Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi used the clone Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit to create controllable clones, test Yin Yang Batteries for offline cultivation, and duplicate a Dragon River Pill. The pill copy’s temporary effects vanished when its Mana ran out, but consuming the real pill granted him the Dragon Strength Minor Divine Ability and revealed how Dao Affinity could lead to Divine Abilities.

• Lu Xingshi selected the clone Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit and discovered he could control up to ten clones, though they consumed Mana and required his attention.
• Lu Xingshi modified two clones into Yin Yang Batteries, which successfully increased his cultivation, Dao Comprehension, and Mana, despite their grotesque appearance.
• Lu Xingshi tested additional Yin Yang Battery pairs and found their efficiency dropped sharply, so he dismissed the extra clones.
• Lu Xingshi failed to maintain a Dragon River Pill clone at first, then boosted his Mana to duplicate and consume one; its medicinal effects vanished when he canceled the boost.
• Lu Xingshi consumed the real Dragon River Pill and gained the Dragon Strength Minor Divine Ability, realizing the pill’s Dao Affinity was what allowed him to obtain it.

Cloud Pool Great King’s grief over his son’s death awakened a long-dormant Inner Demon, and he attacked Azure Radiance Taoist when questioned about the jiao’s Walking the Jiao. After escaping Azure Radiance Taoist’s thunder net, Cloud Pool Great King fled toward Tide Watching Manor to seek revenge on the person who killed his son.

• Cloud Pool Great King failed to divine Lu Xingshi’s roots and brooded over his dead son, unaware that an Inner Demon had taken hold of him.
• Azure Radiance Taoist arrived at Black Pool Cave to investigate the jiao’s Walking the Jiao, and Cloud Pool Great King admitted the jiao was his son but denied helping him.
• Cloud Pool Great King’s rage overcame him, and he transformed into a giant snake and tried to swallow Azure Radiance Taoist.
• Azure Radiance Taoist escaped with the Substitution Technique and realized Cloud Pool Great King had been possessed for at least a century.
• Azure Radiance Taoist attacked with thunder to capture Cloud Pool Great King alive, but Cloud Pool Great King broke free and fled toward Tide Watching Manor to avenge his son.

Lu Xingshi finished forging the Great Luck Heavy Truck and tested it by crushing Cloud Pool Great King, who had come to kill him. He mistook the arriving Azure Radiance Taoist for another enemy and attacked him before Azure Radiance Celestial Master cleared up the misunderstanding.

• Lu Xingshi completed the Great Luck Heavy Truck, outfitting it with talismans, guns, and rocket launchers, and decided to test its strength.
• Lu Xingshi drove the truck into the giant snake that attacked him, duplicating and enlarging the vehicle with Copy to crush it under repeated collisions and gunfire.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that Copy combined with the Yin Yang Batteries increased cultivation efficiency while consuming more Mana.
• Lu Xingshi mistook the arriving Azure Radiance Taoist for an enemy and rammed him, until Azure Radiance Celestial Master arrived and explained that it was a misunderstanding.
• Azure Radiance Taoist explained that Cloud Pool Great King had escaped the Thunder Net to seek revenge on Lu Xingshi, and Lu Xingshi accepted his share of the Merit for killing him.
• Azure Radiance Celestial Master admired the Great Luck Heavy Truck, and Lu Xingshi offered to forge him one if he paid, though the Celestial Master lacked incarnation abilities to use it fully.

Lu Xingshi chose Gourd Heaven, used it to store his Yin Yang Battery clones and improve their cultivation efficiency, and planned to keep earning Merit. Meanwhile, Azure Radiance Celestial Master and Azure Radiance Taoist suspected he was a Great Being Reincarnation tied to the Five Turbidities Evil World calamity and decided not to interfere.

