Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi refined a cultivation method based on Yin and Yang Bodies and planned to study Demons, Monsters, and heretical cultivators to develop Spirit Bodies. While traveling through Guiyang Prefecture, he watched two geese fall from the sky, and the second appeared to die by suicide, leaving him suspicious that something was wrong.

• Lu Xingshi reviewed research on the undying beings known as the fifth category and criticized their mixture of ghostly, demonic, monstrous, and fiendish traits.
• Lu Xingshi combined two cultivation scriptures into a new method, freed his Yin Yang Battery clone, and created Yin and Yang Bodies to cultivate automatically.
• Lu Xingshi planned to develop Spirit Bodies using research data from the Bloodworm Dragon Consort and considered studying Demons, Monsters, and heretical cultivators for more information.
• Lu Xingshi realized he had reached Guiyang Prefecture after a pair of geese dropped droppings onto his windshield, reminding him that his car had no wipers.
• One goose suddenly fell from the sky, and then the second fell as if it had taken its own life, making Lu Xingshi suspect something strange was happening.

Lu Xingshi helped a finely dressed young master buy a pair of geese at a fair price, then warned him against burying them together. After Lu Xingshi left, the young master built a Goose Mound, where his dead wife’s voice called to him and a pale arm reached out from the grave.

• Lu Xingshi intervened when the Goose Hunter tried to overcharge the young master for the two geese, helping him buy them at a normal price.
• The young master explained that he intended to bury the geese together, but Lu Xingshi warned him that something might happen before leaving for Guiyang Prefecture City.
• Lu Xingshi gave the Goose Hunter a lift and learned that geese usually did not die immediately after losing a mate, making the pair’s deaths unusual.
• The young master built a Goose Mound in the wilderness while paying respects to his late wife, who had been buried outside the city because of her poor origins.
• A voice resembling the young master's late wife called to him, and a crack opened in the Goose Mound as her pale arm emerged.
• The young master recognized the arm, took hold of it, and said that he and his wife would never be apart again.

Lu Xingshi learned that Wood Creek Celestial Master was away and prepared to leave Guiyang Prefecture, but the He Family questioned him about the disappearance of their young master. After vanishing from their servant, Lu Xingshi decided to protect the Goose Hunter, while He Zhang ordered the hunter’s grave dug up and tried to summon Lu Xingshi for questioning.

• Lu Xingshi found Shouyi Temple closed because Wood Creek Celestial Master was away, so he decided to leave Guiyang Prefecture.
• A He Family servant asked Lu Xingshi about the missing young master, and Lu Xingshi denied knowing what happened after he left the young man outside the city.
• Lu Xingshi used his Dao Fruits to vanish from the servant, then considered upgrading the Great Luck Heavy Truck and decided to save the Goose Hunter.
• He Zhang concluded that Lu Xingshi and the Goose Hunter were probably uninvolved, but ordered Li Da to dig up the grave of the woman connected to his son’s disappearance.
• He Zhang told Li Da to invite Lu Xingshi for questioning and threatened to skin him if he failed, while deciding he would only teach the Daoist a lesson rather than kill him.

Lu Xingshi confronted the He Family’s accusations and forced the Guiyang Prefecture Lord to accompany him to the He Residence, while growing suspicious that an unseen influence was stirring people’s rage. Elsewhere, He Zhang was killed by the fused apparition of his son He Xian and his murdered former daughter-in-law.

• Lu Xingshi refused the He Family’s invitation, but agreed to go after Li Da threatened to accuse him of murdering He Xian.
• Lu Xingshi chased Li Da through the streets in the Great Luck Heavy Truck and burned him with a harmless flame until Li Da led him to the Guiyang Prefectural Office.
• The Guiyang Prefecture Lord agreed to mediate and ordered Li Da arrested after Lu Xingshi denounced his accusations and invoked his past deeds.
• Lu Xingshi threatened the Guiyang Prefecture Lord and demanded that he lead the way to the He Residence, while noticing that those nearby seemed unusually prone to anger.
• He Zhang saw He Xian and his former daughter-in-law fused into a strange figure, then died as her hands emerged from his throat and tore his head apart.

