Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an plundered the Qilin Clan’s inner treasury and opened the Progenitor’s Secret Treasury. Inside, they discovered a primordial fragment that Lu Changsheng recognized as the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation.

• Lu Changsheng explained that the outer treasury had been emptied during the Tribulation of Measure and led Lu Ping'an into the inner treasury.
• Lu Changsheng spent three months collecting the remaining treasures in the inner treasury.
• Lu Changsheng sensed a powerful resonance between the secret chamber’s door and his Merit Golden Wheel, while Lu Ping'an felt compelled to worship what lay beyond it.
• Lu Changsheng protected himself and Lu Ping'an with the Merit Golden Wheel and Mysterious Yellow Shield, then had Lu Ping'an open the door with his vital blood.
• Lu Changsheng found a cracked, ash-gray fragment above a Chaos Primordial Stone altar and recognized it as the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation.

Lu Changsheng acquired a fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation containing the Great Daos of Arrays and Void and Concealment, then painstakingly erased every trace of his visit and returned safely to Nameless Low Mountain. He sealed the mountain and entered seclusion, leaving Lu Ping'an in charge of the arrays.

• Lu Changsheng recognized the Qilin Clan's hidden treasure as a fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and warned Lu Ping'an to stay outside the secret chamber.
• Lu Changsheng used his Merit Golden Wheel to draw the fragment into his palm and discovered it contained complete records of the Great Daos of Arrays and Void and Concealment.
• Lu Changsheng sealed the fragment inside his primordial spirit, burned the storerooms clean, and spent five hundred years destroying evidence of their presence.
• Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an traveled underground for three thousand years before returning to Nameless Low Mountain and passing through its protective array.
• After resting for ten years, Lu Changsheng sealed the mountain and ordered Lu Ping'an to manage the arrays while he entered seclusion to comprehend the Great Dao.

After ten thousand years of seclusion, Lu Changsheng comprehended the Great Dao of Void and Concealment and reshaped the cave abode’s array into a nearly undetectable spatial defense. As the Primordial Land’s peace began to end, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi appeared, preparing to gather the demons under their banner.

• Lu Changsheng emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion having reached Minor Completion in the Great Dao of Void and Concealment and gained an initial understanding of the Great Dao of Arrays.
• Lu Changsheng transformed the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Profound Yellow Merit Array, hiding the Nameless Low Mountain and folding its hundred-mile surroundings out of ordinary space.
• Lu Changsheng warned Lu Ping'an that the peaceful era was ending as the Primordial Land’s scattered fate flowed toward the demons and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi appeared in the eastern sky with overwhelming demonic auras, and Lu Changsheng identified them as Three-Legged Golden Crows intending to recruit the demons across the Primordial Land.

After twelve thousand years in seclusion, Lu Changsheng advanced to the late Mystic Immortal stage and strengthened Nameless Low Mountain’s defenses. A tremendous collision outside the cave abode shook the array, leaving Lu Changsheng braced for an unknown attacker while Lu Ping'an hid underground.

• Lu Changsheng shut down the water-mirror surveillance and ordered Lu Ping'an to tend the spiritual roots inside the cave abode.
• Over twelve thousand years, Lu Ping'an reached the late Golden Immortal realm while Lu Changsheng advanced to the late Mystic Immortal stage and deepened his mastery of Void and Concealment.
• Lu Changsheng forged thirty-six top-grade Post-Heaven Spiritual Treasures into the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Demon-Subduing Swords and told Lu Ping'an to conceal them at the array's life and death gates.
• A devastating collision outside Nameless Low Mountain shook the cave abode, and Lu Ping'an fled deep underground using the Earth Escape Technique.
• Lu Changsheng shielded the cave abode with twelve Merit Golden Wheels and the Mysterious Yellow Shield, judging that the attacker had extraordinary physical strength.

Lu Changsheng showed Lu Ping'an a Great Witch tearing apart a Taiyi Golden Immortal demon, then explained the Witch Race's power. The Great Witch sensed something strange near Nameless Low Mountain and struck the hidden spatial barrier with his fist.

• Lu Changsheng used the Water Mirror Technique to watch a Great Witch tear a winged demon leopard apart and consume its essence and blood.
• Lu Changsheng summoned Lu Ping'an and explained the Witch Race's origins, cultivation, and role as the new rulers of the earth.
• Lu Ping'an panicked and refused to leave their cave abode, while Lu Changsheng warned him that their cultivation would not protect them from a Great Witch.
• The Great Witch halted and sensed an odd disturbance in the void near Nameless Low Mountain, then approached Lu Changsheng's concealed abode.
• The Great Witch clenched his fist and slammed it into the seemingly empty void before him.