• Lu Xingshi chose Gourd Heaven over Finger Transmutation and opened a dwelling inside Great Luck's steering wheel to store the Yin Yang Battery.
• Lu Xingshi discovered the dwelling increased his clones' cultivation efficiency by ten percent, though stacking Copy enhancements consumed too much Mana.
• Lu Xingshi resolved to continue taking missions and farming Merit so he could grow stronger and investigate the world's mysteries.
• Lu Xingshi decided not to sell the ruined residence and considered keeping it as a place to stay or park Great Luck.
• Azure Radiance Taoist and Azure Radiance Celestial Master discussed Lu Xingshi's mysterious power, orthodox Yin-Yang inheritance, and possible Great Being Reincarnation.
• Azure Radiance Celestial Master warned against disturbing Lu Xingshi, reasoning that he might be involved in resolving the Five Turbidities Evil World calamity.

Lu Xingshi killed a weasel demon in the wilderness and provoked its powerful patron, Yellow Third Maiden, into pursuing him. He learned she was waiting at Third Maiden Tomb and set out to meet her, while she left her lair to hunt him down.

• Lu Xingshi modified the Great Luck Heavy Truck’s shock absorption and offered a scholar a ride, but the scholar declined.
• After setting up camp, Lu Xingshi heard a woman sobbing and killed the weasel demon Tie Qi’er with his Spirit Dragon Flying Sword.
• Yellow Third Maiden appeared through yellow smoke, threatened Lu Xingshi, and challenged him to come to Third Maiden Tomb.
• Lu Xingshi dispersed Yellow Third Maiden’s projection and decided to travel to Third Maiden Tomb for the merit he could earn by defeating her.
• At Third Maiden Tomb, Yellow Third Maiden ordered her weasel Small Demons to prepare a captured scholar for cooking and left to find Lu Xingshi.

Lu Xingshi rescued a scholar and killed Yellow Third Maiden with the Great Luck Heavy Truck, earning enough merit to choose the Body Binding Dao Fruit. He considered upgrading the truck and wondered whether the scholar might lead him to another monster-farming opportunity.

• Lu Xingshi searched the ruined weasel den, freed a scholar from a steamer, and learned that Yellow Third Maiden had gone looking for him.
• Yellow Third Maiden returned in a Yellow Sand Aspect, and Lu Xingshi used the Spirit Dragon Flying Sword and his Dao Fruits to destroy it.
• Lu Xingshi and the scholar boarded the Great Luck Heavy Truck, which drove after Yellow Third Maiden while its weapons and the scholar's grenades kept her at bay.
• Lu Xingshi crushed Yellow Third Maiden with the truck and used its Gourd Heaven effect to cut her in half, killing her.
• Lu Xingshi spent the merit he gained on the Body Binding Dao Fruit and considered using it to improve the truck's speed and braking.

After Lu Xingshi accidentally killed a Rain Worker with his truck, he met the Five Zhu Dragon Consort, who revealed that the Five Shores Dragon Lord was suppressing her and asked for help contacting her father at Cloud Marsh. Lu Xingshi agreed to take her there himself, but she worried the Dragon Lord would retaliate, so they settled on delivering a letter.

• Lu Xingshi and Liu Ting discussed Zhao Country and the supernatural world while riding in the Great Luck Heavy Truck.
• Lu Xingshi ran over a Rain Worker, and a Shepherdess warned him that it belonged to the Five Shores Dragon Lord.
• Lu Xingshi prepared to confront the Dragon Lord, but the Shepherdess revealed she was the Five Zhu Dragon Consort and said the Dragon Lord had trapped her away from her father at Cloud Marsh.
• The Dragon Consort asked Liu Ting and Lu Xingshi to deliver a letter to her father, but Lu Xingshi proposed taking her to Cloud Marsh himself.
• The Dragon Consort warned that escaping would provoke the Five Shores Dragon Lord, and the group agreed to deliver the letter instead.

Lu Xingshi and Liu Ting discovered that the Five Shores Patrol Crab General had been corrupted by demonic evil and decided to return to Five Shores Lake to investigate. The chapter revealed that the Five Zhu Dragon Consort had seized control of the lake and imprisoned the Five Shores Dragon Lord.

