Chapter Summaries

Lu Chen entered Broom Star’s sea of consciousness and persuaded him to help escape the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda by promising him wealth, powerful connections, and a wife. Broom Star agreed to unleash misfortune against Lu Chen’s enemies and carry out an additional backup plan.

• Lu Chen used his blood essence to enter Broom Star’s sea of consciousness, where Broom Star initially threatened him and mistook him for a demonic cultivator.
• Lu Chen revealed his divine tokens and identified himself as the Plague-Wielding Young Lord and Mighty Martial Virtue General, then asked Broom Star for help escaping the pagoda.
• Lu Chen promised Broom Star comfort, Heavenly Gold, powerful connections, and a place in the Plague Department if he helped.
• Lu Chen asked Broom Star to bring intense misfortune upon him so his enemies inside the pagoda would suffer, and Broom Star agreed.
• Lu Chen quietly gave Broom Star instructions for a backup plan, and they agreed to work together.

Lu Chen completed Broom Star Lord’s blessing as Black Baleful Devil Lord endured the ritual, but a heavenly general interrupted it and attacked. Broom Star Lord’s misfortune turned the heavenly general’s thunder back on him and plunged the soldiers into chaos as Lu Chen began fighting back, then decided he would choose Broom Star Lord.

• Lu Chen withdrew his arm from the Heavenly Edict and invoked Broom Star Lord while Black Baleful Devil Lord channeled the blessing and the other demons helped sustain him.
• A heavenly general arrived with soldiers, struck Black Baleful Devil Lord with divine thunder, and sent soldiers to seize Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen’s misfortune broke the soldiers’ wrists and redirected the heavenly general’s thunder, injuring him and electrocuting many soldiers.
• Lu Chen released a surge of misfortune and charged the soldiers, but he slipped and fell before a soldier was knocked unconscious by a falling boulder.
• The soldiers’ attacks triggered a chain of mishaps that left them scattered and injured, and Lu Chen decided he would choose Broom Star Lord.

Lu Chen used misfortune to weaken the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda’s restriction, freeing Black Baleful Devil Lord and a thousand demons while he began refining the pagoda. As the demons secretly planned to betray him, Nezha noticed signs of trouble at a Heavenly Court gathering, and Venus Star Lord encountered Matchmaker God above the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• After the heavenly general’s Guardian General’s Jade Talisman shattered, Black Baleful Devil Lord killed him, and the remaining celestial soldiers fled under the restriction’s suppression.
• Lu Chen poured misfortune into the pagoda’s fortune, weakening the third level’s Demon-Subduing Restriction and allowing imprisoned fiends to break free.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord secretly planned to kill Lu Chen and seize the Heavenly Edict, while telling a thousand demons he would protect Lu Chen as he refined the pagoda.
• Lu Chen burned the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus with Samadhi True Fire, released its fortune into the pagoda, and began refining it as the demons gathered to guard him.
• At Cloud Tower Palace, Nezha noticed the pagoda’s third level flicker and suspected something had gone wrong, while Plague Lord recognized his concern.
• Venus Star Lord met Matchmaker God above the Thirty-Three Heavens, and Matchmaker God said he was heading to Ziwei Heavenly Palace.

Venus Star warned Matchmaker God not to let personal ties interfere with his divine duty, while Lu Chen continued refining the exotic treasure inside the Exquisite Pagoda. Outside, the immortals’ drunken standoff erupted when Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King sensed the pagoda’s ownership being stolen, and he rushed inside into a storm of attacks.

• Venus Star advised Matchmaker God to prioritize the wishes of the common people over personal marriage bonds, then departed for Cloud Tower Palace as Matchmaker God hurried toward Ziwei Heavenly Palace.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord warned the Stone Demon and Red Bird Demon that Lu Chen might gain control of the Exquisite Pagoda and ordered them to restrain him if he turned against them.
• Lu Chen learned that an hour and a half had passed and continued refining the exotic treasure, postponing his idea of mixing misfortune into the process.
• Kitchen God pressed Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King to keep drinking while the immortals watched, and a fallen cup exposed the tension between the two sides.
• The Exquisite Pagoda shook as Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King sensed its ownership being stolen, rushed inside, and found thousands of divine attacks descending on him.

