Chapter Summaries

Lu Xingshi witnessed the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon devouring people openly in the Capital City and concluded that the Crown Prince had brought him in to counterbalance the National Preceptor. As the Crown Prince and the Dragon Demon negotiated at the East Palace, Lu Xingshi resolved to purge the Capital City’s evil practitioners himself.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon had once been the Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord, but had swallowed Cloud Marsh’s people and seized its water source before joining the Crown Prince.
• The Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon rode into the Capital City in a carriage pulled by eight dragons and secretly ate a passerby as he traveled.
• Lu Xingshi recognized the danger posed by the Dragon Demon and decided to gather ammunition and claim the Merit by carrying out a purge himself.
• The Crown Prince welcomed the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon at the East Palace, where the two exchanged polite words despite their plans to control or use each other.
• The Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon asked whether the Crown Prince had invited him to deal with the National Preceptor, and the Crown Prince said he wanted help ascending to the throne.

Lu Xingshi ambushed the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King with his hidden fighter jet during their battle, but neither was killed. He overwhelmed them with a vast missile barrage, forcing them to flee, while he was left frustrated that his attacks could not keep pace with them.

• Lu Xingshi took his Flying Sword fighter jet into the night, intending to slaughter evil cultivators, Demons and Monsters, and powerful nobles.
• He spotted the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon fighting the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King and launched a concealed barrage of overcharged Sun Bullets at them.
• The Great Sun Fiend Burning Divine Flame caught both opponents, but the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon escaped by shedding his Dragon Scale and the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King sacrificed his feathers to break free.
• Lu Xingshi fired Transformation Bullets at the pair, but they destroyed the decoys and quickly regenerated their injuries.
• Lu Xingshi unleashed a massive, amplified barrage of different missiles, prompting the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King to flee.
• Lu Xingshi cursed when he realized the two were faster than his missiles and could not be caught.

After devastating the Capital City, Lu Xingshi selected new Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits and considered targeting the powerful and noble without harming innocents. Meanwhile, the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King agreed to join forces against him that night.

• The Capital City's powerful and noble blamed Lu Xingshi for the bombardment's casualties, but they could not find him.
• Lu Xingshi chose Stone Penetration, Wall Opening, Spreading Mist, Praying for Sunshine, and Praying for Rain, strengthening several of his other Dao Fruits.
• Lu Xingshi estimated that he had killed at least seventy percent of the Capital City's demons, monsters, and heterodox cultivators, and considered clearing out the powerful and noble and their collaborators next.
• Lu Xingshi worried that he could not target the powerful and noble without accidentally killing innocent servants or others and losing Merit.
• The Purple Eyed Golden Peng King demanded that the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon help kill Lu Xingshi that night, threatening to reveal his location.
• The Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon initially resisted the demand, but agreed to discuss joining forces after the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King started to leave.

Lu Xingshi encountered Gong Jing National Preceptor during his nightly hunt in the stormy Capital City, where the National Preceptor sought his help against Great Zhao’s political factions. Lu Xingshi agreed to consider helping only in exchange for cultivation methods, leaving the two to arrange a bargain using the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King as collateral.

• Lu Xingshi hunted evil cultivators and Demons and Monsters in a stormy domain, but found fewer targets than the previous night.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor appeared in Lu Xingshi’s fighter jet and explained that he wanted to remove the One Crown Prince, Eight Princes, and powerful capital nobles to save Great Zhao.
• Lu Xingshi accused Gong Jing National Preceptor of wanting to use him as a scapegoat, then demanded more payment for his help.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor offered Lu Xingshi cultivation methods, and Lu Xingshi agreed to take them all.
• Lu Xingshi proposed using the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King as a deposit before he acted, and Gong Jing National Preceptor accepted.

Lu Xingshi trapped the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King in a storm and fought them with missiles, lightning, and his transforming fighter. After killing the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon, he turned his attack on the fleeing Purple Eyed Golden Peng King.

