Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion with the Ship Control Technique completed, Lu Xingshi learned that the Zhao Emperor and Demon Empress had brought disaster upon the Capital City with a monstrous dragon and snake. He headed for the imperial palace to kill the rulers and investigate the Flesh Filth Star, while the Eighth Prince’s forces appeared to be approaching.

• Lu Xingshi learned that his research suggested the Flesh Filth Star sample was a dead egg possibly connected to the Joyful Great Immortal, and that his cultivation and Ship Control Technique had advanced enough for him to confront the grand cultivators.
• A resident told Lu Xingshi that the Capital City’s population had fallen from thirty million to five million because the Demon Empress’s dragon and snake children devoured people, while the Heavenly Net prevented anyone from leaving.
• Lu Xingshi saw the Demon Dragon and then the Demon Snake pass over the city, and the resident guessed that the Eighth Prince had arrived.
• Lu Xingshi left the resident and headed toward the imperial palace through the devastated, silent city, intending to kill the Zhao Emperor and Demon Empress and then face the dragon and snake.

Lu Xingshi fought Zhao Emperor Gao Wei and the Calamity-Bringing Demon Empress in the imperial palace, using his demon shadows and Ship Control Technique to overwhelm them. After devouring Gao Wei, he discovered that Gao Wei and the Empress were linked, and faced the Empress’s strengthened counterattack.

• Lu Xingshi entered the imperial palace and blasted Gao Wei into Blood Mist, then fought him again after he reformed as an evil dragon.
• Lu Xingshi and his four demon shadows battered Gao Wei, who fled as Lu Xingshi deployed an Aerospace Aircraft Carrier Battle Group against the palace.
• The Calamity-Bringing Demon Empress revealed her enormous half-human, half-snake form and blocked Lu Xingshi’s lasers with her scales.
• Lu Xingshi ambushed the Empress with the Southern Samadhi Fire Sword while tearing through Gao Wei’s attempts to attack him.
• Lu Xingshi swallowed Gao Wei, but received no Merit and realized he might not be dead or might not belong to the Merit system.
• Face-bearing tumors resembling Gao Wei appeared across the Empress, sharply reducing the damage she took and enabling her to counterattack.

The Gao Clan's Eight Kings watched as the dragon and snake overwhelmed the cultivators and attacked their army, while a mysterious fighter battled the Demon Empress in the Capital City. After the snake killed all eight princes and the dragons returned to aid the collapsing Demon Empress, the surviving cultivators rallied to enter the city and help suppress the Karmic Obstacle.

• The Gao Clan's Eight Kings debated retreating as the cultivators struggled against the dragon and snake, then became hopeful after seeing unfamiliar magical treasures and the Demon Empress fighting a powerful opponent.
• The Demon Dragon broke through the cultivators' defense and swallowed thousands of soldiers, while the princes' rivalry kept them from working together.
• The Demon Snake charged the command tent and crushed all eight Gao Clan princes, then swallowed thousands more soldiers as the Allied Army fell into chaos.
• The Demon Empress began to collapse, prompting the dragon and snake to rush back toward the Capital City.
• A Celestial Master urged the surviving cultivators and soldiers to enter the city and help the unknown fighter suppress the Karmic Obstacle.

Lu Xingshi fought the dragon and snake after they devoured the Flesh Filth Star, only to discover Joyful Great Immortal emerging from their transformed bodies. He escaped the Fallen Immortal’s attack and continued fleeing through the sky.

• The dragon and snake devoured the Flesh Filth Star, and nearby cultivators mutated and died from its influence.
• Lu Xingshi unleashed the Ten Thousand Ships Technique, but the dragon and snake endured its bombardment with power gained from the Flesh Filth Star.
• The dragon and snake split apart to reveal Joyful Great Immortal’s corrupted Flesh Lotus Platform and conjoined form.
• When Meng Tou warned him of danger, Lu Xingshi escaped to heaven and detonated his Aerospace Aircraft Carrier Battle Group to delay Joyful Great Immortal.
• Joyful Great Immortal reached through space with an arm, but Lu Xingshi used multiple Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits to evade its grasp.