Lu Xingshi destroyed the He Residence’s flesh-and-feather abomination, then fought and fled from a powerful Wing to Wing Bird that had corrupted Guiyang Prefecture’s city. The creature returned to the city and kept attempting to reproduce, making the infestation worse.

• Lu Xingshi drove the Great Luck Heavy Truck into the He Residence and burned He Xian’s fused human abomination and the entire mansion to ashes.
• A monstrous pair of Wing to Wing Birds appeared, their cries harming the people of Guiyang Prefecture’s city as Dynasty Protection vanished from the Guiyang Prefecture Lord.
• Lu Xingshi attacked the Wing to Wing Bird with his clone and the truck’s weapons, but it regenerated, so he fled rather than risk his Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor account.
• The Wing to Wing Bird pursued Lu Xingshi beyond the city, but he bit off one of its arms and burned it badly with Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame before escaping.
• The injured Wing to Wing Bird returned to the Prefectural Office and repeatedly tried to reproduce, while blood eggs melted and feathers spread throughout the city.

Lu Xingshi found evidence that something had burst out of Goose Mound, then rescued the badly wounded Wood Creek Celestial Master after the Wing to Wing Bird drove him from Guiyang Prefecture. Wood Creek explained the spreading Karmic Obstacles and proposed a way to make the Wing to Wing Bird collapse, leaving Lu Xingshi skeptical of the plan.

• Lu Xingshi dismantled the collapsed Goose Mound, found no geese but discovered traces that looked like hands, and abandoned his attempt to hunt the Wing to Wing Bird.
• Lu Xingshi drove toward a streak of rainbow light and found Wood Creek Celestial Master unconscious with a large claw wound from the Wing to Wing Bird.
• Lu Xingshi concealed himself and Wood Creek Celestial Master's soul from the pursuing creature, then stitched the Celestial Master's wound and healed him with the Clear Rain Technique.
• Wood Creek Celestial Master explained that Karmic Obstacles had begun spreading across All Under Heaven amid the late emperor's death, the struggle among the Nine Sons, and the breakdown of communication with the Grandmaster.
• Wood Creek Celestial Master said the Wing to Wing Bird's joined life and death, yin and yang could be disrupted so it would collapse without a Daoist Ritual Ceremony, but Lu Xingshi doubted him after seeing him nearly killed.

Lu Xingshi and Wood Creek Celestial Master attacked the Wing to Wing Bird to destroy its egg, but the bird gave birth to a new creature during the fight. The chapter ended with the newborn crying inside the former Prefectural Office of Guiyang Prefecture.

• Wood Creek Celestial Master gave Lu Xingshi the Guarding Heart and Clarifying Nature Upper Scripture before confronting the Wing to Wing Bird.
• Wood Creek Celestial Master used illusions to lure the bird, but it saw through them and attacked him.
• Lu Xingshi rescued Wood Creek Celestial Master with the Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame, and the bird bit away more than half of his body.
• Wood Creek Celestial Master resurrected himself with his divine ability while the bird began changing after swallowing his upper half.
• Lu Xingshi battered the Wing to Wing Bird, but a new creature was born in its nest and cried out.

Lu Xingshi discovered that Disaster Ward and Calamity Relief could suppress the Wing to Wing Bird’s immortality, allowing him to kill it. The Ten-Headed Bird swallowed Wood Creek Celestial Master and escaped with him inside, so Lu Xingshi set off to hunt it down.