Lu Changsheng used his concealment array to redirect a Great Witch’s attacks away from Nameless Low Mountain, allowing the Witch to leave without discovering the cave abode. After waiting two hundred years, Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an discussed the array’s weakness against the Witch Race’s physical strength and the danger of a future Ancestral Witch attack.

• Lu Changsheng activated the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Void-and-Reality Array, which redirected the Great Witch’s punch and stomps through the Earth Veins.
• The Great Witch mistook the area for a dead spatial rift and left with a giant leopard’s remains.
• Lu Changsheng waited two hundred years before calling Lu Ping'an out of the Earth Veins.
• Lu Changsheng explained that the array could redirect most physical force but could not prevent the impact from reaching the cave abode.
• Lu Ping'an suggested moving to the Earth Core Poison Fire layer, but Lu Changsheng rejected the dangerous idea.

Lu Changsheng forced Lu Ping'an through eight thousand years of body-tempering training while developing his own defensive art, preparing them to survive the Witch-Demon Tribulation. After they returned to cultivation, the formation’s Illusion Array Disk flickered for the first time in ten thousand years.

• Lu Changsheng rejected Lu Ping'an’s suggestion and began a body-tempering regimen using Daluo Qilin blood essence, innate ores, and medicinal herbs.
• Lu Changsheng trained Lu Ping'an in a Gravity Chamber, while he fused merit, blood essence, and earth laws to create the Mysterious Yellow Indestructible Body.
• Over eight thousand years, Lu Ping'an’s scales turned dark gold and grew strong enough to withstand a strike from the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Demon-Subduing Sword.
• Lu Changsheng warned Lu Ping'an to keep fleeing from danger as his first choice, then led him back to the hall to cultivate toward the undying Golden Immortal realm.
• The Illusion Array Disk on the formation’s outer edge flickered after remaining silent for ten thousand years.

Lu Changsheng discovered that Ancestor Hong Yun and Zhenyuanzi had found his hidden mountain refuge, and decided to receive them rather than risk offending them. Outside, Zhenyuanzi realized the concealed formation was far beyond what its supposed Mystic Immortal creator should be capable of.

• Lu Changsheng recognized Ancestor Hong Yun through the water mirror and understood that Hong Yun had followed the causal thread attached to his jade token.
• Lu Changsheng identified Hong Yun’s companion as Zhenyuanzi and explained to Lu Ping'an that the Earth Book made hiding underground useless.
• Lu Changsheng concluded the visitors meant to honor the debt from Hong Yun’s rescue, then ordered Lu Ping'an to prepare tea and opened the way to welcome them.
• Zhenyuanzi told Ancestor Hong Yun that he had sensed nothing until Hong Yun touched the causal thread, and marveled at the formation’s mastery of the void and earth veins.
• Ancestor Hong Yun agreed that Lu Changsheng’s merits, formation skills, and understanding of the Dao of the Void were unfathomable.

Lu Changsheng welcomed Zhenyuanzi and Ancestor Hong Yun into his heavily fortified cave, where they thanked him for saving Hong Yun from Tribulation Resentment Poison. Hong Yun then presented two Ginseng Fruits as repayment, and Lu Changsheng recognized their extraordinary value.

• Zhenyuanzi and Ancestor Hong Yun approached Lu Changsheng’s hidden dojo and agreed to treat its host with respect.
• Lu Changsheng greeted the two visitors and invited them into his cave, where Zhenyuanzi sensed a powerful formation hidden within.
• Lu Ping'an served immortal tea, and Zhenyuanzi recognized its rare ingredients while discerning the spirit beast’s true nature.
• Ancestor Hong Yun said he had come to repay Lu Changsheng’s past kindness and presented two Ginseng Fruits.
• Lu Changsheng identified the fruits and understood their immense spiritual and medicinal value.

Lu Changsheng accepted two Ginseng Fruits from Ancestor Hong Yun and learned from Zhenyuanzi how to strengthen his mountain-protecting array by joining it with the Earth Qi. After a thousand years of discussion, Zhenyuanzi and Ancestor Hong Yun left to prepare for the next lecture at the Purple Heaven Palace, and Lu Changsheng called for Ping'an.

• Zhenyuanzi explained that Hong Yun had recovered from his damaged Dao foundation, reached the Quasi-Saint realm after listening to Hongjun, and sent Lu Changsheng two Ginseng Fruits in gratitude for saving his life.
• Lu Changsheng accepted the Ginseng Fruits, hoping their innate life force would help him break through to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhenyuanzi identified a weakness in Lu Changsheng's array and explained that it should transform impacts by connecting its nodes to both the Earth Veins and the intangible Earth Qi.
• Lu Changsheng spent a thousand years deriving how to fuse the array with the Earth Veins, while Hong Yun occasionally shared insights on karma and fate.
• Zhenyuanzi gave Lu Changsheng a fragment of the Earth Book's methods for regulating mountains and Earth Veins, and the two gained insights from each other's knowledge.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun departed to prepare for the second lecture at the Purple Heaven Palace, and Lu Changsheng called out to Ping'an.