• Lu Xingshi and Liu Ting discussed their mission to deliver a letter to Cloud Marsh and wondered whether the Five Shores Dragon Lord or the Dragon Consort had a problem.
• A crab general intercepted them, but the Golden Light Talisman repelled his attack, so Lu Xingshi accused him of impersonating the Five Shores Patrol Crab General.
• Liu Ting shot the crab general, and Lu Xingshi ran him over until he died and earned Merit, realizing the creature had been infected by a demonized evil Daoist.
• Lu Xingshi decided to turn back toward Five Shores Lake and told Liu Ting to prepare grenades for a fight, while acknowledging that the Great Luck Heavy Truck could not travel underwater.
• The Five Zhu Dragon Consort revealed that she had imprisoned the Five Shores Dragon Lord at the bottom of the lake after stripping away his Dragon Tendon and Dragon Bone.

Lu Xingshi and Liu Ting returned to Five Shores Lake, where Lu’s missile attack exposed the wounded Five Shores Dragon Lord and the red worms infesting him. After the Dragon Consort attacked, Lu struck back and fled in the Great Luck Heavy Truck, with the Dragon Consort and her swarm pursuing them.

• Lu Xingshi suspected the Five Zhu Dragon Consort had deliberately used the Rain Workers to stop him, then launched one hundred enlarged Spirit Sword Missiles into Five Shores Lake.
• The explosions uncovered the Five Shores Dragon Lord’s limp body, and Lu used grappling claws, golden light, and evil-warding sound waves to pull him ashore and drive the red worms out.
• Lu and Liu discovered that the Dragon Lord had lost his Dragon Bone, Dragon Tendon, and dragon pearl, and he weakly urged them to warn Cloud Marsh.
• The Dragon Consort emerged from the water, snapped off the Dragon Lord’s horn, and tried to reach Lu’s truck; Lu broke her approach with a multiplied, spatially cutting punch.
• Lu drove away with the Dragon Lord tied to the truck roof while the Dragon Consort pursued them with a torrent of red worms.

Lu Xingshi, Liu Ting, and the wounded Five Shores Dragon Lord fled the Dragon Consort in the Great Luck Heavy Truck, and Lu Xingshi bit off her attacking hand. After the red insects retreated, they decided to seek help at the nearest great prefecture, but none of them knew where it was.

• Liu Ting threw grenades at the swarm of red insects as Lu Xingshi sped away, while Five Shores Dragon Lord denied that the Dragon Consort was his wife.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord took over driving the Great Luck Heavy Truck, and Lu Xingshi bit off the Dragon Consort’s hand when she attacked him.
• Liu Ting discovered that the supposed letter to Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord was actually Five Shores Dragon Lord’s Dragon Tendon, and the Dragon Consort’s swarm began to retreat.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord said they should seek aid at the nearest great prefecture because his injuries were severe and the land was growing increasingly turbid.
• Lu Xingshi asked Five Shores Dragon Lord for directions, but none of them knew where they were or how to find the nearest great prefecture.

Lu Xingshi brought the injured Five Shores Dragon Lord to Linfen Prefecture, where Celestial Master Jin Xuan learned how dangerous the Dragon Consort was and arranged to gather reinforcements. At Jingchi Nunnery, she began treating the Dragon Lord while Lu Xingshi learned that the Five Turbidities Evil World had affected Heaven and the Netherworld as well as the human world.

• Lu Xingshi studied the Dragon Consort's severed arm as the Great Luck Heavy Truck reached Linfen Prefecture with Liu Ting and the Five Shores Dragon Lord.
• The Five Shores Dragon Lord introduced Celestial Master Jin Xuan, and Lu Xingshi exposed how badly the Dragon Lord had understated the Dragon Consort's strength.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan decided to summon fellow cultivators, report the threat to the Imperial Court, and have the Five Shores Dragon Lord contact the Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan brought Lu Xingshi and the Dragon Lord to Jingchi Nunnery, where she began treating the Dragon Lord's body.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan explained that the Five Turbidities Evil World had blurred the origins of demons and monsters and affected both the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld.

Lu Xingshi discovered that a seemingly ordinary date-cake seller was the headless ghost Hong Yong, and Celestial Master Jin Xuan advised leaving him in peace. When executioner Dong Hui recognized Hong Yong and revealed that he had been beheaded three years earlier, Hong Yong’s memories returned and he became a violent ghost.