Lu Xingshi used the Inviting Immortals Dao Fruit to borrow power from Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor and badly wounded Joyful Great Immortal, though the Dao Fruit was left damaged. Elsewhere, Xu Yi realized that the sky-shattering battle had taken place during what his system called the Dharma-ending Era.

• Lu Xingshi selected six Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits, including Inviting Immortals, and used it to summon power from Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor.
• Lu Xingshi struck Joyful Great Immortal twice, destroying most of his body and forcing him to escape as a drop of blood.
• Lu Xingshi refined Joyful Great Immortal's remains into a sample, then rested while considering how to connect the Immortal Cultivation World with the Martial Arts World.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that he could summon Zhu Yan and Wang Cai but chose to leave them in the Martial Arts World, where they would be safer.
• Xu Yi asked his Sign-in System about the sky-splitting battle, and the system confirmed that immortal gods were in hiding during the Dharma-ending Era.

Lu Xingshi examined Joyful Great Immortal’s remains and planned to use them to track down and kill the escaped immortal for Merit, while considering how to develop his Yin-Yang Bodies. Xu Yi received a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root from his system, then saw a huge fox spirit outside his window.

• Lu Xingshi compared Joyful Great Immortal’s complete cultivation lineage with his own methods and decided Dharma Bodies would be less useful than turning his Yin-Yang Bodies into sources of buffs.
• Lu Xingshi planned to gather the remaining Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits by killing Joyful Great Immortal, and considered crafting a concealed compass from the immortal’s sample to locate him.
• Lu Xingshi reflected that too few cultivators remained to save the world alone and that his clones could not range far enough to help.
• Xu Yi received a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, the Peach Tree of Immortality, from his Sign-in System but returned to sleep because he lacked a cultivation method.
• The Sign-in System warned Xu Yi that a fox spirit was coming, and Xu Yi saw a massive fox head outside his window.

Lu Xingshi entered Shaoan Prefecture to find Joyful Great Immortal, who had escaped his pursuit by being reborn through the Rebirth in the Womb method. After a local Tiger Demon attacked him and quickly surrendered, Lu Xingshi ordered it to summon the city's demons and monsters so he could question them.

• Lu Xingshi realized Joyful Great Immortal had remade his body through rebirth and began searching Shaoan Prefecture for him.
• Lu Xingshi learned that the prefecture's Celestial Master had died, leaving demons, monsters, and Karmic Obstacles to prey on its people.
• A wealthy merchant toad offered Lu Xingshi a fake gold ingot and asked when he would leave, but Lu Xingshi said he had to stay until he found someone.
• A Mottled Tiger attacked Lu Xingshi, who threw it down and forced it to surrender.
• Lu Xingshi threatened the Tiger Demon and ordered it to summon all the demons and monsters in the city.

After three million taels of official silver vanished from Shaoan Prefecture’s treasury, Lu Xingshi discovered it had been taken by Five Ghosts Transporting and suspected the White Snake Demon and Green Fish Demon. He agreed to help Prefect Shaoan act against them if evidence emerged, while focusing on his hunt for the demon he had pursued from the Capital City.

• Lu Xingshi persuaded Prefect Shaoan to help him search for the demon he had pursued from the Capital City, promising to deal with Shaoan Prefecture’s demons and monsters afterward.
• A yamen runner reported that all three million taels of official silver had disappeared from the treasury.
• Lu Xingshi examined the treasury and identified Five Ghosts Transporting as the method used to remove the silver.
• Lu Xingshi concluded that the culprit was likely a demon and suspected the White Snake Demon and Green Fish Demon, though he had no proof.
• Prefect Shaoan asked Lu Xingshi to recover the silver, but Lu Xingshi declined a reward and said he would help pursue the demons if evidence surfaced.

Prefect Shaoan investigated stolen Official Silver and traced it to Madam White, while Lu Xingshi suspected the demons had taken it to aid Joyful Great Immortal. Elsewhere, Xu Yi killed a fox demon and decided he needed to enter the Dao soon as demons grew bolder.