• Lu Xingshi ambushed the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King with missiles, then survived their counterattack by transforming his fighter into a giant mech.
• Lu Xingshi drew down lightning with his Full-Metal Hunting Spear and formed a thunderstorm that weakened both enemies and restricted their movement.
• The Purple Eyed Golden Peng King saved the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon, while the dragon planned to escape using Water Escape.
• The Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon merged with rain summoned by Lu Xingshi, was badly injured by its effects, and was killed by Lu Xingshi's lightning.
• The Purple Eyed Golden Peng King fled while burning his lifespan, and Lu Xingshi prepared to pursue him with another lightning attack.

Lu Xingshi killed the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon and Purple Eyed Golden Peng King, gained new Dao Fruits, and collected a pouch of cultivation techniques from Gong Jing National Preceptor. After leaving with the purple eye to further his cultivation, he left Gong Jing wary and eager to send him away once their arrangement was complete.

• Lu Xingshi killed the Purple Eyed Golden Peng King and took its purple eye, which had aided his cultivation and Dao comprehension.
• Lu Xingshi selected the Forbidden Water and Sever Flow Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits, strengthening his water-related abilities.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor arrived at the Flying Sword fighter jet, and Lu Xingshi accepted a storage pouch containing a vast collection of Dao techniques.
• Lu Xingshi claimed the battle had nearly cost him his life, while Gong Jing National Preceptor accepted the obvious deception and treated their deal as mutually beneficial.
• Lu Xingshi flew away to improve the Azure Sea Tang Valley Treasure Record and use the purple eye to advance his Great Saint Body, while Gong Jing National Preceptor resolved to send him away after the work was done.

After a month in seclusion, Lu Xingshi assessed his improved strength and new Demon Saint ability before setting out to farm Merit. He encountered a man claiming the abandoned house was his ancestral home, and a Karmic Obstacle appeared to call the man “Yu Gege.”

• Lu Xingshi reviewed how the Purple Eye had helped him develop the growing Demon Saint ability and estimated his Physical Constitution at around 50 points.
• Lu Xingshi compared the Immortal Cultivation World’s physical aptitude with the Martial Arts World’s, then decided to leave seclusion and farm Merit.
• Lu Xingshi caught a burly man trying to pry open the house’s door and accused him of being sent by someone.
• The man insisted the house was his family’s ancestral home, and Lu Xingshi mocked him for acting like a woman.
• A cold wind passed, and a resentful voice called the man “Yu Gege,” prompting Lu Xingshi to ready his Sword Pill: Flying Sword and question him.

Lu Xingshi accompanied Zhen Yu into the Karmic Obstacle recreating the Ying Duke Residence, where the disgraced former heir was tempted by an illusion of the life he had lost. As Zhen Yu chose to embrace that life, the residence grew vivid, and Lu Xingshi realized Zhen Yu was bound to the Obstacle itself.

• Zhen Yu told Lu Xingshi that he had been imprisoned for fifteen years after the Ying Duke Residence was raided and exterminated, and Lu Xingshi suspected he had encountered a ghost.
• The Karmic Obstacle restored the ruined residence and presented Zhen Yu with Sister Rong, a fox-like manifestation who tried to lead him inside.
• Lu Xingshi persuaded Zhen Yu to consider the comfort of remaining in the illusion, and Zhen Yu began accepting the role of Ying Duke he had once lost.
• As Zhen Yu recalled the pleasures of noble life and welcomed the illusion, Sister Rong became more humanlike and the residence and surrounding street filled with people and activity.
• Zhen Yu asked Lu Xingshi what would happen if he stayed, then insisted he believed he could enjoy a life of wealth and honor; Lu Xingshi concluded that Zhen Yu was the Ying Duke Residence Karmic Obstacle's Object-Bound Obsession.

Lu Xingshi studied the strange Karmic Obstacle consuming the Ying Duke Residence while Zhen Yu was warned by his grandmother that the manor’s three-day enchantment would turn him into a monster. Zhen Yu fled the manor but found himself back at its ancestral hall, while Lu Xingshi stayed behind to investigate.