• Lu Xingshi saw through the date-cake seller’s ordinary appearance and noticed that he had no head.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan explained that Hong Yong was a harmless ghost who had returned home believing he had survived his execution, and she told Lu Xingshi not to expose him.
• Dong Hui recognized Hong Yong and followed him home, where Hong Yong thanked him for supposedly helping him escape execution.
• Dong Hui admitted that he had cut off Hong Yong’s head instead of the rope, causing Hong Yong to remember his death.
• Hong Yong’s neck split open and erupted with blood as he angrily confronted Dong Hui for destroying the rest of his life.

Lu Xingshi fought a headless Fierce Ghost and discovered that it was part of a monster bound to a Demon Blade. After destroying the blade and defeating the Blade Demon, he received an unexpectedly large amount of Merit and wondered whether creatures like this granted extra Merit.

• A merchant warned Lu Xingshi that Hong Da had become a headless Fierce Ghost and was killing people, so Lu Xingshi drove to confront it.
• The headless Fierce Ghost teleported and nearly decapitated Lu Xingshi, but he escaped into the cargo compartment and attacked it with his Spirit Dragon Flying Sword, clones, and weapons.
• Lu Xingshi found Hong Yong’s face inside the Ring Pommel Knife and learned that the headless Fierce Ghost was the Blade Ghost while the blade itself was a Demon Blade.
• Lu Xingshi split the Ring Pommel Knife with the Pot Sky Space Cutter, killing the headless Fierce Ghost and releasing the Blade Demon from the blade.
• Lu Xingshi destroyed the weakened Blade Demon, earned enough Merit to advance multiple Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits, and suspected that creatures like this granted extra Merit.

Lu Xingshi chose the Spewing Flames and Sitting Fire Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits, discovered ways to combine their effects with Generate Light, and decided to seek Entering Water before facing Five Zhu Dragon Consort. Meanwhile, Celestial Master Jin Xuan and the Prefect of Linfen suspected the Headless Fierce Ghost disaster had been deliberately caused, but found no clues to its perpetrator.

• Lu Xingshi chose Spewing Flames and Sitting Fire, then combined Spewing Flames with Generate Light to enhance his attacks and the Great Luck Heavy Truck.
• Lu Xingshi used Generate Light as a relay to give his Fiend Burning Divine Flame some of the great sun's effects, and confirmed that Sitting Fire made him immune to flames.
• Lu Xingshi decided to pursue the Entering Water Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit before confronting Five Zhu Dragon Consort.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan reviewed the investigation, which recorded 627 deaths in the Headless Fierce Ghost incident, and suspected the monster had been deliberately created.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan and the Prefect of Linfen agreed that the Imperial Court would investigate the hidden cause while she returned to deal with Five Shores Lake.

Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord arrived in Linfen and discussed the Headless Fierce Ghost, the Five Turbidities Evil World, and possible trouble within Great Zhao with Lu Xingshi and Celestial Master Jin Xuan. They agreed to travel to Five Shores Lake in three days, and Lu Xingshi insisted on joining them after repairing his Great Luck Heavy Truck.

• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord arrived and thanked Lu Xingshi and Liu Ting for rescuing Five Shores Dragon Lord.
• Lu Xingshi told Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord about the Headless Fierce Ghost, and the Dragon Lord said the Five Turbidities Evil World had been underway for nearly a century.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord suggested that the emperor or Crown Prince might be connected to the growing disorder, but he stopped speaking when Celestial Master Jin Xuan returned.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan agreed with Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord to depart for Five Shores Lake in three days.
• Lu Xingshi said he could finish repairing his Great Luck Heavy Truck and would join the expedition, while Celestial Master Jin Xuan warned him to keep his distance if the battle turned against them.

Lu Xingshi joined the Celestial Masters and Daoists in attacking Five Zhu Dragon Consort at Five Shores Lake, where she turned the battle against them with her blood-based powers. After Lu Xingshi’s heavy trucks crushed her, she unleashed an ultimate move beneath the lakebed, and he fired a guided missile toward it.