Lu Chen accelerated the refinement of the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus while Black Baleful Devil Lord and the demons fought to hold back the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King. Outside the Exquisite Pagoda, its violent shaking revealed that the struggle inside still had an unexpected turn, as a figure's divinity gave way to demonic Baleful Intent.

• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King discovered Lu Chen and Lan'er and attacked them, but Black Baleful Devil Lord used Path Opening to move them out of danger.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord rallied the demons against the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, who injured the stone spirit and killed scores of fiends despite their combined attacks.
• Lu Chen secretly fed bad luck into the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus, doubling its refinement speed as the demons blocked the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's advance.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord wounded the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King with devil poison, then warned Lu Chen to finish refining the lotus quickly.
• Outside the tower, the immortals lost hope until the Exquisite Pagoda shook violently, while an unnamed figure's divinity faded beneath a growing demonic Baleful Intent.

The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King unleashed the [Great Might Heavenly King Mantra] against the demons and Lu Chen, but the pagoda’s danger below forced him to restrain his power. As Lu Chen rapidly refined the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda, Black Baleful Devil Lord resorted to a secret art that sacrificed nearby demons to replenish himself.

• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King discovered the Hearthfire Seed protecting Lu Chen and realized the Kitchen God had bestowed it on him.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King used the [Great Might Heavenly King Mantra], obliterating several fiends and over a hundred demons while Lu Chen escaped two strikes using Black Baleful Devil Lord’s rune.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord warned the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King that destroying the pagoda could release the peerless demon lords sealed below, then survived a crushing blow with a cicada-shell death substitute.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord saw that Lu Chen had refined three-fifths of the strange treasure and urged him to hurry while the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King suppressed demonic poison in his sea of consciousness.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord pierced dozens of nearby great fiends and began draining their essences and demonic blood to activate his secret art.

Lu Chen poured his accumulated misfortune into the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus while Black Baleful Devil Lord held off the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, beginning to gain control of the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda. After Lu Chen turned the Scarlet Bird Spirit against the Stone Spirit and the Stone Spirit died, the Heavenly King and Black Baleful Devil Lord united to attack him.

• Black Baleful Devil Lord sacrificed the great fiends trapped in the pagoda to transform into a true devil and fought the poisoned Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
• Lu Chen secretly poured his accumulated misfortune into the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus, forming a faint connection with the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda.
• The Scarlet Bird Spirit and Stone Spirit attacked Lu Chen, but Lu Chen used the Hearthfire Seed to immobilize and drain the Scarlet Bird Spirit.
• Lu Chen persuaded the weakened Scarlet Bird Spirit to attack the Stone Spirit, who was torn apart and killed.
• Lu Chen forced the Scarlet Bird Spirit to stay and guard him as the strange treasure neared completion.
• Black Baleful Devil Lord and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King stopped fighting and turned together against Lu Chen.

Lu Chen used the Misfortune Seed to turn Black Baleful Devil Lord’s attack against him, then seized control of the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda and expelled the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King. As the pagoda flew away, Nezha erupted in karmic fire and attacked his father.

• Black Baleful Devil Lord’s misfortune made his own blade slash decapitate him, while gray mist trapped his demonic soul.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s attack was disrupted by Lu Chen’s misfortune, and Lu Chen’s final refinement of the Destiny-Fixing Soul-Calming Lotus bound him to the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King sensed that Lu Chen had taken control of the pagoda, but its warning stopped him from killing Lu Chen.
• Lu Chen ordered the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King out, and the pagoda expelled him before flying away from Cloud Tower Palace.
• Nezha revealed his crimson eyes and unleashed Eight Desolations Karmic Fire, then charged the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King with his Fire-Tipped Spear.

Nezha broke free of the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda’s suppression and attacked the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, forcing several Star Lords to intervene. The Heavenly King pursued his runaway pagoda toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, but Nezha caught up and struck him with the Six-Ding Divine Fire as the chase continued.

• The Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda flew out of the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s control, and Nezha attacked him with the Fire-Tipped Spear.
• Jin Zha and Mu Zha blocked Nezha’s thrust, but his Six-Ding Divine Fire badly damaged their innate spirit treasures.
• The Plague Emperor, Great Emperor Fengdu, and Star Lord of Water Virtue restrained Nezha long enough for the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King to flee after the pagoda.
• Nezha unleashed his three-headed, six-armed Dharma form, destroyed Cloud Tower Palace, and broke through the Star Lords’ domain to pursue the Heavenly King.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King tried to reclaim the pagoda and cast out Lu Chen, but the pagoda resisted and sped toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Nezha caught the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King at the Southern Heavenly Gate and scorched his shoulder with the Six-Ding Divine Fire.