• Lu Xingshi observed Zhen Yu becoming increasingly absorbed into the Ying Duke Residence and considered how to destroy or control its Karmic Obstacle.
• Zhen Yu came to Lu Xingshi after his grandmother’s warning jolted him out of the manor’s enchantment, and he urged Lu Xingshi to escape with him.
• Lu Xingshi asked Zhen Yu to lead him to his grandmother, but Zhen Yu instead agreed to flee alone and wait outside the Ghost Domain.
• Zhen Yu passed through the monster-like gate and crossed a street filled with grotesque monsters, flesh, and bones as he tried to escape.
• Zhen Yu reached the end of the street and discovered that he had returned to the Ying Duke Residence’s ancestral hall.

Lu Xingshi discovered that Ying Duke Residence was a Yellow Millet Dream born from the Zhen Family’s deaths and centered on Zhen Yu. After Zhen Yu chose the false past and died, Lu Xingshi subdued the dream’s counterfeit version of him, taking control of its core.

• Lu Xingshi realized the ancestral hall’s remains revealed a Karmic Obstacle built from the dead Zhen Family’s longing for Zhen Yu to restore their fortunes.
• Lu Xingshi told Zhen Yu he could enter the ancestral hall and relive the false dream at the cost of his life, or refuse and survive in the cruel world.
• Zhen Yu entered the hall, reunited with his grandmother in the dream, and died; his death gave the Yellow Millet Dream an autonomous awareness modeled on him.
• The dream’s counterfeit Zhen Yu attacked Lu Xingshi, revived after being crushed, and used an imitation of Dynasty Protection to resist him.
• Lu Xingshi used his Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits to weaken and transform Zhen Yu into a squirrel, then enslaved him with Spirit Driving.
• Lu Xingshi told the counterfeit Zhen Yu that Ying Duke Residence and its duke were only a false game built over the family’s destruction.

Lu Xingshi discovered that combining Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits let him exploit their rules for flight and potentially guaranteed attacks, then decided to target powerful nobles in the Capital City. Meanwhile, Gong Jing National Preceptor sensed a threat as he prepared to complete his Dragon Transformation and revealed that he had devoured the Crown Prince and the officials around him.

• Lu Xingshi destroyed Yellow Millet Dream after determining that Spirit Driving could not safely control its consciousness, and he gained enough Merit from it to produce an Earthly Fiend Dao Fruit.
• Lu Xingshi tested Treading Water with Entering Water and Forbidden Water, discovered he could walk on water molecules and shoot upward through the air, and concluded that understanding rules could create powerful abilities.
• Lu Xingshi considered combining Summoning, Banishment, Transport, and Gourd Heaven to make attacks that struck inside a target, then chose the powerful nobles in the Capital City as prospective targets.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor felt uneasy and suspected Lu Xingshi might return, but believed he could deal with him after completing his Dragon Transformation.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor revealed that he had devoured the Crown Prince and the officials and nobles in the hall, while the Eight Princes had escaped the Capital City.

Lu Xingshi entered the Capital City and learned that more than three hundred children had vanished, hoping the case would lead to a new Merit task. Meanwhile, Gong Jing National Preceptor revealed that he was a Centipede Demon gathering children for a Dragon Transformation Pill and planned to become a Sinful Dragon by exploiting Great Zhao’s national destiny.

• Lu Xingshi learned that the Crown Prince had defeated the Eighth Prince with Gong Jing National Preceptor’s help and would ascend the throne in three days.
• Lu Xingshi heard that more than three hundred children under ten had disappeared and learned that neither the Crown Prince’s investigators nor Gong Jing National Preceptor had found a clue.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that the Capital City was downplaying reports of his earlier deeds and suspected someone was erasing his influence.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor revealed that he needed 999 children for a Dragon Transformation Pill and had gathered more than four hundred of them.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor exposed his centipede identity, drank the Crown Prince’s blood to disguise himself as a member of the Great Zhao Imperial Family, and declared that Great Zhao would fall with him if his transformation failed.
• The Crown Prince accused Gong Jing National Preceptor of becoming a Karmic Obstacle, but Gong Jing National Preceptor dismissed the threat of the immortals and gods, believing the Five Turbidities Evil World had already doomed them.

Lu Xingshi questioned Gong Jing National Preceptor about the capital’s child abductions and suspected that the evasive official was involved. After noticing that the National Preceptor was hiding his true appearance, Lu Xingshi secretly followed him to investigate.