• Lu Xingshi traveled to Five Shores Lake with Jin Xuan, Azure Radiance Celestial Master, Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord, and the other Celestial Masters and Daoists.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord lifted the lake’s water into the sky, revealing countless red worms and Five Zhu Dragon Consort at the lake’s center.
• Five Zhu Dragon Consort charged at Lu Xingshi, but Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord trapped her in an Azure Wave that she corrupted with her blood.
• Lu Xingshi enlarged the Great Luck Heavy Truck, made ten clones, and crushed Five Zhu Dragon Consort, but she survived.
• Five Zhu Dragon Consort unleashed her ultimate move beneath the lakebed, and Lu Xingshi fired a guided missile at the bulging ground.

Lu Xingshi and the others discovered that the Five Zhu Dragon Consort was a vast, seemingly immortal bloodworm, so they sealed it in Five Shores Lake’s water eye. Lu Xingshi realized Five Shores Dragon Lord might be the key to killing it, and questioned how he had survived his terrible injuries for so long.

• The bloodworm revealed its true form, attacked the group, and resisted every attempt to kill it.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord and the others sealed the bloodworm and all its detached flesh in Five Shores Lake’s water eye.
• Lu Xingshi suspected the bloodworm had a weakness tied to Five Shores Dragon Lord, who it had imprisoned instead of killing.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord brought Five Shores Dragon Lord to the group, and Lu Xingshi listed his severe injuries and asked how long he had endured them.

Lu Xingshi exposed that the Blood Worm known as Five Zhu Dragon Consort had placed her heart inside Five Shores Dragon Lord and secretly influenced his memories and actions. After Five Shores Dragon Lord confessed to numerous crimes and Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord accepted that he could not save his son, Five Shores Dragon Lord asked Lu Xingshi to kill him.

• Lu Xingshi noticed Five Shores Dragon Lord's unusually strong heartbeat and concluded that the Blood Worm had put her heart inside him.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord confirmed that the heart was hers, and a red worm emerged from his forehead as he recalled memories he had forgotten.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord admitted to many crimes connected to the Blood Worm, while the others realized it had deceived them and fused with him.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord asked that his son be allowed to return to his roots, and Azure Radiance Celestial Master agreed that Five Shores Dragon Lord should receive a dignified end.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord said he could not take his own life and asked Lu Xingshi to kill him; Lu Xingshi agreed.

After Five Shores Dragon Lord died, Lu Xingshi accepted Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord’s final gift and chose Entering Water, Invisibility, and Borrowing Wind as his new Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits. He helped clear the bloodworms’ remains, then set off to find Liu Ting while testing his new abilities.

• Five Shores Dragon Lord died in Lu Xingshi’s Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame, and Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord gathered his ashes before leaving in grief.
• Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord sent Lu Xingshi the Golden Truth Jade Light Eight Scenery Flying Scripture, and Lu Xingshi accepted it as their ties were severed.
• Lu Xingshi selected Entering Water, Invisibility, and Borrowing Wind as his three new Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits.
• Lu Xingshi agreed to help Celestial Master Jin Xuan and the others burn the bloodworms’ remains before traveling to Linfen Prefecture to pick up Liu Ting.
• After Azure Radiance Celestial Master restored Five Shores Lake, Lu Xingshi declined Celestial Master Jin Xuan’s offer of a ride and tested his new abilities in the lake.

Lu Xingshi parted ways with Liu Ting, who stayed at Jingchi Nunnery to cultivate, and continued his journey. In Linfen Prefecture, Celestial Master Jin Xuan explained how Five Shores Dragon Lord and Five Zhu Dragon Consort had fallen into demonic corruption, leaving the Prefect to face the fallout from the Five Shores Lake disaster.

• Liu Ting declined to travel with Lu Xingshi because he wanted to become Celestial Master Jin Xuan's disciple and cultivate after Entering the Dao.
• Lu Xingshi left Jingchi Nunnery in the Great Luck Heavy Truck without seeing Celestial Master Jin Xuan.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan told the Prefect of Linfen that the bloodworm's escape would have brought disaster upon Linfen, Tide Watching, and Cloud Marsh.
• Celestial Master Jin Xuan recounted how Five Shores Dragon Lord saved a girl, fell in love with her, and helped her return to life after she died.
• Five Shores Dragon Lord and Five Zhu Dragon Consort fell into demonic corruption while using bloodworms to preserve themselves, and the Prefect of Linfen condemned them.