• A merchant reported that Xu Yin had paid him with stolen Official Silver, and Prefect Shaoan rewarded him while ordering him to keep quiet.
• Prefect Shaoan brought Lu Xingshi and his forces to question Xu Yin, where they discovered that his wife, Madam Bai, was the White Snake Demon and her maid was a male Green Fish Demon.
• Xu Yin said the silver came from his wife's dowry and led the officials toward her residence, while Lu Xingshi suspected Madam White was pregnant and the silver was intended for Joyful Great Immortal.
• Xu Yi complained to the Sign-in System after killing a fox demon, then resolved to pursue cultivation because demons were appearing more often.

Lu Xingshi exposed Joyful Great Immortal as the one behind the stolen Official Silver and fought him after he emerged from Madam White. Joyful Great Immortal escaped death, and Lu Xingshi suspected he might be hiding in Xu Yin.

• Lu Xingshi confronted Madam White about the missing three million taels of Official Silver and revealed that the money had been refined by the monster in her womb.
• Joyful Great Immortal took control of Madam White, consumed her to return to the human world, and fled after clashing with Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi caught Joyful Great Immortal and attacked him, accusing him of causing the deaths of twenty-five million people in the Capital City.
• Lu Xingshi reduced Joyful Great Immortal to dust, but received no Merit and realized he had survived through another hidden body or remnant.
• Lu Xingshi and the others found the Green Fish Demon's remains by the dried pond and learned that Madam White had eaten her.
• Lu Xingshi suspected that Joyful Great Immortal might be hiding in Xu Yin, the only fish who had escaped their search.

Lu Xingshi discovered that a remnant of Joyful Great Immortal was lodged in Xu Yin’s heart and removed it with a spell, earning a great deal of Merit. Afterward, Lu Xingshi deferred Prefect Shaoan’s request to deal with the prefecture’s troubles, while Xu Yin carried away the Green Fish Demon’s remains.

• Lu Xingshi examined Xu Yin and explained that a fragment of Joyful Great Immortal had remained in his heart after transferring most of itself to Madam White.
• Xu Yin begged Lu Xingshi to save him, and Lu Xingshi opened his chest with spells and pulled the tiny growth from his heart.
• Lu Xingshi rendered the growth inactive, received abundant Merit, and told Prefect Shaoan he would recuperate before discussing the prefecture’s troubles.
• Xu Yin gathered the Green Fish Demon’s remains and carried them back, reflecting on his time with the demon and Madam White.

Lu Xingshi formed fourteen Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits, refined his Demon Slaying Sword, and gave Prefect Shaoan a jade sword to defend the prefecture. He learned that three emperors had risen and fallen in the capital in one month as Karmic Obstacles spread, and prepared to pursue the Fallen Immortal Evil Gods while leaving Shaoan Prefecture with a means of protection.

• Lu Xingshi chose fourteen Earthly Fiend Dao Fruits and began digesting them alongside his existing abilities.
• Lu Xingshi studied the Joyful Great Immortal’s fleshy tumor for a month, upgrading his Azure Sea Tang Valley Treasure Record and creating the Demon Slaying Sword technique.
• Lu Xingshi gave Prefect Shaoan a Demon-Slaying Jade Sword that could unleash one hundred strikes against demons and monsters.
• Prefect Shaoan told Lu Xingshi that three emperors had taken the throne in the capital within a month, each becoming tyrannical, while calamities spread throughout All Under Heaven.
• Lu Xingshi offered to establish a spiritual killing array centered on the jade sword to protect Shaoan Prefecture, while planning to leave and hunt Fallen Immortal Evil Gods.
• Lu Xingshi warned Prefect Shaoan that abusing the jade sword to kill people would diminish its power, and Prefect Shaoan promised to use it righteously.