• Lu Xingshi met Gong Jing National Preceptor, demanded further payment for his help, and asked about the child abduction cases.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor claimed he had made no progress and offered to mobilize capital officials, while asking Lu Xingshi not to use spells against the city.
• Lu Xingshi agreed to investigate and joked about resolving fights, but Gong Jing National Preceptor abruptly left and arranged for the Crown Prince to issue an edict.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that Gong Jing National Preceptor’s face was disguised and suspected a transformation similar to Painted Skin.
• Lu Xingshi turned into an invisible flying insect and used his Mysterious Light Art to follow Gong Jing National Preceptor.

Gong Jing National Preceptor told the imprisoned Crown Prince that the Dragon Transformation Pill was nearly ready and that the Crown Prince would die when he ascended the throne. As the Crown Prince tried to enlist an unseen Daoist to help him escape, Gong Jing National Preceptor revealed that he had used the conversation to mislead Lu Xingshi and complete the pill.

• Gong Jing National Preceptor drew the Crown Prince's blood and claimed the Dragon Transformation Pill would soon be refined, leaving the Crown Prince convinced he was intended as a sacrifice.
• The Crown Prince realized he had no way to escape the dungeon and suspected Gong Jing National Preceptor had orchestrated the imperial turmoil and his father emperor's death.
• An unseen visitor questioned the Crown Prince about his father's death and Gong Jing National Preceptor's transformation, and the Crown Prince described the National Preceptor as a threat who would become a Sinful Dragon.
• The Crown Prince tried to persuade the visitor to save him by offering the next National Preceptor position, but received no response.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor entered and addressed the hidden visitor as Daoist Lu, revealing that the Crown Prince's conversation had delayed Lu Xingshi while the Dragon Transformation Pill was completed.

Lu Xingshi killed the Crown Prince and fought Gong Jing National Preceptor, who revealed himself as a centipede demon seeking to transform into a dragon. Gong Jing escaped after Lu Xingshi seized the Dragon Transformation Pill and destroyed it, leaving Lu Xingshi to pursue the National Preceptor and claim his remains for his Demon Saint Mystical Power.

• Lu Xingshi killed the Crown Prince before he could finish accusing Gong Jing National Preceptor, then learned the enthronement was part of the National Preceptor’s dragon-transformation plan.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor revealed he intended to impersonate the Crown Prince and transform into a dragon, then tried to kill Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi used Ascension to Heaven and his weapons and mystical powers to batter Gong Jing National Preceptor, whose human disguise split open to reveal a centipede demon.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor warned that killing him could bring the dynasty’s Karmic Force upon Lu Xingshi, but Lu Xingshi said he was willing to transform into a dragon himself.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor escaped by leaving behind a mass of human skin, while Lu Xingshi’s five little ghosts returned with his centipede head and Lu Xingshi secured the Dragon Transformation Pill.
• Lu Xingshi destroyed the pill and planned to use Gong Jing National Preceptor’s remains to gain a Centipede Shadow and replace Jiao Shadow with Dragon Shadow.

Gong Jing National Preceptor completed his Sinful Dragon transformation and attacked Lu Xingshi, but Lu countered his powers and beat him into near-defeat. As Gong tried to possess Lu in a last-ditch move, Lu recognized the attempt and expected to capture him instead.

• Gong Jing National Preceptor transformed into a Sinful Dragon at the Altar of Heaven and unleashed a demonic attack that threatened to destroy the Capital City.
• Lu Xingshi turned the demonic light into a rooster and sent it away with five little ghosts, then blasted Gong Jing National Preceptor's head apart.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor regenerated, but Lu Xingshi placed Disaster Ward and Calamity Relief on him, stripping away his deathlessness and indestructibility.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor fled, but Lu Xingshi pursued him and repeatedly beat him with the power of Jiao Shadow, Peng Shadow, and Centipede Shadow.
• Gong Jing National Preceptor secretly sent a tiny dragon shadow toward Lu Xingshi's forehead to possess him, and Lu recognized the attempt.

