He ordered the Cowardly Immortal Vine to keep its senses close and stay hidden, determined to remain secluded until he reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• Lu Changsheng discovered Phoenix Blood Divine Gold and other rare treasures among the looted materials, then found a blood-red jade slip in the Phoenix Clan elder’s storage bag.
• Lu Changsheng read the jade slip’s battle report and saw the catastrophic destruction and enormous casualties across the Primordial Land.
• Terrified by the war’s scale, Lu Changsheng vowed to stay in seclusion until he became a Daluo Golden Immortal and reinforced his cave abode for a hundred years.
• Lu Changsheng strengthened the mountain-protecting array with spirit veins and coated the cave’s stone door with melted defensive treasures and immortal-stone powder.
• Lu Changsheng ordered the Cowardly Immortal Vine to limit its detection range, ignore powerful auras, and avoid drawing attention, then explained that hiding was the essence of their Great Dao.

Lu Changsheng completed refining all twelve innate restrictions of the Mysterious Yellow Shield after thirty thousand years of closed-door cultivation, while the Tribulation of Measure outside continued to worsen. Just as he prepared to reinforce the array, disaster struck without warning.

• Lu Changsheng ordered Cowardly Immortal Vine and the Red Sun Fruit Tree to conceal their auras, then sealed himself inside the Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng spent thirty thousand years refining the Mysterious Yellow Shield while the Three Thousand Layer Mysterious Yellow Pure Yang Array isolated him from the Primordial Land.
• Lu Changsheng fully refined all twelve innate restrictions and consolidated his mid-stage True Immortal cultivation, nearing the late stage.
• Lu Changsheng used the Water Mirror Technique and saw that the Tribulation of Measure outside had grown more severe.
• Lu Changsheng turned to reinforce the outer array, but a sudden disaster struck without warning.