Lu Xingshi questioned the identity of the great being whose reincarnation he had intercepted, then set out to seek Fallen Immortal Evil Gods for Merit. Meanwhile, Xu Yi received a second Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord inheritance clue, and his Sign-in System suspected his body was connected to the Divine Lord.

• Prefect Shaoan used Lu Xingshi's Demon-Slaying Spirit Light Treasure Formation to clear Shaoan Prefecture of Demons and Monsters and strengthen his control, then repeatedly tried to obtain more treasures from Lu Xingshi.
• Lu Xingshi avoided Prefect Shaoan and continued improving the Azure Sea Tang Valley Treasure Record, then experimented with changing the Yin Body and Yang Body before turning them back.
• Lu Xingshi suspected his Great Being Reincarnation background might involve a great being related to the sun, moon, or Yin and Yang, and his divination showed that the replacement was complete but could not identify his past life.
• Lu Xingshi decided to search for Fallen Immortal Evil Gods and gather information before acting.
• Xu Yi received a second Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord inheritance clue, prompting his Sign-in System to suspect his body was connected to the Divine Lord through reincarnation or possession.
• Xu Yi agreed to keep signing in and pursue the inheritance, while the Sign-in System vowed to obtain it and kill the Divine Lord.

Lu Xingshi investigated LuYang Prefecture, whose apparent peace seemed suspiciously unlike the devastation elsewhere. He joined Luoyang Academy as a lecturer to remain in the city and continue searching for the hidden evil god.

• Lu Xingshi entered LuYang Prefecture and found its calm streets and prosperous conditions deeply abnormal, but discovered no immediate clues.
• Lu Xingshi spotted a woman disguised as a male student among Luoyang Academy’s students and spoke with the academy headmaster, Le Jing.
• Lu Xingshi claimed to be a Recommended Man fleeing disaster and seeking work, and Le Jing invited him to become a lecturer.
• Lu Xingshi initially declined, but Le Jing persisted until he accepted the position and entered the academy.

Lu Xingshi taught at LuYang Academy, detected an anomalous force assimilating people into LuYang Prefecture, and decided to investigate Fu Qing and the Fu Clan before leaving. Elsewhere, Xu Yi obtained the True Yang Treasure Art and learned that his Peach Tree of Immortality might have saved him from becoming a vessel for Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord.

• Lu Xingshi used terrifying illusions to reform Ma Ji, then gave Meng Shu and Fu Qing only half a quarter-hour to ask questions after class.
• Lu Xingshi sensed an external force trying to make him forget his past and blend into LuYang Prefecture, and suspected the prefecture concealed Demons and Monsters or an evil Karmic Obstacle.
• Lu Xingshi decided to investigate the Fu Clan and Fu Qing, giving himself five days to find clues before leaving.
• Xu Yi withdrew with the True Yang Treasure Art and learned that Pure Yang Grand Unity Divine Lord might have intended to possess his body.
• Xu Yi and the Sign-in System discussed how his Peach Tree of Immortality and the system had protected him, and how courting-death systems offered far greater rewards at extreme risk.

Lu Xingshi watched Meng Shu pursue a marriage with Fu Qing and suspected a hidden force was guiding the young man. Meanwhile, Xu Yi received a blank Incense God Path deity statue and learned that danger might be approaching and the Immortal Dao could be severed.

• Meng Shu told Lu Xingshi that Fu Qing was a woman and begged him to propose marriage on his behalf, but Lu Xingshi refused.
• Meng Shu consulted the Earth God with sacred cups and learned that marrying Fu Qing was possible and proposing the next day was appropriate, though the outcome remained uncertain.
• Lu Xingshi found no deity in the Land God Temple and suspected that something had answered Meng Shu, possibly turning their situation into a story like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
• Xu Yi received a blank Incense God Path deity statue from the Sign-in System and realized he could entrust his soul to it to pursue godhood.
• The Sign-in System warned Xu Yi that the Immortal Dao might be severed and that the new sign-in rewards suggested danger was drawing near.