Lu Changsheng used a Ginseng Fruit to complete the Five Qis and prepare to break through to Golden Immortal, but the Demon Heavenly Court’s establishment shook the Primordial Land and disrupted the heavens. Taking advantage of the upheaval and the attention drawn to Di Jun and Taiyi, he broke through the Golden Immortal barrier.

• Lu Changsheng sent Lu Ping'an back to the Gravity Chamber with a Ginseng Fruit and ordered him to cultivate until he reached the Golden Immortal peak.
• Lu Changsheng swallowed his Ginseng Fruit and spent nearly ten thousand years refining the Five Elements Qi within his chest.
• As Lu Changsheng prepared to break through, Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi established the Demon Heavenly Court beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens and received merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• The upheaval threw the laws and spiritual energy of the Primordial Land into chaos, and Lu Changsheng realized that mighty figures were focused on the new Heavenly Court.
• Lu Changsheng released his accumulated magical power and broke through the Golden Immortal barrier.

Lu Changsheng passed his Golden Immortal tribulation with help from his merit and reached the early stage of Golden Immortal, while Lu Ping'an awakened a treasure-seeking ability. The chapter ended with Lu Changsheng questioning whether the hidden innate creation beneath Nameless Low Mountain was a primordial treasure or an ancient Fierce Beast's lair.

• Lu Changsheng used his twelve Merit Golden Wheels to turn his Golden Immortal tribulation into a nourishing baptism and completed his transformation into an undying Dao foundation.
• Lu Changsheng emerged from seclusion and learned that Lu Ping'an had reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm after absorbing the Ginseng Fruit's power.
• Lu Ping'an told Lu Changsheng that he had awakened the abilities to sense danger and find treasures.
• Lu Ping'an revealed that he had sensed a secret fluctuation of Innate Creation deep beneath their cave dwelling on Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng lifted Lu Ping'an and asked whether the hidden presence was a primordial treasure or the resting place of an ancient Fierce Beast.

Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an discovered an unowned innate treasure deep beneath their cave abode, and Lu Changsheng devised a secret way to reach it without leaving home. After three thousand years of digging, they were still tunneling toward the abyssal earth veins.

• Lu Ping'an sensed a pure, unowned treasure at least five hundred thousand zhang beneath the cave abode, and Lu Changsheng suspected it was a mid-grade innate spirit root or divine water spring.
• Lu Changsheng rejected going outside to dig and decided to move their home toward the treasure by tunneling straight down from the main hall.
• Lu Changsheng used the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Demon-Subduing Swords to drill while laying concealment formations, and Lu Ping'an stored every piece of excavated rock and soil.
• Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an dug beneath Nameless Low Mountain for three thousand years without stopping.
• Lu Ping'an, exhausted, asked Lu Changsheng how deep they had dug.

Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an carefully dug through deep layers of Earth Sha Turbid Qi, with Lu Changsheng using the Earth Book’s methods to transform the rock instead of breaking it. After fifteen thousand years, they reached a point less than a hundred zhang from the innate-creation fluctuation.

• Lu Changsheng warned Lu Ping'an that the deep rock was filled with Earth Sha Turbid Qi, which could poison immortal cultivators and damage their Dao foundations.
• Lu Changsheng protected them with his Merit Golden Wheel and stopped using flying swords to avoid triggering a catastrophic earthquake.
• Lu Changsheng used the Jade Plate of Creation and the Earth Book’s method to part the rock along its Earth Veins, while Lu Ping'an stood ready to transfer his magic power.
• Over fifteen thousand years, Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an endured the dangerous passage, deepening Lu Changsheng's understanding of earth and formations and strengthening Lu Ping'an's defenses.
• Lu Ping'an sensed that the innate-creation fluctuation was less than a hundred zhang ahead, and Lu Changsheng declared that they had finally arrived.

Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an discovered an Innate Mid-Grade Black Water Mysterious Lotus growing in a pool of Innate Essence of Gui Water, protected by a natural array. After spending eight hundred years deducing the array, Lu Changsheng opened a silent passage and brought Lu Ping'an into the cavern, where they stood beside the lotus.

• Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an found the Black Water Mysterious Lotus inside a sealed cavern surrounded by an innate array.
• Lu Changsheng warned Lu Ping'an that breaking the array carelessly could trigger a catastrophic collapse and alert experts outside.
• Lu Changsheng began deducing the array with the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation while Lu Ping'an stood guard.
• After eight hundred years, Lu Changsheng found the array's living gate and opened a narrow, silent gap.
• Lu Changsheng pulled Lu Ping'an through the gap and reached the pool's edge, then told him not to act recklessly when he urged his master to take the lotus.

Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an spent twenty-five thousand years extracting the Black Water Mysterious Lotus and concealing their tunnel, only for a fleeing Nine-Headed Demon Saint to crash into the barrier above Nameless Low Mountain. With three Great Witches closing in, the wounded demon prepared to smash its way through the restriction.

• Lu Changsheng moved the pool and its untouched Black Water Mysterious Lotus into a jade casket, then sealed and concealed it.
• Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an spent another two thousand years filling the tunnel and erasing traces of their presence, completing their twenty-five-thousand-year underground project.
• As Lu Changsheng prepared to plant the lotus, a violent impact struck the concealed spatial barrier above Nameless Low Mountain.
• Lu Changsheng activated his defenses and saw a wounded Nine-Headed Demon Saint pinned against the barrier as three Great Witches pursued it.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Saint, trapped between the barrier and its pursuers, turned to attack the restriction and shouted for it to shatter.

Lu Changsheng used his Great Dao Merit to repel the Nine-Headed Demon Saint’s attack, triggering Heavenly Punishment that annihilated the demon. The three Great Witches fled, leaving Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an safe inside their cave abode.

• The Nine-Headed Demon Saint sacrificed three heads to launch a blood-red blade at Nameless Low Mountain’s spatial barrier.
• Lu Changsheng released his Great Dao Merit, transforming the barrier into a Mysterious Yellow Shield that purified the demon’s attack.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared and struck the Nine-Headed Demon Saint with Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, annihilating it.
• The three Great Witches abandoned the demon’s dropped storage ring and fled, deciding to keep their tribe away from the mountain.
• Lu Changsheng withdrew his merit and lowered his hands after watching the danger pass with Lu Ping'an.

After waiting a century for danger to pass, Lu Changsheng and Lu Ping'an recovered the fallen Demon Saint’s treasures and settled the Black Water Mysterious Lotus in their cave abode. The lotus strengthened the spirit field, and Lu Changsheng rebuked Lu Ping'an for suggesting they eat or make pills from it.

• Lu Changsheng waited one hundred years after killing the Nine-Headed Demon Saint before leaving the formation with Lu Ping'an to inspect the battlefield.
• Lu Changsheng purified the Demon Saint’s poisonous blood, gained more merit, and recovered his cracked ring and Primordial Unity Demon Feathers.
• Lu Changsheng erased the ring’s remaining divine sense and found immortal stones, ancient spirit herbs, and Post-Heaven Spiritual Treasures inside.
• Lu Changsheng instructed Lu Ping'an to prepare a space and Spirit Gathering Array in the spirit field for the Black Water Mysterious Lotus.
• Lu Changsheng planted the lotus and its pool on Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, raising the cave abode’s spiritual energy several times over.
• Lu Ping'an asked whether they should eat the lotus or make pills from it, and Lu Changsheng scolded him for wasting an innate treasure.

After fifty thousand years of seclusion, Lu Ping'an became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal while Lu Changsheng’s cultivation and mastery of concealment and defense continued to deepen. With the Black Water Mysterious Lotus finally mature, Lu Changsheng began using it to create an incarnation.

• Lu Changsheng sealed the cave abode and ordered Lu Ping'an to cultivate while he comprehended the Great Dao of Arrays and water.
• Lu Ping'an spent fifty thousand years cultivating beside the Black Water Mysterious Lotus as the Witch-Demon war ravaged the outside world.
• Lu Ping'an broke through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, but Lu Changsheng warned him that the battlefield’s strongest figures could still easily kill him.
• Lu Changsheng saw that the Black Water Mysterious Lotus had matured and told Lu Ping'an to guard him as he began forming an incarnation from the lotus.

Lu Changsheng created a powerful Black Water Mysterious Lotus incarnation and showed Lu Ping'an the devastation of the Witch-Demon Tribulation, keeping them sheltered as it raged for five hundred thousand years. When Gonggong shattered Mount Buzhou and the Heavenly River Weak Water flooded the Primordial Land, Lu Changsheng and his disciples struggled to hold their refuge together until Nuwa began mending the heavens.

• Lu Changsheng formed a peak Primordial Unity incarnation from the Black Water Mysterious Lotus, which inherited his Water and formation insights and gained formidable defenses.
• Lu Changsheng broke the sealed Water Mirror and showed Lu Ping'an the ten Golden Crows scorching the land and Hou Yi shooting down the suns.
• Lu Changsheng strengthened the formation around the Nameless Low Mountain and kept himself, Lu Ping'an, and the incarnation sheltered through five hundred thousand years of the Witch-Demon Tribulation.
• Gonggong crashed into Mount Buzhou, breaking the heavenly pillar and opening a vast hole through which Heavenly River Weak Water flooded the Primordial Land.
• Lu Changsheng, his incarnation, and Lu Ping'an poured their strength into defending the cave from the Weak Water until Nuwa began mending the heavens.