Lu Chen escaped toward the Southern Heavenly Gate inside the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda while the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King was battered by Nezha outside. The destruction triggered a mass mobilization across the Heavenly Court, and Her Ladyship chose to let the upheaval continue a little longer.

• Lu Chen piloted the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda toward the Southern Heavenly Gate as the demons trapped inside failed to harm him and Lan'er explained that he could not use the pagoda’s power of suppression.
• Nezha pursued and wounded the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King while their chase destroyed palaces around the Southern Heavenly Gate, shocking the arriving immortals and terrifying Broom Star.
• The Azure Thunder General reported the upheaval to the Nine-Heavens Thunderbolt Universalizing Heavenly Venerable, who rushed to the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Dipper Mother, Primordial Sovereign departed the Great Brahma Heavenly Palace, while Zhao Gongming suspected Lu Chen was involved and set out to join the commotion.
• The Orthodox Gods of the Heavenly Court’s Eight Departments mobilized toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, as Her Ladyship took her medicine and said to let it grow a little longer.

Lu Chen raced through the Heavenly Court in the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda while Nezha pursued the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and wrecked the Southern Heavenly Gate. The upheaval drew the Eight Departments’ Orthodox Gods toward the scene, while an unnamed Ladyship watched with interest and chose to let matters ripen.

• Lu Chen hurried toward the Southern Heavenly Gate as Lan'er explained that he could fly the pagoda but could not use its power of suppression, and that nearly two shichen had passed.
• Nezha chased and wounded the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, while their fight and the Six-Ding Divine Fire destroyed palaces at the Southern Heavenly Gate; the Broom Star feared the Heavenly King would blame him for the pagoda’s flight.
• The Azure Thunder General reported the crisis to the Nine-Heavens Thunderbolt Universalizing Heavenly Venerable, who rushed to the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• Dipper Mother, Primordial Sovereign and Zhao Gongming learned of the upheaval and set out to join the gathering immortals.
• The Orthodox Gods of the Heavenly Court’s Eight Departments mobilized toward the Southern Heavenly Gate, while an unnamed Ladyship watched from the Thirty-Third Heaven and said to let the matter ripen longer.

Lu Chen and Lan'er escaped the Heavenly Court in the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda, but Venus Star stopped them and subdued Nezha. After Lu Chen captured the Black Baleful Devil Lord in his Plague Emperor Banner, Venus Star brought him before ten mighty Heavenly Court figures, who began questioning him.

• Lu Chen and Lan'er broke through the ambush at the Southern Heavenly Gate when Nezha destroyed the Four Heavenly Kings’ formation and blasted down part of the gate.
• Venus Star caught the pagoda, subdued Nezha, and offered Lu Chen and Lan'er protective immortal qi.
• Lu Chen absorbed the Black Baleful Devil Lord’s shell into the Plague Emperor Banner, strengthening the banner’s plague ghosts.
• Lu Chen emerged from the pagoda and greeted Venus Star and the assembled immortals, while onlookers speculated about his fate.
• The Orthodox Gods of the Eight Divisions appeared, and Venus Star transported Lu Chen and the assembled powers to his grotto-heaven for a discussion.
• One of the gathered figures demanded that Lu Chen confess everything truthfully.

Venus Star shielded Lu Chen from the Heavenly Court gods’ attempts to expose his secret and announced the Great Heavenly Venerable’s revised decree. Lu Chen expected severe punishment, but the chapter ended with his appointment as Registrar of Horse Fodder at the Imperial Horse Office.

• Lu Chen recounted how he had reached the third floor of the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda but concealed the Heavenly Edict, crediting Black Baleful Devil Lord for summoning Broom Star.
• Dipper Mother, Primordial Sovereign questioned Lu Chen’s account, and several gods tried to probe him with divine sense before Venus Star stopped them.
• Venus Star announced that the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King and his son had to pay to repair the Southern Heavenly Gate, while the king and his allies would face judgment by the Northern Pole Exorcism Office.
• Venus Star revealed that Lu Chen would receive a living punishment, then announced the Great Heavenly Venerable had appointed him Registrar of Horse Fodder at the Imperial Horse Office.
• Lu Chen and the Orthodox Gods of the Eight Departments were stunned as Venus Star presented Lu Chen with the official jade register and command token.