Meng Shu was offered marriage into the Fu Clan, leaving him torn between his love for Fu Qing and his family’s name. Meanwhile, Lu Xingshi discovered the Land God Temple was tied to the evil god and confronted the corrupted Earthly Virtue Heavenly God.

• Fu Wang welcomed Meng Shu warmly and offered to bless his relationship with Fu Qing if Meng Shu married into the Fu Clan.
• Meng Shu hesitated over the live-in son-in-law title and the consequences for the Meng family, then asked for a day or two to consider Fu Wang’s proposal.
• After Meng Shu left, Lu Xingshi mocked the situation as a Liang Shanbo and Zhu Zhishan act, then tried to leave LuYang Prefecture but found himself unable to escape.
• Lu Xingshi realized the evil god had grown stronger after Meng Shu visited the Land God Temple, so he went to destroy it.
• The Land God Temple resisted Lu Xingshi’s thrown stone, an earthquake shook LuYang Prefecture, and the corrupted Earthly Virtue Heavenly God emerged to confront him.

Lu Xingshi battled Earthly Virtue Heavenly God, whose Dharma Body tried to eat him and absorb his Merit, and destroyed it with millions of Clones wielding Demon Slaying Sword. The fight left him suspecting Meng Shu might be Earthly Virtue Heavenly God's true body, so he decided to investigate before attacking anyone.

• Lu Xingshi acknowledged that he had killed Joyful Great Immortal and confronted Earthly Virtue Heavenly God, who revealed his intent to eat Lu Xingshi for his Merit.
• Earthly Virtue Heavenly God suppressed Lu Xingshi with a mountain and attacked with his mountain-weighted body, then dragged him closer with his tongue.
• Lu Xingshi created five million Clones and had them unleash Demon Slaying Sword, slicing Earthly Virtue Heavenly God's body into countless pieces.
• Earthly Virtue Heavenly God's body began to reform but collapsed and stopped moving, while Lu Xingshi's Merit did not arrive, leading him to conclude that he had destroyed a Dharma Body.
• Lu Xingshi suspected that Meng Shu might be Earthly Virtue Heavenly God's true body but chose to meet him first rather than risk killing an innocent man.

Lu Xingshi persuaded Meng Shu to accept marrying into the Fu Clan, then accompanied him to the Fu Residence and suspected Fu Wang was behind the strange scene. When Lu Xingshi attacked, Fu Wang blocked the demonic shadows and challenged him to show his true abilities.

• Lu Xingshi argued that Meng Shu should choose Fu Qing over the slim chance of passing the imperial examinations, and Meng Shu agreed to visit the Fu Residence with him as a witness.
• Lu Xingshi noticed that the people in the street had become motionless, though Meng Shu acted as if nothing was wrong.
• At the Fu Residence, Lu Xingshi observed that Fu Wang was unusually lively among the stiff, silent people and suspected him of having a problem.
• Lu Xingshi summoned four demonic shadows, which tore apart the Fu Residence and attacked Fu Wang.
• Fu Wang blocked the demonic shadows with a manifested mountain and challenged Lu Xingshi, who answered that he could hit him if he had the ability.

Lu Xingshi killed Fu Wang and defeated the fallen Earthly Virtue Heavenly God by invoking Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor. He destroyed the corrupted LuYang Prefecture City and left with the Merit he had gathered.

• Lu Xingshi killed Fu Wang, then fought Fu Qing as she tried to protect Meng Shu with her summoned mountains and divine abilities.
• Lu Xingshi realized Earthly Virtue Heavenly God was lost to obsession and invoked Great Crimson Virtue Heavenly Emperor to overwhelm her.
• Earthly Virtue Heavenly God briefly regained clarity after absorbing Meng Shu, but Lu Xingshi killed her with a second punch.
• Lu Xingshi intercepted some of the Merit from her death and discovered that the apparent LuYang Prefecture City had been a mud reconstruction concealing its destruction and assimilation of visitors.
• Lu Xingshi burned LuYang Prefecture City to a wasteland, then ended the Inviting Immortals state and planned to use the Merit on the Fusang Tree.