After Gong Jing National Preceptor died, Lu Xingshi learned that the Heavenly Court and Netherworld had fallen, leaving the human realm protected by a weakening barrier from the Five Turbidities Evil World. He considered how to investigate and resolve the calamity, then collected Gong Jing National Preceptor’s corpse to use in his Demon Saint Mystical Power.

• Lu Xingshi reviewed Gong Jing National Preceptor’s memories and learned that the Heavenly Court and Netherworld had perished during the Heaven-Earth Separation, while the barrier protecting the human realm was gradually weakening.
• Lu Xingshi suspected that the Immortal Cultivation World was deeply afflicted and that borrowed spells and mystical powers might have been bait, then considered investigating the world’s Heavenly Dao.
• Lu Xingshi learned that the Cloud Marsh Dragon Lord had become the Cloud Marsh Dragon Demon after seeking to resurrect his son in the Netherworld, and concluded that Karmic Force had overwhelmed Merit.
• Lu Xingshi wondered whether killing Gong Jing National Preceptor had interrupted the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods’ plan, but decided to face whatever came next.
• Lu Xingshi collected Gong Jing National Preceptor’s Sinful Dragon corpse to make a Dragon Shadow and considered creating mystical-power bestiaries for devils and ghosts.

After killing Gong Jing National Preceptor, Lu Xingshi used the immense Merit he gained to form seven Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits and assessed the enormous cost of completing the rest. He decided to grind for Merit by hunting evil beings and began planning an upgraded aerospace carrier fleet to help him scour the world.

• Lu Xingshi formed seven Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits from his harvest, including Drinking Water, Sleeping in Snow, Leaping Rocks, Head Regeneration, Dismemberment, Swallowing Knives, and Obscuring Vision.
• Lu Xingshi discovered that his new Dao Fruits strengthened his cultivation while he ate and slept, let him digest nearly anything, and made him highly resistant to water- and fire-based attacks.
• Lu Xingshi estimated that he needed Merit from many more powerful enemies to complete his remaining Dao Fruits, but ruled out fighting Fallen Immortal Evil Gods for now.
• Lu Xingshi decided to hunt demons, monsters, ghosts, and unorthodox cultivators while considering how to gain enough Merit to grow the Fusang Tree.
• Lu Xingshi planned to upgrade his Flying Sword fighter jet into an aerospace carrier fleet, replacing missiles with spell-based laser weapons and assigning his Clones to the work.

After a new emperor turned tyrannical, Lu Xingshi set out to kill him for Merit but was diverted when a mass of crying, foul-smelling flesh fell from the sky in front of the palace. Unable to identify or move it, Lu Xingshi left Cheng Zhi to decide what to do, and Cheng chose to claim Lu’s proposed solution as his own.

• The new Zhao Emperor began ruling through debauchery and slaughter, prompting Lu Xingshi to plan to kill him for Merit.
• A mass of flesh fell from the sky, bypassed the Heavenly Net, and landed at the imperial palace gates.
• Lu Xingshi inspected the writhing, crying mass but could not identify it, and he refused Cheng Zhi’s request to move it.
• Lu Xingshi mocked Cheng Zhi’s defense of the emperor and suggested that he summon Celestial Masters from across the regions to discuss the problem.
• After Lu Xingshi vanished, Cheng Zhi decided to claim the suggestion and its potential credit for himself.

As the Flesh Filth Star terrorized the Capital City, Gao Wei’s cruelty and unnatural strength grew while he waited for Daoists to answer his summons. An assassination failed, and he confronted the Empress Consort after she gave birth to dragon-snake twins, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Lu Xingshi took a tissue sample from the Flesh Filth Star and resumed his research while his Clones built an aerospace carrier fleet formation.
• Gao Wei ordered Cheng Zhi’s family flayed and killed a eunuch who interrupted his enjoyment to report that the Empress Consort had given birth.
• An assassin attacked Gao Wei, but his skin stopped the short swords, and he killed the attacker with ease.
• Gao Wei went to Cixin Palace and found the Empress Consort holding a dragon and a snake born as their twins.
• Gao Wei demanded the twins so he could eat them, but the Empress Consort refused, and he left after insulting her.