Lu Chen returned from the Heavenly Court to Rongcheng, got City Lord Huang to stamp his completed S-rank task, and set off for Jiangdu with Lan'er. Meanwhile, Venus Star urged the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King to befriend Lu Chen, and the Plague Emperor gathered four immortals to discuss the suspicious coincidences surrounding him.

• After Lu Chen departed, Nezha threatened the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, who sent Jin Zha and Mu Zha to escort him to Layered Tower Hall.
• Venus Star brought Lu Chen and Lan'er down to Rongcheng, where Lu Chen marveled at the modern mortal world and hurried to the City Lord's Manor.
• Venus Star advised the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King to make peace with Lu Chen and seek his help with the altered Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda.
• Lu Chen reunited with City Lord Huang, explained his two-month disappearance, produced the Realm Pivot, and received the stamp for his S-rank task.
• Lu Chen called Lan'er over and flew away with her, while City Lord Huang sensed that Lu Chen had advanced to mid-stage Rank Four.
• At the Nine Dragon Palace, the Plague Emperor sealed the hall and asked Great Emperor Fengdu, Star Lord of Water Virtue, Lord God of Wealth, and the Kitchen God whether Lu Chen's recent troubles had been suspiciously coincidental.

The immortals at the Nine Dragon Palace speculated about Lu Chen’s mysterious origins and decided not to investigate further, while Plague Lord wondered which department would enter the game next. Lu Chen returned home with Lan’er and reunited with his grieving family, leaving his parents overwhelmed with relief and anger.

• Great Emperor Fengdu suggested that Lu Chen’s powers and unusual achievements pointed to extraordinary origins, and the immortals discussed the signs surrounding him.
• Plague Lord ended the discussion, and Great Emperor Fengdu and the other immortals departed; Plague Lord wondered who would enter the game next.
• Lu Jianming and Mother Lu mourned Lu Chen’s disappearance while Lu Wan insisted that her brother would return.
• Lu Chen and Lan’er arrived at the deserted residential compound and hurried to his family’s home.
• Lu Chen entered and reunited with Lu Wan, then saw how much his parents had aged.
• Mother Lu slapped Lu Chen, scolded him for disappearing, and embraced him as he told her he was back.

Lu Chen returned safely from the secret realm with Lan'er, reuniting with his family and learning how deeply Sun Yourong had grieved for him. As he celebrated with them, Sun Qingcang warned that the Zhao, Qin, and Wu families had joined forces against the Lu Clan Temple.

• Lu Chen reunited with his parents and introduced Lan'er, the flood-dragon guardian who had helped him escape the secret realm.
• Lu Jianming told Lu Chen that Sun Yourong had waited outside the secret realm for a month and helped his family after they believed he was dead.
• Lu Chen called Sun Yourong, revealed he was alive, and reunited with her and Sun Qingcang at his home.
• Lu Chen showed Sun Qingcang the secret realm's Realm Pivot and gave him ten fifth- and sixth-grade medicinal herbs.
• Lu Chen remembered his promise to give ten heavenly treasures to the Rongcheng Land Lord, and Lan'er offered to deliver them.
• Sun Qingcang told Lu Chen that the Zhao, Qin, and Wu families had joined forces and were targeting the Lu Clan Temple.

Zhao Wanliang, Qin Guangshan, and Wu Jingzhi plotted to exploit the Lu family and force the Rakshasa remnants to reveal the Plague Pill formula. Lu Chen revealed that he commanded more than three hundred fourth-rank plague ghosts, then prepared to secure a Cinnabar Iron Pardon and retaliate.