• The newly born Ten-Headed Bird devoured the regenerating Wing to Wing Bird, while Wood Creek Celestial Master attacked it and Lu Xingshi dealt with the Wing to Wing Bird.
• Lu Xingshi destroyed the Wing to Wing Bird’s deceptive heads, then used Disaster Ward and Calamity Relief to suppress its regeneration and burned it to death.
• The Ten-Headed Bird swallowed Wood Creek Celestial Master, but Lu Xingshi cut off the head that had eaten him and prevented it from regenerating.
• The Nine-Headed Bird fled with Wood Creek Celestial Master inside it, and Lu Xingshi questioned the severed head and ordered it to lead him to the others.

Lu Xingshi unlocked six Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits and equipped his Great Luck Heavy Truck with a system that let it fly as he pursued the Nine-Headed Bird. Guided by the surviving Severed Head, he learned about the He Family’s grim past and continued tormenting it while keeping it alive to lead him to its brothers.

• Lu Xingshi spent his Merit on Cloud Summoning, Moon Fetching, Transport, Summoning, Expulsion, and False Form, boosting his stealth, reconnaissance, and combat options.
• Lu Xingshi combined Cloud Summoning, Transport, Summoning, and Expulsion to make his Great Luck Heavy Truck fly, while using Moon Fetching to observe distant locations.
• Lu Xingshi put the Severed Head of the Ten-Headed Bird in the truck and made it guide him north toward the Nine-Headed Bird.
• The Severed Head revealed that it and its siblings had inherited memories and had been born dead after their mother was killed by He Zhang, while He Xian had failed to protect her.
• Lu Xingshi told the Severed Head he would find and kill its brothers, then slapped it and burned its mouth with Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame when it insulted him.

Lu Xingshi crushed the Nine-Headed Bird, killed its Severed Head, and failed to control the weakened creature before burning it away. He gained little Merit but chose the Scene Shifting Dao Fruit and considered seeking stronger demons and monsters in the Capital City.

• The Nine-Headed Bird pursued its Severed Head toward a town, but Lu Xingshi ran it down with the Great Luck Heavy Truck and crushed it repeatedly.
• After fulfilling his promise to let the Severed Head vent its anger, Lu Xingshi bestowed Disaster Ward and Calamity Relief upon it and burned it to ash.
• Lu Xingshi bound the Nine-Headed Bird, stripped away its protections, and tried to control it with Spirit Driving, but it exploded and resisted him.
• Lu Xingshi burned the Nine-Headed Bird to death and received only a small amount of Merit.
• Lu Xingshi chose Scene Shifting, combined it with his other Dao Fruits, and used it to transform the surrounding area into water.
• Lu Xingshi considered going to the Capital City to find stronger monsters and earn more Merit.

Lu Xingshi investigated a dangerous lake after a fleeing Ox Demon warned him away, then tracked a mysterious white figure that emerged from the water. The figure reached Xue Feng’s hut, where he welcomed the naked woman inside, unaware of the danger.

• Lu Xingshi collided with an Ox Demon in the air, and the demon warned him that the area was dangerous before galloping away.
• Lu Xingshi landed by a lake and watched a young man steal women’s clothes from the shore, though he could see no one bathing there.
• After the young man vanished, Lu Xingshi reviewed his dashcam footage and spotted a horned lump falling into the lake, suspecting the lake had killed the Ox Demon.
• Lu Xingshi prepared to monitor the lake and saw a white figure shoot out of the water, then used Taking the Moon to track it toward the young man’s hut.
• Xue Feng opened his door to a naked woman asking about her clothes, denied seeing them, and invited her inside for hot soup.

Lu Xingshi watched a white shadow lure Xue Feng into a fatal Life Siphoning ritual, then used a clone to steal the Heavenly Garment and shoot the figure bathing in the lake. He learned the garment was disposable bait rather than a treasure, and the wounded white shadow came ashore to face him before it could transform.

• Lu Xingshi observed the white shadow drain Xue Feng until his body turned to powder, then watched it return to spy on his vehicle.
• Two phantom voices described how to steal a bathing Fairy’s Heavenly Garment, and the garment appeared by the lakeshore as splashing sounds came from the water.
• Lu Xingshi sent a clone to collect the Heavenly Garment, and the clone shot the figure in the lake twice before returning to the vehicle.
• Lu Xingshi realized the garment was disposable bait with a concealment effect and noticed that no wild animals had been startled by the gunshots.
• The white shadow came ashore and met Lu Xingshi’s gaze before it had time to transform into a woman.

Lu Xingshi captured a paper figure serving the dead Fairy in the lake, but it revealed little before the Fairy’s power destroyed it. As white figures surrounded his truck, Lu Xingshi drove through them and continued toward the lake’s hidden threat.

• Lu Xingshi exposed the woman as a paper figure and used three Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits to capture and question it.
• The paper figure said a dead Fairy in the lake had created its kind, then began cracking as it revealed this information.
• Lu Xingshi killed the paper figure, and the lake boiled as white figures, including a flattened Ox Demon, emerged.
• The Heavenly Garment turned into foul water weeds, while white figures surrounded Lu Xingshi’s truck without attacking.
• After waiting for the Fairy to appear, Lu Xingshi drove over the surrounding white figures and headed onward.

Lu Xingshi defeated a failed Water Dissection cultivator who had become a swollen corpse and learned how the Five Turbidities Evil World had destroyed Joyful Great Immortal’s lineage. After finishing his interrogation and dissection, he prepared to kill her for Merit.

• Lu Xingshi destroyed the white figures, then attacked the fairy corpse that surfaced from the lake.
• The corpse drained the lake and revealed herself as a failed ascendant whose Water Dissection had turned her into karmic obstruction.
• Lu Xingshi interrupted her spellcasting and used the Great Luck Heavy Truck and a barrage of firepower to tear her apart and capture part of her head.
• The corpse warned that Joyful Great Immortal’s lineage would doom Lu Xingshi, but he said he had changed cultivation methods and dissected her while she talked.
• The corpse explained that she had been a Jade Maiden under Joyful Great Immortal and had been ruined when his lineage suffered the Five Turbidities Evil World’s effects.
• Lu Xingshi used Disaster Ward and Calamity Relief, then attacked her with Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame to finish her and claim Merit.

Lu Xingshi gained Spray Transmutation, Finger Transmutation, and Qi Restriction, which strengthened his abilities and let him transform matter in new ways. After testing their limits and planning his next research, he wondered whether the Great Zhao National Preceptor knew the secret of the Fallen Immortals.

• Lu Xingshi chose Spray Transmutation and Finger Transmutation, then gained Qi Restriction, whose protections and synergies greatly enhanced his other Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits.
• Lu Xingshi transformed his Great Luck Heavy Truck into a J-20, but discovered its interior was useless because he lacked knowledge of the fighter jet’s workings.
• Lu Xingshi tested transforming grass into a tree and realized that transformations required data from either his own knowledge or the world.
• Lu Xingshi decided to stay and refine his methods, design a fighter jet, and investigate using immortal bone to develop a Spirit Body.
• Lu Xingshi wondered whether the immortals and gods would interfere with his plans and suspected the Great Zhao National Preceptor might know about the Fallen Immortals.

Lu Xingshi completed his Azure Sea Tang Valley Treasure Record, Great Saint Body, and Spirit Sword Number Fighter Jet, then tested the jet’s weapons when an Azure Ox demon attacked him. He destroyed the ox’s Dharma Body with transformation and fire-based missiles, but learned that the demon’s true body was still out there.

• Lu Xingshi named his self-made cultivation method the Azure Sea Tang Valley Treasure Record and completed the preliminary transformation of his Great Saint Body.
• Lu Xingshi built the Spirit Sword Number Fighter Jet using his Spirit Dragon Flying Sword and prepared to fly it toward the Capital City.
• An Azure Ox demon attacked Lu Xingshi, and he evaded its charge before using a Trap Missile to transform it into a chicken and confine it in a pond.
• Lu Xingshi struck the trapped chicken with a Sun Bullet, destroying the Azure Ox demon’s Dharma Body.
• The Azure Ox demon’s furious roar revealed that its Dharma Body had been destroyed, and Lu Xingshi realized its true body remained a threat.