• Zhao Wanliang urged Wu Jingzhi to kill imprisoned Rakshasa remnants to pressure Wang Zhidong into revealing the Plague Pill formula, while Qin Guangshan backed the plan to take the Lu Clan Temple if Wu failed.
• Sun Qingcang told Lu Chen how the Zhao, Qin, and Wu families had turned against the Lu Clan Temple, but Lu Chen said they were no longer strong enough to anger him.
• Lu Chen summoned seven fourth-rank plague ghosts and revealed that he had more than three hundred like them, astonishing Sun Qingcang and Sun Yourong.
• Lu Chen called Zeng Rou, learned that the Wu family had framed Wang Zhidong and imprisoned him, and ordered her to have the factory workers wear Rakshasa Cult robes.
• Lu Chen said he would visit the City Lord's residence to exchange for a Cinnabar Iron Pardon, then announced that he would unleash a massacre.

Lu Chen returned from the secret realm and confronted the Zhao, Wu, and Qin families for targeting the Lu Clan Temple and his allies. He unleashed hundreds of Fourth Rank plague ghosts at the Zhao family villa, while Hu Sanniang warned Li City God that Lu Chen had returned and was attacking Young Master.

• Sun Qingcang, Lan'er, and Lu Chen's family persuaded Lu Chen not to massacre the three families, and Lu Chen decided to confront the Zhao family first.
• Sun Qingcang gave Lu Chen the Fifth Rank aerial movement divine ability Crane's Return to the Nine Heavens Step, then flew with Lu Chen and Lan'er to the Zhao family villa.
• Lu Chen confronted Zhao Wanliang, Wu Jingzhi, and Qin Guangshan over their schemes against the Lu Clan Temple, his businesses, and the Hall of Benevolent Aid.
• After Qin Guangshan attacked and Sun Qingcang blocked him, Lu Chen summoned hundreds of Fourth Rank plague ghosts, which surrounded the three patriarchs and attacked Qin Guangshan.
• Hu Sanniang rushed to Li City God's hall and told him that Lu Chen had returned and was attacking Young Master at the Zhao family.

Matchmaker God learned that His Majesty had not addressed his long-awaited reward after the ninety-ninth marriage, then heard how Lu Chen stole the Exquisite Pagoda and was appointed to the Imperial Horse Office. In Jiangdu, Lu Chen forced Qin Guangshan and Wu Jingzhi to yield while Zhao Wanliang remained defiant, until a fiery figure arrived.

• Matchmaker God gave Fire Phoenix the birth details for the marriage intended by His Majesty's mortal incarnation and learned His Majesty had not answered his request to fulfill an old promise.
• Fire Phoenix and Azure Luan told Matchmaker God that Lu Chen had twice summoned Heavenly King Li's Exquisite Pagoda, while Nezha had smashed the Southern Heavenly Gate and His Majesty had appointed Lu Chen a Registrar of Horse Fodder.
• Matchmaker God wondered whether Lu Chen was the incarnation of a powerful being, then summoned the birth details of Zhao Wanliang and Sun Yourong.
• At the Zhao family villa, Lu Chen defeated Zhao Wanliang, Qin Guangshan, and Wu Jingzhi with hundreds of plague ghosts and demanded that they make amends.
• Qin Guangshan agreed to satisfy Lu Chen, and Wu Jingzhi promised to withdraw the lawsuit and release Elder Wang, while Zhao Wanliang refused to yield.
• As Lu Chen prepared to summon more plague ghosts against Zhao Wanliang, a streak of fire landed and a figure emerged.

Yu Feng arrived in time to stop Lu Chen from killing the three family heads, then brought him to the City Lord's Mansion and learned about the secret realm he had acquired. Lu Chen calculated that he now had 110,000 military merit, while Yu Feng urged him to develop the realm with the court to gain protection and support.

• Yu Feng intervened as Lu Chen defeated Qin Guangshan, Wu Jingzhi, and Zhao Wanliang, and persuaded him to spare their lives in exchange for a future explanation.
• Lu Chen recalled his plague ghosts and warned the three family heads that they would still be punished, while Yu Feng asked onlookers not to record or post the incident.
• Yu Feng took Lu Chen to the City Lord's Mansion, where he praised Lu Chen and explained that he had been protecting the Lu family from the three families' attempts to seize its territory.
• Lu Chen described being trapped in a secret realm and showed Yu Feng the Realm Pivot, which let him control the realm's core.
• Yu Feng explained the court's priority in developing secret realms and offered to seek favorable terms for Lu Chen, who calculated that he had reached 110,000 military merit.
• Yu Feng advised Lu Chen to develop the secret realm with the court so he could gain resources and protection from powerful families coveting it.