Lu Xingshi fled the Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist, using transformations, clones, and concealment to evade capture while preparing to log on with his main account. The Daoist offered an apology for attacking him over his calf’s death, but Lu Xingshi refused it after his main account’s data had already been imported.

• The Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist struck Lu Xingshi’s Flying Sword with an azure lightning sword, but Lu Xingshi repaired it through transformation and escaped on it.
• The Daoist caught up with Lu Xingshi and attacked his fighter jet with Jiao Dragons formed from his whisk, so Lu Xingshi transformed the jet into a Sword Pill and disguised himself as one of the dragons.
• Lu Xingshi escaped the Daoist’s grasp and used clones to distract him with the Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame.
• Lu Xingshi began importing his main account’s data, and the Daoist sensed a coming disaster and apologized for attacking him while investigating his calf’s death.
• Lu Xingshi rejected the Daoist’s apology, saying it was too late now that his main account was ready.

Lu Xingshi subdued the Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist, explained that his ox offspring had died while confronting a Karmic Obstacle, and accepted seven volumes of cultivation methods as compensation. They settled their misunderstanding and discussed how the Jade Maiden's failed corpse dissection had caused the calamity.

• The Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist tried to flee, but Lu Xingshi summoned the Jade Emperor Phantom, whose Golden Palace suppressed him.
• Lu Xingshi explained that the Ox Demon had collided with him and died during the events involving the Jade Maiden Corpse Dissection and the Karmic Obstacle.
• The Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist apologized for attacking Lu Xingshi and offered seven volumes of methods in compensation.
• Lu Xingshi accepted the volumes, and the two agreed their enmity had been settled.
• The Green-Robed Ox-Horned Daoist explained that obscured heavenly secrets had led him to mistake Lu Xingshi for his child's killer, and they discussed the Jade Maiden's past and failed attempt to ascend through corpse dissection.

Lu Xingshi questioned Daoist Longshan about the Capital City and learned that its succession struggle had become dangerously chaotic, with fiends and powerful factions caught up in it. Daoist Longshan left to prepare a cenotaph for his descendant, while Lu Xingshi concluded that the Capital City's powerful might be using evil cultivators and Demons and Monsters in their struggle for the throne.

• Lu Xingshi learned that Daoist Longshan was a wealthy Third Generation Immortal and asked him about the Capital City.
• Daoist Longshan warned Lu Xingshi to avoid the Capital City until the New Emperor's Ascension, explaining that the Nine Sons Seizing the Throne had drawn cultivators into deadly conflict.
• Daoist Longshan said the Crown Prince was suspected of killing the Late Emperor and that fiends' frequent appearances might be connected to him.
• Daoist Longshan refused to name the prince most likely to ascend and departed to prepare a cenotaph for his descendant.
• Lu Xingshi inferred that the Capital City's powerful could be using evil cultivators and Demons and Monsters as tools in their fight for power.

Lu Xingshi entered the Capital City checkpoint by bypassing the Heavenly Net and disguised himself as a scholar. After criticizing the Crown Prince’s relatives, he was targeted by corrupt enforcers, whom he defeated and drove off by pretending to have powerful connections.

• Lu Xingshi used Invisibility to pass through the Heavenly Net and entered the checkpoint, where he changed his appearance to that of a scholar.
• Lu Xingshi saw the Crown Prince’s younger brother-in-law gallop through the street and traded sarcastic remarks with a butcher about the man’s arrogance.
• An old man warned Lu Xingshi that criticizing the imperial family was dangerous as the princes struggled for the throne.
• Several men surrounded Lu Xingshi, hoping to arrest him for his remarks and gain merit.
• Lu Xingshi knocked the men down, killed their leader, and frightened the survivors into retreating by pretending he had powerful backing.